Chapter 33: Free Scauldy (Reign)

        "Woo-hoo!"

The twins ducked under the arc of a sea stack, upsetting a group of sleeping Terrible Terrors, while the rest of us stuck to our path. Usually, we could let their optimistic demeanor go, but Hiccup wasn't messing around today.

"Guys, can you please put a lid on it?" he shouted down to them. "Looking for the Screaming Death, low profile. Remember the meeting?"

"Yeah. But we had our own meeting." Unable to keep his attention on one thing for too long, Tuff darted his eyes down to a large group of sea stacks. "Ooh! Dangerous, pointy rocks."

"How did we get stuck with these two?" I asked, pulling up next to Hiccup.

"Well, it was them or Snotlout," he answered with a shrug.

"Hmm... point taken. At least we have Fishlegs." I turned back to the boy on his Gronkle and waved with a smile. "If you'd left me with Snotlout, I would've killed you."

"Even if Astrid was with you?" I laughed bitterly.

"Especially if Astrid were with me. The two would just be fighting the whole time driving me out of my mind."

"Well, their bickering is on a different path right now." I sighed happily and smiled at him

"And I thank you for that." I steered Shriek a little closer to the pair as we approached a rocky island. Its familiarity wasn't exactly a comfort, given the dragons that inhabited it.

"Oh, great," Fishlegs deadpanned. "Changewing Island."

"Okay, guys, quick refresher. Island full of ill-tempered, highly territorial, and virtually invisible dragons." I noticed Toothless' nose begin to twitch as his eyes narrowed. He sensed something, but what? Were the Changewings already headed our way?

"So we should buzz 'em!" Tuff shouted.

"Really rile 'em up!"

"I'm pretty sure Hiccup was thinking more along the lines of keeping our distance." I shot the two of them a look.

"I like the sound of that," Fishlegs laughed. Toothless stopped sniffed and let out a distressed roar. "That I don't like the sound of." I glanced at Hiccup, worried.

"Me neither. But still need to check it out." He and Toothless dove, leaving the rest of us to reluctantly follow.

"What happened to the 'keep our distance' policy?"

We flew far enough over the island to see over the cover of trees, finding a large, green dragon rearing its head and thrashing back and forth as it roared. I jumped at the sight, not expecting to see that sort of dragon on land.

"Whoa, that's a Scauldron."

"What's it doing on land?"

"Catching some rays?"

"Taking some alone time?" I rolled my eyes at the twins' inability to take this situation seriously. Despite how deadly the Scauldron could be, if it was in danger, we needed to help it.

"Lucky dragon..."

"Or maybe it's waiting for unsuspecting dragon riders to get too close, so it can blast them with its scalding hot water." Fishlegs began to panic, as usual. "Oh, just lovely."

The Scauldron roared again, and when I glanced down at it this time, I noticed something pinning its right wing onto the sand. It was trying to get away, but whatever was keeping it down was too heavy.

"Actually, I think he may be hurt. Let's check it out." This time, I took charge, just barely avoiding the jaws of the Scauldron as we landed. It glared right at me as we disembarked, trying to make itself appear more menacing.

"Whoa. He is huge."

"He could eat me in, like, one bite." Of course Ruffnut sounded excited about that.

"Let's see!" Tuff pushed his sister right in front of the Scauldron, causing it to lift its head and roar menacingly at her. Tuffnut laughed at his job, only for Ruff to kick her foot back and knock her brother to the ground. "Or maybe not."

"Hiccup look!" Fishlegs pointed to the large pile of rocks pinning the Scauldron down. "There must have been an earthquake, and before he could get back to the water, his wing got pinned." The Scauldron struggled to get free, but to no avail.

"A Tidal Class dragon can't stay out of the water for very long. If its skin dries all the way out..." Hiccup couldn't finish his sentence, and the three of us glanced at each other with concern.

"We have to help him." I began to step up, but Fishlegs placed a hand on my shoulder.

"Perhaps I need to remind you, Scauldron and boiling, poisonous death that way." He pointed at the dragon. "Changewings and acid-spitting, invisible death that way."

