Read the Rainbow – Red
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III may be the least intimidating Viking in several generations, which is a bit of a problem, since he’s the son of the Chief, and therefore meant to lead the Hairy Hooligans when he gets older. He’s skinny, puny, bookish and not even slightly intimidating, and when he has to compete in the traditional manhood trial of the tribe, and sneak into a cave to capture himself a dragon, he ends up with the smallest, least impressive dragon of the lot. Hiccup should have an advantage over the other youths when it comes to taming and getting a dragon to do his bidding – he can speak Dragonese. He can’t really tell anyone about that, of course, since Dragonese has been forbidden in the Hairy Hooligans for over a hundred years. Also, Hiccup’s dragon, Toothless, is stubborn and selfish and couldn’t care less about listening to Hiccup.
When the day of the dragon trials finally arrives, a massive fight breaks out among all the recently tamed dragons, and in an unprecedented event, all the youths of the tribe (and their rivals) are supposed to be banished to the wilderness. However, before that can happen, the tribes are faced with a new, much bigger challenge – a very large, very hungry sea dragon has awoken and now wants to eat all the humans. How are they going to defeat something so enormous and dangerous?
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