Out in a open field, several baby Night Furies were playing along the stream with their mothers watching over them. Some were chasing the insects in the air, others attempted to fly only to fall on the grass. However there was one young fury who bounced himself towards the edge of the rapid waters that was by the mountain. He dipped his paw in curiously but the rapid water was too strong for the hatchling as he fell in.
His cries alerted everyone in the area including his mother. "My hatchling!" She let out a terrifying yell when she saw her son trip into the water. The mother flew as fast as she could to catch her child but the hatchling was forced into the cracks of the mountain that was too small for her to go through.
"There's no other choice, you have to give up on him!" A friend pulled her tail. "He'll end up at the other side at this rate!"
"I can't just leave him!"
"At least get the other hatchlings away before they fall in too!"
From afar, another Night Fury was flying by as saw what the two furies were arguing about from above. His raised his head to peer at the snowy mountain. Knowing that no one was allowed on the other side, he decided to screw the rules as he flew over it.
In his descent, he saw the hatchling appear on the other side just as the friend of the mother said. He flew towards the child and grabbed the scruff of the child's neck with his mouth. "Caught ya!" The hatchling squirmed a little bit but purred happily in return. "Why don't we get you back to your mom?" When the little one squeaked in reply, he prepared to fly back up but an arrow was shot at his wing.
He yelled in pain as he went down but thankfully he still had a tight grip on the baby dragon. However, the two were suddenly covered by nets.
"It's so strange how the humans got over here though. Are you sure your wing is alright?" Hiccup asked after listening to his story.
"Peachy." He reassured as Hiccup checked the small hatchling for any wounds. While she was busy, he clenched his teeth when an excruciating amount of pain shot through his wing. He stared at his unusable wing and then at the two furies with a plan in mind.
Hiccup turned her head to the mountain once when she knew the hatchling was alright. "Okay, I'll lead you two back to the other side-"
"Now wait a sec." He interrupted Hiccup as he nudged the youngling towards her, "Do you know how to handle hatchlings?"
"Uhhh I guess I can, but why?"
"Can you bring this little guy back to his mother for me?"
'What? No? I-I can't. I know I said I'll lead you two out but that doesn't mean I'm going to the other side!" Hiccup panicked. She was anxious flying back to the other side on her own since she isn't allowed there. "You're making it sound like you can't go."
"That's exactly what I'm trying to say." The male dragon sighed.
"Why?" Hiccup narrowed her eyes at him.
The other fury raised his wing revealing the arrow that was still lodged into it. She watched him wincing in pain while doing so. "Oh no, don't tell me you can't fly? How much pain are you in?" Hiccup studied the wing to analyze how bad it was. She felt guilty not checking his wing, but he admitted he was fine earlier. Maybe it was acting up now?
"I swear this is nothing-URGH!" He tried flapping his injured wing but all he felt was extreme pain. The smaller fury whimpered sympathetically at him. "Don't worry, this should be easy to take out."
"You have to take it out carefully or it might hurt you even more. Let me do it." Hiccup turned to the little one before proceeding, "Can you stand behind me for a moment? It's gonna look ugly." The young hatchling squeaked joyfully, not understanding what Hiccup meant. Hiccup smiled as she gently pushed the child towards her tail, allowing the tiny dragon to play with it. "Grind your fangs." She warned the older male as she gripped the arrow in her jaws and pulled it out carefully. Some blood oozed out so she quickly licked the wound to stop the bleeding.
"Whoa whoa, what are you doing?" The wounded fury raised his wing away from her.
"Using the saliva to stop the bleeding, you can't reach that part of your wing." She finished and wagged her tail more to ensure the youngling was still distracted. "It's only a quick fix though. The bone itself might be broken so I'm guessing it'll heal in about two weeks or so."
"I can't fly for two weeks?!" He shouted in shock.
"Well think of it this way, having a broken wing is better than those humans taking you and that hatchling away." She took another look at the wing now that the saliva is taking effect. "Okay, let me try and lift you for a sec." She struggled to pull him in the air using her hind legs and paws. However, she heard a low grunt of pain below her so she dropped him gently back to the ground.
