Left In Charge Chapter 2
A/N:
Hello I am baaaaaack! *cringes behind security guards* I know sorry about the long update please don't kill me! Well to be honest I never thought that I would be able to continue this! Thank you reviews! Of course I loved all your reviews but thanks especially to my first ever reviewer RuffTuffTwins!
Disclaimer: God, I hate these things. I don't own HTTYD blah, blah, blah!
Ok more story, yey! So on I go!
The Sun had hardly made it into the sky when a loud crash and a scream woke the sleeping villagers. Hiccup sat bolt upright in bed, the hairs on the back of his neck prickled. He stumbled out of bed, bashed into the wall, kicked over his side cabinet, fell down the stairs and then somehow managed to trip over a chair and flip headfirst into a bucket of icy water.
Well at least that woke him up.
Once he'd made it outside he saw that all the villagers were making their way to where the scream had come from, they all looked the same as him. Bedraggled, tired and grumpy. It looked, Hiccup thought, like a crowd of grumpy, homo-sidle zombies were making their way slowly up the hill.
Of course it was Ruffnut who had screamed. Who else could it have been? "Astrid let me down!" She wailed. Ruffnut swung upside down from a tree branch, one leg was caught in a thick rope the other swinging wildly around the place as if she hoped that she could get free by shear will power. Astrid stood beside her, an axe in one hand, stalking Ruff like a hunter stalks its prey.
"Astrid let her down." Hiccup moaned, still half asleep.
"Why?" She snapped. "She's just doing this to annoy us."
"Looks like it's working then." Ruffnut drawled. Astrid whacked her over the head with the hilt of her axe.
"Why what's she done?" Hiccup asked.
Instead of an answer Astrid pointed at her house that appeared to be- was it painted red? Hiccup rubbed the sleep out his eyes; no not red it was on fire!
The edges of the house were charred black with soot and smoky tendrils rose from the walls, flames leapt wildly about inside, several curling along the window frame and leaking out the cracks in a red and yellow fiery display.
"W-what…!" He gasped staring at the smoke beginning to rise from the ground as the grass began to catch on fire.
The villagers may not be the sharpest tools in the box but they knew how to put out a fire, within minutes Astrid's house had been reduced to a soggy steaming heap of soot and charred wood. Hiccup was sitting on the hill watching, he'd been frozen staring at nothing repeating over and over to himself like he was stuck in a loop that this was all a dream and why did things like this only happen when he was in charge for ages. Astrid was sitting next to him glaring angrily at nobody in particular as if daring someone to get in her way and occasionally glaring accusingly at Ruffnut who, since nobody could be bothered to cut her down, was still swinging upside down by her ankle.
Tuffnut was watching his sister with an expression that was approaching awe while Snotlout and Fishlegs tried to get a frozen Hiccup to stop talking to himself.
An enormous Viking with a shaggy head of brown hair and one of those twirly moustaches plodded up to them. "The fire has been stopped what are your orders to do with the blonde one?" The Viking asked indicating Ruffnut.
Hiccup stared up at him his eyes looked dazed and expressionless as if he'd just been snapped out of a trance. "My orders?" He mumbled confused.
"Well you are the stand in chief till Stoick gets back."
Hiccup didn't reply he just went back to muttering to himself, "This isn't happening none of this is real." He muttered.
The Viking stood there awkwardly for a moment before looking expectedly at Astrid as if hoping she could give him an answer. Astrid glared at him, "GOODBYE!" She yelled louder than probably needed to.
The Viking trudged dejectedly away, probably back home to bed. Astrid stood and stalked angrily over to Ruffnut who had a rather annoying smirk plastered across her face. Astrid exploded.
"What were you thinking!" she screamed. "You don't just go around setting houses on fire you could have killed someone!"
"Oh come on Astrid!" Ruffnut protested. "House fires never hurt anyone! we had tons of them when we had dragon raids! They never bothered us before, except maybe once or twice when a family was burned to death because they were trapped inside…
That sounded fairly bothersome to Hiccup who had snapped out of his trance for a minute to listen to the fight.
"Besides it's not like the house was important or anything to be honest it looked kind of ugly, ruined the village in my option."
This time Fishlegs had to lash forward and grab Astrid by the waist as she tried to throw herself at Ruffnut, "Now, now be civil Astrid." Ruffnut grinned.
Astrid was in no means planning to be civil in anyway as she struggled to wriggle out of Fishlegs iron grip and clawing crazily at the air a few inches away from Ruffnut's throat. "You little monster!" She growled, "I'll tear you to pieces and feed them bit by bit to Hookfang, Hookfang was the name of Astrid's Deadly Nadder, you useless toad!"
"Please Astrid what did I ever do to you!"
"What did you do to me!" Astrid's voice squeaked her face turning purple with rage. "I'll give you a hint, you burnt down my house, you publicly insulted me you've made my boyfriend freeze in some sort of loop that no one can snap him out of, what haven't you done!"
"Well I haven't had breakfast yet."
Astrid snarled and tried to throw herself at Ruffnut but luckily Fishlegs held her back.
"Um… guys I think Tuff should take Ruff home before Astrid kills her, Legs you can take Astrid home… er… actually just take her to the hall and try and calm her down and I'll take my cousin back before he has a heart attack." Snotlout said.
So Fishlegs dragged an enraged Astrid away while Snotlout took Hiccup by the arm and led him, still muttering to himself, back home. Tuffnut didn't even look at his sister and started back home without her, "Hey!" Ruffnut yelled, "What about me?" Tuffnut glanced at her, "Nah your fine." He said before turning and continuing down the hill.
About an hour later Tuffnut went past the hill again on his way to the mead hall and saw an empty rope swinging gently in the breeze.
When Tuffnut walked through the doors the first thing he saw was Astrid, she had calmed down slightly and was sitting at a table with the others, next to her sat Fishlegs and across from him sat Snotlout, who was currently in the process of downing his 5th mug of mead, next to Lout sat Hiccup who seemed to have recovered his near heart attack and was trying to force down some water while Astrid sat glaring at him.
As Tuffnut approached his ears caught some of their convocation.
"I can't drink anymore Astrid I'm going to be sick!" Hiccup complained.
"Just drink it Hiccup it's been nearly an hour since you blanked out on us and you're still as pale as a corpse." He heard Astrid snap back.
"Hiccup just keep her happy and drink the freaking water!" He heard Snotlout's voice above the others.
"Fine…"
"Ruff's gone." Tuffnut stated as he sat down on Hiccup's other side and snatched Snotlout's 10th mug of mead from his hand, downing it himself.
Silence…
Suddenly Astrid leapt to her feet and ran full steam out the hall.
"Nice…" drawled Hiccup as behind him Snotlout checked under the table for his missing drink.
"How was I supposed to know she was still mad?" Tuffnut protested.
"Dude your sister just burnt her house down did you really think she was just gonna let that drop…? This is Astrid we're talking about!" Snotlout asked sitting up.
"Well… I…"
"Best go after her before she tears the village to bits…" Fishlegs muttered getting to his feet.
The other grumbled their agreement and turned to leave, that was just about the time the table exploded.
A/N:
Yey second chapter done! *throws party* anyway please review guys and all that mumbo jumbo, I'll start work on the next chapter but a dunno when I'll upload it, school doesn't help things and neither does my sister whining at me to get off the computer because it's 'her turn.' Really what are these 'turn' things you speak of?
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