Chapter 1: Hiccup and Valka

It's been four years since the two left the Island of Berk. Valka was trying to get used to living with dragons full time. Even though she had raised and healed Cloudjumper and any other dragons that were injured on Berk, She knew it would be tough at first since she would have no human to rely on or market for easy food or even a black smith to help sharpen her weapons, she had to do it all by herself. But it became more of a challenge since she brought with her three month old son. In the first few years he would scream his head off since that was the only way to get his mother's attention. She would sooth him and take care of all his needs. After a while, she would see the dragons stare at them with both curiosity and annoyance. Fearing the dragon may try to kill baby Hiccup, she had no choice but to keep a close eye on him.

In the first two years she had barely any sleep. Do to Hiccup's constant need of attention and the dragon need of her help, she became restless. It wasn't until she one day fell into a deep slumber that something happen. When she woke up she noticed her son was gone from her side. Frantic she was. She looked everywhere for her missing child. After a few hour of no luck of finding him, she truly became afraid. Thinking that a dragon could have eaten him or worse because of his constant cries, she slumped down against a rock. Devastation, tears were going to let loose as she looked up to see a Nader family look at her curiously.

When the female Nader, that was on the ground, raised its head to show her Hiccup sleeping under and besides a small group of baby dragons. She let out a small laugh and tears fell from her eyes. The dragons looked at her weirdly and confused by her antics.

Regaining some of her composures, she looked up at one of the dragons who came over to her worried. She petted its head and whispered "Maybe I should have asked."

Just the same as humans, dragons cared for their young. The mother instinct of the Nader must have took over at Hiccup's cry and decided to care for him while Valka took some much needed rest. The other little dragons must have thought or didn't know that Hiccup was of another race for they only saw him as like them. A baby.

From that day onward, whenever Valka left for dragon saving business she would have one of the mother dragons watch her son. It continued like this until Hiccup started walking. That made things more difficult due to the fact that Hiccup wanted to go everywhere. Causing Valka and the dragons to watch him closely to make sure he did not get into trouble. He would sometimes walk close to the edge and freak everyone out. A lot of dragons would sometimes run after him because he got too close. Thinking he would fall off, to only have Hiccup stop and look at something while the dragon went over the edge. Good thing for their wings but for now they made sure Hiccup stayed clear of the edges.

Another thing was Hiccups new playmate. Since dragons were the only thing around. The younger dragons would flock to play with the boy. Valka and the other dragons had to make sure the little ones would not take it too far and fry the young toddler.

Hiccup was going to turn five soon and even when she taught him how to be human. The dragon qualities shown throw the boy because he lived with them. Valka made sure her boy learned things, such as human and dragon language. How to read and write in case of emergencies. The boy took to the arts the most. Drawing on the walls of the cavern and any paper that Valka had come across on her travels.

Valka as well gained dragon like qualities, but since her journey to protect dragons she became to fear and unable to trust humans. Her son was the only human she would ever trust.

It was later in the day, she just got back from one of her (saving) when she saw her son on the ground playing with a tiny terror. She snatched him up and lifted him up into the air. His laughter filled the air along with his slurs of human words. Since he was still young he could not pronounce some words but was still intelligent all the same.

All the sudden, roars were hear as two dragons flew down next to them. Holding her squirming son, she asked them what was wrong. One the dragons, that happen to be a Monstrous Nightmare, lowered his head to open it up to drop an egg.

Big as Hiccup it was. A dragon egg that was different from the normal ones produced by your average dragon. Unlike the blue dragon eggs, this one was blackish purple and smooth. Valka put her son down and examined the purple egg. Placing her hand on the oval, she felt no warmth from it. Coming to one conclusion which is that the egg must be dead.

Letting out a sigh, got straighten up and turned to the enormous brownish dragon "Looks like this one's not going to hatch"

Cloudjumper nodded his head and was about to grab the egg when stopped and looked down. Valka looked at what Cloudjumper was staring out to see her son, Hiccup, holding it. Feeling pity for her son, she was about to take the egg from him but he refused to let it go. Valka tried to reason with her son, saying that the egg was no more. Stilling refusing to let Valka have it, she had no choice but to let out a huff and walk away. Thinking he would let go of it sometime, she continued with her duties.

This continued on until nightfall. Hiccup still refused to leave or let go of the egg. He wouldn't allow it to leave his arms, due to knowing to knowing his mother's plan of separating him and the egg. He even refused to sleep next to his mother, because he was afraid of her taking it away from him.

