how the tables can turn chapter 2: forge work

Here is chapter 2 re write thanx to everyone that views weather they like the chapter or not its still a view and that person took the time to read or maybe not read it.

Note: this is a mix between a 3rd person point of view and a first person point of view so if it gets confusing just tell me and il restrict it to a 3rd person point of sort of a ocd i have where i feel the need to make it a single characters pov so sorry about that

DISCLAIMER:I DON'T OWN HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON DREAMWORKS OWNS HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

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"well that's a relief at least i don't have to marry snotlout" Hiccup turned to the door and looked through the small opening where we left the door open then turned to me "yeah that would suck to have to marry snotlout" We turned back to the door to hear stoick's voice "what is taking astrid and hiccup so long they should have been back already" That was when we decided we should show our selves

"were back" We said from behind the doors

"well what took you so long" Stoick said probably already knowing the answer

"well we were feeding the dragons and we started talking about toothless and stormfly and we lost track of time and we just kept talking" I said as me and astrid walked in and sat down at the table, gourk scoffed and got up grabbing a sword and sharpening stone and sitting in the living room.

"well come on and eat the food is getting cold" Astrid's mom said handing them 2 plates and 2 mugs of honeyed mead. Astrid mom cooked fish, chicken, and some veggies that only hiccup usually eats...but i guess im starting to take after hiccup and im starting to eat different foods, astrid thought as she mentally cursed herself for starting to go soft.

"hey astrid i never noticed you liked vegetables" Hiccup said with a questioning look,maybe confused she didn't know.

"i guess you're starting to rub of on me or something" Astrid looked at hiccup and he had a huge smile on his face, she couldn't blame him. she knew hiccup liked her so for him to have that smile was not surprising to astrid.

When astrid said that i was rubbing of on her i instantly smiled, i don't know why but i did. Hiccup was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard.

"hiccup...hey...answer me" Astrid said as she just shook hiccup's shoulder lightly, he had been smiling looking at the wall for about 4 minutes and it was getting weird but he snapped out of it as soon as i shook his shoulder.

"huh...wha what...oh" He said as he shook his head and began to apologize. "sorry astrid i sorta tuned out for a minute" Hiccup looked back to his plate and used a knife to cut into his fish and began to eat. Astrid decided to find out why hiccup blanked out later because the smell of her food hit her nose.

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It had been about an hour later when hiccup brought up toothlesws and stormfly agian. "astrid don't you think its weird that toothless has taken a liking to stormfly" Hiccup said as he took another bite of his chicken leg.

"no i don't, do you have a problem with toothless liking my dragon" I asked as hiccup looked at me and opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out.

"no i don't have a problem with them liking each other its just that dragon mating season will happen in a few weeks when snoggletog comes and the ice sets in...what if toothless were to mate with stormfly i mean ever since we defeated the red death the other dragons seem to have a huge amount of respect for toothless" He turned back to his meal and took a sip of his mead.

"well whats wrong with that" astrid asked more than a bit confused.

"i don't like the idea of cross breeding it could be dangerous for both the dragon and the eggs" When he took another sip of mead i noticed something i never did before, hiccup had small hairs on his jaw and i could see a dark line around his mouth where he would get facial hair, i resisted the urge to laugh, don't get me wrong its not a let down it makes him look more manly then he is but still looks funny.

When the urge to laugh passed i let out a breath that i had been holding and said. "hiccup how could it be dangerous and plus think of all the information you could put into the book of dragons on a cross breed" Astrid looked at hiccup with an almost hopeful smile, she had no clue why she was ok with toothless being mates with stormfly she just did for some reason.

Hiccup gave her the "really" face and then astrid thought of something and said. "hiccup let them have their fun its not like we arent in the same sort of position"

"how are they in the same position" Hiccup asked as he sipped his mead and ate another piece of bread.

"ok so pretend we want to get married but my father doesn't want you marrying me because he thinks your week, now pretend stormfly and toothless want to get married and im toothless mother and your stormflys father" Hiccup nodded and waved his hand for me to continue. "now when i come to you wanting to set up between toothless and stormfly you say, no i will not, toothless is to weak i am going to set up a contrct with a stronger dragon" Hiccup nodded and a smile met his face.

"now i get it that's why you said we were in the same position...but i still am not entirely sure about this but i guess your are right" He said as he looked over to their parents and they had a curios look on their faces.

