Wednesday, April 25, 2018

How To Love Your Dragon-Chapter 6

Hiccup was in his small workshop at the back of the blacksmith stall. It was something he managed to convince Gobber to allow him to have for his 10th birthday so that he could work his weaponry and scale models designs. Deep down, he knew he wasn't cut out for the rough and tumble Viking business, so he thought that if he could make better, effective weapons, he would at least be able to contribute to the tribe instead of always being the outcast. Some of his little inventions have worked in the past, thus Gobber tolerates him having that design room, and now he was going to put his little workshop to good use.

He lit a candle and laid his sketchbook out on the desk, opening it to the drawing of the dragon. With a look of determination, Hiccup picked up a charcoal stick and re-drew the missing tail. After making the preliminary sketch for a prosthetic fin for the missing tail, Hiccup spent all night tinkering, forging, twisting and hammering his prototype fin. It took him almost all night, but he managed to make a decent-sized tail based on his sketches. After inspecting his work and was satisfied with it, he retired for the night, though technically it was already dawning.

He just hoped that this would work.

-:-

Hiccup arrived at the cove again, skipping training for the day. He looked a little winded, straining under the weight of a full basket of fish on his back. Along with the prosthetic fin, he heaved the basket to the ground.

"Toothless~ Oh, Toothless~"

The Night Fury he called Toothless came out from behind the rocks he was napping at and approached, sniffing him. Hiccup decided to give the name 'Toothless' for the dragon since he thought it was a fitting name for it due to its retractable teeth. After he made the fin, he paid a visit to the dragon every end of the day training for a few days to make sure he had the measurements and design right to match the actual other half of the tail. He would then go home to make the necessary adjustments to the prosthetic fin.

During the duration of the visits, he and Toothless had bridged the gap between them bit by bit. Initially, Toothless was still wary and cautious around Hiccup, not allowing him to come near him, but slowly, Hiccup managed to shorten the distance between them, by making small talk and telling it about his day or just anything that came in his mind, until Toothless trusted him enough to allow him to have skin contact with him. Though he still needed to distract Toothless with food whenever he took the measurement and study the good half of the tail, which was what he was doing right now.

"Hey, Toothless," Hiccup smiled as he opened the basket lid. "I brought breakfast. I hope you're hungry," he kicked the basket over, letting the fish spill out. "Okay, that's disgusting."

Toothless approached the pile of fish, sniffing at it to make sure what he had in store for it.

"Uh…we've got some salmon, some nice Icelandic cod, and a whole smoked eel."

At the word 'eel', Toothless started and growled at it, backing away from it. Hiccup took note of that and quickly removed the eel.

"No, no, no! It's okay. Yeah, I don't like eel much either."

Toothless looked satisfied seeing Hiccup throwing out the eel and it started eating the remainder of the fish. With the dragon distracted, Hiccup unwrapped his prosthetic fin and opened it like a fan.
"Okay. That's it. That's it, just stick with good stuff," Hiccup muttered as he made his way towards the tail. "And don't you mind me. I'll just be back here…Minding my own business…"

Hiccup cautiously approached the tail with his fin, but every time he got near it, Toothless swept it away like a cat. Calming the dragon down, he dropped a knee on top of the tail, strapped the prosthetic fin in place and cinched the straps.

"Hmm…There. Not too bad. It works…"

Without warning, Toothless bolted, snapping its massive wings and took to the air, carrying Hiccup with him. Unbeknownst to the poor boy, Toothless had felt odd the moment it was done with its meal and knew that Hiccup was doing something to its tail that may have finally be able to make him fly and get out of the god-forsaken cove. As soon as the straps were cinched, Toothless saw it as a chance for it to get away from him, and zoomed off without wasting time. Hiccup was left struggling to hold on to the tail for dear life, shouting at Toothless to stop and put him down.

