AN: Oh, Hello there. I finally got my writing spark back and wrote this chapter for you all. Also there is a lot and I mean a lot of talking in this chapter.
"Talking."
"Thoughts."
"Telepathy?"
"Dragon-speak."
Hiccup groaned and slowly opened her eyes. Why did the sun have to be so bright? Hiccup then turned in her bed and covered up her head to block out the sun.
"Wake up." Hiccup quickly threw the covers off of her head and sat up
"Who's there?!" The teen looked around her room.
"I'm still in the cove, I can't be anywhere else." Hiccup blinked as the memory of everything that had happened yesterday rushed back into her mind. "T-toothless?" There was some silence before the voice spoke again. "That's the name you gave me." Hiccup groaned and brought a hand to her head. "This is all confusing and makes my head hurt." Hiccup sighed and began to make her way out of bed, no going back to sleep now. "I suspected that us talking this way would cause some strain, the farther you are from me the harder it will be for us to communicate this way." Hiccup began to go about her normal routine.
"How are we even talking in the first place!" Toothless wasted no time in replying "It will take too long to explain for this kind of communication… I'll only use this for hints or short conversations from this point on… When or if you come to see me today I'll explain then, I promise." Hiccup could only sigh "A-alright…" Looks like she'd have to wait to get her answers. She then quickly headed down stairs only to look over at the table as another memory jolted her mind "Curses, I have to go to dragon training…and I won't even be able to lift that axe." Toothless took this time to pipe in "Could you make your own weapon?" Hiccup looked over at the axe before making her way to the forge "I'll have to try.."
Hiccup carefully swung around her new weapon. "Well, it's not the best quality due to such short notice, it will have to do though." It wasn't anything special really, just a modified hand axe. While a normal Viking would probably throw it Hiccup would have to use it as if it was it's larger counterpart. "I still don't like the idea of fighting dragons… but if I don't show up I'll only end up getting dragged into it another day by Gobber." The teen took a deep breath before making her way over towards the dragon ring.
"Welcome to Dragon Training." Is what Gobber said as he raised the gate for all of the teens to enter the arena.
"No turning back." Is what Astrid said as she and the other teens walked into the cage and began to look around, taking in the sight. Not that there was really much to see, stone and metal. Very surprising. Hiccup then took a second to sneak down into the ring and walk past Gobber so he at least knew she made the effort to show up. The Twins then began to speak up as they stopped looking around and made their way along with the others into the ring.
"I'm hoping for some serious burns!" Said Tuffnut. Then the other twin, Ruffnut, spoke up. "Yea, well I'm hoping for some mauling on my shoulder or lower back." Astrid then decided to speak up once again "Yeah.. well It's only fun if you get a scar out of it." Hiccup then shook her head and decided to speak "Yea, let everyone know you got injured during 'training'..." She made sure to emphasize the word training. At the beginning of when she began to speak the other teens all turned around and stared at her. Tuffnut spoke up "Ugh, who let her in here." Before anyone could say anything else Gobber took the initiative. "Lets get started!" He then made sure to keep the other teen's interest. "The recruit who does best will win the honor of killing their first dragon in front of the entire village." Snotlout then spoke up. "Yeah well Hiccup probably can't even hurt a dragon so can we disqualify her or...?" The other teens just laughed and began to move into the ring again. Gobber took this time to walk over to Hiccup and wrap his arm over her shoulder. "Don't worry, your small and your weak. That'll make you less of a target." Hiccup frowned at being called weak despite how true it was. "The dragons will see you as sick or insane and go after the more viking like teens instead." He then chucked and patted her shoulder before going off and explaining about the dragons and what not. Now Hiccup would of listened but she had already went and studied the book of dragons plenty of times before her dad decided to put her into Dragon Training.
Hiccup was quickly thrown out of her thoughts as she heard her cousin began to get worried. "Woah woah wait! Aren't you going to teach us first?!" Hiccup could only smirk, that's not how Gobber did things. "I believe in learning on the job!" As Gobber finished this sentence he pulled the lever that would release one of the dragons. Looks like training had begun.
As soon as it was able to a Gronckle burst out of it's cage and flew past the teens and crashed into the side of the ring. Hiccup quickly took this time to block out any of the others, sure they could possibly help but really they were all scared out of their wits. "I need a shield" Hiccup quickly ran over to one of the many scattered shields and did her best to wield it. "I hate being so weak…" When she finally got the shield on, she noticed all of the other teens had just started running for their own. Though some where doing better than others.. the twins were fighting over a shield. You'd think they would have more brains than that. Soon enough the Gronckle fired a blast and blew the shield to bits.
"Ruffnut, Tuffnut, You're out!" She heard Gobber call. "Those shields are also good for another thing!" There was a slight pause before Gobber spoke again "Noise! Make lots of it to throw off a dragon's aim!" The remaining teens, including Hiccup began to clash their weapons against their shields to make noise.
"Dragons who train can learn to ignore this sound and not be affected." The teens then quickly scattered their noise making stopping.
"Now then how many shots does a Gronckle have?" Snotlout spoke up "Five?" Fishlegs however knew the right answer, though he stopped and raised his hand as if he was in a class room. "No no It's Six!" Gobber nodded "Correct six, that's one for each of you!" Fishlegs nodded however his lack of guard caused his shield to get blasted. "Fishlegs out!" The teen then began screaming and dropped his weapon as he ran off. Hiccup sighed, now there was only three of them left.
