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HTTYD- How to Speak with a Dragon without Actually Speaking DragoneseChapter 4: How to Find Hiccup
It had been a couple of days since Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third, namely Hiccup the Useless, who was no less than the chieftain's son went out missing. And frankly, this unsettled Astrid a little. But it wasn't until the third morning since she last saw Hiccup when she shared her worries with the rest of her friends, considering the expression all of them wore on their face.
"Hey," she muttered her greetings when she arrived to the mess hall and joined the rest of the kids for breakfast.
"Hey" they all answered back, Astrid's same meek tone reflecting on their voice.
"Have you seen him?" Astrid asked whispering and leaning towards the table in order for Gobber not to hear her, he was chatting with a friend only some seats away from them.
"No." They said.
"I think we've really done it this time." Fishlegs said, revealing anxiousness in his words. "What if he... ran away?"
Fishlegs' suggestion made them stare among themselves with fear. It could be; it's the type of thing Hiccup would do.
"Oh no... What if Gobber notices?" Ruffnut said.
"Gobber? ... What if Chief STOIC notices! We're all be dead kids walking!" said Snotlout, forgetting he ever bragged about his majestic bravery.
The teen Vikings kept musing, feeling how their knees trembled with the sole thought of the punishment Chief Stoic would make them suffer for making his son escape Berk. It was true Hiccup and Stoic weren't especially close, but they were still a family.
"Oh gods..." Fishlegs whined cowardly, causing a massive hysteria.
"Chief Stoic is going to banish us!"
"He'll toss us to be dragon food!"
"He'll kill us!"
"Everyone relax!" Astrid exclaimed. "No one is going to be banished, or killed or become dragon food! Hiccup is just probably hiding. It wouldn't be the first time he does something like that."
Astrid's perfectly timed common sense brought a little peace to the kids' conscience. It was natural of Hiccup to hide after what happened to them a few days ago. Astrid suspected he expected for them to tell on him and what happened. But they hadn't. True, they did not speak to him anymore, but the version of events that was known to the rest of the village was that they were walking around the woods, encountered a Zippleback, which immediately attacked them and they got caught in the fire. But Hiccup did not know that.
"So what are we going to do?" Fishlegs asked. "Gobber will notice today in Dragon Training."
"This is what we'll do." said Astrid "We'll go to Dragon Training just like any other day and we'll tell Gobber Hiccup asked us to tell him he would skip Dragon Training because he felt sick to his stomach."
"Uh..." Tuffnut interrupted, "that doesn't exactly solve the problem, Astrid."
"I know. That is why after Dragon Training we will go into the woods again and we will find Hiccup."
"But what if we find that dragon again?" Fishlegs asked.
"We kill it." Astrid said coldly. There was a solemn silence that followed after that instruction, a silence that were Gobber not to interrupt moments later it would've remained for the day.
"All right, who's ready for some Dragon Training?" Gobber said with that booming voice of his. "Today we'll work with the class' favorite – The Zippleback"
The kids laughed nervously at the word. Maintaining the cool would be harder than it
looked.
"Okay... so, one, two, three, four, five... where's the sixth?....Where is Hiccup?" Gobber asked.
"Uh... um..." Astrid cleared her throat, "He asked me to tell you that he wouldn't come today because... uh, his stomach felt a little unsettled."
Gobber made a face of pain. He didn't need to be told how nasty that business could get. If anything, illnesses are the Viking's weak point.
"That's okay, thanks for telling me, Astrid. The poor boy must be wishing he weren't ever born right now." Which was true, but not necessarily in the way Gobber thought.
Dragon Training went out smoothly, they worked on attacking skills. And for the first time in days Astrid was once again the star student, but to her annoyance, she simply could not bring herself to savor her victory, all because one heck of a pain called Hiccup.
