How To Train Your Dragon
Night in the Twilight Sky
Chapter 28 ~ Same Dragon, New Tricks
I swear my heart stopped that second, my blood turned to ice and my arms had goose bumps, I folded my arms to try and warm them up, luckily it was already cold so it just looked like I was cold, not out of my mind C'mon Twilight! You've done this kind of thing before, just make something up! My heart pace quickened and it beat uncomfortably in my chest
"W-Well..." I shuffled in the snow, pawing at the ground in my fur boots, I raised my hand and moved a few strands of hair out of my eyes
"Well what?" she placed her hands on her hips, her scowl sending messages to my brain to turn tail and run "I saw you with my own eyes Twilight, you, fell off, a cliff" Astrid prodded me with her words, I shot up my head and smiled slightly with a light, nervous, chuckle
"Well it's not the first time that's happened to me" I joked, I actually heard a few laughs from behind me
"This is serious guys, I swear, she's up to something!" Astrid protested trying to stop the others from laughing
"Oh well I appreciate the trust Astrid! Geez, if a girl can't practise trust exercises with her dragon without someone thinking she's up to something, then what can I do?" I snorted and I felt Flare snort with me
"T-Trust exercises?" Astrid looked at me with complete suspicion
"C'mon Astrid just leave it, it's no big deal anyway" Snotlout appeared beside me
"No big deal?!" Astrid nearly exploded
"Well, yeah, I mean trust exercises are the best way to increase communication with your dragon" Fishlegs added
"Maybe you should try that with your dragon Astrid" I said as I took a small step back in between Ruffnut and Tuffnut, Astrid gave me a look so cold I nearly got brain freeze
"Ugh, I don't have time for this, I'm going home" Astrid said before swinging her leg around her dragon and taking off, I made a sigh of relief and smiled at the others Phew... close one
"T-Thanks guys, honestly I did nothing wrong, I was trying to see how far I could go before Flare helped me" I smiled
"No problem Twi, we trust you" Tuffnut smiled
"Yeah, what he said" Ruffnut agreed with a nod
"So Twi, how far did you fall before Flare helped you?" Fishlegs asked with excitement, ready to write anything down for The Book of Dragons
"H-How far down? W-Well..." I looked at the cliff and pointed in the middle "Roughly about there, he didn't want me to fall any further I guess" I smiled with a small shrug Shut up Twi! You're still lying!
"I guess I could try that with Hookfang sometime!" Snotlout grinned
"Hey, why don't we do that for the next lesson for tomorrow in the Dragon Academy?" Fishlegs suggested
"Dragon... Academy?" I asked, Flare flicked his tail and jabbed me on my shoulder, I looked around and saw Flare with the same confused look as me
"Oh! We almost forgot to enrol you! It's this Academy Hiccup and us set up to help us live better with our dragons, but since we needed you to learn the basics first we all had to go training with Gobber" Fishlegs explained
"Basically, you needed to learn from the start before being allowed in" Ruffnut simplified "I think"
"Yeah, now you get to train with The World's Most Deadly Weapon!" Tuffnut grinned proudly, he saw my blank expression "Oh never mind"
"Oh, well, thanks guys" I felt Flare tense up with excitement, his tail began wagging and his breath began shallow
Oh this is gonna be fun! We get to kick some dragon tail! I patted the dragon on his head and looked back at the others
"So what kind of stuff do you guys do at the Academy? I'd like to be prepared"
"Well, quite a range of stuff really, we do Agility, Quizzes-" Fishlegs began
"Really boring stuff, until it gets to the flying and fighting!" Snotlout smiled as he practised punching in the air
"M-Mind the ice-!" I warned quickly, although it had fallen on deaf ears as at that moment he slipped backwards onto the ice
"Ouch!" I slowly face-palmed
"Oh! And tomorrow it's Tuffnut's and Ruffnut's birthday!" Fishlegs smiled
"Oh? Well, Happy early birthday guys! How old will you be?" I asked, pretty much surprised I hadn't heard about this before
"Well, we're- uh..." Tuffnut scratched his head, well, helmet
