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Training ring
Hicca and the rest of the owlets her age are looking at the training ring. While they are looking they all see several young owl's who are in the ring already. The human then puts the small cage in the training ring. The owlets get out and Hicca is the last one out. The small cage is taken away and that is when another human places another cage down and out came Stoick. Hicca backs up but Stoick saw her and said bluntly, "You will be dead by the end of the day." That is when another cage is lowered and once the door opens Gobber steps out and so does Gothi. Hicca is happy to see them and that is when Stoick steps up and begins his speech, "Today you were taken from your family's. From this day forth you will cut all family ties. At one point you will end up fighting and killing someone you know." The owlets all look at each other and Stoick stomps hit foot and then screeches loudly. Everyone quiets down and Stoick continues his speech, "At the end of training one of you will experience your first fight. That fight will be the only one you will be able to walk away from alive." The owlets are excited and let Stoick continue, "Your opponent will be me. I will not make the fight easy. This will be the only time I will let you live. If you lose then I will mark you as weak and worthless. After that if we meet in the ring again I will kill you." Hicca tries to back up some more but she can't and Stoick continues, "In the ring you have to earn your rank. You earn rank when you win a fight." He starts to walk around then stands next to Gobber then said, "This is Gobber. His rank is first class. Meaning he can teach you owlets to be killers and to last longer in the ring." He then goes to Gothi and said, "Gothi here rarely lost a fight. Her rank is first class. She can also teach owlets to fight. And she will also be the one to choose who will fight me. And she is the only owl who is a retired fighter." The owlets are amazed since owls rarely get to that age. Hicca knew that but she is still scared. Then Stoick said one last thing, "Gobber will oversee your training and in three days you will have your first test." He shoves both Gothi and Gobber out of the way then flies up to a perch so he can watch the whole training. The group that Hicca came with start to go off into a group and Ash shoves Hicca away. So Hicca moves away and stands by herself. That is when a female's voice said, "Wow. That was not nice at all I would have shoved him back." Hicca looks to see a barn owl with blue and yellow feathers on her head and blue on the tips of her wing and tail feathers. Hicca is surprised and that is when she notices that there are other barn owls too. Hicca walks away but that is when the blue feathered owl stops her and Hicca just keeps her head down. The female owl said kindly, "Hold your head up. No reason to hide." Hicca not looking at her then answers quietly, "Are you not going to yell at me for being weak." The blue owl is shocked then asked, "Why would I yell at you? There is no reason to yell at you." She looks at her group thinks for a moment then said, "You know what? Come stand with me and my friends. We can help you." Hicca now looks at the owl and she cannot believe that someone is being nice to her that is not Gobber or Gothi. Hicca nods and the owl jumps up and down and said, "My name is Stormfly. What is your name?" Hicca answers, "My name is Hicca. It is nice to meet you Stormfly." Stormfly nods and together they walk to the other group of owls. Once they get to the group of owls Stormfly introduces everyone happily, "The owl with the red and black feathers that is my older brother Hookfang. Next to him is Meatlug she is the kindest owl you will ever meet." Hookfang gives Hicca a small bow. Meatlug has brown feathers and they look to have some highlights in her feathers. She smiles at Hicca giving her a wave with her wing. Hicca nods to both of them and Stormfly continues, "Now we have the twins Barf and Belch. Barf is the older of the two and his feathers are a dark green. At least the tip of his wing and tail feathers. His brother Belch has light green feathers and is the younger of the too." Hicca looks at the twins and they are currently play fighting. Doing mock charges and they would jump on each other in way were they would not get hurt. Hicca looks at Stormfly again and smiles then Stormfly announces happily, "Everyone this is Hicca." The twins stop their mock fight to go meet Hicca and the others also gather around Hicca and greet her. Both Gothi and Gobber are happy for Hicca and after a few moments Gobber gets to the center of the ring and announces, "Alright owlet's! Come gather around so we can begin." The owlet's gather around but the two groups of owlet's stay a little bit apart. Gobber then continues, "As you know that was Stoick who talked to you. He is the current chief champion. That is the highest rank you can be, but their can only be one chief champion. When I lost a fight to him a few days ago, I lost my leg and wing. Even with these injury's I am still required to fight. Now normally I would be dead, but because the fight happened out of the ring I was spared." He takes a breath then continues, "My rank is first class and Gothi is a retired first class fighter and is now the healer. She will also overseeing your training. Right now you have no rank or a title. You gain both in the ring. The first rank you will get is Rookie and your title will be whatever the humans give you after your first fight." All of the