Toothless

(From Toothless' point of view) -Spoilers (Actually, it's the movie in word form.)

I flap my wings desperately to reach my falling master. My back tail flap had been burned off, so I couldn't fly. Knocked unconscious, he would not be able to hold on to me. I got hold of him and pressed him against my belly using my front and back legs. Then I tucked my wings against myself, to protect the boy from the raging inferno below, but by doing so, I would not be able to land on the ground correctly. I had to choose to protect the boy….. or myself. While trying to decide my life flashed before my eyes. My mother, mate, and meeting Hiccup for the first time..….

-Hatchling-

The first thing I saw in my life was my mother, Moontail. I made a small crack in my shell to see her black scaly body shimmering in the moonlight. It made her look almost silver. She was sleeping, but I was ready to get out of that egg. It was too cramp. Calling for my mother, I squirmed and wriggled to get out of my egg. She yawned and looked around to find the source of the noise. She looked down at her egg and then instantly started to scrape away at the eggshell. I tumbled out onto the soft, green ground. I looked up at my mother and squeaked out a cry for her to comfort me. She licked me and she started to go back to sleep. I didn't want to sleep at the time, but there was nothing else to do. So I drifted off into a deep sleep.

About a week passed, and one morning I heard my mother's voice

''Wake up Nightscale. It's time for you to meet the rest of the clan.''

Her tongue was continuously licking me. It started to get annoying, so I decided to get up. My legs didn't work right yet, so I was shaking a lot when I got up. My mother was walking away from me. I tried to run to catch up to her, but she was going too fast, and then I tripped on my own tail. I was scared. I didn't want her to go away

''Wait! Come back Mommy!'' I said.

She turned around and sat down.

''I won't leave you Nightscale. Just come to me.''

She said to me to get me going. I stood up and I was still shaking. She was patient as I started to walk towards her. I was starting to get the hang of it. I figured out that my legs were capable of holding my weight, so I didn't shake as much, but I kept tripping on my tail and wings. Then my mother stopped at the top of a hill and I walked up to her side. Over the hill was a large field filled with Night Furies. I saw only one adult male, and he was much bigger than the other Night Furies. He was black with orange stripes along his body.

''Mommy, Who's he?'' I pointed to the male. She looked in that direction and said

''That's Darkfire. He's king of this clan. And that dark blue female over there is Skystorm, the queen of the clan. She's my mother, and she's your grandmother. Let's introduce you to her.''

Moontail left me again and I jumped onto her tail so I didn't have to walk. I noticed that all the other dragons were watching me. Moontail stopped and I almost fell off of her tail. Then I noticed that her tail was in the air. I latched onto her tail and held on until I saw a dark blue face in front of me.

''Well hello there little Nightscale. You're the first dragon born this spring. That usually means good luck for your future.''

I was bored of her talking, and I lost interest in what she was saying. I was bored, so I wanted to play with something, and Skystorm's nose was right there in front of me, so I swiped a paw at it and fell off of my mother's tail. The good thing is that the ground was soft. I got back up and looked at Skystorm. She looked amused at my playfulness. So I swung my tail back and forth while Skystorm just licked me on top of my head. She walked off to see a dark purple female dragon.

''Where's she going mommy?'' Moontail looked down to me.

''She went to go see Shininglight. She probably came back to camp to show us her new son or daughter. Let's go meet them.''

Moontail said to me. I hated it when she walked away from me like that, but I was getting the hang of walking, so I ran over to her, almost tripping on my wing.

''Where's your hatchling Moontail?'' the dragoness asked. I walked out from behind Moontail and Shininglight looked down at me.

''He's so cute! Come here Nightscale.'' I carefully moved forward. Not knowing if she was a threat or not. Shininglight licked me when I was close enough and I backed away after I saw a new face coming out from behind the purple dragon. Shininglight turned to her own hatchling and said

''This is Snowfire. She's still a bit shaky, but at least she was able to keep up with me on the way here.''

I glanced at the all white dragon with red eyes, and noticed that she was staring back at me with a piercing, red glare.

''Look! They get along already!'' Moontail said happily. Snowfire's gaze changed from cautious to curious when I coughed and a fireball came out. ''Come on Nightscale, let's get you to bed.'' I was too tired from walking all day to argue, but that night, I dreamt of Snowfire.

-Learning to fly-

About 6 months had gone by, and I had recently found out how to shoot fireballs when I wanted to. Snowfire was better at aiming than I was, but she hadn't yet known how to control them. I had gained a close relationship with Snowfire, and we were best friends. Hopefully in today's lesson, Snowfire would be able to control her wings as well as maintain balance while in the air. Sure, I was worried, but only because she's a friend.

''Today you will all learn how to fly '' said Starwing, our mentor for flying, ''First, you need to know that flying isn't just for fun, it could save your life one day, or someone else's''

I didn't pay attention to the green dragon the rest of the class, but I did fly that day, with Snowfire. She knew how to fly better than to control her fireballs. Thank goodness for that.

