Memory? Gone.
What happens when an unconscious girl wakes up in a strange room with some large black scaly creature staring at her? Well, the girl would scream. Yet when she opened her mouth nothing came out. Confused and frightened she covered her mouth and tried to scream again. Nothing.
Wasn't she suppose to talk? Did she not have a voice? Again her head hurt with questions she could not answer. Her face drew into a scowl until she realized the scenery was different, or at least it felt different. It was warm and smelled of fur and leather, there was also a sharp metal tang in the air. Vaguely, she wondered if this was what a home smelled like, then she wondered if she had a home herself.
Could this be her home?
No, it didn't feel like it.
The black scaly creature made some sort of noise next to her ear which startled the girl out of the warm bed and caused her to land on the wooden floor with a thump. She rubbed her back tenderly. Now instead of her head hurting the pain was in her lower back and butt. She supposed it was a sign she was still alive.
She let out a silent cheer at the thought... though it felt a little sarcastic.
When the creature circled around the bed she scooted back until she was against the wall. What was this creature? And why was it so interested in her? It sounded like it was sniffing her. She closed her eyes and kept pushing against the wall as if it would give way if she pushed hard enough. Then the sniffing stopped.
It was like she was waiting for something unpleasant and it was but not as bad as she thought it would be.
Something very wet and warm ran up her face. It had licked her? Confused she opened her eyes to see the scaly thing staring at her with green eyes that looked like a cat... What was a cat? Her questions vanished when the creature did something odd.
It's mouth sort of opened to show pink gums. She stared for quite a moment until she realized what it might have been doing. It was... smiling? Yeah, it was smiling at her.
All the fear and tension that was apparently in the room melted away. The girl smiled back at the creature and reached her hand out to it. Him, she realized. Not sure how she knew that the girl brushed off the questions when the creature leaned into her hand. Silently she laughed and began scratching him under the chin. He seemed to like it so she kept going. The feeling was familiar but she brushed that off as well.
The creature seemed disappointed when she stopped to get up but her rump was still hurting from the fall and the floor wasn't helping. The very cute black scaly creature helped her up and kept her steady when her legs wobbled. She thanked him with a pat on the head and took a few steps to get her legs working properly.
When she could walk without stumbling the girl scanned the room again and noticed odd drawings pinned up above a table. Curious, she studied them. They were drawings of what looked like a tail fin. Why did she know that? There were more on the small table. Wait she'd seen something like this before.
She looked back at the cute creature and followed his tail to see the tail fin looking much like the drawings. Except one was black and one was red. Looking back and forth between the drawings and the tail fin she finally put two and two together. These drawings were designs for the scaly creatures tail fin.
As she was about to examine the leather fin more when she heard the door open on the bottom floor. Frightened her body tensed and fell into an odd pose with her feet solidly set on the ground and her hands in front of her clenched into fists. What in Odin's name? She thought and stared at her fists. The sound of voices snapped her out of the questions. Ignoring the cute creatures happy reactions and sounds, the girl glanced around the room frantically.
What was she going to do?
The conversation between Hiccup and Gobber the Belch was... repetitive, much to Hiccup's dismay. It started when Hiccup had reached the Forge/Dragon Dental Office and told Gobber what had happened, he asked questions to which Hiccup answered. This would have been fine if the questions changed on the long, long walk to the house on the hill. Why did the Haddocks have to live so far from the village?
Gobber was still asking the same questions when they walked through the door.
"What do ya meen a gurl fell from the sky?"
Hiccup sighed. "She just fell from the sky Gobber," he responded wryly.
"But how could a gurl fall from the sky?" The older viking continued as they walked up the stairs. Toothless met them at the top and warbled happily as his friend scratched behind his ears.
"I don't know Gobber she just did," he paused and looked around. "Toothless where is the girl?" Hiccup asked the dragon tiredly. The Night Fury looked around and shrugged. You ask a dragon to do one simple thing, he shook his head. It was barely noon and Hiccup was already starting to feel exhaustion creeping in.
"So where's the gurl?" Gobber asked and looked around as well.
Oh look, a different question, Hiccup thought sarcastically as he walked around his room. She had to be hiding or else Toothless wouldn't still be here. Well if I woke up in a strange place with dragon guarding me where would I hide? Hiccup looked under his bed to find no girl but one of his socks. They apparently didn't share favorite hiding places. He wasn't surprised.
"Hiding I suppose," Hiccup said as he stood up and picked a few papers off the floor, Toothless must have knocked them off his desk. "I mean what would you do if you woke up in a strange place?"
"I'd've foond a weapon 'nd ambooshed me kidnappers!" Gobber responded proudly.
"That's not surprising," Hiccup mumbled dryly. Gobber had a fight or fight instinct while Hiccup was more of a flight or hide Viking although with Toothless at his side he had developed more fight. He looked around again for some place she might hide when he noticed something odd.
Toothless wasn't looking like the other two Vikings were, he was staring at one of the overhead beam just above Hiccup's desk. Where Hiccup was standing he could only see the bottom of the large beam. Slowly he backed up and stood next his scaly friend and saw what had intrigued the dragon so.
He could only see part of her but he could tell she was lying on her stomach on the far side of the beam where it met the house wall. Honestly Hiccup wouldn't have thought to look there, he had been searching places below eye level while she had found a spot above his head where he never looked before. Must be dusty.
