Hiccup woke up in his house and was disappointed to remember that he needed to start sleeping in his house. The disappointment came mostly from the fact that that he could not wake up to the warmth of his scaly brother, Toothless. He really did love the time he spent with his brother and it only made him feel more guilty the closer he got to having to fight the Monstrous Nightmare. To tell you the truth he was enjoying each and every moment he ended up learning something new with dragons. He got up and got ready for the normal routine he used to do.
Get up, eat a silent breakfast with his dad, go to his inner sanctum for a while, then go help out Gobber at the forge. That was his original schedule. He sighed at the thought; he really did not like it, he wanted to be with Toothless in the valley they call home. He went downstairs and, with his father, ate a quiet and peaceful meal. Hiccup knew his father would not talk to him much. Matter of fact, his dad never really much of a talkative person to begin with.
After the silent meal he got out and went into his inner sanctum for some much needed time alone. Once inside he began drawing up the rest of the plans for his outfit. He finally had created managed to add in the metal pads for his knees, and the metal shoulder pads. There really wasn't much else to add except for the gloves, but he wanted to make sure there was something that could help him in battle. He thought back to the dragons and their ability to resist fire. Many thoughts appeared in his mind, like that of if he would be able to somehow add dragon scale into his uniform to resist fire. If not resist fire than maybe be able to somehow use fire to his advantage.
He then thought back to all the weeks he had spent with toothless and remembered that here and there he would shed some of his dragon scales. He could try gathering them together and adding them to his gloves and see how that turns out. He smiled at the thought of having fire at his fists. He really did like that idea; so he decided to start drawing up plans on how that would work for him. When dragon scales are shed he wondered if in fact they would not only be resistant to fire, but also be dry enough to actually catch on fire. He would need to experiment on that as soon as he got the chance.
With his father's return, however, he doubted that even now he would get a chance to be able to even see Toothless. Regardless of the circumstances he would definitely try. Try extremely hard to see if he could get a chance to see Toothless. He sighed as he remembered where he had to be in a couple of minutes, so he got up and walked to the forge where Gobber would be waiting for him.
Once he arrived he was surprised to see Astrid there talking with Gobber. To avoid contact with her he entered the forge through the back and got to work on Gobber's piling up assignments. Most of the assignments themselves consisted of sharpening swords, battleaxes, and knives for the villagers. Picking up the giant pile, he first organized them into three different piles: One for battleaxes, on for swords, and one for knives. As soon as he was finished he finally got to work on sharpening them.
While working on them he thought back onto what he was going to do for the competition. How was he going to make a fall that would at least be reasonable enough to say that Hiccup at least made it far enough? What he could do was hide for a little while and let Astrid try to take the Gronkle down herself. There really was no better scenario than this.
He was caught up in his thoughts that he did not notice Gobber calling out to him until Gobber pat him on the shoulder. He turned to Gobber with a yawn as he waited for him to speak his mind.
"Hiccup I need you to get on this assignment of sharpening this." He said as he held out a very familiar looking battleaxe. He nodded as he put the finishing touches on the sword he was sharpening now and started to sharpen the battleaxe.
