A lone boy stood high up on a cliff looking out at the sea from the direction he had come from. Below him was some family members that were savaging repackage from their destroyed ship. Most of his older cousins were out hunting for food due to them being stranded far from Berk.
He stood watch with a dagger in hand just in case any dragons decided to attack the small group of survivors. But everyone knew that he was different ever sense the attack from outcasts that destroyed their ship. The boy had witnessed Alvin the Terrible attack his father and even cheat just to win the battle. Than to his horror Alvin picked up the gleaming black sword of his fathers and used it to cut his head off.
The vikings on the island tried there best to give all the fallen a proper funeral but it was hard for them all. Than as the boy was looking up he caught sight of a a dragon far off in the distance. He kept watch as it came closer and when he could see it he used the dagger in his hand to reflect light to the people down below.
This caused a frenzy as the vikings dropped everything they had and readied their weapons for the upcoming fight. But as the boy saw the Monstrous Nightmare come closer he took aim with his dagger and tossed it with all his might. Just as the dragon ignited itself for a fight though the dagger hit it's mark in the dragons heart causing it to fall out of the sky.
With that the boy climbed down from his little perch up above the group of survivors to retrieve his dagger from the corpse of the dragon. After picking up the body of the dragon so he could retrieve his dagger he noticed a small cave up above the big one the group was using. So as of that the boy went and found a rope to tie onto the end of his dagger and he used it to climb up to the cave.
When that was done he pulled the rope up to be alone and look threw his bag of stuff. In it he had a small book and that was it. So he sat in the cave entrance looking down at the others as the hunting party returned empty handed. It was of no surprise but he didn't care as he looked back out at the sea.
A few weeks passed and the boy who went by the name Atlas finally got board of everyone and decided to go and explore. Eventually he started to make a journal about all the different dragons he found and all their strengths and weaknesses. Just like Hiccup would eventually find out the boy noticed that dragons were scared of eels.
But it was only after a year that Atlas found a Night Fury, but it wasn't that great of a meeting. One of his cousins had started to get suspicious about his activity's and decided to follow him. As Atlas got close to a set of woods the other boy decided to speak to him. "What do you think our doing Atlas?"
The sudden outburst didn't surprise Atlas who had known that he was being followed for some time. "Exploring so just leave me alone." Atlas climbed a tree as he spoke and started to go tree branch from tree branch to be undetected by the dragons below. But his cousin followed him until he found Atlas looking down at the ground from a tree that had lots of rocks in it for some reason.
Atlas spoke as his cousin came closer in a small whisper. "Don't make a sound. There is a Night Fury right below us." The other boy looked down as he saw the dark navy blue dragon below them. But due to them both being on the same branch it decided now was the best time to break.
The two fell onto the ground with a thud alerting the Night Fury to there presence. Atlas backed up as the dragon faced him obviously angered. As for the other boy he was getting up when a rock from the tree above them fell and hit his head. The dragon though stopped advancing on Atlas as they both looked at the other boy who fell unconscious.
After that the dragon looked down at a vine that had seemed to come out of the ground. Atlas by now had noticed that the vine seemed to of become attached to the two boys and the dragon. Upon seeing it the dragon tried to use a plasma blast but for some reason it didn't seen to affect the vine.
The dragon seemed a bit annoyed and kept glaring at the vine, Atlas, and the other boy but didn't attack. So Atlas built up enough courage to speak to the dragon but was still very nervous. "If you understand me than can you help me move my cousin back to the camp that's been set up nearby?" Reluctantly the dragon agreed and Atlas move the unconscious boy onto it's back. Along the way the boy woke up and Atlas got into a fight with him. When they reached the camp the argument was coming to a close and everyone heard and saw the final outcome of it.
"FINE! You want to be cut loose than cut yourself loose." Atlas was yelling at his cousin and trusted a dagger into his hand so he could cut himself loose. "FINE! I WILL!" He was angered and than reached down to cut himself loose. Everyone saw what happened as the boy went and cut the vine only for all his color to be drained from his face. Than his eyes went and turned to show only white as they rolled up into his head, and finally he fell on the ground with some blood trickling out of his mouth.
Everyone was quiet than one man being dumb spoke up. "Cut the vine keeping the boy and dragon together than kill the dragon." Everyone looked at the man and Atlas spoke making the man feel horrible to mention it. "ARE YOU MAD! When he cut the vine he died instantly and I for one don't want to find out what happens when it is cut again."
