Hiccup groaned. His shoulder was sore and all he wanted to do was go back to sleep. He heard the bed groan in protest when he rolled over which made no sense to him seeing as he was-as most would refer to him-a twig. Pulling his eyes open he looked around. Everything seemed to be good till he looked down at his hands...wait...hands?
In the place of his hands were black paws. And they looked oddly familiar. Like...toothless. Panic rose in his stomach as he jumped out of the bed only to tumble unbalanced onto the floor. Glancing back he saw that in fact he was still missing his foot which had led him to be a bit off balance. Where everything had been normal size before it was no smaller. His tail swayed back and forth as his as his panic increased causing things to be knocked over and broken. Where was everyone? For once in a long time he was glad he was alone. He would have time to think.
But that time was cut when his door slammed open to reveal Astrid. A very emotional Astrid. Many emotions flickered across her face when she saw the Night Furry. Worry. Anger. Fear. Confusion. Then anger again. "Where the hell is Hiccup?" She asked reaching for the ax she dropped when she walked in.
"Astrid it's me." Hiccup cried scampering over to her knocking everything over as he did. "Astrid it's me Hiccup!" But unfortunately all she heard were shrieks and groans.
"WHERE THE HELL IS HICCUP!" She screamed swinging her ax at him.
He was barely able to jump out of the way in time. But do to him now being a dragon found that jumping and running was a lot easier now. Smoothly he jumped onto one of the many rafters where Astrid couldn't catch him. "Astrid it's me!" he whined.
"WHER-" Before Astrid could finish yelling Toothless burst through the open door. The saddle on his back was beyond repair and Hiccup let out a soft sigh. He briefly wondering how the dragon had managed to do so much damage to it but that thought was pushed way by the relief that flooded into his body at the sight of his friend.
"Toothless! That dragon! It did something to Hiccup!" Astrid scream pointing to Hiccup. Toothless merely huffed and jumped up on the rafter next to Hiccup. Confusion compelled Astrid to stop and think. Why was toothless being so friendly towards a dragon that did something to Hiccup.
"Toothless I'm so happy to see you!" Hiccup cried.
Happiness filled Toothless and he nuzzled Hiccup causing Hiccup to yelp and nearly fall off the rafter(three legs apparently was not got for balancing on a rafter).
"Toothless what the hell?" Astrid called. Remembering the blond Toothless jumped down from the rafter and stood before her. "He hurt Hiccup." she stammered when the dragon got closer
"Stupid girl this is Hiccup." Toothless growled flipping his head in a pointed gesture towards Hiccup. A loud thud rocked the house as Hiccup fell off the rafter and onto the hard floor. Toothless turned and stared at Hiccup concern clear on his face. Hiccup righted himself and stared wide eyed at Toothless.
"I can understand you!" He exclaimed.
"So you can!" Toothless said with the same amount of enthusiasm.
"WOW! this is so cool!" Hiccup exclaimed. He turned to Astrid and shrieked. "Astrid you should hear this. It's so cool!"
"She can't understand us." Toothless said with a smirk.
Hiccup not seeing the smirk sighed and stared longingly at Astrid. "So this is what it feels like to not be able to communicate. How awful."
"Yeah." Toothless said, nuzzling the teen-turned-dragon in an attempt to bring his mood back up, and turn his attention away from the blood and back to him.
"Eh-hem."Astrid cleared her throat. "Toothless we have to find Hiccup!" She said shooting a glace at the other dragon. Deciding till the found more proof that they should not kill this dragon.
Sighing Toothless grabbed Astrid and pointed to Hiccup. "That is Hiccup." He garbled.
Astrid looked from Toothless to Hiccup. "Are you trying to say that this other Night Furry is Hiccup?"
Hiccup and Toothless nodded. Hiccup relived and Toothless as if to say 'duh'.
"This is so weird. You turned my boyfriend in to a dragon?" Astrid groaned walking over to Hiccup and patting his head lightly. Hiccup purred happily at Astrids petting. Toothless growled and pushed his way between Astrid and Hiccup.
"Yo toothless calm down buddy." Hiccup said putting his paw against toothless. "She doesn't mean any harm."
"Toothless huffed "Your my Hiccup." He said puffing his chest up and glaring down at Astrid who had tumbled to the ground. "She can't have you."
Hiccup stared at Toothless for a moment before looking back at Astrid who had picked herself up and was now standing a ways away. He really didn't know what to do now. He had been turned into a dragon. Now what. He couldn't talk. He couldn't help people work with there dragons. What was he to do. Then the thought occurred to him.
How was he a dragon in the first place.
"Hey Toothless? Why am I a dragon?" He asked his friend watching his reaction.
Toothless jumped and stared wide eyed at Hiccup. "Um...well I kinda...sorta bit you." He said flinching as he said it.
Hiccup stared at Toothless for a minute. "You bit me." He said. It wasn't a question. "Well why did you do that?"
Toothless was waiting for the explosion and the fact that he hadn't screamed at him yet was a bit disconcerting. "Um well. I wanted you to pay attention to me and so I kinda sorta..." He didn't finish. "I'm sorry." He said glancing down.
"So you were jealous." Hiccup sighed. "It's okay buddy but next time lets not bite me okay?"
Toothless nodded.
"So what are you to going to do then...if you really are Hiccup?" Astrid sighed sitting on a near by chair that hadn't been broken during the mornings events.
Before anyone could answer the door swung open for the second time only to reveal Stoick. The four exchange looks. Hiccup-worried, Astrid-shocked, Toothless-nonchalant, and Stoick well Stoick was shocked, worried, horror, and many more emotions flicked across his face till he settled with anger. But instead of it being towards Hiccup it was at Toothless. "What did you do to my son devil?" He asked in a low voice.
"Um Stoick...this is Hiccup" Astrid said pointing to Hiccup.
Stoick stared at Astrid as if she'd grown two heads. "Astrid what the devil are you talking about. That is not my son. That there is another Night Furry! How the devil can that be my son?"
Astrid glanced at Toothless and back to Stoick. "Um you know how I brought Hiccup back a few days ago? Well um...I'm guessing when toothless bit him it turned him into a dragon. I'm honestly not sure."
Stoick nodded as if accepting the answer. "Are you my son?" He asked turning to Hiccup.
Hiccup nodded vigorously.
Stoick stared at Hiccup for a few tense minutes till Hiccup began to squirm. Suddenly Stoick threw his head back and began to laugh. "You are my son! Well now Hiccup your going to be one of the beasties are ya?" Stoick pat Hiccup on the back before turning to Toothless, "You better watch over my son Devil. If you don't all skin ya and use you as a nice rug."
Hiccup could tell there was really no truth behind the threat but it got through to Toothless. The dragon nodded and nuzzled Hiccup and said, "Don't worry I plan to protect him with everything I am."
Stoick nodded once before walking out of the house and back to his chieftain duties.
A sigh went through the three. Astrid looked at Hiccup and Toothless. "So what are you going to do now?"