Holy hell! I had absolutely no idea you guys would like this story so much! I have almost as many followers as TAOHTS in just 1 chapter! Anyway, I digress. (Did I use that right? Probably not.)
"May the Valkyries welcome you. May they sing your name with love and fury..."
"Hiccup. Hiccup. Hiccup." The Hooligans echoed throughout the harbor, where they pushed a little boat out to sea, a little horned helmet sat on a stone pedestal, like a king on his throne on the wooden deck.
"So we might hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla, so we may know you made it to the hall of princes. For a great boy has fallen; an inventor, an heir, a son, a-a friend." Gobber choked as a few people continued to say Hiccup's name, it ringing throughout the entire near-silent pier, shoving daggers into the hearts of many.
"Stoick, you should go first." Gobber sighed as he put a hand on Stoick's shoulder, before dragging it off to let the chieftain grieve.
"I promised this wouldn't happen again, I'm so sorry Val." Stoick choked as he picked up the bow and arrow laying near his leg and lit the bow on fire before shooting it with perfect aim at the little ship, igniting the bed of coals under the helmet, followed by about 100 more arrows from the other villagers that had good enough aim to actually hit the little boat.
Flames licked the sky as the fire grew bigger and bigger until the boat cracked and was ushered beneath the waves and the village started to disperse. But Stoick stayed, he stayed for hours on end, just looking at the spot where the ship went down.
"The funeral ended 5 hours ago, it's time to go." Gobber sighed, but Stoick ignored him.
"Stoick, you can't stay here forever." Gobber said a bit more firmly as Stoick sighed.
"Why do the gods hate me?" He muttered, tears splashing down his face as Gobber sighed and put a hand on his shoulder.
"They took everything away from me... My wife... my son... my family, gone. All by the hands of dragons." He said sadly with a clear undertone of anger.
"Stoick, these things happen, the best thing you can do is just let it sink in. You will feel better, eventually..." He trailed off as Stoick shook his head.
"No, I won't. I regret everything I have ever done and said to that boy. I gave him disappointed looked whenever I could, I always said the most hateful things I could possible tell him, in hopes of making him stronger... But I was wrong. Do you want to know my last words were to him? 'What is he doing out again?! Get back inside!'" Stoick mumbled as Gobber gave him a sad look.
"Well you were being protective. You saved him from being burned to death and then sent him to the forge. If anything it's my fault. I shouldn't 'ave left the forge in the first place, I knew he never listens but I didn't expect 'im to do something that dangerous." He said.
"This isn't any of our faults. It's that damn Night Fury's fault Hiccup is dead. I have searched and searched for the last 15 years just for Valka, now I have to find the most elusive, deadly dragon in the world, for my son." Stoick muttered.
"We have to find it." Gobber corrected as Stoick looked up at him and smiled.
"So, where do we start?"
"Sooooo, where exactly are you taking me?" Hiccup asked the dragon as they flew through the misty sky.
"My home." He said.
"Ugh! I wish I could understand you!" He exclaimed as the dragon flew over an island and the mist cleared up and a sunny sky took its place.
The island was a bit on the small side, a little bit smaller than Berk, but it was beautiful. Fields of lush green grass slowly turned into dense forest, which snaked up a rocky mountain with a strange amount of caves. As they drew closer, Hiccup noticed that shadows kept dashing around the mountains and the dragon swiftly flew into one of the caves and threw Hiccup inside before darting off.
"Hey! Where are you going?!" He yelled as another shadow sped into the cave, it was another Night Fury. It had dark blue scales and sky blue eyes (similiar to Astrid's). It snarled as Hiccup stumbled back in fear and bolted behind a rock, but not before the other Night Fury pounced and pinned him to the ground.
"What are you doing in my cave! I don't remember letting a dirty human come in?!" It snarled as Hiccup slightly whimpered as a blue flame started to from in the dragon's throat.
'Damn, saved then killed. This was one hell of a half a day.' Hiccup thought sarcastically as he heard the beat of wings and the first Night Fury flew in, two fish in his mouth.
