Hiccup's Call to Adventure and Refusal of the Call

(See previous post about How To Train Your Dragon: Book 1 by Cressida Cowell to learn more about Hiccup and his ordinary world)

Hiccup's ordinary world is disrupted when he's required to complete the Dragon Initiation Test. Gobber the Belch, the warrior in charge of the Test, serves as the Herald for this Call to Adventure. He presents the challenge of capturing a dragon from a cave of three thousand of them to Hiccup, and announces the significant changes that will occur if he succeeds:

1. He will have a dragon to hunt with.
2. He will become a fully-fledged Hairy Hooligan.

If he fails the test, he will be exiled. As mentioned before, Hiccup is terrified of exile. He's not foolhardy, though, and his brief thought processes represent his Refusal of the Call:

"Hiccup swallowed hard. He happened to know considerably more about dragons than anybody else there. ...And what Hiccup had learned about dragons told him that walking into a cave with three thousand dragons in it was an act of madness."

-Cressida Cowell, How To Train Your Dragon: Book 1 7

Hiccup isn't reluctant because he's unwilling to accept these changes. His own sense of self-preservation that makes him scared of exile also makes him scared of the Call to Adventure. He has insecurity that he will not survive this challenge.