AN/ This is my first story and it will be a transformation story where Hiccup gets turned into a dragon. Why am I telling you this? Because I love dragon!Hiccup stories but don't like anthro!Toothless (Where Toothless becomes human) stories, so I want to make it clear for those who have a preference and are not sure which kind this is. I don't have an update schedule but will probably get one if the response to this story is positive enough to inspire me to write more. I hope you will enjoy the first chapter of An unexpected gift.
Dragon speech will be bold. Human speech will be normal.
POV´s will be marked with single characters at the beginning of a segment. H for Hiccup, T for Toothless, A for Astrid and O for Outcasts. I will probably expand this list in the future.
Let the story begin...
AN UNEXPECTED GIFT
Chapter one
H
I woke up like usual, to a dragon stomping on my roof to get me to wake up. I really should invent some kind of device to wake me up in the morning. Perhaps that might be my next project...
STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!
Oh, right. Almost forgot about that. Time to get dressed.
"Coming Toothless!" I yelled.
After getting dressed, I walked downstairs and out the door to a very excited looking Night Fury.
"Can't I at least get breakfast?" I asked, already knowing the answer.
Toothless shook his head.
" As usual then" I muttered to myself.
Those who don't know me, would think I was annoyed. Far from it. There are worse things to do in the morning than to ride the fastest dragon known to man. Still, a spot of breakfast wouldn't hurt though.
I got up on Toothless' saddle, attached my prosthetic to the tail control mechanism and braced myself for Toothless´ preferred way of getting airborne.
It never gets old, flying. The view from half a mile up, the wind in your face, the Outcast warships in the distance... WHAT? Outcasts? I have to tell my dad about this.
"Sorry bud. Looks like this flying trip has to be cut short." Toothless rumbled in an annoyed but strangely understanding manner.
I will always wonder just how intelligent dragons are.
H
After about 30 minutes, we found him. He was currently helping Mildew harvest his cabbages. Understandably, he was relieved when he saw his son approaching as it was not entertaining to listen to Mildew nag about how horrible it was to have dragons everywhere all morning.
"Hello son! Wasn't expecting you so early!" my father shouted when we were close enough to hear.
"OUTCASTS! There are outcast ships approaching Berk!" I shouted as loud as I could.
Stoick's expression became stern. Suddenly he wasn't as relieved as before. "How many?" he asked, in a serious tone.
"I counted five warships but I could be mistaken" I replied.
"Hmmm... Not enough for an invasion fleet but still enough to cause some major damage" Stoick mumbled thoughtfully.
"Find the other riders and sink as many ships as you can. But do it carefully, I don't want any accidents."
"Alright dad" I answered before I left to find the other teens, leaving him to ready the defences.
A
"Lets try this one more time. Stormfly! Short burst!"
Stormfly didn't completely vaporize the tree this time, but still flamed far too long.
"At least we're getting somewhere" I sighed.
I was trying to teach Stormfly to fire in short bursts to both conserve her fire and to be able to light campfires and such without destroying them. Progress was painfully slow.
"Astrid! There you are! I was looking all over for you!" Hiccup called.
"Why? What's going on?"
"Outcasts, a few hours away. We need to find the others. I'll explain on the way once we have gathered everyone" He replied.
"Outcasts? Don't they know they don't have the strength to take on Berk?"
"It doesn't make sense for me either, but I'd rather not risk it. Maybe they have some sort of secret weapon. Now let's go, we don't have much time."
I nodded. I got on Stormfly and we were back in Berk in no time.
H
The twins weren't hard to find. They were busy wreaking havoc, as always. You just needed to follow the sounds of the explosions. Snotlout was also easy to find. In fact, he found us. He started to try and impress Astrid but once he heard what the situation was, he stopped. I will never fathom how he became so deaf to her many rejections. Fishlegs was at his house, correcting inaccuracies in the dragon manual. Once everyone was gathered, I explained the situation to everyone. I also had to explain to the twins why the Outcasts coming here to wreak havoc was a bad thing. With that done, we headed to the Outcast warships.
One hour later
"There they are!" Astrid shouted.
I couldn't see the Outcasts, but then again my, vision wasn't very good. After a while, I saw them too. They were in a triangular formation with two ships in front and three behind.
"Alright, here's what we're gonna do; I attack them first to disorient them, then Snotlaut, Fishlegs and Astrid, who shall known as group two, come in and deal as much damage as possible. Lastly, Ruff and Tuff pass over the ships spraying explosive gas over them and light it when they've reached the end of the formation. After that we regroup here to go over the next attack. Any questions?"
There were none.
"Let's do this then"
As I dive bombed them and heard the the trademark screeching of Toothless I could hear "Night Fury, get down!" from the Outcasts just before toothless shot a powerful fireball at the nearest ship. Shortly thereafter, it sank.
"Group two, attack!" I shouted and watched as a nadder, a nightmare and a gronkle managed to sink one more ship.
"two down, three to go" I thought to myself.
"Twins, go do some damage!"
The hideous zippleback lit the other three ships on fire. As they were returning I could see two Berkian vessels in the distance. Apparently my father wanted a piece of the action.
When Ruffnut and Tuffnut rejoined the group and Snotlout was finished boasting, I walked them through wave two.
"Good job, all of you. I think my father will want someone to interrogate, so let's leave one ship floating. This time group two will attack first, then me and then the twins. I will attack the one on the right, Astrid, Snoutlaut and Fishlegs will attack the left one, and the twins will weaken the middle one, hopefully slowing it down so my father can catch it. And as before, we regroup after the attack. Got it?"
