How To Train Your Dragon Chapter 4- Secrets Of The Element Caster

*I say 'it' a lot here, but Hiccup and Dagny don't know what gender the Element Caster is yet. Oh, and the Elementy is renamed to Element Caster ;)*

"Oh my gosh, Hiccup! What happened to the Element Caster?" I questioned.

"I have no clue." Hiccup must have seen something I didn't, because it wasn't to long before he asked, "Where are the other two heads?"

I looked closer and noticed that only three heads were there: the fire head, the ice head, and the smoke head. I noticed that its left wing was torn, and that its right back foot was missing. The eyes looked straight at me, almost saying "Help me! Please! I want to live, even if it means a human has to help me."

"Hiccup, what in Odin's name do we do? The Element Caster is badly injured."

"I have an idea, Dagny, but I need you to stay here with it," Hiccup said while running off.

I walked down to the Element Caster, courageous but shaking with fear. A clear pond was next to me. Thinking ahead, I brought out a pocket knife, tied it to a long stick with a vine, and caught three fish. The three- headed beast watched me, its eyes glaring at the freshly caught fish. I threw the fish at the dragon. It stumbled to its feet, using its tail as support. It ate the fish graciously. It ran up to me like a toddler and laid beside me. The ice head looked at me. Its eyes were a beautiful almond shape.

"Hey there, big guy," I whispered to it. "What or who did this to you?" The smoke head gestured to the ground, but I had no clue what it was trying to say. Hiccup finally returned with heaps of metal and cloth sticking out of a woven basket. He made a fire and began to bend the metal. Once that was done, he draped the cloth over the metal.

"What are you doing?" I finally asked the blacksmith.

"I'm trying to make it a new wing with the cloth and metal supports. I already got this foot done before a came back," He answered while tossing me a metal foot.

"Wait, do you expect me to put this thing on the Element Caster? Won't it just eat me?"

"Not if it trusts you."

I walked up to the Element Caster. It saw what was in my hand, and flipped onto his back. I carefully slipped the new foot on it.

"Hiccup, nice work with the foot. It's a perfect fit." The dragon burst to its feet right after I said that. All of a sudden it was gone. Mist filled the air. It cleared and instead of the Element Caster being there, it was a Night Fury.

"What the heck!" Hiccup burst out. "Where did it go?"

Mist filled the air again, and the Element Caster was there.

"It can change what dragon it is?" Hiccup asked.

"Apparently. So that's why we thought we caught a Night Fury! It changed what dragon it was." I exclaimed.

Hiccup looked to the sun. "It's time we got back home."

***

Rain tumbled down from the dark grey clouds above. We walked into the Great Hall, only to meet Gobber talking to the dragon trainees.

"Now," he started, "where did Hiccup and Dagny go wrong today?"

"They showed up." Snoutlout replied.

"They're still alive." said Tuffnut.

"They're never where they should be," Astrid answered.

"Thank you, Astrid."

Hiccup and I sat down away from everyone else, our bodies cold and wet from the downpour. Gobber brought out a large book with a dragon on the front.

"This is the Book of Dragons. Read it, study it, learn from it." Gobber said.

"Wait. We have to read?" Tuffnut asked.

"While we're still alive?" finished Ruffnut.

"Why read the thing if we can kill the stuff the book tells us about?" Snoutlout concluded.

Everyone walked out of the Great Hall but me, Astrid, and Hiccup. I was the one reading, while Hiccup had his eyes on Astrid. Astrid either didn't notice or simply didn't care. Maybe she liked the attention from Hiccup. My Hiccup. I knew right then that there would be a rivalry between me and Astrid.

***

"Today's lesson is all about attack!" Gobber said as a Deadly Nadder jumped on a fence post. "Nadders are quick and light on their feet. Your job is to be quicker and lighter."

"Ahh!" Fishlegs screamed as spines got stuck in his shield. "I'm really beginning to question your teaching methods!"

Gobber paid no attention to Fishlegs. "Look for the dragon's blind spot. Find it, hide in it, and strike!"

Ruffnut and Tuffnut ran right into the Nadder's blind spot. Ruff took a small whiff and said, "Ugh, do you ever bathe?"

"If you don't like it then get you own blind spot!" Tuffnut fought back.

"Why don't I give you one!" Ruffnut yelled. The Deadly Nadder heard every word and shot fire.

"Blind spot, yes. Deaf spot, not so much." Gobber butted in.

The Nadder ran through and found Astrid and Snoutlout. "I've got this, babe." Snoutlout told Astrid reassuringly. He threw a club and missed. The dragon did a noise that sounded like a laugh. "The sun was in my eyes, Astrid! What do you want me to do? Block out the sun? I can do that if you want."

"Come on." she grumbled.

The Nadder followed Astrid at top speed. It ran into the fencing and it toppled down. Running onto a falling piece of wood, she saw Hiccup below her.

"Hiccup!" she yelled at him. Her axe got stuck in the shield and her foot was tangled with Hiccup's.

"Love on the battlefield." Tuffnut said.

"She could have done better." Ruffnut added.

Astrid grabbed the axe and slammed the shield into the Deadly Nadder's face.

"Is this some kind of joke to you?" she practically screamed at Hiccup. He looked up to her but said no words. "Our parent's war is about to become ours. Figure out which side you're on."

"I can't..."

*Credit for last sentence goes to Em101cats :)*