THE TRANSLATOR, httyd.

the translator, bonus two.

— IN WHICH hiccup, elina and the gang has a snowball fight.

now, hiccup haddock was always the runt of the litter.

ever since he was little, he'd been smaller than the rest of the vikings. while everyone remained at impressive heights and weights, hiccup was around 3 times smaller than the size of his father, who was a mountain compared to his tiny size.

and that also meant that he got sick much easier compared to the others. in the harsh winters of berk (oh and believe him, it was harsh), the vikings went outside, bare-sleeved; some even took a swim in the ocean, bare-chested to show off their strength and resistance! 

hiccup usually stayed inside. after all, he didn't want to catch a cold just to show off. so, he would stay inside while he sipped on hot water. gobber and stoick would also stay inside; his father would accompany him in awkward silence as they watched the fireplace crackle and burn inside the hut.

gobber would tell stories hiccup didn't even understand, drinking mead after mead and getting progressively more drunk until his father would have to bring gobber out back to his own hut after his stories became more... colorful.

point is, hiccup was never one for the cold, so he usually stayed back at berk, where it was nice and toasty (well, as toasty berk could be). however, tuffnut had suggested everyone do a snowball fight.

tuffnut and ruffnut somehow got the whole gang pulled into their shenanigans. first of all, they got snotlout in because, well, he was snotlout, and once snotlout was in the game, he had pulled his best friend along as well, so elina got dragged in to the idea. after hundreds of pleadings from snotlout and one puppy eyes stare from elina, astrid finally agreed, and when astrid agreed, fishlegs thought it was reasonable enough to join the game as well.

and then there was hiccup. 

ah, yes, hiccup.

when everyone turned their gazes towards him, hiccup, under the pressure, had to agree (or he would look like a coward. him? a coward? as if! also maybe because he wanted to impress elina.) 

he agreed, ignoring the rational part of his brain that was screaming at him that he was incredibly, incredibly stupid.

so, winter quickly arrived, and the plans for the snowball fighting competition was already set out. astrid and elina were in a team (which hiccup was terrified for; the two strongest shield maidens in berk was going to be fighting against them).

snotlout and hiccup were teammates, which hiccup reluctantly stomached; tuffnut and ruffnut were inseparable, and hiccup knew that tuffnut would probably just make him do the work the whole time and ruffnut would be devastated without her twin.

the three of them split up. hiccup had brought one of his designs with him, a mechanism that would scoop huge balls of snow on the ground and throw them towards the rest of them at maximum speed. snotlout brought a shovel, prepared to dig the snow.

astrid and elina both emerged with a basketful of snow balls, and elina's eyes widened, clearly impressed as she looked at hiccup's machine.

when the four had found the twins, they were astounded to see a viking ship built from snow, and ruffnut and tuffnut stood proudly in the snow. 

fishlegs sat in the side, meatlug happily sitting as the two were the official judges for the fight. "three, two, one... go!"

hiccup immediately fired up the machine, narrowly ducking and dodging the snow balls. he mostly used snotlout as a shield, who became too cocky and got knocked out by elina's snowball straight to the face.