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Chapter Two


Sapphire hues looked around their inky black container as their owner released a small whimper from the back of her throat. The captured female Night Fury curled herself into a tighter ball, hoping to shield out the darkness. It smelled like old blood in here. She didn't like it. She could practically trace the outline of where the blood was spilled even though it wasn't there anymore. Her metal cave used to be bathed in it; she could still smell the blood that drenched these stone walls, unlike some other dragons. When she first awoke she awoke in pain, but she suspected that was natural, seeing how she fell from another cliff. Her eyes squeezed shut as she tried to hide herself from the darkness that surrounded her. Her tail aiding her efforts by shielding her face from the world.

She was cold, so cold. She felt so so lonely. They trapped her here, in this metal cave with her worst fear, the darkness, and she didn't like it. She was so frightened. She just wanted to go home.

Her head ducked lower as a rat slipped through the crack under the door. It looked at her in dismissal, before scurrying over to the ever growing pile of fish in the middle of her cage. She couldn't eat their food she couldn't risk losing her treasure, the one thing that connected her to home. Her stomach quaked in hunger, but she ignored it. She felt so weak, so pitiful, so pathetic.

Truly, where was her home? Did she even have one?

She whimpered at that thought, but denied it all the more. No, she had to have one; she couldn't just push down this tug in her soul and give up. She wouldn't. She had to have a home, for how else would she know the things she knows.

She looked down to the pile of dirt below her. Black silted eyes mentally imagined the only title she remembered when she first woke up, engraved in these dusty particles.

Kagome.

She guessed that was her name. It was engraved on her little treasure, so the little treasure had to be hers. She released a small whine and put her head down, her fear of the darkness that was momentarily forgotten, returned to her. Her name and a small treasure, those were the only things she remembered when she first woke up and that scared her. She was terrified to think that she may never know where home was. She was frightened, frightened of the darkness, and scared of not finding home.

Where was her home?


Astrid's pale blue eyes looked down at the sleeping dragon from the top of the cages great, log locked doors. The whole group had put the skittish female the old Terrible Terror cage after she fell off the cliff. Hiccup and his mother had nearly died when the dragoness accidently fell of the cliff and hit her head. If it hadn't been for Cloud Jumper's quick reflexes, the abused female would have most definitely died. Hiccup removed the chains off of her and finished her job of removing the barbed wire collar from around the female's neck, before putting the dragon into the corral, but that didn't ease Astrid's guilt. The female Night Fury had woken up just in time for Astrid to lay her knife under its neck before it flipped. It threw her off, causing the young viking to accidently cut some of the wire, and it pounced on her. Astrid was numb from the shock of the black dragon being awake, she hardly noticed the dragon grab the knife from her hand and throw it away, until it was already running off. Only now did she realize that it did so with only her scaly jaw and gummy grasp. She didn't even bare her teeth; there was no teeth whatsoever.

The blonde sighed as she looked at the ever-growing pile of fish in the middle of the cavern. Astrid was worried something wasn't right with this dragon. It kept ignoring its hungry stomach and it frightened her that she might die before she even lived. Hiccup's familiar voice caused her to face him.

"So you're here again too, eh?" he said with a frown marring his face.

Astrid nodded silently, not moving from the top of the log.

Hiccup sighed and joined her at the window of the cage.

"I know you're worried, Astrid. I am too, honestly. But she's not taking any of the food we're giving her. I've-"

"Hiccup! That's it!" Astrid cried suddenly, nearly causing the Night Fury rider to fall off the log.

"What's it, Astrid?" he questioned, after regaining his balance.

"You said that she hasn't eaten any of the food that we were giving her, right?"

He nodded with a grin, slowly catching on.

"But what if another Night Fury was to give her a fish?" he questioned finishing her thoughts. "It's worth a shot. Toothless should be around here somewhere anyway. He hasn't gone that far since we put her here. I bet his big butt is still sitting on the ledge over the school." He stated in an annoyed tone.

For the first time in days, Astrid laughed.


Toothless was confused. Ok, that maybe that was too strong of a word. He was slightly puzzled. They wanted to make the young female eat, at least that's what he guessed his rider wanted, he did do quite a larger number of gestures to the door with the salmon in his hand.

The black dragon nearly rolled his eyes as the both his stupid rider and his mate tried to grab the frightened curled up dragons attention. It was obvious that they were scaring her even more. Huffing, he pushed both the boy and girl out of the way so that he could enter the stable. He grabbed the forgotten fish on the floor before making his way over to the frightened female, ignoring the eyes that studied him as he did. Dropping the salmon in front of her face while also ignoring her startled look as he did so, he growled to her.

