Chapter 8: Bad Moon Rising ( Part 1 )
Thyra and Blare were watching from a distance as the riders were practicing with a target dummy made out of Gronkle iron. Fennec was sitting in a huge wooden tube of sand that Hiccup had set up for the dragon, Fennec had happily buried himself in the sand with one his head cutely poking out slightly. Icestorm was on top of the rafters of the training arena, as he was glaring down at the riders. Gobber was talking to Fishlegs. And Tadpole was currently no where to be seen.
Gobber: ( to Fishlegs: ) Are you sure you've got the recipe right?
Fishlegs: ( with confidence: ) Of course I'm sure, Three parts limestone...
Snotlout swoops in on Hookfang, and the dragon fires a blast at the dummy.
Snotlout: WHOO-HOO-HOO-HOO!! DID YOU SEE THAT, THYRA?
Thyra rolled her eyes in annoyance at Snotlout, and Icestorm fired a lightning strike at Snotlout, missing Snotlout's head only by a few inches.
Snotlout: HEY!
Gobber: Yeah, three parts limestone...
Fishlegs: Uh-huh!
Gobber and Fishlegs hi-fived each other. Thyra and Blare then looked up to see Hiccup and Toothless in the sky.
Hiccup: Give it all you've got, bud!
Thyra and Blare watched as Toothless fired multiple plasma blasts at the dummy, but the dummy remained unaffected.
Thyra: ( quietly: ) Not bad. What do ya think, Blare?
Blare shrugs her shoulders in response.
Fishlegs: ( to Gobber: ) Two parts sandstone...
Gobber: Sandstone, check.
Fishlegs: One part Iron ore...
Fishlegs and Gobber hi-fived each other again.
Fishlegs: And now...the secret ingredient...
Barf and Belch flew in and stomped on the metal dummy.
Fishlegs: One giant spoon of cooled and hardened Gronckle lava!
Barf and Belch then began playing tug-of-war with the metal dummy and Ruffnut joined in.
Gobber: Gronckle lava, of course!
Meatlug then spits up some Gronckle lava.
Fishlegs: Voila! You have Gronckle iron.
Thyra then decided to join in on the fun and got on Blare.
Thyra: ( excitedly: ) Let's see how your Gronckle iron holds up against a combo attack!
The other riders and Gobber were confused as Thyra and her dragons went into the air.
Gobber: Combo attack?
Thyra then flew Blare towards the arena with the rest of her dragons, all four dragon readied themselves to fire at the dummy at the same time, causing Barf and Belch to drop the dummy as soon as they saw this. Tuffnut then appears with sticks and leaves on his helmet and was muttering to himself without realizing that he was walking in front of the dummy and the charging dragons that were about to fire.
Hiccup: Tuff, no!
Thyra: ( to her dragons, quickly: ) Hold fire! Hold fire!
Blare, Fennec, Tadpole, and Icestorm quickly held fire and landed on the ground as soon as their rider gave the command.
Astrid: ( impressed ) Wow, Thyra trained those dragons well.
Tuffnut, unaware of the danger he had put himself in, accidentally walked too close to Icestorm as he looked at the other riders, making the skrill growl at him.
Tuffnut: Thank Loki, you guys are not gonna believe what just happened to me, it was-
Icestorm knocked Tuffnut into the metal dummy with his tail, knocking him to the ground, making Ruffnut laugh.
Tuffnut: We'll talk in a little bit... ( passes out )
Thyra: Sorry about that, Icestorm doesn't like strangers going too close to him.
Hiccup: It's alright, Thyra. This is kinda normal.
( Slight time skip, at the clubhouse )
Tuffnut was telling the group what happened. Tadpole was standing beside Thyra.
Tuffnut: There I was: me and my inner Nut.
Hiccup: Tuff, what happened out there?
Tuffnut: It was dark. So dark, Hiccup. Not even the moon to light my merry way. And then all of a sudden, out of the darkness. Red eyes! Ferocious teeth! A growl that could peel the beak off a chicken!
Tuffnut's pet chicken bawks warningly.
Tuffnut: Sorry, metaphor. It grabbed me, and tossed me around like a rag doll, a very handsome rag doll. And then, it left me for dead.
Fishlegs: Tuffnut, can you tell us anything else about what attacked you?
Tuffnut: It was far too fast, too...cagey, too...quick, give me another adjective!
Snotlout: Ooh, how about, " imaginary "?
Thyra gave the others a stern glare as they laughed.
Tuffnut: Laugh and guffaw, if you must, but would an imaginary beast give you one of THESE?
Tuffnut shows the group the red bite mark on his arm. Chicken approached the bite mark, inspected it, then bawks.
Thyra: No, an imaginary beast wouldn't, Tuff.
Tuffnut: See! Thyra believes me.
Thyra: ( to Tadpole: ) Tadie, honey, can you go get my bag from the stables? Thyra needs to put some aloe on Tuffnut's bite wound so it doesn't get infected.
Tadpole licked his eye in response before taking off to get what Thyra asked him.
Astrid: ( to Thyra: ) You know how to treat wounds?
Thyra: Mostly bite wounds, scratch wounds, slash wounds, and stab wounds. You guys have no idea how many times I have gotten stabbed.
Hiccup was about to ask Thyra something in concern when Tadpole came back, carrying a bag of stuff.
Thyra: Good boy, Tadpole.
Thyra then grabbed the bag, and pulled out a canister of some kind of clear gel. She then walked to Tuffnut with a calm smile.
Thyra: ( to Tuffnut: ) I'm going to put this gel on the wound, it might sting a little sense the bite wound is fresh.
Tuffnut: I can handle it.
Thyra: Just hold still or it'll just hurt more.
( The camera zooms out to show outside )
Tuffnut: ( off-screen, Yells: ) OW, OW, OW!!!
Thyra: ( Off-screen, annoyed: ) Tuffnut, the stuff didn't even touch the wound.
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That's it for this chapter, I hope you like it
Feel free to comment on if you hope to see Thyra and her dragons' " combo attack " soon.
Till next time my agents of mischief 😜
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