It's been a few months now and Berk has been getting colder and colder.

I walked out today in a big furry coat, hat, scarf, earmuffs, and a pair of mittens. It was very cold to me but all the other Vikings don't seem to have a problem with it.

Astrid saw me walking out of the house and she gave me a funny look.

"I'm cold," I said through my chattering teeth.

She laughed "Well you better get used to it, it's the longest season in Berk!"

I groaned 'Great! That's just fantastic...'

Astrid continued "Anyways, I'm going to go dragon sledding with Hiccup!"

I raised an eyebrow "Dragon sledding? Sounds fun!"

"You should come!" She insisted

I shook my head "Sorry Astrid. I gotta go to Gothi's hut and help her around with some stuff. Maybe next time!"

"Alright, see ya around!" She said

We both waved and got on our dragons.

•●●●•

I flew towards Gothi's hut. I'm kind of her apprentice now. She asked if I wanted to learn more about medicine and help her around and I agreed because I noticed I wasn't good at physical fighting compared to my friends.

How I became her apprentice is a story for another time.

Anyways, we haven't done that type of training a lot at the Academy but when we do it doesn't end well for me but I work better with medicine so why not use that to my advantage?

My mother taught me at a young age but I only know the basics.

I don't really do much. Sometimes there would be a sick person who comes up here and we take care of them. I would do some translations too to help people understand what they need to do and it's all thanks to Gobber. He helped me teach this new language that Gothi writes and fortunately for me I absorbed it very fast.

•●●●•

Later, as I was making some remedies, Stoick and Gobber came to Gothi's platform. They seemed very worried. My curiosity got the best of me and I had to eavesdrop.

"Gothi, I've come for your council. Is there going to be a storm?" Stoick said worriedly

I noticed she started to write on the dirt

I glanced at the words, in the corner of my eye I saw 'What do you think?' I was confused

"What's she saying, Gobber?" Stoick asked

"She says: "What do you think?" Huh?" Gobber said. He was also confused too.

She pointed at her hut and she had some sacks on the ground, her hut was boarded up, and a table blocked the entrance of her house.

'Can't believe I didn't notice.' I thought to myself

Stoick asked hastily. "How can you be so sure? Was it the chicken bones? Or the goose feet?"

Gothi scribbled in the dirt again

"She says she could hear Bucket's screaming from way up here," Gobber answered

'Ooh, so that's what the disturbing screaming was about.' I thought to myself

After Stoick and Gobber got their answers they left.

Not before they both looked at me confused.

"I-I'm just a bit cold." I said as I let out an awkward laugh

•●●●•

I finished up making the last few things for Gothi and I was free to leave.

I flew around to find my friends and I saw them in the distance. They were sitting on an abandoned catapult. I saw the twins saying something to Hiccup. Then he flew off in a hurry on Toothless.

After I was sure I was in hearing distance I yelled to get their attention "Guys! I got some news!" I flew up onto the catapult where almost everyone was sitting.

As I landed I saw Snotlout under a pile of snow "Uh..." I said pointing at the pile of snow and Snotlout.

"Oh, don't worry about him, what's up?" Astrid asked curiously.

I got off of (y/d/n) and sat beside Astrid

Snotlout digged himself out of the snow and looked at me

"Nice outfit (Y/N)" Snotlout teased

Astrid elbowed the catapult and more snow fell on top of him.

"Again!?" Snotlout muffled

I just shook my head and chuckle to myself. I cleared my throat and regained my composure and became serious

"There's going to be a huge storm coming," I said without hesitation

"How can you be sure? It's kind of early." Fishlegs asked doubtly

"I was with Gothi. She has her hut boarded up. Bucket has been screaming very loudly too. If Gothi thinks a big storm is coming, a big storm is coming and soon."

They all kind of looked at each other and didn't seem very convinced

•●●●•

Later at the Dragon Academy Hiccup explained that the dragons are scaring the animals so badly that they are unable to produce anything.

Also, on top of that, a storm is coming very soon. Without the animals producing anything, we would be stuck without any food.

"See? Told you a storm was coming! And no one believed me." I said out loud crossing my arms.

"I believed you, (Y/N)!" Snotlout said with a smirk.

I rolled my eyes, I'm pretty sure he didn't really believe me, but I played along "Well, thank you Snotlout." I smiled.

