Ch. 9- New Time And New Places

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I woke up to Violet nudging me with her nose.

"Hey, Vi," I laughed, petting her. She stepped on my stomach and I sat straight up. "Ow. Wait," I noticed that we were in my house. Hiccup was just woken up by Toothless the same way Violet woke me. He had a few scratches here and there but other than that he was fine.

"We're in my home. Your in my home. Does my dad know your here?" Hiccup and I said in unison. "Hey," we said to each other.

"Toothless. Toothless! Oh, come on-" Hiccup leaned forward before realizing something and pulling up part of the blanket. He gasped at whatever he saw.

"What is it?" I asked.

He put his right foot on the floor, then the left. His left leg was now made of metal.

"Oh, Hiccup."

Toothless smelled it a little before Hiccup started to walk. He took one step, then another, and fell. Luckily, Toothless caught him. "Thanks, bud."

"Hiccup!" I jumped out of bed to help him but ended up falling. Hiccup's eyes widened and he gasped at me. "What?" He pointed to my foot and I looked back. My right foot was metal. "No!" A tear fell down my face as Violet helped me stand up.

"Its o.k, Halla. We'll go through this together, like usual," Hiccup, with help of Toothless, walked-or whatever it was- over to me and grabbed my hand.

"O.k. Lets go outside." Hiccup nodded once and- with help of our dragons- we walked to the door.

Hiccup opened up the door and we saw the head of a monstrous nightmare, causing Hiccup to quickly shut the door and put his back to it in a panic. "Toothless, Violet, stay here." Hiccup reopened the door and saw Snotlout riding the monstrous nightmare calling the others. "Whoa. I knew it. We're dead."

Dad heard him and laughed, putting his arm around Hiccup and the other around me. "No, but you both gave it you best shot," he lead us down the path a little bit. "So, what do y'all think?"

"Hey," someone called. "Its Hiccup and Halla!" In seconds we were surrounded by the villagers.

"Turns out all we needed was a bit more... this." He gestured to all of us.

"You just gestured to all of us," Hiccup stated with a big grin. That was the first time someone gestured to all of us that meant something good. Dad smiled back and nodded.

"Well most of you. That bits my handy work. So," Gobber asked, "what do y'all think?" he gestured to the metal legs. "With a little flare of you two do the trick?"

Hiccup leaned back on his good leg and lifted his new foot into the air a few inches, studying it for a second. "We might tweak it up a bit," he said, making everyone laugh.

I took a deep breath and thought now's the time. "Maybe." I said. The other looked shocked and dad gave me a one handed hug.

"You gonna talk now, Halla?" Dad asked.

I thought it over for a second and smiled up at him, "Yes."

Astrid came over and punched Hiccup, this time I chuckled. "That's for scaring me."

I busted out laughing and Hiccup looked at me like I was insane before asking, "What is it always going to be like this cause-" Astrid shut him up by kissing him on the lips for a few seconds. The surrounding people oo'd and aw'd. "I could get used to it," he said after the kiss.

The door to our house opened and people yelled, "Night Fury! Get down!" Some people ducked down and I wondered why before Toothless jumped on a person and jumped off when he started to fall. Violet did the same as Toothless. Both me and Hiccup laughed.

"Hey, Toothless."

"Hey, Violet."

Gobber and someone else handed me and Hiccup stuff to ride our dragons on and we put them on our dragons before we started riding with the others.

Violet lost the right half of her tail. I controlled her new tail with my metal foot. Same with Hiccup.

"Ready, Hiccup?" I asked him. The other dragon riders were on the their dragons, waiting for us to take flight before following.

He smiled at me, "Sure am. Glad your talking, Halla."

"Me too. It feels kinda weird but I like it. Wanna race?" I asked everyone.

My replies are yes' and yeah's

We all take off. Racing around the village. Everyone is behind me and Hiccup, but we can't pass each other.

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This is berk.

It snows nine months of the year and hails the other three. Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here are even more so.

The teens flew around the village, barely missing buildings and structures. They shouted as the flew as fast as they could.

The only up sides are the pets. While other places has ponies or parrots, we have... dragons.

Halla and Hiccup smiled at each other. "About your statement earlier- it wouldn't be better for anyone is we killed Toothless or Violet in the woods that day," Halla said.

Hiccup smiled brightened, "Agreed."

They went back to racing. Enjoying the wind push against them, the great speed they could go, and the fun and excitement they could now share with everyone else.

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