Screaming, Sirens, Wind

At their motel, Calum, Alvin and Eric were sitting in the room, watching the weather station while Valka grabbed the bag for the camera batteries and her laptop. Once she arrived, Alvin looked up at her.

"Take a look." he said.

"We have now confirmed that a tornado has hit Longhead. All of the surrounding area's remain under severe thunderstorm watch for the afterno-" The reporter on the TV said before Alvin shut it off.

"Data, huh?" he said, annoyed.

Val stared at the TV. "Shit." she muttered, sitting on the desk next to the television and opening her laptop.

"What's happening in Berk?" Alvin asked her.

"Give me a minute." she responded. She typed in the location and waited for the results. She sighed. "It's dissipating. There's some scattered thunderstorms and that's about it."

Alvin glared at her. "Thunderstorms? Thunderstorms?" He sighed and stood. "Put everything in the van. We're moving now."

"Where do you wanna go?" she asked.

"You, are stay here." he responded. "We, are going to Longhead."

Val sighed, slamming her laptop down on the desk she was previously sitting on. There was a light banging from outside, soon followed by more banging. She looked outside to see clumps of baseball sized hail. She walked over to the window before opening the door.

"I thought you said it was dissipating." said Alvin, standing and following her to the door.

"It was." she added before walking outside, using her laptop as an umbrella. Calum, Eric and Alvin all followed her out.

"Where are you going?" Calum called, wincing as an ice clump landed on his shoulder, hard.

"Going to check the Doppler!"

They ran through the parking lot until they reached the van and climbed inside. Valka switched the screen on for the Doppler and smiled. "It's regenerating."

Alvin looked at the screen, confused. "And?"

"Berk." she said, looking at her boss. "It's coming."

...

"To all the students, of this year's graduating class, who have dedicated themselves to the hard work necessary to reach this day." Principle Grayson said in front of the 100 or so graduating students seated in blue in front of him. "You are now standing on the threshold of adult life."

The students looked bored out of their minds. Some were fanning themselves against the heat, some played on their phones, and Tommy swore he was one of them sleeping. As Principal Gryson continued to talk, a few clouds started to roll in, making everything cool down significantly.

...

"Pull over, there!" Valka called up to Calum as she stared out the window at the wall cloud that was forming. Calum pulled over, as did Alvin just behind them. She jumped out, as well as Calum, Eric and Alvin. Eric and Calum both had their camera's going, pointed up at the clouds.

"Do you see anything?" Eric asked.

Val looked around before spotting movement just to the left. "There! Rotation just east of us!" she called, pointing at the dark, circulating clouds.

The clouds started forming a cone shape before starting to twist down towards the ground. Alvin smiled. "Yes, we've got a vortex!"

Seconds later, the bottom of the funnel disappeared behind some tree's. And moments later, a brown cloud of dirt and debris formed around the base.

"Is that debris?" Calum asked, in amazement.

"We've got debris! Tornado is on the ground!" Alvin called happily. "Val, get back in the van and tell me where I can intercept!" he called, running into the Titus, Calum and Eric right behind him.

She nodded and climbed back into the van, driving right behind Alvin. He kept driving up the road till he reached a small field and a dirt road. "Where do we go, Val?" he asked.

She looked at the twister, looking at it's path. "Head straight, the field is right in it's path!" she called through the radio.

"Copy that." he confirmed and drove forward. He parked quickly and set down the grappling claws on the sides of the Titus, stabilizing them in the strong winds. "How're we looking?" he asked through the radio.

"It's headed straight for you." Val responded.

The turning cyclone tore through a barn just to their right, sending debris through the air straight at the Titus. Bouncing off it's bullet proof windshield.

"Oh shit!" Calum yelled in shock. "Oh my god!"

"Calum," Alvin said, resting a hand on his arm. "Don't you lose it on me! You're gonna be fine!" He then climbed into the back, past Eric who had his camera up, and into the turret. A glass, also bullet proof, dome, with a rotating seat and a camera, giving a 360 view of outside.

The twister slowly started moving towards them, before moving straight past them to the left. "Damn it!" Alvin yelled, annoyed. He picked up the mic. "Val, where's it headed?"

Valka opened a map, looking for the path of the storm. "Oh shit!" she yelled, picking up the headset. "It's headed for the school!"

...

Astrid walked through the abandoned paper mill, holding a tripod in her hands. She looked around at all the damaged factory. "I mean, look at this place!" she said to Hiccup who was walking right next to her with the two camera's. "They should tear it down. Decontaminate it. Plant some trees, or a garden, or something."

Hiccup chuckled. "They should totally build a skate park here." Astrid glared at him and he coughed. "W-with a garden." he added.

She smiled. "Yeah."

Hiccup walked to one of the edges of the factory and called Astrid over. "Could you put the tripod over here?" he asked.

