(A/N Hello again! As you probably also have guess that due to fixing/adding/changing in the chapters some of the chapter listing is missing a chapter. That's because of the changes and I'm fixing those.
It won't be long until they are fixed so just hang on a little bit longer. Thank you!)
(Chapter Ten)
(Fredas 3rd) (With Stoick)
Last night was rough for Stoick, which isnt new, the first problem was the headache that he woke up to due to him over drinking yesterday before heading home, second was being paranoid all-night waiting for a dragon raid like every night, lastly, he couldn't stop thinking about what he thinks could be a weakness to the demons and if it is they'll be able to use that to their advantage.
He was already out walking through his village with the light cold breeze hitting his face which didn't help with his headache. He's already went to the docks to see the fisherman off, then went through the plaza greeting the people that were also up this early. The normal day of the chief of Berk.
Well, today actually might be not so normal since today he'll probably finally find a weakness for those demons. This isnt how he usually would do things but if this is going to be the chance to up one those demons then he's going to take it.
If what he knows is really a weakness they can use on the dragons, then maybe they'll have a chance and probably end this war.
Stoick is on his way to the forge to check up on how Gobbers doing if he actually made it home that is. Upon reaching the forge he could hear a hammer banging away but he couldn't see if it was Gobber or not since the shudders were closed. He knocks on the shudders and the hammer banging stopped. A voice could be heard from inside "''ow is it?" it was Gobber.
"Gobber, it's me" Stoick could hear the sound of Gobber placing the hammer down. He opens the shudders greeting his friend with a groggy voice "Ah Stoick, you up early as usually"
"It's the chief's job, I've told you this before" Gobber waves it off saying "I know, I know, I'm not that old"
"I'm not saying you are"
"Whatever, but on to business, what do you plan to do?" Gobber asked hobbling back over to he's hammer and anvil to continue on with his work. Stoick enters the forge and speaks his mind "I plan to do what I said I'll do, we're going to go and see why the dragons aren't eating the eels and hope that it's a weakness that would could use against them"
"Do you really think eels would be a weakness for big bad dragons, come on Stoick, if they don't fear men then they surely don't fear eels"
"We at least got to try Gobber" Stoick picks up an unfinished sword examining it.
"And that's fine, if were to find something that would ward them off or something that could 'urt them then I know that you'll use that knowledge wisely, but we don't have a lot of time to try every little thing and see if it works on those beasts"
"I'm not planning to try every little thing I'm just seeing if what I remember could be a way to help us against the dragons"
"What if it doesn't work?" Gobber questioned holding his hammer in place.
"Then we'll go back to the original plan and go after the nest" he said it like it was simple. Gobber kind of figured that he would say that, but he also was hoping that he would just decide not to do that and just keep doing what they've been doing and defend the village during the raids. It may not be the best for them but that's all they can do right now.
The two men stood in silence for a second not knowing what to say next, but a familiar voice breaks the silence gaining the two men's attentions to look at the opened shudders. It was Draco.
"You're a little early don't you think?" Gobber asked knowing that he usually wouldn't be in the village this early, at least that he knows of.
"Not really but I do have something that I want to do today so that's why I came in to see if it's possible to do this now, I would understand if you can't, I'll just do what I was wanting to do later if that's the case" he explained.
"Um… that would be fine, but we would have to hurry because the young ones will be having class within the hour"
"It shouldn't take long, so, where are we going to get some eels?" Draco actually would like to hurry up and do this, so he can get on with what he was planning to do today. Most of it being research on the dragons that they know about so far then later go to the hot springs if possible.
"We'll need to get them at the docks then we-" Draco stops him raising a hand up "I'll go get it just meet me at the arena and have a couple of men with you just in case something goes wrong" before Stoick could get another word in Draco was already leaving for the docks.
"Is it just me or is he in a hurry?" Gobber asked.
"It's not just you, I can see it to"
"Whatever he plans to do today it must be important" Gobber added going back to hammering away. Stoick leaves the forge but not without telling his friend Goodbye "See you later Gobber, if you have time come by the arena" Gobber waved him off.
"Once I'm done, I'll 'ead that way" he's not really busy right now, this is just one of his ways when he's thinking.
(With Gobber)
Once he was alone, he began to wrap up his little project that he was working on while he was thinking place the heated blade into the water to cool it down before pulling it out again, have it looked over then decided if it's ready. This one seems to be ready and probably the best one he's done so far.
"I'll probably give this to 'iccup for when 'e's training with Draco" he said aloud connecting the blade to the handle that Stoick had picked up earlier. Once connected he looked over the new sword, he just made to make sure if he ahs to do some adjustment, but it seems to be perfect for now.
He places the sword down on the table next to him, douse the fire in the forge, closed the shudders then hobble his way out to head over to the arena to meet up with Stoick. Within a couple of steps, he heard someone call his name. He looks for the source of the name calling and saw that it was Fishlegs.
