Chapter 9
Astrid was taken aback at her husband's blunt answer, but nodded seriously. Hiccup grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the door, "we should leave now! They are in so much trouble." He muttered under his breath before throwing open the door and slamming it quickly again as rain nearly flooded their house.
He cursed loudly before sighing sadly. "Okay, we can't go anywhere in this weather. We'll have to leave tomorrow, or whenever this rain decides to stop."
The young woman gave a cry of annoyance. "Stupid weather!"
Hiccup nodded in agreement before taking Astrid's hand, "we should get some sleep. We have some major grounding to do in the morning."
Suddenly they heard a loud scratching noise at the door and it dawned on them that Arrow and Toothless were still outside. Hiccup ran to the door and pulled it open, and the two dragons entered. After they had shaken themselves dry Arrow and Toothless walked over to a shadowy corner, huddled together, and then fell asleep.
The two adults sighed before heading to their bedroom, and at least try to fall asleep as fast as their dragons had.
(Berk)
Lucas jerked his head up in shock, "Hiccup? You want to name him Hiccup?"
Ruffnut smiled slightly, "I know, it's not the best name, but we have our reasons."
"All right, time for the lady with the baby to hit the hay! We all know that a pregnant lady is very fragile and needs OW!"
As soon as her brother had called her "fragile" Ruffnut had picked up her plate and slammed it onto his head.
"How's that for fragile you numb skull?"
Chestnut giggled softly as her uncle jumped up. He glared at his sister before head-butting her, "you are so lucky you're pregnant!"
"Ha! Even now I can take you on."
"You hit like a girl!"
"You are a girl!"
"If I'm a girl then you're a guy."
"Butt elf!"
"Troll face!"
"Retard!"
"Jerk face!"
Anna's head snapped back and forth as the two twins argued. Just a second ago they looked as if they were the closest things on earth, and now they looked as if they absolutely hated each other.
Finally the twins tired of bickering. They grabbed their respective children, said goodnight to Anna and Lucas then walked off in the opposite direction.
Realizing that it was late Anna and Lucas got up and started walking towards Anna's house.
"Oh there you are! I was wondering when you were coming back!"
The younger Anna smiled and said, "Sorry, we met up with Tuffnut and Ruffnut. Not sure if you know-"
"Oh the Thorston twins! They're a hard duo to forget."
"You got that right." Muttered Lucas.
Anna smiled, "what I meant is that they're hard to forget because they helped your father in the war with the red death."
The twins exchanged strange glances before looking back to the healer. "Red death? War? What's that?"
The healer snapped her head to the two children in front of her. "He never told you?"
"Told us what?"
Anna shook her head in disbelief before having the twins sit down at the dinner table before sitting across from them.
"Well let's see. Where should I start? Well from the day he was born your father was a terrible Viking. He couldn't raise an axe to save his life! But he was a pretty good blacksmith so for a while he worked as Gobber's apprentice, as I told you earlier. Well one day when he was sixteen he created a machine that could shoot down anything in the sky, and your father tried it out, and lo and behold, it worked!"
Lucas beamed at his father's success.
"He shot down a nightfury, but no one believed that he could have done something that marvelous." The boy's face fell, "So his father, our chief, Stoic assigned him to be in dragon training, but your father made time and searched for that dragon and at last he found it. He attempted to kill it, bring back it's heart, and prove to his father that he was a Viking worth his salt, but when he looked at the dragon in front of him he couldn't bring himself to kill it, so he set it free, but he found it a few days later and realized that he had accidentally cut off the nightfury's tail, meaning that it couldn't fly, but your father figured out a way to help it fly again."
"And then he named it Toothless didn't he?" Lucas asked with a smirk and the healer returned it.
"That's right Lucas, after he helped it fly he became the best in the class during dragon training, but one day your mother found out about Toothless and your father took her on a ride on Toothless and I'm pretty sure she fell in love with him right then and there, but their romance was cut short when Toothless was called back to the dragons nest, something the Vikings had been after since we sailed her three hundred years ago. Turns out there was a giant dragon there that forced the other dragons to bring her food, which is why they raided our village."
The twins shuddered at the thought.
"The next day would be graduation day, the day when the top student in dragon training would get the honor of killing a Monstrous Nightmare, and unfortunately the best in the class was your father, but he devised a plan. Come graduation day he stood in the ring and waited for the giant dragon to walk out. When it finally emerged he dropped his weapons and slowly removed his helmet."
"The breast hat." Anna and her brother snickered as they remembered that their father owned a part of his mother's breastplate as a helmet.