"Moving around even hurts...sorry." The male huffed, not believing that this wound was giving him this much trouble.
"No it's fine, I'll just think of another way." She panted, already tired from carrying him.
Hiccup was cautious now that she was unable to carry him to the other side herself. Since he felt pain whenever he moved, it would be hard to maneuver in the air without worsening his injury. She exasperated nervously, realizing how this was going to end up but she had to do it for the young hatchling. "You know what? Come down to my cove to rest up your wing. I'll take the hatchling back to his mother and get some help on that side for you."
"Really? You would do that?" He was rightfully surprised since she had just mentioned minutes before how she wasn't going to go to the other side.
"Well this is only because you can't fly with that wing now. As much as I don't want to, I'll just get there quickly and leave." She picked up the young dragon with her tail, and placed him on her back. "Come on, the cove is that way."
"I feeling like I'm forgetting something." Hiccup mumbled to herself.
Evening rolled around by the time Hiccup delivered the male fury to her cove and lent him her bedrock. She flew to the night skies with the baby hatchling on her back. Surprisingly, this one was tolerant and didn't roll around or get restless. The small hatchling eyes lit up by all the stars in the skies and the moon that was shining on Hiccup's dark blue scales.
Hiccup continued her ascent up the mountain gently when the baby on her back squealed, rubbing against her neck lovingly.
"I know, you miss your mom. I'm bringing you back to her now."
He squeaked cutely in confusion.
"Your mom is on the other side." She reassured the child coaxingly.
The child licked her earplate, staring at her expectantly.
"I live on this side not the other side. I can't stay there with you, I'm sorry." Hiccup understood how this child missed his mother. Even though she would rather eat an eel than fly over to the other side, she would not want this hatchling to deal with the same hardships she went through. Sadly, her response was not what the hatchling wanted to hear as he began to whimper. "Oh no, don't cry!" She sets down at a ledge on the mountain to lick the little dragon's forehead until he started to giggle at the attention. "I wish I could stay with you but I belong on the other side."
When she reached the peak, she landed to take a short breath. Hoping that the Alpha wasn't here, she took a hesitant step forward wondering if she would feel the painful threshold she would usually feel when the Alpha sensed her presence. To her surprise, the painful feeling never got through to her, "He's probably out hunting or something, I have to make this quick." She jumped away from the ledge she was standing on, gliding towards unknown territory.
She saw a blast of fire suddenly coming towards her so she quickly spun herself around to grab the hatchling in her paws as she was hit. Hiccup made sure she fell on her back so the child wouldn't be hurt. The young one cried worriedly.
"HA ha! Caught em!"
Hiccup quickly shielded the young dragon with her tail fin as she saw a couple of Night Furies approaching them. "Wait, I'm not the enemy!" She bit the scruff of the hatchling neck raising it forward for the others to see. "I just came to bring him back."
"Fang!" A particular fury dove down immediately when Hiccup placed the child down. Fang waddled his way to his mother as she nuzzled her child. "Oh I was so worried about you! I'm so glad you're safe!" All of Fang's siblings gathered around him and began to play with him.
Hiccup couldn't help but smile at the reunion, but there was a more pressing matter that was approaching her. "Hey! Who in the world are you?" She glanced at the gruff looking Night Fury and presumed he was the one that shot her down.
"Snotlout, let me handle this one." A female Night Fury nudged him away using her wing. She trotted menacingly towards Hiccup.
Hiccup backed away, apprehensive of what to do. She knew she should fly away right now and that's exactly what she did, or at least tried to do before the other female pounced on her. She pinned Hiccup down and unsheathed her claws.
"You came from the other side didn't you?" All Hiccup could do was nod terrified. The dragon on top of Hiccup gasped in realization, "You must be Hiccup."
"And you must be...?" Hiccup tried to play along not knowing who this dragon is.
"Astrid." She introduced herself coldly.
