Hiccup's POV

I was peacefully sleeping when I heard a loud bang on the roof. I abruptly awoke. My eyes shot open and I looked at the ceiling. There was another bang, followed by the screech of a dragon. The dust that had been resting on the beams above me fell, and landed on my face.

"Okay, okay. I'm coming" I said tiredly as I tried to grab my helmet. After two failed attempts at trying to get it, I finally managed. I jumped out of bed, hobbled down the steps and opened the front door. The chilly autumn air hit my entire body, and in an attempt to ward off the chill, I rubbed my arms with my hands. I looked up to the roof to see an overly excited Night Fury.

"Well good morning," I told the dragon. Toothless chortled and climbed down. I laughed as well, "Why do you always have to wake me up so early to go flyin-?" My prosthetic leg slipped on a patch of ice and I slid forward. Mid-fall I was stopped by Toothless' head. I sighed in relief, "Thanks, bud," I scratched the dragon beneath his chin. Toothless gave a worried whine and began to check me for any injuries.

"No Toothless. I'm fine, really. My stupid leg just got caught on some ice," I gave him a hug; unfortunately for me, instead of getting something simple like a lick back, I was greeted with a burp. My head flew away from the burp, but I wasn't fast enough, so I get a face-full of air that smells of raw fish, "Oh gods,Toothless!" I yelled, waving my hands, trying to disperse the awful smell.

As Toothless and I walked to the Forge I was stopped by Toothless' tail. "Toothless, what's up?" I asked, looking at him. Toothless motioned for me to get on his back. "You want me to get on?" Toothless nodded. "It's because you get overprotective of me, right?" I asked him, smiling weakly. The onyx dragon replied with his toothless smile and a soft purr. "Ok. If you insist." I said to him as I got on the reptiles back. When we entered the Forge, I noticed an old project I did for Toothless. It was a tailfin that would allow him to fly on his own, although Toothless did enjoy it for a few days though eventually he destroyed it, when he tried to get me to put on his saddle, but I kept trying to tell him to use his new tailfin. It wasn't until Toothless had to destroy it in front of me to get me to understand that he wanted to need me to fly.

Toothless' POV

I watched Hiccup as he shuffled through some papers and mumbled to himself. As I looked around the room, I noticed various papers pinned to the wall. Each of them depicting a different invention he came up with. I could also smell the coal and iron located throughout the shop.

"For the love of-" Hiccup said in frustration. I looked at him and whined. He looked at me and sighed, "It's nothing, bud." He walked to a cabinet in the corner of the room, "It's just that we're out of iron ore. I use it to make iron rods for this project I'm working on, and without the ore, I can't even get started." He threw his arms in the air and groaned.

I could smell the anger radiating off of him. I walked towards him, being careful not to knock anything over. I pressed my head against his and let out a purr.

It's alright, we can go find some if you want. I suggested to him, but I knew he didn't understand me.

He looked at me and smiled. "Thanks, bud. You know just what to do to make me feel better." He scratched me in my favorite spot, under my chin. After several scratches, he stopped. "Come on let's go get some supplies." he said as he grabbed the saddle, and we went outside. He strapped on my saddle and hooked up my tailfin. "Ready?" he asked. I gave a yelp in return and within seconds we took to the sky.

As we flew through the sky, I could feel the wind blowing against my scales. And thanks to my scales, I couldn't feel the coldness of the wind, but I couldn't say the same for Hiccup. He was pressed against my back, trying to stay warm. Poor thing. I could hear his teeth chapping and him shivering. I looked at him and gave a concerned whine. The teen looked at me.

"I...I'm alright. J-just a little c...cold" He said between shivers. I was about to turn around and head back to Berk, but both Hiccup and I heard what sounded like a dragon roar. I looked above me, and in awe, I saw an enormous flock of dragons. There were all types of species of dragons: Nadders, Zipplebacks, Gronckles, just to name a few. I could hear Hiccup on my back saying something about how this was strange, but I was too focused on the dragons.

Surprisingly, I couldn't hear them talking, as such large flocks were prone to doing. Hiccup began to steer me in the direction the flock was going, in a direction we hadn't really explored before. I happily did what Hiccup told me to do, knowing that he had his 'compass' to get us back to Berk if all else failed.

I purred happily, and Hiccup scratched my ear plates in response, "Look, Toothless. Somewhere down there is where some Viking vessel turned around. We're not normal Vikings, though, are we? Let's go!"