"hehehe you heard that...didn't you" Hiccup gave a small chuckle as our parents just stared at us.

"here about your dragons cross breeding how could we not" Stoick looked almost nervous as he spoke but astrid and hiccup weren't worried about that at the moment.

Astrid looked over at hiccup as he rubbed the back of his neck like he always did when he was nervous or scared. "uh yeah...dad our dragons decided to take a liking to each other and we decided that we would let them even if they cross breed"

"oh uh well that's...interesting" Stoick said like if he said the wrong thing he would be scolded. Stoick opened his mouth to say some thing but quickly closed his mouth but then said. "i think we should going its getting late"

"here let me get the plates and stuff" Hiccup said as he grabbed everyone's plates and mugs.

"no need hiccup ill get them later" Ingrid said with a smile.

"no i will get them, im a guest and i used your plates and mugs ill take care of them" Hiccup sad as he grabbed the last mug and sat them in the wash bowl on the counter.

After hiccup walked back in to the dinning room ingrid astrids mom quickly got up and went to the kitchen to grab something. "here stoick we cooked extra fish and we probably wont eat it and i think it would make a nice lunch tomorrow" Ingrid said as she handed stoick and the fish.

" thank you ingrid maybe ill invite you over to my house for dinner next time to repay you for inviting us over" Stoick got up with hiccup.

"alright astrid i gotta go but come to the forge at first light i have something to show you" Hiccup said with a grin. Stoick was out the door and hiccup had just stepped out, he turned to me and began to say something but i punched his shoulder.

"hey what was that for" He said as he rubbed his shoulder.

"that was for argueing with me about stormfly" I pulled him by his shirt collar and kissed him like i usually do after scolding him about something. "that was for coming to dinner and agreeing that toothless could be with stormfly" He smiled and looked up towards the hill were the stables were that stormfly and toothless were staying in.

"i-i-i gotta g-go ill see you to-tomorrow" I smiled at how nervous he got when i kissed him and we said goodbye and i went back inside were my dad was in the living room and my mom sitting in a chair near the fire, she looked up and grinned at me.

"don't deny you like him i saw you" I groaned when she brought that back up.

"i do not like him we are just friends" I said with a groan.

Ingrid just laughed and shook her head. "astrid dear the whole village can see that you like him maybe if you actually payed attention to anything besides training you could see it to" my mother said as she got up and walked into the kitchen.

"i do pay attention to stuff besides training and i can don't like because im me and i know what i like and don't like" I said as i glared at my mom while she started to clean the dishes that hiccup had put into the wash bucket.

I heard my dad say. "ingrid dear astrid likes strong warriors like snotlout and she doesn't like useless and broken like hiccup"

It took me second before the words sunk into me that i realized what he had said. "father i told you hiccup is not useless and i hate snotlout, he makes me want to vomit every time he comes near me" I gave my dad the best angry look i could muster.

But my dad scoffed and said. "astrid stop being so foolish, snotlout and you are meant to be together your both strong warriors and..." I cut him off before he could finish.

"no we are not meant to be together, i hate snotlout and nothing you can do can make me stop liking hiccup" I said the last part with as much pride as i could to just to make my dad mad.

"i told you astrid you do like the hiccup" My mother said with a smile as she continued to scrub the plates and mugs we used for dinner. I groaned and walked up stairs to my room when i got there i un clipped my shoulder pauldrons and let my armored skirt fall to the floor i didn't feel like taking my clothes off so i just flopped onto my bed and tried to sleep.

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It was grey outside there were pebbles all over the ground and ash was everywhere and i couldn't see, i looked around and saw a huge mountain and i saw something black and with wings and a man hunched over near the thing that i then realized was toothless and upon realizing that it was toothless i recognized this place as dragon island, as i slowly approached toothless stoick got up and turned to look at me and shook his head, that was when i realized hiccup was laying on the ground with part of his left shine was mangled, the flesh was burnt and it looked like a zippleback decided to chew on hiccups left foot, the bone was in pieces, and blood was dripping from his wound, i looked back to stoick and he looked down and shook his head

"hes gone" As soon as stoick said that my heart broke i dropped onto my knees in front of hiccup and cried until stoick pulled me up and away from hiccup.