"Sky, this is a human I took from an island in the archipelago when I was checking out one of the Red Death's raids. He's cool." He said as he threw the fish in front of Hiccup before breathing a little bit of fire on it, cooking it instantly.
"Oh, uh, thanks." Hiccup thanked as the first dragon gave him gummy smile.
"Toothless? I could've sworn you had-" The dragon's teeth shot out of its gums, making Hiccup jump back.
"Teeth."
"Toothless, huh? How about I call you Toothless." Hiccup said as Sky laughed and the first dragon glared at him.
"My name is GreyScale." He hissed as Sky continued to laugh.
"N-No, I think Toothless is a great name." She laughed as GreyScale glared at her.
"Since I can't understand you, I'll just call you Toothless. My name's Hiccup." Hiccup said as Sky and Toothless both burst out laughing.
"That's the stupidest name I've ever heard!" Toothless laughed.
"What? Do you have a brother named Burp?!" Sky exclaimed.
"Or a sister named Sneeze?!" Toothless added cheerfully.
"Hey Sky, can you go see if Snowflake has one of those draconian gems?" He asked as Sky nodded and flew out of the cave.
"Soooooo, uh, Toothless, where exactly are we?" Hiccup asked as Toothless bowed and gestured to his back, which Hiccup hesitatantly climbed on.
"Let me give you the grand tour of 'The Isle of Night'!" Toothless exclaimed as he burst out of the cave, Hiccup clinging onto his neck for dear life.
"Woo hoo!" He exclaimed as he dove through the sky and Hiccup screamed in terror.
"Okay! So this is where nest meetings take place! So if we are going into battle with our rival nests then this is where we talk about battle strategies." Toothless said as he gestured to a big plateau where a few other Night Furies sat, talking quietly to eachother.
"And this is the nursery. Come on, let's go look at a few of the hatchlings." He said as he veered down towards the big cave and landed at the edge, where a bunch of Night Furies stood, smiling widely and nuzzling their newborns.
"Awwwwww." Hiccup said as his heart literally melted at the adorable hatchlings running around, nipping at eachother. A little dark grey one with snow white eyes accidentally bumped into his leg, letting out a tiny yelp before looking at him, confused.
"Get away from my hatchling!" A protective mother snapped as she tugged away the little dragon, making it whine and try to get back to Hiccup.
"Mom?! You had another hatchling?!" Toothless exclaimed as the mother, who had bright red-orange, and very dark purple scales laughed and nodded.
"What can I say? Your father can't keep your hands off me." She said as Toothless grimaced in disgust as Sky flew into the nursery, a little black gem in her paws.
"Here! This was Snowflake's last gem. It only lets him understand us, but that's good enough, right?" She asked as she threw Hiccup the stone, who just barely caught it and looked at it, confused.
"Uh, what is this?" He asked as he inspected the little black crystal. (Crystals and gems are the same thing, right?)
"It lets you understand us." Sky explained as Hiccup jumped back in shock.
"D-Did you just, talk?" Hiccup asked in shock as they all nodded.
"Whoa." He said.
"So mom, this is your 6th hatchling? I feel like I've lost count." Toothless asked as his mother laughed and nodded.
"Say hi to your oldest brother Winter." His mother asked as the little hatchling clumsily walked scampered over to Toothless and said, "Hi."
"She can already talk?" He asked in shock as his mother glared at him.
"She hatched five months ago." She said, annoyed as Toothless awkwardly backed away.
"Oh, hehe, I guess I was at the Red Death's place longer than I thought." He said.
"And he brought back a friend." Sky added as she gestured to Hiccup, who froze.
"So, my son took you from a Viking tribe?" She asked as Hiccup nodded.
"Berk ma'am. Gem of the archipelago, except for the fact that it's raided almost every week." Hiccup said.
"So I see. Are you an important part of the tribe? Like best teenage sailor or best hunger with a bow?" She asked as Hiccup nodded.