"Right, Astrid! Hi! Hello, Astrid! Can you, um take your claws off from me?" Hiccup rambled nervously. She received a glare from her in return. "Or you can just stay there and we can chat! Yeah, I barely talk to any other females. So! Uhhh, how was...your day?" Hiccup blurted out shakily.
"What are you doing here? I heard you're not allowed on this side of the island." She demanded.
"Funny how you mentioned that. I was just dropping off a hatchling that ended up on my side is all! That's the only thing I was doing!" Her eyes widened remembering someone else. "Wait, there a Night Fury that's injured on the other side. He was the one that saved the hatchling so-"
"Let him stay there for all we care! That guy must be stupid for flying all the way to the Outcast side." Snotlout snorted.
"She's from the Outcast side? That reminds me of that vicious thing that came from the other side of the mountain once. It made me itch and breath fire until I cried. All I saw was red and the trees were singing songs about chickens to me! It was a sad day for me and my butt." A random Night Fury recoiled as he recalled that blasted day.
"Tuffnut, wasn't that just an eel?" The dragon beside him spoke. They appeared to be twins from Hiccup's perspective.
"An eel! An EEL Ruffnut says! Not knowing when that vile thing will return. It might be alone OR it could bring its family, or even an army! Think about it, when they come here they'll eat us all! AND THEY WILL RULE THE WORLD!"
"Ahem, we won't be eaten. We've already built a dam for that using the boulders." A burly male fury sighed tiredly.
"Ah yes, the Fishlegs has thus spoken." Ruffnut concurred with pride.
"Not to mention Gothi knows the antidote if any of us 'accidentally' swallows one again." Another female that was beside Fishlegs also spoke, while enunciating the 'accidentally' part.
"Meatlug, you must understand that one does not just eat an eel. One must use it's power to blow everything to an oblivion!" Tuffnut ended it off by laughing like a maniac.
Hiccup looked at Astrid wearily, "Are they always like this?"
She stared back at Hiccup almost with the same grim expression. "Unfortunately."
"A-Anyways, there's another fury that got injured. He hurt his wing." Hiccup tried to get back to the topic at hand...or paw.
"Well, how comes you didn't bring him back?"
"Just moving his wing alone brought him great pain! I didn't want to worsen it, besides I can't carrying him on my own, he's bigger than me! By a bit I mean not a lot-Ugh, you know what I'm saying! I'm not that strong, you guys seem to know that!" She leered at Snotlout who stuck his tongue out at her.
"Fine, who is he?" Astrid relented in the end.
"He is...Oh THAT'S what I forgot to ask!" Hiccup yelped when Astrid claws grew longer, edging them closer to her neck. "Stupid Hiccup." She berated herself.
"So you're saying that some imaginary Night Fury saved a hatchling that you brought over here and he hurt his wing? And you expect us to help you? No one is allowed on the other side besides Gothi and Gobber!" Astrid retorted angrily. Speaking of the two, Hiccup wondered where they were but unfortunately, they weren't around.
"That pretty much sums it up besides the whole imaginary part but you probably think I'm crazy now, aren't you?" Astrid's glare intensified. "Okay! I'll help him get better then I'll bring him back here and after that, you'll never see me again. Deal?"
"Deal." Astrid finally got off from her and Hiccup managed to stand on her paws once again. The crowd began to dissipate and she began to fly up until she was shot back to the ground once again from a plasma shot.
"HAHA!" She could hear Snotlout's laughter from afar, making Hiccup groan before getting back up again.
I wasn't planning on updating this quick but I just had the urge to post another chapter. I don't have a schedule for this as of yet (even though this fic is just for fun). Thanks for all of the follows, favs and reviews!
MMM- Thanks for the advice! I'll keep those things in mind. Astrid will still be female here and she'll somewhat be the female love rival. I have a better male love rival in mind when it comes to all that love drama though (if I can do it correctly. He won't appear in a while).
LlamaQueen666- I'm glad you like it! Thanks for reviewing! :D