Hey, everyone! I got this idea while writing next chapter for my other story With a Fire Within. I didn't want to start another story while I don't have finished that one, but this idea came and I couldn't resist to write it. When inspiration kicks in I don't have the power to stop it. I search for this kind of story a long time from now but never found anything like it so when I got the idea I took it. I will be now updating both stories as much as I can and for 100% I will finish both of them. This story will be rated T, but it could change later to M. It COULD. I'm not saying it will, but could. Anyway, you can decide if it should be rated T or M. Let me know if you liked this chapter and what you think about this story.
"Do you really think that you will be both okay?" A woman named Valka asked her husband as she was lying on the bed. She had auburn hair kept in three separate braids behind her back and pale skin. Unlike most Viking women, she had a slim figure. But in a faint light, it was clear that this woman was pregnant.
"Don't worry Val, we'll be alright." Said a man named Stoick beside bed who had a year old baby boy in his arms. Stoick had green eyes and red hair, like almost all Viking men he had a muscular figure that intimidates those who cross his path. He had freckles on his face if you look closely and his red hair is braided at the back. He had the front of his beard portion tied to one knot in front of the rest of it. His son had forest green eyes and mop of auburn hair with face covered with freckles, which he inherit from his father.
"What could possibly go wrong? There will be over twenty chiefs from different islands. Our son will be safe. And even so, you must rest, dear. You need to be strong for our little baby too." He said as he brought one of his hand on his wife pregnant belly.
"I will, but promise me, Stoick, that nothing bad will happen to you and our son." She told with a small smile as she placed her hand on top of his which rested on her belly.
"We'll be fine, Valka. Now rest. We will be back in a week." With that, he bends down and kissed his wife's forehead. "I love you, Val."
"I love you and our little son too." She answered.
Stoick smiled at her and walked out of the house. He was supposed to meet with other chiefs of the barbaric archipelago to discuss the dragon scourge they all faced.
"Are you sure about this, Stoick?" A woman named Ansfrida has asked him as he went towards the dock. She had blue eyes and long blonde hair to her waist braided in one braid. She wasn't slim as Valka but not bulky as other Vikings women. "I could take care of Hiccup while you will be gone." She continued as she repositioned her own ten months old baby girl in her arms. She had an ocean blue eyes and blonde hair. When both children looked at each other they began to laugh and tried to reach each other. "Astrid would be pleased to have some company." She said as she tried to hold on her baby girl.
"Hiccy, mama." Astrid said as she pointed to the boy.
"Asta, papa" Hiccup said too as he pointed to the girl.
Stoick chuckled at children and then he shooked his head. "Thanks, Ansfrida but I will manage." He said with a smile as he continued to the docks. While he walked he smiled to himself at his son and Hofferson daughter. They always liked to play with each other and it would be nice to see them both grow. Haddock family and Hofferson family are very good friends and who knows maybe from a children friendship will grow a love. Stoick would be happy if it would be possible to bring two strong families together.
As he went further Astrid became whimper and then she started crying. Her mother instantly tried to shush her, but she knew why she cried. Even she didn't like the risk of Hiccup going with his father.
"Shh, Astrid. Hiccup will come back don't worry. And when he be back we can invite him to our house and you can play with him." She tried to cease her daughter crying. She started walking towards her house unbeknown to her, that her daughter has a reason to cry.
As Stoick walked towards dock there was a ship from Bog Burglars waiting for him. As he came closer a chief of Bog Burglars, Big-Boobied Bertha greeted him. "So your little son goes with us?" She said with a smile.
"Yeah, Valka is ill from another pregnancy so it will make her good to rest for a week. He will be safe with us." He answered her.
"Can I?" She asked as she outstretched her hands to take the boy to her arms. Stoick nodded and placed his son in her waiting arms.
"Just as my little Cami." She said as she poked boy's nose. He chuckled at that and Stoick with Bog's chief set sail towards Island where the meeting was held.
They arrived at their destination after two days and it was a sunset now. They docked in small fisherman village. Their journey was peaceful and quiet as Hiccup had the attention of women on the ship. Stoick was not sure if taking his son was a good idea, but now he thought that it was a great idea. He managed to feed him from the bottle and change his diapers, of course with help of Bertha. Without her, he would be clueless. Women on a ship had a great time when he tried to change Hiccup diaper for the first time. As he and Bertha, with his son in his arms, step out of the ship, they were greeted by Mogadon the Meathead, chief of Meatheads tribe and Oswald the Agreeable, chief of Berserker tribe.
"So you took your little fellow with you?" Oswald asked after their greetings.
"Yeah, Val is a bit ill with another pregnancy, so I was thinking I would let her rest for a week." Stoick answered.
"It just weird, that woman fierce as Valka, is bedridden." Oswald said with a chuckle.
"Don't worry Oswald." Bertha said, "I think that she would beat your ass anyway." With that four chiefs begun to laugh. Hiccup, even when didn't know what adults said has chuckled. A meeting was held another day in the evening. Every chief got their temporary home and Stoick left sleeping Hiccup in his. Chiefs were now sitting in a meeting house, discussing a dragon scourge they all faced. But none of them could find a good solution to their problem. Unbeknown to them was a small ship docking in a port. A stranger, covered in scars and draped in a cloak of dragon skin jumped out of the ship and was walking towards meeting hall. He carried no weapon, and his movement was slow and precise. As he opened the door, everyone in the hall has looked at him. He started to speak softly as he walked deeper into the room.
