The Fury in the Night

Chapter 3

Berk was within sight. Hiccup and Toothless were flying with deep thoughts in their heads. It was in this state that Toothless felt his brother jump a little. This shook Toothless out of his thoughts.

"What is it Hiccup! Did you see them!?" Toothless all but yelled.

"Nope, worse, I just realized something really important," Hiccup said with guilt and nervousness in his voice very noticeable.

"What did we forget this time?" Toothless asked exasperated.

This had happened before on several occasions, so it was nothing new to Toothless. However his answer was.

"A good alibi to get me on the island."

"Oh…well crap."

"My thoughts exactly."

"What do we do?"

"Well….wait, wasn't there a ship on the east coast of the island that had that abandoned fishing boat?"

"A ship inside a ship….humans are weird."

Hiccup rolled his eyes and replied slightly annoyed by the answer," The fishing boat is tied to the bigger ship."

"Oh."

"Yeah, we can either take it, or take a piece of it and I play I have amnesia."

"Could work, but what if they don't buy it?"

"Then...I don't know."

"We could always go with my plan."

"Yeah the I-never-get-a-big-enough-rep-to-make-my-words-get-through-to-their-think-Viking-heads plan."

"But it would be so much more fuuuunnn," Toothless whined.

"…..yeah, it kind of would be….no who am I kidding, well get ki-," Hiccup looked down at Toothless and regretted it immediately, "no not the eyes!" Hiccup whined

Toothless was giving him the biggest, cutest eyes he could ever muster. That look could make trained killers turn to kittens (Hiccup swore up and down to that).

"Please," Toothless whimpered.

"Aaarrggg!" Hiccup groaned, then broke and sighed," fine, we go the violent way of things….for now.

"Finally!" Toothless roared in victory.

After three months of egging him to do this, Hiccup FINALLY broke.

"Yeah, yeah, but I'm not happy about it, understand, and if things go wrong, we go my way, understand?" Hiccup growled unhappily.

"Yep…..now lighten up would you, you're going to go into the village that abandoned you and rip those Vikings a new one."

"You have a way of making me sound about as harmful as a rock," Hiccup scowled

"It's a gift," Toothless preened.

"I'll remember this conversation when you're hungry."

Toothless growled. "You wouldn't dare."

"Eels I hear are wonderful to eat. Very slimy," Hiccup grinned.

"Brrruggghhh," Toothless gagged.

Hiccup chucked at the dragons clear dislike of eels.

-Two hours later- (seriously that stupid SpongeBob announcer guy simply won't leave me alone!)

They had arrived and none too soon as well. Night had just fallen. They flew over Berk in the dark, unknown to anybody. They circled the village for a couple of minutes.

They finally left that region of the sky to search for a place to camp. They began to fly over the island's forests and mountains.

"Where do you think we should land, bud?" Hiccup asked Toothless.

"I have no idea, but it better be soon. I'm getting really tired," Toothless groaned.

"There! The cove right there! You see it?" Hiccup said energetically.

"Yep, circling now."

They landed and then Toothless flopped right to the ground, proceeded to roll over and pant.

Hiccup chuckled at his friend's antics and shook his head as he went to the pond next to them.

"Yep got some fish here. Come here with the net and I'll feed you, you large overweight lizard," Hiccup chuckled.

Toothless just knocked him upside the head with his tail.

Once the fishing was over, Toothless laid down and opened his wing, Hiccup crawled in and said," Good night Toothless and….thanks….for everything."

"Good night Hiccup," said as his rider/brother went to sleep, and after Hiccup was asleep he said," I would do anything for you Hiccup, anything." Toothless then promptly went to sleep.

Both were unaware of the two golden eyes that watched them.

-Morning- Narrator's prospective (holy shit! I'm in the story too! NNNNNNOOOOOTTT!)

