Astrid rushed up to her room to get her axe for practice, we decided that instead of hanging out at the house we could go to the woods, but in my head I had a different plan.
Quickly I got up from her steps and ran to the market town.
If I made it in time maybe I could see Tuffnut before the sun went down and before he was dragged back to Hiccup's place.
Dashing through the market like an arrow on a mission I headed to the smithing area, but there he was...Gobber...watching over his merchandise like usual, he was also watching over the sheep to make sure they didn't tip anything over.
The sheep were bright...but still not the sharpest swords in the stack.
Tuffnut was carrying wood to the storage house, I crawled through the shadows and under the people walking around.
Some were obnoxiously drunk while others were completely sober but had no sense of balance all of a sudden.
Quickly I dashed behind a large pair of rocks to hide from Gobber, right next to his stall was the storage house, but getting past Gobber would be the tricky part, it wasn't easy getting past him.
He had gotten what he called "Twin Trouble Senses" a long time ago and now it was time to put his senses to the test, I slid down the hill that lead to the beach.
The sand muffled my movement slightly as I creeped to the other side on my toes, checking on my visible status to see that Gobber was now tending to a customer.
I jumped onto the wooden fence and did a quick crawl toward the storage house, I had no time to be slow but I couldn't get caught.
The back of the storage house had a window which was currently open to let the sawdust out rather than clouding inside and causing health issues, it was one of Hiccup's plans after he noticed that nobody liked being fogged with the stuff.
Turning to see Gobber still distracted I climbed through the window and landed on the top balcony, from there me and the shadows became best friends as I hugged the wall and shimmed toward the door.
Hiccup was talking to a villager about some plan of his to rebuild a house, Snoutlout was looking at himself in the mirror and Tuffnut was carrying in the last pile of wood, it was the perfect timing.
"pssst!" Tuff dropped the wood in it's pile before shuffling around "who's there?" it would have been a perfect moment to fool him into thinking that it was something stupid like his conscious until he realized it had a girly voice.
"Tuff! It's me Ruff!" I waved an arm out from the dark to get his attention quickly he climbed the balcony and made his way to me.
"I'm only ever going to do this once and once only" reaching towards me he grabbed me and brought me in for a hug "how you been doing lil sis?" after a few minutes he finally let go.
"I'm alright, been hanging out with Astrid, I sorta ditched her back there so she'll probably come up running to Hiccup all mad and stuff and we'll get caught. Ya know the usual."
He snickered at the thought of the angry princess having to search the whole area for the two of us. "Guess we don't have much time to talk about stuff huh? or even pull one small prank?"
I shook my head before realizing it was possibly too dark "no, not really, but at least we managed to see each other, wonder when all of this will be over?"
"Hopefully soon, because Snoutlout is related to Hiccup...I have to deal with him even more often than usual, you know I like him sometimes, but other times I want to throw a sword at the guy!"
Snoutlout could be an OK guy, but many times, he even got on our nerves!
"Hiccup! Where is Tuffnut?" the both of us looked at each other in a slight fear as Astrid approached the storage room "He's in there..why?" Hiccup followed Astrid in.
"Ruffnut!"
Hiccup sighed "Alright guys...we know you two don't find it fair that this happened, and we know you two don't like it, but if you two could just...deal with it for a day or two we can get this all settled out with my dad and your parents."
Astrid searched the bottom area while Hiccup scanned the top "Ruff! Tuff! Come on! You two aren't supposed to be near each other, you know that!"
Tuffnut signaled for me to be quite as he laid out a plan in action, he slid off of the balcony and away from my sight.
"Tuffnut! There you are...where's Ruff? You two aren't supposed to be near each other" surely my brother rolled his eyes at that comment
"She's not here Hiccup, she's in the market, I saw her while getting the last pile of wood but she ran off because of Gobber. I don't know where she is now."
He now stood in front of the neat pile "so you have no idea where she is...and she is 100% not in here?"
He nodded "I was in here putting up the rest of the wood like you told me to and NOT taking a break to stare at myself like Snoutlout, in fact I think I deserve a medal for that."