A/N: Do you enjoy Chapter 13? Ready for Chapter 14? I am LOL! Once this story is finished, I'll be going back to the beginning and editing the entire thing, then posting the edited chapters. Letting you guys know this because there might be a chance that the story will have more or less chapters than it originally did. The chapters may also have some more content and stuff that wasn't there in the first place. Anyways, on to Chapter 14!
Snotlout and I sit on the edge of the sea stacks for the next hour, discussing various topics. Most of the time its him ranting about some sort of flaw in something, but there are times when the discussion becomes serious. I laugh, my voice echoes. When he speaks, I always feel like I've just sat down to watch a wandering comedian do their thing. He never realizes it though.
Finally, after what felt like an eternity, Hookfang returns to the sea stack. By this time, even Snotlout's attempts to unfreeze my frozen body aren't working. He glares at his dragon, "You stupid excuse of a dragon, do you know what we've been doing out here!? FREEZING!" Snotlout walks up to Hookfang, "Is this fun for you? Do you love torturing me? And look at how cold Penny is! You couldn't have stayed and made a fire or something." The dragon rolls his eyes, roaring loudly, "you're so stubborn!"
I feel like laughing at Snotlout, he sounds really stupid even if he is yelling at his dragon. Even if I didn't agree with it. Before I can say another word, Hookfang grabb me, places me on his back and flies off.
"Hookfang! You can't leave me here! Where are you taking Penny!?"
As Snotlout disappears into the distance I sigh, "We can't leave him there." The dragon snorts, not bothering to listen, but heads up towards Gothi's house. He lands on the roof, picking me up by my shirt again and placing me, "Thank you Hookfang," I smile at him, "tell Snotlout I want to see him soon, alright?"
He looks at me, I can swear he's smiling. Hookfang bumps my stomach with his chin, before jumping and flying back towards a screaming Snotlout. I watch the dragon for a couple seconds, and as I open the door, the warm air hits my body. The fire is still going and I thank God that I wasn't caught. Not that I would have gotten caught the way Gothi can sleep.
I slowly take off my boots and tiptoe towards my bed, slipping under the covers. They feel nice and warm.
But I can't sleep.
So the night begins to fade, and my eyes cannot close.
The weeks pass slowly, and almost every minute is spent in that bed in Gothi's home. Raefor, devoted and over-protective, would stay as long as possible. The few times he left he would bring back something, most of it was dragon food hunted from the wild. I recognized it due to its dead smell. It took several attempts to get him to take it back outside and finish. Once and a while he would throw it back up. But, each day he would lay on the floor, his head popping up with every little sound that caught his attention. I'm thankful for him, we had only met a few times and he was already showing such loyalty.
Snotlout was able to sneak out once a while, but only during the night when his father would finally go to sleep. I don't know how I managed to stay awake until he came to visit, but each visit I managed. And it was worth it. I would pry village updates from him as the day passed, most days the updates were about some marriage, or angry mob. Nothing unusual.
Rarely did Snotlout mention his father, and with each visit, I found that whenever I mentioned him his face fell more and more. It worried me, scared me even. I felt like things weren't going well, that's the vibe I got from him. I wanted to do something to help, I did. I saw that Snotlout wanted his father's approval more than anything. You could tell by looking at him.
A day before the dragons are to migrate to lay their eggs I'm sitting outside Gothi's house on Stormfly. My open shoulder wound has almost healed, not entirely of course, but it was miraculous that it had healed so fast. And just in time. I was about to go crazy.
"Ready to go home?" Astrid asks.
I smile, "Of course. Thank Thor we know the migration period. Otherwise I'd be stranded up here without visitors," I shudder, "that's worse than being just stranded." I look at my bandage, its new, and there is less bandage than after the surgery. It was changed often.
Astrid nods, jumping on Stormfly so she's sitting in front of me. Gothi is on the wooden ledge, and beside her Raefor. He is sitting, watching us as we prepare to leave. I couldn't ride yet, riding with one arm was different than two. Something that would require practice.