Despite the slightly cold chill of dread that was pushing it's way into my chest, I followed my rider's instructions.

Hiccup's POV

I looked at the flock of dragons, wondering where they could be going. Maybe a new island. I hoped so, as we were having difficulty finding enough roosts on the islands surrounding Berk as it was. I fumbled at my belt for a moment, trying to feel for the pouch that held my compass and map.

It wasn't there. I let go of the bar I used to help steer Toothless, and searched all around. A spike of fear shot up my spine at the realization. I had forgotten the compass, and without knowing the stars' position, I couldn't get Toothless and I back to Berk.

I swallowed dryly, but I was determined to continue following the dragons. If Toothless and I were going to be lost, we were going to make sure we discovered something worthwhile to tell the others about.

I laid on my back, pressed against Toothless' saddle. I watched the clouds drift by with a bored fascination. Toothless would've warble if something happened, and he soon did. I sat up, once more putting my feet into the stirrups, and looked around.

The flock had turned to the right, giving a wide berth to a small set of islands, one of which seemed to have some sort of building on it. I leaned forward, patting Toothless' head, "So, Bud, are we going to check that out?"

Toothless warbled something at me, and I was once again lost in the thought of what if I could understand him? I shook myself, and urged him forward, "C'mon, it can't be that bad. Let's scope out the rest of the island first, and then we'll go check out the building, alright?"

Toothless purred in agreement, and we dove to the left, opposite of the flock, and landed softly on the snow. I gingerly slid off the saddle, testing the ground with my prosthetic before putting my whole weight on my foot. Luckily, there was no ice, and I found myself moving through the trees with little difficulty.

The small amount of snow that dusted the ground made the trees look haunting and beautiful. It also made the ice harder to find, but as Toothless and I moved, we found very little ice on the ground at all; the exact opposite of Berk.

Once, Toothless and I found the edge of the island, we were both startled to notice a wooden bridge, creaking slightly in the wind. I looked at Toothless, and smiled softly, "Sorry, bud. If there's people here, you have to hide until we figure out if they're friendly or not. You know the rules. Stay close, but try to keep out of sight."

Toothless rolled his eyes, but licked me on the face, covering me in fish-smelling saliva, and disappeared farther into the trees. I turned back to the bridge, and sighed, resigning myself to a slippery journey. Ice and wood were certainly not my friends. I had been searching for awhile but have not found anything on or near that stupid, gods forsaken bridge yet. There was nothing near it, nothing useful, anyway. And it was slippery. Like Autumn thought "Hey, why not have the crippled guy fall? Let's make the bridge icy, just before winter. Just to mess with him!" We were still walking when snow started to fall from the sky. Everywhere. It came down in big, fat flakes, covering Toothless and I from head to toe. Its not even winter yet! Thanks Odin!

But of course, Toothless didn't mind. He was even licking some of it off of his nose. He had an irregularly long tongue for a dragon. And because of that tongue, I was covered in lovely fish-smelling saliva, that's starting to freeze. I was starting to look and smell like a fishy Popsicle.

We needed to go faster. Or we needed to find something. Some little abandoned hovel or something. I was going to freeze soon, if we didn't find one. Toothless must have noticed this, because he came over to me. He stood on two feet, and fell forward to wrap me in his wings.

I felt like a baby, being hugged to death and always in someone's arms. But then again, I probably looked like a baby, too. Stupid noodle arms. I was defrosting, though. Maybe even enough to continue on our expedition to find human civilization.

I decided that I was going to need to move soon, or Toothless and I would be lost under all the snow. I pushed Toothless off of me, and I looked up. The snow had let up, it was just a light flurry. It's not much of a break, but I'll take it I thought to myself.

"Come on, Bud. We've got to go find some place to sleep. Under the bridge if we can't find anything else." I looked to Toothless, who was still standing on two legs and not moving. He rolled his eyes.

"Oh, I'm sorry, you big baby. Would you like to sleep out here, among all this snow? Without me?" He looked unamused. I rolled my eyes and scratched his chin.

Toothless' POV

I didn't want to sleep under a bridge. I wanted to go find that cooking fish I could smell. It smelled just the perfect golden brown color. I once ate Hiccup's dinner fish, and it tasted amazing. I knew what I was missing with my raw fish.

