Enpowera: Look, more dragon training. It's a bit rushed as we glossed over it in the roleplay.
The next day had both girls rushing to dress in order to make it to the training arena in time. Hiccup sent Ruffnut ahead as she needed to grab something real fast. She slipped on her brown fur vest, which was perfect for hiding things, and took off towards the market.
~~~A bit later~~~
"HICCUP!" Gobber yelled as Hiccup fell into the ring again.
Today's dragon was the Zippleback. Both heads glared hungerly at Hiccup while she looked panicked on the outside (inside she was smirking).
"Ahh!" Gobber ran as quickly as he could to the nearest weapon to go after the beast as the teens watched in horror (or entertainment) at the dragon going after the petite girl.
Hiccup smirked and revealed the eel she'd hid in her vest, just in case, "Get back in your cage!" she advanced towards it
The Zippleback's eyes bugged a bit on seeing/smelling the eel and worked on backing away.
Gobber slowed to a stop as he witnessed this. "Odin's beard...!"
"H-How's she doing that!?" Fishlegs stared in confusion and awe.
"Whooooooooa, she's like dragon repellent!" Ruffnut's mouth was slightly ajar.
"So suddenly too..." Ari was getting a bit suspicious.
Hiccup kept walking forward, trapping the Zippleback in it's cage, shutting the door. She kept the eel on her though, not being cruel enough to actually toss the eel into the cage with the poor thing. She turned to face the crowd.
All present looked at her in a dumbfounded, awestruck, or just plain confused manner, or any combo of the three.
"That...was...AWESOME!" Ruffnut ran forward and gave her secret friend a noogie of affection.
"How'd you do that Hiccup, nobody has before!" Fishlegs asked with some fanboying present in his voice.
"Stoic is never gonna believe me when I tell him!" Gobber laughed a bit.
Hiccup blushed, "It was nothing" Just a little observation.
"It was something alright, something amazing!" Ruffnut switched from a noogie to a bone-crushing hug.
"You have GOT to teach me how to do that!" Fishlegs just about squeed.
"Snotlout...do you think she might be a late bloomer?" Ari pondered.
"Maybe,but I doubt it," Snotlout stated, watching his cousin try to escape her friend's grasp. He felt jealousy rage up inside him. How dare the runt be good at anything!
"It's odd though." Ari's eyes narrowed as he thought. Was someone training her in secret?
"Come on Ruffnut, I need to breath!" Hiccup laughed at her friend. Ruffnut finally did so.
"We should watch her closely," Snotlout stated, Ari nodding in agreement.
"Well, I think that's enough for one day, you're all free to go!" In all truth, Gobber needed some time to figure out what in the world just happened.
"Alright!" Ruffnut ran out, Fishlegs following a bit slowly behind her.
Hiccup ran off to the forge, rushing to finish up her improvements to Toothless's tail fin before heading off to the cove, stopping by the house to pick up some clothes she'd ordered for Toothless that morning. Luckily the tailor could be bought into silence with an extra gold piece or two.
Toothless greeted her eagerly as she arrived at the cove, glomping her and licking her face.
"Toothless, get down. I have presents for you~."
Toothless eagerly did so, and was amazed at seeing the clothes, the improved tail fin, and a saddle. He changed into his human form and Hiccup helped him dress, reminding herself that Toothless was her brother so it wasn't awkward. She was just a big sister helping her little brother get dressed. Soon Toothless looked like a dashing young viking man, minus the tail, wings, and ears.
"How do I look?"
"Great!" Hiccup cheered. "Now return to dragon form so that we can try out the saddle and new fin. I want to get us flying soon."
"Okay, Hiccup!" Toothless transformed and soon the two were doing a hesitant test flight.
"Wow, this is amazing!"
Toothless roared in delight and agreement to his partner's statement.
Alas their fun was interrupted when a strong breeze hit, making them land in a patch of soft grass...aka Dragon Nip. Toothless went bonkers in a good way, acting much like a silly kitten as he rubbed his back in the nip after Hiccup released the saddle.
Hiccup saw that and laughed, "You like this stuff?" She smelled it a little, enjoying the fragrance that made her relax a little, "I should take some of this with me.." she gathered some grass to save for later use with dragons.
Toothless's tongue hung out in a rather silly manner as he continued to flail about in the nip patch. Hiccup laid back to relax too, letting the fragrance wash over her. He cuddled up to her and she lazily scratched his scales, which caused him to make happy cooing noises and pretty much clung onto her due to the scratching. Hiccup just enjoyed the feeling of being loved.
A while later they managed to stumble out of the dragon nip patch and back towards the cove, both too relaxed (aka drugged) to do much more than lazily fish for their supper (or rather, Hiccup fished and Toothless watched with interest). Soon they had a large pile of fish to eat for dinner. Hiccup cooked hers while Toothless ate his raw. It was an enjoyable end to an enjoyable day. A Terrible Terror even joined them after Hiccup scolded Toothless for being mean.
Hiccup left late into the evening, stumbling home past a snoozing Gobber (who wanted to make sure she got home safe).
The next day, dragon training went much the same as the day before: Ari kicking butt till Hiccup somehow wound up in the ring, this time with the Gronckle again. Hiccup pulled out some of the Dragon Nip and had the dragon all kinds of relaxed.
