A/N im kind of new at this, so... please dont flame hurtfully, but constructively. thanks!
"Are you sure this is a good idea Astrid?" Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III asked the tall blonde Viking.
"Of course. Mostly…" Astrid replied, not helping Hiccups nerves. At all.
They were in what Astrid called their hideaway, where Hiccup and Toothless first met. The rest of the gang was there, too, each with a arm full of weapons to train with. Of course, they aren't going to train, Hiccup is. Now that Toothless can't help him, he needs to learn how to defend himself if the other villages attack Burk.
Hiccup still didn't know what weapon would suite him best, since Toothless refused to have his boy any where near danger. But, Toothless couldn't protect Hiccup anymore. Astrid insisted on trying to help train the scrawny, red-headed Viking.
They trained in the arena for a while, but the groups of Vikings that gathered and laughed at Hiccup got really annoying. Plus, Astrid though of a way to get Hiccup motivated. She had noticed once, when Tuff was having a bad day, and taking it out in Astrid. Roughly. Hiccup was messing with Astrid's old sword, which had broken. He was trying to improve it, when Tuff aimed wrong and hit Astrid on her forearm, cutting her. It just made the blonde mad, so she took it up a notch. Which, in turn, made Tuff take it way up.
Hiccup noticed this, being the attentive teen he was, and knew he would end up really hurting Astrid. He grabbed the broken sword, and bolted to them. Tuff was closing in on Astrid, but Hiccup got there first, blocking him. This took Tuffnut off guard, and Hiccup attacked him, using the broken weapon to send him flying back, to the ground.
Shocked, Tuffnut looked up. "Dude, I had no idea you could move like that!!" yelled an excited Snotlout.
"Hiccup that was… that… wow. You had us thinking you couldn't even use a sword!" this was from Astrid , who couldn't believe Hiccup, her weak, scrawny, Hiccup, could take on Tuff, for even 4 seconds.
Thinking of this, Astrid walked up to Tuffnut.
"Okay, guys, here's my new training theory. Ruff, you and Hiccup fight, while Tuff holds me. Every time you get hit, Hiccup, Tuff gets to hit me. Got it?"
"AWSOME! I've been waiting to get even!" shouted Tuffnut.
"WHAT! Astrid, you cant think this is going to work? You'll just get hurt!"
"Hiccup, that's the point. If you don't get hit, and fight Ruff, I wont get hurt, in fact, ill hit Tuff,k?" Astrid said, trying to calm Hiccup down.
"but….but…." Astrid looked at Hiccup, giving him pleading eyes. She noticed they work wonders on him.
"FINE! Gods, I hope you know what you're doing.." Hiccup gave in.
"YES! Get ready to bite the dust Hiccup" shouted a happy Ruffnut.
Hiccup took a deep breath, and picked up his sword. He and Ruff took fighting stances, and Tuff was grinning next to Astrid. Ruff took the first shoot, biiiig surprise there. She lunged at him, and he ducked, but not before she hit his helmet. Tuff laughed and punched Astrid in the gut. She just grunted and looked at the pain in the sun.
Ruff lunged again, but Hiccup rolled out of the way. She turned and tripped him, kicking the back of his fake leg. He fell, and she straddled his waist and hit him with the butt of her weapon. Hiccup looked at Astrid, in time to see Tuffnut punch her in the gut again.
Hiccup struggled to get up, but Ruffnut had him pinned. She struck out, landing a solid blow on his head. He saw stars for a second, before hearing Astrid cry out. He looked over, and saw her nose pouring blood. He saw felt immense rage, and managed to get out from under Ruff. He wanted to go to Astrid, but knew that if he did, she would be pissed, so instead he struck Ruff's helmet hard. She grunted befor getting up and swinging at him. He parried, and stabbed her armor, making her flail. Taking this opportunity, he lashed out again, knocking her down. Ruff was dazed as she lay there, wondering how Hiccup could have beat her.
Wondering how good he was, Snotlout grabbed a hammer, and went to Hiccup, landing a blow on is head. Hiccup dropped to his knees with the force of it, and saw red, as he watched Tuff hit Astrid in the nose again. Hiccup jumped up, and swung around, in time to dodge Snots strike, and hit his arm, hard, with the butt of his sword. Snot cried out, and pulled back his hammer, going for the boys head again, when Hiccup grabbed the hammer from his hurt hand, and hit him on the head with it. Snot lout dropped and groaned in pain.
From a tree behind him, Hiccup heard a inquiring sound, and then foots steps coming toward him. He turned to see a tall, lean young man, with spiked black hair, skin a rich tan color, and a medium sized sword. The teen walked up to Hiccup and took a fighting stance.
Shocked, Hiccup looked at him. He had no idea as to why he'd want to fight him, when he knew Hiccup would lose. Hiccup gave him confused eyes, meeting his poison green ones.
"Toothless, I don't think I can even pray to take you on yet" Hiccup said, sidling to where Astrid, Fishlegs, And a bruised Tuffnut sat.
"I don't know Hiccup. What I just saw was pretty good. I just want to see where you are." Replied the human Dragon. His speech had been getting good, but he still had trouble putting accents on the right words, making him sound monotone. He'd been human for a while now, about a week and a half. Hiccup's thoughts soon went back to the night this all started.