(Chapter Four)
(Loredas 28th) (With Hiccup)
Hiccup was still sore from his training session with Draco. His arms, back, torso, and legs ached and Gobber even told him that he could take the day off if he needed to but he's not one to lay around no matter how tired he was. He slowly got out of bed threw his clothes on and made his way to the front door. He began opening the door but then was stopped when he heard his fathers voice "Son?"
Hiccup slowly turns around to meet his dads gaze "Y-Yes, dad?"
"I saw a little of your training with Draco yesterday" his dad didn't sound happy "O-Oh, you did?" Stoick nods.
"Yes, and I wasn't impressed and when I talked to Draco he wasn't impressed either, but he says that it was due to you using your right hand instead of your left, and I have to say that was my fault" Hiccup didn't know if that was supposed to be an apology or not, so he stayed quiet.
"Are you going to the arena to train with him today?"
"No, he told me that I could take the day off to rest up but tomorrow I will"
"Ok, if he says that you can take the day off then that's fine, but you're needed in the forge so go there right away" Stoick turned around heading into the kitchen. Hiccup nods with a sigh then leaves the house. Closing the door behind him he makes his way towards the forge.
On his way to the forge he saw Astrid heading for the arena seeming to be deep in thought. He stared at her for a couple of minutes admiring her 'She would never look my way' he thought with a sad sigh. He stopped watching her just in case she turned around to look and continued walking to the forge. In the distance he could see Gobber hammering away humming a song "Hey Gobber" Hiccup greeted with a sad tone but tried to hide it "Ok, what's with the sad tone lad?" he failed.
"Just the same old same old" Hiccup grabs his apron then grabs the nearest sword and places it above the hot forge getting it hot, so he could re-bend it back into shape and whatever else needs to be done with it "Is it your dad?" Hiccup didn't say anything "I see" nothing else was said between the two for a while.
"How did ya' training go with Draco?" Gobber asked breaking the ice.
"It was brutal" Hiccup says taking the sword out of the forge red hot and ready to be re-shaped. He takes over to the anvil that Gobber has moved from "Was it as brutal when I tried to train you?" Hiccup shook his head "Not even close" Gobber laughed.
"That lad is something else"
"Gobber?!" Stoick's voice could be heard from outside the forge "In 'ere!" Gobber wobbles over to the window "Did 'iccup make it?" Hiccups rolls his eyes. Gobber nodded his head "He did, did you come to see him?" Stoick shook his head "No, I just came to make sure that he made it" Stoick didn't bat an eye towards his son as he left the forge. Gobber turned to look at Hiccup but saw that he had his back turned the whole time. He lets out a sigh 'This is going to be a long day' he thought.
(With Fishlegs)
At this time Fishlegs is out by the docks with his dad helping out the fisherman that has returned with the catch of the week. Fishlegs was helping by taking baskets full of fish and taking them to the storage shed "Thanks for helping us out Fishlegs" Mulch thanked tossing Fishlegs another basket of fish. He hoisted the basket over his shoulder.
"It's my pleasure to help" Fishlegs began to make his way to the shed which was back in the plaza. He liked to help whenever they needed it, he has never said no to anyone that has asked for help… well except for Snotlout, whenever he asks for help with any of his scam he'll say no since they're never any good.
"Morning Fishlegs" Fishlegs turned to see who was speaking to him. It was the chief. Stoick was heading in his direction. Since it was a polite thing to do Fishlegs greeted him back "Morning chief, out doing your rounds I see?" Stoick nods.
"Yes, I was actually on my way to check out our storage" he looks at the two baskets Fishlegs was carrying "I see we got a get catch for this week?" Fishlegs nodded "We still have a couple of baskets on the ship"
"Wonderful, that fixes our food problem" Stoick pats Fishlegs on the back startling him a little bit "Thank you for helping out" Fishlegs shook his head "No need to thank, I'm just doing my part for the tribe since I don't want to fight I have to make myself useful somehow" Stoick laughs "You're doing just fine, but you know Fishlegs you'll have to fight at some point unless you want to die on the battlefield"
Fishlegs looks down at his feet "I know sir, but I'll try until that day comes"
Stoick patted his back one more time. They stopped at the doors to the storage shed "Let me get that for you" he opens the doors to the storage shed "Thank you" Fishlegs thanked and Stoick pokes his head into the shed.
"So far so good, I'll be leaving now, I got to go check on Sven's farm to see how the remaining animals are doing"
Stoick leaves Fishlegs to put the baskets of fish into the shed. After he places the fish down in the rightful place he leaves the shed and closes the door behind him. After closing the doors, he makes his way back to the docks to go help with the rest of the baskets of fish from the boat.
He quickly makes his way back to the docks and on his way, there he passed by some of the other fisherman carrying the other baskets of fish "Hey Fishlegs!" one of the fisherman that just walked passed him called out. Fishlegs snapped his head around "Yes?"
"Your dad said that he needs to see you real quick when you get back to the docks, he'll be waiting on the boat" Fishlegs nods. He could see his dad talking to Gobber as he got closer to the docks.
He walks up the plank onto the ship "Hey dad, I was told you needed to see me?" his dad turns around "Give me a second" he turns his attention back to Gobber "When do you think you can make the repairs?"