-Peace is broken-

About 10 years later we were bigger than we were, and Snowfire was expecting my egg. She would probably be laying it any day now. We decided it was good to have exercise every day, so we went flying alone with each other, and then everything went wrong.

''Bet I'll beat you to that island!'' I said.

''No! You always win! Everyone knows that you're the fastest flyer! And you're not carrying an egg! So it definitely isn't fair.'' I slowed down a little

''So what! It's still fun to race!'' I noticed that she had gotten a head start. ''Hey! No fair!'' I yelled.

I shot towards the island and noticed that Snowfire had stopped.

''What's wrong?'' I asked worried about the egg.

''Do you hear that?'' I stopped to listen.

It was a buzzing noise. It may have been annoying, but it was calling to me, like it was Snowfire calling my name, except that it wasn't Snowfire. It's hard to explain, but in short words, My body made me go to the source of the noise. I realized that Snowfire was also in the trance. Following the noise, we found where it came from. A large rock with a cave that you enter through the top of the rock. The buzzing stopped, and I broke free of the trance, but Snowfire was still heading for the rock. I tried stopping her, but she kept going, and going.

Then a gargantuan dragon burst through the top and tried clawing Snowfire. She was scratched badly along her wing, so she plummeted to the ground, with no way to fly. I thought quickly about what to do next. I swooped down to save her from falling to her death. I grabbed her on the back and opened my wings. We softly landed on the ground.

''What is that thing'' I asked. Snowfire just coughed out blood. I looked at her worried, and I noticed that she had been scratched along her stomach too. The deep gash on her side was what was causing her to bleed.

Snowfire looked up at me and weakly said ''I can feel the egg coming. I know I won't be able to live long enough to see our hatchling come into the world, but I'll see it next to Shininglight.'' (She had died from a raid we did on the humans not long ago)

I stared at her. I whined in sorrow, and she whined too, but not because of sorrow, but because of pain. I sat next to her, watching her lay the egg, and I knew that she would watch this egg hatch with her mother, and with me. Soon, there was a little black egg next to her.

''Take this back to camp. Leave me here.'' Snowfire said weakly.

''No!'' I yelled defiantly ''I'm taking you and the egg.''

I carefully grabbed the egg in my mouth and then I grabbed Snowfire by wrapping my legs around her. Then I flew back towards the camp. When we were about to reach the camp when Snowfire looked up at me

''I won't make it home Nightscale….. Take care of Blackscale or Snowscale….. Goodbye….. Nightscale…''

She went limp in my arms, and I almost howled in pain and sorrow, but then I remembered the egg in my mouth. It took all of my concentration to keep going towards the camp, and when I finally found the camp, I landed softly on the ground in the middle of the field. I placed Snowfire's body next to me in the grass. Then I started sobbing. Moontail came up to me and licked me softly. Skystorm was next to come.

''I'm sorry Nightscale, but you did your best.'' She was right, I did do my best to protect her, but I failed. Darkfire came out of his den to see what everyone was talking about, and then he saw Snowfire's body. His ears went back and he padded up to me.

''I know what it feels like to lose a loved one, and I know what you're feeling, but you must let her go along with the egg.''

At that moment, I remembered the egg. I placed it on the ground in front of Darkfire. He looked surprised to see the egg, but his gaze was softened when I wrapped my tail protectively around it.

''She must have laid it before she died.'' he sighed ''I was going to kick you out of the camp because you're getting old enough to challenge me, but now if I kick you out, the egg goes with you.'' Darkfire was thinking about it.

''I'll leave without the egg if you want.''

Darkfire looked up ''But I have one condition.''

Darkfire looked at me patiently

''If the hatchling is male, name him Blackscale, and if it is female, name her Snowscale.''

Darkfire nodded slowly ''Did Snowfire say that?'' I nodded.

My leader sighed ''You can stay for one more night, but you'll have to leave tomorrow morning. It's better if you say your goodbyes today.''

Darkfire left and I went to my mother first. She was starting to cry.

''Don't worry about me mother, I'll be fine, but I need you to do something for me when I leave.'' Moontail was still crying, but she listened to him.

''I need you to watch my hatchling for me when I leave.'' Moontail was surprised

'You mean she laid the egg before she died?'' I nodded at her and then I licked her before going to Skystorm. ''I'll miss you Nightscale, but at least I know your hatchling will be here, taken care of.''

We licked each other and then the last dragon I went to was Starwing. The elder was sitting down in the shade under a tree.

''Starwing? I just want to thank you for training me….. and Snowfire.'' He looked up and looked into my eyes with wisdom.

''Leaving the egg here is the wisest choice Nightscale. Leaving with the egg would've caused it to live alone most of it's life.'' he sighed and got up. ''It was my pleasure training you Nightscale, I hope you find your place in the world.'' Starwing left and I was left alone under the tree.

It was getting dark and I decided to go to sleep. I had left the egg in the middle of the clearing, next to its mother. I slept next to the egg in the middle of the field and fell asleep.