AN: Hey, everyone! Last chapter for this one! Am considering posting a preview for my Winx X Young Justice story as well, as I'm going to go nuts with no time to write as much as I want. Also, if ANYONE could tell me where I can get a picture or two for my story covers, I'd be oh-so-grateful - I can write fanfiction, but I absolutely cannot draw under any circumstances. My creativity does not lie in that area whatsoever.
Hiccup winces as Snotlout tightens his headlock, and says "Ouch, let go Snotlout, that hurts!"
"Yeah? Well, too bad! Toughen up and take it like a real Viking, wimp!"
"LEAVE MY BROTHER ALONE!"
Stoick and Gobber both start when they hear Snotlout's scream, and Stoick sighs and says "She's at it again."
"Wonder what he did this time to get Bloom mad at him."
When they get to the right area of the village, they're just in time for Snotlout to come sprinting past with Bloom hot on his heels. "Get her away from me! Get her away!"
"Get back here, you pathetic bully! You want to pick on Hiccup, you've got to deal with me!"
Stoick manages to grab Bloom just as Snotlout hides behind his father's legs. "Alright, what started this?"
Spitelout says "Stoick, your daughter is a little terror."
Snotlout says "I was just having a little fun with Hiccup! It's not my fault he's such a wimp!" Bloom slips Stoick's grasp with a scream of rage, and tackles the boy before anyone can react.
Stoick grabs her again, Gobber having to literally pry her off Snotlout. "Enough! Bloom, you've made your point!"
Bloom's still kicking and thrashing, and manages to get free again when Snotlout yells "Yeah! That Hiccup needs a girl to fight his battles."
Stoick seriously considers letting Bloom have her way for a minute - nobody could seriously be that stupid, right?
It takes him, Gobber, and Spitelout to free Snotlout from Bloom's attack, and this time Gobber hooks his hook attachment to Bloom's shirt in order to keep her from freeing herself a third time. Which she nearly does.
Stoick sighs, already feeling a headache coming on, when Gobber comes up and says "Stoick. Bloom and Astrid, main square."
When he gets there, he finds Bloom and Astrid Hofferson are tearing into each other tooth and nail - it's a good thing neither of them have weapons yet, else one would likely be dead by now.
The Thorston twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, are shouting encouragement, Snotlout is trying to decide which he wants to be cheering for, and Astrid's father is attempting to stop the fight. He's not having much luck there, as neither girl seems to hear him or pay any attention to anything other than tearing each other apart.
Stoick sends a resigned glance towards the Hofferson, who returns it almost immediately - this is nothing new, to be honest. Bloom's gotten into so many fights ever since learning to walk and talk that it's almost expected. And it's always the same reason why - they were picking on Hiccup.
It's usually either Astrid or Snotlout that she goes off on, as Fishlegs stays quiet and doesn't seem to enjoy picking on people and the twins usually just enjoy the chaos.
They get the feeling that Bloom and Astrid would be really good friends if it weren't for the little fact that she was so verbal about picking on Hiccup. And if Bloom wasn't so dead-set on stopping it.
Stoick pinches the bridge of his nose when a nine-year-old Dagur comes running from the direction of the great hall - predictably, with Bloom hot on his heels.
This time is definitely more serious than usual though - she's got at least eight knives. "What? You don't want your knives back?"
Dagur throws himself out of the way, just in time to avoid getting hit with a knife in the arm - it buries itself up to the hilt in the wooden house behind him.
Hiccup comes running up as the two disappear, and Stoick asks "What happened now, Hiccup?"
"Dagur was practicing throwing his knives. Bloom came in."
"Throwing them at what?"
Hiccup gulps, then points to himself.
Oswald groans, and says "I thought Dagur had learned his lesson after the last time he got Bloom so incredibly mad at him that she chased him all through the village. Thor's Hammer, I can't- my deepest apologies…"
They can still hear Dagur trying to reason with her as he runs as fast as he can to avoid his own knives getting thrown at him. Oswald asks "Where exactly did she learn to throw that well? She's got a better aim than Dagur, for one."
Both Hiccup and Stoick shrug, and Stoick says "No idea."
Oswald says "Well, Dagur has to learn at some point that his actions have consequences. And that some consequences are more severe than others. I'd thought he learned that by now though."
Twenty minutes later, Dagur's staying as far away from Bloom as is physically possible to do in the Great Hall and she's sticking to Hiccup's side like they're glued together.
She caught him. Thankfully, she ran out of knives first - she tricked him by pretending to throw another one and he dove out of the way. That was his big mistake - and now he's so sore he can hardly move.
Later, Oswald asks why he keeps attempting to hurt Hiccup and setting Bloom off like that. "Father, if I wanted to hurt Hiccup he'd have actually gotten a knife or two in him!"
"You know how protective Bloom is of her brother! I thought you did, at any rate."
"That's why I wasn't actually trying to hurt him!"
"Right, just throwing sharp, pointed object near his head."
After Dagur finally gets out of his father's lecture about not being so reckless and destructive, he sees a figure with a very angry posture going off into the woods - he follows the figure right up until he realizes it's Bloom, at which point he immediately turns tail and runs as fast as he can back to the village.