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Chapter 21- "the honey and the hatchet"
(Gobber perspective)
(during the thing)
(back on Berk)
Much has happened since Stoick and the teens left for the Bog isles to participate in the thing
Most notably; there have been less explosions due to multiple things.
The Twins are gone, Hiccup is no longer around for things to randomly explode and the Night fury hasn't made an appearance in several days.
The night fury isn't in every raid but will usually come once or twice a week. But the night fury has been absent for a while. The village has had better success with the absence of the feared beast and are faring quite well. The raids were much easier without the teens muddling things up. Hiccup was gone and so no one needed to watch him or avoid him or try and save him when something inevitably went wrong. And the night fury was absent from the raids, no one could explain why but it was. The raids also came less; without their best asset they began coming less to avoid defeat. All in all the village was faring well, me? Not so much. With Hiccup gone that meant that I needed to make and repair more weapons. It's the honey and the hatchet I suppose, just in a different way. Instead of kind words and then the rude ones. It's one gain and one loss; the fewer raids and no Hiccup.
(Hiccup's perspective)
(at the forge on Bog burglar island)
I was in the forge looking at a blueprint for something Thuggory had asked me to make. He wanted to have his hatchets have the ability to ignite themselves, he also wanted it to have a bit of flare and make the fire yellow! I went through multiple blueprints trying to make it work. I finally figured out that combining dragon scales and steel will make the steel extremely resistant to heat and flames, now I just had to figure out how to make the flames yellow and not burn his hands.
I started with the color as I have seen that different dragons have different colored fire. So I started experimenting with different objects that certain dragons use. I eventually came across a very soft metal that turns the fire yellow when burned. Now I just had to figure out how to make it flammable but firm. I ended up discovering that I can make a small hatchet head out of this shiny soft metal (I call it sodium) and then make a larger size hatchet head out of my dragon scale steel that will preserve the yellow fire but also make it firm so you can still fight with it.
The steel allows the flames to stick to the weapon, but the scale makes it heat resistant so that the metal doesn't melt.
To protect his hands I made him a pair of gloves out of the dragon scales but made sure it looked like simple leather.
Thuggory usually dual wields his hatchets so I had to make two of these but it was a fun project to try out. It also got me thinking of more ways to improve weapons...
(Thuggory's perspective)
(during a party for all the heirs at the thing)
All the heirs were enjoying themselves, Snotlout and the two who looked similar were hogging the area around the mead barrel; they either didn't let anyone drink or pressured people to have more mead than they wanted. The blonde shield maiden from Berk that Hiccup used to harbour a crush for was also present. In fact everyone young was there, even those who weren't heirs, this was because many of the heirs had brought close friends with them and as such they were permitted into the party. The shield maiden was brandishing an axe at someone who tried to woo her. The large nerd from Berk was sitting in the corner of the room reading a book. Me, Enginn and Cami were all standing in a different corner of the room just talking and laughing. We were all eating a small dessert Enginn had made out of a large round piece of flatbread that was rolled up into a 'roll' and held together with honey and cinnamon, he called them Honey cinnamon roles. Many people were dancing and sparring, eating and pranking. The meade hall was large enough for everyone to have enough space that they didn't interfere with each other. The children were always given one day of the thing to have a party in the largest building; the adults were given a day off from all the competitions and discussions. I recognised quite a few people from the meeting earlier on in the week; there was a raven haired girl from the Berserker tribe, a pale blonde colored girl from the Peaceable tribe, a LARGE black haired boy from the outcast tribe who is named Bloodnut the flatulent. You can guess what he's famous for. Everyone was enjoying themselves, until Snotlout stepped away from the mead barrel. He walked through the crowd towards us.