O
"Good, they're taking the bait" Savage said. He had thought Alvin had finally lost it when he conceived of this plan, but did it anyways. Drowning due to failing the mission was far better than disobeying a direct order from Alvin. Amazingly, his mad plan seemed to be working.
"The dragon riders are attacking again!" an Outcast sailor shouted.
"Which ones?" I asked.
"The nadder, the gronkle and the nightmare. Shall I give the order to use the weapon?"
"No, they're not the ones we want"
"But sir, they're almost upon us!" he cried out.
"When I say no it means no. Got it?!" I shouted.
Just then, they attacked the ship to the right of us. It didn't stand a chance.
Shortly thereafter, we heard a screech as if something was ripping the air apart.
"Ready the weapon" I said.
At my command, all the Outcasts who were still standing immidietly dropped whatever they were holding and drew a bow. The weapon wasn't a real weapon, but rather a way to take down a dragon by shooting as many arrows at it as possible. No matter how quick or agile it was, some of them were guaranteed to hit it. At least in theory. We had never had a chance to test it.
"Draw!" I shouted.
When the Night Fury was suitably close, I gave the order to fire,
"Fire!" Immidietly, dozens of arrows were released. The Night Fury fired on the ship left of us, and then pulled up straight after. But it was too late. As the arrows neared it, it seemed like it was impossible for the beast to dodge them all. Amazingly though, it seemed like it was going to do it. When the time came, it looked like it just missed the closest arrow.
"Curses! We were this close to bringing down our greatest threat! Why do the gods keep frowning upon the Outcasts?! Why?!"
H
That was a close one, I thought as I flew to the other teens. The twins had changed their mind about attacking when they saw the Outcasts almost take down a Night Fury. Good thing too.
"Even though they almost got me, we still succeeded for the most part. I think we should call it a day and let dad take care of the rest. We also need to come up with a counter to their bow strategy."
Astrid, Snotlaut, Fishlegs and the twins were visibly relieved. Soon after, we were heading back to Berk.
A little under an hour later
"Did you see how I tore that mast apart?" Snotlaut asked.
"For the hundredth time, we saw it! Yes, it was pretty awesome and no, it does not make you Thor's chosen champion!" I retorted.
Why did the guy with the biggest ego have to get the biggest dragon? I almost wish he would have gotten a terror just to shut him up. It would be pretty funny to replace Hookfang with a red terrible terror during the night and see how he would react...
Just then, Toothless turned to the left hard.
"Toothless what are you doing?!"
He made a sound that basically said: "Me? You control my tailfin. What are YOU doing?"
It was then that I looked back and saw that half of the artificial talfin was torn and that the tear was becoming bigger at an alarming rate. Clearly at least one arrow had hit and punctured the fin, making a small hole which expanded from the stresses of flight. Why didn't I check for damage after the encounter with the Outcasts? Too late now, I had to land in a hurry or I'd fall out of the sky. Problem was, I couldn't find any land.
"Guys the tailfin is damaged! I have find land soon!"
"There! I can see Berk! It's not too far, you can make it!"
At that, Toothless accelerated, soon leaving the others behind. After a few minutes, I could see Berk too. We really had a chance! Just a little bit further.
Once we reached Berk's shore, the tailfin gave out.
"NO NO NO! We were so close!" I shouted as we span out of control, a bit higher up than I wanted. Well, a bit being a few hundred meters. For some reason, the clip attaching me to Toothless also malfunctioned. I managed to hold on for a while trying and failing to stabilize Toothless. After some time, I fell off. Now I was truly helpless. It didn't look like there was anything I could do and the ground was approaching fast.
T
For reasons unknown to me, the tailfin Hiccup gave me stopped working and I spiralled out of control. I could tell Hiccup was trying everything to get it to work, even going so far as to go on my tail and manually adjusting it. I was trying my best too, but Night Furies are not designed to fly with a tailfin missing. When he fell off, I knew he couldn't get on my back in time. And even if he managed it, what could he do that he hadn't already tried? No, the only possibility now was to survive the inevitable crash landing. I knew I could do it, all dragons were designed to. I had done it a few time before. Hiccup, not so much. I would have to shield him like in the battle against the red death.
I tried to grab him by folding my wings around him or grabbing him with a claw. Nothing worked, I was spinning too fast. Only one possibility remained. A last resort that I really didn't want to try. But it was either that or Hiccup dying. An easy choice.
"Toothless, unless you've got something up your sleeve, this is the end. I'm so sorry. If I die, I want you to get Gobber to fix the automatic tailfin. I don't want you to stay grounded forever because of me."
As a matter of fact, I did have something up my sleeve. The ground was almost upon us, maybe ten seconds to impact. It was now or never.
I positioned myself in the air so I was facing him, and with a swiftness that my talons or wings simply didn't have, I bit him and didn't let go. I could taste his blood in my mouth and for the first time in my life, I was disgusted by the blood of another creature in my mouth. He began to scream from the pain. Oh gods I'm so sorry Hiccup, but this is for your own good.
I folded my wings around him and braced for impact. I could feel my paralysing venom going into his body. I hope it wasn't lethal to humans. It was designed to paralyse, not kill, but my prey never lived long enough for me test that.
It was then I hit the ground, and everything went black.
AN/ So how did you like it? I would love to get some reviews answering this question. Feel free to pm me or write a review with your ideas about the story or pretty much anything.