Chapter IX

We worked all night on it. Rina got the material from her place and I made the sketches. Then we rolled up our sleeves and started. I used tongs to pull intricate iron pieces from the coals and then dropped them onto the anvil, twisting them and lightly hammered them. Then I passed them to Rina and she dunked them in a barrel, cooling them off. We were making peace by peace and were almost over. Then, when I was measuring the leather which I was going to use, I saw Rina exhausted and sleeping on the anvil. I picked her up and placed her on a comfortable chair and covered her and then continued working. And just when the sun started to rise I put all the peaces together and made the mechanical fin.

,,Rina, wake up. It's dawn." I said shaking her. She rubbed her eyes and yawned.

,,What? Oh, no! I fell asleep! Why didn't you wake me up?" she said getting up fast.

,,Don't wory. I finished it." I said showing her our creation.

,,Wow! It turned up really good." she said observing it carefully.

,,Do we have class today?" I asked.

,,Yes but in the afternoon. I'll be right back." she said dissapearing out of the stall. I was packing some stuff and the fin when she came back... or I tought she did. The thing that knocked on my door was a big bag of fish.

,,You think it will be enough for them?" she asked emerging from behind the bag whtch was twice my size.

,,How did you... Newer mind. Let's just go before anyone wakes up. Was your dad up?" I asked helping her carry the bag.

,,Do you think I could have brought this out without him noticing if he was?" she asked rising a brow.

,,Good point.".

We got to the cove almost dying twice carrying that thing. We finaly put it down by the lake.

,,Toothles, Heartbeat, breakfast!", yelled Rina and the two of them came to us like they already knew their names. The stared at the bag sniffing it.

,,I hope you're hungry." I said while knocking down the bag. The fish spilled and once they saw it they digged in.

,,What's your plan?" whispered Rina.

,,I'll just sneak up on him and put it on.".

,,Okay, but if you die I'm not responsible." she said shrugging her shoulders..

This was it they were peacefully eating while I slowly got behind Toothless.

,,There's some salmon, some nice Icelandic cod and and a whole smoked eel." counted Rina but once she said eel they backed away hissing. She got closer and picked it up. Both of them growled at her terrified.

,,Throw it away!" I yelled and she did. Once the eel was gone they digged back in.

,, Okay. That's it. That's it, just stick with good stuff. And don't you mind me. I'll just be back...here. Minding my own business." I kept babbling. I cautiously approached the injured tail, but every time I get near it, Toothless sweeps it away like a cat. Heartbeat stopped eating and focused her eyes on me. She looked at me curiously but didn't do anything to stop me. I had to literally get on his tail to buckle up the fin. I didn't even notice Toothless tensing and slowly spreading his wings.

,,Um, Hiccup...?!" Rina called me, alarmed, but I didn't hear her.

,, There. Not too bad." I said puting it on and as soon as Toothles heard that he took off, Heartbeat right on his tail.

,,Hiccup!" yelled Rina from the ground. I saw that we were going to crash and grabbed the fin opening it and allowing Toothles to fly up. We got very high in the air. I didn't want to look down but that was all I got.

,, It's working!" I exclaimed turning the fin so we glided back down, close to the lake.

,, Yes! Yes, I did it." I celebrated holding on but Tootles saw me as a burden and threw me off of his tail into the lake. But that just made the fin shut and him crashing in the same lake. Heartbeat landed next to him nuzzling him to see if he was alright. I stood up and yelled, jumping up and down. I turned around to get punched in the face.

,,You idiot! You could have died!" screamed Rina at me.

,,Sorry." I apologized sanding up again.

,,Don't ever do that again." she hissed in my face and then stomped off. ,,Bye Heartbeat! Bye Tootheless!" she said picking up the empty bag and leaving. I was stunned and surprised.

,,She knows how to punch." I said looking at the dragons but they were giving me judgemental look. I was more confused than ever.

,,Hiccup!" she growled making me jump.

,,Bye guys!" I said grabbing the fin that got off of Toothles and hurried after her.

We managed to make up along the way but that was the first time I saw her that angry.

,,I need to take this home. I'll se you in the ring." she said leaving.

,,Okay.".

At home I looked at the fin and tried to find out what went wrong and discovered that there was nothing to hold the fin open. While I was thinking of a new sketch I remembered how the dragons reacted to the eel. I looked in our food supplies and found one. I hid it under my vest. It might come in handy. I realised it was time to go to the arena so I hurried up and almost got there late.

,,Nice you could join us." said Snotlout.

,,Where's Gobber and Rina?" I asked and Astrid pointed next to the entrance. They were holding buckets filled with water.

,,Okay, all of you grab a bucket and grab your partner. Ruffnut with Astrid, Tuffnut and Snotlout and finaly Hiccup with Fishlegs. Rina go close the gate." he said and opened the dragon door as soon as all the exits were shut. A cloud of smoke covered the arena, swirling around us.

,, Today is about teamwork. Work together and you might survive." said Gobber standing next to Rina.

,, Now, a wet dragon head can't light its fire. The Hideous Zippleback is extra tricky. One head breathes gas, the other head lights it. You need to know which is which." said Rina.

We all got seperated in pairs from the rest of te group. We couldn't see clearly because of the smoke.

,, Razor sharp, serrated teeth that inject venom for pre-digestion. Prefers ambush attack, crushing its victims in its..." I could hear Fishlegs.

,, Will you please stop that?" I said already tense. We could hear voices coming from the others.

,, If that dragon shows either of his faces, I'm gonna -There!" I heard Snotlout.

,,Hey!" Astrid complained.

,,It's us, idiots." yelled Ruffnut, probably soaked.

,,Your butts are getting bigger. We thought you were a dragon.".

,,Not that there's anything wrong with a dragon-esque figure.".

Then we heard a punching sounds and then a small yelp.

,,Wait." I hear Astrid and everyone froze. We heard water spiling and then the smoke started to clear off.

,, Oh, I'm hurt. I am very much hurt." yelled Tuffnut running pass us. A Zippleback head emerged out of the smoke. Fishlegs hurled his water at it, completely dousing the head but...

,, Oh. Wrong head." said Fishlegs and then went running and screaming. Then the other head emerged.

,, Now, Hiccup!" yelled Rina but I missed.

The Zippleback was ready to finish me off but then it sniffed me and retreated a little. Then I remembered.

,, Back! Back! BACK! Now don't you make me tell you again! Now think about what you've done." I said moving my vest and revealing the eel. The onely one that saw what I did was Rina and she started roling on the floor with laughter. I threw the eel in dragons cage and closed the door locking it up. I turned to see everyone staring at me exept Rina who was still laughing.

,, Okay! So are we done? Because We've got some things we need to..." I said grabbing Rina's hand and heading to the exit.

,, Yep...see you tomorrow." I said as we left their sight.