AN: Over the past few weeks I have been making up stories with Gordon519 over the PM's and this was one of the results for those messages
bold – me to you, bold & italic – dragon's speaking, normal – the story, italic on own – singing / thoughts.
On the beaches of Berk a small limp body washes up on to the sand. It was a young teenage boy whose body hurt so much, and his entire body is covered in cuts.
Over head there was a shadow that came closer and towards the boy.
The sound of birds flying outside a window woke the boy up and got him to look around.
He was in a house.
Turning his head to the side a big dragon tongue licked him.
"Ugh..." he said wiping at his face.
"Toothless..." the boy heard someone say followed by *squeak's* as the dragon backed off "Sorry about that... Are you ok?"
'I... I think" the boy said, his voice switching from dragon to human half way through.
"That's good. But Gothi, our Village Elder and Healer, will be here in a bit to see to your... condition," the boy said sounding as if he wasn't trying to be offensive.
The boy lifted up the covers and scrambled back, scared – he was covered in scales...
"My name's Hiccup," the second boy said quickly changing the subject "What's yours?"
"I... I don't remember..." the kid said scared holding his legs close to his chest as his tail swished in front of him.
"Well how about where you're from? We found you on the beach this morning..." Hiccup explained trying to keep the new boy's mind off his body.
The kid's skin crackled with electricity for a second.
"I don't remember... I don't remember anything, just pain..." he said as he started to cry.
"Mind if I call you 'Sparky' then?" Hiccup asked with a slight smile.
The kid looked up.
"Sorry that was rude of me wasn't it?" Hiccup said rubbing the back of his head.
"No... I... I like it," Sparky said smiling a bit.
Sparky touched his tail and started stroking it calming himself down.
"Hiccup?" a strong, loud voice came from down stairs.
"Yeah, I'm up here Dad," Hiccup said loudly, just as strong footsteps along with some not so strong or so big ones came up the stairs.
Sparky whimpered backing against the wall scared.
'Don't worry Sparky...' a new voice said getting Sparky to turn to the black dragon. 'It's just Hiccup's sire* and the healer...'
Sparky jumped back, eyes wide but didn't say anything.
Hiccup heard the react and turned to look at him seeing him staring at Toothless.
"Er... Is everything ok Sparky?" he asked concerned slightly.
"I'm fine,' Sparky said calming down my voice slipping back into dragon.
Sparky watched Gothi closely as she came closer to him, he was obviously scared but somehow she puts him at ease.
Seeing Sparky's fear, Gothi stopped a few paces away from the bed and bowed, always keeping eye-contact and wearing a kind smile on her old worn face.
Calming down Sparky nodded let her come closer.
Straight away, though calmly and slowly so not to scare him, Gothi went to work cleaning and dressing all the wounds Sparky had.
Sparky didn't move, not too sure about how well he could control his body.
After a while Gothi was finished and pulled back bowing again, then turned to Hiccup and Stoick and showed herself out.
Sparky didn't say anything, feeling that his voice had slipped into dragon before.
'You can talk you know...' Toothless said smiling 'Right? I mean you were doing just fine before Hiccup's sire and the healer came...'
'I'm not sure' Sparky said holding his legs close to himself scared.
"What?" he heard Hiccup ask and looked up both Vikings wearing confused faces.
"I don't think I'm good at speaking' Sparky said his voice slipping back into dragon.
'You just have to work and think hard about who you want to talk to...' Toothless explained.
'How do you know?' Sparky asked a tear in his eyes.
'Because you're a Halfa now,' he explained 'And they have two people in their heads now always fighting over who's in charge. So you need to work at pushing down the other one so you can use the one you want to use.'
Sparky thought hard.
"It's hard for me to speak" he said to Hiccup clearly concentrating hard.
"Well... can you write then?" Hiccup asked thinking quickly and going over to his desk and coming back with some sheets of paper and a pencil.
"It will take longer but it's just as good," he said giving you the materials.
Sparky started writing quickly, it was messy but readable: 'In my head, it's like there are two people, each trying to take over, one human the other not.'
"Do you know how that second person got in there boy?" Stoick asked reading the message with his son.
Sparky shook his head.
"Well until you do, as Chief of the village I say you're welcome to stay as long as you need," Stoick said smiling gently, carefully placing a hand on Sparky 's shoulder and smiling at him.
"Thanks," Sparky said quietly.
Nodding in agreement, Stoick let Sparky go and then said he needed to get back to running the village and left.
"You think you're up for a tour of the village Sparky?" Hiccup asked.
With a smile Sparky nodded and got up, following Hiccup outside.
"Ok so first place I'll show you will be the Great Hall..." Hiccup said as soon as the three of them (Hiccup, Sparky and Toothless) were out the house. "I'm guessing you must be hungry..."
With that he got onto his dragon and held out a hand smiling gently.
Sparky got on hoping it was ok with Toothless.
'Just try not to shock us...' Toothless said in a joking voice seeing Sparky 's worried expression and took off towards the Great Hall.
Sparky held on tight trying to keep his dragon-side from taking over.
"Ok here we are..." Hiccup said as they landed outside the Hall. "Um... Sparky you can let go now..." he said as Sparky was still holding on and had his eyes closed in concentration.
"Sorry" Sparky said as he got off embarrassed.
'That's ok,' Toothless said a smirk in his voice. 'His mate was just as bad on her first flight on me before I calmed down because she said 'sorry'.'
Sparky smiled and started walking beside Hiccup.
*old name for Father...