AN: In this chapter I decided to time jump, because although I plan on going in and filling in all the trivial plot stuff in between the first chapter and now at some point in the future, I was quite frankly bored with it. I figured if I was bored with it I'm sure you all were, or would have been, too. Basically all those chapters that could have been written in between then and now can be summarized with, "and Hiccup keeps treating Toothless like a pet while Toothless grows ever more impatient, annoyed, and determined to to prove his equal if not better intelligence to Hiccup."
Also, I still do not own HTTYD. :P
((another time in the future.....))
The dark of the room was inky and thick, almost tangible like fog. Hiccup drew a deep breath wondering why he was even afraid of his own room now.
"Toothless?" He called out into the darkness. He hadn't seen the dragon for a few hours, and he was beginning to worry, seeing as how the Nightfury hadn't left his side for months except when he was busy at the forge. There was a rustling noise from somewhere deep in the room, but it could have been mice or something equally as harmless... Thunder boomed outside and hiccup emitted a quite unmanly squeak and cowered back against the door. After a few minutes, and feeling kind of stupid, he straightened up and tried to regain his dignity, too used to this kind of situation to change his behavior just because he was alone.
"Ugh, this is stupid. It's just thunder." He pulled on his hair a bit as if trying to sort his nerves back into place, then took a few steps out into the room. The candle was on a table only a few steps away. He didn't realize it would be so dark in here or he'd have brought a candle with him in the first place. He reached out a hand blindly in the dark, groping for the candle stick and it's box of matches, but nothing met his searching fingers. "Oh, Thor, this is just my luck. It's pouring rain outside, it's too dark to see my boots, and I'm afraid of my own stupid room. How pathetic of a Viking can I possibly be?"
He sounded as if he was trying to reassure himself, or pep talk himself into walking further into the room. It didn't seem to be working. He was just on the verge of turing tail and running out into the much safer well-lit hallway, when a match cracked and a small flame exploded into a tiny existence across the room.
Silhouetted in the dim golden light was a willowy figure with strange semi-translucent appendages that caught and refracted the light through veiny membranes.
Hiccup screamed. And kept screaming like a little girl with a spider dangled in front of her face. Unfortunately for him it was raining too loud outside for anyone to hear him and come running.
Lightening cracked across the sky and the back of the figure was revealed almost too briefly for Hiccup to register what he was seeing. Slowly the figure turned and it's details became rimmed in the soft candle glow. It's features were delicate, almost reptilian, the side of it's face glittered with a fine speckling of dark blue scales, and it's eyes flashed yellow green in the dark. It's body was dark and sinewy growing steadily paler and less monstrous. It, he, it became apparent, was tall and thin and perched on the end of Hiccup's bed. It's well muscled limbs seemed almost uncomfortable in natural human positions and he was hunched almost like a bird about to take flight off the end of the bed frame. The appendages, wings, that had so frightened Hiccup moments before stretched and then folded loosely onto the creature's back.
Hiccup was frozen in terror watching this pale being flash a fanged tooth smile from across the empty room's expanse of shadows between them. His throat was done screaming, but the fear of impending death hadn't yet receded from the young Viking's list of possibilities for the near future.
"Hiiiiicup." The voice was a happy almost purr. It reminded Hiccup of something, something very-
"By the balls of a great leaking bull cow, Toothless?!" The words had slipped out before Hiccup had time to register what he was saying, but by the time he was finished he was oddly positive of their truth.
"How...?" He began to ask, but was interrupted by Toothless suddenly standing off the bed and walking across the floor. He was holding the candle in one hand and by it's light Hiccup noticed, unsettled, very naked. He felt himself blushing crimson and was glad for the dark of the room and he promptly turned and scuttled over to a heavy chest of drawers by the wall grabbing the first pair of trousers his hands came across and turning around to thrust them blindly at the newly all too humanized dragon.