As Hiccup and Toothless continued to sleep into early morning, a certain teenage girl woke up at her usual time. Her name was Astrid Hofferson, and she was the warrior Viking everyone her age wanted to be. She didn't know anything of the lost son of the Haddocks other than that he was sent out to sea to die as a baby for being too small. Their second and third were better. Of course she only really thought of the family of five as four, for that was all she had known. She also knew that the older of the two Haddocks would come get her if she didn't leave to go and train with the group.

The group consisted of her, Snotlout (an overly prideful person), Ruffnut (her best friend and crazy girl), Tuffnut (the crazy twin of Ruffnut), Baltor (the second son of the Haddock clan), and last but not least Razor (the third son of the Haddock clan). All were good fighters but Baltor and Astrid's fighting skills surpassed the others with Razor as a close third. Fishlegs didn't want to train as he was too busy in the forge with their soon to be teacher, Gobber.

Astrid got up and went downstairs to the living room of the family. She then quickly, but quietly left the house.

"Well took you long enough," a voice rang in the shadows.

Astrid sighed. This had become a bit of a ritual between the two of them. He would try to sneak up on her; she would hear him and of course know he was coming, always.

"Okay Baltor, nice try, but perhaps you should pick up lessons from Razor," She replied with a smirk.

"How do you always know?"

"Your stealth needs work and let's leave it at that."

"He could always get lessons from me," said a quiet voice sounded above them.

They both jumped and then proceeded to look up. There sitting on the roof of Astrid's home was the quietest and arguably the fastest, Razor.

"How did he-?" Baltor started.

"I have no idea," Astrid answered mystified at the how Razor got up their so quietly. Then Tuffnut peeked up. Obviously he had been sleeping by the yawn and the rubbing of his eyes.

"Whoa! How did I get here?" Tuffnut asked just as mystified as Astrid and Snotlout.

Razor only smiled mischievously.

"Know what, I don't care about that too much anymore, but how do I get down?" He looked at where Razor was, only find the friend long gone.

"How did he-?"Tuffnut began.

"Do that?" Razor finished from behind Astrid and Baltor, who jumped again.

"I give up," groaned Astrid and walked towards the forest. They had been exploring yesterday and had found a cove to practice in that was perfect. (Oh yeah you can totally see where I'm going with this.) The others followed close behind.

-The Close one in the Cove-

The group was almost to the cove when Toothless heard them coming.

"Hiccup get over here now, we have to hide!" Toothless whispered.

"Why, is someone coming?" Hiccup asked quietly. What if they HAD seen him and Toothless last night and this was a search party?

"We have two options try and leave and probably give our position away or hide. Somehow."

"We have no choice; we need to hide and at least try to retain the element of surprise."

"Okay, behind that rock. It's shadowed and we might not be seen."

"Well this sucks."

Once they hid they dared not move a muscle. They had tried to cover their tracks and had done so fairly well. Only someone looking for them would probably find them. Hiccup had also grabbed his gantlets from the saddle before him and Hiccup hid and curled up.

The teens then entered the cove, thankfully, completely unaware of the duo hiding right there.

They began their training routine. Kicks, punches, exercises, sparring, etc.

By midafternoon they were all tired and hungry and decided to break for lunch. Hiccup and Toothless of course stayed perfectly still. Neither had moved for the entire three hours. Cramped and hungry they took turns taking naps and watching the teens. The hardest one to keep track of was by far the one called Razor. He was everywhere at once and yet nowhere at the same time. If Hiccup hadn't had stealth training from a Changewing and a Night Fury he would have been, undoubtedly, without a clue to where the boy was. The boy that had come so close to finding them so many times.

Once the teens broke for lunch they left the cove. Hiccup was beginning to count his blessings. Unfortunately he was a one short.

Once the teens had all left the cove, him and Toothless got up and began to stretch. Once Toothless felt that they had been gone long enough he spoke.

"Too close," Toothless chastised.

"I know, good thing you heard them coming. I really don't want to think of what we would have had to do. I may not like Vikings but killing kids or teenagers just seems wrong, you know?" Hiccup said.

"Yeah I do. Now let's get ou-," Toothless was cut off by a voice at the entrance to the cove.

