The Dragon Boy - Part 12 - An Angry Nadder
Frostcup fanfic

Authors note: here you go ^^ next one! Sorry its not as long as usual but I hope you enjoy it anyway next chapter will be posted to tommorow as usual. Pleeeease review I love hearing what you think:-D that's all- enjoy!

It actually took quite a while to reach the woods, the sun had moved considerably by the time they got there.

Toothless, at Jack's insistence, had literally flown circles around the other dragons, in order to get some thrill from the long journey. The poor dragon practically collapsed, rather than landed, and lay in the dirt, panting heavily, his floppy, forked tongue hanging out.

Astrid, landing far more gracefully on Stormfly, wasn't impressed.
"Did you have to push him so hard?" she scorned.
"Well, he looked happy enough." Hiccup explained. It was true. Even as Toothless lay there in the mud, he had a big smug look on his face. "I didn't know he was that tired!" He concluded, lamely. Astrid was still glaring at them.
"We don't exactly need the dragons for setting up the traps, do we?" he reasoned. Astrid rolled her eyes, still not impressed, but, she had to admit, he had a point. They wouldn't need the dragons now until they were headed home.

"Erm, traps?" Jack queried. Hiccup really needed to remember Jack was new to the academy- and new to Berk full stop.
"We need them to catch wild dragons, so we can train them in the academy." Obviously, he could tell Hiccup didn't like it any more than he did, because Jack didn't put up a fuss.
"Just try not to cause too much trouble, whilst were setting them up." Hiccup told him. Jack grinned, mischievously, but sat in the snow to watch.

Every now and then, Hiccup would glance at him. He seemed to waiting, well enough

... ok, he looks like he's starting to get bored

... now he's fiddling with twigs

... he's starting to wander round...

Finally, that's the last of them. Hiccup turned around to the spot where he'd last seen the white haired boy, only to find him nowhere to be seen. He turned again, no sign of him.
"Jack?" he called out. Nothing.
"Jack!" he was starting to panic now. Had he run away? Hiccup picked up his speed. A blur of motion, and, suddenly, Hiccup found himself face to face with a pair of blue eyes.
"Ahhhhhhh!" he cried out, in alarm, stumbling backwards, only to trip on a log and land on his rear. Looking up, he saw the prankster hanging by his knees on a low hanging branch, laughing hysterically. Hiccup glared up at him.
"Oh, yeah. Very funny." he agreed, sarcastically.
"I thought it was." Jack replied, eyes sparkling with amusement.

Hiccup stood up, dusting off the snow, only to realise Jack was still hanging there.
"Aren't you gonna get down?" he suggested. Jack tilted his head to one side, enjoying the novelty of Hiccup being upside down.
"I might." he replied, nonchalantly. Astrid's voice came from the other side of the traps.
"Hiccup, come on! The traps are finished. What are we waiting for?" she asked. Hiccup turned back round to face Jack, just as his floating head vanished upwards, to reappear seconds later, the right way up.
"You heard the woman, Hiccup. Let's go." he grinned. Hiccup found himself grinning back- how could this kid do all this stuff after being all battered and bruised just the night before? "Coming, Astrid." Hiccup called back.

The group rejoined at the centre of the traps. With the traps set, they walked out a little way to where a small canyon-like structure of rocks lay.
"Alright, this looks like a good spot. Snotlout, give me a Nadder." Snotlout opened his mouth and roared, the noise was distorted by the rocks into a passable reproduction of a Nadder's call.

Sometimes this would work but, this far into winter, you rarely saw any dragons, that weren't already trained, around Berk. The other riders wondered why they didn't give up the practise, because it was so cold. But Hiccup had another reason for keeping it going- he wanted to see that Sky Dragon again.

Soon, they spotted a Nadder, approaching from the distance. The others cheered quietly, but Jack seemed less than cheerful with it's appearance.
"Uh oh." he said. "Uh oh?" Hiccup asked, "Why uh oh?"
"Snotlout just called it a-" he winced as Snotlout roared again,
"Ouch, you know what, I'm not going to translate that." Hiccup's shoulders fell.
"Oh, great. An angry Nadder." Hiccup groaned.
"...Oh." Jack said.
"What, now?" Hiccup said, not wanting to know the answer.
"Well, remember those Nadders I told you about that reaaaally don't like me." he reminded him. Sounding all too calm at the prospect of an angry Nadder heading straight for them.
"Yeah..." Hiccup prompted.
"This is one of them." he told him. Hiccup was just wondering how he was keeping so calm, when he spoke again.
"You know what the best part is?" Jack asked, eyes fixed on the approaching dragon. Hiccup hardly dared ask.
"What?"

"She's seen me." Jack replied, "So, really, I better be going..." The words fading as he turned and ran off into the forest.
"Woah!"Hiccup ducked, as the furious Nadder flew overhead in persuit.