A/N: So we're getting one step in the right direction! We have two members of the academy right with each other! One complication is dealt with ^^ HURRAY! I'm happy :D But how long will it take for the rest? And what will be done next? Guess you'll have to see ;) And here goes Chapter 9.
After spending several hours in the cave, with nothing to light the way but the torches and candles we brought, we finally make a small enough hole amongst the rocks for Tuffnut to squeeze through. He brushes off his pants and crosses his arms over his chest, "Took you long enough. It was beginning to smell in there."
"You were in there a couple hours."
"Of course. But I wasn't talking about the cave. I was talking about me."
Everyone's eyes widen, and we take a few steps away from Tuffnut, except Ruffnut who smiles, "You smell almost as bad as me."
"Ew!" Everyone takes one more step away from the twins.
"What? Its a serious achievement. Smell is the best thing about a viking. Like loyalty, and stubborness, and-"
"Actually Ruffnut, I don't think smell has anything to do with it. In fact, vikings hate smell." Hiccup notes.
"Excuse me Hiccup, ex-leader of the dragon training academy. I don't remember asking for your advice."
"And I wasn't giving you advice."
"Don't deny it."
Hiccup shrugs his shoulders, "I have no idea what you're talking about." The room goes quiet and no one speaks. The twins get together, and begin to talk really loudly, my ears are beginning to hurt.
I gesture back towards the tunnel, "Lets leave." We all head back towards the exit. Astrid and I walking together near the middle of the pack, with Hiccup at the front, just behind him is Fishlegs.
"Hey Penny," Tuffnut says, "I thought you and Snotlout broke up."
And the awkwardness comes back, "We did Tuffnut. A long time ago."
"Then why is he walking so close to you,"
"What are you...?" I turn around and Snotlout is right there. He stops suddenly, thankfully avoiding bumping into me or something even more embarrassing...accidental mouth to mouth contact. I glare, "Can I have some personal space please?" My tone is harsher than normal, my anger from previous is still left in my heart, i'm not as angry. But I needed him to stop acting like a child, stop treating me like he did. One moment showing signs of immaturity by ignoring me, and the next talking as if we were still dating. It made me upset, frustrated even. Yes, it is immature of me to act this way. But I don't care.
"Ouch," Tuffnut says.
Ruffnut laughs, "you got that right."
"Quit agreeing with me, woman!"
The twins start bickering. At least they were back to normal.
I don't turn around again to see how far away his is, Snotlout I mean. Instead I just pick up the pace with Astrid trailing behind me, "Wow, that was...harsh," Astrid whispers.
She is right, in my heart I know she is right, "I know. I'm just sick of being treated like some..." I try to find the right word, "a footstool. Useful one moment, then BOOM, ignored the next." Maybe those weren't quite the words I wanted, but it followed the general idea.
There were days when I would scold myself for liking Snotlout still, even after what happened. But there were days when I would remind myself that feelings weren't easy to control.
Still, I should never be this angry with anyone.
Astrid nods, "I don't blame you."
"No, I shouldn't act like this," I sigh, "its immature."
"Maybe. But you're putting Snotlout in his place. Trust me, your reaction is perfectly fine."
Her words hit me, they were true and right, but I still didn't feel good about reacting the way I did. Maybe I'd apologize eventually, but with the anger pushing on the way it did, I didn't know when that would be.
"Hahahaha!" Tuffnut and Ruffnut laugh. I turn my head to see Snotlout on the ground staring at the cave wall.
Tuffnut points at Snotlout, "He just ran into a wall! Hey Snotlout! Did you lose your eyes?"
The twins continue to snicker. Snotlout gets up and brushes his pants, glaring at them, "It wasn't THAT funny."
"You're right," Tuffnut laughs a little before finally settling down, "It was HILARIOUS!" And he starts back up again.
I facepalm, but continue towards the exit, trailing behind Fishlegs and Hiccup. This was my chance, "So Astrid," I try to speak in a low voice, "why don't you go to talk to Hiccup?"
"What!?"
"Talk to Hiccup. You know, talking is when your mouth is moving while words are coming out. And Hiccup is-"
"I know that, just...why are you telling me that?"
