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Chapter 7: Long-lost home

Now Astrid stood there with confusion and didn't know what to do. After some time she thought she should go back to the village. When she turned she saw that a man came into the cove. She recognised him but he wasn't a man at all, he was just Snotlout.

'Ah, I finally found you! I was searching for you all day. Where have you been?' asked the boy with anger.

'It's none of your business. I was here to calm down, so don't make me angry again 'cause you know, you can make me really upset easily.' replied Astrid.

'Au, Astrid! That hurts!'

'Please just leave me alone, okay? I need some time to settle things down.'

'What things?'

'Again none of your business! Now get off!' said the girl with little anger on her face so Snotlout realised he should go.

'Okay, okay. I'm leaving. Oh, I almost forgot why I came here! Gobber wants you to meet with him at the village centre in an hour. That's the message he sent.'

'And didn't he say something about what he wants?' asked the girl with surprise because of the message.

'I just delivered the message so I don't know any details. But if you are scared walking in the forest alone at night I can be your company on your way there.' said the boy and chuckled.

When he said that he regretted it, cause Astrid hit him so hard that his left shoulder almost fell off. He knew what that means so he headed to the village but shouted to the girl.

'You can hurt me as hard as you want but you can't stop my true love power Astrid!'

For that sentence the girl almost vomited. It was hard to imagine herself with that boy, and disgusting. But the fact that Gobber wanted to speak with her was strange. He hadn't spoken with her since the last time when they were in the ring after the first training. However she was curious and started walking towards the village.

When she arrived she saw that nobody was there but Gobber at the village centre. The man invited her to the campsite to sit down next to him. It was almost midnight.

'I see that you received my message. Sorry but I haven't got anybody else than Snotlout to deliver it. I hope he didn't bother you.'

'What about Fishlegs?'

'Oh, I've forgotten him. Hehe. Anyway, I wanted you to come here, because I wanted to speak with you, about dragons.'

'Really? Like last time? Because if this is all about that. I'm not interested.

'That's one of the reasons I invited you here. And why aren't you interested in it? Why don't you want to train the fight against dragons with real ones? Why does it bothering you?

'It's not bothering me. I-I just don't want to.

'Is it something that confuses you? Or somebody?'

'No! Of course not!'

'Okay. I was just wondering. Girls in your age are usually in love with someone or married. I thought you found your partner.'

'Gobber!' said the girl with anger.

'Okay, okay. I was just wondering. So you have no problems with dragons?

'Not at all!'

'Okay, then. See you tomorrow!' said the half-handed man and left.

Astrid was all alone by the fire for some time and then, she left too.

Another dragon fight training day has come again. It was a cloudy and chilly but a nice day for training. The teens were at the centre of the village waiting for Gobber to lead them to the arena. Tuffnut and Ruffnut were arguing with each other like always on the silliest things.

'Everybody knows that I was the first!' said Tuffnut.

'No you weren't! I was the first!' said Ruffnut and hit the boy.

'Come on guys! Are you really arguing on things like that? However, why is it so important to you who were the first-born?' asked Fislegs with anger because of the annoying argue.

'Because we want to... Wait. What? Were we arguing? 'Cause I don't think so. Maybe you are mistaken. Yes it must be it!' asked Tuffnut with confusion.

'Of course we were arguing.' replied Ruffnut 'We were arguing about your head, which is the biggest in the world.' said Ruffnut and hit each other with laugh.

'Oh Thor, you are hopless!' sighed Fislegs holding his head.

'Sometimes I'm wondering how you can be that stupid. Isn't it obvious that I was, I am and I will be the first in everything?' chuckled Snotlout.

When the boy said that, he was pushed to the ground by Gobber because he heard everything.

'Don't be so self-confident lads! It is your enemy! If you have too much confident in yourself you'll end up as a burnt corpse! You have to be tough on yourselves! You have to search your weaknesses during the fights and fix it in the same time! If you can't, you're dead! Now, we have another dragon to fight with today.'