Finally it came the gang's moment to play out the plan Astrid had so spontaneously made. And to Snotlout and Tuffnut's disappointment, they had to skip their afternoon meal. So, with an empty stomach and the bad humor that comes along with it, they set out to look for their missing classmate. Little did they know that Hiccup would not be anywhere to be found for the whole afternoon. Even if they came across the cove they would find it empty, and there's a perfectly logical reason for this. Hiccup's favorite way to cheer up was nothing less than flying around with Toothless.
"Whooo hoo!" Hiccup cheered as Toothless dived towards the sea for the third time
and just inches before they hit the water, he twirled to once more to go up into the sky. Toothless grinned in satisfaction when he heard Hiccup laughing excitedly.
"Ha ha ha! Hey, buddy" Hiccup said when they were high up in the sky again. "Remember when we almost crashed against the rocks?"
"How couldn't I?" Toothless grumbled not amused. "I thought we were going to die!"
"We were close so close, but hey, I finally learned how to use your fin's pedal."
"Yeah, that's all it took…" Toothless purred with a sarcastic tone.
"Wanna try it again?" Hiccup asked excitedly.
"DO I WANT TO TRY AGAIN?" grumbled Toothless, "Are you crazy? Do you know how dangerous that is?"
Hiccup remained silent, noticing Toothless was not too keen on the idea.
"Let's do it!" Toothless purred with determination and a devilish grin. "But this time, we're going to make it a little more… interesting."
"What was that, bud? I didn't quite catch what you –Ahh!" And that's when Toothless dived vertically towards the woods of Raven Point.
Hiccup immediately reacted assuming the right riding position, leaning and moving in sync with Toothless, pedaling the fin with excellent precision; Hiccup saw how fast the trees past, they didn't look like trees, they were just a brown and green blur that occasionally brushed Hiccup's face. Adrenaline rushed through the pair's blood; they went faster, went up higher and higher to descend drastically. They loved the feeling of flying, Toothless knew. That is why he insisted in waking up Hiccup to fly, Toothless knew his friend enough to guess he would need a serious cheer up after what he told him last night.
"Alright Toothless, let's slow down for a while." Hiccup said rubbing his dragon's ear, to which Toothless obeyed and slowed down his flight to a light glide. The landscape transformed at once; the golden light that filtered through the woods made it look like beams of gold washed certain parts of the greenery. It was very pacific and comforting, it was very…
"Hiccup?" A voice called. A voice that made Hiccup petrified of fear.
"Hiccup!" Astrid called again.
"Wait a sec, buddy." Hiccup whispered.
"What? Why? What's going on?" Toothless purred.
"Shh!" Hiccup hushed briskly. "That's Astrid." He muttered, to which Toothless growled.
"That…Viking."
"Toothless!" Unfortunately, Hiccup muttered a little too loud for Astrid to hear. She was nowhere to be seen, but little did Hiccup know, she was absentmindedly looking for him just across a bunch of dense bushes.
"Toothless?" Astrid said to herself. She gasped, that was him somewhere in the woods. "Hiccup? Hiccup!"
"Quick, we have to get out of here buddy!"
"You don't have to tell me twice."
Toothless turned the opposite direction but in the distance he noticed a pair of hatchlings with yellow hair, both too busy engaged in a fight with each other to notice the presence of him and his friend. Toothless quietly turned away to the west, but he also heard someone calling Hiccup's name in that direction. He tried the east, but something similar happened.
"We're trapped." Toothless grumbled.
"We're dead!" Hiccup muttered. "What are we going to do?"
"We can't fly," purred Toothless "they're going to see us." And so he descended silently and procured to walk with Hiccup still riding his back.
"Hiccup!" Astrid called again, she sounded nearer but the ever so convenient fawn of the forest covered them well.
"Oh, gods no… what are we going to do?" Hiccup muttered so anxious, his hands started sweating; making Toothless uncomfortable.
"The best is to hide and wait for them to leave." Toothless suggested with a purr. He scanned all around him until he spotted a hollowed fallen tree; it was big enough to fit the both of them in.
"You've got the right idea." Hiccup said.