I shrug, "Why not? He's probably stressed," I bump her in the shoulder with my elbow, "he could use a person to talk to."
"I am not talking to Hiccup," Astrid whispers harshly.
"Not even if-"
"No."
"Or-"
"Nope,"
Well at least I tried, "Fine."
"Can we change the subject?"
It was obvious this would happen so I oblige and we continue to speak about other matters. I decide to mention the race, "My mom doesn't want me to race tomorrow."
"Wait? What?"
"She doesn't like dragons."
"She doesn't...like dragons? Who doesn't like dragons?"
I shrug, "My mom."
"That's ridiculous. Dragons are a part of our everyday lives." Astrid starts to talk about Stormfly, and I listen. When she is finished she looks at me, "what are you going to do?"
"Race," I say bluntly, "I can't let people control my life anymore. Its MINE."
"What will your mom do?"
"She says she'll disown me. But I doubt that. Probably ground me or something..." I say, "i need to get out of the house without her knowing..."
"Sneak out at dusk?"
"No. She'd wake up. Maybe through my window," I smile, remembering the window, "i'm out of practice. But it should work."
"Out of practice?"
"Oh," Crap, I can't let her know that once and a while I would sneak out to see Snotlout when we were dating. I never got caught by my parents and no one else knew, "well...you see...that is...I went to...see Oleander...yeah... Oleander..."
"Uh-huh?" She crosses her arms, "didn't you say once that Oleander slept at the bottom of the ocean.."
Caught, "Fine," I whisper, "I would sneak out to see Snotlout."
"His idea or yours?"
"His. It was quiet and we'd fly on Hookfang for a bit."
"Really?"
"Yes. But that's beside the point," It wasn't actually, "I need to sneak out tomorrow morning before dusk so I don't get caught. Then hide somewhere or Grease may find me." He could find my anywhere, "hopefully the race is cancelled tomorrow. This is stressful."
We discuss my strategy, but still I pray that the next day would bring some success.
The race wasn't cancelled. The next morning before the sun reaches the sky, I slip through my window above my bed and cling to the tree outside. I shuffle down and silently run towards Hiccups home. This morning my wrist is paining a little, my entire arm feels sore. I don't know why.
"Toothless," I call as quietly as I can. Toothless pops out of the window and meets me on the ground, "Sorry. I had to leave before mom woke up. Want to fly for an extra hour today?"
Toothless jumps up and gets excited, pushing me towards the cliffs where I would get on the saddle and start off towards the skies. We take to the skies and fly, twirling and practicing for the races. As the sun rises and sets into the sky, I see people begin to clean up the square from the previous days incident. But as the sun hits the peak of its rise, people stop what their doing and make their way to the races starting line.
I sigh, "Alright Toothless. Here's the part where we meet everyone at the arena." I was nervous for this, almost shaking in my boots. Toothless could feel it I guess, because he looks at me, "Fine. Just don't disobey mom very often." And I shudder at the thought of Grease. What will happen if he finds me?
My mom is outside the house, but she is so into her conversation that she doesn't see me fly by in the sky. We land in the arena, thankfully Snotlout and Astrid are already there. But I'm praying Grease doesn't find me.
"Hey Astr-"
"Penny!" CRAP! I look at her and cringe, I turn to see Grease walking towards me, "there you are. The race is starting and we need to get our seats."
I sigh, "I told you Grease. I'm in the race. I can't abandon it."
"No," Grease scowls, I didn't know he could do that, "you aren't in the race, you're not strong enough for it."
"She is so," Astrid argues before I can speak. Toothless is starting to glare and growl at Grease, "she's been in the race lots of times and she's won."
"Hahaha, that's funny,"Grease approaches me, "getting your little posse to stand up for you."
"Its true," Astrid glares.
"Or not. Come Penny, we must take our seats," He gets closer and I back up.
"I'm in the race. I'm not leaving."
"You are, actually," He grins, "now come."
Grease goes to grab my arm and Toothless gets in between us, glaring and snarling, "Move dragon."
He doesn't.
"Pitiful," He says, "but you are coming with me."
"Hey, grease face." A voice I recognize, Snotlout, "why don't you go pick on someone else?"
