Ch. 4- Toothless and Violet

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"I just noticed the book had nothing on Night Furies. Is there like a squeal or Night Fury pamphlet or- whoa!" Hiccup finished as the dragon- this time a deadly Nader- blew up his axe. All he had left was a wooden stick.

"Focus, Hiccup! Your not even trying!" Gobber commanded. "Today is about attack! Nader's are quick and light on their feet. Your job is be quicker and lighter."

The arena was set up like a maze, minus the dead ends (unless you counted the walls and gate to the arena). The Nader was on top of a walls, looking at Hiccup. Hiccup debated on going left or right for a few seconds before he went to the right.

The Nader attacked Fishlegs and he said, "Ah! I'm really starting to question your teaching methods."

Gobber ignored Fishlegs' comment. "Look for its blind spot. Every Dragon has one. Find it. Hide in it. And strike!" The twins found it and had a little argument, they got out of the blind spot and the Dragon shot at them. "Blind spot- yes. Death spot- not so much."

"Whoa!" Hiccup shouted, running from the Nader again.

The Nader eventually lost interest him and he went right back to asking Gobber about Night Furies. I moved to his side since the dragon wasn't there. "The book had nothing on Night Furies. I was just wondering if there's a squeal or pamphlet or something." He took a few steps back and saw Astrid and Snotlout crouched down behind a wall. Astrid motioned for us to be quiet and to get down. We followed.

Astrid looked around the corner and then quickly retreated. She did one quick roll across the path the Nader could see before ending up behind another wall. Snotlout did the same. Hiccup tried to follow but his shield stopped him halfway. When his shield hit the ground it made noise, the Nader look his way. Hiccup quickly got up and ran away. I stayed still as the Nader passed by while chased Hiccup.

"Ah!" Hiccup screamed, running. Soon Hiccup lost the Nader and it came upon Astrid and Snotlout.

Snotlout pushed Astrid and threw his hammer towards the Nader; he missed and it almost hit me. They started to run as Snotlout rambling on and on about the sun- how on earth did he get on that topic?

"... want me to block out the sun? I can do that, I just don't have time right..." Snotlout trailed off as he got farther from me.

The Nader bumped into a wall making it fall. The wall bumped into another wall, which knocked down another wall, which knocked down another wall, which- well, you see where I'm going with all the walls.

Still, Hiccup was talking about the Night Fury as the others bumped into him to get away. He paid them no mind.

Astrid somehow got on top of the falling walls and jumped from wall to wall. "Hiccup!" She screamed as she jumped off the last wall. She fell on him, her axe going into his shield and luckily not his arm. They were both on the ground- their faces almost touched. Ewe.

"Ooh, love on the battlefield," Tuffnut joked.

"She can do better," Ruffnut said, seriously. I almost hit her for that. How dare she insult my big brother? Her future chief?

"Let me," Hiccup said as Astrid stood up. She saw the Nader getting up after having the walls fall on it and tried to get her axe out of Hiccup's shield. She was stepping on his face trying to get her axe. When the Nader got close enough Astrid just took his shield and hit the Nader with it, breaking the shield. Hiccup let out a yelp when Astrid yanked the shield off his arm.

The Nader shook its head and wondered off as it whimpered.

"Well done, Astrid," Gobber congratulated.

"Is this some kind of a joke to you?" Astrid asked, angrily, as she pointed her axe at him. Hiccup was curled up in a ball, slowly coming out. "Our parents war is about to become ours. Figure out which side your on."

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Hiccup and I walked to the cove. We each had one fish to feed the dragons with.

Hiccup, weakly, threw his fish out. Not a dragon came out.

We split up to find the dragons. Mine came out rather quickly. "Hey there," I said. "Want some fish?" She quickly ate it- after I threw my knife in the pond next to me.

When I looked behind me, Hiccup was doing the same thing with his own knife: throwing it in the pond. His dragon opened his mouth, I clearly saw it. No teeth. Just like mine at first. Just wait, Hiccup, I thought to myself. Just wait. "Huh, toothless. Could have sworn you had-" Hiccup stopped speaking and flinched back when his dragon too quickly ate it. "Teeth." Hiccup finished, his arms against his shoulder. Ha ha!

When I turned back to my dragon, she quickly walked towards me, making me back away. "No, that's all I have," I finished when I tripped and my back bumped into a rock.

I heard Hiccup gasped as his back hit the other side of the rock. "I don't have anymore," Hiccup said.

This weird sound came from the Night Furies before they threw up half a fish each.

They sat on their back legs before gesturing for us to eat the fish they just threw up. Ewe, gross.

I looked at my dragon in disbelief. She nodded. Slowly, I took a bit. I smiled with my mouth closed and nodded my head, trying to make her think I liked it. It tasted horrible. She gulped, wanting me to swallow. My shoulders slumped and I gave her a questioning look before trying to swallow. It took me quite a few tries but I finally managed to swallow the most disgusting thing I had ever eaten. I gave her a small smile. She narrowed her eyes at me before smiling like was. Her teeth weren't showing and you could she her gums as she pulled the corners of her mouth pulled up.