The odd pair stared at her for a while before sharing a look, they had to convince her to come down. Hiccup looked at the girl again, he couldn't see her face so he couldn't tell how she felt but he had a feeling she was scared.
"Hey Gobber," he said without looking away from the girl. "Why don't you wait down stairs?" Hiccup asked or more suggested. The older viking didn't catch on.
"Why?" He asked. When Hiccup pointed to where the girl was he seemed to understand. His fake leg thumped on the stairs as he made his way down.
"Hey," Hiccup said. When that didn't get her attention he tried again. "Hey girl hiding on the wood beam," he watched as her fingers crept over the edge. She moved closer to the edge of the beam and Hiccup saw very blue eyes peering down at him. He was right, she looked frightened.
She was. The boy with green eyes stood next to the cute scaly creature. He was a stranger, as was the louder one that went downstairs. Her hiding place had been found, and she had thought it was a good one. Better than under the bed with the stinky sock. Was that what the smelly thing was? A sock? What was a sock? No! She had to stop asking questions, they hurt her head.
"You can come down," the boy said. "We're not going to hurt you," he was speaking gently. It sounded nice and she felt herself start to calm down. She looked at the cute nice creature, he looked back and nodded every so slightly. The fear melted away again. Was it odd that she seemed to trust a scaly black cute creature more than someone like her? What was she? AH! No more questions!
Slowly she climbed down from the wooden beam. Carefully she found her footing on the small table she had used to help her up, the one with papers on it. It had been easy for her to climb up, almost as if she had been climbing all her life. Had she? She was terrible at this not asking questions thing.
When she was finally on the ground again the girl watched the odd pair carefully. The black creature gave her a pink smile to which she returned in her own toothy way.
"Well I guess your not afraid of Toothless," the boy said. She looked at him and her smile vanished. "But you don't trust me, that's interesting." When they stood on even ground she noticed that the boy was shorter than her but not by much. He was also very thin and the girl wondered if he was underfed.
"I'm Hiccup," he said gesturing to himself. "You've already met Toothless," gestured to the black cute scaly creature. Toothless, she thought for a moment, very fitting name. Toothless made the weird warble sound again which she assumed was his way of saying hello.
"What can we call you?" Hiccup asked. She looked at him confused. "Your name? You have one don't you?" When she shook her head Hiccup wore the same confused look.
"That's weird," he scratched his head and looked at the ground. Well she had fallen from the sky, maybe she was given some sort of trauma?
"Do you remember where you're from?" She shook her head again.
"Your family?" Again she shook her head.
So here Hiccup was standing across from a girl who fell from the sky, had no voice and no memory of who she was or where she came from. Well this is... new, Hiccup thought and scratched his head again.
The thunder rumbled nearby, apparently the storm hadn't passed yet. Hiccup was still thinking about the strange girl when she took off down the stairs.
"Hey!" He shouted but she passed Gobber and was soon out the door.
"Where's she gooin'?" The older Viking asked when Hiccup and Toothless made it down the stairs.
"I don't know but I think we should follow her," he ran out the door and followed the girl who was not to far ahead of him.
She had to get some place high! Why? He would find her if she was. Who? She stopped asking questions but kept running. It was something about the storm, about the thunder and lightning. She needed to be near it, if she was closer than he could find her. Her feet were quick on the dirt ground and she kept running on the path leading up. She almost fell off the cliff that the path apparently lead to.
She couldn't go any farther. Frantically she looked at the storm, it was starting to move away. No! She needed the storm to stay! He couldn't find without it. He loved storms. Who was this he? She couldn't remember a name but she knew it was a he.
Without a voice her shouts were silent but the rumble of thunder was growing quieter. It was leaving, he was leaving.
No! He was... gone.
Her legs gave way under her shaking figure. Why had she run again? Why did she feel so sad? More questions she couldn't answer. More questions that hurt her head.
"Hey!" someone shouted. She turned to see Hiccup had followed her with Toothless right behind him. Until now she hadn't noticed he had a fake leg. Why was she noticing it now? He knelt next to her. Oh, Toothless had a fake fin. They matched, she thought dejectedly.
"Are you okay? Why did you run?" Toothless sat on her other side and stared at the storm she had chased after. Something in her chest hurt when she watched the storm drift away.
Hiccup put a hand on her shoulder and she looked to see that he was worried and confused. As was she. Her eyes felt warm and filled with water. Why was she crying?
"Woah! Uh... It's going to be alright?" Hiccup said unsure of how to handle this situation. But when the girl leaned into his shoulder and started silently sobbing he was even more confused about the situation. He would never understand girls would he?
"Hiccup!" Speaking of girls... Apparently Astrid and the group had been on their way to Hiccup's when they saw him and Toothless running out of his house. They had soon run after their friend when he didn't hear their calls.
When the group saw what was going on they stopped. Astrid was leading the pack with Snotlout and the twins close behind, Fishlegs was still running towards them very much out of breath.
"What's going on?" Astrid asked with her arms crossed. She didn't like the fact some strange girl was holding Hiccup.
"Uh..." was all Hiccup could say.
A/N: WOOT! Another chapter up! Okay so bad news is that I sent my computer to be fixed and might not get it back for hopefully a week (It may be longer so I'm hoping for just a week)... Screen cracked and I was using another monitor with my laptop. I called it the Frankenstein Computer... it was weird. But! My mother has an iPad, which I'm using now and my grandmother has a computer! Then there's college but they have many computers to be used!
Lets cross our fingers that my laptop comes back soon... I miss it...
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