Disclaimer: Since I'm on fanfiction, you can guess that I'm not lucky enough to own HTTYD or Voices of Dragons.
Author's Note: This is when Kay and Hiccup first meet. I'm so excited about this. Also, if anyone is confused, I kind of pictured Artegal being like, twice the size of Toothless. Another note, this takes place several years after HTTYD occurs, so that's how Hiccup is Kay's age now. Please read and review. Enjoy!
P.S. Just another note about Toothless: the name toothless in and of itself is clever. I don't know if my interpretation of the name is what Cressida Cowell intended, but I kind of saw the name Toothless as meaning harmless. There was nothing there to bite Hiccup. Just a thought. If anyone else shares that opinion or has anything to say, please let me know. I'd very much like to talk about this!
Artegal and Kay flew over the forest, looking for the glade Astrid had described. Since Gobber would be of no use, Kay told him they would be better on their own, which was probably true. Kay figured out that Hiccup was the name of the leader of the village. Once she found him, she'd also find out a lot of other things, like how to restore peace to Silver River.
Artegal's eyes spotted the glade first. "Look!" He called to her, drawing her from her reverie of a peaceful Silver River. She saw it too. "Hang on!" Artegal turned downward into a sharper dive than called for. She held on very tightly. She figured that Artegal wanted peace between the two races as much as possible.
Soon, Kay could see the lake of which Astrid spoke. As Artegal prepared for landing next to the lake, there was a roar of fear, a flash of purple lightning, and a cry of "TOOTHLESS, STOP!"
As they landed, Kay saw on the opposite side of the lake a smaller black dragon with a round face and a short, scrawny, brown-haired, pale boy her own age calming it down. "Toothless, it's going to be okay. They won't hurt you."
Kay dismounted and she and Artegal headed to the other side of the lake. As Artegal approached, the smaller dragon protectively flew at him.
"Bad Toothless!" scolded the scrawny boy. The dragon stopped midair and landed back on the ground. "Stay!" He commanded.
"I'm sorry if I frightened your dragon." Artegal apologized.
The boy gawked at Artegal, amazed of his powers of speech. Instead of saying 'It talks!' like Gobber, he whispered in awe, "A real Gwybodaeth Caru!"
"You've actually heard of them?" Kay asked.
"I've read books about them. There's no proof that they exist in Berk, but there is some proof that they exist in other places. Now I have my proof." He extended his hand to Artegal.
"It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm the leader of the village. My name's Hiccup, Horrendous Haddock III," he added a bit bashfully. Kay didn't see why he was so embarrassed: personally, she thought the name Hiccup was cute. "Your name is?"
"You can call me Artegal."
"Welcome to Berk, Artegal," Hiccup said whole-heartedly. He turned to Kay. The size of his green eyes took her aback. "And you?"
"Kay, Wyatt. We're from Silver River in America." They shook hands.
"America?" Hiccup quaritated.
"It's a place far, far away." She clarified.
"Well, you must be exhausted from the journey. Welcome to Berk, Miss Kay." Kay, Artegal, Toothless." "Toothless, Kay, Artegal." Toothless, who actually had teeth, growled at Artegal. Hiccup gave Toothless a stern look and pulled a dead eel from his vest and brandished it at him. He backed up in fear.
Artegal and Kay uneasily sat down on the ground. She and Artegal exchanged a glance which told her that she and Artegal were thinking the same thing: Hiccup didn't seem to have much control over Toothless. If this scrawny boy was the leader of the village, she'd hate to see the others with their dragons. Kay asked herself why someone strong and scary wasn't the leader, like Astrid.
Hiccup convinced Toothless to join him in sitting down with Artegal and Kay.
"Well, what brings you here?" Hiccup asked.
"It's a long story," said Kay truthfully. She retold everything that happened to her, from the day that she was climbing, fell in the river, and met Artegal, up until they met Astrid who told them his whereabouts. Kay was surprised at how patient Hiccup was. He was such a good listener and he was very curious.
"And we found a map to this place in a book Artegal gave me…"
"A map to Berk in a book?" Hiccup sounded extremely interested. He and Toothless looked at each other. "Which book?" Toothless growled, probably expressing similar words.
"It was a very old book called Dracopolis, or City of Dragons." She explained, "It showed all these pictures of people and dragons living together, then it showed them fighting, and we got the idea from the book of virgin sacrifice-"
"That is the very book that the people of Berk have been looking for for ages!"
"It is centuries old," Artegal reasoned, "Why?"
Hiccup said, "It's the true history of Berk. That book is about us. There is proof that ages ago we used to live peacefully with dragons, even more so than now. When the dragons started raiding us for food to give to the green death, we waged war on them. One historian Viking wrote a lot about it. The leader of the village felt betrayed by the dragons and didn't want to have anything to do with them. He ordered him to get rid of the book, but during a raid, a dragon stole it and it was never seen again… So, Dracopolis?"
"I have it with me in my backpack." Kay took the backpack off her shoulders, unzipped it, and pulled out the book. Hiccup and Toothless scooted closer for a better look at something Astrid would kill a dragon to see. (That wouldn't have been saying much before she met Hiccup, but now, she was as changed as he was.)
She handed the book to Hiccup. She could tell he thought it was heavy and extremely delicate by the look on his face. Toothless smiled excitedly. After a few minutes of Hiccup and Toothless being in awe of the book, Kay cleared her throat to remind them that she and Artegal were still there.
"So, the last few pictures show you guys fighting dragons? How are you so close with them now? I want to save Silver River. How did you come back around?"
And Hiccup told his story of how he trained his dragon.
