So, we meet again people of the internet world (Maniacal laugh). Nah, just joking. So I'm a little sad again as no one reviewed. Oh well, tell me if you've got any ideas. Enjoy! Again, don't own this stuff.
Chapter 7
For the first time something had happened to Sky that hadn't been able to happen in seven years of her life; she was bored, genuinely bored out of her mind, she loved it! She never had time to be seriously bored before, usually busy being imprisoned or creating a giant problem she had to fix, she was very good at that in particular. She eventually got bored of being bored and decided to do some kind of activity that required minimal effort; so she grabbed a book and headed to the hall. Sky had always liked reading, but she did have a weird habit that came with it. She found a seat farthest away from every other Viking in the room, and sat at the farthest part of that. She swung around, got into a comfy position on her back and started to read her somehow still dampish book. Sky had soon given herself a massive headache from all the blood rushing to her head, but like she cared after all, she could handle a headache.
'What are you doing?' sounded a slight baffled tone of the largest teen among the six she had considered friends. Sky lifted the book from her face to the upside-down spectacle that was Fishlegs. 'Hi.' He gave a slight wave.
'Uh, hi,' the upside-down girl said with an impish grin. She seated herself upright. The boy sat down next to her. He sighed very deeply.
'Can I ask you something?' the boy queried.
'I think you know you just did but that's not the one you are referring to, so go ahead.'
'Do you think I'm a nerd?' Sky looked bemused by this question.
'How do you mean? I mean I haven't known you long enough to see all you're quirks.'
'I mean, the way I act, the way I appear to others, to people I don't know very well, like you,' he gestured in her direction. She paused, thinking very carefully about what he had asked.
'Well, you do seem a bit as you said a nerd. But you shouldn't think just by that persona that people will not think of you as a threat; as someone who doesn't get pushed around easily. I have a friend, her name is Sima, and she loves to read. When I used to work with her at a pub somewhere far away, nobody messed with her. They did something she didn't like; she would literally throw them out. So just because you read, doesn't mean you need to be classed as you say, a nerd.' This made Fishlegs perk up a bit from his retched mood. 'I mean look at you, you could easily be considered someone you shouldn't mess with if you just showed your strength or something every now and then, just give them a reminder, you are a Viking after all!' This made the mountain of a teenager feel a whole lot better.
'I get what you're saying, thanks.' The others came into the hall and found the two.
'Hey, we're going to down to the cove to go swimming, you guys coming?' Tuffnut question, Fishlegs gave an eager nod. Sky was a little more averse, knowing that they would probably fly to go where they were planning.
'We're walking so you know, it was Astrid's idea,' Snotlout half moaned. Sky nodded that she was willing to go. They all got up and headed out.
'Are we there yet? We've been walking for ever!' Snotlout complained, which earned him a thwack over the head from Ruff. Sky gave a slight smile, wondering if they had "sorted out" the marriage problem.
'Lout, we've only been walking for about fifteen minutes, and we're almost there,' Hiccup informed his cousin. Sky hadn't even noticed the time, she was too busy looking at everything they passed; the trees, flowers, sticks, rocks, a patch of mud. She had been in a lot of forests but she never got to see them properly. The others stopped, causing the daydreaming girl to bump straight into Astrid.
'Watch it,' she said with a subtle growl in her tone, Sky mumbled an apology as the six started a slow decent down the face of the bowl like walls that surrounded the beautiful scene below. But that could have just been Sky's opinion; after all, she had been fascinated by a patch of mud not too long ago. Some of the others went off in different directions so they could strip down to their undies to swim. Tuff was the first to jump into the water with a giant splash, his sister then Snotlout soon followed suite then Astrid helping Hiccup hop into the water, her and Fishlegs were the only two still on the bank.
'Sky, Fishlegs, you coming in?' Hiccup asked. Fishlegs nodded but Sky shook her head quickly.
'Uh, no thanks.' Everyone looked at her strangely.
'Why, can't you swim or something?' Snotlout asked dumbly.
'Of course I can swim, I was raised in a village that flooded every rainy season.' Sky began to get defensive.
'Then why aren't you coming in?'
'Because I don't want to!' She yelled before storming off.
'What was that about?' Ruff wondered. Fishlegs sighed.
'I'll go see if she's OK.' He walked off in her direction. He found Sky sitting under a tree a little way away from the water, with her knees up to her chest and muttering stuff about being a coward and it was a stupid thing to worry about.
'So, are you going to tell me what the stupid thing to worry about is?' she looked up startled by his sneaky arrival. He plonked himself down next to her.
'It's completely stupid,' she sighed in annoyance. 'It's just some stupid scars I've collected from people who don't particularly like me at all.'
'Come on, they can't be that bad,' Legs stated. Sky snorted at the comment and lifted up the back part of her shirt, revealing a lovely little scar that said in big letters "DEMOND" across her back.
'And that, is just one of them.' Fishlegs looked at her in disbelief. 'There not so bad, really, it's just I don't like to talk about them, I mean I look like a freak! They bring shame to everything I stand for.' Fishlegs began to laugh, a slight smirk and a giggle that worked its way up to full blown chuckle fest.
'What are you laughing at?' She gave a look of almost being hurt.
'Well, it's ironic; here you where this morning telling me the way I act shouldn't be a reason why people shouldn't think of me as a tough Viking, and here you are pretty much acting like the way I was this morning but about scars.' He was right, it was ironic. The fact made her feel a whole lot better about them.
'I never said you could use what I say to fix problems on mine,' she said in between giggles.
'Well your advice is so good; it needs to be used on everyone.' They both rose, still with a small case of the giggles and headed back to the water. This time Sky stripped down and proudly walked into the water, showing off her numerous scars in all their glory. They spent the rest of the afternoon swimming; with a lot of questions for the very soon fed up girl. Ah well, such is life.
So what do you think? Honestly I was just going to make this where Sky fixes Fishlegs' problem but it was about half as short as a normal chapter I make, and I wanted to mention that she had some pretty bad scars from other places. Anyway, review people of the internet world or I shall release my wrath (Another maniacal laugh) just joking again. Bye!
