My Chieftess... ✨Scripted✨ version

Episode 5: A Gruff Separation

Bodil: That depends entirely on what you're about to ask.

Tuffnut: Will you make the meat pies?

Bodil: Yes, I will even use Gobbers secret recipe.

Tuffnut: YES! Ugh thank you I could kiss you right now. You are now a VIP guest. You and chicken. (He gives her a couple pats on the cheek. Bodil looks like extremely annoyed by this when Hiccup and Toothless fly in with Gruffnut, who snickers and waves at Tuff) Wait a minute. Who invited him?

(Scene changes to show the Riders interrogating Gruffnut, who is locked up, inside the Stables)

Ruffnut: Hey! If you came here to ruin our party, you might as well forget it.

Gruffnut: No, no, no. You've got me all wrong, Ruff. See, I've got something very important to tell you. I've been sent here to administer the "Thorston Induction Trials". (pulls out and unrolls the scroll, showing it to the twins) Rawr. (reads the words printed in the scroll, "On this, the nineteenth year of their birth, on the event of the coming of their age, Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston must take part in the most perilous Trials of all: The Thorston Induction Trials!")

Hiccup: And you expect us to buy that?

(Toothless walks up, growling)

Tuffnut: Stand down, T.

Bodil: Wait. You actually believe him?

Tuffnut: Of course I believe him. We've been waiting our whole lives for this.

Snotlout: What kind of ridiculous clan has their coming-of-age ritual at nineteen? The Jorgensons do it at nine months, and we have to kill a bear.

Bodil: Osmonds are 8 years old. We have to survive a week alone in the forest.

Ruffnut: Most Thorstons don't have that long of a lifespan, so if you actually make it to nineteen, it's a pretty big deal.

Tuffnut: Yeah, and because of this, every Thorston, on their nineteenth birthday, must complete three extremely dangerous challenges. Each is specifically designed by the High Council of Thorstons to test the mental, physical, and height limits of the Thorston taking the Trials. Once completed, you're officially inducted into the clan, with all of the rights, benefits, and costumery that go along with it.

Fishlegs: And every Thorston does this?

Tuffnut: Every. Single. Thorston.

([Flashback]: Shows remnants of Thorstons taking the Trials, the first setting a fire and outrunning it before it traps him, the second using a catapult to catch a flying Terrible Terror, and the third bowling by using a boar as the ball and sheep as the pins)

Tuffnut (cont.): Wait a second. What are we doing here reminiscing? We must prepare. There are so many things we have to get ready.

Hiccup: Guys, are you absolutely sure this is real?

Ruffnut: Look, I appreciate the concern, Haddock, and I admit Gruffnut's a slimy, two-bit scam artist but you can't argue with the scroll.

Hiccup: I really don't like this.

(Scene changes to show the twins' Hut, at night, where Hiccup, with Toothless, is still trying to persuade the twins not to trust Gruffnut while they start getting ready for the Trials)

Hiccup (cont.): So, if Gruffnut told you to jump off a cliff just because it's in the Trials, would you jump off a cliff?

Tuffnut: I mean, how high is the cliff?

Hiccup: Seriously, don't do this.

Ruffnut: It's our birthright.

Tuffnut: Besides, if we don't do the Induction Trials, we'll be disowned by the whole Thorston Clan.