Misery loves me: A How to Train Your Dragon story
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The rain pelts heavily against the glass window seal as the storm went on throughout the day. Lightning flashed by with brilliant splendor with thunder soon sounding behind, its voice fully awaking the figure in bed, who replies with an irritated groan. Icy blue eyes blink slowly from behind a curtain of silky white hair, as the figure groans and looks out at the rainy storm clouds with rage; stretching like a cat when it first awakes, she finally gets out of bed still yawning.
"Damn, the weather sure got crappy in a short time." She mutters, scratching her head and shuffling to get to the light switch across the room; not that she needed to use the light. Flicking it on, she saw a note on the table that lay next to her favorite sword, named Tsunami. Her eyes narrowed, she knew her folks left letters whenever they were headed out of town on 'Business meetings' as they put it. Taking the note in hand she read each word with trite expression,
Miracle Darling,
We're off to Vegas for our meeting with the board. Please keep the place in order and for love's sake, go to school.
Your Loving Mother.
"What wonderful role models you two turned out to be." She grumbles, tossing the note in the trash and heads down to the kitchen to fix her something to eat. The dark and empty rooms brought no peace to her soul; only the drenching rain and howling winds could bring her some peace of mind. She sighs staring out the window as she enters the vast living room in the back of the house; since it was closest to the woods. Just as she was settling into one of the large couches in front the gas lit fireplaces, there was a sudden loud roar and the sound of something slamming heavily near the back of the house, startling her enough for her to drop her coffee she made. 'What one earth…' She thought getting up quickly; her mind wondering on what could have slammed so hard in such a storm. Ignoring her wants to stay inside, she hurries and dresses in her army pants, black tank top and black boots with a black jacket that covers her completely before quickly rushing out, looking all over the woods for the strange object, until a small brown and cream chickadee flew into her chest. "Maury, what are doing flying in this weather?"
"I could ask why you're walking around in this weather," He snaps irritably. "But to answer your question, something came crashing into my tree and woke me. I saw it going towards your house and it looked injured."
"We'll if it's going that way, then I should be able to help it. You can stay in the house with me as well until the storm clears." He nods to this and clings on to her until they came upon a sight neither thought they would have seen of in their life.
"Sweet honey dew…" Maury gasps staring down at the black dragon lying still in the mud and bleeding where it was apparently struck by lightning.
"Hey are you all right?" She calls out to it. It slowly lifts its head towards them, acid green eyes dimming in exhaustion.
"Help me…please…" It moans in pain before passing out.
When the dragon came to, it found itself on a very comfortable rug in front of a large stone fire place. Acid green eyes searching the place in wonder as it glances at antique leather chairs, cherry wood tables, and ebony bookcases stocked to the brim that were pushed out of the way for it to lie down and even move around. The sound of rain steadily pouring from outside, brings an unsettling peace to its heart.
"What in the name of Draco is going on here?" It hisses trying to stand, only to wince and lie back down to stare at the bandages that covered its wound stretching down its side and to its tail. "What happened to me?"
"Miracle saved you." A voice answers. Surprised, dragon glances around in alert to hear where the voice was coming from.
"Where are you, show yourself." It hisses raising its wings to make it seem larger. The voice merely chuckles at the sight, but soon smothers it and clears its throat.
"Calm yourself dragon, I am merely a humble bird." Maury said, flying down and landing on the top of the fireplace. He takes a moment to preen his feathers and fluff them up before returning to the now bewildered and even more embarrassed dragon. "My friend asked me to watch you. By the way, my name is Maury."
"Your friend…just where is this friend?" Just as soon as the dragon asks, the door suddenly opens and in walks an odd looking human, causing the dragon to growl menacingly. Miracle simply glares at the dragon for a moment, not even flinching at the warning before opening her mouth.
"Calm down, you're in my house so no harm will come to you. Besides, if I wanted to kill you, I would have done it while you were passed out or tied you up for good measure so you couldn't come tearing me to shreds." She sighs, calmly taking a seat in a chair near the open doorway, a cup of warm coffee and rum sat gingerly in her lap before she takes a sip from it. "I know you can talk, so you might as well." The dragon stares at her with its mouth hanging open.
'Did a hatchling just speak to me like that?' It thought still staring at her. Never in its entire life has anything spoken to it like this odd human had. Sure, it had its dealings with humans; mainly them running for trying to kill it, but she didn't even bring a weapon or seem terrified of it. At this only two thoughts passed its mind, one, she was very brave and the other, she was very stupid for not tying it up. But soon those thoughts died away as quickly as its shock when the sudden smell of cooked meat wisped passed its nose, causing its stomach to growl in eager, greedy acceptance.
"I knew you'd be hungry, so I fixed the turkey for yah." The girl said, pointing at the bird that lay to the far side of the dragon.
