Hey guys! new fic here! I've been seeing lots of blogs at tumblr with posts about how people want a HTTYD fic and also been watching the movie a lot, I really love toothless hehe well so here is it, I really hope you like it and tell me what you think, this first chapter may be a little uneventful but it gets better I swear.
Brittany was a young girl in a Viking village of dragon slayers; she lived her life hating the dragons, her father having told her that one killed her mother when she was a baby. So when she asked her father, the chief of the village, to be included in the classes about slaying he let her without fight. Now it was a year later and she knew all she needed about dragons to be able to kill them.
"Dragons!" someone yelled from outside.
Brittany came out of her house with one of her artifacts and goes to a little hill to prepare to catch, if possible, a dragon, and then kill it once she's found it.
A shrill sound is heard by everyone and they all scream, only one dragon proffers that sound, a night fury.
Brittany looks around and sees what she thinks might be the dragon, she shoots the web from her artifact and it falls into the forest not coming back out, Brittany memorizes the place where the dragon fell and goes back to help her people, she will go search for the beast the next day.
"Brittany! Come here and help your father" the village chief told the blonde girl when he saw her.
"Yes father, what can I do?" the blonde asked when she reached her father.
"Hold this here" he said pointing to a piece of cloth he was holding against a wound in a man's leg.
Brittany did as told and the man wrapped the wound carefully tying it when he finished.
"Come" he told her going to help another injured person.
She followed silently and helped her father until they ended, it was already late into the night once they ended fixing the last person and they got back to their home exhausted, falling into bed and asleep in few seconds.
The next morning Brittany woke up and her father had already gone out, somewhere around the village. She went to the tavern and ate some breakfast then went to help her uncle the village's blacksmith.
"Hello Brittany, how are you this fine morn?" he greeted.
"Good Uncle Claus" she answered with a little smile.
"That's good, kid, you have a lot of work today" the man said pointing to a pile of swords and parts of armor.
She went to the pile and looked around, measuring which had to be more worked on and which just had little things to fix; then she went to start the fire and started her monotonous work. She straightened bent over swords, fixed parts of armor that were so battered that were almost dust and filing every sword.
Hours later her uncle told her that she had done good and she could go home; 'finally' she thought. She let everything down carefully and took off the special coat her uncle always made her wear then went home to get her notebook and makeshift pencil and ventured to the forest.
She wandered for a while until she heard ruffles near her; she followed the sound until she found what was producing it, the dragon. She got closer and it was, indeed, the night fury, the girl took out her knife, ready to kill the beast while it was trapped when it opened its eyes, looking at her from two pools of dark chocolate with lizard like pupils.
The blonde held her knife up in the air, on top of the beast's neck, ready to strike down and kill it at once when it closed its eyes, almost like it surrendered "I can't" the blonde muttered dropping the knife.
The dragon reopened its eyes looking at the blonde with what looked like surprise, as if it understood what she had said and couldn't believe that she was not going to kill it.
Brittany picked the knife from the ground and neared the beast "I'm gonna set you free, okay" she spoke lowly, the dragon didn't show any recognition to the words so she simply grabbed one of the leather strings that were trapping the beast and went to cut it when a low growl started to make itself heard from the dragon's throat.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you, see?" she cut the string without touching the beast's flesh "just setting you free"
The dragon, seeing that the blonde truly wasn't going to hurt it let her do her work and once she was finished got on all fours and growled even more than before at the blonde making her fall to the floor and trapping it there with its front paws on her sides.
"Please don't kill me, please don't kill me, please don't kill me" the blonde repeated in a whisper like a mantra.
The dragon roared in her face and ran away, leaving her there to faint.
Once the blonde woke up the beast was nowhere to be seen and it was starting to be dark so she took the way back to the village.
"Are you okay girl?" her father asked once she got to the tavern to eat dinner.
"Yes father, why do you ask?" the blonde asked.
"You're as white as wool" the man explained.
"Oh it's nothing father, something flying scared me when I was coming back from the forest, I thought it was a little dragon but it was only a bird" the blonde took importance out of the matter.
"Okay then, eat, before the rest steal it from your plate" the man didn't think much of it.
They ate and then the elders drank and sang as every other night, after a few hours several went to their houses, tired already for the day, Brittany was part of the ones in the second group, her father following her after saying goodbye to the resting men still awake.
They went to bed and Brittany fell asleep already wondering if she would ever see the dark dragon again.