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DreamWorks Dragons: Defenders of Berk

Double Trouble

Chapter 4


Hiccup and Toothless flew into the Academy and landed beside Astrid who was on Stormfly, the two of them all ready to get on with their training lesson. Coming right behind him were the twins, flying in on their Zippleback, Barf and Belch. Once they landed, Hiccup glanced over at them, the twins responding with "innocent" smiles. Hiccup sighed silently to himself and rolled his eyes to the other direction before addressing the rest of his friends.

"Okay gang, today we're just doing the simple evil-dragon exercise, in which case Snotlout will be the evil dragon." He informed, Snotlout making a fist pump along with muffled cheer.

"Anybody who gets tagged—"Hiccup was interrupted by Snotlout.

"Loses; hahaha! Which will happen to everybody;" He bragged selfishly. "Especially you mister one leg." He said, pointing at Hiccup. Hiccup narrowed his eyes and glared at Snotlout, Toothless letting out a growl.

Hookfang had to jump away from his spot as a cloud of green smoke journeyed over and blew up, both dragon and rider gasping from the surprise attack.

"Hey, watch it!" Snotlout warned. The twins sneered at him.

"Then don't insult Hiccup." Tuffnut stated as he and his sister crossed their arms over their chests.

"So, who cares!?" Snotlout complained big time.

Astrid and Stormfly walked up to stand beside Hiccup and Toothless, Astrid leaning in to whisper to her friend.

"What's gotten into the twins?" she asked, noticing their strange behavior. "It's rare that they'd listen to you, let alone defend you."

"I'll—tell you later." Hiccup replied with a slight mumble, informing Astrid that he wasn't in the mood to explain just yet. Toothless turned towards the entrance of the academy, Hiccup making a final announcement.

"Remember, don't let Snotlout tag you." He said before he and Toothless flew out, followed by Astrid, the twins and then Fishlegs. Snotlout sneered at Hiccup's remark before leading Hookfang out to chase down their targets.

Anybody could have guessed that Snotlout's first choice of victim would be Hiccup, so it wasn't a surprise when he and Hookfang raced to catch up to the Night Fury.

Hiccup glanced behind him as he heard Hookfang approach from behind, the only reason they could was due to the fact that Toothless let them.

"Give it up, Hiccup, you can't beat The Snotman and his Monstrous Nightmare!" the teen gloated obnoxiously.

"You always say that Snotlout, but you never seem to live up to it!" Hiccup retorted, a smile etching onto his features as he witnessed Snotlout's grin turn upside down into a sneer.

"You're going to regret saying that!" Snotlout hollered before whispering to Hookfang; "Come on Hookfang, let's get 'em." Hookfang rolls his eyes before huffing and bursting forwards.

Hiccup leans forward, ready for Toothless to match and master that exact move before something, or rather someone(s) interfere.

Barf and Belch let out their gas and spark it, sending a ball of fire right in front of Hookfang and Snotlout. Snotlout screams from sudden fright and Hookfang shrieks from almost getting hit.

"What the…?" Hiccup says, before he and Toothless stop and turn around, hovering in place. They watch with surprise as Hookfang and Snotlout get bombarded with fireballs until they fall down and crash land into the snowy hill side below.

The rest of the riders meet up with them and land beside Hookfang, the poor dragon using all of its strength to pull its head out of the large pile of snow. Once he's free, he hisses and growls, shaking the snow off of his body.

Snotlout struggles to get out of the snow, his shouts of protest and anger muffled into mumbles. He finally breathes air again just as the twins and their dragons land along with the others.

"Sheesh you two, if you wanted to be the evil dragon so much, you could have just told me!" he complained, throwing his hands into the air. The twins didn't reply, but rather glared at Snotlout and cross their arms across their chests.

"What's wrong with you guys?!" Astrid started, "You could have hurt Hookfang."

"Hey! What about me?!" Snotlout retorted at Astrid outburst.

"Snotlout was attacking Hiccup." Ruffnut said simply.

"Uh, I thought that was the whole point to the training exercise." Fishlegs commented. Hiccup groaned and rubbed his temples.

"I told you guys to stop it, okay? I already forgave you for what you did; my dad already forgives you… even Astrid forgives you!" Hiccup began ranting.

"No I don't."

"Okay, forget about that last part. The point is you two don't need to tend to my every whim. Understand?"

"Uh huh," Tuff replied.

"Of course Hiccup." Ruff replied.

Hiccup sighed in relief, thinking that his problems were finally over.


The front door of the Haddock house opens to invite Berk's chief inside, the man sighing heavily from the day's work. After closing the door, Stoick takes off his helmet and whips his forehead free of sweat before replacing back on top of his head.

"You'd never believe what I had to deal with today." He said to Hiccup without looking at the boy.

"That's funny; I was just about to say the same thing." Hiccup replied. He was sitting at the table with a plate of food in front of him, but he didn't touch.

Stoick joined him and sat down, bringing his food over before finally glancing up.

He's eyes furrowed, "Oh, I didn't know we were having guests over for dinner." He stated. Hiccup sat across from him with an annoyed look on his face.

"We weren't." he said coldy. Sitting next to him on both sides were Tuffnut and Ruffnut, the two innocently smiling at Stoick.

"Oh, well you're welcome to stay." Stoick announced happily.

"Thanks chief." Tuffnut thanked him.

"We're glad to be here." Ruffnut added.

"I'm not." Hiccup said quickly, but it seemed that his voice was being ignored. His father started eating while Hiccup began whispering to the twins.

"I thought I told you guys to leave me alone." He hissed out.

"We considered it, but…" Ruff answered before her brother finished.

"Decided against it like two seconds afterwards."

"Get out of my house, now." Hiccup almost shouted. The door swung open and the twins were shoved out before the door slammed shut again.

Hiccup turned around and leaned against the wooden door, sighing while closing his eyes and pinching his nose. Stoick was looking up at him from the dinner table.

"Troubles son?"

"No, no, not at all, everything's fine." Hiccup replied a little too quickly, smile forced onto his face. His father gave him that knowing look and he dropped his act.

Hiccup sighed, "It's the twins, they haven't left me alone ever since the accident with the whip. Even this morning, I woke up just to find them staring at me in my bedroom." He informed. He walked back over to the table, sat down and dropped his face onto the wooden surface.

"What am I gonna do?" he mumbled.

"You know, Gobber always used to tell me, "When in doubt, go with it."" Stoick answered. Hiccup lifted his head up with a confused look.

"Huh?"

"If the twins aren't going to settle with just forgiveness, then allow them to 'rescue' you when you fall into danger. That way, they feel they repaid their debt in full by re-righting their wrong."

"Will that work?" Hiccup questioned, seeing the light at the end of the tunnel making him think that it might be too good to be true.

"Sure it will, just don't go out and try to actually kill yourself."

Hiccup bolted upwards, a huge smile on his face; "Thanks dad!" he said and ran upstairs.


To be continued...