"Fishlegs lad, what're you doin' up so early?" this is the first time he's ever seen Fishlegs up this early.
"Because I'll be heading to the arena to document any weakness down for the book of dragons" Gobber should've known. Whenever it has to do with dragons or learning about them, he'll be all up about it.
"Ok lad let's get going before they start without us" The two began walking (Hobbling Gobber case) through the plaza then onwards to the arena.
While they were walking to the arena, they noticed that there were more people heading in the same direction as them which means they're not going to be the only ones there like they thought.
The closer they got the more people they noticed was going to be there. It was about two to three dozen people heading to the arena to watch how this plays out. This wasn't meant to be a show but to see if the dragons have any weaknesses. This was one of the things that annoy Gobber every now and again. If it was meant to be a show, then it's fine but when it's not then there shouldn't be this many people showing up.
"Why is there so many people here?" Fishlegs asked taking the thought right of Gobbers head.
"They think it's going to be a show if it doesn't end well"
"How is it going to end badly?"
"Think about it, if this doesn't work then the dragon, they're going to release will attack whoever is going to be in the arena at the time, which will most likely be Draco or Stoick" Gobber explained.
"Well, they're going to be disappointed" Gobber couldn't agree more. Both Stoick and Draco can handle themselves, so this will probably bore everyone.
The two went to the front row so they could get a good view for when they begin to test what Stoick thinks could be a weakness for the dragons. Fishlegs took out his notebook grabbing a charcoal as well getting ready to write down anything they find out.
Gobber looked around for Stoick and saw him waiting over at the entrance of the arena, but he didn't see Draco 'He's probably still grabbing those eels' he thought.
It was about ten minutes before Draco has finally shown up to the arena and he was carrying a basket of eels, luging it over his shoulder like it's nothing. Everyone noticed his arrival and watched him walk around the outside of the stand over to the entrance to meet Stoick.
"Hello again Draco, I see you got the eels"
"Yea and I see that we have an audience" he looked at said audience. He wasn't fond of having this many people watching him but if they can do this quick, he won't have to deal with them for too long.
"Sorry about that" Draco shook his head walking passed Stoick heading into the arena while adding "Don't worry about it, let's just get started" Stoick followed closely behind him entering the arena with Draco. Everyone was watching them closely not wanting to miss this for one second since this is the most entertainment they had in a while.
Draco drops the basket of eels in the center of the arena, Stoick on one side of the basket and Draco on the other side. He takes the lid off and took out an eel holding it in his hand Stoick looked at him, but Draco was doing the same.
"Take one" Stoick was confused but took one anyways. Right now, he's putting a lot of hope into this and he's really hoping that it'll work.
"Are the people you brought up there?" Stoick nodded and said "They're the ones standing that were at the entrance with me"
"Tell them to close the gate" this caught Stoick off guard. He couldn't help but question him "Why, the dragons won't be able to leave with us and the ones outside of the entrance waiting"
"We're going to be using two dragons, that's why I say to tell them to close the gate" did Stoick hear him right. Did he say two dragons "Did you say two dragons?" he questioned. Draco nods.
"Yes, is that a problem?"
"A little, we only have three dragons, one is a Deadly Nadder, another is a Nightmare, and the last one is a Gronkle, the only ones that we can use is the Nadder and the Gronkle, having both of them out could be a problem for us being in a small space like this" he explains but it seems to not change Draco's mind.
"You know I'm putting a lot of trust in you?" Draco nods then commented "If you trust me then you should have them close the gate, if we leave the gate open it won't just be us in danger of the dragons" Stoick couldn't argue with that because it's true.
If they were to leave the gate open, he would be putting everyone here in danger. Stoick let out a groan thinking 'The people comes first' he looks at the men waiting at the gate and said "Close the gate" the men were hesitant when they heard this order.
When nothing happened Stoick repeated the order a second time "I said close the gate"
This time they did what he said and closed the arena gate leaving them with no exit if things go wrong. Everyone was questioning this, and some even wanted to protest the idea but it's already too late so now all they can do is watch.
They waited for a second before they heard Draco speak again "Open the pens" Stoick looks up to the men that he had stationed at the levers for the pens and nodded his head. Just like the others they hesitated but after a minute or two they saw that he was serious and pulled the levers releasing the two dragons.
The dragons come busting out of their pens full of rage and ready to fight. When their eyes landed on the two humans in the middle, they charged for them. Stoick was about to get ready to fight back Draco on the other hand didn't move. After the dragons reached a certain amount of feet from them Draco rose up the eel hoping that this works.
To his and Stoick's surprised it did. The two dragons backed off in fear hissing and roaring at the humans. Stoick or anyone couldn't believe what they were seeing. Seeing dragons back away from something like eels this couldn't be true but it's happening right in front of them.
