Chapter 5: The Tour

Astrid opened her chest and took out a package tied with twine. She had visited Cami yesterday, and the girl's only set of clothes was bloodstained and ripped, so she was going to give her this package. Every year, Astrid sewed a set of clothes for her Camicazi, just to pretend for a few hours her daughter was still with her. Only Hiccup knew about this, and at the end of her charades the clothes would go in the bottom of her chest. This year they were going to use. She took the package and walked out the door.

A few minutes later she was in front of the healer's house. She knocked, and from inside came a "Come in!" She opened the door and saw Cami braiding her hair into two braids on each side of her head. "Hello, Astrid. How are you?"

Astrid smiled and set the package on the table. "I'm doing well. How are you?"

Cami was all smiles as she walked over to Astrid. "I'm just excited to finally be out of bed!" She looked at the package. "What's that?"

Astrid cleared her throat. "I brought you something. I thought you might like it." Cami looked at present, an odd look on her face. "Are you Ok?" Cami blinked hard.

"Oh yes of course. Are you sure it's for me?"

Astrid nodded. "I brought it for you! Just open it!" Cami opened untied the twine. A green tunic with brown sleeves, brown leggings, a leather skirt, a sliver belt, and a set of furs that wrapped around your shoulders. Cami gasped and hugged Astrid.

"Thank you so much! I-" she stopped, looking at her boots. "That's the first time for as long as I can remember that someone gave me a present."

This time it was Astrid who hugged Cami. Cami returned the hug and whispered, "Thank you."

"Well, try it on!"

Cami quickly ducked into another room and put on the new clothes and exclaimed, "They fit perfectly! Thank you so much!" Astrid smiled and tried not to think about how she looked like Astrid Haddock's daughter would have. "Hiccup said that Starblaze was at the stables. Could you point me the right way?" Astrid nodded and told her how to get there, and Astrid watched Cami walk to the stables with a skip in her step.

"Cami! Hey, I didn't know you were leaving the healer's house today!" Stoick bounced up from behind her. "How are you?"

Cami smiled at Stoick's excitement. "Great! I was just going to see Starblaze. I'm not supposed to fly yet, so then I guess I'll walk around the village."

"I'll take you on a tour! I know all the best places, and this village can be pretty confusing sometimes." Stick offered. "Hey look, there's Snotlout!" Cami turned her head and saw the man walking towards them with Hiccup. Both men smiled at her as they caught up to her and Stoick. "Hey Dad."

Hiccup replied, " Good morning you two. I'm late to a meeting right now, I'll see you guys later." He walked quickly past them to the Great Hall.

Snotlout walked up to the stables with them, discussing the weather with Stoick. "When will you be able to fly, Cami? I'm sure we all want to see that Ice Fury in action," Snotlout asked as he turned to her.

"She can fly on her own, you know. But the healer said I can fly in two more days if I don't injure my shoulder further." Cami told him. Hearing her voice, Starblaze burst out of the stables and purred. Cami smiled as she rubbed her dragon's head. "Hey girl." Toothless walked out of the stables and came to Cami. He sniffed her all over, and then licked her face three times. Then he walked to Starblaze and told her something in dragon language. She huffed and rolled her eyes then said something back. Then Toothless walked away to Hiccup, who was opening the door to the Great Hall, and bounded in behind him.

Snotlout watched this with narrowed eyes, his expression said he trying to figure out a riddle, but Cami couldn't imagine what. Then Stoick said, "Well, let's start the tour! NORBERT!" Cami jumped as he screamed out his dragon's name. He had raised his voice so quickly, her body had expected to get hit by a dragon hunter, as it had many times before, and she unconsciously closed her eyes and tensed her body.

When no fist came, she opened her eyes, but she still felt her heart racing.

"Are you Ok?" She glanced at Stoick, who looked worried. Snotlout was behind him, his eyes holding something else, more than just worry, but Cami couldn't focus about that right now. Cami's reaction probably seemed strange, but she couldn't help it. That's just how it was. But she had escaped. And she wouldn't ever have to feel that feeling again.

