The Big Four Of Hogwarts: Uniting The Houses Ch4

Ch4 The Young Viking And The Night Fury Egg

Deep among the islands in Barbaric Archipelage is the island of Berk, an island of the Hairy Hooligans tribe, a tribe of Viking warriors that are muggle and wizards and dragon riders.  The dragons on Berk are Monstrous Nightmare, Deadly Nadder, Gronckle, Hideous Zippleback and Terrible Terror.  But sometimes the Hairy Hooligans tribe tame dragons from the outer islands like the Thunder Drum, Scauldron, Whispering Death, Snaptrapper, Changwing, Smothering Smokebreath, BoneKnapper, Skrill, Timberjack, Fireworm and Night Fury.

The Vikings and the dragons didn’t see eye to eye or live together at first and saw them as vicious monsters until Hamish the second discovered a dragon known as the Red Death.  The Red Death used other dragons to do it’s dirty work and to bring it food or the dragons would be eaten themselves.

Hamish the second was known as a hiccup, a runt of the litter and he was also the son of Berk’s chief, Hamish the first.  Young Hamish didn’t see or agree with his father’s ways with dragons, he feared that if they keep killing them, the dragons will someday attack for revenge, rather than just to steal their live stock.  With his father not listening to a word he said, Hamish grabbed a small boat and sailed away from home.

When the young Viking was at sea he came across a Scauldron when he was fishing for his dinner.  The two got into a fight and then they got caught in a vicious powerful storm.  Hamish woke up stranded on an island along with the Scauldron that got hurt in the storm.  Hamish felt sorry for the dragon and tried to help it, but the Scauldron didn’t trust him.  Hamish first got the large sea dragon to trust him by showing it that he wasn’t the enemy and fed it fish.  When the Scauldron let down it’s guard, Hamish started to treat it’s wounds.

Changwing dragons lived on the island that Hamish and the Scauldron were on and started to take interest in Hamish from how he helped the Scauldron and showed it that he was a friend.  When the Scauldron was healed it went back home into the sea and then the Changwings welcomed Hamish into their home in the forest.  Hamish got close to the island’s dragons and befriended a Changwing he called Colourskin and helped them to keep their nests safe.  Hamish loved being on the island and being with the dragons and saw that he and his people didn’t need to fight them.

One-day the Scauldron he had helped came back to the island and was trying to tell him something.  Without knowing what the sea dragon was saying, he knew that it wanted him to follow it, so Hamish got on Colourskin’s back and followed the Scauldron, he just named Waterspitter to a dragon nest island of Monstrous Nightmare, Deadly Nadder, Gronckle, Hideous Zippleback and Terrible Terrors.

Waterspitter stayed hidden in the water when Hamish and Colourskin went into the cave of the nest, they hid in the shadows as they watched the dragons dropping their kill into a red pit.  A Gronckle spat a fish out of its mouth into the pit, but then a large dragon head came up and ate the Gronckle in one bite.  After seeing this Hamish knew that the dragons that had attacked Berk steal to stay alive from that monstrous dragon and after seeing that all the other dragons in the nest were cowering in fear at the sight of the large dragon, he knew that he had to do something to help them.

When Hamish and his two dragon friends left the nest they headed to Berk for help.  Hamish the first and the rest of Berk were glad to see Hamish the second was alright and were surprised to see him with dragons.  Hamish the second told his father and people what he saw, that dragons aren’t monsters and asked them to help him free the dragons from the large dragon known as the Red Death.  The people of Berk weren’t sure at first but after taming the dragons they had for dragon training and saw what the chief’s young hiccup son had discovered, they agreed to help.

They first tamed other dragons like Whispering Death, Snaptrapper, Scauldron, Changwing and Night Furies before they headed to the island.  They first got the other dragons away from the island before facing the Red Death.  Many lives were lost in the battle and the Red Death was unbeatable, so if they were ever going to stop it, they had to seal it away forever.  A Nightmare, Nadder, Gronckle, Zippleback and Night Fury lent six Viking wizards their strength and together they sealed the Red Death away into the cave of the island.

Berk wasn’t the same after that, it was much better!  Through the years the Hairy Hooligans tribe and the dragons lived side by side in peace.  Dragon killing was a distant memory and many people and dragons worked hard to make things better for both of them and it was all thanks to Hamish the second!

Many years had passed since then and the Red Death was still sealed away and there had been no signs of it breaking free from it’s prison.  New discoveries were made about the dragons and the dragons that had befriended Hamish and the ones that had helped the six were marked as the seven symbols of their class of dragon, Stoker, Bovlder, Fear, Sharp, Tidal, Mystery and Strike and the people of Berk still do something’s the Viking way to honour their ancestors.

