Chapter 2
A/N: Woohoo! This must be some kind of record! Posted Chapter One at ten in the morning, posted Chapter Two at eleven at night, same day! Of course, I probably owe it to my twin sister/co-writer/editor! Also, I do not own How to Train Your Dragon 1, 2 or 3, or any of its characters.
"Are they hatching yet?" I bounced over to my mother.
Her ears twitched. "How likely would that be, in the ten minutes since you last asked me?"
I sat back. "Is that a no?"
"Yes, go play with your friends and leave me alone." She whisked her tail at me. I jumped out of the way and bounded back towards Firewing. Even though he was technically younger than me, as a Gronckle he was still a lot heavier.
"Hey! Watch this!" he called. He shook himself and spulched out about an eggful of lava.
"Wow!" I hopped out of the way and looked at the fiery pool in awe. "That's the most ever!"
Firewing's eyes gleamed mischievously. "I bet you can't do anything like that, Nótt!"
I whapped him with my wing. "Don't call me that. It sounds stupid."
"Why would it? It's the name of the goddess of darkness and night!"
"Exactly! It's the name of a goddess! A GODDESS! And I'm a boy!"
"Sheesh, you don't have to get so worked up about it. But what am I supposed to call you? Oh, and by the way, can you do the plasma blast thing? Because I've never actually seen you do it."
I squirmed uncomfortably. "About the name, I don't know…for the plasma blast…well, the only time I did it-"
"Wait, you've done it before? Then what are you waiting for?"
"Well…" I thought about last time. I'd been panicking so much that I had instinctively…
I opened my mouth. I'd always felt a sort of heat from a section around his chest…could that be where the fire came from? I clenched my stomach and imagined the heat being forced higher, up my shoulders, to my neck, into my throat…
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
"That looks so cool, you can actually see your mouth lighting up purple…"
eeeeeeeeeeEEE BOOM
"What happened?" He sat up dazedly.
"I think…I did a plasma blast,"I said. I stood up…and looked at the smoking crater I'd made. "Oh, Thor, our moms are going to kill us."
Firewing looked up at him. "We didn't see anything, right?"
"Right," I agreed. We slunk back to the eating place. As I walked, it seemed like everyone was looking at us. I nudged Firewing. "Try not to look guilty like that," I hissed.
"Guilty? You don't look very innocent either," he whispered back. My mom looked up as we came over.
Instantly she said, "What did you do?"
"Oh no! She knows!" Firewing whispered frantically. "Ignis told me that mothers always know when you've done something!"
"Uh…what…are you talking…about?" I said nervously.
"We…don't know what you're…you know…talking about!" Firewing added.
She flicked her ear. "Have you two been trying to breathe fire?"
"Not just trying, we actually did! Nótt did a-" I covered his mouth with my wing.
She looked at me. "What did you do?" I shrunk under her gaze.
"A plasma blast…" This got her attention.
"A plasma blast?" I shifted my wings. "I didn't think it would actually…you know…"
She stared at me. "You. Did a plasma blast?"
"Yes. You can go see the crater if you want," I said, a little defensively.
"And you made a crater?"
I didn't see what she was so surprised about."Yes, a crater." She just stared at me for a couple seconds.
Suddenly, a blue-eyed Night Fury approached my mom. "It's happening."
She got to her paws and started walking over to the place where my parents nest was. "Come on," She said briskly. "This involves you." As we all padded along, Firewing and I tentatively discussed what our punishments would be.
"Grounded to the nest." Firewing predicted glumly.
"Babysitting the others when they hatch."
"Nothing but cod for a day."
"I like cod."
Firewing turned to stare at me.
"Really? Then you can eat my cod when I get nothing but cod."
They were silent for a couple of moments, by which time they had reached my family's nest. It was only then that we noticed what was happening. There were a great number of Night Furies clustered around the nest, all stretching over each other in an effort to see what was happening. I bounded over, and wiggled through the dark wall of Night Furies. What I found in the center made me gasp.
The eggs, which in the morning had been a slightly see-through dark gray, were now completely translucent, completely clear, with small jet-black dragon bodies curled up inside. A Night Fury I didn't know stepped forward toward the pile of eggs. He raised his head and roared up to the sky. The eggs were now so fragile that the noise was enough to shatter their glassy shells. Now awake and out of their eggs, the baby Night Furies picked their way out of the eggshells. My mother jumped over to a pair of babies who both had green eyes like mine. She picked them up, purring, and carried them to our nest. My father came over, holding a couple of salmon and dropped them next to the babies. They set upon the fish quickly, and soon they were gone. My mother licked them all over until they wriggled away with discomfort. My father nodded. "Come on, Jet. It's time for the naming ceremony."
I followed them to the ledge where I'd been named. Again, most of the Night Furies were grouped there. My father climbed onto the ledge. "Welcome, fellow Night Furies. We gather today…" Meh, just as boring as the last one. My attention wandered. I wondered when I'd learn to fly- I was nearly a month old and I thought that was old enough. I imagined flying around the island, skimming the water with my claws. Aah, the wind on my scales-
"Nótt!" A voice hissed next to my ear. I startled awake to find that the space was empty. Had I really been daydreaming that long? I turned around to see my mother, accompanied by Moon and Firewing. "Nótt, could you show us the way to the crater?" my mother asked. I gulped; this was where we were going to be punished. Better prepare for a lot of cod… We'd done it in a small nook by the south side of the bay. I found it easily, even at night.
"Here it is." My mother bent down to examine the seared earth.
Moon gasped. "This is almost as big as anything you've ever made," she murmured. My mother looked worried.
"What does this mean, Moon?"
Moon was studying the crater with an intense expression on her face. "It may be that he has a bigger destiny than what we had supposed," she said quietly. She looked up at the moon and back down at the crater.
She took a deep breath. "THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO BECOME THE ALPHA APPROACHES…" she said raspily. I pressed against my mother.
"What's she doing?" She shushed me.
Moon continued: "THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO BECOME THE ALPHA APPROACHES… BORN TO THE SUN AND MOON, BORN IN THE NEST OF THE RED DEATH… AND THE RED DEATH WILL MARK HIM AS THE ONE, WITH POWER ALL OTHER DRAGONS KNOW NOT…AND HE SHALL USE THIS POWER TO BECOME THE ALPHA…THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO BECOME THE ALPHA WILL BE BORN IN THE NEST OF THE RED DEATH…" She shook herself and went quiet. My mother stared at Moon, an almost horrified expression on her face.
"Come on, Nótt," she said hurriedly. She rushed back to our nest, and I ran after her.
"What did that mean?" I asked her. "Was that a proph-" She shushed me.
"The Red Death may not be here, but you never know who else might be listening." Before I could ask her what she meant, she disappeared into the darkness.
A/N: Just in case you were wondering, the 'wheeeeEE" thing represents the ballistic missile noise Toothless makes when he's about to fire. Oh, and please no flames over the fact that the prophecy is structured very similarly to the Harry Potter prophecy.
