Chapter 2
What appeared to be a Night Fury shaped cloud was racing towards the ground at a blinding speed, and below it, there was what appeared to be another much smaller cloud, but this one was half white, and half brown. What kind of cloud was this? But that didn't matter right now, for Hiccup and Toothless had gone into a dive to try and help these strange new-comers.
"Hang on! Were coming!" shouted Hiccup, even though they were fighting to just stay with this new dragon. The dragon must of heard him, because it started to roar franticly, but all Hiccup heard was a bunch of roars, but Toothless heard what was a females voice, "Help! Please, help my rider!"
Toothless then turned his attention to the dragon's rider, which appeared to be unconscious, seeing as its limbs were flailing out all over the place. Without a second glance, Toothless dived down as fast as he could without letting Hiccup fall off. After a few harrowing minutes, where they getting nearer and nearer to the ground, Hiccup stretched out his arm and just managed to keep the other dragons rider steady as, slowly, Toothless and the other dragon managed to find a space in the forests just west of Berk big enough for two dragons to land.
Almost as soon as they touched the ground, the other dragon gently but roughly grabbed her rider off of Toothless and dragged him a few meters away. Now they were on the ground, they could fully see what the new dragon was like without risk of falling to their deaths.
She had Toothless' body shape, but was a bit smaller. She had different coloured scales and eyes; her scales were so white that it was almost like she was glowing when the sun hit her. Her eyes were the iciest blue colour you could ever imagine, with a pure black pupil slit down the middle of both of them. She would have been beautiful, if her face didn't have a sad look on it and with the constant nudging of her rider.
But as Hiccup got closer to them, she turned on them and started to growl fiercely. "Stay away from my rider!" she growled in Dragonese. Toothless stood beside Hiccup, who had a worried expression on his face. "In case you didn't notice, we just saved your riders life. You could at least let my rider make sure that yours is alright." Toothless growled back at her.
With an unsure look in her eyes, she moved to the side to let Hiccup past. As Hiccup limped towards the rider, Toothless walked towards the Dragon. "What is your name, by the way?" asked Toothless. The Dragon looked at him for a second, and then looked back to her rider. "My name is Ice." Ice whispered. Toothless then leaned towards the right a bit, looking at Hiccup and Ice's rider. "And what is your rider's name?" he asked, looking back at Ice.
Ice let out a quick, dragon grunt like laugh, and replied, "He has many names and titles: White Shadow, the Leader, and Master of the Dark Ones..., I mean, the list endless. But the important thing is that he takes care of me, like I'm one of his own kind. He saved me from death, and for that, I owe him my life."Having finished, Ice looked back to her rider, who was trying to be woken by Hiccup. She then turned back to Toothless, a curious look on her face.
"So now that I've told you my life story," she said, "I would like to know about yours. How did you and your rider meet?" Toothless looked, somewhat surprised, at Ice, but he then sighed, and started his story, "I meet my rider, Hiccup, after he shot me down." He looked up to see Ice startled, but he quickly said, "Dragons were still raiding Berk and the war between Vikings and Dragons was still on. Anyway, when Hiccup found me, he lifted his dagger and I thought that he would kill me, but instead, he cut my ropes and set me free. But when he shot me down, he took off my left tail fin, preventing me from flying on my own ever again." He quickly flashed his fake red tail fin to Ice, who looked at Toothless with sympathy. "After Hiccup earned my trust, he helped me back in the sky. But soon after, his father, Stoic the Vast, found out and he went to destroy the Nest with his entire village. But Hiccup, being the brave, but sometimes clumsy, person he is, managed to kill the Queen, but he lost his leg in her fire."
Toothless finished his story,not looking at Ice. Ice looked back to Hiccup and her rider, and saw Hiccup's left leg, and could not help but not feel sorry for the boy, who had given so much to save his enemy. Still, Hiccup had not managed to revive Ice's rider. She looked back to Toothless. "I heard that the Nest was destroyed, but I never thought that a human help in it. I'm sorry about the boy." She whispered, before nuzzling her head against Toothless' neck.
