A.N. Special shout out to epic and Sgt sniper man who reviewed last time.
In response to Epic's comment, i would like to keep there backstories a mystery for a while now and try and see what you all come with. I don't want to do a whole exposition dump on there origins but rather tell the origins in pieces.
Aliyah was waiting patiently on the roof of the elder's hut. Gothi lived on top of a hill that overlooked most of Berk so it would be next to impossible for anyone to see the girl relaxing. Aliyah was currently waiting for the elder to finish her business with the chief. From what she could make out from what was being said and what Stoic reacted she could tell that the healer was not in the best of moods. Apparently the Viking chief had gone on a little dragon hunt in the forest after something launched several fireballs at him. The chief had followed it throughout the forest, but it eventually misleads him by bringing him back to the village. Understandably angered, Aliyah wasn't even surprised that Stoic had rounded up Gobber and two or three close friends to go search for the chief's assailant.
"Stubbornness issues indeed." The girl chuckled to herself as she heard another loud smack from the elder's staff. After waiting for a while the Vikings left the healer, rubbing their heads and some were even muttering 'Crazy hag'. If Gothi had heard them Aliyah was positive the healer would have tossed them down the steep side of the hill. When the girl was sure no more vikings were coming she dropped down from the ceiling and made her way inside...and was immediately smacked in the face by the elder.
"WHAT THE HECK?" Aliyah screamed after she recovered from the healer's assault. Being mute, Gothi couldn't respond verbally and merely wrote in the box if sand in her hut. It was a good way for the elder to communicate with out constantly wasting paper or ink but there was some issues with that method. You see Gothi's writing was not the most legible and only few people could understand it completely. Gobber was surprisingly one of the few who could understand it and Aliyah could piece to together some details based on how well she knew the healer. Looking down Aliyah read what the healer had written and rolled her eyes at it.
It read "How many times have I told you to knock before entering?"
Normally Aliyah or even Rush would tease or joke around with the healer about her sternness but after her hectic morning Aliyah was exhausted. The girl merely tossed the healer the bag she had with all the necessary ingredients and helped herself to the healer's kitchen. Gothi doubled checked the bag making sure it had all her required ingredients before going to the kitchen to find the girl eating some of her berries. Ignoring Aliyah, Gothi placed the dragon scales inside one of her cupboards and then promptly rested some of her clothes to hide them if anyone so happened to catch a glimpse of her open cupboard.
Aliyah, who was still eating the berries, was currently looking around the healer's living room. It was small little space one would assume for a person Gothi's size. It had a chair made with the hides of yak and sheep's fur for the healer to relax in and a neat shelf of books next to it: having to rely in writing so much had given Gothi a great degree of literacy and the elder often prided herself in being able to read so much. It was because her reading that Gothi had learnt so much about healing, not just in the use of herbs and medicine but also in various texts that studied anything from human anatomy to dragon to even books that detailed various facts about the world at large. Gothi had learnt it all and it had helped her become a great healer and well respected elder. Her only problem was that while the tribe valued it, that didn't think it was necessary for other people to learn as well. Only a few other villagers had ever taken interest in healing but never to the depth had she wanted. They were the Ingermans, The Hoffersons and the Thorstons. Each only cared about it enough to study only the basics, Thorstons basically learnt it to deal with the twins, Hoffersons saw it as a way to stay in a fight longer if they knew how to treat themselves immediately or where to hit an opponent and the Ingermans studied just so that their little Fishlegs didn't need to feel embarrassed if he ever tripped up. All in all it was ashamed really that no one actually bothered especially since Gothi's skills had become known to many, mostly due to dragons invading whenever a neighboring tribe visited.
Next to the bookshelf were various drawings of Gothi throughout the years. One showed her as alittle lass with her parents, now deceased. Another one had an adult Gothi with the previous chief of the tribe, Stoic's father, and picture of a young Stoic with several bandages on his head. There were two more drawings on the wall, the first had a teenage Gothi smiling with two teen vikings on the docks by a boat, the second one showed Gothi a little older than the previous one but she was by herself and her smile was gone. Anyone who knew Gothi for so long would have known that the two teens in the picture by the boat, weren't around after that drawing was made, nor did they return from the trip.
KNOCK! KNOCK!
Aliyah's thoughts were promptly cut short by someone at the door. The girl made her way over to doot and opened it only to find Bucket waiting on the other side. The viking took no notice of the girl and simply walked passed her as if she wasn't even there. Aliyah didn't even bother to respond as she looked around for anyone else before glancing back at Bucket. When she saw him distracted, asking Gothi some questions she promptly slammed the door, startling the Viking. Bucket reacted immediately out of instinct drawing his mace and nearly hitting Gothi in the process, fortunately though the healer moved out if the way just in the nick of time. Gothi smacked the viking on his head for nearly taking hers off, before she giving him a potion to take, apparently he had gotten a headache after the twins tried to knock his bucket off if his head. After receiving his medicine Bucket decided to leave, before he could even approach the door that had just been slammed shut, it opened wide to let him out by itself. As the Viking walked out the door was again slammed, this time knocking him in the rump. Aliyah chuckled to herself as she watched the startled Viking head back to the village.