"Oh. You," Grease wipes his hands on his shirt, "I will not be leaving without Ms. Penny."
"Oh yeah, well I say you do." Snotlout is glaring.
"You can't order me around."
"Yes I can. I'm a Jorgenson. And the Jorgensons are one of the highest ranking clans on this island. So if I say leave, you leave," He smirks, "got it pig boy."
"How dare you."
Toothless approaches Grease slowly, glaring and snarling more. Grease begins to back up, staring at the dragon and then at me, "I'll tell your parents."
"Go ahead," I say, "tattletale. I don't care."
And then Toothless begins to run to Grease, he looks like he wants to bite his leg off. The guy screams, running out of the arena with his hands waving in the air, "Thanks," I look at Snotlout, "but this doesn't mean I'm still not angry."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, seriously," I glare, "what you did was inexcusable."
"What does that even mean?"
"It means you shouldn't have done it," I say. And then I turn away and walk to the corner, Toothless following me. In a way I feel bad for snapping at Snotlout again, but by now i'm focused on what my mother will say to me when I get home. Even though she might only ground me, she can be unpredictable. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if she came now.
The twins show up along with Fishlegs, and soon the horn sounds. Astrid and I look at each as rivals, no longer team members. But we were going to try to beat everyone, "If one of us wins," I say as I sit on Toothless, "we will both rejoice.
She agree's. And we fly off to the starting line.
Halfway through the race, the twins are ahead by four, with Astrid at three and me at two. As usual Fishlegs is helping the twins, but Snotlout has surprised me so far. He sits there on Hookfang, making more mistakes than normal and bumping into everything in his way. I shake my head, if he would cotninue be disoriented he may end up killing himself again.
Toothless and I speed up as Fishlegs grabs the sheep. He's ahead of the pack, with Astrid and the twins following. It was time for us to act.
"Speed time," I murmur and Toothless speeds up. He weaves around the twins, I stick my tongue out at them.
Tuffnut frowns, "Hey! No fair."
"It is," I respond, and we leave them in the dust. That's when I remember, Fishlegs would pass it to them. So instead I pull up and we are back where we were.
"Yeah!" Tuffnut calls, "take that!"
I want to laugh but I can't or someone would notice I was up to something. And then it happened. Fishlegs pulls up, getting behind Astrid and throws the sheep to Ruffnut. We speed up and I am able to grab the sheep in time.
"Hey!" Fishlegs calls.
"Bye!" I mock. Astrid catches wind, speeding up behind us as we head to the end of the lap, "she's going to jump on you," Out of the corner of my eye with my head turned I can already see her get ready, "Down Toothless." We dive before she has the chance to jump, under the baskets and back over. I throw my sheep into the basket, "Yes!" Now we're ahead.
As I glance down I catch my mother in the stands, she is cheering, but at the same time I see that she is an angry. Just something in her facial expression, I'm not able to point it out.
"Alright Toothless," I say, "the next sheep is by Svens farm. Maybe if I win, mom won't get so angry." Thank goodness the order of the sheep were was always the same, or similar enough.
We start the lap, taking a lead in front of everyone else, and easily we grab the sheep and throw it later into our basket.
From there the outcome of the race would have been easily predicted when Fishlegs and the twins sped away of me.
The black sheep was here, I was actually beating Astrid, but the twins were ahead by several points, "The black sheep," I say when I hear the horn, "lets go claim a victory. This will be a good change."
We speed up as I see the launcher fling the sheep into the air, but as Toothless is about to grab something whips in front of us and the sheep is gone.
Snotlout got it, "Snotlout, Snotlout, Oi oi oi!"
"Great," I mutter, "Toothless, I hope he's slightly disorientated. Otherwise we might lost."
Toothless looks at me, smiling or trying to, "You think he still is? Then lets use it against him."
We follow him into the sky, and now we are facing Hookfang and Snotlout.
"Hey Snotlout, how many cats can you get in a tree before it collapses?"
He looks at us confused.
Then we spring into action. Toothless glides below Hookfang while I jump off the saddle and grab the sheep from his hands. I almost miss Toothless, but I land on him.
"Crap!" I scream, then i'm falling, clinging to the sheep, "Toothless!"
