MDM's Version of How to Train Your Dragon
A/N: Man, this chapter was such a pain in the neck! I'm just glad I finished this chapter before school starts tomorrow.
To Rachel, I do plan on doing "How to Train Your Dragon 2" as well with my other stories, all of them having Ragnar and Juno. And, because you are wondering, the process of my stories might be strange. I have to write the chapters down on paper first, then I type them up. Because of homework, I may not have as much time to write them during the school year.
Now, onto Chapter 13! Action!
Chapter 13
See You Tomorrow
Later that night, the Misfit Trio were in the forge again, all of them hammering and sewing away. When they had finished, they all marveled at their newest creation lying at the floor.
The following morning, they showed Toothless the new saddle that they made. But he was more interested in playing chase with them, unsure about the contraption. And that was what he did.
"Hey!" Hiccup shouted as he and his friends began chasing the playful dragon around the cove.
"Get back here, you oversized reptile!" Ragnar playfully taunted.
Eventually, the Misfit Trio had caught up with Toothless, and Hiccup got the saddle strapped on him while Juno and Ragnar tied a rope to the tailfin for control. While they watched from the ground, Hiccup and Toothless tried to work out the kinks in the air. Hiccup pulled on the rope to try and open the tailfin, but it only resulted in him falling off of Toothless and both of them landing into the water.
Okay, new priority." Juno said. "Find a way to stay on the saddle."
Back in the forge that following night, Hiccup showed his friends the new idea he had to help him stay on Toothless' saddle. "A harness?" Ragnar asked.
"Actually, that's not a bad idea." Juno said.
"Thank you, Juno." Hiccup said playfully, while giving his foster brother a mock glare, which Ragnar returned before all three of them started laughing.
The Misfit Trio were back in the cove again the next day, the harness ready. Hiccup and Toothless were flying around great. The rope controlling the tailfin was now tied around Hiccup's ankle. It seemed to work for a bit, until he pulled it too hard and brought him and Toothless crashing into a grassy field.
Ragnar and Juno ran up to him, and started brushing some of the grass off Hiccup. "You okay?" Juno asked him.
"I'm fine." Hiccup replied.
The Misfit Trio then turned to check on Toothless. But what they saw really surprised them. The Night Fury was rolling around in the long grass in pure bliss, crooning happily.
Ragnar picked up a few loose blades of grass and sniffed it. "Smells like garlic." He said. Hiccup took the grass from him, examined it, then looked back at Toothless, an idea forming in his head.
Later that day, they were back in training with the other recruits, facing off the Gronckle again. After it sent Snotlout flying, it went for Hiccup. But then, he quickly took out the grass, which he dubbed "dragon nip", to the dragon. Within seconds after sniffing it, the Gronckle was on its back, feeling calm and happy.
Little did he know that his feat was starting to get attention. Not just from his classmates, but also from some curious adults.
When training was over, all the students; excluding a certain someone, were all gathered around Hiccup, talking excitedly and complimenting him. But, he knew he and his friends had somewhere else to be.
"Oh, I left my axe back in the ring." Hiccup quickly excused himself. "You guys go on ahead. We'll catch up with you." He said, after nearly bumping into Astrid, then running off again.
As she and Ragnar ran to join Hiccup, Juno thought she saw Astrid giving them a suspicious glare. But she decided to discuss it with the boys later. Something bad had happened because of Astrid's hurt pride, and she wasn't going to let it happen again.
Toothless was having the time of his life, having the Misfit Trio give him the best scratches he ever had. They all had the magic touch. Then Hiccup carefully maneuvered his hand and scratched Toothless underneath his chin. The Night Fury immediately went limp and fell asleep.
"What happened?" Juno asked.
"I guess dragons have pressure point, or weak spots. Kind of like humans do." Ragnar theorized, examining the unconscious Toothless.
Hiccup looked at Toothless, then at his hands, processing what Ragnar said. Another idea was forming in his mind.
The next day in training, the recruits were facing the Deadly Nadder again. Even though what happened the last time they faced this dragon wasn't pretty, there was no time to reflect on it.
