Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Swordsmen and the Valkyrie. Enjoy the 600-word chapter. I don't own HTTYD, Dream Works does.
1 and a half years before How to Train Your Dragon 2.
"Easy, buddy, easy." A 19-year-old Havak said as he watched Sawbite tear a tree out of the ground so Havak could start to chop it into wood.
"You've gotten big, but not full grown yet, bud." Sawbite was still growing to his full size but he was half the size of an adult Screaming Death. The dragon sniffed the air as he looked up.
"What is it, bud?" Havak said as Sawbite grabbed the wood before putting it on his back to carry as he placed Havak on the saddle on his neck before taking off.
"Sawbite?" Havak listened to the air as he heard a whirling sound.
"Whispering Deaths?" Havak asked, remembering that the smaller boulder class dragons that had been living on the island since the war with the Berserkers ended.
"You go get some sleep, bud, I got to go see about something." Sawbite landed on a cliff outside of the village before flying off to go stop his smaller relatives as Havak sighed and began to climb down the mountain.
"Rockheaded dragon can't even remember that the cliff is far away from the town…. And he has the wood I needed for crafting those crossbows." Havak sighed as she slid down the hill before listening to the air as a dragon he could never forget landed.
"Rose." The Hofferson wore light armor on her shoulders, her hair hadn't yet grown as far as her sister's and her clothing was only a bit different from her sister's but Havak could never forget the red headed Viking he loved as much as he loved Sawbite like a brother.
"Havak, where's Sawbite? You two are rarely apart." Havak laughed as he began to walk into town with the girl.
"Yes, well, Sawbite decided to ditch me here to go deal with a pack of Whispering Deaths that he knows I could handle pretty well on my own." Rose laughed as Havak shook his head.
"Not funny, rockhead is going to get into trouble, Whispering Deaths are almost as dangerous as a Screaming Death, subspecies or not, he shouldn't have gone off alone."
Rose shook her head at her boyfriend's fear, Sawbite was a Screaming Death, there weren't many dragons alive that could fight a massive dragon and live, she loved Havak but the boy could worry about his dragon a bit too much for his own good.
"He will come back…. I'm going to guess he took the wood we needed as well?" Havak nodded and shook his head as Rose laughed as they finally reached the village.
"It isn't funny, I can't build any defenses or weapons without the wood…. He better come back or I'm going to be ticked at him for this." Havak walked towards the blacksmiths to see that Gobber wasn't where he usually was.
"Ok, either I missed something or Gobber isn't here like he always is." Havak decided to go home as Rose watched before Havak took a note off the door."
"Ok, Hiccup is at the academy and Gobber isn't here, guess I don't have anything to do for now." He sat down in a chair as Rose walked in.
"So?" Havak grunted.
"He ain't here and neither is Gobber, I wish that rock head was around." The ground shook before Sawbite burrowed through the tunnel in the floor he had made before."
"Hey bud, now we can go."
Author notes
Ok, this was just a chapter to set up the first episode of Race to the Edge…. Thing is, I am putting this story on hold for a while. I am starting to run out of ideas for this story at the moment and I have a few other stories I want to do, I will however be making a Kung Fu Panda story soon. Until the Next chapter, Lighting wolf out!