Cami tried to slow her racing heart and said, "I'm fine. Is Norbert your dragon?" As she asked Stoick, a Dramillion pranced out of the stables, coming to stand beside of Stoick. The dragon was dark blue with red points. His spiked head twisted to the side as he looked at Cami, then he turned to Stoick, who rubbed his neck.

"Yes."

"He's beautiful! Hi Norbert." She said as she reached out to pet him. Norbert allowed her to scratch behind one of his spikes, bending his head to let her hand get to the more itchiest spots.

Stoick could feel a grin creeping up his face as he watched Norbert lean into Cami more and more, his head turning as her hand scratched places he could not reach. He was glad she seemed happier now. She had a weird reaction a few minutes ago, but now she seemed fine.

After a few minutes, Norbert moved on to Starblaze, the two talking in dragon. They nodded to each other, then moved away. "Are you ready?" Stoick asked.

Cami nodded. They started walking down the hill, heading to the Mead Hall. Snotlout called his Monstrous Nightmare and flew off into the sky. "That's the Mead Hall. It's not busy now, but there's still a few people in there." Cami looked at the huge doors of the Mead Hall with and shivered. "I don't usually go in there. It's too hot for me." He said quickly and kept walking. He didn't want Cami tense up again, and she didn't look like she wanted to go in there.

"That's my house over there," he said pointing to a house on the hill. "Dad says the chief's house always on a hill, but I still don't like it. It's really hard to climb the hill when you're really tired." She nodded, but stayed silent as they walked on.

After a few hours, they had seen everything except for the blacksmith, which was the farthest building from the village, since it could easily catch fire. "This is the blacksmith's shop. The guy in there missing a hand and a leg is Gobber." Stoick grinned. "He's crazy."

Cami laughed and asked him, "Is there anyway I can trick him so he doesn't stare at me? Everyone must know each other here since people are staring at us."

Stoick wanted to say, they're staring at you because you look like me, because you look like Camicazi Haddock, but he said, "Just act like you are a regular and he won't notice a thing." Cami smiled and nodded, then Stoick lead the way to the blacksmith.

Since it was the last thing to do before she had to go back to the healer's, Cami decided to act like she had grown up here, and she had a familiar feeling about this place, even though she was fairly sure she had never been in there.

"Hey Gobber!" Stoick said, coming up to the window opening. "How's business?" The man turned around, grumbling under his breath. His braided mustache swung with every word he said. "Chief's asked me to try and melt his dragon scales to make armor. I can see the possibilities with dragon armor, but I've been building the fire all day and I can't make a scratch. Any ideas?"

Stoick sighed. "Sorry Gobber. I didn't inherit Dad's inventing skills." Cami only half heard what he said, because she had jumped over the windowsill into the shop and had grabbed a pair of gloves on the counter. She quickly danced around Gobber, who hadn't noticed her, and picked up the black scales. They weren't even hot. She had a great idea.

"Norbert! Come here!" Norbert ran to her, sticking his head in the doorway. She pointed to the fire at the end of room, and he shot a bolt of fire in the hearth.

When Norbert shot, Gobber finally noticed he wasn't alone in his shop. "Hey! What are doin Camicazi?" He yelled, but she didn't tense up this time, she hadn't expected him to yell.

"I'm melting your dragon scales, Gobber. What did you think I was doing?" She replied, not realizing he knew her name without being told. She heard him grumble under his breath something about people trying to burn his shop down, but she ignored it.

She put the scales in a metal bowl attached to a long pole and stretched it over the fire. They melted almost immediately, because of the intense heat of Norbert's blast combined with the already huge fire. She took the melted scales to a mold that was laid out, and poured the black mass into the mold. Then she set down her tool and walked out of the shop, returning the gloves to the counter.

"You might want to work with those scales Gobber. I don't have a clue about blacksmithing." She told him, and he hobbled to the table and looked at the cooling scales.