I screamed at stoick. "NO STOICK DON'T MAKE ME LEAVE HIM...HES NOT DEAD...HES NOT I...I...NO DON'T PLEASE" I screamed as stoick dragged me away from hiccups body.

0000(back in the real world, just incase it gets confusing that was a nightmare astrid had)

I woke up in my room, it was hot and i was sweating. "just a dream" I told myself. "I need to see hiccup he asked me to come at first light" I opened my window doors and the sun was was not out yet so i put on my shoulder pauldrons and put on my armored skirt with spikes, i grabbed my ax and jumped out the window and ran towards the forge.

On the way to the forge the sun was just starting to show and astrid knew hiccup was probably already there. I just passed the market when i saw hiccup walk into the forge and close the door. I walked up to the door slowly so he couldn't hear me, i opened the door to the forge and saw candles lit but no hiccup.

I walked inside and looked in the forge but i didn't see hiccup so i walked to the back of the forge and saw a door i never saw before and a candle was lit inside, there was a desk and hiccup was sketching something in his sketchbook, i couldn't see what it was so i leaned closer and hit the wall with my foot. I saw hiccup look up and then close his book and shove it in to his vest pocket.

I decided to walk to the front of the forge and call his name so he wouldn't notice i was there.

"hiccup im here... are you there" As i asked i heard stuff tumble over and i heard hiccup mutter something about his leg.

"yeah im here astrid give me a minute" Hiccup said as he tripped over another bucket and walked out from the back room that he kept hidden from anyone besides him and gobber.

"hey hiccup" Astrid said as she looked around the room at all the new axes and swords that were lining the wall. "where did these come from" I grabbed an ax that was on the wall and twirled it in my hands and as always they were well balanced between the blade and handle.

"gobber had me fix them up yesterday but i didn't get to finish because of last nights dinner" Hiccup walked over to the furnace and put some fresh coals in.

I noticed a weird looking handle thing and walked over to get a closer look but when i saw it up close i recognized it as the sword hiccup was making.

"hey hiccup isent this the sword you we were going to make together" I glared at him when i asked that and hiccup just gave a nervous chuckle.

"yeah about that i sorta went ahead and made it because it would have taken months to teach you how everything works and but i still need help with the flint that will ignite the nightmare saliva, that and i need help with learning...how to...use it" He looked like he was ashamed he didn't know how to use a sword.

"help me learn to forge a bit and il help you train with a sword" His face lit instantly and he got his sword and got a bottle of what looked like a clear goo and he grabbed a bunch of flint pieces and a piece of steel that would ignite it.

"thanks astrid you just saved me from your father and i get to help you in the forge" Hiccup was now running around the forge grabbing pieces of metal putting coals into the furnace.

I stopped him and said. "hiccup what do you mean i saved you from my father" He dropped the stuff he had on to the forge table and sighed.

"im going to be the chief and my dad was going to pay your dad to train me to fight, it was going to happen sooner or later so i guessed it would be better if i trained with someone i knew well" He said as he handed me the sword and the part for the flint mechanism.

"alright i need you to make the flint mechanism so that it will ignite the blade every time the blade shoots up, can you do that" He asked as he got a chunk of some type of metal and coals for the furnace i think.

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It was an hour later hiccup had gone to fishlegs and borrowed his dragon meatlug and fed him a bunch of rocks and he barfed this metal we called gronkle iron and i was shocked fishlegs said he didn't know what the rocks were.

"hiccup i thought you never found out how to make this stuff" a little bit annoyed i punched his shoulder.

"Ow what is it and you and punching my shoulder" Hiccup winced when he tried to rub the sore spot on his shoulder

"that's what you get, you know i want a hatchet and i have been trying to get one forever" i

"astrid why do you think i borrowed meatlug, and fishlegs never discovered it but i went back and found out which rocks made the gronkle iron, don't tell him though, last time i mentioned gronkle iron he wouldn't go any where the forge for a week" Hiccup got the gronkle iron and put a chunk of it in the furnace since it had cooled and hardened.

"alright astrid what type of hatchet you want" Hiccup pulled out different blade designs and showed them to me, some of them i liked but i wanted something unique since im going to be helping make it.

"hiccup do you do special designs" I asked him and he got up and grabbed a piece of paper and a charcoal pencil and handed to me.

