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Chapter 2
That morning had more noise than the previous day. The birds were singing, and so were the Terrors, people talking, sheep bleating, roosters sounding the morning alarm. Hiccup didn't mind them this time. He was up really early. One, because Toothless was pounding on the roof, two, because he was the chief. He didn't always like waking up that early, but he had no choice.
Hiccup yawned as he rose up out of bed, he heard Toothless jumping on pounding on the roof, the normal routine.. He stood up on his feet, well, one foot and the other prosthetic. He slowly walked downstairs, dreamily. He reached the last step, looking to the left, he noticed his mother sitting on a chair near the fire. He crept passed her to get to the kitchen, to get something to eat before he was off on his daily check of Berk. After breakfast, he hopped onto the night black dragon and took off.
The wind was blowing pretty hard, Hiccup noticed some of the pines were swaying back and forth pretty furiously. Usually that means a storm was brewing. Toothless was pretty uneasy at flying threw the gusts of winds, but Hiccup did his best to keep him as steady as possible.
"It's alright, bud." Hiccup said trying to comfort his dragon. "I won't let anything happen to you, no matter what the cost." Toothless looked up at him and cooed. Hiccup stroked his scaly head. There was a pause. then Hiccup spoke again, "We should go and check on Dragon Island, the wind may be even stronger there and could've caused more destruction." Hiccup and Toothless soared through the air and strong gusts of wind. Toothless could barely see from the wind stinging his eyes. They finally reached Dragon island. Hiccups eyes turned to shock and horror to see Alvin the Treacherous and Dagur the Deranged all on the island signing a peace treaty or something. But, also the wind destroyed like half of the island, trees torn down, branches and leaves scattered all over the island, dragons unconscious from possibly massive objects hitting them in the head like a rock.
Hiccup noticed Dagur was riding on something.. A SKRILL?! Hiccup gasped, he had no idea how he managed to tame that fierce beast. Hiccup and Toothless dove down lower to the ground so their enemies would not notice them. They landed soon after, and Hiccup dismounted to try to spy and overhear the crowd's discussion.
It was no use, he couldn't here anything from the dragons ,who did escape the rampage of winds, that screeched above. Hiccup crept through the surviving bushes and found himself near an unconscious Nadder. He looked back at Toothless who tilted his head. Hiccup turned back to the Nadder, it slowly was waking up and was fully conscious, but it appeared that its wing was broken. Hiccup lifted his hand to its snout. It accepted it and let his hand rest on his nose.
"I can help you." He whispered. "We just have to be quiet now." The dragon nodded in reply, and Hiccup grabbed some wood and vines that were left scattered on the island. He put the wood on the dragon's wing to make a splint, and secured it with vines. "Now, you will have to wait until your wing is healed," He said to the Nadder, "you could hurt yourself if you tried to fly." He stroked the dragon's nose before the dragon walked away.
Hiccup turned back to were the crowd of Berserks and Outcasts were. They were GONE. Hiccup backed up slowly to Toothless. He jumped on his back and took off. It was dusk when he took off, Hiccup noticed a storm brewing in the distance, he soon noticed even more strong winds, heading right in his direction. He tried to fly faster, but soon the storm reached him.
The icy rain crashed onto Hiccup and Toothless. Hiccup's skin burned, There was nowhere to land, and they could barely see because of the darkness of night and ice. It was more like sleet and rain, but it hit them hard. The wind carried them faster and faster. Hiccup began to go unconscious from the wind and uncontrolled steering of flight. He saw Berk off in the distance, "Toothless, hang in there... We- We are almost home." He gasped for air. They landed at berk, and Toothless tried to help him to their home, but Hiccup collapsed.