owlet's except for Hicca started shouting with are ready and that they will be the best. Even one owlet said that they will become the next chief champion. Gobber quiets them down and continues on with the training, "Right now you are trainees, with no experience. If you pass your first test then you will continue on with the training. Keep in the mind Stoick and the humans are always watching. If you fail training then you will be removed from training. One owlet that has black tips on his feathers asked, "What happens if you fail training?" Gobber looks at the young owl and that is when he says, "You will be taken from training by the humans and to be tested to see if you can fight and if you can't then you will never be seen again." The owlet backs down and Gobber stands up straight then said, "In the ring it is kill or be killed." That is when the other owlet's become a bit more nervous and that is when an owlet with a tag on his right leg ask, "What does the winner get?" Gobber answers, "If you when the fight you get your life. And if you win you face off Stoick in the ring as your first fight. That fight will either make or break you. Since that fight will be casted in front of everyone." Gobber then walks over to a wall that hold training battle claws and said, "Each of you will get a set of training talons. These won't kill you, but they can still inflict damage to you." Gothi takes this moment to fly up onto a perch that is close to the ground in the training ring. Then she said, "Now line up and collect your training talons. At the end of training you will receive your actual battle talons." Each owlet came up and got their training talons and one they were on Gobber then said, "Pair up and we will begin!" After an hour all of the owlet's have been paired off. A set of twins that came in the same cage as Hicca pair up. There names are Ruffnut and Tuffnut. They love to fight each other and at the moment have their talons around each others necks. Snoutlout and Ash are paired off, Fishlegs and Meatlug are a pair, Barf and Belch paired off and lastly Hookfang is with Stormfly and Hicca. It has been a few hours of training and Hicca has been knocked down again and again. Hicca stands up while Hookfang backs up and Stormfly then commented, "I see the problem." Hicca looks at Stormfly and asked, "What am I doing wrong?" Stormfly then answers, "You back away when Hookfang is about to strike you. Avoiding is fine but you can't be scared to strike at the same time. It's better to lock talons then getting hit." Hicca nods then Stormfly said, "I want you to try again but this time you will go against me." Hicca nods her head then Stormfly gets into a battle stance and Hicca mimics her stance. Hookfang simply backs out of the way and watches the match from the side lines. Hicca then nods and Stormfly charges Hicca. Stormfly then jumps up with her talons out Hicca was about to run then she remembered what Stormfly had said, 'It's better to lock talons then getting hit.' So Hicca jumps in time to lock talons with Stormfly and Hicca was able to flap her wings enough to throw Stormfly away from her. Hicca then jumps up and she strikes down with her talons. Stormfly could not move in time and got a small scratch on her face and is then pinned down by Hicca. A lot of the other owlets have been watching and now they are shocked that weak Hicca had won. Even Hicca is surprised that she had won her first sparring match. Hicca then moves to get off of Stormfly and that is when Stormfly praised, "That is what I am talking about! And you won your first match!" Both Gobber and Gothi are proud of Hicca and watch while Stormfly and her friends are cheering and congratulating Hicca on her first win. Hicca smiles and is proud of herself. Stoick is watching and he is not impressed with Hicca. The rest of the day the owlet's train and Hicca has gotten better. After a while Hicca is now able to fly for a short time. And she even is able to hold her on in a sparring match. Stormfly even has Hicca doing a few simple exercises that she and her brother were taught when they were younger. Now it is time for the owlet's to rest for the day. Gobber is doing a headcount and after that is done he then leaves the multistory nest box. That is when he sees Stoick standing there he just walk past him without saying a word. Stoick then commented coldly, "That weak owlet won't survive. She will die soon enough." Gobber stops and looks at him then spoke while defending Hicca, "That is where you are wrong Stoick. You will see that she is the strongest of them all. She is even stronger than you." Gobber then continues on to his own nest were Gothi is staying. Stoick just snorts then goes to his nest box high above the training ring. What nobody knows is that their is a pair of toxic green eyes looking into the training ring. For the next few days the owlet's train and train. Hicca's fighting has improved and even better she has lost all of her grey feathers and now has her adult feathers. And she is a spitting image of her mother her figure is small but there is strength to her frame. Hicca is now considered a fighter by the humans and is a promising champion one day. Now they all stand in a line and they listen to what Stoick is talking about. He is standing in front of them and said, "Most of you were born to fight. While the rest of you are just a waste." He looks at Hicca when he said, 'Waste.' He then continues, "Tomorrow you will face off and the winners of that match will then face off with another winner. This will continue until there