What I wouldn’t give for a How to Train Your Dragon Au wherein Stoick from the past ended up in the same timeline as future hiccup wherein he and adult hiccup get captured by dragon hunters and put in a “fight to the death against dragons” arena wherein day 1 is spent fighting against whispering deaths that stoick’s ok killing and hiccup feels sympathetic for and concedes to fighting them only because it might put them out of their misery and can’t let his dad be killed.
Then there’s the night in the cells after their victory in scaring off the dragons and Stoick’s all proud, “my son! One day a dragon killer, I can’t believe it” to which hiccup sees his dad happy and alive and he… he has to tell him and be honest. Stoick goes through a whole span of emotions in a few minutes, but hiccup fills him in on the future, but Stoick doesn’t believe it. There’s no way. There’s like a whole convo about how “dad, you need to trust me if we’re gonna make it out of here alive.” So with reluctance stoick’s like “ok. What do we need to do?”
Jeering from the guards told them they’d be up against monsterous nightmares, hiccup concocts a plan. We try taming them into not fighting us, We collect their gel, and then later tonight we can use it to bust out of here. The bars are made of iron, but we’re only need a little bit to melt the lock, I can scrape my peg leg against the stone to create the sparks to light it. I’ll collect as much gel as I can if you can distract them, we’ll need it if we want to save my friend, toothless who was also captured
“toothless? What kinda name is that?” Stoick asks. “Well I suppose you’ll find out soon enough”
Bam. Arena style where they battle the dragons. The crowd gets annoyed after hiccup tames the dragons, stoick’s like “what the hell? That actually worked” bam. They get thrown back into their cells because their captors are pissed they won.
Cue an escape, “you forgot to mention the toothless is a bloody dragon, son?!??” “Yeah, well you didn’t seem too on board with anything to do with dragons. Now might be a good time to tell you this is the only way we’re getting off this island, let’s go.” Then they bust outta there, and.. that’s about as far as I got. Anyone wishing to steal this idea is free to do so and you have blanket permission as long as you let me read it afterwards 🥺