"Like always, the Haddocks figure out somethin before me. Always! Who knew Camicazi would inherit Hiccup's skills instead of Stoick!" Then he laughed, clutching his belly and throwing his head back. "Imagine little Camicazi meltin metal! Hahaha! HAHAHA!"

Stoick pinched the bridge of his nose, shaking his head, trying to hide his smile from Cami, but Cami saw it and frowned at him. Then he sighed and said, "Fine. I'll fix this." Then raising his voice, he yelled, "Gobber! Shut up and listen to me!" Gobber stopped laughing and looked annoyingly at Stoick. "This is Cami. She- well, let me talk to you." Stoick walked in the shop, and Cami walked to Starblaze and Norbert and started talking to them.

She really wasn't trying to listen to their conversation. She had a pretty good idea of what Stoick was saying, but Gobber had one volume, and it wasn't quiet. "What do you mean, she's not a Haddock? Of course she is." A moments then, "I don't believe a word you say. She may be paler and skinnier that you, but's that your twin." Then there was the final, "Yeah yeah whatever. I won't talk to her about it."

Stoick sighed and followed Norbert to the docks. He had took Cami to the healer's house after she said she was tired, then the healer told her stay inside the next day. She acted disappointed, but she said she understood.

Hiccup had become quieter, laughing less and less these past few days. Stoick knew it was because in a few days it would be seventeen years since his grandfather's death. Stoick had never known his grandfather, but Hiccup said he was the best chief of Berk to ever lead the village. Stoick also thought some of his dad's sadness might have been caused by Cami. Could it really be his sister? Gobber sure thought so. But, Gobber was so old he probably shouldn't even be in the blacksmith, much less judging people's identities.

Stoick had also noticed Snotlout and Hookfang in the sky many times that day, he knew Snotlout was watching them. Stoick couldn't remember much from when Camicazi was kidnaped, but he could remember Snotlout very upset. He was pretty sure Snotlout had been very closed to Camicazi when she was kidnaped. He didn't know for sure, though.

Stoick shook his head, trying to slow down his tumbling thoughts. He walked into his house, and saw Astrid cooking soup on the stove. "Hey Mom, how are you?" Stoick sat down a the table and put his head in his hands.

Astrid smiled at her son. "I'm doing pretty good. How did your day go?"

"Fine. Mom, something really weird happened today with Cami. I don't know what it was."

Astrid turned from the soup and sat down beside Stoick. "What happened?"

"Well, me, Cami, and Snotlout were at the stables, getting Norbert and Starblaze, and when I yelled for Norbert, she jumped away from me like I was going to hit her or something. And she wouldn't go near the Mead Hall either," he told her.

Astrid frowned in thought. After a minute of thinking, she said, "Well, you need to understand she was kidnapped by strange men who probably hit her a lot. Have you seen those bruises on her face? I'll bet she has more bruises. She just hasn't gotten used to being safe. She's still scared."

Stoick said, "How can I help Cami? Why would someone do that to an innocent child? Who could be that evil?"

Astrid hugged Stoick and whispered, "Just be a good friend to her. Let her know she can trust you. That's the most you can do."

Stoick nodded and said, "You're right. I'm going to get her to trust me."

Cami laid in bed, the room pitch black. The healer had moved her upstairs, to a room that was more private. Starblaze laid on the bed with her, snoring softly. Cami's heart hurt, she had recognized the blacksmith shop. That was the shop where her brother had fallen on an axe. The axe that Stoick had on his back.

It probably wasn't that axe. Why would he use it if it did give him a scar? What if she was wrong about this and Stoick wasn't the right brother, that wasn't the right axe, and that wasn't the right blacksmith shop?

Cami sighed. She would have all day to think about this tomorrow. She should get some sleep. She closed her eyes and drifted into her dreams.

Ok, ok, so I know that Gobber is technically too old to be in this story, but it's my story my rules. Gobber lives forever! Hope you guys enjoy chapter five!