A/N: Holy cow! I was not expecting such a reaction for the first chapter of this story! I really just want to say thank you to the 33 people who are following this story, which is the most number I've ever had on a story, the 14 people who added this story to their favorites, and especially the 10 people who took the time to review the story. Thank you! That just made my day, and encouraged me to write more, especially with the unanimous vote for me to continue this story. Also, there was a little bit of confusion, Hiccup and Toothless are both ten years old in this story. And without any other interruptions, here's the new chapter you've been wanting.
Hiccup let out a small groan as he started to wake up. His whole body ached, and he couldn't remember much from before he was knocked out. When he tried to sit up, het let out a gasp as pain shot through his left leg, and his gaze was immediately drawn to it.
What he saw nearly made him pass out again. Hiccup had never been able to handle seeing much blood, and seeing his own blood covering the ground he was laying on, was too much for him. As he choked back what little food he might have had in his stomach, he became aware of a sound he'd never heard before.
The Night Fury was immediately awake as soon as the small human had begun to stir. He was glad that it had made it through the rest of the night; he'd been seriously concerned at some point it would just stop breathing, and die.
When the human had lifted its head, the Night Fury had nearly jumped up to go see how it was. Until he remembered that it was injured, when it barely even moved its leg. He really hoped it wasn't too serious of an injury, he already felt bad that it was hurt, and he would never forget if it was permanently injured because of his inability to catch it.
The Night Fury let out a soft whine that begged it for forgiveness for allowing it to get hurt. His whine grabbed the human's attention. He was expecting it to start yelling, like he'd heard the other humans do, he was not expecting it to start screaming its head off, in obvious fear.
Hiccup froze for a second when he saw what was casually lying down near him. A second later, he did the first the thing that came to his mind, scream. When he ran out of breath, he actually tried to do what every bone in his body was telling him to do; run away from it.
He had started to push himself up, when pain came from his leg again. Hiccup let out a cry at the pain, and grabbed at the leg as a natural response, to somehow try and stop the pain. When he did this the pitch black beast that was sitting merely feet away was on its feet in seconds, obviously planning on coming closer.
"No!" Hiccup knew it would really do no use to beg for it not to come closer, and that holding his hands between them would do nothing to protect him, but he did it as a natural reaction. When the beast stopped in its tracks, and tilted its head to the side in apparent confusion, the boy was dumb founded.
The young Night Fury was confused at the human's actions. It was clear he was in pain from the leg, yet it wouldn't let him help. After having lived on his own for his entire life, the Fury knew very well how to take care of injuries, and it couldn't be that different than taking care of his own.
"I just wanna help." The Fury tried to calm the small human down by saying this, but it only seemed to frighten it even more. He tried to make some of the calming sounds that he'd heard other dragons making towards their young when frightened, but that didn't work either.
Hiccup didn't like the sounds that were coming from the black dragon. He didn't know what they meant, and he didn't want to be here long enough to find out. For a third time the boy tried to stand, this time expecting the pain, and he gritted his teeth in an attempt to ignore it.
Again he heard the dragon make the same sort of sounds, and it took a step closer to him. Hiccup chose to ignore it until he was leaning heavily against a boulder, his breathing about as far away as regular as it could get.
The Night Fury tried again to tell the human that he didn't mean any harm, but it didn't seem to listen. For a moment, he wondered if the human couldn't understand him. He'd never been extremely good at speaking, because he'd never really been taught to. Ignoring the thought he tried once again to get closer to look at the human's leg.
When the human held one of its hands out again to stop the Fury, he blew air through his nose in an upset manner. 'Why did this human have to be so stubborn?' It wasn't like he was trying to hurt it; he was actually trying to help. Yet it kept looking at him with nothing but fear in its eyes.
A rumbling noise emanated from the human and for a second the Night Fury thought the human had enough nerve to growl at him. But when the human immediately grabbed its stomach, he could only assume that it was its stomach that had made the noise, and that it must have been starving.
It made sense, the attack had happened in the middle of the night, so there was no reason for it to have eaten before the raid. He felt bad; he didn't have any food to give the human, which couldn't go get its own food because of him.
When his stomach growled, he saw the dragon tense slightly, before relaxing. Hiccup put his hand on his stomach to try and somehow stop the gnawing pain that was in his stomach. Yesterday, he'd forgotten to eat both lunch and dinner, because he was too busy making a contraption in the forge to notice he got hungry. Now he was definitely regretting it.
Feeling weak from hunger, Hiccup sat down, trying to move his injured leg as little as possible. When his stomach growled again, this time much louder, he wrapped both arms around his stomach. He closed his eyes, and tried to ignore the hunger and pain coming from his leg.
Hiccup's eyes shot wide open when he heard something moving around nearby him. The dragon was even closer than before, its head was less than a foot away from his. Hiccup immediately let out a startled cry, and tried to back up from it, only to be blocked by the bolder he had earlier been using for support.
The Night Fury didn't understand why the human was so insistent that it be as far away from him as possible. Yet again the human's stomach cried out in hunger, but the human seemed too terrified of his presence to do anything about it.
He desperately wanted to give it food, but the few he had been able to catch from the small lake nearby all went into his own stomach, not thinking about the human. Then he remembered he'd seen several adult dragons bringing back up parts of their meals for their young.
