One more day, one more bruise, one more mean name, one more joke, just one more day...That's all he had to deal with and then his Angel would be home.

Hiccup suffers abuse at the hands of a father who should protect him, but instead comes home from work mind numbing drunk. He suffers abuse at school at the hands of his older cousin, and people who were supposed to be his friends. His only escape is who he defines as his three Angels, his father's friend Gobber, his dragon Toothless and his big sister Camicazi. They are his Angels, until another blonde Angel comes along and she makes Hiccup's world that little bit brighter.

Chapter 1 – One More Day

...One more day, one more bruise, one more mean name, one more joke, just one more day...That's all he had to deal with and then his Angel would be home and he won't ever be alone...

That was all he kept thinking as he rode the school bus home from another day in his own personal hell. He sat at the front of the bus; he was a small thin boy, with pale skin, a mop of messy, dark auburn hair and bright green eyes. He wasn't exactly fitting in well in his appearance, especially with his long-sleeved green shirt and brown parker in the middle of summer, but right now he didn't care. All he cared about was that he would meet someone very special, in one day, if he lived long enough to see it. You see, this special person was his big sister, Camicazi Haddock, though everyone called her Cami. She had once been in Hiccup's school and she was the most popular person there, but she was different, not severely like her little brother seemed to be, but almost, you see Camicazi was in a car crash with their mother when she was eight, Hiccup was only a baby, she lost the use of her legs, meaning that she relied on a wheelchair, whilst her mother lost the use of her life. However, before he could get too upset over the loss of his mother, he suddenly felt pain in the back of his head as something solid bounced off it and he looked towards the sound of something hitting the floor sounded and he found a baseball. He didn't need to guess who had thrown it, he already knew, he could hear the laughter of his cousin, Shaun Jorgenson – also known as Snotlout by his sister.

"Score, fifty points!" Shaun suddenly shouted.

Hiccup turned around to see his cousin standing at the back of the bus doing some sort of victory dance as his friend Travis, also known as Tuffnut, high-fived him and almost everyone in their group laughed, all except a blonde girl who was wearing headphones, trying to ignore the group. Her name was Astrid Hofferson, and she was the most beautiful girl in school, even if she did have a bit of a temper, but she was also his cousin's girlfriend.

"Will you all shut up?" She suddenly snapped.

"Oh come on babe, you've got to admit that was a good shot." Shaun told her.

"Shut up Shaun, I'm trying to listen to my music." She told him with a glare that literally promised death and that shut him up.

Hiccup quickly turned back round so that he couldn't see his cousin and his friends, before he suddenly felt someone sit beside him and he turned to see Astrid sat in the seat next to him.

"Hey."

It took Hiccup a while to realise that she was actually talking to him, before he received a punch in the arm which snapped him out of his trance. Yeah, Astrid could be pretty violent at times, but Hiccup put it down to it being her way of communicating with people. "Owe, hi."

He couldn't believe what he was hearing; the most popular and the most beautiful girl in school was actually sat next to him, talking to him...Why?

"You're Hendrick, right?" She asked, looking at him her blue eyes shining in question.

"Uh yeah...Hendrick Haddock." He told her with a goofy smile.

"Awesome, I've got the right guy." She leant into her backpack and she pulled out a book. "Here, the teacher said you left this in English; I'd seen you get the bus so I said I'd give it back." Astrid told him.

"Oh, thanks..." Hiccup told her, taking the book from her and stuffing it into his backpack.

"Don't worry about it; it's only fair that you get what are yours and all that." Astrid shrugged. "Anyway, I'll see you around." She told him, getting up and walking back to Shaun and his gang.

As she left, Hiccup felt whatever happiness he had disappear, suddenly he looked up and he saw his stop, pressing the button quickly, the bus suddenly stopped, throwing him forward and straight out of his seat onto the floor, the contents of his backpack spilling out. As everyone laughed, he quickly shoved his things into his bag and he ran off of the bus, but not before Astrid saw something. The bottom of the back of Hiccup's shirt was stained red...but it wasn't any red, it was blood red, and she didn't like the look of it.