The dragon accelerates as I fall, and i'm scared. I don't want to die. But I have to focus. Toothless angles himself, and with one hand I yank myself on to the saddle, adjusting the peddle. Toothless tries to pull up. But we're too late.
We land on to the ground, I flip off of Toothless's saddle, still clinging to the sheep. I almost fall off the cliff, but thankfully I don't. My bad arm is throbbing when I finally lay on the ground.
Everyone flies towards me landing on the ground, "Are you okay?" Astrid calls, kneeling beside me.
"Yeah," I pet the sheep, who is still alive...surprisingly, "is Toothless okay." I look at him, his tail wing is broken, "darn it."
"Wow that was a serious fall," Tuffnut says, trying to take the sheep.
Snotlout is flying by Fishlegs watching. Now I feel bad. I look at the sheep, and with my eyes closed I fling it at Snotlout, "You take it," It was wrong to use his disorientation against him, winning wasn't that important anyway.
For a moment he's surprised, but he flies off towards the finish line, "Why did you do that? You could have won."
"Its not worth it. I did something I shouldn't have," I smile, "besides there will be another race."
And then I hear the crowds cheer.
"I'll be right back, "Fishlegs flies over towards the finish line.
"I'll give you a lift," Astrid helps me up. The twins follow us as we fly towards the starting line.
Snotlout should be rejoicing but he isn't.
"Congratulations," Hiccup announces, "Penny!"
I frown, "What?" I'm so confused, "Hiccup!" I call, "what's going on? Didn't Snotlout win?"
"No," He looks at me, "he threw the sheep in your basket." My eyes widen in shock. Before I can say anything he looks around, "where's Toothless?"
"We were in an accident!" I gesture to Astrid who flies lower, "he's fine, but his tail fin is broken."
"Oh no, I need to see him. Astrid, can you take me there?" I'm surprised, he's actually talking to Astrid.
She nods without any hesitation.
"I'll take care of things for you," I say, "don't hurry."
He smiles, "thank you." And they fly off.
For a moment I'm thankful, I didn't get too hurt. I would've broken a million bones or died.
I glance at Snotlout, slightly confused. Until it hits me.
Fishlegs was right.
After spending several hours in the cave, with nothing to light the way but the torches and candles we brought, we finally make a small enough hole amongst the rocks for Tuffnut to squeeze through. He brushes off his pants and crosses his arms over his chest, "Took you long enough. It was beginning to smell in there."
"You were in there a couple hours."
"Of course. But I wasn't talking about the cave. I was talking about me."
Everyone's eyes widen, and we take a few steps away from Tuffnut, except Ruffnut who smiles, "You smell almost as bad as me."
"Ew!" Everyone takes one more step away from the twins.
"What? Its a serious achievement. Smell is the best thing about a viking. Like loyalty, and stubborness, and-"
"Actually Ruffnut, I don't think smell has anything to do with it. In fact, vikings hate smell." Hiccup notes.
"Excuse me Hiccup, ex-leader of the dragon training academy. I don't remember asking for your advice."
"And I wasn't giving you advice."
"Don't deny it."
Hiccup shrugs his shoulders, "I have no idea what you're talking about." The room goes quiet and no one speaks. The twins get together, and begin to talk really loudly, my ears are beginning to hurt.
I gesture back towards the tunnel, "Lets leave." We all head back towards the exit. Astrid and I walking together near the middle of the pack, with Hiccup at the front, just behind him is Fishlegs.
"Hey Penny," Tuffnut says, "I thought you and Snotlout broke up."
And the awkwardness comes back, "We did Tuffnut. A long time ago."
"Then why is he walking so close to you,"
"What are you...?" I turn around and Snotlout is right there. He stops suddenly, thankfully avoiding bumping into me or something even more embarrassing...accidental mouth to mouth contact. I glare, "Can I have some personal space please?" My tone is harsher than normal, my anger from previous is still left in my heart, i'm not as angry. But I needed him to stop acting like a child, stop treating me like he did. One moment showing signs of immaturity by ignoring me, and the next talking as if we were still dating. It made me upset, frustrated even. Yes, it is immature of me to act this way. But I don't care.