"Once you're done here I can get right on it"
"Thank you Gobber, we should be done unloading the fish in a couple of minutes" Gobber's nods "I'll be back in a couple of minutes with my tools" Gobber walks passed Fishlegs "Are you still going to meet up with us at the watch tower tonight?" Fishlegs nods "Yes" Gobber smiles "See ya' later then" Gobber hobbles off the boat.
Fishlegs turned to look at his dad "So, what did you need to see me for?"
"I'll be leaving tomorrow morning on a fishing trip to try to give them a helping hand and was wanting to know if you would like to come along"
"I would like to" his dad smiles "Great and if you know anyone else that would be willing to help you can bring them too" Fishlegs nods "That's all I needed to say, we'll wrap it up from here" Fishlegs nods again before scurrying off.
(With Snotlout and Tuffnut)
Snotlout, Dogsbreath and Tuffnut were walking through the plaza to go meet up with the rest of their little gang which were waiting at the watch tower for them to arrive. Right now, as they walked they were talking about what most men around their age talked about… women. Snotlout was boasting about how much Astrid 'loved' him.
"Dude, how can you say that she loves you if she beats you every time you try to touch her, I think she doesn't really love you dude" Dogsbreath stated. Snotlout only laughs "She beats me up because she does love me"
"Then she must love you a lot" Dogsbreath rolled his eyes.
"She just can't resist all of this" he flexes his arms. Tuffnut laughs but only to get Snotlout to glare at him shutting him up "She just doesn't like to show it ok, she's a warrior and having feelings is a weakness that's why we fit so well with each other" Tuffnut rolls his eyes but Dogsbreath just got an idea.
"Dude, you know what you should do, you should slap her ass the next time you see her, she'll like it" Snotlout seemed to let the thought go through his head. A smile grew on his lips "You know what, I'll do it" Tuffnut held in a snicker.
Coincidently Dogsbreath looked around and saw that Astrid was walking in their direction "Hey dude, here's your chance now" he points over to Astrid. Snotlout seemed to hesitate for a second before puffing out his chance and walks towards Astrid while Dogsbreath and Tuffnut stayed back and watch the show.
Astrid noticed Snotlout was walking in her direction. She tried to ignore his present, but he stepped in front of her "Hey babe" she walks passed him ignoring the 'babe' part but as she walked passed him she felt a hand slap her ass. She quickly turned around face red with anger. Snotlout took a step back but before he could turn around and run he felt someone grab his arm and with a loud snap she pops his arm.
"AHHH!" he yells then she flips him on his back with a loud thud. She looks down at axe only a couple of inches away from his face "You ever do another stunt like that again and I'll do a lot worse then what I just did to you" she storms off.
Dogsbreath and Tuffnut were laughing "That was awesome!" Dogsbreath laughed holding his stomach. Snotlout slowly got up off the ground with a smile "She can't resist me"
"Dude, is your arm ok?" Tuffnut asked gesturing to his hanging arm.
"Yea, I'll be fine, a true warrior doesn't worry about small things like broking limbs.
"If you say so, we should hurry up and meet up with the others if we want to do what we had planned early" Snotlout nods with agreement.
"So, how did it feel?"
"It was hard to tell since she had her armored skirt on, but I got a little feel and it felt awesome" Dogsbreath laughed again "Nice, so Snotlout, I've been hearing about a new guy in town and from what I've been hearing he has recently killed one of the dragons in the arena to save Astrid and some kids, is that true?"
"I doubt it, a weakling like him doesn't seem to have what it takes to kill a dragon, his just another useless"
"The adults that supposable saw it said that he killed it so fast that they didn't even see his weapon" Tuffnut jumps in "Yea, I've heard about that, from what I've heard is that the only thing they saw was the dragon's heads falling off and nothing else" Snotlout let out a huff.
"I call bull on that, there's no proof that he did suck a thing"
"What about the blood stain on the arena floor"
"Probably one of the kids got hurt"
"What about the body of a dragon that they skinned?"
"It probably died from starvation"
"It was missing its heads"
"They probably cut it off to hang as trophy's"
"Then…" Snotlout stops him right there "He didn't do it ok!? It's not possible for someone as weak as he is to do such a thing, no one that small can have the skills to kill a dragon" Snotlout was getting annoyed with the so-called proofs that Tuff and Dogsbreath was pointing out.
The rest of the walk to the meet up place was in silence since they didn't want to annoy him anymore then they have already.
(With Astrid)
Astrid wasn't in a good mood already do to her early morning training in the woods went just as bad as yesterdays went and now with Snotlout talking to her and him having the nerves to slap her on her ass just made her day even worse but since she had a class this morning she can't let it get to her.
She took a deep breath entering the arena to see that her class was already here waiting for her. they noticed her as she enters the arena and runs up to greet her with smiles on their faces "Astrid!" they surrounded her and gave her tiny hugs which she returned with a smile of her own.
"You guys ready for class?"
"Yea!" she puts a hand on her hip flipping her extra hair behind her ear with the other.