He'd never done it before, because he never had the need, but this seemed to be as good a time as any to try it. The young dragon had no idea how to, but he managed to, bring up the back half of one of the fish he had eaten earlier, right onto the human's lap.
Hiccup was worried, when the dragon had started making a weird sound, and he could see its throat convulsing. Briefly he wondered if it was going to roast him right now. He wasn't entirely sure what to have expected, but half of a fish in his lap, was not what he had been expecting.
To say he was disgusted was an understatement. He didn't even know why the dragon had done it. Dragons were mindless killing beasts, yet here it had just delivered the food he needed so badly to him, admittingly it was half an uncooked fish, but it was still food.
Eyeing the black beast warily, Hiccup hesitantly took a bite of the fish. It felt and tasted absolutely disgusting in his mouth, but he needed the food, and he didn't want to somehow upset it, by refusing its offer of food.
After swallowing the bite he had taken, Hiccup had to cover his mouth to keep the fish from coming back up. With the dragon still hovering a foot away from him, Hiccup hesitantly took a second bite of the fish. He nearly choked on the bite he had in his mouth, when he saw the dragon nod at him.
He was pleased, the human had taken his offering of food, despite the look of obvious disgust on its face. He assumed that it didn't like the fact it had to eat something he'd already eaten. He could understand that, but that was all he had for it at the moment.
After it took a second bite, he nodded in approval, before spreading his wings open. Half of a fish wasn't enough for the human, and by the looks of it, it was already smaller than it should have been. If he was going to be caring for it now, he wanted it to be as healthy as possible. Taking to the sky, he flew away from the cove that the human had fallen into, planning on bringing back some fresh fish for it.
As soon as the dragon had flown away, Hiccup let out a relieved sigh, and slumped against the rock behind him. His stomach was still growling at him, wanting more food, but he wasn't going to eat any more of that fish.
The boy just rested for a few minutes, before deciding to do what he could about his leg. For a second he wished he'd chosen healing over blacksmithing. But he was quickly reminded why he'd chosen blacksmithing, when his lunch threatened to make another appearance.
This was the first time he was getting any sort of real good look at it, without that dragon hovering over him. Aside from the large amount of blood that was coming from his leg, what disgusted him the most, was the splotch of bright white.
Seeing something that was supposed to be inside your body was something he never wanted to see. While he could see that his lower leg was broken, he could only guess that his ankle was as well. Hiccup took a few deep breaths, as he tried to remember anything he knew about treating injuries.
All he knew really was that he had to stop the bleeding. Pulling out the small dagger he had in his belt, which he was glad hadn't stabbed him when he fell. Hiccup carefully cut the bottom of his tunic to use as a bandage.
Hiccup decided that before he could wrap his leg, he'd have to put the bone back in place. He knew it was going hurt, so he grit his teeth, and bit back the cry that wanted to escape me. When it was back in place, he took a second to just breathe, before binding it as tightly as he could.
After Hiccup was done tending to his leg, he hauled himself to his feet, keeping most of his weight off his left foot. Limping over to the small lake, he washed the blood off of his hands, before finally looking around to see where he was.
Hiccup's shoulders dropped as he realized that he was in some a cove, and there was no easy way to get out. The walls were too steep for him to have climbed even if he wasn't injured, and now he had no way to get out.
When he saw a possible way out, he wasted no time limping over to it, leaning heavily against the rock walls and boulders whenever he could. Looking up the path he'd found, it looked fairly steep, and he hoped that he would still be able to get up it.
He'd barely even started up the narrow path he'd found, when he lost his footing. The fall itself wasn't that bad, but ending up stopping by hitting his head on one of the boulders, was bad. When Hiccup tried to sit up, his he was overcome with dizziness, and he just decided to lay there until his head stopped hurting.
The last rays of the sun had just sunk beneath the ocean, when the Night Fury returned to the cove, carrying a couple of fish in his claws for the human. He was surprised to find the small human lying curled up next to a boulder, asleep.
The Fury was about to settle down to sleep as well, when he noticed the human seemed to be shaking ever so slightly as it slept. Worried about it, he crept closer, and realized it was probably just cold. He knew that humans usually wore things over them to keep themselves warm.
As a dragon, he didn't have to worry about being too cold, so he didn't know how to warm up the little human up. The only thing that came to mind was to keep it close to him, allowing his natural body heat to warm it up.
Deciding on this, he gently moved the human away from the boulder so he could lie down beside it. Drawing it closer, he held it against his body with his legs, and then draped his wing over it, to keep the heat near it. As he nodded off to sleep, he hoped he woke up before the human, so it wouldn't freak out again.
A/N: Once again thank you to those of you who took the time to review, now I'm going to take the time to respond back to you guys!
Avalonmagic: Glad that you like my idea, and sorry about it being a little confusing, I had it down in my notes that Hiccup was 10, I guess it never got into the story, sorry! Well in my mind he's not Toothless, until he meets Hiccup, and being the only Night Fury in the area, he has no real need for a name.
Make war not love. war is fun: Glad that you think it's interesting
Liliana Dragonshard: I continued it, like you asked and I'm really glad that you loved it. I'll definitely be continuing.
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