Chapter IV

A drawn map of the island, covered in X's. That's all we got.

,,Found anything?" I asked Rina who was exploring up ahead.

,,No, nothing." she said disapointed.

I added another 'X' to the page, then I scratched my pencil all over the whole map in frustration. I snapped the book closed and pocketed it. We looked everywere. We covered the whole Point and nothing."

,,Uggh, the gods hate us. Some people lose their knife or their mug. No, not us. We manage to lose an entire dragon." I said frustrated kicking a small rock. Rina came down from a rock and walked next to me.

,,Don't be so negative. It must be here somewhere." she said bending a branch so she could get pass witch wacked me right across the face.

,,Ow! Watch it!" I said rubing my nose.

,,Sorry. Hiccup, look." she said pointing at the tree. It was badly damaged like something crashed into it. We folowed the direction it was bended and found a trail that leaded down hill.

We followed it and at the end of the trail was a dragon tied up in a bola. We ducked at first but then slowly got up. We approached it and it apeared dead.

,,We did it. We did it!" I yelled victorious. It was definitely a Night Fury. It was black as night and its body was like the size of a horse not counting the wings which were probably two times bigger.

,,Hiccup look!" called Rina pointing at the other side oh the dragon. It looked like we didn't hit just one Night Fury.

,,We killed two?! I can't belive it!" I said coming back to the first Fury. The other one was dark gray and a little smaller than the first.

,, This will fix everything. We have brought down this mighty beasts!" I said puting a foot on the dragon making a victory pose. But then it shifted. I quickly backed away. I was terrified but held my knife strongly, ready to strike. I looked at its head and found myself looking at a pair of cold horrified green eyes.

,,It's alive. Be careful!" I said to Rina.

,,This one too." she answers holding her knife down.

,,We have to kill them." I said holding my knife over the beast. There was a small silence. She kept staring at the other dragon with sadness in her eyes.

,,Hiccup, I... can't." she said weakly

,,What do you mean you can't? We have to. I have to." I asked frowning at her.

,,I just can't okay!" she yelled looking at me angrily.

,,Fine. I'll kill them both." I said ready to strike into the dragons heart.

Rina backed away and went behind me.

,, I'm going to kill you, dragon. I'm gonna cut out your heart and take it to my father. I'm a Viking!" I said determinated to prove myself. The dragon's labored breathing broke my clenched concentration. I opened an eye, uncertainty leaking through. The dragon kept staring at me. Then something happened when I looked him in the eyes. I can't explain it but it was powerful. Finally, the Night Fury closed its eyes and lowered its head, waiting its fate. I tried to go through with it, holding the dagger aloft... fighting myself... until I finally lowered it with a frustrated sigh.

I looked over the dragon's chaffed rope wounds.

,,Hiccup?" Rina called me.

,,I did this. I a bigger monster than them." I said backing away. I was ready to grab Rina and run but then I stopped and looked at the dragons who were breathing hard. I grabbed my knife again and started cutting the ropes that were holding them.

,,Help me Rina!" I said and she grabbed her knife and did the same.

But as soon as the dragons felt the ropes were getting loose the gray Fury jumped away and was ready to run but the black one pushed Rina away and pounced on me.

,,Hiccup!" yelled Rina taking her knife and pointing it at the Fury.

The gray Night Fury roared and called the other one but it was still focused on me.

I tought I was really going to die this time. It looked like it's was about to kill me. I was paralyzed. I could feel the dragon's breath ruffling my hair. I opened my eyes to find the Night Fury's wolf-like stare burning into me. It was very intense. Then the dragon drawed a deep breath, looking like he was about to torche me but then it let out an ear-piercing scream instead. It turned away and they took off flapping violently through the trees. It bashed against a nearby mountain side, recovered, and then they droped out of view somewhere in the distance.

,,Hiccu, are you okay?!" asked Rina panicking. She helped me get up but the shock got me really hard and I stumbled and then passed out.

...

After I regained my consciousness we got back to the village and to our houses. We promised not to tell anyone about what hapened today, not even our fathers. Speaking of fathers, mine was home poking the fire. That was rear. I tried to sneak by him but...

,,Hiccup.".

,,Dad. Uh... I have to talk to you, dad." I said trying to stand up from my crawling position.

,,I have to talk to you too, son." he said approaching me.

,,I don't want to...".

,,I want you to...".

,,...fight dragons." we said at the same time.

,,Wait, what?" we did it again.

,,You go first." my dad said.

,,No, you go first." I insisted.

,, Alright. You get your wish. Dragon training. You start in the morning." he said proudly.

,, Oh man, I should've gone first. Uh, 'cause I was thinking, you know we have a surplus of dragon-fighting Vikings, but do we have enough bread-making Vikings, or small home...".

,,You'll need this." he said interrupting me by handing me an axe.

,,I don't want to fight dragons." I said putting down the axe.

,,Come on. Yes, you do.".

,,Rephrase. Dad I can't kill dragons.".

,,But you will kill dragons.".

,,No, I'm really very extra sure that I won't.".

,,It's time Hiccup.".

,,Can you not hear me?".

,,This is serious son!" he said giving me the axe back.

,, When you carry this axe... you carry all of us with you. Which means you walk like us. You talk like us. You think like us. No more of...this." he said doing the same thing Gobber did.

,,You just gestured all of me." I complained.

,,Deal?" he asked rasing his brow.

,,This conversation is feeling very one-sided.".

,,DEAL?!" he asked again rasing his voice. I figured that it was a no-win argument.

,,Deal.". Satisfied, my dad grabbed his helmet and duffel bag and heads for the door.

,, Good. Train hard. I'll be back...Probably.".

,,And I'll be here... Maybe.".