I woke up with Barf and Belch terrorizing the town again, it had only been a day since me and my brother had been separated, I dropped to my knees next to window at that thought.
Only a day has passed...only a day.
My heart ached with a tight and powerful pain that I have never felt before, me and Tuff would constantly hit each other, we'd be rough, and tough with each other while growing up and even more since learning to train dragons.
But I don't think I ever felt this kind of pain before, no amount of scars, bruises or burns could match up to what I now felt, I wondered if Tuff felt the same way or if he was braving through it.
I got up from my knees and turned to find Astrid still asleep, I very slowly walked up to her and waved my hand across her eyes to check for a response...none...I snuck down her steps and outside the house.
If I knew my brother he would be out trying to catch Barf and Belch since Hiccup would be ordering him to control the two.
My dragon sat inside the sheep fencing and looked around cautiously waiting for their prey, many dragons actually preferred fish and never really mean to harm the sheep, but that didn't stop them from bothering the hell out of them.
I grabbed some grass out of my pocket and held it up for the two to smell, instantly they went for the bait and relaxed, their body went limp as they rolled around in the dirt and I rubbed the grass on their faces.
"Ruff!" a harsh voice called out to me, it was the harsh voice that used to match mine slightly while growing up as kids, the one that always harshly pronounced the ff's in my name when trying to be quiet, the only one that would whisper my name right now.
My heart raced as I carefully climbed down the ledge and was met with my brother, we both looked around to make sure that no one saw us before I hugged him "you smell horrible as usual" my throat tightened as tears tried to escape my eyes...obviously from his smell.
"and your hair is just as disgusting as it always is, in fact it just might have reached a new level of gross while I was gone!" realizing that we were hugging we quickly let go and made faces at each other "we totally didn't just do that by the way."
"Totally not..." I sat on a rock next to him and we stared out at the sea "I have a feeling this will only last another day, they can't keep us apart any longer than that, so we just wait until today ends or tomorrow..."
Before we could rejoice in being together again someone grabbed us by our collars and lifted us up and over the ledge "we weren't hanging out or anything, Ruff just fell off the ledge!" Tuff kicked the air and tried punching the person.
"You two are becoming a nuisance..." Stoic dropped us straight on our asses, we hissed in pain
"I swear on my life and Tuff's that I fell off the ledge, it was Barf and Belch, they rolled over too fast!" slowly getting up from the floor I noticed Astrid, Hiccup and our mother nearby.
I looked up at Stoic not wanting to see Astrid's pissed off face just yet "how long do you plan on keeping us apart?" he looked down at the two of us with eyes so stern it almost made me want to salute the man "until you two start behaving! your little tricks and jokes might be funny to you and Snotlout but the others don't find any of them funny!"
"It's not funny when you burn something down, when you stress out the sheep, when you purposely misplace things, when you pull your dumb "pranks" on others in the village!" he talked to us in a deep tone that meant we were in a lot of trouble.
"Ok! OK! Hear me out, I was coming over here to calm Barf and Belch, you guys just left them alone without even deciding when the two get to visit us! They were causing just as much trouble as we did!" I shuffled backwards in the dirt until my back hit a stall.
I showed him the grass in my hand "Dad...she's right, Barf and Belch were 'knocked out' with the grass...the two did roll over..." he pointed to the patch of grass that was now flattened "and possibly did throw Ruffnut off the ledge..."
Stoick stared at the two of us with fierce eyes "Hiccup! You aren't just saying that to save the skin from their backs? I don't want to find out you're lying to me boy!" Stoick turned to face his son.
Hiccup crossed his arms and pointed to the grass "it's flattened, like when a person walks on it, because they rolled over. It's plausible that Barf and Belch did throw Ruffnut off the ledge, Tuffnut helped her up, and the two just happened to talk."
I dropped the grass to the floor and rubbed my leg as he continued to talk "sure the two shouldn't have been talking after the incident...but they do seem to be telling the truth on this one."
Astrid sighed from behind Stoick "their dragon was causing trouble yesterday, burning the tails of the sheep to be exact...so I can see as to why at least one...of the twins had to come out to make them relax."
Stoick turned to us sharply "you two should be glad they were here to save yer butts...but seeing as the only thing you two did was talk...I won't punish you guys for at least trying to behave by calming your darned dragon."
We both nodded in fear and agreement, seemingly happy with our response Stoick and Ms. Hofferson left us alone with Hiccup and Astrid.
"Thanks guys..." I waved at Astrid who gave a small smile before walking towards me
"You know I was pretty mad at you for leaving...the house...but I guess I can be nice like Stoick and forgive you..." I laid on my back and took a deep breathe
"Yeah Hiccup! That was actually a pretty nice save there, didn't think Stoick would believe us for a second" Tuffnut wiped his nose with left arm.
"Is that even what actually happened?" Astrid sat down next to me and poked my face "yup" I looked at her with the most serious face I could pull of "why would we lie to you guys when you guys saw the evidence, our two headed dragon rolled over and knocked Ruffnut over...and that's why I'm the superior sibling!"
ALRIGHT! I had about half of this done, from where Stoick ends with saying 'but the others don't find any of them funny' part. So I just quickly added in the last part, if I feel that there needs to be a few changes I'll add it in later since I just almost had a freaking heart attack because of random Canadian fireworks. But anyway until the next chapter
-Ciaossu