'A-and what kind of dragon is that?' asked Fishlegs.

'It is a surprise! I won't tell but show you. Follow me!'

They entered the ring which was now fully empty. No walls, no weapons, nothing but five buckets with water.

'Today's exercise is to stop a dragon from breathing fire. You'll have one bucket of water, nothing more! Girls and boys in different groups. That means Astrid and Ruffnut is one team and the other one is Snotlout, Fishlegs and Tuffnut.

'And what if I would be with Astrid? Ruffnut could be with Fislegs and Tuffnut.'

'Who is the trainer Snotlout?' the boy tried to answer the question but Gobber was faster 'Don't even try to answer! Okay, let's get started! Everyone grab one bucket and prepare yourselves!'

Gobber went to one of the cages' lever to open the gate and release the beast.

'Today's dragon is... the Hideous Zippleback!' he has pull the lever which opened the gate.

When the gate was opening lots of green gas came from the cage. After some seconds the ring was full of green gas. It was so much that nobody could see further than their nose. The dragon was grumbling in the green fog. The teens heard it from everywhere and they didn't know where the dragon was.

'Careful boys and girls, the Zippleback is very tricky. It has two heads and only one of it breathes fire. The other one breathes green gas that you can see everywhere in the ring. The fire head is able to light up the whole gas and make it to explode. You have now easy work because the dragon itself is in the gas too so it is just hiding now.'

'And how do we know which head is which?' asked Snotlout.

'Find out, or you're dead for sure.'

The teens were now separated. They tried to listen where the dragon could be but it was hard because of the dragon's two head. It made noises all around the arena so it was impossible to know where its body is. The three boys were trying to stay together.

'This arena is too small for this dragon so if I just throw the water into the gas it is almost eighty percent that I hit it with the water. What do you think guys?' asked Fishlegs.

'I think Gobber gone mad but if you think that is a good idea, just do it. I will throw my bucket onto that dragon's head not into the gas.' stated Snotlout.

'I think we should grab its head and cut it off with an axe!' said Tuffnut and the other two teens looked at him 'What? You're looking at me like I would be the silliest person in the world.'

'Why? Isn't it correct?' asked Snotlout.

'It would be a good idea...'

'HA! I told you I'm a genious!' stated Tuffnut.

'... If there weren't any gas and we had weapons. Otherwise, I'm with Snotlout, even if it is hard to admit.' finished Fishlegs his sentence.

'Okay, then! I'm all alone going t..'

Tuffnut couldn't finish what he wanted to say because something grabbed him from behind and pulled into the gas. Snotlout and Fishlegs frightened when all this happened and heard the scream of Tuffnut. The two boys were now holding the buckets in their two hands as close to their body as much they could.

'Okay, I'll give it a try!' said Fislegs and threw his bucket of water into the gas and hit something with it.

A scream was heard. A scream that couldn't be a dragon's scream. No, this was worse. A shadow appeared from the gas and became more and more visible. It was Ruffnut who was now fully wet because of Fishlegs' water and she was very angry. She gave a pouch so big to Fislegs that the boy collapsed. After that the dragon hit Ruffnut and Snotlout with its tail and the two teens dropped the water.

'Astrid you are the last one as I can hear!' said Gobber.

Now there was less gas so the girl was able to see the shape of the dragon. She yelled and tried to throw the water on the dragon but it suddenly disappeared. She couldn't see the creature anymore. After some blinks another shadow appeared. The body was definitely a human's body but its head was strange. It was like a dragon's head. The shadow stepped closer. Now Astrid was able to see the stranger and she recognised him. It was the boy from the cove again. The girl was now frightened. She didn't know how he was able to enter the ring when everyone was in it. The boy was walking towards her and for a moment he stopped next to her. The stranger didn't turn his head towards Astrid just said something.