Rush was currently sneaking through the alleys in Berk. He had dropped Hiccup back in the forge after he spotted Gobber and Stoic heading to the village, most likely after leaving Gothi's hut. The cloaked boy was doing his best not to be seen. Lucky for him it was easy to do that when you had two blonde haired siblings running amok in the village causing a different distraction everywhere they went. The Thorston twins were up to there usually tricks, pranking the various citizens of Berk and causing mischief wherever they could find it. To anyone else they would be the most unreliable people given their young and chaotic nature, it would be a nightmare to get them to listen to you and follow orders, not even the chief or their parents could really handle them well. Rush however was not like mist people on Berk and while others would their best to try and stop the twin's madness, Rush would encourage them. Much like how he and Aliyah became friends to Hiccup, Rush also became a messenger of Loki for the twins and the Thorston kids were more than willing to comply with some of his schemes, much to Aliyah and the other villager's dismay.
He tried to persuade them to leave Hiccup alone, but that was unsuccessful. Still they did listen to him whenever he needed them to cause a distraction, especially when that distraction required explosion.
"Alright so here's want I need you to do. Take these two gel bombs and place it in those barrels on either side of the plaza." Rush ordered as he pointed to two empty barrels on the sides of two houses. "When you here the signal, light them and run away, preferably to the docks." Rush told the duo as he took out the bombs from his bag and handed it to them.
Ruffnut and Tuffnut stared at the bombs in awe. "These small things can make a dragon sized explosion?" Tuffnut asked as smelled the bomb, shook it and ...licked it.
"What's it made off?" Ruff asked still unsure of the explosive.
"Nightmare Gel." Rush answered smugly.
"Nightmare gel?" The twins asked simultaneously.
"Yeah, that's the stuff Monstrous Nightmares make to use their fire and set them on fire." Rush explained. Twin's faces were priceless at the statement. The looked at Rush as if half expecting him to jump out and say it's a joke but they knew better especially when they considered how they met him.
A couple weeks ago during a raid they ended up in getting separated from their family in the panic, unfortunately for them they found themselves in the middle of the forest, in the company of a hideous zippleback. The dragon was brownish red color and was very large when compared to the other zipplebacks they saw The two headed dragon had stared them down and was beginning spew a ton of gas around them. It was suffocating breathing in the flammable fumes and when they saw the lighter head ready to ignite the gas they knew it was over. Muttering their silent prays to Loki for the waited to go in out in a blaze of glory when they heard a splash and the explosion never came. Tuff was still shaking from the encounter and his eyes were still shut but Ruff had slowly opened hers if only to see what the dragon was going to do. Imagine her surprise when she saw a cloaked figure standing in front them holding one of the dragon's head by the lips. That head seemed to be the igniter as the other was only spewing more gas around the area. The cloaked figure turned to Ruffnut and motion for them to get to safety. Ruff wasted no time in dragging her brother but the twins being the twins decided to stay and watch what would happen and were they ever glad they did.
The cloaked figure pushed the dragon head away and then proceeded to deliver a quick punch to neck of the igniter head temporarily incapacitating it. The gas spewer head was still ready to fight and knocked the figure away. It started spewing even more gas around the figure but without the igniter it was all for naught. The twins watched as the dragon attempted to attack their savior by swinging their heads and tails at him and trying to bite him. In the end the dragon was unable to hit him, but never one to give up it started spewing more and more gas around the area cloaking the entire place in a green fog. The Thorstons moved back as they watched what little they could see remain of the dragon on the figure in the fog. The figure had landed a few more blows before jumping on the dragon's head and launching himself high into the air above the cloud. The twins watched as the dragon sent one last stream of gas up to meet their savior but before the dragon could light it, the cloaked figure smacked the cloud with his own fire and lit the entire place on fire. With all the zippleback gas clouding the area, it was no surprise when the twins witnessed the loudest and most amazing explosion they ever saw. The forest where the dragon and figure fought was nothing more than a burnt piece of earth, most of the trees breaking from the explosion and the earth being scorched black with white ash and red embers snowing down around them. The twins looked in awe as the figure stood up and on the side of him laid a zippleback, with one head missing and one severely burnt. Then figure grabbed the dragon by its tail and walked off leaving two stunned twins.
Ever since then the twins would always look out for Rush. They had tried to tell people about him but no one believed them at most, the chief thought they were playing games and making up stories again so they stopped. After the stopped though that's when Rush revealed himself to them and told them he was there as messenger of Loki. The twins were excited to here this and didn't even question it, apparently Rush was assigned to protect Berk from problems that got too big for them to handle but only the Loki-est of heart could see him. Over time Rush would enlist there aid in causing mischief all over Berk as a means of appeasing Loki, mischief that would involve planting eels in the roofs of the houses that had then youngest children to burning some special kind of grass before a raid occurred. Whenever they did these things the dragons would either run away from the houses or become dizzy from the smoke, it worked well at first but then people started complaining about it so they had to stop. So now they just stuck to destroying, stealing and exploding stuff.
"You can count on us Rush." Ruff said as she took the bombs and her brother. The two nuts went and readied themselves in their position. Rush waited for while making sure no one was watching his way, when he saw it was clear he gave the signal.
Ruff and Tuff listened closely when suddenly they heard are rooster crow two consecutive times. The lit the bombs and dropped it into the barrels before running to the docks. Rush looked at the fleeing images of the twins before turning back to the two barrels. When the bombs blew the barrels were blasted to pieces, everyone within the area jumped from the shock at what had just happened. Several animals were spooked and began making noise, children began to cry and the adults were all over the place either trying to calm down the animals, the kids or find out what had happened with the barrels. Rush meanwhile used this confusion to his advantage and scaled up a building and began running across the roofs. Eventually he found himself out of Berk and was now heading up the path to see a healer. He needed to say some good byes and maybe grab something in case someone needs treatment on his trip to the island.
A.N. okay i know i said i would write the trip to the island but when i started to write this i realized i could fit these two good scenes and really branch out the characters a little more. Next one for sure I'll send Rush off Berk.
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