Wyrd (HTTYD fic)

Chapter 5

Hiccup's POV

'Okay, so maybe introducing Astrid to TV wasn't the best idea.' I thought as I watch my ghostly roommate float on the couch in the living room watching a telenovela marathon. It was already our fourth day living together and she was hooked on the show.

I had managed to fix her axe the day before and it was now proudly hanging above the fireplace mantle in the parlour. When Astrid saw the fixed weapon she became ecstatic and tried to hug me but flew right through me. So she settled for surprising me with dinner that night.

"Astrid I'm heading to the farmers market." I tell her as I take my keys. "Did you want anything?"

"Hiccup I'm a ghost. Aside from finding out if Frederika will ever come out of her coma I'm good." She tells me and then as an afterthought adds. "We are all out of parsley and thyme. Did you add it to your list."

"Oh right. Forgot those." I tell her and make a mental note.

"You go ahead. I'll watch the house." She tells me while leaning closer to the TV.

It took me ten minutes to drive towards the farmers market. When I arrived it was already fairly crowded. It was an open air market and all the stands looked interesting.

I walked along the stands and had bought some strawberries and peaches. While examining the eggplants I ran into Sadie.

"Why hello Hiccup." She cheerfully greets me. "How's living in a haunted house?"

"Sadie, nice to see you again." I tell her. "The house is actually fine. How are you doing?"

"Doing great. I'm actually here with my dad, but I think I lost him." She says while looking around with a frown. "That man is always wandering off."

"Hold on. I'll go find him. I wanted to introduce you to him anyways." She tells me and dashes off. As I'm waiting for Sadie I resume my search for the perfect eggplant. It was then that I felt a tug on my pant leg.

"Psttt, down here." I heard and then looked down. "Is she gone?" The guy asked and I nod. He quickly climbs out from under the table. "Her old man tends to dislike me somewhat." He says and holds out his hand. "Dagur de la Ranged at your service."

"Hiccup Haddock" I tell him and shake his hand.

"Oh you're the guy who bought my family's old house." He tells me.

"Your family's old house. You mean Hofferson Hall?" I ask for clarification and he nods.

"I didn't think anyone would restore it though." He says and nudges me in the side. "You find anything of interest yet?"

"Of interest?" I ask. "You mean the local legend about the treasure?" To which he nods.

"I haven't looked for it." I tell him. "I got no need to."

I see a slight frown form on Dagur's face then. "That's......disappointing." He tells me. "I had hoped to finally break this stupid curse."

"C..Curse?" I ask hoping for some clarification.

"It's an old family story about how a witch cursed us to have misfortune." He tells me and lets out a short historical laugh. "Now really. You wouldn't know anything about that would you?"

"N..No......Of..c..course n..not." I stammer out getting a little creeped out by him.

"Really?" He asked looking skeptical.

"Y...Yes." I managed to say, and before he could ask further we were interrupted.

"Dagur!!" Was yelled by a black haired woman who was marching in our direction followed by Sadie and a burly man in a sheriff's uniform.