Yay, the author worked up the guts to start another fanfiction, and this one is much more planned out than the last. It will follow the style of the "Dreamworks Dragons" TV show, with references from the show and the whimsical banter. There will be an OC insert from another story of mine. non-slash. The only implied relationships will be Toothcup and Hicstrid, though light so no romance, remember this is supposed to be like an episode of Defenders of Berk. I do not intend for this to go on forever there will probably be less than ten chapters but who can say at this point. Anyway, I've said too much! Enjoy!


Flight of the Stormcutter

"Dragon attack!" Stoick the Vast yelled from the perch of a catapult with his half brother Spitelout at his right and. Fire rained down from the sky as a small dragon swooped down overhead breathing fire onto the houses. Behind it flitted several very small dragons but in the darkness Stoick was unable to tell just how many there were.

"Dad!" Hiccup called down landing on the catabult perch from Toothless' back, "Did you get a good look at it?" he wondered. Toothless kept his eyes on the sky, growling as he spotted the dragon which he could tell was not much bigger than himself. Hiccup laid a hand on his nose, "It's okay, bud!"

Stoick denied, "No, it's too fast, and there's not enough light!" gesturing Spitelout to arm the bola cannons he grimaced and turned his attention back to Hiccup, "Son, a rogue dragon could burn down the whole village! You have to find out what kind of dragon is attacking us and why!"

Hiccup nodded hurriedly, and patted Toothless' nose, "sure thing Dad! But we've got to protect the village long enough for me to do that!"

Stoick walked down from the catapult perch as Hiccup and Toothless took off. He muttered to himself worried for the safety of his tribe, "Does it want food? Does it have young, or a mate? Why is it attacking?!" Gobber met him at the bottom of the perch in front of the Jorgenson's home, and he asked quickly, "What's the damage report?"

Gobber switched his prosthetic hand from a hammer to a pincer, "That blasted reptile set my house of fire!" he shrieked hobbling along on his peg leg to the fires in the distance, "What kind of dragon is this!"

Stoick denied that he knew at watched at five teens flew around on their dragons, spilling barrels of water carried by their dragons onto Gobber's house. The fire was out in seconds and Astrid landed in front of her chief. Stock set his fists on his sides, "Did any of you get a good look at it?!" he demanded.

Simultaneously, the five teens shook their heads but chatter and concern become an uproar and an argument among them. Fishlegs Ingerman insisted it was a strike class with a small wingspan, while Snotlout Jorgenson described it at a man-eating ball of fury which whizzed past him and nearly struck Astrid, but he saved her. The twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thortson merely argued about whether or not the dragon was dark blue or white.

Astrid slapped her face hearing all of them and groan, "I'm sorry chief, none of us really know what we're up against."

Stoick accepted her answer, "We'll know more when Hiccup get's back," he assured all of them, "For now, we need to get started on repairs and hope that thing can be trained or can be scared off for good."

Hiccup and Toothless shot through the low storm clouds like a pullet, following the whistling sound of the dragon's wings which they followed. Suddenly Toothless panicked, looked down then took a nose dive through the cloud, "Toothless!" Hiccup shrieked, "Where are you going?"

They heard a roar from beneath them and Toothless followed the sound, "It's going to the cove!" Hiccup shouted, recognizing the trees of Raven Point. Toothless pulled his wings tightly to himself to dive, he was the fastest dragon and with the speed of gravity they came in sight of the dragon they were pursuing.

Hiccup tensed finally seeing it clearly in the moonlight, it was smaller than Toothless but also very quick and it had a sharp trident tail. Toothless abruptly blew a plasma blast at it striking its wings and causing it to collide with a tree and fall through the forest. Toothless flapped his wings coming out of the dive just above the trees and Hiccup stared down into the darkness to see if he could spot any sign of the dragon, but it was gone. The night forest had gone silent.


The next morning the teens gathered in the training academy begging Hiccup to tell them what he saw. Hiccup however didn't reveal anything until his father arrived with Gobber. "Come on, Hiccup!" Astrid demanded, "we all want to know what you saw!"

Hiccup looked to his father and Stoick gave him a nod, "Go on, son, tell us what it was."

Hiccup gave a little smile then whipped out his sketchbook, opening it up for all to see. The five teens, two Vikings, and five dragons all gazed into the little sketchbook to see a charcoal drawing of a nimble, small dragon, with a feline head and four horns, Night Fury-like wings, and a trident tail.

"What the devil!" Stoick exclaimed.

Hiccup closed his sketchbook, "It was dark blue," he stated and the twins started arguing and celebrating about who had been right, "It wasn't like anything in the book of dragons, I think it's a new species!" he looked to Fishlegs for assessment.

