Chapter 9: The Point

"You really got yourself into trouble on this one, Camicazi." Gobber shook his hook at her, then went back to working with the leather that was soon to be Cami's new saddle.

Cami had tried to tell Gobber that her name was Cami, not Camicazi, but he wouldn't have it.

"I guess I did," Cami sighed from her seat on the counter. "But what was I supposed to do? I don't want any of them to get killed."

She hadn't expected an answer, but Gobber said, "Ah, it's a good thing you told them, they're a stubborn group." He held up the new saddle. "Well, here ya go. One new saddle."

He dropped it into her arms and Cami stumbled a bit with the new weight in her arms. "Thank you. How much do I-"

He stopped her offer with a wave of his hook. "You paid me enough when you melted those scales, Camicazi. No payment needed."

Her face split into a smile. "Thanks."

Cami sat on a cliff looking over the village. Her notebook was on her lap, her sketch of everyone last night was almost done. It was almost noon, but Cami had been doing so many tricks on Starblaze with the new saddle that she wasn't hungry. She watched the Vikings walk the streets, each knowing what they needed to do and doing it.

Cami's mind turned to her days with the dragon hunters. It seemed like forever ago, but it was only five days since she escaped. Cami turned to Starblaze, who at the moment was inspecting her saddle.

"Do you like it?" Cami asked.

.: Hmm it is ok. I'm just glad we can do more tricks now. :.

"Me too- wait, did you just talk?" Cami was shocked. Her dragon could talk?!

.: I could always talk, you just couldn't understand. :.

"Woah. Awesome. I can't believe it!" Cami laughed. "So does this mean I can talk to any dragon, or just you?"

.: You can talk to any dragon. The wilder the dragon, the harder to talk to it. There may be some you can't understand, but most you will have no problem. :.

"Awesome!" Cami said, thinking about this amazing discovery. After a few minutes, she said, "Do you want to go flying some more?"

.: I thought you'd never ask. :.

"Wait, you seriously believe that girl?"

Hiccup sighed in frustration, rubbing his face absentmindedly. "Yes, Allen. We do." He looked at the boy sitting near the end of the table. It was Allen and Stoick's first time to be allowed in a meeting, and Hiccup was starting to regret letting them come.

"Well, that's a mistake," Allen said. Stoick elbowed Allen hard. "Ow!" Hiccup grinned at his son, then turned to Snotlout and Fishlegs.

"It seems the most logical thing to do," Fishlegs said. "She's been pretty helpful with getting the dragons from the Haddock's hut."

Hiccup's thoughts wandered to the past few days as Fishlegs rambled on about why they should believe Cami. She had shown Toothless how to get rid of the dragons, after having a conversation with him. When Hiccup asked her about it, she just smiled and told him that it was very odd that a person who knows so much about dragons would think that she could talk to a dragon.

"Hiccup!"

He pulled himself from his thoughts and looked at Astrid, who was sitting to his right. She had a frustrated look on her face, as if she had said his name many times before.

"We need you to make a decision about Cami," She told him.

Hiccup thought quickly, looking over all the Vikings present until his eyes landed on his son.

"Ok. We are going to let her get used to us for the time being, and let her rest." After looking around at the disappointed faces, he said, "We will find the dragon port, but we need her tell us where it is. Stoick, you work on getting her to tell you. Don't chase her away. Got it?" Stoick nodded, Hiccup finished by saying, "She isn't to know about this until I tell her. Understood?" Hiccup mostly kept his eyes on Allen. Leave it to him to ruin the plan.

Everyone nodded, and the meeting was dismissed.

Stoick walked through the village looking for Cami. Allen trailed behind him, talking about something, but Stoick wasn't listening. He was trying to figure out what to say to Cami.

Allen punched him in the shoulder unexpectedly. "Ow!"

Allen scowled at him. "You weren't listening to me. Is that her?" He pointed to the sky, where a white dragon was doing flips. Starblaze was the only white dragon on Berk.

"Yes it is! NORBERT!" Stoick yelled. His dragon came up from behind, and he jumped on Norbert's back, while Allen called for his Monstrous Nightmare, Deathclaws. (Why he picked such a name, no one knows. Probably to intimidate people.)

