Hi Guys were getting so close to getting off this island that I can smell the freedom *sniff* nope I was wrong, a dragon just dropped his guts next to me. Anyway so close and yet this is just the beginning of this story "How the hell can that be?" you might ask well being British means I make a great villain so I basically wanted to give a good background before getting to the good stuff.
So here it is the, fight scene, who will win, you'll seen.
Chapter 13 Fighting Dragon Style!
Normal POV
"I'm gonna kill him!" was all Astrid shouted as soon as she went stomping through the forest on the way to the cove, just as she promised Hiccup last night after he went by himself to the arena for their evening feed.
It wasn't until later that night when the sound of roaring dragons coming from there caught the attention of the entire village to which being nosey as they are, decide to investigate only to find the whole kill ring in total ruins, scorch marks all around walls, the cell doors right off their hinges, weapon racks destroyed and last but not least a knocked out Hiccup and Monstrous Nightmare in the center of the ring.
Lucky he was only knocked out and no permanent damage done to him, which he planned for, but the shock from both him and villagers was priceless as the Nightmare was still out for the count.
The villagers shock at how the talking fishbone of Berk managed to knock out a dragon at all and Hiccup's shock that the Nightmare didn't leave with the others, he come to realize the Nightmare stayed so suspicion on all the dragons escaping the ring at once wasn't pinned on Hiccup, but some cunning plan the dragons concocted in their time imprisoned, which worked as they saw the escaping dragons head north of Berk away from the forest which left the villagers thinking they were going back to the nest.
Astrid wasn't fooled easily, so as promised she went to the cove the very next day hours after Hiccup pretended to get frustrated that the dragons 'tricked' him and headed to the forest to get his anger out, and the villagers believed it too.
Talk about dumb, no wonder they've been trying the same tactic on dragons for the last three hundred years.
But like I said, Astrid isn't a dumb villager for three reasons.
One, she knows the dragons would never hurt Hiccup accidental or on purpose without him saying for them to.
Two, she knows Hiccups stupidly crazy tactics the second she stepped into the arena.
And three, as soon as her boyfriend walked past her, he gave her a sly smile and a wink, that's when she knew it was his plan all along.
And she'll find out why very soon as she trudges through the forest to the cove.
"Hey Astrid! Wait up!"
She turned around to where the familiar voice came from only to see the large blond-haired teen hobbling along being supported by the blond-haired twins under each arm, although she noticed that Ruffnut had a concerned face while looking at Fishlegs.
'Hmm I wonder why she looks so concerned for him I wonder.' Astrid thought to herself as they got closer.
Putting that thought at the back of her mind for later she then wondered what they were doing here in the forest.
"Guys what you doing here? Especially you Legs, if Gothi finds you not resting she'll curse you!" she said to them as Fishlegs gave her a shrug.
"Astrid, we know the dragons didn't plan that escape, Hiccup did, and if we know him he would of told them to go to Toothless in the cove" Fishlegs said without even stuttering once 'that's a new one' Astrid thought.
Sighing in defeat, Astrid knew Fishlegs would have figured it out too, after all he's nearly as smart as Hiccup.
"Okay yeah this was his plan, I just know it, it might also be a reason why he told me to come to the cove" she said gesturing toward the direction she was travelling in.
"Well what are we waiting for!?" Tuffnut shouted while still supporting Fishlegs under the arm.
And with all four teens together, they headed toward the cove but what they saw when they got there left them gob smacked like anything they had ever seen…
For what they saw in the cove was all of their dragons, including the Terrors, in a circle surrounding something, or should I say someone….
For that someone was Hiccup.
He was standing in the center of the dragon circle with both his training scimitars in a defensive position. The teens watched in horror thinking their dragons had gone rogue, but upon closer inspection revealed Hiccup, completely calm with his eyes closed like he knew what they were doing, like he told them too.
Without warning Toothless fired a plasma blast in Hiccups direction, but he made no move to dodge it or even duck making the teens panic, especially Astrid.
As the blast neared closer to Hiccup, he fully opened his eyes and swift movement and accuracy sidestepped the incoming blast and smacked it with both wide parts of the scimitars knocking it off its original course and careening into the wall of the cove at the side of Hiccup, but he had no time to relax as Stormfly and Meatlug came charging towards Hiccup as he ducked, dived and dodged their incoming attacks follow by blasts from both Sharpshot and Sneaky before the green gas of Barf surrounded him and Belch ignited it causing it to explode.
