Guardian of the Frost

13: My Beastfriend

HICCUP'S POV

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"Darn it Toothless you're slobbering all over my pants again."  I push Toothless off my lap as we get off the bus. He runs ahead of me and I leave a dime at the driver. "And I just airdryed this a minute ago."

"You better watch out for tha' dog Hiccup. Your dad might see 'im." The driver, Goofy who looks like a dog himself with his teeth, chuckles but I shrug.

"Oh he won't. I mean he's so busy with his fanatic wolfhunting in Scotland that he won't probably be back until...I don't know...six or seven years maybe?" I say jokingly and Goofy just smiles as the door closes.

“Well, have fun then Hiccup! Congrats on getting in your dream school!” The bus drives on and I give a wave. Yeah, congrats to me, I think happily. I give a shrug then I feel something slobbery on my rubber shoes and – 

"Oh no Toothless! I just washed them this morning!" I moan as Toothless wags his tail in excitement. I disgustingly try to wipe the slobber off my shoes but to no avail. He looks at me with his huge green eyes. "Hey bud?” I look into his eyes.  “ Can you not do anything crazy today? I mean, I’ve been dreaming about this day for my entire life and it’s finally here. Well yeah, I was also planning up for that day in summer but you fixed that with a little bit of thievery but yes – Toothless, please? Behave for this once?” I pat his head to which he barks approvingly and totters ahead of me. “Why do I get the feeling that you won’t do what I asked you?”

But I shake the bad vibes away as I manage to catch up with him in a jog and we head for the bridge.

Okay, so Walter Castle is a secluded English town in the outskirts of England. And in this town, is a university. And inside this university, is the town.

See, Walter Castle according to the history books, used to be one of those feudal kingdoms. And so there’s a huge brick wall surrounding the place to keep visitors out. Okay so technically, there is a castle inside too, and there were kings and queens back when people had to use pitchforks for placards and guillotines for ---well, there are some things that you don't have to know. So yeah, soon they converted the whole place into a school and town and it became one heck of a school, although the exterior design is all cobble stones and a moat --yes there's a moat-- the interior has been modernized and has the state-of-the-art technology necessary to cater our modern-day needs.

So yeah, the town of Walter Castle is inside the biggest and hippest university – KARLA & HONEY’S DREAMWORKS ACADEMY or Dreamworks University for short. So when you say Walter Castle, you actually mean, Dreamworks University.

And while the school is fancy and all, the tuition fee is way fancier that I can't even count how many zeroes one has to pay inorder to step inside. Or at least that’s what I heard about.

In short, it's the school for the elite.

And it also happens to be every kid who wants to get a good and stable future ensured dream school, me included.

I mean, I’ve been living in Disneyville the next nearest town to Walter Castle, eversince I was a wee-littler than I am now and I’ve been dreaming and endlessly daydreaming about this place. I used to ride the bus all the way from home, which I a good 5 miles away, to just see the gates which is usually closed all throughout the year except for 3 occasions: first day of school, first day of Christmas, first day of summer.

They say it’s hard to get out of the school and the security is that tight because this is the school where the world’s richest, deadliest, and most famous kids go to school to.