I love the fight scenes in Httyd: Race to The Edge. They're all such a good mix of goofy and serious.
My two favorite fights are the fight between Gobber and Ryker at the auction and the one between Tuffnut and Gruffnut on Barf and Belch.
Gobber and Ryker were just so wildly fun to watch. It's rare you get to see Gobber actively fight, and by god, Gobber was putting in the work. Ryker didn't know how to handle him. Sure, he got a few hits in, but overall, that fight was all in Gobber's favored. That leg sweep followed up by a flying elbow drop was naaasssty. That man was so pissed at Ryker he ran up a wall with a peg leg. An amazing fight scene all together.
It was Tuff vs. Gruff. In that episode, there's an interaction between the two where Gruff says Tuff was never able to beat him in a fight, and he knows he can't now. When he said that, I leaned over to my sister (we're binging the series together since i never finished it) and said, "Considering what Tuff has had to do. He would pummel Gruff," and I was right. Tuff locked the fuck in. At first, he dove down to attack Gruff and missed. I was just like, "he's gonna come back up with Hiccup and Toothless' help," nope. He used the wind and speed of which his was falling with Hiccup's flight suite and propelled himself up and onto the back of Barf and Belch. Then he and Gruff started fighting, and while it was more equal than Gobber v. Ryker, Ruff still put in a lot of work. My favorite move he pulled was when Gruff pushed him off the front of Barf and Belch, and Tuff used the flight suite to suspend himself long enough to get back on. Geniuse.
In general, Race to The Edge is an amazing show. 10/10 do recommend. Gobber elbow drop is the funniest shit I have ever whitnessed.
24 and Tuffnut with Hiccup please I just love their friendship
Skittish/Shy/Uncharacteristic!! ehehehe let's be mean to some boys >:)
It wasn't like him. It wasn't like him at all.
Hiccup frowned as the shadow of Tuffnut vanished around a corner towards the stables. What could he possibly want there at this time of night? And, come to think of it, the figure he pursued was much more silent and coordinated than Tuff usually was.
The stables were dark, the dragons asleep in their pens. Toothless was still in Hiccup's hut, but Hiccup had slipped out for some air (dragon flatulence was unbelievably sulfuric). The stable had a human-sized door to one side of the huge bay doors. The figure slipped inside, and Hiccup, apprehensive and suspicious, followed.
Someone was trying to speak. Trying, but all that was audible were muffled grunts and groans. The center of the stable was a little lighter, thanks to a skylight, so Hiccup stuck to the shadows to not be seen. The figure he'd been tailing stepped out into the faint light.
It was Tuffnut. But... who was gagged in the corner? Tuff stepped forward and began to drag a bound figure into the center of the stable. Hiccup's eyes widened; it was Gruffnut! His distinctive lopsided helmet, his red tunic, of course! Why had Tuffnut tied up his cousin like this?! Hiccup was about to step out of his hiding place when Tuff spoke.
"Well, Tuffnut, this is where I leave you," the standing figure said in a gruff voice. Hiccup stifled a gasp. "In the morning, all your friends will find out they've been duped! Ha, they're all idiots! Once I get back to Berk as you, they'll never know what hit them!"
On the floor, the real Tuffnut groaned in despair. He tried to kick but Gruff-as-Tuff stomped heavily on his shin. The gag muffled the pained scream, but it disturbed the dragons.
"Gruffnut!" Hiccup shouted, stepping out from his place as the dragons screeched and snarled, "It's over! Let him go!"
"Oh great, it's the peg-leg," Gruffnut sneered. He reached down to the belt of his stolen clothes and raised Macey. Tuff moaned through his gag. "And what are you going to do about it, runt?" Gruff asked, advancing on Hiccup, who realized with a stab of annoyance that he was unarmed. Well, he hadn't been expecting this!
Macey's first swing whiffed past his head as he ducked, then slammed into the boards where he'd been as he rolled away.
"Stay still!" Gruffnut roared.
"No!" Hiccup snapped. He patted his pockets frantically as he put space between them, Tuffnut squirming on the floor in the middle. Anything, any tool or anything at all?! His pockets turned up half a charcoal pencil, a few pebbles, and his little prototype firestarter. He'd taken off his armor, or else he'd have a tiny knife hidden under one pauldron. He cursed.
Gruffnut laughed. Their first actions had left him right in front of the door and Hiccup backing away further into the stable. "Well, you've clearly heard too much! And you're not tied up, so I've got to stop you from running off and yelling about my plans!"
"Don't you trust me to keep quiet?" Hiccup asked. He was only half-listening; he was searching the stables for anything that he could wield. There was a dunging fork, but it was all wood and the crater on the plank-floor from Macey's strike did not endear him to a wooden weapon. "I'm great at keeping secrets!"
From the pens, the dragons were agitating even more. It was confusing them to see Tuffnut, friend and rider, to be acting so oddly and sounding wrong. The real Tuffnut was close enough to confuse their scent of him, Hiccup knew. Stormfly's nose was sharp enough to discern the two Nuts and she hated it. Hiccup prayed her screeches would rouse Astrid, but he wouldn't count on it.
Gruffnut charged at him with a roar and swung Macey upwards. Hiccup overbalanced as he leaned back too fast and fell; he knew he'd remember the sight of the mace traveling at his face in his nightmares for a while before he rolled away, splinters from the impact landing in his hair.
He had an idea, but it was risky to say the least. The nearest pen to him held Barf and Belch, who were understandably panicked at their rider's behavior. Hiccup launched to his feet and ran to the pen's wall, then put his back to it. Gruffnut laughed.
"Nowhere else to go," he sneered. He hefted Macey and strode toward Hiccup.
"Make it quick," Hiccup said. He glanced at Tuff, who'd been wriggling at his gag this whole time. He'd almost got it loose.
"Oh, I'll make it painful," Gruffnut growled. He swung, but Hiccup was already moving.
He seized the mace and used Gruffnut's momentum to swing him around, shoving him up against the bars and knocking Macey out of his hand.
"BITE!" Tuffnut yelled from the floor, and Barf's head snaked forward instantly to grab Gruffnut in his jaws.
Muffled screams and Gruffnut's flailing made it evident that it wasn't a fatal bite, but just enough to incapacitate him.
"Yes!" Hiccup cried, laughing in relief. "Nice job, Tuff!" He knelt and tugged on the ropes. "Here, one second." The prototype firestarter was only good at little sparks, but that was enough to singe the cords away so that Hiccup could snap them.
Tuffnut groaned as Hiccup helped him up. "I hurt everywhere," he said. He leaned forward on Hiccup's shoulder. "Carry me to bed, pleeeease."
"Not yet," Hiccup said. He nodded at the kicking legs protruding from Barf's mouth. "Let's get him in a spare pen." They did, Gruffnut barely bothering to struggle. His encounter with the inside of Barf's mouth had left him a gibbering mess.
"I don't know why I liked that guy for so long," Tuff said as they walked up from the stables. He'd draped himself over Hiccup's shoulder; Gruffnut's stomp to his shin was making him limp.
"I get it," Hiccup said. "He's charismatic... uh, to a point. He drew you in, and he was working his hardest to fool you."
"He didn't have to work too hard," Tuff said morosely. "Ruff was right."
"It's alright," Hiccup said. He hoped he sounded reassuring. "After tomorrow, you never have to see him again and we can just put this all behind us. Sound good?"
"Yeah Tuff sighed. "... thanks, Hiccup."
"Of course," Hiccup said warmly. "I'd do it again in a heartbeat, but I might bring my sword next time."
