To those of you have have read previous stories of mine… you know I have a procrastination issue… so I don't know when I'll update.

Now this was a situation I never thought I'd be in; stuck on an island with a female night fury about to lay eggs. The new tail fin Hiccup had given me had snapped after I took too many fast turns. He is not going to be happy about this. And all because I was still getting used to my new maneuverability skill.

The groans from the cave were becoming louder, and longer as time went by. I didn't know what to do to help. I was useless as I was at flying alone.

"Hiccup… you'd better get here, and fast." I whispered.

I glanced into the cave, and saw the female suddenly lurch to her feet. I was surprised she accomplished the feat without falling over, but I spoke too soon. Her amber eyes couldn't even focus on me before they rolled back into her head. Her body began swaying to and fro, so I dashed over to stop her from falling.

When I touched her, she growled. "Who're you!?"

I set her down carefully. "I'm a friend, not an enemy."

Apparently, my scent had wafted through her nose, because before I knew it, she was in a submissive bow.

"A-Alpha-" She stuttered, "I-I'm sorry. I didn't know. I-"

"Don't." I stopped her. "I'm just like any other dragon. You don't have to do that."

But this didn't stop her from bowing. I could easily pick up on her fear scent. Did she think I was going to hurt her?

"I'm not here to harm you…" I glanced at her extended stomach. "Or your unborn young."

Instinctively, she curled tighter around herself.

"Then why are you here?"

I sat on my hind legs. "Let's just say that I can't go anywhere else."

Before she could say anything else, she hissed and scratched her claws against the hard rock beneath her.

"I have to do this by myse-" She winced.

For some reason or another, I found myself heating up the rock beneath her. Maybe it was because I didn't want her to get cold, or maybe it was because it was some instinct I wasn't even aware about. Either way, she seemed grateful of the action and lied her head down on the heated stone.

"T-thank you, Alpha."

"My name's Toothless" I dipped my head down. "And you're welcome."

She narrowed her eyes at the name. "Toothless? What kind of name is that?"

I licked my paw to clean off my head and responded, "It was given to me by my friend." I smiled at the term. "My brother."

"If you can deal with being called Toothless, he must be special to you." She grunted as another wave of pain washed over her.

Immediately, I moved to her back, and lied down beside her, wrapping my tail around to her front as I did so. She flinched initially at the contact, but when she realized I wasn't hurting her, she relaxed.

However, she stiffened up again when my tail curled closer to her head showing her the mangled contraption hanging off of it.

She shrunk away from me the best she could. "H-human!"

"They're not all that bad." I murmured.

"I've never seen them… only stories of them from my father when I was a hatchling." She shut her eyes tight. "My m-mother left because of them."

My eyes widened. I may have not seen any other night furies in a while, but I knew it was against our way of life to raise our young with only one parent.

"Left?"

She pulled her ears back. "She was taken by the animals!" I didn't know how to respond to that. Already, her view on humans wasn't good.

"Not all of them are like that." I lied my head on the ground beside hers. "They're not all cruel and heartless."

"I'm sorry Al-" She stopped herself. "Toothless, but I-I…" She let out a small whine. "I can't believe you. They're monsters! Every single one of them. There's no exceptions. All of them-"

"Don't insult them like that!" I growled. She stared at me as if I was about to kill her, and cowered into a ball. I hadn't realized how much I was scaring her until she began shivering.

"Y-you're… not afraid of them?" She asked quietly.

I took a deep breath before muttering. "My best friend is one of them."

She could barely even gasp before she winced and groaned again. It wasn't any more than a few minutes later that she asked, "C-could you tell me about him?"

I looked at her from the corner of my eye, trying to tell if she was genuinely curious, or she was just trying to humor me.

"Where to start?" I chuckled. "He's… well, much different than his fellow humans in so many ways. He isn't strong. Not in muscle anyways. He looks like a fishbone compared to others."

"Sounds like he wouldn't last a day on his own." She sounded out of breath and seemed to be shifting constantly. I took a glance at her abdomen.

"Are you okay?"

"Do I look like I'm okay?" She tried to snap, but only ended up whispering. I lifted my head off the ground and rested it on her neck. Before she could stop me, I began purring, sending a calming vibration through her. "I may not be your mate, but I cannot leave a female to suffer like this alone."

Her body shivered again as she fervently asked, "How long have you known your h-human?"

I lowered my wings so that she was cocooned by them and thought back to how many years ago that fateful night was. "At least… 24 seasons I suppose."

"That long, huh?" I felt her body tense and arch back into mine. At first, I froze, unsure of what to do, but eventually, I found myself comforting her by purring even louder. I even felt my body heat up to provide her further warmth. No doubt my back had begun glowing blue. "If it'll help, you can bite down on my arm."

"Trust me," She strained, "you'll lose your arm."

"You can take my wings for all I care. As long as I live to see Hiccup again."

She gave me the softest look I'd seen come from her. "You care a lot about this, human, don't you?"

"He and I understand each other in ways no one else will ever understand."

She gasped and shut her eyes tight. "G-give me your arm." She whimpered.

I knew very well what I'd gotten myself into, so I hesitantly put my front leg in front of her face. I almost regretted doing so when pain shot up my arm. She had latched on and clamped down as hard as she could.

"You know," I choked out. "You could retract your teeth."

After her contraction passed, she looked up at me. "I'm s-so sorry Toothless! They're getting worse."

"Don't apologize."

Her breathing began to get erratic. "T-tell me more about your human." She asked desperately.

I cradled her body closer when another tremor passed through it. Ignoring her teeth in my arm, I started, "He's the leader of a small island's worth of vikings, and he may not be that big, but he's probably the smartest human I've met. He could think of things that I'd never even dream of."

She grunted. "Like your tail?"

"Yes. But he's also the dumbest one I've met too. He'll put himself in danger without knowing it, he's jumped off cliffs, he's gotten himself trapped in a cage with an angry nightmare, and he's even put himself between a protective mother and her young." I sighed at the memory of the Typhoomerang nearly killing him.

She let out a dry chuckle that quickly changed into a whine.

"Through the years, we've learnt to put our complete trust into the other. I can't fly without him, and he can't fly without me."

And then a new thought occurred,and I let out a small chuckle. Her ears perked up. "What is it?"

"I just realized… I don't even know your name."

She purred softly at the question."D-Dawn. T-thank you, Toothless, for staying with me." I bowed my head. "It's my pleasure to help a queen in need."

She hissed through her teeth, and she arched back.

"I-I know I told you to keep talking, but-"

"I'll stop then. Just keep breathing."

If I had known I'd be sitting there for the next few hours, I would've gone fishing beforehand. I guess another hour or two wouldn't kill me.

It wasn't too long after that, that something changed. "I-I think they're coming…"

I wrapped my neck around hers. "Then push when you feel it's time."

She whimpered against me. "Hey hey hey." I licked her cheek. "It'll be alright."

Gaining a new determination in her eyes, she hissed through her teeth, "This is going to be a long night."