Ch. 2 guys. enjoy!

CHAPTER TWO

SOUTHERN ISLANDS

After his conversation with the Rumblehorns Toothless headed back home, he laid inside facing the door, waiting for his rider to arrive, he was still thinking of a way to tell Hiccup that they needed to go to that island, the thing was that for that to happen he needed to see him, something he had not been able to do for the past three hours. He was about to fall asleep when he heard footsteps heading for the door, he stood up quickly just as Valka entered the house

"Why hello Tothless, why are you not with Hiccup?"

The black dragon sighed and let his head fall again, Valka managed to sense that something was off with him and sat down next to the Night fury. She leaned her head to have a look at the dragon's eyes "something's bothering you..."

Toothless crooned and leaned towards her, Valka petted his head before standing back up "Hiccup is at the training arena, you can go look for him" at the mention of his rider his ears perked up and he launched out of the house

Toothless POV.

I could only remember one time when I had ran that fast, and it had been six years ago when Hiccup was stuck in the arena with the Monstrous nightmare. I zoomed past the plaza and arrived at the arena in no time, just in time to see Hiccup getting out of it. I wasted no time and jumped over him, tackling him to the ground

"Toothless what is wrong with you?!, get off of me you overgrown lizard!" Hiccup scrambled from under me and stood up "what happened?" I crooned at him and started to push him trough the village, I hat to find a way of telling him we needed to go to that island. I kept pushing him and pulling at him when he tried to get away, I couldn't leave this like that "Toothless what is it, what do you want?!" Eventually I managed to push him to the south part of the village, facing the ocean and the sinking sun, once there I jumped up in the air flapping my wings furiously to try and stay airborne "you want to go flying?" YES! We needed to go flying, now!. I stood next to him and signaled him to climb up "Toothless it's getting late and I'm really tired, but I promise we'll go flying tomorrow morning" he said turning around and started to walk away, I huffed and threw a small rock at him, making him instantly turn around "come on I already told you we are going tomorrow, now come back to the house so you can have something to eat" with a resigned sigh I trotted after him

Back at the house i ate my portion of fish before settling down next to the stairs, Cloudjumper then came and sat by my side "There is something troubling you isn't it?"

A sigh "yeah, I noticed many new dragons on the island this morning, I went to a small group of Rumblehorns and it turns out that their nest, somewhere in the south, was attacked by someone, and their alpha...their alpha was another Night fury"

"Really?, are you sure about that?"

"I'm not but those Rumblehorns spoke the truth"

"And you want to go and check it out"

"Yeah but Hiccup is too tired to fly right now, I'll have to try and take him tomorrow"

"How far away is this island?"

"About a day's flight, according to the Rumblehorns, for me I would guess it's a few hours less if I go at top speed"

"And would you be able to keep that speed constantly for that long?"

"There is, only one way to find out" I said starting to climb upstairs but stopped half way up "Cloudjumper?" The four-winged dragon turned to look at me again "I'll be leaving you in charge while I'm gone" he nodded "and one more thing"

"Yes?"

"If Hiccup and I don't come back in four day's time, send someone for us"

"Okay. But how are you planning on finding the island?"

"I caught a faint smell of fresh grass, pines and some ash as well, I imagine from the attack. I'll be using that and the direction to where the Rumblehorns pointed me to to find island"

"Okay, but be careful"

With a nod I went back up. If I was going to do that flight, might as well have some rest...

Normal POV

The next morning Toothless woke up Hiccup early, and despite his protests Toothless managed to drag him out of the house just as the sun started to peek over the horizon. Rather grumpily Hiccup jumped on Toothless' back as the black dragon took off with a flap of his mighty wings, Toothless started to pick up speed quickly and until he reached his top speed, keeping it up for almost an hour until Hiccup sat back up and instructed Toothless to break a little, the dragon reduced it's speed considerably, gliding over the clouds "Toothless where are we going?" The dragon only answered with a small growl, looking back at his rider "we've been flying for almost an hour and i have no idea where we are going or how much longer are we going to be flying...let's go back" Toothless only grumbled in response and kept flying "come on you big baby. We have to turn around" ... "Toothless..." The black dragon turned to look at him rider crooning with pleading eyes "Toothless where are we going that you are in such a hurry?" The Night fury didn't say a thing, instead stared at him with the same eyes. Hiccup sighed before putting on his mask again and resumed his laying down position "okay...lead the way" with a content smile the dragon began flapping his wings again to pick up speed, in seconds he was, once again, gliding at top speed above the clouds