I suppose he wasn't expecting back a positive response and became flustered and looked dumbfounded.

•●●●•

Hiccup's plan was to try and get the animals get used to the dragons.

As we were moving the animals around in the arena I noticed in the distance there was a storm brewing.

"Guys, we should hurry this up," I said as I lifted up a sheep and placed it down.

Hiccup tries to push one of the yaks close to one of the dragons "Come on, big boy. You can do it. Come on." He encouraged

Hiccup continued "You'll really like them if you get to know them."

Astrid added, "The dragons look scary but they're just big scaly reptiles."

Tuffnut grinned "Just like Snotlout."

Snoutlout lifted Tuffnut by his shirt ready to punch him "You're the guy, right?" He asked

"No" Tuffnut replied in a high-pitched voice

I went up to Snotlout and touched his arm and looked at both of them

"Come on guys! Now's not the time."

Snotlout looked at me and back at Tuffnut and dropped him with a huff

Fishlegs walked up to a dragon and got on all fours "Okay, what if we look at this from an animal's perspective?"

He walked around in front of the Nightmare "Oh, hello, Mr. Dragon! I'm just a little sheep here... walking... doing sheep things... Baaa!"

The Nightmare roared at his face showing all of his sharp teeth. Which made Fishlegs run on all fours and hid under Meatlug

"Sorry! But I'm siding with the sheep on this one." Fishlegs whimpered

I sighed and facepalmed "Oh, boy."

"Look, I've learned that once you have a positive experience with something you're afraid of, it isn't so scary anymore." Hiccup said. He seemed slightly panicky

I agreed "Yeah! I was scared of them, but not anymore!" I said to the animals

Hiccup started to herd 3 sheeps towards a Nightmare "Okay, here you go boys... over here. And that's what we'll have to do with these sheep. We gotta prove to them that they have nothing to fear--"

The Nightmare blew fire on the sheeps' wool for fun and they all ran away

"Ooh-Aaah-at this rate we'll never get any milk or eggs!" Hiccup exclaimed. Trying to blow out the burning sheep that's on fire.

I looked at the sky and it has gotten significantly darker.

"Well, we have to keep trying!" I cried out

Hiccup paced around thinking

"Another way for the animals to overcome their fear is to show them that dragons are afraid of things too."

Astrid added "Remember Magnus the Merciless? He was a pretty scary guy. I was afraid of him until I learned that he was afraid of the dark."

Tuffnut also added "So during the day: merciless"

Ruffnut smirked, "And during the night: Tuffnut!"

Tuffnut punches Ruffnut on the arm

"Ow!" Ruffnut yelled as she rubbed her arm

"Hey! That's a real problem." Tuffnut scowled

Astrid rolled her eyes "I'm just saying, knowing he was afraid of something made him less scary to me."

Hiccup nodded "Yes, So let's show the yaks that dragons are afraid of things, too."

Hiccup thoughts some more and looked at me "(Y/N), can you get a basket of eels?"

•●●●•

Hiccup pulls out two eels out of a basket, walks by the yaks, and over to the dragons. The dragons balk as the yaks observed

"I think it's working!" Astrid said excitedly

Hiccup drops an eel and it slithers toward the Nightmare, causing the dragon to knock a sheep against the wall

Astrid walked up to Hiccup "Don't worry."

Hiccup looked at Astrid with a worried face "Worry? I-I'm not worried! Do I look worried?"

Hiccup glanced at all of us. I gave him a sorry smile and gave him a pinching gesture

•●●●•

The storm is extremely close. In any minute it's going to storm badly.

We still kept on trying. Running around, grabbing the animals, and trying to show them that dragons are good creatures.

We tried using a dragon's egg to show the chickens that they have something in common with dragons. Of course, though, the egg exploded.

As we were scrambling to figure out what to do I felt a snowflake touch my nose, I looked up. The storm started to pick up

"I hate to say this guys but it's here!" I said

Mulch and Gobber ran in the arena as if on cue

Gobber started to yell "Everybody out, the storm is here!"

Hiccup tried to stop Gobber "Ah, wha-wait! We haven't made any progress with the animals!"

Gobber looked at Hiccup "Your father wants everyone in the Great Hall!"

