A/n: Revised chapter 4. Please read and review on it.

Chapter Four: Rescuing a Night Fury

The first person Hiccup grabbed was Fishlegs and his Gronckle, Meatlug. When arriving at the rider's house he was of course confused, but when Hiccup explain what was going on he was still not sure of the situation. He was on board though as the twins and Snotlout were dragged along.

The final person was Astrid and Hiccup was hesitant when knocking on her door. Maybe he was too hesitant because Snotlout was the one to knock and explain everything to the blonde.

Her expression was not one that showed excitement for the idea and she made it clear she was not for it. "You're joking right?" When Hiccup's expression was serious she exasperated, "Why are you even helping her Hiccup!"

When he wouldn't speak up Fishlegs did, "She's not the only one who is curious as to why Hiccup."

As he scanned the group with his green eyes he saw all of them on Astrid's side.

Even his cousin had his arms cross and nodding. "Yeah. I mean this crazy chick tried to assassinate you and now you want to save her dragon."

"On the other hand is it that hard thee assassinate Hiccup?" the female twin, Ruffnut, asked.

"True. You would think someone as small as our dear Hiccup would be easy to take down," the male twin answered. "Even with a Night Fury at his side."

"Guys!" Hiccup yelled as their private debate began to get out of control.

"Wait," Astrid called out as she was thinking. Everyone paused and waited for her to continue. "This is about the other Night Fury isn't it?"

Their leader gulped under her stare and tried his best not to answer or respond to her. He didn't have to either, for she figured it out.

"It is! Hiccup," she groaned, "you have to be insane. What do you think she'll be grateful to you and show you where Night Furies are or spill some kind of secret you don't already know from Toothless?"

"Well I don't know really," he dragged.

"Does your father know about this or are we going behind his back?"

He perked up with that question, "Actually Astrid it was my father's idea. Besides Night Fury or not, we shot down and hurt a dragon and it's our responsibility to help any dragon that comes our way."

Everyone seemed to rally behind him, but the Hofferson girl. She sat on her Deadly Nadder with a glare and arms crossed over her chest.

"Fine, but if you are lying to us Hiccup Stormfly is going to have fun playing fetch."

"Fair enough."

"Okay," she sighed, "we'll show you where the dragon went down at. It might still be in that area."

Hiccup smiled and all six of them took off on their dragons to find the missing one.

When landing at the spot Astrid had directed them to, it was clear that this had been the scene where the dragon fell. There were broken tree limbs and gashes in the dirt. There was even a small trace of dried blood within the ground. Hiccup touched it and sighed.

"Well looks like the Night Fury was here."

"Yeah, but where did it go?" Fishlegs asked, his voice wavering between curiosity and fear.

Snotlout picked up on this and began joking with the large lad. "Aww is Fishy Wishy scared of a little Night Fury?"

"Quit Snotlout!"

"Pa-please!" he said, "we already know what a Night Fury is like, so why are you so scared?"

"We know what Toothless is like," Astrid chimed in, "but this is a rogue dragon. A hurt one at that. Who knows what it is capable of?" She gripped her axe handle tightly keeping her guard up.

Hiccup wanted to correct her, but he knew she was right. If he had not freed Toothless for his own trap, he was sure that his best friend would have killed him that day.

"Come on guys, I think it went this way," the young leader said ushering them with his good arm.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Snotlout called as the others hopped back on their dragons following Hiccup. "Now we're all about going after this dangerous dragon?"

"It's what we came out here for."

In a panic and a little nervous about the quest at hand Snotlout tried to back out, "Well how about I stay here with Fishlegs since he's so scared." Fishlegs glared at the Viking for the comment, but Snotlout continued, "or incase it comes back here."

"We stick together Snotlout. Now come on."

He groaned, but followed the leader as they trucked through the forest.