The dragon now was starting to sort of tug the vine wanting Atlas to follow him before he did though he spoke to the rest of the vikings who were not use to him talking. "I'll go with this dragon so you won't see me for a while." With that he followed the dragon and soon they were well away from the campsite when Atlas spoke again.
"I... can't... walk... as long... as you... can... dragon... I... need... to... rest." He was out of breath by keeping up with the dragon and sat down on a rock. The dragon though just shook his head as it looked at Atlas while he rested. After five minutes Atlas got up and the dragon stood in front of him with one wing lowered to the ground. "What do you want me to get on your back?" Atlas was confused but slowly and reluctantly he got on the dragons back.
As soon as he did though the dragon took off at high speeds as he held onto it for his life. He held on as the sun went down in the sky and finally hours after the sunset the dragon started to descend and slow down in it's flight. Atlas though by this time had slept and the dragon had flown threw the night to the other side of the island.
When the dragon shook itself a little in it's descent Atlas woke up and nearly fell off but the dragon was able to catch him by his leg. It got close to the ground and hovered before dropping him and he got up after it landed. Looking around he noticed that they were in a town but it was in a serious need of repair, but most of the buildings were still standing for the most part.
The dragon pulled him into one of the houses and he started to go threw the cupboards until he found a signal one that was still intact and the seal was not broken. Looking at it he read the label and started to think about it. "Vine remover?" He broke the seal and knelt down to pour some of the contents onto the vine keeping him connected to the dragon.
The vine detached itself from them both of them, turned brown, and shriveled up before turning to dust. The dragon instantly went out of the house and Atlas just stood there in disbelief. But he soon got over it as he noticed an unopened door and went over to investigate it. When he noticed that it was locked he took out his dagger and started to break the rotten wood.
By now the dragon poked it's head in the building as it watched Atlas dig the wood out around the doorknob. A few times he got it stuck in some that was still good but with some work he got it out and the door gave way. He walked down into the basement of the building and even though he was underground light managed to filter down threw cracks and he could for the most part see.
While down there he found an headband with a note attached to it but due to the dimly lit area he had to go back upstairs. When he did the dragon went away as he came to the door and stood just outside. It watched from behind a corner as he read from the paper obviously curios as to what the young boy was doing. "Night Fury ear headband #45. Do not put on."
Atlas shrugged as he put it into his bag and continued on to another building to explore. For the rest of the day Atlas explored the abandoned village and the dragon followed him around sensing that he was not a threat. When the sun started to set down though Atlas started to look for a place to spend the night and the dragon came out from behind the corner it was hidden behind.
At first Atlas was still as the dragon just stood watching him but when it started to walk away he watched it and started to follow. The dragon lead him to a cave and than laid down but every time Atlas got closer it went away from him. He finally gave up and went to sleep just inside of the cave.
In the morning Atlas woke up and took out his journal to draw an image of a Night fury in it. Of coarse by this time the dragon was returning from a predawn flight and noticed him with his little book. It slowly came up behind him and watched him as he drew a picture of it in his book. Atlas knew that the dragon was behind him so he started to write down a few things that he knew so far and one of them was that if they were not threaten they were naturally curious.
When he put the last dot down and closed the book up to put it away the dragon quickly got out of the way. For the next few months the dragon observed him just as much as he observed it and every day they crept closer to each other. Finally on the fourth month after they met the two were sitting down next to each other in the cave eating.
Atlas was calling the dragon Knighter and it responded very well to what he told it to do. It had been a year now sense Atlas and the rest of his family had been stranded on the island but he didn't care. Atlas was now six years old and knew stuff that others wouldn't know for years, and was even acting as a grown up which surprises most vikings.
There were a few accident's though like the fact that he accidentally created a scare going right down the Night Fury's left eye. The wound had healed but it left a scare that Atlas had grown accustomed to by now. After he finished eating though the he took out the headband he found a while ago and looked at it in wonder.
The dragon also looked at it and Atlas held it in one hand above his head getting a slight head ache. But it only got worse as a small amount of vibration from a Whispering Death caused a rock to fall from the ceiling. It hit him right in the head forcing the headband down on him and he fell to floor.
The Whispering Death came out of the wall and Knighter chased it off before looking at Atlas as he laid unconscious on the floor. He was only out for two days but when he came to he held his hand up to his head rubbing it never noticing the plate like ears now attached to him. He looked down at the assortment of stuff that the dragon had brought for him and ate a lot of the food ferociously.
It was only when one of the new ears he had moved to the sound of wings that he noticed them. He reached up and tugged one a bit only to feel the tugging as he did it, than after he was done he spoke to himself. "Great now I have ears just like Knighter's. Well... he must be happy about it, and I bet that's him right now." As if on cue Knighter came into the cave carrying some food and dropped it before lightening down.