Stoick followed Draco's lead and held up the eel pushing the dragons further back until they backed themselves back into their pens. Draco looks up at the people at the levers that were as shock as everyone else and yelled "Close the pens!" the men snapped out of their shocked state and did as he said closed the pens.
Once the pens were fully closed Draco and Stoick lowered their hands down and threw the eels back into the basket. Draco looks at Stoick with not even a surprised look and simply said "It looks like remembering that small little detail was useful" Stoick was still kind of shocked but was also awfully glad that this worked.
Stoick looks at Draco and says "Now that we know that eels work on them, we can start placing them around Berk and that should start keeping them away"
"Don't get too far ahead, the problem is that we're going to need a lot of eels to pull that off and instead of putting them all over Berk what if we were to use those massive torches and replace the wood with eels the smell alone should be able to work, dragons having a strong scent of smell a large amount would keep them a good couple of miles or even futher away from Berk, with the winds blowing the smell around in the air it would force them to go somewhere they can't smell it" Draco explained as well as suggested.
Stoick couldn't believe what he just heard. This outsider that has only been here for nearly about two weeks has found a way to ward off dragons away from their village and probably keep them away for good when they had generations living on this island and never once knew this kind of information.
Gobber on the other hand looked like his eyes were about to pop out, also began to question on his past teachings. Fishlegs began to jot everything he just saw down into his journal freaking out about this big discovery.
"I'm glad that Stoick didn't listen to me this time" Gobber commented still trying to wrap his head around this.
"This is big, and I mean really big, this could change everything for the better, we just found a way to ward dragons away from Berk probably for good making it where we can begin to rebuild and strengthen our defenses for in case, they become immune to the smell but if that were to even happen we would already be ready for them, Ohhh, this is big" Fishlegs continued to repeat.
Everyone in the stands were chatting amongst one another not knowing what to think about it but a lot of them were glad that now they have something to scare dragons off and began to think of the future that could be if this fully works like they're thinking.
Draco was the first to walk out of the arena, Stoick wasn't far behind "We're going to start putting this knowledge to use starting tomorrow, we'll send our fishing ships out to gather as many eels as they can then we'll do as you said, replace the wood with eels and raise them up letting the smell travel keeping the dragons away from Berk" Stoick couldn't help but smile and laugh.
"There is still the problem of the amount you'll need to pull this off, it's going to tak-" Stoick cuts Draco off and says "Don't worry about that, we'll be able to get that huge amount within a week or two"
'It's not going to be that easy' Draco thought but knew if he were to say that it'll just go in one ear and out the other. Draco's just going to let him have his moment and get going "I'm going to get going, I'll see you around" he then took his leave.
Stoick didn't know why he suddenly wanted to leave after finding out that eels worked but he won't stop him. He remembers that he said he had things he wanted to do today, but he could have at least stayed and talk about the future of Berk.
Gobber could see that his friend was excited, but it seems that he forgot one thing "Well, it seems like not listening to me actually was a good thing" Stoick turns to his friend and said "Yea, it seems like, but now knowing this information this will benefit Berk strongly and maybe-" Gobber stopped him for a second.
"I know you're excited Stoick, but you got to remember that it was with Draco's help that we were able to pull this off, I doubt we would've learned this on our own" Stoick knew this and he wasn't planning to take the credit for this "I know that Gobber"
"Then you should know that we'll have to start coming up with these things ourselves once he leaves" Gobber reminded.
Stoick knew this as well "I know Gobber, but we'll manage like we have been" with that said Stoick left his friend to go back to the village to go report to the elders of their discovery. Gobber stood there for a second before following Stoick's lead and headed back to return to the forge.
(With Hiccup)
Usually, Hiccup would've stayed home and rested like Draco instructed him too, but he couldn't. He wanted to see the test that they were going to try on the dragons today and he wanted to be there to witness this but when he got there, he was amazed at what he saw.
Draco and his dad standing in the arena by themselves holding eels in their hands scaring the dragons back into their pens. He still can't believe but he was there and watched it happen. Now he doesn't know what to think anymore and if what all Draco said at the meeting was or could be true then they could finally end this war for good and for the dragons being controlled that means they're probably not the mindless beast they think they are. At least that's what he hopes.
After it was all done and over, he had to wait until everyone has left the arena. A couple of minutes pass and he couldn't hear anyone anymore now taking this chance to head back home but instead he heard someone call out his name. Luckily, it was a voice he knew.
"H-Hey, Fishlegs, how's it going?" he asked awkwardly. He wasn't expecting anyone to still be here but seeing that Fishlegs was here he could guess he got caught up with writing down something making him forget that everyone left being the last one to leave.
"Hiccup, did you see what happened in the arena?" he asked excitedly running over to Hiccup like a maniac. Hiccup backed up a little nodding his head.
