HTTYD: A Dragon's heart
Authors note: Hey everyone, this is one of my first fanfics in a while. Nope, I have not forgotten about my Happy Feet fic, maybe I will continue it, since it's not a long story. Anyway, please bare with me if there are grammer and spellings mistakes. The problem is, I can read and understand English perfectly, but when it comes to writing a good and interesting story, my vocabulary becomes increasingly limited. However, I still hope you folks will enjoy it! Oh and this story is NOT meant to be interpreted for slash! *shudders* I hate slash, I mean a dragon/human pairing is just plain creepy!
For extra information: This story takes place between the time Hiccup was allowed to touch Toothless for the first time and between the time they went for their first flight. So Toothless is still not very keen on Hiccup, but they are slowly becoming friends
Toothless' POV
The black dragon lay very still on a large pile of rocks, a naughty grin plastered on his face. He was waiting for his young friend to arrive for his daily visit. Wait. Friend? No, Toothless shook this thought of him, they were simply acquaintances. Nothing more and they would never be more than that, he thought. Even if the dragon allowed the young Viking to touch him a few days ago. Toothless regretted that immediately after it happened and now he wanted to show the Viking the consequences of this action. Toothless was in a playful mood and wanted to show the hatchling that he still was a fearsome dragon, not some dog you can go up to and pet. These consequences wouldn't be very hilarious for the Viking, but for the dragon it was one of the most hilarious ones. You know that feeling, that you just want to scare the living daylights of somebody just for fun? Well, Toothless was feeling that right now.
The scent of a human filled the air and the black dragon knew the hatchling would soon appear. Impatient he awaited this humans arrival.
Third persons POV
It became difficult for Hiccup to shake everyone of when he wanted to visit Toothless. Especially Astrid was becoming a pain in the neck. Every since he became top student with dragon training, she would try to follow him whenever he had a chance to visit his dragon. Luckily Hiccup always spotted her on time. When she was caught she would always return to the village, since she knew that Hiccup would not go further until she was gone.
'I know you're here Astrid. So now you can go back to the village like you always do.' Hiccup said annoyed.
'Son of Odin!' A female voice cried out. Astrid appeared from behind the bushes where she was hiding. 'How come you always know when I'm following you?' She angrily asked, her arms folded and an irritated and impatient look on her face.
'Well, you may be a great warrior, but a lousy spy. You make way too much noise and since you try to follow me almost EVERY day,' Hiccup snapped back at her, 'it's not really difficult to know when you're trying it again.'
'Mark my words Hiccup, one day I will find out what you're hiding and believe me, when I do, it won't be pretty.' With a last angry look at Hiccup she turned around and headed back to Berk. Hiccup sighed and threw his arms in the air 'Girls..' he muttered as he made his way to the canyon in which Toothless resided.
Hiccup got to the entrance of the small canyon. Luckily the entrance was really small, so if anyone tried to follow him, they would at least have to be as skinny as he was. With all those muscled Vikings in the village he didn't think that would happen anytime soon. He got on his knees and crept through the entrance. Once he got there, he stood up and scanned the area. Something seemed not right here. It was so quiet, not even birds were whistling, it made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. Where was Toothless exactly? Normally he would find him sleeping, most of the time hanging upside down from a branch. But now he was nowhere to be seen. Hiccup slowly walked deeper into the canyon, carefully not to make any sound as he watched his surroundings. It couldn't be possible that Toothless flew out of the canyon, or could he?
Hiccup's thought were cut short when suddenly a huge shadow covered the sun. Hiccup turned around and before he could scream, something big and scaly tackled him and sent them into a rolling summersault. Suddenly Hiccup felt he was pinned to the ground, two giant black paws pinning his shoulders into the earth. 'Wah…..what the….' he managed to cry out. With his heart pounding like it wanted to leap out of his chest and run off without him, he looked up and saw a gigantic black head blocking the sun. Two big, green mischievous eyes looked down on him, an evil grin with teeth unsheathed, eyes narrowed with a naughty gleam in them. 'Toothless!' Hiccup cried out. He was too shocked and scared to be really mad at the dragon. 'What do you think you're doing?' Toothless rumbling laughter echoed through the canyon. 'Yeah, you thought that was funny, huh? You almost gave me a heart attack, now get off me.' Hiccup tried to push the dragon's paws of his shoulders, but to no avail. 'Alright, I'll give you three seconds to get of me or….Toothless?' Hiccup stopped talking when he saw Toothless looking around with a confused look on his face. 'What's the matter buddy?' Hiccup asked a bit out of breath. His heart was still pounding like a madman and he didn't think it would stop anytime soon.
Toothless's POV
If a dragon could truly laugh Toothless would be on the ground clutching his sides from laughter. But instead he made a rumbling sound and looked down at Hiccup grinning. That was until his sensitive hearing caught a loud thumping sound. What was that? It was so loud and it didn't look like the human noticed it at all. Toothless scanned his surroundings, until he noticed that the pounding sound came from the young hatchling. Was that his heart beating so loud? Toothless arched his head near the human's chest, he gave Hiccup a slightly confused look. Hiccup stared back at him, eyes still a bit widened from shock and slightly pale skin. The Viking tried to scramble away from the dragon, but Toothless paws kept him where he was. He probably thinks I'm going to eat him, Toothless thought a bit irritated. If I wanted to eat him, I would have done that almost immediately.
Then slowly, Toothless put his left ear on Hiccup's chest, right where his heart was. Hiccup didn't really like it, for he was squirming under the dragon's grasp. The dragon ignored this and listened to the racing thumps of the hatchlings heart. Wow, the Night Fury thought. I must've really scared him, hear his heart beat. Then Toothless felt something he hadn't felt in a long time. This feeling was residing in his own heart. Guilt. He did not really want to scare the human this bad. Ears drooping a bit, he pulled his head up and looked down at the hatchling, thinking of a way to make it up to him. His ears perked up when he got an idea. Arching his head again, he licked Hiccup's face a few times, covering the unfortunate Viking with dragon saliva. The hatchling started laughing and was squirming again trying to keep his head away from the forked dragon tongue. 'No, hahahaha, please….stop….Okay, okay, I forgive you.' The dragon happily stopped and smiled.
Once again he arched his head next to the young Viking's chest and put his left ear again on his chest, listening to his heart again. This time the thumping sound had decreased and was beating in almost a normal rhythm again. Toothless nodded, confirming to himself he did a good job. Finally he released the boy from his grasp and let him sit up.
Hiccup was wiping his face, still laughing a bit. He looked up at Toothless and smirked. 'You really are something, Toothless.' he said. He stood up and wiped the dirt of his clothes. 'Now let's get you something to eat.' Hearing that, the dragon starting wagging his tail like a happy dog and pranced happily after the boy.
To be continued