Hi! I am very sorry I didn't update this on Monday, but this chapter was very hard to write and I still don't really like how it came out. This chapter will be very dark and also very mean to poor Hiccup. I'm so evil to him… :( Anyway, hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: ***I don't own any of the How To Train Your Dragon characters***

Warning: This chapter is very dark in content

Chapter 3:

Hiccup opened his eyes, to find nothing but darkness. He couldn't remember what had happened and he had no idea where he was. He lifted his head up off the the soft floor. Where was he? He knew he couldn't be at home, the floors of his house were wooden and hard. Holding his head, he soon noticed that he was lying on the ground in the middle of a small clearing in the forest.

Hiccup got shakily to his feet, taking in his surroundings. Moonlight was shining weakly through the trees. He didn't recognize the clearing, but there was still an undeniable feeling telling him he was still on Berk. A strong wind blew through the trees, making the old oaks sway. Hiccup shivered, holding his arms protectively around himself. The silence was eerie and Hiccup would have paid anything for company. He was completely alone.

He looked into the trees, searching for a path, but the trees were so densely packed together that Hiccup couldn't see anything past his small clearing. He shivered again, sitting back onto the cool, moist forest floor. He pulled his knees to his chest, in an attempt to keep the cold away. It was then that he noticed that he was covered in mud and what looked like blood.

The ghostly light of the moon shone in to Hiccup as he looked, almost panicked, for any reason for the blood, but there wasn't any cuts on him. So if the blood wasn't his...then who's was it?

"Night Rider…."

Hiccup looked around his small glade, his heart racing, "Hello? S-show your self."

Laughter sounded through the trees, then a snap of a twig. Hiccup turned his head sharply toward the sound, looking into the trees, eyes narrowed, heart beating fast. Someone was watching him.

"Or something, Night Rider," the eerie voice said with a laugh. Hiccup jumped to his feet, reaching for his dagger, but it wasn't there. Hiccup felt his fear building. He took a step back, making the disembodied voice laugh.

Another wind blew through the clearing, making the trees whistle. Hiccup heart was hammering as he looked around through the trees, looking for the source of the laugh.

"W-who are you! Wh-what do you want," Hiccup asked again. The voice cackled gleefully.

"I am someone very special, young Night Rider. As are you….."

"Why d-do you keep calling me that…? I-I'm not a night rider," Hiccup said, hoping this would make the voice go away. Instead it made the voice hiss in anger, "Lies…. lies the Night Rider says. Your heart be pure of leadership. Your soul is that of a night fury. You are mine…. you are mine…"

The voice then turned to many repeating whispers. Hiccup felt himself shaking with fear, as he turned and fled. The creeping voice sounded through the trees as if following him, "You can not run, Night Rider!"

This comment didn't stop Hiccup as he swerved between the trees. He could hear his footsteps pounding loudly onto the soft forest floor. He could feeling the quickening beat of heart and the cry of his lungs to stop running, but he didn't listen. He kept his pace.

The trees were becoming denser. Branches scratched his arms, legs and face, as he pushed his way, desperately through the woods. He could feel the chill of the something following him, as he ran deeper into the forest. He quickened his pace, his movements becoming more despairing as he went.

"Toothless! Astrid! Help me! Dad!" he screamed, hoping beyond hope that he could hear him, but no reply came. Tears were shining in his eyes as he tried again, more desperate this time. Hiccup's voice caught in his throat, as his lungs screamed for air. Hiccup stumbled and fell to the ground. Then everything went dark.

Hiccup sat bolt upright in is his bed, screaming, causing everyone in the room to jump in shock. Toothless jumped a foot in the air, ears pulled back. Astrid almost fell from her chair, as she stared, blues eyes wide. Stoick jumped back from his sons bed in surprised shock. Gothi dropped her staff, it clattering to the wooden floor, forgotten.

"Toothless! Astrid! Help me! Dad!" Hiccup screamed, his eyes still shut. Stoick was the first to recover, he reached out, grabbing his son's shoulder in an attempt to wake him from his dream.

"Hiccup! Wake up, it alright, we're right here. Me, Toothless and Astrid," Stoick said soothingly. Hiccup jumped at his touch but opened his eyes. He looked at his father then to the black dragon that was on the other side of his bed then to Astrid, now standing behind Stoick.

"Don't let it get me… please don't let it get me," Hiccup said his voice shaking. Tears were streaming down his face. The others in the room became deadly quiet.

"Not let what get you?" Stoick asked, tentatively, his arms still around his son. Hiccup shook his head, his green eyes darting over the faces that surrounded him. He was muttering something under his breath that no one could hear.

This behavior was starting to scare Stoick and Astrid, as well as Toothless. Hiccup had never, in all his years, acted his scared and delusional. First the nightmares, which Astrid had told Stoick about, then the trance like reaction to that strange staff in the forest, now this. Astrid wouldn't lie, she was scared, and worried.

"Son, we can't protect you if we don't know what it is," Stoick asked again, Hiccup turned towards him, his eyes still wide and full of terror.

"The v-voice... " Hiccup mumbled as he lifted his hands to his ears, covering them as if trying to block out sound, "Make the voice stop…"

"What voice? Hiccup, what are you talking about," Astrid asked, a bit harsher than she had meant to. Hiccup moved to gaze to to her, he looked panicked. His breathing quickened.

"The forest…. all around me… make it stop!" he shouted, as he hyperventilated. Astrid took a step back. What was wrong with him.

Stoick panicked himself and began trying to sooth his son, "Shhh… it's ok. We'll protect you, Hiccup, I promise nothing will happen to you. I promise."

"Promise…. promise," Hiccup muttered as he fell lightly back onto his bed, his eyes fluttered and soon they closed. Stoick looked back at the others in the room, Astrid looked at him at a loss for words, Gothi looked thoughtful. No one said a word, as they stared at the young dragon rider. None of them knew what to make on this strange occurrence.

Looking through the window in the small room, unseen by anyone was a girl with glowing purple eyes. In her hand she held a staff of black wood, a sphere of purple swirled at it's top. The girl laughed, as she watched to scene below.

"I promise nothing will happen to you. I promise."

The girl laughed again. That promise was going to be broken, and she would make sure of it.