The Ancient

Chapter 1

I do not own HTTYD. This goes for every chapter after this, consider this my disclaimer. I really don't want to have to say it more than once.

Also, before the story begins, I'm letting you all in on this. I'm remaking the story, no you don't have to go anywhere, it will stay here. I'll try to update once a week till chapter 10, then all bets are kind of off. I'm a busy guy with a busy life.

And to all you well-wishers out there, thank you all for the support so far, I hope you enjoy the changes I make to this story. I know a many of you are going, "Damn it! Now we have to start from the beginning! Ugh this story isn't even worth it!" Please stick around, I will be making several plot differences that I have thought up over the last year as I have been contemplating how to change this story for the better. You will hopefully notice the new work I have put on to this story and will enjoy the changes to the story as well as my improved writing skills to do this story better justice than I did before. Enjoy!

-I'm Different-

Berk. An island I have dubbed one of the crappiest places on Earth, and I've seen a lot of places after so long. This island is consumed by war and action and all those that love that type of thing. If it wasn't for those blasted dragons…well I guess I can't complain…I do have a Night Fury as my best friend. How did that happen? That's a different story that as closely related to this tale, but it's still a different one.

My name is Hiccup. I'm….different. I actually try to think before doing….sometimes. I have been trying to do that a lot more often. Just quicker. If I'm flying, problem solving has to be a key thing, especially when I have to help fly my draconic friend.

Ah, Toothless. He has been an amazing friend. He always listens, he's protective as hell, and defiantly has gotten closer to me than anyone else, even my own father, and my father is capable of speaking to me in words! I guess I could call him my brother with scales. I will never regret meeting him; just the way I met him. But I would rather not talk about that.

Now back to village life. I hate this place and all it stands for. All they do is hurt me, even when their trying not to. No one really wants to be friends with me at all. It also doesn't help that I am the worst at dragon training. After my first few mess-ups in the ring the few that didn't want to be in a social circle even stayed away. I was truly alone. Toothless made it better for me though. He gave me someone I could trust, someone who listened. Because of this and this alone I stayed.

My journey started though when I did one thing right. One thing that should have served as a way to remind people that I wasn't useless. Instead I was betrayed. Thank the gods I was ready for such brutal leaving, I thought about what were to happen if they discovered Toothless, but that didn't happen instead they stabbed me in the back. I'll start with the last visit from trader Johann.

"Hello Trader Johann. How are you?" I asked.

"Ah Master Hiccup, good to see you. I am doing well, although my boat is a little lighter than before. You?" the energetic trader replied.

"Good, but what do you mean your boat a little lighter?" I asked as concern flickered over my face. Johann has been good to me, a real friend even. Us loners got to stick together in some ways right?

"I traded for a lot of things for this stuff. It is a weapon beyond any other! It's called Greek fire," Johann smiled proudly and puffed out his chest.

"Wait let me get this straight you got a hold of Greek fire, an incredibly rare weapon, and got back to the Archipelago in one piece? Did I get that right?" disbelief scrolled across my features as I processed the fact I was likely standing on very shaky ground just by being on this boat.

"Yes. Its part of the reason it's below deck and sealed in their respected containers and covered up in yak skins and other such things is due to the Romans looking for this stuff like mad!"

"Hhhhmmm. Do you think you could….part with one of the cases?" as hope alight in my eyes. This could be a handy weapon to have.

"I am a trader, so yeah. Why what have you to trade?"

"One of the rarest dragon scales to date has fallen into my possession."

"I have many scales. What is different about this one?" Johann

"It's never been found, caught, or even seen by anyone but me. Guaranteed."

"Just how can you guarantee this?"

"We need a little more privacy," Hiccup whispered, eying other villagers on deck rummaging through the boat.

"In here," said the now interested but confused trader as we went below deck.

Once settled they begin to talk.

"Now what is this about a dragon scale I have yet to find?" Johnan asked.

"It's a Night Fury scale," Hiccup stated seriously, showing Johan the scale.

"How exactly did you get this?" as he raised an eyebrow in doubt of the legitimacy of the claim.

"That's my secret. All you need to know is that is for sure a real night fury scale."