"Thanks Gothi," I saw, smiling, "without you I would have died."
She nods, smiling back. I she knew I was grateful, and as we head into the sky, I promise myself that I would never forget this. Raefor runs off the wooden ledge, flapping his wings and following us as we fly into the sky.
"Uh Astrid," I say as we fly away from my home, "my house is that way."
"I know,"
"Where are we going?"
"Exploring!"
I glare at her back, "My arm?"
"So?"
"Am I the only one who cares about infection?"
"You won't get an infection."
"Yes I will."
"That didn't stop you from sneaking out with Snotlout..."
"HUH!?" I exclaim, "you know about that?"
"Yeah. You're not that only one flying around at night?"
I had to know, "What did you see?"
"You really want to know." She looks back at me.
"Yes."
"Are you sure?"
"I am."
Astrid shudders, "Well. One time Stormfly and I were flying around the island, and then we passed by the forest near Svens farm. You know that clearing where-?"
"You saw that?" I hate it when someone see's me kissing someone else...well not entirely, Snotlout hates it. I don't care, but privacy was nice, "anything else?"
"Are you sure you want to hear this?"
I laugh nervously, "Call it a hunch. Better tell me than Snotlout..."
"True. Well another time," Astrid goes on to list two other times, it wasn't as worse as the previous one. Caught kissing was definitely not something anyone liked. One was the first time we snuck out and hung out on the sea stacks, and the second one was the time we snuck into the village to get Raefor some fish.
"We're not good at keeping secrets..." I mutter.
Astrid shakes her head, "You are. I'm just good at finding out secrets."
"I got that."
"Seriously though," Astrid says, "how are you able to do that?"
"Do what?"
"Get him...like that?"
"Like what?"
"He's like a tough maniac," Astrid exclaims as we pass the sea stacks, "he's never intimate with anyone. Not even his friends."
I laugh, trying not to giggle, "You gotta pull back that exterior. He's got this soft side he doesn't like to show. If people are around, he gets all embarrassed and stuff."
"I got that."
"He's not that bad."
"Remember our previous discussions? Still obnoxious and annoying."
"Not to me," I laugh again, "otherwise we wouldn't be dating."
"You're crazy."
"You're blind," I joke, "besides, remember what you told me? About your initial thoughts of Hiccup."
"That was different."
"How was it different?"
"Hiccup wasn't obnoxious or mean..."
"Yeah but everyone thought he was a loser," I point out, "and you were annoyed. Because you were losing to him." Around me is nothing by water, Raefor is behind just behind us, watching me as I look at him. I had to change the subject, "What am I going to do with him?"
"What do you mean?"
"Mom's never going to let me keep him," I say, "you should have seen her face when she saw him that first day. She almost flipped. Her face was..." I sigh, "...just so angry."
There is silence. I don't speak and neither does Astrid. As we fly over the body of water I think, how was I going to do this? Convince my mother I mean. She was almost as stubborn as Spitelout, not worse. Dad wouldn't speak, as usual. But mom would definitely.
"Maybe he could live in the woods."
"True. But he follows me. He's over-protective. If i'm not with someone he knows the last time he see's me..." I shake my head, maybe I could that. He stayed when I told him previously...I would just need to find someone to go with me, "actually, that may work." But he hadn't seen me with many people. Just Astrid, Hiccup, Valka and Snotlout. Asking Valka would be awkward, and Hiccup was too busy.
I would have to figure this out.
"If I leave him in the woods, he may be safer. But someone would have to come with me..." I look at Astrid.
She frowns, looking forward, "Me?"
"He's seen me with you," I turn to him, "he see's me with you now. You're the best choice."
"I don't know..."
"C'mon Astrid. It won't hurt," I smile, "I can't ask Snotlout. He's under too much pressure right now."
She sighs, "Fine."
"Good. We'll head there now," I state, "is that okay?"
"Sure," She instructs Stormfly to head towards the forest by Svens farm, and the dragon automatically heads in the direction. We're flying for several minutes before we land in the middle of the forest. Raefor behind us.