Toothless was at first startled, but soon accepted the nuzzle. Suddenly, however, Ice pulled away, looking as though she hadn't meant to do that. "Sorry, I didn't mean to do that..." whispered Ice, who seemed to be having a starring contest with the ground. Toothless was about to say something when they heard a voice, "Hey, come here! He's starting to wake up!" It was Hiccup, and he had finally managed to revive Ice's rider. As though she was lightning, Ice was at her rider's side, looking thankfully to Hiccup, then back to her rider, whimpering slightly and nudging her rider's arm with her paw. By this time, Toothless had returned to Hiccup's side, and sat down, also looking down at the rider. After a couple of seconds, the riders eyes shot open, and he tried to sit up, but Hiccup prevented him for doing so, by putting his hands on his shoulder.
The rider then started to talk gibberish. Hiccup just sat there with a confused expression, but when he looked up, Toothless and Ice both wore different expressions: Toothless wore one of shock and confusion, but Ice had one of relief. Toothless, still shocked, looked up to meet Ice's eyes, and managed to say, "H-h-he speaks OUR way? He speaks Dragonese?" Ice just looked at him, puzzled.
"Don't your humans speak our way, too?" asked Ice. Toothless shook his head, and Ice just cocked her head slightly to the right. "That's strange, because from where I come from, all humans learn to speak Dragonese" Muttered Ice, but Toothless still heard her. He looked back to the other human, and since he was paying attention to Ice so much, he didn't take in what her rider looked like.
He noticed immediately that Ice and her rider shared one thing in common, they both had the same eye colour: icy blue that looked as though they were looking right through you. At a closer look, he didn't look a couple of years older than Hiccup, and he was barely 16 human years. He couldn't see his facial features so good though, as he had a piece of clothing up and over his head, hiding his face and leaving it in shadows. Upon a second glance, he noticed that the fabric covering the riders head had a point on the end of it, that closely resembled a bird Toothless saw once – what was it called again – oh, yeah, an eagle! That's what the humans called it, an eagle. But why was it like how it was? As he looked at the rider some more, he noticed something that made his eyes widen.
Where his stomach was, there was a large, crimson coloured circle in the centre of the riders stomach. Toothless looked around, and found a bloody arrow stabbed into the ground. Hiccup must have pulled it out of him and stabbed it there, though Toothless. Toothless turned round so that he was facing Hiccup, Ice and her rider again, to find that Hiccup had let go of Ice's rider, who was now speaking in Hiccup's language.
"You...speak...this language?" asked Ice's rider. Hiccup nodded, and the rider looked mildly surprised. "Odd. Where I come from, we learn to speak the way of the dragon when we are still young. Oh, I'm sorry, but what's your name?" questioned the rider, his left hand outstretched. Hiccup, who still looked mildly shocked, outstretched his own left hand and shook the rider's hand. "Hiccup. And who are you?" asked Hiccup.
"My title is White Shadow, but you can call me Marko." Answered Marko. Marko then looked over to Ice, and said, in Dragonese, "Good thing we landed here, eh Ice? Better than the sea anyway." Ice nodded in agreement. He looked back to Hiccup. "Oh, sorry, didn't I say? My dragons named is Ice." He then looked over to his right and saw Toothless. "And who's the Night Fury?" asked Marko.
"His name is Toothless" Answered Hiccup, and Marko, with some difficulty stood up and walked the few steps towards Toothless, until he was just in front of him. "You mean that's the name that YOU gave him?" asked Marko, before kneeling down until he was eye level with Toothless, who's eyes were as round as the perfect circular rock. He then started to talk gibberish to Toothless, who, amazingly, started to growl back.
After a couple more of these, with a few "oh, I see" and the odd "well I never" coming from Marko, he pulled himself up to his full height, which was about half a head taller than Hiccup. He turned around to the boy, and stated, "'Toothless' real name is actually Shadow Fly, but he doesn't mind being called either of those names." Marko then turned back to Ice and started to walk a few steps before stopping and turning back to Hiccup, saying, "Oh, and two other things." Hiccup looked over to Toothless, then back to Marko. "Go on," asked Hiccup.
"One, Shadow Fly, or 'Toothless', doesn't like it that much when you call him a 'pet', and Two, apparently, you don't give him enough cod for his dinner. Is that right?" asked Marko, turning back to Toothless. Toothless looked at Marko, and then at Hiccup, cocked his head slightly, before quickly nodding. He turned back to Hiccup, whose jaw was hanging open. Suddenly, Marko smacked his hand against his forehead. "STUPID! Sorry, all over the place today, um, where are we, exactly?" he asked, to a rather confused Hiccup and Toothless.
