A Dragon's Romance: Princes and Princess's
Chapter 2: Children in the Adult World
A/N: And so we continue on in the story...All I got is that you guys start reviewing more, because like magic, I am starting to become worried that this story is only being viewed by a few people. Oh and thanks .4ever2010 for being the FIRST REVIEWER! READ ON!
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"Welcome to Dragon Training!"
Hiccup, leaning on a railing that was connected to the cage that surrounded the large Dragon Training Arena, watched as Gobber the Belch, his longtime mentor, led in the new group of recruits. He had never thought, a year ago, that he would be here, preparing to train a group of dragon riders. But heck, there was so much that had happened in the past year or so that he really was surprised any of it had happened.
As Gobber lined them up and began explaining the types of dragons they would be facing, he watched as the group either looked around in awe or watched attentively as Gobber spoke. He was a bit surprised about the number thought. Double that of his own group. Where there had once been six in his group, and most Dragon Training groups before that, there was now twelve in this group.
Among them he recognized Hagal, who he had ate lunch with just yesterday. He was sporting a spear and was clad in armor shoulders, knee guards and a plain pair of pants and a shirt with a leather belt holding a knife and several pouches, much like Astrid had been during her first time in this Arena. The boy's black hair was not held up though and his gray eyes were both memorizing Gobber's words and surveying his surroundings at the same time. He truly was the perfected work of both his sister and father, who had probably both been instructing and training him since birth.
The next one he saw made him wince slightly. Corstila Unn. Nearly a spitting replica of her late older sister, Kenja Unn, who had tried to kill Astrid once upon a time. She had short, neck length black silky hair and golden eyes, with faint hints of red around her pupils. In her hands was a longsword that he supposed was a family heirloom by the age and inscriptions on it, which he knew meant it was not made here in Berk. Or at least not made for the Arena's Armament wall.
"Shouldn't I be the one who's worried about the group?" Astrid said as she slinked up into his arms, a smile on her face, even if he knew she was really worried about Corstila being in the group. He figured she was probably having flashbacks of the horrible fight. The dagger, the flame...
"It's ok" Hiccup said to her softly as he kissed her softly and held her as they watched. She was shaking. One girl had actually managed to do what so little had done in the past, break Astrid's control. She was worried about facing Corstila. "I'll be there" he murmured and then kissed her again, holding it for a second instead of pulling away. It had the desired effect, she stopped her minor shaking and Hiccup sighed softly in his head. This wasn't going to be fun to deal with all the time.
"I think we should get back to watching them" Astrid said softly as she turned her gaze to the Arena, which Hiccup did as well. The two watched the twelve of them run around like crazy, trying to avoid the Gronkle, who was trying to blast them, however it had to be careful, since it only had six shots and there was twelve of them.
The other reason it was being careful though, was because of the new Dragon-Viking truce. When Berk had allowed the Dragon's into their home and accepted them as working partners and to a lesser degree, pets, they had allowed the previous caged dragons free, which were now the Rider's pets and friends, however the new Dragon Training dragons would be caged only overnight before being released after the training was over for the day. However as a unspoken condition, the dragons had to be more careful to not harm the Viking Trainees during the Arena fights.
After it was over, Gobber sending the Gronkle off to it's cage, where it would later be released, and the recruits picking themselves up, Hiccup and Astrid made their way down into the Arena as they heard the tell tale flapping wings of Spitfire, Gronk, Zip and Bak and of course Nad and Toothless as the dragons and their riders, minus Astrid and Hiccup who had already been there, arrived.
"Alright!" Gobber said as Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs, Tuffnut and Ruffnut and Snoutlout assembled inside the Arena, observing their students who were in turn observing them. "These people here will be instructing you in taming your own dragon, a vital part in your training!" Gobber said as he walked towards the gate. "Eh Hiccup, try to keep them all in one piece!" he called as he left, causing several nervous glances to be sent his way.
"Well...um I'm Hiccup and-" Hiccup began lamely only to be interrupted.
"Are we going to fly dragons yet?" One of the teens asked somewhat quietly. He had brown hair and muddy gold eyes and a slightly brown colored skin.
"Of course not loser" A girl with blond hair and green eyes snapped. "We haven't even been trained, why would they just put us on those things without training?" She glared at him, then looked away.
Hiccup, trying to ignore her wording, nodded. "We won't be flying dragons just yet" he confirmed, watching the boy's already hurt face nod in defeat. "We'll start with what to feed and not to feed a dragon. Can anyone guess?" Hiccup asked. When no one said anything, he held up a dead eel and immediately all of the dragons behind him began to hiss and snarl, shrinking backwards as they did this.