The healer raised an eyebrow before sighing, "he tells you about that but nothing else? Anyway, he looked the nightmare right in the eye and said 'I'm not one of them' threw it down and held out his hand. Stoic was so angry he slammed down his hammer, scared the nightmare, and it attacked Hiccup. Your mother rushed into the ring to save him, but Toothless heard your father from miles away and ran to his rescue. He charged into the cage and chased the nightmare away. Every Viking charged into the arena to kill it, and Toothless did everything he could to protect his human, but was overpowered and carried off. Stoic and the other Vikings left Berk in search of the nest again after Hiccup accidentally admitted to his father how to find it. Your father gathered the rest of the teenagers and taught them how to fly. They flew to the dragon's nest and saw that the red death was attacking the other Vikings. After rescuing his dragon Hiccup charged into battle and he, Toothless, and the red death took the skies. While the red death was charging up a breath of fire Toothless shot out a blast of fire and the giant dragon exploded!"
Lucas's eyes were as wide as dinner plates.
"Your father survived, but he had lost his leg in the battle, but he didn't let it get to him, saying that now he and Toothless were exactly the same."
The twins were in awe at their father's bravery. "Your father ended the war between Vikings and Dragon's. He is a legend beyond all legends."
As Anna continued with her storytelling, Zac, Wheezie, and Fireworm were listening to make sure that their masters were going to bed. When Ruffnut got married the twins could no longer share the Zippleback on a day-to-day basis, so they agreed that Tuffnut would get one week, and Ruffnut the next.
As soon as the lights went out in their human's home Zac, Wheezie, and Fireworm crept away into the night before taking to the skies. They circled around the small island before landing on the cliffs above.
They looked around before sighting Horrorcrow.
'Horrorcrow! Good to see you!' Fireworm said, starting the conversation.
'What do you think about the two new kids?' Zac asked.
'I think they're very nice children, but their scent smells very familiar.' Fireworm said.
Horrorcrow rolled her giant eyes before fluttering closer to her friends, 'do you know whom they smell like?'
The other dragons looked at each other before shrugging, 'it's familiar, but we can't quite place it.'
'Oh for the love of…" Horrorcrow shook her head, 'they smell like Hiccup and Astrid!'
Realization dawned on them and they screeched loudly.
'That's right! It's them! Their kids!'
Zac shook his head in disbelief, 'he knocks her up, and then she gives birth to twins? The boy will never cease to amaze me.'
Horrorcrow smiled, 'I highly doubt he's a boy anymore Zac. He and Astrid are probably fully grown by now.'
'That's right!' Fireworm exclaimed, 'but, what are their children doing here? Where are Hiccup and Astrid?'
'Maybe they were eaten by a giant bunny!'
Four pairs of eyes looked towards the new voice and saw Tremor, one of Gobber's many Terrible Terror's, sitting there.
'Great. It followed us!' Zac said with a sigh.
When Toothless and Arrow went missing the tiny Terror thought he would be able to finally fit in with the small group of dragons, at first they welcomed the new dragon, until he practically bit off the tip of their ears and tails.
'Don't be like that! I'll be nice tonight! Promise!'
The bigger dragons sighed but let him join their conversation anyway. Just as they were about to start their discussion again they heard footsteps approaching.
Instinctively each dragon went into defensive positions, but they calmed as soon as they saw a black and gold Zippleback approach them.
The black head of the Zippleback tapped the gold head and it whimpered.
'Who are you?' Wheezie asked.
The black head looked up and said, 'my names Torin. This is my sister Tarina."
Tarina hung her head and whimpered. 'What's wrong with her?' Horrorcrow asked.
'She has a large tear in her wing.'
'It hurts.' Tarina mumbled miserably.
'Oh you poor thing!'
Suddenly Fireworm gave another screech of excitement. 'Their scent! Their scent!'
The other dragons gave her a strange look, but still she continued in her excited babbling. 'Their scent! Don't you recognize it?"
The four other dragons edged closer and snipped the air, the black and gold dragon stepped back, hissing loudly. 'Stay back!' Tarina ordered, 'we aren't much of a challenge, but our father's a nightfury!'
Fireworm squawked again, 'I knew it! I knew you smelled like Toothless!'
'You know our dad?' Tarina asked picking up her head, but quickly put it back down when the pain in her wing increased.
'And his friend Arrow too!' Zac exclaimed, excitement growing in his voice.
'You know our mom?'
Each dragon nearly fainted at that. Horrorcrow was first to recover, 'tell us young ones. How exactly are they your… Parents?'
'Well you see…'
That night none of the dragons slept well.
(Back at Anna's house)
"Dad never told us that. I can't believe he did all of that!" Lucas said in amazement.
"I know! He's just… It's so amazing I don't have words!"
Anna smiled as the excited twins chattered on about their father's legacy. She would have let them chat on for hours and hours, but it was very late, and they needed sleep.
"I know you're excited but it's time for bed."
The two children groaned. The healer rolled her hands, "I know but it's off to bed with you!"
