CHAPTER ONE
Location: Berk
Parents: Hiccup and Astrid
Age: 14
Name: Alice Haddock
I woke up this morning and ran down the stairs to find mom and dad still asleep, once again, as always. I did what I usually do this early in the morning. I ran outside, shield in hand, and hopped into the Forrest looking for a big reptile with a strong fire ability and wings. You guessed it, I'm looking for a dragon because I am the only teenager without one! The older vikings try to tell me I'll find one soon, but they're about 50 years old and they don't even have one. I feel like a giant can of dragon-repellant. I keep telling myself I just haven't found the right one yet, but I'm not very confident in that explanation.
This time, I found myself at the cove. I've been here three times before, looking for a dragon, but considering how many times I've gone looking, three is not very much, at all. After a couple hours, I decide to head back home, as always. I walked in the door to find dad cooking breakfast. Wife's not being able to cook runs in the family, so dad cooks. He told me both mom and grandma can't cook very well.
"Find it?" dad asked me.
"Not this time." I replied.
"I told you, you're not gonna find anything. Nobody 'looks' for a dragon. It happens when you least expect it." dad said.
"But I'm 14 and still don't have one!" I told him.
"I didn't get Toothless until I was 15." dad explained.
"I got Stormfly when I was 14." mom told dad.
"That's only because you're younger. By a year. Besides, those circumstances were different." dad told her.
"How did you find Toothless?" I asked him. He suddenly stopped and dropped the spoon he was using to make fish stew.
"Umm....I'll tell you later."
"HICCUP!" mom yelled.
"What?" dad asked, confused.
"Dragon training!" mom reminded him.
"Oh! Right!" dad said.
"Come on, Alice!" dad told me.
We ran down to the Dragon Training Arena. Dad teaches Dragon Training there and does stuff with his friends while I do stuff with mine. My friends were, Meatlegs, a girl who's dad is Fishlegs, and who was given an awful name, Buffnut, Tuffnut's scrawny son, also blessed with his "wonderful" name, Shortlout, Snotlout's son, who turned out to be the first ever tall Jorgenson, Eren (pronounced Aaron), Eret and Ruffnut's son, and Scruffnut, Eren's twin sister.
Meatlegs rides a Hotburple, one of Grumps babies, who isn't really a baby anymore. The Hotburple's name is SnoozeThumper because he sleeps so much.
Buffnut rides a Skrill named Lightwing. Basically, Tuffnut wasn't watching Buffnut when he snuck outside and found a baby Skrill, then walked into the house with it babbling to Tuffnut "lightning, lightning" but it came out as Lightwing.
Shortlout rides a Typhoomerang named Firefly. Shortlout is very irresponsible.
Eren rides a Deadly Nadder named Swiftspike and Scruffnut rides a Whispering Death named Skreem.
I'm the outcast of the group. I ride two things called feet.
But maybe they changed it since I last checked...
