Chapter 1 a day in the snow

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"Astrid! Come on!" My best friend, Annabelle , shouted and raced past me, her mane of fiery red streaming in the wind. I giggled and started after her. In the island of Latia ( lah-tee-a), the sky is clear, the air fresh as can be, and loads of houses built on ice. 

Yep, ice. The entire island is basically a HUGE block of ice chiseled into a volcanic island, complete with a tiny beach and a lot of caves on the other side of the village. It snows every single solitary day .

" Astrid! Boo!" Annabelle yelled from behind. I squeaked and punched her on the arm." Don't do that again! Or I'll call you ' Bananabelle ' for the rest of your life!"I threatened, eyes glaring but my lips twitching into a grin. I grabbed a handful ice and tossed it at her, filling her hair with snow. 

" ya know , ice-white looks great on ya! Brings out the natural color of your deathly white skin tone and beautiful hair of bloody red !" I said, imitating the voice of her mom, who was the village seamstress, who, also, by the way, looved to say that .

" Ooooooh, Astrid! You are so gonna get it!" Her face turning a bright pink. She bent down and-- SPLAT! I felt something icy and slippery slide down my cheek. Snow. Great. I saw Anna guffawing at me , so I chucked another handful of ice at her, getting revenge. She shrieked and ducked, but tossed a snowball at me. The ball missed me completely, and Anna was still crouched to the ground to avoid incoming snowball missiles. 

I took this as an opportunity to sneak up behind her and dump a colossal amount of snow on top of her." Aaaaaaaah! Astrid!ptooy!" She spat out snow, making it seem like she was some sort of ice-barfer. Priceless. She lunged at me next, and before we knew it, it was a full-fledged snowball war, with me dumping snow on her like a mad-viking.

By the time it was dark and we had to go home, we were both wet and cold and slightly shivering, but happy as anything anyways. I walked back home,parting ways with Anna.

 As I walked in my house I could see my dad, Freddo the Friendly, chief of Latia and my best friend for ever and ever. He was chipping away at something before he saw me and raced over to hug me." Asty! Lad! Why are you all wet? Get dry before ye catch a cold, hey?" He rubbed my head a bit before letting go. I ran to my room, passing by the kitchen where my mother was. She was holding a pot of watery substance with fish floating inside. 

Yeesh. Mom isn't the best cook on Latia . I could still taste the " burning-hot chili water with curry powder and no salt or seasonings in it" she made a few weeks ago. Anna was there , too." It burns both ways." She'd said the next day. I snorted a bit at the memory, her face was flushed at the time, seemingly paler than usual, and holding on to her stomach." I bet it could kill more beasts than a battle axe!" Yikes." Astrid, honey, fish soup tonight! You have to eat everything inside your bowl before going to bed!"my mom shouted. 

This was going to be a looooong dinner.

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Mag loopy here!(*hums where no one goes and grins*)
So there's gonna be like, a couple chappies on Latia before we get to berk, so be patient, my little dragon riders!
More soon! Love ya!

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