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Chapter 4 ~~~~ :D
"K Hiccup WAKE UP!" Erland yells while Fury splashes water on toothless and I who are or were still asleep.
"Why would you do that?" I say slightly annoyed
"Because it was fun, and payback for yesterday." Erland smirked
"I should have guessed."
"Mate you should have known that I would be getting you back for that."
"Yeah, I know" I feel a bit nervy today because we are finally flying to Berk.
This. Is. A. Nightmare.
Why is this a thing why could they not be civil and just leave dragons alone and live there lives? With out me. I am still quite emotionally drained from yesterday and I think Erland knows that cause he has kinda taken charge. The others don't mind cause he is pretty good at leading. He just doesn't like it cause he feels there is too much responsibility in it. But he will take over from me if I need him to for a short period of time.
"okay mates, time to get up he whisper's to himself"
upon hearing this toothless and I go up in the air to watch the poor souls below get woken up by an all to enthusiastic Erland, I feel sorry for them all being jumped on cause it's about 3 in the morning.
It takes us all about 20 min to be up and ready to leave. it is getting more eerie to be going back as time passes.
"Okay guys we are going to be going to a little cove that Toothless and I found. Toothless and I are going to go scout it out and if its clear toothless will send out a silent alert]
to the dragons. Make sure they are waiting for it. If we get in clear we will set up camp and aim to show ourselves when they are all up and about. If anything at any point goes wrong, get out as fast as possible you guys are more important then the tribe at this point."
"Okay, be safe guys" Abagaile says
"okay lets go we are losing the cover of night."
And with that we all take off, everyone is nervous about this is think. I have a feeling that is because they do not know what to expect from the Vikings. I can't blame them I would feel the same. But I am confident in my team. And somewhere along the flight to I had a change over from the old inhabitant of the island to the commander of my squad. This was an involuntary change over but a welcome one. At some point before we reached berk I signalled to Erland to wait for me to clear the cove.
"Okay Bud nice and slow we don't want to startle any Vikings today to much." Toothless crooned in agreence. It didn't take us long to get there and when we did. I noted how much it has not changed. We found the cove easily and scouted around it at which point I told Toothless to alert the others while I kept watch.
~~~~Astrid's PoV~~~~
I cannot sleep; I'm usually a heavy, sound sleeper. I don't know what it is but I just can't. it must be nearly morning I look at the sky and it is only just starting to get a little bit lighter. I think I will go to the forest and train for a couple of hours before breakfast. It might do me some good to clear my head. I can't help but think about the anniversary of hiccups death that just past, we had a party to celebrate for the first couple of years but I think that people have finally forgotten about him. But strangely enough I find myself thinking about what is going to happen to the village now that Snotlout is going to be chief. I mean I never liked hiccup but he was a much better person then Snotlout in terms of personality. Though he could not fight to save his life let alone the entire village.
With the thought of Snotlout becoming chief comes the thought of him almost forcing me to marry him. And I know my parents will accept because he is wealthy and he is going to be chief. I could say no but the other options are not to fantastic fishlegs would drive me up the wall and tuffnut and I do not get along despite ruffnut and I being best friends. I wouldn't mind being on my own but that is not good for the family name considering that I am the last generation.
I was so deep in thought that I didn't realise that I had reached the forest. I think to begin to climb one of the trees, it may be safer up there then on the ground at this time of day. I stick my axe in the base of the tree and begin to climb a big oak tree nice and sturdy, it will easily hold my weight. As I'm climbing I check the dawn skyline to see if there are any dragons that might pick me off while flying over. I was checking the sky when I spot a black dot hovering in the sky over the island on the far side. I can only assume it is a dragon but when I look around and come back to the same part of the sky it is gone so I climb down my tree and grab my axe and start lobbing it at trees. Now that it is starting to get a bit lighter.
After about an hour I start to head back the village. It is slowly coming to life as people start doing their jobs for the day. I spot Ruffnut helping out her Aunt with her cousin. I never thought I would see her being so good with children. She is a natural. I was never going to be that good. I always feel awkward with them around. Maybe it would be different if it was my own flesh and blood.
