Hicca

Chapter 1: Prologue

This is Berk. It snows nine months of the year and hails the other three. Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people who grow here are even more so. The only upsides are the pets. While other places have ponies or parrots, we have Dragons......

My name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third, but everyone just calls me Hicca. I'm an only child, who just so happens to be the only daughter of the Chief of my home. Berk.

So, a bit about me. When I was just a baby, my mother was killed in a dragon raid. Everyone likes to point out how much I look like her, but I don't know how to feel about that. My dad barely even acknowledges me, unless it's to scold me for screwing up.

Anyway, I was sleeping in my bed, when everything started shaking. I bolted up in my bed, and looked around. The temperature started rising, and I heard crackling. My eyes widened, I quickly put on my vest and boots, then opened my bedroom door. And I almost fell.

The house was on fire, and the landing collapsed. I was trapped, unless. I closed my door and rushed to my window, prying it open, I attempted to climb out. But a dragon caught me, it blasted fire at me. I screamed, cuz it almost killed me. I was coughing, when I looked up, the dragon was stalking towards me.

That's when it grabbed me, I screamed. I wasn't prepared for being yanked all of a sudden, and the dragon hit me against the wood of my home. We went up, and I was desperately trying to get down.

"Hicca!" My dad suddenly Cried out, and I frantically looked for him. I spotted him running after me, and he looked scared.

"Dad!" I Cried out, deciding that I had no other choice. I took out my measly dagger, and jabbed it into the dragons foot. Forgetting how high up we were, it let me go, but I started plummeting to my death.

"Hicca!" My dad shouted, and suddenly something warm and familiar caught me. I looked and saw it was my dad, I let out a breath of relief before I hugged him.

"What were you thinking!?!?" He whispered, and I just stared him in the face.

"That I'm a Viking through and through, now, I've got to go help Gobber." I Said, before I sprinted off to the blacksmiths. You see, I've been working there since I was a little girl.

"Hicca, glad you could join the party." Gobber Said once I entered the forge, I just rolled my eyes. I put on my apron and opened the widow, immediately weapons were dropped off.

"What, like I could sleep through this party?" I quipped back at Gobber once I threw a bunch of swords onto the embers and pumped air into it. I quickly fixed and sharpened the swords, then brought them to the window.

Vikings yelling and screaming, but in joy, shouting out good morning as they grab a sword. That's when I saw an explosion happen, and the popular people my age arrived to put it out.

My cousin, Snotlout, who is the perfect pig headed idiot. I've heard dad and Uncle Spitelout talking about him taking over as Chief one day instead of me, and everyone thinks he should. Then Fishlegs, a nerdy boy who is a bit meaty. The twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnutt. Total mutton heads, and they love to prank people.

Then lastly, there's Aston. The perfect Viking anyone could hope to be, and that's coming from the daughter of the Chief!

"No lassy, you stay here." Gobber Said, and Hicca just rolled her eyes in annoyance. She knew the drill, and she did follow it for the most part.

"I know, now, don't use that one!" She shouted at Gobber as he put on his hook hand, then ran out of the forge. Hicca sighed, he never listened to her. That's when she heard it, the cry of the people.