"What did you think of it?"
"I-I thought that i-it was amazing, who would've guessed that huh?"
"I know right! None of us would've guessed that eels would work on dragons!" Hiccup's never seen Fishlegs this excited before and honestly, it's quite terrifying.
"This is a big discovery, one that's going to change everything"
"Um I think you're over exaggerating things there Fishlegs, I don't think it'll change Everything, but it is going to be very useful for the future of Berk"
"You're right, well I got to get going I have to go write this down in the book of dragons, see you around" Fishlegs took off leaving only Hiccup at the arena, or at least that's what he thought. He was just about to leave as well but a familiar voice stopped him in his tracks.
"I thought you would've been home resting" Hiccup startled he turns around and see's Draco standing there, arms folded.
"H-How long have y-you been there?" he stuttered.
"Not long"
"Well-Um well, I-I'll get going then" before he could move Draco stopped him.
"Hold on" Hiccup turns around.
"Tell me something, what do you think the odds are of this plan actually working?" this was out of the blue.
"Um… I can't really say, it's new to us and probably everyone else but from what I've seen it seems possible that it'll work"
"Well, I'm just going to say this now, I didn't want to have to tell your Stoick just yet, but this plan won't work on every dragon you'll encounter" this caught Hiccup's attention.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean not all dragons are afraid of eels, some actually eat them and if those were to come here that plan would've been for nothing"
"Why didn't you tell my father this yet?" Hiccup questioned.
"Because he needs to learn that just one idea won't always work" Draco explained.
"I think my dad already knows that"
"Yes, he may already know but that doesn't mean that he'll want to learn anything else until the first plan stops working" Hiccup now understood where he was getting at.
"So, you're saying that we'll need to try other things soon before that happens, right?" he nods.
"Yes, and the reason is because the first idea or plan never goes well, there's always something that will get in the way and ruin it so it's better to have a backup plan under your sleeve" that's actually not always true but he won't say anything about it.
Draco lowered his arms walking pass Hiccup, so he can get back with what he plan to do today but before he goes, he turns around and said "You might want to get back home before your father finds out you're not there" he suggested leaving only Hiccup at the arena.
(With Fishlegs)
Fishlegs couldn't stop thinking of all the new things that they could do with this information that he was blind and didn't see Astrid walking bumping into her. He felt this bringing his attention away from his thoughts.
He looks down and saw Astrid on the ground glaring daggers up at him "I-I'm sorry Astrid, I wasn't paying attention" he apologized holding out a helping hand. She pushed it away and got up on her feet on her own.
"I can see, what are you so preoccupied that you weren't paying attention to where you was going?" she has a feeling that she's going to regret asking that and her feeling was right because he started back up on the discovery.
"Oh Astrid, you should've seen it, at the arena Stoick and Draco were able to find a new way to ward off the dragons, they brought eels into the arena and used them on the dragons scaring them back into their pens, they even used two dragons" yep, she regrets it.
"Come on Fishlegs, dragons scared of eels, those things aren't scared of anything especially as small as eels"
"Didn't you hear me, Stoick was in there along with Draco so Stoick actually witnessed this and couldn't believe his own eyes"
Astrid sighed "Ok Fishlegs, if the eels really work then what are we going to do about it?"
"I'm not sure but I heard Stoick talking about sending all our fishing ships out to collect as many eels as they can, don't know why but whatever it was it could've been what Draco said to him when they were in the arena"
"What did they talk about?" she asked.
Fishlegs shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't know I couldn't hear but he had to be something to give Stoick that idea"
"Whatever it was I hope it doesn't make things worse for us" she went on her way passing Fishlegs heading for the arena, so she can start her class for the morning. Fishlegs thought about stopping her to see what's wrong, but he decided not to and went on his way to go grab the book of dragons from Stoick.
Speed walking through the plaza he heard Stoick's booming voice coming from the direction of the Great Hall. Heading to the Great Hall he saw Stoick, Gobber arguing with Spitelout "Are you serious Stoick, eels scaring dragons, if that was true then how come we haven't seen this before?"
"Hold your tongue Spitelout, you know as much as the rest of us that we're not one's too learn about everything we see, so of course we wouldn't 'ave find out about this" Gobber snapped.
"I'm just saying for over three-hundred generations of living on Berk we haven't found out about this information until just now, it's only because Draco brought up the idea to try it out during the meeting which he shouldn't 'ave been part of in the first place" Spitelout argued.
"He had every right to be there as much as the rest of us, 'e was just able to think of something that we didn't, remember he's not from here" Stoick commented.
"He was only able to think of that because you brought it up"
"Don't go blaming this all on me Spitelout, I may have brought this up but what I think that it was for the best because now we have a way to ward those demons away from Berk"
"Stoick, a little bit of slimy eels won't keep those demons away, not even the giant torches are doing any good" gesturing to the massive torches that they would use during the night raids, so they could see their flying foes.