"Give me a minute," I say, jumping off Stormfly and heading towards Raefor, "Hey," The dragon makes a parrot like noise, "you need to stay here for a while. Until its safe. Mom will approve eventually." The dragon makes the noise again, "I'll come back for you. I promise." I turn away, and with Astrids help, get back on Stormfly, "I'll be back." And we fly away.
Until the sun sets Astrid flies us around on Stormfly all over the place. We're mostly over the water, but there are times when we fly back over the forest. I can't see Raefor because of the thickness of the tree's. But I trust he's okay.
"Well, its time," Astrid says, we head back towards the village.
I tilt my head, "For what?"
"To get you home."
"Weren't we suppose to be heading there already?"
"I just wanted to take a detour."
"Several hours long?"
"Sure, why not?" She gestures towards the environment, "its beautiful. And look at that sunset."
It is beautiful, but she's taking my attention away form how late we are. I shake my head and leave it.
We land in the middle of town. I jump off of Stormfly, but before I can walk towards my home, Astrid grabs my good arm and pulls me towards the Great Hall, "Come."
"Why?"
"Just come."
"I wanna go home."
She glares, hitting my good arm.
"Ow!"
"Just come!" She drags me up the stairs, putting her hands over my eyes, "and don't look."
"What are you-?" We walk through the doors and she lifts her hands away from my eyes. Its dark, until the lights turn on and I see a lot of people.
"Surprise!"
"Huh?" I'm confused.
Hiccup is in front of the crowd, "Its a party. For you!"
"Me?" I'm still confused, "why? What did I do?"
"Well you didn't die!" He says, "that's a reason to celebrate."
"But I didn't-"
"We're vikings," Hiccup reminds me, "we celebrate for any reason."
"Who-"
"Astrid," He gestures to her. Astrid smiles, "and Snotlout."
"Him? I didn't know he could organize." I comment.
"Trust me. He can't," Astrid answers, "but he wasn't around much to help."
"He's not here then?"
Hiccup's smile disappears, and he shakes his head, "No he's not. But we can still celebrate."
I'm lead to a table with food, but I don't feel like eating right now. I felt bad for leaving Raefor in the forest by himself, I felt bad that I was the source of problems. And I didn't deserve all of this. I force a smile, "I'm not hungry. I'll eat later."
Everyone is talking, I try to push myself into the conversation, but after a while it gets tiring. I head to the steps outside the Great Hall, slipping away from the party and sit on the steps. A cold air is blowing, my arm is cold. Snow is on the ground, but when I look into the clouds, I swear its going to rain.
"Look here," I hear a familiar voice. Grease is at the bottom of the steps, his arms folded over his chest, "the hero of the day. Quite a sight."
I glare, "What do you want Grease?"
He laughs, "Nothing." Grease walks up the steps, grinning ear to ear, "just revenge."
"For what? I didn't do anything to you."
"You embarrassed me," He retorts, "but not acknowledging or even considering my offer of a relationship, you shunned me from my friends."
"I don't understand."
"A simple-minded person wouldn't," He spits on the ground. Odd for a "gentleman, "but i'm not simple-minded. Thing is, your no hero. Just a coward in the back seat taking the glory from everyone else who deserves it. Like me."
"You?"
"Yes. A man of dignity. Boldness. Strength. Honor. Characteristics that should be in a hero. You on the other hand. Coward. Emotional. Reckless. Characteristics that should not be in a hero," He glares, "you took my spotlight."
"You never were in the-"
"Don't interrupt," He puts his finger over my lips, "a woman should never interrupt a man." This guy is so disrespectful, "This were to be my glory days. When I brought Berk back to the blood and sweat, to the night of defense and attack. When I got rid of dragons,"
First Mildew, now this lunatic? I snicker, "You can't take dragons away. Its illogical."
"Not illogical. Logical. We are mighty tree's and the dragons sit on our branches. We are those chosen by Thor to take arms and guide the world into peace through war and rage," I've never heard something so stupid in my life. Grease smiles, "Those were the good days. The days I triumphed. But this peace has done nothing but destroy Berk."