Fishlegs took another look at the drawing from Hiccup's sketchbook, for Hiccup only ever entrusted his sketchbook to Fishlegs anyone else would destroy it. "I was right about it being a strike class, but I've never see a small dragon that could fly so fast."

Hiccup agreed, "Toothless and I knocked it out of the sky, somewhere off Raven Point. We could get a search party and go look for it, if its injured we might be able to help it, get it to trust us, and even train it!" he described encouraging the idea.

Snotlout burst forth, "Wait! Haven't we been through this before!"

Hiccup eyed his cousin a tad irritated, "I uh… I don't think so…" he stammered.

Snotlout laughed to the twins, "remember the last time he shot down a dragon and wanted to search for it at Raven Point?"

Hiccup tensed feeling hurt by the suggestion and a fear grew inside him, what if he had injured this rare, unique dragon by shooting it out of the sky? He felt Toothless nudge his back, nuzzling up behind him, Hiccup pat his head, but he knew that Toothless could feel his anxiety.

Stoick slapped a hand on Snotlout's shoulder, "Now is not the time, Snotlout," he then looked at his son sternly, "Hiccup, last time I didn't listen to you concerning a dragon you shot down it ended in a full scale war, I won't make that same mistake twice."

Looking up at his father, Hiccup gave a weak smile, "Thanks Dad…" he muttered.

Stoick slapped him in the back, winding him terribly, "Alright, you dragon riders can be the search party, do all you can to find that dragon!" he ordered.

"Right!" Fishlegs affirmed giving a weak salute.

The twins chimed in unison, "Yeah! Another dragon hunt!" Tuffnut encouraged the idea of mucking about in the woods with his sister. The games they could play would be endless.

Hiccup nodded quickly, "Alright, I'm on it, Dad!" he then looked to the dragon riders, "Everyone, get your dragons, we're flying out to Raven Point!" as he said this he climbed onto Toothless, followed by the other dragon riders and they flew out of the academy in a cinch.

They kept their dragons close as they arrived landing in the depths of the dense forest. Hiccup, trying to be a natural born leader, even though he wasn't turned his attention to the odd group, "Alright we'll split up into three teams, Fishlegs, you're with Ruffnut, Snotlout will be with Tuffnut, and I'll be with Astrid."

Snotlout jumped with fury, "wait what!" he insisted otherwise, "How come you get to search with Astrid?" he shot a friendly glance at Astrid and smooched his lips affectionately.

Astrid formed a fist, "Because I'd sock him if he put me with you…"

Hiccup pressed his lips together and awkwardly took a step away from Astrid, "Well… uh… that's just a pleasant thought… anyone else have any objections?" no one spoke up so he smiled, "Good, Fishlegs and Ruff, you head north. Snotlout and Tuff you head south, Astrid and I will head west."

Tuff stepped on Hiccup's instructions, "Who's gonna head east?"

Ruff punched him, "You dummy, we came east!"

Tuffnut shrugged, "I'm not sure, I'm pretty sure we came down… 'cause you know, we were flying."

Ruff hit him again and this time he retaliated getting into a sissy fight between the two of them, "you idiot!" Ruff shrieked.

Hiccup groaned, "And this is why we must separate the twins…" with this the three groups split up and Hiccup could hear the twins and Snotlout arguing from a mile away.

Along the way, Astrid knocked Hiccup in the shoulder with the back of her hand, "So what was it like?" she wondered suddenly.

Hiccup looked to her and puzzled, "what… er… are you talking about?"

Astrid smiled and gestured to the ebony dragon following closely as Hiccup's side, "When you were searching out here for Toothless?" she wondered.

Hiccup stammered a bit and glanced down at his best friend, "Well… uh…" he hesitated, tripping a bit over a fallen log, "I was most just trying to prove to everyone that I could kill a dragon… I didn't even think I would find him," he admitted, Toothless warbled a comforting sound to his human sympathizing with him.

Astrid laid a hand on his shoulder, "But instead of killing him you saved him!" she assured him, "and by befriending him you taught all of us dragons are pretty cool!"

Hiccup nodded, "I just hope we can help this dragon and maybe even train it." Toothless growled a little, and Hiccup laughed, "don't get jealous bud, this isn't like Torch!" he joked cheerfully for once.

Astrid laughed as well but her laughter died down seeing a melancholic look on Hiccup's face, "So what's wrong?" he wondered, concerned for him, which was very out of character for her.

Hiccup grimaced, kicking a pinecone with his prosthetic, "it's just what Snotlout said…" he despaired, "last time I shot a dragon out of the sky, I grounded him…" he gave Toothless' scales a scratch feeling bad for him, "I'm just worried I might have injured this dragon and we don't even know anything about it."

Astrid shrugged, "We didn't know anything about Night Furies either, Hiccup, don't feel bad, this can only work out for the better!" she promised.

