This is my FIRST update today, and sorry it took me so long. I was planning on posting it yesterday, but I just got kind of hung up on other things, and I'm sorry. :) This chapter is going to be fun. I LOVE writing about a Modern HTTYD. It's fun. :D Enjoy the chapter! Shout-outs:
silverwolvesarecool: I tell awkward jokes all the time without hardly even thinking about it. :)
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xFaerieValkyriex: I think I'm the Camicazi in my group; crazy, yet at the same time, perfectly sane. :D
Wanli8970: Haha! Thanks for Flara's info! I'm going to have to work on Seaworthy sometime soon! After I get my other ideas out, that is, because I don't want to rush it and ruin it. :)
HiccupHaddockIII: I guess so. In most the books I read (Lord of the Rings, Marry Poppins, etc) they always use "said so-in-so" with the "said" before the name. I kind of go back and forth sometimes. :D Thanks for the review!
AnimeAngel: PIZZA! I'm actually not too big a fan of pizza, but I like it occasionally. Sometimes. Depending on how hungry I am. :D
On their way back to their houses, Hiccup's alarm went off. He took out his phone, and then called his mother.
"Hey, Mom," said Hiccup.
"Hey, Hiccup," said Valka over the phone. "How are you doing?"
"Fine," said Hiccup. "I'm with Astrid. We're in our neighborhood."
"Okay, good," said Valka. "Be careful."
"I am, and I will be," said Hiccup. "I'll talk to you in another hour."
"Okay," said Valka. "Bye."
"Bye," said Hiccup. He hung up, and then slipped the phone back into his pocket. "So..." he turned and looked at Astrid as he spoke, "what should we do?"
"I was thinking we could play truth or dare," said Astrid.
"Oh no," said Hiccup. "I have a love-hate relationship with this game."
"Then let's play," said Astrid. "You go first."
"No, you go first," said Hiccup.
Astrid grinned mischievously. "Okay," she said. "Truth or dare?"
"Dare," said Hiccup. "Truths are no fun."
"You have a point," Astrid said suspiciously. "Okay, I dare you to do the cinnamon challenge!"
"WHAT!?" Hiccup jumped backwards.
"You heard me!" said Astrid.
"I think you're trying to kill me!" said Hiccup. "Give the one-legged guy a break!"
"Hmmm," said Astrid, tapping her chin, as if in deep thought. "Nope. Cinnamon challenge. Now."
"Aw come on," Hiccup groaned.
"I have a ton of cinnamon at my house," said Astrid. "Follow me."
"If I die," said Hiccup, "I want you to tell my family I loved them."
"You won't die," said Astrid. She raced into her kitchen and came back with an entire tub of cinnamon, and a spoon. She handed them both to Hiccup, and he frowned.
"You have to do it after me," he said. "That's the one condition."
"Fine!" said Astrid. "Just do yours first!"
Hiccup sighed and set the tub down on the counter, scooping a small amount of cinnamon on his spoon.
"No, there's not enough on that thing," said Astrid, shaking her head. "Like this." She took it from him, and then scooped a ton of cinnamon onto it. Hiccup gasped.
"You are trying to kill me!" he shouted.
"Oh hush," she said. "Just do it and get it over with. Remember, you were the one who took the dare!"
"You didn't tell me you were going to kill me!" said Hiccup.
"Just get it over with already!" said Astrid. "I'm waiting!"
He took the spoon from her, and shoved the cinnamon in his mouth. He handed the spoon back to Astrid and paused. Then, he started coughing.
"Oh good...grief..." He made out. Astrid laughed. "WHY...WOULD YOU...DO THAT!?" he shouted. "What are you...oh this is AWFUL..." He coughed and gagged. Astrid laughed even harder. "STOP...*cough*...LAUGHING!"
"Okay, okay, sorry," said Astrid, handing him a water bottle. He chugged down half of it in one breath and then set it back down on the kitchen counter. He glared at Astrid.
"Your turn," he said.
Astrid's eyes widened, her smile disappearing. "Oh no."
"Oh yes," said Hiccup. He got her another spoon, scooped up the same amount of cinnamon she had given him (and quite possibly giving her more). Then, he sat back and watched.
"Who's trying to kill who now?" said Astrid.
"Not me," said Hiccup, "so get it over with."
"Ah, you just overreacted," she said. "This is going to be easy." She stuffed it into her mouth, and then instantly gagged. "What...in the...world!?" She coughed.
Hiccup smirked. "That's right," he said. "Feel my pain."
"Oh...my goodness..." Astrid choked. "Don't just stand there!" she shouted. "DO SOMETHING!"
"Alright, alright, I'm going!" said Hiccup. He ran, and then came back with a bottle of water. Astrid drank some, and then set it back down on the counter.
"Okay then!" said Hiccup. "It's my turn! Truth or dare, Astrid?"
"Dare," said Astrid.
"Good," said Hiccup, and evil smile flashing on his face. "I dare you to dump a bucket of ice water over your head!"
"What!?" said Astrid. "Hiccup, it's in the middle of winter!"
"Yeah I know!" said Hiccup.
"It's SNOWING!" said Astrid.
"Isn't it GREAT?" said Hiccup.
Astrid grumbled under her breath, yet complied. She walked outside, Hiccup following intently, and then filled a five-gallon bucket up with water at the pump. Hiccup ran back inside her house and came out with two ice cube trays. He dumped the ice in, and set the trays aside.
"Ready, Astrid?" said Hiccup. "Go for it."
She nodded and reached down, picking up the bucket. Then, she flipped it and dumped it over her head.
She gasped and dropped the bucket once its contents were coating her thoroughly. Hiccup laughed at her expression, until she glared.
"My turn," said Astrid. "Truth or dare?"
"Truth," said Hiccup.
"Aww come on!" Astrid complained. "I wanted you to do a dare!"
"Truth," Hiccup repeated.
"Okay," said Astrid. "Have you ever blamed someone else for something you did?"
"Does the cat count?" said Hiccup. "Because I blamed Toothless for tracking mud in the house, and then realized that I was the one who did it. And so I apologized to him and stuff. Okay, my turn."
"But my turn was no fun!" said Astrid.
"Oh don't worry," said Hiccup, a mischievous grin flashing on his face. "You will have some fun. Truth or dare?"
"Dare," said Astrid.
"Okay," said Hiccup. "I dare you to inhale helium and then read Romeo And Juliet."
"Okay," said Astrid.
"Without laughing," said Hiccup.
"Oookay," said Astrid. "Let's get this over with."
A few minutes later finds Astrid holding a helium balloon, holding the air in by pinching the airway with her fingers. Hiccup watched her, smiling.
"Okay," said Astrid, picking up a piece of paper that had the play written on it. She sucked in some helium, and then read, "'Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, and the continuance of their parents' rage, which, but their children's end, nought could remove, is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, what here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.'"
She said it with a straight face while Hiccup laughed his head off at her high pitched voice.
"Quit laughing!" she shouted, but the helium effect was still active. Hiccup laughed even harder at her squeak of a voice.
"My turn," said Astrid. "Truth or dare?"
"Dare," Hiccup laughed.
"Okay," said Astrid. "The next time your alarm goes off for you to call your mother, answer her after inhaling a bunch of helium."
Hiccup gasped. As if on cue, his alarm went off. Astrid smirked and handed him another balloon.
"Have fun," she smiled.