Chapter II

,,Man the fort, Hiccup, Rina, they need me out there! Stay. Put. There. You know what I mean." he said leaving us behind. We looked at each other. It's kind of our thing to know what the other was thinking without saying anything. We both had a mischievous smile on our faces. WHAM! We pushed my wheeled contraption through a wall of clustered Vikings. We weaved through the ongoing mayhem, as fast as our legs could carry us.

,,Hiccup, where are you going!" yelled a Viking.

,,Rina, get back here!" yelled another.

,,We'll be right back!" we said in a union and continued to run.

We reached a cliff overlooking the smoking catapult and drop the handles to the ground. I dropped a bola onto a chamber and then pivoted the weapon on a gimbal head toward the dark sky. Rina was standing next to me looking up. We stood stil looking for a target. Then just for a moment a blast of fire luminated a figure and both of us grabbed the handle and pulled it.

The bola disappears into the sky, followed by a whack and a screech.

,,We hit it?" I asked.

,,We hit it!" Rina screamed in delight.

,,Did anyone see that?" I asked feeling proud but then I heard a growl behind me and saw Rinas horrified face, I knew something was wrong. A Monstrous Nightmare appeared, slithering up over the edge of a cliff.

We ran through the plaza, screaming, with the Nightmare fast on our heels. We dogged its blasts but it keept coming after us.

,,We are going to die!" yelled Rina.

,,It would've ve happened eventually!" I yelled back. We hide ourselves behind a giant wooden torche. It was our last hope. The dragon hit the torche but missed us. It was quiet. And just when the dragon wanted to bite off our heads, Stoick leaped between us and the dragon, tackling it to the ground. They tumbled and wrestled. The Nightmare tried to toast him, but only coughed up smoke.

,, You're all out." he said with a smirk and then smashed the Nightmare repeatedly in the face, driving it away. Then he turned to us.

The burnt brazier pole collapsed, sending the massive iron basket crashing. It bounced down the hill, destroying as it goes and scattering the Vikings who were holding down the captured Nadders. The freed dragons escaped... with several sheep. Oh, and there's one more thing you need to know...

,,Sorry, dad." I said looking at his angry and disappointed face.

The raid is over. The dragons have clearly won. The murmuring crowd eyed my dad, awaiting his response.

,, Okay, but I think we hit a dragon." I said but he just grabbed me by my collar and practicly dragged me toward the house.

,,It's not like the last few times, Dad. I mean we really actually hit it. You guys were busy and we had a very clear shot. It went down, just off Raven Point. Let's get a search party out there, before it...".

,,STOP! Just...stop." he released me. Everyone goes silent, staring. I looked at Rina who was being firmly held by her dad. She looked more annoyed than scared if you ask me.

,, Every time you step outside, disaster follows. Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter's almost here and I have an entire village to feed!" he yelled. All eyes were on me.

,, Between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't ya think?" I said. We aren't the small kind of people. At least most of us.

,, This isn't a joke, Hiccup! And you dragged Rina with you? I can't belive you would do that!" he said even more disappointed than before.

,,He didn't drag me! I wanted to help. I..." she started but her father gave her the look and she stopped talking.

,, Why can't you follow the simplest orders?" my dad asked me.

,, I can't stop myself. I see a dragon and I have to just... kill it, you know? It's who I am, Dad." I said trying to convince him that I was one of them.

,, You are many things, Hiccup. But a dragon killer is not one of them." he replied with a sad and disapointed voice. Everyone agreed.

,,Get back to the house. I have to clean up your mess." he said leaving me behind.

I sadly went thoward what was left of my house passing the teens from the fire brigade.

,, Quite the performance." said Tuffnut.

,, I've never seen anyone mess up that badly. That helped!" mocked Snotlout.

,,Thank you, thank you. I was trying, so..." I answer sarcastically. I was so embarrassed. I tryed avoiding Astrids glare but I could still feel it.

,,Shut up, you jerks." said Rina punching Snotlout and ran to catch up to me.

We walked in silence for a few minutes.

,,We realy did hit him." I said.

,,I know."

,,He never listens.".

,,Well, it runs in the family...".

,, And when he does, it's always with this... disappointed scowl. Like someone skimped on the meat in his sandwich. , Excuse me, barmaid. I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring. I ordered an extra large boy with beefy arms. Extra guts and glory on the side. This here. This is a talking fish bone." I mimicked my dad telling my sad but true story.

,, You're thinking about this all wrong. It's not so much what you look like. It's what's inside that he can't understand just like my dad can't understand me. Ok, that came out wrong." she said frowning.

,,Thank you, for summing that up." I said with a small peck of shame coming out.

,, Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to prove to him.. We'll show them one day." she said giving me a hopeful smile. I sighted and we entered the house.

,,I just want to be one of them." I said and closed the door looking at her while she gave me a sympathetic look. I throwed myself on the bed in frustracion.

,,You know every one is busy right now. We can go and look for the dragon." she said and that was all that took to convince me.