"This will work and those who saw it will tell you the same" said people nodded their heads agreeing with their chief. Spitelout could see that he wasn't going to change his mind "Ok, we'll go with this plan but if this doesn't work you have to send Draco off Berk"
Stoick glared daggers at his brother "Why would I do that; he's not causing us any trouble and it wouldn't do anything if I did"
"Actually, he is causing trouble, you may not see it but he's slowly changing Berk, leading us away from our normal ways of doing things and if he was sent off Berk things would go back to normal" what he's really talking about is Hiccup going back to being the runt like he is so that his son can keep his statues as heir, but he won't ever tell Stoick that.
Stoick knew what he was talking about but the guys not doing it on purpose so he can't just rid of the guy for something like that but to keep things peaceful he agreed "Fine Spitelout, you can have it your way but if this works at keeping the dragons away then whenever something that seems new comes up you have no say in it" everyone's attention was now on Spitelout which had a big grin.
"So be it Stoick, but I can say that this will just end badly" Spitelout walks away followed by some of the people that follow him more than they do Stoick. Everyone else went on with their day leaving Stoick, Gobber and Fishlegs the only ones left.
Stoick noticed Fishlegs and said "Lad, I need you to do me a favor and have your dad gather his men and head out to collect as much eels as they can right now" Fishlegs wasn't going to protest even though he should say something about that he should wait until tomorrow just in case the dragons attack tonight.
Fishlegs took off towards the docks knowing that's where his dad would be at this time of day.
(With Snotlout)
Snotlout, Lugnut, and Dogsbreath were hanging around the outside the Great Hall when they saw Stoick and Spitelout argue about something, but they couldn't hear what it was about, so they didn't care too much. Snotlout was watching Fishlegs run for the docks after Stoick told him something.
"I wonder what Stoick told Guppylegs to make him run that fast?" Snotlout wondered out loud. Lugnut and Dogsbreath both heard this "Probably told him to go do something or just scared him off, Guppylegs is easy to scare" Dogsbreath commented.
"Yea, Hey why don't we go mess with him, I have an idea that we try on him" Lugnut jumps in jumping to his feet. Dogsbreath and Snotlout stood up as well stretching their arms and backs.
"What's this idea of yours?" Snotlout asked quite interested to hear what Lugnut had.
Lugnut began to explain "First we're going to need a dragon's head, next we'll put said dragon's head into the storage room have one of us stay there and hide with the dragons head while the other two bring him into said storage said and when the signal goes off the two close the door while the other jumps out and scares him using the dragons head" he began to laugh thinking of the face that they'll see.
The two joined in on the laughing thinking of the same face also the reaction that they'll get out of him "M-Man that sounds awesome" Dogsbreath comment.
"I know right, so what do you say?"
"Yea let's do it, I have a spar drag-" Dogsbreath was interrupted when Snotlout began to speak.
"Hold on, I got a better target" Dogsbreath and Lugnut looked to see who he was looking at and saw Draco walking through the plaza. The three boys were all thinking of the same thing and thought that this would be so much better than using this idea on Fishlegs.
"Let's go" all three boys headed down the slope entering the plaza. On the way down Dogsbreath went on ahead and went to go pick up the dragons head then meet up with them at the storage shed.
Lucky for them he stopped at one of the markets to get something. Getting closer Snotlout called out to him "Hey Draco!" Draco's shoulders dropped telling them that he just sighed. Draco turns his head to look at the two boys with a blank look on his face.
"What do you want?" you could tell by his tone that he was not up to deal with these two right now.
"Aw don't be like that, we were just going to ask for your help, we're trying to get something from the storage shed and we need a third hand" Draco could smell something fishy about this but went along with it for now.
"Fine, I'll help" the two boys smiled leading their target towards the shed. Draco on the other hand could already tell that something was off since that Dogsbreath character wasn't with them and them asking him to help them with something that just made it clear that they're planning something.
On the way to the shed Snotlout could tell that Dogsbreath was already in there since the shed is open, but he can't see him. That's a good sign "We need your help lifting something" the two boys walked in a little bit trying to bring him into the shed before jumping back closing the shed doors on him.
Instead, what happened was that the shed doors has been closed on them followed by a click indicating that he just locked them inside. Both Lugnut and Snotlout began to bang on the door trying to get someone to open up the doors, but they forgot one thing. A loud clanging noise could be heard followed by a terrible sounding roar.
"RAAAAR!" Lugnut and Snotlout just stood there looking at him with blank expressions. Dogsbreath pulled the head away from his face seeing that it wasn't who he thought it was. Confused Dogsbreath looked between the two and asked.
"Where's Draco?"
