It took about a week for her new home to be built but all in all it looked nice, simple and sturdy like the other houses. A nice roomy living room with a fireplace, upstairs with a desk and bed, even a large sleeping spot for her dragon.
She managed to get Trader Johann to trade her some nice curtains and soft material for a warm blanket he got a good deal, Snotlout having to shut him up before he told a long story about it. She traded him some scales from her Changewing as payment since he found that breed terrifying and wanted to make a necklace out of the scales.
Her dragon didn't like the idea but agreed, watching with sheer boredom with his owner making her new home more girly. Not that the dragon minded a shimmering green for her curtains but what he REALLY minded was the loudmouth called Snotlout flirting with her.
Before he even got there, purposefully buffing out his chest making him look more manly the dragon went invisible and knocked him backwards and rolling down the hill.
Hookfang saw it and growled in annoyance, the two about to have a tussle when Via stepped in, "Alright you two cut it out. I'm sorry he did that to Snotlout but you know he had it coming since he's been pestering me; as for you, I can take care of myself and there was no need to beat him up. That's Hookfang's job."
Said dragon snorted happily and nuzzled her head before rushing after his owner to see if he was injured or not. The Changewing glared at Via but she just gave him a look and spoke softly, "You know I'm right, why don't you play with Toothless for a while. Have a nice wrestle while I'm doing this."
Her dragon tilted his head before affectionately nuzzling her cheek and trotting off to find the Night Fury. She let out a sigh in relief, "Now let's see if I can finish what I was doing in peace."
"Oh Via. I have a bone to pick with you."
The woman facepalmed before trudging around the back of her new home, trying to ignore the blonde twin following her and focus on attaching the cord for the clothesline.
"HEY! I'm talking to you!"
Glaring her metallic blue orbs at him she muttered, "Alright, what's the problem? You've been angry at me for an entire week now." Tuffnut just crossed his arms growling, "You know why."
She wanted to pull her hair out he didn't make sense almost all the time, "NO! I do not know why!? All you did was hand me a key saying you knew my secret and it was safe with you."
He stomped his foot and pointed angrily, "It's OBVIOUS woman!" Via tackled him and pinned the twin against the tree leaning very close and glaring into his dark blue eyes speaking softly and deadly, "No it isn't. You haven't told me a thing about what the key is or even why you gave it to me. I would appreciate it if you tell me right now."
The twin cringed just a bit from the threat, but not so much since she didn't threaten to hurt him like the other girls did. He suddenly then smirked mischievously and leaned closer, whispering into her ear softly, "The key is to my place if you know what I mean."
Via gasped and slapped him across the face, "You got some nerve!" He rubbed his sore cheek whining, "What I do now!? That's a fine way to treat a guy who's giving you a shoulder to cry on!"
The woman was about to slap him again but stopped, softening her expression asking curiously, "What?"
The twin just blushed a bit and murmured under his breath, "I mean…..we all know you must've been through something rough and….it's only a matter of time before you let out all your tears. You seem the sensitive type to cry when you're upset."
"You need to word what you say more carefully Tuffnut. I thought you were getting fresh with me trying to share your bed or fool around."
She almost laughed how red his face turned stuttering, "Th..That…n..never crossed my mind Via." Arching a brow she just smirked, "I'm not convinced….but thank you. I'll think about it."
His eyes grew large as he watched her attempt to finish the clothesline, grinning from ear to ear as he offered to help and tightened it since she wasn't that physically strong yet.
"Phew, thanks Tuffnut. It's hard to get it really tight and tie it at the same time. Now all I need is some hay to stuff in my new mattress." "What for?"
"I need something soft to sleep on, want to come with me?" "Well~ I don't know I DO have a busy day ahead."
Via just giggled and walked off, grinning when he yelled at her to wait up and lecturing her for not letting him SAY he was coming.
*The next few months was great, aside from figuring out how to cook from Gobber since she was use to eating simply fish over a fire and maybe some berries, she got along well enough.
At the moment Fishlegs finally managed to get the Changewing to come inside the training area and let him observe him…with Via supervising of course. He was a very stubborn dragon to be sure.
"Let's see: supreme agility and stealth perfect for sneak attacks which will help us out a lot when we need it; sharp teeth to tear into his food and highly acidic saliva."
Via was sitting on a bucket watching with interest with her hands locked around her knee musing, "I wouldn't get that close to his mouth if I were you." Fishlegs giggled, "Oh please, I'm not touching him and risking melting the flesh off my hands." As he said that the Viking grew pale and looked like he was going to vomit, "Ugghp….except…ugh…his breath….oh~"
"The breath creates a high toxic smell and will make you nauseous and keel over in a matter of minutes.