Lucky enough Hiccup just got out in time but still got some of the impact but not enough to cause any sort of major injury, but still he pressed on as Stromfly left lose the spines on her tail to which Hiccup dodged them, but not all of them as he knocked the remaining spines out of the air with his scimitars in a sort of weird dance moving his whole body as his swords followed suit.
But his victory was cut short because from out of nowhere, a black tail swished across the floor knocking Hiccup off his feet, Toothless then pinned Hiccup down by placing his from paws on each arm forcing Hiccup to drop the scimitars while Toothless growled at him before doing something Hiccup was fearing.
Toothless licked his face with his saliva-covered tongue getting a protest from his rider.
"Oh, Toothless no! No! Bad dragon!" he shouts as Toothless releases him so he could stand up.
"You know this doesn't wash out!" he shouts as Toothless stands next to him laughing, until Hiccup took some of the saliva and flicked it back at him earning a scowl from the black dragon as Hiccup went to the lake to wash off the remain saliva.
The teens who were watching were both shocked, surprised and amused at what they just witnessed, decided to head to their dragons.
Well Fishlegs and the twins did, Astrid however headed for the lake where Hiccup decided to give her a show by stripping down to just his underwear while he cleaned himself, making Astrid smile as he was turned away from her so she had a good look at his ass as he muttered to himself.
"Useless reptile, this is the third time I've been in here today washing off this stuff. Gods I wonder what Astrid would say if she saw me right now?" his question was answered by a familiar voice that made him freeze what he was doing.
"Well first off I would say you were a stupid crazy fool for his plan at the arena, a big softy for releasing the dragons, a crazy genius for using dragons for combat training, that if you spend so much time in the water, I would say you were a fish and that you got a nice ass" Astrid said with a smirk on her face and blushed at the last thing she said making Hiccup blush as he turned slowly around to see her standing there with her arms folding admiring the view in front of her.
"A-Astrid, hey Astrid, w-what you doing here so early? And my what is nice?" He said nervously as he raised an eyebrow at the last bit she said.
She only smiled while still looking him up and down as a thin but slightly muscular body.
Hiccup however saw what she was looking and gave her a deadpan look before being sarcastic "well why don't you draw a picture it'll last longer" he said with a smirk on his face.
Astrid just waved him off before giving her comeback to him "nah, I'll leave that to the artist in this relationship" she said before sticking her tongue out at him.
Hiccup took this as a challenge and so emerging from the water dripping wet, he opens out his arms as he nears Astrid to give her a cold wet hug.
Astrid, realizing what he was about to do, backs away slowly with wide eyes looking at him "oh no Hiccup don't you dare! Stay back!" she shouted as he started running towards her making her run away from.
"Aww come on milady, don't you want a hug?" he said with a sly smile on his face.
Meanwhile the other teen who were playing with the dragons at the time heard the commotion coming from the lake only to see a half-naked dripping wet Hiccup chasing after a terrified Astrid. Fishlegs and Tuffnut only sniggered at the sight while Ruffnut looked smug with herself.
"Well I guess Astrid was right" she said with her arms crossed nodding her head.
The other two looked at her confused before she turn their attention to them.
"Astrid said Hiccup had a nice butt but I didn't know how right she was till now" she answered their look of confusion causing them to smack their palms to their faces.
"Ugh, great now I can't get that image out of my head" Tuffnut groaned making the others look at him strangely before shrugging.
One hour later
"So that's why you let them loose" Astrid said as she was in Hiccups lap while he told her and the others his plan on last night.
At first she was annoyed that he didn't tell but understood when he didn't want her to get in trouble with him if it went wrong.
She was shocked when he told them that he never planned on the Nightmare to stay behind that it surprised him too until he realized why.
She was amazed at the way he wanted to be trained by using the dragons for dodging tactics "very risky but good practice" she said to him as she cuddled up more to him, she wondered if she should do that too, it would put a whole new meaning to her training too.
But the burning question she had to ask him.
"Why did you want the dragons to help you train?" she said looking up at him as he looked into the fire in the center of the teens and their dragons.