"Come on you kids get in there!" Hiccup then moved to be on the side of the dragon, just out of sight but out of mind. However she could see Snotlout and Astrid over to the side, in front of the dragon. Snotlout wasn't paying any attention and his shield was soon blasted when Astrid rolled off to the side and stopped next to Hiccup. "Snotlout out!" Hiccup looked over at Astrid
"Looks like its just you and me huh?" Astrid rolled her eyes "Nope just you!" Astrid then quickly rolled off to the side. "BLOCK!" Hiccup quickly looked at the dragon and brought her shield up just in time to somehow reflect the fireball off to the side. Though the force of the fireball caused Hiccup to loose her grip on the shield and it flew off to the side and began rolling away. "Don't chase it! Keep your eyes on the Gronckle." Hiccup gulped slightly and did as Toothless advised and kept her gaze on the Gronckle.
"One shot left!" The Dragon kept its gaze on Hiccup before beginning to fly full speed towards her. "Dodge to the left!" Hiccup did as she was told though with a slight delay. Sadly this delay was enough for the Gronckle to grab hold of her leg and toss her against the side of the ring. It then quickly landed, pinning Hiccup as she looked up at it. "HICCUP/HICCUP!" The Gronckle then quickly charged its last fireball only to be yanked just in time by Gobber causing it to miss Hiccup. Gobber then began to spin around as the Gronckle chomped on his prosthetic arm. "Go back to bed you overgrown sausage!" Soon enough the Gronckle was back in it's cage and Gobber helped Hiccup back onto her feet but not before explaining how Dragons always go for the kill. Despite on how untrue it was.
Some time had passed and Hiccup quickly made her way down to the docks only to sneak away with a basket full of fish. Just as she promised she was going to bring Toothless some food, she was lucky that no one ever took notice of what she did. Soon enough the teen was at the entrance of the cove and slowly entered. "Hey Toothless, I brought you some fish!" Hiccup then dropped the basket of fish and knocked it over letting the many different kinds fall out. "No eels either just like you asked." Toothless made his way over towards Hiccup and looked over towards the fish before nodding his head. "Thank you Hiccup." The teen was surprised at first but then smiled. Toothless let out a soft coo before wrapping his forelegs around Hiccup and pulling her close to him. The viking went to speak yet she could find no words as she was enveloped in a comforting warmth as well as a flood of positive emotions.
Toothless held the teen for a moment before releasing her, rubbing the side of his head against her cheek before speaking. "I promised you answers what do you want to know?" Hiccup took a second to sit down before asking the obvious question. "How can I even understand you?" Toothless took a second before replying "I might as well say everything it will answer future questions most likely… To put this into simple terms I have marked you." Hiccup brought a hand up to her shoulder, the one Toothless had bit into yesterday. "You mean when you bit me?" The dragon nodded. "Yes. Now it isn't as simple as you think… while you may see it only as a bite mark to a dragon it means something completely different. When I bit you, I basically claimed you as mine. Meaning that I have taken it upon myself to consider you a potential mate." Hiccup shook her head and blinked as Toothless continued. "Now I realize it was foolish of me to do so… but my instincts and something inside of myself told me to do it." The teen nodded slowly and let the dragon continue. "However you can completely deny my claim and the mark will disappear, though with the disappearance of the mark you will also lose your way of communicating with me and soon all other dragons." Hiccup gasped and spoak up once more "Wait wait wait, so you're saying that I will be able to understand any dragon, and talk with them?!" The obsidian dragon nodded causing the female viking to smile in amazement. "Well what else does it do." Toothless took a second to think before replying. "Well the mark will make you stronger as well as faster every day, so the longer you have it the stronger and more quick you'll become. To a certain limit at least." Toothless nodded before continuing. "You'll also be able to eat food such as these fish raw, though it will take some days before the mark will allow you to do that." Toothless stopped speaking before nodding and looking up at the sky. "That's what it will do in it's current state." Hiccup tilted her head "Wait it can do more?" Toothless huffed and twitched his tail some. "Erm, well only if we complete one of the different dragon 'mating' rituals." Hiccup found herself blushing slightly "Uh...OH!... Erm… What happens then though..." Why did she want to know? Toothless looked over at Hiccup before looking away, avoiding eye contact. "W-well… if we do one of the rituals, you are basically saying you accept my claim on you and we become a mated pair. The mark will then slowly turn you into the dragon that had given it to you. Meaning you become a Night Fury" Hiccup was immensely surprised "So you're saying that I will eventually turn into a dragon if we do one of the rituals." The Night Fury nodded before swishing his tail around nervously "Though you will be able to switch back and forth between being a human and a dragon. According to what I remember." Hiccup nodded before smiling and getting back onto her feet "A-alright I think you answered enough of my questions." She then looked over towards the scattered fish "Let's eat."
Eventually the two were done eating, thanks to the help of Toothless's fire to cook a few fish for Hiccup to eat. However nature decided to have some fun and the clouds were soon pouring down rain, causing Hiccup and Toothless to take shelter inside of the cove. "Well looks like I'm stuck here, if I try and head back in the rain I'll get sick." The dragon smiled and quickly wrapped his forelegs around Hiccup and pulled her close to him before falling onto his back with another soft coo. "I don't mind~" The teen could only smile and lay on Toothless, the warmth was more than welcoming. "I'll just have to make sure I'm up early enough." Hiccup then closed her eyes and slowly began to doze off. "Good night, Toothless…" The dragon slowly wrapped his wings around himself to help keep his Hiccup warm. "Good night, Hiccup."