"Are you kidding me?!" Ari growled, upset at losing his thunder.
Fishlegs, Snotlout, Tuffnut and Ruffnut exchanged confused glances with each other as they all shared the same thought of 'When did SHE of all vikings have the ability to do this?'
"Well, gotta run!" Hiccup ran off to the forge to make her improvements before heading out to fly with Toothless. What she didn't realize was that Ari was following her, watching her every move to find out her secret. Alas he lost her in the thick woods.
Hiccup and Toothless greeted each other, barely talking as Hiccup rushed to equip the new equipment. Dragon and rider were flying before they know it. They felt the sweet taste of freedom in the sky, Hiccup being amazed with the view.
So won't you fly with me? I wanna make you feel alright. Alright with me. Let me mend your broken wings and set you free, girl it's alright. Girl can't you see?
Let me take you to a place that you've never seen, never been, only dreamed.
Where I can take away all of your pain. Girl I promise that you'll never hurt again, yeah.
They landed for a short break a while later, Hiccup discovering a sweet spot under Toothless's chin that made him turn into putty. Interesting. Hiccup made note of it for future use. She giggled as Toothless had a dazed expression, and so as not to waste time whilst Toothless was dazed, she took out her collapsible fishing pole to go fishing for some lunch.
Soon Hiccup had a large pile and was cooking some up. Toothless had awakened at this point and joined in eating them in his human form, curious what cooked fish tasted like.
"It taste funny… how can you stand it?"
"Better than food poisoning,"
"What's that?"
"You don't want to know."
"Meh. It's easier to eat them whole." Toothless stated with a nonchalant shrug.
"But humans can't digest fishbones easily."
"What do you do with them then?"
"We use them for lots of stuff: Jewelry, decorations, and predicting our future." Hiccup explained.
"Wow! Can you show me my future?" Toothless eagerly asked.
"I'm not trained to, sorry." Hiccup shrugged.
"Oh…" Toothless deflated a bit, but didn't last last long as they continued to talk.
Soon both were out flying again, one poorly done loop later had them crashing to the ground, getting hopelessly tangled.
"Owie…" Hiccup groaned, trying to get off of Toothless, only to realize her harness had stuck to the saddle. "Oh no…"
Toothless looked at her in confusion, leading Hiccup to explain and the duo having to wait for the cover of night to sneak into the village to separate themselves. Hiccup swatted Toothless a few times as he started to wander off to explore.
"Quiet!" She scolded as they reached the forge. She started looking for the right tool to free them and breathed a sigh of relief as it was found. What she hadn't realized was that Ari (who was on patrol) had heard the noise and went to investigate.
"Hiccup, what are you doing?" Ari inquired, suspicion in his eyes.
"Nothing, just a little late night work," Hiccup prayed he bought it as she close the shutters of the smithy to hide Toothless.
"Try again." Ari frowned with a deadpan expression.
Behind the scenes, Toothless was stretching as far as he could to go say hi to a nearby sheep, which had an amusing effect on Hiccup due to lifting the girl up and resulting in awkward positions.
Ari looked at her in bewilderment as she continued to make excuses despite the inconveniencing, before all together disappearing through the shutters. He peeked inside, but found it empty. Toothless and Hiccup had snuck out the back way and were now hightailing it to someplace private to free themselves.
"I can't take you anywhere..." Hiccup sighed.
Toothless just smiled at her in a 'You know you love me' kind of way.
"Whatever. Goodnight, Toothless. I need to get home to sleep," Hiccup left the crazy dragon and he left as well.
~~~ The next Day~~~
The next day and Hiccup was being tossed into the ring by Gobber- having been inducted into training without parental consent. She also had quite the crowd watching her, eager to see her skills. Given how things have been going when she accidentally ends up in the ring, the other teens (minus Ari) stood on the sidelines to watch what she'd do now that she was actually apart of the training. Gobber also picked a possibly really bad day to have her officially apart of training, as it was a Deadly Nadder day.
The Deadly Nadder charged Hiccup with a roar and flapping wings, only to be stopped when Hiccup scratched that sweet spot. The Nadder went down just in time to pause Ari mid axe swing.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" He yelled/growled.
Hiccup flinched a bit, feeling guilty for taking his spotlight. She just wanted the others to accept her. Which they were, finally, at long last. Due to a lie…
"I...I have somewhere to be!" Hiccup took off towards her house to grab her (never used) camping gear and a picnic basket.
Ari, meanwhile, had gone to the forest to calm down by taking his anger out on a few poor trees. Hiccup, her head in the clouds, did not hear the battle cries. With a primal rage of fury, Ari threw his axe as hard as he could at a tree and just barely managed to miss Hiccup. The fact he almost killed the chief's daughter put him in a state of shock and it didn't even register why she was in the woods carrying a basket and camping gear with her.
Ari got his axe out of the tree and took a couple breaths to calm down. "Okay, I think I've done enough damage for one day..." He sighed and went back home.
Hiccup just coward a bit, her heart racing at her near death experience. He could have at least apologized. She took off running just in case Ari decided that killing her on purpose might be a good idea. Soon she found Toothless and avoided telling him of what happened. Hiccup just focused on her and Toothless' little world where dragons got along with vikings.
