Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train your Dragon or any of the spin off series. Only my OCs and my version of the tales.
Chapter 3: Animal House
Here on Berk, we made peace with the dragons. We're finally living and working together.And it only took us three hundred years. There's one slight problem… we forgot to tell the animals.
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Meanwhile up in the mountains Hiccup, Henna and Astrid were racing each other down a snow covered mountain on Toothless, Shimmer and Stormfly.
Toothless was a head, with Shimmer right behind, but Stormfly was in hot pursuit. Stormfly cut ahead of the twins, laughing in triumph. Smiling, Hiccup followed her every move, twisting and turning through the widespread forest of evergreens.
Stormfly then raised her tail and sent a round of spikes flying at them; Toothless speeding up to avoid them. "Hey, Astrid!" Hiccup cried.
She smirked back at him and shouted innocently, "Oops, did I do that?" And then she was off again. She was so busy taunted Hiccup, she completely forgot about Henna. The other girl was standing on Shimmer's back and, holding a rope attacked to her saddle for balance, surfed down the snow.
"I call foul!"
"Too bad, Blondie!" Henna smirked, "Next time, don't get distracted."
Toothless put on a burst of speed and overtook the Stormfly. He flared out a wing, blocking Astrid and Stormfly's line of sight; still not catching up to the Tidal Dragon ahead of them.
"Hey, not fair!" Astrid shouted, trying to move around Toothless' wing. Then, once Toothless dropped his wing down, Astrid saw she was heading straight for a tree. Unable to dodge, she hit some branches and ended up with a face full of snow. "It's going to be like that, huh?!"
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Hiccup said calmly.
Stormfly suddenly spat a fireball at a pile of snow off to the side. The snow exploded everywhere, and Toothless lost control. He spun like a top, and he only just regained his footing when Astrid shot ahead.
"Hey!" Hiccup yelled.
"It was her idea, but I approve!" Astrid said laughing.
"Honestly!" Henna chuckled, "What's with all the cheating?"
Hiccup then heard something behind him and looked around. Stormfly's fireball had created a massive avalanche. "Uh, oh," He murmured, he then pulled on the stirrup, and Toothless jumped, ready for take-off. But they plunged back into the snow. They tried again but the same thing happened. Hiccup glanced back and saw Toothless' tail fin was frozen over, stuck in the folded-up position. "The tail is frozen."
"Astrid! Henna!" Hiccup yelled. The girls turned to see the avalanche rapidly bearing down on me. Over the next ramp Shimmer and Stormfly went airborne leaving Toothless behind. Toothless tumbled onto the ground once they went over the ramp.
"Hiccup!" Astrid screamed, and the two female dragon rushed back down toward the falling Night Fury.
The avalanche was catching up, and Hiccup crawled from Toothless' saddle, shimmying down his tail and trying to pry his tail fin free. Astrid looked ahead and saw they were heading towards a cliff.
"Hold on!" She yelled as they flew down to help.
"No, go back!" Hiccup ordered.
They ignored him and as Shimmer got on one side of Toothless, hopefully to catch him, Astrid held her hand out to Hiccup. He reached out and firmly grabbed hold of her hand. Before she could pull him up, they ran out of cliff and the group fell into a trench.
They hit the ground hard, but the snow cushioned their fall. The snow also cocooned them in darkness; feeling nothing but cold.
"A-Astrid? H-Henna?" Hiccup asked shivering.
"Over here. Hiccup, I'm freezing…" Astrid said from his left, shaking.
Henna, on his right, grabbed his arm and scooted closer, "I'm good. Sort of."
"Come here." Hiccup ordered. Without a second thought, the leaned into him and they wrapped their arms around each other. "Where are the dragons?" Hiccup asked.
But then, there was a burst of blue light. "Toothless?" Hiccup asked incredulously, just as another flash of light, white this time. "Stormfly?" Astrid asked with the same amount of surprise as Hiccup did.
There were a few more flashes of alternating colour, and then suddenly, a dim ray of sunlight illuminated the area. When their eyes had adjusted, they saw that they were inside a dome of snow, with their dragons beside them using their wings to create a barrier which had stopped the snow from crushing them. Their fires had burnt a hole in the snow, which allowed the distant sun to shine through.
"Yeah!" Astrid said in amazement.
"I can see daylight." Hiccup stared in astonishment.
"We're going to get out of here." Henna said, smiling.
"Look what they did." Hiccup said looking at the dragons.
