"Viggo is that…?" Ryker Grimborn began.
"A baby Night Fury?" Viggo finished his older brother's question and answered, "Yes, yes, it is."
They had been walking to the hot springs to relax after the taxing week they had had, when the young dragon sat down in front of them. It looked up at them with eyes as green as the forest during the spring, filled with wary curiosity. It was smaller than normal infant Night Furies should be. The brothers stayed stock still, knowing that if there was an infant then the adult version wasn't far.
Viggo could see it was favoring it's left front leg, indicating that it was hurt. The younger Grimborn brother knelt down and reached out to the infant, both brothers freezing when they heard the growl of a much larger and older Night Fury.
'Harm her human and it will be the last thing you ever do,' a deep voice echoed through the heads of the brothers.
They looked up shocked and saw the biggest Night Fury they had ever seen. It was almost six feet tall and nearly thirty feet long, black scales shining like polished onyx. It was bigger than any they had ever seen. Its pupils were slits of caution and anger, warning the two humans in front of him to not try anything. Ryker slowly put his hand on his axe, which was hanging on his hip. The full-grown dragon snarled at the elder brother, the warning very clear.
"Ryker," Viggo said sharply.
Ryker removed his hand from his axe, making the adult Night Fury stop snarling. The infant chirped at the adult dragon, getting a chuff like answer. Viggo slowly sat down on the ground, trying to make himself smaller for the younger dragon. It sniffed at him curiously, still very cautious, slowly crawling closer. He suddenly found himself with a lap full of baby dragon, who was rubbing its head against his chest, purring. It chirped happily at the other Night Fury. The adult chuffed, relaxing slightly, laying down on a warmed rock slab that hung over the small waterfall in the hot springs.
Viggo looked back down at the infant in his lap and did a double take. Instead of a young dragon, there was a human child. A child that had the same green eyes as the infant dragon. Viggo couldn't believe his eyes. He had heard about humans with the ability to change into dragons, but never seen it himself and thought it a myth.
'That was my reaction as well,' the adult dragon chuckled, 'One minute I'm looking at a human child and the next I see a baby Night Fury. Shocked the Hel out of me.'
His dark mocha eyes narrowed as he took in more of the child, which he could now tell was a female. The girl had bruises in the shape of hands on her arms and a cut on her left arm which also seemed to be dislocated at the shoulder. He could see pain in her doe-like eyes, as well as exhaustion. The little one let out a small yawn before curling against his chest on her right side, falling asleep. The younger Grimborn carefully wrapped his arms around the child and stood up.
"Viggo?" Ryker called softly, shocked at what he had just witnessed.
"This child is a gift from the gods Ryker," Viggo said, his voice taunt with rage, "If I ever find who did this to her I will rain Hel onto them. For now, though, we need to get her shoulder fixed and that cut looked at."
Viggo looked at the large Night Fury, noticing it was much more relaxed now than it was before. The adult obviously trusted them with its child, and Viggo was not going to misplace that trust.
"Does the child have a name?" he asked the dragon.
'Her name is Hicca,' said the Night Fury, 'We are only here temporarily. I brought her here in hopes that someone could heal her. The healer on her home island was banned from helping her. I'm sure you can figure out why.'
"She is from a Viking village, isn't she?" Ryker asked.
'Yes,' the dragon said, 'and one that is dedicated to killing all dragons, even if we have done nothing to provoke them. Being a dragon is enough of an excuse for them.'
"You have to bring her back?" Viggo asked silently seething.
'Unfortunately, I have no choice,' he, for the dragon was definitely male, said, 'As much as I wish to not bring her back, she has to stay there until she is old enough to leave. Once she reaches her fifteenth summer, I will be taking her away from the island for good. That is unless something happens that puts those plans in motion. She trusts you. Infant dragons can tell who can be trusted and who cannot. We have been to many islands, trying to find her a new home once she is of age.'
"And now?" Viggo asked, his voice wavering slightly with the hope and thought of finally having a child of his own.
'You seem to care for her even after seeing her gift,' the dragon said, 'I made her a deal that I would let her to continue to live on Berk until she turned fifteen. If the villagers have not changed their ways towards her by then, I will take her from there and Berk will never see her again. For now, though, the only thing I can do is bring her here to be healed.'
Viggo and Ryker both looked like they were going to go on a massacre. The dark mocha eyes of both brothers turned into sharp blades of cold steel. Viggo had an idea of exactly where the child was from. Berk was the only village that labeled smaller than normal children as runts. However, he wouldn't act yet. Not until Hicca was fifteen, when she would finally make her home here. He would rain Hel onto any who tried to take her. He could see Ryker having similar thoughts.
"She will have a home here once she is fifteen," Viggo assured the dragon, "Do you have a name?"
'She calls me Toothless,' the dragon seemed amused by it.
"Toothless?" Ryker asked confused.
'A Night Fury's teeth are retractable,' Toothless explained, 'We keep them sheathed unless we need them. She hasn't figured out how to do that yet though. She is still a bit too young.'
"I'll get our healer to fix her shoulder and arm," Viggo said, "Bring her back whenever you can."
'I will,' Toothless reassured the hunter chief.
AN: Viggo and Ryker are a bit OOC mainly because I don't know their personalities too well. I only know about them from what I've read from other stories. I kept having a mental picture of a female Hiccup with Viggo as her father instead of Stoik. I wanted Hicca(fem!hiccup) to be different in more than just being a runt. So she can shift into a dragon. Please leave a review and let me know if I made any grammar or spelling mistakes, or if I repeated myself in the story. Until the next chapter...