"He tricked us and switched the prank on us which honestly it wasn't that scary since we're on the receiving end" Lugnut replied. Snotlout nodded "Yea, it wasn't that scary but right now we have to find a way to get out of here" they began to look around to see if they could see some other way out.
"We should've stuck with Fishlegs" Lugnut commented.
(With Tuffnut and Ruffnut)
The twins were on the ground laughing their heads off after they just watched Draco lock Snotlout, Lugnut and Dogsbreath inside the shed as if he already knew what their plan was and just used it against them. after that he walked off in the directions of the forest.
"Oh, my thor! How could they be so dumb!" Ruffnut busted out.
"Yea! What's funnier is that was one of the idea's I thought of but found it that it wouldn't have been good enough! I'm just surprised one of them had the same idea" Tuffnut laughed
"I wonder who thought it up" Ruffnut commented. Tuffnut shrugs his shoulders and says "I don't know but whoever it was they didn't think it fully through"
"What was the flaw in the plan besides them just being idiots?"
"What you saw just there, from the past couple of temps we both know that it's difficult to get this guy, they're not ones to be able to pull off something like this without screwing it up that's why it's flawed" Tuffnut explains but to Ruffnut it wasn't much of an explanation.
"Ok, so have you come up with any ideas so far?" Tuffnut nodded his head.
"Yes, but they all seem to have the same flaw, and it's him not trusting anyone, unlike everyone else we've lokied they trusted us but with him, you can see he doesn't trust anyone and that's why it's difficult to think of an actually plan that'll work"
"Well then I guess we're going to have to get him to trust us somehow to be able to pull off the best prank ever, but for now we'll have to keep trying" Ruffnut reassured her brother even though she has a strange feeling that all the attempts are going to fail but they can at least try.
They could still hear the banging coming from the shed "Should we go let them out?"
"Let me sleep on it" Tuffnut laughed. The twins noticed that Gobber was leaving the forge heading for the shed.
"It looks like he got them"
"Yea, so, what should we do now?" Watching the three idiots were the highlight of their day and now that it's become boring but now, they're bored once again.
"I don't know, we've done pretty much everything we could think of and done it to pretty much everyone we know, even the traders and other tribes that would come here sometimes" Ruffnut couldn't agree more with that answer. It has become boring doing the same thing to the same people and now with someone new they thought it would've become fun again but he's not an easy target that they'll be able to get.
"I guess we could go watch Astrid's students beat on each other, that is if they're working on that today" Tuffnut didn't object.
The twins left their hiding place and began to make their way to the arena to see if anything interesting was going on.
On their way they were talking amongst each other throwing possible ideas for new pranks that they could try but every one of these 'new' ideas they all ended with the same outcome and the possibility of the target falling for it is low since most if not all of their fellow tribesmen don't really trust them much anymore so pranking people is not easy like they use to be.
(With Astrid)
It's almost the end of class for today but before she fully ends it, she needs to give them some advice, actually more like homework "Before I end class for the day I want you guys to look over the book of dragons for tomorrow, we'll be having a test to see who knows their dragons" the kids groaned.
"Don't wine, you need to learn this stuff, who knows, it might help you when you run into one on your own" Astrid handed one of the kids a copy of the book of dragons.
"Class is now over, remember to look over the book" with their heads low with disappointment the children make their way out of the arena to go on home. A couple of the parents were there to pick their kids up.
As she watched the children leave, she couldn't help but think that something was off. It has nothing to do with the kids but the raids. Astrid's noticed that there hasn't been a raid ever since that last one with the big dragon.
'What's going on?' she wondered.
After seeing that everyone but her has left the arena she went on ahead and headed for home. She didn't have any other plans for the day, so she decided to just head on home after class. Usually, she would head over to the great hall to see if her friends were there or she'll go to the forest to train or she'll go to the forge to repair her axe, but it didn't need repair, her friends wouldn't be in the great hall at this time, and she doesn't feel like training today.
Then she remembered something. She remembers the conversation that she had with her parents earlier the other day. She hopes that her parents aren't at home or at least not right now so that she could be in her room before they return.
While on her way home she saw the twins walking across the bridge leading to the arena and it looks like they're walking in her direction "Hey Astrid" Ruffnut calls out.
"Hey Ruffnut, Tuffnut, what are you guys doing her?" Astrid asked curiously.
"We came to watch the kids beat on each other" Tuffnut responded but got punched in the shoulder by Ruffnut "What?" he winced.
"Sorry but I ended class a little early also they weren't doing any fighting today, so you would've come all the way to end up being bored"
"Aw man, we were hoping to see something interesting like what we saw earlier"
"What happened earlier?" she asked.
"You should've seen it, Snotlout and the other two idiots tried to prank that Draco guy, but he turned it around on them and locked them in the storage shed and just left them" The twins laughed at the memory.
