"Wow, looks like we found a Dragon, Toothless!", I think it's a Whispering Death.", Hiccup said, starting to reach his hand out to the Dragon.

Just as Hiccup was bringing his hand down to the Whispering Death, Toothless jumped in front of Hiccup, and gave a loud growl. "Whoah, what's wrong, buddy, it's just a baby, it's not gonna hurt me, it's just scared.", Hiccup explained. But Toothless did not look satisfied.

"Just move over, it's fine.", Hiccup said, but Toothless would not move. The baby let out a loud whine, echoing through the cave. "Toothless, move.". Hiccup said defiantly. Only from the command Hiccup said, made Toothless move to the side, clearly looking angry, but he would not disobey Hiccup.

Hiccup walked back to the baby dragon, who was now in a corner, shivering, either from cold or fright. "See, he's not so bad, he's just lost.", Hiccup said, reaching his hand out to the dragon, who, instead of touching his hand back, gave another high pitched whine, and snapped at his fingers.

Toothless immediately began growling again, walking up beside Hiccup and glowering down at the dragon that had made a move towards his rider. "Would you just get back, the only reason he's snapping, is because he's scared, the only reason he's scared is because you look like you want to eat him. Now, just get back.", Hiccup said, and Toothless went a few steps back. Toothless was now sitting a few feet away from Hiccup, huffing in fury because he couldn't make him understand.

"Is he a big mean dragon, is he? It's okay, you're safe now.", Hiccup said, trying a baby talk that he had heard Mrs. Hofferson make to a baby when it was crying. Clearly it didn't work because it only made the baby let out another blood-curdling whine, making Hiccup plug his ears. "Wow, you are a really loud guy for being so small. Do you want to stay in that corner? That's okay, I'll just let you have some time to yourself.".

"Way to go, Toothless, you made it too scared to even be touched.", Hiccup said, glaring at him as he walked back to the fire. Toothless gave a snort, but stayed where he was, glaring at the Whispering Death. "I wonder where it's parents went? Probably lost in the storm somewhere. I suppose we should just wait for the storm to pass, then we can bring it back to Berk, maybe learn something new from it.", Hiccup said, mostly talking to himself, but also talking to Toothless, trying to get on his good side again.

The baby let out another one of it's screams, for no apparent reason, other than to try to make Hiccup go deaf, Toothless seemed unphased by the sound. A loud rumble echoed through the walls, making the ceiling shudder, and threaten to collapse on them. "What, was that?" Hiccup said, looking over to Toothless. Toothless stood up now, but instead of eyes filled with fury, they looked scared. "What's wrong Toothless? The storm must be getting worse it's..".

He stopped mid-sentence when the entire right side of the cave exploded in a pile of dirt and rocks. With the dust clearing, Hiccup saw them. Two huge Whispering Death's, both at least double the size of the one that they had met before. "Oh, I think I get what you're saying now Toothless. Don't get in the way of a Mother and it's baby.". Hiccup turned to Toothless, who was on the other side of the cave, catching the attention of one of the Death's, but the other one turned to Hiccup.

"Toothless!" Hiccup screamed, backing up into a corner as the Whispering Death slithered over to him. It made a lunge at him, just as Toothless ran into Hiccup, sending him sprawling to the other side of the cave, behind the two Death's. Toothless gave a yelp of pain as the Death tore into his side, pushing him away from Hiccup.

Hiccup stood up, watching in horror as the two Death's approached the wounded dragon, and tried to think of what to do. Without thinking, he picked up a rock and threw it at the head of one of the Death's, having it rebound into the other Death's head. Being scared, but very proud of himself for hitting both of them with one shot, Hiccup wondered if that was a smart thing to do. But even a Night Fury can't take on two Whispering Death's. The snakelike creatures both turned around to face the 4 foot tall human who had just thrown a rock at them. Hiccup took a deep breath, and yelled, "Leave him alone! Your baby's right here!", pointing to their young, who was cringing in the corner across from him. One of the Death's rushed to the baby, picked it up in it's mouth, and disappeared back into the tunnel it came from.

Hiccup started to smile, before the other Death did not do the same, and instead started advancing towards him. "Uh, oh.", he said, before running to the only place that he could, down the tunnel.


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