The Changewing was purposefully breathing his foul breath on the teen with an evil toothy grin as Fishlegs passed out. Via arched a brow as did Tuffnut, "A few seconds in his case."
The others had just come to see what the fuss was about when Snotlout burst out laughing and threw a bucket of water on the larger Viking.
Fishlegs groaned as Hiccup asked, "What happened?" "Ugh….the fumes….toxic….sick…"
Via arched a brow in realization, a name at long last forming in her mind for her dragon but couldn't tell them yet as Astrid suddenly blurted out, "WHAT are you doing to her Tuffnut!?"
The others looked as the woman just sat there comfortably without a care as the twin was braiding her hair; he just scowled at them all, "What? You never saw a man braid before?"
"It's not that bro, why are you braiding Via's hair?"
Tuffnut mumbled, "It's been driving me crazy all this time hanging and covering half her face! I can't take it anymore so I'm doing something about it."
Astrid scoffed, "It's her hair and if she wanted it braided she would've already done it by now." Via just smirked, "Well to be honest I'm no good at braiding, it was never long to braid until it reached my shoulders."
Snotlout arched a brow when the blonde was finished, "Not bad I admit. At least we can see all her face now."
The woman grinned and looked in the reflection of a bucket of water. She really liked it; it was just a simple thin braid going from the middle of her hairline and ending behind her ear. It was indeed a relief for that part of her hair to be out of the way finally and didn't have to worry about it blowing in her face while she was riding her dragon. "Thanks Tuff, I love it."
Fishlegs rolled his eyes, "Can we please get to more important matters like with the Changewing over here?"
Hiccup heard her say something as did her dragon and he asked, "What did you say Via?" She just grinned, "Scarfume."
Ruffnut snorted, "What's that suppose to mean?" "My dragon's name if he likes it." Fishlegs pondered it, "I like the fume part but what does the scar represent."
She merely arched a brow and pointed at her face, "This."
Hiccup gasped, "He gave you that scar on your face!?"
Via sighed, "It wasn't intentional, but yes." Tuffnut raised his hands up, "Woah now! You got to start from the beginning." The woman frowned but nodded, she prolonged her story long enough.
"Alright, everyone sit down and let me tell you what happened to me."
*As I said before, I woke up on that island having no clue how or why I was even put there. You can imagine my biggest shock is finding out dragons are real creatures.
Where I come from, which apparently is NOWHERE near here, there's no such thing as dragons. They're myths and once I officially found out I was the only human on that island with those dragons….I was petrified and thought I was going to die there.
I felt so useless and scared, I had no idea what I could or couldn't eat; what plants were poisonous or not…..I was helpless.
I practically starved for days aside from finding fresh water in the middle of the island; luckily I never touched those dragon eggs even though I didn't know they were.
The Changewings chased me whenever I got too close to their turf as I wandered around looking for any type of food; I was lucky I even managed to avoid getting killed by the acid.
I tried to stop crying and feeling sorry for myself, but it prooved almost impossible until I met Scarfume. I always felt like someone was watching me ever since I arrived on the island, trying to find shelter anywhere I could.
At some point I did find some fruit and just had to chance eating them since I was starving to death, I even ate some regular leafs from the trees I was so desperate. Then one day, at wits end and trying to use my brain and think of a way to cope I met Scarfume.
He apparently was stalking me for a long time, just observing when he finally decided to show himself in plain sight. I don't know why but he kept doing that, never advancing or leaving unless he got something to eat, then came back.
I guess he was just curious about me, I didn't know if he ever seen a human before but that changed when those Vikings appeared on the island.
The leader you guys said was Alvin, he was practically trying to get rid of all the dragons and keep the island for himself.
I watched from a distant trying to keep hidden, but one saw me and I asked if they had food to spare but what happened, I was captured and manhandled being thrown into a cage.
Once they figured out I wasn't a spy for any other island, they were going to keep me and sell me off as a slave. Next thing I knew, a dragon was caught and placed beside me and I could tell it was the stalker. We just looked at each other before he angrily spat out acid to keep the guards away.
During the first night on the ship which was still docked, I glanced over at him and saw he was hungry but the guards refused to feed him. Luckily there was a basket of fish on the other side of my cage and I reached it and timidly grabbed one (I always hated the feel of fish).
I threw it inside his cage and he just stared in shock at my kindess, but next thing I knew some food fell into my prison this time and it was a loaf of bread.
I looked around to see who gave it to me and it was the dragon, his tail was long and slender enough to reach into their food supply basket on his side and placing it in my cage.
I think it was then we first bonded, but by the next morning I actually managed to get the keys from a passing guard as he went by. He was carrying too much weapons and didn't notice I slipped them off his belt, lucky for me they weren't tied to anything.