'Tonight at the cove.' the stranger muttered.

Astrid was just standing there when the boy started walking again and disappeared in the green fog. Suddenly she turned back to ask something but the only thing she saw was a Zippleback's head which quickly knocked her unconscious. When she woke up she was at the ground of the ring and everybody from the training was around her. Gobber helped her up and asked.

'What's happened Astrid? I thought it'll be an easy task for you.'

'I.. I-I don't know… I have to go!' said the girl and stood up

She was now heading out of the arena while Gobber was watching her. Astrid acted very strange at those days so Gobber started worrying.

'Okay lads, let's call it a day. Go home, we'll continue tomorrow.'

'Bah, Astrid screwed up everything!' said Ruffnut.

'You say it like you could have defeated that dragon.' said Tuffnut.

'Yes I could. But I saw your ugly face so I couldn't.' replied Ruddnut.

Gobber has put the dragon into its cage while the teens were speaking and now he went out of the arena. He wanted to light some more light upon Astrid's behaviour so he followed her to the woods. He followed and followed and followed her, like she never wanted to stop. After an hour or two they arrived to the cove. Gobber stayed outside of it at the top of the little cliff. He watched the girl carefully to see what is she doing here. Astrid sat down to a rock and waited. One hour passed. Two hour passed. It was almost dark so Gobber was thinking about to go back to the village because nothing really happened. He stood up from his lying position and wanted to go into the woods when he heard a dragon roar. This roar was unfamiliar to him. This roar was coming from the cove where Astrid was. Gobber turned back to see what's there and almost froze to death. A black dragon was next to the girl but not a usual black dragon. It was a night fury. The man wanted to help the girl but she wasn't screaming. He looked at the dragon and saw that somebody got off of it. It was a human, a dragon rider human. Gobber frightened.

'I have to speak with Stoick!' said the man and ran off into the forest towards the village.

Meanwhile the strange dragon rider stepped in front of Astrid.

'Okay, I'm here. You kept me waiting so I hope you'll tell me what you want.'

'Tell me about the village. Its full story as short as you can. And don't try to ask anything I won't answer those questions.'

'So you want me to tell you the village's secrets and everything? And you want me to get use to the thought of I can't ask you anything? That's not going to work, I say it to you.'

'You aren't in the position that you can command me. I am the one who ask and you are the one who answers my questions.' said the boy while the night fury growled to the girl.

'Okay, okay. But I won't speak until I heard your name.'

The boy was just standing there for a while and realised that the girl is a bit stubborn. And if he only needed to tell her his name for the knowledge from the village so be it. He sighed and opened his mouth.

'Hiccup. My name is Hiccup.' said the boy and the girl was now watching him curiously.

'Hiccup? It's kind of familiar. I haven't heard a name like that since Stoick...'

The boy looked questioningly. Astrid saw that he needs more details about it.

'So let's start with the basics. The village's most important person in the village is the chief, Stoick. The chief is some kind o..

'I know what a chief is. Go on. I don't need…basics.'

'Okay… So there is the village's elder. Her name is Gothi. She is a little old lady who never speaks but very wise. Next to Stoick there is Gobber who is inseparable from the chief because they very good friends and he can give very useful advises to the chief. About Stoick, he was after a dragon. He wanted to find a dragon which has four wings who grabbed his wife and son away from him. He was searching for them for five years maybe but I was little so I didn't know anything about it. I heard just gossips of it so that's how I know but not too well. And…' Astrid stopped because she looked at the boy who was now confused 'Did I say something wrong?'

'What did you say? When did that dragon grab his wife and son away? And what was the dragon look like? Like an owl?

'Ye-yes its head was almost similar to an owl's maybe… Fourteen years ago. Or fifteen… I don't know. It was just a rumour. But why are you asking it?'

'Because I think… I think I'm the son of a dragon killer chief.'

I hope you liked it. See you in the next chapter!