Later that night, a lightning storm hit the cavern. You could see the storm through the slight open cracks of the cavern. They were mostly used for star gazing and to check the weather for flights. Valka knew her son, like all little kids, would be frighten and call for her. Once she heard it, she sat up.

She was very surprised to see the egg in her son's arms glowing. The lightning became worse and started shooting down into the cavern. Valka grabbed her son just in time before another lightning bolt shot down and hit the spot that Hiccup was at. Unfortunately, Hiccup let go of the egg when his mom grabbed him thus the egg being struck by the lighting instead.

Valka and Hiccup blinked and looked at the spot the egg was to see the egg still standing but electricity coursing through the outer shell. Soft coos were heard from inside the oval. Cracks were seeping from the egg as out popped a little black/blue salamander like dragon.

"A Night Fury" Valka's eyes widen at the little guy while her son, who she was still holding, tried to pronounce the word, 'fury'.

The little guy cooed as it opened its eyes to look around. It spotted the two humans and waddled over to them. They both stared at the tiny object making its way to them. Suddenly, Cloudjumper stood over the humans protectively and growled at the baby dragon.

Since Night Fury was the unholy creature of lighting and death. It was a ferocious creature that would attack at a high top speed that sounded like a high whistle which is how people know they are close. Night Furies are generally quite aggressive to any form of threat they find. This why even dragons had to be careful around them.

Even if this was a baby Night Fury, it was still unknown how it would react to other species. The little dragon stared back at the big dragon, not understanding that it was being threaten, it roared back. Cloudjumper and Valka looked at it confused, while Hiccup roared at the baby. The Night Fury roared happily back and both Valka and Cloudjumper watched the two go back and forth.

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A year went by and the two became irrespirable. They would go everywhere together. It was cute at first, but soon became a problem. The Night Fury, that was now named Toothless, would not allow anyone near Hiccup. Even Valka was unable to get to her son. She thought that in the beginning the little dragon must have imprinted on the boy. At first, Toothless was just a little duffy and sweet. Hiccup took upon himself to watch and feed the small dragon since no other dragon wanted to be near him. Toothless would hobble after the boy and play with him. It was adorable how Toothless and Hiccup would cuddle up next to each other while they sleep.

But now it seemed that the intelligence that people talked about Night Furies having were true. Toothless would help Hiccup get food from high tree tops and fishing. He would also helping Hiccup with his chores. But after a while, Toothless saw how Hiccup, like most humans, were fragile. Thus thinking that every dragon was a threat. And also Valka had to be a threat too.

Valka was trying once again to grab her son, who was asleep next to Toothless, but yet again the dragon woke up and denied her access to her son. It wasn't until Cloudjumper had enough and pushed the little dragon out of the way. Toothless tried to nip at the large dragon, but all Cloudjumper did was give the small dragon a broad look. Getting on his hide legs, Cloudjumper looked taller and more threatening. It was like the stance was saying 'you don't want to mess with me'.

Tooth less dropped his head and looked up with pitiful eyes saying 'I'm sorry'.

This got Valka thinking. Toothless had no one to teach him about how a dragon was supposed to be or act. She looked from Toothless to Cloudjumper and came up with a perfect solution.

Cloudjumper caught on and eyes widen "No, I'm not doing it"

She tried to give her best pleading take pity on me look, before Cloudjumper sighed and looked back at her.

"Fine"

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Another year past and now Hiccup was 8. His speech was better and both of Hiccup and Toothless were learning from their parent. It was one of those time where Valka would take Hiccup on a ride on Cloudjumper. Hiccup looked forward to it every time and every time Toothless would want to come with them. Cloudjumper would teach Toothless about flying. First was getting used to using his wings. Opening and close them. Then move on to leaving the ground. Toothless was brilliant at learning the basics. The only problem was that he saw no reason for it. Since Hiccup didn't leave the ground he refused to. The only thing close to flying with Toothless was climbing on the back of Cloudjumper when he was little to go with Hiccup and Valka. It wasn't until Toothless got too big for him to go with them.

Toothless was trying to climb up when Cloudjumper pushed him away. Cloudjumper dubbed it time for Toothless to fly on his own and if he wanted his friend then he had to do it his own way. Figuring he would stay there until they got back. He felt Valka pat his back, telling him they were ready. He dived off the ledge and glided.

They could hear Toothless yelling to them. Valka told her son to ignore him and enjoy the ride. Toothless on the other hand got frustrated. He kept calling and calling them. Once he saw them not looked even back, he let out a huff. Pacing back and forth, he looked over the edge. Letting out one last call, he still got no reply. He looked at them then at his wings. Opening them up, he gave them a flap.