I heard Hiccup gasp. I looked behind for a second and his dragon was doing the same thing.

I looked back at my dragon and just stared at her, both of us smiling. All of a sudden her attention went to behind me. I turned around and we watched Hiccup reach out to his dragon.

When Hiccup reached out his hand to touch his dragon, his dragon growled, turned and flew across the cove. I looked at my frowning dragon and hurriedly shook my head no. I didn't try to pet her like Hiccup tried with his dragon and I think she liked that. There was no way I was going to try and touch the dragon. I was fearful that it might bite my hand off or something. She relaxed and returning her attention to Hiccup and his dragon. I did the same.

Hiccup's dragon walked to a patch of grass before lighting it on fire, putting the fire out, then laying down on the now black and freshly burnt grass. I guess that's one way to keep warm. Hiccup was already there, in front of his dragon- who had noticed Hiccup and moved so his half tail to block Hiccup from seeing his face. Hiccup reached out to touch the tail when it went up and showed his dragon's face. Hiccup quickly stood up and left, trying to make it seem as he was up to nothing. Silly boy. His dragon got up and left.

I sat next to my dragon who was on the ground, I was on a small rock. A patch of violets were in front of us and I started to pick them and make a flower chain like the ones me and my only friend- beside my brother- made before she died. My dragon seemed to like the chain as I held it up and nudged it with her nose. "Want it?" I asked. She nodded so I placed it around her neck and connected the two ends so it made a necklace. "There." I smiled. "A chain of violets." A idea struck me. "Violet, like that name?" I asked. Again, she nodded. "Okay, Violet it is then." I found a name for my dragon.

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Around the beginning of sunset, Hiccup began to draw in the dirt. He was drawing a Night Fury. Our dragons must have been pretty curious because they came up behind us to see what he was doing. Hiccup and I pretended they weren't right behind us watching.

All of a sudden, our dragons walked off in opposite directions and pulled a branch off a tree- both of them. They used their trees to draw lines in the dirt. Toothless hit us in the back of the head when he was drawing. I don't think he meant to but it was kinda funny. After three minutes, they were done drawing their huge but separate pictures and nodded in satisfaction.

I walked to Violet's drawing and tried to figure out what it was when Violet started growling at me. I looked up at her then down. I had one foot on a line. I picked it up- growling stopped. Foot on line- growling began. Off- silence. On- growling. Off- silence. On- growling. Off- silence. On- growling. Off- silence. Over the line- a nod. I smiled and walked over any line I saw. I smiled at Hiccup; he smiled at me. Turns out, he was doing the same thing. It was pretty fun. I was surprised when I felt Violet's breath on the back of my head.

I gasped, turned around, and took a step back. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Hiccup duck his head down and reach out to touch his dragon. There was a small gap between Hiccup's hand and his dragon's face, but his dragon closed his eyes and that small distance disappear after a few seconds. Hiccup must've thought something bad was going to happen because he then bent over a bit- not moving his hand, though- before he straightened up and looked at his dragon as it opened its eyes and shook its head before turning and leaving. Hiccup stared at his hand.

I copied Hiccup- closing my eyes, ducking my head and stretching out my arm towards Violet. At first, I felt nothing but the air around me, then I felt her nose against my hand. I opened my eyes and straightened up. The moment lasted only a few seconds but I wish it lasted longer.

Violet then pulled back while opening her eyes. She shook her head and walked towards Hiccup and his dragon, who had done the same thing but stayed put. Then they both walked away and laid down.

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We all (being me, Hiccup, Gobber, Astrid, Fishlegs, Snotlout, Tuffnut and Ruffnut) sat around a fire cooking our dinner. Everyone made themselves chicken, except Hiccup and I, who had fish.

Gobber finished telling a story about how he lost his arm and leg. "... and swallowed my hand whole. I saw the look on his face. I was delicious. He must of spread the word because it wasn't month later before another one took me leg," he said gesturing to his wooden leg.

"Wouldn't it be cool if you still had control over your hand; you could like, crushing it's heart or something," Fishlegs said, staring intensely at his chicken. Everyone looked at him like he was insane.

"I'm so mad right now," Snotlout said, making a mad face at his chicken. "I swear I'll revenge your beautiful hand and your beautiful foot. I'll cut the legs off of every dragon I fight; with my face." What had made Snotlout say something so odd and creepy? Was it the story? Dang it. I should've been paying attention.

"No, no, no. Its the wings and the tails are what you want. If it can't fly, it can't get away. A downed dragon is a dead dragon," Gobber said. He yawned, "I'm gonna get to bed. You should be too. Tomorrow we're going for the big boys. Slowly yet surely up to the monstrous nightmare. But who will win the honor of killing it?"

Hiccup got an idea and had already left; I followed. "What is it?" I asked when we were at the blacksmith building.

"I just got the most crazy idea...."

We worked on his idea all night.

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