I glanced at the forest behind us, hearing the vague roars of a Changewing. A tree rattled, causing Fishlegs to cower behind Meatlug. Hiccup stepped forward, placing a hand gently on my arm as the twins popped down from the leaves, cackling. I looked at the boy behind me and rolled my eyes.

"Come on out, Fishlegs! It's just the twins."

"How do you know we're not a Changewing disguised as us?" I scoffed at their stupidity.

"Guys, come on. We need to find a way to free that Scauldron. We can't just leave him without trying."

"Uh, sure we can. We have dragons. We just fly away." Toothless nudged his rider, as though urging him to stay.

"You guys keep an eye out for Changewings. Toothless and I will see if we can help him."

"Yeah, feel free," Tuff encouraged.

"Knock yourself out."

"Yeah, dibs on Toothless if you don't make it back." I whipped around.

"Hey, I would get Toothless." I took a moment to realize what I had just said, and slowly turned to face Hiccup. "Okay, that was the wrong thing to say right now, but-- never mind."

The Scauldron reared its head back and growled as Hiccup and Toothless tried to get closer. The Night Fury responded by roaring, as though trying to intimidate it.

"It's okay, bud." Hiccup placed a hand on Toothless' head. "I'll be fine." The Night Fury backed off slightly, leaving Hiccup to do what he does best. "Hey, pal. How'd you get yourself into this mess?" It responded by roaring and lowering its gaze, causing Hiccup to back up. I gasped slightly as I watched the scene unfold, taking a deep breath. "Oh... kay, that's not really important. What-What is important is us getting you out of here, so... what do you say?"

It leaned down, and for a moment, appeared as though it were going to comply. That was, until it began to fill up the pouch under its jaw.

"Hiccup!"

I rushed forward and grabbed onto him, yanking him behind a rock and tackling him to the ground.

"Okay. Not the answer I was looking for. Gang? Ideas?" Tuff stood up from his hiding spot, holding his fist up in determination.

"I have an idea." He paused for a moment. "Wouldn't it be great if bread came already sliced?" I rolled my eyes and rested my forehead in my hand. "Then you could enjoy it a little bit at a time."

"Think of the sandwiches you could make!"

"Guys, please, can we focus? Scauldron." The large dragon roared in pain, flapping his free wing in an attempt to free himself.

"I say we just blast those boulders off his wing," Tuffnut suggested, finally taking this situation seriously.

"That's too big a risk. We might hurt him more."

"Okay. What if we just blast those boulders off his wing?" Everyone looked at Ruff with confused and annoyed expressions. Hadn't she heard what Hiccup just said? She glanced at everyone before dropping her outstretched arms, shoulders drooping.

"We need to let the Scauldron know we're friends." I turned to look at Hiccup and Fishlegs, hoping they could help come up with some sort of idea.

"Maybe if we got him wet, it might calm him down." I turned to Hiccup for approval.

"Yeah, it's worth a try."

"Or, we could blast--" Before Tuffnut could finished, I slammed my hand over his mouth.

"Don't say it," I snapped. "Fishlegs, Ruff, Tuff, get on your dragons and get some water. Hiccup and I will wait here and let you guys know when to dump it."

The three took my orders and headed toward the sea. I trained my eyes to the Scauldron, watching it with a sort of sadness. Who knows how long the poor thing had been trapped here, desperately attempting to get free as a crushing weight caused his wing to hurt. Shriek must have sensed my distress because she nudged my side gently and purred. I smiled down at her and pet her head gently.

"We'll save it, Reign." I looked over at Hiccup, who was leaning against Toothless.

"I hope so. I couldn't bear to be here if it..." I trailed off, my breath hitching in my throat.

"I know."

The beating of wings above our heads turned our attentions to a pair of dragons heading back in our directions, buckets under their arms. I wasn't quite sure where they'd gotten those, but I chose not to question it.

I waited until they got just close enough over the Scauldron, they cupped my hands around my mouth and shouted, "now!"