She nodded and set it down so Hiccup could place the camera down. Once it was set up they walked to the middle of the factory. There was a large hole in the ground just behind where Astrid was standing. He raised his hand-held camera and pointed it at her. She sighed and slung her hair over her shoulder.

"Do I look okay?" she asked, fiddling with her red sweater.

"Yeah," Hiccup nodded. "Beautiful." He blushed instantly after he realized he said it out loud. "I wasn't saying... I-I was, like, for the... I don't know. I-I'm rolling here..."

He was so embarrassed he didn't see the slight tint of pink in her cheeks. "If we weren't in a hurry, I'd punch you." she said, raising a fist to make a point. "But, thanks."

...

"You cannot help but learn more as you take the world in your hands. Take it up reverently... for it's an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it." Principle Grayson continued. The clouds darkened and rain started to pour down on the ceremony. Students and parents, as well as teachers opened up umbrella's to protect themselves from the downpour.

Principle Grayson sighed. 'Great." he muttered. "I guess we should... I guess we should move this along. Seniors! Stand up!" he called, and they did so. "Stand up! We salute you!"

The graduates threw their caps in the air in glee, ignoring the rain. Seconds later tornado sirens rang across the yard, causing everyone to panic.

"Everyone inside! Please head inside in an orderly fashion!" Stoick bellowed as Principal Grayson helped lead everyone inside.

"Everyone get inside!" a teacher said at the doors, assuring everyone inside.

Tommy was one of the last few in, and stood in front of the window, filming what was happening outside. Stoick turned to his son.

"Tommy! Where's Hiccup?" he asked, urgently.

Tommy looked at his dad nervously. "Uh, I don't exactly know." he said looking back and forth between Stoick and his camera.

Stoick looked at him for a second before holding his hand out, asking him over. "Get away from the window."

Seconds later, Tommy had to duck to the side as a tree, roots and all, was flung through the window, nearly missing him. He looked back out to see a turning funnel of cloud and wind making its way towards the school, flinging tree's against the brick walls as it did so. The school's sirens started blaring through the halls.

"TORNADO!" he yelled.

Stoick grabbed his arm pulling him away from the window and into the hall. "Everybody into the hallways! GO!"

No one hesitated and ran towards the middle of the school, down the hallways and kneeled down against the lockers.

"Against the wall! Cover your heads!" Stoick called, doing so as well. The power switched out, but the emergency lights and sirens remained on. "Get your heads down! Head down! Against the wall!"

For a few moments, there was silence. Then, there was a strong gust of wind and half of the hallway opened up, the roof flew off and students were being sucked out. Screaming, sirens, wind. Screaming, sirens, wind. That was all that could be heard.

Minutes later, it stopped. The twister had moved on. Stoick stood up, coughing.

"Tommy?" he called.

Tommy stood up slowly. "Yeah, I'm here, Dad."

"Everybody okay?"

A chorus of 'yes' and 'yeah' followed. Stoick reached into his pocket, pulling out his phone and dialing Hiccup's number.

...

"Ready?" Hiccup asked.

Astrid nodded. He was about to start recording when his phone rang.

"Can you hold this?" he asked, holding the camera to Astrid to hold while he pulled his phone out of his pocket. "It's my dad."

"Are you going to answer it?" she asked.

He shook his head. "No, are you kidding? I missed the whole ceremony."

...

Stoick sighed as the call went to message. "Tommy, give me your phone."

...

His phone rang once more and he picked it up. "Tommy?" he answered.

"Hiccup, are you okay?"

"Dad? Yeah, yeah I'm fine."

"Where are you?"

"Dad, Tommy can handle all the filming and stuff. It's not, like, a problem."

"Never mind that. Are you safe? Tell me where you are."

"Safe? Yeah, I'm at the old paper mill."

"On Garner?"

"Yeah."

"Listen, it's really impo-ortant th-t yo-"

"Dad?"

"H-cc-p?"

"Dad?"

...

"Stay where you are-" Stoick started before it became static.

"D-d a-a-d?"

"Hiccup? Hiccup!"

Silence.

...

"What happened?" Astrid asked, handing him his camera back.

"I don't know." Hiccup shrugged, taking the camera from her. "It just cut out."

There was a rumble of thunder, followed by the pitter-patter of rain on the roof.

"Maybe we should go." Astris suggested.

"Yeah," Hiccup agreed.

There was a large gust of wind, creaking the building that stopped both of them in their tracks. The whistling grew stronger, so did the creaking. The building started shaking slightly.

"What is that?" she asked.

Suddenly, the roof and walls were sucked away by the twister, and the building started to cave. Hiccup threw Astrid into the hole just behind them, just as the building came down on top of it. Trapping them.

...

-TBBG

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