Meanwhile, Hiccup was running home, his eyes filling with tears, leaving a trail of red behind him. Astrid's suspicions of blood had been right, a wound on the base of his back had been ripped open and he was in complete agony. The minute he was safe inside his house, he dived onto the sofa and bawled, just bawled his eyes out. Though this only made his pain worse until it started to subside after a while and he was left curled up on the sofa, only then did he realise that his blood had stained the cream sofa. Panicking, he ran into the kitchen to get something to clean it with and he ended up with severely diluted bleach, as he scrubbed and scrubbed, nothing worked, so he threw the cleaning cloth into the bowl of diluted bleach and he pulled it off of the sofa, thankful that it was the same material on the other side as he struggled to turn it over, and he pushed it back into place the opposite way, hiding the blood on the other side. He then quickly put the cleaning products away, and he tidied up the already spotless house, before he set about taking his school bag upstairs to his room. Hiccup's room was the barest of bare, the walls were white, the flooring was a cold dark wood, there was a single bed by the window, which held a green duvet and pillow set that his sister had bought him one year and the walls were littered with pictures of them together. Besides the bed, there was only a wardrobe, a small chest of drawers and a small desk stood in the corner piled high with papers and books. Taking his books from his backpack, he put them onto his desk and he wrapped his entire waist in a tight bandage before he started his homework. He gave up with his homework not long after and he walked outside, heading towards a stable in the back garden of his home, and he was soon joined by a black dragon.

"Hey Toothless." Hiccup smiled and he walked to a freezer, picking up some fish from inside it and he threw it to Toothless who happily ate them.

As his dragon ate, Hiccup picked up another basket and walked over to another stall, and inside with a large dragon that was known as a Rumblehorn and it was lying down, curled up in the hay.

"Hey Skullcrusher, I brought you some lunch." Hiccup told him as he opened the door to the stall and set the basket in front of the dragon who had stood up to greet him and as he ate, Hiccup rubbed his horn that stood proud on the front of his face. Hiccup spent most of the evening in the stables with the two dragons, occasionally looking over at another stall that was empty. That was where his sister's dragon stayed whenever he came home with her, but he hadn't been back for some time now, and he knew that Camicazi wasn't bringing him with her when she came back tomorrow, but Hiccup still kept it clean and tidy for her, just in case. Each person was given an egg when they were born, it was supposed to symbolise the type of person that they would be when they grew, and the dragon would follow them for the rest of their lives, almost like a shadow, and when that human died, so did that dragon. It was a close bonded relationship, and so far Hiccup didn't know of anyone who hated it. Eventually he heard a car pull up and he sighed to himself. His dad was home and that only meant one thing, more pain and torment for him to endure. But he was surprised when he didn't get shouted at straight away or at all that night, so Hiccup decided that his dad had had a good day at the office. You see, Stoick Haddock was the chief of police that was why he got away with his treatment of Hiccup; he basically made the law in the small town of Berk. As he went to shower and get ready for bed, Hiccup peeled off the bandages that were around his waist and he turned to catch the edge of the wound, it was a gaping gash in the bottom of his back, it was getting infected, but he didn't have anything to put on it, so he simply left it, careful not to make a sound as he showered himself before he got out and got dressed.

That night, Hiccup lay in bed watching the ceiling, he could hear the television downstairs, his dad was watching some crime show, but that wasn't what was keeping him awake, it wasn't even the cut on his back or the hundreds of little ones he had. What kept him up was the fact that he kept thinking of his sister Camicazi, he'd hoped that his injuries wouldn't be noticeable, but who he had he been kidding, he'd gotten them a mere two days ago. His sister would know what was up, she wasn't stupid, and that was why she was at Dragon Riders University right now, getting a degree. But little did he know, he wasn't the only one who couldn't sleep. A few streets away, Astrid was sat at her desk trying to do her homework, but she found her mind otherwise occupied. And it was occupied with a certain auburn haired geek who she shared classes with. But something was wrong, she'd noticed that he was limping today, and then she noticed the back of his shirt, and as she got off the bus at the stop after his, she noticed that the chair in which he sat had streaks of blood in it. She knew that Shaun and his friends hadn't caused it, she'd been with them the whole time they made fun of him, she wasn't proud of being associated with it, but she did have an image to keep, anyway they hadn't done anything to severely harm him like that. It was at that point that she decide to give up on her homework and make a plan, she was going to watch Hiccup until they went on spring break which was a few days away and she would document everything that she saw that wasn't normal for Hiccup and when it was the last day of term, she would show her documents to a teacher or just someone she could trust and see what could be done about it. This caused her a smile, she'd help Hiccup in a way that he wouldn't know, but she knew that he would be grateful, because he looked like he needed the help.