Fifteenth Flight. [video/action for Saffron City.]

[newberktown]

[Hey, Pokemon World. Did you miss vikings being derpy? Well, never fear! Here's Hiccup, grinning like a fool and looking way too excited as he backs up from where he's set his 'gear.]

Alright. So, everyone? Feel free to start calling me Bastian. [His smile somehow widens even more as he reaches down and lifts his newest team member, draping her over his shoulders and giving her a little scritch behind the fins.] I just got myself my very own luckdratini.

[The Dratini--an unusual purple-tinted pink--studies the 'gear with a twinkle in her eye. Well, really there's a twinkle everywhere else, too. Yep, like so many pokemon showing up on the network, this baby's a shiny.]

I'm going out to show Falkor the city, okay?

[Someone's been reading The Neverending Story lately...]

Comments

[video]

[divinewind]

[That gets a smile out of him, although he's still getting used to making these human facial expressions.]

That is good to hear. Not very many people in England understand dragons either, unless the people are in the Aerial Corps. They think we will eat them, as though we thought they were cows. [He snorts, showing his disdain for that idea.]

I am sure yours will get better at not destroying things the longer they stay with you, and that those with poor opinions will see that they are in the wrong.

[video]

[newberktown]

[Okay, wait a second. Either the people in this 'England' place were incredibly stupid and thought dragons and cows looked even remotely similar, or Hiccup was talking to a dragon. And the latter was seeming way more likely and giving him some context for Temeraire's body language.]

...You're way better at talking than Toothless was while he was here.

[video]

[divinewind]

[Temeraire looks visibly pleased at the compliment, but also a tiny bit confused.]

Well, the shape of my mouth was troublesome at first, but it was designed to speak like this and I learned very quickly. But I have always been able to speak...was it not the same for Toothless?

[video]

[newberktown]

Huh... No--not this language, at least. Just animal sounds, sort of like pokemon. He did learn how to say a few words, though, like 'fish' and 'kitty', and he could understand most of what people said.

[video]

[divinewind]

Oh, I see. You must have gotten on very well, to be such good friends without speaking the same language.

[He makes his slightly-off, but still genuine, smile again.]

My name is Temeraire.

[video]

[newberktown]

It took a while, that's for sure... But it was worth it.

[Even if 'baaawh, what if he didn't understand his dragon as much as he thought'. Dumb canon point.]

Nice to meet you, Temeraire! And despite what I said earlier, my name's Hiccup, not Bastian.

[He is just a dork.]