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Chapter 3: Everything's New

Hiccup POV

When Toothless stepped back into the room me and Astrid froze. We stood gawking at how well the outfit suited her. The shirt was short sleeved and black, streaked with gray. Black leggings that went down to maybe her ankles. Black fur boots covered where they went down to. And a small skirt with a spiked belt.

"You have no idea how confusing this was for me." She laughed. It looked good on her, very good actually. But she just didn't seem like Toothless.

"At least we're the same size." Astrid said. "Uh, it's almost time for my parents to get up. You should probably leave."

"But what are people going to say when they find out Toothless is missing? I don't really want people to know that she's Toothless." I said.

"I don't know. You could…" Astrid started.

"And what am I going to say when they see a girl they know isn't from this village?"

"Shut up! Let me talk!" Astrid said. "Do you remember when we went to that one village on Toothless together? It was…the Dante Clan! Your dad didn't even know we went there. If he asks then you can say you met her when we went there and she's our friend. We haven't seen her in a while and she's visiting and you can ask if she can stay with you."

"Okay…but what about the fact that Toothless is gone?" I asked.

"Um…Oh! It's mating season for the dragons, right?" I nodded. "Well, since there are no other Night Furies around, she could be gone to another island to find one. Except…she can't fly without you so that wouldn't work."

"Actually, it can still work." I said. Astrid looked at me questioningly. "A while ago, about four months after saving Berk and everything, I made a tailfin for Toothless that she could use to fly without me. But she never wanted to fly with it because you apparently didn't like flying without me, and vice versa." I looked at Toothless.

"Okay. Problem solved. Now go home!" Astrid pushed us towards the window.

"Wait!" I said. "What about a name for her?"

"Oh yeah…what does she look like to you?" Astrid asked.

"But I still want to be called Toothless!" She whined.

"We can't, bud." I said. "When no one else is around we can, but out in public we have to call you something else if we are going to keep this secret."

"Cleo!" Astrid smiled. "How about Cleo?"

"Yeah…I guess she kind of looks like a Cleo." I said. "What do you think Toothless?"

"If I have to. But no matter what, when it's private and we're not out in public, you have to call me Toothless. No exceptions." She said.

"All right, Toothless. I'm not going to enjoy calling you a different name either." I told her.

"Okay, enough with the talking. Go home now!" Astrid said.

"Fine! We're going. Jeez." I muttered. I took Toothless's hand and led her towards the window. I hopped out first and then helped her. She slid down and then I did.

We stood behind the house for a moment.

"Okay, so Toothless." I said. "I want you to go just outside of Berk. Then when everybody starts coming out of their houses, come to mine and knock on my door and ask for me. Okay?"

"Okay. Right now?"

"Yeah. Now go!" she raced off towards the entrance of Berk. I got to my house and slowly opened the door. I froze when I saw my dad sitting by the fireplace. He didn't move. I carefully crept across the floor and up the stairs without being seen. I closed the door behind me to my room and let out the breath I was holding. I hoped our plan would work. I sat on my bed and waited for people to start walking around outside. When they did, I waited by the door. I heard a knock on the one downstairs and got ready.

"Hi, um, is Hiccup home?" I heard Toothless ask.

"Tell me who you are and I might let you see him." My dad said.

"I'm Cleo. Just a friend of him and Astrid." She said.

"Hmm…Fine. Hiccup!" I opened the door and came down the stairs. I rubbed my eyes like I had just woken up and I was still drowsy. I also had to look like I had no idea what was going on.

"Yeah?" I said. I let my eyes wander to the door. "Cleo?"

"Yep!" I ran forward.

"Dad, this is Cleo." I said.

"I'm aware." He said.

"Well, she's from the Dante Clan. Me and Astrid met her when we went there on Toothless." I explained.

"Where is the devil anyways?" He asked. I glanced at Toothless and saw her human eyes narrow just the slightest. She hated being called "Devil" by anyone.

"Um, I don't know. It's mating season so she's probably off to find some other Night Fury. Won't be back for a couple weeks." I said. "Come on. Bye dad!" I grabbed Toothless's wrist and pulled her away from the house.

"Wait!" My dad called. I sighed and rolled my eyes.

"What?" I said.

"Where is she staying? I mean, if she's staying for a few days then where is she going to stay?" he asked.

"Can she just stay with us?" I suggested. "I can lie something out on the floor in my room for her to sleep on."

"All right. If you want." I walked away with Toothless again.

"That went well." She said.

"Yes, yes it did." I smiled.

"So where are we even going?" she asked. I stopped and looked at her.

"Honestly, I have no idea!" I laughed. She looked at me weirdly. "What?"

"Are you okay?" her eyebrows creased. "You're not usually like this."

