Disclaimer: I don't own httyd
AN: This would be a continuation from the last chapter. Believe it or not, Camicazi and Thuggory would play a big part in my story later on ;)
Oh, another thing, Stormfly will be Camicazi's mood-dragon. The only difference I have with the book is that Stormfly would be a lot bigger and a person can ride her in my story and could not talk norse.
Arc: A Stormy (W)Heather Approaches
Days Until Wedding: 1 month and 14 days
Listening to: CaramellDansenXD
"This Is Not Over"
Camicazi continued her running as she landed on the roof of a house. She jumped from house to house to avoid her pursuers. She removed something from her cloak and peered at it.
A golden knife. She didn't know how the Meatheads got a hold of it but that didn't matter now since she finally was able to steal it.
She thought that it would take her a few weeks just to get near it but when the Hairy Hooligans attacked, they made it easier for her.
Camicazi was a bounty hunter and treasure hunter. She was supposed to be the heir of the Bog Burglars but she didn't want to live a life of confinement in the village. What she wanted was having adventures and discovering new things. That was why she left the village in the middle of the night.
After that, she went to trader's Isle to look for work. She was short on silver and gold so she decided to do some labor jobs. At first, it was just doing mundane things like deliver this, carry that, do this and do that but when she was given the task to steal something it gave her a certain adrenaline. She liked it, she craved for it and most of all, wanted more of it.
Because of the jobs she had done, she became more adept to her surroundings. Running away from merchants, sneaking in and out of shops and getting involved in brawls inside a pub, she was able to gain enough experience in that art of thievery and fighting. She eventually started training in using long swords because she had a short reach and her adversaries would reach her first. Along her travels, she was introduced by one of her dealers the grappling hook. At first, she didn't know how to use it. She kept on missing her targets or pressed the wrong button which usually resulted on an injury. Eventually she got the hang of it and used it when she was in a pinch.
From stealing silver and gold coins to blackmailing farmers for cattle to killing small time rebels, she was unstoppable. It wasn't long when her name was known throughout the whole island. That's when someone proposed to her to go to the black market where all the dirty trades were made. Being risky, she accepted the offer and went to the black market. There, even dragons were up for trade. Gronkles were sold by the hundreds. Hideous Zipplebacks were killed for their scales, Monstrous Nightmares for their horns and Nadders for their meat.
There she saw it, the most beautiful dragon she ever saw. What made this dragon stand out was not its serpent-like form but its ability to change color. The dragon had a line os spine that ran down the back of its neck to the end of the tail which, like all dragons, ends in a pointed hook.
This dragon had a pair of very big eyes with preposterously long eyelashes. It had two long and pointy ears behind its head and two relatively long and curved horns on its head. Two canine teeth protrudes from its closed mouth.
The owner said that it was called a Mood Dragon. He said that this kind of dragon changes its color depending on its mood. Sadly, the owner didn't know which emotion corresponded with each color. At the moment, the dragon was colored pale green.
She asked if what the owner wanted to trade with the dragon. The owner, who was known by the name Eret, was a self-proclaimed dragon trapper. What he wanted was a knife but a golden one. Specifically the one the Meatheads owned. Nobody knew where he got that information because he didn't tell anyone. Camicazi didn't care though; all she wanted was that dragon.
She waited in the isle's port area for one of the Meathead's ships to ashore itself and she would hide in it so that she would be able to enter the Meathead Island inconspicuously. At the fourth day of waiting, the boat she was looking for finally arrived and to her luck, it was a trading boat. That meant that there was enough space inside the ship to hide her from view. She boarded the ship quietly and waited for it to go back to Meathead Island.
Once she arrived there, she immediately hid in the forest and waited an opportune moment to strike. She studied the guards' pattern in patrolling. Studied how they fought. She even studied their eating habits.
From what she saw, the Meatheads were celebrating after they successfully killed and captured some of the Hairy Hooligans after they ambushed them during the signing of the treaty.
2 weeks passed and she was almost confident enough to sneak inside the village and try to find the knife. What she didn't expect though was a sudden explosion. It was quickly followed by another and so on. Dragons rushed in and fought the vikings head on. Camicazi was surprised to see that most dragons had riders on them. She thought that only on the far north were dragons used as mounts.
This changed everything. This sudden attack actually made it more difficult for her. What if the invading force stole the knife? What if they destroyed it by accident? She just hoped that the Meatheads would win this one or if the invaders would spare the treasure.
To her relief, the fighting stopped and the invaders didn't destroy anything of importance. As she looked at the faces of the invaders, she noticed a certain viking who vaguely reminded her of someone she knew from the past because of his mop of brown hair.
She waited for a day just to make sure that the invaders wouldn't return. When tomorrow came, she immediately went to the village in secret. She used the debris of the skirmish as cover so she was able to search the village in secret. She eventually found the treasury and started looking for the knife. It took her an hour because the place was huge with so much gold in it. She wasn't tempted though, if stealing taught her something it was that not everything is worth stealing.
Too bad for her that someone caught her in the act.
"You there! What are you doing?!" a random viking shouted as Camicazi ran for her life.
She kept running until she was inside the forest again. She decided that if she wanted to lose the vikings then she would have to hide in the trees. It was successful and all she needed to do now was to wait for a boat and hitch a ride in it, hoping against all hope that it would go to Trader's Isle.
AN: Random and confusing, I know. Don't worry, all the things I've written would be part of the main story and things would go back in motion again... Enjoy and Review!
