Authors Notes: Just so you all know this is a third story...kinda. So if you don't get it read the first and second story first. These drabbles are designed for you to get used to Rai and her world. She is kinda confusing someone said so I decided to do this. Enjoy!
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Every Now and Then:
Drabbles
1.
The buildings were full of wonderful coloration, the walls were of gold, the roof was mother of pearl, the clock tower in the center was made of brass and silver, even the clock itself was diamond and ruby. At first Hiccup thought he had died and gone to heaven, but in reality he was transported to where the gods stayed. He was picked up and placed onto his dragon by a male. Someone he didn't know wearing odd clothing he didn't recognize. He looked at Rai who was wearing her usual clothing. Dragon skin pants, fur jacket that was once a polar bear, boots of deer fur, and her shirt…was made of what looked like chain mail. Her circular swords were at her hips clanking as she walked alongside Toothless.
'Why are we here mother?' Toothless asked and Rai shrugged.
"I figured it would be a great idea to inform them of Rage's return." Rai said and stopped at the doors of a huge castle.
"Once inside Hiccup do not look up, keep your eyes on his scales. If you are addressed do not speak anyways. Your voice…means nothing here. If someone touches you…in any way, they will answer to me." Rai seemed unsure of bringing Hiccup into the room at all. She was actually about to ask him to stay put when the doors began to open. It was to late now. The doors swung open.
2
It was hot outside, to hot for many. Hiccup sat outside his house fanning his face with a hand made fan made from leaves. The majority of the village were hanging out near the water, or attempting to heat proof there homes with more hay on the roofs. Even Toothless lay off to the side panting and dragons loved the heat. Hiccup had dug a hole in the ground filled it with water that way Toothless could wallow in the mud…but the mud dried up by mid day and Toothless was panting again. Suddenly to Hiccups amazement Rai walked by in a jacket, pants, and gloves on.
"How do you people stand this cold? In shorts and no shirt!" She walked by Hiccup who looked at Toothless who seemed just as baffled.
3.
All Hiccup knew was he was falling. The ice cold water hit him like a thousand daggers slicing, and pocking into his flesh. It nearly knocked him unconscious again. When he found himself being pulled back up by the rope that was tied around his chest.
"Had enough kid?" The voice asked playfully. Hiccup coughed up water weakly looking at the man standing before him.
"N…No…" He said bravely. Once again he was falling and once again the water washed over him, the water stung his eyes he had to get away. The water escaped his lips and went down his throat in a rush as he struggled to breath. He was finally pulled out of the water.
"Tell us where she is kid…or we'll leave you down there this time. Your wasting our time. Time we could be using to find this she devil." The man said and looked at the blue lips of Hiccups.
"Now…where…is she?" Hiccup just looked away and gasped when the rope was dropped.
"Splash…" It wasn't the noise of Hiccup hitting the river it was someone verbally saying splash. The man looked around to see Rai standing there with Ariya standing there with Hiccup draped over her back dripping wet.
"Looking for me?" The smile on Rai's face made everyone of those men cringe and run.
4.
This was the first time in a long time that Hiccup had ever seen Rai act like she looked…she was millions of years old, but looked about his age, maybe a little more. She was running down a hill and then stopped falling to her side and rolled down the hill while giggling. She was happy today, today Hiccup just found out that he was going to be a father. He and Astrid had been married for two years. Finally it was announced to them that she was indeed about two months in. Hiccup didn't realize Rai would be so happy about the situation. He thought she would be sad about it, it meant Hiccup was a man now and a father. But no she was happy, and from the look of it glad, almost as if saying…
"I'm a grandmother again!" She yelled out to the world as she stopped at the bottom of the hill and looked at Toothless who chuckled at her actions and landed himself in the pond near the bottom which promoted a water fight between Rai and Toothless.
"Ty would be happy." She said as Hiccup sat down on the bank.
"Whose Ty?" Hiccup asked
"The very first Night Fury." Rai said as she grabbed a wad of sand and placed it onto Toothless' scales and scrubbed the grit off him.
"Oh I can't wait. At least with Astrid you'll have live young, while I had to lay an egg…and then hide it…oh Easter all over again. Did I ever tell you what the southern people believe? Something about a Jewish man got killed on a cross and…well it's a load of weird stuff about dieing and coming back, but they call it Easter now." Rai was so excited she didn't realize that they had been there for a few hours when she stopped babbling when it began to rain. She looked around and saw Hiccup holding Astrid as they slept. Toothless lay next to them using his wing as an umbrella.
"I talked them to sleep didn't I?" she asked and Toothless nodded and looked down.
'Things are going to change…aren't they?' Toothless asked. Rai sighed and nodded.
'Yes my darling, but he'll never stop loving us. He'll just have more to love. He's going to need us now more then ever.'
1. Rai has no choice but to take Hiccup and Toothless with her when she does to the heavens to inform her father of the lord of deaths return. Takes place right after book 2
2. Rai was born and raised in Africa. So she's used to hot climates into which Berk is not one of these places. The most that Berk has seen (Based on where Vikings normally lived in the history books) Have only seen perhaps 60F
3. Hiccup is in trouble again after getting into a fight with Rai about something and he gets caught, tortured, and nearly killed by drowning.
4. Rai is very excited to find out about Hiccup and Astrids little baby. She's hiding the fact that she is afraid because she never really took care of a baby before in her life. Mainly because she had to quickly hide her own child and perhaps feels a little resentful for her own decision and is hiding it with endless babble.