Astrid kind of found that funny "They should've known from how your attempts haven't worked on him so why would theirs"
"Don't know but it was funny to watch him turn it on them, I bet he would be good at it if he would actually try" Tuffnut nodded his head in agreement.
"Yea, maybe we should ask him to give us some ideas, he might have some that we haven't thought of before" Astrid shook her head and said "I doubt he would have any ideas on how to prank anyone"
"How would you know?"
"I don't" Astrid walks passed the twins continuing on her way home, but the twins were now following her.
"So, what do you plan to do now Astrid?" Ruffnut asked.
"I'm heading home, I didn't have any plans for the rest of the day, so I thought it would be nice to stay home for once"
"Well, if you don't have anything to do then why not come hang out with us?" Ruffnut suggested.
"Do you guys have something planned or were you going to figure something out as the day goes on?"
"Not sure but we had one idea to go see where that Draco guy goes off too when he goes into the woods" Astrid didn't think that they would go this far just because they're bored.
"That's a stupid idea, he only goes back to his camp wherever it's located"
"That's why we thought it would be neat to go find out, aren't you a little bit courious about where's he's been staying?" Astrid has never really been interested in the thought since it would be invading his privacy.
"No, besides, it would be invading his privacy if you were to do that" the twins looked at her with disappointment.
"Buzz kill" Ruffnut commented.
(Time Skip)
(With Draco)
At the cove Draco along with Galaxy were going over a copy of the book of dragons that he obtained by asking Gobber. Gobber was gracious enough to let him barrow the book as long as he doesn't ruin it in any kind of way.
The two have been at this for about two hours looking over every detail along with writing it all down in his journal so that he'll be able to look over them whenever he wants without asking anyone for a copy of the book. Galaxy wasn't really interested in the information since the only thing he's noticing is that each and every page is saying 'Extremely Dangerous, kill on sight' not all of those dragons are that dangerous, a good majority yes but only when they need to be.
"Los til naan voz ko tol dey tol dreh ni krii nau koraav?" Galaxy asked looking over Draco's shoulders.
"So far, no, it's like they believe all these dragons are dangerous and have to be killed on sight, yea some of them are dangerous just from the looks of them but I can't judge that and from I understand is that most of these dragons don't seem to be too keen on eating people" Draco took a breath then continued.
"Like you for example, you like fish more than anything but you're a lot bigger for you to look like you just eat fish and from what these status are saying most of these dragons are quite big as well but I doubt that they would eat anything other than fish, right now the only thing I could think of is that it's the queen that's needing the food and not them but we can't be sure for certain until I see it for myself" he looks back at Galaxy's damaged wing.
"That'll be a while though unless I could get a boat or go on the next raid with them but for now with Stoick wanting to put the eel idea to work he will be too focused on that then going out on a raid to the nest" during the time he was talking he has finished writing down all the details of each dragon that was in that book which in his opinion it wasn't a lot, maybe to the vikings though.
Closing his journal and placing it back inside of his tent but only for a brief time until he was back out again. The two sat there in silence not knowing what to do or say to one another. Draco was too occupied thinking to even want to talk while Galaxy was thinking about how he can be helpful to his brother in the stat he's in.
Being stuck on Berk has been hard for the both of them from having to hide Galaxy from the vikings, Galaxy having a damaged wing, Draco getting too involved with these vikings which he should've backed away from the beginning, and not being able to do anything with his spare time. The only thing that he would spend his time would be just being it the hot springs that he found. Both Galaxy and Draco have enjoyed staying in that hot springs to where most of the time now that's where they would go so, they can relax.
Draco's mind began to drift towards going to the hot springs but when he heard thunder in the far distant, he thought that it wouldn't be a good idea to be in water during a storm. The storm is about a couple of hours away and it sounded like a big one due to him being able to hear it himself.
"I guess we're going to have to get prepared for the oncoming storm" he got up on his feet and began to tear down his tent as well gathered up his things.
When everything was packed, he looked over at Galaxy and asked, "Are you ok with us staying in the cave for the night or at least till the storm blows over?" Galaxy nodded his head.
"Ok, then let's move the things into the cave" Draco tossed the bags over his shoulders, sword on his side, and rolled up tent under his arm while Galaxy was already limping his way to the cave.
Galaxy found this cave a while back about the time they arrived on Berk. It was quite big, and it looks like it was almost man made as if at one point the berkians were going to turn this place into a mining area. The cave didn't go too far back but far enough for them to not be affected by the storm.
Once they were inside, they went to the back of the cave. Once there Draco began to set up the tent again, but he'll have to get some wood so that he'll be able to see or at least stay warm. He may have a little bit of dragons blood in him, but it doesn't make him resistant to the cold.
"I'm going to head back out for a second to get some wood so that we don't freeze to death" Galaxy found that funny.