"I'm great! I don't know why. Sometimes I just get like this." I said.

"But I've never seen you like this."

"I only got like this when you weren't around." I said. "Again, I'm not sure why."

"Um, okay?" she sounded unsure about something.

"Hey! How about we go down to the cove where I met you? We haven't been there in a while." I lit up. So did she. The last time we had been there was only a couple months after I lost my foot. Still only one person knew about the cove and where it was, and that person was Astrid.

We ran into the forest, following the trail I always used to get there when I was training with Toothless. I noticed the trees that had the axe marks in them from when Astrid had been throwing it around angrily and almost found out about Toothless.

Not noticing where I was going, and feeling a bit happy-drunk, my prosthetic foot tripped over something and I went crashing down a small hill.

"Hiccup!" Toothless yelled.

"Ouch…" I rubbed my head.

"Oh my gosh, Hiccup, are you okay?" Toothless asked, kneeling down besides me. I was still on the ground lying down. She leaned over me and her hair hung in her face looking down at me.

"Yeah, I'm…" I trailed off, just staring at her eyes. That's what always got me. Whether a dragon or human, her eyes were amazing. And as a human, they were the only thing that remained dragon.

"Hello? Hiccup?" she waved a hand in front of my face.

"Um, yeah. I'm fine." I said. She moved away and put her hands under my arms and hoisted me up. "Thanks."

"Welcome. Be more careful and you wont fall like that." She teased.

"Says the dragon who didn't watch out enough for a fishbone shooting things into the sky!" I laughed. She chuckled and rolled her eyes.

"Whatever. C'mon." She said. We walked down and finally got to that little opening to the cove I always used.

"It looks exactly the same." She said. I didn't say anything back. I just went down to the little pond and sat down and let my feet dangle. Toothless followed and laid down next to me.

It was silent for a while. Neither one of us saying a word. I took that time to think.

How are we going to get Toothless back to a dragon? I mean, she's cool and everything as a human, but still. I didn't want her to stay human. I would miss everything about her being a dragon. No more flying, no more getting tackled to the ground, no more gummy smile...

"Hey Toothless?" I asked.

"Yeah?" she mumbled.

"Do you…like being a human?" I wondered. She sat up and looked at me.

"I guess." Oh great. "The only thing I don't like it being called Cleo. But I can live with it." She shrugged. I didn't tell her that I wanted to find a way to turn her back. Even though it hadn't really even been a day of her being human, I didn't like it. But I was happy that as a human she was really pretty. The only things that remained dragon-like, as I said before, are her eyes, and her hair.

I took one of her hands and looked at the design on the back of it.

"What are these things anyways?" I asked, feeling them with my thumb.

"You tell me." She said. I looked at them, and noticed how they glimmered in the sunlight.

"Are they…scales?" I guessed. She nodded. I dropped her hand. "Oh." Was all I could say. One more thing to add to the list of things that remained dragon-like about her. Only three things. I didn't count her strength as one.

"Hiccup? Do you like that I'm a human now?" she asked. I was hoping she wouldn't ask that.

"I don't really mind." I lied. "I'm going to miss flying and all that, but if this is what it's going to be, then I'm fine." I laid back down. Toothless did too. There was no more talking, no thinking, no nothing. I heard Toothless's breathing get heavy and slow and knew that she was asleep.

And to be honest, sleep didn't sound like such a bad idea.

Hiccup POV Still

"C'mon! Hiccup! Wake up! We gotta get back to the village. People are gonna start wondering where we are!" Toothless shook me awake.

"Ugh…fine." I muttered. Toothless pulled me up again. I stumbled for a moment, still drowsy from sleep. "We couldn't have been out for that long…oh man!" I noticed it was dark. Stars were out and everything. "Crap, we gotta go!" I said. I grabbed Toothless's wrist again and we ran out of the cove towards the village.

Surprisingly I didn't trip on anything while running. I saw the dim light of lanterns in the distance. My dad was gonna kill me.

I entered the village with Toothless behind me. Nobody was outside. All the dragons were in their stables.

"Okay, be really quiet when we go up to my room. Got it?" I said. She nodded. I motioned for her to follow me to my house. When we got to the door, I opened it really slowly hoping it wouldn't creek. When it didn't, we stepped inside and I saw my dad pacing. There was no way we would be able to make it up to my room without him noticing. I sighed.

"Hi dad." I looked at Toothless, hoping she would understand why I spoke. My dad stopped his pacing and glared at me.

"Hiccup! Where in Odin's name have you been all day?" He said.

"Uh, well, me and Cleo went into the forest and found a place to just sit and talk for a while. But we kind of fell asleep. We didn't mean to." I explained.