"They saved our lives!" Astrid said.
"Almost makes me wish Henna could shoot fire." She just shrugged at the looks they sent her, "I said almost." She quirked at brow at her brother and former-turned new best friend, "Comfy?"
They turned toward each other in shock and frantically they slid apart from one another, blushing furiously. "So… so we're good now," Hiccup said awkwardly.
"G-Good as new!" Astrid said, equally uncomfortable. Then she punched him playfully on the arm.
"Thanks." Henna mumbled, having been pushed into the snow.
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"I mean, seriously." Henna huffed as she helped Gothi storm proof her hut. The elder lived on top of a single mountain bluff on the outskirts of the village. You had to climb a lot of stairs to get up there. She stretched to work out her muscles. Gothi's shop, where she just finished closing up, is at the bottom of the bluff; straight shot from the village and easy to get to from the hut from the top.
"You would think someone had set a fire in between the two of them." She rolled her eyes as the healer laughed silently, "They pushed away from each other so hard I land face first in the snow." Though the small woman didn't speak, ever, she used her staff to draw in the dirt to communicate. Only a handful of Vikings on Berk could understand what she writes. As Henna spent time training to be a healer with her, she's become quite fluent.
"Gothi, I've come for your council." Stoick said, coming out on the platform with Gobber, "Is there going to be a storm?"
Gothi then started writing on her dirt with her staff. "Gobber, what's she saying?" Stoick asked him, and he bent down to examine her work.
"She says, 'What do you think?'" He replied slowly. They just shrugged.
"Dad." They looked over to see Henna pointing to the house behind them. The windows were barricaded and there were sandbags all over the place.
"Oh." The two men nodded, "Well, how can you be so sure? Was it the chicken bones or the goose feet?"
"Seriously?" Henna scoffed, "We could hear Bucket screaming all the way up here. I just finished closing her shop up and came up to help with her hut."
The woman nodded in silent agreement.
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Later, Henna joined Hiccup and Astrid at the top of a catapult, telling Fishlegs and Snotlout what had happened on the mountain.
"…And then the dragons used their wings to block the snow." Hiccup said finishing the story.
"I've never heard of anything like that," Fishlegs said, curiously. "Not even in the book of dragons."
"I know it's incredible." Astrid blurted out, unable to contain her excitement. "It's as if their protective instincts just kicked in!"
"Who'd believe it? The dragons we've been fighting for years came to our rescue." Hiccup said looking at the dragons.
"We've never had any reason to believe they'd do that in the past." Henna shrugged, "But things are different now."
"Yeah, if it weren't for them, we would have frozen to death." Astrid said.
"You know, you could have used your own bodies to keep each other warm." Fishlegs said, sharing a look with Henna.
"Now who would think of something like.." The girl growled as her brother and Astrid shuffled away from each other, blushing.
"Right?" Hiccup chuckled nervously, "I mean, who would do that?"
"That's crazy." Astrid said.
"Hey, Astrid, If you're still cold…" Snotlout said dropping the sentence and held out his arms invitingly and blowing her a kiss.
Astrid wasn't in any rush to go anywhere near him. Instead she elbowed one of the supports on the catapult, shaking a huge pile of snow from the weapon and dumping it on Snotlout.
"Hey!" He protested, in a muffled voice.
Henna smirked, "Eh, know the feeling." She looked at the blonde, "That's two people in one day. New record."
"It was an accident!" Astrid swore, "Well, not him, but… you were."
"It was everywhere." She squinted, "I think you two did it on purpose."
"No!"
"Hey, Hiccup. Henna." A voice said, interrupting the argument. They turned around and saw the other twins standing on the platform below. "Your father is looking for you." Tuffnut finished.
"He looked angry." Ruffnut added smugly.
"He's looked since the day we were born," Hiccup muttered as they got on their dragons, "but I'm sure there is no connection."
"Nice timing." Henna muttered as she shook her head at Astrid.
"Timing for what?" Hiccup asked.
"It keeps you and Astrid from explaining, which you've yet to do," She yelled as they took off, "why the two of you chunked me in the snow!"
"It was an accident!"
"My foot!" She smirked, really enjoying messing with them, "We were trying to stay warm. What made you jump away from each other like that? And why did you have to throw me off you?"
"We were startled. That's all. No explanation needed!"
"Keep telling yourself that, little brother."
"By five minutes." He grumbled, "Never gonna let me live that down."