"Great, now let's get class started" the kids ran into the middle of the arena and all got in a straight-line shoulder to shoulder. She stands in front of the kids "Ok, as you probably noticed that there are some weapon racks on the sides of the arena" the kids nodded.
"Well, we're going to use those to practice defense and counterattacks" she took a breath "I want you to go over to one of the weapon racks and choose a weapon of choice, also grab a shield" the weapon racks had different types of weapons on them like spears, short swords, long swords, maces, axes, etc.
The kids ran over to the weapon racks and grabbed a weapon of their choice and a shield. Once they got back in line she started to split them up in groups of two.
"Freydis and Gunnhild, you two will be paired up, Hilde and Sigrunn will be a paired, Tori and Om will be a paired, finally Dag and Garth will be paired up" Astrid watched as her kids paired up before she spoke.
"Now what I want you to do is for one of you get into a defense stance while the other gets into an attack stance" the kids talked amongst themselves to decided which one will do the defensive and the one to do the attack. While they were doing that Astrid watched them, but her eyes began to drift off towards the blood-stained floor. Every time she comes here that memory of that day comes back.
'Why couldn't I react?' she thought to herself letting that day play throughout her head. The kids have noticed that their teacher was deep in thought and when they followed where her eyes were placed they knew what she was thinking about. That day still haunts them in their sleep, but they didn't want to disappoint their teacher by leaving or dropping out of class because of being scared.
Hilde decided to go over to her teacher and pull on her sleeve. She lightly pulled on her sleeve pulling Astrid from her thoughts. Astrid looks at her kids and saw that they were all looking at her "Sorry kids, got caught up with my thoughts, have you decided on who's doing what?" they nodded their heads.
"Ok then, get into positions" they did as they were told and got into their stances "Now I want the one defending to hold their shield up in front of their face" they did "Next the one attacking I want you to swing down on the shield but not to hard" they did.
"Next the one defending swing your sword at the attacker's side but don't hit them" they did "Now, I want you to practice doing that until I say you're done ok?" they nodded. She smiles "Now, begin" the kids repeatedly blocked, swung, then counterattacked in that order over and over.
As she watched her kids practice she couldn't help but remember all the times they were here when they were young, Gobber being their mentor training them how to fight dragons. He wasn't a bad teacher, but he always believed 'In learning on the job' Yea it wasn't the best way to learn but it was effective none the less. But... after that day with the dragon she's been doubting her abilities to teach. When Gobber trained he knew what to do in situations when they were in trouble but for her… she froze when her kids were in trouble. Gobber would have never froze if they were in trouble. She lets out a sigh before turning her attention back to the kids.
(With Ruffnut)
Ruffnut was hanging out with a couple of her friends. Rivia was a short girl with short dirty blonde hair and a slim frame, then there's Ally, long brown hair, around Ruffnuts height with a slender frame and last was Philia, she had short auburn hair, a slender frame, and she stood an inch taller then Ruffnut.
"Hey Ruff, how come you decided to hang out with us today instead of your brother?" Philia asked, "He and the other guys had plans to do something today, so I thought I would hang out with you guys for a while"
The four girls were on their way to the Great Hall to grab some launch since they've been out doing their chores for the day and were exhausted from working so much. Even though their chores were just doing laundry or taking trash out.
"What do you guys want to do after we grab some launch?' Ally asked. She was leading the group as they climbed the stone steps to the Great Hall.
"I was thinking we could just hang out at the watch tower and talk" Rivia suggested "That's not a bad idea" Philia jumps in and says, "It is quite boring on Berk so finding something fun to do is quite scarce, so I'm good with just talking"
Ruffnut and Ally nodded in agreement even though deep down Ruffnut was hoping to do something fun, but she didn't mind talking occasionally since she's always with her brother most of the time she doesn't really get to talk about girl things.
They enter the hall and went over to their usual table but went to grab some food before seating. The launch for today had fish, bread, some vegetables along with some mead to drink. Ruffnut sat in fron of Philia, Ally sat next to Ruffnut and Rivia sat in front of Ally.
"So, have you heard about Hiccup the useless getting trained?" Rivia asked gaining the attention of the other girls "Wait, someone actually is putting the time to train useless?" Rivia nodded
"Yes, supposedly the new guy that's been seen in Berk is the one going to train him"
"Why would he do that?" Philia asked. Rivia shrugged "Who knows probably the guy feels sorry for useless or probably Stoick payed him to train his son"
"Probably but you couldn't pay me all the gold in the world to have me train him" the girls laughed "I agree, it would take a lot more then just gold to have me train him"
"What would it take for you to train him?" Ruffnut asked "I would need my own island and house and that's still probably not enough to have me train that guy, he's to pathetic to train" the other girls nodded their heads agreeing.
"Enough talking about useless, what about the guy training him, has anyone seen him" Rivia asked wanting to get off the subject of Hiccup. Ruffnut raises her hand "I have" the girls all looked at Ruffnut waiting for her to speak "Well, what does he look like, is he hot?" Ally asked.
"He's about a foot or two taller then me, silver hair that he has in a bun like style, his skinny but not useless skinny, more like he has muscles but with the kind of clothes/armor that he wears it's hard to tell how much muscle he has, his eyes are like blood red" the other girls tried to picture what he looks like but since she gave them vague description of him they can't fully picture it.
