Hey guys I'm back! And i have good news. I'm finally cured of my mono X3 ! *Party sounds* I'm really sorry to all of you who have been waiting for me to update this story. I didn't really have much access to my laptop so I couldn't really type…like at all. Anyways I tried my best to write this chapter for you guys during the sick days so I hope you all enjoy it :3.
Now that that`s out of the way I have 3 more announcements I'm gonna make.
Number 1, This story will only be 15-20 chapters long. The last three chapters I have already planned out so after the next chapter (One after this) I'll be taking requests on what the next few chapters should be :3. If you have an idea please PM me with it and hopefully your chapter will be the next one X3 (I'm sorry to the people who's ideas I don't pick. If I could I'd write them all but I just don't have time too. Sowwi)
Number 2, I have a crap ton of catching up to do in school XT. I was doing work during my stay at the hospital but I missed a lot that I need to catch up on. Hopefully ill have the next chapter out before Christmas and if I don't, please don't hate meeeeee TnT
Number 3, I remember one of you guys telling me that my description of a Skrill was wrong and that they don't have front paws. Wellllllllllll lets say its part of Sparks's birth defect :3 makes things much easier.
Anyways I think I've said enough. On with the chapter X3! I hope you guys enjoy ;3
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Dragon"
"Text"
%%%
The Things I Do To Keep a Secret
%%%Terra POV
"So let me get this straight. You're a dragon?"
"Yep that's right."
"And you're a human?"
"Right again. Alright now turn it that way."
"Got it." Hiccup nodded.
"But how can you be a human and a dragon?"
"You don't wanna know."
Creak, Pop!
"Ow, Ow, Ow! Too tight, too tight!"
"Sorry, sorry!"
Creak
"Ahh much better." I say as the pain in my shoulder went away.
How bout I get you caught up on everything that happened?
Well as you know, Gobber found out my little secret. During the rest of the day I was forced to be under house arrest at Gothi's until she was done experimenting on me with new "Medicine".
You don't wanna know what I had to drink.
Meanwhile, Hiccup was stalling Gobber and promised that he'd be filled in once I got back from Gothi's. And now here we are, in the forge with Hiccup and I trying to fix my arm while Gobber questions me.
Speaking of which. I should get back to it.
"Gobber I'd love to sit here and answer all your questions but I kinda need to focus on fixing me arm, which we could really use and extra hand with." I tell him as Hiccup works on my open arm.
"Alright, alright I'll stop with the questions. But I still wanna know how you do it." He said as he came over and helped with the repairs.
"Do what?"
"Be a dragon and a human of course. What's it like to understand and act like a dragon? All the things you could do and what not." He exclaimed as he grabbed a screwdriver I made a while back.
God he's just like Fishlegs with the questions.
"Well I can't tell you much other then it's pretty nice. Flyings great along with fishing . Breathing fire is a nice touch too." I smile as I shoot a small ball of flames into the fire pit.
"Yep, it's very handy for most day to day things." Hiccup added in his thoughts. "Super strength, speed, the ability to fly. I wouldn't mind being part dragon. It'd seem like fun."
"Hey! If you were a dragon then you wouldn't need me to fly!" Toothless shouted from outside.
"What's Toothless going on about?" Hiccup asked.
"Oh he said he'd be jealous if you were a dragon too." I smirk.
"I didn't say that!"
"And now he's saying he wouldn't get as much fish if he had to share."
"That's Toothless alright." Hiccuip rolled his eyes.
"What?! No! Hiccup!"
"And now he sa- AUGH!" I shout in pain as a small plasma blast hit me in the forehead. I rub the heated spot as I turn to see Toothless sticking his head through the window. "Your luck my scales were there or else that probably would of killed me." I narrow my eyes at him as I remove my hand, showing off my black scales that covered my forehead.
"Good. Maybe next time you'll learn not to mess with me." He said as he narrowed his eyes back at me.
"It was a joke Gummy. Learn to take one." I roll my eyes as I called him by a nickname I gave him.
"So was that Patchy." He smirked back, referring to his nickname he calls me. Hopefully my scales go away so he can't call me it anymore.
"Just go and eat some fish scale face!" I shout at him.
"Maybe I will Eel breath!" With that he turned and slammed the window shut with his tail.
"Man, you two sure seem to fight a lot." Sparks says lazily from his seat on the table next to me.
"Zip it Spark plug."
"What's a Spark Plug?" He asked afterwards.
I sighed and face palmed as I turned back to Hiccup and Gobber. "Yeah, being a dragon is sooooo great." I say with very little enthusiasm.
"I'd say, but it was pretty funny to see you and Toothy bicker back and forth with each other. Even if half it I couldn't understand, It was like you were a married couple." Gobber laughed.
"We're not a married couple! We're not a married couple!" Both Toothless and I shouted when he stuck his head back through the window for a second before slamming it again.
"Well-"
"Don't even say it Hiccup." I cut him off as he laughs.
"Alright, alright. But in any case, I think your arm is fixed." He said as he twisted the last screw in on the cover. "I think the problem was that it was too heavy. So I replaced it was Gronkal Iron." Hiccup explained as he whipped off and oil left on my arm. (I know this is from season 2 but hey, who knows what could happen)
"Gronkal Iron? What's that?" I asked. I never heard of it before. Maybe it was just never shown in the show?
"It's metal made from a certain type of rocks that Gronkals eat. When it melts down in their stomachs, they spit it back up and boom, Gronkal Iron." Gobber said as he put some tools away.
"So let me get this straight. You fixed my arm with Gronkal vomit?" I gave a 'really?' look.
"Basically, yeah. Just try it out."
I sighed and rolled my eyes. "Fine whatever." I slowly lift up my arm to get a good feel for it. It seemed a lot lighter than before and it didn't feel as stiff either. I opened and closed my fingers a few times and twisted my wrist too. "Wow, it's actually pretty good." I say surprised.