"Dragons hate eels, so this can be used to ward wild dragons off" Hiccup explained. "However all dragons love fish, so this is what you would want to offer them to gain and build their trust Hiccup explained as Snoulout, Fishlegs and Tuffnut brought out huge baskets filled with fish. Popping the tops, they knocked the baskets to the floor, spilling the fish everywhere. "You can go ahead and try and feed our dragons, tomorrow we will go and let you all try and tame your own dragons" Hiccup explained as he, Astrid and Ruffnut stepped away, followed by Fishlegs, Tuffnut and Snoulout. As the six of them watched the kids pick up their fish and tentatively approach the dragons, they noticed one boy, with exotic looking blond locks that had black streaks in them that came to his eyebrows in some places, approach Toothless and try and feed him a fish, only for the Night Fury to immediately flee the spot he had been occupying and moving to the far side of the Arena, quickly sitting down. Nad, who was nearby, quickly followed him.
Watching the boy throw his fish to the ground in anger, Hiccup remembered his first time trying to feed the elusive Night Fury.
Hogel watched the others of his Dragon Training group move around, feeding the various dragons with gleeful or fearful expressions on their faces. Taking in a breath, he moved towards a large dragon which he remembered to be called a Gronlly or Crackle or something like that. As he approached, the girl from before, Thora Forsoan, saw him coming and snapped at him. "Get lost loser" she said and shoved him back. Trying to keep his face clear of the hurt he felt, Hogel headed over towards another, only for another boy to follow Thora's example and send him away.
"Go away hog" he said, using the stupid nickname the other kids always called him. Fighting back tears, the young brown haired boy walked away and simply sat off to the side, trying to keep to himself.
To his surprise, he actually felt something nudge his back. Turning around, he was shocked to see the large black dragon that Hiccup had been standing in front of. He knew it was the one his mother always said to stay away from, that "That Haddock boy is going to get himself killed messing with that kind of dragon" as she had always said.
The dragon, with it's large green eyes, stared at him with curiosity. It opened its mouth expectantly and Hogel realized immediately what it wanted. Moving a bit slow, Hogel sheepishly offered up his fish and the dragon bit down into the fish's scaly body and through it up into the air, chomping down on the creature and swallowing it quickly, letting out a sort of content sounding breath that was filled with the fish's smell, he supposed it was a dragon's way of burping. The large dragon then turned around and ran back to the spot it had originally been, far off from the rest of the group.
"Hey!" Agnar, one of the more prominent bullies in Hogel's life, said. "How did he get that dragon to let him feed it?" he complained as he turned away from the monstrous Nightmare he had just fed.
Beside him, his friend Dogsbreath Durham, spoke up. "He probably attracted it with his stupidness" he said snarkly, causing both Angar, Thora and a few of the other viking teens to laugh uproariously.
Hogel, already a bit let down at having to attend the Dragon Training, where he knew he would suffer this kind of abuse, simply turned his head away as he tried to avoid crying. His mother had always said he was to emotional.
Hiccup watched the humiliation of one of the teens with a bit of anger. He should do something! He was, in fact, about to just do something when Snoutlout placed a hand on his shoulder, some concern on his face.
Obviously he was having flashbacks of when he had done the same to Hiccup. Sure he still somewhat angry at his cousin, but that didn't mean he didn't regret what he had done to the smaller viking, like most of Berk. "No Hiccup" he said. "That kid has to learn to stand up for himself, we can't go to his rescue or he'll always think we will" he said, sounding different, more like a wise leader then the brute he always seemed to be around his friends.
Astrid nodded. "He's right. If we help him, he'll just look to us for protection" she said. Hiccup, not liking the idea but realizing he would have to deal with it, nodded. Astrid slipped her hand into his. "I don't like it either, but we have to let him try and deal with this stuff himself. You did, look how that worked out" she said, trying to cheer him up.
Hiccup nodded somberly and they called the kids in. After explaining that tomorrow they would need to be at the Arena early in the morning so they could make it to Dragon Field tomorrow, the Riders dismissed them and Hiccup and Astrid headed for the docks.
Hiccup had been correct about the storm, it had poured and howled all last night. Yay for them. The docks were slippery, covered in puddles and now they had to hunt for all of the rope that bad been blown around the place.
"Ugh, why does Odin hate us so much?" Astrid asked as the two began to pull ropes from the water, around posts and off parts of the large stairs that led back up to Berk.
"Because you need to be punished for being so beautiful" Hiccup said without thinking. Astrid was glowing red as she tackled him, kissing him like crazy. Eventually she pulled back, even more red faced now then before.
"You known, it could have been that I was stuck with you..." She said. "But I like your answer more" She added and kissed him again. "But we really should be getting back to work" She finished and got off him to pick up more of the soggy ropes.
Hiccup, reminding himself that exact line, syllabic for syllable, got up as well and got back to work himself.
The two worked for hours on end, gathering all the rope. And just when they were nearly done, the dock master had something else for them to do. Apparently they had done such a wonderful job cleaning up, the dock master had tasked them with cleaning the decks on the boats there, since "Too strong vikings should be done in no time!"
So the two were forced to head up to the village, get empty wooden buckets that for some reason were not at the docks where they should have been, then head back down and fill them with water and then they had to scrub and mop the numerous boats docked there until the dock master finally released them, thanking them for their time and rewarding them with several gold pieces.