"I won't let Snotlout win Astrid, I know it sounds selfish but I won't let you marry him" he said as she looked into his eye seeing the fire in them "if anything Astrid I'd rather you married me if the time ever came" he looked down into her eyes and smiled at her "but to know that if I win you can choose who you wanted to marry in the future if you wanted to get married" he finished off kissing her on her forehead as he hugged her closer.
She couldn't believe what was hearing, he'd make sure he won so she could have the freedom to choose her own future, but yet he didn't know about the contract their parents agreed to. She smile knowing that this boy, this man holding her in his arms was who she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, contract or not.
Her thoughts were interrupted by Toothless and Stormfly nudging both her and Hiccup as both teens look at their dragons.
"I think they want a flight Astrid" Hiccup said smiling.
Astrid was wide-eyed, she never rode a dragon before but she wanted to but she looked kind of scared at first until Hiccup took her hand.
"It'll be okay Astrid, you'll love it" he said reassuring her with his smile at her.
She nervously gets up before slowly walking over to Stormfly, but she suddenly realized there is a problem as she addresses it to Hiccup.
"Err Hiccup, how am I going to hold on to her? I have no saddle like Toothless has" she said to him as he looks at her before disappearing behind one of the large rocks.
"I knew you would say that so while I was at the forge fixing the tailfin I decided to make…." He said as he lifts up a large leather saddle and smiles at her "..this!".
Astrid just looked dumbfounded at the saddle in Hiccups hands as he comes back to her before gesturing to Stormfly to come to him which she obediently did so he could strap the saddle to her "I needed the measurements of course but like most of the things I made I visualized on how it should look and feel on her, so now you can ride her easily without the problem of falling off".
Astrid still wonders how he can visualize something and get it right just like that, something one day will tell her how, but for now she could only smile at her boyfriend for wanting her to fly.
"Okay Hiccup, I said I wanted to fly and I'm not backing out now" she said with a determined look on her face covering up her nervousness and slowly and carefully she approaches her dragon and climbs into the saddle and holding on to two of the spikes on top of Stormfly's head.
"Now remember Astrid, take it slow and steady, don't rush it and don't worry if you fall she or me and Toothless will catch you" Hiccup said to her as he took off on Toothless into the air.
Astrid gulping at doing this realized how similar Stormfly was to her as she looked nervous too.
It was then Astrid realized they were just alike and knows Stormfly will catch her if she falls. Smiling at this, she gently pats her on the side of her head reassure her she feels the same as her but is willing to trust her.
"Okay Stormfly, let's get up there and show our boys what we can do" she said with a grin on her face as Stormfly flapped her wings to take off from the ground and off they went.
Up in the Air, Hiccup POV
I look around for any sign of the blue Nadder and her blond rider hoping she managed to have enough courage to take off on Stormfly, then I remembered one thing.
She's Astrid Hofferson, courage is in her blood.
Suddenly I smile as I spot her and Stormfly come flying up and she seems to be screaming.
But hearing closely that was Astrid scream of joy, and funny enough as I get out my spy glass I made I see he smiling as Stormfly gets her up in the clouds.
"Well so much for a calm first flight eh bud" I said to Toothless scratching his neck as he warbled as in agreeing with me.
I swear I'm starting to understand him.
"Well Toothless looks like we'd best join our ladies" I said but Toothless growled in protest.
"What? What you mean 'our ladies' Stormfly's not my lady!" Is what I think Toothless is saying.
"Yeah yeah bud, whatever you say, all I'm saying is I've seen you looking at her with dilated eyes like it was me or Astrid" I said trying to tease him thinking he won't understand me.
I was wrong as he whacks me twice with his ear flaps.
Freaky or what, maybe spending all this time with dragons is making me understand them more.
Nah, that's silly, isn't it?
I'll figure out that later as we go chasing after Astrid and Stormfly while thinking about the long week of combat training ready for next week's duel.
And boy what a week it's going to be.
One Week Later, At the Arena Astrid POV
"I wonder where Hiccup is?" I ask the gang as I worriedly search for him around the arena hoping he was okay.
The whole week of training with the dragons and me as well as doing blacksmithing in the evening and flying during the morning I would be surprised if he was awake.
