A/N: recently I've been feeling like a piece of crap because of the review on my undertale story but i'm trying to not let it get me down. Anyways the age set on our characters are 6-7 range but most of the development will happen in later chapters.
Hiccup spent the last two years checking on toothless at their little hideout in the forest but hiccup seemed to be the only one who can fit in the cave now as for toothless was now 4x his size. The young night fury would always go back to the village occasionally and would only be let in on rainy days so Stoick had to stop what he was doing and watch over them otherwise. They didn't seem to cause as much trouble as they used to and even acted like each other's Conscience. Snotlout and the others always kept their distance when toothless was there but seemed less afraid every time and started closing in.
Currently hiccup and toothless were walking over to the forge for their daily shift in Stoick's attempt to separate them. Toothless got tired of walking and just flew off to the other side of the village without hiccup and spent half an hour waiting for him at the entrance. "I see you finally decided to show up."
Hiccup rolled his eyes and walked in, ignoring toothless' laugh. Gobber looked up from the grinding stone and pointed to the cooling forge. Hiccup sighed and toothless lit it back up for him, he pulled out an unfinished axe he was working on for Astrid's next birthday which was next week.
Toothless never understood that human, she was always so harsh against his brother and too competitive. If he could hurt humans and not get in trouble she would be #2 on his revenge list. He sat outside in the sun light and closed his eyes, letting his ears take over. One conversation on the other side of the plaza caught his attention.
"So what are you going to do about that dragon snotlout?"
It was one of the small blonde twins that would always picked on his human when he was gone, they were probably teaming up with the snotlout hatchling to get to his brother.
"First we need to distract that over-sized pet of his..then you two will be able to get him."
Toothless snorted. That was probably the worst plan that they tried to use on him. Hiccup wouldn't be able to be harmed as long as ether him or the blacksmith were around. He sat there and waited for the small humans to even try to approach him, As he listened he could tell they are close by.
"Snotlout, its asleep."
Snotlout and the twins walked past the dragon completely unaware that it was watching them from behind and following them. The larger Viking was about to surprise attack hiccup but toothless quickly bit the back of snotlout's shirt and dragged him back outside before any harm was done. The others ran off quickly while snotlout was frozen in fear right in front of the not-so-mighty-yet night fury. He made no move to hurt him and gestured back towards the plaza. "Just leave my brother alone and go home"
Snotlout just stood there for a few seconds then took off running while toothless started walking around since if he flew he would likely be shot down, he never understood why humans are so complicated..they were always trying to hurt something and if he tried to stop it he would always get a weapon pointed at him. The only place he felt like he belonged was when he was with hiccup and he knew hiccup was felt the same way because he would always find him depressed in some way. Hiccups reputation was sort of a bad one for being unlike the others.. Always having to rely on someone to defend him because of his lack of muscle.
Gobber attached the axe to a handle for hiccup and carefully handed it to him, Hiccup rushed to the back room of the forge and hid it. He then bolted out into the village and started looking for toothless, many villagers kept an eye on him just in case he did something stupid. His hunt led him to the edge of the forest. hiccup paused. he went into the forest to look for toothless multiple times but he wasn't alone..if he went in he would probably end up being a small snack for some enraged dragon. the closer to the forest he got the smaller his steps became, at times like this hiccup hated his curiosity. He stopped at the first tree on the edge, if he went he would be able to go play with toothless for the first time in weeks and get in trouble when he got home or stay in the village like he was supposed too and miss out on a chance to play. At the sound of footsteps behind him he bolted into the forest without even checking who it was,he could hear them giving chase as he doged the trees. stealing a glance to look at his pursuers, hiccup took a sharp turn left and hid. He saw snotlout and the twins continue down the path a little more then stop.
"where did the little runt go?" snotlout picked up a small rock and tossed it up and down expecting to throw it soon, for hiccup that rock was probably enough to break one of his ribs.
"who cares? he's probably going to get lost or starve to death if he didn't get eaten by a wild dragon." tuffnut sneered. To hiccup that felt like snotlout hit him with the damn rock he was holding. Did the village hate him that much for his friendship with toothless? he stayed quiet as they walked back to the village and hiccup sat down in the small crevice of rock he hid in. hours went by to the point that it was started to get dark out and his father would be upset if he discovered he went into the forest...at least without toothless. the time spent in the crevice was mostly going further into the cave inside or thinking on how messed up his life was.. his mom is dead, his best friend is a dragon, your village hating you for it, a father who keeps pushing you do to something you physically can't , no one seems to care about you anymore. and the list goes on. he picked up a stick and started drawing in a small dirt patch in the side of the cave, the lines soon formed into the shape of toothless' headand hiccup just sighed. he went into the forest to find him but ended up being chased by bullies and getting stuck in a cave instead.
"HICCUP!?"
crap. it was his dad. guess they finally noticed he was gone after probably 6, maybe 7 hours. he sat still and hoped no one came in to check if he was actually in there, slowly scooting back further into the dark cave and hit a steep slope and was exposed to a cove. moss and trees hugged onto the rock and finished with a large pond in the middle, the moonlight reflected off of it almost like a mirror and you can see every small wave caused by the gentle breezes passing by. surely a rare sight on the isle of berk. he scanned the area to hopefully spot toothless but the only trace was a burnt patch of ground and fish skeletons littered all over the floor, toothless might of been staying here or he found the nesting place of a wild dragon. Once again hiccup heard shuffling of feet behind him but was too late to act this time, his dad, gobber, and snotlout (who probably ratted him out) were standing right behind him.