"Take the others. I need to stay and keep working with the animals. They're... still afraid." Hiccup said not wanting to give up

"Yeh can't get eggs from a frozen chicken! We've got to get the animals in the barn!" Gobber exclaimed

"He's right, Hiccup. We have to go!" I said

We all left the arena and went to the barn but the snow has blocked the entrance.

There was nowhere else to put them in except for the Great Hall.

We walked down a huge snowy hill. The storm has gotten worse, the snow was piling up, and the wind was blowing loudly.

Suddenly lightning struck a tree and it scared the dragons and the animals. It caused the animals to panic and run.

"Hey, I got this under control!" Snotlout stands in front of stampeding yaks, then gets trampled "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ooooh... ow! Okay, everything hurts." He groaned

I cringed at what happened to Snotlout.

As I watched what happened a sheep ran into me behind me. I flipped over the sheep backwards and made me land into the snow headfirst.

I pulled myself out of the snow and saw Hiccup flying after the animals and I saw Astrid following and everyone else right behind.

I heard Gobber yelling telling us not to go but I wanted to help so I hoped on my dragon and followed them.

•●●●•

We were flying in the forest looking for the animals

"You find as many as you can. We'll herd them back to the Great Hall." Hiccup yelled.

I saw something towards our right "Hiccup! Did you see that?" I shouted at Hiccup

He looked at the direction I was pointing at

"There they are! Come on!" Hiccup yelled

We all flew towards the animals.

Fishlegs yelled out "Yaks to the left!"
Followed by Snotlout "Chickens to the right!"

Snotlout then flew into Fishlegs

Snotlout got upset and shouted at Fishlegs "Hey! I'm flying here!"

"Don't worry Fishlegs I got the yaks!" I said loudly towards him.

In the distance, I heard Snotlout screaming.

Fishlegs went for the sheep and Astrid helped him out but Snotlout was losing control of his dragon and lost the sheep that Astrid caught.

The storm started to get worse it was hard to see anything and I ended up losing the yaks. In fact (y/d/n) started to slow down a little bit.

Hiccup thought he saw two stray yaks in the distance though and told the twins to get them. As the twins flew towards the 2 large figures they ended up being Gobber and Stoick.

We all landed behind Hiccup in defeat.

Stoick was about to go back by following his tracks but it got covered in the snow.

We all stood in the storm shivering. I looked around me and saw how sad and cold my friends felt. I looked at my hands, still having mittens on, and got an idea.

I gave my big coat to the twins to share, my scarf to Snotlout, my mittens to Astrid, my earmuffs to Hiccup and my hat to Fishlegs.

They all looked at me in surprise as I was shivering.

"Sorry, it's not much but it's all I have," I said through chattering teeth as I shivered in place

"Aren't you going to get cold?" Astrid said as she gotten closer to me to keep my warm.

I did a half-hearted laugh "I'll get used to it!"

Everyone was still cold being exposed in the storm.

Fishlegs looked up at Stoick "Sir? What do we do now?"

He thought for a second as he looked at all of us.

"Everyone, come together." He said.

We all slowly came close together. It felt awkward at first but I started to feel a little bit better.

We all huddled together to stay warm.

Then, we noticed all our dragons coming towards us. They surrounded us and lifted up their wings.

Stoick asked, "What are they doing?"

Hiccup looked at all the dragons in awe "They're protecting us."

Astrid added, "It's their natural instinct."

The dragons lay down some fire and lava to provide warmth.

We saw a lamb and its family out in the snow. Toothless notices and walks over to them and invites them into the circle for protection.

Slowly all the livestock moved into the dragons' circle.

"Wow" I whispered. I was in awe how the animals all started to feel comfortable around the dragons.

"Life on Berk just got a little warmer," Hiccup said with a smile

•●●●•

It's been a couple of hours. Then the storm cleared up and the sun shined bright.

I placed some sheep on to my dragon's back then I picked up a chicken.

We all walked back to the Great Hall with the livestock.

We were almost at the Great Hall then all of a sudden the chicken I was holding popped out an egg.

I looked over at Hiccup, who was also holding an egg.

"We got eggs! I never thought I'll be this excited to see eggs." I laughed

We all walked into the warmth of the Great Hall with our dragons and animals side by side. I smiled at how everything turned out.

Like what Hiccup said: "Life on Berk just got a little warmer."