Looking down at the ring, I notice Snotlout and his dad Spitelout as he give him some sort of pep talk about Jorgensons never lose, pah! What a fathead.
But still it makes me worry looking at Snotlout, he's wearing a full set of heavy iron armor along with his large hammer which he easily can hold with one hand, the smug grin on his face makes me want to puke, if he wins I'm jumping of the arena wall.
"So where is useless then?" Snotlout shouts to the crowd as he feels like he has this in the bag "chickened out I guess, I would expect this from a coward like….".
"Like whom exactly Snotface?" Hiccup interrupted walking into the ring casually with a slight edge of confidence in his stride, but what he was wearing widened my eyes.
He was wearing a full black leather armored suit with shiny metal shoulder, elbow and knee pads each one very smooth and curved to fit the wearer. His chest piece had several rings attached to it, what they were for I don't know, but know Hiccup he has a used for them in future projects. He had both his scimitar wrist bands on so I know what he was going to use as a weapon.
But then why was he carrying a metal shield in with him? Surly something like that he won't be able to carry for too long or even at all.
But strangely enough he was carrying it, with ease, in fact with the metal pads plus his scimitars and shield at his size, he should be struggling to walk. But he seems so light on his feet.
I'll have to ask him afterwards, either in this life or the next.
But the look on his face, determination was etched all over it.
This will be an interesting fight.
"Okay guys what you reckon?" I hear Ruffnut say to us as I turn my head to her in confusion.
"I'm betting Hiccup will go head on at him and take him out in ten minutes" Ruffnut continued as I look at her in surprise.
She was betting when Hiccup will win, I smile realizing how much confidence she had in Hiccup.
But it wasn't just her.
"Nah heavy armor on Snotlout will be hard for Hiccup to take him down in that time, I'd say Hiccup wears him out in thirty minutes and finishes him off in that time, Hiccups got one hundred and fifty percent more stamina than Snotlout if watching him train is anything to go by" Fishlegs said putting his own bet in.
"Yeah don't forget Hiccups smart too, so he could figure out Snotlouts weak spots pretty quick, I'm going twenty minutes" Tuffnut added his own bet before all three turned to me.
They wanted me to bet too.
Looking at them then back to Hiccup as I study his form, I smile and turn back to the three teens "you guys are right, stamina and brains are on his side, he also has stupid and crazy ideas as well as not thinking like a Viking" I look back again at Hiccup as he smiles at me and I smile back at him "One hour, he's going to toy with Snotlout figure all of his weaknesses before striking after Snotlout will be too exhausted swinging himself and that hammer around, that heavy iron armor was designed for one off rage attacks to take your enemy down with brute force. Hiccup's agility will match that on top of his stamina will be what matters" I said with determination in my voice, as the other three looked stunned at what I said.
"What? I've studied him and his movements" I said to answer their stunned faces.
Ruffnut recovered and only sniggered "yeah Astrid you've been studying him alright, mainly his ass" she replied back making me red with humiliation.
"Shut it!" I shout as all three start to laugh. Oh this is going to be a long match, I just know it.
Hiccup POV
"So this is it, now or never" I say to myself hoping all that training over the last week paid off.
It sounds like a stupid and crazy idea at the time of the idea of training melee combat with dragons but something deep down told me to do it.
I take deeps breaths remembering what Astrid told me about being calm in combat, let your opponent wear themselves out before you do.
Glancing in Snotlouts direction, I notice he's wearing heavy armor, along with that war hammer of his, he's bound to use up most of his stamina before I do since I made most of my armor out of toughened leather mixed with charcoal to dye it, and to top it off I added shoulder knee and elbow pads made of a special metal I discovered giving certain rocks and ores to Meatlug after training as a treat, unfortunately she ate too quick and to make her feel better I tickled her underside with a feather making her spew up strange colored lava. Bored at waiting for it to cool off so I can resume my training, I took Gobbers advice when waiting for molten material to cool, pound it while its hot, so using the anvil I brought round last year when I didn't want to keep going back to the forge to fix broken weapons me and Astrid used for training, I set to work in pounding at the molten material till it took the shape of a great sword, just for a laugh to make, not like I could carry it, I quickly dipped it in the lake to cool down and what surprised me was how shiny it was and very light, thinking I made a crap sword I threw it in the direction of a lone tree thinking the sword will shatter on impact, but that's when I was surprised, the sword didn't break at all.
