Dragon Riders

Chapter 2: Flashback

"I need to have a word with you. Can you please come here?" Valka asked as Hiccup went around the table and followed after her.

Ordindal watched Hiccup leave before he looked around and then began fiddling with the shield. He began to look for the trigger before he pulled something and the shield began to open up into a cross bow like design. One of the ends of the bow smacked Ordinal in the face which caused him to rub the sore spot. "Catapult. Should have seen that coming." He put it back into its shield position before taking the unique weapon away.

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Hiccup and Valka walked over to a quaint spot along the cliffs that were only just a few feet from Ordindal's work shop. They were walking together side by side arguing about the event that would take place tomorrow.

"Mom, I know you are worried about me taking the test tomorrow, but how am I going to prove myself if I don't take this chance." Hiccup tried to make his mother understand that he wasn't as powerless as everyone thought he was.

"I know that, but you have to know that as a mother, I worry about my son" Valka grabbed Hiccup hand, bring him to a halt. "You have to realize that this is a big deal. You three are about to embark on a dangerous journey where I can't help you..."

"Yes I know. Tomorrow is the day that Eri, Cammy, and I will embark on a journey to see how we will act as a group. It's only going to be just the three of us and it's a one day training mission to be able to act as one and be able to take on anything that challenges us. And that....." Hiccup went on and on about their test until his mother interrupted him.

"And you're still a child" Valka kneeled down in front of her son so she can look at him in the eye. "You are my only son and I worry that anything can happen to you."

"Mom...." Hiccup knew that his mother wanted to protect him, but he just felt like he needed this chance to prove himself. "I'll be fine. You forget that Toothless will be with me and I remember everything you and the adults have taught me." Hiccup could feel his mother avert her teary eyes. "Besides...no one would dare to mess with all this"

Valka laughed at her son's joke and it made her feel a little better. "And what about Erien and Camicazi?"

Hiccup thought about it for a minute before giving his mother an answer. "They can be a perfect distraction. I can use that when we get in a sticky situation. You know, "confuse the enemy". Quoting the words, Hiccup saw his mother was giving him a disproving look up, but Hiccup knew that inside his mother was laughing.

Whacking her son lightly on the head, she said. "I just worry about you sometimes. Even when you're with Toothless you can be a little....reckless"

Hiccup shrugged his shoulders and gave an embarrassed smile as he knew what his mother was talking about. Hiccup and Toothless were definitely daredevils. And because of Hiccup's short attention span, he can be quite handful. Another thing was that it didn't help that he couldn't even beat Camicazi in a simple arm wrestling contest. Sure she was older but still, Camicazi was more skinny than Hiccup is and she still can pin him to the ground like he was just a simple Terrible Terror. "I know I can be ...reckless. But with this new invention I making, I'll be able to..."

"Hiccup!"

The two look to the left of them to see Ordindal tossing the shield to Hiccup. Hiccup caught the shield with ease as he looked at the weapon. Hiccup could not believe what Ordindal had done to his shield. It was cover in the Gronkle iron that Ordindal had used on many of his new weapons.

It was light and very easy to carry. Hiccup ran his finger along the metal casing in awe at the brilliant weapon. "This is...this is..."

"Amazing? Spectacular....Cool?" Ordinal came up next to the two as he watched Hiccup open his weapon to reveal its crossbow straight.