Reluctantly they allowed the healer to lead them to their room, Anna slipped into the small closet and changed into her nightclothes while Lucas changed outside. Once he had changed Lucas tapped on the closet door, "you can come out now."
Anna slipped out and glared at her brother, "okay, next time you're changing in the closet!"
She slipped into her bed and turned away from him. Lucas smirked before crawling into the bed next to her, "it's not my fault you suck at rock, paper, scissors."
For Hiccup and Astrid, morning could not have come sooner, and when they looked out their window they were grateful that the rain was gone and the sun was shining. They grabbed their dragons and pulled them outside.
The two dragons looked at their riders in confusion.
"We know where they are Toothless! We know where the kids went."
The nightfury's ears pricked up and he wagged his tail in excitement. Arrow did the same thing and could barely contain himself.
"Hold still boy! You need to hold still!"
"Good morning Haddock family!"
The two riders looked over to see Tinker hobbling over, a large Gronkle tottering at her heels. They turned and gave her a small wave, "good morning Tinker."
"Where might you four be heading?"
"Lucas left a note behind, and it said where they were."
Tinker clapped her hands and laughed, "wonderful! Go and bring back your children."
Hiccup nodded at the old woman, "we promise. We'll be back soon."
With that said they took to the skies and within seconds, were out of sight. Tinker watched them leave and sighed contentedly, "bring them home children. Bring them home."
Lucas was awoken by the sound of someone pounding on the front door of Anna's hut. He lifted his head groggily, grabbed his headband, slipped it on, and then walked outside to see what was going on.
He walked into the main room, and seeing that no one else was around, answered the door to see Chestnut standing there with her cousin standing a few feet away.
She smiled when she saw Lucas blink in confusion, "hey Lucas! Wanna go play Dragons and Vikings again?"
The boy twin groaned before looking around, the sun was just barely above the horizon. He groaned again before speaking, "Chestnut, the sun's barely up yet! Can't it wait till later?"
She rolled her eyes, "come on! We're going to get breakfast at the mess hall and then we're going to play by the cliffs."
Lucas rolled his eyes, "I would come up with a sarcastic remark, but I'm to tired to think of one."
As they continued their conversation they failed to see Walnut sneaking up on them with a bucket, he creeped closer and closer until…
"AHH! COLD!" Lucas was now wide-awake as a cold wave of water was thrown at him.
He snapped his head towards Walnut and saw him snickering into his sleeve. The blonde twin was just about to snap at him before he formed another idea.
A wicked grin grew on his face. He snatched the bucket from Walnut and filled it with the icy cold substance from the ocean, and then made his way back towards the healer's hut. He quietly clicked open the door to his and Anna's room and silently crept inside.
He stalked to his sister bed and took in a gulp of air.
"Don't even think about it Lucas."
Lucas stumbled back in surprise, spilling water all the while. He frowned as he watched his sister sit up in bed, "how'd you know it was me?"
"Our dad owns a nightfury. You have to learn these things."
She stretched her arms over her head before standing up.
"All right, what's up?"
Lucas sighed before setting down his bucket and facing his sister, "Walnut and Chestnut are here. They want to go to the cliffs."
Anna practically leaped out of bed, ran into the closet and changed her clothes in ten seconds flat. Lucas raised an eyebrow at his sister but sighed before opening the door, "all right. Let's go."
His sister coughed and he noticed that he was still dripping wet. Blushing beet red he walked into the tiny closet and came out with his normal, boy, clothes on.
"Aren't you going to wear your skirt?" She teased him lightly.
He glared, "no. I don't have to wear it all the time. Now hurry up, we're gonna eat at the mess hall first."
Anna shrugged before following her brother outside, "bye Anna! We'll be back later!" They called before running outside.
Breakfast was eaten quickly and soon the four children were running and squealing through the woods and Anna, being as terrible as she is at Rock, Paper, Scissors, was the Viking and was at the moment chasing her brother around.
Lucas ran on his fours as his sister chased after him.
"Come back!" She squealed as they ran along the edge of the cliff.
Walnut, who Anna had caught first, was waiting patiently in a tree when he saw how close the twins were to the edge. "Hey! Be careful!"
The twins didn't hear his shouts and continued to chase each other around, squealing and giggling with delight.
He leaped out of the tree and yelled out again, "come back! You're too-"
He was cut off in mid sentence as the ground beneath the twins gave way.
Walnut stood there paralyzed as he watched the twins fall to their deaths.
Don't kill me!
Don't worry I'm working on the next chapter and it will be up in like a day or two, or maybe in like the next hour if I feel like it. I don't know, but I am working on it! Note it!
Okay so yeah I know it's rushed and I just realized that no one asked where the twins have come from but… Hey they're Vikings. It's who they were… Are… whatever! Okay shutting up now.
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