Ok guys I'm really cooking,a nd I might as well write and post as many chapters as I can before I either A. hit writers block, or B. head back to school, in which my life will get CRAZY! Thanks for those who are following, feel free to review, I accept critcisms and suggestions for a clan name and other character names (just give me good Viking names) becaue I haven't figured the whole thing out yet (not all suggestions will be taken) Enjoy chapter 4.

"Are you kidding me!?" my dad mumbled loudly as we entered our house. It didn't take long for him to find mom, grandma, and I in the forest. He did the same thing Mom did, embraced my and then firmly stated "We need to talk."

Can I blame them? I disappeared for nearly 9 hours between the suit, and swimming.

The walk home was an embarrassment of itself. With all the finger pointing, giggles, and other parent's scowls of disapproval I couldn't wait to get home to get lectured. My mind quickly changed as soon as we got through the front door. You see, my dad doesn't really "yell' it's more like "firm guilt discussing".

While mom heads in the other room. Dad firmly sits down on a stool near the fire, puts is elbows on his knees and his hands begin to rub his temples, finally they land on his lips. He sighs.

Toothless gives me a quick glance of "Good luck sister." And jumps up to one of the roof support beams to sleep. My suit is already leaking all over the floor and I'm standing in a puddle of sea water. This will be the most uncomfortable lecture of my life.

I look to my dad ready to face the music, then I stop. I've never noticed how stressed he looked until now. He can't fly toothless every day because he's so busy; instead of his flight suit he's wearing a deep green with a fur cloak, pants and boots. He normally likes to keep a clean shaven face, but his jaw and chin are scraggily. The firelight accents the bags under his eyes as he stares at the floor. He looks exhausted.

"Rori?" he says "What's going on?" he looks up and makes eye contact with me. He looks concerned, sad, tired, stressed, and at the end of his rope. I don't want to be the straw that breaks the mighty camel's back.

"Where's Stoick?" I ask trying to change the subject.

"At the dragon academy with Fishlegs and the others, but, right now that is not your concern."

"Ok" I say calmly

He gets up and starts to walk about the room. I suddenly feel very small.

He starts "You've been skipping classes, I hardly see you around town, Gobber tells me that he's had to cover for your shift numerous times in the past few weeks, and now I find out that you've gone behind your mother and my back to work on this project that has nearly gotten you killed and multiple occasions."

"You've worked on projects that –"

He interrupts "That's different." He points to Toothless "I've got someone to back me up in case I end up in danger."

I sigh "Dad, if this is about me trying to get a dragon, I CAN'T." I flail my arms "None of them like me!"

And now he sighs and rubs his eyes in frustration "Rori, just…."

"Well I can't!" I say my voice nearly shouting. "I try so hard to just fit in, make friends, and not blow things up ok! This," I lift up a wing and point to it with my other hand "makes me happy, I want to do something important I want to discover things, and I want to-"

"This is not about you making friends, or the accidents that happen this is about your safety and the safety of the town."

"So I'm a danger to the town."

"I did not say that."

"But you implied it dad."

Dad paused for a minute "Tomorrow you are going back to the dragon academy, you will attend your classes, work at the forge, and then you are coming straight home. You are grounded."

"That seems awful convenient because I don't have a dragon to fly away with anyway." Oh crap, that just slipped out, but, it felt good.

"Rori-"

"No matter if I'm grounded or not things won't change, I'll still fail at everything, dragon classes will do nothing for me!" at this point it's just coming out and I've got no control of my words
"You're not a failure Rori, you're just….." dad pauses

"I'm just what dad?" I state

"Different! You're just different!" dad yelled. And, now I think he's fallen off the edge of the rope.

"Yeah, different!" I say "And people who are different, they either change the world and make it a better place, like you, or they fail and fade from existence. So, who am I gonna be dad?"

"Go to your room," he states and points upstairs

A pause for a moment and stare in his deep green eyes, trying to find something to go off of, but, I turn my heels and march upstairs.

I slam my door and turn to a my room, my walls are covered in papers of projects and ideas. I go to my desk and pick up my most prized possession, my journal where I hold all my ideas and discoveries, and hold it to my chest as tears start brimming from my eyes.

There's a knock on my door "Go away!" I yell

"It's just me." I hear my mom

"Yeah, come in."

She opens the door and steps in. "Wow, this room is a mess."

"You here to lecture me?" I put my journal down on my desk.

"No," she walks to a wall and stares at some papers. "So many of these have x's all over the papers."

"They're the projects that didn't work out." I say as I sit on the edge of my bed.

"Then why do you keep them up?"

I look up at mom and give her crooked sarcastic smile. "Is this where you say something profound to make me feel better?"

"Yep" she sits down next to me and starts to take out my messy braid and re-braid it "So?"
"I keep them up to remind me of what doesn't work." I state

"So, you're learning."

"I guess."

She finishes the braid and makes me turn around to face her. "You, are not a failure."

"You're supposed to say that." I say

"No," she states "I want to say that." She kisses me on the forehead and gets up. "Get changed, and go to bed. You're still grounded."

She leaves the room, and closes the door, I get into my regular clothes and take out my journal. The night is still young.

…

(3rd Person point of view )

Astrid walks down the stairs and sees her husband sitting hunched over looking into the fire with a cup of tea in his hand. She clears her through, and he looks up at her.

"You here to lecture me?" he states and puts the cup of tea down.

