Prologue One
The gleeful twosome saored through the open air like they hadn't a care in the world. It was their favorite thing to do together. The man, fairly thin with a scragly red beard, lifted his arms in the passing wind and let out a hearty laugh. The dark beast he was riding on gave an equally joyful roar as they flew down the side of a cliff, gaining speed. Suddenly pulling up out of the nose dive, the dark dragon flew over a dense forest. The smell of the forest air mixed with the sound of rapiding moving wind exilirated them both, it was no wonder his wife couldn't find him sometimes for days at a time.
As he turned the beast to fly back home to Berk, its ear twiched and it pulled harshly at the reins, knocking them off course. The man tried again to right their course, and again the dragon turned, ignoring the attempts of his master and best friend.
It was trying to fly deeper over the woods, in fact, in the darkest, deepest part.
"Toothless, what are you doing?" asked the red haired man in confused frustration. "we have to get back to Astrid and Lief, he's turning two years old today remember?"
Toothless snorted matter-of-factly in reply. Apparently, Toothless wasn't going anywhere the disgruntled viking wanted. He turned suddenly, as if hearing something that his master couldn't. Hiccup leaned forward, suddenly becoming more cautious and silent.
"what is it boy? Is it dangerous?" he asked in hushed tones. Toothless shook him off, making a noise that clearly stated that he didn't think whatever it was, was dangerous.
"wha-" Hiccup's sentence was cut off when he nearly flew into the air after his night fury nosedived into the dense woods. Trees flashed by them quickly, sometimes hitting Hiccup and scratching up his arms and leg.
Toothless Hit the ground with such force that it actually knocked the viking onto the ground with a large 'omph' noise. Without so much as a backward glance, Toothless strolled quickly over to what was clearly an old dragons nest.
"toothless, wha-" and then he heard it. a baby's cry. only it was...diferent, somehow off in some sort of inhuman way, like its vocal cords were filled with liquid. He joined the large reptile in looking down into the nest made of charred stone and moss.
It was there that Hiccup found the sourse of the noise.
A baby, not much unlike his son back home. light blond hair decorated its pale head, curling slightly and making barely recognizable ringlets. its skin was pale, almost unhealthily so. Hiccup leaned in closer. by the gods, there was small, clothlike scales along the childs skin! he wouldn't have noticed them at all unless he had leaned so close. he tentativly ran a finger over the faux-skin, it was soft, softer than a normal baby's skin, it was almost like touching foam. The baby opened its eyes at the touch of the much larger man, wrapping a tiny hand around his finger.
The childs eyes gave Hiccup a start. They were bright, almost chalk yellow, with small lines of green here and there. his pupils weren't round, but slitted, almost like his dragons' eyes.
It made a small 'bahh!' noise at the man as if trying speak to him. It then smiled, slowly falling asleep. For some unforseen reason, the child warmed his heart.
He looked to the left, then the right. No one seemed to be around, in fact, it didn't look like anyone had been around for a long time. He looked back down at the now sleeping baby. He noticed how thin it looked, the bags under its fragile eyes. Abandoned? It seemed like it.
Without a second though he lifted the baby into his arms, turned to Toothless and whispered, "Lets go." he climbed onto the back of the beast and he took off silently and carefully. The dragon seemed as keen to help the child as much as his master.
Hello readers,
If this is your first time reading this story, welcome! if you are a fan of the original story and are trying out the new, edited version, I hope the better, longer chapters make up for my previous laziness and i hope you love this one as much as the last. 3
Forgive me for all spelling mistakes, I'm using a program that has no spell check, so I'm trying my best. DX
For those who are unaware, the older story, Dragon Boy, will still be updating, but not with the story itself (though i left the story there for those who still wish to read it) it will be updating with short stories about this story, either suggested by you, the reader, or come up with by me, the writer. any character is fine, and it doesn't need to go with the story. one's already in line to be written are as follows:
Mu Qing's origin (pre-story, Canon)
Gareth/Drayko (post story, Non-Canon)
Lief/Drayko (post story, Non-Canon)
Lief becomes mopre in tune with his brothers dragon side (post story, Canon)
Drayko flies to an Island and meets more of his kind (post story, non-canon)
Lief's perspective, the village after Drayko left (mid-story, Canon)
Gareth slowly becomes Drayko's friend (post-story, Canon)
Quick warnings: Gore (because hey, dragons can be mean sometimes) Mild sexual contant (most likely, it probably wont be yaoi/yuri because HTTYD didn't have any focus on homosexual relatioships, the short stories however...) extreme sad parts (for those adult vikings who think they have enough balls to read those scenes~) bullying (because every protagonist needs some dumbass everyone hates but cant get rid of) and probably soem other stuff I'll update later.