Some hours later and Hiccup and Toothless where sitting on a small sea stack, Both where sitting down eating a quick snack as Hiccup stretched out a little "you know Toothless, you could've warned me that it was going to be a long flight, I would've brought some food" Toothless got up from his spot and urged his rider to climb back up, once he did they took off gaining speed at an incredible rate until, once again, Toothless reached his top speed

They kept moving for the rest of the evening, rather reluctantly from Hiccup's part, occasionally stopping for Toothless to catch some air and Hiccup to stretch out, as much as the black reptile hated to admit it, flying for hours straight at his top speed was exhausting.

Toothless' POV.

I kept flying following the combination of scents i had picked up from the Rumblehorns, as the sun started to set the smell kept growing stronger and stronger, the temperature here was definitely warmer than in Berk, because of the strength of the scent and the fact that there was not so much sunlight anymore I flied below the clouds, instantly lowering my speed as a mountain came in sight a few kilometers away, the thing was huge, smoke was pouring out of some holes and parts of it as well as the area on the ground surrounding it "Toothless...how did you know about this?"

I snorted, I didn't quite knew exactly about it, I just knew it was attacked, but being honest i never thought the damage would be at this extent… "come on, we have to get down there"

Hiccup's POV

I couldn't believe what i was seeing, smoke surrounding the huge mountain almost completely, I instructed Toothless to hurry to the base of the mountain and in less than five minutes we where landing. it was total and complete destruction everywhere; craters on the ground, small fires in some places of the mountain and the ground, destroyed and half sunken ships, catapults and other devices...I turned to look at Toothless, he was looking around just as I was, a troubled expression on his face, and I could tell what he wanted to do "we have to check if there are any survivors around...most of the dragons probably fled and the ones that didn't..." I finished just looking past some dragons lying in the ground not too far from me, if there was any dragon that survived the attack, might as well help it. I climbed back on Toothless and started to fly around the mountain, there had to be a way to get inside, most of the caves we had passed by when we first landed where either collapsed, blocked or had a fire in them, that was until we where finally able to find an opening near the top, once inside I was surprised to see that it was, amazingly, worst than what we had seen on the outside, not only because of the absence of living dragons, but because of the state in which the landscape was. several weapons laid scattered on the ground and some other spears, swords and alike buried in the ground and in some trees...a few others...

there was no place inside where you could look around and not see dead bodies of both sides of the fight, we finally found a suitable place to land, I couldn't help but notice Toothless' uneasiness, and i couldn't blame him, but there was also something else, he kept smelling the air and the ground repeatedly, looking from one side to the other, ears twitching every which way and his eyes narrowed "Toothless?" he looked back at me, his expression softening a bit. it was quickly getting dark and I really didn't want to spend the night here "Bud we have to go, it's getting dark and we need to find a place to settle for the night" I got back onto his back and we gave a last run around the place, just before we got out Toothless stopped mid-flight, hovering in place, looking at an opening on one side of the place, nearly at the bottom, baring his teeth and growling a little, following to where he was looking at I could make out a shape inside the opening, and letting my curiosity get the better of me again, we flew down.

we both landed and I got out, grabbing my sword just in case anything went wrong, it was dark and the apparently small opening ended up being quite large, I could make out the outline of something at the very back, because it was now dark outside I couldn't see clearly what it was, pressing a button on the handle, my sword came out, covered in flames and lighting the room with an eerie orange glow. my heart nearly stopped, I looked back at Toothless to find a shocked expression not too unlike mine "gods...is a Night fury"