I laugh, "You are crazy. Berk has been a land of peace since we made peace with dragons-"
"A delusional thought for a delusional woman," He snickers, "if I can call you that. You're not a full woman anymore, you lost an arm. That makes you what? Dirt?"
Now I'm glaring, "Careful."
"What? Are you going to slap me? Like a girls do?"
"Its not me you should be worried about." If Snotlout heard that...oh man, I'd be be planning this guys funeral, "watch your tongue."
"I shall do no such thing. I do as I please," Grease exclaims grabbing my good arm and shoving me to the floor, "dirt. Filth. You belong on the ground." Wow! This guys deranged! I didn't see Grease in these lights before. Sure he was self centered, mean and annoying but this...? He grabs my good arm and awkward pushes it against my back. It hurts, "You'll learn to respect me."
"Let go before you break my arm!"
"Oh, the hero can't get up can you?"
I try to squirm out of his arms but I can't.
Suddenly, the pressure on my back is gone and I can move my arm again. I look up and Raefor is carrying Grease by his legs, "Get this thing away from me! Help! I'm being attacked by a dragon!"
People are rushing out of the Great Hall by now, "What's going on?" Hiccup asks.
"Raefors being protective," I push myself off the ground, "just like any loyal dragon should be."
We watch in amazement for a few seconds, before I call to my dragon and instruct him to bring Grease down. The dragon doesn't obey at first, but lowers Grease to the ground eventually. Grease scurries to his legs, "I'm never forgetting this." He exclaims, "you'll pay! You'll all pay!" He runs off and we watch as he disappears.
Everyone is heading back inside but I stay there, with Hiccup and Astrid on either side, "I've never seen Grease like that," I mutter, "he always acts like such a gentleman."
"Shows you can't trust a person until you know them," He turns to me, "well."
I nod my head, and they head back inside. I didn't know what to do. Raefor is sitting beside me, and I pat his head, "You are amazing. Leaving you in that forest was a bad idea. We'll convince my mom," I look up to the sky, "Don't you worry."
Whether or not, I know that Grease will want revenge. Not just on me, but Raefor, all my friends, event Snotlout. I need to brace myself for the coming storm
Snotlout and I sit on the edge of the sea stacks for the next hour, discussing various topics. Most of the time its him ranting about some sort of flaw in something, but there are times when the discussion becomes serious. I laugh, my voice echoes. When he speaks, I always feel like I've just sat down to watch a wandering comedian do their thing. He never realizes it though.
Finally, after what felt like an eternity, Hookfang returns to the sea stack. By this time, even Snotlout's attempts to unfreeze my frozen body aren't working. He glares at his dragon, "You stupid excuse of a dragon, do you know what we've been doing out here!? FREEZING!" Snotlout walks up to Hookfang, "Is this fun for you? Do you love torturing me? And look at how cold Penny is! You couldn't have stayed and made a fire or something." The dragon rolls his eyes, roaring loudly, "you're so stubborn!"
I feel like laughing at Snotlout, he sounds really stupid even if he is yelling at his dragon. Even if I didn't agree with it. Before I can say another word, Hookfang grabb me, places me on his back and flies off.
"Hookfang! You can't leave me here! Where are you taking Penny!?"
As Snotlout disappears into the distance I sigh, "We can't leave him there." The dragon snorts, not bothering to listen, but heads up towards Gothi's house. He lands on the roof, picking me up by my shirt again and placing me, "Thank you Hookfang," I smile at him, "tell Snotlout I want to see him soon, alright?"
He looks at me, I can swear he's smiling. Hookfang bumps my stomach with his chin, before jumping and flying back towards a screaming Snotlout. I watch the dragon for a couple seconds, and as I open the door, the warm air hits my body. The fire is still going and I thank God that I wasn't caught. Not that I would have gotten caught the way Gothi can sleep.
I slowly take off my boots and tiptoe towards my bed, slipping under the covers. They feel nice and warm.
But I can't sleep.
So the night begins to fade, and my eyes cannot close.
