"Enya, wake up!" I groaned a little bit at the sound of my brother's voice and rolled over on my back. I slowly started to open my eyes but quickly shut them again when I saw the light from the sun outside shine into my room.
"I want to sleep in Hiccup!" I shouted back.I heard Hiccup whisper something and the wood from the steps connecting the bottom part of the house to the second part start to creek along with his metal leg clanking. That's how I always know when Hiccup is coming up. It especially helps when I'm drawing something I don't want him to see. Suddenly, I felt a rough, wet tongue swipe across my face and I shot up from my bed.
"Oh gross," I shouted "Hiccup that is disgusting!"
"That wasn't me Enya." I heard my brother say through trying to hide his laughing. A low, purr-like growl came from beside me. I wiped the saliva off my face and turned to see Toothless, Hiccup's night fury, staring at me. I let out a small laugh and scratched the top of his head. "Good morning to you too Toothless."
I swung my legs over the side of my bed and wrapped the blanket I had over my lap over my back. "Are we going to the dragon academy today?" I asked.
"Yeah, and you might want to hurry up and get ready. I told everyone else to get there early." Hiccup replied and started back down the ladder
I slowly got up from my bed and walked over the desk that was beside Hiccup's bed and picked up my hairbrush, notebook, and my charcoal pencil. His bed is right underneath the window on the right side of the wall while mine is more in the corner of our room. Our dad put it there since when I was little, I had a bad habit of falling out of bed during the night.
I sat back down on my bed and looked into the small mirror that hung over my bed. I've always thought that I look pretty much nothing like my brother. Really the only thing we have in common is we have the same eye color and face shape. According to my dad, Stoick the Vast, I look more like my mom than anything else, though I don't really have a very good idea of what she looks like. Hiccup and I were really young when she...well we don't like to talk about it much. My hair is a mix of red and black(but if I'm ever outside when it's really dark, my hair looks completely black). It goes down to the middle of my back when I have it down but when I leave my house for whatever reason, I have it up in a high ponytail.
After I brushed out my hair, changed into my normal day clothes (a purple tunic with short sleeves that went down mid-thigh with a black leather belt in the middle, black pants, and my usual brown boots) and put everything I wanted to take with me in my bag, I met up with Hiccup and Toothless outside our house. Hiccup was sitting is his usual spot on Toothless' saddle. His prosthetic leg was attached to the small metal stirrup used to activate the attachment on Toothless' tail. I slowly got into the saddle and took my usual place right behind my brother.
"Ready bud?" Hiccup asked and Toothless let out a low roar in response. Hiccup gave Toothless a gentle nudge and we took flight. Before we were off the ground, I quickly shut my eyes so I wouldn't see what was underneath me. This happens every time I need to fly somewhere. I hate heights. Absolutely hate them. I never knew I had a fear of heights until Hiccup, me, and all of my other friends had to go fight the Red Death and all of us were on dragons. That's possibly why I never wanted a dragon of my own, so I wouldn't have to fly everywhere I went. Don't get me wrong, I love Toothless and everything, I just don't like it when Hiccup takes him up so high that I can barely even see the ground anymore. Plus, Toothless tends to go really fast at times. But flying (unfortunately) is the only way to get to the Dragon Academy.
After flying for about ten minutes, Toothless landed in front of the door to the Academy, which was originally the Killing Arena.
"Thank you Thor for protecting me." I whispered as I slid off the saddle and followed Hiccup and Toothless into the academy. Everyone who was supposed to be there were inside with their dragons. Snotlout, Hiccup's and my cousin was sitting on the back of his Monstrous Nightmare, Hookfang, with his hand on his cheek with a bored expression, a typical look for him. Beside him were Astrid and Fishlegs, two of my best friends. Astrid is Hiccup's crush (though I swear they act like a couple at times) and she taught me everything I know about fighting. Fishlegs is possibly the nicest and smartest guy I've ever met. He doesn't act like any of the other guys I've met on Berk. He was actually the very first friend I've ever made, besides Hiccup. Their dragons, Stormfly and Meatlug, were napping behind them as Fishlegs talked to Astrid about random, and kinda useless, dragon facts. Stormfly is a very beautiful Deadly Nadder with light blue scales that almost match Astrid's shirt with dark yellow and blue spines on her tail. Meatlug is a large brown Gronkle that acts almost like a second mother to Fishlegs. She's my second favorite dragon, right behind Toothless, for that reason. Last are the twins, Tuffnut and Ruffnut and their dragon Barf and Belch, a Hideous Zippleback. The twins were wrestling with each other while their dragon gnawed on the other's neck. Both of the twins have long, blond hair, though Ruffnut's hair has two long braids in the front, one in the back, and two little ones sticking out from both sides of her head and Tuffnut's hair has simple dreadlocks handing over his shoulders, at least that what they look like to me. He rarely ever bathes and his hair ends up turning into what looks like dreadlocks Neither of them are all that smart, but they tend to make me laugh a lot. Their Zippleback is one dragon with two heads. One of the heads breathes a highly explosive green gas while the other head lights it. I can never really tell which does what unless the twins are riding on their heads.
"Enya, I'm planning on having target practice today. Do you mind helping me set up some of the totem poles? Hiccup asked and I shrugged my shoulders.
"No, I don't mind." I replied and went over to the large cage that had all of our targets and all of our other training things. Since I don't have a dragon of my own, I'm usually the one that sets everything up for everyone while Hiccup is explaining to them what they're going to be doing for the day. I don't really mind not doing a whole lot since it gives me more time to draw and write a few things in my notebook. Although, I will admit sometimes I feel a little left out, but I would never tell Hiccup that since I have a feeling if I did, he would try to include me in everything he did.