"Hiccup?" Toothless' questioning voice stated again as he looked at the obviously very uneasy boy who had averted his gaze and thrust something strange at him. This isn't exactly the reaction he had expected from his human at the discovery that they could now talk and be friends as humans together. His lower lip jutted out as he stared at his human accusingly. He took the pro offered piece of fabric and let it unfold in his hands. It was the strange fabric the vikings wore over their lower limbs.
Oh, I get it. He began to laugh as he realized what his human was so unsettled about. This must be what the humans use to cover their reproductive parts. How unusual and intriguing.
"Will you just put the pants on, please?" Hiccup asked somewhat aggravated that he seemed to be the only one unsettled by this situation here.
Toothless struggled for a few moments, unaccustomed to how human clothing worked, but managed to get decent within a relatively short amount of time. Once the task was finished he turned his gaze upon the boy standing before him. Hiccup hadn't turned back yet, afraid of chancing another glimpse of too much of Toothless. How peculiar humans were to the dragon. Things like modesty and embarrassment weren't part of his scope of existence.
He reached up and cupped hiccup's face in the palm of one hand, turning his head to face him. He could feel the warmth of the boy's cheek against his hand and he marveled at how warm his human was compared to the cool air all around. Hazel eyes met light green in the dark, both reflecting the candle light, and both wide in the silence. Neither boy was willing to speak a first. The moment was to potent with an odd sense of unreality. Hiccup couldn't believe he was standing casually in front of a tall boy maybe a year or so older in looks than himself who used to be a dragon only this past morning. Toothless couldn't comprehend how solid and equal his human looked in this form. Instead if beginning a tiny irregular friend, be was now almost the same size and build. He let go of hiccup's face in favor of a new whim. He couldn't fight the urge to take Hiccup's limbs and compare them to his. He slid up beside the boy and placed his arm next to his, then pulled up on his long green sleeve till both their hands were dangling in the air before their faces. He turned their hands till their palms were resting against one another and splayed their fingers. Toothless' were longer and his nails were tiny solid claws, whereas Hiccups' were shorter and his nails were worn and short from metal work, and he had a few calluses on his finger pads and palms.
Their hands dropped into the silence between them.
"This is... unexpected." Hiccup's voice seemed brash in the wake of the quiet awe of before.
Toothless tilted his head to the side a bit a loss to Hiccup's seemingly scared and unreceptive behavior.
"Is Hiccup not happy?" The dragon's voice was quiet and reminiscent of the catlike noises he used to make in his dragon form. "I changed for Hiccup. Now we can talk, and play and be friends like Hiccup and Astrid." His voice was almost beseeching as he searched the other boy's face for some hint of approval or happiness.
All he found there was a sort of disgruntled bewilderment. Toothless found himself becoming angry with the smaller boy. He had gone through all this trouble to learn how to change for him and Hiccup didn't even seem happy about it. He took a step back, suddenly wanting distance between them his wings were twitching nervously and his stomach ached.
"Toothless, wait." Hiccup reached out taking a few steps after the dragon-boy to catch his bare sinewy arm between his fingers. He didn't know why exactly, but he didn't want Toothless to walk away. "I am happy, I'm just... surprised." Toothless looked back over his shoulder eyes slightly narrowed, but hope making them look vulnerable and non-threatening.
"What- I mean, how did this happen? How did you...?"
Toothless still wasn't completely satisfied with Hiccup's apology and he wasn't feeling inclined to lengthy explanations.
"Doesn't matter. It was easy. Humans aren't so difficult. If I wanted to be a centipede, now that would have been difficult." Toothless spun around quickly and leaned forward till their faces were only inches apart. From this close he could count tiny freckles like constellations. He squinted and his face formed into a serious mask for a few moments before a few tiny freckles appeared spattered across his own nose. He smiled triumphantly into Hiccup's surprised face, then breathed out deeply and let the freckles fade away.
