Chapter Two
Dragon Savior
Stoick had searched for hours, but no sign of Hiccup was anywhere. This really worried him. What if his, "problem" had been triggered. Any instant shocks would make it occur it, and the thunder storm had just passed over. He was waiting in the village, twiddling his thumbs, as he waited, for the other search teams to return, with some news.
"Hold on Hiccup." Stoick said outloud, staring into the starry sky. Silently, he prayed to the Gods, and bit his lip, hoping something terrible didn't happen to his small teenage boy.
After his crew, more and more vikings were returning, and as another approached, Stoick's hopes raised, but fell again when they told him the bad news. He was losing hope and was thinking the search was pointless. What could of happened? How can you lose a human body? Was it true that he was carried off by a dragon? Or was it hidden somewhere, or worst...
"No!" Stoick said to himself in mind, "That can't happen yet. Not while I'm around." Still, Stoick wasn't fooling anyone. All he had left to do was wait, with the little hope he had left in him, and wait for the last search party to return.
One search party had headed out toward the forest terrian, and that party was lead by the young and beautiful young viking girl, Astrid. She was quite fierce when it came to fighting dragons, and would soon be entering Dragon training. She believed this search party was a waste of time. Why would anyone care if Hiccup disappeared, after all, all he did was mess things up. However she had to obey the cheif's order, but still. It bothered her that the cheif's orders were very strict, and needed to be completed quickly. She would wonder why, only if she cared about the boy, but she didn't.
She had searched the whole forest up and down and she found no little teenage boy.
"Come on! He's not here. Let's return back to the village." Astrid shouted to her search crew, leading them out of the forest area. However, there was something in her mind, that no one else knew. Faintly, she heard some kind of coughing noises, far in the distance near the ravine. She knew what, or who it was, but on her own accord in mind, she frankly didn't care.
"It's not that hard to lie." Astrid thought, returning the village, with a visage that didn't teld the truth, and hid her real thoughts in her mind. She approached Stoick, her face with the experisson saddened with grief.
"We didn't find him." she lied.
Was it a illisuion, or had he heard voices just now? Hiccup was having troubles staying on the right planet. His mind was almost forgetting the great pains, but it was still there. His head was drifting in and out of reality, and the afterlife.
"I can't tell if that was human voices, or the divine spirits." Hiccup whispered again, squeezing back the pain inside his throat. It was such a hard thing to ignore, since it was right in the chest, and sort of killing him, slowly and painfully. He had given up screaming, and started taking in the facts. Everyone in the village thought he was a nuiscance, so they be glad if this turned out the way it's going to be, here in a few mintues. The pain was do overwhelming, taking his breath with every beat, as time started to feel slower, and everything around him turned to blubber, as his vision was watering up.
"PLEASE! I just want the pain to doesn't matter anymore! Please, Gods of the Heavens just kill me now!" the boy thought, lying his head back down in the damp grass, and closing his eyes, which he believed, would stay that way, forever.
Lying there for countless hours, Toothless rose from his bed, guilt on his mind.
"I know I sensed something wrong with that human boy." he thought, running through the dragon fortress, off the runway, and into the sky.
Toothless didn't doubt his mind this time. When he looked into that boy's eyes, he read him, but he was a closed book, but the one thing he could see clearly was his health conditions. Fragile. However when he saw Toothless in the eye, the dragon had noticed the health conditions change. That was what was bugging him, and after hours of lying in bed, it occupying his mind, Toothless did the math in his head. If this condition had been, "activated" it would... this made Toothles increase his flight speed. He knew what his goal was, and he would accomplish it. He figured out what he had done to the boy, and regretted it deeply inside his dragon heart. Being a dragon, he'd only hurt other creatures out of self defense, and that boy had done no harm to him. There was also another thing dragons had with other creatures, but that wasn't on Toothless' mind.
Finally reaching the forest in time, he found the boy, motionless on the ground. Toothless sensed his heart rate, with less than five beats per mintue.
"NO!" Toothless thought, running towards him, and scooping him up in his hands, and flying off towards the village. His worries were already filling up inside. If this boy faded, due to his transactions, not only will the poor Night Fury be exiled for killing a harmless creature, but have his wings sawed off, but worst, he'd be, Toothless shook his head.
