(A/N Alright! Fine! You all have twisted my arm. Here's another addition to "Perfect Weather for Two's Company". Sorry, but I can't make it a Hiccup/Astrid chapter for two reasons…
1.) First scenario:
I just got finished watching the movie HTTYD with my siblings and my mother walked in and asked who are our favorite characters are. My little siblings of course said Toothless and I said Astrid.
Mother Equinox: "How old is this Astrid character in the movie?"
Innocent Equinox: "I don't know… Twelve maybe?"
Mommy: "That's statutory rape, Dear."
"WTF?" Father Equinox put down the newspaper to give his wife an incredulous stare.
Corrupted Equinox: T_T
And reason two is because I wanted to try out a new pairing.
I hope you guys will show mercy for this couple instead.
Disclaimer: I do not own HTTYD. This story is non-profit.
SLAM!
"Damn it!" Ruffnut shouted as she slammed the door to her separate room. She flopped onto her bed and strangled her pillow. "I swear, I should've beat him to paste!" She muttered and threw her pillow to the door.
Ruffnut was referring to her twin younger brother, Tuffnut. Earlier today, Tuffnut stole Ruffnut's favorite childhood teddy bear, Kuruk, and used it as target practice with Snotlout's dragon Hookfang. Of course when she found out about it, she stormed over to Tuffnut's usual spot on the cliff with the view of the docks and beat him within an inch of his life. Snotlout long gone with Hookfang when Ruffnut was done with Tuffnut. Then Ruffnut stormed to their house and locked herself in the room.
After a few minutes, Ruffnut calmed down and temporarily got up to get her pillow from the floor. She had suddenly felt tired and decided to take an afternoon nap. She could give Tuffnut another beating after she was fully rested.
Ruffnut threw her pillow on the bed and walked to her closet so she could undress for bed. She knew she didn't have anything scheduled to do today. Once she got her armor off and shed off her leggings, she got into a night robe and sleepily collapsed onto her bed. She wrapped the blankets around herself and sighed in content. With a final yawn, Ruffnut fell asleep.
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CRASH!
Ruffnut bolted upright into a sitting position when she heard the thunderous noise. After a few seconds of heavy breathing, Ruffnut managed to calm down and get used to her surroundings.
Pit. Pat. Pit. Pat.
At the sound of gentle rain falling on her roof, Ruffnut breathed out in relief. It's just raining… She confirmed and relaxed back into her bed. Her eyes got used to the darkness and she was surprised that it was already nighttime already. I must've slept through the afternoon and evening. Lazy much? Ruffnut laughed and thought about going downstairs to eat. But as soon as she untangled herself from her covers, a booming thunder sounded and a flash of lightning lit up her room.
Ruffnut recoiled and quickly hid herself in her blankets. Her eyes grew wide in panic. No, no, no, no, no! Ruffnut frantically reached under her pillow for Kuruk, but then her eyes widened even more. Kuruk was destroyed! Ruffnut had nothing to console during a thunderstorm, her worst fear.
The thunder outside crashed again and Ruffnut buried herself deeper into her covers.
"Ruffnut?"
"SHIT!" Ruffnut jumped and her covers fell away from her body. She gasped and tried to recover them before lightning struck again. When Ruffnut leaned down to retrieve the blanket, it thundered outside and Ruffnut hastened to find her covers. In a few seconds, lightning would flash and Ruffnut was unprotected.
She finally got hold of her covers but something shocked her wrist. Ruffnut was a millisecond away from letting loose a scream.
"Sorry about that, Ruffnut. I guess my fur boots built up some electricity and shocked you when I touched you."
Ruffnut stopped as she looked up to see the lightning silhouette a fuzzy large form. "Kuruk?" Her fear slightly dissipating.
"No, it's Fishlegs. Who's Kuruk?"
Then it finally registered to Ruffnut. The gentle voice, the intellectual blabbering, the large wall of fur. It was Fishlegs!
"Fishy!" Ruffnut hugged the wall. All of her fear left and she nuzzled her head into the fur.
