Normal POV
Life on Berk just can't get any better . . .
"AHA! Catch me if you can, Dragon Boy!"
. . . sadly, that means it can only get . . .
"Careful what you wish for!"
. . . worse.
"Why?"
Living on Berk, you have your friends . . .
"Because you know I will get you!"
. . . your family . . .
"On no you won't!"
. . . and everyone's favorite . . .
"OH YES I WILL!"
. . . your enemies.
Hiccup and Astrid raced through the sky on their dragons, attempting random swirls and twirls as they went. They were racing to Thor's Beach, a common beach among the many in Berk. Going in their seventh lap (out of ten total) around Berk, Toothless began gaining on Stormfly.
"No you won't!" shouted Astrid.
"Yes I will!" shouted Hiccup back.
"No you won't!"
"Yes I will!"
"No you won't!"
"Yes I will!"
"No, you won't!"
"Sure I won't. Watch this!" He shouted. Toothless blared off suddenly in a blur of black in the cloudless, blue sky. Astrid laughed as she watched Toothless and his rider drift further and further away from her and her dragon.
"Hiccup, so predictable. Why do you always do that!?" asked Astrid, shouting to get her voice over the extra distance.
"Do what?" asked Hiccup.
"Blast off at the last-whoa!" she shouted, steering Stormfly out of the way to avoid crashing into one of the statues on the island. She looked back, watching it disappear from view. "That was close," said Astrid. "Should we do something about that?"
"You could yell at it," said Hiccup, "although I doubt it would make a difference," he added sarcastically.
He leaned over Toothless, beckoning him to go faster. They did another lap around Berk, followed by more until they were on the tenth and final lap.
"First one to Thor's Beach wins," said Hiccup. "You ready, Bud?"
Toothless grunted and then blast off with Stormfly on his tail (not literally).
Toothless and Stormfly both landed on the beach at the same exact time. Hiccup and Astrid dismounted and approached each other.
"That was pretty awesome," said Astrid. "Why don't we race more often?"
"Well, five months ago, I had a broken leg and you had a broken arm," said Hiccup. "And it's hard to fly with either of those things. Especially during a race."
Astrid nodded. Hiccup was wearing the sand dollar necklace she gave him months before. He always tucked it under his shirt, so only the top part of the chain was visible.
"So . . ." said Hiccup, "back to the Academy?"
"Yeah," said Astrid. "Let's see what damage Snotlout and the twins caused this time."
They mounted their separate dragons again and took off towards the Berk Dragon Training Academy.
They flew through the entrance, and allowed their dragons to land. Hiccup and Astrid jumped off. Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut were doing Target Practice; not one of their better ideas.
"Hookfang, fire!" shouted Snotlout. Hookfang blasted a single fire ball. It blasted one of the barrels they were using for targets into about a million pieces that flew all over the academy. Hiccup put his shield up before any of the debris could hit him. After the fires ceased, he lowered it and strapped it around his back again. Ruffnut and Tuffnut were standing beside their dragon in the far side of the academy. Hookfang and Snotlout stood side by side in the center. Fishlegs was as far away from both of them as possible, flipping through the book of dragons.
As soon as he saw Hiccup and Astrid, his face lit up and he ran over to them.
"Astrid!" shouted Fishlegs. "Hiccup! You're training us today?"
"Yep," said Hiccup. "I haven't really been able to for the past five months, but now, we've got a lot to catch up on, don't we?"
"You bet we do!" shouted Fishlegs excitedly. "I was looking through the book of dragons, trying to learn more about the Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus."
"Did you find anything?" asked Hiccup.
"No, not really," said Fishlegs. "Nothing that we haven't already covered."
"Blah blah blah blah-can we get onto some real training?" shouted Snotlout. "Hookfang! Fire!"
The dragon fired more lava, desolating another barrel.
"What are you doing, Snotlout?" asked Hiccup.
"What's it look like I'm doing?" asked Snotlout. "Hookfang and I, we're breaking stuff!"
"YEAH!" shouted Ruffnut and Tuffnut, banging their heads together.
"First off, guess what we're going to do today?" asked Hiccup.
"Oh don't tell me don't tell me!" shouted Tuffnut.
"Uh...train?" said Ruffnut.
"I said don't tell me!" shouted Tuffnut, slapping his sister.
"I wasn't telling you I was telling him!" shouted Ruffnut, attacking Tuffnut back.