Hurriedly but as quiet as they could, they went into the tree to hide. And while Toothless had never really been bothered by insects, Hiccup was well on his way to fainting. He had always been grossed out by those little pains. In fact he thought he had killed more insects in his life than any dragons they had killed in Berk.
"This is disgusting." Hiccup complained.
"Well, it's this or letting your girlfriend know I'm not exactly what they call a newt." Toothless growled quietly in return.
"Hiccup!" Someone called. It was Fishlegs this time, he caught up with Astrid.
"Astrid, he's not here!" Fishlegs said with such worry, it sounded like he was going to cry. "You said he'd be here!"
Astrid sighed with frustration. She knew what she had said, and she thought she was right. But it seemed she was not all that correct.
"What are we going to do? What if his dad finds out he ran away because of us?"
Toothless was about to purr with sarcasm, but Hiccup signaled him to be quiet.
"He won't. Hiccup is not that stupid, he couldn't have run away. Besides, he'd be dead the moment he stepped outside Berk."
"I wouldn't!" Hiccup protested inaudibly. "I know these woods better than they do!"
Toothless produced a quiet hiss, his equivalent to shushing his human friend up.
"Sorry." Hiccup mouthed.
Moments later, the rest of the gang caught up too with Astrid and Fishlegs, all three of them as deceived as the pair. They were in big trouble this time, and they knew it.
"I'm tired." Snotlout said, leaning to a big fallen tree next to him. It creaked, menacing to crack down, to which Toothless and Hiccup winced with suspense.
"Face it, Astrid. He's not here." Ruffnut said.
"Yeah, we've been looking for hours. He's not here." Her brother agreed.
Astrid felt frustrated and began to worry, too. They were right to doubt, maybe Hiccup really did leave.
"Besides, the sun's already setting and Gobber is going to be worrying. That is if he's not worrying already." Fishlegs added.
"Ugh… fine, fine. But we'll come back to look for him tomorrow, too." Astrid agreed, annoyed at her friends' indisposition to accomplish their mission. She saw why they were so easy to beat at Dragon Training.
Hiccup and Toothless looked at each other with complicity, feeling the laughter of freedom and irony beginning to build up within them. Their lungs breathed with more ease, now that it was certain they were going to pull it off.
"Let's rest a bit before going back." Astrid said, trying to be condescending. "We've walked a lot today."
She sat by Snotlout, climbing up to the tree and causing it to creak slightly. Ruff and Tuff followed and finally Fishlegs joined them, too, causing the tree to truly quiver this time. It seemed like a matter of time before the tree cracked down on top of the pair of hiding misfits.
Hiccup turned to see Toothless with desperation, only to find out he was just as scared as him. It seemed like the tree would break in any minute. Meanwhile the Viking lot sat without saying a thing, they just dangled their feet enjoying the sensation of resting their feet. Tuffnut chuckled.
"Hiccup turned out to be harder to find than we thought, right?"
"Yeah, I figured he wouldn't be that smart." Snotlout said.
Meanwhile Hiccup dropped his jaw in disbelief; stupid him? Not in a hundred years. Toothless hissed at the irony, though.
"Please," Ruffnut said "He's stuck in the armory shop the whole day; he's got to know something."
"You mean like how to hunt trolls and Night Furies?" said Snotlout, laughing. They all joined in, except for Astrid. She couldn't help but think that this very way of referring to Hiccup was what got them in trouble in the first place.
Toothless on the other hand, was pondering on whether or not he should step outside and turn them into roasted Viking. He growled, not caring if they heard him.
"Shh, Toothless!" Hiccup whispered, smacking the back of his head. Toothless turned to him whining.
"But listen to what they're saying about you!"
"I don't care, they're going to discover us!" Hiccup whispered back. Fortunately, the kids were laughing so hard, they didn't hear the pair's argument.
"Honestly, I don't know what's on that guy's head." Ruffnut said.
"Well… I'll tell you what isn't. AIR, as in what you have for instead of a brain." Toothless growled.
"But who could really blame him, the guy was born a weirdo." Snotlout said, to which everybody else, again except for Astrid, laughed.