"Told you." Hiccup smirks as he washed his hands quickly. "Now, how bout we go out and see how everyone else is doing?" He suggested.
"Sure. I'd be nice to be outside for once and not crammed in a crazy old women's house." I am not going back to Gothi house. I don't care what that women does. As long as I don't have to drink any other vile liquid I think I'll be good for today.
I stood up from my seat and stretched. Having to sit in one spot for an hour really makes my butt hurt. I was about to leave when I was stopped by a hooked hand.
"Hold on their lassie. I believe you still owe me some answers." Gobber stated as he tried to pull me back into the back room.
"But Gobber, I want to go outside and relax." I whined as me feet dragged on the ground. "Can you just read the dragon book instead? Everything about me is in there already."
"I would do that IF I knew where the book was." He said as he eyed Hiccup.
I looked over to him too. "Where is the book anyways?"
"Well-"
"Great, he started off with well. That's always a good sign." I groan with sarcasm.
"Sorry Terra but we have to keep the book hidden for now. Until we think the village is ready for…this-" He gestured to all of me. My scales were still showing in patches all over my body. "I don't think it's a good idea to leave the book where others can see."
"Then just let Gobber read it and take it back. Simple as that."
"I would but I don't have the book"
"Well who has it then?"
"Fishlegs and before you say anything, no he won't give us the book because he just loves to update every little thing he finds that's new."
"Great~." I sigh with more sarcasm. I look back over to Gobber. "Can we at least do it later then? Please?" I asked.
Gobber put his hand to his scruffy chin as he hummed. "Hmmm alright, but i want you to do a little something for me while you're out."
"Ok? That would be?"
He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a folded slip of paper and handed it to me. "I need you to run a few errands for me. I can't do them since I'm working today."
I open up the folded paper, which turned out to be a big long piece of paper and began to read off the list written on it.
"Ask around for scrap metal, pick up a few bags of fish, clean underwear?! Gobber! This isn't an errand list, this is a chore list!" I shouted at him.
"Errands, chores, there's no difference really." He shrugged.
"Uh, yeah there is! One is about asking for task that aren't personal while the other IS personal stuff!" I pushed the list back into his hands. "Sorry Gobber but I ain't that kind of errand boy. Let's go Sparks." I say as I turn to leave for the door as Sparks jumped on my head.
"Oh dear, it looks like someone's forgetting I know their little secret now." Gobber said in a sly voice as I froze in my tracks. "We wouldn't want old Gobber to "Accidentally" tell the villages about that now would we?"
I slowly turned my head around and shot him a dark glare.
"You. Wouldn't."
"I would." He smirked. We had a good stare down for a good minute before I growled and stomped up to Gobber.
"Give me that." I murmured as I took the paper out of his hands and stomped back to the door.
"Make sure to really scrub me undies. I want to smell the freshness again." Gobber shouted as I left and slammed the door behind me.
"'Scrub me undies' he says. Oh I'm gonna get him back for this big time." I growl to myself as I fixed my vest and bandages to hide my scales.
"Maybe it won't be so bad? I mean, how long could this list be?" Sparks asked as he leaned down over my head a bit.
"I guess. It isn't too long really." I sighed as I looked at it again. I noticed that there was another little fold on the back of it and unfolded it. The results were a list that went all the way down to my feet and then some.
"…Sparks?"
"Yes Terra?"
"Do me a favor and never say anything like that again."
"Why?"
"Because if you do, big brother might go on a rampage." I said simply as my eye twitched a bit.
"Oh Terra~ One more thing." Gobber called out as he stuck his head through the window. "I also need you to go out and do a few other things." He tossed another piece of paper at me. "I need you to follow this map to get some bones from the Bonenapper nest. Special order." He smirked.
I glared at him as I opened the map to see a huge and complicated chart leading to Bonenapper Island. Along with a crap ton of warnings.
"Have fun Terra!" He shouted with a chuckle as he went back inside.
I growled as I punched the post next to me to vent some anger out. I heard a crack and looked over to see I managed to break and bend the wood post holding up the overhang on the forge. I felt a bit of dust and other things fall over me before the whole thing came down on me.
"Oh come o-" I groaned as I got covered in wood and debris. Sparks managed to avoid the overhang as he jumped off my head before it fully fell down.
I sit up and lifted my upper body out of the rubble. I wasn't hurt but I was covered in dust along with many wood chips that stuck out of my hair.
"Are you ok?" Sparks asked as he hopped back over to me.
I spat out a wood chipped and huffed. "Peachy."
Gobber then looked out the window once more. "Well it looks like there's something else to add to the list." He laughed at me as he wrote it down on another piece of paper and tossed it at me. I felt as it landed on my head. "Good luck." He said before he disappeared in the shop again.
I could feel my eye twitch radically as I blew smoke out from my nose with a growl.
"Oh I will get you back Goober. Count on it." I swore to myself.
Today, I think hell has started for me on Berk…again.
%%%Hiccups POV
"Terra didn't sound to happy." I said to Gobber after hearing what went on outside.
"Eh, he'll be fine. He's part dragon after all." He chuckled as he cleaned up the mess we made.
"By why did you make Terra do all that stuff for you? That was a list of chores to do in a week, not a day."
"I need him occupied for a little while."
"Why?" I asked out of curiosity.
"Everyone wanted to throw Terra a Happy recovery and a little thank you party." Gobber exclaimed. "It's a surprise party so-"
"So you needed to keep Terra away from the village right?" I finish what he was probably about to say.
"Exactly. Plus it makes it easy that I won't have to do anything for a week." He added with a little chuckle.
Of course. There's always that little catch to it.
"Well Terra seems like he's gonna be busy for a while. What should we do now?" I asked.
"I'm going to go and check on how things are going. Why don't you and the other riders make sure Terra stays as far away from the village as possible?"
"Sure, I think we can manage that." I say as I walk over to the door. "I'll go get everyone and fill them in. How long should we stall him for?"