"Hey Ruffnut. Are you alright? I came over to check on you after I heard what happened with Tuffnut and your teddy bear. I was downstairs talking with your Mother when I heard you scream." Fishlegs hugged Ruffnut back and sat down at the edge of the bed.
"You came to check on me?" Ruffnut pulled away and tried to find Fishlegs' face in the darkness.
"Yeah." Fishlegs scratched the side of back of his head.
Ruffnut heard the embarrassment in his voice and smiled. "Thanks for checking up on me, Fishy." Ruffnut leaned forward to plant one on what seemed to be his cheek. She grinned even wider as her eyes began to focus and she could see Fishlegs blushing. "Or should I say Rudolph?" Ruffnut laughed.
"So! Why did you scream earlier?" Fishlegs tried to change the subject to something other than his red flustered face.
"I don't scream, you must've heard Tuffnut or something-"
CHI-CRASH!
Ruffnut squealed and hid behind Fishlegs.
Fishlegs was confused for a second and then lifted up his arm to find Ruffnut clinging to it. "You don't like thunderstorms, do you?" Fishlegs guessed.
"Gee, what gave it away?" Ruffnut whisper/scolded Fishlegs for the obvious question. She hoped he wouldn't figure out to link her fear of thunderstorms with her now destroyed teddy bear.
"So that's why you acted the way you did when Tuffnut destroyed your bear."
Damn it… Ruffnut sighed. That's what she gets for dating a genius. Now he's going to tease me for it.
"Ruffnut. I don't think that having a material object to console during someone's phobia is childish." Fishlegs confirmed.
Ruffnut gave Fishlegs a perplexed stare. How the hell did he…?
"I know what your going through. I have my own security object to get me through a crisis. But don't laugh."
"What?" Ruffnut asked. She was generally interested, she could calm down as long as she had something to think about besides the next time it would thunder or someone to talk to.
"Blankey. My blanket."
Ruffnut tried not to, but she giggled at the name. "Creative imagination you got there."
Fishlegs laughed too. "I was five, leave me alone. And I see that you've calmed down."
Ruffnut blinked. "Wait, you did that on purpose, didn't you?"
"Yes. I'm willing to allow some humility to make you laugh." Fishlegs answered with a genuine smile.
"Could you dumb down your answer, please?" Ruffnut leaned against Fishlegs. She didn't even notice that lightning flashed outside.
"Grunt! Me like you! Grunt, grunt!" Fishlegs joked with a cavemen accent.
Ruffnut laughed with him and let out a small yawn. "Smart-ass."
"Getting sleepy?" Fishlegs reclined back to the wall next to bed and brought Ruffnut down with an arm around her.
"No. But keep talking anyway." Ruffnut let out another small yawn.
"Okay, maybe I could help you get over this phobia of storms. Lack of knowledge can lead one to be fearful. Do you have any questions?"
Ruffnut blinked the sleep out of her eyes and realized that Fishlegs logic made sense. Maybe she could get through thunderstorms with Fishlegs help. "How do you know when a storm is about to pass?"
"Hmm. Impossible to know for certain…" Fishlegs quickly searched for a better selection of words when he heard Ruffnut suck in a breath. "But, I use a method to know where the actual storm is. It would lead to the conclusion of when the thunderstorm would leave too."
"What's that?" Ruffnut looked up at Fishlegs with curiosity.
"Wait a few seconds… Trust me, Ruffnut." Fishlegs gripped Ruffnut a little closer.
CRASH!
Ruffnut turned away from the window they were facing.
"Sorry Ruffnut. Now after I've seen the lightning, I would count until I heard the thunder."
BOOM!
"There. It was four seconds. So the storm is about four miles away. The storm is leaving, but it seems it's going at a slow pace since I've recorded when it first started."
Ruffnut calmed down when she heard that the storm was at least leaving.
CRASH!
Lightning flashed. And Ruffnut hitched a breath.
"Hey, it's alright. Come on, any more questions?"
"C-can lightning strike inside the house? Could it strike me?"
Fishlegs furrowed his eyebrows. He knew that the question wasn't easy to answer without straying from the actual facts. "Real or fairy-tale answer?"
