I'm Castaflicka, and this is my story. I'm 16 years old in human years, and I live on Berk. No one ever notices me, I'm just a teen on Berk, like all the others, but I'm not like all the others. I'm unusual. If you want to know me better, read on.
"Hey Sailsicka!" Tuffnut called to Castaflicka. She turned slowly, and asked,
"Do you mean Castaflicka? What?" Hiccup was surprised at how sweetly she could reply to a taunt.
"Do you know how to fly?" Castaflicka looked surprised and asked,
"How should I know that?"
"Because your head's always in the clouds!" Snotlout taunted. Castaflicka ignored them and disappeared into a corner.
"Dragon raid!" Someone shouted, and the teens, as well as everyone else, ran out of the Great Hall. Hiccup ran to his house to get something, and Castaflicka was about to run off when Gobber shouted,
"Casta! Get out there and help with water duty!" Castaflicka ignored the shortening of her name and followed the teens to the water barrel. She helped put out the fire but disappeared soon. When Hiccup knocked the giant torch over, she stood in a shadow and watched Hiccup get dragged halfway to his house. Her ears perked up at "OK but I hit a Night Fury." She disappeared into the woods and in a clearing far from town she closed her eyes and concentrated.
Her arms turned into wings and she turned into a giant dragon. She was a mix of a Timberjack, Night Fury, and Flightmare. She didn't glow as the Flightmares did, and her wings were the huge timberjack wings. Her head was proportional to the rest of her body, but like a Night Fury. She soared into the air, and flew to where she heard Hiccup say the Night Fury fell; Just off Raven Point. She landed and transformed back into her human body, and sliding behind a big rock, hid as she heard someone gasp over the hill crest. She watched Hiccup approach the dragon fearfully, and had to stifle a laugh when she saw him clutching his puny knife as if it would keep him from all harm. When he said he was going to kill the dragon, she tensed, ready to transform and attack, but then she saw Hiccup drop his arms onto his head, and she relaxed. Hiccup wouldn't harm the dragon, he was too kind. She ran away and flew back to a mile or so from Berk and transformed back into Castaflicka. She got back to Berk and went home, being next door to Hiccup's house, and watched from her window as Hiccup entered, then when he went to bed. Castaflicka went to her own bed, and slept soundly til dawn.
She awoke to pounding on her door, and flipping the covers away, she sleepily opened the door to see Gobber there.
"Mornin' Castaflicka. Dragon training today. Come on to the arena." Castaflicka, or Casta as we shall now call her, followed him to the arena, where Astrid, Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, Fishlegs and Hiccup were all gathering. Casta blended into the shadows, no one noticing her, as they walked into the circle the cages opened into. Astrid, of course, was a ham and said as she stalked into the arena, "No turning back." Casta rolled her eyes and catching Hiccup's eye, flipped her own braid and walked haughtily, mimicking Astrid and saying in a high pitched whisper to mock her, "no turning back." Hiccup grinned a second, then it vanished as they walked into the arena. Casta herself vanished into the shadows again, and growled lowly as the other teens mocked Hiccup.
Now my reader, do not think there's going to be romance in this between the two. Casta loves Hiccup as a brother, nothing more, I promise you.
She muttered the names to herself as Gobber announced them, remembering how to make friends with Gronckles. No, she couldn't do that, everyone in the Viking village would want to kill her. She sighed and pondered how to fight these dragons without really hurting them. When Gobber let the Gronckle out, she pulled her shield off her back and slid along the walls of the arena. When Hiccup got cornered and the Gronckle was about to blow him up, she threw a rock at it, a big rock, and it came after her. She rolled away, and eventually, by rolling and jumping out of the way, got back into the shadows and the Gronckle lost her. It instead cornered Hiccup again, and just as Casta was about to jump in front, Gobber yanked it away and it blew a hole into the wall. The Gronckle gnawed on his hook, and Gobber scolded,
"Go back to bed, y'overgrown sausage!" He threw the Gronckle in it's cage and said to the students,
"You'll get another chance, don't you worry." He glanced around, as if looking for Casta, but not seeing her, told them sternly.
"Remember, a dragon will always, always," He bent down to eye level with Hiccup, "go for the kill." He pulled Hiccup up by the arm, and Hiccup glanced at the huge hole the Gronckle had made. He ran out of the arena, secretly followed by Casta, and returned to the place he had freed the Night Fury. He picked up the heavy ball and rope, weighed them in his hands, and murmured,
"So why didn't you?" He set them down, and followed the trail the Night Fury had left. It led to a cove, where Hiccup squatted down and picked up a scale that had obviously fallen off the black dragon. He ran his finger along the center, then jerked back and dropped it as the Night Fury suddenly scrabbled above him. Casta jumped up the rocks and climbed over into the cove with an agility and silence to be envied, then hid behind a tree to observe the Night Fury. She soon found out, when he held still for a second, that he was missing a tail wing, and without that, he couldn't fly. She gasped quietly and whispered,
"If he can't fly, he can't live. What if something attacks him?" Casta returned to the village through the now falling rain. She transformed and walked slowly through the storm and got to the Hall right after Hiccup, in time to hear Gobber say,
"What did Casta do in the ring today?" Astrid sneered,
"She showed up? She's never where she should be." Gobber growled,
"Thank you Astrid. She protected Hiccup. She saved his life. You others didn't do anything but save your own skins. Even you Astrid." He dropped a heavy book onto the table and instructed everyone to read it. Everyone deadpanned and rushed outside and home as soon as Gobber disappeared. Astrid also deadpanned as Hiccup stammered the question of sharing. Casta watched as Hiccup walked away, and stayed in a shadow as he returned. She slid away and fell asleep at home, dreaming uneasily.
Ta da! First chapter! What'd you think?