"My brother and I have tried to prank him twice but during both times he turned our pranks on us or avoided them" Ruffnut finished.
"What kind of weapons does he use, if he has any?" Philia asked, "It's a strange looking weapon, it's a sword but it's very thin"
"You mean a katana?" Rivia asked
"What's that?" Ally asked, "It's a weapon from the far east, I've only seen one other person to carry one when I went on a trading mission with my family a while back" Ruffnut shrugged "That could be what it is but his never pulled it out, so I don't know"
The girls continued to ask Ruffnut questions about Draco for about another hour until they decided it was time to leave. The hall was beginning to become crowded. The left the hall to go to the watch tower like they said they would do after they got something to eat.
(With Stoick)
Stoick got finished with his rounds for the morning and now he was at the arena watching Astrid teach her class. He saw potential in this group of youngsters, he only wishes that his son had potential but thanks to Draco agreeing to train his son that might become a reality instead of just a dream.
"There ya' are Stoic'" it was Gobber.
"Hey Gobber, something the matter?" Gobber shook his head "Nah, was just wondering where ya' was at, I'll be heading to the Great Hall to get me somethin' to eat, wanna come with?" Stoick takes one more look down at the kids before turning his attention back to his friend.
"Sure, I'll take you up on that" Gobber took the lead and Stoick followed.
"How do you think the lass is doing with the children?" Gobber asks.
"She's doing well, and the parents agree, I think she'll make those kids into amazing warriors"
Gobber nods in agreement "Yes, I agree, she's one of our best and she has the ability and determination to make anyone into a warrior, she's even better than me and if I'm saying that, that has to mean somethin'" Stoick nodded "Only if my son could be like her" Gobber sends him a sideways glance.
"Do you think Draco's training will do any good for the lad?" Gobber asked.
"He seems like he knows what his doing but it's up to Hiccup if he really wants to learn on how to fight" Gobber doesn't like how his friend talks about his own son but he can't really say anything against him even though it's wrong to let him continue.
Gobber has always like the lad. Even though he can be a handful sometimes, but he always seen Hiccup as a son that his never had since he couldn't have one of his own. When hiccup was little Stoick would always send him to Gobber so that Gobber can watch over him while he did his chiefly duties. He didn't mind watching over the young lad, he even got the lad to want to help in the forge. Ever since then the lad has been his apprentice.
Once Hiccup turned ten Stoick wanted Gobber to train to become a warrior that he could be proud of. At first Gobber agreed but when it came to his training, Hiccup would complain and whine that it hurts. Ever since then he hasn't trained him and Stoick doesn't let him have a chance to show his worth. Gobber sees potential in the lad and hopefully Draco can bring out that potential.
"I've been meaning to ask you, what do you think of that Draco fellow?"
"I don't know what to think, we don't know a lot about the lad or even where he lives, so I can't say much but I can say this, the lad does have something about him"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean the air around him gives off this… it's hard to explain but something about him has given me hope, I don't know why but when I heard about what happened in the arena with the lass and the children I thought that him arriving might be a sign from the gods" Gobber gave him a questionable look.
'What are you talking about Stoick?' he thought but didn't want to say it aloud. He let Stoick continue but tuned him out until they reached the hall. Once at the steps of the hall a voice called out to Stoick. Gobber turned his head to see that it Astrid's father, Solveig "Stoick, Gobber, how are you doing today?"
"We're doing good Solveig, how are you?"
"I'm doing fine sir, I was coming to the hall to get me a quick bit before I have to get back to work with some repairs"
"I thought we finished the repairs?" Stoick questioned "We did sir, but it's my wagon, it's wheel fell off and now I have to repair it"
"You need nails?" he nodded "I can help with that; just come by the forge and I can supply you with some"
"Thank you Gobber" the three men entered the hall to go enjoy themselves some good food. After grabbing some food, they went over to their table that they usual sit at when they come to the hall. As they sat there and eat their they sat in silence but every time to time they would have small talk about how their day going or how's the family.
After they were done eating they went off to go do their own things. Gobber went off with Solveig to get him some nails while Stoick went home to take a quick nap before his last patrol at the end of the day.
(Time Skip)
(With Gobber and the gang) (Later that day)
Later that day Gobber was waiting at the watch tower for his old trainees to arrive. He even invited Hiccup to come hang out with them, but he insisted that he didn't want to and just wanted to go home and Gobber respected his wishes. After of couple of minutes of waiting he began to hear talking.
"Took you kiddos long enough, kept this old man waiting in the cold" he laughed as he watched the five take a seat on some logs surrounding a fire. He picks up a plate of chicken and hands it around so that everyone takes a piece. Once everyone had a piece they stuck a piece of wood in their chicken and held it above the fire.
"How was everyone's day?" Gobber asked looking among his ex-class. Everyone had a different answer but to him they were all saying good "Astrid, how did you class go?"
"It went well, had a little hiccups here and there but nothing that I couldn't be worked out" when Ruffnut heard the word hiccup a thought came to mind "Hey Gobber, is it true that the new guy is training useless?" that gained everyone's attention and they were all wondering the same thing.