They were just about to dump the water on the dragon, when he turned his head around and roared at them. He swung his large wing out, knocking Barf and Belch into Meatlug, causing the buckets to be dropped and the riders and their dragons to start plummeting to the sand. Hiccup jumped up on Toothless and sped toward Tuff, rescuing him from falling onto rock. Ruffnut and Fishlegs landed safely on the sand, along with their dragons.

"Okay, so, the idea was to get the dragon wet," Hiccup teased as he picked up one of the buckets.

"On the bright side, being wet has made me feel calmer."

"Just made me feel wetter." I rolled my eyes at Tuff.

"What next?" Fishlegs asked as he pushed himself up from the ground.

"I'm open to suggestions."

"Well--"

"That don't involve blasting boulders off of wings!" Tuffnut's expression faded.

"Never mind." Hiccup sighed and turned to the blonde boy next to him.

"Fishlegs?"

"If it won't let us help it, what can we do?" I snapped my head over to Fishlegs, unintentionally staring him down.

"There has to be something."

The Scauldron roared again, this time louder as he haphazardly flapped his wing. He thrashed his head back and forth in distress, as though he were trying to warn us of something. I felt Fishlegs grab onto my shoulder and cower behind me as he sprayed the little bit of water in his mouth back and forth, before he collapsed into the sand, wearing himself into a vegetative state.

"Reign, Hiccup, you know how I feel about dragons. But a wild Scauldron is, well... it's about as wild as they get. Maybe... maybe this is just one of those times when nature just has to take its course." I sucked in a shallow breath as I felt a slender hand gently touch my own.

"You mean like when I drank that sour yak milk and gave Ruffnut the Smokey Viking?"

"He means if the Scauldron won't let us help it, then... well, there's nothing more we can do without endangering ourselves or our dragons." I bit my lip and pulled away from the others as a crushing pain weighed down on my chest. Reluctantly, I climbed up onto Shriek and watched as Ruff hesitated before joining her brother on their Zippleback.

Hiccup stuttered for a moment, finally at a loss for words, before muttering a defeated, "sorry."

He tried to make Toothless fly back to Berk, but the dragon only got a few feet off the ground before forcing himself to land back on Changewing Island. In fact, all our dragons refused to stray too far from the helpless Scauldron.

"Whoa, whoa. What-What is it, bud?"

"What's wrong, girl? What is it?"

"I don't think the dragons want us to leave, either," Fishlegs inferred.

"Just show them who the boss is! Watch and learn!" The twins attempted to get Barf and Belch to take off, but the dragon just crossed its necks before throwing the siblings from their saddles. While Tuff landed safely behind a set of rocks, Ruffnut continued to skid until she was a mere few feet in front of the Scauldron. He stared her down and roared, reeling his head back slightly.

"Ruffnut, do not move," Hiccup ordered, keeping his voice low.

"For the first time in my life, Hiccup, you have my full attention." The moment Ruff finished speaking, the Scauldron slithered his head closer. nuzzling right up to her face. Barf and Belch lept up and roared at the dragon they thought was attacking their rider and scurried forward, only to be stopped by the Scauldron's blast. Hiccup and Toothless jumped in front of the Zippleback, and he held his hand out to try and calm the dragon.

"Whoa, guys! She's all right." The Scauldron resumed inspecting the girl in front of him.

"What's it doing?" Fishlegs hissed.

"I think it's... smelling her?"

"Haha! Hey, Ruffnut! Looks like you finally got a date that's as ugly as you," her brother taunted.

"May-Maybe it's finally gonna let us help." The rest of us tried to approach, but the Scauldron spotted us out of its peripheral vision, and it leered at the four of us as it growled, threatening to spit water at us.

"Or not!" The Scauldron looked as though it were about to shoot, but its eyes suddenly relaxed, and it focused back on Ruffnut.

"What is it about her hair that the dragon likes so much?" I asked, genuinely confused and curious.

"Well, m-maybe it's the color of its mother's hair?" No one responded to Fishlegs, waiting for him to realize what he had just said. It took him a few seconds before he sighed to himself. "That... doesn't make any sense... does it? Sorry, I'm still terrified from what just almost happened."

"Why would anyone like her smelly old hair? It's full of fish oil." That seemed to give Hiccup an answer.

