A Viking Chief's twins

Code Panic

(Kai's POV)

It took me forever to find Astrid, but I did. She was in the forest with Heather doing target practice with their axes. It looked like she was getting her anger out on the targets and when I showed up she "accidentally" missed the target and it was only because of my quick reflexes that I did not get my skull split in half.

"Hey! Are you trying to kill me?" I asked her and she coldly replies. "Yes," I roll my eyes at the crazy blonde. "What are you doing here? We're busy," Heather said rudely crossing her arms. "Hey I thought we bonded when discussing how to kill a couple of annoying idiots," I said putting a hand over my heart and feigning innocence.

The raven haired girl rolls her green eyes. "I need more than that to warm up to you even a bit," she said. "Look I just want to talk to Astrid alone okay? No funny business just civil talking," I said trying to be reasonable, solely for Hiccup's sake.

Heather looks to Astrid who was looking at me with a calculated expression. "Drop your weapons," she said. "If you drop yours," I said. She drops her axe and kicks it away and I dropped my katnas doing the same.

"All of them," we both say at the same time. She looks really annoyed we said the same thing at the same time, but I laugh a little at it and took off my belt strapped around my waist that held all my smaller throwing weapons. I threw it with my Katana and Astrid took out her daggers from her belt. I think there's another one in her boot, but I'm not calling her out on it.

"Okay Heather you can go," Astrid said. Heather looks at her, makes eye contact with me, makes a threatening hand gesture, and finally leaves. I look at Astrid who was glaring at me with a impatient 'well?' face.

"Okay so I just want to start off and say I didn't mean for any of this to happen okay? I didn't mean for you and Hiccup to have a fight," I said. "Well clearly you did," she snaps at me. "Well I said don't steal the gold, I also never told Hiccup you took the gold in the first place that came out on its own," I said and she huffs.

"Are you here to scold me?" She asks dryly. "No I'm here so we can make up and you can go back to trying to date my brother," I respond and she glares at me with a blush on her cheeks. "So? Not like it's gonna fix anything," she said. "Yeah, but it's a start. Anyway I was thinking about what you like and I know exactly what you would like," I said and she raises a skeptic eyebrow. "Your going to teach me that spinning thing?" I rolled my eyes at her because she had been subtlety pestering me to teach her. "It's called spinjitzu and I can't teach you," I said. "Why not?" She asks with a angry voice. "Because I can only teach it to someone else if I ask permission from the one who taught me it. If I don't ask permission than I am upsetting Ninjago's god and I'm sure you agree we should never get on the bad side of gods," I said. It was a total lie about asking permission, I can teach anyone I want if I want, but I  can't just teach her and she's got to respect her gods to some degree.

I was right when she grumbles annoyed. "Fine then if you need me I'll be doing patrol," Astrid said picking up her axe, but I said. "Wait! I know Morse Code?" I said saying the first thing that came to mind. She pauses and looked at me like I was crazy and just done with me. "What?" She asks. "You know Morse code? Do Vikings not have Morse code?" I asked. She turns back to face me. "No what is it?" She asks and I sighed in relief.

"It's this series of taps that spell out a word. When me and the others get captured we make a escape plan by tapping against the cell walls or whistling. No one realizes we're making a plan until too late," I explained to her. She looks interested like I hoped. "So you communicate without words?" She asks. "Yeah you can do it in tapping, whistling, blinking, lights, or even write it out since no one in this realm must know it so when you guys are captured it would be a total advantage because no one will realize your planning a escape. Or if your in the same room as someone you don't trust you can communicate right in front of them without them knowing it," I explained.