Chapter 1
A clasp of thunder echoed the stormy night over the isle of Berk. Screeches of dragons and yells of Vikings could be heard all across the island. The Vikings were fighting off the dragons, who had come to raid the village. Not too far from the village a Night Fury was flying across the sky. It had a male Viking atop its back. They had both forgotten that it was during the time of the raid and got caught in the fight.
The chief of the village was Stoick the vast. He saw a glimpse of the Night Fury, who was franticly trying to escape the fight. He grabbed one of the bolas and tossed it at the majestic beast. It screeched as the bola not only wrapped its wings around its body, enabling it to fly, but knocking the Viking off its back as well. They both plummeted into the rocky ocean below with a large splash.
A small girl, the age of five, stood at the edge of the forest witnessing the tragic scene. Tears mixed with the rain on her cheeks as she ran towards the village, out into the terrible war.
A small scrawny boy, the same age as the girl, peeked his around the corner of his slightly open door. His face was one you could easily lose in a crowd. It was covered in freckles, his hair was reddish brown color, and his deep forest green eyes filled with curiosity and were seeking adventure. He watched the war go on and how dragons were slayed as well as Vikings. But that wasn't what drew his attention the most.
It was the small girl with messy hair that was as black as night, pale skin, and eyes that glistened a beautiful sapphire blue with specks of emerald green that were filled with sadness and loss. He watched the girl run across the uneven battlefield.
She ignored the calls of the Vikings telling her to get inside and ran to the edge of the cliff were the Night Fury and Viking had fallen and saw no sign of them. She started to cry even harder. "No…" she cried quietly.
As she mourned she didn't notice the Monstrous Nightmare approaching her from behind but the young boy did and was about to run towards it, only to see a plasma blast strike the dragon, drawing the girl attention as the Monstrous Nightmare fled.
She saw the boy and they stared at each other for a moment before the girl was swooped up by a black streak with small specks of white of a Night Fury and they both vanished. The boy never saw the girl since. Nor did the girl see anyone other than the Night Fury, which saved her that night. And that's how it stayed for a very long time.
*****Ten Years Later... *****
It was a warm summer morning with light rain outside. The girl was peacefully asleep on her bed. She rolled over slightly and cuddled her blankets closer to herself. The Night Fury snuck over to the sleeping girl and grinned to himself and gently shoved her out of her bed and onto the rocky ground.
The girl snapped awake. "Leo! What was that for?! I was sleeping just fine until you woke me up!" she exclaimed, agitated with the dragon. "Oh relax Alya. You can sleep all you want later! You promised we would go flying!" Leo replied in Dragonese, the tongue of the dragons. "Alright fine." The girl, Alya replied. She climbed onto Leo and flipped a secret switch in the cove they lived in, which they called Stargazer's cove. The roof of the cove slid open and Leo flew out into the misty morning sky. Alya shut the roof as they exited the cove. They flew off to go explore.
The smell of morning dew swept across Berk. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third was asleep in his bed. That was until his Night Fury, Toothless, decided it was time for him to get up and take him on a flight.
Hiccup woke up to the sound of pounding on his roof and smiled as he pried his eyes open and walked downstairs to be greeted by Toothless' signature toothless grin. He smiled. "Alright bud, let's go." He told the Night fury as he strapped himself to the dragon and they took off into the sky. Hiccup and toothless flew around for a while, looking at islands and seeing if they could find any dragons. They flew out farther than usual, and they could see ocean in every direction.
Alya and Leo finally returned to the cove and Alya caught some fish from the pool of water off to the side of the cove and started cooking one over the fire while she gave Leo a couple more.
The wind started picking up and the sky slowly filled with dark clouds, a soft rain soon came. It wasn't too bad, but hiccup wanted to find shelter in case it got worse. Toothless looked around for shelter and noticed a small island in the distance and changed his direction towards it. Hiccup noticed it too and helped toothless land on the edge as they got close. Toothless landed and his ears perked up and twitched. Hiccup looked around, "you see something?" he asked.
He found a strange rock and nudged it and the ground started to shift. He quickly bonded back over to hiccup, protectively guarding him. Hiccup was thrown off balance, and gripped toothless for support. He scooped him up on his back and tried to keep from falling in the hole that was appearing. They fell down the hole, not able to take off fast enough. Toothless positioned himself under Hiccup and they landed on the ground. Toothless under Hiccup.
"You okay, toothless?" Hiccup asked. He looked around, unable to see much until his eyes adjusted. Toothless grunted letting him know he was fine. He slowly stood and notice a torch. He lit one and looked around. He froze and tensed and his ears perked up and next thing hiccup knew toothless was wrestling on the ground with another large night fury with white speckles on top of toothless. Hiccup had fallen off and backed up slightly, brushing dust off from the fall.
Then he was on the floor. A snarling black night fury on top of him. Hiccup yelped in fear. "Who are you?" it snarled. "Uh- uh- my name's- uh- Hiccup!" It narrowed its eyes. "Hiccup...Alright then, where are you from and how did you find us?" "I- I'm from Berk. Me and toothless were just flying around and were just here to get out of the rain." Hiccup answered quickly. It glanced over and saw toothless and noticed he was a night fury then held back all the urges to kill hiccup when he said Berk. "You can't be from Berk. You have dragon." "Dragons are all over the place now." He said, really hoping he would make it out of this alive. "It's different now." It stared into his soul. It was silent then it got off and the other backed down as well. "You're not lying."
Hiccup sighed in relief. "S- So you're not going to kill me?" He whimpered out. It shook her head and then sat on its hind legs and suddenly instead of the dragon was now a young teenage girl. "What." Hiccup said, staring at her in shock and confusion. "My name is Alya. I am a halfa." "A... Halfa?" She revealed her wings and tail and nodded. "Like half night fury, half human." she tried to explain. "But I thought there were no night furies left?" "Well no full blood normal ones of which I'm aware. Leo here is a constellation night fury, while I'm half human." she replied.
"Constellation night fury?" She nodded. "Leo light the room please." he lit a couple more. He showed the white scales that formed the constellation Leo. Toothless took that moment to run over and crouch protectively over hiccup. Hiccup gasped in awe. Alya smiled at Toothless. "Hello. Who are you?" She asked him with a smile. Toothless growled at her, a warning for threatening his hiccup. 'My name is toothless." he hissed.
"It's nice to meet you toothless. Sorry about earlier." toothless stared at her. "You- you can understand me?" he asked. She nodded. "Yes. I speak Dragonese. It's part of being a halfa." toothless tilted his head. "I've never heard of a halfa before, how is that possible?" "We are almost extinct." "Interesting... well... May we stay here until the storm passes?"
"As long as you don't tell anyone my secret or about this place or Leo." she replied. Toothless nodded in agreement. "You must agree not to hurt my Hiccup." "I promise." Toothless curled himself around Hiccup so he could nap till the storm ended.
Hiccup had watched the conversation with confusion. "We're you... Talking with him?" He asked Alya. "Yes. Do you not know the tongue of dragons?" hiccup shook his head. "I didn't know that people could speak it." he replied. "I can teach you if you want." Hiccups' eyes widened. "r- Really?!" he exclaimed. "We could try. If you are interested."
"That would be awesome!" "Alright. Let's start while it storms." she started to explain some of the basic words. Hiccup struggled at first, but actually managed to say a couple words right. She soon taught him how to say hello and how to introduce himself. Hiccup turned to toothless and greeted him happily. Toothless grinned his toothless grin. "Howdeedoodeethere Hiccup." he replied.
"This is so cool!" hiccup exclaimed. Toothless seemed rather impressed on how far Hiccup had gotten in such a short amount of time. Outside, the storm had lessened quite a bit. "Well looks like the storm is lifting." Alya said. "Then me and toothless better head back soon..." hiccup said, obvious disappointment in his voice. Alya looked down for a moment then thought of something. "You said Berk is dragon friendly now? Maybe we can come with you!"
Hiccup instantly brightened. "Yeah! You can meet my friends!" he exclaimed. She grinned. "Alright then! We'll come." hiccup sat down and learned more dragon words as they waited for the rest of the storm to pass, almost bursting with excitement the whole time. Alya helped him perfect his introduction and taught him a couple of other things as well.
Soon the storm was over and the sky was clear again. "Let's go!" Hiccup said happily. Alya climbed onto Leo and smiled. "Leo, open the roof please." He opened the roof and put of the torches. Hiccup and toothless flew out of the hole and spun around in the air, then flew in place. "It's this way." hiccup called, leading the way. Leo followed after them and shut the roof.
(Here it is!)