"What's wrong, babe?" Snotlout asked, noticing Astrid's long silence.
"Nothing." She rapidly retorted. The truth was she was worried about Hiccup. He wasn't exactly her friend but she had always felt certain sympathy for the guy; it wasn't his fault that he was different from your average Viking.
"She's in love with Hiccup" Tuffnut teased, the others laughed at the lovey-dovey way he said it.
Even Toothless laughed; Hiccup turned bright crimson when he heard Tuffnut say that. Toothless had always thought Hiccup looked funny when he felt embarrassed.
"I'm not!" Astrid said, unable to prevent her cheeks from turning a glowing red. "I'm just thinking about how I'm going to stop Stoic from hanging all five of us when he finds out Hiccup ran away because of us, you genius!"
"Whatever." Tuff said. "Mrs. Haddock." He muttered that last part, but Astrid still heard it and she rightfully punched him on the stomach, knocking his breath out.
"Oh, I'm hurt. I am very much hurt!"
"What was that last part?" She asked in a girly way.
"Nothing…" He sighed.
"Good. I wouldn't be with that toothpick even if he was the last guy alive in Berk."
Although Hiccup had always been conscious Astrid was definitely out of his possibilities, this had been the closest he had ever been from feeling her rejection. He found it more hurtful than he'd imagined.
"He's clumsy, weird and no matter how much he tries, he'll never be a true Viking." Astrid said, reassuring her absolute dislike for Hiccup. "Now come on, there's not much daylight left."
Toothless felt really angry at that girl. He hated all things and persons Viking, but for some reason, that Astrid simply brought the worst of him; her and all her ignorant little friends. He didn't need to look at Hiccup to know that statement brought him to tears, and he had to do something about it, it didn't matter how much Hiccup cared about Toothless being seen. That was enough.
The Viking teens were just leaving their hiding spot when Toothless seized an opportunity to reveal himself while Hiccup was distracted, crying. He ran towards the group and growled, cornering all five of them between a pair of big rocks.
Fishlegs stuttered "It…it's a—
"NIGHT FURY!" The twins exclaimed in horror.
Toothless growled and threw a few snarls at them, inflicting utter terror in the human hatchlings.
"You wanna bully somebody? Try me. I can fight back, you cowards!"
Snotlout was trying to grab his hammer, which he so mindlessly threw away the moment he tried to escape, but Toothless growled at him.
"Don't…" Astrid whispered, Toothless directed his powerful stare to her.
"You in particular" Toothless growled. "You think you're all that, don't you?"
Astrid just stared at the dragon unable to hold tears from rolling down her cheeks; she had never been this close to these animals. She knew it, for the way the dragon stared at her, that this was the moment of her death. Toothless snarled to provoke some kind of reaction on the girl; she jumped startled and more tears sprang from her eyes.
"Please…" She said.
"TOOTHLESS!" A voice commanded with much authority. Toothless briefly turned his stare towards the empty tree and then stared back to the girl. He knew he'd be in trouble with Hiccup later, but he didn't care. If this was what it took to man Hiccup up and to give those kids a little taste of their own medicine, so be it.
"TOOTHLESS, COME BACK HERE!"
"No. If you don't do something about it, I will."
"DON'T MAKE ME COME OUT."
"Go. Ahead." Toothless dared his human and turned back to Astrid.
"That overgrown lizard is going to put me in a lot of trouble." Hiccup sighed to himself. He didn't blame Toothless, after all, he was just doing what he would never be able to do on his own—get revenge.
"TOOTHLESS, DO WHAT I SAY!" Hiccup ordered.
"No," Toothless growled "It's not like I'm going to eat them, Hiccup!"
It seemed odd, for some reason it seemed like the dragon was arguing with the voice coming from the fallen tree.
"Toothless?" Astrid asked, puzzled. And that voice… it sounded like Hiccup's.
"That dragon's going to make them his afternoon snack…" Hiccup said.
