How to Survive your Opposites

Looks like you guys really liked the last chapter! I'm insulted (but not really.) Anyway, I actually have ideas for the next three chapters, so hopefully they will be up a lot sooner than the last one. Hooray! Anyway, here you go.

Chapter 9 – Three Day Cabin Junk

Hiccup didn't think the challenges could get any worse than the one they had just endured when Stoic came to them the next day saying that the teens were getting dumped into the woods for their next challenge.

"Could we get a few more details, please?" Astrid had requested.

"Sure!" Stoic said, happily, "You're going to be split into three groups of two, along with the Kreb teens, and sent into the woods to live in a run down old cabin for three days! Doesn't that sound like fun?"

"No," Fishlegs replied.

"Not at all," said Hiccup.

"That's the spirit!" Stoic exclaimed, slapping the teens hard on the back, "Let's get going to see Slackjaw so he can tell ya more!"

Grumbling, the teens followed him to where Slackjaw was waiting with Kreb and his terrifying dragon. He glared at Hiccup as they approached.

"Good," he hissed, "Everyone is here. Now let me explain the thing that I am about to explain to you. You will be split…"

The vulture man suddenly drifted off and bowed his head. Everyone stared as he made no reaction at all. Annoyed, Stoic nudged Slackjaw hard in the ribs.

"Split into three groups of two!" Slackjaw exclaimed, snapping back to attention, "Then you will be paired with two people from the other tribe and taken to an out of the way cabin right in the middle of the woods. Whoever makes the best of their situation, wins."

"And we specifically paired you all with someone we know you'll hate," Stench added. Everyone groaned. "Okay, first team we have for Kreb, is Belchus and Mandy."

Belchus and Mandy's expressions were both completely unreadable.

"Then we have Noseferatu and Sharkfeet." Noseferatu exclaimed with joy and held up his hand for Sharkfeet to hive five him. Sharkfeet slowly raised one paw and hit the small boy hard, sending him to the ground.

"And last we have Cake and Sandy." Cake looked like she was going to cry, and Sandy sneered, obviously upset.

"Okay," Stoic said, stepping forward, "For Berk we have Snotlout and Fishlegs." The two boys named gave each other a high five. "Hiccup and Ruffnut." The two stared awkwardly at the ground. "And Tuffnut and Astrid." The two scowled at each other.

"Slackjaw," Stench said, turning to the vulture man, "You want to tell them whom they'll be staying with?"

"Not particularly," Slackjaw replied.

Stoic sighed. "Fine, I'll do it. Snotlout and Fishlegs you're with Noseferatu and Sharkfeet." All of them (except you know who) looked very disappointed. "Astrid and Tuffnut, you're with Sandy and Cake." Astrid and Tuffnut both groaned. And Hiccup swallowed. That just left…

"Hiccup and Ruffnut, you're with Belchus and Mandy." Mandy looked rather displeased at not being with Tuffnut, and Belchus remained expressionless.

"All right then," Slackjaw wheezed, "Get onto my dragon so we can fly you to your cabin." As the teens all easily climbed on, Slackjaw slowly lifted himself up onto his terrifying monster dragon. With a mighty roar, it leapt into the air and flew towards the woods. Hiccup tried not to look down or at Slackjaw as he bounced up and down on his beast, even though it was flying smoothly and beautifully (or as beautifully as a monster dragon can fly.)

When they reached the first cabin, with no warning at all, Slackjaw shoved Snotlout, Fishlegs, and Noseferatu off the back of the dragon. Sharkfeet just sort of slid sideways off it and fell on top of his cabin mates. The next cabin, Astrid gracefully got off the dragon, Tuffnut carefully climbed off, Sandy kind of stumbled off, and Cake fell off and got her head stuck in a hole. At the last cabin, Hiccup and Ruffnut helped each other down, and Belchus got down all regal like. Mandy tried to be graceful as she got off, but she tripped, and fell face first into the dirt. Then the dragon gave a monster dragon roar and flew off.

Belchus was the first to say anything after the dragon was long gone, and the four of them still had not moved. "I am going inside," he announced, "And then I am going to pick my bed." Then he picked Mandy up by the back of her shirt and carried her inside.

After a while of standing there staring at the ground, Hiccup and Ruffnut went inside too. What they found went they went in made them very uncomfortable.

"There's only three beds," Hiccup murmured. And Belchus and Mandy had already taken two of them. That just left one. "Looks we're going to have to share a bed, huh?" he said weakly to Ruffnut.

"Looks like it," she muttered.

Elsewhere, Astrid and Tuffnut were experiencing the same disappointment. Astrid and Cake had immediately taken two of the beds, leaving the third one for Tuffnut and Sandy to fight over. Being more muscularly built than Tuffnut, Sandy won, forcing Tuffnut to beg Astrid to let him share her bed.

"But I have a couple of rules for you," she warned, "First of all, no touching me. No pressing against me, no breathing on me, no cuddling up next to me, in fact, don't even look at me. I don't want anyone thinking we're together or anything."

Tuffnut rolled his eyes. "Got it," he muttered.

Meanwhile, Fishlegs and Snotlout were not having the same problem as the other four. For some reason, unlike the other two cabins, their cabin had four beds; one for each of them. In fact, the beds were far from their minds, for as soon as they had arrived, Snotlout had given Noseferatu such a huge wedgie, that he had managed to yank his underwear off and then threw it into a tree for the poor nerd to fetch. Sharkfeet did not help him at all.

As it got dark, the four lit a fire outside their cabin and had dinner from whatever they could find. Fishlegs seemed quite at ease, sitting at the fire, and even Snotlout felt relaxed. He leaned back in his chair, feeling the warmth of the fire, and feeling glad that no one had anything to say to each other.

That is, until Noseferatu decided it was too quiet and took out a tiny little instrument that looked like a piece of tree barf. Clearing his throat, he raised the ugly little thing to his lips and blew. A piercing wail of noise came shrieking from it, causing Snotlout to fall backwards.

Angrily, he seized the thing and tossed it into the fire, then glared at Noseferatu, as if daring him to protest. Wisely, he did not.

I think I'm gonna end this chapter there. I have a lot for next chapter, and I want to make it really long to make up for some of the more pathetically shorter chapters. So yeah, the next two chapters are continuing this cabin challenge. And I don't care if cabins were invented yet, it's my fan fiction, so if you don't like it, tough.

Also, I was going to have Astrid and Tuffnut have a mutual respect for each other, but tossed it aside for a more bitter, hostile, unexplained long-term grudge kind of thing. Much more funny.

Also, heads up! There might be a sappy kiss in the next chapter. Might be.