"Who cares who's older?" She asked as they landed at their house, "You're the only one in line to be chief. Girls aren't allowed."
"Wouldn't matter anyways." He laughed as they went in, "You would rather take over for Gothi any given day."
"Oh, without a doubt." They looked over to see their father pacing around the room, "Hey dad. What's going on?"
"With a bad storm coming, we could be locked in. We might not be able to hunt or fish for months." Stoick explained in a worried voice.
"It's too early for a storm," Hiccup explained. "We're in the middle of winter. Devastating winter isn't due for another month."
"Not according to Gothi and Henna." Stoick said looking at the two of them.
"What are we supposed to do? We can't control the weather!" Hiccup said.
"No, but you can control dragons." Stoick said looking at his kids, "If they don't stop scaring the animals, we won't have any provisions to live on."
"Control is a very loose term, dad." Henna objected.
Just then, Bucket came in with Mulch, who was holding a pail out. Stoick took the pail from Mulch's hand and shook it.
"Any luck?" Stoick asked.
"Not a drop," Mulch said sadly. "And this is after yanking on that poor yak for three hours."
Everyone turned to look at the twins. "It's not like the dragons are trying to be scary," said Hiccup said patting on Toothless' head. "I mean, they don't even eat farm animals. They eat fish."
"True," Gobber agreed, nodding. "But they're huge, breathe fire, and now that we've made peace with them, they're everywhere. The animals are terrified of them!"
Stoick walked up to the twins, "Here's where you jump in and say, 'We'll fix this'."
"Okay, but how long do we have before the storm hits?" Hiccup asked.
"About a week." Mulch said.
"No problem. That's more than enough time." Henna shrugged.
Bucket clutched his head with his hook clanging loudly against the bucket and moaned. "Correction." Mulch said, as everyone looked over. "Three days, six hours."
"Okay, less time might be more of a problem." Hiccup said looking worried.
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"Come on, big boy. You can do it!" Hiccup grunted as he, Henna and Astrid herded a yak toward a wild Deadly Nadder and Monstrous Nightmare.
"You'll really like them if you get to know them," Hiccup said encouraged the struggling yak.
"That is very optimistic talk." Henna grunted, pushing the yak with Astrid from the back.
"The dragons look scary, but they're just giant, scaly reptiles!" The blond replied, using all of her weight to push.
"Just like Snotlout," Tuffnut snickered.
Snotlout frowned and pick the offending boy up by his shirt, fixing to punch him, "You're the guy, right?" He asked, confused.
"No." Tuff squeaked in a high-pitched voice.
Meanwhile the Deadly Nadder and a Monstrous Nightmare began to roar at each other. The yak that they had just moved got scared and ran over to the other side of the arena, knocking over the sheep and goats in its way.
"Yeah, this is gonna go so well." Henna snarked, ignoring the glare her brother sent her, "We're off to great start. Good job, bro."
"Okay, what if we looked at this from an animal's perspective?" Fishlegs suggested, getting down on all fours. "Oh, hello, Mr Dragon. I'm just a little sheep, walking, doing sheep things. Baa, baa…" The real sheep looked at Fishlegs skeptically as he shuffled around in circles.
"Is he serious, right now?" Henna whispered to Astrid, "Is he serious?"
"It's Fishlegs." The blonde whispered back with a shrug.
"Eh. Point taken."
"You know, he doesn't really seem so big…" Fishlegs looked up, and the Monstrous Nightmare roared in his face. He screamed and scuttled off to cower under Meatlug. "Sorry, but I'm siding with the animals on this one."
Henna scratched her head as bent down at the boy's level, "You good?" He nodded, "Alright then. Let's trying to think of something that's actually going to help, shall we?"
"Look, I've learned that when you have a positive experience with something you're afraid of," Hiccup explained, picking up a runaway sheep, "it isn't so scary anymore. Okay, there you go boys. Over here." He gently herded the sheep into a line, and then pushed them toward the dragons. "And that's what we'll have to do with these sheep. We got to prove to them that they have nothing to fear…" At that moment, the Monstrous Nightmare sniffed at the sheep and sneezed, setting one of them on fire.
"Oh, at this rate, we'll never get any milk or eggs!" Hiccup growled as he, Astrid and Henna put the fires out.
"We are literally going down in flames here!" Henna exclaimed, trying to wave the smoke away from her and the sheep.
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The day of the storm, the Viking teens were in the arena with the farm animals and a few wild dragons.