"Well the party's not until night so the whole day."
"The whole day?" I repeat but add with a "Your kidding" tone. "How do you expect us to keep him busy the whole day?"
"Not my problem." He said as he ushered me out the door. "I'm sure you'll think of something. You always do." He smiled as he pushed me outside. "Good luck."
"But Gobbe-" was all I could say before he slammed the door in my face. "…Thanks." I sighed sarcastically.
Toothless came over and nudged me, giving me a look that was asking "what's going on?"
"Hey Toothless." I greet as I pet him. "Look like we're gonna have a busy day. Gobber said we need to keep Terra far away from the village until night. Think you're up for it?" I asked. He responded with a happy trill. "Great, let's go get the others."
With that I mounted Toothless and flew off to find the other riders. I didn't have to look too far though. They aren't that hard to find.
Ruffnut and Tuffnut were probably the two easiest to find. Just look for where the most destruction is and you find the twins.
Next we found Fishlegs studying the baby dragons down in the dragon pens. The easy part was finding him. The hardest was getting him to stop talking enough to explain what was happening.
Finally we found Snotlout trying to impress Astrid with his "Superior flying skills" and failing badly as Astrid out did him at his own game. Once she was done mocking him we all flew over to the edge of the forest.
"So tell us again what's going on?" Tuffnut asked sounding bored.
"It better be good. We were gonna scare the pants off those sheep." Ruff added.
"Uh, guy? Sheep don't wear pants." Fishlegs said meekly.
"Then out of their wool. Shesh."
"Ok, ok!" I said getting their attention. "Ok, this is what's happening. The village is throwing Terra a surprise party-"
"Party! Sweet! Will there be cake? And mutton? And- OW!"
"Zip it Snotlout." Astrid silenced Snotlout with a punch to his helmet.
"Surprise party." I continue from where I left off. "We were asked to make sure Terra stays away from the village until night when the party will be ready. Gobber already gave him his chore list to do but knowing Terra, he'll get it done as fast as he can."
"Dragon perks." Fishlegs added.
"Basically. So do whatever you can to slow him down and keep him out of the village. Got it?" I asked to which everyone nodded. "Good. Any question?" The first two hands to go up were the twins. I sighed as I pointed to Ruff first. "Yes?"
"Ok, so you said to do whatever we can to slow him down right?" She asked.
"Does that mean we can set traps from him and maybe even set fire to his-"
"Let me rephrase that." I say cutting off Tuff as he continued with what his sister was probably gonna say. "Do whatever you can to slow him down without hurting him or causing too much damage to the area around him."
Both of them groaned and crossed their arms. "Fine." They both agreed.
"Great. Now that that's settled, who wants to go first? We all can't go at once or it'll get suspicious so we'll each take shifts until the party."
"I call first crack at him!" Snotlout said happily. "I'm pretty sure I can think of a few things to stall him out."
"I don't know if that's a good thing but ok. Snotlout you go and find Terra. Everyone else, let's see if we can help out around the village to get things sped up."
"Fine but we get to go next then." Tuff said as he high fived Ruff.
"Alright then, let's go." I say as Astrid, the twins, Fishlegs and I fly off to the village while Snotlout flies off to go find Terra. I just hope whatever Snotlout has planned actually works.
%%%Terra POV
"Stupid, peg legged, dirtied mustache, no good, crocked teethed-"
"Terra I don't think any of that is very nice to say." Sparks said cutting off my ranting.
"You don't say?" I say sarcastically as I drag 4 heavy logs tied to me waist along with 2 more carried in my arms. "I didn't just have to find a rare Oak tree in this forest and cut it down, get rid of all the leafs and drag it back from the village. Oh no. But now I need to find a guy I don't even know and deliver it to him. Joy." I groan as I readjust my hands on the logs. "And you sitting on them isn't really helping."
"What do you expect me to do? Drag one myself? Have you looked at me lately?" He said from his spot on the log on my left shoulder.
"No but maybe you could do something productive."
"Like what?"
"I dunno! Just something!"
"Ok! Don't need to bite my head off!" He groaned at me as he moved from the log back to my head.
"…Hardly seems productive."
"Hey, I moved didn't I?"
"Not what I-"
"Coming through!" I voice shouted cutting me off. I looked up to see a blur of red diving down at me.
"AHH!" I shout in surprise and duck down, dropping my logs as I lay on my stomach. The red blur swooped down over me. I could feel the dirt kick up for the wind force as I looked up to see who it was.
"Snotlout! What are you doing?!" I yelled at him as I saw him rounding back around and landing with Hookfang.
"Just showing off my epic moves." He grinned down at me.
I groaned as I got up and brushed off my vest of the dirt. "You could of hit me you bone head!"
"But I didn't so don't worry about it." He smirked.
I growled before I sighed and crossed my arms. "What are you doing here anyways? Shouldn't you be trying to impress Astrid with your "Epic moves"?" I asked sarcastically.
"I did and she loved it." Snotlout gleaned as he crossed his arms.
"He failed like always." Hookfang snorted as he rolled his eyes.
"Now that I believe." I mumbled to myself. "You still didn't answer my question about what you're doing here." I remind as I walk over to pick up the fallen logs.
"I came here to help, duh."
I stopped mid step and turned back to him. "You came to help? Really?" Snotlout plus something nice means something is up.
"Well yeah. Hiccup asked everyone to help you get your chores done today so that's what we're gonna do." He smiled but it looked like he was holding back a laugh.
"Hmmm." I hum. I'm not sure whether to believe it's true or if this is some sort of prank. "Fine, if you're really here to help then I could really use a break from all this lugging." I sighed as I place the 2 retrieved logs down and roll my shoulders a bit.
"Sure, Hookfang! Grab!" Snotlout commanded Hookfang.
Hookfang snorted and rolled his eyes again before he walked over to the logs tied to my waste. He looked at them for a moment before his face contorted and he inhaled a few breaths.