The weeks pass slowly, and almost every minute is spent in that bed in Gothi's home. Raefor, devoted and over-protective, would stay as long as possible. The few times he left he would bring back something, most of it was dragon food hunted from the wild. I recognized it due to its dead smell. It took several attempts to get him to take it back outside and finish. Once and a while he would throw it back up. But, each day he would lay on the floor, his head popping up with every little sound that caught his attention. I'm thankful for him, we had only met a few times and he was already showing such loyalty.
Snotlout was able to sneak out once a while, but only during the night when his father would finally go to sleep. I don't know how I managed to stay awake until he came to visit, but each visit I managed. And it was worth it. I would pry village updates from him as the day passed, most days the updates were about some marriage, or angry mob. Nothing unusual.
Rarely did Snotlout mention his father, and with each visit, I found that whenever I mentioned him his face fell more and more. It worried me, scared me even. I felt like things weren't going well, that's the vibe I got from him. I wanted to do something to help, I did. I saw that Snotlout wanted his father's approval more than anything. You could tell by looking at him.
A day before the dragons are to migrate to lay their eggs I'm sitting outside Gothi's house on Stormfly. My open shoulder wound has almost healed, not entirely of course, but it was miraculous that it had healed so fast. And just in time. I was about to go crazy.
"Ready to go home?" Astrid asks.
I smile, "Of course. Thank Thor we know the migration period. Otherwise I'd be stranded up here without visitors," I shudder, "that's worse than being just stranded." I look at my bandage, its new, and there is less bandage than after the surgery. It was changed often.
Astrid nods, jumping on Stormfly so she's sitting in front of me. Gothi is on the wooden ledge, and beside her Raefor. He is sitting, watching us as we prepare to leave. I couldn't ride yet, riding with one arm was different than two. Something that would require practice.
"Thanks Gothi," I saw, smiling, "without you I would have died."
She nods, smiling back. I she knew I was grateful, and as we head into the sky, I promise myself that I would never forget this. Raefor runs off the wooden ledge, flapping his wings and following us as we fly into the sky.
"Uh Astrid," I say as we fly away from my home, "my house is that way."
"I know,"
"Where are we going?"
"Exploring!"
I glare at her back, "My arm?"
"So?"
"Am I the only one who cares about infection?"
"You won't get an infection."
"Yes I will."
"That didn't stop you from sneaking out with Snotlout..."
"HUH!?" I exclaim, "you know about that?"
"Yeah. You're not that only one flying around at night?"
I had to know, "What did you see?"
"You really want to know." She looks back at me.
"Yes."
"Are you sure?"
"I am."
Astrid shudders, "Well. One time Stormfly and I were flying around the island, and then we passed by the forest near Svens farm. You know that clearing where-?"
"You saw that?" I hate it when someone see's me kissing someone else...well not entirely, Snotlout hates it. I don't care, but privacy was nice, "anything else?"
"Are you sure you want to hear this?"
I laugh nervously, "Call it a hunch. Better tell me than Snotlout..."
"True. Well another time," Astrid goes on to list two other times, it wasn't as worse as the previous one. Caught kissing was definitely not something anyone liked. One was the first time we snuck out and hung out on the sea stacks, and the second one was the time we snuck into the village to get Raefor some fish.
"We're not good at keeping secrets..." I mutter.
Astrid shakes her head, "You are. I'm just good at finding out secrets."
"I got that."
"Seriously though," Astrid says, "how are you able to do that?"
"Do what?"
"Get him...like that?"
"Like what?"
"He's like a tough maniac," Astrid exclaims as we pass the sea stacks, "he's never intimate with anyone. Not even his friends."
I laugh, trying not to giggle, "You gotta pull back that exterior. He's got this soft side he doesn't like to show. If people are around, he gets all embarrassed and stuff."
"I got that."
"He's not that bad."
"Remember our previous discussions? Still obnoxious and annoying."
"Not to me," I laugh again, "otherwise we wouldn't be dating."
"You're crazy."
