Sorry for the lack of updating I've bee with school...

Anyway, this chapter is based on Disneyanimationfan's idea ;)


Entry 42

It's been a rather uneventful few weeks. Then again, I also haven't really been out of my house except to go to work… and honestly, I haven't wanted to do anything else. My sketchbook has sat untouched since the harvest, and I don't know if I even want to open it again. It seems easier to just lie here in my thoughts, anyway…

The best part? My dad hasn't even noticed my change in mood. It's clear I've been more reserved than usual lately, yet he hasn't said anything about it. Seems pretty typicwfd-

DRAGONS! EXPLOSIONS! RIGHT NOW! Gotta go-

Well, the dragons are gone, thank gods… Unfortunately, the destruction is pretty substantial. And it's all because of… no, I don't know that for certain… Then again, I don't know WHAT I saw.

Let me back up a bit, try to get my thoughts straight…

I ran to the forge as soon as I stopped writing, since that's the only place I can be now during raids. I was there for a few minutes, assisting Gobber with weaponry, when another Viking yelled for his help. Gobber left to go join in the fighting, and I took that as my chance to sneak away. Of course, I couldn't just go out into the midst of it all, since the whole town knows about my being limited to the forge. So, I snuck out the back and hid on the edge of the woods, to watch the dragons from the shadows. Why I wanted to watch them, I'm not entirely positive… probably to get a better feel for their patterns so I can know how to kill them...

Anyway, I was there, watching for a while, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw something. I really can't say for certain if it was real or not but… I thought I saw a dragon swoop by. One purely black in color, so dark its shape was only discernible for a split second against the snow covered trees. I did a double take, but it was gone… so I decided to move over a ways, and waited. After what felt like hours, I saw it again. Clearer this time… I could almost make out the shape of two broad wings, and a long tail tipped with tailfins. But… it wasn't heading for Berk… it was just circling over the trees. If what I was seeing truly was a Night Fury, why wasn't it attacking? Why would the fiercest, evilest dragon of them all just fly on the sidelines? It's almost like it was… scouting the area.

I continued waiting, staying in my hiding spot all the way until the raid was over, but I didn't see anything else. I don't even know if I saw it the first two times, it was so fast… but I couldn't have just been imagining it, right?

I'm sitting here in my room now, trying to go over it all again as I write this. But the images are already fading from my memory… I should have sketched what I thought I saw the second I got home. Oh well… I guess I'll just have to wait until the next raid, see if it comes back. Until then, I think I'm going to tell my dad. Surely he'll listen if it's about dragons, right?

Until next time…

-H


And Toothless makes his first appearance! ...42 chapters in XD