It was at least another hour before they found another pile of dried blood. When they saw a small clearing up ahead they went to investigate it, with Hiccup up front. The gang gasped at what they saw. Some covered their mouths afraid of being heard. For right in the clearing was a large mountain side's rock face with a perfect dark dragon laying down and licking one of their front legs.

Watching the dragon closely the gang all saw that when the dragon went to stand up she was fine, until she put weight on her leg she was cleaning and a piercing cry escaped her.

Everyone had the same look on their face after hearing the cry. It was a look of guilt and shame and no one felt it more than Hiccup. Especially, when the dragon made the same look of defeat that Toothless did all those years ago.

"It's hurt," was all Hiccup said as he got off his saddle.

"Well no duh," said Tuffnut, the male twin.

He ignored him and moved closer to the fallen Night Fury with his own right behind him.

"Wait Hiccup. What are you doing? Get back here!" Astrid hissed, but the boy only stopped for a moment.

"Just stay hidden and if it looks like it's going to attack, you know what to do." HE continued his way towards the Night Fury.

"We do?" Ruffnut inquired.

Astrid hissed his name once more, but he ignored her.

Slowly, the leader walked up to the injured Night Fury. Upon closer inspection he realized that unlike Toothless, this one seem slimmer and have a smaller structure. Given that he assumed that this Night Fury might be a girl. They both looked like they had the same coloring, but her eyes were a different color. Hers were more of a golden honey, while Toothless had yellow green ones. As he stepped closer, he cringed when the spring in his artificial leg squeaked alerting the dragon.

Her eyes narrowed and her pupils turned into slits. The growl she was sending to them was only a warning to stay away.

Choosing to ignore it Hiccup and Toothless took a closer step. His hands were in a defense position as he inched near the other dragon, while his dragon was behind him in case it decided to attack. In a calm peaceful tone Hiccup tried to reach the dragon's sensibility, "Whoa there, girl. I'm only here to help."

All it made the reptile do was bare her fangs and growl at him as his hand reached out towards it. When he did take another step, the dragon snapped her jaws in his direction.

Toothless growled at the outburst and stepped in between the two repeating the action back.

This made the other stand on her three good legs and get into a fighting stance.

Hiccup watched this and saw his own dragon do the same. With the tension growing between the two, the boy panicked and did the only thing her could think of to stop it. He jumped between the hissing Night Furies screaming at them to back off one another.

Both male and female looked at the human with round pupils and their head cocked to the side in bewilderment.

"Both of you need to calm down," he said and turned to the female, "look you are injured and your friend needs you." He didn't know if she was even paying attention to what he was saying, but she was looking at him without growling and he was happy for it. "Let us take you to her, please." He held out his palm towards her snout.

The dragon eyes it suspiciously and took a quick look at the other Night Fury to see his reaction towards the human's paw. When she saw that he was backing down, she looked at the toothpick human once more. She didn't know if she could trust him, but if he was right about her friend, than she had no other choice. The black reptile laid back down and relaxed in front of them. She refused to place her nose into the human's hand.

Watching her movements Hiccup slowly put his hand down. He was almost offended at her response and a little baffled by it, yet he was happy to have her cooperate with them. "Well it looks like she's willing to trust us. That's a good thing right, bud?"

Toothless shrugged not really know what to make of the female.

Hiccup at least did and he called out to his friend to grab the tarp to carry the injured passenger back to Berk.

It took a few moment to get her on their make shift gurney and carefully flew her back towards the dragon academy. The academy was the only space they had to hold her and to get a good reading on her wounds. Fishlegs and Ruffnut were left in charge of figuring how to do that, while Hiccup took the others to go find his father.

The first place to check was the Great Hall where the meeting of the council was taking place. However, they all came to a halt when they saw the Chief coming up the road where the prison hut stood.

Hiccup's heart dropped at the sight of him. As Stoick drew closer to them the boy called out, "Dad?"

The man perked up at hearing his son's voice, but he knew he had some news to break to him.

All Hiccup could think about after seeing the look of his dad's face was he had fail and he was not going to like what he was about to hear.