Sorry I have been so late, but I had finals, I will try to catch up in my writing until then enjoy this new chapter.
Hiccup was still doing, "Pushups" when I walked into the area, so I figured I had to make myself known. I cleared my throat.
"Hiccup?" That startled him enough that he collapsed mid-"Pushup".
"Ella? You're back!" He got off the ground and brushed himself off. "What are you doing here? Why are you in the forest first and not the village?"
"I got back last night on the other side of the island. I decided not to return to the village until daylight." I lied.
"Why were you on the other side of the island when we saw you leave the other direction?" I didn't know what to say to that.
"It was night when I got back so I decided to rest on the other side of the island for some unknown reason." There was a beat of silence. "What did Jenna tell you when she got back?"
"She said you went off on your own for some unknown reason. Why'd you go off alone?"
"Uhhh, Ummm," I was stuck. I couldn't tell him I had a night fury, he'd tell everyone, and it'd ruin the franchise. "It turns out the island wasn't close to home. I left to see if our island could be spotted from there, and to let out some steam because I really miss home." There was another beat of silence.
"So, Hiccup, What are you doing out here?"
"Oh, I'm just doing some suggested workouts."
"I hate to break it to you Hiccup, but working out is not going to make you buff. Even if it would, how is that a workout?"
"It's push-ups."
"Those aren't push-ups. I've seen push-ups, those aren't push-ups. Why are you even doing push-ups?"
"I'm training for Thawfest."
"Thawfest!" That episode was coming up, I guess the Heather segment was excluded, or is that us. I still need to make it seem like I don't know what it is. "What's Thawfest?"
"I figured you wouldn't know, seeing as Jenna didn't. All she said you had was an annual arm-wrestling competition between your parents, which you never participated in."
"What is Thawfest?"
"Thawfest is an annual event meant to test young Viking's strength in competition, I always lose to Snotlout; Lucky for me that this year has dragons in the games."
"I can see that's your specialty, it's probably best that we don't join though."
"Yeah, the only one of you that has a dragon is Jenna. Wait, if you don't have a dragon, how did you get back?"
"I temporarily trained a Thunderdrum and it gave me a ride."
"That's cool, well Jenna and the others are probably going to want to know you're here."
"I guess I should go see them. Jenna's probably mad at me for ditching her," I said sadly.
"She'll get over it, it's what sisters do. Just explain to her what you explained to me."
"Will do," I lied. I couldn't help but notice Toothless staring at me again.
Jenna was in the Arena with Astrid, who was practicing her ax throwing. Viola was there too. Hiccup gave me a ride on Toothless, it felt great. Once we arrived in the arena, Viola noticed immediately and in turn so did Jenna, and then Astrid.
"Ella," Screeched Viola.
"Ella," said Jenna.
"Look who's back," said Astrid. I got off Toothless and was tackled by Jenna who hugged me, then started pounding me in the shoulder. "Don't! Leave! Like! That! Again!"
"Promise me the same thing," I pleaded.
"I've never done that to you before," she said quizzingly.
"I know, and I want it to stay that way." Jenna got a light bulb, and pulled me to the side.
"Did you have a vision of me leaving you?" Oh no, she knows!
"No, I just know what I did was wrong and don't want you to do the same thing to me," I lied.
"Okay, I promise," That made me relieved. "Did you a Thunderdrum give you a ride back?"
"Yes," I lied.
"Okay, so, I told you so. I told you there would be no night fury there."
"Yep, you were right," I lied. "And there you are with your 'I told you so'. I deserve it." More than being abandoned, I thought to myself. Jenna pulled me away from the side.
"Well, I'm glad that you're back and we're together again. Now we can watch Thawfest together; beats what we had back home."
"Yeah, I know, right?"
I was confronted by all the teens and their dragons. They wanted to know what it was like to be on your own in the wild with not a lot of dragon training experience. I couldn't tell them much, which was painful. I didn't like all this lying I had to do, but telling the truth would make them look at me weird.
After I ditched all the questions being asked from the riders and dragons alike, I decided to head over to the forge, look at some designs and make star a saddle. Should be easy once I started, with this 'It comes easily' thing; all I really wanted to do was go flying with Star again. It was the only place I was telling the truth.
I would have gone to make the saddle right away, but I ran into Toothless who was surprisingly alone.
"Toothless, what are you doing here?"
"I finally managed to ditch Hiccup; I need to talk to you alone." Just then Viola flew in.
"I finally managed to ditch Jenna; Ella, I need to talk to you alone."
"Hey, I was talking to her first."
"Well, I knew her first." Just then, Stormfly flew in.
"I finally managed to ditch Astrid; Ella, there is something all the riders dragon's want to know."
"Any other dragon that wants to see me, just line up!" I yelled sarcastically.
"Don't yell," said Toothless. "You'll attract people, and we want to talk to you alone."
"You guy's definition of alone is different than mine," screeched Viola.
"Guys," I stressed.
"What?" They all said.
"What is it you guys want to know?"
"Who should start," asked Stormfly.
"Toothless, you were here first, you start."
"Okay, when you first came back, you didn't smell like a Thunderdrum, which disproves your story about being brought her by one."
"That's what I was going to say," said Viola.
"Me too," said Stormfly.
"I was here overnight, the smell would wear off." I said a little nervous.
"You didn't smell like overnight, you didn't smell like the sea at all," said Viola.
"Alright, it was longer than a night. I stayed in the forest for a few days, happy."
"I knew I smelt you in the cove," said Viola.
"We did too," said Toothless and Stormfly.
"Then why didn't you guys let on you knew," I said mostly speaking to Viola.
"We didn't want to get Jenna and the dragons all excited," said Viola.
"Why didn't you come back right away?" asked Toothless, probably remembering our deal.
"I was nervous. I was nervous of how Jenna would act, how you guys would react, and telling the truth and how that would go down. Are we done?"
"Not yet," said Stormfly. "We said you didn't smell like a Thunderdrum, but you did smell like a Night Fury."
"I was in the cove, and from the scales I could see that Toothless was in there." I said trying to cover my tracks.
"I know my own smell, but this smell isn't mine, it belongs to someone else." All three dragons moved closer.
"Are you hiding something, Ella," asked Viola.
"No, nothing you don't already know." I was nervous. "Can you guys please leave me alone? I have my reasons for doing things. If I was hiding something, which I'm not, I would have a reason for not telling; and if I wanted to tell you, that would be my decision, not yours. A girl deserves her privacy."
"What do you mean?" Jenna had just walked into the clearing.
"Jenna, I… You do know what I'm talking about right. All introverts need time to be alone."
"What's an introvert?" Hiccup had just arrived into the clearing.
"Hiccup, uh…Introvert is a term Jenna and I made up, it means you like to think about things rather than do things."
"Hmm, I seem to fall in that category. Why do they like to be alone?"
"So they can think without disturbances."
"Why would Stormfly fly all the way out here to…you," Astrid just walked into the clearing.
"I don't know," I quickly said. That was easy, but I had a feeling things were going to be a whole lot harder.
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