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Fly on your own
The crystallised terrain glinted beneath the silvery moonlight as everything was serene and absolutely perfect as the dragons thrived in their new environment.
It had all been supremely peaceful ever since the former dragons of Berk had moved into the Hidden world and, while it was a bit overcrowded at first and they had to get used to feeding themselves, they had actually settled in pretty well. It was also thanks to Toothless, a Night fury, whom had ascended and become king of the dragons while his beloved mate —the Light fury— had become his queen. The two were very attentive and took their roles as leaders seriously, even though they were the last of their kind, and even managed to create a peaceful utopia.
The pair ruled fairly and had each become a singular unit that had garnered the respect of the dragon race and Toothless and his mate knew how to fairly run an entire land themselves, together.
Only thing was that their singular unit was about to triple.
Yes.
Toothless and his mate were about to become a family.
The two had settled down into one of the deeper catacombs which had been made into a nesting area for most of the expecting females and/or the nursery for the females to raise their small whelps until they were ready to fly independently. Needless to say, the female Light fury had chosen to nest further towards the back of the cave and the nest was made out of there was illuminant crystals, quarts and obsidian —instead of any natural soft material such as grass or hay.
It was usually Toothless' job to go out to catch some fish but, since he wanted to give his mate some freedom, he decided to watch over the eggs.
He was currently laying down on the nest of crystals with his tail coiled around himself. His wings folded themselves against his back and he couldn't resist the urge to tilt his head back slightly, open his mouth as wide as it could go and exhume a large yawn whilst stretching his front claws. Whether it was out of boredom or exhaustion, not even he knew. The Male Night fury just felt really bored since it had been awhile since he had left the cave catacombs to keep his special bundles nice and warm. His bright emerald green eyes glanced down and saw the three little eggs that were nestled by his side, being incubated by his body heat.
The egg on the right was dark black with hints of white, the middle egg was pure white with a single black splotch on its shell, and the egg on the left was pitch black with greyish-white on the top.
The precious trio of eggs.
Toothless nor his mate were no longer the last of their kind.
The bloodline of the nightfuries dragon species was going to continue.
Where was his mate?
Well, since the Light fury had been keeping watch over the precious brood and simply sat in the caverns without doing much for four months, she had started to get a bit stir crazy and had decided to switch roles with the ebony-scaled male; she fly away to catch the fish supper while he stayed behind to keep watch over the eggs. Needless to say, she was very reluctant to leave the eggs when they were supposed to start hatching any day now but, at the same time, she knew that she needed to flex her wings since she hadn't used them much and couldn't stand to be cooped up for much longer.
Toothless wasn't too worried because he was sure that the eggs weren't supposed to hatch for another while or so and he figured that they would wait for their mother to return.
...Right?
The eggs all were nicely nestled together and seemed ok.
Toothless settled down and lay down on his stomach as he observed the three eggs which were now nestled at his side, his olive green eyes were soft and gentle as he was simply left alone with his thoughts. He had coiled his tail around the bundles and couldn't help but feel reminiscent of his human partner, Hiccup; how was he doing? How was his mate, Astrid, doing? Had they finally decided to become one by mating? He couldn't help but wonder what had happened during all these years.
Since he could never quite understand how humans became attracted to each other, he
He also had to wonder if...Hiccup, too, was going to have whelps of his very own too?
He lowered his head and closed his eyes, giving his head a single shake, and he really wished he would have been able to meet them and personally get to know them —it was a regretful truth and he couldn't help but feel a bit saddened about it. He hoped Hiccup wasn't missing him too much...yet, at the same time, he knew that the young human was really strong and had convinced him that he would be just before he had left to take the other dragons of Berk to the Hidden world.
Maybe, perhaps when the other dragons were ready and humanity was prepared, they could return and rule the skies once more...
Toothless kept pondering, until his eyes snapped open when he heard a faint cracking sound.
It couldn't be...could it? He silently prayed it the source of the noise wasn't what he was thinking of and he turned his head quickly and looked down to see whether he was correct. His stomach dropped and he was shocked to the core to find that one of the eggs had a small airline crack across the shell.
His olive green eyes widened in panic as the realisation hit him like a bolt of lightning.
The eggs were hatching.
The eggs were hatching!
THE EGGS WERE HATCHING!