I ignored whatever Hiccup said next, and I scampered towards the fish. A cooking fish means people.

I found the fish, and some lady. I hid behind a tree near her, and Hiccup reluctantly follows me.

"What in Thor's name is…" He smelled the fire and the fish. He looked to me, and smiles. Two thumbs up. Because I'm that good!

Hiccup's POV

There was an elderly lady cooking a fish outside her house. Okay, so it was more of a barely passable shack. It was a little wooden thing that looks unable to hold more than the one it's supposed to hold.

And she's… well she's… old. Like, really really old. Maybe like a sorceress, but I didn't think so. Her nails, claws, were wrapped around a spit. Her long, ragged, gray hair laid limply on her shoulders, and she wore a hole-covered dress with a matching hole-covered cape. I tried my best not to gape at her, in her poverty. I felt bad for her.

"What do you want?" She snapped at me. I was surprised. I was expecting a grandmotherly, kind, old lady.

"I was just lost and I was looking for a place to spend the night. I'm sorry to intrude, but do you think I could maybe stay with you for the night?" My voice was shaky, which revealed how terribly low my self esteem was. Her eyes flicked to the spit her roasting fish was on.

"The first human I meet in 19 years asks if I want to share what I've built for myself. What I've lived in for 19 years, to be shared and my limited food supply to be shared. What's in it for me, you weakling?" Well, I'm not offended at all, I thought.

"Uhhhhh… I could catch you some fish tomorrow?" I had nothing on me that I could've given up then. I offered some help, anyway. She complained about it as a problem.

"BAH! Never mind. How did you get here, to my woods?" This question scared me because I'd been dragging my Night Fury all over "her woods". And I was sure she wouldn't be too happy about that.

"I…. I, uh…" I was flustered, but I still had some stupid nerve to move closer to her and her fire.

"Stop mumbling, boy! How did you get to my woods?" This lady was demanding.

"I got here by boat. Then I got lost after I went too deep in your woods, and I wandered around for a while. Then I found you and… you know the rest." She didn't really believe me.

"Nobody just 'wanders' so far into my woods from the shore. Who are you? Do you fly?"

"I don't know what you're referring to. What do you mean by 'fly'?" I asked calmly. She stood up and showed her teeth, some of which were missing in action. Her mouth and breath smelled like Toothless'.

"I mean dragons! Dragons fly in my woods. Do you fly with those dragons?" She was mad, and she was spitting a little. Although, that was not my biggest concern, I suppose.

I did what would do best for her. I lied. "No." I denied it all.

"LIAR! LIAR!" She screamed and started to do a little dance around her fire, then she threw some powder in it. The fire sputtered and died down a little, leaving us cold.

"Oh, come on!" She yelled at the little fire. Then she threw some more powder in the fire. It died a little more.

"Ohhhh! Thanks, Thor! My magic fails me nooooow! In front of this little idiot!" She yelled the rest in another language at the sky. I'm glad I don't understand it. I think she might be crazy. I thought to myself.

"Well, I don't care anymore! Just stay! Have some fish. It's salmon." She got a little angry, but then sat back down and handed me some fish.

"Thanks, I think."

Toothless' POV

Hiccup's is taking too long to get a place to sleep from this lady. I thought to myself. I figured I might as well go up there and see him. It was getting colder under the bridge.

"AHHHHH! Night Beast! Night Beast! Kill it, Thor! Kill it!" The old lady looked like Gothi from the village. Except she was rude. She covered her head and started yelling at the sky some more about killing me. I'm nice, why kill me? I thought to myself.

Hiccup had some fish, and I snatched it from him.

"Toothless! I was hungry! You got a snack before we left, I wanted to eat something!" Now Hiccup and the old lady were both mad at me.

At least the salmon likes me. I thought. It was warm and toasty. And tasty. But it tasted slightly old. But who was I to complain about food? I'd tasted worse. That mead stuff is nasty.

I got yelled at some more before Hiccup started trying to console the old person.

"Look, he's fine! He's fine! He didn't hurt me or you! Why not let him live?" Hiccup asked her soothingly.

"NOOOOO! He's evil, and he ate my salmon! MINE! AGHHH! THOR KILL HIM!" She ran inside her weird little house thing. Well, now at least there's a bit more quiet. I thought. She was still screaming, but it was muffled. That lady can scream, I thought.

She came out with a fat mouse and threw it at us. I dodged it, and it landed in Hiccup's lap.

