I'll stand by your side till the end
Chapter 11
Elsa walked back to meet Anna. They met up and lit up the bonfire. taking out the bread that Elsa had got from Astrid and Fish that Anna had caught.
"So what did you do today?" asked Elsa.
"Nothing just roamed around and practiced a little. And you?"
"I walked through the city and later around the city. And then I .. met someone I think she can be trusted."
"Does she have powers?"
"Yes she has powers she is different?"
"how? and what powers does she have?"
"She can control the winds."
"Does she have the tattoo."
"Yes she does that's how I found out about her and what is that on you hand?" asked Elsa as she saw the tattoo on Anna's hand. She grabbed her hand and Anna yelped.
"I got it recently." She said.
"Then why didn't you show me? "
"well look at who is talking coming back exhausted not being able to stand and barely keep your eyes open and this is the first time you even talked to me. I thought you were ... angry with me. So... like old times" complained Anna.
"That's because I... was caught up with the training with
Astrid and I was too exhausted to even move where is it my fault?"
"You were training with her?" Asked Anna.
"When were you planning to tell me that?"asked Anna.
"I too am seeing someone." Said Anna quietly as she turned the other way.
"WHAT!" "Anna HOW CAN YOU NOT TELL ME. WHEN DID YOU SEE HIM? I TOLD YOU NOT MEET ANYONE THEN HOW COME! DID YOU GO TO BERK!THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN THIS THEY WOULD GO AGAINST THIS!" exploded Elsa.
"Elsa chill down I didn't go to Berk .I was waiting to be sure about him so that I can tell you about him. It was totally by accident.. I promise I wasn't going to meet him but then I had to.. " She almost shouted.
The girls were disappointed in each other that they ate in silence and went to sleep. Then the next morning they went their ways with out speaking.
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THE TRINING RINK
"Today is about teamwork. Work together and you might survive." Announced Gobber.
ON A DOUBLE-WIDE DOOR. Gas seeps through the cracks. It BLASTS OPEN. A cloud of smoke engulfs the ring, swirling around the paired-up teens. Astrid with Ruffnut. Snotlout with Tuffnut. Fishlegs with Hiccup. All carry buckets of water, poised to throw them.
"Now, a wet dragon head can't light its fire. The Hideous Zippleback is extra tricky. One head breathes gas, the other head lights it. Your job is to know which is which." He announces.
The smoke encircles them, cutting them off from each other. The teens LISTEN and WATCH for any sign of the dragon.
Moving nervously through the fog, back to back. Snotlout is singing to himself to calm his nerves.
"If that dragon shows either of his
faces, I'm gonna—" they spot an approaching shape, terrified.
"-There!" Snotlout and Tuffnut HURL their water into the fog.
"It's us, idiots." Said Astrid and Ruffnut both of them are soaked.
"Wait." Astrid warns them.
They FREEZE. A tail SWEEPS out of the fog, taking them down. Their buckets spill.
Fishlegs and Hiccup face the dragon and Fishlegs out of instincts splashes the wrong head. he then flees away.
"Now, Hiccup!" Encouraged Gobber. He was confused should he be happy that hiccup is the last one left or should he be terrified that he would be facing the dragon alone.
Hiccup hurls his water with all his might. It arcs and drops short of the
dragon's sparking mouth. The dragon grins, savouring the kill.
"Oh, come on!" says Hiccup.
Gobber COVERS his eyes. The Zippleback hesitates. SNIFFS. Then teens get to their feet, watching transfixed. Gobberpeeks through his fingers to see...
The Zippleback backing away from Hiccup. He stands and holds his hands out, as if controlling it.
"BACK! BACK! BACK! Now don't you make me tell you again!" Hiccup to every ones amazement was controlling the dragon. The Zippleback retreats through its door and into its cave, hissing.
"Yes, that's right. Back into your cage."
Hiccup slyly OPENS his vest, revealing the spotted smoked EEL from earlier. He TOSSES it inside the door, then SLAMS it shut.
"Okay! So are we done? Because I've got some things I need to..." he said and left.
OooO0OooO
Hiccup cuts and stitches leather, draws and shapes steel. He works by candlelight. An overhead shot reveals what he's building: a harness, complete with handles and foot pedals
Hiccup appears before Toothless, holding the new prosthetic. Toothless runs off as Hiccup chases him down.
"Hey!" shouted Hiccup.
Toothless and Hiccup take off and now are zooming over the ocean. The tail breaks free sending Hiccup flying. Hiccup adjusts the harness and uses a metal clamp to affix himself to Toothless' saddle.
Hiccup and Toothless zip through the air his rudimentary harness and tail controls are working, barely. They crash-land in an open field. Hiccup recovers to find Toothless still rolling around in the tall grass. Hiccup discovers that it's a patch of 'dragon nip.' Toothless writhes on his back, tongue wagging, in complete bliss.
Hiccup packs some of the Dragon nip with him as they set of again to go back home.
Anna watches Toothless taking a flight. She was always elated to see her 4 legged friend soar the skies. After Hiccup left she always went to meet the beast and enjoy her time there with the beast. She too was gaining knowledge about the dragons she was able to put Toothless to sleep with the perfect pressure points. And she learnt other things about the dragon.
Anna sat by his side and looked at the dagger that Elsa had given her in the morning for her safety. She stared at it and unknowingly it caused its reflection to fall on the ground in front of Toothless. Toothless claws and chases the light patch like a cat chasing a laser pointer.
"Sweet she said as she played with Night fury the rest of the time.
Over the time hiccup and Toothless were gaining experience on flying. Every time they flew they landed with a new difficulty and Hiccup worked at night solving it and the next morning came up with a new harness.