"Now, where did I put my ax?" the voice said.

It was that Razor guy. He must be here for his ax, which coincidentally was right next to Toothless. He would see them.

"We can't hide in time can we," Hiccup questioned the universe.

Toothless answered with," Nope."

Razor came to the cove and saw a black dragon and a boy standing side by side.

"Oh boy"

Razor just stared at the sight before him. A dragon with a saddle on his back and a boy were sitting right next to each other. To say that he found the sight unsettling and unnatural was flattery.

Hiccup thought on the fly and picked up the ax Razor had on the ground and threw it. Razor's reflexes were off and slow from the surprise of the characters in front of him, and it showed as he tried to dodge the ax thrown at him. The wooden end hit the boy on his forehead and knocked him to the ground. When his head hit the ground it was lights out for Razor.

Hiccup looked at Toothless and said what they were both thinking.

"Well shit."

After a long silence Toothless said what was also on their mind.

"What do we do with him?"

They looked at each other, then the boy, then back to each other. Oh boy.

-One hour worth of finding a Cave and a big Boulder later- (seriously that SpongeBob announcer guy is so trolling me!)

Hiccup finished tying down the boy.

"That's that," Hiccup stated. He was very proud of himself. He had just finished the most complicated work for knots he had ever even conceived. Time for things to get interesting.

"Toothless would you be so kind as to wake up our guest," Hiccup asked his friend smugly.

"With pleasure," Toothless growled.

With no further urging he roared in the boy's face. The reaction was quite funny.

The boy reared up, or tried to, screaming.

"What's going on, who are you?" Razor asked alarm creeping into his voice.

The two brothers looked at each other. Then Hiccup spoke (this next part is Norse so yeah).

"Stoick and Valka did well," Hiccup said in an amused tone.

"What?"

"Not you concern. Now, I go do something, you…stay."

"I'm not a dog! Now release me, or else!"

"Or else what? You can't escape."

"Oh really?"

"Where's exit?" Hiccup asked amused.

"Uummm…right," was Razor's reply.

"You cannot leave unless we leave."

"Keep telling yourself that."

"Ha, I like you. Very spirited. Good. Hopeful this captivity won't take that."

"Even if I don't, someone will find me."

"Ha! That's funnier than what last said. You in cave on top of mountain. Entrance covered by boulder. Even if get out, long drop."

"I can climb."

"I know. That reason for mountain not have foot hold. I watch you in cove today. Came close to see me and him. No worry though. After were done here, you go back to cove. It up to you if you go back, alive and unharm, or dead."

"How so?"

"You try hurt me, I hurt back. I mean knock you out with ax. If I didn't," Hiccup's face went from relaxed to serious in a flash," you not be here breathing."

"Oh."

"Yeah, 'oh'."

"So what do you want with me. A ransom, food, maybe send a message to my dad?"

"No. You see me and him," Hiccup says pointing at Toothless, he continues," I have…..conflict with traders."

"Oh, then why capture me?"

"Had no choice. You go tell village that dragon and rider come here, both end dead on stick."

"Well, I'll give you that one, but still."

"I need element of surprise."

"Hehe, why?" Razor asked nervously.

"To attack village of course," Hiccup replied with a fearsome smile.

"That takes care of all my questions but one. Who are you?"

Razor had been dreading this question. If this guy was who he thought he was, he had better remember everything about him as no one else might know the guy ever again, not like this.

"My true name I won't tell you. So you call me what everybody else does.

….

The Fury."

-All done with this chapter suckers!-

Hey guys. Sorry this is a little late. I really am. My job has been keeping me busy as well as my family, plus this was the Fourth of July this week so of course there was that.

Couple things.

One: thank you. All of you. It has been such a joy doing this so far, and I plan to continue. (This isn't a good bye this is simply a thank you.)

Two: we hit 25 reviews this before the next chapter and the next chapter may tell you who's golden eye's that was in the forest. I might tell you. Emphasis on might.