How to Twist a Dragon's Tale (Hiccup) Read Online Free PDF
Author: Cressida Cowell
this occasion, for the Highest Point was some flying distance away from Hooligan Village, but within a relatively short space of time, the entire Brigade was there, the dragons swooping down into the seas below to scoop off huge amounts of water from the sea, and then shooting it out onto the blaze.
Their efforts were pretty hopeless, of course, because this wasn't a tiny little matter of a hunting
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The Water Dragons
These extraordinary-looking creatures originate from the deserts of Asia. They store water in their humps (or in some Gases, their stomachs) in much the same way as a camel.
STATISTICS
COLORS: Sandy yellow, desert mustard
ARMED WITH: Powerful jets of water that can knock a person over ... 5
DEFENSES: See above ... 5
HUNTING ABILITY: Use their water jets to stun their prey. Surprisingly effective... 7
SPEED: Very fast when flying to put out a fire ... 8
FEAR AND FIGHT FACTOR: Water can stun, hut not hill a human ... 2
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dragon setting fire to a bedspread, but an entire burning mountainside, and by the time Stoick arrived, half naked on the back of his riding dragon, the fire was flaming as strongly as ever.
Gloomily watching the blaze was a bedraggled line of pupils from the Pirate Training Program, blackened and unrecognizable through the smoke.
"Hiccup?" stammered Stoick, dismounting from his riding dragon, and wiping the smeariness from the face of the nearest boy in the pathetic hope that the soot-smothered young plug-ugly might be his son.
"WHERE IS HICCUP?"
Sadly, Wartihog shook his head and pointed a grubby arm at the mighty blaze in front of them.
"NO!" shouted Stoick, tearing his beard, staring at the blazing woods.
Out of the fire ran the Windwalker as fast as he could, and he came to a stop among the waiting Vikings. Hasty hands scrabbled at the cloak, unwrapping it with such speed that Hiccup fell out on to the heather.
He found himself looking straight up into the anxious face of his father, Stoick the Vast, and the heads of several other Warriors.
Behind those heads was the bright blue sky, and
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farther back even than that was the flaming Highest Point, a great funeral pyre for Goliath and the reindeer.
But not for Hiccup -- this time. As Hiccup tumbled onto his back, his helmet fell off and a hot, cross Toothless flew out.
"Mean, mean Master!" scolded Toothless, "Hiccup VERY LUCKY nice, kind Toothless not do a pee-pee on his head"
But then the little dragon forgot his anger immediately when he caught sight of the glorious burning bonfire. "OOOOOOhhhh, FIRE! " squealed Toothless in excitement, and he flapped off hurriedly to play in the flames.
[Image: Sliding down the flames]
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"He's alive!" bellowed Stoick the Vast in astonished delight.
"How are you alive?" was Stoick's next, baffled question.
Hiccup pointed to something standing quietly some way beyond Stoick's shoulder.
The Man on the White Dragon, with Gobber sitting behind him.
"He saved me," said Hiccup.
Gobber clambered down from the White Dragon. He was totally black from eyebrows to toenails, apart from the small pink top of his bald helmetless head, which shone in the sunlight like a halo.
[Image: hide-and-seek with Horrorcow]
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"I can explain, Chief," stammered Gobber. "It was a perfectly harmless Herding-Reindeer-on-Dragonback lesson, nothing dangerous about it at all, and then we were attacked by these things ... Goliath didn't make it."
"I am sorry, Gobber," said Stoick the Vast solemnly. Goliath had been Gobber's faithful riding dragon through many a terrible battle. "We shall take revenge on whatever did this, I assure you ..."
"He saved us," said Gobber, pointing at the Man.
"Who is that?" asked Stoick. "Who is that Man?"
"He can't be a man, " pointed out Gobber. "Men don't walk through fire ... He must be a god."
"I'm not a god," said the Man on the White Dragon.
His voice was rather muffled by a black suit that covered him from head to toe, even his eyes and mouth, and Hiccup was
Their efforts were pretty hopeless, of course, because this wasn't a tiny little matter of a hunting
68
The Water Dragons
These extraordinary-looking creatures originate from the deserts of Asia. They store water in their humps (or in some Gases, their stomachs) in much the same way as a camel.
STATISTICS
COLORS: Sandy yellow, desert mustard
ARMED WITH: Powerful jets of water that can knock a person over ... 5
DEFENSES: See above ... 5
HUNTING ABILITY: Use their water jets to stun their prey. Surprisingly effective... 7
SPEED: Very fast when flying to put out a fire ... 8
FEAR AND FIGHT FACTOR: Water can stun, hut not hill a human ... 2
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dragon setting fire to a bedspread, but an entire burning mountainside, and by the time Stoick arrived, half naked on the back of his riding dragon, the fire was flaming as strongly as ever.
Gloomily watching the blaze was a bedraggled line of pupils from the Pirate Training Program, blackened and unrecognizable through the smoke.
"Hiccup?" stammered Stoick, dismounting from his riding dragon, and wiping the smeariness from the face of the nearest boy in the pathetic hope that the soot-smothered young plug-ugly might be his son.
"WHERE IS HICCUP?"
Sadly, Wartihog shook his head and pointed a grubby arm at the mighty blaze in front of them.
"NO!" shouted Stoick, tearing his beard, staring at the blazing woods.
Out of the fire ran the Windwalker as fast as he could, and he came to a stop among the waiting Vikings. Hasty hands scrabbled at the cloak, unwrapping it with such speed that Hiccup fell out on to the heather.
He found himself looking straight up into the anxious face of his father, Stoick the Vast, and the heads of several other Warriors.
Behind those heads was the bright blue sky, and
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farther back even than that was the flaming Highest Point, a great funeral pyre for Goliath and the reindeer.
But not for Hiccup -- this time. As Hiccup tumbled onto his back, his helmet fell off and a hot, cross Toothless flew out.
"Mean, mean Master!" scolded Toothless, "Hiccup VERY LUCKY nice, kind Toothless not do a pee-pee on his head"
But then the little dragon forgot his anger immediately when he caught sight of the glorious burning bonfire. "OOOOOOhhhh, FIRE! " squealed Toothless in excitement, and he flapped off hurriedly to play in the flames.
[Image: Sliding down the flames]
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"He's alive!" bellowed Stoick the Vast in astonished delight.
"How are you alive?" was Stoick's next, baffled question.
Hiccup pointed to something standing quietly some way beyond Stoick's shoulder.
The Man on the White Dragon, with Gobber sitting behind him.
"He saved me," said Hiccup.
Gobber clambered down from the White Dragon. He was totally black from eyebrows to toenails, apart from the small pink top of his bald helmetless head, which shone in the sunlight like a halo.
[Image: hide-and-seek with Horrorcow]
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"I can explain, Chief," stammered Gobber. "It was a perfectly harmless Herding-Reindeer-on-Dragonback lesson, nothing dangerous about it at all, and then we were attacked by these things ... Goliath didn't make it."
"I am sorry, Gobber," said Stoick the Vast solemnly. Goliath had been Gobber's faithful riding dragon through many a terrible battle. "We shall take revenge on whatever did this, I assure you ..."
"He saved us," said Gobber, pointing at the Man.
"Who is that?" asked Stoick. "Who is that Man?"
"He can't be a man, " pointed out Gobber. "Men don't walk through fire ... He must be a god."
"I'm not a god," said the Man on the White Dragon.
His voice was rather muffled by a black suit that covered him from head to toe, even his eyes and mouth, and Hiccup was
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