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Chapter 3 Surgery

"Valka?" I asked as I approached her house. "Valka, you home?"

As I reached the door, I saw a note that said:

If you're looking for me, I am in the clinic tending to the dragons
Sincerely,
Valka H.

Turning towards Valka's large barn (or stables, whatever you want to call them). As I approached, I leaned inside to see where she was at. Spotting her at one of the further stalls, I walked inside and was immediately swarmed by small Nadder hatchlings.

"Hey you." I said as I picked one of them up. "Gods you guys are cute."

"Their only about 3 hours old," Valka said as she looked up from what looked like her surgery sack "and already getting into mischief.

"Yeah? Um, what's with the sack?"

"I have a Monterous Nightmare here with a tumor in her throat Astrid." she told me softly as she petted the said dragon "I need to get it out before it suffocates her."

"Is there anything that I can do?" I asked as I put the baby Nadder down and watched it run off to explore the rest of the dragon clinic.

"Yes. Since Hiccup is not here, I need you to help me with the operation."

"Ok." I said as I walked over and saw the said dragon with her eyes full of pain and sadness.

"Thank you Astrid." Valka said as she pulled out a dragon dart from the sack "Now I need you to keep her calm."

"Alright." I said as I laid the Nightmare's head in my lap stroking it lightly and whispering soft and gentle words to her.

She seemed to relax a little bit under my touch. And then I saw Valka lift the dart over her head and slam it down into the dragon's neck. Now let's just say, that she wasn't too fond of this sharp prick that went into her neck. And, roaring loudly, tried to get up, but was held down by Valka and I. Soon the dragon fell limp at our feet and I ended up glaring at Valka for doing such a thing.

"What were you thinking?!" I snapped

"The dart had medication that will numb the area of the tumor so we can remove it without her feeling it."

"But, why a dart?"

"Because I have yet to find another way to knock a dragon out so I can operate."

"Good point." I said "I'm, um, sorry that I snapped."

"It's alright." she told me with a smile "Hiccup probably wouldn't let me run the clinic anymore if he saw that."

"Probably." I said as I remembered the time when Hiccup and Gobber built Valka's barn for her so she could open up a dragon clinic/hospital for the dragons on Berk. With Gobber's dentistry in the forge, and Valka's hospital, the people of Berk were able to take care of almost all of their dragon's needs.

"Astrid I need you to dip your hands into Toothless' spit for me." Valka said breaking my thoughts

"Oh, yeah." I said as I put my hands into the slimy goo that Hiccup claimed to have wonderful healing properties "Gross." I said under my breath as I looked at Valka who had already laid sanitized blankets* placed around the dragon's bulge in it's neck from the tumor.

"How big is it?" I asked as I sat down next to her

"You can never really tell until you have opened them up." Valka said softly as if she was afraid to wake up the sleeping Nightmare

"Well I'm ready to help…Doctor Haddock." I told her with a smile trying to lighten the mood

-Chuckles-"Well I'm glad…Nurse Haddock." she responded back "Now, please pass me the dagger."

After handing it to her, she then proceeded to cut into the dragon's skin around the bulge.

The operation had begun.

….

After about 2 hours, we were finally finishing the last stich on her neck. Having gotten the tumor out successfully. I won't deny it, it was HUGE! And worse! It was disgusting! I didn't think that a dragon could have such a massive amount of junk in their throat.

"I can't believe that was in her throat. I'm not going to be able to sleep for weeks now." I told Valka

"Yes. It would have killed her by morning if we didn't get it out of her." Valka responded

"Well I am officially queasy now." I said

"Have you told Hiccup yet?" Valka asked me

"No I haven't." I responded "I was wanting to surprise him tonight. Which reminds me. I need your help with preparing one of my surprises for Hiccup."

"Of course. I will just need to finish up with this Nightmare. We can get Cloudjumpper to watch her when she gets up. Made sure that she doesn't do anything physically active."

"Alright." I told her "Stormfly and I will wait for you."

After about five minutes of waiting, Valka came out and mounted Stormfly behind me.

"Let's go take care of…what are we doing again?" Valka asked

"I need your help with preparing the house for his surprise party that the gang and I have put together."'

"And why wasn't I told of this?" Valka asked

"Because we all know how well that you can keep a secret." I told her with a smile

-Chuckle-"Point taken. However, am I still invited?"

"Of course you're invited." I told her with a slight chuckle

"So what are we needing to do for the party?"

"I need some help with preparing some food, decorating the walls, and cleaning up the main room." I told her as we landed outside my house

"Sounds good." Valka said as she dismounted "Do you know when Hiccup will be back?"

"Hopefully not until later this afternoon. I asked Toothless to take Hiccup out on a long flight after lunch."

"That should work." Valka said as we walked inside "But what about all of the work that he needs to do in the village?"

"I've taken care of that." I said with a smile

"Astrid?" she said with a cocked eyebrow "What'd you do?"

"I got Snotlout to help Gustave with his Nadder training, Fishlegs to help Gobber in the forge, and the twins to help Hiccup, Mulch, and Bucket fix their ship."

"You thought of everything didn't you dear?" Valka told me with a smile

"I think so." I responded

"Well…why don't we start with the food?"

"Good idea."

The sanitized blankets were cleaned in Night Fury saliva. Giving them a much cleaner-than-usual result.