"You're blind," I joke, "besides, remember what you told me? About your initial thoughts of Hiccup."
"That was different."
"How was it different?"
"Hiccup wasn't obnoxious or mean..."
"Yeah but everyone thought he was a loser," I point out, "and you were annoyed. Because you were losing to him." Around me is nothing by water, Raefor is behind just behind us, watching me as I look at him. I had to change the subject, "What am I going to do with him?"
"What do you mean?"
"Mom's never going to let me keep him," I say, "you should have seen her face when she saw him that first day. She almost flipped. Her face was..." I sigh, "...just so angry."
There is silence. I don't speak and neither does Astrid. As we fly over the body of water I think, how was I going to do this? Convince my mother I mean. She was almost as stubborn as Spitelout, not worse. Dad wouldn't speak, as usual. But mom would definitely.
"Maybe he could live in the woods."
"True. But he follows me. He's over-protective. If i'm not with someone he knows the last time he see's me..." I shake my head, maybe I could that. He stayed when I told him previously...I would just need to find someone to go with me, "actually, that may work." But he hadn't seen me with many people. Just Astrid, Hiccup, Valka and Snotlout. Asking Valka would be awkward, and Hiccup was too busy.
I would have to figure this out.
"If I leave him in the woods, he may be safer. But someone would have to come with me..." I look at Astrid.
She frowns, looking forward, "Me?"
"He's seen me with you," I turn to him, "he see's me with you now. You're the best choice."
"I don't know..."
"C'mon Astrid. It won't hurt," I smile, "I can't ask Snotlout. He's under too much pressure right now."
She sighs, "Fine."
"Good. We'll head there now," I state, "is that okay?"
"Sure," She instructs Stormfly to head towards the forest by Svens farm, and the dragon automatically heads in the direction. We're flying for several minutes before we land in the middle of the forest. Raefor behind us.
"Give me a minute," I say, jumping off Stormfly and heading towards Raefor, "Hey," The dragon makes a parrot like noise, "you need to stay here for a while. Until its safe. Mom will approve eventually." The dragon makes the noise again, "I'll come back for you. I promise." I turn away, and with Astrids help, get back on Stormfly, "I'll be back." And we fly away.
Until the sun sets Astrid flies us around on Stormfly all over the place. We're mostly over the water, but there are times when we fly back over the forest. I can't see Raefor because of the thickness of the tree's. But I trust he's okay.
"Well, its time," Astrid says, we head back towards the village.
I tilt my head, "For what?"
"To get you home."
"Weren't we suppose to be heading there already?"
"I just wanted to take a detour."
"Several hours long?"
"Sure, why not?" She gestures towards the environment, "its beautiful. And look at that sunset."
It is beautiful, but she's taking my attention away form how late we are. I shake my head and leave it.
We land in the middle of town. I jump off of Stormfly, but before I can walk towards my home, Astrid grabs my good arm and pulls me towards the Great Hall, "Come."
"Why?"
"Just come."
"I wanna go home."
She glares, hitting my good arm.
"Ow!"
"Just come!" She drags me up the stairs, putting her hands over my eyes, "and don't look."
"What are you-?" We walk through the doors and she lifts her hands away from my eyes. Its dark, until the lights turn on and I see a lot of people.
"Surprise!"
"Huh?" I'm confused.
Hiccup is in front of the crowd, "Its a party. For you!"
"Me?" I'm still confused, "why? What did I do?"
"Well you didn't die!" He says, "that's a reason to celebrate."
"But I didn't-"
"We're vikings," Hiccup reminds me, "we celebrate for any reason."
"Who-"
"Astrid," He gestures to her. Astrid smiles, "and Snotlout."
"Him? I didn't know he could organize." I comment.
"Trust me. He can't," Astrid answers, "but he wasn't around much to help."
"He's not here then?"
Hiccup's smile disappears, and he shakes his head, "No he's not. But we can still celebrate."
I'm lead to a table with food, but I don't feel like eating right now. I felt bad for leaving Raefor in the forest by himself, I felt bad that I was the source of problems. And I didn't deserve all of this. I force a smile, "I'm not hungry. I'll eat later."