"AHHHHH!" His high-pitched girly scream was louder than I remembered. The mouse started to scratch him. I made my way over to a scratch-covered Hiccup. I picked up the mouse and set it down on the ground.

Hiccup's POV

The lady continued to scream, and I tried to fight off the little mouse who decided to attack my dragon. Even though Toothless did just have to pry it off of me.

The old lady ran back to her house, and the fat little vermin followed her. Thank the gods. I thought.

But of course, being the whack-job she was, she came back. She was holding some weird powder and she threw it at Toothless chanting, "Die! Die! Die! DIE!" Well, she didn't succeed.

Toothless looked the same and just looked confused at her. She screamed in her fit of anger.

"Gods dammit!"

I'm getting tired of these failed attempts at magic. If that's even what this is. I thought.

"Look, lady, you've got to stop screaming. I'm not going to hurt you, and Toothless here isn't going to hurt you. I just wanted a place to sleep. Can I sleep here with you or do I have to go find someone else who could give me a place to sleep?" I swear, I might go back to that bridge if she doesn't stop screaming. I thought.

The woman, crazed, with her face flushed a deep scarlet, glared at me, "I cannot believe you brought one of those monstrous beasts here, to my island!"

I backed up, hands in the air in the universal sign of peace, "I didn't know this was your island. I can go to one of the smaller islands, far from you, until tomorrow morning-"

"No! Your filthy beast will pay for what his kind did to my family!" The woman looked up at the sky, and raised her hands into the air. The air swirled around her, making her greasy hair fly around her head, "Thor! Loki! Odin! Freya! I command you to hear my voice and smite this dragon with your wrath!-"

I began to back up, inching toward Toothless, "We'll just be going-"

The woman, eyes bright and glassy, pointed at me, "And make sure this worm gets what he deserves! He doesn't deserve to be human!"

At that proclamation, a green ball flew from the palm of her hand. I couldn't hear Toothless inhale, but I saw and felt him shoot a plasma blast at the ball of light. The bluish purple projectile hit the green one.

I got a fleeting hint of a multicolored ball flying toward me before Toothless' plasma caused it to explode. The blast hit me and hurled me backwards. The last thing I remembered, was hitting my head against a rock, and my world went white

Toothless' POV

That woman dare hurt my Hiccup? I thought. Already, I could smell the blood coming from his head wound. I growled, smoke curled from my nostrils. I licked my teeth with my long tongue, and readied another plasma blast. I felt fire curling in my stomach, and I let it all out; as much of it as I could. The resulting blast was so bright, I couldn't look at

When I opened my eyes again, I went immediately to Hiccup, noticing faintly that the witch was nothing but a pile of ash. My Hiccup, however, wasn't moving. I nosed at him, snuffling, trying to find where he was hurt.

I couldn't find anything wrong, other than the head wound. I sat back on my haunches for a moment, wondering what to do. I decided to press my head into Hiccup's chest, feeling for a life beat.

Nothing, and Hiccup wasn't breathing either.

Fear and dread filled my chest, making me feel weighed down. My Hiccup couldn't be gone: despite his looks, he was strong. He was stronger than the others, but his strength didn't live in his body.

I nosed Hiccup again, but I still got no reaction. I swallowed my pride, and laid down, my shaking limbs making it impossible for me to remain upright. I decided, right then, that I'd try to take Hiccup back home tomorrow. That I would use my time there, on that island, to grieve.

I cried for Hiccup, wailing and roaring into the skies. I could hope the ground-and-sky shapers could hear me, so they could carry Hiccup into the stars. Even though Hiccup was human, he had the soul and heart of a better dragon than I.

Exhausted, and grief stricken, I must have fallen asleep, for the next time I awoke, it was morning.

I woke up roaring my head off. It took me a while to stop crying for Hiccup and start making sense of the world.

I finally got my eyes open and I stood up drowsily. I was still exhausted and I barely knew what was going on. The only thing I knew was that I wanted to see my Hiccup. My wide-eyed, curious, excited, dead Hiccup.

I started to wail again as I thought of Hiccup when he was alive. He was my best and only friend. He understood me, and he saved me. He made me the dragon I was the day before. And that day of course, but he was not there that day. He's now gone to the stars, carried by the land-shapers. Why was he snatched away from me? I needed him.

