Chapter 2
As soon as I know Gobber is gone I run straight out the back door; he should know that I'm never gonna stay home. I start heading through the woods to get to the water. Thinking about the day and all the failures on my project were starting to get to me.
"The gods hate me." I say to myself
"How come?" I hear a voice behind me
"AHH!" I turn around with my leg up and my fist ready to punch (really awkward), too see a familiar face.
"Stoick!" I yell as I put my hand on my chest and start to relax "You trying to kill me!"
Stoick, my "little" brother. Named after my grandfather Stoick the Vast and this kid has lived up to that name ever since he was born. He's the spitting image of my dad except he has my mom's blonde hair and blue eyes. He's only two years younger than me and he already is about 6 inches taller, rides a Monsterous Nightmare, ahead of me by 3 dragon classes, strong as an ox, and can tame any dragon he pleases. Basically switch my failures with his success and you've got the perfect son. Yep, spitting image of dad, Stoick is awesome, a true son of the chief, the rightful heir to Berk if he was firstborn.
But, I'm not made, a little jealous maybe, but not mad. He's my brother, and I love him, and he loves me too. Stardom does get to his head sometime.
He starts laughing so hard he a falls on the ground and roles to his back. "Oh gods you should have seen your face."
"Har, Har" I say as I sit down next to him, I begin to tickle him. He's in a laughing fit, we've both done this to each other ever since we were little. No matter how the world sees him, he will always be my little brother. Now that the mood is lightened I stop and catch our breath "So what's up?" I finally ask.
He sits up "Well other than scaring you, I heard what happened to day in town, you ok?"
"Other than permanent public humiliation, I'm good."
"Are you ok?"
"Well like everything else, I've got to get over it and…" I pause realizing something "wait you "heard what happened" you didn't see that I practically burned Berk to the ground?"
He paused for a second "Well, Pike dared me to take Beast and see how fast I could fly from here to itchy armpit and back."
"Stoick" I say in a yelling whisper through my teeth "That's dangerous, and you know dad doesen't wanting you to fly that far, especially with Beast , he's not old enough yet, and technically neither are you."
"I just turned 10 last week."
"Yeah, and your more wise then you were when you were nine."
"Well" he states sounding very defensive "Pike said that it would make dad proud."
"Is that all?" I ask knowing Pike always had a motive
Stoick hesitates "Well….he also wanted me to get him the granite rocks for the gronckle metal project."
"Why am I not surprised" I stand up
"What! No he's not! He's a good friend!" He follows me
"Good friend my tiny deadly nadder's butt!"
I begin to head to the water and Stoick is right at my heels
"You're just mad, because he's nice to me"
"I'm not mad. He's using you Stoick! He's using your skill and talented to benefit himself."
"No he's training me so that I can become a great chief!"
I stopped dead in my tracks, and whipped around to look at him. There's a brief moment of silence before he realizes what he said and his face is full of shock as he covers his mouth.
"Rori..I"
"No, you know what if I could give you the "honor" of becoming chief, I would. But that's not my job. You have a problem, talk to dad, not to Pike! You know, I'm not what dad has expected as his firstborn, ok, I'm a screwup, you are his perfect son and you do deserve to be chief. But, I'm as sure as the sun rises every day that the chief will not ride to an island and do other peoples homework for them. "
There's a moment of silence, until we hear rustling in the bushes. Then I hear that disgusting voice.
"Hey Stock" Pike appears from behind a tree "Did you get the.." he see's me
"Well, well, if it isn't her majesty herself."
"Get lost Pike." I say "I'm talking to my brother."
"That's no way to address the future chief." He says in a sly jokingly matter
I'm about ready to punch him in the face as he puts a hand around Stoick's shoulder. "Come on, let's leave the loser to play in her water."
Stoick looks at me, then looks at Pike.
"Stock" I say trying to get him to talk to me
"Yeah, let's go Pike" He says giving me one last glance as he and Pike turn and leave.
I turn and stomp, away as I hear them both laughing in the distance. "Ugh! The god's really hate me! Some people miss a stitch, or trip down the stairs, nope, not me, I make my own brother turn away from me!"
I smack a branch and it smacks me back in the face. I really need to go for a swim now.