what a morning

Much like any other night in berk Delvin woke up to the same word being yelled across the night

"DRAGONS!!"

The sounds of roaring and a lot of Viking warcries could easily be heard from within the Hofferson Clan longhouse especially as Delvin quikly stumbled down the stairs, putting on his shirt and bearskin before quikly taking his halberd from his mother as she offered it to him

"Gonna kill any tonight?" she asked as she handed him a waterskin, sounding like a mother sending her son off to school and in all fairness, this kind of was the berk equivalent

"No just water buckets tonight" he answered shaking his head before giving a wave to Astrid as she emerged from her room, somehow already fully dressed and sporting her axe, well technically her mother Aasa's axe, but these things get passed down "you ready?"

"Born ready" she answered, putting her hands on her hips and giving him a rundown "you know where the water is tonight?"

"Yeah, Gobber wanted to try a new tactic so he's filled barrels and placed one in every block, ready for moving" Delvin replied before giving a yawn and walking out the door, Halberd in hand as always, Astrid hot on his heels

Moving quikly they soon found Stoick and a group of Vikings, in the same place they said they would be for this night's meet-up. They never met up in the same place twice since a herd of Deadly Nadder caught their scent and waited for them in the waiting place

That was not a good night

"Now then!" Stoick began, quikly taking charge and issuing orders "i want everyone in their places and manning a station, Asrids group on water, Hagards group on torches, and my group with catapults!"

"On it Stoick!" Astrid nodded before running off in the direction of the closest fire, Delvin began to follow her but quikly got distracted when he had to dodge the breath of a Deadly Nadder that bathed the pathway in flame

"Hiccup!" turning Delvin saw Stoick pulling a familiar twig away from the fire of the dragon "What is he- What are you doing out! Get inside!" he yelled at his son before roughly shoving him towards the direction of Gobbers forge.

It always amazed him how those two could be father and son, Hiccup must get literally everything from his mother, but he couldnt say for sure since he never met the woman

To prove his point even further, while hiccup was scampering towards the forge, trying not to get trampled by his fellow vikings Stoick proceeded to pick up a wagon and knock a Nadder out of the sky with it

"Delvin!" he turned to see Astrid running towards him with the water wagon "hurry up and help!"

"Yeah stop being a Snotlout!" one of the twins, Ruffnut exclaimed as she pointed towards Snotlout who was presently looking at himself in the reflection of his bucket of water and posing

That got him moving, using his halberd to carry two buckets on his shoulders Delvin limped towards the nearest fire, extinguishing it with a twirl of his halberd before returning to the wagon. As he filled up his bucket he looked over to Fishlegs and exclaimed loud enough that everyone nearby could hear, but especially Snotlout, who was still posing

"Did you hear by the way?" he asked the larger boy, who gave him a confused look and shook his head "i heard that there's a good-looking rich girl in town! But i also heard she's afraid of fire! If only there was a man who could settle her doubts" and while Fishlegs just looked at him with a doubtful look, he had never seen Snotlout start throwing buckets of water so fast

He was chuckling to himself when he heard another call of "fire!"

Moving towards the building, heard Astrid giving out her usual commands

"Come on, lets get a move on!" she yelled as she appeared with another water wagon and the others started taking buckets, although the twins just fought over theirs

Sadly however they couldnt save the building as the second Astrid chucked a pail of water in it another fireball came from the sky leveling it with an explosion which she walked away from in a cool way only Astrid could, which caused a nearby hiccup who was working in the forge to look at her with such a lively lovestruck face that Delvin couldnt help but laugh at before he moved on to the next fire

He was still dealing with fires as he overheard Gobber telling Hiccup to stay put while he went off to fight, which of course led to him seeing Hiccup run out of the forge not two seconds later with his auto-firing bolas launcher in the direction of what sounded to be Night fury blasts

Not sure what gobber expected there

However seeing as he would rather not bury his friend and it appeared that the fires were now mainly under control Delvin ran after his friend, hoping he could stop him from getting himself killed

He chased after Hiccup, avoiding the blasts of fire and the numerous axes and spears of the other Vikings, ignoring the pain in his leg as he followed him to a nearby cliff where the boy had already set up his launcher and was looking around for something too hit

And he was about to say something when suddenly the catapult tower in front of them lit up in a purple explosion and Hiccup went flying from the reoil of his own machine

Holy crap

He hit it! Delvin watched as the black outline of the dragon fell forwards into the forest with a screech

"I hit it? Yes, I hit it!" hiccup began celebrating as Delvin just stared at the scene in front of him in shock

"A baby dragon is still a dragon huh?" he couldnt help but say, causing Hiccup to swing around in surprise and then look at him with a giant smile

"You saw that right?!" Hiccup yelled in jubilation and Delvin was about to nod when he heard a familiar growl as a monstrous nightmare climbed up from the cliff edge, crushing the small bolas launcher beneath its foot

"You too huh?"