Disclaimer: I don't own How To Train Your Dragon and Hyman's 'A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy'.
A/N: So my friend/groupmate and I were arguing about this weeks ago and it gave me inspiration. I'm a little bit rough but I hope you guys like it.. College AU, btw.
This is a short that I published on tumblr, but right her is the edited version. If you like, you can search in .com.
"Those are the lungs." The blond said. The three teens were huddling around their feline cadaver, clad in white laboratory gowns, face masks, and gloves, with the said girl proving her said claim while pointing at the dark brown four-lobed organ just above the intestinal tract.
"Astrid, that's the liver." The brown-haired boy sitting next to her said. Today they were given the task to study the digestive system and they were still going nowhere in squabbling over the structure and the location of the lungs.
"No, those are the lungs. I've seen what my mother eats and that's what the lungs look like." She argued, the tone in her voice insists that she was right. But he rolled his eyes and said,
"Then why are the "lungs" below the diaphragm-"
"I'm still gonna go with lungs." She cut him off with a glare in her eyes.
"The heart is supposed to be in between the lungs and I see no heart-"
"I know what the fuck I'm seeing, Hiccup. Those are lungs."
Hiccup dragged out a sigh and turned his head to their other groupmate.
"Fishlegs, what does the instruction say…?" He asked and the chubby faced boy scratched his jaw dubiously.
"Uhmm.. According to Hyman, the liver must have four lobes: right median, right lateral, left median, and left lateral. He described it here as the 'convex anterior surface, fitting against the posterior surface of the diaphragm, and a concave posterior surface fitting over the stomach and first part of the small intestine'. So…" He lifted the brown lobes upward, showing a light pink organ that is directly connected to the intestinal tract, "If that's the stomach, then this must be the liver."
"…..Oh… I've always wondered if that was what my mother was eating.."
"Told you so."