The egg that was hatching was the middle one, the white one with the black splotch emblazoned upon the shell. It trembled and shook a little bit as a crack appeared and seemed to be growing bigger and bigger by the second. Toothless reared back, eyes wide, and climbed to stand on all fours as he stared at the eggs with his mind racing and going a million miles an hour. He could hardly think rationally and he let out a growly whimper of a noise and cast his gaze momentarily out towards the cavern entrance, he hoped that his mate would return soon...
The middle egg kept shaking and the whelp inside was steadily chipping away.
It wasn't too much longer until the top of the egg came off and a tiny Light fury head popped out.
The teeny hatchling mewled softly, eyes still closed as it squirmed around in an attempt to free itself from the shell that had previously been its prison. The newborn was covered in sticky fluid and she shivered due to the cold reaching her pale and rather transparent scales. She sniffled softly, trying to take her first few breaths of fresh oxygen, yet the sticky amniotic fluid and mucus in her nostrils made that a bit difficult.
Toothless watched with unease.
He had dealt with baby dragon whelps before but dealing with his own offspring was a different matter entirely...!
He wanted nothing more than to fly off and get his mate to see their new babies but he was stopped when he realised that he couldn't leave the whelps alone to fend for themselves, but the male Night fury also hadn't the slightest clue as to how to handle this since neither him nor his Light fury queen had expected them to start hatching while the latter had gone.
He knew that his mate wouldn't be happy if he had left them alone.
The baby, wanting to get closer to the adult Night fury, fell forward clumsily and ended up landing on her tummy, causing a "splat" sound thanks to the fluid she was covered in —the liquid dripped down her body. She flapped her tiny wings to get rid of the excess fluid covering her from head-to-toe and she kept trying to stand up by herself, but only ended up slipping around.
She let out a quiet growl of a whimper.
Toothless' heart sunk a bit and he felt a bit of sympathy for the whelp, he couldn't leave his daughter like that.
He walked back over towards the tiny whelp and the other two eggs, emerald green eyes assumed this kind and caring glimmer that appeared to just give anyone warmth just by staring deep into them, and he craned his head to see if the little one was okay. She seemed alright whilst she struggled a bit as she shook off the eggshell that remained glued to her and trotted unsteadily towards the much older Night fury with blue/greenish eyes overflowing with adoration.
She started to lean up and rub his head right up against her father's chest affectionately.
The adult Night fury responded to the hatchling's display by poking his long forked tongue out at her and then proceeding to reward her with a few licks to try and clean her up. The baby light fury relished in the feeling of being licked clean by the older dragon and she purred delightedly, clumsily climbing up and attempting to balance on her haunches as she sat up for the first time.
It was once she was clean that the whelp was a bit happier.
Now, in a better light, Toothless was able to study this new life much better.
It was a white Light fury, like it's mother, and she had some pitch black areas such as her little ears as well as her spines and the tip of her tail. Other then those attributes this little one looked just like her mother and she couldn't have been more perfect to him.
The newly-hatched dragon purred contentedly and leaned upwards before she clumsily poked out her own forked tongue, letting it loll out of his mouth due to how unpracticed she was in controlling it, in a failed attempt to lick her father in return —Toothless, filled with nothing but love for his new hatchling as he used his snout to nuzzle the whelp, causing her to nuzzle him right back, and the little baby dragon closed her big teal eyes and continued to rest her little head against her father's chest.
Toothless pressed his snout against his daughter's teeny snout and purred softly in a comforting manner. He wrapped both his front claws around his whelp and hugged her delicately as he flapped his wings reflexively.
Even though this was a new bond, this bond between father and child had already become unbreakable.
The moment was slightly spoiled when Toothless perked his head up to the sound of flapping wings —he gazed out towards the entrance when he saw a familiar pair of sapphire blue eyes belonging to a familiar figure. He watched as his mate landed on the ground with an expertly-executed swoop and dive and she hardly wasted time in hastening towards her mate to look down at her offspring.
Toothless growled softly in confusion as he watched his slender, beautiful and gentle-eyed mate nuzzled him lovingly.
The Light fury was quick to rush straight to the hatchling and the other two eggs that were also starting to grow cracks upon both of their eggshells. She had a look of excitement as she dashed straight over towards them with her bright blue eyes scanning them intensely as she awaited for the other eggs to start hatching, just like the middle one whom just curled up into a ball to sleep by Toothless' side and seemed to sleep soundly.
