Disclaimer: I do not own How To Train Your Dragon or any of its characters. I only own Midnight and Sammy. Any of the story line that seems familiar, I most likely do not own.
A girl with strawberry blonde hair was curled up in a cave on the cold stone floor. She shivered from the chilly weather. Curling up closer into herself, foggy breaths left her lips. She was easily on her way towards a case of frostbite. The girl was sick. Her nose was red and runny while her body fought off a dangerous fever. The cold only made it worse. A dark figure covered the entrance to the cave. The thing with long, thin wings pushed its way in until it was able to wrap its warm body around the freezing teenager. The girl looked up, a smile gracing her blue tinged lips. The dragon blew out a worried huff.
"H-hey M-mid-dn-night-t." the girl chattered.
Midnight nudged the girls head. She sighed quietly and closed her eyes. Drifting into the void of unconsciousness. The dragon, Midnight, gave a noise of protest, sensing her uneasy breathing. Fretting, the dragon rushed out of the cave, worried about the human's fragile life. Midnight stretched her great wings and flew to the nearest population.
A boy stood wrapped in a tight, warm cloak. A jet black dragon next to him.
"Well buddy, you ready to go back?"
Before the dragon could snort out a reply, the panicked shrieks of another dragon reached their ears. The dragon known as Midnight landed a little ways away from the teenaged guy and his dragon. She let out a noise of panic and motioned for the males to follow her.
"A Changewing. I've never seen one do that before." the boy breathed.
The jet black dragon nudged the boy, turning his head towards the Changewing.
"Should we follow it buddy?"
The dragon agreed in the best way it could. The boy hopped onto the dragon's back, following the stressed dragon. They watched the Changewing squeeze itself into a cave opening. The boy followed hesitantly. He saw the Changewing curled around something. The mysterious dragon gently unwrapped its body to show the weakened girl. The boy widened his eyes in shock. He raised his hands to show he wasn't a threat and slowly crept forward. The Changewing snorted in warning, but let him kneel down next to the sick figure. He heard her rattled breathing and saw the bright redness of her nose, the blue of her lips.
"We have to get her to the village." the boy picked up the girl after her had wrapped her freezing body in his cloak.
Quickly turning to the jet black dragon, he pulled himself on and tried to keep the girl as stable as possible. Turning in the direction towards the village, he took off, the Changewing close behind.
"Come on buddy. Come on Toothless." the boy breathed.
Toothless tried to go as fast as he could, sensing the sickness of the girl as well. The boys fears began to grow as he realized just how bad the female's condition truly was. Landing in the village, thankfully his dad was there.
"Dad!"
The great chief turned to face his son, his eyes widening at the frail body.
"She needs medical attention. We need to take her to the healer's house."
The chief took the girl out of his hands. They rushed to the healer. The son turned to the door and knocked, out of breath. The elderly healer answered.
"Put her on my table!" she said immediately.
The big man rested her on the table as the healer went around gathering supplies.
"What happened?"
"Hiccup was flyin'. He found her."
Hiccup suddenly remembered something.
"Dragon, she had a dragon. A Changewing." he announced.
"I didn't see no other dragon."
"It ain't called a Changewing for nuthin.'" the healer grunted, "Now go on. I'll send someone for ya."
"Go find the Changewing. It's probably scared out of its wits."
Hiccup left on a mission to find the lost dragon. He found his friends.
"Fishlegs, Astrid, Tuffnut, Ruffnut, Snotlout. I found and injured girl and brought her here. She had a Changewing. Now it's gone." he informed.
"Well that's what Changewings do best. They-" Fishlegs began.
They heard a shriek of surprise, followed by fire.
"I'm going to guess we should start over there." Snotlout sarcastically assumed.
"Better start now." Astrid sighed.
They all decided to split up and look for the missing Changewing. Hiccup got Toothless and they searched from the skies. Out of the corner of his eye, Hiccup saw movement by the trees.
"There! Towards the edge of the forest!"
Toothless began his descent down. Landing, Hiccup jumped off of his back and carefully looked for the frightened beast. Toothless tried to pinpoint it. He found it before Hiccup. Nudging his shoulder, Toothless pointed his head in the Changewing's direction.
"Hey. We won't hurt you." Hiccup called soothingly.
They could see the Changewing's eyes, widened and scared.
"She'll be alright. They're taking care of her. Come with us."
He put his hand out and the Changewing hesitantly stepped forward, still in its camouflaged state. It got spooked and darted away. Hiccup sighed and began the search again. He met with the rest of his friends at dusk.
"Any luck?"
All of them shook their heads.
"I saw it, but it was too skittish." Astrid informed.
Pretty much everyone agreed, the only one who had had the most luck was Hiccup.
"Alright. Meet back here tomorrow?" he asked hopefully.
They all agreed and left to go their separate ways.
"Hiccup!" he turned to his dad's voice.
"She's awake. She's alright. She's wrapped in blankets but she won't talk. Could you try to talk to her for us?"
"Yeah dad." Hiccup immediately agreed.
They took off towards the healer's. Hiccup walked in and saw the girl's petite figure on the couch. Once he was in there, the healer ushered his dad out of the house. Hiccup hesitantly took a seat on one of the chairs.
"Hi." he began.
She wouldn't look at him.
"Are you okay?"
No response.
"I found you nearly dead in a cave."
Silence.
"Your Changewing was with you."
The girl raised her head to look him in the eyes.
"It's fine. We just can't catch it."
The girl raised an eyebrow. Hiccup awkwardly stood up to leave.
"It's amazing you even saw her." the girl spoke quietly.
Hiccup turned. She looked at him with a cautious expression.
"She's really shy."
"Yeah. We figured that out. Who are you? What were you doing in that cave?"
"My name is Samanthia. Sammy is fine. Midnight is my dragon. To put it simply, I left."
"What happened?"
Sammy looked sown and clammed up again. Hiccup sighed. He stood up and headed to the door.
"Thank you." she whispered.
Hiccup nodded and left the house. What had happened? Why did she leave her home? So many unanswered questions, and Hiccup was determined to answer them all.