"Ruffnut, do you put fish oil in your hair?" he shouted to her.

"Duh! How else do you think I get this greasy, unwashed look?"

"Okay, I'm not gonna pretend to understand that."

"No, no, it makes sense." I chose not to point out the fact Hiccup was likely referring to Ruffnut's chosen hairstyle. "Scauldrons are ocean-dwelling dragons. Maybe the smell of fish reminds him of home."

"Hey, if the smell of Ruffnut's hair keeps that dragon calm, gang... that's our way in." I glanced over at Hiccup, and somehow figured out what he was thinking just by reading his facial expression.

"Hiccup--"

"Ruffnut, I want you to train the Scauldron!" he called over to the Viking. She paused for a moment, before sort of turning in our direction.

"You want me to what?"

"Train the Scauldron." Hiccup said that as though that would be easy. I think he sometimes forgot that not everyone was as skilled with dragons as he was.

"Uh, I can't do that!"

"Sure you can! You trained Barf."

"That's half a dragon." She had a point. I'd watched her and her brother train their dragon, and she really only focused on the head designated as her own.

"And let's be honest: I did most of the work." I rolled my eyes and turned to the female Viking.

"What about all the classes at the Academy?" Part of me was afraid of the answer.

"Wait... we have classes?" Not quite the response I expected, but it was still just as alarming.

"Yeah, you-you know when Hiccup is standing in front and talking about dragons?"

"You were talking to us?" Hiccup and I sighed, exasperated.

"Uh, yeah, okay. Never mind. Uh... look, don't worry, Ruffnut! I will talk you through training the Scauldron."

"Hiccup, we need to hurry. The Scauldron is really looking dry." I glanced at the dragon's stomach to see its brilliant teal color beginning to fade to an ashy grey. Hiccup narrowed his eyes as he realized the window was closing.

"Okay. Step one: establish a bond."

"With who?" I sighed. This was going to be near impossible.

"'With wh--' the dragon!"

"Right... How, exactly?" Fishlegs slapped his palm against his forehead.

"You guys don't ever pay attention, do you?"

"Nope." Tuff's answer was blunt and to the point.

"R-Ruffnut, try this: give the dragon a name." She turned back to the threatening Scauldron.

"Uh, okay? How about... 'Please Don't Kill Me'?"

"Yeah, or maybe something a little more positive."

"I've got one: 'Scalding, Painful Death: The Dragon'."

"How is that more positive?"

"How is it not?" I rolled my eyes at the male twin.

"Can I just go with 'Scauldy'?"

"Perfect!" Ruff smiled and turned back to the dragon.

"Hey there, Scauldy," she greeted awkwardly. "So... Scauldy, what brings you to Changewing Island? The tide, or... the tide?" I sighed and crossed my arms. "I got nothing! Sorry, guys!" Scauldy leaned a little closer to Ruffnut, curious.

"Did that just sort of work?" Fishlegs asked, slightly astonished.

"Yeah. Now here comes the moment of truth. Okay, talk to him again, but this time, reach out your hand, like this."

Hiccup closed his eyes and reached his hand out beside him, turning his head away. Toothless stood up, intrigued, and I watched as Fishlegs trotted over to Hiccup and rested his forehead against Hiccup's hand, closing his eyes as well. Hiccup seemed to think Toothless had touched his hand, so when he opened his eyes and saw Fishlegs, he jumped.

"Aah! Fishlegs!"

"Sorry! I'm just very nervous for Ruffnut." Toothless leered over the Viking's shoulder. "I'll go keep an eye out for Changewings."

"Go on, Ruffnut," Hiccup encouraged.

The looked up at Scauldy with wary eyes, looking as though she doubted herself at first. Carefully, she began to close her eyes and stick her hand out.

"You can do it, sis!" Tuffnut shouted, startling Ruff. "But in case you can't, at least your death will be quick, mostly painless, and really cool to watch."

Ruffnut sighed, and went back to trying to train Scauldy. She closed her eyes and extended her hand out for the large dragon.