"You cant just go off and disappear like that for an entire day Hiccup!" he scolded. "And how do I know you weren't just 'sitting and talking'? What else were you doing, hmmm?"

"Dad! I would never do anything like that! Why would you even think that? This is only the second time I've seen Cleo!" I shouted right back. "And could you please be a little more careful of what you say in front of her? She's standing right here you know! Neither one of us likes being accused of something we didn't do!"

"Hiccup, for all I know you two could be off playing 'Secret boyfriend/girlfriend' with each other!" I felt my face get hot.

"You never had a problem with this when I was dating Astrid. Why would you have a problem if I was dating Cleo? I'm not saying I am, but still."

"Because you said it yourself! You've only seen her two times! You've known Astrid pretty much all your life! I don't want you going out alone for an entire day."

"Why?" I asked. He looked like he was trying to come up with a good enough reason.

"Well, you could have been killed." He finally said.

"Oh, I know." I said sarcastically. "Like the way mom was killed, right?" That struck a cord in him. His eyes widened at me even bringing up my mom. I never brought her into a conversation. Ever. I hated to talk about her. It always left me close to tears. "These dragons are not killers, dad! I made sure of that! There are hardly any rogue dragons left. I haven't seen one since I got all you people to actually trust them! And I always went into the woods when I was training with Toothless! You never stopped me then!"

"But I didn't know you were training with a blasted Night Fury!" he shouted.

"You still knew I was out there. Why is it so bad that I'm still going out there? I didn't mean to fall asleep! And if Cleo hadn't woken me up, I would still be out there sleeping! And frankly, I could use a little more sleep! Good night!" I screamed. I grabbed Toothless's hand (again) and pulled her up the stairs. I slammed the door behind us.

"Can you believe him? I always went missing back when I was training with you! And now I go missing again and he yells at me for it? Ugh!" I rambled.

"Hiccup!" Toothless grabbed my shoulders and shook me. "He's just being your dad. You need to calm down."

"Fine." I muttered.

"And I have one question. What happened to your mom?"

My face went blank.

Toothless POV

I kind of wish I hadn't asked him what happened to his mom. His face went blank after I asked him. I took one hand off his shoulders but kept the other one on.

"Hiccup?" I whispered. "You don't have to tell me." He shook his head, backed up, and sat on his bed.

"My mom, she hated dragons. More than anyone in the village. Even more than my dad." He said. I went over to him and sat down next to him. "And yet, she wasn't afraid of them at all. When I was little, she would tell me stories about dragons, and all the great Vikings who killed them. But my favorite stories were always the ones about the Night Fury. She didn't like to tell me these stories because she knew I was different. She was afraid the stories would effect me in a bad way. But I made her tell me them. No one had ever seen or killed a Night Fury, and that's why I was going to be the first. But my mom almost never let me go outside in the evening because of the dragon raids."

"What did she look like?" I interrupted.

"I remember she had my color hair. Like, exactly this color, and blue eyes. She was really pretty, and not as big as the rest of the women. In fact, she was sort of skinny. Not as skinny as me, but still skinny. Her hair didn't grow that fast, so it was pretty much always down to her shoulders. She loved green and red, so she wore that a lot.

"Anyways, one day, when I was about six, she and my dad were having a small disagreement. At first I didn't think anything of it, because I was only six and I didn't really know what was going on. I don't remember what it was about. But when I actually noticed them fighting, and it got worse, I started screaming at them to stop. But they ignored me. It was late afternoon and my mom walked out of the house angry with my dad. I ran out after her but she just kept walking. She went into the forest. My dad told me to just let her go and that she would be back.

"A few minutes later I was still standing outside. I heard a scream, a roar, and then a big explosion from the woods. I never saw my mom again." He was almost crying by this point.

"Hiccup, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have asked you to tell me that." I said. And, almost giving me a heart attack, he reached over and hugged me. I sat stunned for a moment, but then I put my arms around him too. He was crying now. I felt so bad.

"It's the first time I've talked about her since I was seven. It hurts, but it feels good to tell someone about it. Thanks for putting up with me." He said. I chuckled. He pulled away and so did I. "So…how about sleep?"

"Sounds good." I replied. He got up and got some blanket from under his bed and laid a few out on the floor. He put a pillow there and a couple extra blankets. His eyes were still red and puffy and I could still see the tear streaks on his face. I hated to see him like this. It just killed me. "Thanks." He climbed into his bed and I sat down on my blankets.

"Goodnight." He said.

"Hiccup?" I asked.

"Yeah?"

"I know I'm a human now, but I hope you know I still mean this the same way as when I was a dragon. So…I love you." I blushed. He stared at me for a minute. Then he smiled.

"Love you too."