"Dreh ni hi seik hi?" Draco didn't comment on that remark leaving the cave.
Upon leaving the cave he began to hear the thunder a little bit louder than before but that wasn't the only thing he heard. He looked around hoping that it wasn't what it was, but it got closer and louder. It was Hiccup.
'Why is he coming here?' he wondered not happy about the upcoming situation. He still hasn't forgotten that he found out about Galaxy but haven't brought it up just yet until it becomes necessary which might just be today.
"Hey Draco!" Draco looks up and sees Hiccup standing at the edge of the cove looking down at Draco.
"What are you doing out here?" he asked with a sharp tongue.
Hiccup flinched a little at the sound of his tone which was telling him that Draco isnt happy that he's there "U-Um, I came h-here to see if you wanted to stay a-at the guest house due to a storm approaching, it'll be here soon"
"No, I'll be fine but thank you, now you can go" Draco tried waving him off, Hiccup only nodded then took off back towards the village
"Well, at least he didn't bring up Galaxy" he said to himself walking back over to the entrance to the cove and began to climb it to go gather some wood for a fire.
(With Galaxy)
Galaxy heard the whole thing and was relieved that he didn't say anything about him because he knows what Draco would've done if he did. He laid down on the cold cave floor, which was that comfortable, but it'll have to do for now until the storm ends.
Galaxy wouldn't have mind staying out in the storm, after all he is a Skrill, that can fire out lighting and channel it through his body, but Draco wouldn't leave him out there even if he told him, it was ok. Galaxy began to wonder if that streak of stubbornness will get him into some sort of trouble in the future which honestly wouldn't surprise him.
Another thunderclap could be heard from outside the cave and Galaxy could tell that it was getting closer. He watches the entrance of the cave and saw that it was slowly becoming dark 'Where is that idiot?' he wondered.
He's not really that worried about him since this wouldn't be the first time they've been in a storm, but it doesn't mean that he can't be cautious. Another thunderclap could be heard from outside.
'I couldn't have already been a couple of hours already, can it?' Galaxy wondered. Lately they've noticed that time seems to go by a lot quicker here on Berk, but it doesn't make sense on why, it didn't go this fast back home.
'Maybe the storm was closer than we thought?' he questioned himself.
The sound of familiar footsteps entering the cave caught Galaxy's attention. He looked and saw that it was Draco carrying some firewood in his arms. From what it looks like it was beginning to rain since some of his armor looks shiny.
"Coming all the way out here to ask if I wanted to stay at the guest house, really? They know I wouldn't do it but still they send him to come see if I wanted to stay at the guest house" he was speaking mostly to himself, but Galaxy couldn't help but speak.
"Nii wouldn't kos volzah zaak waan hi drey, nol fos I've ahmin los tol ofaal jos ahrk jos laag causing hi wah ofaal zos motag alun ruzun we've fey laag nau golt"
"It's not the first time that we've slept on the ground and for the irritation that's normal" Draco commented.
"Mu haven't slept nau golt ol lingrah ol we've dreh ful gut, niidro ni pruzah fah hi ahrk I'm unt wah fus hi, I'm nunon sahgaat tol hi fend ahst jok lorot do nii"
Draco knows that he was only looking out for him but living on an island full of dragon killers he won't take the chance to leave his brother alone. He doesn't trust these vikings, some aren't that bad but that doesn't mean they wouldn't still try to kill him if they got the chance.
"I'll think about it the next time they bring it up but for now I don't plan on doing that" Galaxy knew that he'll have to take that as the only response he'll get from this situation.
After Draco was done setting the wood in place, he lightly snaps his fingers lighting a small fire at the tips of his fingers throwing it on the wood lighting a fire. This spell of his has been useful so far but he still can't use it around people even if it called for it. Hiding his magic and skills are becoming a little troublesome but he's going to have to push through.
The two sat around the fire listening to the now rain pouring down outside of the cave followed by thunder and lightning "Now that I think about it, I wonder how their winters here are like, are they as bad as ours or worse" Draco wondered flopping on his back hands behind his head.
Galaxy followed laying his head down on the ground closing his eyes. Draco stayed awake a little bit longer thinking about a couple of things that he'll probably end up have to do soon.
'Galaxy's right, maybe we do need a better place to sleep' as he was thinking of ways, he could do that he didn't notice that his eyes were closing falling asleep due to the sound of the storm.
The storm carried on throughout the rest of the day trapping people in their homes and from what they can see so far it doesn't seem like it'll be letting up anytime soon.
Night eventually came, and the storm continued to rage on. Everyone now can tell that it's pretty much over for today and all decided to just call it a night and went on to bad knowing that it'll probably be tomorrow that the storm will let up then they can go back and finish what everyone was doing or planning to do for that afternoon. Hopefully.