"Ouch," Tuffnut says.
Ruffnut laughs, "you got that right."
"Quit agreeing with me, woman!"
The twins start bickering. At least they were back to normal.
I don't turn around again to see how far away his is, Snotlout I mean. Instead I just pick up the pace with Astrid trailing behind me, "Wow, that was...harsh," Astrid whispers.
She is right, in my heart I know she is right, "I know. I'm just sick of being treated like some..." I try to find the right word, "a footstool. Useful one moment, then BOOM, ignored the next." Maybe those weren't quite the words I wanted, but it followed the general idea.
There were days when I would scold myself for liking Snotlout still, even after what happened. But there were days when I would remind myself that feelings weren't easy to control.
Still, I should never be this angry with anyone.
Astrid nods, "I don't blame you."
"No, I shouldn't act like this," I sigh, "its immature."
"Maybe. But you're putting Snotlout in his place. Trust me, your reaction is perfectly fine."
Her words hit me, they were true and right, but I still didn't feel good about reacting the way I did. Maybe I'd apologize eventually, but with the anger pushing on the way it did, I didn't know when that would be.
"Hahahaha!" Tuffnut and Ruffnut laugh. I turn my head to see Snotlout on the ground staring at the cave wall.
Tuffnut points at Snotlout, "He just ran into a wall! Hey Snotlout! Did you lose your eyes?"
The twins continue to snicker. Snotlout gets up and brushes his pants, glaring at them, "It wasn't THAT funny."
"You're right," Tuffnut laughs a little before finally settling down, "It was HILARIOUS!" And he starts back up again.
I facepalm, but continue towards the exit, trailing behind Fishlegs and Hiccup. This was my chance, "So Astrid," I try to speak in a low voice, "why don't you go to talk to Hiccup?"
"What!?"
"Talk to Hiccup. You know, talking is when your mouth is moving while words are coming out. And Hiccup is-"
"I know that, just...why are you telling me that?"
I shrug, "Why not? He's probably stressed," I bump her in the shoulder with my elbow, "he could use a person to talk to."
"I am not talking to Hiccup," Astrid whispers harshly.
"Not even if-"
"No."
"Or-"
"Nope,"
Well at least I tried, "Fine."
"Can we change the subject?"
It was obvious this would happen so I oblige and we continue to speak about other matters. I decide to mention the race, "My mom doesn't want me to race tomorrow."
"Wait? What?"
"She doesn't like dragons."
"She doesn't...like dragons? Who doesn't like dragons?"
I shrug, "My mom."
"That's ridiculous. Dragons are a part of our everyday lives." Astrid starts to talk about Stormfly, and I listen. When she is finished she looks at me, "what are you going to do?"
"Race," I say bluntly, "I can't let people control my life anymore. Its MINE."
"What will your mom do?"
"She says she'll disown me. But I doubt that. Probably ground me or something..." I say, "i need to get out of the house without her knowing..."
"Sneak out at dusk?"
"No. She'd wake up. Maybe through my window," I smile, remembering the window, "i'm out of practice. But it should work."
"Out of practice?"
"Oh," Crap, I can't let her know that once and a while I would sneak out to see Snotlout when we were dating. I never got caught by my parents and no one else knew, "well...you see...that is...I went to...see Oleander...yeah... Oleander..."
"Uh-huh?" She crosses her arms, "didn't you say once that Oleander slept at the bottom of the ocean.."
Caught, "Fine," I whisper, "I would sneak out to see Snotlout."
"His idea or yours?"
"His. It was quiet and we'd fly on Hookfang for a bit."
"Really?"
"Yes. But that's beside the point," It wasn't actually, "I need to sneak out tomorrow morning before dusk so I don't get caught. Then hide somewhere or Grease may find me." He could find my anywhere, "hopefully the race is cancelled tomorrow. This is stressful."
We discuss my strategy, but still I pray that the next day would bring some success.
The race wasn't cancelled. The next morning before the sun reaches the sky, I slip through my window above my bed and cling to the tree outside. I shuffle down and silently run towards Hiccups home. This morning my wrist is paining a little, my entire arm feels sore. I don't know why.