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Next day at the training.
Hiccup grabs the head as instructed, then discreetly pulls a fistful of 'dragon-nip' and presses it up to the Gronkle's nose. It immediately stops struggling and goes weak in the knees. Hiccup drops the handful of dragon-nip to the ground. The Gronkle goes down with it, whimpering and blissful. From Gobber and the recruits' point of view, Hiccup is controlling the Gronkle with no more than a limp arm.
He left the recruits astound and baffled. They bombarded him with questions.
"How did you do that?"
"Black magic." He replied with some hand gestures. Surprisingly Astrid was baffled. Was it something related to... she walked away. To meet Elsa.
Hiccup did the same with the angry Deadly Nadder and other dragons. That they were up against for that day and when it was called off. Hiccup was the hero of all the matches. He was able to control the dragon according to his will.
Astrid was growing suspicious about his ways of winning over the dragons.
"Wow, he's better than you ever were." Taunted Ruffnut.
Astrid furiously hurls her axe at a nearby tree. She notices Hiccup walking by in the distance, carrying one of his
trademark harnesses. She quickly tries to follow, but he loses her in the woods.
She HUFFS, frustrated.
But then she decided to go meet Elsa and cool herself.
By this time Hiccup had meet Toothless and was soaring through the skies.
Anna and Elsa left out to their separate ways to meet Toothless and Astrid respectively.
Elsa looked up to see a dragon soaring the skies and going in the direction where Anna had just gone.
'ANNA' she thought before dashing in that direction.
Hiccup had landedback into at the cove and Anna waited for him to leave watching him silently from behind the trees.
Hiccup pated Toothless's muzzle and left the cove to go back to his place.
Elsa by now had reached the cove. New to the place she slipped and landed on her butt a few feet away from the dragon.
Seeing the dragon her instincts kicked in she stood up and formed a ball of ice ready to shoot the dragon.
Both took the fighting stance.
Elsa shouted
"YOU DRAGON DIE!"as she blasted him with ice balls that strike his thick skin and melted. Toothless too blasted a bolt of fire at Elsa which she barely was able to dodge.
'No no no no no!' thought Anna but by the time she was able to reach the duo. the war had begun.
Elsa then formed a spear icicle and shot that at the dragon. Anna aimed her fire powers ob that spear and melted it half way through. She stood in between Elsa and Toothless protecting Toothless.
"STOP ! you don't do this too him. Toothless is Harmless."
"Anna Move away that is a dragon he will always go for the kill. Please understand and MOVE." Said Elsa ready to shoot the dragon.
"ELSA YOU LISTEN TO ME THIS NOT WHAT YOU THINK HE IS HARMLESS. YOU ARE SCARING HIM. They are just like us. Hands down." said Anna.
"Anna you don't understand…"
"ELSA YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HANDS DOWN. HE IS COMEPLETELY HARM LESS!"
"ANNA MOVE HE WILL ATTACK."
"ELSA you are provoking him he won't harm you if you don't. trust me." She said. None of them moved.
"Elsa, toothless is the one I wanted you to meet." She said, Elsa was shocked.
"ELSA i am not moving from here. I won't let you harm him." said Anna silently.
"Anna did you not see him attack right now?"
"ELSA you attacked first. Trust me on this one he is harmless. Please." Begged Anna.
Just then Hiccup entered the cove he was surprised to see two unknown girls standing there one in front of Toothless and the other elder one in front of her. He noticed her eyes were filled with rage.
The girls looked at the stranger.
"Who are you?" demanded Elsa as she was ready to attack Hiccup.
"Elsa this is not the right thing to do? Trust me on this. Please don't use your powers" Anna whispered the last part. This calmed down Elsa as she flashed him her dagger.
Which resulted in a growl from Toothless.
"NO!" Shouted Anna.
"He is harmless."
"YES JUST LIKE THE DRAGON WHO DIDN'T BLAST ME HERE?"shouted Elsa.
"No, I mean seriously. He is…"Anna tried to convince Elsa.
"Okay I'll take that. Aren't you Hiccup?" Asked Elsa she remembered her day at Berk.
"Yes…." He replied going towards Toothless.
"Stay away from her?" warned Elsa.
"He doesn't even know me Elsa. Toothless is fine." Answered Anna she assured Elsa and Hiccup.
"He is harmless. Please don't hurt him. Everything that we know about them is not true…." He tried to convince the two girls.
"Seriously! Hiccup I know that. Now if you remain quiet can I convince my sister not to kill my friend."
"How do you know him?" asked Elsa and Hiccup at the same time. Both referring to Hiccup and Toothless respectively.
"Okay, I'm not going to repeat this. So as I promised my sister not to meet anyone from Berk which I kept, I saw you the time you Cruelly shot poor Toothless to the ground. The next day I stumbled here and found him standing right at my face and after that I befriended him. And ever since I have watched you meet him. After you left I used to meet Toothless."Answered Anna as she stepped closer to toothless and rubbed her hand on his muzzle and smiled when he responded.
Hiccup was astound that Anna believed in his ways. 'But who are they both? But Toothless trusted her so it must be true. If he trusts her then I too.'
Elsa was still confused on what to believe and what not to believe 'Astrid a friend who warned her to kill the dragons and on the other hand her sister who befriended them.' She still was not sure about this.
"Stalker" said Hiccup. Elsa glared at him.
"Sorry, I had no other option." Replied Anna.
Their conversation was stopped by strong winds that started to blow.
'You better be sure about this Anna.' Thought Elsa.
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Kohinoor~