It than spoke in it's own language but Atlas understood it and the two had a calm discussion all the while Atlas was freaking out on the inside. It was still early morning and as a result Atlas went out and somehow found the old forge that the town had. He used it and some of the tools that were still intact for days on in using what metal he could find in the village.
The dragon just watched though as one day Atlas was excited by what he was building. He made some metal and the two had gathered some leather from some wild bores that they had hunted down a while ago. Soon he was stringing the leather together and making it into a very light yet very strong saddle.
He turned to the dragon when he was done and responded to it's commit. "Come on Knighter, I just maid it so I can stay on your back while you fly. It's not going to impede your movement or anything and with this we can go out and explore farther than we ever have before." The dragon reluctantly agreed and allowed Atlas to put it on.
Atlas also made a harness and before he left he grabbed his helmet he made and put it on. The two took off at high speeds and had a lot of fun but it all changed when the returned to the village. It was a good thing they were in the sky for below them was the surviving vikings from the wreckage on the other end of the island.
Knighter hovered as they both listened in on the survivors and he could hear one of them saying how they were right. For the next four years they silently watched and listened in on them as they fixed up the old village. Than one day shortly after his tenth birthday someone from the village came toward the cave and discovered them.
"ATLAS! Your... alive!" They were shocked and Atlas readied one of his many daggers just in case and spoke to the person. "Yeah I'm alive Magnus." The one called Magnus was very surprised that Atlas was alive and not only surviving but somehow he was stronger and even smarter than before he had left. "You have to come to the village to meat everyone. They are going to be shocked by this!"
Atlas put his dagger away as he was pulled by Magnus toward the village and Knighter heard the whole thing from further back in the cave. When they got to the village a lot of people waved while others were just shocked to see Atlas the small and wimpy kid grown up and stronger than ever before. But Atlas was constantly alert as he was led to the new chief of the village and also while they talked to him.
"Atlas? Your... alive!" Atlas nodded feeling uneasy around all the people he had left years ago to go with Knighter to the abandoned village. "Why... I mean if you were still alive why didn't you come back?" They were very confused and Atlas just kept listening with his Night Fury ears, which by now he had mastered. "I needed to be alone for some time that's all."
He than brought out his dagger and threw it on the table, and he kept bringing out dagger after dagger showing all the ones he made while working the forge. As he put them away he could tell that something was wrong and spoke his mind. "Your hiding something and I want to know, now." He had changed and everyone almost fainted as they heard him issue a command.
The new chief looked down and spoke obviously nervous in front of him. "We... we have been under attack for the past few nights now." With that Atlas turned around and left knowing that he couldn't help them but before he could leave the chief spoke. "Wait Atlas we... need your help." AT those words Atlas turned around and spoke before heading out the door.
"I can't help you any more with the dragon problem." Everyone was quiet for a moment before the chief rushed out and turned Atlas around mid walk. "What do you mean you can't help anymore?" The man was very irritated by Atlas' answer and it only got worse as he responded to it. "I mean I can't kill any more dragons, and by that I mean I won't."
The man's face turned red as he spoke to order Atlas. "Remember boy that I'm the chief now and what I say goes, and I say you will kill dragons to defend your family." At that Atlas faced the man with his best death stair he could managed and he saw the man shiver in fright. "Your not the chief, in fact I was the son of our family's head. So if you don't get out of my way I will not hesitate to take you out."
That made the would be chief try and attack him, but Atlas was even more different than anyone knew. He dodged the attack and delivered a swift kick to the mans stomach, than he flipped the man over and punched his face repeatedly. After he fell unconscious Atlas got up and glared at everyone with a signal dagger drawn.
One person picked up their battle ax a bit but Atlas threw his dagger so good that it clipped the mans ear and stuck itself up to the hilt in the wood behind them. By this time Atlas had taken off his helmet so everyone could see what he actually was. Than he walked to the edge of town and turned around yelling at everyone. "I AM NOT THE SAME WEAKLING THAT LEFT YOU FIVE YEARS AGO! I LEAVE YOU ALL TO YOUR OWN FATE FOR I WILL NEVER RETURN TO THIS ISLAND!"
Right there Atlas let go of his may years of pain and grief before returning to the cave he lived in with Knighter. "Knighter we are leaving tonight maybe sooner." The dragon knew what the boy felt like and didn't say a word for Knighter felt awestruck at the boy's outburst and attitude toward the whole group of vikings that could easily take them both out.