A/N Look, I know I should be updating my other stories but tthis idea won't leave me alone. I can't tell you how many times I have gone strolling down to the woods reciting this story over and over in my head. I have a lot planned for this story if it goes well which I hope it does.
Anyway, enough of me, on with the story! :)
Everything was going perfectly until Toothless took them to the nest. A part of Astrid should have know it was too good to be true, that it wouldn't last. However, that didn't stop her from wallowing in self pity, and groaning at her bad luck. But things were never easy for a Hofferson.
As soon as they entered the creepy, musty, cramped, dragon filled craven, a Hiccup knew something was wrong. Beneath him he felt Toothless's body tense up, Astrid obviously felt it too because she tightened her grip around his waist and pulled him closer, an action that made his heart race even faster. Suddenly he felt the air around him shake as if some humongous thing had taken a breath. This greatly unnerved Hiccup causing him to tighten his grip on Toothless's saddle.
"Toothless what's going on?" Hiccup whispered nervously into Toothless's ear, hoping for some form of reassurance. Toothless however, remained stock still, immobilized in the air.
Suddenly the red mist shifted slightly and a grey blurred outline of an enormous dragon could be seen, rising higher and higher out of the mist. Every part of his body was screaming at him to run, fly away and never come back again, but his instinct yelled at him to say still, that it would only make it worse. Behind him, Astrid was completely immobilized, her mouth was open in a silent scream, eyes wide in the utmost terror. In fact, the only sign that she hadn't frozen was the ever tightening bone crushing grip on Hiccup's waist.
Suddenly a massive flat, grey nose came bursting out of the mist, the nostrils of which were quivering and with every gigantic sniff, the air around them would suddenly shudder.
I that moment Hiccup noticed that nearly all the dragons had gone, vanished from contrast from what had just seconds previously been swarming with dragons, Hiccup felt that this unnatural silence and sudden absence of dragons was greatly unnerving. However, Toothless still wasn't moving and the monstrosity of a dragon seemed to be sniffing them. If Hiccup could have seen the front of Toothless however, he would have seen his pupils enlarging and dilating at an alarming rate.
Suddenly, the monster opened its mouth that was filled with uneven, razor sharp teeth, and emitted a horribly loud, but meaningful roar. Toothless winced at the noise but stood his ground, remaining in his place before bowing his head in acceptance.
Hiccup felt a feeling of growing dread in the bottom of his stomach, the situation was not looking good. He could tell Astrid was not handling it well either, the hands grasping him were shaking slightly and he could tell she was petrified even without looking at her face. He couldn't blame her either, none of his fellow Vikings, not even in their wildest dreams wouldn't imagine a dragon that big, yet there was one emerging before their eyes. He shivered at the thought but it was nothing compared to what had just happened while he had been distracted.
The dragon had opened its mouth impossibly even wider and at the bottom a sort of crimson and lime gas had been building, then, all of a sudden a jet of purple flames shot from the dragon's mouth, completely engulfing them.
Instead of the searing heat Hiccup had been expecting, the violet flames that now engulfed them felt pleasantly warm, much like the hot springs back on Berk. It washed over Hiccup, Astrid and Toothless as they hovered there suspended in mid air before the force of the blast knocked them out of the cavern. A wave of foreign, alien emotions flowed over Astrid all at once, and that moment she felt like she could fly, hunt with the rest of the dragons, breath fire... like she was actually a dragon.
Hiccup however, wasted no time in clicking Toothless's tail into place, spurring them tumbling forwards towards the exit and by some miracle they managed to shot out of the impossibility small tunnel unscathed.
Hiccup was shaking violently as he spurred Toothless away from the nest, trying to get as much distance between him and the nest as he could. He felt like he was slowly being frozen and jabbed with lots of needles and it wasn't because of the cold or wind. Toothless too was acting strange, Hiccup could feel his body vibrating underneath him. Astrid however was immobilized, still rapped around Hiccup's waist. She could not believe how an innocent and beautiful flight had escalated into a nightmare. She shivered, still trying to process the events that had just taken place. Like Hiccup, she felt as if a thousand tiny needles were being slowly jabbed into her but she brushed it of. She had far more pressing matters to think about.
" Bud, what just happened," Hiccup whispered into Toothless's ear but he didn't appear to be listening. Instead, Toothless appeared to be shaking, every few seconds he would suddenly junk violently in the air.
Then everything came crashing down.
Toothless shivered violently and suddenly Hiccup became momentarily disconnected and Toothless's tail fin went slack. The group plummeted sideways, desperately Hiccup tried to regain control but he was thrown back of the saddle only to be jerked back by the safety rope. Astrid was screaming, Hiccup was shouting, Toothless was roaring but it sounded more like a scream as they plummeted towards the small island that they had been flying over before. Somehow in the panic Hiccup's safety lead snapped and he was disconnected from Toothless. Astrid, who only moments before had her hands wrapped tightly around Hiccup's waist, was now falling through the air alone, the trees were spinning nearer and nearer but there was nothing she could do about it, so she curled up and braced for impact.
Astrid groaned. Every inch of her was throbbing with pain but she ignored it. She was feeling very queer and tingly as if somebody had just attached a heavy mask to her face. As she lay there, she began to realise that something wasn't quite right. Something was nibbling loudly on some leaves. A rabbit perhaps? She liked her lips before recoiling at the thought. Since when did she start thinking about animals as though she wanted to savage them on the spot? Suddenly, a wave of smell hit her nose with the force of a hurricane.
"Yep definitely a rabbit," she thought greedly liking her lips again, not even noticing her tongue run over two larger, sharper canines.
Now she thought about it, she could not only smell a rabbit but numerous other things: the fresh sent of pine needles, the woody sent of tree bark, a male Monstrous Nightmare had been here earlier, she could scent his natural odour. It seemed like all her sences have been honed into perfection.
Astrid struggled to open her eyes, they felt like they weighed like lead, but she managed it anyway. The light that hit her not only blinded her, but took her breath away. Never, had she seen colours as they were now. Beautiful dappled green leaves and shafts of sunlight filtered down into the clearing. Everything was so full and colourful, it made her feel like she had been living in a black and white world before. All the colour were so intricate and so... so amazing. It was a whole new world she was seeing, dimly she wondered if she had hurt her head in the fall but a part of her new this was real.
Then she nnoticenoticed some weird liquid smeared on a tree and branches. She recoiled as she noticed that it was a red sort of mixture just like her own blood mixed with some sort of rich emerald liquid.
"Its probably just blood from my fall mixed with tree sap," Astrid thought to herself, hoping that it was true.
It was only then did she realise that she was uncomfortable, something long and scaly yet oddly familiar was propped against the back of my head. Squirming, she reached out a hand to adjust her position but Astrid only screamed at what she saw. Her hand and arm were dotted with pearly white scales and her hands seemed to have fattened out into some sort of claw.
Astrid was hyperventilating. Wildly, she gasped in and out still staring at her 'hand'.
" This is not happening," she whispered desperately "Its just a dream. When I wake up, I will be safe back on Berk.. back on Berk."
Then, to test if she was dreaming, she bit her arm. Green blood mixed with a tinge of red oozed out of the wound.
"No, no, no, no, no! This can not be happening!" Astrid pleaded, " I have a life back on Berk, friends, a mother a farther and now they are all gone! Please! I don't want to be a dragon!"
And for the first time in ten years, Astrid let a tear fall down her half formed face.
She was turning into a nightfury along with Hiccup and the was nothing she could do about it...
OK, that's the end of chapter 1, please tell me if you like it or not!
I will try to update as soon as I can.
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