Henna and Astrid blocked a couple of yaks while Hiccup dodge some running chickens, "Another way for the animals to overcome their fear is to show them that dragons are afraid of things too." He grined for encouragement.
"Remember Magnus the Merciless?" Astrid asked, "He was a pretty scary guy." Fishlegs shuddered, "I was afraid of him until I learned that he was afraid of the dark."
Tuffnut waved his arms dramatically, "So during the day, Merciless."
"And during the night, Tuffnut." Ruffnut nodded at her brother. He punched her in the arm, "Ow!"
"Hey!" He glared, "That's a real problem."
"I'm just saying," Astrid butted back in, "knowing he was afraid of something made him less scary to me."
"Yeah," Hiccup agreed, "so let's show the yaks that dragons are afraid of things too." Henna shook her head as he through the three yaks and held out a couple of eels to the two wild dragons. This was not going to end well.
The two dragons backed up in fear, "I think it's working." Astrid smiled. Hiccup lost his grip on one eel and the Monstrous Nightmare swung his tail out in fear, hitting a sheep and knocking it into the wall.
"Ahh!"
Henna walked over to her brother and patted him on the shoulder, "Three days and still nothing. We're in great shape."
"Don't worry, guys." Astrid said, trying to be consolatory.
"Worry?" Hiccup scoffed, "I'm not worried. Do I look worried?"
Henna squinted, "No. Actually, you look panicked."
His face dropped, "Thanks."
"What are sisters for?"
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At that moment all the animals were running in different directions, trying to get away from the Monstrous Nightmare. All the teens ran after them, trying to calm them down.
"Hey! Calm down. Get back over here." Astrid said, taking the Monstrous Nightmare back to the other side of the arena.
"You know what I'm learning from this?" Hiccup complained, holding two hens in his arms. "Chickens are really, well… chicken." He said placing them down on the ground.
"What if we showed them how much they have in common with the dragons?" Fishlegs suggested asked. Hiccup, Henna and Astrid just looked at him in confusion. "They both lay eggs, right? A Terrible Terror laid one just last week!"
"Um… that's awfully big to belong to a Terrible Terror. Wait, you're not serious?" Henna's eyes widened as he placed an egg on the ground, "I don't think this is such a good idea." One of the hens flapped her wing and got comfortable on top of the egg, "Baked chicken, anyone?" She started to back up behind Fishlegs, so as not to get hit.
"Alright, see? An egg's an egg, right, ladies?" Hiccup said to the hens.
"Wrong!" Henna yelled, just as the large egg started to crack. "Duck!" The egg exploded in a shower of sparks and flames; scaring the chickens off, "Is the hen still alive?" She peeked around and shook her head at her brother, "Did we forget that dragon eggs explode? Remember Snoggletog?" She punched Fishlegs in the arm, "You're supposed to be the smart one."
"I'm sorry. I forgot!"
The scattered chickens made such a racket that the other animals took it as a signal to panic as well. In the midst of the chaos, the arena opened and Mulch and Gobber came in. As if on cue, the wind began blowing hard and snow started to fall.
"Everybody out!" yelled Gobber. "The storm is here!"
"Wait! We haven't made any progress with the animals!" Hiccup protested. Gobber scooped a chicken up with his hook.
"Your father wants everyone in the Great Hall!" Gobber said.
"Take the others." Hiccup said. "I need to stay here and keep working with the animals. They're still afraid!"
"You can't get eggs from a frozen chicken!" Gobber shouted over the sounds of the dragons, animals, and Vikings leaving. "We need to get the animals in the barn!"
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"That's unfortunate." Henna commented as the gathered group stared at the snow covered building.
"So much for the barn." Gobber muttered.
"There's no other place to hold them!" Mulch yelled.
"The Great Hall." Hiccup yelled.
"So we're going to have the dragons and the animals under the same roof." Mulch pointed out."We know that won't work."
"You got a matter idea?" Henna yelled.
"We don't have a choice!" Hiccup gestured, "Let's go!"
A they began the trek to the Great Hall, trying their hardest to see through all the snow, animals started to veer off in different directions.
"Right, keep up! Shepherd them!" Gobber ordered.
"This way!" Astrid yelled at a sheep.
"Come on, come on, let's go!" Fishlegs urged.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck a tree, toppling it just in front of Stormfly. Startled, her spiked tail whipped Hookfang across the face. Enraged, he set himself on fire, scaring the animals into running away.