"No…I need to know more. That or no trade."

I sighed and contemplated over if I should show him Toothless. On one hand, I could get a resource that would indefinably be invaluable to me. However on the other side, I was showing my dragon, my best friend, to someone that could just as easily go to my father and tell him everything. In that moment, I took a large risk, I prayed it would come to fruit.

"Fine, I'll show you it's real. Just meet me behind the sea stacks to the north. Lay anchor there and I'll come to you. No weapons. You don't want to know what my friend will do to someone if they have a weapon near them," I scowled, I really didn't like the position this was putting me in.

"It's an odd request but okay, no weapons will be on my deck when you arrive…which will be when?"

"Close to midnight. Trust me it will be worth your while."

"It had better be. A trader needs his beauty sleep."

We laughed as the tension was broke and smiled at the given agreement. After which, and a few sleepy trader jokes, I left Johann's ship to go to the work and prepare for the night.

-Midnight-

"Alright bud, lets go," Hiccup said atop his dragon.

Toothless nodded and took off. Within seconds we found Johann's ship, despite the fog and the sea stacks. With that we flew close to the sea stacks and eventually landed on the deck of Trader Johann's ship.

"Johann I'm here," Hiccup said.

The trader got up from under his deck.

"Master Hiccup…what, exactly, is that creature," Johann asked, his eyes widening animatedly at the sight of the dragon before him.

"Johann this is Toothless my dragon and best friend," Hiccup said cautiously, knowing full well what would happen if Johann even thought of attacking Toothless, it wouldn't be pretty.

"Haha, I see why you said no weapons," Johann angry at being tricked into not having any weapons nearby with such a legendary killer on his deck.

Toothless growled.

"It's okay bud," I whispered to my dragon, we needed to get Johann to trust us, and growling wasn't going to help, "Johann the reason I said no weapon is because of two reasons. One Toothless doesn't trust someone with weapons on the first meeting, trust me I know. I threw away a good knife on his behalf. Second I figured you would be a little angry, maybe go as far as try to kill him. I am not going to allow him to be killed. He means too much to me," Hiccup said softly, especially at the end.

"I see. So you choose the beasts over your own tribe."

"No. Not yet at least. It would take something serious to make me drop all ties, but if I left my village, yes, he would defiantly be a key and deciding factor in it."

"So what do you want with the Greek fire. It seems to me that he has enough fire power."

"Although Toothless' fire is great in many combative and fun ways, the Greek fire is for my notes on dragons."

"What?" Johann's eyebrows rose in clear confusion and, was that astonishment?

"I have been studying Toothless and several other dragons and their weaknesses and strengths. I found lots Bork never even found but I don't want this information in the wrong hands. Better it destroyed than found in my opinion."

"You realize you could destroy the whole island with one bottle of this, right?"

"Yes, I know what I'm doing. It will work for what I have in mind for it, and I have Toothless if it does go wrong."

"You know that giving you this is not only defying your father but also making me partners in crime with you."

"Really? I left empty handed today at the docks. How are they going to know you gave me the Greek fire?" Hiccup smirked.

Johann contemplated this and raised a finger. "That is actually a really good point. Fine. Under one condition though will I go through with this trade. You have to tell me how you met your dragon."

"Deal." We shook hands and sat down and talked while Toothless laid down and looked bored for two hours.

-The Weapons of Mass Boom?-

It had been over a month since the day I had bought the Greek fire.

My day was going pretty good. Then I went to the forge. I was looking for Gobber. He wasn't at the docks, he wasn't at his home, and he wasn't even in the Great Hall. That left his forge, the kill ring, and the storage shed for the weapons.

As I walked down from the Great Hall, I could clearly see he wasn't in the forge. The next closest place would be the weapon storage shed. I walked over and noticed the door was open, huh, Gobber must be over there, or so I thought as I walked over. As I got closer I notice that there were whispers coming from within.

"Guys we need to find this stuff before we're caught! If someone comes in here we're in big trouble!" That sounded like Fishlegs, and he sounded panicky.

"Shut up, just act as the guard while we get the barrel, this is going to be so much fun!" That sounded like Ruffnut. What were they doing? The only new barrels in the weapons shed were the….black power kegs the village bought from Johann. Oh no, one wrong move and everyone in there was dead!

