HTTYD – Diary of Toothless

part 1

Bushes. Leaves. Rocks. Branches. There's forest everywhere. Thick forest. I can hardly see five meters ahead. The branches strike me as I flee in a daze. It hurts. My body hurts. I trip over something and twirl around several times. The pain and shock makes me roar out of frustration. Getting up on my feet again I flap my wings franticly. What's happening? I leave the ground, but I come right down again. My wings won't obey me. I try again, only to find my body crashing straight in a tree, leaving a huge bruise by my shoulder. I'm getting scared. Why am I falling down? Why can't I fly? Am I going to die? It's getting dark. I continue to switch between running and flapping my wings through the woods. Everywhere the branches and rocks cut me, makes me whine out of pain. Again I flap my wings one rough time to take to the skies. It works! I'm gaining height! ... no, I'm not! My body's falling again. Suddenly the ground disappears beneath me and I fall for several seconds before crashing onto firm ground. Getting up on my feet again I look around me. Letting out a roar I realize that I'm trapped. There are walls. Walls all around me, creating a small canyon where there's seemingly no escape route. I continue to roar franticly. Why did this happen! I was just doing what was expected of me. To be the stealthy Night Fury during raids staying out of humans' sight and destroying their weapons and catapults with my shock attacks. Never to be caught. But here I was. Trapped like some dumb game animal. My rage continues to grow as I gather my legs beneath me and makes a dash towards one of the walls, jumping with all my force while flapping my wings at the same time. There! I manage to grip an edge and cling onto it. Don't give up now. I can do this. Clawing at the wall to hoist myself upwards, I let out a sneer as my hind legs fail me and slips from their grip. Once again, I fall towards the ground, barely managing to use my wings as a break not to make the impact too harsh. Argh! I let out a high pitched roar while spitting out an electric fire ball, scorching the ground ahead of me, leaving a dark spot with black smoke emerging from it. A sudden strike of grief overwhelms me as I raise my head towards the sky, enviously letting my eyes follow a few birds flying above me and away. What's happened to me? Why can't I fly? Perhaps… perhaps I was just too panicking too much. Now that I've calmed down a little, I can try again. Yes, that's it. I unfold my wings and make a quick run, then dashes into the air while making one rough flap to lift me of the ground. Feeling the air beneath my feet my spirit is rebuild as I flap one more time, gaining even more height. Almost… I'm almost at the top… no, I'm falling again, this can't be! Somehow my balance fails as I plummet towards the ground about as quickly as I left it. Not being able to brace myself, I crash head first into the canyon wall, letting out a painful growl as I do. Landing on my back I let myself stay in that position for a while, breathing heavily as I feel my heart beat rapidly, both from anger of my sudden disability to fly and from fear of what's going to happen to me now. A dragon has to fly to live. Being like this, humans would finish me of like nothing! Hang on a second… humans? That child….

Rolling over I slowly get up on my feet while shaking the dirt off me, gazing towards the sky again as I first now, after my fit of fear seem to recall that human child. Why? Why hadn't I killed him? The chance was there. I was so close. And yet I didn't do it. Why? Was I too afraid? I've never actually killed a human before. Was that why? I hadn't had the guts to do it? Anyway, it didn't matter. The human child was gone. I wouldn't ever see him again. He'd escaped a dragon's claws once, he wouldn't be so stupid as to take that risk again. Right now, I had to focus on getting out of here. Unfolding my wings again, I prepared for another test jump, promising myself I wouldn't ever stop trying until I'd make it to the sky once more, making it back to where I belonged.

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The heavy sunlight makes me clench my eyes tightly shut as I roar in frustration at another fail effort of gaining control of my wings and body in general in the air. I gave up the effort of flying hours ago. Turns out it's useless no matter how hard I try. Right now I just wanted to get out of this canyon. If I could do that… at least I could get my bearings and find some better practice spot. Not to mention I wouldn't be such an easy prey for whatever animals or worse… man, could come by. But still, an entire day had almost already passed by, and I was still here. The walls were so tall, and so slippery. My claw marks were already covering most of the place. Why couldn't I even get out of here? Was I not the powerful and fearful Night Fury? Was I really not more than some pathetic game animal, already doomed after simply facing a human trap for a short moment?

Again the anger and refusal grew in me as I yet again made a rough dash towards a cliff, using my wings to lift me off the ground enough to gain whatever height I could, bringing what strength I could into my claws that barely gripped the edge, only to feel them slipping clean off, making me fall a bare meter before clenching another edge, clawing at it with all my might while growling desperately. Feeing that unwelcome weight of my own body pulling me down towards the ground, I angrily pushed myself away from the cliff wall to get a somewhat controlled landing, stretching my wings to slow myself down while gripping the already hated ground with my paws. This was a nightmare. Without thinking I unfolded my wings to try again… and again. Each time with the same result. Letting out a low howl I painstakingly got up on my battered self, flinching my head as a movement in the dam in front of me caught my eyes. Fish! Only now I realized how hungry I actually was. As by a reflex I plunged my head into the cold water to snatch one, only to fail at that too. Shaking off the chilly feeling, I let out a snort as I let my legs give in beneath me, resting my head on the ground while trying to control my growing anxiety. Before anything more however, something tiny dropping to the ground ahead of me catched my sight, along with it a scent drifting to my nose.

Could it be..?

Something was familiar about that scent. Lifting myself to see where the source of the object had fallen from was, I felt my heart skip a beat as I meet the same pair of eyes I'd done just that horrid day before.

The human child.

He was here again. Watching me from a safe spot, near a narrow opening in the wall. With the same baffled, somewhat curios expression as before. Once again our gazes met, and we held it. The last time we met we'd both had our chances to kill each other, and we'd nearly done so. And yet, none of us had. We'd both escaped each other. So why was he here now? Why was he seeking me? Don't be stupid, I thought. Of course I knew why he was here. I tilted my head at him as I realized so. Is that really why? You've come to see if you could find me, so you could tell your human friends about my whereabouts, right?

A low rumble from the sky made us both jerk our gazes from the other, and I looked up to see the sky turning dark, telling a storm was about to come. Quickly looking back to where the human was, he seemed to be doing the same, giving me what looked like a saddened expression before turning around and climbing his way back through the narrow entrance. This was it, I thought. He'd gone to inform the other humans where I was. Soon they'd all be here. And I'd be dead.

Letting out a loud grunt I let my exhausted body hit the ground again. Just as I'd done so, raindrops started pouring over me, followed by a loud rumble, almost making the ground shake for a mere second. The icy rain soaked me up, penetrating my body with the chilly and cold feeling, making me crouch together as I began shivering madly. Perhaps it was for the best. Being like this, I was useless. The world was in no need for a dragon who could not fly, other than prey for other animals and man that was. It was better they'd just finish me off, at least I'd be rid of this misery of being downed and grounded. In a way, I was dead already.

Gazing towards the sky again to see that the dark clouds had seemingly no intention of retrieving, I let out another hollow growl as I curled myself up, preparing myself for the long, rainy night that was about to come.

End, chapter 1

This was just something I came up with. As usual, I love writing things from someone's POV that we didn't get to see/hear in the actual story, and HTTYD – Toothless are just asking for it :3 Will be continuing this.