Elements

Chapter Two : Briefing
Rewritten 08/05/13

Hiccup woke up earlier this day, the sun was just starting to rise in the beautiful horizon of Berk. "It is going to be another sunny day. Perfect day to be with Astrid. My girlfriend." Hiccup thought. Hiccup was very happy in the earlier days, because he finally started a relationship with the girl that he had a crush since he was eight-years old, and he couldn't still believe they were really together.

Hiccup started this day like any other, he made his breakfast, and gave Toothless a big salmon, his favorite. Hiccup was very hungry, so he ate his breakfast very fast, almost as fast as Toothless ate his salmon, well, even in the aspect of loving meals, both of them had a lot in common. Hiccup opened the big door of his house on top of the village and walked down the hill to the Main Square of Berk, where he was going to the blacksmith shop to get his riding gear, that he forgot there yesterday when he was improving it.

Hiccup got his riding gear, and walked with Toothless to the clearance in the woods, the same clearance that he befriended Toothless, and the same clearance that he told Astrid that he loves her. Just the thought of Astrid being his girlfriend made Hiccup smile.

When he got there, he sat down and put his gear on the ground, and started to equip himself and Toothless. They were going to train some barrel rolls and escape maneuvers today, so he needed to check if everything was right, because, believe me, you don't want to fall of a flying dragon. He checked it twice, and almost everything was set and ready to go, just one thing was missing.

Astrid, she was going to fly with him today, luckily he remembered that before leaving, if she went all the way there and he already had left, she would throw an axe at him. He sat on a rock and waited for Astrid to come, in the meantime, he got a flower for her, he knew she loved flowers, and every time he gave her a flower, she kissed him. And Hiccup loved Astrid kissing him.

He waited just like five minutes until Astrid arrived in her Deadly Nadder. Her Nadder name was Valk. She was a very vain dragon. She remembers Hiccup of Astrid. Both are strong, brave and at the same time, beautiful. I mean, Valk was beautiful in a dragon way, Astrid was beautiful, very beautiful in a way that Hiccup likes. "Oh, sorry, am I late?" She said.

"No, I have just arrived here too." He gave her the flower he was holding, making Astrid blush. "Here, that I just got for you"

"Oh, thanks, honey, you are lovely." She kissed him quickly, but they both felt the love in the kiss.

"So, let's train some flying maneuvers today?" Hiccup said.

"Of course, I love it when you teach me how to fly." Astrid said, smiling.

Hiccup smiled back, flying was the only thing that Hiccup could teach Astrid, because she is better than him in every other kind of thing, except, of course, blacksmithing.

"Today, we are going to practice some barrel rolls, so I need you to check your equipment, it's gonna be a bumpy ride." Hiccup said and started to help Astrid to check her equipment. They tightened up their gear to their dragons, that were there waiting impatiently their owners and all that fluffy romance between them, that is not the job of dragons to understand.

"We meet at the top of the mountain, ok, love?" Hiccup said.

"Ok." Astrid confirmed.

And they both took off in a incredible speed, and as Hiccup felt the cold air of Berk, he thought there wasn't anything better than the feel of flying. only maybe, kissing Astrid is just a sensation just as good to Hiccup. They were heading to the Njordir Mountain top, the highest place in Berk, it was also the place where the experienced dragon riders used to leap off and practice.

When they reach the mountain top, it was very cold, and Hiccup blamed himself for forgetting to bring a coat. They landed on top of the mountain, and Hiccup kissed Astrid. The view of Berk from up there was breath-taking. There were other dragon riders there, that were eating or equipping their gear for practice and they greeted Hiccup and Astrid.

"So, we're going to leap off from here and to do as many maneuvers we can until we reach the ground, consider that a speed test, work with Valk in the direction of wind, and be careful, ok, honey?" Hiccup said.

"Don't worry, honey." Astrid said with a smile.

"Oh." Hiccup said, "One last thing, I love you."

