Lost In Time | HTTYD Fanfic

Busted

"Zeph, there you are!" She heard her father call a few seconds after she and her brother returned to their own time, with a much safer landing than before.

"Where did you two sneak off to this morning?" Astrid wondered.

"This morning?" Nuffink thought.

"Time must've moved slower here." His sister explained in a whisper.

"Come on, Zee. We have work to do." Hiccup informed. Zephyr turned to her brother with a glare as their parents left the arena

"There, I brought you back. I hope you're happy."

***

A week had passed and despite having to hide his new scar, Nuffink was enjoying being back in the safety of New Berk, even if he had gone back to causing chaos with his aunt and uncle.

Zephyr, however, was losing her mind and definitely struggling to hide that fact.

"Zeph?"

The female Haddock child heard her father's voice from behind her. She and Dart were taking a break in the cove of New Berk, escaping the burden of chiefly duties.

"I'll be right there, Dad." She assured.

"Dad?"

The brunette swung around at the sound of her mother's voice, to see the riders all standing before her with their dragons, fresh from Dragon's Edge. She noticed a familiar artifact in Hiccup's hand. The very device Nuffink was sure they wouldn't find in his master hiding spot.

"What are you doing here?" She gasped.

"How should we know?" Snotlout hissed. "Hiccup was tinkering with his new toy and we all got sucked into a black hole of nothingness and spat out here."

"No, you can't be here!" She worried.

"You wouldn't happen to know anything about this would you?" Hiccup held up the strange device.

"Ugh. Who cares?!" Snotlout groaned, snatching it from Hiccup's hand. "Let's just press a bunch of buttons until it takes us home."

"Snotlout, don't!" Zeph shrieked as he began to shake the invention, ultimately causing several springs to pop out, dismantling the item.

"Oops."

"Hold on, can we go back." Astrid finally spoke up. "You called Hiccup, Dad? His voice is fairly distinctive."

"Zeph?!" That very same voice echoed across the walls of the cove.

"Oh, gods." She panicked. She shooed all of the riders and their dragons into the cave behind the waterfall. "Stay here and don't make a sound." She glared at young Hiccup who sighed and nodded in agreement.

"Zeph, are you here?" Older Hiccup called as he dismounted his Night Fury.

"I'm right here."

"Ready to get back to work?" He checked.

"Actually..." She sighed.

"Are you feeling okay? You're looking a little-"

"Ugh! I can't do this!"

"Do what?" He wondered

"Dad, I lied to you. Okay!" She burst. "I was curious about your secret project, so I convinced Nuff to sneak into the den with me. I started messing with your invention and I shouldn't have. We ended up getting lost in the past and I spent weeks trying to get us back but the device got left behind and now..."

"Woah. Honey, slow down." Hiccup suggested. "Breathe." Zeph took a deep breath to calm down, lowering her arms that had been waving around dramatically as she spoke.