CHAPTER 8

1K 17 1
                                    

Hiccup opened his eyes this morning to awaken to what today will bring him. A little dazed and tired he sits up on his bed blinking his eyes to adjust them to his surrounding. Shaking his head he looks up and his eyes finally adjust to the rest of the environment. He never felt this tired in all his life. Sore as heck he lifts himself up with his arms and legs killing him. Thinking back he realizes that so far he has drowned himself on working on the experiments with toothless while also working himself close to death at dragon training. He was putting his body in a lot of strain. Tiredly he gets up and slowly walks to the living room to get a quick bite.

The pain in his body removes all desire to cook himself a meal. Instead he decides to just go to the nearest basket and just grabbed a piece of bread for himself. Stepping out of the house he is greeted with a very bright sun almost burning his eyes off. He lifts his hand up to block the sun he waits for his eyes to get adjusted to the bright light. Finally being able to see he goes to his inner sanctum to continue on his little experiments. Drawing up himself a new set of clothes he finally sees a very nice battle ready uniform.

This new outfit of his design completely got away from the tunic idea and gave him a more loose attire that allows him t have more free movement. Along with that came a sleeveless leather jacket that allowed him full mobility with his weapons. Seeing that he there had to be protection on his arms he added in a set of steel plates on both shoulders to at least give him a small amount of protection. The boots themselves he had made to be containing steel that allowed him to generate a kick power to his style of sword fighting.

The steel within the toes of the hide boots added weight to his lower body, which, at any moment of need, can keep a tough opponent from knocking him off his feet. To add more grip to his hand and wrist he will fashion himself a set of leather gloves to give him both a more grip. The gloves will stop at the base of his fingers to allow his fingers more mobility. Looking at the gloves closely he wonders of what he can do here to allow himself a small fraction of more attack power in case he would be disarmed. Deciding not to ponder it any longer he makes a separate print for the gloves and heads out to the forge.

Finally arriving at the forge he grabs the needed materials and he begins working on the base of his outfit. The jacket, the pants and then he came to the under part of the jacket. After thinking about it he realized that at this point that a tunic will not go well with the suit. Instead of allowing the tunic to stretch far down passed his waist he will instead tuck it into the pants. Finishing with the basics he remembers that there needs to be a place for his sword.

He looked at the pants and decided to make a little add on to the pants that will allow anything to be strapped in. a belt. This belt will allow him to have his sword with him at all times instead of having to choose the days he will not need it. Finally finishing with his new set of clothes he decides to take them to his inner sanctum and put them up in a wardrobe. Maybe one day he will try them on but right now he had to worry about a dirty job.

All of this done he exits the inner sanctum and starts to head to where he would meet his scaly, crazy friend Toothless. Stopping in his tracks he remembered what he was going to do today. Turning around he runs right back to the inner sanctum to pick up the tail and saddle for Toothless. Once there he grabs everything he needs and turns to leave before turning around and remembering his new set of light armor. For five minutes he pondered on what he should do before deciding to give this new armor a test run along with the tail idea.

Putting said objects down he goes to the wardrobe and pulls out the whole uniform and began to dress himself for today's encounter. Starting with the pants, he put them on. Once he had them on he was surprised at how well they fit. Continuing on he tucked in his tunic and grabbed the jacket to try it out. Putting it on he felt a comfortable warmth run through his body to accompany the jackets thickness. Nodding his head with how well it fit, he decides to go to see toothless. To make sure no one sees him in this new attire he sneaks out the back door and makes a mad dash for the woods.

Hiccup the SilentWhere stories live. Discover now