"Okay, Scauldy. I'm guessing you're as freaked out as I am now. But if you don't kill me, I would really appreciate it, and--"

Her eyes flew open as Scauldy pressed his grey nose against her hand, his eyes widening affectionately. Fishlegs popped back out from behind Meatlug as all of us watched in wonder.

"Whoa... Hi. Hey, Scauldy."

"Come on, guys. Let's go." As all of us tried to approach, Scauldy looked up and growled.

"I know. I know, Scauldy. Hiccup's kind of bossy, but look, he's trying to help you." I snickered and glanced at the boy on my left. "Trust me."

"Shouldn't one of us stay back as a lookout for Changewings?" Fishlegs asked, already backing away.

"Changewings or not, we need to help this dragon. And it's going to take all of us to get those rocks off."

"Besides, if there were Changewings anywhere near us, I would sense it." I scoffed at Tuffnut.

"You don't have a sixth sense for Changewings, Tuff. Now come on, we've got a chance to free Scauldy." Toothless suddenly roared, sounding distressed.

"What is it, bud?"

Hiccup turned around just as a bright red Changewing opened its mouth to spray acid at him. Thinking fast, I lunged forward and pulled him out of the way of the shot. Toothless jumped out and fired at the aggressive dragon. Two of them closed in on Meatlug and Fishlegs, and the Gronkle blasted them out of the way. All of us stood our ground in front of Scauldy as the Changewings closed in, their leering eyes set on the injured dragon.

"Oh, man. I must be dreaming because this is way cooler than what was happening minutes ago."

As I glared at Tuffnut, a magnesium blast shot down from the sky, causing two of the Changewings to scatter.

"Ha! One Snotlout surprise coming through!" the Viking on the Monstrous Nightmare shouted as he and Astrid came to save us.

The Changewings took to the air and began to circle around Scauldy's head, firing acid at Ruffnut to get her to move. Astrid and Snotlout continued their assault on the Changewings until they finally turned and flew away.

"Calm down, Scauldy," Ruff cooed as the Scauldron roared and thrashed his head back and forth, flapping his one free wing. "It's okay! It's okay. Calm down."

"What have I told you guys about playing with wild Changewings?" Astrid stared our group down as she and Stormfly landed.

"Uh, we're trying to keep them away from Scauldy," I shouted.

"Scauldy?"

"Well, it was that or 'Scalding, Painful Death: The Dragon'."

"Mine!" Tuff cheered, as though that were something to be proud of.

"Look, those Changewings are gonna be back with friends. Lots of them, so..."

"So let's move these boulders. Ruff, you need to keep Scauldy focused on you, not us."

"Okay." Her confidence suddenly fell away when she realized what Hiccup was asking her to do. "Wait, how do I do that?"

"Do your stupid Hiccup impression!" her brother suggested as the rest of us got up on our dragons and began to circle Scauldy.

"Oh, yeah. Good idea! Hello, nice dragon. You can be my friend. My leg fell off. All of the dragons are my friends." I snickered as I glanced at Hiccup, waiting for his reaction.

"I don't sound like that! And, p.s., my leg didn't fall off. Try something else!"

"Like what?"

"Try one of those songs mom used to sing to you when you were little and were afraid of the dark."

"You were afraid of the dark, not me! I was afraid of you!"

"Just sing!" As Ruff grabbed onto the pouch under Scauldy's jaw, he tried to throw his head back and forth.

"Hush little Viking, don't you cry, or the Berserker will stab you in the eye." I snapped my head down toward the pair, feeling slightly offended.

"Hey!"

"Don't let the enemy see you afraid, or he's gonna gut you with a rusty blade." Oddly enough, the chilling lyrics and Ruffnut's sandpaper voice seemed to calm Scauldy down, allowing us to swoop down and start picking up the rocks. "If that dragon hears your moans, he's gonna mash up all your bones." Scauldy's eyes widened in anger and he began to growl. "Oh... sorry. I promise Scauldy, if you don't kill me, my friends and I will get you out to sea."

Stormfly disposed of the last rock, finally freeing Scauldy and allowing him to go back into the water. He looked at his formerly trapped wing and fluttered it up and down a couple times, before leaning down and roaring at Ruff and knocking her to the ground. He tried to fly back into the water, but his wing was too damaged to be able to carry him, and he was too weak to stand.