"Toothless," I call as quietly as I can. Toothless pops out of the window and meets me on the ground, "Sorry. I had to leave before mom woke up. Want to fly for an extra hour today?"
Toothless jumps up and gets excited, pushing me towards the cliffs where I would get on the saddle and start off towards the skies. We take to the skies and fly, twirling and practicing for the races. As the sun rises and sets into the sky, I see people begin to clean up the square from the previous days incident. But as the sun hits the peak of its rise, people stop what their doing and make their way to the races starting line.
I sigh, "Alright Toothless. Here's the part where we meet everyone at the arena." I was nervous for this, almost shaking in my boots. Toothless could feel it I guess, because he looks at me, "Fine. Just don't disobey mom very often." And I shudder at the thought of Grease. What will happen if he finds me?
My mom is outside the house, but she is so into her conversation that she doesn't see me fly by in the sky. We land in the arena, thankfully Snotlout and Astrid are already there. But I'm praying Grease doesn't find me.
"Hey Astr-"
"Penny!" CRAP! I look at her and cringe, I turn to see Grease walking towards me, "there you are. The race is starting and we need to get our seats."
I sigh, "I told you Grease. I'm in the race. I can't abandon it."
"No," Grease scowls, I didn't know he could do that, "you aren't in the race, you're not strong enough for it."
"She is so," Astrid argues before I can speak. Toothless is starting to glare and growl at Grease, "she's been in the race lots of times and she's won."
"Hahaha, that's funny,"Grease approaches me, "getting your little posse to stand up for you."
"Its true," Astrid glares.
"Or not. Come Penny, we must take our seats," He gets closer and I back up.
"I'm in the race. I'm not leaving."
"You are, actually," He grins, "now come."
Grease goes to grab my arm and Toothless gets in between us, glaring and snarling, "Move dragon."
He doesn't.
"Pitiful," He says, "but you are coming with me."
"Hey, grease face." A voice I recognize, Snotlout, "why don't you go pick on someone else?"
"Oh. You," Grease wipes his hands on his shirt, "I will not be leaving without Ms. Penny."
"Oh yeah, well I say you do." Snotlout is glaring.
"You can't order me around."
"Yes I can. I'm a Jorgenson. And the Jorgensons are one of the highest ranking clans on this island. So if I say leave, you leave," He smirks, "got it pig boy."
"How dare you."
Toothless approaches Grease slowly, glaring and snarling more. Grease begins to back up, staring at the dragon and then at me, "I'll tell your parents."
"Go ahead," I say, "tattletale. I don't care."
And then Toothless begins to run to Grease, he looks like he wants to bite his leg off. The guy screams, running out of the arena with his hands waving in the air, "Thanks," I look at Snotlout, "but this doesn't mean I'm still not angry."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, seriously," I glare, "what you did was inexcusable."
"What does that even mean?"
"It means you shouldn't have done it," I say. And then I turn away and walk to the corner, Toothless following me. In a way I feel bad for snapping at Snotlout again, but by now i'm focused on what my mother will say to me when I get home. Even though she might only ground me, she can be unpredictable. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if she came now.
The twins show up along with Fishlegs, and soon the horn sounds. Astrid and I look at each as rivals, no longer team members. But we were going to try to beat everyone, "If one of us wins," I say as I sit on Toothless, "we will both rejoice.
She agree's. And we fly off to the starting line.
Halfway through the race, the twins are ahead by four, with Astrid at three and me at two. As usual Fishlegs is helping the twins, but Snotlout has surprised me so far. He sits there on Hookfang, making more mistakes than normal and bumping into everything in his way. I shake my head, if he would cotninue be disoriented he may end up killing himself again.
Toothless and I speed up as Fishlegs grabs the sheep. He's ahead of the pack, with Astrid and the twins following. It was time for us to act.
"Speed time," I murmur and Toothless speeds up. He weaves around the twins, I stick my tongue out at them.
Tuffnut frowns, "Hey! No fair."
"It is," I respond, and we leave them in the dust. That's when I remember, Fishlegs would pass it to them. So instead I pull up and we are back where we were.
"Yeah!" Tuffnut calls, "take that!"
