I woke up to Toothless pounding on my roof.
"Hold up, bud, I'm coming," I hopped out of my bed. Then I remembered the eggs. We've gotta clean up that mess today and hide the eggs!
As soon as I got out I put Toothless' gear on and we flew to the spot where we had been dying the eggs the other day. Nicki was already there, trying to clean up the rock and the grass around it.
"Hey, Nicki." I greeted as I hopped off. She looked up and smiled then kept working, scrubbing the rock to no avail. She smashed one of the weirdly colored eggs and sighed. "When your dad finds this, we are sooo screwed…"
"He won't find it," I assured her.
"Hiccup, Nicki!" We cringed as my dad's voice boomed.
"I'll take care of this, you keep cleaning this mess," I turned to my dad, motioning for Toothless to block Nicki inconspicuously.
"Hey, Dad, weren't you gonna help with the prep for Eatastophe?"
"Yes, I wanted to see how you were doing." He tried to peek around Toothless but the dragon made it impossible.
"We're just preparing the torturing booths and hiding the eggs."
My dad rubbed his temples. "I still don't see why you kids love torturing cute little bunnies… And not-so cute chickens…" I laughed and so did Nicki. "Well, I have to go, see you two kiddos later,"
"Bye Dad!"
"Bye, Stoick!" Toothless moved out of the way to reveal Nicki, who was still failing at cleaning the mess.
"We ought to finish the torture booths," She nodded and we started checking the traps for the bunnies.
"Hey, Hiccup," Astrid scared us by jumping out from behind a boulder. "I see we have enough bunnies to last `till next year," She commented.
"Yeah, we had a good catch. Too bad the ones that survive are gonna get eaten…"
"You know we're gonna have to hide the eggs soon," She reminded us.
"Yeah…"
"You know," Nicki started. "They are pretty cool anyway. Although, the rock now looks like it was a preschooler's homework. We could hide them as they are?..." She looked at us pleadingly. "I bet Tuffnut's upset that we were yelling at us…" We hung our heads in shame.
Nicki was right.
Tuffnut was upset. So upset, even that he was rounding up as many eggs as he could find—which turned out to be fifteen—and hiding them himself.
Which me, Nicki an Astrid noticed as we were hiding the vibrantly colored eggs.
"Poor Tuffnut…" Nicki picked up one of the white eggs.
"He'll be fine tomorrow, believe me," Astrid assured her. "Especially when he finds all these!" She gestured to the eggs we were hiding.
"Yeah, I can't wait for tomorrow," Nicki hid the last of her eggs and walked back to her house. "I have to go eat dinner. Bye guys!"
"So… Do you think Tuffnut will even want to look for eggs tomorrow?"
"I sure hope so," Astrid commented, hiding the last egg and beginning home. "It would break Nicki's heart if he stayed upset…"
So we went home to wait for the joys of tomorrow.
AN: So I hope you like it. I'll post the next chapter tomorrow.
ttyl ;- ]