"Ahh…Ah..AHCHOO!" He sneezed. Or at least I think he sneezed. Regardless as he blew out he also blew fire out from his mouth and lit the logs on fire.
"AHH!" I shouted as I quickly untied the logs from my waist and backed away from them. "Hookfang I needed to deliver those Oak logs to the village! Do you know how hard it is to find Oak trees here?!" I growled at him.
"Well I'm sorry! I didn't mean too!" he defended himself.
I sighed as I pinched the bridge of my nose. "…No I'm sorry. It wasn't your fault and I shouldn't have yelled at you."
"It's ok Terra. We can find another one." Hookfang said positively.
"Yeah, at least I still have 2 lef-…where are the other logs?" I asked when I turned around to find them gone. "I just put them down a minute ago. Where did they go?"
"I dunno. Maybe they rolled away?" Snotlout shrugged.
"Great. More work to do."
"Don't worry. Hookfang and I will help you out. Count on it." He smirked once again.
To be honest I'm not sure if I want the help anymore.
"Alright, let's go find another Oak tree." I sighed.
"Ok. Last one to find a tree has to carry it back!" He shouted as he and Hookfang took off in a hurry.
"W-what? Hey! Wait up!" I shouted as I stripped of my vest and sprout my wings, taking off after them.
I just hope nothing else goes wrong today.
%%%Hiccup POV hour later
"Alright Toothless. Steady…steady…and perfect." I smile happily to myself as I set up some more decorations. With Toothless's help of course.
"Looking good Hiccup." Dad said as he walked on up to us.
"Thanks. How's everything else going?" I asked as I dismounted Toothless.
"Everything's going great. If we keep this up I'm sure we'll be ready for night fall." He smiled happily." So, how are you kids doing with keeping Terra away from the village?" He asked.
"Well Gobber already gave him his weekly chore list to do and Snotlout left to help stall him hours ago so-"
"Dragon rider coming through!" The voice of Snotlout shouted as he raced by my dad and I.
"Speak of the devil." My dad chuckled as Snotlout landed next to us.
"So how did it go?" I asked him.
"Hilarious. You should have seen the look on his face after Hookfang "accidentally" sneezed on the wood he was carrying for the 5th time! Or how I managed to lead him all around the forest in a big circle. Or-"
"Ok I think we get it Snotlout. " I say cutting off his rant. "What did you leave him off with?"
"Well he did manage to get a few things done. Hookfang and I just dropped off the stuff he had to deliver so I think he's collecting rocks on the far side of the island."
"Great. Now we just need t-"
"Snotlouts back!" Ruff shouted behind us as she and Tuff ran up and cut me off.
"Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, does that mean it's our turn to tortu- I mean, distract Terra?" Tuff asked excited.
"Uhhh, I think he's had enough right now with Snotlout. Lets give him a little break and send someone else." I don't think it's wise to send the two most destructive people on this island right after I just send…Snotlout.
They groaned loudly and rolled their eyes. "Fine." They both agreed as they sulked away.
"Good call on not sending them." Dad elbowed me.
"Yeah. I figured I should give Terra a break before he goes crazy."
"Thor knows we all go crazy from those two." He sighed as he watched them tie each other up in decorations. "Some more than others."
"Yeah…anyways, Snotlout go find Fishlegs and tell him it's his turn to stall." I say as I turned around but quickly turned back. "And tell him to be a little less…Fishlegs, alright?"
"Got it. See yeah later!" He then took off and flew away on Hookfang. Dad and I watched a he started to do flips in the air and completely goof off.
"I have the feeling he didn't hear a single thing I said."
"You're probably right." Dad agreed with me as he patted my shoulder. Even Toothless gave a little warble in agreement.
"Well it looks like I need to go find Fishlegs and tell him it's his turn." I say as I mount Toothless. "Good luck with the decorations." I say before I hear a crash from the twins fooling around. "You're probably gonna need it."
"That I will son. That I will." He sighed as he shook his head.
With that I took off to go find Fishlegs and lay down a few rules for him. Just to make sure Terra doesn't go completely crazy.
%%%Terra POV
"Did you know that Gronkals can digest any type of rock that they can break with their jaws."
"Yes Fishlegs." I groan.
"Or that if they eat different types of rocks at the same time it can change the colour of their scales."
"Yes Fishlegs." I groan once more.
"Do you know that-"
"Fishlegs?"
"Yes?"
"Will, you, zip it for 5 minutes and help me find the magnet rock?!" I shout at him as we were walking around looking for the black magnet rocks. Well, I was looking for it. Fishlegs was talking on and on about different effects that rocks had on Gronkals. Mainly Meatlug.
Speaking of which Meatlug was currently eating to her hearts content from all the different rocks in Rock Valley. Sparks was with her just resting on her back, asking her stuff about her kind.
"O-oh…sorry…" Fishlegs said quietly as he shuffled along.
"I thought when you showed up my troubles for finding this stupid rock would go away. But you've been talking for a straight hour and haven't even looked for a single rock." I start to rant.
"Uh Terr-"
"But noooo. You had to fill me in on knowledge that is slightly relevant to whats happening now."
"Terra-"
"And now it's almost noon and I still haven't found a single Mangnet rock!"
"Terra!" Fishlegs shouted.
"WHAT?!" I shout back at him, watching as he shrunk down under my shadow.
"…y-your arm is kinda…covered in them…" He pointed to my arm.
I looked down and saw that my metal arm was covered in chunks of the black rock. I pulled one off, which was surprisingly hard to do and studied it.
"Oh…well thanks Fishlegs." I chuckled a little awkwardly. "Sorry about yelling at you and everything. "
"It's ok but you should really move from where you're standing right now." he said as he took a few steps away from me.
"Why?"
"Because of that." He pointed behind me.
I slowly turned around to see other black rocks in the area were all starting to be drawn to me, slowly skidding across the ground and others slowly floating towards me. Once they got closer they started to speed up until they clung to my arm like bees to honey.
