"Like I am going to stay here!" huffed Dagur after the adults left the room, did they seriously think they could hold him? It had been a game, nobody was even hurt severely. Hiccup and Heather could get hurt and get to whine to their daddies but when Dagur got hurt Nope, what was Oswald's reaction? "He's fine,"
At least Hiccup actually tried to get help, and it's not like he meant for Heather to bump her head!
Jumping out the window because the doors had guards on them, he bolted towards where Hiccup was drawing a picture earlier, no sign of him. He briefly wondered if Heather was ok but he pushed that to the back of his mind, of course she was.
Looking around town I looked for every spot Hiccup would try to hide in, wasn't in any of those, he was getting good at this, maybe the next game they should play is hide and go seek with a twist obviously, the normal version was boring.
He crept towards the guest house in case his friend had decided to hide out there, he knew full well that Hiccup was scared of him, and that made him equal parts delighted and sad. It didn't matter he hardly saw the other heir anyways.
Approaching the door he heard Stoick and his father talking, ducking under a window he peered in deciding to eavesdrop on them, it was probably boring business as he thought of what they must be saying.
"It's so peaceful!" said his thoughts that was supposed to resemble Stoick's voice.
"Yeah! None of our names even sound moderately scary because we are cowards, I am so glad we signed a treaty," said the voice in his head that sounded like his father as he imagined what they were talking about his thoughts were broken when he heard his name in their conversation, it's practically instinct that if you hear your name you listen to whoever said it.
"I know, I wish Dagur was more like Heather," said his father, surprise surprise he thought mentally rolling his eyes at the many times his Father decided to do stuff with Heather instead of him because "She was better".
"And I don't think Hiccup will ever grow big enough to fight dragons with his size," said Stoick, sounding like they were talking about their parenting troubles, boo hoo for them. "I take him fishing and he goes hunting for Trolls! So far he has caused discord in the village almost every day, even when he is supposed to be grounded, he has these crazy ideas, recently he had an idea to get Sheeps Wool faster and the Machine broke down and started a fire!"
Father was quiet for a second before saying, "That boy is at least trying to help, how's his fighting going?"
"As well as one would expect from Hiccup," said Stoick almost disappointingly, "He can't make friends with the other kids either,"
Hearing these things made Dagur realize something, he and Hiccup were allot more alike than he thought, they both had a knack for destroying things, he still believed in trolls despite Ansson telling him he was a loser, they were both bullied by others or well in his case one other person, and it seems Hiccup also had Daddy issues. Not that he would ever admit that he and Hiccup were in any way alike.
"At this point I am wondering if I should make Heather the next Berserker chief instead, Odin knows how many wars and pointless violence Dagur will cause if he became chief," said Oswald so quietly Dagur could scarcely hear him. His sister? The new Beserker chief? Dad couldn't just take away his birthright? Could he? His entire world came plummeting down even lower than it already was, No! This was his birthright and his little sister was not taking this from him, he decided at that moment before slinking away.
Sorry little sister, but there can only be one of us, and between you and me, I'm choosing me.
"Hiccup we need to have another story night," said Snotlout earning a strange look from Hiccup and the others, "And I will be the storyteller!"
Everyone groaned loudly at what Snotlout's story telling would be. Though they had no reason to refuse because so far all they had done was everything that needed to be done.
"Then we get a turn!" yelled Ruffnut causing the others to groan louder, this was going to be a chaotic evening.
"No you mean I get a turn everyone knows I'm the best storyteller!" shouted Tuffnut shoving his sister, getting a bawk from Chicken.
"Sorry I mean- I am the second best story teller on the island, Chicken is obviously the best, and so funny!" said Tuffnut breaking into laughter before getting shoved back from Ruffnut.
"Can you two try to act your age?" groaned Astrid exasperated as she slumped on the ground, "For two minutes?"
"We accept your challenge!" yelled Tuffnut, "Starting now!"
"Hello good sir, I wish to purchase a bottle of goop, civilly with money!" started Ruffnut greeting Tuffnut.