"How'd I miss that?" The dragon said at last getting up, taking small sniffs at the bird before slowly tearing into the bird, until nothing was left. Satisfied enough, it turns around and stares at the girl, noting her differences from a normal human. A normal human would have run at the sight of a dragon, pleaded for their gods to save them. Yet, there she sat, poised like a queen on her throne with no fear and no wavering will to pray and beg for anything.
"I still don't see why you cooked that bird. That truly goes against my pride as one."
"Well I could have cooked you, but I don't think that would be very filling." Miracle said humorlessly, causing the chickadee to gulp nervously. Both turn towards the dragon who was staring at them cautiously. "Happy you got something to eat dragon?" She said glancing towards the window for a moment.
"Yes, thank you for that meal, hatchling." It said in a clearer female voice.
"You're welcome, and my name is Miracle, not hatchling." The girl said with sigh. "What's yours if you have one?"
"My name is…well you humans have a hard time with our tongue, so…." The dragon said thinking.
"Soul…." Miracle said.
"Soul…you could have said any other thing, but Soul…." Maury scowls landing on her shoulder. He suddenly stops when her eyes narrow irritably at him, turning what warmth he had from the fire into straight ice.
"Soul huh…not a bad name…." The dragon replies with a nod.
"Glad you agree. Now for the question of the hour, how the hell did you wind up here of all places?" Miracle asks. Soul glances at her with a shrug and stares more at her eyes. Their color reminded her of the arctic sea she once few over when she was younger. The way the water gleamed and shimmered in the sun made her heart jump, but she could also see something of a frigid storm that made a part of her shiver. When Miracle noticed Soul staring, she merely looks away for a moment towards the rain.
"I have no clue really, I was just flying when this freak storm came in and blew me all over the place."
"Well you're lucky you crashed here instead of another's house. They probably would have killed you, much less try to understand what you're saying at the moment." Maury said. Soul nods counting her blessings for being able to be in safety. But, something else continued to bother her even more about this girl, something that was telling her that she should keep a close eye on her and never let her go.
"I have to get ready for tomorrow. Maury, you can bunk in my room if you want, just no crapping on the sheets again. Soul, this room is all yours just no defecating in here. I don't want to spend the day cleaning up crap." Miracle said getting up from the chair. Soul's ear fins suddenly went up just as quickly as she heard those words. Before Miracle could even protest, she found the dragon pinning her to the chair. Her nose suddenly at work taking in all the scents she could get off of her. Maury quickly flew back to the fireplace watching the scene with gleeful and fearful eyes.
"What are you doing?" Miracle snaps trying to push the reptile off, but it was futile.
"…your scent..." Soul said steadily sniffing every inch of the girl, snout digging into the girl's skin while she struggles against the dragons' strength. The snorts and feeling of the reptile's scales make Miracle both edgy and irritable. Her eyes watching Soul come up slowly, licking her stomach a few times before coming face to face with her; acid green eyes staring into icy blue. The final straw was when the dragon licks her sloppily on the face, leaving a huge glob of spit. After Soul releases her, Miracle wipes the spit away and grimaces. 'She's the one I was looking for.'
"What was that for?" She asks.
"That was for saving me, and for giving me food." Soul said with a bit of chuckle. It sounded like a rumbling noise from the reptile, but nonetheless it was a laugh.
"I'm leaving. I'll keep the door open for you." Miracle said getting up, only to once again find herself in Soul's paws. Feeling her nerves become fried, she groans as the dragon pulls her into a hug. "Care to explain to me why you're doing this too?"
"Because I found you at last and I'm not letting you go again Miracle." She purrs contently sitting bipedal for a moment, sitting Miracle on her lap and starting to lick her hair with long strokes of her tongue. Miracle, once more grumbles in protest.
"Let me go." She snaps trying to get away.
"Not until I'm done." Soul said eagerly licking her exposed skin. Miracle shivers as her tongue came across her neck, causing her to let out an involuntary moan. Soul purrs noticing how much she likes it and continues licking in that spot before licking her hair.
"I'm going back to bed now." Miracle huffed, mustering enough strength to get away from the now overbearing, loving reptile.
"We can take a nap together." Soul purrs staring into Miracle's eyes with an innocent glance.
"This is rich." Maury chuckles.
"Make yourself useful Maury and get out." Miracle snaps.
"Nah, I rather watch this. This is the closest I've seen you get to anyone."
"I'm going to sleep in my bed." Miracle said leaving the room. Soul whines and tries to hold her down, but she was quickly rejected by the irritated girl. She continues to whine and whimper, trying to get the girl fall under her hypnotic spell, but all she received was a grunt.
"How wonderful…." Miracle groans, turning away from the lizard and straight to her bedroom.