Finding the Right Dragon (HTTYD Fan Fiction)

Sixteen - Baby Steps

"And that one's the...Hideous Nightmare?" Saige said, pionting to one of the drawings in the book. She furrowed her eyebrows and sighed when I shook my head.

"There isn't even that kind of dragon. Try again." I encouraged. "I'll give you a clue. It's from the Boulder Class." Smiling, I looked at her as she concentrated, trying to remember which dragon it was. Hiccup watched us from across the table.

"Whispering Death?" She tested.

"Yes! Very good." I praised. We were sitting out in the open on a table inbetween Gobber's stall and the mutton stall. "Oh go away." I muttered as one of the sheep sniffed my bag on the seat. Today was quite sunny, and it hadn't snowed for the past three days, there was the occasional patch of green on the ground.

"This is so hard. I always thought that I had the names right, I guess not." She grumbled. Hiccup laughed, but smiled at her, humoured.

''That's adorable." He teased, causing her to throw an annoyed look at him. He continued to grin, and I rolled my eyes at him. "Whaat? It's not every day that I get to meet another chief's child, like me. Especially one that likes dragons."

"Do the clothes I gave you fit?" Astrid called out as she approached.

"Yeah, perfectly." Saige responded. She had a very similar wardrobe to Astrid's, mostly because she was wearing her old clothes. Except for a few differences, such as her shirt was a dark grey colour, with the same style leather skirt, which was brown and had metal studs instead of spikes, complete with dark brown leggings and black boots.

"Good, you look great in them." Astrid stopped and stood at the head of the table. "But...we were gonna go up to the Wild Dragon Cliff, see if we can spot any wild Typhoomerang's. Some of the male dragons are returning, you guys wanna come?"

"No thanks." Hiccup said, "I gotta go help my Dad, by the sound of it, he's back." The unmistakable sound of Thornado echoed through the village.

"Well, we'd love to. Come on Saige, I think we're done with this for the day." I said, clambling out of my seat and slinging my bag over my shoulder.

"Oh gladly. I mean, it's not like I'm not interested in this stuff, it's interesting, but not interesting...yeah." She paused, then didn't bother to make sense of what she said.

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"Shutup Brolo" I hissed at my complaining brother as we trudged through the forest toward the Cliffs. "Quite honestly, no one cares."

"But why did I have to come?" he moaned, annoyed that he had to walk so far.

"Umm, because Jasdia was nice enough to ask you, and you said you wanted to. So, don't complain to me, complain to her. It's not my problem." I argued, walking faster to put distance between us. "But we're here anyway, so you can be quiet." I gave him a hard wack in the stomach with my shield.

"Wow, this is amazing.'' Saige said, taking in the scenery. Remter sat down on a rock, and nodded in agreement.

"By Odin, I only just realsied, Lash will be back soon, with babies...my life is about to get a whole lot busier." He gave a weak, nervous laugh.

A while later, we were split up and exploring the area, seeing if we could find any clues. Saige and I hadn't found anything useful, except for the odd few fishbones. There was a splash in the distance, but with the canyon shape of where we were, the sound travelled.

'What was that?" Saige asked, and I shrugged. Then I heard someone screaming. Saige was the first to react, breaking inot a run toward where the noise came from. I was right after her.