Wayfinding Berk

16. Awkward Dinner

16. Awkward Dinner

"Anyone hungry?" Moana asked as she placed a bowl of fruit in the middle of the group, along with another bowl filled with crispy brown meat and a basket of cooked fish.

"Starving!" Snotlout answered and grabbed a mango off the pile and bit into it. "Man this is so juicy and sweet!"

"This is good pork!" Tuffnut added as he popped another piece of the cooked meat into his mouth. He heard a grunt and turned to see Moana's pig Pua standing behind him and with an annoyed look on his face. "Oooh.....well this is awkward...." He muttered as he grabbed a fruit from the bowl instead.

Moana giggled as her pig snorted and walked off to go sit behind her. She felt her mother nudge her shoulder and turned to look at her.

"So, which one is it?" She whispered. Moana didn't even need to ask what her mother was even talking about.

"None of them mom. Hiccup is practically engaged to Astrid, Tuffnut is not even my type, Fishlegs has eyes for Ruffnut, Snotlout is gross and not even my type, and Eret is just a friend." The young chief whispered back and rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Seriously, do you and dad always have to suspect I am in love with whatever guy I meet and bring back to the island?"

"We just want to see you settled down soon, you're chief now and you know you need to find a suitable husband to have an heir." Tui added. "Having a spouse is not so bad, you just have to pick carefully."

"I think the one with the strange mark on his chest is the one." Sina chuckled and saw her daughter's cheeks turn pink.

Earlier before eating, the Vikings discarded their furs, leather and armor and traded them for the colorful clothes the villagers had been so kind to give to them to wear since it was a bit too hot. The boys (except for Tuffnut and Eret) were a bit too embarrassed to walk around without their shirts, especially Fishlegs, but the annoying heat was a bit too unbearable so they just discarded them and agreed to wear just the skirts they were given.

"Well he is not my boyfriend, nothing special going on between us!" Moana snapped and bit into her mango angrily. "And don't go asking him either, his response is just the same."

"So where do we sleep?" Fishlegs asked Moana, gratefully interrupting the conversation.

"We have some huts you can sleep in. Of if you feel uncomfortable sleeping in one of those, you can sleep outside with the dragons." Moana suggested. "There's not going to be any rain tonight so no need to worry about getting wet."

"This island is a rather great place to live." Ruffnut said as she wiped her mouth after drinking from a coconut. "The weather is nice and warm, plenty of food, nice neighbors, it's paradise!"

"Exactly!" Snotlout agreed. "Man why can't we travel to places like this more often?"

They continued to eat and talking, Maui shiftshaping into various dragons he'd seen on Berk and at one point even took the shape of Toothless and chased Hei Hei and Chicklet around like that (Tuffnut and Moana were not amused by this). At one point during the feast, Moana got up to move away from her parents and took a spot next to Eret to eat in peace.

"They think you're my boyfriend, but I keep telling them that you're just my friend." Moana said to the ex-trapper as she popped some pork into her mouth when she was sure Pua wasn't looking.

"Friend zoning me already? That's hurtful." Eret joked before giving her a worried look. "Do they really think we're a thing? Or are close to being one?"

"Yeah, but it's not even gonna happen." Moana assured him as Hei Hei walked close and started pecking at the blanket where they laid their food out. "I'm kind of getting bored of this feast, plus I need to check on my dragons."