Everyone is talking, I try to push myself into the conversation, but after a while it gets tiring. I head to the steps outside the Great Hall, slipping away from the party and sit on the steps. A cold air is blowing, my arm is cold. Snow is on the ground, but when I look into the clouds, I swear its going to rain.
"Look here," I hear a familiar voice. Grease is at the bottom of the steps, his arms folded over his chest, "the hero of the day. Quite a sight."
I glare, "What do you want Grease?"
He laughs, "Nothing." Grease walks up the steps, grinning ear to ear, "just revenge."
"For what? I didn't do anything to you."
"You embarrassed me," He retorts, "but not acknowledging or even considering my offer of a relationship, you shunned me from my friends."
"I don't understand."
"A simple-minded person wouldn't," He spits on the ground. Odd for a "gentleman, "but i'm not simple-minded. Thing is, your no hero. Just a coward in the back seat taking the glory from everyone else who deserves it. Like me."
"You?"
"Yes. A man of dignity. Boldness. Strength. Honor. Characteristics that should be in a hero. You on the other hand. Coward. Emotional. Reckless. Characteristics that should not be in a hero," He glares, "you took my spotlight."
"You never were in the-"
"Don't interrupt," He puts his finger over my lips, "a woman should never interrupt a man." This guy is so disrespectful, "This were to be my glory days. When I brought Berk back to the blood and sweat, to the night of defense and attack. When I got rid of dragons,"
First Mildew, now this lunatic? I snicker, "You can't take dragons away. Its illogical."
"Not illogical. Logical. We are mighty tree's and the dragons sit on our branches. We are those chosen by Thor to take arms and guide the world into peace through war and rage," I've never heard something so stupid in my life. Grease smiles, "Those were the good days. The days I triumphed. But this peace has done nothing but destroy Berk."
I laugh, "You are crazy. Berk has been a land of peace since we made peace with dragons-"
"A delusional thought for a delusional woman," He snickers, "if I can call you that. You're not a full woman anymore, you lost an arm. That makes you what? Dirt?"
Now I'm glaring, "Careful."
"What? Are you going to slap me? Like a girls do?"
"Its not me you should be worried about." If Snotlout heard that...oh man, I'd be be planning this guys funeral, "watch your tongue."
"I shall do no such thing. I do as I please," Grease exclaims grabbing my good arm and shoving me to the floor, "dirt. Filth. You belong on the ground." Wow! This guys deranged! I didn't see Grease in these lights before. Sure he was self centered, mean and annoying but this...? He grabs my good arm and awkward pushes it against my back. It hurts, "You'll learn to respect me."
"Let go before you break my arm!"
"Oh, the hero can't get up can you?"
I try to squirm out of his arms but I can't.
Suddenly, the pressure on my back is gone and I can move my arm again. I look up and Raefor is carrying Grease by his legs, "Get this thing away from me! Help! I'm being attacked by a dragon!"
People are rushing out of the Great Hall by now, "What's going on?" Hiccup asks.
"Raefors being protective," I push myself off the ground, "just like any loyal dragon should be."
We watch in amazement for a few seconds, before I call to my dragon and instruct him to bring Grease down. The dragon doesn't obey at first, but lowers Grease to the ground eventually. Grease scurries to his legs, "I'm never forgetting this." He exclaims, "you'll pay! You'll all pay!" He runs off and we watch as he disappears.
Everyone is heading back inside but I stay there, with Hiccup and Astrid on either side, "I've never seen Grease like that," I mutter, "he always acts like such a gentleman."
"Shows you can't trust a person until you know them," He turns to me, "well."
I nod my head, and they head back inside. I didn't know what to do. Raefor is sitting beside me, and I pat his head, "You are amazing. Leaving you in that forest was a bad idea. We'll convince my mom," I look up to the sky, "Don't you worry."
Whether or not, I know that Grease will want revenge. Not just on me, but Raefor, all my friends, event Snotlout. I need to brace myself for the coming storm