The Four: Things Will Change

5 ~ Dreams~

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"Yeah. A dragon," Hiccup nodded, "Bye now," he said, walking towards Merida's direction.

"Wait a minute!" Rapunzel called out, walking a few steps after Hiccup. He and Merida stopped to look back at her, "Can we go with you...?" She asked shyly.

"What!?" Jack shouted, shocking the other three. He realized what he did and cleared his throat, "I-I mean... isn't a dragon a little too dangerous?" He said, walking close to Rapunzel.

"Well, it is but... But I bet it's going to be loads of fun!" Rapunzel chirped, "I've always wanted to know if dragons really did exist and now I will finally see one,"

"Oh, they're real, alright. Real annoying, real big, real... terrifying," Hiccup stated, his speech slowing down as his sentence ended, as if signifying a hint of fear, "They raid our village almost every night,"

"That means... he must know a lot about dragons, then," Rapunzel said, "It'll be fine, Jack. Let's just help him find the dragon then we can head to see the lanterns after," she added.

Jack sighed helplessly as he could not reject the girl, "Fine. Let's go," he shrugged.

"Yes!!" The three cheered and they were off.

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The four arrived by Hiccup's cottage. Hiccup opened the door and he welcomed them in.

"Watch your step," Hiccup said as the other three found it difficult to walk around in the clutter.

They soon sat down on chairs as Hiccup left the basket he brought with him by a table. He looked around, searching for the right basket.

Rapunzel looked around and saw some sketches pinned on the wall. She stood up and took one. "Hey, Hiccup?" She called out.

"Yeah?" Hiccup raised his head from looking under a table.

"What is this drawing for?" She asked, waving the paper slightly.

Hiccup walked towards her and took a good look at the paper, "Oh, it's for a synthetic dragon tail. I'm actually done with that," he replied.

"Why do you need a synthetic dragon tail?" Merida asked, taking a bow and arrow lying on the floor.

"Well... uh..." Hiccup couldn't speak, "I was supposed to use it before to lure dragons in so I could catch them. Sadly, as usual, that plan was trash because the fact that the tail's made out of cloth and metal was very obvious," he replied, laughing nervously, "I'm actually looking for it now,"

"Oh," Merida shrugged, grabbing a randon rock and sharpening the arrow, "Why?"

"I wanted to trap the dragon at first, but since it spared my life, I'm thankful I brought the wrong basket," he replied, "Now, I want to sort of repay that. When I find that fake dragon tail, I'll just take the left tail fin thingy and modify it a bit. It won't take long,"

"Okay. We'll just wait here," Jack said, laying his back against the wall while Merida played around with the bow and arrow and Rapunzel went back to her seat.

A few quiet minutes later... "Found it!!" Hiccup cheered as he struggled to pull a big basket from behind a table.

This shocked Merida thus accidentally shooting the arrow at Jack's sleeve, barely missing his arm. "Gah!!" Jack shouted in shock and horror, "Did you just shoot me!?" He added.

"Sorry!" Merida and Rapunzel stood up to try and remove the arrow. They succeeded, fortunately.

"Hey, Hic! Can I have this bow and those arrows?" Merida asked, waving the bow in the air then pointing to a quiver full of arrows that sat in a far corner of the room.