"What the-Fishlegs what's happening?!" I shouted at him as more and more rocks attached themselves to my arm.
"W-well magnet rocks are attracted to metal…and your arm is kinda metal so-"
"I get that much! How do I stop it?!" I shout once more as my arm started to get heavier.
"You need to move out of that area!" he said a little panicked.
I grunt as I slowly make my way over to him, practically dragging my arm on the ground from the sheer weight of all the rocks on it. My shoulder was killing me and felt like my arm would come off any second! I marched on forward until I finally managed to get away from all the other rocks. By the time I did, the rocks on my arm made it look about as thick as Stoicks arm if not bigger!
I feel on the ground in front of Fishlegs with a groan of pain as the weight of my arm kept me grounded. "Note to self…don't collect magnet rocks…ever again." I panted hard.
"Yeah, I thought you would have known that already." Fishlegs added with a little chuckle.
"Not right now Fish." I groan in a warning tone.
"Sorry…but hey, at least you got more than enough rocks." He said happily. "Now just to figure out how to get them off you." He hummed for a moment before he said "Ah-ha! I know, Meatlug!" he called out to her. She stopped eating her rocks and looked over to Fishlegs. Fishlegs pointed down to my arm. "Eat!" he gave the command.
Meatlugs mouth opened and her tongue flopped out as she quickly approached me.
"Uhhh, is that a good idea?" I say a bit worried as she stomped up to me.
"Don't worry you'll be fine…I think."
"What?"
"Nothing!" He shouted quickly.
Meatlug casted a shadow down upon me as she licked her maw at the sight of my arm.
I chuckled awkwardly. "Haha…Meatlug? You're not gonna do anything rash right?...Meatlug?" I asked but got no response from her. "Meatlug?" I asked again but I got nothing but her opening her maw wide and got ready to take a bite. "W-Wait, Meatlug! DON'T-!
%%% Later
"Im really sorry Terra." Meatlug apologized as she and Fishlegs walked with all the rocks behind me.
"Its fine Meatlug."
"She didn't mean to do it Terra." Fishlegs added.
"It's fine Fishlegs."
"You don't seem fine. You got this big, throbbing thing on your head." Sparks said from my head as he poked the throbbing vein.
"I'm fine Sparks." I said with a little growl this time.
"Are you-"
"Look guys. If someone asks me another question about how I'm feeling or anything about what happened to my arm, Terra isn't gonna very nice to be around anymore." I said with a little twitch of the eye.
Currently my arm is a broken, dent cover, dragon slobber filled mess thanks to Meatlug. She was enjoying her meal a little too much and forgot what was at the core of her rocky treat, my arm. So it's probably broken again and needs yet another repair but at least it still works to some degree. Just can't do much heavy lifting with it until it's fixed.
After my little warning the trip back to the village was a quiet and somewhat peaceful walk. The only thing that interrupted it was a gasp from Fishlegs followed by him and Meatlug blocking my path.
"W-wait Terra! You can't go in the village just yet!" He shouted at me.
"And why's that?" I crossed my arms.
"Because…uhhhhh…" he hesitated. "Because…because if Gobber sees you he'll probably think your slacking off and he might tell the village about you!" He said quickly.
My eye lids fell a bit as I sighed. "Now why would he do that? He won't get peeved that im just dropping on some stuff in the village. Besides I'm starving. I haven't had a decent meal all day." I groan as I rub my growling stomach.
"Then I'll take the stuff back in the village and get you some food!" He said quickly again as he nudged Meatlug, giving her the sign to start flying. She flapped her tiny wings fast and rose up to hover in place. "I'll be back real soon. Just go and do another task on the list and I'll bring you food then ok? I don't want you getting in trouble." He said concerned.
I sighed once more and rubbed the back of my head. "Alright, alright. I'm gonna go and find some wild boars for leather. If you're not back after I hunted some then I'm eating what I caught and you have to hunt for some of your own got it?"
"Got it! See yeah later Terra!" He waved as he and Meatlug flew away fast.
"Later." I waved to them as they flew out of sight.
"I have a feeling there's another reason why he didn't want you going into the village." Sparks murmured from atop of my head.
"Yeah, I do too. But I'm sure I'll find out later. Right now I need to find something to eat before I starve to death." I groan once more.
"Me too. I'm so hungry I could eat a whole basket of fish!"
"Says the dragon who did nothing to help all day. " I mutter to myself as I turn and start walking back into the forest.
"Hey! I helped!" The little Skrill shouted down at me.
"Sure you did." I say sarcastically as I dragged out the 'sure'.
He growled as me before he pouted and craned his head away from me.
I just hope I get this list done soon so I can go to bed and sleep for days.
%%% Hours later
"Kill. Me. Now." I groaned as I pulled myself up over the cold rock face.
"Come on Terra it's not that much further. I thought you were stronger than that." Astrid shouted down at me from her spot way above me on the cliff.
Let's get you guys caught up again. After Fishlegs left, I went hunting for boars. I managed to find and catch one but just as I did the twins swooped down and scared it off. Apparently it was their turn to "Help" and they did so by bringing me some fish and other foods. I was grateful at first but the gratefulness soon turned into sickness as I ended up throwing it all back up in the bushes and made me feel like crap. I found out soon after the twins covered all the food they brought me in Eli oil, saying they didn't know anything and chuckled as they did so.
Very convincing am I right?
Anyways after that I felt exhausted and counted do much in ways of hunting so the twins took it upon themselves to hunt for me.
They almost burnt down half the forest.
Hours later after they finally decide to leave me alone, it was well into the afternoon and almost time for me to head back when Astrid showed up. I was pretty happy to see her since I knew she wouldn't be that hard to deal with and will actually help me but that quickly left my mind when she decide that we should find the rare blue sunflower (Totally made up lol) that only grows high up in the mountains. I was gonna save that task for later but Astrid being Astrid basically forced me up here.