are two of you left. Then you will face off. After that you will face me. I already know that I will win and you will lose." The owlet's are determined to win. Stoick looks at Hicca expecting her to back down. But instead she stares him down standing tall. Stoick just looks at her more intensely then he said cruelly, "You won't last weakling." He then walks away and Stormfly is proud that her new little sister stood up to Stoick. Stoick then said, "Today is I will be testing your skills. No one is fighting today. But I want to give you a training rank. If you fail the skill test you get no rank and is a loser." He then flies to his perch then Gobber steps up and then said, "Your first skill test is your ability to fly with real battle talons." Each young owl has turned in there training talons and Gothi now gives them their battle talons. The young owls are happy that they have real talons for battle. Hicca is the last one to get them. Once she puts them on Gobber then said, "Alright line up everyone! This is a race." The owlet's line up and Gothi said, "I will show you the path you must take. When you get to the highest point you will then dive down. You must catch a mouse that will be released and the who ever catches it will win the skills test. And the only rule is, there are no rules. Anything is fair game." The owlet's are excited that there are no rules and that they can cheat if they want. Gothi shows the young owls the flight path. Once she is done Gothi flies down and stands next to Gobber and he said, "Ready!" The owlet's crouch down, "Set!" The owlet's open their wings and tails ready to take off, "GO!" They all fly up Hicca is the last one along with Stormfly and her friends. Hicca has learned not to rush and to save your energy for the last part. Hicca's plan is working. Ash is in the lead next to him is Snoutlout. The twins were close but they end up fighting each other and now they are heading to the ground. Fishlegs was able to dodge them and was getting ready to pass Snoutlout but Snoutlout said, "I don't think so fatty!" He then strikes and he clips his wing and Fishlegs is going down. Meatlug dives after Fishlegs and saves his from hitting the ground. Hicca and the rest of her friend continue the climb. Hicca is now next to her cousin and Snoutlout looks and yelled, "Hay useless! You don't belong here! I think you need to learn how to fly better!" He goes to clip her wings but Hicca catches his assault and they lock talons. Snoutlout is shocked that Hicca stopped his attack. Hicca reply's with confidence, "I am not useless!" She then throws him to the ground and a very shocked Snoutlout to his core. Now she is close to Ash and he tries to knock her off balance. She easily dodges his attacks and now they both are at the highest point. They both see the mouse being released and they begin there dive. Ash can see that Hicca will not give up so he opens his wings in hopes that he will cause her to crash. But Hicca opens her wings before he could react. That action causes him to panic and Hicca begins her dive again. Ash is able to recover but by the time he can dive other owlet's have passed him. He is now last and he hates that he is in last place. Hicca is now reaching out with her talons to catch the mouse. Gobber and Gothi are impressed that Hicca is about to win. And they watch as Hicca catches the mouse in her talons but she does not kill it. She lands panting still holding the mouse. The little mouse is struggling and Hicca looks at the little rodent and said quietly, "I will not hurt you." The mouse looks at her and relaxes and that is when she lets it go. She smiles at the small mouse and that is when the others land and gather around. The small mouse jumps behind Hicca's leg. Then Ash lands and he is seething mad. He then yells, "How can a weak owl beat me! That mouse is mine!" Hicca takes a defensive stands in front of the mouse and tells off Ash, "I will not let you hurt him! You are mad because you lost!" Ash screeches and charges and Hicca jumps up to lock talons with him and she throws him. Ash hits the wall and falls on his side. The mouse stands next to Hicca and even nuzzles against her leg as a thank you. Hicca smiles at the mouse and Gobber said, "Hicca won. So this skills test was not about trying to be first it is about being smart. In the ring you have to be smart. You can't just rely on strength alone." Ash picks himself off the ground and Stoick came down from his perch. He then said, "Hicca did not win. That rodent is still breathing." Hicca looks at the mouse and then back at her father and said, "I will not kill unless I am defending myself." She then lowers herself down and the mouse climbs onto her back and she goes to stand next to Stormfly. Who is proud that of her little sister. Gobber and Gothi are also proud. At that moment a human is bringing in another cage and everyone is curious to see who it is. The door opens and that is when a young barn owl whose feathers are black as night and his eyes are toxic green. He steps out and the cage is taken away. He looks around and that is when he and Hicca lock their eyes. Stormfly takes a moment then she leans in next to her sister and asked quietly, "Who is that?" Hicca simply answers, "I don't know."
Authors notes: Yay the second chapter is done. I am hopping to have the next chapter ready soon. I have been busy and I have not had a chance to work on anything. Anyways sorry it took a little bit and am proud of what I have so far. Hope you all like the stories I have posted and hope everyone is having a great day.