This takes place 2 months after what happened in Consequences. Alvin is still in jail and Hiccup's wounds have, for the most, part healed.
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"A lot of things can go wrong and a lot of things can go right. How you look at it determines whether it benefits you or not."
It took us two months but we finally found it. I'd never realize it'd be extremely hard to find a hot spring on Berk, what with all of the snow and trees and mountains, you'd think a boiling water pit would be like finding a dragon amongst Vikings.
Hiccup was undressing himself—taking off everything but his newly acquired swimming suit—and fiddling with his prosthetic while he thought back to the point in time when they finally found their swimming pole. They were looking everywhere; Hiccup had started to draw out the landscape of Berk from above and with a little knowledge of the geography, they were able to find the hot spring based on the memory Hiccup had during the trip through the tunnels below. Now they had a nice place to go to when the temperature outside was below Viking standards of cold.
"Come Hiccup, the water's nice like it always is." Astrid called to him, inviting him in. She had a blue clothed two piece swim suit, which really did show her curves. Ruffnut had a white one, but because of who she is, it got dirty quick and turned from white to a tan color. The boys had, of course, swim trunks; not your average silk like fabric, but a suitable cloth that still did its job.
"Coming!" Hiccup decided to take his prosthetic off in case the metal would cause him to sink. He balanced on one foot, and jumped into the water, splashing his friends in the process. Toothless and the other dragons rested by the water's edge; some terrible terrors that followed them to the hot spring dived into the water to enjoys its rare heat—that or they were hoping to catch some fish.
Hiccup had no problem at all swimming; it just took a little more energy to move through the water.
Ruffnut and Tuffnut busied themselves by ducking each other under the water. Fishlegs was hanging on a log he brought in as he was having trouble swimming. The funny thing was that the log would roll every so often and bring the young chubby Viking underwater and then back up in a circle.
"Hey Hiccup, let's see who can hold their breath underwater longer." Snotlout challenged him, mostly to try and impress Astrid, which by her face expression wasn't going to work. But Hiccup took it nonetheless and both breathed in deep and dove underwater; though Hiccup had to actually swim to the bottom whereas Snotlout just sunk. Thirty two seconds later, Hiccup emerged gasping for breath and fifteen more seconds later Snotlout emerged.
"I win! Sorry to say the only thing that you win at is losing! No, wait, I'm not sorry to say that!" Snotlout laughed out between gasps for air.
"I had to struggle and wasted some of my energy getting to the bottom, you just sunk!" Hiccup complained. He wanted to win at something against that snot lout.
"Are you calling me fat?!" Snotlout asked with venom, though it wasn't threatening Hiccup.
"Yes," was all Hiccup said as a reply. Snotlout swam over to Hiccup and started dunking him in the water, imitating Ruffnut and Tuffnut. Hiccup tried to kick Snotlout away, but he only had one foot, and he was smaller than the other.
"Snotlout, stop it you're going to drown him." Astrid said folding her arms. She was sitting on the side ringing out her blonde hair when Snotlout was dunking Hiccup.
"Snotlout I said stop." Hiccup was staying under for more than thirty seconds; from earlier he would be losing his breath by then.
"Snotlout, STOP!" she yelled as she splashed into the water and hit Snotlout over the head. He let go of Hiccup who came up gasping for breath and struggling to stay afloat for a few seconds. Toothless lifted his head and narrowed his eyes mischievously at Snotlout, slipping into the water like a water snake on the hunt. Hiccup turned around and glared at Snotlout.
"I was only playing around."
"That's not playing around, you almost drowned him!"
"It was funny!" Hiccup saw Toothless, and smiled, knowing what he was going to do.
"You know what's funny?" Hiccup asked. On cue, Toothless emerged from below Snotlout, grabbing his swimming pants and throwing him out onto land. Snotlout landed on his stomach with his butt in the air towards the teens. The teens all laughed and soon looked away as Toothless accidently took off his shorts. He spit it out as soon as he realized it was still in his mouth.
"AH! My eyes!" Astrid screamed as she covered her eyes with her hands. Ruffnut acted like her whole face just caught on fire and dunked it in the water.
"HAHAHA! I SEE SNOTLOUT'S BUTT!" Tuffnut hollered with laughter as he pointed at Snotlout. Said Viking's face was suddenly all red; getting up and running over to a nearby tree. He poked his head out looking sheepish.
"Can you guys please get my shorts?!" Hiccup, being the generous Viking that he is, grabbed the shorts and threw them to Snotlout who caught them and quickly put them on. He swam back to Astrid's side.
"That's not the first time we've seen him naked." Fishlegs stated.
"Not at that angle!" Tuffnut added.
"Why did I have to suffer in the process?" Astrid asked, her hands still covering her eyes.
I think this is pretty good for the intro. I'll be updating shortly. I like all of the names for the Whispering Death, but I'm gonna try to put them together as to not single anyone out. Thanks!