Hello Dragonites!
Here's the last chapter of How To Teach Your Jorgenson To Swim!
I wrote a list of my ideas for future fanfics down there so check it out if you want. There's no titles and I'm not sure about the size of some of them but I'll come up with some new information eventually.
Well, have a good reading! XD
PS: Sorry if there are many spelling mistakes. I'm kind of in a rush right now.
"Wooohoooo" Snotlout screamed, jumping to the lake that had been his learning place the past two weeks.
Hiccup followed him from behind, only slower because the past days his dizziness and headache had grown worse. Of course that Snotout didn't know about this, neither did any of the other riders.
Hiccup literally fell against the odd tree near the lake and sank to the ground. Snotlout's blurry form called him from inside the lake. "Hey Hiccup! What should I do now? 'Cause I' m pretty good at this thing of swimming!"
Hiccup only understood half of what his cousin'd just said but it was enough for him to be able to answer. "Humm… Don't know… just swimmm…" He mumbled.
Snotlout raised an eyebrow, was it him or was Hiccup with a slurred speech?
"Are you okay Hiccup?" Snotlout asked. "Hiccup?"
Hiccup raised his head. "Hum… yeahhh just… didn't get enough sleep…the past nights"
"Yeah.. it's hard to sleep with this heat. Even at night." Snotlout answered before starting to swim in circles in the area with shadow.
After a while Hiccup got up. He couldn't stand that sun anymore, his head was now spinning at high speed, the things around him had all lost definition so they were mixed up.
"Okay Snotlout. I think thaatt there'sss nothing else for me to teach ya."
Snotlout jumped out of the water.
"I learned really fast didn't I?" Snotlout asked with a confident smile on his face.
Hiccup who wasn't in the mood for this kind of talk, especially under the burning sun, just nodded.
"Yeah! Now I can rub in the others' faces my talent! Come on let's go!" Snotlout called running in the direction of Hookfang.
"What? So that was the reason why you wanted to learn how to swim? Just to be better than everyone else!?" Hiccup asked, snapping himself mentally for screaming that high.
"Huuumm… yeah. Not only but that too." Snotlout answered as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Wha- I can't believe this." Hiccup said.
"Oh come on Hiccup! It's good to be good!" Snotlout blurted.
Hiccup started walking angrily in the direction of Toothless.
"Hiccup! Really? Come on! Hiccup!" Snotlout called him. Hiccup wasn't planning on stopping for his stupid cousin, but unfortunately a huge wave of dizziness made him hold on to tree.
Snotlout ran towards him and helped Hiccup standing. "What was this? Hiccup? What happened?"
"I'm… I'm fine Snotlout really… It was just this stupid leg. I get off balance sometimes…" Hiccup lied.
Snotlout released Hiccup's arm and sighed. "Fine. I won't go there to show off… but just because you helped me these past days! Not because I… care about…you."
Hiccup didn't even care about what Snotlout was saying. He walked over to Toothless and mounted the Night Fury. Snotlout did the same with his Monstruous Nightmare and they took off.
Hiccup's stomach was now starting to be affected by the excessive exposure to the sun during those two past weeks but he kept quiet during the trip back to the base.
Soon he, Snotlout, Toothless and Hookfang were landing near the twins's hut. Toothless and Hookfang walker over to the pit full of water and stopped. There was no one there.
"Arrgggh! Really? No one! Humphh." Snotlout crossed his arms. "I'm going to call them. We're in the middle of the afternoon I mean, they're usually here, and I could really use another swimming moment with this heat! You can wait here." Snotlout said before taking off with Hookfang.
Hiccup didn't even bother answering him , he dismounted Toothless and walked to the border of the twin's boar pit. His head was hurting so much now and the dizziness was so strong that the world seemed to be turning upside down.
He felt sick and was starting to regret spending all of that time in the sun just to teach Snotlout how to swim (the Jorgenson hadn't even thanked him although the Haddock'd said he didn't need to) but what his cousin had said after Hiccup saved him from drowning two weeks ago was what convinced him that he needed to help Snotlout. "I just think I'll never be like you…" Snotlout had told him and although he didn't see himself like the way Snotlout had described, Hiccup could relate with that feeling. He had spent the first 15 years of his life thinking that he would never fit in the world, thinking that he would always be different, that he would never be like the other Vikings, thinking that he would never be something more than just a Hiccup.
That and he had to help Snotlout. Even though it didn't look like, they were family and Snotlout could sometimes be a good cousin. Sometimes like… when he wanted to…
It was when his friends' voices appeared that he got super lightheaded and everything got even more blurry and dark. He started fighting to maintain his eyelids open.
"So I see your bad humor kind of passed away Snotlout." Astrid commented while they all walked in the direction of the pit.
"It wasn't bad humor. It was a phase I was going through!" Snotlout corrected.
"Yeah. I'm glad it's over…" Fishlegs mumbled.
"Yeah you looked like an angry wild yak!" Ruffnut exclaimed.
"Big portions on the angry and yak hahaha!" Tuffnut added, bumping his fist with Ruffnut.
"I though you didn't need that!" Astrid commented, referring to the water-pit as 'that'. She was still mad at Snotlout for treating Hiccup like he did.
Snotlout only rolled his eyes.
"What made you change your mind Snotlout?" Astrid added.
"Look we can talk about that when we arrive there. It's really hot and Hiccup's waiting too." He said.
"Hiccup is already there? I thought you were mad at each other." Fishlegs tried.
"Oh it must be like siblings love." Ruffnut said.
"Yeah one moment everything's fine, the other we're trying to kill each other!" Tuffnut shared.
"Also, mind telling us what you two have been doing these two weeks? It's just that you knocking on our doors to call us for a swim doesn't exactly match with… well you.." Astrid asked suspiciously.