"Oh, no!"

"Oh, I see it, too." Hiccup and I dove down and crouched next to the fractured, obscurely bent wing.

"The wing is broken," I sighed, trying not to touch it. "Scauldy can't swim, or fly."

"Wait, we did all this for nothing?"

"It looks like a simple break. We might be able to fix it."

"With what? A giant dragon splint?" Snotlout began to laugh at his own suggestion, but Hiccup, Fishlegs, and I looked at each other with intrigue. That idea could actually work.

"Exactly." Snotlout's laughter immediately ceased as he looked at us.

"I knew that, that's why I said it-- 'because it was my idea." Astrid scoffed and rolled her eyes at him.

"Any time, now!" Ruff called, crushed beneath Scauldy.

"All right, we're gonna need wood, the biggest pieces you can find."

"And we'll need something to secure the splint."

"We can use the rope from my shield, but we'll need more. Bring any vines you can find." I jumped back onto Shriek and started collecting any fallen branches I could find littered through the forest. When we all met back up, we'd collected enough wood to make a splint, and Hiccup and Tuffnut had pulled together enough ropes and vines to put this thing together. "Good job, everyone." Tuff brought Hiccup's shield back to him.

"Here you go."

"Sorry about the catapult thing."

"Catapult thing?"

"Eh, it's okay. It's sort of a hair trigger. I tightened it up for you, so--" He pressed the trigger for the catapult, which shot out and hit him in the face, knocking him to the ground. "Just... take it." He handed the shield back to Hiccup.

"Okay, someone needs to be on the lookout for Changewings while the rest of us work on the splint."

"Astrid and I will go!" Snotlout raised his hand before slinging his other arm around her and pulling her right against him, much to her disgust. Hiccup and I got to work on the splint. "Alone. By ourselves."

"Knock yourself out," Hiccup shrugged as I helped him tighten one of the vines.

"What? Just saying what you were thinking." Astrid responded by grabbing Snotlout's arm and throwing him to the ground.

Hiccup and I dragged a log closer to Scauldy, but neither of us could get it all the way over, so Toothless nudged it the rest of the way with his nose.

"That's it, bud. Good job." The pieces of wood were finally set into place.

"Hiccup, I don't know if we have enough vines and rope."

"Well, this'll have to be enough." He tightened the knot on the vines he was working on before trying to connect that branch to another one. The splint was nearly finished, meaning we'd be able to get Scauldy back into the water quickly and save him.

"Hurry up, guys, and fix that wing because I've run out of things to sing. Hello?"

"I think it's gonna work!"

"Hiccup!" He and I turned around to see Snotlout and Hookfang barreling right for us.

"Well, this can't be good news." The pair bounded right for us, and a desperate-looking Snotlout stopped right in front of him.

"I don't understand women," he whined.

"Changewings behind us," Astrid informed the rest of us as she and Stormfly landed. "About five minutes out."

"How many?"

"Enough that they aren't bothering camouflaging themselves." My eyes went wide, and the two of us turned to the others working away on the splint.

"Uh, Fishlegs?" He tied the final knot in the vines.

"I got it!" The moment he let his hands go from the vines, it snapped and the knot came undone again. "It broke!"

"Oh, no!" Fishlegs tried to pull them back together, but the vine was too short now, and he couldn't connect them.

"It won't reach! We need more rope!" The group of Changewings finally caught up with us, heading straight for Scauldy. "Oh, we're out of time!" Fishlegs screamed as he hopped up onto Meatlug. "They're coming, they're coming!"

"Ruffnut, we... have to go," Hiccup sighed, admitting defeat.

"No! Can't we all lift Scauldy?"

"Even if we could, it wouldn't do any good. The dragon can't swim." Ruff turned to look at the greying dragon, nuzzling her with wide eyes.

"Ruffnut..." She took another look at Scauldy, and something seemed to change in her.

"No! I am not leaving him here."

"Look, sis..." I could tell Tuffnut was starting to get concerned for his sister's safety.

