Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (Books)

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is the main protagonist of the How To Train Your Dragon Book series. He is eleven when he is introduced in the first book. He may be small in size, but the books have made it clear that Hiccup is a clever, convicted, and brilliantly talented young man. He is son of Stoick the vast and thus heir of the Harry Hooligan tribe. His destiny has lead him on many wild and fantastic adventures with his best friends Fishlegs and Camacazi, along with his loyal dragon Toothless.

In the BooksEdit
===[http://howtotrainyourdragon.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon How To Train Your Dragon]=== Hiccup is shown as small and gangly with freckles and unruly red hair. In the first book, his age is 10 1/2. As the chief's son, he is expected to be heroic and strong, but it takes him a while to prove his worth to the tribe. In order to be initiated into the Hairy Hooligan tribe, Hiccup and the rest of Gobber the Belch's class of young boys have to travel to Wild Dragon Cliff, climb into a cave of sleeping dragons, and catch one. Unfortunately,Fishlegs wakes all of the dragons up when he reaches for a Deadly Nadder, so Hiccup gives Fishlegs his dragon as the others flee and rushes back into the cave to get a dragon of his own. He grabs Toothless ; a tiny, toothless Common or Garden Dragon. Hiccup tries to train Toothless by talking to him in Dragonese and manages to train him enough to pass the initiation test by telling him jokes. However, during the test, Toothless ' jealousy gets the better of him, and he mocks Snotlout 's dragon,Fireworm, leading to a massive dragon-fight. Hiccup and the rest of the young boys are banished from the tribe for their lack  of control over their dragons until he later saves both the boys from exile and the village from certain doom when he leads the rest of the Hooligan boys, the Meathead boys, and their dragons in a fight to stop two Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus (the Green Death) from eating the tribe. For his heroic efforts, Hiccup is then given the title "Hiccup the Useful" and is considered a fearsome dragon warrior.

How to Be a PirateEdit
By StielyPaiC June 15, 2013 This book begins with Hiccup fighting Dogsbreath the Duhbrain in a Swordfighting at Sea lesson in the middle of a storm guided by Gobber the Belch, a month after the first book. As Hiccup is a terrible sword fighter, he is almost killed by Dogsbreath until a box holes the boat and all of the trainees are left to fend for themselves in the sea.

Using the box, Hiccup and Fishlegs finally float back to Berk, only to discover that the box is the coffin of Grimbeard the Ghastly, Hiccup's great-great grandfather. Words on the coffin advise against opening it, but Stoick and Gobber insist on opening it anyway, despite Hiccup and Old Wrinkly's protestations. The corpse of Grimbeard the Ghastly turns out to be alive, and then it turns out that the corpse is not a corpse at all, it is a living, breathing man. Once the man recovers from the seawater, he introduces himself as Alvin the Poor-but-Honest Farmer.

Alvin tells his tale to the Tribe. He had been "farming potatoes" (despite potatoes being IMAGINARY vegetables) when he came across Grimbeard's empty coffin, which promptly cut his hand off after he reached inside for the contents. Alvin has since replaced his missing hand with a hook. He found a map and a riddle about Grimbeard the Ghastly's lost treasure in the coffin, which he shares with the Hooligans. Alvin explains that when he told the Meathead Tribe his tale, they didn't believe him, and shoved him in the coffin and pushed him out to sea.

Stoick and Alvin become fast friends, and put their heads together to find out a way to get to the treasure, which is on the very dangerous Island of the Skullions. (Skullions are large, dangerous, yet flightless dragons that have lost their senses of sight and hearing but have a very acute sense of smell and also have a very long, nasty claw on each paw that they use for cutting the Achilles' Tendon of their victim, thus inabiling them to escape.) While Hiccup admires Alvin, Toothless does not trust him, and accuses him of being one of the villainous Outcast Tribe. Eventually, Alvin and Stoick come up with a way to survive the Skullions--bathing. This will mask their scent, and leave them free to search the island.

Stoick expects Hiccup to find the treasure on the Isle of the Skullions and thus confirm his position as heir, but it is Hiccup's cousin Snotlout and his dragon Fireworm who find the treasure chest. However, upon opening, the chest lets out a terrible smell that wakes the Skullions. The Hooligans barely escape with their lives.

On the ship, Alvin admires the treasure greatly. As Baggybum the Beerbelly and Stoick the Vast, brothers, are fighting over who is Heir and who should be Chief, Alvin traps Toothless, the only dragon aboard ship who did not leave for Berk once in sight of the island, and then proposes a toast to the wealth of the Hooligan Tribe. As Stoick is about to drink, Outcasts board the ship and attack the Hooligans, taking them prisoner.

Alvin reveals himself to really be His Most Mighty Murderousness, Chief Alvin the Treacherous of the Outcast Tribe. He has betrayed every Hooligan to his kin in order to take all of the treasure for himself. When Alvin reveals that every Hooligan save the Chief and his Heir are to be sold into slavery, Hiccup stands up and proclaims that he is the Heir, despite the fact that Alvin had said that the Chief and his Heir were to be eaten in ritual cannibalism. However, the Hooligans do not want to be slaves and fight against the Outcasts. In the battle, Snotlout fights so well he is later given a Black Star, Hiccup, whose right arm was in a sling because of the Skullion incident, freed many of the already chained Hooligans, and Fishlegs reveals himself to be a Berserk.

Toothless rolls out of his barrel and bites an Outcast on the leg during the battle. The Outcast drops the torch he was holding and sets the boat on fire, and everyone jumps ship to take the battle to the Outcast vessel not far away. Everyone except for Alvin, who wanted to save the treasure, Fishlegs, who in his Berserk daze, wanted to kill Alvin, and Hiccup and Toothless, who want to save Fishlegs. The boat goes under, with Hiccup, Fishlegs, Alvin, and Toothless on board.

They sink to the bottom of the ocean. Fishlegs snaps out of his blood-crazed state and saves Hiccup by dragging him to an air pocket, and then Toothless and Hiccup save a struggling Alvin. Alvin apologizes for his evil actions, but Hiccup and Fishlegs aren't fooled. Toothless finds an underwater cavern and takes the humans to it, where they discover a door to a room full of treasure.

Hiccup and Alvin have a brilliant sword fight on the mounds of treasure, in which Hiccup realizes that he is left handed, and has the gift of sword fighting after all. He beats Alvin in the sword fight, but there is a Monstrous Starngulator in the cave that eats Alvin and traps Hiccup. Hiccup tricks the Strangulator, which speaks Dragonese, into poisoning itself, and Hiccup and Fishlegs escape the underwater cavern by having Toothless, who has gills, breath oxygen into their noses as they swim to the surface.

The Tribe rejoices when they realize that the boys are still alive, and Stoick claims Hiccup as his Heir after all. The epilogue states that a few months later, Hiccup discovered that his new sword, the one he had fought Alvin with and that he had found in the cave, has a secret compartment in it with a letter that is Grimbeard's Last Will and Testament, leaving his second-best sword to his Heir--Hiccup.