Gobber ignored the part where she called him useless and answered her question "Yes, he is" Snotlout laughed "Wait, so the new useless is training the old useless, that's classic!" Astrid sent him a glare but didn't say anything.
"From what I've heard Hiccup's doing quite well" he lied.
"Really, useless doing well? That's priceless, there's no way he's doing well, he's not good enough to be a viking"
"Say's the one that hasn't killed a dragon yet" Astrid pointed out gaining a few eww's from the twins "She just burned you dude" Snotlout sends a nasty glare to them shutting them up "Neither have you two so I wouldn't be talking, and besides the next time a raid happens I'll be the first to kill a dragon" he puffed out his chest.
Fishlegs speaks up "Actually Astrid was the first to kill a dragon before any of us, so you can't be first, but you can be second" Snotlout glares at him "Shut up Fish no one asked you" Fishlegs shuts up backing away a little so he doesn't get hit if Snotlout decides to hit him.
"You might get a chance tonight" everyone turned to Gobber and he was looking over his shoulder.
"There's going to be a raid tonight?" Astrid asked.
"Highly but knowing when, is another thing" he took a bite of his chicken turning his attention back to the five sitting in front of him "Tonight is a good night for them to come, the wind is slow, the skies are clear and from what we've learned so far is that every three days they return for more"
"It's been three days…" Fishlegs says low but only low enough for them to hear it. Gobber nods "You'll get your chance Snotlout, if your man enough" Gobber joked laughing. Snotlout stands up with his chicken leg in hand "I'm man enough! I'll kill every dragon that'll show up tonight!" just on que the horns went off startling Snotlout.
They looked up to the sky and saw dark figures flying over them and there looked to be about a hundred or more "Battle stations everyone!" he ordered switching out his fake hand with a hooked hand. Everyone except for Fishlegs which was hiding behind a pillar grabbed their weapons that they placed behind them and ran down the watch tower going into town.
"Let's show these demons what we're made of!" Gobber yells running into battle.
(With Draco) (Night Raid)
Draco was laying next to Galaxy looking up into the night sky remembering the times they flew high and next to the stars. He also remembers the times they hung out at the natural hot springs with Raven and Sal. Draco couldn't help but smile at the memories but at the same time a frown covered that smile as memories of the past seven months clouded his head.
Galaxy has noticed this and pushed his head up against his foot gaining Draco's attention "I'm sorry, I'm just deep in thought" Draco apologized rubbing the dragons head. Galaxy knew when something was bothering his brother and would try to bring him back when he gets like this but sometimes he looks look back the past to thinking of the good times they all had but with Rias gone he must be strong for his brother and help him whenever he needed it. That's what Rias would've wanted.
"Hi dreh ni lost wah vodahmaan ustiid nuz hi can't vos hin ustiid naak hi, hi praag wah kos mul fah un zeymah ahrk briinah tol los tir til nahlii mul fah hi" Draco's hand stopped moving but stayed atop of the dragon's head. He let out a sigh before speaking "I know that but…" Draco spaced off trying to think of what to say to his scaly brother, but nothing came to him. In situations like this Galaxy was always right and always knew what to say whenever he's down or thinking of something. Draco lets out another sigh but said nothing and stayed quiet.
The silence between them lasted for a couple of minutes before it was interrupted with the sounds of a horn and the roars of dragons and people. Galaxy lifted his head up sniffing the air "What's going on bud?" Draco asked raising up a little bit "Dovahro kuzol mun sahsun, til los do hir, nid, sok iidah sahsun nuz..." Galaxy trailed off for a second before finishing his sentence "Til los likaan fraan ko su ahrk nii lost ni til erei nust genun vok" Draco kind of knew what he was talking about because he sensed the same air when he fought the two-headed dragon not too long ago.
Usually he would stay out of this since its none of his business and doesn't want to show to much of his skills but at the same time he knows that if this village burns down into the ground from all these dragons he won't have anymore supplies that he could get without having to look around for them. Also, the information about his friends would become a little harder to come by.
He stood up grabbing his sword that was lying up against Galaxy "I need to go help those people" Galaxy would usually go help him when the numbers are against his brother but in the state that he's in he doesn't want to be a burden to him. Galaxy nodded his head letting his brother go off into battle but said this before his brother left "Waan hi praag zey, dreh ni sarein wah laan ahrk I'll dreh dii pruzaan wah hiif hi ko naanven Zu'u vis" Draco gives his brother a reassuring smile before taking off into the woods.
Galaxy watches as his brother disappears into the woods before he lays back down prying to whatever gods are out there to keep his brother safe.
(Back at the Village)
This is the first time in three hundred years of living on Berk had the berkians ever had to deal with this many dragon. They thought the forces of dragons that's attacked them before was difficult but this… this is complete hell. Every available viking were doing their best to hold off the massive horde of dragons but with the sheer numbers it was proving difficult to hold out. Most of the vikings were broken up and spread out all over Berk trying to protect the more important things.
Stoick gave the young adults different tasks to help. Astrid was sent to protect the elders and the children at the Great Hall. She may have wanted to be out on the front lines helping with holding off the dragons, but she didn't argue with her chief and took the job with grace. Snotlout was stuck helping Silent Sven protect his farm. He thought he was going to be on the front lines killing dragons but no he gets stuck with protecting Sven's farm.
