Man, I gotta stop promising when chapters are gonna come out. Shorter chapter than most, but it's something. Enjoy!
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Kaarik's POV
"Alright, guys, training time." I grinned as I looked at the group of teens standing before me. However, I was met with looks of displeasure and drawn-out groans.
"Come on, Kaarik, your training methods are pure torture." Helga pleaded, begging me to take it easy on them.
Meanwhile, Tuffnut crawled towards me quickly, almost impossibly quick, before clinging to my leg.
"Please, I beg of you! Reconsider!" He sobbed as I pried my leg from his grasp.
Nothing out of the ordinary, just the usual complaints. Without so much as batting an eye at the rest of the group, I just began walking toward Indra.
"Yeah, Kaarik, it's been hours." Fishlegs groaned.
"Sorry, guys, like I always tell you, this is necessary training. Plus, it's me versus you guys. You have the advantage." I said, smiling widely as I checked if Indra's saddle was mounted properly.
"Easy for you to say! You have your ginormous lightning freak of nature on your side!" Snotlout whined.
"Yeah, and he really doesn't like being called names. Now move it!" I shouted, grinning widely as Indra began blasting the group with lightning.
"You're crazy!" Snotlout shrieked, quickly mounting his dragon as he barely avoided being electrocuted.
"Get gud…" I deadpanned as I ignored his screaming.
Ruffnut and Tuffnut, as usual, did a war cry and tried spraying gas around us before blowing it up. Unfortunately for them, with a single flap of his wings, Indra blew the gas back at them, causing them to dive just as Belch ignited it.
They were surprisingly quick when it came to battle, something I noticed even with their infuriating nonsense. Seeing Astrid and Storming trying to flank Indra, quickly whips around before shooting lightning at her.
"Stormfly!" She shouted, ducking as her dragon barrel rolled to dodge the blast of lightning as it whizzed past Fishlegs, who was flying in that direction.
"Whoa! Watch it! Ah, run, Meatlug!" He screamed as we gave chase to them.
It was only training, so we weren't going too hard on them. As a matter of fact, Indra was barely using a fraction of his lightning's power. At most, if they got hit, they'd go numb for a bit. Nevertheless, it was pretty funny to watch them all fly around in terror. Just as Indra was about to grab the two, Helga and Toothless flew by, taunting us.
"Pick on someone your size, you meatheads!"
Giving her a blank stare, I glanced at Indra, who cocked his head back at me before responding.
"Helga, you are aware my dragon is like four times the size of yours… right?"
"So?" She said with her arms crossed.
And with that, we dove at them. Gasping, Helga quickly jerked Toothless to the side, avoiding our head-on strike as we swooped past her before ordering Toothless to fire at us.
"Toothless plasma blast!"
As the incoming blast came closer, Indra used his built-up speed to quickly pull back upwards, dodging the plasma and shooting a beam of lightning back at them.
"Come on, guys! You're better than this! Get into formation and attack us!" I shout, as Indra roars at the other dragons, in what I assume was the same thing I told the gang.
All looking at one another, they began flying around us in circles before firing at us. It's not a bad strategy, unfortunately, it wouldn't be enough. Quickly dodging the different dragon fire, I tell Indra to dive to the ground. Upon landing, I get off as the group surrounds us once again.
"Getting off your dragon? That's pretty stupid." I heard Tuffnut chuckle as Ruffnut responded in kind.
"Yeah, and we're the dumb ones." She says cackling.
Chuckling darkly, I get under Indra as the rest of the gang looks at me weirdly. "Sorry to break it to you guys, but what exactly do you know about Skrills?" I asked them while sitting under Indra.
Almost instantly, Fishlegs excitedly replies, "Oh, ooh, I know this one! They absorb and store lightning..." Almost as soon as he finishes his sentence, his face turns horror-stricken.
"Ding, ding, ding! Bingo, Fishlegs! As you guys already know, I've had Indra dial down his lightning in training, but just in case, please try your best to dodge. We don't wanna fry ya." Patting Indra's belly, I signal Indra to do his signature move.
The dragon grinned up at the gang before curling his massive wings around us, electricity crackling off him before unfurling his wings, sending arcs of lightning at everyone. They couldn't dodge even though they had plenty of time between the windup and the attack, so they all ended up crashing to the ground, twitching a bit as I got close to them.
"Good job, guys, you did better than last time." I said as I gave them a thumbs up.
"We hate you." They all somehow said in unison.
"Noted. Now, come on, it's getting late, and we should be heading back. We've got a lot more things to do later on." I said as Indra walked up from behind me.