To Heal a Scarred Soul
A How to Train Your Dragon Fanfic
Chapter 1 – "Dragoness Mountain"
"As Trainers in the Dragon Academy, we're learning something new everyday. Whether it's a complicated new move between Dragon and rider, or finding out
It was just another day in Berk, cold as usual. Winter was soon to end and devastating winter was just around the corner. The residents of Berk were preparing for the long awaiting cold with the help of their dragons. The Nightmares were helping scare fish into nets, the Nadders were herding livestock, and Thornado was helping Stoick with his chief duties. As for our heroes, they were trying to train their latest dragon. "I can't believe Mulch and Bucket found a lone Smothering Smokebreath sleeping in their oven" Astrid gazed into the cage where the small gray dragon growled through its metal muzzle.
"Male, judging by the slightly longer legs." Fishlegs pointed out, "Hopefully training it wont be like Breakneck Bog."
"I still think it was a lot more cooler when it was a fog monster." Tuffnut smirked and rolled his eyes.
"Oh, why can't we take that thing off and let it blow up stuff?" His sister whined.
"Because," Hiccup stated, "the only way we could get it here in the first place was by taking the whole oven out of the house with it inside." He turned to Gobber, "Which, by the way, you can take back to Bucket and Mulch." "Will do." the blacksmith said as he hauled the stone oven out of the academy.
Snotlout sneered, "How hard can training it be? I mean, there's just one of them." At that moment the Smokebreath spewed smoke all up in his face.
"Apparently harder than you think." Astrid snickered.
Suddenly, Stoick flew through the academy's entrance on Thornado. "Hiccup, I've got a job for you kids."
"What is it, Dad?" Hiccup asked as Toothless perked his head up.
"A Scauldron was spotted way north of Breakneck Bog by the fishing boats tangled in a ship wreckage. I'd deal with it myself, but I'm needed here to help with the winter preparations."
"You can count on us, Chief." Astrid smiled as the Dragon and their trainers headed off into the sky.
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"Well, that went along easier that I expected." Hiccup said as they began heading back to Berk. "The dragon's safe and no one got hurt."
"Unfortunately!" Tuffnut whined until *WHACK*, his twin slapped him. "Much better."
"Yeah, yeah," Snotlout griped, "can we just hurry it up! I've got a salmon back home with my name on it."
Suddenly, *BOOM!*. Fishlegs looked nervous. "Uhh, was that a Thunder Drum?" The young vikings looked behind them to see a monstrous storm coming in fast. Before they knew it, it had completely surrounded them.
"Everybody, try to stay together!" Hiccup shouted over the wind. "Keep an eye out for land; we'll take cover and wait the storm out." The dragons flapped their wings with all their might. But with the smallest wingspan out of the five, a certain Gronckle couldn't take the power of the wind and began spinning out of control crashing into the others. They all tumbled through the air for what seem like forever until crashing onto a beach. "Is… is everyone ok?" Everyone and their dragons got up and things looked alright as the teens remounted the dragons, "Ok, let's find somewhere to take shelter." ,until they tried to take off.
"GRRRAAAA!" Stormfly roared in pain. Astrid looked down to see a large wound on the Nadder's shoulder. "Stormfly!" Astrid tried to comfort the dragon as she removed the saddle to ease the pain. "It's gonna be ok, girl."
Hiccup got off Toothless and took a look at the wounded reptile. "That looks pretty bad. We're gonna have to find shelter on foot." But just as they started heading down the beach, *SWOOP!* a huge silver dragon, a bit bigger than a Nightmare, dove down and snatched the poor dragon up in its large claws.
"STORMFLY, NO!" Astrid cried out to her dragon friend.
"Come on, let's get it!" Tuffnut exclaimed rearing for a fight.
"No," Hiccup stopped him, "If we attack, Stormfly will just get even more hurt."
"Huge wingspan, silver scales... I've never heard of, let alone seen, a dragon like that." Fishlegs thought, his mind racing through his dragon knowledge.
"It's heading toward the top of that mountain." Hiccup pointed. "Let's follow it." He helped Astrid onto Toothless and the teens flew up to the peak of the mountain.
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Once at the top, they discovered a large cave. "Come on, and keep your guard up." Hiccup warned, "We don't know what this dragon is capable of." The young vikings followed the cave until they saw a light. "Shh, you hear that?" Faint voices were coming from up ahead. They cautiously kept going and came to a large room. They saw a curtain with the shadow of a Nadder behind it. "Stormfly!" Astrid ran towards her dragon.
"Astrid, wait!" Suddenly a midnight blue dragon with purple and gold flecks landed in front of her. It had a similar build as a Night Fury but with small horns that curved down and a spiked tail. Between its wings was a pair small neon green wings that were bug-like in appearance. A prosthetic skin was attached to a rip in its main right wing. It let out a high pitched thrill, like an extremely loud bat, vibrating the green wings as it did so. Behind it came the large silver dragon. It was built similar to a Nightmare, but with four legs instead of two, a longer neck, shorter snout, Nadder style wings and short antlers. As it approached, it's silver scales changed to a brilliant scarlet. The other dragons got into their battle stances, but just as they were about to attack, a young brown haired girl about Astrid's age came out from behind the curtain were Stormfly was. She wore a skirt and pants similar to Ruffnut's, a purple long-sleave shirt and a short yak-fur vest. She seemed nervous to see the vikings and moved closer to the dark blue dragon. "What have you done with my dragon?!" Astrid snapped quite enraged.
"D-did you say 'your dragon'?" the girl asked.
"Yes, MY dragon!" Astrid lashed out.
The young girl seemed to calm down. "Windsong, Gersemi, that's enough." she called off the two new dragons, "These people are no threat."
"Excuse me?!" Snotlout smirked.
She pulled back the curtain, "I'm so sorry. I didn't know she belonged to anyone. I just saw she was hurt and wanted to help." Stormfly ran up to her trainer, a bandage around her wound. Hiccup walked up to the girl. "Just who are you?"
The girl smiled. "My name is Ingelitore. Welcome to Dragoness Mountain."
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I just love HTTYD! I am a big fan of character design and the way they design every dragon species amazes me! Expect to see a few new dragons in this story!
BTW, Gersemi's name is from the goddess of treasure and her species is based off of the Mood-Dragons from the books.
Next time, the dragons of Dragoness Mountain revealed!