All of a sudden i was brought out of thought when we hear a big flap of wings and a thump following. I turn around to be faced with 6 dragons. To make it worse, there are people riding them...
~~~~Hiccup's PoV~~~~
It is just starting to get light when we reach berks far beaches. I am getting more nervous as we get closer to seeing the people or even just the place that I grew up in. We all head for the cove to get in the final touches to the plan we have or to scrap the plan entirely, if it comes to that. I really hope it doesn't.
I signal the group that we are going in for landing rather then talking and making more noise then we need to. Once we have all landed no one bothers to get off their dragons. Except for Ehsan, he is still a bit awkward but he realised his mistake and got straight back on, i might add that he was bright bright red in the face.
"Okay guys now that it is light we should be able to go to the village and make our entrance. Be careful they are likely to pull weapons on us and try to attack. Please Erland, leave me to the talking because i don't want them to focus on any of you and possibly hurt you guys."
"Okay" i get from all in attendance
"Let's go mates" and at that we take to the sky's
As we were flying over i could see people moving around and we circle as a group to then land in the middle of the islands shop fronts.
"Ok Toothless lets see how this goes" we land with the flap of the dragons wings and a rather loud thud. We got the attention of everyone on the island to say the least and I don't think any of them saw us until a good 3 minutes after landing when we all started to fidget. This is when I pipe up
"We are called the fire fury's, i am a guard in the royal army of my home. I am the personal guard to prince Ehsan. This is my squad, harm them and you will have to answer to me. We are here because you are to close for comfort to our dragons and we think you are a danger to them."
"Who are you to say what we can and can't do!?" This comes from a very spitely woman who practically spat a us while saying that, i recognised that blonde from the second I layed eyes on her. Astrid.
"Well since you are impeding on our land and our people we are within our right to warn..." i am cut off by a loud, almost battle cry. I internally just shrivel up and want to curl up in a ball. I know exactly who that is without looking. I'm just glad that I am wearing a mask.
"WHAT IS ALL THIS ABOUT!" Came a big booming voice along with about 20 men behind him with all array of weapons
My father in all his glory must have been given word that there were dragons and people on them. I mean we are challenging an entire way of life here.
"My good sir, we are here to tell you to leave our dragons alone and teach you to make peace." This comes from Erland
"Well i can tell you now we are not interested and we do not need you with your demonic monsters either" this was all said with the group of Vikings picking up their weapons and holding battle stance at us, so this got to toothless, and he may or may not have reared up and made himself as big as he could to be threatening he also highlighted red to group protector. The group of us that doesn't speak Norse also extended their weapons and the dragons started to snarl.
Great job stoick.
"Okay its ok. Settle everyone" i say that to everyone but mostly to toothless and mainly me, I'm just freaking out under all this calm.
"K, people we are not here to eat you alive, destroy your village or ransack for gold. We have been sent on orders from king Galvyn, we are not about to just up and leave because you don't want us here. We are here to do a job and we will not leave until we are satisfied that you are no longer a threat." Erland says while still about 3 meters off the ground on the back of Fury.
"Right well in the case of this I suppose we should introduce each other. Yeah?"
"Yeah i guess, I am chief Stoick the vast. This is my island. My right hand man Gobber, and our best warrior Astrid." He says this while pointing at each and then at a few others, i kind of zone out and listen to the last bit. "Now who are you?" He asks begrudgedly.
"Well as i told everyone else, we are the fire fury's. My name is Colby and my dragon Toothless, my second in charge Erland and his dragon Fury, Ehsan and Hero, Achillies and Eva, Abagaile and Hi-jinx and Saskia and biscuit." I say pointing to everyone and as i do that they stand a little closer to their respective dragons.
Though as Abagaile was listening, one of the villagers charged her and drew their weapon on her. At this sign of aggression our entire squad reacted drawing our own weapons and the dragons readying to fight. This was a bad move on the villager's behalf. She moved out of the way, drew her twin swords, disarmed him and then Jinx pined him to the ground.