The tree did.
Realizing I discovered a strong metal that was light to use, I smile as I knew what to do with this new found discovery.
I upgraded my scimitars, and to add on to my arsenal, I made a basic shield out of it as well as the pads.
Now here I stand today testing out how well this gear works in my favor.
Just before I step fully in to the ring, a large familiar hand gently grabs my shoulder and stops me before I could go any further.
"Hiccup are ye sure tha shield will be enough fer ya?" Gobber ask with a bit of nervousness in his voice.
I only smile at the man who was there most of my life more than my own father, who at this point was just starring in the arena to wonder might happen.
"Gobber down worry, I have a plan, plus I have my other weapons" I reply holding up my arm bands containing my hidden scimitars.
Gobber looking at them and my armor could only smile at me as he pats me on the shoulders "aye lad, ye do, with ye brains and the amount o training ye do in the forest, I'd be more worried fer Snotlout than ye" and with that he hobbles out of the ring ready to close the gate but turned around to me and gave me an evil smirk "give 'im hell lad" and with that the gates close leaving me and my cousin in the ring alone.
Normal POV
"Fellow Vikings of Berk!" Stoick shouted out quieting all the chatter in the crowd.
"Today, we gather here today to witness a duel between these two young men!" he carried on gesturing to the two teens in the ring.
"Snotlout Jorgenson, has challenged Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third for title of heir to the throne of Berk and the hand of Astrid Hofferson!" he gestured to each of the three teens as he called their names out.
"Hiccup has accepted the challenge but only by his terms since Snotlout was the one who issued it, any weapon of choosing but only that weapon in the ring! Fighters! Raise your weapon to acknowledge your weapons of choice!" Stoick bellowed out as both Hiccup and Snotlout raised their weapons.
Stoick knew Snotlout would choose the war hammer but was confused why Hiccup only had just a shield. Pinching the bridge of his nose he couldn't stand this like Hiccup wasn't taking this duel seriously.
"Hiccup! Get your weapon now and put down that stupid shield!" he shouted in Hiccups direction as his son look back with an equal scowl.
"This is my weapon!" he replies back at his dad with an even louder voice than his father making his father look at him in shock, not just for the reply he gave but how loud his voice got, Stoick never saw that in his son before.
Gobber however only smirked, he had heard Hiccup shout like that and knew why Hiccup chose the shield as a weapon.
Sighing knowing there was no changing Hiccups mind, Stoick carried on addressing the crowd "the rules are simple, one round, no time limit, the first to yield or to get knocked out will end the match! Fighters, take your stance" he watches both boys, Snotlout took on the more Viking stances of holding his hammer in both hands ready to strike first while Hiccup just stood there with his shield at his side, but nodded to acknowledge he was ready.
Again sighing, Stoick raised his hand to signal the fighters to get ready before shouting "Begin!" and the fight began.
Just as Snotlouts stance told him, Hiccup saw his cousin start advancing on the offence, ready to knock Hiccups head off with his hammer.
But Hiccup never moved until the last minute, dodging his cousin's attack with quick speed but never countered.
Snotlouts hammer embedded into the ground because of the force he put into that downwards swing, but he managed to get it out and pursue his cousin again with the same force, and again missed, so he tried a different tactic and swung the hammer down again but threw a punch in the direction Hiccup went to dodge the hammer attack feeling confident his cousin won't be able to dodge that in time.
But Hiccup never intended to dodge Snotlouts punch, instead he raised his shield up to where the punch would land. As fist and shield connected Hiccup could only hear a crunching sound as he was knocked back by the force of the punch but still held his ground watching his cousin in amusement swear very colorfully at the pain in his hand.
"You know Snotlout, you should of used your head, it might of caused more damage to my shield" Hiccup said with a smirk making his cousin angry, who by now was putting more force into his swings, harder and faster each time, but Hiccup still kept dodging but having to quicken his pace but still didn't falter.
Hiccup knows to try and keep one step ahead of his opponent, anticipate their next move, something he learnt from practicing with dragons all week is to know who, when and where the attack will come.
Hiccup takes a chance for a few seconds to look around the outer part of the arena and smiled at what he saw.