"Hello my fine Viking Lady, you may, please tip, 20 gold coins please," responded Tuffnut trying to sound official as the other burst into laughter.
"Good sir, that is far too expen-"
"If you don't like it then go buy somewhere else, I am the storekeeper meaning I make the rules,"
"I'll show you what I think of your "RULES!" yelled Ruffnut running at Tuffnut and tackling him to the ground as they fought rolling around.
"They got to 40 seconds," commented Astrid, to which the twins immediately stopped fighting.
"40 seconds?! That's a new record!" yelled Ruffnut before the twins bonked their heads, sending them both backwards.
"SHHH! Everyone be quiet! I have the best story ever!" yelled Snotlout waving his arms around wildly to grab everyone's attention, "Its when I saved Hiccup's life since we all think he is soooo amazing, but I'm still more amazing,"
"I'm pretty sure every time I was in danger and you saved me was because you got us into that mess in the first place," snorted Hiccup.
"Shut up, Hiccup, this is my story not yours,"
"Oh gods here we go again," groaned Astrid, getting another glare from Snotlout which she returned.
I was going about my day normally, when an annoying pest told me that I was supposed to stay over at his house for tonight because Stoick wanted Hiccup to make friends or something.
Naturally I insulted him back then, I believe I called him a miscreant t, a new word I had learned, and continued on my day, that needed to get out of my way before I threw him across the town center, then continued on my normal day, I could fake being sick anyways besides my Dad didn't really like me hanging around Hiccup anyways. So grabbing flowers I walked over to the Hofferson household, ready to see my true love.
( Astrid started gagging loudly and coughing, "We are less than a minute in and you already say that!?" )
She was a goddess, with flowing yellow locks and beautiful eyes-
( "I need to throw up give me a minute," )
As I walked in she shouted, "Oh Snotlout, those flowers are beautiful! Instead of hanging out with Hiccup the Useless, let's go sit on the beach together, holding hands!"
"They aren't even close to being as lovely as you," said Snotlout leaning in for a kiss-
( Everyone stared at Snotlout with their mouths wide open before they broke down laughing at the absurdity of the tale.
"Dear sister, I think Snotlout has forgotten he is women repellent," said Tuffnut to which Ruffnut responded.
"Preach Brother Preach!"
"I don't think I have ever or will ever say that or do that, and if I did it certainly wouldn't be to you," gagged Astrid to Snotlout.
"There is plenty of time, I know you secretly dig me," replied Snotlout blowing kisses causing Astrid to punch him in the nose.
"Change the story," demanded Astrid, readying her fist for another punch.
"Fine fine fine,")
With those wonderful flowers almost as beautiful as her, I knocked on her door, she peeked outside and saw who it was before slamming the door in my face. IS EVERYONE HAPPY NOW!?
( In unison everyone nodded their heads )
Tuffnut and I were supposed to go work on pranking Ruffnut but then Hiccup the Useless appeared again with another one of his wacky inventions, something about getting more eggs from chickens and starting the entire Village on FIRE! He was getting more destructive than the dragons! What's even worse, was that my house burned down meaning I HAD to spend the night at Hiccup's house despite the fact that he was grounded!
( Everyone started to glare at Snotlout, "What? I'm telling the story through young Snotlout's head! Do you not want me to be accurate with this?"
"Accuracy is hardly your concern," snapped Astrid, referencing the whole scene of her liking him.
Hiccup was silently dying inside, he didn't need any reminders of his failures or his old name, Hiccup the Useless, especially after the Viggo fiasco. )
Along with the sleepover was Fishlegs, and the newest addition was Astrid, which made this at least bearable, if you minused Hiccup.
You see tonight there was a thunderstorm, and Hiccup the Wimpy is scared of Lightning and Thunder.
"Hiccup, we are Vikings, we don't get scared of a little Thunder!" snarled Snotlout to the smaller boy dumping his toys out of a toy box in a shelf so that way he could hide, "Also you can't fit in there,"
The universe just loves proving me wrong though and you did somehow manage to smush yourself in there and hide.
