Horrorcow

Horrorcow is the name of the Basic Brown dragon owned by Fishlegs, one of Hiccup's best friends. Horrorcow is noted to be asleep most of the time. The 'Horror' bit was to make the poor creature sound at least a bit frightening. The 'cow' bit was in there because, for a dragon, Horrorcow was very like a cow." (Paraphrased from How To Train Your Dragon, book one in the Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III series).

Dragon Catching Day
As part of the Dragon Initiation Program of the Hairy Hooligan Tribe, thirteen boys enter the Dragon Nursery where thousands of young dragons are sleeping during Winter hibernation. One of these is Horrorcow, who is actually in the tunnels leading to the main cavern. As the boys had awakened most of the dragons, Hiccup quickly grabbed a dragon and stuffed it into his dragon-catching basket. This turned out to be Horrorcow. Realizing that Fishlegs did not have a dragon of his own and would get exiled, Hiccup gives the dragon to Fishlegs. She was still in hibernation. Hiccup braved the tunnel again and grabbed another dragon for himself, which turned out to be Toothless. Fishlegs names the Basic Brown female 'Horrorcow', to make her sound tough, yet 'cow' because she is nearly a vegetarian.

Training and Confronting the Green Death
Horrorcow was a relatively easy-going dragon, and listened - more or less - to Fishlegs using the 'yelling' technique of training. However, due to her unusual mostly vegetarian diet, Fishlegs had a hard time training her to fish and catch game.

Like all the other tame dragons on the Isle of Berk, she took the side of the presumptive winner in the fight between the Vikings and the Green Death, alternating between leaving and helping the novices defeat the giant dragon. She did help out with the feather-bombing plan, dropping gull feathers on the nose of the Green Death.

Searching for Grimbeard's Treasure
Alvin the poor-but-honest-farmer arrived on Berk and told the Hooligan Tribe about the treasure of Grimbeard the Ghastly, located on the Isle of the Skullions. In preparation, Hiccup, Fishlegs, Toothless, and Horrorcow set out to train in 'treasure sniffing' as dragons are good at sniffing treasure. Horrorcow falls into a nap so deep that she cannot be awoken, so gets little training done.

Horrorcow later accompanied Fishlegs and the other Hooligans and their Hunting Dragon on an expedition to the Isle of the Skullions to find the treasure. However, she falls asleep under a bench on the ship on the journey over and, again, cannot be awoken to participate in the treasure hunt.

Boarding-an-Enemy-Ship Lessons
Horrorcow, along with Toothless, Fishlegs, and Hiccup, float in the small leaky boat, The Hopeful Puffin. The boys are out on the Sea-Known-As-Woden's-Bathtub with the other Hooligan Novices to practice Boarding an Enemy Ship. However, Horrorcow has fallen fast asleep and cannot be awakened, to the point that Fishlegs even needs to prop her head up and out of the water at the bottom of the boat. She sleeps through being knocked off course into the Summer Current, attacking a Roman ship, and escape from a Roman ship. Later she wakes up and wonders if the boys were successful in their practice.

Summer Lessons
As she is often wont to do, Horrowcow falls asleep during 'Herding-Reindeer-on-Dragonback' lessons. She is awoken when the Viking Novices are attacked by Exterminator dragons, only to play for a time amongst the flames.

Red-Rage Dragon Attack
Horrorcow spent two weeks latched to Fishlegs' head after the red-rage dragons attacked at Flashburn's School of Swordfighting. She finally let go after Fishlegs told her they were out of danger. After Hiccup led the second rebellion attack away, she was seen next to Fishlegs, who was looking down at Hiccup's helmet, fearing his friend was dead.

During the Dragon Rebellion
It is revealed that sometime between How to Steal a Dragon's Sword and How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel, Horrorcow and Fishlegs were separated and Horrorcow went into hiding in the underground caves beneath Berk, causing her to not participate in the war. After the war ended, she returned to Fishlegs.

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