Fishlegs was helping with protecting the storage house. He didn't mind but he preferred to be somewhere safe and out of harms way but whenever the chief orders him to do something he can't refuse even though he doesn't like it. Fishlegs doesn't like having to hurt others even though they might want to hurt him. That's just his nature but deep down he knows he'll have to fight someday.
The twins were sent to help at the docks. Stoick hoped by doing that they'll not be able to destroy or cause any trouble but knowing the twins they'll find a way to mess something up. The twins weren't to thrill about being away from all the destruction, but they talked about it between themselves that they'll sneak off to watch the destruction when nobody is watching.
Hiccup was in the forge helping Gobber with repairing people's weapons when they come by and are in need of a fast weapon repair. Hiccup tried to argue with Gobber to let him out and let him try to take out a dragon but Gobber said no and put him on hammering duty.
"Stoick!" Stoick, along with Spitelout and four other men were busy attacking a Monstrous Nightmare in the middle in the plaza trying to keep it from attacking the Great Hall "Keep your guard up, this one is bigger then the usual ones we've faced!" Stoick yells.
"Stoick!" Stoick looked over to his brother which has been calling his name for the past couple of minutes "What is it Spitelout?!" he yelled annoyed with Spitelout distracting him from the dragon that's in front of them. Spitelout takes a swing at the dragon before pointing behind him. Stoick follows his figure and saw a horrific sight.
A young lass was being chassed by two Deadly Nadders. At this time the dragon has noticed that the men surrounding it was distracted and took this chance to use its tail to knock them back and make its escape. The men surrounding the dragon were knocked back a couple of feet landing on their backs. The dragon got away.
"Let it go! We need to find that girl!" the men that were already up off the ground nodded their heads taking off in the direction the little girl was last seen being chased. Stoick and Spitelout followed them into the ally way.
(With Astrid) (Couple of minutes before)
Astrid was walking around the hall making sure that everyone is safe and present. So far everyone was present but that was until she looked over the currant children. She noticed that one of her kids were not here. She looked at the kids that were sitting next to the big fire trying to keep warm "Has any of you seen Merdria?" the kids looked amongst each other then back at Astrid shaking their heads. Astrid looked around the hall hoping to find her just among the other adults but no luck. She starts heading for the door but one of the others that were here protecting the elders and children called out to her "Hey! Where do you think you're going?!" but Astrid doesn't stop, and pushes opens the doors ignoring the calls from the others.
The massive doors closed behind her with a loud thud, but it didn't match the sound of the roars from the dragons and the people defending their homes. She looked over her village watching house burn to the ground, people and animals getting taken away. At times like this she would run in to help but she had a mission and she is going to find her missing student.
As she looked over the burning village she heard Spitelout's voice yelling for Stoick. She looks fro where he was yelling from and found them attacking a massive Monstrous Nightmare. She could see that Spitelout was pointing at something. She followed where he was pointing at and what she saw made her heart jump. She saw her missing student being chased by two Deadly Nadders down an ally way. She couldn't stand here and let her student get killed so she bolted down the stone steps and took off running down another ally way hoping to cut them off before they got to the opening.
As she ran through the ally way she couldn't help but think that she wouldn't be able to make it in time to save her student, but she knew she shouldn't be thinking like that. She shook her head pushing those thoughts to the side and continued to run through the ally way. A loud scream could be heard coming from the end of the ally way. Once out of the ally way she saw the two Nadders closing in on the little girl.
Astrid stood there frozen.
She stood there watching the two Nadders close in on her student. She feared that if she moved the Nadders would end up hurting her student, but she knew if she continued to stand there her student would in up getting taken away or killed right in front of her. She slowly went for her axe that was hanging off her back and took it with both hands. She wanted to move but for some reason her legs didn't want to move.
Astrid was getting frustrated that her legs wouldn't move. She clenched onto her axe and grinded her teeth together 'Why won't my legs move, she needs my help, but my legs won't move' she asked herself.
The two Nadders were now right on top of Merdria. She lets out a loud scream, closing her eyes yelling for help. Astrid was able to move but she would be too late before she could reach her. Astrid rose her axe up over her shoulder but as she was about to release it the dragon let out a loud roar of pain. Astrid watched as the dragon backed away from the girl shaking its head. She didn't notice it at first but there was something sticking out of the dragon's eye.
'That wasn't there before, where did it come from?' she looked around the area to see if she could see who it was that threw it, but it was too dark. She took this chance to run for Merdria. The dragons noticed that and turned their attention towards Astrid. She stopped and held her axe in a battle stance. The dragon crouched getting to jump at Astrid but as it jumped towards her this time she saw another strange dagger pierce the dragons neck. It let out another loud screech of pain. Astrid looks over towards the woods and saw Draco walking calmly out of the woods. He looked over at Astrid "This is your chance!" he yelled. She nodded and ran towards the dragon axe ready to swing. Once she was in range she swung for the lower jaw of the dragon.