So now here I am, thousands of feet above the ground hanging on with nothing but my claws trying to find this rare flower.
Whoever this is for had better be grateful.
"Remind me again why where climbing up this huge mountain and not flying!" I shouted up to her as I started to climb up higher.
"Because the wind up here is too dangerous for dragons to fly in!"
"Oh and climbing is much safer?!" I shouted sarcastically as a few small rocks bounced off my head.
"No but it does make it much more fun!" She laughed as she dug her axe deeply into the rock before pulling herself up over a lip in the mountain side. "Come on! Your almost there!" she said looking over the lip at me.
I huffed and groaned as I dug my claws deep into the rocks. It doesn't help when one of your arms is basically broken and the other is in pain from digging my claws into rock over and over again.
I managed to climb up to Astrid and pull myself over the edge. I rolled over on my back and panted out cold breaths of air. Being this high up is even colder than being on the ground.
"Please… tell me we're there." I groan as I look up at her. She seemed completely fine. Like she's been doing this forever.
It's Astrid. Of course she's been doing this forever.
"Yep where here." She said as she pointed in to the cave.
I got up and messaged my shoulders a bit as we walked inside the dark cave. She brought out a torch and held it to my face.
"Open up dragon boy. We need light." She smirked.
I huffed as I opened my mouth and blew some fire onto the torch. The light from the torch lit the cave fairly well. Enough for us to continue down into its depths.
"So Astrid, why do we need this flower anyways?" I asked her during our trek through the mountain.
"It's a special kind of flower that Gothi turns into medicine. Plus this is the only time of year it grows."
"Then why is it only us that's looking for it if it's so rare? Shouldn't the other villagers be looking for it too before it's out of season?" I scratch my head.
"Nobody really has time to come up here and get it. Besides we only need a few anyways so why would someone got out of their way to come and get it you know?" she chuckled.
"Then why was it on Gobbers list of chores?"
"He lost a bet."
"Why am I not surprised." I roll my eyes and shake my head.
After about ten minutes of walking through this labyrinth of rock we had to stop because of this random river blocking our path.
"Uhh Astrid? Did we go the wrong way? And how is there a running river up here?" I asked her, not knowing how this was happening.
"There's a lake around the top of this mountain. The water drains out through this river."
"Where does it drain out too?"
"How about you find out?" she smirked before she kicked me in the butt and pushed me into the running river.
"A-Astrid!" I shouted as I was washed down the dark tunnel. I could barely see anything, even with my dragon eyes but I felt the water thin out until I was sliding down what felt like a smooth slide. Almost like a water slide?
It had twists and turns that went everywhere. Soon I began to felt my worry wash away and was replaced by enjoyment and excitement.
"WHAOOOO!" I shouted as I laughed. But like all fun, it must come to an end. I saw a light rapidly approaching and the next thing I knew I fell into a big opened lake.
Man was it chilly.
I stood up in the waist deep water and shook out my hair but it was pointless as I felt something crash into my back and push me back under.
I stood up once again to see it was Astrid who was laughing with joy.
"Did you have fun?" She asked me as she stood up herself.
"Well at first I thought you were trying to kill me but then I found myself laughing and having fun." I smiled as I splashed some water at her.
"Oh please. If I wanted to kill you I'd have done with my axe a long time again." She smirked as she splashed me back.
I shook my head and made my way to the edge of the lake and got out dripping wet. "So as fun as that was, how are we gonna get that flower now?" I sighed dreading we had to climb all the way back up again.
"Well if you turn around I'm sure you'll find your answer." She said as she too climbed out of the pool.
I turn around to see a bunch of blue flower scattered everywhere. My eye lids fell as I turned back to Astrid. "They were on the ground the whole time? Why did we climb up that mountain?!" I shouted.
"Because I wanted to show you the fun way to get here." She smiled as she punched my arm lightly. She then bent down and picked a few flowers and put them in the wet bag she had on her. "Alright let's head back."
"Back where? Up from where we just came out of? Do you even know where we are or how to get back?" I asked as I crossed my arms, peeved.
"No over here duh." She walked over to some bushes and pushed them aside. She stepped into them and I followed her after. A very short trek through some shrubs and we found ourselves back at where we started, at the bottom of the mountain where Stormfly and Sparks were waiting for us.
Oh the amount of face palms I wanted to do right now.
"Are you kidding me?! We went up that thing!" I shouted pointing to the mountain. "Just to go down a slide and end up on a few meters away from where we started!"
She hummed for a moment. "Yep sounds about right?" she said simply as she walked over to Stormfly and mounted her. "I'm gonna take the flowers back to the village. Hiccup should be coming soon so try to get dry." She mused before she took off, not even letting me get a word in.
Not like I could. My mouth was opening but no words were coming out from the amount of stress and rage I wanted to express but couldn't. Instead I just growled loudly and pinched the bridge of my nose.
"So did you have fun?" Sparks asked as he came up to me.
"I think I'm going to lose it." I groaned as I felt my head pound.
"Lose what?"
"My mind."
"How?"
"And there is goes!" I growled as I rubbed my aching temples. "Come on Sparks. Let's get this stupid list done so we can go home." I then scooped him up in my arms and placed him on his usual spot on my head. I then began to walk to the next destination.
"I hope to god that Hiccup will actually help me-…ahhh…AHHCHOO!" I sneezed loudly. "But first, I need to get dry." I said with a sniffle and a shiver.
I'm so glad this day is almost over. I don't think I can take much more.
%%%Hiccup POV
Well things seem to be looking good for the party so far. It's almost night and no one's seen Terra around for hours. I guess it's safe to assume that Astrid did a good job.
"Hiccup!" Astrids voice yelled from above.
I guess that answers my question.
I looked up to see Astrid and Stormfly soar overhead before they slowly descended down and landed close by. Astrid hoped off Stormfly and ringed out her braid.
