Hi lads and lasses, long time for this one but finally got there, what with work and family matters, all fun in the life of me I say sarcastically. Anyway hope you enjoy chapter 3, not too happy with this one but I was trying to get this done before work. might be a few misspellings or some other things out of place but as long as the plots not too hard to follow then it's all good. Enjoy...
Chapter 3: Something Stupidly Crazy
Normal POV
"W-what did you just say V-Val?" Helga said I a surprise yet scared tone, turning her head toward Val then back to the so called NightFury, "it's a NightFury Hel, I'm sure of it" Valka said, her voice a little calmer now that she come to realise what was in front of them, but she still kept her guard up, if not for her then the two babe's in her and Helga's arms, "h-how do you know if that really is one, no one has ever seen one up close without getting shot at" Helga replied back still not sure which is crazier; her battle sister or the fact that there's two dragon in this cove and they're not attacking. Valka finally stood straight realising the same thing as Helga 'If these dragons were dangerous then they would of killed us by now' Valka thought to herself, but shook her head, realising Helga's question needed an answer "it's something my grandpa told me when I was very young, and the description he told me about what a NightFury looks like matches right down to the fins on the upper part of its black tail" Valka said smiling while looking at Helga, "okay point taken, well what in the helhiem are we doing in here?" Helga said to Valka who was looking up to which Helga did the same too. Suddenly in the sky came the StormCutter again as it landed gently on the grass "looks like we're gonna find out Hel" Valka said as she starts to slowly walk up to the StormCutter.
Valka POV
Oh gods, this is stupid and crazy at the same time, crazier than the time I convinced Gobber that trolls steal sock but only the left one's just to keep that Thorston lad from getting clobbered from for stealing them himself, I never understood why he did that. Shaking my head to get back to the matter at hand. I slowly walk up to the StormCutter, trying to make sure not to scare it oh yeah a dragon scared of me and a baby, that'll be the day, I don't realise how close I am to it when see it's big golden eyes staring right into mine, like it was looking into my soul...and strangely enough I feel like I'm looking into his soul too, wait it's a he? how do I even know that? maybe if I ask, well they don't call me crazy Val for nothing "h-hello d-dragon, m-may I ask if you are a-a-a..." great I'm stuttering like mad focus Val focus "a he?" I finally say, but to my surprise he lifts his head up and down like he's nodding. I give the dragon a wide smile knowing I said something right but still the pressing matter of why we're here "okay boy, you wanted me to come out here, I'm guessing it's something to do with this NightFury on the ground here. What do you want me to do?" I say looking back and forth at both dragons. But the StormCutter refuses to move and inch and show me, he just keeps looking into my eye's again. "ok Val you did something stupid and now you're going to do something crazy" I say to myself, I slowly turn my head away from the StormCutter as a sign of respect, I cautiously lift my arm up so that the palm of my hand is held out in front of the StormCutter 'please don't bite, please don't bite, oh please don't bite my hand off, I don't want to join the stumps for Vikings club with Gobber' I think to myself, when all of a sudden I feel something warm on my hand and it's purring too, I open my eye's and look forward again only to see the StormCutter's flat snout pressed against my palm with his eye's closed, he opens his eye's and looks at me, I don't know why but I feel connected to this dragon, that sounds so weird but it feel so...right. "you want me to go to the NightFury right?" I say to the StormCutter who nods back and starts walking in the direction of the other dragon slowly followed by me "what are you doing Val?!" I hear Hel shouting at me but somehow not startling either dragons or even the kids, like I said before, kids these days "I know it's sounds stupid but I think I just connected to a dragon Hel and I know what he's thinking" I calmly reply back only to see her looking very confused "he? how do you know it's a he? did you check underneath it for it's p..." she said but before she could finish he sentence I interrupted her "what?! no you sick crazy ass fool! I asked him, gods you got a dirty mind Hel" I say to her giving her a scowl to follow that sentence, Hel only started snorting with laughter at my reaction, she always knows how to my yak that woman. Turning around I carry on towards the NightFury on the ground but yet no matter how close I get it still wouldn't move, something's not right here, any dragon especially a NightFury would be up on it's paws by now but this dragon wasn't which got me both curious and worried about it. As I get as close as I can I notice it's body shaking while it's back slowly goes up and down "is it struggling to breathe?" I wonder to myself, upon closer inspection I notice two things first that there was deep gashes around it's body cause a huge pool of blood on the ground on it side facing away from us (I was wondering why I didn't see it until now), this poor beast isn't going to last long looking at these injuries and noticing that the more blood coming out from the wounds the greyer the scales became. The second thing I noticed what was under it's wing, something pure black, shiny, egg-shaped...wait egg-shaped? It was an