"Don't worry! I've got this under control." Snotlout said, just as the yaks ran over him. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Okay, everything hurts."
The animals confused Fishlegs until he hit the ground dizzily and got ran over by a flock of sheep… and Ruffnut. She almost caught one of the sheep, but a chicken flew up into her face and took off.
Hiccup watched as the animals vanished into the trees. He nodded at Henna then they ran towards their dragons, "Where are you two goin'?" asked Gobber, incredulously.
"We're going after them." Hiccup said, jumping onto his saddle.
"Forget it Hiccup! We'll never get them rounded up in this storm!"
"With Shimmer and Toothless we can." Henna shook her head, getting on to her own saddle, "We have to try, or else we'll starve to death."
"No! Your father would kill me if I left you out here!" Gobber said.
"Sorry, Gobber." Hiccup said and they flew into the air.
"Hiccup! Henna! Come back here!" Gobber yelled looking at them. "Astrid, would you talk some sense into" – Gobber turned and saw her running toward Stormfly, "Oh, not you. too!" He moaned, as the other teens got on their dragons. "Astrid! You're not going with… Get back here, all of you!"
Almost as quickly as Gobber's shouts faded into the distance, the atmosphere darkened until it was almost impossible to see. Toothless fired several plasma blasts that lit up the forest around them.
"You guys grab as many as you can!" Hiccup yelled back at the others. "We'll herd them back to the Great Hall!"
"Can we swing by my house? I'd like to grab my heavy coat!" Fishlegs asked rubbing himself.
"You should've already had it with you!" Henna yelled, having put on her fur cloak with hood, "You knew it was going to storm, you doofus! All of you!" She was frustrated. She had started keeping something for warmth in Shimmer's saddle bags and apparently, was the only one prepared.
"Hey, check this out!" Tuffnut yelled and slapped himself in the face. "I'm so cold I can't feel my face!" Ruffnut smirked and smashing her hand into his cheek. "Didn't feel it!"
"That takes all the fun out of it!" Ruffnut groused, disappointed.
"There they are. Come on!" Hiccup yelled over the wind.
"Yaks to the left!" Fishlegs called.
"Chickens!" Snotlout said, blazing past him and slammed into Meatlug, sending her spinning in the air. "Hey, I'm flying here!"
"Hey, chickens!" He called to the flock, swooping low over them. "Come on, this way! Follow me, come on!" At that moment Hookfang flew up. "Wait, where are you going?" Snotlout looked ahead of him and noticed that they were flying towards a tree. He dodged it as he lost control.
Meanwhile, Fishlegs tried to gather up some of the sheep by calling out to them, "Sheep! Hey, sheep! This way!" Fishlegs called, trying to get their attention. "Baa, baa! Hey, it's working!" He smiled, not seeing the overturned tree in his ahead until the sheep raced under it. Meatlug tried to follow but they ended up stuck beneath it. "Baa."
Henna and Shimmer flew past with Astrid and Stormfly.
"Don't worry we've got them." Henna yelled.
Stormfly fired a volley of tail spines around the sheep, trapping them. "Gotcha!" she said triumphantly.
However, Hookfang plunged from out of the sky, knocking down the spines and sending the sheep everywhere. "Snotlout, what are you doing?" Astrid demanded.
"You're all over the place!" Henna yelled.
"You try herding chickens with a dragon that doesn't listen to you!" Snotlout yelled back angrily.
She shrugged, "Good point."
Three sheep separated from the main group and ran in different direction. "Hiccup, stray sheep!" Astrid yelled.
Hiccup turned and flew pass Astrid towards the stray sheep, who had climbed onto an icy ledge. The runt slipped and slide rapidly down the mountain, sliding right off a high cliff with a terrified bleat.
From out of nowhere, Toothless swooped in and grabbed the sheep in his talons. He dipped his head down to check and smiled at it.
They flew down and Toothless gently placed the sheep on the ground, where it was hastily joined by the two others it was with. "Good job, bud!" Hiccup said patting him on the head.
Astrid and Henna down to them. "Hiccup, the storm's getting worse! I can't see a thing!" Astrid said.
"We can't stay out here much longer." Henna said. "We'll never survive."
"Come on, bud, give us some light." Hiccup said. Toothless then sent out a plasma blast that lit up the snowfields as it travelled.
Hiccup squinted at two figures that had appeared off in the distance. "Stray yaks, twelve o'clock!"
