"Today," announced Gobber, "is about teamwork!"
The cell doors to one of the cages burst open, allowing a large cloud of green gas to fill the arena.
Gobber continued explaining, "A wet dragon head can't light its fire. The Hideous Zippleback is extra tricky. One head breathes has, the other head lights it. Your job is to know which is which."
Fishlegs began to recite any facts about the dragon he could remember, "Razor- sharp serrated teeth, prefers ambush attacks for crushing its victims-"
"Will you please stop that?!" whispered Hiccup angrily.
Hiccup was the unfortunate person who got paired up with the literal biggest geek and nerd of the class. Snotlout got paired up with Tuffnut and Astro was with Ruffnut.
For a long three minutes, there was silence. Everyone was focused on watching for any sign of the dragon's movement. Hiccup secretly used her dragon vision. But she couldn't see the Zippleback…… yet.
Snotlout broke the silence by bragging, "If that dragon shows either of its faces…." But he was interrupted when he saw a dragon-looking figure in the gas. He pointed at the figure and yelled, "There!" and both boys dumped the water out of their buckets-onto Ruffnut and Astro.
"Hey!" exclaimed Ruffnut, "Its us, idiots!"
"Your butt is getting bigger, Sis," commented Tuffnut, "we thought you were a dragon."
Snotlout tried to cover the insult, "Not that there's anything wrong with a drangoness figure." But before he could finish his sentence, Astro punched him, and Ruffnut threw her bucket at Tuffnut. Tuffnut sat up, just before he suddenly disappeared in the gas.
Astro made a shushing gesture at Snotlout and Ruffnut. He got ready to dump the water on the dragon's head, but a green, forked tail swiped at his legs, knocking him down.
Tuffnut came running out of the green fog, past Hiccup and Fishlegs, who had not yet used their buckets.
"Chances of survival are dwindling into single digits now." commented Fishlegs.
A green dragon head emerged from the gas.
Fishlegs quickly dumped the water onto the head. The dragon gurgled, letting green gas leak out of its mouth. "Oops." said Fishlegs, "Wrong head."
The Zippleback head blew a large cloud of gas at the boy's head. Fishlegs ran away screaming.
The head looked at Hiccup, joined by another one-the left head. The left head revealed its sparking abilities in order to scare Hiccup.
"Hiccup! Now!" yelled Gobber.
Hiccup tried to dump the water on the left head from below, but the water didn't raise high enough.
"Aw! Come. On." complained Hiccup.
"Hey!" hissed the left head, "I've heard of this girl. She's the dragon lady!"
The right head squinted it's eyes to examine Hiccup closely, "You're right! She is!"
"I bet you she doesn't know the first thing about being a dragon. She can't even act human correctly."
"Wadd'ya say we teach her what a real dragon does?"
The left head nodded in excitement.
Hiccup kept facing the Zippleback as it circled her slowly. She wanted Gobber to do something. But all he said was, "Keep it up, Hiccup, don't turn your back to them."
Oh thank you, Gobber, thought Hiccup, I would never have thought of that myself.
The left head edged closer to Hiccup with an evil look in its eyes, "Unless you fight back, this will be over before it even starts." The dragon roared at Hiccup, making her jump backward and fall onto her back.
"Hiccup!" yelled Gobber, showing the worry in his voice.
"Don't be scared, dragon lady," the right head soothed, "we'er not gonna kill ya', we're just gonna teach ya' a lesson!"
"Get back!" Hiccup yelled as she made a shoving motion with her hand. At the same time, she used her other hand to move her fur coat, just enough to reveal the eel that Snotlout put in her basket earlier.
Once the dragon saw it, the dragon jumped backwards in terror.
Hiccup smiled. Her plan was working.
She stood up, and continued to make shoving motions with her hands and commanding, "Back! Back! Back! Now don't you make me tell you again! Yes! That's right! Back into your cage!"
Hiccup smiled at the dragon as it backed all the way into its cell, practically crawling up the far wall. She lifted her coat to let both heads have one last look at the eel, and said, "Now think about what you've done."
In a prideful fashion, Hiccup closed the doors without the Zippleback even edging towards the exit.
Once she locked the doors, she turned around. Every single Viking stared at her, wide-eyed. Even Snotlout and Gobber were shocked. Fishlegs was so shocked that he didn't even noticed that he dropped his bucket.
"Okay!" said Hiccup, trying to break the awkward silence, "So…. Are we done? Because I got some things I need to-uh….. yep! Done."
She walked casually out of the arena, "See you tomorrow."