SO SORRY FOR NOT BEING HERE FOR 1 MONTH +! I've got no excuse other than procrastination and a bitch of a mom. My other stories are on hold because of a train wreck in Writing Station that has fucked up the schedules of creativity. However, my train for this is still running! Enjoy!
Summary:
Orphaned Human-Turned-Hybrid Teinefonn has an extraordinary form- the Hybrid Blaze Fury, not the black of night but the fires of day. Fourteen years after she is unwillingly forced to join in on the raid against the Viking village, Berk. Shot down by the fishbone viking she feels a kindred spirit within and gave him Gift of the Fires. Understanding the cruelty of being branded outcasts, the two quickly form a pact, a plan, a follower and new feelings as well.
"Human/ Hybrid Dragons Talking"
'Human/ Hybrid Dragons Thinking'
"Dragon Talking"
'Dragon Thinking'
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Chapter I: You, Me, Us, We?
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14 years later…
This wasn't what Teinefonn had expected to happen as she flew over the Not-Dragon-Nest-Colony. She was tasked with taking out the Boulder-Throwing-Pillars at the colony edges, but she felt that it wasn't enough.
She felt uneasy. But she felt calm and satisfied too, like she was meant to be here at this place and time…
Over the 14 years she had lived with her Night Fury family, Teine had gained attributes such as the wings, finned tail, the earflaps- but those were more shaped to a Furry-Hissing-Puff-Up creature (A/N: Cats)- and two horns that weren't from her Night Fury parents. Her draconic parts weren't the black that Night Furies were known for, but an iridescent mixture of rusty oranges and dark burning crimsons. Her eyes were a bright gold ringed in orange and streaked with red, like the fire blast of a Spineshooter*, and her pupils dilated and thinned according to her moods.
In all honesty, she wasn't classified as a Night Fury despite being raised by them, but something more. The dragons of the Queen's Nest that she was held by for the last four years of her life had taken to calling her a Blaze Fury- all her draconic traits were shaped exactly like a Night Fury (with the exception of two metallic gold horns in her burning orange hair) but they were the variety of colors from various dragon fires.
As Teinefonn soared over the groups of humans she saw a friend of hers, a Spineshooter named Stormfly, trapped in a metal net. A hulking beast of a human, one with dragon blood-flecking the long fur on his muzzle, was holding her down and hauling her to a large ring-like area.
Teinefonn prepared to dive and save her hatchlinghood friend when a loud THWUNK! Sound came from below. Before she could evade a Rope-Two-Stones tangled her tail, wings, and horns. It all happened so fast, all she could do was shriek as she tumbled into the forest behind the village. The scales covering up the skin on her arms, legs, and feminine parts did nothing to soften the blow of the hard earth that rushed up to meet her.
Everything went black.
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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. The Village 'Runt'. Hiccup the Useless. Troublemaker and Destructo-Boy.
'Not tonight!' he thought as he rushed out with his Bola-Launcher. The 15-year-old wasn't like any of the Vikings on Berk. He was scrawny; he couldn't lift a hammer, swing an axe, and had to construct an automatic Bola-Launcher because he couldn't throw one manually. When he heard the telltale shriek signaling the rarest dragon in the known world, he'd made up his mind.
'I'm gonna be the first to shoot down the Blaze Fury.' Situating his machine and waiting with anticipation, he caught a flash of rusty-red scales and sunset-orange wings. 'GO!' Triggering the Bola, he was shot back and scrambled to his feet to see the infernette dragon crash-land into the forest behind his own house. But the strangest thing was that he heard the shriek it let out- it sounded almost human.
Then reality caught up with him.
"Oh, I-I hit it! YES I HIT IT! Did anybody see that?!" then his day came to an end- and it was only 6:00 AM- when he heard the CRUNCH of his Bola-Launcher being crushed. Turning around Hiccup felt his heart stop as he came face-to-face with a Monstrous Nightmare. "Except for you…"
Hey, he's only a human- sarcasm is his only defense!
*Skip to an hour later*
His father, Chief Stoic the Vast, had been downright furious with him. Saying "You're not a dragon-killer" had hurt his son. Couple that with the other teens teasing and sneering at him and Hiccup was just done. Leaving through the back door of his house, he began to search for the Blaze Fury 'The one no one would believe I shot down.' He added to himself bitterly. Seeing a flash of red behind a bush, Hiccup froze. He heard a small whine.
Sneaking up behind a log, Hiccup peeked over the mossy wood to see the Blaze Fury in all… Her glory?!
Wrapped up in the ropes of the bola and weighted down by the iron weights was a dragon- wait, it couldn't be a dragon, because it had human skin, a human face, opposable thumbs, and long waist-length burning-orange hair…
'Then why does she have the wings, tail, and horns…?'
Hiccup steeled himself and emerged from behind the log. The rustling made the hybrid stop the noises she was making and freeze. Circling around to her front to see her face, Hiccup's eyes widened.
Teinefonn woke up in pain. She wined in her throat as she forced her eyes open.