"Of course then again you're not a real viking, you and Fishlegs are almost the same age and he towers over you," snarked Snotlout as the boy whimpered as another crash of thunder came overhead.
"Well by that logic then your Older than Fishlegs and your still tiny compared to him!" retorted Hiccup though he couldn't stop his voice from shaking though Snotlout kept seething.
( "You go younger me!" yelled Hiccup, breaking into the story, "I annoyed Snotlout, where's my gold medal?"
"If I had a silver coin, heck even a copper coin for every time you annoyed me I could buy the whole archipelago!" grumbled Snotlout.
"I would have a gold medal for every time I annoyed you, meaning I could buy two archipelagos," said Hiccup triumphantly.
"Case in point," said Snotlout in annoyance while the others started laughing.
"Now where is my copper coin?" asked Snotlout.
"Where is my Gold Medal?" asked Hiccup at the exact same time causing them both to turn to each other and glare. )
A little while later when I was just about to fall asleep both Hiccup and Fishlegs started to scream like girls as a flying creature flapped their way into Hiccup's bedroom.
"I'm too young to die!" yelled Fishlegs ducking under the covers and Hiccup jumped under the bed, even Snotlout winced back a bit under the covers, was it a terrible terror ready to eat our flesh out?
But no it was a dumb bat.
"It's just a bat," groaned Astrid raising a candle towards it causing the bat to hiss at her which she hissed right back.
And then they decided they wanted to go to a bat nest because why not? Where I had to heroically save their behinds! Let's get to that-
( "That is So Not what happened," said Ruffnut and Tuffnut, "We could hear you guys shouting at each other from the next house over!"
"Ok fine I am taking a few creative liberties… but-"
"I thought you wanted to make the story, "accurate," pointed out Astrid, "Let Fishlegs tell the rest of the story,"
"Wait what me?"
"We are waiting," )
"Haha, look at that, the two cowards are acting like babies, I wasn't scared one bit," said Snotlout smugly to Astrid who rolled her eyes contemplating whether or not to punch him, some things never change.
"Then why did you hide under the blankets?" said Hiccup as innocently as he could, still hiding under the bed cautiously examining the bat who was perched in one of the rafters in the room.
"I did not you little freak!" protested Snotlout.
"Lying is bad,"
"I am not lying!"
"I bet I could catch that bat before you!" dared Hiccup smugly going downstairs to grab a net before Snotlout pushed him grabbing the net before him.
"Who's lying now?"
The two were soon shoving each other around, more Snotlout shoving Hiccup and Hiccup attempting to shove him back. Eventually the bat ran out in the chaos leaving both boys glaring at each other.
"Dumb boys," muttered Astrid under her breath.
"Come on Fishlegs! We have to go catch that bat to prove we aren't cowards!" said Hiccup to a very nervous Fishlegs.
"O-outside?" whimpered Fishlegs, "C-can't we stay here and r-read about bats i-instead?"
"Look the cowards wanna stay here and read, careful, I hear there are trolls in the woods," taunted Snotlout, "You two will never amount to Real vikings,"
"We can too! Which is why we are going outside and we won't stop till we have found a bat! Right Fishlegs? Also learn your facts Snotlout, Trolls only steal left socks!"
"R-right?" said Fishlegs though it was more of a question.
"You two are wimps and the Whole village knows it! You guys couldn't catch a bat if it landed in your lap!"
"Could too!"
"Fine then I dare you to catch a bat!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
"Snotlout that's enough," scowled Astrid before he actually made them go outside in the pouring rain.
"It's gonna be fine,they obviously are too scared to go outside-" he whispered to her as the duo walked downstairs, and slammed the door shut, "Ok… maybe not… but they will come back as soon as they get wet,"
"You better hope they do, or I am going to kill you, and then Stoick is going to kill both of us," threatened Astrid.