Stopping before the wooden door, Hiccup gulped softly before knocking twice, although he did this rather softly. A few moments passed and the door opened, revealing the face of Tuffnut, who looked a bit tired, Hiccup guessed he had been sleeping.
"Yeah Hiccup?" Tuffnut asked. Hiccup groaned mentally, realizing he had completely forgotten. However, realizing it would be better to irritate the Thorston then face an angry Astrid, Hiccup explained why he was here. Initially, Tuffnut looked confused, then he became a bit angry, only to calm down. "Yeah, Yeah...fine come on in" he said and opened the door, letting the viking inside.
Walking over to a trunk, Tuffut carelessly opened the lid and began to dig around. Eventually he pulled out a half dozen items, which he unceremoniously dumped into Hiccups hands before grabbing a few more things and then heading towards the backdoor of the Thorston home.
Outside, they entered into a small area that housed a few sheep, some drying clothing racks and what appeared to be recently cleaned spears with double edged blades on either end. Heh, who would have thought the Thorstons would actually care about cleanliness?
In the center of the small yard there was a fire pit, which Tuffnut lazily kicked a handful of burnt logs off the top of the pile before grabbing the rest and tossing them off in a random direction. "Alright, let's get started" he said as he headed back towards his house.
"Where are you going?" Hiccup asked curiously.
"To get something, go ahead and get the fire going" Tuffnut said as he entered his house. The sounds of something crashing to the floor was quickly followed by several bangs, clangs and thuds.
Hiccup, preferring to not to not think about what was going on inside, began to gather fresh logs, which looked just as freshly cut, and put them in the pit before lighting the logs with a set of spark rocks and a flask of oil that was near the rocks. That done, he waited patiently for the blond haired junkie to arrive.
It took about ten minutes, but the loud clanging, banging and general racket made by Tuffnut stopped and he emerged with several wooden boxes with hinges on them, all of them only a few inches tall, but they were also rather wide. Setting them down, Tuffnut opened one up, inspected it, shut it and opened the next one. Whatever he had been looking for, he found it because he nodded, mumbled something and gently moved the box aside before moving over to the supplies he had Hiccup haul outside.
Pulling out a pot, a spoon and a lid, Tuffnut got to work setting up the cooking space. Going back inside for a few minutes, he returned with several salted fish. "Alright, just do what I do" he said. The two then got to work preparing the fish with odd spices and flavorings that Hiccup hadn't even known existed. Then Tuffnut instructed him in how to stir the right way, how to check the fish and also how to known when the water was ready or the fish had been cooked long enough.
It wasn't easy going though, Tuffnut nit-picked and complained a lot, but Hiccup realized he was generally enjoying himself. Not only was he getting to make fun of Hiccup again, but he was also enjoying a form of companionship, which he had very little of now that Ruffnut was so busy with Snoutlout and Fishlegs had begun helping out the dock master, Gobber and Hiccup with some plans for a new type of boat that would be more suited for Dragon Power, as they had been calling the use of dragons pulling viking boats.
After they concluded the lesson, which had only been an hour or two, Hiccup thanked Tuffnut and left. He wasn't even close to being able to cook as good as Tuffnut, if anyone ever would be, but he was definitively better then before.
"So how did it go?" Astrid asked as the two of them sat, snuggled up yet again, under Astrid's favorite tree, perched high up on a lone hill near the village as they ate their dinner, which was just a loaf of bread and a few meaty turkey legs, but it was still somewhat romantic to the two.
"Better then I thought it would" Hiccup admitted. It hadn't been exactly fun, but he hadn't hated it nor been grateful for it to finally be over. "I guess Tuffnut is enjoying the time getting to talk to another human being" he said.
Astrid nodded as she bit into the fleshy chicken leg. "Yeah, with all the time he has to himself now...i guess he would enjoy making fun of your bad cooking skills" she teased.
"Hey!" Hiccup shouted in fake hurt. "You said you were sure I could make something edible, while I did warn you I couldn't!" he complained as he moved his face closer to hers.
"That was before" she said as she closed the gap a bit. "I realized" a bit closer. "Just how bad you could cook" she finished as she pushed her mouth against his, her arms moving around his neck as his went around her waist, the two locked against the other as the sun began to descend, their food long forgotten, their worries about tomorrow just as well.
-POST STORY INFO: Well I hope you enjoyed that chapter. It was definitively shorter then the last, only three thousand or so words. However if I am to crank these chaps out, they will have to be shorter. Did you enjoy the new Dragon Rider Trainees? I hope they aren't too much like Hiccup and the gang. If you want to add in a member of the new group, I will happily accept it. And yes, I will add in more "Hiccup Learning to Cook Time" since that is kinda fun to write about. Though it was a bit short on dialogue. Anywho, thanks for reading, NOW READ ON AND REVIEWWW!
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