Scauldy's eyes suddenly shot open and his pupils narrowed as the Changewings began to close in.

"Whatever we're going to do, we have to do it now." Scauldy leaned back slightly before nudging Ruff away, encouraging her to go. She looked back and forth between the approaching dragons and the injured one, tugging on her braids.

"Wait! I have an idea." She suddenly yanked out her knife and began sawing away the thick braids. My eye widened in shock as I watched her cut off her own hair and tie it to the branches where the vines had broken. The splint was finished, and quickly as we could, we moved Scauldy back into the water and flew over him as he swam away. By the time the Changewings got there, Scauldy would be long gone.

"Sorry about sticking you with Snotlout today," I called down to Astrid as we headed back home.

"It wasn't that bad. Watch this." She turned toward Snotlout, who was flying oddly far away from her. "Hey, sweetie pie? Honey bunch? Snotty-kins?"

"Would you stop it already?" Snotlout sounded defeated. "You are grossing me out."

"Yeah, you're kinda grossing me out, too," I laughed before following Hiccup down toward the twins.

"Ruff, you did good down there."

"You really did. I mean, that was awesome."

"You know what would've been more awesome." Ruff reached out and slapped her brother.

"Yeah! If it would've eaten me?"

"I love it when you read my mind, sis." They butted their helmets together.

"You guys ready to head home?" Hiccup asked the pair.

"Hang on a minute." She steered Barf and Belch closer to the water and reached down with her hand. After a few seconds, Scauldy reached his head up and nuzzled into her hand, wishing her a last goodbye. "I'm gonna miss you, Scauldy. Look, anytime you want to visit, I'll just kick out Tuffnut to make room. No problem, okay?" He roared up at her before ducking back down into the ocean. "Bye."

"Has anyone ever told you that you look like a boy?"

"Has anyone ever told you?"

I would never understand those two...

HTTYD SeriesChapter 1: How to Start a Dragon Academy (Reign)Chapter 2: Viking for Hire (Hiccup)Chapter 3: Animal House (Reign)Chapter 4: The Terrible Twos (Hiccup)Chapter 5: In Dragons We Trust (Reign)Chapter 6: Alvin and the Outcasts (Hiccup)Chapter 7: How to Pick Your Dragon (Reign)Chapter 8: A Portrait of Hiccup As a Buff Young Man (Hiccup)Chapter 9: Dragon Flower (Reign)Chapter 10: Heather Report, Pt. 1 (Hiccup)Chapter 11: Heather Report, Pt. 2 (Reign)Chapter 12: Thawfest (Hiccup)Chapter 13: When Lightning Strikes (Reign)Chapter 14: What Flies Beneath (Hiccup)Chapter 15: Twinsanity (Reign)Chapter 16: Defiant One (Hiccup)Chapter 17: Breakneck Bog (Reign)Chapter 18: Gem of a Different Color (Hiccup)Chapter 19: We Are a Family, Pt. 1 (Reign)Chapter 20: We Are a Family, Pt. 2 (Hiccup)Chapter 21: Live and Let Fly (Reign)Chapter 22: The Iron Gronckle (Hiccup)Chapter 23: The Night and the Fury (Reign)Chapter 24: Tunnel Vision (Hiccup)Chapter 25: Race to Fireworm Island (Reign)Chapter 26: Fright of Passage (Hiccup)Chapter 27: Worst in Show (Reign)Chapter 28: Appetite for Destruction (Hiccup)Chapter 29: Zippleback Down (Reign)Chapter 30: A View to a Skrill, Pt. 1 (Hiccup)Chapter 31: A View to a Skrill, Pt. 2 (Reign)Chapter 32: The Flight Stuff (Hiccup)Chapter 33: Free Scauldy (Reign)Chapter 34: Frozen (Hiccup)Chapter 35: A Tale of Two Dragons (Reign)Chapter 36: The Eel Effect (Hiccup)Chapter 37: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Reign)Chapter 38: Bing! Bang! Boom! (Hiccup)Chapter 39: Cast Out, Pt. 1 (Reign)Chapter 40: Cast Out, Pt. 2 (Hiccup)Share

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