"15?" Ruffnut suggested
"No no... not 15... 17! It's 17! Right?" Tuffnut said smiling hopefully
"You're both 16 tomorrow, six, teen" Fishlegs groaned
"Oh, oh yeah! 16!" Ruffnut grinned
"Hey, that's how old I am" I added before yawning slightly "Well have fun tomorrow! I'm off to bed"
"Oh well I'll walk you back" Snotlout suggested "You need some muscle to protect you from those bandit dragons that are lurking about" I chuckled slightly
"I think I can take care of myself, but thanks anyway"
"We might as well all come, since you need some knowledge about what's happened so far at the Dragon Academy" Fishlegs shrugged as he began walking beside me, Snotlout folded his arms and rolled his eyes but followed anyway, and the twins were fighting for any number of reasons, but they ended up following, Flare snickered and whispered in my ear
Nice fan club you have there I smiled and scratched him on his head between his horns
"Sure, sure" I whispered back to him with a smile
After about ten or fifteen minutes Fishlegs, Snotlout, and sometimes the squabbling twins, had explained to me, pretty much everything that had happened since the Dragon Academy was set up, about this man I hadn't met yet named Mildew, this trader Johanna, a girl named Heather, who I seemed to take a shine to, and these Viking outcasts called, well, The Outcasts, and their leader, Alvin The Treacherous
"Wow, so, do you think he'll return?" I asked, slightly unnerved by their experiences
"Who knows, probably, since we kinda-" Fishlegs began before being interrupted
"Totally kicked their butts!" Snotlout said proudly
"Well, I guess you'll have another dragon rider against them this time" I joked
"Huh who? Our cousin Larse?" Tuffnut asked completely clueless
"You found him?" Ruffnut added, just clueless
"I meant me" Those two are definitely a pair to have fun with I chuckled, finding their cluelessness actually quite enjoyable, and I could imagine having a good time flying with them, getting up to no good
"Wait, I just realised" Fishlegs spoke
"What?" I asked with a tilt to my head
"Well, you do have a dragon" he pointed to the Terror on my shoulder
"Yeah, Flare" I stroked him as he opened his wings, ready to fly and show his worth
"Well, you can't exactly 'ride' him can you?" Fishlegs explained
"O-Oh, well, I guess you're right" I looked at Flare, he snorted and puffed out his chest
Just you wait! He then flew off like a flash, I stood there watching in confusion to where he was flying off to
"Well, this is awkward" I shuffled in the snow
"I-I-I didn't mean to make him angry" Fishlegs said nervously
"Oh no, it's fine, he can get like that sometimes" I shrugged, although I was worrying inside where he was going
"Hookfang gets like that too!" Snotlout spoke after being silent for more than two minutes
"Oh? How do you stop him?" I asked curiously
"Well, I don't really, I just tackle him on the horns and hold him to the ground" he smiled
"And that, helps?"
"Well, on Monstrous Nightmares it does, not too sure about a Terror though"
"Oh, well, that's just great" I muttered, trying to figure out where Flare had gone
It was a few minutes of me listening to the others in a deep panic later, I heard it, the beating of wings, and a lot of wings, I looked up to see a low, black cloud floating towards us, I squinted my eyes and tried to make out the cloud particles against the night sky, slowly, my brain processed the images into tiny dragons, Terrible Terrors, with Flare, leading at the front Flare!
"Flare!" I jumped up and waved my arms towards the cloud, I estimated about twenty plus Terrors not including Flare, he swooped down as the small cloud swarmed around me
Try not to fly with these guys! He grinned as I felt claws gripping my limbs and clothing, slowly, I felt myself rising into the air, and within seconds, I was floating in the air, almost effortlessly, by the Terrors
"Wow..." I smiled Woo! Now I can fly without turning into a Night Fury!
Squee~ I NEEDED to include Riders of Berk ^^ I just couldn't stop myself XD And if you've seen The Book Of Dragons, then somewhere in there, there is a girl who is being carried by a bunch of Terrors, that's what I based the last bit off XD
