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Hiccup gave the herbs to Gothi and Gothi gave her the recipes to make the different types of brews. Gothi had started by watching her but soon left her once she was sure that Hiccup wouldn't mess up. When Hiccup finished she had decided to return to her room at the forge so she could begin to build a new tailfin for the dragon she had just bonded with. She knew that the measurements wouldn't be perfect but she could always adjust as time went on.
When she returned to teh forge the fire was still burning, it was small but still a fire nonetheless. She knew she'd have to be quiet or else Gobber would find out what she was doing and she'd be banned from the forge for a while and that was not her intention. She uses some screws from an old shield and whatever other scrap metal she can get her hands on. She works on pounding out the metal first before she begins to sew the fabric for the tailfin. The fabric wasn't the best in the world as it was made from old shirts but it would be sturdy enough that it would work and if it didn't she could always trade her few meager possessions for better fabric.
In just one night she finishes the tailfin and decides to leave before the rest of the village wakes up. She'd be exhausted, even more so than usual but she'd deal with it. She also buys a barrel of fish as well and treks with the basket of fish and the new tailfin into the woods. She's lucky it's still early enough that she won't be noticed by very many people and if she was they hopefully wouldn't bat an eye at her.
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"Hey, Toothless!" Hiccup calls as she enters the cove. He is easily intrigued by her, especially since he smells the fish that she's carrying with her. She dumps the fish on the ground and thinks them disgusting. She also lists out the different kinds of fish there are. One such thing being an eel that Toothless tries to get as far away from as possible and hisses at. While he mows down he fish Hiccup goes behind him where his tail is and fights with him a bit as she buckles the new tailfin on.
When she finally gets it on she admires her handiwork, what she fails to notice is the fact that Toothless also notices the difference in weight on his tail and begins to spread his wings. Before long he takes off with her still on his tail and teh two go on a short lived flight as he kicks her off when he notices her. This causes the tail to close and while she had fallen into the water Toothless isn't too far behind.
Even though she just got kicked off of the tail she lets out a hoot of laughter. Not only did it work but she got a true taste of freedom, she was flying in the air with a dragon!
She then looks up at the position of the sun and realizes that she's late and has no time to change. She hurriedly runs to the arena where Gobber and Gothi are already waiting. Gobber looks at her state unimpressed before he turns back to Anders who is in teh arena with the other teens. This time they're armed with more than just a shield and have their weapon of choice with them. Today they were facing the Deadly Nadder.
Today went off mostly without a hitch. the twins ended up fighting causing the dragon to turn its attention on them. They were lucky that the most they were injured were with a few grazes from the blast. Fishlegs ended up in the same group as Dogsbreath and Wartihog and they were the next group to get caught as they weren't as limber on their feet. Fishlegs was lucky that he never got injured too badly but the other two had a wall fall on them from the dragon pushing off of it. Astrid and Delilah used the distraction as their chance to attack but their axes hit each other midair causing them to turn on one another. When Snotlout tried to play the hero he missed the dragon altogether and ended up pushing the two girls down so they wouldn't all get blasted by the dragon.
Asmund and Gobber both stepped in at this point and pushed the dragon back into it's cage.
"What were you trying to do? Get yourselves killed?!" Gobber demands.
With the dragon back in its pen Hiccup came down and began to heal and wrap injuries.
"Those three caused the walls to knock down!" Delilah blames the three biggest boys in the arena.
"The walls wouldn't have started to fall and the dragon wouldn't have even noticed us had those two Muttonheads not been fighting!" Fishlegs points towards the Thorstons.
"Hey! It's not my fault that she smells worse than a troll's breath!"
"If anything I smell better than you! This is the stuff that Johann said that he sells to Hiccup so she smells like some sort of flower!"
That was when the conversation turned for the worst and everyone began to blame Hiccup for one reason or another. She ignored them until she couldn't. The only reason she couldn't was because they decided to take her salve away from her.
"You're only hurting yourselves by taking that away from me!" Hiccup tells them shaking her head.
"If Ruff wasn't trying to smell like you we never would've been arguing!"
"Yeah! I think I deserve whatever stuff you've been using as compensation for almost getting killed!"
"I don't buy anything soap related from Johann. Sometimes I buy ingredients and make my own but I don't buy soap from Johann."
"Then how do you get soaps from Johann?" Delilah demands.
"We've all seen you with different scents and even jewelry on occasion. You're saying you don't get those from Johann?!" Astrid demands and Hiccup closes her eyes and sighs.
"I don't buy them from Johann." Hiccup mutters something that none of them catch.
"You have some sort of admirer that sends you things through Johann?" Gobber demands angrily.
"She has too! She always hides those items and our mother can never find them!" Jaime tells them.
"So what if I do? Why would any of you care?"
"You're hardly classified as our father's daughter, you're more burden than anything else but your marriage is supposed to advantage the tribe not yourself!" Ram tells her.
"As if she could ever make a good match with anyone!" Snotlout comments.
Hiccup just sighs and shakes her head. "Can I have my salve back or am I done for the day?"
Gobber nods for them to give her back her stuff and when she has it packed away he grabs her arm and drags her to Kara, Ram and Jaime not far behind. Gobber places Asmund in charge of the cleanup efforts.
Gobber takes Hiccup straight to Kara and Kara gives her a glare before asking Gobber what she had done this time.
"Does Stoick know that she has an admirer? One that she probably has plans to run off and marry once she becomes of age!"
"Who would admire the likes of her? She's nothing but a runt!"
"That's what I'd like to know but the others have all seen her getting stuff from Johann, things that she claims she didn't buy. I have no doubt that she's not lying about not purchasing things as she doesn't have that kind of money even if she sold all of her personal possessions."
Kara grabs Hiccup's face and forces her to look at her. "You will tell me who this boy is or you'll spend a week in the cells!" Hiccup remains silent and averts her eyes. Kara grips her chin tighter but Hiccup still makes no sound. "Lock her up. She'll be out in a week to go about her usual tasks and any backlog she may have in her duties. Stoick will definitely be hearing about her disrespect when he gets back."
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Everything was taken off of her person, including her sketchbook and charcoal. Luckily any drawings of the Night Fury and his tail were locked in a secret compartment in her room at the forge. That also happened to be where she kept many of the gifts Dagur had given her as well. She would not risk anything falling into anyone else's hands especially because all they would do is destroy the items or take them for themselves.
She knew that she would probably get daily visits from Kara until she spilled her secret but she wouldn't break. She had been kidnapped by Alvin more than a few times in her life and she had never told him anything because he didn't need to know. It was during those times that she was thankful for Dagur's training because it allowed for them to underestimate her and she was able to escape.
TBC...