Suddenly, Hiccup shushed her and stood still, Toothless had reacted first, stopped in his tracks and lowered his head growling. Hiccup knelt to the ground followed by Astrid and whispered, "What is it bud?" Slowly and as quietly as he could he climbed onto Toothless' back slipping his prosthetic into Toothless' stirrup.

Abruptly, Toothless pounced forward and flew over a rock toppling over something small through the brush and pinning it to the ground. "Toothless stop!" Hiccup shrieked as Toothless prepared a plasma blast. Toothless obeyed and looked up to Hiccup with baby-like eyes.

Hiccup looked over Toothless' shoulder to what—rather who he pinned to the pine needles. Underneath Toothless' paw laid a young boy, who flinched, pinning his eyes shut and reaching out desperately for a thick stick just beyond his fingers. Hiccup tensed as Astrid came running and he climbed off Toothless' back, not allowing his dragon to let the boy go just yet.

"What is it, Hiccup!" Astrid shrieked running up then spotting the boy.

It seemed the boy was terrified, who wouldn't be, pinned down by a dragon. He whimpered reaching out for the stick but Hiccup grabbed it out of his reach. The boy despaired laying his head back in the pine needles and giving in to his fate, "kill me…" he whispered accepting the death by dragon.

Hiccup tensed then looked to his friend, "Toothless… let him up…" and his dragon obeyed.

Suddenly the boy burst upward and scrambled to get out of there but he didn't make it far before he tripped and curled up on the ground terrified. Hiccup tensed again seeing himself in the boy instantly, he boy was scared for his life and felt tiny like he was useless, no better fate could come to him than for his life to end.

Slowly, Hiccup eased his way closer to the boy, "Are you alright?" he asked, "Are you lost?"

The boy didn't meet eyes with him, but nodded, he didn't have any idea where he was or what island he was on, and on top of being very confused, there was a dragon staring down at him. The boy kept his eyes on Toothless cautiously but Hiccup pushed him back to not scare the boy. Tensing, the boy watched Hiccup in amazement, "How did you do that?" he asked.

Hiccup smiled in a friendly manner, "This is Toothless, I trained him, don't worry he won't hurt you," he promised as he let Toothless closer to smell the boy, who only flinched and tried to protect himself.

Kindly, Hiccup held out the stick to the boy, "Is this yours?" he wondered.

The boy took one look at it and nodded, quickly snatching it out of Hiccup's hands when he offered it. Slowly, and using the stick, the boy drew himself up off the ground. Hiccup tensed the boy was level with his height and Astrid could only stare at the same thing Hiccup at noticed. The boy had red hair which stood up in the back like he had slept on it in a funny position, he wore a blue tunic and black leggings but he only wore one yak-fur boot, for his left leg was missing from below the knee.

Astrid stepped next to Hiccup and gaped, "Hiccup…" she uttered.

Hiccup only stared at the boy in shock, "He's just like me," he whispered as his deep set fear returned. The boy used the staff to stand without a prosthetic like Hiccup had, and the bottom of his pants tied into a loose knot was the only thing that kept his stump from being exposed to the harsh, cold air. "What's your name?" Hiccup choked out.

The boy met eyes with Hiccup letting him see the boy had wild lime green eyes, much light Toothless' eyes, "Caillte," he stated in a soft voice.

Hiccup laid a hand on Toothless' head between the eyes, "Where are you from?" he asked gently.

The boy, Caillte looked around the forest and eyed Astrid briefly as if getting a feel for who he was surrounded by, in his caution, "a place very far from here…" he whispered, "An island far to the south not in this archipelago," they could tell he wasn't lying, he had a strange accent too.

Hiccup held out a hand to him, "would you like to come back with us to our village?" he offered.

Astrid eyed him, "Hiccup, we still have to find that dragon!" she urged.

Hiccup ignored her, "But what about him, it's not safe out here, especially for a foreigner!" he insisted.

Astrid set a hand on her hip, "It's not safe out here for the twin either, and yet you sent them off to find a feral dragon,"

Hiccup sighed, "Astrid, I'm not arguing about this," he then looked to Caillte for his opinion in all this.

Caillte stared at them cautiously, "I'm used to being out in the woods…" he tried to convince him, "but… if you want—"

"Fine!" Hiccup said with a smile, "Astrid, I'll take him back to my house on Toothless, you go gather the others and bring them back to the village." Astrid grumbled at this, but Hiccup was firm set and brought Toothless alongside the boy after climbing on. Caillte shuddered as the dragon neared him but Hiccup's outstretched hand imparted some comfort and enough bravery to take his hand.

