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Chapter 2

A few minutes after the Cat Noir Fury's attack, Adrien had fixed the calibration issue in his invention and was ready to use it. With that in mind, Adrien put away his tools and ran towards Gorilla, to convince him to let him out. But before he could even think of an excuse to tell Gorilla to get out of the shop, Gorilla was changing out the metal tongs attachment for his battle-axe attachment. It was like luck was on Adrien's side.

"Man the fort Adrien. They need me out there." Said Gorilla as he drops his tongs to the ground and walked to the door to the shop as he attached the axe to his arm. But right before he went out, he turned back to face Adrien.

"Stay. Put. There." Gorilla said, ordering Adrien to stay in the shop, while not exactly saying it the way he wanted it to come across, while Adrien just nodded, no way wanting to stay in the shop and miss his chance at killing a dragon.

"You know what I mean," Gorilla said before he roars out a mighty battle cry; raising his axe into the air; running out of the shop to join the action. But that gave Adrien the perfect opportunity to try to catch a dragon. With lightning-fast speed, Adrien sheds his apron and pulls on his vest as he ran to his bolas launcher. Once he reached it, he grabs the wheelbarrow handles behind the actual machine, and runs out of the shop, much to the confusion of the vikings that came in for more repairs

"Adrien, where are you going?" A viking said as Adrien ran out of the shop, pushing the wheelbarrow in front of him as he ran

"Yeah, I know! Be right back!" Adrien said as he made his way out of the plaza and towards a cliff near the village. Meanwhile, a pair of Multimouse Nadders and a Rena Rouge Timberjacks were surrounding a group of sheep, eager to sink their fangs in them. But unknown to them, Gabriel, was right above them on a bridge leading to the farm, and threw a net on top of them, effectively trapping them while more vikings came in to keep them trapped. But when one of the Nadders slipped most of their head through the holes of the net, it spewed out a jet of fire to make the vikings back off. But Gabriel jumps off of the bridge he was on and starts to wrestle the Nadders head to the ground, closing its mouth so no fire escapes.

"Mind yourselves!" Gabriel said as he continues to wrestle the dragons head towards the ground.

"The devils still have some juice in them!" said Gabriel when he finally managed to push the Nadders head to the ground while the others got the rest thoroughly trapped. Meanwhile, with Adrien, he ran to the edge of the village, found a good spot; right in front of one of the catapults that weren't damaged by the Cat Noir Fury; to set up his catapult and quickly got it ready, locked and loaded to make a quick catch. After that, he began waiting as he scanned the sky for the Cat Noir Fury, hearing distant dragon roars in the night sky above him.

"Come on. Give me something to shoot at. Give me something to shoot at." Adrien quietly said to himself as he waited. He kept hearing shrieks in the night, that progressively got closer, when a black figure passed through the night sky, flying towards the catapult in front of Adrien. The screeching gets even louder as Adrien lined up his bolas catapult with the larger catapult in front of him, right before a bullet of fire hits it, destroying it. A split second afterwards, the dragon passed right in front of the now burning wreck of the catapult, providing Adrien with a glimpse at his target. Without hesitation, he launched the bolas. The backlash forced from the catapult sends him flying backwards, and onto his back while the bolas went flying towards the dragon. Adrien picks himself up and hears the dragon screech out as the bolas found their target. Adrien had gotten himself into a crouch and smiled as he saw the trapped dragon fall towards the other side of the island like a shooting star, to Adrien's amazement.

"I hit it. YES, I HIT IT!" Adrien shouts out in excitement as he jumps to his feet.

"Did anybody see that?" Adrien asked out loud; facing back towards the path he came in from; hoping someone had witnessed his accomplishment. But suddenly, the Papillon Nightmare climbed up onto the hill while he was turned around and crushed his invention, looking at Adrien hungrily. At the sound of his catapult breaking, Adrien turned around and his excitement quickly turned into fear as he was face to face with the dragon

"Except for you," Adrien said with disappointment, and hidden fear. The dragon lifted its head into the air with a deep growl, and lungs at him. Adrien evaded the attack and runs away screaming, the Papillon Nightmare right on his heels. Meanwhile, Gabriel and his team had finished trapping the Natters and Timberjack, when he heard a scream from the other side of the village. He turned around to see where the scream was coming from and saw Adrien running from the Papillon Nightmare, heading straight to the plaza. With a sigh, Gabriel runs after the terrified boy.