Astrid swung her axe at the Nadder, but it just bounced off its horn. The Nadder charged at her, but she cartwheeled out of the way. The Nadder then went for Hiccup, but it suddenly stopped in front of him when it saw that he had dropped his mace. It quickly became tense again when Astrid came running towards it, axe back in hand, emitting a loud war cry.
Hiccup acted quickly, and gradually scratched his way to under the Nadder's chin, making it fall to the ground before Astrid could lay a hit on it. She just stared at him with surprise.
Later that very night, the Misfit Trio went to the Great Hall for dinner. When they went to sit at their usual table, almost everyone in the Hall went over to them to try and talk to Hiccup. Juno saw Astrid over at her table all alone, slamming her mug down on the table in frustration, nearly spilling it in the process. She really needed to talk with the boys about this.
The following morning, the Misfit Trio were fixing up the saddle in the cove. As Hiccup gently pounded at a peg in the leather, the light reflecting off the metal caught Toothless' eye. He began trying to catch the shiny reflection. When Hiccup noticed it, he began playing around with the dragon, moving the tiny reflection around.
"He's like a cat." Ragnar said. Hiccup continued playing around with Toothless, until he crashed into a rock, leaving the Misfit Trio laughing wildly, sprawled on the ground, clutching their stomachs.
In the Arena, Gobber introduced a new dragon to the recruits. "Meet the Terrible Terror." He announced.
A tiny flap opened from the door, and out came a small dragon with green scales with some red and orange tipped around the tail, wings, and claws. It promptly shot out its long thin tongue to lick its eye.
"Ha!" Tuffnut scoffed. "It's like the size of my-"
The Terror then suddenly leapt up at his face, biting his nose. "Aah! Get it off!" He cried.
Right away, Hiccup began shining the light from the reflection on his shield, catching the Terror's attention. Immediately, it released its jaws clamping on Tuffnut's nose and began chasing the enticing light. Hiccup then began leading the Terror back to its cage door flap.
"Wow." Tuffnut said, rubbing his reddening nose. "He's better than you ever were." He directed his comment to a glaring Astrid, as Hiccup locked the little dragon back inside its cage.
Ragnar gave Tuffnut some cream in a small ceramic jar. "Terrible Terrors have a venomous bite, so you better apply some of that on that nose before Astrid's punch makes it worse." He quickly said to him, then swiftly side-stepped away.
The Thorston boy only turned to the mentioned girl in confusion in time to see her fist flying towards him.
Later, Astrid was out venting her anger in the forest, throwing her axe into trees trunks. She was not happy about Hiccup's success in the ring. He stole her spot at the top of the class! She suspected that Ragnar and Juno were helping him, because they were the only ones who were not shocked at his tactics. Even if they didn't, she still was angry.
Astrid pulled her axe out of the tree trunk after she threw it for the fifteenth time. She flipped over and was about to hack it into another tree when she saw them. The last group of people she didn't want to see or think about that moment.
The Misfit Trio were walking around, smiling and talking. The harder that Astrid looked at them, the more she thought that Hiccup was carrying something. She went to get a closer look.
Astrid must've made some sort of noise, because Juno saw her following out of the corner of her eye. She whispered, "Scram", to the guys, who saw Astrid as well. They quickened their pace, and they went around a boulder. Astrid went over it and climbed on top of it to get a better view, but the Misfit Trio had already disappeared, much to her annoyance.
Minutes later, in the cove, Hiccup added a few attachments to the saddle while Toothless ate from the basket of fish that the Trio brought with them for supper. "That was close." Ragnar said. "If you didn't see her, Juno, our heads would be off our shoulders."
"Hofferson can't get anything past me." Juno stated. "Besides, I don't think she's pleased with Hiccup's success in the ring."
"Great." A dry Hiccup muttered. "Finally, she notices me and she instead wants to stalk me and lop off my head."
"She'd be locked up with the dragons weaponless before that would even remotely happen." Juno said, enunciating those two words by throwing a rock into the lagoon, attempting to skip them.