"I see them!" said Tuffnut. "And they are huge!" They flew through the storm with surprising speed, and grabbed snatch them up, "I got the yaks."
"Put me down now!" They looked down at the voice, "Right now!"
Unfortunately, they had grabbed Stoick and Gobber. The twins looked at each, shrugged and dropped them.
"Do I look like a yak ta you?" Gobber asked angrily, sitting up on his hands and knees. He had landed right next to a real yak, which snorted and walked carelessly away.
Hiccup and Henna landed right next to Stoick and walked shamefully up to their father. "You shouldn't be out here." Stoick said, hugging his daughter.
"Dad, I'm so sorry we let you down." Hiccup said ashamed.
"We should've been able to figure this out." Henna nodded, upset.
"This isn't your fault, kids." Stoick said shaking his head as the others landed. "Come on, we're taking you back."
"Which way?" Gobber asked.
"Follow our tracks." Stoick said, pointing off into the distance.
They looked around but they didn't see anything. The snow had covered them up. "So much for that idea," Gobber said.
"Sir?" Fishlegs asked as the others standing there, shivering madly. "What do we do now?" Stoick looked the group over, trembling and twitching uncontrollably in order to try and fight off the chill.
"Everyone, come together." He ordered, holding out his arms.
They all formed a tight huddle, trying to keep warm. Toothless looked up and saw them shivering and roared at the other dragons. Slowly they got up and walked towards the shriving Vikings. They then speared out their wings to shield them from the wind.
"What are they doing?" Stoick asked in bewildered.
"They're protecting us." Hiccup said.
"It's their natural instinct." Astrid said in wonder.
Hookfang suddenly hissed and spat a wad of fire at their feet, making the snow sizzle. Meatlug and Stormfly did the same.
Soon the heat from the flames warmed them up. Toothless then heard something and looked around and saw three sheep shivering in the cold.
Without a moments thought Toothless ran off into the snow toward them. The two largest sheep ran off instantly, but the little one stayed put. Toothless covered it with his wing and gestured his head toward the others. The sheep looked at the dragons with fear in its little eyes, but eventually it began to move forward.
Toothless ran back and took his previous position, leaving an opening for the sheep to walk through. The lamb entered the circle, looking all around it in amazement as kind faces all around watched it. The little sheep then turned its head around and started bleating at the other animals.
Slowly all the animals began to move towards the fiery circle. One by one, sheep, yaks, and chickens came into the circle and huddle in the comforting warmth.
"Your dragons are really something." Stoick said in amazement.
"Yeah, they are." Hiccup replied softly, sharing a smile with his sister.
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The next morning, when the storm had ended, the dragons shook off the snow from their wings and stepped back to release everyone from the circle. The group stared in awe at the beautiful sunrise coming over the clouds and hitting the mountain top. Without saying a word, they all grabbed sheep or chickens, with the dragons carrying some on their backs, and headed back to the village.
Once they got to the Great Hall, they open the doors and walked in, with animals and dragons alike, getting cheers from the rest of the villagers.
"They're back and they're all right!" Mulch said in amazement.
"And the animals are alright, too." Bucket said happily.
Then the dragons entered the hall and Mulch elbowed him in the stomach. "Uh oh, here come the dragons."
Hookfang entered the hall with a roar, bending down to the ground to allow a group of sheep from his back to jump safely off. "Well, would you look at that!" Mulch stared in wonder.
"Hey, everyone!" Astrid yelled.
Hiccup then entered the hall with a chicken under his arm. "The chickens are laying eggs again!" He said, holding up an egg for everyone to see, getting a fresh round of cheers from the villagers.
"I was right, chickens do lay eggs!" Bucket said.
Hiccup stopped and watched as people, dragons, and animals mingle peacefully with one another. The sight brought a smile to his face as he turned to his sister, "Not bad, huh?"
She chuckled, "Yeah, not bad. We just had to three days pain working with the dragons and the animals, loose the said animals in a blazing storm, get lost with no way home and get saved from freezing to death by our dragons. And after all of that, it was our dragons who earned the animals and we really had nothing to do with it." She nodded, "What a week."
"You're really turning into a mug half-empty type of person, aren't you?"
"Eh."
We made peace with the dragons when we saw that we could trust them. As it turns out, they have instincts to protect us, all of us; no matter if it is Viking, dragon… or even animals. It would seem that life on Berk just got a little warmer.
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