Deserted ~ A Modern Hiccstrid ~

First Day (1)

Two ~ is time passing

One ~ Is just changing who the story is focusing on or a flashback and stuff like that, but there's no time skip.

Enjoy!!!

"Mommy! Daddy!" Hayden cheered, running toward his parents across their big, open yard.

As he neared his parents getting in their convertible, he tripped and rolled across the grass.

"Hayden! Sweetie!" His mom fretted as she hustled towards him and dropped down on her knees beside him.

"I'm fine, Mom!" he giggled, standing up and bouncing around. "Can I come with you today?"  He asked excitedly.

His mother and father exchanged a glance before his mother grew distant, saying "No, son. Not today, but we'll still be around Berk."

"Aw, I never get to come with you!" He complained, pulling on his mom's sleeve. "Please, Mom? Pleaaaaseeeee?"

"Enough, Hayden!" She lashed out, ripping her arm from his grasp, causing him to stumble backwards.

He looked down at his feet and his mom sighed, grabbing his skinny arms in her hands.

"Listen to me, Hayden. No matter what happens, we love you so much. And know that if we leave, we'll always come back to you." She murmured, and he nodded, refusing to meet her eye.

She sighed. "I love you, Hiccup."

He looked up at her with his big emerald eyes and gave a small smile. "I love you to, Mom." He hugged her tight.

"We will be back soon, son." His father boomed, and they got into their car and drove away.

~~

It was dark and raining. It had been 5 days since Hayden had seen his parents, 5 days since he had eaten properly.

He heard a knock on the door.

He ran to open it, yelling. "Mommy! Daddy! I knew you'd come ba--" But standing in front of him was not his parents.

"Your parents are dead, child." A tall man loomed in the doorway. "I'm here to take you to an orphanage."

"But my mommy... She said she'd come back..." The tall man grabbed the little boy's arm.

"No! Stop!" He screamed, watching his house get farther and farther away.

"Noooooo!"  The scream faded into the distance until all that was left was the rain.

~

Hiccup jolted awake, the dream he had so frequently still fresh on his mind. He struggled to straighten his thoughts when he realized a sharp pain continuously hitting his side.

"Get up boy!" Mildew, his "foster parent" screamed at him, kicking his side with a pointy-toed cowboy boot. "I ain't got all day, and you gotsta' get outta me house! I know ya be ignorin' me!" He seethed, slamming the scrawny kid in his side once more.

He cracked his emerald eyes open and snapped. "What do you have to do today?" Which earned him another kick in the side. 

Mildew was about to go in for another when he noticed a small little dog sleeping peacefully above Hiccup's head.

That dog was Hiccup's only friend, which he called Toothless because of a disorder where he was missing his back teeth. He was pretty sure it was Periodontal Disease. He had let Toothless sleep next to him instead of letting him freeze in the cold Berkian night.

"What is a VERMIN doin' in me house?" He roared. "This be no charity, boy!" And with that, he angled his pointy boot at the dog.

He couldn't let Mildew hurt his dog. He just couldn't. It was the one thing left he had in the world.