"Eat." It was a simple request nothing that he expected that he thought he would get such a fierce response to.

Kagome glared at the male above her. She may be forced to do things for the humans. but god be damned if she was just going to start rolling over for stray dragons now.

She huffed.

"No."

Toothless narrowed his eyes.

"Fine, have it your way," he growled. The handicapped male turned around and started to walk away when something lightly grabbed his tail fin. Toothless instinctively turned around with his fangs bared, but stopped just in time, before a snarl ripped through his throat, when he saw her pleading eyes.

Her big, blue lighting mixed sapphires shone with fear and pain as she released his tail from her weak grasp. With her head lowered and ears pinned back in a form if begging, she whimpered, "Please don't leave me..."

Toothless' from relaxed, and his heart softened toward the frightened female dragon. With a half sigh, half huff, he grumbled, "Only if you eat that fish."

Her head lifted slightly and with an innocence that only a child should have possessed she bargained, "Half?"

Toothless snorted and Kagome pouted.


Both Hiccup and Astrid watched with excitement as the female toyed with the fish as Toothless plopped down next to her. The female dragon looked at him for reassurance, causing the male dragon to grumble a bit, but he put his wing around her anyway. It seemed that that was all she needed before she bit into the fish's side and started munching. Astrid would have cried in joy if Hiccup hadn't covered her mouth in time.

The blond huffed and looked away with a slight blush on her cheek, having been caught so improper.

Hiccup just chuckled in response before looking back to the female dragon.

"You know, Astrid. She's going to need a name if she's going to stay," Hiccup murmured.

"Yeah, I know."

"Well, It was decided by both me and Mom that you name her."

Astrid was about to shriek in joy when a gagging noise caught both of their attention. Their heads twisted toward the two Night Furies. The female was standing next to a worried Toothless, gagging with trembling legs as she hacked, coughed and wheezed. The two vikings quickly rushed over to the dragon, and got there just in time for the female to spew her meal all over the floor in front of them and topple over from her lack of air and weakness.

Hiccup quickly rushed over to check over the dragon and Astrid was about to do the same when something shiny caught her eye. Laying there innocently in a pool of dragon vomit was a pale pink stone; Astrid got down on her heels, picked up the jewel, and inspected it in her palm, while Hiccup tried to calm the female dragon in the corner. There was a strange inscription on the front of the jewel. Astrid ran her finger over the unknown words and inhaled sharply as they started to change and reform into letters of her own language.

Kagome.

Astrid smiled slightly at the jewel. 'Kagome... I like it,' she thought as took out the thick leather cord that kept her braid in place. Using her strength to her advantage, she ripped off a piece of her shirt and made a makeshift pouch. She smiled as she heard the sigh of defeat emerge from the female dragon, but she soon lost it as she looked back to the dragon's prone form. It was the look in the females eyes that caused Astrid's heart to clench as lighting sapphire stared at the jewel in her hand. Hopelessness...

Slowly approaching the downed dragon, Astrid ignored Hiccup's warnings as she pet the tired female from her nose to her neck. Kagome rumbled in response, it wasn't one of anger or fear, but one of sadness.

"It's ok, Kagome," she murmured, inwardly laughing at the shocked look that passed the dragons face. The pink orb was put into to pouch and shown to the dragon before it was tied around still reptile's neck. She whispered as she got up, "The jewel is yours."

A low rumble warned her to stop. Both dragon and rider watched with interest as the female Night Fury slowly and shakily lifted her head. The next thing surprised them all, the female weakly nuzzled the blonde's knuckles before giving them a tender lick.

Astrid smiled and petted the female's head.

"I've decided," Astrid announced, "her names Kagome."

Kagome. Kagome. The dragon in the cage.


Pairing: Kagome/Toothless

Muse: Song: "One Step at a Time" by Jordin Sparks; "Please Don't Go" by Mike Posner

Beta: We-are-Wonderlanders

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AnimeAngel240: Lol! I've been waiting too, but it seems no one wants to take the responsibly to write a story. *Pouts* So I deicide to be the first one. :D

kakashixangela: Lol! I like a dragon kagomes, because funny things happen when a two legged person gets stuffed into a four legged creatures body! XD

Deathstarling556: I did this a week ahead for you and myself my dear. Healing a blackened heart is in the process of being betaed so I have all next week to work on the birthday fanfic! So excited! XD

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