As the ground sped away, Toothless immediately tipped into an uncontrolled bank and dive. Hiccup soon noticed the folded fin rattling uselessly in opposition to its flared counterpart. Flap as it may, Toothless couldn't correct its trajectory and was soon plummeting to the ground. Thinking quickly, Hiccup reached for the prosthetic and yanked it open, and almost immediately the flared, fan-like appendage caught the air, stabilizing the twisting tail.

"It's working!" Hiccup exclaimed in excitement as the stabilized Toothless arced just short of the water and climbed high into the air. He tried his luck again by keeping the fin open while turning it so that Toothless maneuvered in the air back into the cove, which worked perfectly. "Yes! Yes, I did it!"

Hiccup's excited voice caught Toothless' attention. The dragon glanced back at him, busily holding the tail open while trying to hold on. It wasn't going to need Hiccup anymore now that the tail fin finally worked. With a sharp turn and a deliberate swish of its tail, it threw Hiccup off its tail into the pond below, causing the redhead to bounce across the water's surface and take a dive. Unfortunately, without Hiccup to operate the tail, Toothless was no longer in control, and ended up doing the same, plunging in a massive cannonball. Moments later, Hiccup resurfaced along with Toothless, roughed up, but beaming.

"Yeah! That was amazing!" Hiccup exclaimed as he swam back up to shore. "I did it! I did it! I made the tail work!"

Toothless swam after him, following behind on shore but did not look as excited as Hiccup was.

"I did it! Finally I made something that actually works! Oh, with a few more calibrations, I might just be able to fix the tail for…"

Hiccup turned around to see Toothless glowering at him. It did not seem to share the same enthusiasm and excitement as he did, and one look at Toothless tossing his wet tail with the prosthetic fin limping beside the good one told him enough.

"I'm…I'm sorry, Toothless…" Hiccup humbled himself as he looked down guiltily, his hair dripping wet and his clothes stuck to his skin. "I know I'm supposed to help…I know I made you this way and I have to fix what I did. I'm really sorry…I'm trying really hard. Just give me some time and I will fix this and you won't have to be stuck with me any longer…"

A growl and a shove to the ground silenced him. He looked up to see Toothless glaring down at him, its black pupils in slits. A long pause between them, with Toothless' rumbling growls ringing in his ears, Hiccup broke the ice.

"You're…going to punish me again, aren't you?"

Toothless narrowed its eyes.

"You're going…to do…what you did to me when we first met…aren't you?"

As a response, Toothless leaned down to try and undo his pants with its teeth. Surprisingly it did not try to tear it to shreds like the last time, and it glanced up at him occasionally, as if asking Hiccup to remove his pants for it. Seeing those determined eyes, Hiccup resigned to his fate as he raised his hips to fully remove them.

"Do it. Have your way with me. I won't run."

Toothless was soon on top of him again and flipped him onto his stomach with its muzzle, nosing Hiccup's waist to tell him to raise his hips. Swallowing his fear and trepidation, Hiccup did so and he could feel the dragon's member slipping in between his legs and was probing around, as if trying to find its entrance. It felt slippery and a little slimy to the touch and Hiccup couldn't help flinching at each probe, and when it finally found its entrance and pushed in, a yelp of pain and shock escaped his lips before he could stop it. Gripping at the grass, his body arched forward at every thrust and Hiccup felt Toothless' jaws around his neck again to hold him in place and stop him from struggling. In the midst of the frenzy, he noticed that Toothless did not use his teeth this time to hold him. The soft, rubbery gums were around his neck, strong enough to keep him subdued but not too strong to threaten to decapitate him.

Hiccup whimpered as Toothless continued to thrust into him, feeling himself being stretched to the limit. Every push into him hurt, but surprisingly it did not hurt as bad as the first time he was forced into. In fact, it actually felt a little good. He couldn't believe what he just thought. This wasn't supposed to feel good. This was all so wrong in so many levels, but his body was betraying his brain, and even more so when Toothless actually pushed in deeper, hitting that spot that made him see white, hot stars in his mind's eyes. He did not know what that was or what it meant, but every time it hit it, he felt like he had just been struck by lightning, a sort of tremor that surged from the tip of his head to the tip of his toes. He clawed at the dirt and let out moan after moan, screaming out all the names of the gods, as Toothless had its way with him. An odd reaching sensation burned at the pit of his stomach, but reaching for what, he did not know. All he knew was he had to get there, to reach out and grab it and hold onto it and…

It was gone.