When the axe pierced the dragons jaw it let out a painful screech. The dragon began to yank her around. Draco on the other hand was making his way over to the little girl. He crouches down next to her and says, "Are you ok?" she nods tears falling down her face. He looks over to see that the other dragon was slowly creeping up on Astrid.
"Go to the hall and stay there until then, once this is over Astrid will come to see if you're ok, ok?" she nods getting up off the ground then runs off towards the hall. Draco watched over the little girl until she was out of sight. He now turns his attention towards the creeping dragon, taking out another dagger he throws it right for the dragon's head. The dagger barely missed the dragons eye piercing just right underneath the eye.
That gained the dragons attention and it wasn't happy. It charged for Draco with bloodlust in its eyes "Hi fen dir mun!" the dragon cried out. Draco waited until it was arm's length before acting. He grabs the dragons front horn while grabbing his last dagger with his free hand. The dragon lifts him up off the ground trying to bite his legs, but Draco stands at the edge of its jaw and with his free hand with the dagger he begins to stab the dragon repeatedly.
After about a dozen or so stabs and cuts on the dragon's head he stabs the dragon in it's other eye causing it to cry out jerking its head around. With his hand free of weapons, he uses the palm of his hand and hits the back of the dagger with enough force to shove the dagger farther into the dragon's skull. The dragons stopped jerking around and fell to the ground.
Draco jumps of the collapsing dragon before it completely fell to the ground. Draco, covered in blood looked over the dead dragon looking for his daggers. He was only able to find the one dagger that was sticking out from underneath the dragons eye while the other one was lodged within the dragon's skull 'Well, there goes one dagger' he thought yanking out the dagger.
He looked over to see Astrid was doing but what he saw wasn't a surprise to him. The dragon was yanking her around trying its best to get rid of the girl hanging onto her axe which was still lodged within the dragon's lower jaw. Draco walks over to the dragon and the young maiden. He grabs her by the leg and yanks her down bringing the dragon down with them.
"What are you…" he grabs her axe handle "Hold on" with both of their strength they shoved the other head of the axe into the ground. With the axe lodged into the ground and in the dragons jaw it was trapped and couldn't get up. Draco took the chance with the dragon stuck he took out his remaining eye shoving his last dagger into its other eye. The dragon tries to jerk back but being stuck with the axe lodged into the ground and its jaw it couldn't get away.
Draco did the same thing he did to the other one. He used enough strength to shove the dagger through its eye and into the skull. The dragon lets out one last screech before going limp. This time he was able to get the dagger out. Pulling the dagger out of both of it's eyes he places them back under his belt that's been hidden. He looks at Astrid watching her struggle trying to get her axe out of the ground and the dragons skull.
'Is this really their best warrior?' he questioned. He moves over to where she was and pushes her out of the way "Hey…" she snapped as he pushed her out of the way. He grabs the handle of the axe and with a quick yank he pulls it out of the ground and the dragons skull. He takes a quick look over the axe before handing it back to Astrid "Here, go make sure the girl made it to the hall" he points over to the hall. She turns her attention back towards Draco, but he was already walking down the ally way going towards the plaza.
After exiting the ally way, he heads for the storage shed looking for a spare weapon that he could use. Luckily once inside the shed he saw a couple of swords still there. He takes one and places it on his side then takes another one carrying as his primary. He stood underneath the doorframe looking at all the chaos and destruction. Honestly, he didn't want to be part of this but seeing Astrid freeze up like that he feared that others would do the same and that would be bad if this village ended up being burned down due to freezing vikings.
He walked out of the shed and out in the open which doing that caught the attention of some of the dragons that were nearby. Most likely they sensed their dead brothers on him. The surrounding dragons were two Zipplebacks, one Monstrous Nightmare, a Nadder and three Gronckles. At first, they were all closing in on him but some of the vikings saw this and decided to jump in to help him out "We have your backs lad!" one of the men yelled tackling one of the Gronckles. The other men and women that followed either were pushing them back or holding them off leaving the Zippleback for Draco "First the arena now here, why do I get stuck with the weird ones?" he asked softly not expecting an answer.
The dragon lunges at Draco with no hesitation. Draco moved to the side getting out of the way of the two heads and when the went pass him he rose his sword up about to bring in down on the dragon's neck, but it jerks its head over the other one snapping at him making him move back. The dragon was keeping its distance close and barely giving him time to act but that didn't bother him much since compare to the dragons his dealt with before, this is nothing.
The dragon tried to use its tail to whip him when he wasn't paying attention but failed, when Draco saw the tail coming at him he acted by swing his sword at the incoming tail instead of the heads cutting a lot of the tail. The dragon lets out a screech then began to spew out the gas from its mouth. Draco ran out of the gas before it sparked it causing a big explosion.
Draco was surprised when he saw the dragon run through the fire running right for him 'This thing really wants me dead' he thought moving back a little bit more trying to make some space in between them. Draco then too a quick look around and realized that it has got him cornered between a house and the dragon before him. He had to give it props for cornering him, but it wasn't good enough.
Stoick on the other hand was busy helping the people take down the other dragons that were surrounding Draco but once they were taken care of he looked over to where Draco was cornered and saw that a Monstrous Nightmare was slithering down the side of the house sneaking up on Draco. Stoick began to run for Draco to help him but what he witnessed caused him to stop dead in his tracks.
