Okay, I've made my final desicion for the Riders of Berk series. I'll focus on the episodes that will be most crucial with Alyssa and Shadow's relationships with the other dragons and Vikings which will be most/all of the episodes.
Now, onto the story.
"What is taking him so long?" Snotlout asked and Hookfang shifted his weight impatiently. "Some things take time, Snotlout. Just stop and smell the roses." I said and Shadow huffed in his direction. "Oh, nevermind." I said, seeing who we were talking about just about to land next to us.
Hiccup came and parked Toothless next to the rest of us who were waiting on our dragons for him. "Okay, guys... best trick competition. Who's up first?" Hiccup asked. Fighlegs was about to say something but Snotlout stood up on Hookfang, "Me!" He called out, "Uh," Fishlegs said hesitantly, "Actually, I think it's-" "Me!" Snotlout said flexing.
"Sweet baby Thor in a thunderstorm. Go!" Astrid said, making a gesture for him to leave and at the same time I bluntly said, "Would you just go so we don't have to hear it anymore?" I gave a huge eyeroll. "Oh, don't worry. We'll go and when we go, Hookfang and I are gonna light the skies on fire!" He shouted as Hookfang dove off the cliff.
Hookfang flew between a bunch of large stone arches that were barely enough to fit himself and Snotlout in, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a few scratches on them. They sky-rocketed up then dropped into the water. Right after, Hookfang came up and landed back where he previously stood.
"I'm alive?" Snotlout questioned then excitedly shouted "I'm alive!" When everyone stared at him. He immediately showed his tough demeanor again, "Of course I am." I rolled my eyes, "I bet you may need to change your pants, right?" I asked and the twins snickered. Snotlout, as usual, ignored me.
"It's my turn!" Fishlegs said excitedly, "Ready, Meatlug? Go." He said and the two flew in a small circle then landed again. "Yes! New personal best." He said and hugged Meatlug who licked him. The twins stared at him, a little disgusted but I didn't pay it any mind. People usually look at me like that after Shadow licks me so in my eyes it was endearing.
"My turn!" Ruffnut said, turning to Tuffnut. "No, my turn!" He said. I facepalmed and in unison, me and Hiccup said "Guys, same dragon." They fist-bumped and Tuffnut said "Oh, right." Then Belch and Barf flew off of the cliff, they immediately began witnessing technical issues.
"Go left!" Tuffnut said, "No, right!" Ruffnut argued, "N-no, right!" Tuffnut said, "Left!" The two-headed dragon got its necks tangled up and flew into a large stone arch that jutted from the ground, then their dragon began to spin, the twins falling onto their heads. The Zippleback untangled its heads and threw the twins in the air. "This is awesome and scary!" I could hear Tuffnut shout in the distance.
I chuckled and looked at Toothless, thinking back to when I was trying to fly him. "I know that feeling."
They continued to fall until the Zippleback caught one twin in each mouth, the twins were thrown onto their dragons' neck and they came back.
"We almost died." Ruffnut said, laying on her side of the dragon and panting along with her brother. "I know," He said, "Wanna go again?" He asked and Ruffnut immediately shot up, ready to go again but Astrid cut them off, "Hey, it's my turn." She said and looked at the rest of us. "You might want to take notes. Let's go." Stormfly flew off.
Each time Astrid made an order, the Nadder followed it. Stormfly dipped her tail in the water, twirled then performed an upward spiral. "All right, Stormfly!" She cheered on her dragon and returned back to us. "Yeah but could you do it without the dragon?" Snotlout asked and me and Astrid both took an arm to punch. "The point of this is to see what the dragon's tricks are, Snotlout." I said and he glared, wanting to ignore his own stupidity but failing.
"Anyway, I guess it's my turn." I said, Shadow spread his paws a little and flew straight towards the water below at a blinding speed and we crashed into the water, Shadow swam around and came up on the other side, climbing silently up the stone.
"Yep, she's dead." Tuffnut said.
Shadow had gotten back up and I whispered into his ear, "Scream." He let out a piercing screech and all of the riders fell off of their dragon and the dragons had stiffened in shock. A few groans from the riders was emited, each followed along the lines of "Why would you do that?" or "This is the last time we're inviting you anywhere!"
"Is stealth not a trick? We've been training for the wrong thing, bud." I said to Shadow who only laid down with his head on his paws.
"Okay," I began, getting back onto Shadow. "Ladies and dragons, I give you the last and certainly not least," I announced, "Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III!" "Yep, and we've got our work cut out for us, bud." Hiccup told Toothless who not a moment later, did a backflip before flying down the cliff.
"Hold on, did you call me a girl?" Snotlout asked defensively, finally acknowledging me. "You do have quite the hourglass figure." I said with a smirk. "I have a half a mind to beat you!" He said, leaning over his dragon. "Half a mind is right." I said and looked back at the twins and Fishlegs, "Suddenly he realizes." The others snickered at how I was continuously getting after Snotlout until I called aloud, "Ooh-ooh! Shut up, that was cool what Hiccup just did!"
"Why I ought to-" Snotlout started but Shadow hit the back of his head with his tail and gave him a mind-piercing glare. "I ought to just leave you alone... for right now." He said, trying to suddenly disappear. Shadow looked back at me with a concered expression as he looked me over, it was like he wanted to ask 'Did he hurt you?'