"show me what your special design is and we'll go from there, first just to get you familiar with forging im going to be making a hatchet that gobber told me to make so if from what i remember when gobber was training me he had me just watch and ask questions" When hiccup said watch and ask questions i was done drawing and i handed the paper to hiccup and he looked over it and smiled.

"wow i never thought to make something like this the blade is pretty good design because it should balance out with the handle perfectly" Hiccup started walking around the forge grabbing, a bucket, oil, gloves and an leather apron and a couple of hammers.

" hey astrid come here i have something you can help me with" Hiccup said as he set a chunk of gronkle iron into a cauldron and it began to heat.

I walked over from the weapon rack and hiccup was looking at the hatchet drawing i gave him and he was re drawing it on another piece of paper but he was drawing it in finer detail "what do you need help with" I asked.

"you said you wanted a hatchet so i got the gronkle iron in the furnace and now i need the handle, can you go to your training ground and get a thicker branch". Hiccup asked

After hiccup asked me to get a branch he pulled out the cauldron out and tested to see if the metal was hot enough to start molding it into shape. "how many branches do you need" He put the cauldron back in the furnace and added pumped some more air into the coals to heat it more.

"if you could 3 or 4, because your hatchet has a unique shape to it i wont be able to make it i will need to make it out of wood and then make a mold and then pour the molten gronkle iron into the mold and when it cools i can fix any imperfections"He turned back to the paper and started drawing the handle and blade in separate pieces and he drew some other pieces

"by hiccup" I said as i grabbed my axe, went out the doors and ran toward the woods.

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It took me me 15 minutes to get to my training ground where i throw my axe into the trees, i chopped a few thick branches from the tree and started to walk back to the forge but i stopped midway to set the branches down and stretch my arms but that didn't take long so i was back to the forge not long after.

I opened the door to the forge and sat the branches down. "here" I said as i sat the branches down next to hiccup, he immediately grabbed a branch and a knife and started carving it into shape of a the handle.

"thanks now i can start on the handle" He said as he made an outline of where to cut with a piece of charcoal and used a weird shaped knife that probably cut wood better than a dagger.

"i thought you needed the wood to make the blade and then use it in a mold" Astrid asked in a confused tone

"no im going to make the blade out of bees wax and then make a clay mold so i can pour the molten gronkle iron into the mold" Hiccup said as he carved the branch into shape of a handle.

"i guess that makes sense since wax would be easier to shape" I said as i watched him finish shaping the wood. Hiccup sat the handle down, got up and went to the back and grabbed a jar of wax.

"now the blade" Hiccup said as he cut off a large chunk of was and used a knife to cut into it.

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It was about an hour later hiccup had taught astrid the basics of forge work but it was going to take awhile to learn how everything works, they had finished the wax hatchet blade and were making the clay mold for the final step, pouring the molten gronkle iron into the mold.

"ok astrid now all we need to do is pour the gronkle iron into the mold" Hiccup said as he walked over to the furnace and used a metal pole, put it through the loops on the cauldron and lifted the cauldron and was pouring the molten metal into the clay mold then setting the cauldron back onto a table to cool.

"so...what do we do now" Astride asked as she pulled herself up and sat on the table right next to the desk hiccup kept some drawings and the handle to my hatchet.

"h-h-hey astrid...would y-y-you like to go flying a-a-and stop at the cove for l-l-lunch" Hiccup stuttered nervously.

Astrid just smiled at how cute he was when he was nervous, but would not admit it to anyone. "sure why not" Hiccup was blushing and began to pick stuff up around the forge and put them into shelves and racks.

"ill clean up a bit and put your hatchet over there to cool" Hiccup pointed over to the window sill.

"ok ill go get the dragons" Astrid said as she ran out of the forge door to the dragon stalls.

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Well there is the end of chapter 2 re write.

I know abit about blacksmithing so if there are scenes in the forge were hiccup is explaining stuff about forge work to astrid i might ad a note that looks like this

example (NOTE: wax was used back then, and still are, to make a certain design such as a paumel,hilt,grip,blade or even the hilt guard) so that's what that will look like, if im wrong about certain facts sorry i haven't talked about blacksmithing in awhile, but anyway i will be starting the 3rd chapter as soon as this is posted, i need a brake to eat and throw my knife into a tree for awhile, maybe ill get some feeling into my finger tips.

-rexassassin signing out SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA