Author's note: Hello everyone! I watched 'How to train your Dragon 2' and absolutely loved it. So much so, that I'm thinking of what I'd like to see, namely another Night Fury. So, I had a couple of ideas and started writing. Now, I'd like to share them. I hope you enjoy reading, please leave a review at the bottom.

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Hiccup revelled in the feeling of freedom as he and Toothless sped across the sky. The wind rushing past, the moist clouds swirling around them like fog before dipping below the cloud line to see the whole ocean spread out before them, the full moon's glistening reflection on the ocean surface like a silver coin. Who knew how many secrets the world still held, just waiting to be found?

It had been three years since his father, Stoic the Vast, gave his life to save Hiccup from death, and still, while Hiccup tried every day to live up to his father's legacy, he still felt he wasn't doing the job justice. Every day, he wanted to ask for his advice on some problem, but of course, Hiccup sighed, he wasn't there to ask...

"Are you alright, son?"

A smile pulled at his lips.

Then again, there were others he could ask...

"I'm find mom," Hiccup reassured the woman flying her own large dragon beside him. "It's just..."

"What?" Valka frowned slightly, knowing her boy was worrying about something.

"I miss being able to do things like this every day," Hiccup began, giving his Night Fury, who would be practically invisible if not for the silver moon, a pat on his scaly head. "My days are so filled with: my fishing boat's capsized, or: we've got nowhere to store the potato crop, or: a dragon set fire to my house- want a bigger one!'"

"Sorry to have to say this, Hiccup," Valka told her son, "but that's a Chief's job: to make sure his Village runs smoothly."

"I know," Hiccup nodded. "I do understand that, mom, it's just. Look at us," Hiccup gestured to himself and Toothless. "We only have time to go flying at night because I'm so busy 'chiefing' during the day. I've barely seen Astrid, or my other friends lately, and the Dragon Academy's getting new recruits soon."

"And Astrid and I have agreed to train them," Valka supplied, though she thought she could see where her son was going with this.

"Yeah," Hiccup nodded again, getting frustrated. "And I'm grateful for that...But I wanted to train the new recruits at the academy. I want to go flying with Toothless while the sun is still up so I can get a full night's sleep for a change. I want to be able to see my girlfriend for more than just ten minutes a day! Toothless is frustrated too, I can tell," Hiccup touched his dragons head again. "He's so lonely, stranded on the island all day while the other dragons are out fishing or training."

"Astrid takes him out flying when she can," Valka reminded him gently.

"Yeah," Hiccup nodded, smiling slightly. His girlfriend had become quite good at flying with a Night Fury. "It's just…"

"I know you miss the way things used to be, Hiccup," Valka told him in understanding, "but you can still do those things."

"Yeah, at night," Hiccup sighed as he lay back in his saddle, watching the stars and moon above him. "It's the only time I'm ever free to-"

Gasping, Hiccup sat ramrod straight in the saddle, staring above them.

"Did you see that?" He asked, and he felt Toothless react beneath him, turning his head and focusing his eyes intently.

"What was it, son?" Valka asked, Cloud-Jumper glancing around as well, though his eyes weren't as good as Toothless at seeing in the dark.

"I just saw a dragon pass across the moon," Hiccup felt his curiosity building up, and although he knew they had gone far enough out that it was time to head back to Berk, he just couldn't shake the feeling that this was important. "It was travelling in that direction," he pointing slightly to their left.

Wordlessly, Valka caught her son's eye, and they smiled. They were so alike.

"What do you say, buddy?" Hiccup asked Toothless. "Shall we check it out? Might be a new dragon and a new island?"

Without hesitation, Toothless took off in the direction he'd seen the shadowy dragon travel, Valka and Cloud-Jumper following close behind.

After a few minutes, a dark shape could be seen on the horizon, which eventually took the form of a large rocky island.

"Wow, another one," Hiccup marvelled as their dragons landed on a small pebbly beach at the base of some cliffs. "Maybe this is the home of that dragon we saw."

"Could you see what kind of dragon it was?" Valka asked as she dismounted.

"No," Hiccup answered as he looked around. "It was moving too quick to see."

Suddenly, Toothless bounded forward, heading toward the cliffs.

"Toothless?" Hiccup queried as he followed his dragon. "You find something, buddy?"

Toothless looked back at him urgently as he made his way closer to the base of the cliffs and Hiccup could soon see the opening of a cave.

"Well," Hiccup mused, "looks like we may have found our Dragon friend's home."

Toothless was sniffing the cave entrance, and gazing around the opening. Suddenly, he froze.

"Toothless?" Hiccup asked slowly. "Are you okay?"

Toothless glanced back at his friend and gestured with his head to enter, before slowly walking through the mouth of the cave.

"Careful, Toothless," Hiccup hissed as he followed his dragon. "We don't know what's in there."

"We don't," Valka stated pensively, "but I think Toothless does."

The cave opening was too small for Cloud-Jumper, so Valka told her dragon to wait for them on the beach while they went inside.

Moments after entering the cave, it was so black Hiccup couldn't see his hand in front of his face. So he pulled a couple of torches from his pack and soon, they had enough light to see that the cave they were in was really a tunnel, sloping its way up into the cliffs.

"Oh, my goodness," Valka examined the nearby wall carefully. "Claw marks... this is a dragon's home."

"Toothless?" Hiccup sped up until he caught up with his dragon, standing at the end of the tunnel. Shining their torches ahead of them, Valka and Hiccup gaped at the size of the cavern they'd come across. Along either side of them, were holes which led outside to the cliff face, while before them, opposite each opening and covering the cave walls, were rock ledges. However, every ledge they could see was empty, and the cavern was filled with only echoing silence.

"Well," Hiccup said sadly, "this was a dragon's home."

"And for so many," Valka stepped into the cavern to examine the lower ledges. "Look," she pointed, "scorch marks on every one. This must have been a great nest of many family groups."

Hiccup lifted his torch higher to try and light up the cavern as much as possible, causing dark shadows to touch the rock, worn smooth by countless dragons. "What is this place?"

Suddenly, Toothless took off, following the left edge of the cavern along the cliff face, leaping from rock to rock urgently.

"Toothless," Hiccup called as he followed. "What is it, buddy?"

Knowing her son should be safe enough with his dragon, Valka thought to examine the main cavern more closely. Climbing to a higher ledge, she cast her torch light across the rock and gasped in shock at what she found.

Toothless leapt from rock to rock, pausing at each ledge as he went, turning to look out of the hole leading out to the cliff face at each point, thin beams of light from the full moon entering the cave in various intervals as they went along.

Landing on one rock ledge, Toothless looked out of the nearest opening to the outside world and froze, feeling the sense of familiarity once more.

This was the one...

"Toothless?" Hiccup was panting and his bad leg was aching. Following a jumping Night Fury across uneven terrain with one leg was not an easy task. "What is it, buddy?"

Hiccup watched as his friend stared out at the sky for a few moments before looking at the ledge he was sitting on. Slowly, Toothless turned in a circle, scorching the rock ledge with his breath as he did, before curling up into a tight ball.

"Are you just tired?" Hiccup asked in confusion, though he didn't think that was it.

Unexpectedly, Toothless began to shake, a quivering, sad sound emanating from his throat and Hiccup soon realised that his friend was crying.

"Toothless," Hiccup whispered approaching his friend. "What's wrong, buddy?"

Hiccup stumbled on the uneven ground and only by grabbing the ledge Toothless was on stopped him from sprawling on the ground. He lowered his torch to see what had tripped him up and felt his blood run cold.

Bones.

Hiccup had spent so much time looking up when they'd entered the caves that he'd forgotten to look down. Piles of bones were littered across the floor and jammed between rocks. Hiccup had tripped over a large skull.

Carefully, he placed his torch to once side before picking up the skull to get a better look. A part of him thought he knew what he'd see, and another part wanted to prove it wrong.

But as Hiccup slowly turned the skull over in his hands, he felt his heart sink as he recognised the bone structure.

"These are Night Furies," he whispered in horror. "Toothless?" Placing the skull gently on the ground, Hiccup turned to his friend, who was still tightly curled up on the rock ledge.

"Toothless?" Hiccup placed a comforting hand on his friend's side and waited as his dragon slowly raised his head. Hiccup could see the sadness in his friend's eyes as the quivering, mournful cry reverberated through the air again.

"This was your home, wasn't it, Toothless?" Hiccup asked him. "This was your family who slept here." He gestured to the ledge before his shoulders slumped. "I am so sorry, buddy."

As Toothless simply curled up again, Hiccup gazed around the caves, looking at the different rock ledges with new eyes.

"What happened here?" Hiccup asked.

Kneeling down, Hiccup examined the skull at his feet more carefully, and noticed a crack in the bone, right between the eye sockets. Squinting in the flickering light from his torch, Hiccup saw something stuck and carefully, he used his fingers to wiggle the object back and forth until he pulled out something sharp, smooth and flat. Holding the object closer to his torch, Hiccup examined what he thought was going to be a dragon tooth, but his eyes widened when he realised it was a spear head.

"Humans," Hiccup whispered, feeling sick to his stomach. "Humans killed them all."

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Author's note: So much is unknown about Toothless and his back story, so I wanted to try and give him one. I had always wondered why we see so many other breeds of dragons but only ever one Night Fury. In the second movie, Valka made a comment about Toothless possibly being the last of his kind, and I wondered what would drive such a magnificent, fast and stealthy species of dragon to extinction. The answer seemed pretty clear to me: Humans.

Not nice, I know, but when you look at how humans act… it's not really surprising when you think about it.

I know this is sad, but I promise, it will get better.

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