A few minutes later, the Misfit Trio were up on a windy ledge, Hiccup mounted on Toothless while the other two were watching from behind them. Hiccup jotted down a position of the prosthetic onto a small parchment paper. Suddenly, the rope that was tethered Toothless to the ground snapped because of the wind, and both of them flew into Ragnar and Juno, sending all of them flying backward.
They crashed into a nearby tree; with Ragnar and Juno on their backs, and Hiccup and Toothless sprawled on their stomachs. Hiccup examined the saddle and saw that his harness got stuck in the now bent loop of the saddle.
"Oh, great." He said. His friends came over and saw the problem.
"This is not good." Ragnar said.
"Can't you fix it, Hiccup?" Juno asked.
"All of my tools are at the forge." Hiccup said.
"Wait a minute." Ragnar cut in. "Don't tell me we have to..."
Later that evening, Ragnar's suspicions were proven to be true. "Kids." A Viking patrol greeted them cordially.
The Misfit Trio just "casually" waved back at him. Once he left, they quietly tugged Toothless, who had been hiding behind them, over into the forge. Toothless had stuck his head in a nearby bucket, but then tossed it away when he saw it was empty. The noise caught a certain someone's attention, who was nearby.
"This was a bad idea." Ragnar whispered. "Sneaking a dragon into town?!"
"Keep it down, will you!" Juno quietly hissed.
"Got it!" Hiccup quietly cheered as he found the tool he needed. He quickly set down to work at the loop.
"Hiccup!" A familiar voice called out. "Are you in there?"
"Astrid!" Hiccup whispered.
"I'm not going out there." Juno quietly said, still pretty mad at her from the earlier incident.
"She hates me as well, so I'm not going either." Hiccup said.
"Fine!" Ragnar hissed. "I'll go. Just stay quiet."
He leapt outside and closed the windows. "Hey, Astrid." He greeted her.
"Ragnar, what are you doing here?" Astrid asked him.
"Just forgot something that I left here." He lied. From behind the closed window, Hiccup and Juno were fiddling around with the harness as quickly as they could, but they were also trying to keep Toothless still because he got curious about a sheep that was grazing outside the forge.
"Look, I normally don't care what people do, but you and your friends have been acting weird." Astrid said suspiciously.
A slight shuffle was heard from inside the forge, and Ragnar slightly flinched at the sound, trying to keep up his polite smile. "Well, weirder." Astrid corrected herself.
"And who made it your business to care about what we do?" Ragnar retorted, giving up on trying to be nice. "Just go back to your house and stop accusing everyone of something just because you're jealous." With that, he jumped back in the forge through the window, closing it behind him.
Astrid quickly followed him, though. But when she opened the doors and was about to deny what he had said, she saw nothing. She didn't even notice a shadow slip out of the village.
The shadow was revealed to be Toothless, with the Trio on his back. "That was way too close." Ragnar whispered as they headed back to the cove.
The next day, the hunting ships finally returned, all of them blown apart. Gobber approached a scowling Stoick as he grabbed a barrel.
"I trust you found the nest at least." He guessed.
"Not even close." Stoick grumbled. "I hope you had better success than me."
"Well, if by success, you mean your parenting troubles are over, then yes." Gobber said.
Before Stoick could say anything, a group of Vikings came forward. "Congratulations, Stoick! Everyone is so relieved." One Viking woman said to him.
"Out with the old and in with the new, right?" A Viking man added.
"No one will miss that old nuisance."
"The village is throwing a party to celebrate."
Stoick felt his breath hitch, and turned to Gobber. "He's gone?"
"Well, most afternoons with the other two, but, who can blame him? I mean, the life of a celebrity is very rough. They could barely walk through the village without being swarmed by his new fans." Gobber said.
Stoick was confused. "Hiccup?" He asked.
"Who would've thought it?" Gobber questioned. "He has this way with the beasts."
Stoick couldn't believe his ears. Is Hiccup finally living up to his expectations?
A/N: That was a lot of transitions for just one chapter. Well, the next chapter will be the most exciting part of the movie. Or at least one of the most exciting parts. But, it may not come soon as you guys might think because of school.
However, I will continue this, even if it takes forever. Don't forget to review!
Got to fly;)