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Panning view of a large island with large tribal statues in front of the docks
‘This is berk, it’s twelve days north of hopeless and a few degrees south of freezing to death, its located solidly on the meridian of misery.’
View of a village at night all buildings are new and seem sturdy
‘My village in a word, sturdy, it's been here for seven generations but every single building is new, We have fishing, Hunting and a charming view of the sunset the only problem are the pests, Some people have mice or mosquitos we have...’
View of a teen who looks about thirteen wearing baggy clothes is about to leave his home. As he opens the door he quickly closes it with a look of terror on his face as a flying creature blasts fire at the door, the boy turns around as he whispers something in fright
“Dragons”
‘That's me My name is Hiccup, great name I know but it's not the worst. Parents believe that a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls, Like our charming viking demeanor wouldn't do that. Anyway Most people would leave when faced with two tone fire breathing reptiles, not us were vikings we have stubbornness issues.’
Hiccup is running between vikings and under timber to get to the forge and away from the burning building he was in. As he passed all the adults were telling him to get inside.
Hoark the Haggard “GET INSIDE”
Spitelout “WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT”
Phlegma the fierce “GET BACK INSIDE”
Hiccup just passed a viking picking his nose when a Nadder flew by spraying the ground with flames, Hiccup is pulled back by a large hand and A large man yelling at him
Viking man “ WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT, WHAT IS HE DOING OUT GET BACK INSIDE”
‘That is Stoick the vast Chief of Berk they say when he was a baby he popped a dragon's skull clean off its shoulders do I believe it... yes I do.’
Stoick throws a wagon at a Nadder that is carrying sheep and turned to another Viking
“What have we got”
“Gronckles ,Nadders, Zipplebacks, Oh and Hoark saw a Monstrous Nightmare” replied the viking
“Any NIght Furies”
“No Sir”
“Good”
Hiccup has just made it to the forge and Sees and Blonde viking straightening out a sword. The vikings sees Hiccup and Greets him
“So nice of ya to join the party I thought you’d been carried off” asks the man
“What who me no way I’m way to muscular for their taste” Hiccup replies
“Well they need something soft and squishy to chew on don't they” The man joked
“Really gobber now is not the time to joke about my weight” Said Hiccup while rolling his eyes
‘The meathead with attitude and interchangeable hands is Gobber. I've been his apprentice since I was little, well littler. And the comment about my weight is due to the fact that I tend to stress eat when I’m alone and the fact that I make everything I eat and experiment with basically anything leading to new foods I make on a regular basis has led me to be somewhat pudgy. You wouldn't be able to tell because I hide it under baggy clothes and my face never holds any fat on it which I found strange but whatever. The reason I am so stressed is because I am considered the weakest person in the village the worst viking of all time, I am picked on by others my age and am ridiculed by the adults all except Gobber and Gothi the Elder, even my Father is always disappointed in me because of his high expectations of me which skyrockets my stress levels’
‘Anyway back to the story’
We see a Nightmare flame a house as Stoick is giving orders for a counter attack
‘See old village lots and lots of new houses’
Other teens start moving in with buckets of water to put out the fires
‘Before I forget that's Fishlegs, the Twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut, Snotlout and Astrid. Normally other boys my age would have aCrush on Astrid but not me. I long figured out I have no Interest in the female gender. Back on topic, I am glad I dont have their job mainly because I prefer to work with metal and being the blacksmith's apprentice helps with my interest.’
Gobber pulls hiccup back and holds him in the air with hiccup complaining
“Gobber you know you don’t have to grab me I know I have had incidents during raids but really”
Gobber stares at hiccup before replying
“Alright hiccup but you do realise if you want to kill dragons you have to be more assertive”
Hiccup sighs “Gobber we've had this conversation before I don’t want to kill a dragon no matter what the village thinks it just not who I am”
Gobber sighs “ Ok Hiccup I won't bother you about it now what is the next crazy contraption you've made this time” Spoke Gobber as he looked at the machine
“I’m Glad you asked gobber this is the Mangler. It's for hunting large animals in the forest by throwing a bola at them” Said Hiccup as he taps the machine.
Suddenly the machine goes off and Launches a Bola through the roof of the forge into the night sky. Unknown to Hiccup and Gobber it hits a dragon who then falls into the forest.
Gobber laughs after its all said and done and looks at hiccup who grins sheepishly
“So laddie what went wrong this time”
“I think its a mild calibration issue nothing that can’t be fixed” Replied Hiccup
The raid starts getting worse, Gobber taking notice then speaks to Hiccup.
“Man the fort Hiccup they need me out there, you know what to do”
Hiccup rolls his eyes at the statement “Yes Gobber I know what to do I’ve only done it a hundred times”
“Ok lad... please be safe”
“Ok Gobber se ya in a bit”
Gobber nods before charging into battle with a yell holding up his battle axe hand attachment, as Hiccups watches him go off then returns to work keeping up the the rush of vikings needing new weapons.
‘Most people my age want to get out there and fight dragons, not me. I don’t know why just the thought of hurting a dragon brings up an unbearable pain. Anyway for most kids the class of dragons shows what level of respect they think they will get.’
Blue bird like dragons are seen flying off with sheep
‘A Deadly Nadder is sure to get them at least noticed’
Large dragons with hummingbird like wings are seen carrying off fish from drying racks
‘A gronckle is sure to get them a Girl or Boyfriend’
A dragon with two heads blows up a house then flies off
‘A Hideous Zippleback exotic two heads twice the status’
We now see Stoick on a catapult fish a fire on the lower half
‘Then there is the Monstrous Nightmare only the best Vikings go after those, they have this nasty habit of setting themselves on fire’
‘But the ultimate prize if the dragon no one has ever seen we call it the..’
A Viking screams in fear “NIGHT FURY GET DOWN”
‘This things never steals food, never shows itself, and never misses. It’s most kids dream to kill a Night Fury… but not mine, out of all the dragons that raid us I only feel truly connected to that one which is very strange, why would a viking feel connected to a dragon attacking his village,I couldn't tell you’
Hiccup is working on a sword when he hears a viking in the stall window yell his name
“HICCUP BEHIND YOU”
Hiccup turns around and sees a Monstrous Nightmare glaring at him. Hiccup takes one look at the beast and runs out of the forge with the dragon hot on his tail. Hiccup tries to doge the dragon and ends up hiding behind the pole of one of the torches which the NIghtmare flames.
All of a sudden Stoick appears and battle the NIghtmare until it runs out of fire
“Your all out” Stoick Growls as the NIghtmare flies off
‘Oh and there one thing it forgot to mention’
Hiccup looks at stoick and then looks at the ground
“Sorry… dad” said Hiccup
The torch them falls down and rolls into an empty home, Hiccup looks at it and sighs
“Not my fault”
Stoick grabs hiccup and begins to scold him
“Hiccup every time you step outside disaster falls can’t you see that I have bigger problems winter is almost here and I have an entire village to feed”
“It’s not even my fault someone shouted to me and then the nightmare was behind me what was I supposed to do sit there and be toasted, ask anyone at the forge they’ll say the same thing”
Stoick just signs and motions for Gobber
“Make sure he gets home I have his mess to clean up”
Gobber nods and starts to take hiccup home as the other kids start to make fun of him
Snotlout “I’ve never seen anyone mess up that badly.. That helped”
The twins start insulting him as Astrid glares and Fishlegs just stands to the side.
Hiccup rolls his eyes and replied sarcastically “Thank you Thank you I was trying”
Gobber shoves Snotlout out of the way and they blacksmith and apprentice duo make their way to Hiccups home.