The villagers open-mouthed like cod fish 'that reminds me, I need to get some fish for Toothless after this' Hiccup thinks to himself but comes back to reality as a war hammer comes flying into the direction he was standing at a few seconds ago followed by a punch which hits him directly in the side of his face knocking him at the wall of the arena.
Shaking his head he gets up just in time to raise his shield as the hammer comes crashing 'right note to self, concentrate, Hiccup, concentrate' Hiccup thinks to himself again, he couldn't afford to lose this fight, sure he doesn't give a toss about his title as heir but he will not lose Astrid to his cousin, never!
It was then Hiccup noticed something that made him smile with determination.
Snotlouts war hammer, all those rough swings has cause it to crack, he could also tell the hammer wasn't one of his creations or even Gobbers, the hammer was poorly made, more like a rush job to get it done and ready before the duel.
And that will be his downfall.
"Come on Snotface! What you waiting for? A written invitation? Be a waste of paper since you're too stupid to read!" Hiccup shouted taunting Snotlout into attacking him again with full force as Hiccup dodged and defended against each attack that was thrown at him, hoping his plan to wear both his cousin and his hammer down.
Thirty minutes into the fight and still Snotlout was on the offence trying to catch Hiccup off-guard throwing each and every attack he could muster, but Hiccup kept countering all of them with energy still left in him to keep carrying on, something Astrid saw which made her proud of her boyfriend for practicing on increasing his stamina as well as his anticipation, Fishlegs and the twins looked on admiring Hiccups quick wits knowing how long he trained all last week, he'd be gone before the sun fully rose in the morning till way past the sun going down, he always looked exhausted but went straight to the forge afterwards.
Something Gobber knew about every time he was in the forge and Hiccup come stumbling in looking worn out but still determined to work on his leather armor and swords, he even had to admire the metal Hiccup used, Gobber had never see a metal that shiny before and by the feel of its weight, light too, he was worried the boy wouldn't hold out too well if he was his directly on them but trusted in Hiccups judgment, and it seemed to of paid off.
Samson, Ugthug and Angelica were doing their best to cheer on Snotlout as each swing went but even they saw how quick Hiccup was, but they kept on cheering and throwing taunts at Hiccup to no avail, in fact they did it so much the twins decided to get their revenge on the idiots for pinning them down last week by setting their pants on fire which caused all three to scream in terror as they headed for the nearest source of water making Astrid, Fishlegs, the twins, Gobber and Astrids parents laugh.
Stoick however was stunned, utterly stunned, he knew from Gobber how hard Hiccup trained and even though Hiccup chose not to fight dragons, he showed promise when saving the teen on more than one occasion, of course Stoick being….well, Stoick, never believed Gobber, the man was known for telling tales of stupid things like the Boneknapper that stalked Gobber for most of his life.
But to see what was right in front of him, he was stunned, and realized at this point that he never knew who his son really was.
A full hour into the fight and the time throwing so many aggressive throws at Hiccup had worn out Snotlout, but not as much as he hammer was.
Hiccup was feeling some worn out but could still go for hours like that, but he needed to end this now for his body to bring the offence needed to finish it.
Looking at his cousin and his damaged hammer, Hiccup knew when to strike, as Snotlout was catching his breath Hiccup decided to put his plan into action which he decided to stand up straight, arms at his sides and smirked at his cousin before putting the next plan into actions.
"Wow Snotlout, worn out already? And I thought you were tough? You seemed that way all those times you bullied me. But I guess I was wrong since you can't even swing at a talking fishbone like me" Hiccup said knowing that would push Snotlout over the edge to be defeated by a fishbone like him.
And he could see it in Snotlouts face as it went red with rage as Hiccup turns around, not facing his cousin as he waits for his attack. Snotlout picks up his war hammer and begins to swing it wildly "I'll show you useless son of a whore!" Snotlout shouts as he charges towards Hiccup knowing he has no chance at dodging while cornered.
But that was Hiccups plan all along.
Hiccup closes his eyes and listens for the constant rushing of his cousin's feet getting louder as he nears him, ignoring the warnings from the crowd to get out of the way thinking when to strike.
'Not yet'
The footsteps grow louder.
'Almost'
Hearing the screams of Snotlout crying out in anger ready to knock Hiccup to Valhalla.
