Betrayed

Chapter 5

Hiccup's POV

I jolted awake by the sound of clanging, my head still buzzed from yesterdays beatings, I reluctantly got up and was greeted by the intense heat of the forge and Gobber, "Hey ter lad! Nice of ye to wake up!" He said happily towards me.

"Yeah, how nice, waking up to suffer at the hands of the village, again" I said sarcastically.

"Aw com on lad, today will be different!" He said to me trying to get my hopes up, but failed as that did not in any way fill me with confidence or hope. 

"Yeah? And how exactly do you know that?" I questioned him.

"I just do! Anyways, go get some food from the great hall and come back, I need yer help on some of the weapons" He told me, I nodded to him and left the forge, and thus began my suffering. I walked out and was immediately met with disgusted glares and annoyed facial expressions from the villagers, I tried my best to ignore them but I could not ignore their whispers, "Hey look, it's Useless." Whispered one villager to another, did they think I could not hear them? "What problems do you think he will cause today?" Whispered another villager, I sped up my pace towards the great hall, all I wanted to do was eat, get the weapons fixed and then go back to Toothless and fix his wing. 

I arrived at the huge doors of the great hall, I pushed the doors open and saw the great hall was pretty crowded, I trudged in and kept my head down, hoping to avoid the glares from the villagers, A large Viking purposefully bumped into me, causing me to fall over, I heard the villagers' laughter and their insults, saying how I was weak and pathetic. I carried myself up and continued, I took some food and went over to my usual spot in the corner, it was a dark corner and was quite out of sight, I sat down and began digging in to my food. Not long after I began eating, I heard multiple footsteps coming towards me and I already knew who it was, I looked up and saw Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut. "Hey Useless! Who said you could eat?" Snotlout spoke up first,

"Uh, I did?" I replied back.

"And who gave you permission to do that" Tuffnut said whilst grabbing my plate of food and throwing it to the ground and causing the food to splatter all over the floor.

"Hey! What did you do that for?" I yelled at them and stood up,

"Don't raise you voice at us Useless!" Snotlout yelled back and pushed me to the ground, "You don't deserve to be eating our food" Snotlout continued. It was then when Stoick showed up to see what the commotion was all about.

"What's going on here?" he bellowed.

"Hiccup here started insulting us and then took Snotlout's food and he threw it on the floor" Ruffnut lied pointing at the food all over the ground.

"WHAT? That's not what happened! They came over and started-" 

"Silence!" I was cut off by Stoick, "Argh is there no end to your uselessness boy?" Stoick continued on, I tried my best to ignore the fact that he called me useless but ultimately, it saddened me a bit, "You will clean up this mess and you will apologize to them boy!" Stoick said.

"APOLOGIZE?! For what? They came over here and started insulting me and they were the ones who threw the food on the floor" I retorted back.

"That's not what they said, just do what I asked boy!" He shouted at me, the villagers in the great hall started to turn to us to see what the fuss was about.

"What?! This is not fair! I did not even do anything wro-" I was cut off again by Snotlout shouting.

"Shut up Useless, do what he says!" Snotlout yelled.

"Da- Chief, surely you don't believe them?!" I asked.

"Just do it" Stoick replied back coldly, I was shocked, I can't believe he was so easily persuaded by them.

"But I did nothing wrong!" I yelled back.

"Stop being a menace and just do it" He yelled, I could feel tears immediately building up in my eyes. Snotlout and the others walked away sniggering, Stoick turned and left with them, leaving me all by myself. I stayed there, replaying the words in my head. I looked down and let loose some tears, I cleaned up the mess Snotlout caused and quickly got out of the great hall, I was still replaying what had happened inside my head, I could feel my sadness rising exponentially. I reached the forge and saw that Gobber  was looking at me with sadness in his eyes.

"Lad, I heard what happened in the great hall, are yer alright?" He asked me softly, I just looked at him, I could not even formulate a response, you would think that after years of enduring this that I might have gotten used to it, but no, everything time stuff like this happens, it hurts, it hurts very much. "It's okay lad, why don't you go take a walk, I will finish theses weapons by myself" He said, I nodded to him and went to my little room. I sat down and took deep breaths, I wanted to break down right then, he so easily believed their lies over me, but then again, who would believe me? I was Hiccup the Useless, I was an outcast to them. I continued sitting there, pondering about what had happened until I remembered something, Toothless! He was probably waiting for me at the cove, I immediately forgot about all my problems and quickly stood up and got the parts I needed to make a splint and went out of the forge, I stopped at the storehouse and got a basket of fish for Toothless and dashed for the cove.

I arrived at the cove, and saw Toothless dozing off on the ground, "Hey Toothless~" I sang out, he perked up and trotted over to me, "Here you go, I hope you are hungry" I said as I pushed the basket over, spilling the fish over the floor, "Okay that's disgusting, we got some Salmon, some nice Icelandic cod, and a whole smoked eel" I said, as I mentioned eel, Toothless stepped away and growled, I noticed he was staring at the eel so I went and picked it up, as I did, Toothless roared and jumped away, he was scared of it, "No no no no, it's okay," I said as I threw away the eel, 'Fascinating, they are scared of eels' I thought to myself, I made a mental note to write that down in my journal later on. Toothless dove into the fish, devouring them whole, I went over to his injured wing and started on making a splint for it, after I was done, I attached it to his wing and overall, it looked good. I sat down and took out my journal as Toothless continued eating his fish. I wrote down how Toothless was afraid of eels and thought about whether other dragons are also scared of eels, but my thoughts soon wandered to the events that happened in the great hall. I still could not believe he said that, I already feel unwanted by the village but never once has someone said that directly to my face, and the fact that it was said by my ex-father hurts even more. Water droplets dripped down, staining my journal, I rubbed my eyes and noticed that tears were building up, Toothless seemed to notice my current state and trotted over to me and crooned I pat his head as he laid down besides me, curling his tail around me, "Thanks bud," I said, he looked up to me and crooned again seemingly asking me what's wrong, "No its nothing, it's just my father, well, ex-father" I said as tears were slowly making their way down my cheeks. "He believed them over me, he believed their lies" I continued on, Toothless licked my cheek, wiping the tears away as he did so, I smiled and pat his head, earning a purr from him, "Thanks Toothless, I really needed someone to talk to, well, listen because you can't talk" I said to him, it was funny really, out of all the people that could have comforted me, it was a dragon, Toothless had shown me more compassion in a few minutes than berk has in years. I continued patting him until he stood up and used his paw to do something, he seemed like he was trying to itch his back but could not reach it and he was getting agitated, I stood up and scratched his back for him, earning louder purrs, I continued scratching him and made my way down under his head, he then suddenly flopped down on the floor with his eyes closed, "Uh Toothless, you okay?" I said, he lazily opened one eye and crooned at me before closing it and continued lying down. Fascinated by what I did, I took out my journal and wrote down what had happened to Toothless, Night furies were extraordinarily rare so might as well write down as much as I could about them while I can.

I spent the rest of the day in the cove, talking to Toothless and playing with him, I found out that he was attracted to the light that bounced of my dagger, I laughed at him while he chased the light around, pouncing and shooting blasts at it, he was not a deadly dragon, just a big cat. I continued playing with him and writing down my experiences with him, I quickly forgot about all my troubles and problems in the village and for the first time in years, I was genuinely happy!