"Here goes nothing." Said Hiccup and ran towards Toothless, putting himself between his friend and the rest of the kids. They all dropped their jaws in disbelief. It couldn't be; how could it?
"No freaking way…" Astrid muttered.
"Oh my Thor." Ruffnut said.
"BACK! TOOTHLESS, BACK!" Hiccup said with a powerful voice that for the very first time in all of his life resembled that of his father. Toothless snarled on purpose, he had a plan to make Hiccup look awesome.
"TOOTHLESS!" Hiccup said, ignoring the dragon's plan. "Don't make me repeat it, you reptile!"
Toothless drew back and assumed a tamed position, ready for Hiccup to climb up.
"RUN!" Snotlout exclaimed. And he certainly did not need to say it twice, for they all launched themselves out of their sight as fast as their legs could carry them.
"What were you thinking?" Hiccup exclaimed. "I know they're a pain but you didn't have to scare them like that!"
Toothless whined "I was just trying to help."
"Look buddy, I know you just wanted to help but I think you just got us in more trouble than what I can pull off."
"Oh no!" Hiccup exclaimed after a while, "We're dead, Toothless. They're going to tell Gobber!"
"So?" sniffed Toothless.
"So? So they're going to be really mad at me for being friends with you! And they're going to kill you for being friends with me! I have to think of something to fix this, and quick."
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Comments: 46
And this is why I'm on Team Dragon. Dragons are supposed to be heartless reptiles but are actually more human than any Viking in Berk. And Hiccup doesn't count coz he's not a Viking, He's Hiccup, which is sooooo much better!
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HTTYD: Footprints Part 1
try this link
bintavivi.deviantart.com/art/H…
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HTTYD:FOOTPRINTS chapter 1 is the sequal and after.hereis the link partly
www.deviantart.com/morelikethi…
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That's not a sequel to this fic, hun.
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ok nvm again I cant find it have you made it yet?
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No, I actually haven't. I didn't even realize these became active again. I really feel like I owe it to you guys to finish it, but truth is, the reason why I stopped writing it in first place is because I realized I wrote myself into a dead end. I think a year ago I offered the story for adoption in fanfiction, but I never got responses. Dunno, I've tried to write a decent version easily at least ten times, but it's never good enough. So it's still in hiatus. But thanks for reading! 
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I keep rereading this, I don't care if there is no part 5 yet. I still love it!
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Aw, thank you so much! Chapter 5 is already up, btw. ^___^
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ook where is the fifth parth
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Right here, darling
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It's on the gallery right now
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Awesome! great fic 
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awesome fic(I recomend uploading it to Fanfiction.net)
I was really hoping Toothless would just corner them off a cliff until on of them lost their footing...I'm being too cruel here, aren't I?
also, I when are you gonna upload the next chapter
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Why, thank you! The fic is also on ff.net, I actually have all of my fics uploaded there too.
As for the next chapter, I'm not really sure. I'm looking foward to beginning a new fic project. As you read on my journal, I'm not sure if I should write some TGH or maybe continue one of my unfinished fics-- probably this one.
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cool, what's your ff user name? the same as your deviantart one?
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when I'm out of school, darling
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AEEEE!!!! Finally I finished! (I could have done it before, but... school... homework... My own fictions... X_x)
I wanna read the next already!! X3 how is gonna this end?
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hehe yeah, I unfortunately know the aches and pains of having a life, too :C But I'm glad it brought you joy :3 hahaha
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I personally prefer fictions and dreams...(Dreams are the best 9v9 I had a dream some days ago in which I was in Berk! X3 And Hiccup was was there too!
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sounds like an awesome dream!
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i was get speechless when i was read it. it ´s beatifull
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yay!!! ooooh suspense! could u write a aang fic next?
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haha sure, why not...but let me just finish this one first
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I'm still loving the emotion in all of this. It puts you in Hiccup's position so you know how he feels. I also like how you typed it up. No real improvements here for my opinion. You did great!
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thank you! ^^ I'm glad to hear that.
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