HTTYD "Reboot" (alternate timeline)

Chapter 3: Dragon Training, Broken Stable and Friends?

At the kill ring

Gobber: Welcome..." he opens the gate, walking in first "to dragon training!"

Astrid:"No turning back."

Tuffnut:"I hope I get some serious burns, like from a Nadder or a Changewing!"

Ruffnut:"I hope for a good mauling, like on my back. Don't care which dragon." Strangely, the female twin was less confident in her posture, but her voice didn't show doubt.

Snotlout:"I was thinking a nice slash, adds that badassery!"

Astrid:"Yeah, it's only fun if you get a scar out of it."

Hiccup:"Yeah, no kidding."

Everyone turns around to find Hiccup standing in the doorway with a comically large axe (that would look too big in the hands of some of the smaller adults). 

Hiccup:"Pain, love it. Nothing's better, right?"

Tuffnut:"Oh great, who let HIM in?"

Fishlegs:"Noone sane, if you're asking. Unless that was a rhetor-" He shut up after a glare from the male twin, which scared him.

Snotlout:"But wait, my cousin has already killed a Night Fury, shouldn't he be out there?"

The teens, minus Fishlegs and Ruffnut (who was once again somewhere else than her body was) snickered at this, while Gobber simply scoffed at the young boy.

Gobber:"Hey, give the lad a break, will ya? Everyone deserves at least a chance."

Hiccup smiled slightly, once again thinking back to the time he accidentally called Gobber dad, and how it felt much more right than calling Stoick that. The old blacksmith was a crude, tactless meathead, but he was a good and honest man, and the only one who actually cared about Hiccup.

Astrid:"If you say so, sir. But I still do not find it logical-"

Ruffnut:"Ah, for Thors' sake, lay off the soldier attitude. You're a kid, like the rest of us."

Astrid gave the twin a glare, which had a very similar effect as Tuffnuts' had on Fishlegs earlier.

Hiccup:"So, when do we start? I was wondering, which dragon we would discuss today."

Gobber:"Discuss? Ha!" He walks over to a metal door. "Here are the beasts, so get familiar wit'em. The Deadly Nadder..."

Fishlegs:"Speed eight, armor sixteen."

Hiccup couldn't help but chuckle. The only positive interaction he ever had with one of his peers was one time at Fishlegs's  brother's birthday party, where his dad told him to play with the larger boy. Fishlegs was surprisingly nice when Hiccup joined him for Caverns and Dragons, a popular game among the more nerdy vikings. He doubted the believability of some of the statistics for the dragons, as the Nadder was definitely faster than eight, but it was still funny how Fishlegs was reciting the statistics.

Gobber:"Hideous Zippleback,..."

Fishlegs:"Plus eleven stealth, times two."

Gobber:"Snaptrapper..."

Fishlegs:"Jaw strength four times four, cunning twenty."

Gobber:"The Monstrous Nightmare..."

Fishlegs:"Firepower fifteen, aggression twenty five."

Gobber."Changewing..."

Fishlegs:"Stealth thirty, firepower seven."

Gobber:"Terrible Terror..."