He leaned in and the three of us were repulsed by the smell of alcohol in his breath
"C'mon babe come dance with me." he said in a drunken whisper
"No thanks." Cami said mockingly
"You can't call her babe." Enginn said calmly even though I could tell he was annoyed
"And why not." he asked goading
"Because she is promised to me." Hiccup said eerily calmly
"Promises are meant to be broken." Snotlout whispered drunkenly
"This is a promise I intend to keep." Cami said fiercely
"Sometimes you just can't help yourself though." Snotlout said as he winked
Then he turned and walked away
The three of us gave a collective sigh of relief
It wasn't 5 seconds later that Snotlout stood in the middle of the room and started addressing everyone
"...Cami is a whore! she was promised to me but then broke her promise and decided to go and frolic with this Enginn fellow, I mean who even is he?" he asked loudly
Many eyes turned our way including Hiccups old age mates
"What is more I think she is also having an affair with Thuggory!" Snotlout says loudly
"THAT'S IT! I call Holmgang, right here right now!" I roared
"BRING IT ON!" Snotlout shouts
"Snotlout you're intoxicated, heavily. You're in no shape to fight." the large boy says
"Shut it Fishshshlegss." he slurs
"Your loss." the large boy says shrugging his shoulders
"ALL HERE WILL BE WITNESSES THAT CAMI IS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH BOTH ENGINN AND THUGGORY." Snotlout shouts
"No. all here will witness me defending my sister and Enginn defending his betrothed!" I say loudly
"COME AT ME!" Snotlout shouts thumping his chest
"No thanks, instead I think i'll go through you!" I shout as I unsling my two hatchets
Hiccup had told me that to ignite the weapons I needed flint and steel.
I didn't need a flint and steel to spark my weapons.
Instead I clanged the metal of the blades together causing a spark that causes the blades to turn bright yellow with flames
The flames completely engulfed the head of the hatchets that you could barely make out the finely crafted steel beneath.
Everyone in the hall drew in a shocked breath, even Hiccup and Cami.
Snotlout's shock quickly turned to anger.
With a roar he charged at me with a sword
His blade clashed against one of mine
In his drunken state he failed to realize that I had two.
My other hatchet swung and threw his sword across the room.
Then I kicked him across the room.
He landed near one of the walls.
I stalked towards him holding my twin yellow ignited hatchets out at my side.
Snotlout glanced around for anything that would save him from me.
His eyes landed on the shields on the wall above him. There were many shields.
Snotlout stood up as I drew closer to him. He grabbed one shield off the wall and threw it at me
I ducked under it but Snotlout had thrown another one at me. That one hit me in the nose causing a nosebleed.
But I stood up and used my hatchets to block and deflect all the other shields he threw.
Eventually he had two left and put one on each arm and charged at me. He blocked both my hatchets with one shield and punched me in the face with the other.
I yanked my hatchets free of the shield and slammed one into one of his shields as I swung my other one under both his shields and hit his leg.
He screamed in agony and dropped to the floor.
I stood over him with my axes in a battle stance carefully avoiding the burning parts of his clothing
"I could kill you." I said darkly as I leaned down towards him
"Do it." he spat
"I'd rather watch you suffer at the hands of the chiefS who you have just insulted." I said stressing that there were pleural chiefs
He visibly paled
I turned and began to walk back to where Hiccup and Cami where standing
I sheathed my hatchets on my back in the special fireproof sheath I had that extinguished the flames.
"You might want to put out those flames." I called to Snotlout over my back
His shrieks of pain and surprise brought a smile to my face.
another multi-meaning title! Yeah!
meaning one: Gobber talks about all the good and bad things that have happened since the chief and all the teens went to the thing.
meaning two: Thuggory now wields dual yellow flaming hatchets.
meaning two point five: Hiccup is experimenting with food and likes honey (because why not)
Anyway parts of Hiccups perspective are scientifically accurate like the yellow flames created by sodium but most of the rest i'm unsure if its true (like if you combine a fireproof material and a combustible (flammable) one will it make the product fire Resistant
BTW if you think i'm ripping off IAmTheBrovahkiin i'm not (well i kind of am) the dragonscale steel is based on CdnChrgr's nightshade steel and he got the inspiration from Brovahkinn. the special colored fire i got inspiration from CdnChrgr. plus my OC that will come later on in the book will be very similar to a character in Brovahkinn's book
Brovahkinn's book=the boy behind the mask
CdnChrgr's book=disturbed relations
(parts of this book were highly inspired by DR by CdnChrgr and inadvertantly inspired by Brovahkinn's book tBBtM (because CdnChrgr was inspired by tBBtM))