I looked for my scrawny and dead best friend. I had forgotten where I left him. Oh well. He couldn't move, at least.

I was about to take off to explore the island when it hit me. He was next to me. I was asleep next to him. He should've be next to me. He wasn't there. But something else was... there was a Night Fury...

Greath's A/N~

Hello! My name is Max. I'm a huge fan of HTTYD and I've been part of the HTTYD fanfic community for almost 5 years. Most of my stories revolve around Hiccup and Toothless having a romantic relationship. This is my first joint writing project and so far i love it. I didn't think it would be fun at first working on a story with other talented writers, but now I really enjoy it and I'm happy to help out. Since joining FF NET in mid-2010 I have written 22 stories. Writing fanfiction is one of my favorite hobbies. I have a big and wild imagination so I'm always thinking of new stories ideas. Hopefully one day I'll be able to write my own novel, but for now it's just a dream. Maybe one day I'll be able to sit down and write it.

Sophie's A/N~

Greetings, My name is Sophie. I am the newest Beta here. This is my first Joint writing. Greath invited me to join here to help with a project. I had NO idea this was so huge and with so many people involved. I am very honored to be apart of this. Greath has been working for these guys for about 2 months as far as I know. So far I feel welcomed and I hope I make a good asset to the team. Turtle, she's our second newest newest writer and has been with us for 3 weeks..~*HEY! SHE STOLE THAT LAST SENTENCE FROM ME!~ Karter *Well what else was I supposed to do? I am the newest now~Sophie *I don't know, come up with your own description of her! ~Karter *I don't know her at all. You do. I just joined today you silly goose~ Sophie ~grrrr…fair enough…~Karter *DO I GET NO SAY IN THIS?~ Turtle *Uh...Maybe?~ Karter *Well, I want one!~Turtle *Fine :)~Karter *Okay. Good. I'm a new person who just joined and is very happy to be here. Ok, continue.~Turtle *YOU HAVE BEEN HERE FOR 3 WEEKS! *Still new to me. I joined FF about November. I barely know what I'm doing!~ Turtle *I don't even know how to respond to that…~Karter *Then DON'T! ~Turtle *...~Karter

Turtle's A/N~

Hi! I'm a person… so whoever's reading this, we probably have that in common! I'm a newer writer. I like HTTYD, but I make mistakes a lot. If you really want to talk to me, I'm free and open to talk. You can call me Laura if you wish, although you'll be alone because most people call me Turtle or TF. Okay, nobody calls me TF, but I'd be fine being called that. I'm really excited and happy to be here with these amazing writers (you're welcome guys) and I'm really glad I'm working on this story. This is my second collaborative story.

Alice's A/N~

I'm Alice Bekett, a writer that tends to be rather angsty and pessimistic. My most successful story is a HTTYD fanfiction called "Running Away", so I hope to help this project out as much as possible. I live in Canada, so if my spelling/wording/whatever seems a little odd, then it's just because I have a different vernacular than you guys, just so you all know. I'm currently living at home, and have school to deal with as well, but I'll do my best to make sure I'm available when I can. I don't really know anyone here, but I'm excited to get started. I write and draw, almost all self taught, and have been writing since I was eight. Even in the last four years, I've grown a lot in my writing style, and I hope this is a challenging, fun, story.

Dragonese will know be written like this to show a dragon is talking. No quotation marks or anything, but still use other punctuation.

Karter(Bigs)'s A/N~

Hello, Im the founder and proud owner of LEG, this is our very first joint writing project in which we are using some of our best writers. Its so far been an amazing experience working on this with these guys. I have made a video on the planning of the whole chapter timelapse. If you are interested in seeing some of our single projects you can look at our site at: legueofelitegamers (DotCom) If you're interested in seeing the timelapse of our planning project, I will give you guys the link next chapter cause the planning talks a little about the next chap. So far its been a blast working with Greath. I've worked with him for about 2 months now. As for Turtle, she's our second newest writer and has been with us for 3 weeks. Alice on the other hand is our newest but writes an independent HTTYD about 900 favorites! If you're interested in checking her story out its called 'Running Away', don't worry its not a typical one! Sophie is our honorary BETA that helps all our writers at LEG out. I could not ask for a better team myself. It is an honor to have these great people in LEG and its an even greater honor to get to work besides them on a daily bases. Have a great day and we hope you'll come back and read our next chap which should be out in 2-7 days.