I was woken up by the yelling of Astrid's mother and the slamming of our room door "Wakey wakey love! You're coming with me!"

My heart raced as I was suddenly lifted from my brother's bed and carried down the steps.

I tried to hold onto him but Stoick pulled him away, our hands slipped out of each others, the leader and chief, Hiccup's father, Stoick carried Tuff.

I screamed and pounded on the back of Astrid's mom "Let me go! Moooom! What is this?" our mother stood in the kitchen with stern eyes.

"I am tired of the trouble that you two constantly cause and so is Stoick."

"So we decided that the best way to teach you two to behave is to split you two apart, I know neither of you like the idea, but it's the only way...I know we are vikings...but this kind of trouble is not acceptable..." I stared at her in disbelief and looked at my brother for help.

I struggled against my captor as she carried me out the door "Tuff!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as she started to carry me to her house "Ruff!"

Tuff tried to escape Stoick's grasp, he bit, he pulled, and he punched but Stoick held on strong and would surely teach him some 'manners' later for doing so.

My heart felt like someone had just ripped it out of my chest while I was still alive, as if they squeezed the life out of it before doing that, as if they had just ripped my soul out.

Tears formed in my eyes and I let them fall as I watched my brother be dragged away, he still screamed for me, promised me that we wouldn't be separate for long.

Promising that it would be OK, that we would get through it, but I was unsure of that.

The rest of the way to my new and hopefully temporary home I was silent, my tears poured and many people stared.

But I could care less, sure it would possibly only be temporary as my mom said, or until we learned better, but it still hurt.

She carefully placed me on the grounds behind her house, her home was next to the woods, and that was the area where Astrid would always train. Deep inside of the woods is where me and Astrid used to hang out in a field of grass and rare flowers.

"Now come on little one...it's only temporary" she stared at me with eyes that tried say 'I understand' but she didn't understand "what happened to Vikings don't cry?"

I glared at her and let the tears run down my face "come on now" her hand reached for my face to wipe away my tears but I slapped her hand away in disgust.

"Don't touch me!" as fast as I could I rose from the dirt and ran off into the woods

"Ruffnut!"

I ran across the bridge and into the trees, over logs, under branches, and past many dragons, I just kept running.

I finally stopped when I reached a single tree in a giant field, the other trees surrounded it in a large outer circle. It was as if the other trees were afraid of that one.

Astrid taught me how to make a man kneel over in pain by kicking him in a certain area after a kid tried grabbing her.

Finding shade I sat under/next to the tree, I buried my face in my arms and thought about my current situation.

All we did was trick Hookfang into burning a small supply of wood and fish, I mean sure that wasn't the smartest idea we've ever had but we meant for the dumb dragon to hit the sheep.

OK sure we may have burned down a part of the meadhall on ACCIDENT but still.

It's not like the town wasn't used to that sorta stuff from dragon attacks anyway.

I shifted my thinking to Tuff I wondered if Stoick was hitting him for trying to fight back to violently or if he was forcing him to do some chore with Gobber or Hiccup.

The horror.