'Now!'
Hiccup quickly rotates his body counter clockwise while at the same time, his left arm which has the shield on, which as much force as he could give, swings it all the way out, connecting head on with Snotlouts incoming hammer.
*Bam! Crack! Smack!*
The shield did its job and hit the hammer head on breaking the already damaged hammer head as it went backwards and hit its owner right in the face, knocking him off his feet.
Hiccup felt the full force of the blow vibrate from the shield into his left arm causing him pain to surge through it, Hiccup knew this would happen, it was the only way to cause enough damage to destroy the hammer.
As Hiccup drops the shield he slowly walks over to where his father was sitting to address him, but sudden looked up as he starts to shout.
"Spitelout! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Stoick shouts making Hiccup turn around and look in anger.
Spitelout had thrown his son a great sword to which Snotlout gladly took and holding it out ready to strike Hiccup.
"I will not let the Jorgenson name be ruined by that talking fishbone Stoick, he ruins what it means to be Viking!" Spitelout responds loudly glaring at Hiccup afterwards.
Stoick's face grew red as he responds back "this was not part of the rules of the duel Spitelout! Only the weapons they bring to the ri…."
"No dad, let him" Hiccup interrupts Stoick as he starts to look at Snotlout holding the new weapon "if he wants to keep fighting, then so be it!" Hiccup finishes walking towards his cousin with both arms stretched out like wing, he may of looked odd to the others but he didn't care at this point as he moves closer and closer to his cousin who at this point charges, tip of sword first, towards Hiccup.
Hiccup never moved or refused to dodge this attack.
Instead he pressed the trigger on each palm of the gloves which connected up to the arms bands and as Snotlout got close enough, Hiccup move both arms inwards at the same time his hidden scimitars sprung out and unfolded to their full length as they slashed at Snotlouts incoming sword, cutting it into three pieces which at the same time Hiccup round housed kicked his cousin in the stomach knocking him off his feet.
Tired, injured and winded, Snotlout felt the weight of a foot on top of his chest and a sword tip at his throat, opening his eyes revealed Hiccup looking at his with angry eyes.
"Do you yield?" Hiccup said as he drove the tip of his blade closer in.
Snotlout couldn't believe it, he was beaten by his fishbone of a cousin.
"Do you yield?!" he hears Hiccup say again as the blade started to draw blood on his neck.
"I-I-I Yield!" Snotlout cries as Hiccup releases the blade from his neck.
The crowd were both stunned and shocked, but cheered as it wore off to see Hiccup standing there as his scimitar fold back up and he's cradling his left arm.
Stoick looked even more stunned that his son won, but smiled afterwards before addressing the crowd "well I thought I'd never seen this coming like the rest of you, but the winner, who keeps his title as heir and the hand of miss Hofferson is my son Hiccup!" he bellowed out as the crowd irrupted in cheer.
The gates to the ring open as a certain blond shield maiden come running up to her boyfriend before tackling him to the ground and kissing him all over his face, Astrid didn't care if the village saw her do this, she's still tough, but Hiccup brings out the loving side of her and can't help but remind him what he unlocked inside of her.
Soon Fishlegs, the twins, Gobber, Alfsted and Helga came walking in to congratulate Hiccup on his victory, and if Hiccup was honest, never felt so much like part of the village in a long time and that made him happy.
That didn't last long as Stoick came walking in to silence the crowd.
"Well since Hiccup has shown potential as a worthy fighter then it gives me great pleasure to announce that starting in three days' time, even though he never officially was in the training sessions, but I'm bending the rules just this once, he will in three days' time become one of us, a Viking, by killing his first dragon in front of the whole village!" Stoick shouts out making everyone cheer at the announcement.
Well… all except, Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs and the twins who looked horrified but hid it so no one could see, Gobber however looked stunned, he knows that Hiccup didn't want to fight dragons for a reason so he didn't understand how his friend could be so dense about this he'll ask this later as he looked at the frozen teens wondering what they were thinking at this moment.
I can tell you what they were thinking and they were all thinking the same thing.
"Oh Shit!"
A/N A little spoiler for my readers, I will be doing some pairings for other characters in this, including Fishlegs and Ruffnut, but I didn't know to go with Rufflegs or Fishnuts, both made me laugh, you decide.