The queen of the dragons purred delightedly as she saw the lovely little hatchling.
It was another hour until both of the other two eggs had hatched as well and a pair of males popped their own heads out of their respective eggs just like their sister before them, but they seemed to take more after Toothless than their mother.
One of the males had dark scales, like Toothless, but had pale blue eyes and had a white nose, white ears, white claws and a white underbelly and chin. The other male had a white belly, white head bumps and white spikes trailing down his back and was otherwise completely black, and he had bright green eyes. The two brothers were noticeably bigger than their sister, in spite of them being born after her, and seemed just a tad stronger than she did.
Both mewed softly as they squirmed in their newly-broken egg remnants and tried to literally break out of their shells while their bodies were slathered with that same egg liquid.
The Light fury ended up cleaning both males with her own tongue and, it was when they had been cleaned up, she decided to start feeding them their first meal.
The only female whelp of the triplets opened her eyes a little bit as she was softly nudged by Toothless towards her brother's so they could be fed. The three baby Nightlight furies mewed and squeaked in anticipation as they waited for their mother to regurgitated some fish into their mouthes. The Light fury happily nuzzled all three of her newly-born whelps lovingly, the female adult kept nuzzling for a few moments until the babies all opened their mouthes and lowered her head and watched as the precious hatchlings eagerly chirped for food.
The motherly Light fury crooned to the babies in a soft growl as she regurgitated the fish she caught earlier into each gummy mouth belonging to her precious hatchlings, pushing the pulpy mass of chewed up fish out of her mouth with her tongue and getting the whelps fed as they got an equal amount. The Nightlight fury triplets happily chewed their very first meals and made adorable little noises as they swallowed the gross mush.
The babies were clearly content after having been fed for the first time in their lives.
Toothless went over and sat down next to his dear queen and made a sweet sound as he gave her forehead a tender lick before nuzzling her and pressing his head into the crook of her neck whilst wrapping one of his wings around her. He could feel her throat vibrate as she purred lovingly and watched as her mate's tail coiled around them both, eyes momentarily looking at the mechanical winged-tail fin. She could remember when she first met him an how he was unable to fly properly because a part of his tail had been severed, making it near impossible.
Then his human helped make him his new tail and now he could fly independently. She never had been very fond of humans, but she would always accept that human that helped her mate. He did help both her and him, after all. She could tell that her king missed his human sometimes but she could also see that he didn't regret leaving to save his kind...and leaving to keep her safe.
The king and queen dragons were brought out of their romantic reverie after noticing that their babies had curled up into a small cluster on the ground and had fallen asleep in a pile.
The two proud dragon parents purred happily as the Light fury got to her feet and proceeded to go over to the ball of whelp and pick them up by the scaly scruff of their necks and then gently lower them down in the crystallised nest. The babies squirmed a bit in their sleep but didn't awaken and just curled into another ball to resume their comfortable slumber.
Toothless proudly brayed as he looked from his mate to his offspring, watching as the former laid down alongside her hatchlings and licking them gently whilst they slept.
The male Night fury didn't even notice that, out of the corner of his eye, Cloud Jumper, Storm Fly, Hook Fang, Barf and Belch and even Meat Lug had snuck in to have a look at the new heirs; the group of dragons also missed their riders at times but they also respected Toothless as their former alpha and current king and knew that they were staying here because they needed to be safe. They, like Toothless, sincerely hoped they would see their riders again someday.
Even though they were Toothless' subjects they were still his friends and wanted to help their alpha.
Cloud Jumper acted sort of as a general or second in command and simply growled snappily at the group since he never wanted to disturb their King and his mate. He just wanted to have a nap somewhere peaceful where he wouldn't be disturbed, although not even he could deny that the most hardened of dragons would not find this moment to be a marvel to watch.
Toothless, unaware of the other Berkian dragons eavesdropping, just purred and let out a soft, proud roar as he extended his wings and flapped them merrily. He was clearly overjoyed about this. He had two sons and a daughter and a loving mate.
No longer was he the last of his kind.
He had a family and he was going to do everything to protect them to the best of his ability.
A/N: Happy (early) Valentine's Day! Heres the end of my first HTTYD fic. I watched the third movie during the weekend and loved it a whole heap, especially the ending, even if it was bittersweet. I couldnt not write a fic after such a grand finale.
I hope you guys like it.
-Chloemcg