I rushed in there to see the twins handling a keg handing it down to Snotlout as Astrid watched in case it fell with Fishlegs keeping "watch." Snotlout, being the idiot that he was, held a lit torch by his teeth as he handled the keg. Then as if in the scene right out of my worst nightmares, the torch slipped from Snotlout's mouth and onto the keg. I burst into action quickly running and grabbing the keg from Snotlout and attempted to throw it out the doors. The embers on the keg unfortunately made it inside the barrel as we all ran for the door with me pushing Snotlout out the doors. A loud bang was the last thing I heard before everything went black and I saw a blurry image of half destroyed shed.

-The Betrayal-

I woke up at who knows when. I woke up due to the yelling probably. Wait why were people yelling?

"He almost killed our children Stoick! You have no choice in this matter. You have to kill him or banish him," one voice ringed. Several more expressed their agreement with a chorus of grunts and yells.

I was stunned. I had saved those idiots, not tried to kill them! Unless…THOSE UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS FOR THE LOINS OF LOKI!

They had framed me so it seemed. Great. Just fucking great. No one would believe me of course, I was the hiccup, the weak delusional hiccup. They would not kill me though, that I knew for sure. I was still of the chief's blood. I was however going to leave if this continued though. If that happened, I would burn this house to the ground with the Greek fire to destroy any evidence of Toothless and the information on dragons that I had.

I then got up feeling my anger flow through me as I opened the door. I was almost too angry to conceal my anger as the conversation continued.

"Stoick the kids were very clear on this point. He tried to kill them!" another parent yelled

The teenagers were standing in the middle of all this. Just standing there, not defending the person that risked his life to save their sorry skins. Their faces being kept straight but I swear I could almost see the smirks on their faces. My blood boiled as I felt rage enter in.

I spoke up then.

"You damn bastards, you spineless shit eating slugs!" I yelled.

That got me some attention.

"I saved your lives and this is how you repay me! By Banishment! Damn you, all of you!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.

I turn away from the teen's astonished faces and ran to my room. I slammed the door shut and put the barricade up. No one knew this, but I had been planning for this months. If Toothless was to be discovered, I would have a few minutes at most to pack my things and get out quickly. My door was reinforced by the battle barricade I had installed and my door was reinforced with iron. The walls were thick so I had time to gather what I could and set my burn trap. I heard my father roaring for me to come out and for me to cooperate but I had no intention of that.

The trap I set up would activate the moment that some on tripped on the line I had added to my room. Ax or foot, it didn't matter. The moment it was hit a thirty second timer activated along with a note that would swing down from the ceiling that said 'run if you want to live'. I grabbed some stuff and went out the window. I hit the ground and started running.

First place I went was the forge. I grabbed the spares I had made years ago and then went to the shed Gobber had made for me as my area to invent and draw in peace. Now I was going to burn it to the ground.

I grabbed a small vial and threw it at the small little shed area and watched for a second as my things burned. It hurt, but not as bad as I thought it would be. I watched for a few more seconds as my previous life burned.

Finally I grabbed some food and left for the forest. Of course someone saw me running for the forest. It would be way too easy to leave like that.

I heard the yelling but continued to run. It was a good thing I left Toothless's flying gear near him. Once I reached the cove I disappeared. No one would probably find me for a good 5 minutes. In that time I managed to hook up Toothless to his gear and pack everything, with a minute to spare.

I got on my best friend and we took off.

-End of Chapter 1-

Okay, so clearly there were some revisions to this story. As it turns out, there's gun powder on Berk! Who'd have thought of that? Oh right, the writers of the Cartoon Network show…durp. So yeah, this is the new way I decided to banish Hiccup. The dragon arena one is taken, but I still did use the house idea where Stoick is talking to the parents of the kids that just about killed themselves and I apologize (again) to the writer I originally stole that idea from. I didn't ask him for permission and I feel really bad about that. Therefore in his honor, I decided to make my own idea (wow that's original). Here's to you Johnnylee619! Your awesome bro and I love your series, please keep it going and please come back to A Fool to be a Hero!

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