The Zippleback lunged at Draco with all of it's strength but when it was in arm's length Draco moved over to the side and with a quick swing his cuts a huge gash on one of the dragon's neck, big enough to cause it to go dead and hang just barely off some of its skin. Draco then turns around to meet face to face with the Monstrous Nightmare. He then shoves his sword right between the dragon's skull killing it instantly.
He turns back around to see that the other dragon was trying to fly off but with its dead other half it was weighing it down, so it began to try to chew it off. The dragon couldn't do it in enough time because the vikings started to throw ropes over it pulling it back down, so they can finish it off. Once on the ground people began to stab their swords into its hide.
The dragon was letting out screeches of pain and help but the other dragons were leaving with what they had and retreating to where ever they came from. The Zippleback took its last breaths before dying. When everything was silent everyone heard Spitelout yell "WE DID IT!" everyone was cheering for their victory. Draco on the other hand turned his attention back to the dead dragon behind him. The dragon seemed like a relative of the dragons he once fought but these were smaller. He then looks at the sword that was lodged within its skull.
He takes a hold of the hilt and pulls on it, pulling it out. The sword was covered in blood. He then looks down at the second sword that he had on his side (Not his Katana) "I guess I only needed the one" he said aloud. He begins making his way for the storage shed so he could put the barrowed weapons back. At first, he thought he should clean the sword, but he had something to do real quick, so he'll hold it off till he feels like doing it or until he's done doing what he needs to do.
Once in the storage shed he places the two swords up against the wall where he found them. While placing them down on the ground he notices that his sleeve is covered with blood. He looked over the rest of himself and noticed that parts of his wears were covered blood as well. The smell of the blood was strong, but he's use to it by now. Its not as bad as the smell of blood from the dragons of Skyrim.
He leaves the shed to see that everyone has now stopped cheering and the chief was yelling about something "Those that are injured go to the Great Hall and get patched up, while the rest of you check out the damages of your homes, if you find any casualties report it to me" everyone nodded.
A thought just accrued to Draco 'I almost forgot' he turns the corner of the shed to go for the Great Hall but when he turned the corner he saw Astrid and the little girl walking towards him. Seeing Astrid made his fist clench, he couldn't let that get to him, but she needed to hear what he has to say. She noticed standing there, that made her stop in her tracks.
Astrid could sense that he had something to say to her but the feeling he was giving off wasn't a good one. Draco took a deep breath before speaking "Astrid, what the hell was that?" that startled Astrid. Not the way he asked but the tone he used while asking.
"What happened back there Astrid?" his voice rose just a little bit. Astrid was taken back, no one talks to her like that "I was thinking of a way to gain there attention away from her" she argued back but that answer didn't sit well with Draco "Your thinking almost got her killed" he continued.
"Have you ever thought that acting is better then thinking?" he asked.
"There are times where thinking is better then acting" she argued. This argument has started to gain the attention of some of the villagers including the chief.
"Yes, but when something happens on the spot, thinking won't always be a choice, she was close to becoming dragon food if you continued to think"
"Well if I didn't think then we could've both died" he folded his arms over his chest "So, you were worried about your own skin?" that made her blood boil "No! her life was in danger and if I acted without thinking then who would've saved her?" everyone in the area has now gathered to watch to see how this would end.
"Stoick and Spitelout would've made it if you held them just a little bit they would've been there to help out" she seemed to be taken aback "How would you know that they would've made it in time?"
"Because I saw them show up as we finished off those two dragons, they came out of the ally way which took longer to get to where we were" she went silent "I'm surprised you didn't notice them" Stoick jumps in "We saw that you two had it handled so we decided to head back and help out in the plaza" Spitelout nodded to confirm that he was telling the truth.
She turns to look at them. Her face fell but she couldn't back down and let this guy win "Even so, I couldn't take on two dragons with her in the way" Draco's eyebrow rose "So, you're blaming her now?" she twitched a little. This guy was messing with her head and she knew it but whatever she says he has something to counter it.
The little girl pulled on Astrid's arm. Astrid almost forgot, looking down at her she says, "Go back to the Great Hall and wait for me, ok?" the little girl nodded slowly before leaving Astrid's side "I'll make sure she makes it there" Spitelout lead the girl to the Great Hall. Astrid turned her focus back to Draco, but he had already turned his back on her.
"Draco, if you have some time would you help us with searching for any casualties?" Stoick asked. Draco nodded "I have some time but once I'm done searching I'm going back to my camp to get some rest, I haven't slept yet and I have to train your son in the morning" Stoick nodded understanding his reasoning.
"That's fine, and thank you again for training my son"
"No problem" he walks off to search for casualties leaving Astrid in defeat. Everyone splits off to do the same leaving just Astrid to think over what Draco said.
The rest of the night went without any problems, there were no other casualties just a lot of damaged houses and buildings. A lot of live stock was taken leaving Berk with so little food. Draco did as he was told. After going around not finding any casualties he headed back for his camp but instead of going straight back to camp he goes to the hot springs to wash off the blood and sweat plus to go by near the closets river to wash off the blood stains from his clothing.
No other raids happened that night.