Aliyah looked around as she entered the cove at Raven's point. She immediately turned around tried to throw a punch, only to stop herself just moments before her fist struck her target. She saw a pair of glowing yellow eyes staring back at her. She smirked as she retracted her fist.
"Almost knocked your light out, Rush." She told the hooded figure now revealed to be Rush. He mere shrugged as he walked passed her, his eyes also scanning the area. He looked at the damaged tree branches near the top of the cliffs and at the dragon tracks on the ground.
"It was Starchaser. He's not used to being so close to her yet." Rush spoke. Aliyah listened carefully, following Rush's gaze. "By my guess, I'll assume Dreamhunter and Ghost took him to an island further away from the nest or into one of the underground tunnels on Berk."
Aliyah walked behind him and rested a hand on his shoulder. "They'll be fine." She assured him. She went over to a stump and sat down. She began to meditate. While she was meditating, Rush decided it was his turn to check up on Hiccup.
Leaving Aliyah to meditate in the cove, Rush returned to village. He sat on one of the roofs looking down at the people of Berk as they walked around going about their night. Most people had retired to their homes for the night deciding to get some sleep in while they could, for one could never tell when a raid come and ruin a good night's rest. Others however, stayed up mostly to patrol and keep an eye out for dragons or invaders but mostly dragons. Despite these nightly patrols Rush was able to easily move across the rooftops of the village and sometimes through alleyways without anyone being the wiser.
He arrived at just in time to see Hiccup leave the Hall. The young boy seemed to be moving at rather fast pace. Rush looked on behind him to see Snotface and the twins following behind. Putting two and two together Rush immediately figured what was up. His followed the younger Vikings as he dropped ran to the building just ahead of them. Rush landed in a vacant alley between two buildings and waited in the shadows.
As Hiccup walked into the alleyway a pair of hands emerged from the shadows and grabbed the boy. Hiccup was about to scream worried that the Snot gang had caught him, only for his mouth to be covered by an armoured gauntlet. He saw the hooded figure of Rush bring a finger up to what Hiccup assumed as his face and made a shushing sound. Rush then proceeded to hide Hiccup in a barrel right behind him. Hiccup did as he was told and hid in the barrel.
Meanwhile the Snot gang were making their way through the Alley. "Hey Useless, come out, come out, wherever you are." Snoutlout said in mocking tone. He was really miffed that his Father had scolded him for damaging yet another mace in attempts to woo Astrid. It wasn't his fault, Useless probably tampered with it when Gobber wasn't looking. It was Hiccup's fault, not his.
"Maybe he went this way." The twins said in unison, pointing in two complete opposite directions. "No he went this way." They argued trying to prove the other wrong. The small disagreement soon turned into fight as one twin tried to violently convince the other of the Haddock boy's location.
Meanwhile Snotlout now further irritated by the twins began to vent his frustration on the barrels in the alley. Most of the barrels either fell over or just slammed against the wall, but one barrel seemed to jump. Thinking it may have just been a trick of his imagination, Snotlout decided to kick it again just to be sure. True to his suspicions the barrel jumped slightly. Thinking that it was his useless cousin the Jorgenson boy slowly put his hands on the lid, a sinister smile creeping across his face. "Hey Useless, here's Snotlout." He yelled as he pulled the lid off. To his surprise a sheep jumped out of the barrel and pushed itself right into Snotlout's face, practically kissing him. The twins turned around from their squabble just in time to see the sheep 'kiss' Snotlout. Both Nuts burst into laughter at the sight of this and at the sound of Snotlout's 'manly'(more girl like) scream. Snotlout upon realising what had happen quickly began to scrape his tongue with his hands. He rushed to the nearest through of water and bent his head ibto it trying to rinse out the taste of sheep saliva from his mouth.
"Awwww, looks like Snotty had his faced kiss." Ruffnut jeered.
"She could have done so much better." Tuffnut commented. His twin looked at him weirdly.
"She?" Ruff asked.
"The Ewe, the sheep. Come on Ruff please tell me you do not agree that there are more worthy sheep out there than Snotlout for her to kiss." He stated.
"She could have been lonely or desperate." Ruff countered.
Snotlout upon overhearing their conversation immediately assumed it was them who had pulled one of their pranks. "Ruff, Tuff you're going to pay for this." He screamed as he chased after them, completely forgetting about chasing after Hiccup.
Rush dropped from his hiding spot on the roof and picked up one of the barrels that had rolled when Snot kicked it. He popped open the lid revealing a young Hiccup curled inside. "You okay?" he asked. The boy nodded. "What did you think of the show?" Rush asked Hiccup. The boy let out a small chuckle. Despite not actually seeing it, from what Hiccup could from the chats between the Snot gang, he figured that some poor sheep must have had to kiss his cousin.
"I wish, I could have seen his face." Hiccup laughed.
"We're lucky Fungus was in the neighbourhood, otherwise you would have been in trouble." Rush smiled back, though the grin was hidden by his cloak.
Hiccup walked to his house, as Rush followed him from the shadows and rooftops, luckily Snot was too busy chasing the twin elsewhere to bother with them. When they arrive, Hiccup walked into his house, while Rush scaled the side of the building and enter through Hiccup's bedroom window. Rush arrived inside he was greeted by a familiar girl in a purple scale suit, sitting on the rafters.
"Let me guess. The twins and his cousin were after him again?" Aliyah asked, as if she expected the answer to be yes.
"Yep" Ethan responded. "Did you find them?" he asked back.
"They're hiding out on the coast of an island just a little way off. Its far enough away that the Queen won't reach them, but close enough for me to at least sense them if something goes wrong." Aliyah responded. "And no their aren't any hunters, vikings or trappers within the area. Its practically an island in the middle of nowhere." She added.
"Well that's good to hear." Rush responded.
Hiccup had wanted to go upstairs to his room to continue chatting with Rush or Aliyah if they were both their together but he was rather busy at the moment. His father and Gobber were having a small chat, with Stoick trying to convince Gobber to stay and not run off on some make believe dragon hunt for dragon that did not exist rather than staying and mending the weapons for the Vikings fighting the dragons that did exist, needless to say that when stubborn went against stubborn the result would always lead to neither party budging an inch on their demand. Hiccup had used to his diplomacy skills or whatever skills he had to try and solve this matter. In the end Hiccup managed to convince Stoick to let Gobber go on his trip if Gobber postponed his trip by a day, to make and repair as many weapons as possible before he left. Hiccup being his apprentice would no doubt have to help but it was fine, he would get to avoid Snot and help his people. He may even convince Gobber to get him the necessary material for the 'Spike shield' if he did a good enough job. Realising his work was done Hiccup headed up to his room, only to find it empty when he arrived.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: I got nothing to say, except writer's block, school killing me with stress and maybe procrastination. Needless to say I am sorry for delaying on updating its just that school has been really hectic. I finally understood why most people called me crazy for doing 6 subject instead of 4.
All that left to say now is Merry Christmas and hopefully a quicker update.
p.s. I fixed the mistakes and edited some things from earlier chapters so it might do you, readers good to re-read some of them.