By the next night, after me and Scarfume fed each other again I unlocked my cage and escaped. I couldn't leave him so I unlocked his cage too, tiptoeing out and free the other captured dragons as well until they attacked everything.
Everything happened so fast, I was just running for dear life and trying to climb up a steep rocky slope since I was cornered. I was just about to be caught when a scaly claw grabbed my shoulder and attempted to lift me upwards to safety.
Unfortunately, a brute grabbed my ankle and his weight dragged he down and Scarfume didn't have a tight grip on me so his claw slipped and three of his talons tore my cheek.
Fishlegs gasped, "Oh Thor, that would explain it. I bet you were in so much pain." The twins shushed him, "Don't interrupt!" "Yeah it's getting good!"
Pain is mostly all I remember, next thing I knew I woke up in a secluded brush with the dragon. I felt my face and was relieved to find out my eye was still there but there was a leaf on my face with green gunk. I think it was some sort of healing plant with a mixture of some type of berry that does the same thing.
Anyway, after that Scarfume and I were inseparable. He helped me adapt to the surroundings and being stealthy after I rummaged through the damaged cargo of those damn Vikings after the Changewings made them leave.
They had a lot of clothes in one which I guess they hoped to sell so that's where I got mine. My eye healed quick enough and I kept all the food I could find; but wouldn't you know it as soon as I get somewhat more adjusted another group of Vikings show up.
The one you lot call Dagur but this time I stayed FAR away, well I would have if that nut job didn't try taking the dragons too. I have to admit he was smart, he was trying to use their acid and see if they could build special armor to protect them from it.
Hiccup frowned, "That sounds like him and it would be dangerous if he managed to create armor or weapons like that."
Well, we put a stop to it. I can't be as stealthy in broad daylight as my dragon can so we made our move at dusk when they were settling in.
He created the distraction whilst I freed the few dragons they had picking the locks. I found a useful tool on Alvin's abandoned cargo that was used just to pick any type of lock. After that I high tailed it out of there and disappeared; then they left.
I guess they couldn't handle staying on the island since they just packed up and left…let's see….I made me a spear from one of theirs but the blade was broken so I used a melted piece of metal I found that was the perfect size.
I really am in debt with Scarfume because without him I wouldn't have survived. I needed his help and it turned out he needed me too. We trained together, raced to build up my speed and playing hide and seek to see if I can find him. Then I met you guys.
Tuffnut and Snotlout were sniffling, "That was just beautiful…you were so weak and now….so strong~"
Astrid sighed, "That's unbelievable and no wonder you didn't want to talk about it." Hiccup nodded, "Yeah, none of us can even imagine what that must've felt like."
She just smiled, "Yeah like I said it's not a pleasant memory but it made who I am now and I'm much happier than I was before. Anyway its suppertime and I need to get started making some stew."
Tuffnut trudged after her stating with a wide grin, "I'll help as long as I can eat some too."
*Astrid glanced at Hiccup asking, "Is it just me or have those two been hanging out a lot together."
Ruffnut snorted, "No it's not just you, my brother keeps sneaking off to hang out with her stating she needs his help but he never tells me what it is. He's no fun anymore, I have to punch Snotlout all the time and he's such a baby."
Said teen snorted, "I wish he hang back out with Ruffnut just so she'll leave me alone and find some other punching bag or dummy to fight."
Fishlegs mused in deep thought, "I wonder, they're not dating in secret are they? Pfft, no listen to me that's absurd she'd never go for a guy like him." Snotlout nodded, "Yeah! Why chose him over me anyway~"
Astrid gagged and turned to Hiccup, "What do you think?" He just shrugged, "I haven't seen anything strange going on between them, they've just been hanging out and talking and there's nothing wrong with that."
Ruffnut rolled her eyes, "Like you would understand Hiccup, or haven't you realized no one spends that much time with my brother unless they're forced to like me because we're siblings."
Hiccup sighed, "Look, this IS Via we're talking about and she's a really nice person. She hangs out with us all not just Tuffnut and don't worry, there's NOTHING going on. They're just friends."
Snotlout nodded, "Exactly so let's drop the subject and focus on what's the next gossip we got to get out of Via….like where did she get the bite mark on her left arm~"
TBC:
Hope everyone liked this chapter and her story (there's still a few pieces left out which will be explained later)
Thanks Autobot Nightfury for trying to think of something for the dragon's name; but I'm still thanking you for suggesting shimmer cause then next thing I knew fume came to mind and I was hoping to add scar in there lol
Online it said Tuffnut's eye color was dark blue even though I wasn't sure at first lol
