Chapter 1: The Train

[edited: July 2018]

Hey all my Peoples! This story is based off a story that I had to write for a scholarship a while back. I'm coming back to fix some minor errors and get this story to be more active. I hope you guys like the story!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own the characters of "How to Train Your Dragon", they belong to Dreamworks. This is merely for fun, not for profit.

(Hiccup POV)

Sometimes, I just wish that I was a dragon.

I know that you're probably wondering 'why I would want something like that', but hear me out. For years, dragons walked the earth long before humans did. With this in mind, they were already ahead of us when it came to evolution and it should not be too surprising that they developed speech and early societies faster and/or at the same rate as us.

We then fast forward to the present and, dragons still seem to have all of the perks. Almost half of our world leaders, geniuses, and celebrities are dragons. They are more athletic, smarter, get to live longer, and let's not forget that they can fly and breathe fire. Their lives are so much more interesting than humans. What I wouldn't give to be one of them.

My best friend is a dragon, but he at least sympathizes me & my dreams. My friend, Thomas Tennant, is pretty fit compared to me, but were on equal ground when it came to brains. Besides that, he's a pretty cool guy that has always helped and been there for me. In fact, we were heading to the library so that we could do some after school studying with him helping me with english and me helping him with some math. We were boarding the metro, as I was checking my planner on my tablet.

"So, did you finish that paper from Mr. Butler's class?" I asked.

"Yeah, man. That thing was easy. Don't tell me you need help with it."

I looked to see him in true disbelief that I was struggling with my paper. Thomas wasn't too different from other dragons in physicality. He walked bipedal and stood around 7 feet tall, give or take a few inches. He had black scales with dark gray marking on his sides, small spikes running down his back, and with these ear antenna? flaps? things? that he sometimes uses for echo location. We were both still in our school uniforms of grey polo shirts, slacks, and backpacks.

"So what if I do, Toothless?" I said his nickname with a shrug.

"Hic, it's not going to be that hard."

"Easy for you to say. You're a dragon, you guys are born with an IQ twice as high as humans."

"You know that's not true. We're not all perfect. I may be good with literary stuff, but even I struggle with things sometimes. For me, it's math numeral stuff. Even so, a freshmen can write that paper," said Toothless.

"Says the guy on the first honors roll." I grumbled to myself.

"You're on the honor roll too remember and don't worry. With my tips, you'll be as good as me in no time." He said slinging an arm around me in a friendly head-lock.

I groaned as we walked into the subway station. We swiped our passes and boarded near the front of the train without any problem. We were used to the rubbling and occasional flickering of light, but we started to feel that something was off when we started to hear screeching and felt the train start to slow down without arriving at an actual stop.

"Attention passengers. Attention passengers. I regret to inform you that this train is no longer in control of the conductor and you are now all hostages."

"Oh man! What are we going to do?" said a man next to us as others started panicking and scrabbling for their phones.

"Oh by the way, we've blocked all wireless connections that's not our own, so don't even try to call the police."

Even though it was pointless, Toothless, I, and a few other people still tried to call somebody, anybody, and all we got was a dial tone. We all started to look for a way out and, even with the help of the dragons on board, we couldn't find anything. We tried punching the window, prying the doors, and even breathing fire at anything with a weak spot, but nothing worked.

We were stuck there, with no way in or out. In a matter of a couple hours, everyone calmed down considerably. Personally, I was pretty bored. I was about to go over some of my flashcards with Toothless when I saw that his ears were twitching.

"Hey, did you hear that?" he whispered to me.

"No, not all of us have acute hearing T. What did you hear?"

"It sounded like something getting hit. Maybe someone in another train car finally lost it and was banging on the doors or something?"

There was a sudden flash and a loud bang before we saw a dragon get blasted and thrown trough the train car in front of us and into ours. We were all in shock as we saw the dragon was wearing a ski mask and covered in scorch marks and cuts. I snapped out of it when a girl unlike anything I've seen before emerging from the hole created in the car.

She was half human and half dragon, like some sort of hybrid. She was about 6 feet tall with sky blue scales patched on her skin and adorned crown of yellowish horns that ringed her already dazzling blonde hair that was pulled into a braid. I saw something move at her side and I saw her tail were covered with spikes as big as knives. She strode to the back of the car and retrieved the body before she breathed fire at the roof, punched through it, and flew out with the scorched dragon.

We looked through the holes that led to the front of the car and could see that it lead to the first car where the controls were located. At the control panel was another hybrid with the same scale color and pattern, but she appeared to have more of a medium blue coloring and more dragon-like features, such as reptilian eyes, sharp teeth, and more scales covering her. She was fiddling with the odd assortment of buttons, switches, and levers until the train started to move again forward to the next station. Once we got there, she opened the passenger doors to let all of us out. the authorities that were waiting there were so overwhlemed by the crowd that they didn't see the hybrid spread her wings and flown pass them. I grabbed Toothless by the arm and tried to follow her, but he tugged me to stop.

"Come on man," I said while trying to pull him. "We've got to follow... who ever that was!"

He looked at me like I was crazy, which I would consider after seeing what we just saw.

"No way. Did you see what those two did to the train? Imagine what they could do to us." I stopped struggling and looked at him.

"Aren't you the least bit curious to who they are or what they are?"

"No." I gave him a look. "Okay maybe a little, but I think I can live without knowing." He said as we came out the station. He pulled some headphones out of his bag and tried to walk us in the opposite direction of the hybrids. I grabbed his arm and turned him around and looked him in the eye.

"Well, I can't." He tensed. I must have had the saddest look on my face, because I saw him slumped his shoulders and sighed.

"Alright, but you better hop on my back. We wouldn't catch them on foot."

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