"Woah." Hiccup watched in amazement. He was so caught up in the wonder of the moment that he no longer seemed perturbed by their unusual proximity. He stared into Toothless smooth delicate featured face, as if searching for signs of the Dragon he felt he knew so well. Toothless was still smiling, but the potency of the situation had crept back in and stolen away any words that might have been spoken only moments before. Hiccup didn't understand, but he couldn't look away and his breath was coming lighter and shorter as if he was afraid of disturbing the stillness that surrounded them. Toothless had slowly leaned in the imperceptible distance to repeat the motion he'd seen Hiccup and Astrid do many times in the past during moments like this one. They were basically pressed straight up against each other as their lips met as if they had a mind of their own. An electric bolt of sensation exploded through them and Hiccup let out a small moan of surprise and pleasure as Toothless hooked his fingers in the back of Hiccup's belt and pulled him up tight against him. They were locked together for what felt like a breathless eternity before Hiccup's eyes flew open, the whites showing around their horrified hazel cores and he tore himself away stumbling back.
"WOAH! Woah... woah! Hold on, what was that?!" He was still feeling the residual flutters of warmth in his gut as he looked up into the face of the confused and slowly becoming more hurt face of the dragon boy. This was, this was wrong, this was.... Kissing Astrid had never felt like this. With her it had always been confusing, a bit unsettling, but nice. This, this had been earth shattering, gut wrenching fire. Toothless took a step towards Hiccup hands spread as if to calm him, but Hiccup just blushed furiously and stepped back, his shoulders thumping against the solid wooden wall. Toothless' wide pale green eyes watched him imploringly. Hiccup stared back helplessly. His mouth was open slightly in surprise and he seemed utterly defenseless and confused.
"Is h-"
"What-" The both started at the same time. Toothless smiled, but hiccup looked away blushing and didn't see. Friends like Hiccup and Astrid... Toothless words repeated themselves over in Hiccup's mind.
"Oh." Hiccup looked back at Toothless, sudden comprehension dawning all over his face. "Astrid isn't my friend, well I mean she is my friend, but she's more than that... she's like my girlfriend I guess. So we can't be friends like her and me. I mean, we can be friends, but not like-" Toothless was closing the distance between them again, and Hiccup couldn't help but feel somewhat like a cornered mouse unable to find an escape route from the larger more graceful cat.
"Will Hiccup be my girlfriend?" Toothless asked as if finding the answer to all their problems.
"No, I'm a boy, I couldn't be your girlfriend. I'd be a boyfriend because I'm a boy, but that doesn't happen we can't-"
"Boyfriend." Toothless smiled and his smile lit up his face in the same goofy innocent way it had as a Dragon, and Hiccup fell silent. He fought the urge to swallow the growing lump in his throat that was restricting his ability to speak, and his stomach had dropped out abandoning the fight and leaving the very shaken viking boy to fight his losing battle alone.
"Yeah..." Hiccup heard himself respond without realizing he'd said anything. After he'd said it he wasn't sure if he was affirming the correct use of the term, or agreeing to something he knew he shouldn't be agreeing too.
Toothless let out a rumbling purr of happiness and caught his prize by the fuzzy vest, sinking his fingers into the fur and pulling the suddenly paralyzed form of Hiccup towards him. "My boyfriend." Toothless repeated, breathing the words into Hiccup's ear as if claiming his victory. Hiccup shivered feeling a pleasant crawling sensation down his spine and all the way into his toes. A fiery heat passed with the shiver and landed to set up permanent residence in his lower stomach. The corner of Toothless' mouth turned up in a smile and he watched Hiccup's face flush. He turned his head to playfully nip Hiccup's ear lobe and then breathed a line of light kisses down his jaw and caught Hiccup's mouth in his own again before Hiccup to could find the words to protest. Toothless was delighted to feel Hiccup shiver and melt into his arms.
Mine. Toothless repeated to himself, and he knew it was true, even if Hiccup didn't yet.
