At The Island
After getting all their things unpacked, Hiccup began to worry about the future and his ability to survive.
"Hey Toothless, could you teach me how to hunt?" Hiccup inquired.
Toothless rolled his eyes and sent him a look that obviously meant " Silly human, I shall hunt for us."
"No Toothless just think about it ok? Like what if we get separated and have to survive by ourselves? If you don't teach me how to survive, I probably won't."
Toothless's eyes softened and finally submitted to Hiccups idea. Because he couldn't let his thin clumsy human die. Toothless motioned for Hiccup to follow him into the woods. As they traveled through the forest, Hiccup knew he was being too loud and was trying to be extra quiet, but he was just to clumsy. He kept tripping over roots and stepping on fallen branches that sent a loud crack sounding throughout the forest probably alerting every animal in a 20 mile radius.
After a while of just marching through the woods, Hiccup began to get the hang of stealth, and finally happened upon a buck and 2 doe. Hiccup realized that he didn't even have a suitable weapon to hunt longer distances than he could throw his knife.
Everyone except Gobber had known that he was an expert knife thrower. He could hit a plate at 20 yards. He had figured that if he wasn't able to use a hammer, sword or axe, then he probably wouldn't have been accepted at Berk. So he decided that he would keep it a secret from everyone else. Well everyone but Gobber, he couldn't really hide a lot from Gobber.
While Hiccup was distracted, Toothless had snuck up on the 3 deer. Pouncing on them, he quickly slit their throats with his razor sharp claws. Hiccup was finally broken out of his thoughts when Toothless suddenly dropped the bloody corpses of the deer practically on his lap. With blood dripping from his soaked clothes they started back towards their little camp with Toothless dragging the deer behind.
When they finally made it back it was already dark out. Hiccup was trying to figure out how to skin one of the deer without getting drenched in blood.
"Ok so do I just ... well that's just fantastic" Hiccup said dryly as he was splattered all over in blood after trying to make a simple cut around the deer's throat so he could peel the skin off.
After a couple tries and being covered in multiple layers of blood, he finally managed to skin and chop up the deer in to small chunks.
"Thanks for your help Toothless," Hiccup said sarcastically, "I really appreciated it."
Toothless replied with his dragonic laugh.
"I wonder what tomorrow is saving for us." said iccup as he gazed at the stars.