Through the years Stoick the Vast, one of the Hamishes descendents watched over Berk as chief alongside his family and his Thunder Drum dragon, Thornado.  Stoick is a strong proud chief like the ones before him and one of the best muggle warriors on Berk.  His wife, Valhallarama or Valla is what some of the people call her, is one of the descendents who had sealed away the Red Death and is one of the beautiful witch’s on Berk.  Their son and only child, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is well, a hiccup, just like Hamish the second!  He wasn’t strong or good at fighting like his father, but he was very clever and has a way with dragons like his mother and hopes that he’ll make his father proud with his own skills, even if he was only a small, skinny, not so strong hiccup.

Stoick saw that Hiccup wanted to help Berk and its people even if he wasn’t as strong as the other kids, so he put him under the apprenticeship of his dear friend, Gobber the Belch, a blacksmith, a dragon tamer and healer and teacher of dragon training.  Gobber’s family have been studying dragons and sharing their knowledge to the people of Berk and through the years Hiccup became Gobber’s right hand man and top blacksmith apprentice.  Since he had lost his right hand and left foot in a battle, he got a hook and peg leg to replace them.  Gobber had also taught Hiccup and five other kids dragon taming and riding.

The others with Hiccup in dragon training were Astrid Hofferson, Fishlegs Ingerman, the twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston and Snotlout Jorgenson.  The six were given Terrible Terrors to help them understand dragons and how to care, tame and work with them until they can get their own dragons.  Terrible Terrors are used on Berk to train future dragon riders and to deliver packages and letters like owls, since they are so small.  The six young dragon trainers are descendents of the ones who sealed the Red Death away all those years ago and everyone on Berk expects great things from them, even from Hiccup!

One-day one of the greatest and always welcomed of traders of the Barbaric Archipelage, Trader Johann came to Berk and docked his trading ship at their docks.  Everyone on the island ran to the docks to see him and hope to buy one of his rare trinkets from his travels by trading something of theirs, that’s how Trader Johann does things, trades his stock for other stock to sell in his travels.

Gobber had ended his class with his six future dragon trainers early when they heard that the trader has come to Berk, they were doing some Changwing finding exercises to help them find the colour changing dragon before coming to the docks.  Even Stoick and Valla came down on Thornado to see what Trader Johann has for them and their people today.  Once Johann opened his ship to the people everyone burst in, hoping to find something amazing or handy.  There was always something for everyone on his ship and today Johann had something very special for Stoick and Gobber, something he found when he was fishing for his dinner.

Once everyone found something they liked and traded something of theirs for it, Trader Johann left the island and headed off to the other islands.  Some places he’s been to already and to find some new places that he has never been to before!  Stoick and Gobber weren’t sure what to do with Trader Johann’s gift, a black dragon egg, Gobber couldn’t remember what type of egg it is, so they asked the village’s elder, Gothi for her advice and to tell them what type of egg it is and what to do with it!  Gothi told them to give it to Hiccup and that it is time to give Gobber’s young students their own dragons, and that the dragon in the egg will someday lead them to it’s kind.

The next day Stoick, Valla, Gobber and Gothi took the six Terrors away from the six young students to give to other young trainers who were at their level.  Then they brought the six to the hatching pools to get their dragons.  The hatching pools are hot springs that help speed up the hatching of the dragon eggs.  The eggs explode when they hatch so the pools are outside the village and deep in the forest.  Gobber brought five different eggs, as well as the egg they got from Johann to the pools, the twins dragon was going to have two heads so that is why there were five eggs and the twins have to share their dragon.

The first one to hatch his dragon was Snotlout; Gobber gave him an egg that looked like it was water painted red.  Snotlout put his egg into the water and it hatched into a Monstrous Nightmare and named him, Hookfang!

Fishlegs went up second, his egg was small and rocky looking with its rough shell and it hatched into a Gronckle, Fishlegs loved his dragon and named her, Meatlug.

Next up were Ruffnut and Tuffnut, they put their egg in together and it hatched into a Hideous Zippleback.  The heads of the dragon were just as bad as its riders, first the twins fought over who was to be the one to touch their dragon first and then the Zippleback heads fought over to be stroked first.  Ruffnut named the gas head of the dragon, Barf and Tuffnut named the spark head, Belch.

Then Astrid hatched her blue rough shell egg into a Deadly Nadder, she named her Stormfly and Astrid knew that the two of them will become a great team.

Finally Stoick and Valla gave their son the black dragon egg.  Everyone stared at Hiccup and wondered what the dragon in the egg will be.  Hiccup gently put the egg into the pool and watched it hatch.  After it hatched the baby jumped out of the pool and knocked Hiccup down to the ground as it landed, everyone couldn’t believe their own eyes, the baby dragon is a Night Fury!

Everyone had thought that they were gone for good after Alvin the Treacherous and his Outcast army had attacked Night Fury Island.  Stoick and his men had tried to stop Alvin and save the unholy offspring’s of lightning and death themselves; Gobber had lost his limbs in that battle and Valla had lost her Nadder, Strika to Alvin.  But many of the black dragons were killed and some of them flew away and ever since then no one has ever seen a live Night Fury, until now!