"Well, not any of those things, but I am the heir to Stoick the Vast." He said as they all gave him a confused look.
"Stoick the Vast? Who's that? Another person with a stupid name?" Toothless asked.
"GreyScale!" Toothless's mother snapped as she smacked Toothless on the head with her tail.
"Dusk, in his defense, the kid's name is Hiccup." Sky said as Hiccup gave Toothless a begging look.
"Can I still keep calling you Toothless? I just feel like it fits you better than GreyScale. You can make fun of my name all you want, my full name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third." Hiccup begged as Toothles and Sky both burst out laughing again as Duck smacked the both.
"There were two of them before you?!" Toothless snickered as Dusk glared at him.
"Watch it." She warned as Toothless nervously nodded.
"So anyway, who is this 'Stoick the Vast'?" She asked as Hiccup awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck.
"The chieftain of my tribe." He said nervously as Dusk, Toothless, Sky's and a few other dragons within earshot eyes widened in horror as another Night Fury came from the mass of dragons and hatchlings as it tackled Toothless and pinned him to the ground.
"You did what?!" It snarled as Dusk tapped its shoulder.
"Tempest..." She trailed off as he got off of Toothless, who dusted himself off.
"Yeah, nice to see you too dad." Toothless said sarcastically.
"You put our entire nest in danger! Why did you even take this runt from his home?!" Tempest snarled as Toothless looked around nervously and Hiccup sighed and wiped his eyes at the word 'runt'.
"He tried to shoot me down with a machine he made! I was mad!" Toothless snapped, making some of the hatchlings whimper, except for Winter, who crawled out of her mother's grasp and climbed up Hiccup leg and perched herself of Hiccup's shoulder.
"Oh, uh, hey there." He said as Winter giggled and licked his ear, making him flinch back in disgust.
"Ew." He said as he wiped off his ear and Winter jumped off his shoulder and onto his head, where her claws got tangled in his hair.
"O-Ow! No, l-let me just help you- Ow!" Hiccup yelled as Winter ripped her claws out of his hair, leaving his hair a messy disaster.
"Yeah, that's one way to do it." Hiccup said sarcastically as Toothless and Sky snickered.
"Wait a minute? Was that big guy that saw me take you-"
"My dad? Yeah." Hiccup sighed as Toothless's eyes widened with fear.
"So I took the heir of a tribe, aka you, away from the chieftain, aka your dad, right in front of him? Oh gods." He muttered as Hiccup patted his head.
"I really didn't have much going for me there. Don't worry, I bet no one even misses me, especially my dad." Hiccup assured as Toothless gave him a look.
"Are you sure? Those two seconds where I saw your dad he seemed pretty damn scared that you were about to be abducted by a Night Fury." Toothless said as Dusk glared at him.
"Language." She chided as Toothless rolled his eyes.
"So this is your little sister?" Sky asked, trying to get them off the topic of Hiccup and Berk as she leaned down and looked at Winter, who sneezed and a little white plasma blast came out.
"Wait? Do all Night Furies have different plasma colors?" Hiccup asked as he patted Winter's head.
"Nah, just blue, purple, white, and if you're an albino Night Fury, gold, but that's really rare." Sky explained as a roar could be heard in the distance and all heads perked up, ear flaps as high as physically possible.
"The Southern Furies." Toothless muttered as Tempest and Sky burst out of the cave, followed by almost all the rest of the dragons, only the mothers stayed, to protect their hatchlings.
"What? What's happening?" Hiccup asked nervously as Toothless's pupils turned to slits.
"Southern Furies are our sworn enemies, they once killed the alpha's son and daughter and we've been at war with them ever since." Toothless explained as he gestured to his back.
"You coming?"
Aaaaaaaaand that's the chapter! I felt like there needed to be a chapter that introduced tons of Night Fury OCs (not that there won't be more in the future) and I also wanted to put in a little sweet funeral for Hiccup, so I thought when better to do put those in but the 2nd chapter!