Free falling

Part 6

Thornas lov:

me and hiccup are on our way to the great hall. he was supposed to meet up their some time ago to discuss the lesson with the others, but since we where occupied with a certain fury were late. not to mention that it started raining as we walked home. as we finally get to the big wooden doors to the great hall, we step in to see that everyone had left except robber and the others.

who I may add are glaring daggers at hiccup. " where did hiccup go wrong?" Gobber asks the others, probably mad about his sudden disappearance. people make room for me and I am about to sit down, when I notice that the others won't let hiccup sit at all. closing the gaps when he tries.

" he showed up." answers ruffnut. I glare at her and she looks away. we had been friends for a long time and she doesn't like to fight over these stuff. but I sure ass hell will if they don't grow up soon.

" he didn't get eaten." I am still standing refusing to sit down before they let hiccup get some space. fishlegs and tuff are trying to give me space in between them, and beaconing me over. but I just ignore them, and keep my eyes on hiccup and his movements.

"he is never where he should be." Astrid answers Gobbers question correctly.

"thank you Astrid." Gobber stands up. "you need to live and breath this stuff." he says as he lays a giant book on the center of the table."the dragon manual. everything we know about every dragon we know of." a roar of thunder shakes the great hall.

'damn, that's one heck of a storm.'

"no attacks tonight. study up." after that goober leaves the great hall, leaving the teens to staring at the book.

"wait, you mean read?" tuff says in disbelief.

"while we're still alive?" ruff ads.

" why read words, when you can just kill the stuff the words tell you about?" snotlout says as if the concept disgusts him.

" oh! I've read it like, seven times. there's this eater dragon that sprays boiling water at your face. and there's this other one that buries itself for like a week..." we all stare at fishlegs as he doesn't stop talking. I mean the guy is smart, but kinda tiring when it's raining and you wanna go home.

"yeah that sounds great. there was a chance I was going to read that..." tuff starts.

"... but now..."rough finishes. seriously how do they do that stuff.

snotlout is the first to get up and to go." you guys read, i'll go kill stuff." the others follow after him, with fishlegs in tow. fishlegs also keeps telling facts til they are out the door.

when I turn back to the table I see that only me, hiccup and Astrid are left.

"so I guess we'll share-" hiccups tries, but gets interrupted.

"read it." she pushes the book in his direction and leaves.

"all ours then. wow, so okay. ill-" but he gets interrupted again by the door slamming. " you know what, I think she's warming up to me." hiccup says with false positivity.

i giggle at his antics and sit down beside him." don't worry, you'll always have me!" hiccup gives me yet another one of his special smiles. but this time I noticed. 'this is a smile he only gives me, it makes me happy that this side of hiccup is just for me.'

"...you gonna open it or?" hiccup snaps out of wherever his mind was, and opens the book. we sit there for hours reading the book. hiccup was quite disappointed that there was no information on the night fury. but as he looks over at me. he sees my head starting to nod due to sleepiness. I am quite tired, and honestly, reading this book has been like a lullaby.