They followed the white dragon to a nearby cliff, and the three teens landed. Cami jumped off her dragon first, and Stoick could see she was nervous, but she was trying to hide it. Allen didn't notice, so Stoick relaxed the tiniest bit. He didn't have to worry about Allen taking advantage of her nervousness.

"Cami, this is Allen." She nodded to him, but ignored the hand he stuck out to her, watching the Nightmare with cautious eyes. "Oh, and that's Deathclaws."

The dragon's head perked up when he heard his name. He walked over, and Cami stood straighter as the huge dragon approached. Deathclaws sniffed her all over, and Cami reached out to touch his scales. He jerked his head back, but Cami whispered something and he brought his head back down, letting her scratch behind his horns.

"Hmm, Deathclaws doesn't seem like a fitting name," Cami joked, glancing at Allen. He looked like he had seen a ghost.

Stoick leaned over to him. "She did that to Norbert, and now he follows her around everywhere," he joked in a loud whisper, "I think she's hypnotizing the dragons."

"I heard that!" Cami called over her shoulder, trying to scratch Norbert and Deathclaws at the same time.

"Good!" he called back.

Stoick made his way to Cami, sidestepping Deathclaws's wagging tail. Once he got close enough to her that Allen couldn't hear them, he said, "Allen is probably going to go crazy after this."

She turned to him. "Isn't that the point?" Cami asked, smiling.

It had been a month since Cami had arrived in Berk, and her shoulder was fully healed, besides a scar. Cami was once again in Gobber's shop, sitting on the counter and watching Gobber melt some blue dragon scales.

"Did you give me that bow? With Toothless's scales?" Cami asked.

Gobber didn't look at her when he said, "Of course I gave ya the bow! Who else could make such a bow?"

"But why? I don't know how to use one."

Gobber turned a gave her a stern glare. "Of course ya do! Once you learn, you'll always remember!"

"But I- oh, never mind." She decided not to argue with Gobber.

Cami jumped off the counter, and walked out of the shop. She went to the healer's house, and looked for her. She wasn't there. Good.

Cami grabbed her bow and arrows from the corner of her room, and tiptoed out of the house, not wanting to get caught. She made her way to the woods behind the village. Luckily, no one saw her.

She walked through the woods until she found a clearing. She picked up a arrow, a pulled the string back. Cami focused on her breathing, held her breath, and shot. The arrow hit the tree she was aiming for.

"Yes!" Cami shot three more arrows, all hitting where she wanted them to. It was getting dark, so she pulled the arrows out of the tree and made her way back to the village. When she got to the edge of the woods, she saw Hiccup and Astrid waiting outside the healer's door. Deciding she didn't want to talk to them, she turned to the stables and found Starblaze's stall. She walked in, and said, "Hey Starblaze."

.: Hey Cami. :. She replied sleepily.

"Can I stay in here tonight?"

.: Of course! :. Cami laid down beside Starblaze, and soon was asleep.

Stoick walked in the stables the next morning. He was going to get Norbert and go fly around to see if he could find Cami. She wasn't at Gobber's or the healer's. Hiccup wanted to talk to her and so did he. He walked by Starblaze's stall, and saw the dragon was still laying there. That's weird. If Starblaze is here, then where is Cami? He was about to move on, then he saw that Cami was laying on the other side of her dragon, still asleep, with a bow and a quiver of arrows right beside her.

She was starting to wake up. Stoick moved on, not wanting Cami to see him watching her.

Cami met Stoick outside with her bow in her hand, and her quiver attached to her belt. "Where did you get the bow?" Stoick asked curiously.

Cami shrugged and said, "Gobber gave it to me. He said something about me already knowing how to use it."

"That's Gobber for you. Why weren't you at the healer's? My dad has been looking all over for you."

"Oh, I slept in the stables. It's more, well, more like I'm used to." Stoick looked at her sharply when she said that, but Cami was avoiding his gaze.

"Well then, are you ok with going to the Great Hall? That's where my dad is." Stoick asked her, remembering Cami didn't like it last time.

Cami bit her lip, but said, "Sure."