"Love you too, baby." Astrid replied. If someone told Astrid three months ago that she would someday be as cheesy as she was being right now, she wouldn't believe it. But after meeting Hiccup, and after the dragons, everything had changed for everyone.

"Here we go!" Hiccup shouted.

And when they jumped off the mountain top and started doing barrel rolls and spinning with their dragons, Hiccup thought, "It's going to be a fun day." Things couldn't be getting much better.

Later, that day, they both finished training and went to the village Main Hall to have lunch with everybody. The Main Hall was a great room, filled with tables, when all Vikings of Berk went to have lunch and dinner. There were a lot of dirty Vikings eating like there's no tomorrow. Vikings love to eat more than they love to fight. Hiccup and Astrid landed on front of the hall, dismounted of Toothless and Valk, and Hiccup gave both of the dragons a basket of fish and entered the hall.

When they entered, they started searching for the rest of the crew, they found Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut and Fishlegs and the Snotlout said, "Oh, there are the lovebirds, where have you two been?". Since the battle with the Green Death, Snotlout started to have more respect for Hiccup, and they even became friends. Snotlout didn't want Astrid anymore, she was Hiccup's girl now. Snotlout eyes changed focus to Ruffnut, for the panic of Tuffnut, that besides fighting with her sister all the time, was very protective.

"None of your interest. Go finish your turkey leg, fat boy." Astrid said, even with the end of Snotlout attempts to hit on her, she still didn't like him very much.

"Ok, just calm down, Snotlout was just asking, you were late. We've been worried." Ruffnut said, protecting Snotlout.

"Lalalala, Ruffnut loves Snotlout!" Tuffnut said nervously. Despite having to be protective of her, he couldn't break his character as the annoying brother.

"No, I don't!" Ruffnut said back.

"Yes, you do! You can't hide it!" Tuffnut said, just to piss off his sister. And left the room running.

"Come here, you dirty monkey!" Ruffnut said, pursuing Tuffnut out of the room.

"They will never stop that?" Fishlegs said.

"I think not." Hiccup replied.

Hiccup turned to Astrid and gave her a quick kiss, yet full of love in it. He said, "So, let's eat, this training section was intense, and I'm very hungry."

"Oh, I'm hungry too, let's grab a plate." Astrid said.

They got a plate and put on the plate a turkey leg, some sheep steak, fish and potatoes, and it looked delicious. Berk's potatoes are very delicious in the spring, in the other seasons every kind of thing that grows from the ground in Berk tasted like rock.

They sat down in front of each other and started eating silently, just eating and looking to each other faces, happy to be there together. But all of the sudden, Stoick the Vast entered the Hall and said with his loud voice "Attention of everyone! I need your attention now!" Hiccup could say that by the look of his dad's face, something bad happened, something really bad.

When everybody turned their attention to Stoick, he said, "All of you know about the scout ship that we sent one week ago to the explore the nearby islands in order to find more dragons species and resources?". Everybody nodded in affirmation. "Well, it was supposed to come back three days ago, and we haven't received any message of them, we are starting to get worried. A lot of men were on that ship." Stoick made a brief pause and said, " We are planning to send a research group to go to the Dragens Mage island to search for any evidence of them, since that the island is their last know location, it is a very dangerous mission, so, anyone that want to sign in for that, should know that it is possible to not even return from there."

Hiccup was thinking he should sign for that mission with the crew, but he thought that was very hard to go on a dangerous mission now, and it was better to let the adult Vikings do that. But he was afraid of Astrid wanting to go, and he having to accompany her, because don't matter how good warrior she was, he wasn't going to let his love go alone.

All of the sudden, Fishlegs said "Oh Thor! My dad was on that boat, I am going to find him!"

"So, Snotlout, go tell Ruffnut and Tuffnut that we are all going on this mission together."

So, our heroes are going on a dangerous mission.
I hope you guys are liking it, please review.

Lima