"Guys, please, focus," said Hiccup as if it were nothing new, because it really wasn't. "Okay, we're going to try something new today for training." Instantly, the twins stopped bickering and froze in an awkward posture.
"NEW!?" they both exclaimed, running to Hiccup. "What new?"
"We're going to practice getting around, with one leg," said Hiccup.
"That doesn't sound new," said Ruffnut.
"Yeah, you do it all the time," said Tuffnut.
"I don't mean like that," said Hiccup. "I mean like this."
He bend down and unstrapped his prosthetic.
"Cool," said Ruffnut, "but we don't all have prosthetics."
"But we could," said Tuffnut. "I'll go get an axe-"
"A what? NO WAIT!" shouted Hiccup before Tuffnut could run off. "I mean, on one foot."
"One foot," said Tuffnut. "Oh I get it. No I don't, sorry, what were you talking about again?"
Hiccup facepalmed with his free hand before he went on, reattaching his prosthetic as he spoke. "Five months ago, I broke my leg. So, let's say Toothless and I are flying, and then something happens where we crashland on let's say-Dragon Island. And I break my leg from the crash. Toothless is hurt and can't get to me, so I have to get to him on one leg."
"So-what are you saying?" asked Tuffnut.
"Never mind, you don't listen when I explain," said Hiccup. "So, let me show you." He pulled his knife out of his belt and threw it into the center of the academy. He took the shield off his back and threw it, landing just two inches away from the knife. "Okay, Toothless, don't help me," he said. "This is just for training."
Toothless cooed and moved to stand at the opposite side of the academy. Hiccup walked back to the other side, and then lifted his left leg off the ground, and hopped on one foot to the center.
When he got there, he bent down, picked up his shield and knife, and turned back to the group.
"See?" he asked.
"Oh, that's so easy!" shouted Snotlout.
"Okay then, Snotlout, you go next," said Astrid.
"What-ever," said Snotlout in an annoyed tone of voice.
"Okay, Tuffnut, take his sword and helmet," said Hiccup.
"Aha, what!?" shouted Snotlout. "NO! You can't take my helmet! A good warrior, never goes anywhere without his helmet."
"You can get it back as soon as you get to the center-on one foot," said Hiccup.
Snotlout reluctantly let Tuffnut take his helmet and sword, which he put in the middle of the arena.
"Okay, Ruff, Tuff, don't let Hookfang help him," said Hiccup.
"Gotcha," said Tuffnut. "This is gonna be fun."
Snotlout lifted his left foot off the ground, and began to hop, slowly, towards the center. He fell flat on his face twice, on his back once. Hiccup tried hard not to laugh at his cousin. The twins, however, were laughing until they started crying.
"Not as easy as you thought it would be, huh, Snotlout?" asked Hiccup.
"Be quiet, Hiccup," said Snotlout.
"I bet you this is embarrassing for him," said Astrid to Hiccup as Snotlout fell on his face again.
"Yeah, I really don't want to know," said Hiccup.
Eventually, Snotlout made it to the center, where he picked up his sword and helmet.
"Aha!" he shouted. "I bet I even beat Hiccup's time!"
"Actually, Snotlout," said Fishlegs, "Hiccup's time was thirteen seconds-it took you nearly five minutes."
Snotlout opened his mouth to say something, but Hiccup cut in.
"Okay, so, who's next?" asked Hiccup.
"Me!" shouted Tuffnut.
"No I want to go next!" shouted Ruffnut.
"How about, I go next," said Astrid. She glared at the twins as if daring them to disagree. Luckily for them, they didn't.
Astrid threw her axe in the center of the arena before proceeding to walk to the opposite side. Lifting one foot, she hopped on the other until she reached her weapon. She grabbed it and held it up like it was a Thawfest trophy, and shouted, "YES!" before sauntering back over to Hiccup again.
"Nicely done, Astrid," said Hiccup. "Okay, Fishlegs, you're up."
It took Fishlegs about two minutes to reach the center of the arena. Ruffnut and Tuffnut went first at the same time, but then went second one at a time because they kept purposely banging into each other.
"Good," said Hiccup. "Pretty soon we'll be able to do it flawlessly in even less time."
"And when that happens, we'll all be more reliable when it comes to our dragons," said Astrid.
"Exactly," said Hiccup.
"So when are we going to get on with some real training!?" asked Snotlout. "Seriously. This is lame."
"Okay, okay, fine," said Hiccup. "Mount up, gang. Next stop-"