Caillte clung to Hiccup's vest for fear as the Night Fury sent them spiraling up in the air and back to Berk in seconds. Toothless flew in through Hiccup's window and Hiccup climbed off the moment they landed to help Caillte off of Toothless. The boy stumbled and clung to his staff until Hiccup helped him to sit on his bed and rest.

"Welcome to the Haddock house," Hiccup declared in a friendly manner, gesturing about the room, "make yourself at home," he offered. Caillte merely stayed still, staring about the room worriedly. On a whim, Hiccup suddenly ran down stairs for a moment declaring, "Here, I'll grab you something to eat," and he disappeared down the ladder for a few seconds.

Stoick tensed seeing Hiccup, "Son, you're back, any luck finding that dragon?"

Hiccup denied, grabbing a loaf of bread and a smoked salmon from the fire pit, "No, but there was a boy out there who is missing a leg, so I brought him here," he explained quickly, rushing back upstairs.

"You did what?!" Stoick boomed but Hiccup didn't respond, disappearing now upstairs. Hiccup sighed, figuring this was one of Hiccup's quirks and his father would be forced to go with it.

Hiccup offered the bread and fish to the boy but Caillte quickly refused it, "Oh no, I couldn't take food from you,"

Hiccup smiled, "Relax, my Dad's the chief," and with this he got Caillte to take the plate. Slowly, the foreign boy stared down at the food, licking his lips hungrily, he glanced to Hiccup for one last affirmation before he dug in devouring everything quickly.

"Thank you…" he whispered with his mouth full, "I haven't eaten in days," he admitted, "Last time I got to hunting was back on Yell, but you don't catch much with so many mouths to feed…" his voice was muffled by how full his mouth was and he tore into the bread eagerly.

Hiccup sat down next to him, "Yell?" he puzzled.

Caillte nodded, "It's a tiny island in a very small archipelago south of here. I lived there for a time with my family, we've been traveling north for safety," he explained as if slipping into comfortable conversation.

Seeing the idea of friendly conversation fruitful, Hiccup asked further, "Do you have a big family?" he wondered.

Caillte nodded, "Six children to feed, and the overprotective mother…" he mused to himself a bit sarcastically.

Hiccup chuckled, "Are you the oldest?" he asked, taking Caillte for a very responsible young man.

Caillte eyed Hiccup a little confused but then denied, "Second oldest."

At this point, Stoick the Vast came rattling up the stairs giving Caillte a good scare, the color drained from the poor boy's face as the red-bearded Viking stared down at him trying to act friendly, "Hello there, I am Stoick the Vast, chief of the Hairy Hooligans, what brings you to my island?"

Caillte just kinda stared up at him, pale in the face and only able to whisper, "Big…" in a very weak voice.

"Dad, I think you're scaring him," Hiccup deadpanned.

Stoick realized he was indeed fairly terrifying to behold so he took a step back, "Oh… sorry," then he knelt down to be more the boy's height but he was still taller than Hiccup even on his knees. "What's your name, boy?" Stoick asked in an attempted soft voice.

Slowly, the boy was able to meet eyes with Stoick and answered, "Caillte," just as he had for Hiccup.

Stoick reached out to shake hands with him, but the boy hesitated and Stoick figured he shouldn't frighten the boy with the sandpaper-like texture of his massive oven mitts that had killed scores of barbarians and dragons alike. "Where are you from?" he asked not realizing Hiccup had already tried that.

Caillte glanced to Hiccup then to Toothless who had curled up on his bed across the room. He knew full well he had not told the full truth of where he was from so he answered this now, "Ireland," he stated uneasily.

Stoick's eyes widened, "You're a long way from home, why have you come here?" he asked honestly, though it sounded like he was interrogating the boy.

Caillte folded his hands together, "Our lands were being tormented by the Celts, my family was not safe there so we sailed north for unreachable islands." He looked down at his shortened leg discontentedly, "but last night I was separated from them and I woke up in the woods… I must've hit my head, I don't remember how I got there or what happened."

Stoick nodded, "Would your family still be on Berk?" he wondered.

Caillte shrugged, uncertain, "They could have sailed on without me…" he muttered.

Toothless perked up and Hiccup smiled, "Well we can fly you to them easy!" he assured. Caillte only responded with a glare. Hiccup reverted, "Is there anything you remember from last night?"

The boy's eyes became pensive, thinking, trying ever so hard to remember, "A dragon…" he whispered then met eyes with Hiccup, "I was being chased by a dragon," he stated firmly. His eyes then drifted down to his leg again, "I fell… for obvious reasons… I think I'm just amazed to be alive…" he chuckled, feigning relief.


Caillte is Irish for Lost :| lazy name is lazy

The island of Yell is in the Shetland Islands.

Notice how he hesitates when Hiccup asks if he's the oldest... *hint hint*