"Um, you're on Berk." At this statement, Marko's eyes went wide with shock. "No! Then that must mean youre Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the III! That would explain the Night Fury." By the way he said it, you would've thought that he had only just met him...oh, wait, he DID just meet him...
Anyway, after a bit of pacing, Marko came to a stop in front of Hiccup and clapped his hands together. "Right then, which way to Berk?" he asked, to which Hiccup replied, "Follow us." Together, they mounted Toothless and Ice, and were soon high in the skies over Berk. The gentle wind passed by them, and Marko couldn't help but let out a small sigh. "Ah, this is the life. Flying and spending some quality time with your dragon, nothing more could a man ask for." He looked down at Ice, which he gently gave a rub against her head, with resulted in a happy purr. He then said something to her in Dragonese, while looking at Toothless, which, after he finished, resulted with a light hit against his head with one of Ice's ear flaps. While rubbing the side of his head, he said, "Hey, I'm just saying what I'm seeing! I've seen the way you look at him." This resulted with a playful warning growl from Ice, to which Marko replied, "OK, OK, I'll stop."
After a few more minutes of silent flying, the two riders and dragons landed on a recently made dragon landing area, so dragons could land somewhere outside of Berk, without fear of accidental hitting something important, like a human or a house, for example. When they both dismounted their dragons they were surprised to see that the village was quiet, and that no one was in the centre of the village. Hiccup turned to the sun, which was nearly gone behind the clouds. His eyes widened. How long were they gone for? His thoughts were interupted by Marko talking to him. "Listen, you better get back to your house, don't worry about us" he stated, as Hiccup was about to open his mouth in protest. "We'll find somewhere to sleep in the forest for tonight, then we'll show up again in the morning."
He finished, looking at Hiccup and Toothless, expecting them to ask something. Hiccup soon spoke up, "Um, would Ice like to stay in the dragon house? It's just beyond the tree line, over there" he said, pointing to a large, shabby looking house near the dock-side cliffs.
Marko looked at Ice, who growled as though she was talking to another one of her kind. He then turned back to Hiccup and Toothless, saying, "She doesn't mind sharing somewhere to sleep with the other dragons, but she would prefer it if Toothless was there with her, you know, so that she at least knows someone there." He was actually talking more to Toothless than to Hiccup, but both were looking at Ice, who suddenly became rather interested in her left forepaw.
Hiccup finally spoke up, "Um, actually, Toothless sleeps in my room, so, sorry Ice." But Ice wasn't looking at Hiccup she just started to shake her head and then turned towards the forest. Before long, she started to butt her head against Marko's back, towards a random direction at the woods, "Hey! ... OK, OK, we're going! Sorry Hiccup, but it looks like we're going to spend the night in the forest! Night!" And with a final flick of Ice's tail, they were both out of sight beyond the tree line.
Shrugging his shoulders and shaking his head, Hiccup slowly started to limp towards his home with Toothless following behind him, ready to catch him in case he fell. After a rather uneventful walk, all except the odd slip by Hiccup, who was always put back up straight by Toothless, they arrived at Hiccups and his father's house. Slowly, Hiccup pushed open the door and noticed immediately that his father wasn't in, the absence of his thunderous snoring wasn't that easy to miss. Trying to be as quiet as he could, in case his father was in fact in, but was so drunk that he wasn't snoring, Hiccup made his way upstairs with Toothless creeping up behind him. When they finally reached his room, Toothless turned so that his side was facing Hiccup, allowing him to remove his saddle and fake tailfin, which were then placed by Hiccups' work bench.
"Night, bud," muttered Hiccup, which received a tired grunt from Toothless, as they both made their way towards their sleeping space: Hiccup, his bed, and Toothless, the spot right beside Hiccups' bed. As Toothless curled up beside his rider's bed, purring, Hiccup sat on his bed, and undid the strap that was attaching his prosthetic leg to his stump. When it was removed, he placed it on his bedside desk, ready to get in the morning, and then he took off his brown over vest, and placed it on his front leg bed post. He was soon lying down with both his hands behind his head, looking up at the ceiling, thinking, this has a really weird day, before drifting off into an uneventful sleep...