Ruffnut took a deep breath. "Real."
"Then yes, it could strike you. Lightning is a negative charge. Your body is a positive charge. It's only natural that lightning would be attracted to you and as you said, 'strike you'." Fishlegs felt Ruffnut shaking and cursed himself. He turned the both of them around in the bed so that they were laying down side to side. Ruffnut's back was to the wall, Fishlegs was blocking her vision of the window with his body frame. "Sorry for scaring you, but I'll protect from the lightning. In the small chance that lightning would actually strike this house, it will probably hit my bigger source of positive charge than yours." Fishlegs reassured her.
"What? But wouldn't that hurt you?" Ruffnut asked, worried about Fishlegs wellbeing.
"No, I can take it. Me strong. Grunt, grunt!" Fishlegs joked. Truthfully, the lightning could kill him instantly and his fuzzy outfit wasn't helping his chances. But Fishlegs could see the lightning reflect off the wall Ruffnut's back was on and he has been recorded the storm's location since he stated it a few minutes ago. The storm had already passed. He knew this because the rain outside had been reduced to gentle pitter patter.
"Thank you, Fishy the Caveman." Ruffnut had stopped shaking and had let out another yawn.
Fishlegs reached behind him and grabbed her blankets. He spread them around Ruffnut and lifted her head to place a pillow under it. Then he flipped over to lay down on his back. "Fishy the Caveman… Now why does that sound like a demotion?" Fishlegs chuckled as he brought his hands together on top of his chest, looking towards the ceiling.
Ruffnut let out a soft laugh and turned in her covers to embrace Fishlegs. "How about Fishy my Teddy Bear?"
"Sounds good. I was beginning to get jealous of your ex-boyfriend, Kuruk." Fishlegs grinned when he felt Ruffnut smile into his side.
"You always have to have the last word, don't you?"
Fishlegs stayed quiet. But smirked. Yes.
(A/N Well, that's just about it. Sorry if it was short and not as sophisticated as the Snowy Weather? I think that's the word… Ruffnut and Fishlegs. It's a good pairing, right? I think it is-
Readers: "Yo, what's with the weather in Berk?"
Weatherman Equinox: "I'm sorry. Did you not hear what Hiccup said in the freakin' beginning of the whole movie "How to Train Your Dragon"? He clearly said that I'm supremely awesome at everything I do and, uh, something about it being cold and rainy I think?
Readers snorted. "A reason for being awesome is like uploading a ghost chapter on 'Oh My Gods' last week?"
Equinox: "Yes, about that… I had just gotten my SAT scores back and I failed horribly. I was down/sad and thought about dropping my whole FF account. Meh, I even uploaded the end of the whole story under the announcement of said ghost chapter. I took it down and decided that it was a stupid idea thanks to another reader of my stories, gamer85. So you guys can all thank him for not being able to see the end of 'Oh My Gods'! Lol, I know I'm making myself sound sarcastic but I'm serious!
*Serious face* ಠ‿ಠ That was a funny *serious face* emoticon if you guys didn't know or see it.
Alright, back to what I was saying… Oh yes, Ruffnut and Fishlegs! Did you like the pairing? Was the whole thing too cliché? What does the scouter say about his power level?
YES, I know this is short! I'll come back to this after I post some other things. Don't worry, I'll add the 13 levels of sophistication for rainstorms! GAH! *Falls out of chair*
Okay, I'm done. Laters.
And on another note, the author THE NIGHTS RAGE is an awesome writer. So epic, that me and him are writing a Speed Racer/Motor Cross/ How to Train Your Dragon fan fiction together! WOOT!
ALRIGHT! FINE! Last one! Immediately following this upload, I will finally post another chapter of "Oh My Gods". But there will me a warning at the beginning that is mandatory for everyone to follow. Even I have to follow it too.
Finally, the revision is over! Aw man, that was harder than I thought it would be! Geez!
Oh yeah! Can someone please hit me up if you know a good artist that can draw me some pictures for my image bookmarks? Or if you can draw yourself, please tell me! I want to have pictures on my bookmarks…