"I'm fine but it's only thanks to big, strong you." I said, flattering him. Shadow proudly puffed his chest out and sat up as he watched Hiccup and Toothless as they spiraled towards us and shot five or six times. "They're still the best." Astrid said, all I could do was nod.
Shadow felt jumpy all of a sudden and flew away from them, growling. "Sh-Shadow!" I called, "What's wrong?" He kept flying and I patted him. "Bud, what's wrong?" I asked and he shook himself. We took off far past the woods and towards a small cottage with a garden in front of us. He landed in front of it and we saw Shadow beginning to march up to the house. I ran infront of Shadow and began to push on him with his head.
"No, Shadow, what are you doing? You don't want to disturb-" I said but too late; the crotchety, old man walked outside, "Mildew." I groaned. Shadow growled and arched his back, ready to fire at him. "No!" I said and jumped onto his mouth to clamp it shut.
"What's all this here?!" Mildew shouted. "You frightened him, is all!" I said, saying the first thing that came to mind. "I want these dragons off of my property and off of this island!" He shouted and Shadow didn't like the way he was talking and let out a muffled growl, followed by a screech. "Get this filthy beast out of here!" He said, Shadow huffed at him.
I held Shadow close and looked him in the eyes, trying to calm him. It worked for a bit as his breathing eased up significantly. "Fine. Shadow, get out of here."
Shadow kept Mildew locked in a glare and finally began to turn his back to him and I finally let his mouth go, climbing onto his back.
"Well, let's go, boy." I said, Shadow spread his wings then jumped back towards Mildew and pinned the old man to the ground. I don't know what posessed me to look back but I did; seeing that his tail had a boot-print on on it.
I'll admit that I was pissed but I had to focus on getting out of here before things got ugly. "Shades, off!" I said, pulling on the reins. "Down, boy!" Shadow began charging up one of his plasma blasts, "Shadow, no!" I shouted at the top of my lungs and it had startled Shadow, causing him to jerk a little but not a moment he flew away with a huff.
Shadow let out an angered huff. "I don't care how much he deserves it." I said, "In times of war we must never forget compassion." I reminded him and he laid his ears against his head guiltily. "I'm not mad at you." I said. "I just wish that you'd listen sometimes because that would've gotten us into some serious trouble."
I returned home just to see everyone fighting with a dragon over food, laundry and other basic nessicities. I dropped my shoulders, "Hold on, buddy." I said and began walking down the street. A woman was fighting with a Terror over a buiscut. I rolled my eyes and scratched the Terror's chin, causing it to let go of it. It looked at me then at the woman before jumping after the bread again but I caught it. "Go inside." I said to her, she did so and slammed the door.
"You stop fighting with people for food." I said and let the Terror go. It looked at me for a moment then around us at all of the other dragons causing chaos and flew off to join them again.
My mind didn't stick with that long, though. I saw a large bundle of dragons fly overhead, that could only mean... "Everyone take cover!" I shouted and everyone scattered. I rolled towards Bucket and Mulch. They held shields over their heads like an umbrella as the dragon feces fell from the sky.
"Hey, Mulch." I heard a slightly awkward voice. "Hey, Bucket. Sorry about the-" He pointed up. I looked over at him directly, "Hey, Hic. Enjoying the rain?" I asked, he was about to answer but some fell right in front of him and he backed up. "Oh, poop." He said, "I'll take that as a 'no'." "Every day at three." Bucket said. "They're regular. A tip of the cap."
I noticed something and looked down, "Uh, Bucket?" I said. Bucket shook his head. "Not now, I'm talking to Hiccup about- uh, what was I talking about?" I facepalmed, "You weren't talking about anything!" "You don't have to shout." He said, putting his hook hand to the bucket on his head. "Terrors took the fish." I said, looking at the torn open sack he held.
"What?" Mulch asked. "Look." I said, pointing to the Terrors who flew together and went behind a building to continue eating. Bucket picked up the torn sack, "I ate it already?" He asked, "Did I enjoy it?" I facepalmed again and opened my mouth to speak again but Hiccup placed a hand over my mouth and let me say what I had to without anybody completely understanding. Once I began panting, Hiccup removed his hand and I took a deep breath, "And another thing-" I began before Hiccup covered my mouth again.
"So much to say over fish?" Mulch asked. Hiccup nodded, "She has a lot to say about everything." Then whispered, "Don't get her started on Mildew." I was finally done speaking and panted again but I also heard Hiccup mention Mildew so I had to say something. "And let me tell you something about Mildew!" I said and had my mouth covered again.
"Shh!" Hiccup said, "He's coming through." He removed his hand again, I chuckled feignly, "Do I look like I care? I want him to hear!" I said, and took a deep breath, "Mildew is a-" Shadow roared and everyone stared at me, startled. Shadow came flying over to me, glaring at Mildew with a deep, throaty growl.
"I'm taking Shades home now. Before things get ugly." I said. Hiccup nodded, "Understandable." "Come on, boy." I said and walked, he didn't move two inches away from me. I opened the door and he walked in, I glared back at Mildew and heard something about getting rid of the dragons.
I shook it off and shut the door, sitting with the two on the floor. "Send the dragons away." I huffed. "I'll send you off on a boat full of venomous snakes." I said then tried to shake the thought away of the dragons leaving, "He's only ignorant." I tried to convince myself but it didn't work. Mildew wanted these dragons gone and nothing was going to change his mind.