Chapter 3

When I opened my eyes, my entire body ached. I lifted my head and for some reason, my eyes were seeing everything clear as day. As I got out of bed I felt a little clumsier than usual and my moves felt heavier.

My Dad came up the stairs and looked at me with pure shock. "Dad, are you okay?" I asked.

All of a sudden, he drew his sword and lunged at me. "Dad! What are you doing! It's me!" I screamed. He moved at me again.

I could see that he wasn't listening and I knew that if I didn't get out he was going to kill me. I looked around my room for anyway I could get out. I looked up and saw my window above my bed. As my Dad made another move at me, I lunged out of the way and jumped out the window. At this point, I just didn't want to see my Dad right now. I just wanted some time alone to think so I ran into the woods.

As I tried to run, I kept tripping over my feet. I tried to stand up but every time I got up on two legs, I couldn't walk right. I was getting more and more worried about what was wrong with me. I trudged to the nearest river and looked at my reflection. What I saw next made me hope to the gods that I was just having a nightmare.

I was a Night Fury. My eyes were a shocking emerald green, my body was covered in black scales with violet hues in the way the moon light touched them, my ears were long and semi-pointed, my teeth were short and sharp, and on my back I could see two long dark wings. I looked down at my feet, and saw strong dark claws.

"This isn't happening, this can't be happening." I kept rant and eventually screaming at myself. I closed my eyes and kept urging myself to wake up, but no matter how many times I opened and closed my eyes, nothing changed. It was all too real.

"Please for the love of Thor, let this be a dream." I began to cry, my eyes filling with tears.

After stumbling in the woods for a couple hours, I finally figured the use of my legs and ran for a place to think. But unfortunately, I wasn't paying attention and lost my footing at the edge of a cove and fell in. The landing didn't hurt too badly but what was I going to do now? I didn't know how to fly, I barely even knew how to walk in this new body, and the walls were too steep and slippery from all the rain for me to climb out.

It was official, I was not going anywhere and any minute now my Dad and some of the other villagers were going to be out looking for me to kill me. Then I remembered that my Dad was planning a fleet to go look for the dragon's nest. Hopefully, I would have a little more time to figure something out.

I looked up at the sky and saw that dawn was nearly here. I decided to rest for a little while and try to save my strength. I found a spot under a ledge completely overtaken by tree roots. I crawled under the ledge and settled down. I had a hard time closing my eyes. Too many thoughts were running through my head.

'How did this happen? Was this because of the Night Fury I shot down? Are the gods punishing me for it? How am I supposed to change back? Will I ever change back? Will I ever see my Dad, Gobber, Fishlegs, or any of the people I loved ever again. Yeah, most of them pretty much pushed me around or avoided me all together but still they're the people I care about most and I would give anything to change back, to go home and pretend that this never happened.'

These thoughts and more raced through my mind, but my eyes eventually got heavy and I fell asleep.