Chapter 1: How Our Story Begins

Hiccup's POV

Berk, a place full of vikings. The winters typically last 9 months out of 12 and the other 3 are just plain stormy. On our better days we get charming views of the sunsets and clear skies. If the gods are on our side. Of course, no place is perfect as Berk has a bit of a pest problem. In some places mosquitoes are a horror, and in other disease carrying rats spread the cheer. But not us. Our pest have large wings, scaly bodies, sharp teeth and claws, and have a habit of using their fiery breath. Or to make it shorter, dragons. They like to raid us of our fish and livestock which in our case is a bit of a problem when we are nearing winter.

I was laying awake in my bed when a ground shaking BAM had me jump out of bed. " DRAGONS!" I heard someone outside say. I heard booming footsteps from below me go from right underneath me to the outside world. Letting my breath out, I got my fur vest and boots on and ran down my home's stairs to the door. I opened it to see a red and grey Monstrous Nightmare turn it's head towards me. We stared at eachother for a split second when I saw him take a deep breath. Knowing what was coming, I slammed the door shut. Not a second later, I felt heat radiating off the door with flames coming from each side. I waited a minute after it stopped to peek out of the door. The dragon was gone so I hurried out the door.

As I was running down the hill from my house, I got tackled by a viking. He screamed in my face, then as though it was a normal conversation at a normal time, he said " Mornin' ". He ran off and I continued my way to the forge where I work. I passed a few neighbors, telling me to get inside. My track record at trying to help gets the village on guard when I'm out in a raid. I wasn't far from the forge when I got pulled away from a stream line of fire. I looked into the angry eyes of our chief who was asking " What is he doin ou…. What are ya doin' out here? Get inside! " he said with his heavy scottish accent. Our chief. In a word, stoick. Hence his title Stoick the Vast. Rumor goes about saying that he tore a dragon's head right off it's neck when he was barely 2 years into this world. Do I believe it? Yes, as a matter of fact I do. He is one of, if not the biggest and bulkiest viking around. He's almost 7 feet in height with rippling muscles. His hair and beard are a dark red with him having stone-cold grey eyes as well as wearing a cape of bear skin.

I made it to the forge at long last to see my mentor and the chief's right hand man. He's a little shorter but has muscles just as big. He has a wood and metal replacement for his left arm and right foot with no hair on his head, but a long, blond mustache. He spots me and says " Nice of you to join the party. Was afraid a dragon would have mistaken you for another wooden pole to burn.". I looked at him and said sarcastically " I have no idea what you're talking about Gobber. Dragons flee at the sight of my ultra viking-ness! " I said flexing my non existent muscles. He replied with " More like lack of. ". I stuck my tongue at him when his back was turned.

I opened the bords of the shop to see vikings with broken, burnt, or bent weapons that needed fixing. I took as many as I could and put them on top of 700 degree coals. I saw an explosion happen that caught my attention.

I saw the group of kids my age, or the fire brigade try to put out the fire. There was my idiot cousin Snotlout who pushes people down to make himself rise. He is a little taller then me with spiky dark brown hair and blue/grey eyes. Ruffnut and Tuffnut A.K.A. the twins focus more on trying to be better than each other than anything else. They have long white blond hair that is split in 3 sections with each having separate colors of blue eyes. Fishlegs was the biggest of the group but couldn't actually hold a sword against any appoint. He has white blond hair and is typically hunched. Astrid my previous crush who only sees everyone as obstacles to her future success as the best of everything there could be ( the reason I stopped liking her ). She has golden blond hair that's in a neat braid and ocean blue eyes. She's thin and in shape but is a complete and total brat. And then there's Toothless. Toothless is Astrid's crush because he's, in her opinion the best option. He has black hair as well in a neat braid with bangs that cover his forehead and his acid green eyes a tad bit. He is 2 heads taller than me and has light brown skin.

He's stronger than Snotlout, more agile then Astrid, and knows just as much about dragons as Fishlegs. There's only 2 things he's not better at which is cleverness and speed. Sure, he's faster than the teens and far more clever, but sadly enough for him, I've already beat him in that department. Being brought back into reality, an explosion fired behind the teen and they walked off as if nothing had happened. Gobber must've seen me by the opening and pulled me back thinking I'd run off. " ah, ah, ah Hiccup. Not after last time. ". To his surprize, I didn't argue like I normally would have. In our last raid, I tried to shoot down a Night Fury, the most secretive dragon of them all. I as usual, failed miserably, and in the end dragons got away with almost half of our livestock.

Sometimes when I'm out, something would happen that wasn't my fault but Snotlout and/or the twins, that I'd get blamed for, and others were actually my fault. I can recognize both separately, but I've grown to the point where I take it as my fault anyways. The raid ended and once again, they got away with a good amount of our food or livestock. For once I did stay in the forge the whole time, but something else must've happened to have the chief screaming my name. " HICCUP!" I cringed and walked out of the forge. " Umm… Yea? "

" What's the meanin' of this? " as he pointed to a trail of torn and burnt barrels of where fish was suppose to be. " Hey, don't look at me this time, I was in the forge. " I said putting my hands up defensively. Luckily, Gobber came to my aid " The boy's tellin the truth, Stoick, he was there the whole time. Saw it with me own eyes. ". Then at that moment, Astrid said " I saw him come out of the forge though! ". She looked at me with an evil eye.

" Sorry lass, your eyes musta played some tricks on ye. I didn't have to leave the forge and he was helpin me from beginnin to end. ". Oh, and you might need to know this for future reference but " Is this true son? " the chief asked me. I nodded and said " I didn't even step foot out until you called my name dad. ". His angered expression softened a bit as he ordered some villagers to help clean up and fix what damage had been done.