"I don't have time to worry about me," he thought, "I have to save this human boy."
He was thankful that the moon wasn't shining this night, that made it easier to drop the boy off in the village. Toothless could still sense his heart rate dropping more than what it rested it at. Landing in the village, he ran to the neartest building, not even considering being seen. He had to save this boy's life, because of his dragon vows, which he would put into mind later.
"Ok, maybe they can help you." Toothless said, his voice sounding like a the waves upon the ocean shore. He rested the viking on their doorstep, pounded on the door, and bolted off into the night sky.
"I have to complete my vows. I will never betray the dragon code." Toothless thought in his mind as he watched the boy's body like a hawk.
"Who's there?" Astrid shouted looking around her house for her visitor, but she only found him when she looked down.
"DAD!" she shouted into the house. "Run this boy back to the chief!" Quickly, another built Viking came, scooped up Hiccup, and ran to Stoick's house. Astrid closed the door behind her, and dashed up to her room, slamming that door behind her quickly. Afterwards, she kicked a chair in her room, onto the floor and pounded her fist into the wall.
"DAMN IT!" she yelled, expressing her anger. She was really upset at this turn of events. She was glad Hiccup was missing, but now he had returned, and was very displeased. She was now planning some sort of revenge on the one person who had brought Hiccup back to town, and she had just sparked the right idea. First she had to find this mysterious savoir. Who ever they were, they must of had some guts, saving Hiccup? That, or just brainless. Either way, once she found them, she was going to give them a piece of her mind, Astrid style.
Stoick was relieved when another Viking returned with Hiccup in hand. Pulling the boy inside the house, he lied him down on the table and felt his chest. He hestiantly felt around the youth's rarely rising chest, as he feared what might of happened when he was out alone.
"No, the beats are decreasing." Stoick shuddered in fear, as he realized that his baby boy was fading away into another world. Stoick knew there was nothing he could do now. That was one of the reasons he kept Hiccup inside the house all the time. To prevent him from recieving a shock as bad as the one that occured. Lifting his slim body off the table, he walked up stairs, and lied him down on his bed.
"Well...I'm sorry my son. I tried to protect you, but I got too protective. You never got to meet anyone, and I always called you a screw up. I also apologize for not letting you out of the building and into the open world." He raised a hand towards the brunette's hair, and slowly brisked his hand through the thin strandes, letting them lingger upon his fingers as he spoke, "However, if you do pass these conditions, and the Gods are kind to you, I'll let you enter dragon training, learn how to fight dragons, and more importantly, meet some people. I hope you forgive me, for treating you like a prison, instead of my baby-" his words were muffled out as he began sobbing in his hands, at the boy's bedside. Stoick only had one thought in mind as he thought over about the sight before him. That only thought being, this and only this. Now, he'd be alone, but if this was the time of dawning, Hiccup would shortly be with his mother, on a path were everyone resigns in, when their hourglass of time has run out.
Toothless waited for the father to leave the young Viking boy's room. Like he thought eariler there was a dragon vow, which he had to stay loyal to. When the lights went out in Berk, the dragon snuck inside and crawled over the boy's bed.
"Remeber," the dragon chief had once said, long ago, years before the Vikings had been here, "Since we dragons only attack out of self defense, we will not hurt other living creatures without purpose. However if we do, the dragon that has commited the crime will stay by the creature's side til death." Toothless had to lead that path. He had almost killed this human boy, and that was against regulations.
"From now, I, Toothless, the Night Fury, will stay by your side, til death do we part." Toothless whispered, before his lips touched with the Viking's, connecting their loyalty to a new level.
Author Notes: Wow, two chapters this fast. I must be on a roll. I do have some ideas for this story, so now the others must be blank. I also had somebody asking to read more, and the more I hear, the more inspiration I have to write more.( I mean motivation.) Anyway, it's still here, and ready to be read. I hope their are no typos, like the last chapter had, and even the summary has them(I spelt Toothless' name wrong) I'll hopefully have another chapter ready soon. Thanks for the support. And sorry this chapter is so short and right to the point with things. I'm still setting the stage and will be reaching the climax shortly, I hope. Please keep reading and reviewing.
