HTTYD Watches The Future (Movie, Shows, Etc.)

Chapter 3 The Truth Comes Out

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Important to the story!

Just a quick note before you read this chapter. During the scene where Hiccup frees Toothless I decided to add something extra which helps explain to the audience why Hiccup freed him. It's also IN MY OPINION one of the reasons why he didn't kill Toothless.

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INT. GREAT HALL – DAY A noisy din of PROTESTING VOICES leads to... STOICK, glowering in the firelight. Surrounded by his men.

STOICK "Either we finish them or they'll finish us! It's the only way we'll be rid of them! If we find the nest and destroy it, the dragons will leave. They'll find another home."

The dragons shook their heads at the stupidity. "And where do you think we would go?" Meatlug asked.

Stoick glared at the dragons. "I don't care where you go as long as you finally disappear." The vikings shouted in agreement.

Viggo decided to intervene before the argument dissolved into petty bickering. "I think the answer the Gronckle was looking for is that they would go to the closest island."

"I still don't see how that's important." Stoick stubbornly continued.

"Well, to closest island to the nest is Berk..." Fishlegs trailed off, his eyes going wide. The other vikings had the same expression on their faces.

"How did you never think about that?!" Dagur asked the berkians. Even he and his father took this into consideration, not that it mattered since Berk was way closer to the nest than Berserker island was.

"If you destroyed our nest and your island was the closest of course we would make it our new home. That's just common sense!" Fanghook said, the other dragons agreeing with her.

He sinks his blade into a... LARGE NAUTICAL MAP, spread out on the table... the blade pierces the middle of an uncharted corner, swirling with painted sea monsters and dragons.

STOICK (CONT'D) (decidedly) "One more search. Before the ice sets in."

VIKING "Those ships never come back."

STOICK (matter-of-fact) "We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard. Now who's with me?"

Stoick throws up his fist. No one follows. The crowds shifts in restless silence. Head scratches. Eyes averted.

"I wonder how he'll motivate them to go with him?" A random Zippleback asked.

The teens were confused as all hell. The adults always seemed so eager and ready to go on nest searches. Why were they so against it now?

The vikings were shifting around in their seats uncomfortable with what was about to be shown. Stoick cringed, this would end badly. Gobber just put his head in his hands, he couldn't look Hiccup in the face. Hiccup may have the toughest skin in the whole Archipelago but this? This would break the poor lad.

The dragons, teens and non-berkians were giving them suspicious looks. Why did they look so ashamed and guilty?

(Before you read the next scene. I hate how every watching HTTYD fanfiction plays this scene off as a joke. Sure it's a joke for the people watching the movie but if the characters from the movie saw this? It would definitely not be treated as a joke.)