I let out a yawn and said " Can I go home now? Or am I needed some more? ". Gobber looked in the forge and back and said " You wouldn't mind stayin for a little while longer, would ya? ". I sighed. " Alright, I'll meet you back inside." I said with a tired smile. He looked at me skeptically, but went in anyways. I looked back at Astrid with my own evil glint and said " Nice try. " and she gave me a cold look and said back " I'll get you back for this. They'd normally believe me, but since you had Gobber, you got lucky. " She tried to look threatening, but I gave her the look that said I'm board and walked into the forge.

Toothless' POV

That son of a half troll! She tried to get him in trouble for no reason. It was no secret that she liked me, but that was the one thing that made me do the opposite of liking her back. She stormed off and the rest of the teens followed. I stayed for a second and looked in Hiccup's direction. I couldn't see him, but I could hear his soft breathing and gentle heartbeat. You see with me, it's like wanting something you could never had. My mom gave up her chance to grow up with me so I could be as safe from the monster. But growing up seeing how he's suffered and how much I want to help him, it's becoming harder to resist helping him.

" Hey T, you coming? " yelled Snotlout. " Ya " I replied, but not before stealing another glance at the forge. I caught up to the rest of the group and Astrid came up to me and started to complain about how she didn't get to get Hiccup in trouble. She kept ranting on and on until she said " I mean, I don't want people to think I'm crazy! ". The sheer selfishness of that statement blew it for me. " Then stop trying so hard to get him in trouble for no reason. ".

" He deserves it! "

" Since when? "

" Since he called me a lap dog! "

" Dude, that was when you were nine. Get over it "

She gave me a murderous look. But, I kept my gaze hard and walked away. She gasped as if she were a princess with a little dirt on her and stormed off into the woods.

Being half a dragon has it's perks. I was stealthy and quiet at a far greater rate than any human. I was hiding behind the forge and just listened to Hiccup's heart and breathing. In human, viking language, liking one of the same gender wasn't very unusual, but not encouraged. I believed I was caught in this spell with him because I liked him. A lot. I sometimes would just sit on the roof of his house and listened to him. He didn't snore, talk or mumble, or anything of the sorts in his sleep. I'd never seen him sleep but I've imagined.

I do know how this started, though. It was when my mom had to leave me when I was 9.

"Mommy PLEASE! Don't go!" I cried! She was crying too but flew off. I tried to follow her, but I didn't know how to properly yet. I didn't know how long I bawled on the ground, but when I heard footsteps nearby, I froze. It was Hiccup. " What do you want, Useless!" I shouted. His expression didn't change, but he slowly edged closer to me. I looked away trying to hide my tears.

I tried so hard but couldn't when I heard him say " It's worse if you try to fight it. My mom left me when I was four. Just let it out, I won't tell anyone.". He pulled me into a hug and rubbed my back. I cried for another few hours when I finally calmed down. He wiped some tears off my cheeks and said " There " he gave me a sweet but small smile. " How do you stop it? Th..the pain? " I asked. " You don't. It just slowly goes away over the years. You're not going to fully heal from it 'll just have good days and bad ones.".

Never have I heard wiser words then that. I heard him leave the forge and saw him walk towards his home. I followed in the shadows. The chief had called a town meeting, so no one was around. He stopped before the hills and said " Can I help you, Toothless? ". What. The. Hell. How did he know I was following him? He looked in my general direction not truly knowing where I was. I came out of hiding and walked up to him. " I wanted to ask a few questions but didn't know how. "

" So you creepily followed me home? "

I rolled my eyes and said " A few raid ago you got in trouble for something you didn't do but didn't try to defend yourself. Why? "

He looked at me for a second and said " You're just noticing now? "

" No, but I'm getting a little annoyed at it "

" Then stop caring " he said and started to walk up to his house.

I was frozen in shock. Stop carin...how dare he! I ran up to him and caught his arm and said " What's that supposed to mean?! " I was furious and he could tell. He jerked his arm back and said " It's better for everyone! Just go away, and stop caring! You're just going to stop in the future anyways so save yourself the trouble! " I just stared at him wide eyed and mouth agape. I didn't say anything but watched him run into his house crying.

Hiccup's POV

I didn't care how un-viking like crying was, I couldn't hold it in. Someone actually cares and I have to push them away for their own good. That's hard to do for the record. I was crying for a while when I finally calmed down. I decided to go out into the woods for a walk, it always seemed to calm me down. So I left my house and walked for a while. The deeper I went I started to hear booms and crashes. I went towards the noises and saw flashes of purple lights. 'No way!' I thought. I ran until I found the source of the noise. It was a small, black dragon that was rampaging. I gasped which turned to be a bad move seeing how the dragon heard me. It looked scared for a second and then booked it. I ran after the supposive Night Fury thinking things like 'Did I actually hit one last raid?'. I heard a screech and saw it fell into the cove.

But the fall knocked the dragon out and what scared me was the form slowly morphing into a familiar form. Long, black hair tied in a braid, tall, lean form that was around 2 heads taller than me with light brown skin. I didn't know what to make of it. I just stared, eyes wider than a frightened child and mouth open as if calling for something to fly in. " What in Odin's Name….."

Author's note: So what do you think's going to happen? Will Hiccup return to the village for back up? Will he kill Toothless? Who knows. I hope you enjoyed my first real chapter story and if you like it, let me know if you want to know what happens next.

-LlamaQueen666