King of Shadows HIATUS

Prologue

Hiccup's POV

I walked home, head held low  from another bad day, another day of teasing, another day of misery another day of people forgetting my birthday

I entered my house and climbed upstairs to my bedroom clutching my ripped drawings, courtesy of Snotlout

I placed the drawings on my desk and laid on my bed, ready to dissapear from my miserable reality to dreamless sleep.... yeah right, its never that peaceful at berk

BOOM!  Dragons

I get up and run outside, immidietly almost getting burn to crisp, you know, being dead at 13 doesn't seem that bad

BOOM!

yeah, nope, definitely bad

I run to the forge ready to assist, but not before people yell at me to get out of the way... joy

"Hurry up Hiccup, get this weapons ready!" Gobber said, Gobber's one of the few who actually expresses their care for me, since in my dad's eyes, I am a dissapointment and my mom should not have died by giving birth to me

So, you see, my life has been an absolute luxury

I heaved the several pound hammer onto my forging table and got started working, the sound of metal and chaos relentless,

clank!....clank!....clank!....cla-
BOOM!

Suddenly, everything around me is in even more flames than it already was, I can faintly hear Gobber sounding panicked over the sound of my ears ringing

" its been long enough isn't it?" I hear a shrill voice whisper slightly giggly, as if excited about something 
Before I closed my eyes, I saw a silhouette of a dragon in the dark sky, black and... somwhat familiar then i saw it fall into the forest, as my
vision get spotty, I hear faint laughter

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I opened my eyes to see Gothi, she smiled at me then went to her cabinet to get something
I attempted to sit up, and felt like a bunch of yaks has decided that I looked like a doormat and trampled all over me, specifically, my head

My elbows decided that this time was the perfect time to betray me and buckled, a hand shot out to help steady me, I turned to look at Gobber with tear stains in his face, looked more horrendous than normal

"h-hi Gobber" I weakly croak out of my pathetic vocal chords   
"HICCUP!" Gobber suddenly tried to suffocate me in the guise of hugging,
Gothi, bless her heart, bashed her cane on his head and I was able to breathe again, then she gave me a bowl of questionably green goo

"I'm so glad your alive!" Gobber wailed again " quick! how many fingers am I holding " Gobber shoved his hook prosthetic in front of my face
" uhh, none?"  I said, my voice less croaky than before "and what is this?"
I asked about the green goo
Gothi used her stick to write,
" she says she wants you to...snort it?" Gobber translated, then got bashed on the head for the wrong translation
" Drink it! she says you should drink it"
he reiterated, " you want me to drink this unknown goo?" I asked, slightly  incredulous, 'no way I was putting this slimmy, disgusting thing in my mouth',
is what I was thinking until Gobber shoved a spoonful into my mouth and I was forced to either swallow or choke

I coughed and started to ram my hand to my chest deperately trying to get the goo down and the taste out of my mouth, " wa-water" I drink the water provided to avoid retching the previous days food

"thats it boy, you gave us quite the scare, your head got bashed against the floor when that blasted night fury fired at the forge !" Gobber said, waving his hook around while narrating last nights events, "the night fury never fired at the forge before" I  said quizzically "exactly, who knows why it attacked"  Gobber replied

Then, I remembered the silhouette falling into the forest, if that was the night fury... why did it fall?
My head suddenly pounded, I'm gonna need a lot of ice

" ..ahggg" I groaned while placing my hand against my head " I'll go get you some ice for that lad" Gobber said,  hobbling out the door

Gothi put a mirror in front of me, then grabbed a second mirror and went behind me, "Gothi?" I asked confused, She the uses the mirror to show me something on my back that was not there before, a mark, it looked like it was burned on my skin, but it wasn't painful at all

"Gothi what is that?" I asked, then inwardly repremanding myself for thinking she would answer, its not like she's gonna break her vow of silenc-
" Be prepaired, the gods have a plan for you"

...WHAT???
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So after I got over Gothi SPEAKING, I was left with more questions, questions she refuses to answer because apparantly she's only gonna break her silence once

" So what your saying is that the gods hate me and are planing to  kill me?" so now I'm playing charades because only Gobber can understand her writings

Gothi sighs exasperatedly and started pushing me out her door, ignoring that I may still be injured

"whoa, hey- but I have questio-" anddd the door is closed.

I walk down the imposible amount of stairs and was immediately greeted by the unwelcomed sight of Snotlout and his gang, " well if it isn't fishbone, you done taking your nappy" he said in the most irritating version of baby talk
and ofcourse the twins gotta throw in their own taunts

I simply walked pass and I thought that was the end of it, but that's just wishful thinking
A hand grabbed me from behind and I was dragged to the ground
Nobody even batted an eye to this, believing that children should be able to stand up for themselves, "Hey!" thank the gods for Gobber " he just got out o' bed and 'er ol ready plannin' to put 'em back? get outta 'ere!" Gobber came stomping, waving his hook around and holding a plate with a block of ice in the hand

The gang groaned but left, kicking me once more for good measure, Gobber hooked his hook on my shirt and pulled me up, " ya 'otta fight back sometime lad" Gobber said, handing me the block of ice for my head and for my newly formed bruises
"you kidding? look at me, do I look like I can fight him? " I said gesturing to all of me while putting the ice on my forehead

" ya, well you just gotta change that" he said, then patted me on the back as if he just gave life changing advice, " as if I havent already tried that" I said quietly, the I remembered the mistery dragon that fell into the forest

" well Gobber, thank you for this, but I-uh- have - uhh- a thing, so-um, bye" I said speedwalking to the forest, only to pause and turn to my house so that I could grab the map I have in my journal

I entered my house and noticed my dad sitting in the dinner table, I quickly try to pass by
"Hiccup" and nevermind, lets hope its not another one of his 'man up' talks,
"yes dad?" I asked nervously
"you are not working in the forge anymore" he said, voice gruff and heavy, "what?!" I asked in outrage, the forge is where I can be as creative as I want and not have my creations ripped out of my hands and destroyed, he can't just rake away my outlet
" why?!", "why?!, you almost got killed there!, obviously you are not as safe there as I expected, there is no place safe enough from the disaster that follows you!, so every raid, you will go into the forest ans stay there until its over" he finished with finality that makes me realise I can't win this argument
"do you understand?"

" yes, dad"

Then I went upstairs, grabbed my journal and my charcoal, then jump out the window in my room thats facing the forest and ran

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Hi guys!,

So obviously this is a lot different than what happened in the original start, description is also different, and it may look like im completely changing the story and I am, some things that happened is just so unrealistic in the original that its just cringe, but it still has the basic concept of Hiccup having some kind of power over shadows, maybe not as op as back then, you know the having complete power over everything was over the top.

I always wondered while re-reading this is where that power comes from and I would like to explore that and the personality of the characters more.

And I added a little mystery and much needed conflict to the story

I hope this is okay and please comment what you think

💙 kat