A/N: I apologize for the short chapter. Sorry =(
The wind had stopped blowing and it had stopped snowing too, when Hiccup woke up. The blizzard was over, but the air was still cold as it had been. Their boat wasn't moving either. It was bumping repeatedly against something hard.
Stretching his arms, Hiccup yawned and glanced around at everyone else. The dragons were still sleeping. Only Toothless lay there with open eyes. He was just staring into the distance. When he heard Hiccup yawn, Toothless turned his head and fixed his yellow eyes on Hiccup. But he didn't say anything. Just blinked at Hiccup and rested his head down once again. Meanwhile, Hiccup glanced down at Astrid and Anella; who were fast asleep on either side of him. Careful not to wake them, he got up and went to see what the boat was bumping against.
It turned out to be the shore of another island. Except this time, the island seemed so big that they couldn't row the boat around it. They will have to abandon the boat here and go on, on foot. This worried Hiccup. Stoick had said to only abandon the ship when some giant storm hit them. Was the storm that hit us last night, the one dad was talking about? The blizzard? He thought in confusion and went to check his map inside his basket.
Hiccup located Siesta Island on the map, but couldn't really see where they were now. Frowning, he pulled the wooden compass out of his basket and laid it in his palm. The needle pointed northwest. They were supposed to be heading west.
"'Morning, Hiccup." Came a sleepy voice behind him. Spinning around, Hiccup saw that it was only Astrid. Anella was still asleep.
"Good morning." Hiccup smiled at her.
"So are we going the right way?" Astrid looked over his shoulder.
"Not quite. We need to head a bit south. The blizzard carried the boat northward."Hiccup explained to her and let her see the map. She nodded and then pointed at a large island somewhere closer to the top left corner of the map.
"We are here." she smiled and Hiccup brought the map closer to his face to see the name of the large island.
The island was bigger than the Isle of Berk and defiantly bigger than Siesta Island. There was no way the boat could go around it. Not only was it too big, but there were jagged rocks sticking out of the water, all around the island. The map had the word 'CAUTION!' written all over the rocks. Then the island's name was Flare & Flurry Island. There were also two villages on this island. The map didn't state the names of the villages, but Hiccup hoped they weren't cursed or dangerous like Siesta Village.
"I think we should wake everyone and head out to one of the villages for something to eat. I don't remember the last time we ate!" Astrid clutched her stomach as it growled hungrily.
"Okay." Hiccup agreed and went to wake Anella and tell Toothless that they were on the move.
Gently, Hiccup nudged Anella's shoulder. She mumbled something in her sleep, but managed to open her eyes and blink up at Hiccup. He told her to get up, and came over to Toothless. The Night Fury lay there with his chin rested on his paws. When Hiccup called his name, Toothless glanced quietly at Hiccup.
"What?" he sighed.
"We came to an island with two villages. There might be food there." Hiccup grinned at the dragon, hoping he'd get up because he had mentioned the word 'food'
"Food? Oooh, I coming!" Toothless jumped up immediately and hurtled past Hiccup to the side of the boat to wait for everyone.
Astrid had roused everyone else and seemed to tell everyone about the possible food in the villages, because in less than 10 seconds everyone was standing next to Toothless. Anella didn't really seem to care. She just trudged slowly over to the group. Her eyes were half way closed, so she was probably still somewhere in dream land.
"Okay, let's go." Hiccup ordered everyone off the boat. He asked Toothless to carry Anella, since she was falling asleep again.
They clambered out of the boat and stepped onto shore with their baskets on their backs. It was a rocky shore, but a few feet away the there was snowy ground. The dragons instantly bounded off to the snow. Only Toothless walked beside Hiccup, carrying Anella and making sure she didn't fall off.
Once they reached the snow, everyone noticed that it wasn't 'fluffy' snow. It was more of the 'wet and sticky' snow that soaked your fur boots and almost reached your knees. Now Hiccup blamed himself for not remembering to pack snowshoes.
"Hey Toothless! Bet you can't catch me!" Goldsmoke called to him.
Frowning, Toothless turned to glance at Anella on his back. Then he looked at Hiccup. Sighing, Hiccup came over to Toothless's side and pulled Anella off his back. Her eyes fluttered open and her face turned red with embarrassment, when she realized Hiccup was holding her in his arms. Turning red too, Hiccup set her on the snow and she muttered a thank you at him.
The moment Anella was off Toothless's back, Toothless raced over to the dragons and began to chase Goldsmoke. The Deadly Nadder grinned and raced away. Greenfang and Bronzespark/Lightningflight joined in and began to chase Goldsmoke as well. Fireworm watched with her wide orange eyes. Then she narrowed them and dashed off after Toothless.
"Is that the fastest you could run?" she sneered at him and ran a bit ahead of him.
"Maybe not, but I'm better at catching. That would make me a better hunter than you." Toothless stuck his tongue out at Fireworm and caught Goldsmoke before Fireworm could.
"No way, Fury. I'm the best hunter you've ever seen." She puffed out her chest and bounded off after a fat rabbit. Toothless abandoned the game of chase and raced after the rabbit as well.
The fat rabbit noticed he was being chased by two dragons and twitched his nose, before running off as fast as his long legs could take him. Fireworm saw that Toothless was gaining on her and shoved him out of the way. He rolled away and got up to see Fireworm already standing there with the rabbit between her teeth. Toothless bristled with anger. He couldn't stand it when Fireworm was better than him at something.
"You know if you eat that rabbit, you'll probably become fatter than you are now. I think you should stick to the herring diet instead." Toothless smirked at her.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Fireworm roared and the moment she opened her mouth to speak, the rabbit fell out and hopped away with the remaining strength it had.
Toothless began to laugh and Fireworm just sat there with her scales turning even redder than they were. Then she pounced on Toothless and the two wrestled in the snow. Toothless managed to give her a couple of nasty scratches on her face and she gave him a bruised eye. When he swatted her away, she flew back a few feet and then charged at Toothless with sharp claws.
SPLAT!
Hiccup had been so busy watching the dragons, that he didn't even see who had thrown the snowball at the side of his face. Quickly he spun around to see Astrid holding another snowball and smirking at him.
"Snowball fight! Girls vs. Boys!" Tuffnut hollered, made a quick snowball and threw it at Ruffnut. It hit her square in the face
"Not fair! There are only three of us and four of you!" Ruffnut cried at her brother; who was too busy laughing. Clenching her teeth she threw a snowball at Tuffnut, but he ducked and it hit Snotlout.
"HEY!" Snotlout shouted and hurtled a big snowball right at Ruffnut. It hit her hair and she threw one that flew past Snotlout and hit Fishlegs.
Hiccup made a snowball and threw it at Anella. Now that she was wide awake, she was much more alert and ducked as Hiccup's snowball flew by. Then Astrid came over to Anella and told her something. Both girls nodded and each made a big snowball. At the same time, they threw their snowballs at Hiccup. He screamed and ran off.
Except Astrid and Anella weren't ready to give up yet. They picked up more snow and raced after Hiccup, throwing it as they ran. He ran over to where the dragons were playing in the snow and ran past Fireworm and Toothless; who were still fighting. Anella threw a snowball and Hiccup hid behind Fireworm. The snowball soared through the sky and landed on Fireworm. The dragon whirled around to glare at Anella. Meanwhile, Toothless getting his chance at laughing at Fireworm while he could.
"Sorry!" Anella called in dragonese to Fireworm; who just snorted and turned to Toothless.
Hiccup didn't know how long the snowball fight lasted, but it stopped when everyone heard a horn blow. Someone from one of the villages was coming.