Hey everybody, right off the bat I have split chapter one up because it was just a monster put together. So I hope you aren't too mad at me and I hope you enjoy the new and improved chapter 2. (That rhyme was not intentional)
-Queen of Typing
Time slowed down as the Monster Nightmare pulled its head back opening it mouth to reveal a row of razor sharp teeth as it readied itself for the kill. Hiccup was seconds away from being turned into charcoal, but thankfully I moved faster.
"Come on!" I shouted catching Hiccup's wrist with one hand before expertly twisting my momentum back to yank the frozen ten back out of the way. As we ran up the hill Hiccup seemed to catch up with what was going on and started to scream. Alerting every dragon in the archipelago to our whereabouts.
Somehow with my noticing my grip on his scrawny wrist managed to slip just a tad so that now we were holding hands. I would have dropped my hand if we weren't in the process of being hunted by a vicious man eater.
"Hey, Ingrid you wouldn't have happened to catch that did you?" Hiccup inquired in an alarming casual voice. Gods this guy had no idea how to talk to a girl did he?
"What? You mean the fire breathing monster who's trying to kill us? It's kind of hard to miss honestly!" I shouted as I expertly tried to lead us towards a more populated area where someone with a weapon could help us. I was so busy with that I didn't even take the time to really consider what he was asking me.
Hiccup and I slid and dived hitting the ground as we made a desperate move to avoid a fireball that had almost taken off ours heads. Suddenly taking the reins Hiccup got up first and pulled me towards a pole, it was barely big enough for the two of us to hide behind but I suppose it had to do.
I didn't notice the way we suddenly clung to each other as the dragon scotched the pole from the other side, which nearly singed me.
"Where'd it go?" I wondered out loud as my chest heaved, looking around the side of the pool I almost shrieked when my eyes meet with a pair of horrifying giant yellow ones. Startled I stumbled back into Hiccup, I thought we were done for. But then a flash of red and brown flew in front of me, if I had blinked I would have missed the movement.
I turned to follow it, seeing Berk's great chief Stoick the Vast himself rolling before he straightened himself, even taking a moment to adjust his hat before he engaged the monstrous nightmare.
"Wow…" I gasped in awe of the chief bravery, "And people think that the tale that he ripped the head off a dragon when he was a baby is a myth."
I looked back to smile at Hiccup in relief only to freeze in shock when I turned and found my nose basically touching Hiccups. We leaped away from one another as if we had the plague, I hid behind my hair nervously, because I do not do shy, while Hiccup began to clear his throat.
A loud crash made us look back to the village. I winced when I realized that the pole we had been hiding behind had been knocked over, and the giant wheel of fire it once held toppled over and began rolling down causing a path of destruction.
Yeah, that destroyed a lot of property.
I winced in sympathy as Hiccup watched the wheel go with a grimace, it only got worse when Stoick appeared behind Hiccup with an enraged look on his face. Without turning around Hiccup reluctantly apologized, "Sorry… dad."
I watched as a couple of sheep, okay a lot of sheep, were carried off in the claws of dragons no doubt to be eaten later. Someone suddenly appeared at my side and before I could even begin to acknowledge them they hit me in the arm.
I turned confused only to freeze nervously when I found my sister standing next to me. With a fond smile she held up her fist, "Rule number one."
"Never separate." I quoted in return to return the hit of affection. We're Vikings! What do you expect us to do? Hug? In public? I don't think so!
"I hit a nightfury." Hiccup announced out of nowhere, yeah the guy had no social ques what-so-ever.
Astrid's eyes widened in shock and she looked to me for answers. I smiled weakly at her shrugging helplessly trying to get some kind of point across. She stared at me for a moment, glancing briefly at Hiccup as he began to argue with his father, before she grabbed me by my shoulder pad and began to drag me back towards the other teens.
"Hey there good looking's," Snotlout greeted with a whistle when he noticed our approach. He raised an eyebrow at me with an annoying smirk as he commented huskily, "Ingrid, where'd you run off to?"