"Phew, that was quiet the climb." She sighed.
"Took the long way around to get to the blue flower patch?" I guessed.
"Yep." She smirked back at me. "I think Terra won't be going anywhere for a while until his cloths dry so you got plenty of time before he ends up going anywhere."
"Great, that should give us just enough time to get one more thing done before the party starts." I said happily that everything was going according to planned.
"Well don't take too long or else everyone will start without you two. You know how everyone gets when it's a party of some kind." Astrid said with a roll of the eyes.
"Yeah, trust me, I know." I copied her actions with a slight chuckle.
"Well hope you enjoy your turn with Terra. I'm gonna get dried off before I catch a cold." She waved as she walked back over to Stormfly and mounted her. "Good luck Hiccup!" she shouted before she and her Natter flew towards home.
I waved her off before I sighed and scratched my head. "Well it looks like it's our turn Toothless." I turned to find my friend isn't where I saw him last. "Toothless?" I called again. "Toothless?!" I shouted louder as I walked in the direction he was last.
I heard some rummaging going on around the corner so I went to investigate. What I found my the hid of my Night fury raised high in the air while he had his head along with most of his upper body stuffed into a big barrel. His tail was swishing around fast on the ground.
"Toothless what are you doing?" I question him.
He stopped whatever he was doing and pulled himself out of the barrel. He turned his head towards more, only to show me a bunch of fish hanging out of his maw.
I sighed and shook my head. "Toothless that was for the party." I scolded.
Toothless gave a little whine and gave me his classic begging eyes, which caused me to roll my own. "Fine, swallow what you got and let's go but you get less fish during the party."
He trilled in agreement and swallowed down what he had before licking his lips with a happy gurgle.
"All done?" I asked to which he nodded. "Good, now let's go find Terra and keep him busy for a bit longer. " I stated as I walked over to him and mounted his back. "Let's ride Toothless!"
And with that he did. We flew high into the sky and head towards the mountains. Astrid said he should be around there still so hopefully we can catch him before he wanders off somewhere else.
After about 10 minutes of flying I noticed some smoke rising from the base of the mountain. Toothless and I lowered ourselves down so we could get a good view on where it was coming from. Luckily for us it was Terra and Sparks huddled around a decent sized fire.
"Hey! Terra!" I shouted down to him. He looked up and noticed us and gave us a wave. We descended down and landed in a clear area before we walked a little ways to meet Terra. When we arrived I noticed Terra was currently sitting half naked in nothing but his undergarments and Sparks on his head while the rest of his clothing was hung and stretched out over the fire.
"Hey Terra…what's going on?" I said a bit awkwardly seeing him in this state.
"Oh nothing, just trying to dry off the clothing that Astrid got all wet before I catch a cold." He groaned with annoyance before he ended up sneezing out a bit of fire. "Uhg, I think it's too late." He groaned once more.
"I'm sure it's nothing." I tried to reassure him. "Anyways how's the list going?"
"See for yourself." He said as he tossed me a wet piece of parchment. I opened it up carefully to see most of the words on it were all blurry and smudged everywhere.
"This might be a little problem."
"Gee, yeah think?" he sighed as rubbed his shoulders. "I'm exhausted and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now. And when can I go back to the village? You guys kept telling me that I shouldn't go back because of a whole bunch of different reason."
"Oh yeah? Like what?" I asked. I guess the question about that was bound to pop up eventually.
"Well Snotlout told me because I can't. That's it. I just can't. Fishlegs told me because Gobber would be mad if came back without the list being done. The Twins told me that they'd end up burning something down if I did and Astrid told me that it was to keep me from getting more work from Gobber." He said as he counted each of them on his fingers. "So what's your excuse?"
Great, now I have to come up with a good reason.
"Well the real reason why we didn't want you coming back in the village was because…Gothi was looking for you." I lied.
"And why exactly was she looking for me?" he raised an eye brow.
"Why else? She wanted to test new median she mad-"
"Ok! Now that's a good reason for not making me go back." He interrupted with a shiver. "I swear that women think I'm he little test subject or something…Ughhhh, I sick just thinking about."
Phew, glad he bought it.
"Yeah, well we still have a little bit more time before we should head back. How about we try to get done one more thing?" I suggested.
"But what should we do? It's almost night time and the list is unreadable. And I'll tell you this now. I am NOT going to Bonenapper island." He stated.
"Hmmm…" I thought for a moment. I need to keep him busy just for a little longer. Something that should take some time before we need to head back.
"…How about we go fishing?" I asked. "Toothless here ended up eating a lot of fish today and we need to replace it."
"Why does gummy here not eat a lot of fish?" Terra chuckled. Toothless gave a little growl to which Terra glared back at him. "Well at least I'm not a bottomless pit in which food goes to waste." He stuck his tongue out at him. Toothless did the same back with a slight glare.
I laughed for a moment before I patted Toothless's head next to me. "That's Toothless for yea; the lovable bottomless pit."
Toothless seemed happier when I called him it as he gave my face a little lick.
"Suck up." Terra mumbled as he rolled his eyes. He stood up after and brushed his bottom off of the dirt. "Well I guess we should get fishing before it gets too dark. Luckily it looks like my clothes are all dry." He said as he pulled his clothing off the sticks and felt them before he slipped them back on. "Ahh, much better. And now they smell like a nice camp fire." He sighed to himself.
"I guess your vest and leggings were due for a good cleaning anyways."
"After today's work, duh." He smiled. "Now let's get fishing before it gets dark."
"Alright, follow me and I'll show you a great fishing spot." I said as I mounted Toothless once more. Terra quickly put of the fire by smothering it in dirt before he sprouted his wings. "All good to go?"
"Yep. Let's fly." Terra then gave a few flaps of his black wings and rose up into the air, quickly followed by Toothless and I as we lead him the long way around to the fishing spot.
I hope this will give everyone enough time to get everything finished and ready for Terra.
