Attention. The following dragons are actual dragons mentioned in legends of Berk and httyd. I own none if the titles anymore than I do the movies.
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Everyone was nervous. That was completely obvious. Even Eugene, who always came across as cool and collected, had been sweating in his uniform.
Jack had watched as Rapunzel went to comfort HIM rather than himself. As much as Jack wanted to let it go, he couldn't. Of course he had a crush on her, everyone knew it but Rapunzel. And before now, himself.
When Durham finally left Rapunzel, he made his way to her, almost on instinct. "Punzie." She looked up at him, and grinned. "Jack."
"I realized, I haven't wished you luck yet." He smiled.
"why? Do you think I need it?" Punzie shot him a questioning look.
"N-no! What I mean is,-"
"Good luck, Jack." She wishes Him and Stroker his shoulder kindly.
to Jacks surprise, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him in for a hug. He gladly hugged back, closing his eyes to fully enjoy the moment. When they pulled away, they encountered a moment to catch a glimpse of the others eyes. Jack felt mesmerized during the brief moment that they shared, staring into the beautiful pools of her eyes.
The moment was broken by Rapunzel, who suggested that she were to report to her mentor, Sandy.
As she did so, Jack did the same, as well as the rest of the champions. Jack was relieved that his mentor wasn't Pitch, but North. Jack knew Pitch may have simply picked Eugene, but Jack was completely okay with that.
"Alright, huddle up." North said, after posing rather awkwardly in front of the reporters for the daily prophet. He pulled out a bag and held it out in the middle of the circle.
"In this bag, are 5 miniature dragons, shrunk down to represent very real ones. Very real ones that you will be challenging. Now, the objective is to capture the golden egg on the other side of the arena. The egg will contain the key to completing the second task."
Hiccup sighed in relief. I don't have to kill them.... just run away from them. Hiccup began to worry again. This dragon is untrained, How could he possibly run away from them safely? Then he brainstormed. Find its weakness.
Jack wasn't doing any better. He didn't know a thing about dragons and was taking back every moment he spent dosing off when Hiccup began a rant about them.
Eugene put his hand in the bag first. The order was from oldest to youngest, and Eugene was a 6th year. Being older though, didn't make him any less nervous.
He pulled out his hand to reveal a dragon that almost looked like two. It had a single body with two wandering heads snaking out. "The Hideous ZippleBack." North announced. It sat in the palm of his had as one head puffed out a tiny ball of gas, as the other showed lightning zappiung between its teeth.
Jack was next. He was hesitant, and let one crawl into his hand. When he pulled it out of the bag, he saw a dragon with spikes covering its snake like body, and spinning rows of unflattering teeth that looked too big for its mouth.
"The Whispering Death." North said. 'seriously? The Whispering Death!? I bet it likes bunnies.' Jack gave a sarcastic comment and held back the urge to roll his eyes.
Rapunzel presumed to grab a dragon herself, when it bit her back instead. When she finally managed to grab it, she took out a bat like dragon that spit lightning and fire at once.
"A skrill." Rapunzel tried to hide her fear, with no luck. But she wasn't the only one shaking.
Merida offered her hand boldly. Even she knew she should've been scared, and of course she was. But she wanted to get it over with as quickly as she could.
She pulled out a dragont hat was rather round, but no less dangerous. Merida had never seen such a dragon. It intrigued her just as much as it scared her. When it opened its mouth, She could see inside of it. Down its tunnel like throat, it grew darker and darker.But it was heavily guarded with its teeth, monsterous and sharp. It made a shreaking sound that made merida crindge.
"A Thunder Drum."
Now that it was Hiccups turn, he may have been the most nervous. He knew what each dragon could do, mst likely, and being aware of the dangers somehow made him more intimidated.
He braced himself. He pulled out a creature that looked like a cross between a bat and a roach, as Hiccup justified it. It crawled in his hand very slowly, but twitched with speed and excitement. Hiccup knew exactly what it was.
"A Smothering Smokebreath." North and Hiccup said in unison. North gave him a curious look.
"Eh, yes, exactly." He added. Hiccup had never encountered this dragon directly. He knew of it for its nickname, 'Fog Monster.'It snuck up on its prey by releasing a heavy puff of smoke that took their guard down Then when they least expected it, they became breakfast.
Hiccup gulped.
North smiled and said, "Well, with that said, let the tournament, Begin!"
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Rapunzel was next. She took a deep breath, and waited for them to call her name.
When they did, she took a step into the dragons, how should we say, 'lair,' and ran as fast as she could when she saw it. The skrill. She had to admit, It was smaller than Jacks and Eugenes, as far as she could observe without cringing and burying her face in her lap.
She was relieved for a moment, it had just looked like an oversized bat, but she soon learned that she had under estimated it.
Fire. Everywhere.
Though her uniform and shield was flame retardant, she felt the air grow humid as the fire excelled from it's throat. She hadn't even seen the egg yet . then she saw it . It shines golden from underneath the dragon as the sunlight bounced off of the shell.
It wasn't that far away.
Across the field, she dashed underneath the dragon, dirt flying beneath her as the scroll charged rather close to the ground. Rapunzel climbed higher and higher upon the rocks that stood between the egg and herself as she felt her arms blistering from beneath her wrist pads. She squeezed her eyes shut to distract her from the pain. The rocks that scraped her skin left dirt smudged on her shins. 'Almost there.'
As she raised her arm again to grip onto another rock, she felt the top and pushed herself onto the rocky mountain where the egg sat. She rushed to grab it, when a tail whipped her out of the way.
She groaned in pain, gripping her stomachs where she was pulled from.
'Think, Punzie, Think!' The rules. She thought of the rules. She whipped out her wand and brainstormed. 'no summoning weapons, then what is there...
"Accio Frying Pan!" She called desperately. She mentally slapped herself. What would a frying pan do to help?
A frying pan then zoomed into her hand as she hooked it onto her belt. 'Only one item per person, I'll have to make do.' She climbed higher and higher away from the dragon, who flew not far behind. She was getting dangerously close to the crowd watching, and dangerously close was the dragon, as well. Once she got too claw, she felt the dragon grip her foot and she began falling down.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion.
Then she stopped falling.
She looked down and realized she was on the back of the dragon. Things seemed to move to quick for her now. She pulled out her frying pan and hit
its head with all her might. The dragon began to fall too.
When it hit the ground, Rapunzel ran for dear life once more. She grabbed the egg and devoured the rain of cheers from the crowd as she ran to safety again.
She completed the first task.
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OMG GUYS THIS WAS SO FUN TO WRITE MY HEART STARTED POUNDING OUT OF MY CHEST. Fyi School starts tomorrow, so I won't be on as much, but I'm surprised im still motivated to write this story enough to get through an action scene. That rarely happens!
That's enough motivation to actually finish the story!
I might start crying though when I do, I'm having so much fun :)
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this is my favorite chapter so far guys, I love this :D
And by the way, Ibased their ages off of the movies they were in.
Eugene was said to be 26. Rapunzel is 18. Jack looks around 18. Merida is 16. And Hiccup is 12 to 13. So I narrowed the years down to justify how many months apart they were, so they would all be in the same year. (Except for Eugene, He's got the biggest age gap.) So Hiccup is still the youngest, but only because of a later birthday. So everyones happy! :D