"I'm Drago Bludvist and I'm a man of the people, devoted to freeing mankind from the tyranny of dragons." Stoick scratches his beard as a stranger continued.
"Only I can control the dragons and I alone can keep you safe, if you chose to bow down and follow me." And with that whole hall burst into laughter. Even Stoick laugh at it. They laughed until Drago wrapped himself in his cloak and cried out "Then see how well you do without me!"
The rooftop suddenly burst into flames and armored dragons descended and started burning everything and everyone in the hall. Stoick could see how Drago slowly walks through dragons towards the door.
"Stoick!" He could hear Bertha's shout. "We must go now!" With that, he darted towards Bertha, Mogadon and Oswald.
"What the hel is happening!" He could hear shout behind him. As he gets to the trio they darted through burning wall. Wall snapped as they brought their weight to it and they were outside. The whole village was under attack of those armored dragons. He then saw that stranger in the village square and he could swear that he had a smirk on his face. Then something hit him to the head and he blacked out.
He came to himself and found out that he was at ship deck. "Did you found him?" He could hear a woman. "No, his house was burned to the ground." He frowned when he tried to recall what has happened. Then his memories hit him like cold water. He snapped his eyes open and shouted "Hiccup!" He quickly stood up but he was restrained by two hands on his shoulders. Now he looked around and found out that it was already sundown and they were docked in burned dock.
"Stoick, calm down." A man behind him said and he glanced at the man and found out it was Oswald. Before him stood Mogadon and Bertha.
"What happened, where's my son!" He shouted.
"I'm sorry Stoick." Bertha said with tears in her eyes. "When we darted out a dragon attacked us and before we could react he hit you to the head and blacked you out. We defended ourselves against him and when he flew off, we took you to the ship. Mogadon tried to go for your son but he was unable to get there because of fire." Stoick sank to his knees. He knew where this was going and he was unable to hold his tears. "We got you on the ship and sailed off. We stayed in the sight of the Island and by the morning dragons flew off and fires were dying down. We went back and Mogadon went to find your son. But he found only ash of burned house where was your son. And we are only one who survived this. I'm sorry, Stoick. But your son is dead."
Stoick didn't care that he had a three more chiefs around him. He sobbed and sunk to the ground his tears streaming from his eyes. He failed his wife, he failed his unborn baby, he failed Hofferson and Haddock family, he failed whole Berk and what was worst he failed his son. Because his son was dead. Other chiefs left him and set course towards Berk. They didn't look forward to announcing this terrible news to Berk and they pitied Stoick and his wife. Because none parent should lose their child.
When they arrived on Berk after two days in half burned ship a half village was already at the dock waiting for the news. When they saw their young broken chief, they knew something bad has happened. But they didn't expect what their chief told them. His wife took it worst from the whole village and her distress made her pregnancy problems. Two days later she gave birth to a little girl three weeks before her date. Stoick was sitting in his chief's chair in the great hall. Every villager came to give him their condolences. His wife was resting in their house after long and painful childbirth. Besides him and his wife, Hofferson family and Gobber took Hiccup death worst. Ansfrida was yelling at him when she found out, what has happened and that he should listen to her when she wanted to take care of Hiccup. He deserved it. It was his stupidity that this happened. It was all his fault.
"Stoick," a Gobber's voice came to him as his friend make his way towards him. "I know that you probably don't want to hear this." He continued as he came closer. "But ya know that we must give him a proper funeral." He finished as he placed his hand on Stoick shoulder.
Stoick nodded. He knew that they must make him a proper funeral but he can't do it without his wife. "I know Gobber, we'll ready everything and when Val will be better, we'll send him to our ancestors." Gobber nodded and walked away.
Two days later they had ready everything. They made a small ship where they placed all Hiccup's things as they didn't have his body and they sent it to the sea. Stoick, Valka, Gobber and Hofferson family were standing on the cliff over port as other villagers stood behind them. As everyone readied their bows Gobber started
"When a father sends off his son. When a sister says goodbye to her dearest Brother. When mother cry and a tribe mourns. No wound received in the field can compare to the pain of losing a child. I hear the weeping on the wind. The very air mourns their loss. Valkyries stop and bow their heads. Tears wash away spilled blood, but no life will return. Memories all that remain. Pictures of childhood. No more comfort to be found in seeing loved ones again. No parent should ever, have to send off their child." He finished with tears in his eyes. Stoick nodded a thank you to him and fired a flaming arrow at the small ship. After him, fired Gobber, Asmund Hofferson, Finn Hofferson and after them others members of Hairy Hooligans. Even Bertha, Mogadon and Oswald fired flaming arrows to honor Stoick's son. Stoick hugged his crying wife with their little daughter Heather in her arms, as did Asmund with his wife Ansfrida and their girl Astrid. They all watched as the ship was engulfed by flames, unbeknown to them that Hiccup's new life has begun.
To clarify some things. Stoick and Valka including Astrid parents and Gobber are in this chapter around twenty maybe twenty-five years old, so their reactions are like this because they were younger. In other chapters, they will be more like in films, maybe little different because Valka will not be taken by Cloudjumper here because he will not find Hiccup in the cradle and he can't find Heather alone in cradle because after they lost Hiccup they became overprotective of their daughter.
So I hope you liked it! Let me know! Until next chapter!