Authors Notes: This ones a little more heavy on the Rai boohoo crap, but I figured it would be neat to show that gods could fear too. As its said in Book 3. 'Even gods have there weaknesses.' Also if you can't guess Rai and Toothless don't have a very good relationship. Its more or less touch and go.
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Chapter 2
Fear Not
Rai felt foolish, and completely odd pushing herself into a corner as the lightning cracked and enveloped the skies in flashes of blues, whites, and purples. Hiccup sat at his desk working on some sort of blueprints with Gobber and his father. It was mostly talk about a bigger roost for a lot more dragons. Even a nesting grounds for them which would be super heated by use of fire pits near the volcano on the other side of the island. It was a bit far from the village but at least that way no one would stumble onto the eggs by accident.
Toothless looked out the windows and had his tongue hanging out like a happy little dog.
'Don't you look happy.' Rai thought to her son.
'It is one of the most…beautiful things I had even seen. Such power, such motive.' He sniffed the air. 'And smells like the inside of an egg.'
'Inside of an egg?' Rai asked she couldn't remember what the inside of an egg would smell like since she was born so long ago. She didn't even know who her parents were anymore, but she knew she had siblings and had met quite a few of them.
"Would you stop that?" Gobber barked at Rai. Rai jumped and looked at Gobber like he was attempting to stab a knife with a cow.
"Doing what?"
"Shaking. Your gonna shake me shop to the ground." Gobber walked over to her and stood her straight up. "Act like the goddess you are!" Gobber growled and walked back over to Stoick who shook his head at the woman. Apparently having second thoughts about having her as a guardian.
"You alright Rai?" Hiccup asked. Rai stood straight up and tried to act as proud as she could.
"Yeah…fine. Whatever." She said and walked into the front area where she could stay in her thoughts without being glared at or judged.
'Rai?' Hiccups thoughts asked her.
'I said I'm fine now leave me alone!' she yelled back at him before sitting down on a work bench and crossed her arms. Lightning struck again and Rai ended up under the work bench.
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~Later on that Night~
Hiccup set a basket of fish down for Toothless and ran his hand down his back hearing the great dragon purr at the touch.
'Rai is still sore about what Gobber said.' Toothless said chomping down on the fish and then looked back up at Hiccup. Hiccup turned to look at his guardian who looked ashamed of her own skin as she picked lint off the blanket in front of her. She would still flinch when the rumbles would shake the house a bit. He could feel her inner battle when she flinched. She looked up at him and then looked away embarrassed by his stare.
"Please I just…" she trailed off when she heard Hiccup speak.
"Why are you afraid of lightning?" He asked her. She needed to tell him, he was a manage and needed to know right?
"I was…tortured by Fury when I wouldn't tell him where the egg was…he promised me that I wouldn't look at lightning the same way again. He used to shock me over and over again. I wouldn't tell, no matter the pain…no matter the fear." Rai hugged her knees and then opened her hands to show the old burn marks that sunk into her skin in melted forms of skin.
"I had to use my power…to free myself. I nearly killed myself trying to get free that day. But he was right…I do fear my own element. Every time I see the flash…it reminds me of that huge machine charging up." Rai said looking away her face had completely turn red. She couldn't hide it from them though. They could feel her shame in that.
"You shouldn't feel ashamed by that Rai you were protecting yourself."
"Its not that Hiccup." She slowly stood up when she stopped hearing the booms and crashes from the lightning. "it's the fact that I walked myself into that problem to begin with. I should have known better. I should have seen it coming. I trusted him to easily…and now I find myself doing that again." She said and looked out the window.
"What do you mean? Your falling in love with whom?" Hiccup asked which got a laugh from Rai.
"Oh not love little one…well not the same love I felt for Fury. But more like a brother, or sister love or a mother and son love." She said her smile fading slowly.
"I mean I'm finding it hard not to love the two of you." She said pointing to both himself and Toothless.
"I find myself wondering if…if either of you would do something like that to me. What he did…killed my trust in everyone. Even those I care about most." She said looking at Toothless who looked up in a bored sort of way.
'That was so long ago…perhaps its time you put the past behind you.' Toothless said licking his claws free of the juices of his dinner. Rai made a gasping noise and turned away from him.
'Then perhaps you should give up flying.' She said back.
"Rai maybe Toothless is right, maybe it would be better to put the passed behind you." Hiccup said taking her hand. She was shaking next to him, her eyes scanned his face. She pulled away from him and walked toward the door.
"I-I'll go back some tea." She whispered back before going down stairs.
HTTYD
Up on the hill overlooking the town a figure stands there on a peg leg. His look was so concentrated. His eyes wondered to a bigger house. It must have been the chiefs hut. Within was that brat and his dragon. Oh how he hated that brat, his dragon, and the woman who took his leg. He would take everything she held dear and then kill her slowly…with his hook. He smiled harshly at this thought.
"You will die Hiccup, you and that woman I'll keep the dragon…and sell it to the highest bidder just to piss you off." He laughed harder and walked back into the woods to wait…wait and plan.