It was gone before he could reach it, as Toothless let out a roar of completion as it emptied its seed into Hiccup. He was being filled to the point of overflowing and he could almost feel it in his guts, but he stayed still until Toothless was done. Once the dragon pulled out, Hiccup curled up in a fetal position, crying silent tears as he was once again being violated. His body was sore and tired and wracked with pain, and he couldn't move without feeling as if his crotch was staked through by a spear. He laid there, crying himself to sleep as he kept telling himself that this was his punishment, that he deserved this for taking away Toothless' freedom. He would do his best to make up for what he did, and he would take his punishment like a Viking.

He could've sworn though, as he slowly succumbed to the Land of Nod, that he felt Toothless' tongue licking his forehead gently.

-:-

"Today is about teamwork. Work together and you might survive."

Gas seeped through the cracks of a double-wide door of a dragon's cage. It soon blasted open and a cloud of smoke engulfed the ring, swirling around the paired-up teens: Astrid with Ruffnut, Snotlout with Tuffnut and Fishlegs with Hiccup, all of them carrying buckets of water, poised to throw them.

"Now, a wet dragon head can't light its fire," Gobber's voice echoed in the midst of the gas cloud. "The Hideous Zippleback is extra tricky. One head breathes gas, the other head lights it. Your job is to know which is which."

It was a sound advice and clear-cut instructions, but not exactly very helpful for the team. The smoke cut them off from each other and they were like the blind leading the blind. One mishap after another—involving mistaken identity and soaking the wrong "dragon" and fighting amongst themselves, it was down to Fishlegs and Hiccup's team.

"Chances of survival are dwindling into single digits now…" Fishlegs whimpered worriedly.

"Look out!" Hiccup shouted as a Zippleback head emerged out of the smoke. Fishlegs hurled his water at it, completely dousing the head. Unfortunately it leered and opened its mouth, spewing gas into the area.

"Oh. Wrong head," Fishlegs laughed nervously before fleeing in a panic. Hiccup soon heard a clicking sound coming from behind him, followed by sparks flashing in the smoke. The other Zippleback had swept out of the smoke, revealing itself as it started leering towards him, sparks flickering out of its mouth.

"Now, Hiccup!" Gobber shouted.

Hiccup didn't need to be told twice. He hurled his water with all his might, but sadly it arced and dropped short of the dragon's sparking mouth, barely nicking it.

"Oh, come on!" Hiccup groaned as the dragon grinned at him, ready for the kill. He braced himself, barely hearing Gobber shouting at him to run in the background as both heads moved closer to him.
Out of the blue, in front of the shocked team and Gobber, the Zippleback hesitated, took a whiff of Hiccup and retreated. Before their very eyes, they watched, transfixed, as the Zippleback backed away from Hiccup. Hiccup himself stood his ground and held his hands out, as if controlling it.

"Back! Back! Get back! Now don't you make me tell you again!"

The Zippleback retreated through its door and into its cave, hissing, wanting to attack him, but at the same time fearful to go near him.

"Yes, that's right. Back into your cage…" Hiccup commanded as he slyly opened his vest, revealing the spotted smoked eel he secretly kept after his visit to Toothless earlier. "Now think about what you've done."

He tossed it inside the door, watching the Zippleback cowering away from the eel like it was rat poison, and then slammed the cage shut. As he wiped his hand off the slimy eel's goo and turned to his team and Gobber, he was met with awkward and shocked silence, eyes staring at him and disbelief and every single one of them slack-jawed.

"Okay! So are we done?" Hiccup asked as if it was the most matter-of-fact way to do. "Because I've got some things I need to…Yup, see you tomorrow!"

Hiccup quickly jogged away from the speechless group before they could react, pretty amazed himself at how well his experiment with the eel went.

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