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Chapter 4 - Between a Rock and a hard place

3 Hours after the last chapter

Ernesti Pov

I asked Hiccup who was watching Fafnir Grobble and turn like a large cat "Is there any chance i can sleep at your hut tonight as my hut is cooling down from the stone I placed in it" Hiccup replied "sure why not there's a space underneath my room I think, Fafnir can just fit, as soon as Fafnir recovers I want to show you something at my hut anyway".

About 10 minutes later

I see Fafnir open his eyes and yawn, I saw this and began saying "have a nice sleep only took you like 3 hours anyway come let's go meet Hiccup" Fafnir picked me up and placed me on his back and I tapped him and we took off towards the large Black hut, when we arrived I knocked and was greeted by Hiccup who opened the door fully to let Fafnir in, after we got in and sat down Hiccup asked "Can you make Fafnir make a low flame" I nodded and tapped Fafnir who responded by opening his mouth revealing his sharp metallic teeth, I gave him a piece of metal I scrapped up from my pocket and placed it in his mouth and as it melted he produced a green light and Hiccup then placed a Cylindrical object in front of Fafnir and a green light emitted from it showing a new map with a Sword Stealers head in the middle. Hiccup in amazement asked if I knew what these places were I replied "I know the islands but I can't translate the text, the islands are the ones I drew on your map" well let's have Fishlegs translate it later after our Scouting. Hiccup pointed me to a large circular slab and a bed which was underneath his and said "you can sleep there Fafnir is a little large but I'm sure you'll manage" I nodded and Hiccup went up to his area and I made myself at home underneath, it was getting dark now so I decided to get some early sleep, Fafnir then laid me on the stone slab and he went on his back to keep me warm, he then wrapped his wings around me and tucked me in with him and we fell fast asleep with me and Fafnir snoring like Yaks.

Hiccup Pov

I noticed I no longer heard scuffing underneath me so I went to check it out and as I was stepping down the ladder and Toothless silently jumped onto the bottom we saw Fafnir with his wings tucked in and underneath a foot and heard the two snoring I then said to Toothless "and I thought me and you were the only ones who slept like that, just look at them", I began snickering quietly so I wouldn't wake them Toothless began quietly doing his little laugh and I decided to take the time to look at Fafnir, he was a huge 12 meter long dragon with Golden scales and green gems in bedded with its scales, Fafnir's head had a large golden crested horn at the top, his wings were stunning even folded in and one spread out, its wings had golden like scaled armour all of them and the green membranes of his wings glowing a bright green, his tail had a spear like shape at the end, as I examined its tail I saw a small scale underneath, I decided to feel it underneath and it felt incredibly soft and I began whispering "Tuffnut really wasnt lying when he said the underneath of his scale like armour was soft and warm " I then gave them both a warm look and left them to snore away, me and Toothless then went back up to bed and we both went to sleep "Night bud" Toothless let out his purple flame and lit his bed and all the lights were out and we both fell asleep.

The Morning of the Next day

I gestured Toothless to wake up the two as we had a long flight ahead of us so we needed to set off early, Toothless then went down and nudged Fafnir and began dragging his tail in different directions in an attempt to wake him up. Fafnir then began to Grobble and turn over showing Ernesti resting peacefully on the dragons soft belly.

I then walked down the ladders only too see Toothless struggling to wake them up so I then said to Toothless "let's ake them up with a little surprise, I got on Toothless and headed towards a small metal ore outside and I chipped a bit off, as I did this I saw all the other riders except Heather and Dagur who were out at the time wake up and with their dragons strolling around. I then went back to my hut and placed some metal in front of Fafnir who began to sleep walk towards me, as if it knew there was metal there, Ernesti fell of Fafnir and woke up instantly and he immediately tapped Fafnir and tapped his weak spot waking Fafnir up and making him alert. I stood there laughing along with Toothless, the two looked do confused, I then said were leaving soon so make sure your ready, Ernesti nodded and stood up stretching his Slender body and he began messing with his hair and he replied "alright were ready" as we exited my hut all the other riders :Fish legs, Snotlout who was still half asleep, Astrid and Ruff and Tuff we then gathered our supplies and set of North.

3rd Person

The Seven riders all began flying up North with Hiccup in the lead with Astrid, Ernesti was in the middle along with Fish legs and the other two were at the back all still sleepy

They were all flying in a diamond style formation and the loud flaps of wings could be heard and most notably Fafnir's as it was Loud and was a much larger version of Wind shears, Hiccup the said "how about we talk while we fly since its awfully quiet, right who will first" Astrid said "I will first, right what do you call the dragon with two heads and swims in water" Fish legs then shouted "A sea Shocker" Snotlout with scorn said "Alright Fish face we get it your the dragon expert but at least give us a chance to speak" Everyone laughed and Astrid added "OK Snotlout you give us a dragon quiz" Snotlout with a smug face replied "Fine what do you call the dragon which is the coolest of them all" Everyone answered their own dragons and Snotlout snorted well mine of course my Hook fangs the greatest, go on Hooki show em whose boss" Hookfang set himself ablaze not realising who was watching. Fafnir saw this and slowed down and was now behind Hookfang. Snotlout noticed and said "Oh come on why me, quickly fangster we can't let Fafnir and Ernesti catch us" Hookfang went at insane speed, speeding way in front of the others however Fafnir was closing in with his mouth open with Saliva dropping out. However the fun was cut short when the two sped ahead and were almost hit by a cannonball which came hurtling through the air.

Ernesti Pov

I made Fafnir slow down as a huge cannoball almost hit us out of the sky, me and Snotlout lost looked down only to see a huge Marble dome being constructed with Dragon Hunters guarding it, they fired at us and in retaliation we fired back blowing up the catapults. Hiccup and the others caught up seeing that both of us were flying and firing back.