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So... it seemed like more of these would be inevitable. I originally wrote this as a single drabble fic, but I think I'll make it into more of a series. Thanks for reading!


summary: Hiccup shows off his deeper nerdy-self with some information about the Monstrous Nightmare, and his friends have mixed thoughts on his amazing display of knowledge.

Basically how to be Berk's biggest geek.


"I'm still curious though, how does Hookfang set himself on fire, anyway?" Snotlout wondered aloud as he and the other Viking teens saddled their dragons in the training academy. He hadn't expected an answer, let alone a long, complicated one from Hiccup. Well, actually, yeah he did.

"Well it's an amazing process really," Hiccup began, "It all starts with the sensory nerves located in the draco-epidermis just beneath the scaly first layer of Monstrous Nightmare skin, you see the 'fight-or-flight' response from any dragon will trigger the fire-making glands and cause an ignition of either the self-made gases from within the body or, in Hookfang's case, the slick flammable coating on his scales, which causes a chain reaction all over the dragon and makes him light up like a torch, and then..."

"Uhhh..." Astrid tried to keep up with Hiccup's sudden stream of words. Her hands went limp at Stormfly's saddle.

"Hiccup... I don't understand half of what you're saying..."

"Shh!" Fishlegs nudged the blonde from where he was standing. "I'm listening. He's a total genius! I didn't know Hiccup knew so much about Monstrous Nightmare fire, did you? There was never this much information in the Book of Dragons on how Snotlout's dragon actually starts its fire."

Hiccup wasn't finished yet.

"The process is learned during the first week or so of a Monstrous Nightmare's life and is not taught but rather a self-learned experience that all dragons must go through in the early stages of life, so in conclusion..."

Snotlout was staring. The twins gawked, letting their arms hang at their sides, too confused to so much as elbow eachother for an explanation. When Hiccup was finally finished his long rant, Astrid asked,

"Hiccup, where on earth did you learn all that? It couldn't have been in the Book of Dragons, could it?"

"Huh? Wait, what? I'm sort of blanking on the past few minutes." Hiccup scrunched his eyebrows together, looking confusedly from one teen to the next.

"You were just giving one of the nerdiest speed-lectures in Viking history, if you were wondering" Snotlout interrupted.

"I-I was? Oh... sorry."

Fishlegs pushed past Astrid and rushed over to Hiccup.

"Sorry?! You've gotta tell me more about this! Okay, so how does it work with Zipplebacks?"

The rest of the teenagers watched as Fishlegs and the dragon expert walked back up to the village, eyes wide.

Tuffnut was the one to break the silence.

"So uh... did anyone else besides Fishlegs understand mister fast-talk's speech?"

Everyone shook their heads.

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The inspiration for this fic came from a prompt sent to me by tumblr user howtotrainyourbabyboo (if anyone's got a tumblr go and follow that awesome person). Thanks!