"W-where I?" she asked softly. There was rustling behind her and she ceased all noise and movements; not that she could move-she was still tangled in the Rope-Two-Stones. Hearing the footsteps approaching, her eyes widened as the Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake came into view.
She/He was-
"Pretty."
"Itty-bitty..."
…
Well, Teinefonn didn't have to admit that if she were standing she'd only be three inches shorter than he is.
Teinefonn paused as he said she was pretty. In all honesty she never once in her life thought of herself as pretty- despite Teinefonn being given the title of Blaze Fury, the dragons of the Queen's Nest thought Teinefonn didn't hear the conversations about her and what they would call her. In dragon standards, she was an abomination, a freak, a mistake, vermin.
All in all, not very good stats for gaining a potential mate… plus all the insults and injuries bestowed upon her made her believe that her life and all she did would never amount to any worth at all.
The scrawny Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake violently shook his head when she basically said he was scrawny. Pulling out a dagger the Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake took to kneeling over Teinefonn's trussed-up form and raising it over his head.
'No… don't want to go into the Dark…!'
"I-I'm gonna kill you, dragon," he muttered. But-but it was almost like he was trying to convince himself.
"No want to… go to Dark…"
Hiccup could hear and understand the broken words pleading from the Blaze Fury's mouth but he tried futilely to block it out. "Then I'm gonna-gonna cut out your heart and take it to my father."
"Beg! No… no want to enter Dark!" she keened now, soft brokenhearted whimpers saturating the air around them.
"I am a Viking," Hiccup said then turned to the Blaze Fury's tear stained face and almost faltered but finished his declaration. "I AM A VIKING!"
The Blaze Fury closed her eyes, eyes that were dulled with fear, terror, and despair, and laid it on the ground, defeated, with a whine.
"Send me to Dark…You like rest, so no more hurting…" she whispered brokenly.
Oh, Hiccup tried. By the Gods he tried, but he couldn't. It wasn't right, it wasn't fair. "I did this…" he said in shock. He looked at the sunset-colored dragon, sadness marring the human's features, than he sighed and made his decision.
The sawing of a knife on rope made Teinefonn's eyes snap open. She twisted her head and looked up at the human over her. When the last rope came loose, Teinefonn still remained frozen. The human backed up as he fixed his forest green eyes on her own golds.
Teinefonn began to sit up but winced and muffled a shriek as she looked at her right wing.
The membrane was fine. Considering the Rope-Two-Stones that had wrapped around her and the fall she had, it was honestly a gift from Draco himself. But the bones in her wing… yeah, that was a major problem.
The edge-bone of her wing, where it bent at the joint, was broken about two feet away from the joint itself and completely in two at that. Given proper tools, like long grass and four sticks, she could set it to heal, but the catch was that the healing process would take one-moon-cycle. She was as good as dead.
"Why," Teinefonn rasped out, tears still falling from her eyes as she looked at the brown-furred Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake. "Why you no send me to Dark…?"
Hiccup started at the question, it finally registered that he was talking to a Blaze Fury!
"You…" he started, choosing his words carefully and then disregarding the bizarreness of the situation. "You were scared. I was too; I was scared that what I was doing wasn't the right choice. You were like me. Us, we are one and the same in that way." The Blaze Fury's nose wrinkled as she contemplated his words and as the tears slowly ceased their fall.
"You, me… us, we?" Surprisingly, Hiccup understood her interpretation when she asked it out loud. He gave her a slight, albeit nervous, smile and nodded. "Yeah," he confirmed. "You, me, us, we." Teinefonn gazed at Itty-Bitty-Human with puzzlement in her eyes and then seemed to perk up a bit. "You… make me not see? L-like Skinchangers**?" Hiccup cocked an eyebrow at her. "What do you mean?" the Blaze Fury huffed a small plume of deep red flames from her mouth as she tried to think of a way to explain to him.
'Humans dumb…'
Seeing a tree and a clump of bushes a few yards to their left, Teinefonn struggled to her feed and limped over to the tree. Hiccup noticed with a pang of painful guilt that she was dragging her broken wing behind her, muffling her small noises of pain whenever it bumped against the uneven earth. Waiving her clawed hand to get his attention, the Blaze Fury ducked behind the tree.
She hid there for a good five seconds then peeked out again. After another five seconds she hobbled as fast as she could over to the clump of bushes and ducked behind that, then repeated the peeking out and ducking back in.
Finally when she popped her head up and looked at Hiccup with a meaningful look in her gold eyes, Hiccup finally understood.
'Skinchangers, must be Changewings… you can't see them because they're practically invisible when… they… hide!'
"You-you want me to hide you?" the girl dragon-hybrid ('cause, that's what she was, no two ways about it) nodded enthusiastically, her originally slit pupils widening until they were nearly taking over her irises. She looked relieved that he understood. "Y-yes! Hiiiiide?" the Blaze Fury tilted her head to the right ever so slightly and gave a tentative smile that showed off her 2 1/3-inch canines.
Hiccup furrowed his brow and tried to figure out where you could hide a female Blaze Fury hybrid. Then he remembered a secluded cove much deeper in the forest- no one would think to look there.