egg, a dragon egg, more importantly a NightFury egg, it's vary small, smaller than a terrible terrors one I saw once but of course I'm no expert on NightFuries since no one has ever got this close before. Suddenly the wing lifted up slowly to reveal the black egg even more, confused I slowly turn my head to the NightFuries head it's eye's were open revealing a pair of bright green eye's with pupils that kept shifting from slits to dilate and back again, I don't know why (maybe something to do with the egg) but I think this dragons a she and she is the mother to the egg, taking a deep breath I finally break the silence "h-hey there girl?..." hoping I was right, which she does reply back with a weak nod I smile "you'll be okay girl just don't strain yourself okay?" I thought last night was bad I've been having a conversation not with one but two dragons today...and they both understand me in fact this NightFury know's I'm just comforting her, like she knows her time is short for this realm. Well today's a crazy day for me, might as well go with the flow of it, and so like I did with the StormCutter, I place my palm out to her head, turned my head away and waited, I felt her sniff it at first before I felt her snout against my palm, it didn't feel like that with the StormCutter but it told me she trusted me, which was good, but what surprise me most was she was starting to sniff the bundle in my arm's, she was sniffing Hiccup but this time I didn't pull away after what happened last time I did that and again Hiccup, who at this point was wide awake, giggled and coo'd at the NightFury, this strange little child of mine, scared to death of a toy dragon yet giggling at the unholy offspring of lightening and death itself. Then suddenly the NightFury gets up weakly, turns towards her egg, picks it up in her toothless mouth? I'm sure she had teeth? and places the egg in front of me nudging it closer to my free hand, looking at the egg then to her I start to make sense of this whole, which I turn to the StormCutter "so this is why you wanted me to come here wasn't it boy?" I say to him to which he replies with a nod. I turn my attention towards the NightFury once again "you want me to take care of your egg girl?" I say to her to which she also nods but very weakly, in fact so weakly she collapses to the ground once more with only one of her eye's open, this'll be the most stupidest, most craziest thing I've ever done but I wouldn't be me otherwise "I'll take great care of your baby and raise it like it was my own" I say looking from the egg to my own son and back to the NightFury who at this point weakly purred before closing her eye, and then...silence. I look at the the StormCutter who knew what I was going to say because he gave a sad whine and looked down at the ground, with tears in my eye's I place the egg carefully between my legs and put my now free hand on the lifeless dragons head "rest in peace and know your child is safe" I finally got up holding both Hiccup and the egg in my arms, as I walk slowly towards Hel I notice Hiccups hand on the egg as he holds it closer to him and (to my shock) start cuddling it. "you my son are a strange little boy" I start to smile "but you'd make an excellent big brother".
Helga's POV
"Val you are one absolute crazy ass viking I've ever known" I say to Val as she approaches me, then I notice what's in her other arm that wasn't holding Hiccup "what I the name of Gobber's underpants is that?!" I say pointing towards her, she looks at me then the thing in her arm that for some strange reason, Hiccups holding, he is a strange boy, I'm wondering if that's what my little girl see's in him, "it's an egg Hel, a NightFury egg" she says looking back at me, a NightFury egg? I look at the egg again then for some reason I look over to the lifeless form of it's mother, I then start to put the pieces together myself,guessing Val did too "so this is why we're out here? to look after a dying NightFuries child? Val you know how crazy this seems? taking on another's child and a dragon at that!" I say to her hysterically "Hel that NightFury was dying, if we'd of been in the same situation would you want someone to take care of your child too?!" she replies back, those words hit me like Gronkle, and I hate to admit it, she was right, I'd want someone to look after my Astrid if I was dying, and more likely to be someone who's a mother too, I sigh in defeat "okay point taken Val, but what are we going to do?" I say to her to which she gives me a confused look back "'we'?" she asks, "yes 'we' Val, you're my battle sister and as battle sisters we do things together!" I say smiling at her to which she smiles back "if I know you Hel you're too stubborn to take a refusal, okay we do this together" she replies back to me, now there's my crazy battle sister that I've come to admire "good so, got a plan?" I ask her as we both walk out of the cove towards the forest, she looks at me then the two bundles in her arms "yes Hel, I'm keeping my promise, and Valka Haddock never breaks a promise, I'm going to raise this egg like it was my own child" she replies back, "you know Val you'll became the crazy dragon mother after this?" I say teasingly at her to which she laughs and replies back "well at least I'm not boring" oh how true is that...
A/N Ok here's A little spoiler for the future chapter, so as you saw Valka took Hiccup's role of bonding first in this which means that some time in a future chapter Stoick will take the role that was Astrid's when she see's a bonded dragon and tries to run back to the village, I will also tell you it'll be very funny in my opinion, because I'm cheeky that way :D