"DO NOT LET THEM ESCAPE!" Gabriel yells at the other vikings as he runs up the path to the plaza to save Adrien, while the vikings received their orders. Back with Adrien, he was running from the dragon as it shot a jet of flame at him. The fire lands on a wall on Adrien's left, making Adrien scream out in surprise. Adrien keeps running into the plaza while the Nightmare scurries up one of the walls on Adrien's left and followed him a bit before shooting at him again. But thankfully, Adrien avoided the flames again with a shriek, and ran behind one of the sky torches pillars, hiding behind it. He managed to catch his breath for a second before the dragon shot a jet of fire at it; the flames being spilt down the middle; protecting Adrien from being burned; as the pillar started to burn from the fire left on the wood while Adrien tries to curl in on himself to avoid the flames. When the fire stopped coming at the pillar, Adrien; scared out of his wits; cautiously tries to peek behind the pillar to see if the dragon was gone. But he did not see the dragon was on the other side of the pillar; about to eat him. Just as he opened his mouth; Gabriel came in just in time, and punched the dragons head away. The dragon was pushed away from Adrien, and Gabriel somersaulted to face the dragon as it recovered. The Papillon Nightmare roars at the chief; as he waited for the dragon to make its move; and spews fire at him, but what out came was only a small amount of its red hot gel instead of its normal amount. The dragon looked at Gabriel nervously, as he realised what that meant

"You're all out," Gabriel said as he walked towards the dragon. When he got close enough, he punched it in the snout, causing it to back away from him. Gabriel continues to follow the dragon, continuing to punch and kick it in the nose, until it flies away.

"Oh, and there's one more thing you need to know." The narrator says as Gabriel shakes his shoulders, and turned to face the still smouldering torch pillar. A second afterwards, the pillar collapsed on its burning base, and fell to its right, revealing a guilty-looking, and nervous Adrien staring at Gabriel. The torch falls on top of a bridge leading to the plaza; crushing it to pieces; and the basin on top of it breaks away, rolling down into the village. Gabriel looks at the scene in shock, while Adrien winced at the destruction the rolling torch basin was causing. As the sounds of surprise from vikings and destruction start to get fainter, Gabriel angrily glares at Adrien. He didn't even have to turn around as he slouched his shoulders to feel the weight of Gabriel's stare settles onto him. He glanced back at Gabriel with an apologetic look on his face.

"Sorry, Dad," Adrien said with nervousness. Meanwhile, the torch basin reaches the trapped dragons and rolls over to them. The vikings holding down the net run away at the sight of the torch basin coming towards them, letting the Multimouse Nadders and Rena Rouge Timberjack get out from the net, just before the basin crushes them, and take the sheep. The captured livestock bray out in terror as the raiding dragons retreated, carrying loads of fish and livestock; in nets to carry them in, or in their mouths; as they fly away. The dragons had won this battle. Adrien's eyes dart around the plaza at the other vikings, while Gabriel; now revealed as his dad; continues to stare at the retreating dragons in anger. A few seconds, later, Adrien darts his eyes around the plaza, as he turns to face his dad, trying to find a bright side to the situation.

"Okay, but I hit a Chat Noir Fury." Adrien quickly said, right before Gabriel took him by his vest collar and started to drag him away from the gathering crowd in the plaza, much to Adrien's displeasure.

"It's not like the last few times, Dad! I really, actually hit it!" Adrien says as he is dragged off by Gabriel, slightly hanging in the air, with his feet catching the ground as Gabriel continues to walk towards their house.

"You guys were busy. I had a very clear shot." Adrien continues as the crowd continues to gather; Gorilla among them; and stare at the boy as his dad continues to drag him with him, as Adrien went on.

"It went down just off Kwami Point. Let's get a search party out there before it.." Adrien continues while still being dragged by his dad.

"STOP!" Gabriel yells, interrupting Adrien before he stops dragging him and turns to face him, silencing his son. Adrien just stopped talking and nervously glanced around the area, trying to calm his nerves.

"Just stop." Gabriel continues, before he starts the usual lecture he spiels to Adrien, every time he disobeyed his orders.

"Every time you step outside, disaster follows. Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter is almost here and I have an entire village to feed." Gabriel said, anger and annoyance laced in his voice as he spoke. But Adrien tries to once again look on the bright side.

"Between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't you think?" Adrien said, trying to lighten the mood, while unintentionally making a jab at the overweight vikings in the crowd, who held their stomachs in worry at the possibility of no food for the winter. But the joke did little to lighten Gabriel's mood, but rather darkens it.