Hiccup grew close to his dragon and named him, Toothless from his toothless mouth.  Later on everyone headed home, the six got closer to their dragons when they got back and played with them until night fall.  Hiccup and Toothless played a little longer before bed with the stuffed toy dragon Valla had made for Hiccup when he was a baby; the toy dragon looked like a dragon that was half Nadder and half Night Fury.

“Alright you two,” as Valla came up to put the two to bed, “It’s time for bed, you can play some more tomorrow!”

“But Mum!” Hiccup begged.

“No buts my young dragon rider, you’re going to have people coming to see Toothless tomorrow and they’ll be begging you to let them touch him and maybe even borrow him, so you need your sleep to keep Toothless safe from them!”

“No one is going harm Toothless, Mum.  Not when I’m with him!”

Valla giggled and then picked up the two and put them in bed.  Once they were tucked in, she started to sing Hiccup’s lullaby.  She sung in the ancient Viking tongue to make the lullaby sound beautiful.  Hiccup loves it when she sings in that tongue, but before Valla could finish the song, a loud horn was blown.

When the Hairy Hooligans hear that horn, it means that danger is coming to their island; Valla looked out of the window in Hiccup’s room and saw the biggest Whispering Death she had ever seen.  The dragon must be wild, it had nobody on it’s back and there were no signs of anyone giving it commands.  But Valla had a bad feeling that the dragon didn’t just come here to attack Berk, it was looking for something.

Stoick and his man grabbed their weapons and dragons to defend their tribe against the large Bovlder class dragon.  The women and children stayed inside with their dragons when the men were fighting.  Hiccup couldn’t sleep with all the fighting outside, so he grabbed one of his handmade spy glasses to watch his father fighting the Whispering Death, but as he was watching the battle he spotted a small mark on the Whispering Death’s neck.

He showed his mother and Valla knew that mark anywhere, it is mark that controls dragons to make them do their bidding, that’s when she knew, the Whispering Death was attacking Berk against its will.  With the dragon’s pain growing in Valla’s heart, she knew that she needed to free the dragon from the mark’s control, so she ran out of the house with her wand in her hand and little Hiccup and Toothless secretly followed her to see if they could help.  Hiccup had felt the dragon’s pain too.

Valhallarama confronted the large dragon on the ground and was getting ready to cast a spell to free the Whispering Death.  Hiccup and Toothless were hiding behind a cart as Valla was freeing the dragon.  The dragon scared Hiccup a little from it being bigger than other Whispering Deaths he has seen, but he kept his eyes on his mother and watched her being so brave and was about to free the dragon.  The spell was almost completed, but the Whispering Death flew a little bit higher away from her and then launched one of its spikes into Valla’s chest.

“MUM!” Hiccup cried as he came out of his hiding place.

The Whispering Death spotted Hiccup and his dragon. Toothless shot out a plasma blast to keep it away from his human, but that made the Whispering Death even madder.  It was getting ready to kill the young Viking and his dragon.

As the dragon was coming in closer, Hiccup closed his eyes, looked away and stuck his hand out to the Whispering Death to show it that he is a friend and hoped that the dragon will bow it’s head to his hand and place its head on his hand.  When the dragon’s head got closer to Hiccup’s hand, it stayed still and then bowed its head to show that it trusts him without attacking or injuring him and the mark disappeared from the dragon’s body.  Hiccup looked at the dragon and gently stroked it; everyone on the island saw what had happened, even Stoick.  Fear and worry had grown in Stoick’s heart when he saw his wife get struck down and was surprised to see the outrage Whispering Death calming down in front of his son with just using one of his small hands.

Once the now calmed Whispering Death left Berk, everyone brought their attention to the injured Valla.  Stoick brought her back to his house and left her in the care of Gothi, hoping that she can save his wife.  Gothi did all that she could but the wound was too deep and Valla had lost so much blood, Stoick and Hiccup stayed by Valhallarama’s side in her final moments.  Stoick promised her that he won’t blame the Whispering Death, but the one who was controlling it for her death.  Hiccup promised his mother that he’ll keep Toothless safe and to help and train all kinds of dragons.  Toothless promised that he’ll always be there for his human and all three of them promised that they will look out for each other, the villagers and the dragons.  When their promises were made Valla closed her eyes and her soul slipped into Valhalla.

Through the years after Valla’s death Stoick became a little over protective of his son, fearing that he’ll someday lose him as he had lost his wife.  Hiccup and Toothless worked and trained harder than the other kids and they hoped that someday they’ll find the one that caused Valhallarama’s death and prevent it from ever happening again.

But on the night Hiccup’s mother died, what everyone didn’t know was that Alvin the Treacherous had witnessed what had happened between Hiccup and the Bovlder class dragon.  From that he knew that someday Stoick’s son will help him with his plans and that he and his dragon will lead him to the surviving and still living unholy offspring’s of lightning and death themselves!