%%%Not too much later
"I can't believe I got wet for nothing." Terra groaned out loud as his wet boots made squashing noises with every step he took.
"Sorry Terra. I guess we were a little too late." I apologized from my spot on Toothless's back.
"It's not you who should be saying sorry. It should be that overgrown lizard your riding who "accidentally" pushed me in." He glared at Toothless.
Toothless simply rose his head away from Terra and emitted a low growl.
"Don't even try to say it was an accident! You knew full well that I was standing on that rock and your tail just so happened to "tap" me off!" he growled back at Toothless who did nothing but give his warbled of laughter. "Oh I am so gonna slip a little surprise into your food later." He growled out again as he shook his head slightly.
"Come on Terra, I'm sure it was an accident. Besides, were almost back to the village." I said to try and cheer him up a bit.
"Good. I cannot wait to crawl into my bed next to a nice warm fire and sleep. I'm so tired and exhausted." He yawned as he sneezed once more. "I'm probably sick now thanks to you." He shivered as he glared at Toothless who paid no heed to him.
The walk from that point on was a short and quiet walk. Well other than the squishing of Terras boots, the few sniffles and sneezes and yawning that followed after. Soon we found ourselves out of the forest and back into the village of Berk.
As we were walking through the village Terra stopped and looked around.
"Hey, where is everybody?" He asked with another yawn, noticing the lack of sound from everyone's houses.
"I think everyone went to bed." I lied as I continued to walk towards the mead hall.
"Even the guards?" he questioned again.
"There probably just taking a little break." I lied once again, knowing full well where everyone was.
"Uhg, I'm so tired. Why are we walking up to the mead hall? I thought we were going home?" he rubbed his eyes as we walked up the stairs.
"Don't you want dinner first?" I asked him.
"I'd rather go to bed." A soft yawn followed the statement.
"Well I'm sure you'll like what you're having for dinner." I smiled back at him as we got to the top of the stairs.
"Sure…sure…" he said lazily.
I waited for him to get to the top as well before I creak open the door and slide inside with them.
"It's so-"He was cut off by another yawn "Dark in here." He finished as we walked into the very dark room.
"Well, how about we light things up them?" I smirked.
Just as I finished the torches were relit everywhere inside the hall by dragons of every kind. When it was bright enough to see, everyone from the village, who were hiding here, came out and yelled.
"SURPISE!"
Followed by a few loud cheers from a lot of people.
"Well Terra, what do yeah think?" I asked as I turned to him. But to my own surprise I found him rocking back and forth and giving off light snores.
…Did he fall asleep standing up?
"Uhh Terra?" I questioned as I walked up to him. Even Sparks was giving questionable growls from on top of his head. I slowly reach out and gave his shoulder a poke. Just for my little poke he started to lean over and ended up falling onto the ground, still asleep. Spraks managed to hope off him before he got squished between the floor and his head.
"What wrong with Terra?" someone called out from the crowed.
I turned to face them. "I think he fell asleep from all the work he did today?" I chuckled awkwardly.
"WHAT?!" I heard the voice of Snotlout shout as he came running out of the crowed and up to me. "You mean to tell me we spent all day working on the surprise party just to have the one it was planned for fall asleep?!" he shouted as me before he moved over to Terra and picked him up by the front of his vest.
"Hey! Wakie, wakie, mead and cakie!" he said as he shook him to try and wake him up.
"W-wha?" Terra woke up with droopy eyes and looked at Snotlout. "What do you want?" he said very slurred and tired like.
"Uh hello! We planned a surprise party for you and you can't even stay awake for the surprise part!"
"O-oh…" he said as he looked past Snotlout to see everyone else and all the decoration. "Sorry…I'm just so sleepy…" He yawned again.
"Well sleep can wait. It's party time!" He said as he grabbed one of Terras arms and pulled it over his shoulder, keeping Terra standing up with support from him. "He's awake people! It's time to have some fun!" he shouted to everyone.
Everyone cheered once more and started to get into full on celebration mood. Snotlout dragged the half-awake Terra into the crowed like a doll and made sure to keep Terra awake whenever he saw he was drifting off to sleep.
To be honest this was a pretty great party. Everyone seemed to have lots of fun. Even the dragons that all seemed they wanted to play with Terra. Too bad Terra wasn't really in a playing mood. Still, it looked like he still had fun by the sleepy smile on his face.
By the time everyone either got too tired or too drunk to party anymore, it was very late in night and shortly morning would come. I took my drunken dad and the sleeping Terra home with Toothless and Sparks and put them both to bed.
Well, put one to bed. The other was like trying to put down a bear that wants to play.
None the less I finally managed to put him to bed and head to my own. Terra looked like he could sleep through anything right now as I walked over him and clawed into my bed. Toothless and Sparks then took to where they sleep, a slab and under the furs with Terra.
I blew out the candle and rested my head on my pillow of furs.
Today was a pretty fun day. Probably a little less for Terra but I'm sure he had at least some fun during all that craziness. I just wonder one thing.
How's he gonna react when he finds out that half the stuff we made him do was pointless activities?
…
Eh, I'm sure Toothless and I can out fly him till he gets tired.
I just hope the other riders can do the same.
%%%End
Terra: Hey DD, I brought you a get well soon present *Dumps a boxes of letters on my bed*
Me: Whats this? *Looks at the letters*
Terra: Oh you know, all the PM and reviews you missed telling you to GET OFF YOUR LAZY ASS AND GET WRITING AGAIN!
Me: I WAS SICK WITH MONO! WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO?!
Terra: WRITE ABOUT ME, DUH!
Me: *Glares* I'll remember this when you get sick Terra. Don't you worry about that.
Well that's it for now. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I hope to see you guys again in the next :3
Leave a comment below and tell me whatcha think. And don't forget, if you have an idea feel free to message me ;3
Thanks everyone. Hope to see you again soon
DD23 Out!