"THIS ISN'T A JOKE, ADRIEN!" Gabriel shouts at him, trying to get Adrien to see the gravity of the situation the village was now in. But with a groan of exasperation, he continues to berate his son

"Why can't you follow the simplest orders?" Gabriel asked; almost rhetorically; to his son, generally curious why his son wouldn't listen to him.

"I can't stop myself. I see a dragon and I have to just kill it." Adrien said while making a stabbing gesture with his hands as he spoke.

"You know, it's who I am, Dad," Adrien said, trying to get his dad to listen to him, but fails. As Gabriel once again groaned in exasperation.

"Oh, your many things Adrien," Gabriel said as he placed his hand onto his forehead to stop the oncoming headache from pounding on his skull.

"But a dragon killer is not one of them," Gabriel said while Adrien looks down at the ground in disappointment.

"Get back to the house," Gabriel said before he glanced back at Gorilla.

"Make sure he gets there," Gabriel said, ordering the blacksmith to escort his son back to their house; which was on the hill next to the stairs to the Great Hall. When Gorilla got to where the chief and his son were, he smacked Adrien upside his head and he started walking back home with Gorilla following behind.

"I have his mess to clean up," Gabriel said with a sigh before he walked away. Meanwhile, Adrien was still on his way back home when he was passing by Marinette's friend group, with Chloé, Kim and Felix laughing at the poor boy as he walked by. The group was in a bit of a line, with Chloé and Kim at the start, followed by Max and Nino, then Felix, while Marinette and Alya were sitting on a set of stone stairs to a viking hut; with Marinette watching Adrien while wrapping her whip; a pink rope with a black handle with a silver sphere on the top of it; connecting the pink rope and handle together; around her hands; a habit she picked up when she first got her mother's family whip; while Alya just watched with her.

"Quite the performance," Kim said to Adrien as he walked past him, while Chloé continues to snicker at him. Max and Nino remained impartial, while Felix turned his gaze to his cousin.

"I have never seen anyone mess up that bad. That helped." Felix smugly told Adrien, making him feel worse than he did.

"Thank you, thank you. I was trying." Said Adrien, answering his cousin while looking at the ground in shame as he walked by. But when Gorilla walked by Felix, he pushed the boy away by his head, moving him from his path, and giving the boy a taste of karma. But as soon as Gorilla is out of sight, he rights himself and tries to play it off cool. Meanwhile, Adrien and Gorilla were now walking up the stairs to the house next to the Great Hall. It was only slightly different to the other houses in the village. The main difference was the much larger wood dragon head carving figurehead at the top of the house. But it was more like a jail for Adrien as he walked up the steps.

"I really did hit one," Adrien tells Gorilla as he climbed up to his house

"Sure, Adrien," Gorilla said, not believing the boy, but trying to make him feel better.

"He never listens." Adrien gripes, fed up with his dad not listening to him when he tries to tell him what he wants to tell him.

"It runs in the family," Gorilla said, still trying to make him feel better as they reached the front door to Adrien's house.

"And when he does, it's always this... disappointed scowl, like someone skimped on the meat in his sandwich," Adrien said as he got to his front door. But before he opens the door, he turns around and starts to mimic his father's voice with annoyance; yet with playfulness.

"Excuse me, barmaid." Adrien begins, mimicking Gabriel's deep, yet cold voice almost perfectly as he made gestures matching his dialogue, during his interpretation.

"I am afraid you brought me the wrong offspring. I ordered an extra-large boy with beefy arms, extra guts and glory on the side. This here, this is a talking fishbone." Adrien said, finishing his interpretation with annoyance towards his father, and shame towards himself.

"Now you're thinking about this all wrong," Gorilla said, trying to eat Adrien to cheer up and defend Gabriel at the same time.

"It's not so much as what you look like, it's what's inside that he can't stand," Gorilla said, not quite making his point clear. Adrien just confusingly stares at him after his statement, and just felt even worse.

"Thank you for summing that up." Adrien sarcastically said as he turned to open the door to his house

"Look the point is.." Gorilla began, causing Adrien to look back at him as he continues.

"Stop trying so hard to be something you're not," Gorilla said, getting his point across better than the first time. But Adrien still didn't feel any better as he opens his front door, while still glancing at him.

"I just want to be one of you guys," Adrien said before he walked into his house, the door closing behind him. Gorilla sighs, and then leaves. But unknown to him, Adrien had quickly ran to the back of his house, went to the back door and left to find that dragon on his own.

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