When Hiccup didn't hear the cries of his friend, he looked behind to make sure he was okay. His eyes widen when he saw Toothless dive off the cliff. "Mom!"

They all turned and panicked, watching Toothless fall to his death. Valka pushed her son into her chest to hide the horrors of Toothless's death. Hiccup cried as his mother tried to sooth him. He unexpectedly heard cooing, Hiccup saw Toothless flying a few feet next to them. Hiccup was happy to see him that Valka had to hold him so he would not fall off the dragon. Figuring out that wherever Hiccup was Toothless would follow after.

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That did not help over the year. Hiccup loved flying and once Toothless reach the ability to carry a person like hiccup the two have been practicing none stop. Toothless would improve and would fly better every day. It continued like this even when Hiccup reached the age of thirteen.

Valka and Cloudjumper were gently gliding across the sky when out of nowhere an object shot next to them. The two halted from the surprise. Valka tried to calm down Cloudjumper. She saw on closer examination, who it was.

"Hiccup!" She yelled at the two, who continued to soar.

"Sorry Mom" Hiccup and Toothless whipped past the two doing trick and trying to breach the sound barrier. The two were the most instance rider next to Valka and Cloudjumper. Letting out a huff in frustration, she patted the large dragon. All of the sudden, arrows were being shot at them.

She had not realized that she was outside the dragon sanitary borders and into hunting territory. She pulled her mask on and both of them went after the hunters. Firing blast shots at the three ships, the boats fired back as Toothless and Hiccup watched the scene unfold. They had never seen this before, let alone other humans. An arrow was fired at them and Toothless dodged it. Hiccup saw his mom was in trouble and told Toothless that she needed help. Toothless nodded his head and they launched themselves like a missile at the ships. Once close, Toothless let out a plasma blast that struck the ship directly. The ship and other two began to panic. Cloudjumper delivered a final blast to one of the ships which caused an explosion. An old metallic helmet flew off the ship and Hiccup caught it.

They saw the men on the boats panic and climbed into the only good ship that could sail. Barley able to keep steady, the men quickly rowed out of there.

Valka halted Cloudjumper and told him to let them go. They flew over to the duo and told them to head back home. Hiccup looked down at the helmet before flying back to the cavern.

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They both got off their dragons as Hiccup tried understand what just happen.

"Hiccup, please. Let it go" Valka did not want her son to see the world she knew. She wanted to protect him.

"Mom. Those are humans…like us" Hiccup clutched the helmet in his hands.

You see, Valka didn't tell Hiccup everything about humans. She dubbed him too young to know about the viscous world of humans. Unlike tradition Viking who would teach and tell their stories and harsh tradition of their lives. Valka on the other hand didn't even take Hiccup on trips with her to save dragons. Hiccup thought she was just recuing dragons from traps or from injury. He had no idea that humans could do such horrible things or even that there were other people like them.

"No there not" Valka halted and rubbed her arm, trying not to look at her son.

"What do you…..?" Hiccup couldn't understand why his mother didn't just tell him.

"The world sees dragons as beast, weapons, or even worse….vermin. They will used their power to destroy them." She turned to look at her son. "Where we came from, dragons were known as furious killing machines. They have no heart, no minds." She made hand gestures to help Hiccup understand. "When I first found Cloudjumper, I learned that dragons were not what people said they were. They were kind gentle creatures that could be taught. I tried to… I tried to…."

Hiccup saw his strong mother look like she was about to cry. "You tried to reason with them?"

Valka went to her son and place her hands on his shoulder. "I tried but they either saw me as mad or thought it must be the pregnancy. Hiccup, when you were born and dragons were attacking I thought to myself that I need to get out. The night I was about to leave, I was going to leave everything behind." She saw his eyes grew sadder as she tried to reassure him. "But when I saw you, I knew I had to take you with me"

"Maybe I can…."

"No Hiccup. You can't" She cupped his face, trying to make him understand. "You see son, our tribe had a stupid tradition. You know what a runt of a littler is, right?"

"They are weak and sometimes will not live" Hiccup nodded his head.

"Yes, that right. You see, a Hiccup is an unlucky runt. An 'accident'. Even though your father and I tried to reason with the tribe, I knew that they would harm you in more ways than one"

Hiccup nodded his head in understanding.

"Don't worry my son" Valka hugged the shell shock boy close to her chest. "I will be there to protect you from harm. Don't ever forget that humans can't be trusted."

Watching his mother leave, Hiccup looked down at the helmet and saw something in the mask that sparked inside him.