"Okay I've got a place," Hiccup finally said, looking back at her. "No one would think to go that deep into the woods. It's a cove with a lake and a small cave. Plus with your wing broken like that I doubt you'll be able to hunt for food. I'll bring you stuff and in return you try to not blast me to Hel?"
Teinefonn tilted her head and looked at him quizzically. "H-Hel?" she asked. "What that?" "I-it-umm…" Hiccup tried to think of a way to convey the phrase.
*Flashback slightly*
"No want to… go to Dark."
*Flashback End*
"It's like what you call Dark." He answered. "Mmmm." The Blaze Fury looked down and sighed. Hiccup glanced up at the sky and noticed the position. "Look, let's get you to the cove. We'll talk a more on the way, alright?" "Mmm." She agreed. As the two stood and started walking, albeit slowly due to Teinefonn's injuries, it was silent for a few minutes before Teinefonn asked curiously, "What your…" she frowned as she tried to remember the word in Human. "…Hatch-Call?" Hiccup looked at her confused and she looked down to try and figure out how to explain.
"Me Hatch-Call," she said placing a hand over her heart. "Teinefonn." She placed her other hand over his heart and looked at him meaningfully. "You. Hatch-Call?" Hiccup's eyes widened with understanding. "Oh! My name's Hiccup. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third." The now known Teinefonn wrinkled her nose and snorted in a dragon-like manner. "Hatch-Call. Much like dragon poo…" she muttered. Hiccup chuckled slightly. "Yeah. It's what my people call the ones who are weak, useless, the runt of the litter." Teinefonn gave a growl and moved to stand in front of him.
"Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake NO useless! NO 'Runt'!" Hiccup jumped back slightly and his eyes widened at the sight of a clearly very livid hybrid getting mad on his behalf. "Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake no send Teinefonn to Dark! Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake kind to Teinefonn! Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake gentle with Teinefonn!" Teinefonn bared her sharp canine teeth and growled again. "All Hatchlings have-have pur-purr-puurrr-purpose and pride!" she looked into Hiccup's forest green eyes with her gold, orange, and crimson ones with defiance (though she struggles with saying purpose).
Teinefonn stomped her right food and dug her clawed toes into the earth. She huffed and grey smoke floated up from her nostrils.
Hiccup couldn't believe that a dragon was standing up for him! No one in Berk ever stopped to even look at him unless it was scowls and scolding.
He gave Teinefonn a small smile and looked down, embarrassed that he was given a pep-talk by a dragon. A clawed hand pushed his chin up until his head was held high. "Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake has big thump-thump," she said softly. "You no need for hurting thump-thump."
Hiccup realized that Teinefonn's thump-thump was heart. He smiled at Teinefonn and nodded. "Thank you." He simply said it, but the words carried so much meaning. Teinefonn's eyes widened as her thump-thump beat faster.
She released his jaw and turned to face away from him, a light blush dusted her cheeks. "N-not-Dragon-Hatchdrake no thank." She muttered. They started walking again and soon came to their destination. "This place cooove?" she asked with wide golden eyes. "Yeah," Hiccup said with a nod. "Do you like it?" "Mmmm!" she said happily and wriggled into the small tunnel that led inside. "Hiccup followed and watched as she slowly made her way to the pond, minding her broken wing all the while. Noticing the sun's position Hiccup sighed. "I've gotta go home, Teinefonn," he said. The hybrid's head jolted up and she cocked her head at the human. "Go back to Not-Dragon-Nest-Colony?" Hiccup nodded and gave a reassuring smile.
"Yeah. But I'll be back tomorrow, don't worry!" Teinefonn regarded him with critical eyes. She seemed to come to some kind of decision and gave herself a firm nod. "Not leave yet," she said, standing and walking over to stand in front of him. "Have gift for not sending Teinefonn into Dark."
Hiccup raised an eyebrow and tilted his head to the side. "Really?" "Mmmm!" she nodded and took his hand in hers. She raised it to her mouth and bit him. Drawing blood, she started to lick the injury. Hiccup was in shock for the duration of her initiation and when she finished he jerked his arm away.
"Why would you DO that?!" he shouted incredulously. "Teinefonn give Gift of the Fires," she said happily. Then heat went through his veins. It wasn't painful- it felt nice, like laying in sunlight and taking a nap. He felt something weigh him down from behind and saw two auburn brown wings and a finned tail emerge from his back and rear.
"WHAT?!" he shouted. "No worry!" Teinefonn said hurriedly. "Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake change skin from Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake to this!" Hiccup paused in his panic and looked back at Teinefonn with wide eyes. "Close eyes and picture normal skin." She instructed. Doing what she said, Hiccup opened his eyes five seconds later and found himself in his normal form. "Hiccup faster than others. Hiccup stronger than others. Hiccup make no noise when moving."
With wide forest green eyes, Hiccup stared at Teinefonn and then grinned. "Again," he said.
"Thank you."
"We same," Teinefonn said softly. "Not-Dragon-Hatchdrake remember-." She placed her clawed hand over his heart and smiled softly up at him.
"You, me. Us, we."
Keys:
Spineshooter*- Deadly Nadder
Skinchangers**- Changewings
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