"You are not welcome here demons, you are traitors to your fellow humans siding with those beasts" the villager spat out
"Lle pe-channas" she says and the group snigger ('you idiot')
"I' hoster ier il a' n' rusva" i say to her (which ruffly translates 'to the tribe is not to be hurt')
"Tereva, Lli tolos" she says to the man before withdrawing her swords and standing back up straight to face my back. The villagers all look a bit shocked at how fast she was able to deflect and disarm him. Makes me proud of my team and who i am now and a little less terrified of this all, knowing that they are probably not going to try anger us again ('Fine, you knob')
I turn around to face Stoick again and he is looking at me as if i have two heads.
"What confused you? The fact we are good fighters or I speak another language?
"Why don't they speak Norse?"
"You don't expect everyone to speak Norse do you? I can tell you now that only Erland and i speak Norse." I say a bit amused
"What did you tell her?"
"None of your business." He was not expecting this, the chief is technically aloud to ask new comers if they speak alternate languages what is being said on his island but I don't feel like telling him.
"Well sonny if you are going to stay on our island you may want to obey some of our rules, maybe start by getting your 'squad' to remove there helmets so we can see your faces" this is said by gobber because Stoick was still getting over me saying no to him
"Fine"
"Visa sina ya lye ier" and with that everyone took off their masks and we looked around us. I don't think they were expecting us to be so young. (show them who we are)
"Well now we are getting some..." stoick was interrupted by Astrid
"do you mind telling us where you are from?" She finally spits at us finally finding her words
"I do mind, but will tell you anyway."
"Amin hiraetha, sina skemtiligr" i hear Achillies say along with the squad slightly giggleing (I'm sorry, her face looks funny)
He has the worst timing but i must say i did laugh to. She looks so funny, smoke would start coming out her ears at any moment.
"What is so funny?!" Astrid almost shouts
"Well they are all trying to grasp what is being said and they are going off my signals and everyone's body language so it can be a bit funny when you are trying to interpretate only off that. Try it some day." This is translated for them by Erland, a bit more colourfully, this earns giggles again.
"As i was saying we come from fire fury island, which means nothing to you cause you don't have maps that stretch that far out."
"Well Colby, you certainly know how to make an entrance. Would you and your group follow us to the great hall to talk to us more about why you are here?"
"Ron vilja ten' lye a' sitja ie' ron mat - bord, ikotane ron tor quen a' lye whui lye ier hi." (they wish for us to sit at their table, so they can speak to us, as to why we are here)
"quen e' i' rond" Erland translates to the group. (in the great hall)
As we start walking up the hill i turn to Erland "I' tano was nin onlui mellon hi" to Erland (the blacksmith, Gobber, was my only friend here)
"Amin tur cen am man, I' Hera na faica" he says laced with sarcasm (I can see why, the chief is mean)
"Amin sinte" i say just as sarcastic (I know)
"Will you people just follow us instead of talking?" Stoick yells at us
"Yes chief" Erland comments and i motion for the rest of the group to follow us.
This is going to be fun...
~~~~Astrid's PoV~~~~
After Stoick and the rest of us have been introduced the group is directed to the great hall. This is after Stoick gets up them for talking in there own language, i thought people would know that rule. But especially because this strange man seems to know very good Norse, you only get that good from growing up here, but he is also really good at the other language.
I really wish I knew who this guy was because he is really starting to make me mad, he has humiliated me in front of my tribe. No one does that to me.
I must say that the first time i saw this Colby person that i thought he was good looking. But that was kinda killed when he opened his mouth. Mind you the language that he speaks is... pretty. My god. Why am I talking like this. What is wrong with me? Why would I even thinking that. This guy is intriguing though, I have to admit.
When i turn to start walking up the hill behind the group, i notice that the girls of this little group are staring at me. It's a little unnerving, i do hear them talking out loud but I don't understand. I must find a way to understand these people and hear what they are talking about. For all we know these people could be our enemies' spy's. I have never heard this language before though which makes it even harder to find out where they are from.