"Nope." She says and sits on the couch "Come over here." He slowly gets up and sits down next to her with a sigh. They both share a quick kiss; then she rests her head on his shoulder, and his head on hers.

"What am I going to do with her?" he whispers.

"You know you were exactly like her when you were her age." She states

He gives her a confused look

"You are so caught up in your duties as chief that you don't see an awkward, little girl who trys to make her dad proud." She pauses "Does that sound familiar?"

"All too well." He sighs "I'm doing the same thing my dad did. Only seeing what I want to see in my own child." He pauses "I wish dad was still here," he sighs "He had faults, but he was a good man."

"And a good dad." Astrid says "You convinced him that there was more than that raw Viking like way of living in this world, and your daughter is trying to do the same thing."

"She doesn't listen." He states "She's rebellious, headstrong, and stubborn."

"You've just described yourself." She says laughing and then pauses. She reaches up and gently leans her face toward hers so that their eyes are locked "She doesn't need a chief tell her what to do Hiccup. She needs her father to love and guide her, and I am terrified that we will lose her if this continues."

He leans in so that his forehead is leaning against hers, and intertwines his hands with hers, and they stay this way for a few minutes. It's not often the couples has moments like this.

"Your right." He finally states with a sigh

"When am I not?" She laughs and gives him a quick kiss and then motions her head upstairs toward Rori's room. "Go talk to her." She gets up and heads to the other room, as the door of the house opens and Stoick walk in.

"Hi son." Hiccup stats as he begins to poke the fire.

"Hey dad."

"Did you have a good day?"

"Oh, it was fantastic!" Stoick states as he puts is bag on the floor.

"Great! Your grounded."

Stoick pauses "What?"

"Flying to Ichy Armpit, when I told you not too, can't let Pike peer pressure you son."

"Did Rori tell you?!" Stoick shouted

"Oh she didn't have to." Hiccup stated as he climbed the stairs "The triplets have the biggest mouths in all of Berk."

"Mom!?" Stoick shouted

"Listen to your father Stoick." Astrid says

"AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHH!" Stoick goes to his room and slams the door.

"Great now both of my kids are angry with me." He mutters under his breath "Rori can I come in?" he states as he knocks on the door. There's no answer. He opens the door to find an empty room, he's about panic when he sees a note on the bed it reads "Gone to the spot, be back in a few hours."

He smiles and calls downstairs, "I'm heading out."

….

(Back to First Person Point of View)

"Dad wasn't always like this ." I think to myself as I scribbled in my journal. I was at a little pond in the forest where dad said he met Toothless.

He and I used to hang out all the time, he would show me all of his new projects and that's how I starting working here. He would give me rides on toothless and we would try to find new Island together. He was my best friend, and then it happened.

When I was seven our village was attacked by a foreign clan, while my dad and many of the men were at another Island trying to find food for the winter. To make a long story short, they tried to capture us, mom kicked some ass and punched the leader in the face, they set the island on fire and dad swooped in, in the nick of time to save all of us.

I've never seen dad so scared until that day. Then he went I to strict super chief mode. We never went for rides, we never talked, he was the chief and his job was to protect.

"You know." I hear from behind me and jump "I don't think you get the definition of grounded."

I turn around to see dad, but he's smiling, and doesn't look mad at all. He sits down next to me "May I?" he motions toward my journal. I nod and hand it to him.

"You know." He states as he starts drawing "You could get more distance and speed if you add a back fin." He shows me the finished drawing

"That could work," I say taking the notebook back "but I'd need to calculate the weight and length and….wait a sec. Who are you and what have you done to Hiccup the Horrible."

He laughs "Is that what they call me?"

"Only when you dress like that." We both laugh

"Remember you and I used to come here all the time." My dad states

"Yeah," I say as I lay back on the grass "We'd count the stars for hours."

He lays down too. "You used to think that every star was the egg of a Frightmare and you were ready to defend the village when they all hatched."

"I did not!"

"You did so!"

"Ok, maybe I was a little nutty."

"You still are."

"Wow, thanks dad."

We both sigh and stare at the sky for a few moments. "I come here in the middle of the night a lot" I say "It helps me think."

"Did you know that I purposed to your mom here?"

"Really?"

"Yep."

"So I'm laying on mushy ground."

"Mushy gound?"

"Yeah, love ground."

He sits up "Mushy ground?"

"Too corny?" I ask

"Way too corny?"

"You know dad you're kinda corny yourself."

"Oh, I'll show you corny." He begins to tickle me. I shriek with laughter and tell him to stop as I try to escape. I than accidently kick him in the face. He stops and holds his nose.

I can't stop laughing when I say "Oh …my gods, dad,….. I'm so sorry."

He starts laughing, we both laugh until our sides hurt. I sit next to him and he puts his arm around me. We quite down and stare up at the moon.

"Ready to defend the village"

I look up at him with a smirk "Dad, I'm not five."

He pauses "You know that in a month I have to go on a voyage to an island to try and make peace with another clan."

"Yeah I know." I say as I begin to pull at some grass.

"This clan isn't fond of dragons so we have to travel by ship, and leave the dragons here." He pauses again, as I keep ripping up grass "Would you like to come with."

I stop and look up at him bewildered "You mean it?"

"Yeah," he pauses "I miss you."

I jump up and give him a big hug "I miss you too dad."

Phew long chapter! Please review and let me know what you think. Love you all J!