"Look I just want to spend some quality time with my friends in fresh waters . Okay? It's normal…" Snotlout mumbled.
"Hummm… no it's not. First you didn't want to go swimming with us and now you want? That's not normal." Fishlegs replied.
"But that's what I want?!" Snotlout yelled.
"Whoa… did you almost die or something?" Ruffnut asked.
Snotlout hold back a yes and circled around the twin's hut, the others next to him and they're dragons following them from behind.
"Hey Hiccup, we're back!" Snotlout announced. "Hiccup?"
He looked at Hiccup near the pit, blinking his eyes has if he were too tired to keep them open.
"Hiccup are you okay?" Astrid asked, worry in her voice.
Hiccup looked at them but his vision darkened totally. He tried to grab Toothless but he couldn't really see the Night Fury so his hand only grabbed air.
His eyes closed and he fell backwards. Toothless tried to grab his rider but Hiccup ended by falling to the water of the pit.
"Hiccup!" They all screamed.
Astrid ran forward to go rescue him and Toothless also had the same impulse but Snotlout was faster. He dove in the water and started swimming downwards and spotted Hiccup in the dark bottom of the pit. It would be just like in that exercise he had practiced. Only this time it was a life or death situation, this time he wasn't swimming for a rock. He was swimming for Hiccup's life.
He fought the instinct to just swim upwards to breathe and continued focused on his objective.
Snotlout reached Hiccup and started dragging him back to the surface. When they finally emerged Snotlout laid his cousin on the grass.
Astrid fell to her knees. "Hiccup!" She cried.
Toothless smelled Hiccup's hand and growled sorrowfully.
The Haddock looked dead. He wasn't breathing. Snotlout had arrived too late.
No! He couldn't. He just couldn't!
"Ooh I knew he wasn't well. Stupid! I'm so stupid! Stupid sun, stupid everything!" Snotlout cursed while pushing Hiccup's chest up and down in a desperate attempt to expel the water from his cousin's lungs.
Astrid kept calling Hiccup's name and Fishlegs and the twins were just standing there like frozen statues without knowing what to do.
Astrid felt Hiccup's heartbeat, it was still there but weak and slowing down at every second.
"You can't do this Hiccup. Come on cuz!" Snotlout cried, for once not even caring about what the others would think of him. "You can't Hiccup… You're driving me nuts again cuz!" Snotlout exploded, literally punching his cousin's chest.
Suddenly Hiccup started coughing all the water he had in his lungs. Astrid used herself as a support to sit him so he could cough it all out.
Hiccup slowly opened his eyes and that was probably one of the most awkward and confusing moments in his life. Fishlegs was in the middle of a Thorston sandwich with the twins. Astrid hugged him tightly and Snotlout still had his fist at the ready as if he was about to punch someone again. Toothless licked his whole face.
"Wha-" He mumbled. "Happened?"
"You passed out and fell to the water. Snotlout saved you just in time otherwise you would've drowned." Astrid answered, hiding the crack in her voice. The minutes he wasn't breathing were one of the scariest of her life. Slowly feeling his heart stopping was… she didn't even know. Terrifying wasn't enough to describe it.
"Thanks…I guess we- we're even now… cuz…" Hiccup muttered before closing his eyes. A weak smile on his face.
"You don't have to thank me. That's what friends are here for, remember?" Snotlout answered.
Astrid looked at Snotlout with a what-stupidity-did-he-do-this-time-to-end-like-this face.
"I should've known better. He spent entire days under the sun. That must be it." Snotlout answered her.
"Hiccup, are you dumb!?" Astrid exclaimed unintentionally.
"Mmhhmm" Hiccup muttered, his head starting to loll against Astrid's chest.
"I'll take him to his hut. Thanks for saving him Snotlout." Astrid said, still enervated but getting up and dragging Hiccup with her too.
She placed one of his arms around her neck and passed one of her own around his stomach. Toothless helped supporting the other side of his rider.
Before Astrid could depart to much Snotlout called "Hey, Hiccup."
The blonde turned around so Hiccup's barely open eyes could face Snotlout.
"Thank you." He said.
Hiccup smiled back.
YAY! Second fanfic finished. And I HAD to be mean to Hiccup… seriously what's wrong with me? Hehehehe. XD
I can move on to the third fic! Yes third. I said it. I still don't know the name but it'll be a one shot.
Actually it's easier if I tell you the list of stories I have planned:
-Title unknown- (develops the scene the twins mentioned on Flying To Never Stand Still, the Loki day Hiccup ruined because he just couldn't play dead RTTE); one-shot.
-Title unknown- (involves cold, a birthday, broken bones, colds and hiccstrid! RTTE); one, two or three shots I don't know yet.
-Title unkown- (hiccstrid support, Hiccup fears that he's becoming violent because of what he did to that Dragon Hunter on Enemy of my Enemy, season 3, RTTE)- one shot for sure.
-Title unknown- (After an arguing with Astrid, Hiccup gets stranded alone in an island full of pirates and Dragon Hunters' traps that means that they'll probably visit that island soon. Something like that. RTTE); 15 chapters maybe? More or less yeah.
-Title unkown- (After escaping the Dragon Hunters the Riders fear that Hiccup will never be the same when he starts isolating himself from the others. What happened there? RTTE)- Almost 10 chapters I don't know.
So that's it for now. They're all fanfics that happen during RTTE but I also want to write some during the other series and after or before the movies.
The first -Title Unknown- will be published tomorrow- the one-shot-.
I hope you enjoyed reading How To Teach Your Jorgenson as much as I enjoyed writing it. XD
-WhenToothlessWrites