"I saw you running with Hiccup," Ruffnut called mockingly taking a break from hitting her brother in the face.
"Oh great you can still see, I was so worried." I snapped sarcastically rolling my eyes as Ruffnut began waving her hand in front of her face, probably checking to see if she was blind. Why did no one on this rock understand sarcasm?
"STOP!"
The whole village stopped moving, I think everyone stopped moving for a moment, as our Chief's shout echoed around the ruins of the village for a moment. All eyes looked to the chief awaiting for an order, Stoick had that kind of effect on people. As it turns out Stoick was not yelling at any of us, he loomed over his considerable smaller son with a annoyed glare as Hiccup stared anxiously at his father.
This was gonna be so bad.
"Just… stop." Stoick order a little quieter as the village watched with wide eyes. Stoick stared down at his son as he all but yelled, "Every time you step outside disaster follows. Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter is almost here, and I have an entire village to feed!"
I heard Snotlout snicker suddenly and casually threw one of his arms around my shoulder, without looking back I slammed my elbow into his gut hard and he gasped as he stumbled back. All the while Hiccup tried to lighten the mood by making a joke about people's weights, which was actually kind of funny.
"This isn't a joke, Hiccup!" Stoick shouted unamused by his sons dry humor, "Why can't you follow the simplest order?!"
"I-I can't stop myself!" Hiccup announced weakly trying to explain why he came out here during the raids, "I see a dragon and I have to just… kill it, you know? It's who I am dad!"
I frowned sadly at Hiccup's statement. It was obvious by the way he acted that he didn't actually want to kill dragons, and he certainly didn't have any urges to do so. He wasn't bloodthirsty like most other Vikings, and in many ways that was his biggest strength.
"You are many things, Hiccup, but a dragon killer is not one of them." Stoick snapped sounding tired, "Get back to the house."
As if thinking better of it he turned suddenly to Gobber, who had appeared next to the two of them about halfway through the fight, "Make sure he gets there. I have his mess to clean up."
And just like that yet another Hiccup tragedy was over. And sadly the only way for Hiccup to make it home was to walk past us. When he and Gobber made their way past us the other teens laughed and snickered at him.
"Quite the performance." Tuffnut mocked eager to rub it in the skinnier teens face.
"I've never seen anyone mess up that badly!" Snotlout added gleefully, "That helped!"
"Thank you, thank you. I was trying so…" Hiccup shuttered sarcastically as he avoiding looking at Astrid and I.
I smiled ruefully when Gobber passed, casusally pushing Snotlout out of the way. Have I mentioned how awesome Gobber is? Because Gobber is awesome. Snotlout was unaffected and continued to laugh as Astrid leaned back against the wall.
"What?" he demanded confused when he turned around and found my glaring at him.
"You're a real jerk, you know that?" I snapped annoyed as Astrid moved forward, either to stop me or help me.
"Oh really? Are you standing up for the toothpick now?" Snotlout laughed with an edge of nervousness in his voice at being faced with two opponents.
"So what if I am?" I snapped my fingers twitching ready to pick up the nearest weapon as I took a threatening step towards him, "At least he doesn't reek like old codfish!"
"Oh, you mean my collogue?" Snotlout asked wiggling his eyebrows.
"Oh that is it!" I shouted about to leap at him. Astrid grabbed me first, catching my ponytail in one hand as she began to drag me back home. Reluctantly I followed her yanking my hair free when we reached the door.
"Good job tonight girls!" Mom yelled to us from where she was on the roof, already equipped with a hammer to fix the giant hole in the side of the roof. I hope that wasn't over our bedroom.
"Thanks mom." We called in in synch as we headed back inside, and I didn't dare turn when she closed the door.
"So… did he or did he not hit a nightfury?" Astrid demanded surprisingly calm. I turned surprised to see her leaning against the door with her arms crossed.
"He hit something," I admitted shrugging helplessly as I moved around to find my axe.
"You're going after him." Astrid stated as I helped up my trusty weapon.
"You know it." I sighed confidently throwing my axe up to rest on my shoulder. This was gonna be a long night.