I want to laugh but I can't or someone would notice I was up to something. And then it happened. Fishlegs pulls up, getting behind Astrid and throws the sheep to Ruffnut. We speed up and I am able to grab the sheep in time.
"Hey!" Fishlegs calls.
"Bye!" I mock. Astrid catches wind, speeding up behind us as we head to the end of the lap, "she's going to jump on you," Out of the corner of my eye with my head turned I can already see her get ready, "Down Toothless." We dive before she has the chance to jump, under the baskets and back over. I throw my sheep into the basket, "Yes!" Now we're ahead.
As I glance down I catch my mother in the stands, she is cheering, but at the same time I see that she is an angry. Just something in her facial expression, I'm not able to point it out.
"Alright Toothless," I say, "the next sheep is by Svens farm. Maybe if I win, mom won't get so angry." Thank goodness the order of the sheep were was always the same, or similar enough.
We start the lap, taking a lead in front of everyone else, and easily we grab the sheep and throw it later into our basket.
From there the outcome of the race would have been easily predicted when Fishlegs and the twins sped away of me.
The black sheep was here, I was actually beating Astrid, but the twins were ahead by several points, "The black sheep," I say when I hear the horn, "lets go claim a victory. This will be a good change."
We speed up as I see the launcher fling the sheep into the air, but as Toothless is about to grab something whips in front of us and the sheep is gone.
Snotlout got it, "Snotlout, Snotlout, Oi oi oi!"
"Great," I mutter, "Toothless, I hope he's slightly disorientated. Otherwise we might lost."
Toothless looks at me, smiling or trying to, "You think he still is? Then lets use it against him."
We follow him into the sky, and now we are facing Hookfang and Snotlout.
"Hey Snotlout, how many cats can you get in a tree before it collapses?"
He looks at us confused.
Then we spring into action. Toothless glides below Hookfang while I jump off the saddle and grab the sheep from his hands. I almost miss Toothless, but I land on him.
"Crap!" I scream, then i'm falling, clinging to the sheep, "Toothless!"
The dragon accelerates as I fall, and i'm scared. I don't want to die. But I have to focus. Toothless angles himself, and with one hand I yank myself on to the saddle, adjusting the peddle. Toothless tries to pull up. But we're too late.
We land on to the ground, I flip off of Toothless's saddle, still clinging to the sheep. I almost fall off the cliff, but thankfully I don't. My bad arm is throbbing when I finally lay on the ground.
Everyone flies towards me landing on the ground, "Are you okay?" Astrid calls, kneeling beside me.
"Yeah," I pet the sheep, who is still alive...surprisingly, "is Toothless okay." I look at him, his tail wing is broken, "darn it."
"Wow that was a serious fall," Tuffnut says, trying to take the sheep.
Snotlout is flying by Fishlegs watching. Now I feel bad. I look at the sheep, and with my eyes closed I fling it at Snotlout, "You take it," It was wrong to use his disorientation against him, winning wasn't that important anyway.
For a moment he's surprised, but he flies off towards the finish line, "Why did you do that? You could have won."
"Its not worth it. I did something I shouldn't have," I smile, "besides there will be another race."
And then I hear the crowds cheer.
"I'll be right back, "Fishlegs flies over towards the finish line.
"I'll give you a lift," Astrid helps me up. The twins follow us as we fly towards the starting line.
Snotlout should be rejoicing but he isn't.
"Congratulations," Hiccup announces, "Penny!"
I frown, "What?" I'm so confused, "Hiccup!" I call, "what's going on? Didn't Snotlout win?"
"No," He looks at me, "he threw the sheep in your basket." My eyes widen in shock. Before I can say anything he looks around, "where's Toothless?"
"We were in an accident!" I gesture to Astrid who flies lower, "he's fine, but his tail fin is broken."
"Oh no, I need to see him. Astrid, can you take me there?" I'm surprised, he's actually talking to Astrid.
She nods without any hesitation.
"I'll take care of things for you," I say, "don't hurry."
He smiles, "thank you." And they fly off.
For a moment I'm thankful, I didn't get too hurt. I would've broken a million bones or died.
I glance at Snotlout, slightly confused. Until it hits me.
Fishlegs was right.