Hiccup stood with his head tilted back staring up at the sky in slack jawed disbelief. A million different questions rushing through his mind as Astrid, and the others suddenly appeared.

Sliding off of their dragon's, the dragon rider's each pulled their weapons and cautiously made their way over to their leader as Hiccup finally started to collect himself and picked his jaw up off of the ground and looked at each of them after a few seconds or so as if he was totally surprised to find them there with him.

"Hiccup? Are you okay?" Fishlegs asked warily and he fidgeted slightly. Hiccup made an inaudible sound that could have been a hum or not- as he turned his head to look at the blond teen. His green eyes blinking, but he otherwise didn't really react to anything.

Not their questions.

Not their voices.

He barely even twitched when Snotlout decided to make an attempt to snap him out of his funk, and wound up punched in the stomach. Which apparently worked since he nearly took Snotlout's head off after tackling him to the ground and delivering a few much needed punches to the bigger teen's face and body before being pulled off of him by Astrid.

Whom just glared at him for his loss of control over his temper. After all, he was better than that.

But in Hiccup's defense, after seeing what he'd just seen, and then being punched by Berk's resident bully- Snotlout had it coming. Besides, beating the crap out of the brunette had helped him sort out a few things.

The girl- er, Skye. He really should remember her name after what they had done to one another.

It was only right, after all.

Anyways, Skye had mentioned coming from a cavern. And though she never said if it was on the island or not, he had managed to work some things out while beating the crap out of Snotlout. Like the fact that Toothless had been with her earlier that day when he'd been missing. And then there was the fact that they had run into Toothless again after discovering the carcasses of those dead animals which meant- Skye lived in a cavern on Dragon's Edge.

And if that was so...then he obviously needed to find her before someone else (like the dragon hunters) found her. If she was supposed to be some unknown species of dragon- then he needed to find her and bring her back to the keep where she could be better protected.

But first he'd have to know what exactly she was.

After all, he had never heard of any kind of dragon that could take human form.

"Uh, Hiccup-" Astrid started to ask him what he was thinking. But he sort of cut her off at the legs when he headed over to Fishleg's dragon and pulled a map out of one of his small saddle bags and then moved to Toothless's side and said in a tone that brooked no argument from human nor dragon alike.

"I need light." Toothless obeyed knowing that his human was still rattled and maybe even a touch...well, upset. And compliance was really the only way he'd get back in his human's good graces. Especially since the last time his human had gotten angry with him, he'd fed him eel- Bleh.

So compliance was good. Especially if it saved him from the unpleasantness of eating eel again tonight.

Using the beginnings of a plasma blast, he opened his mouth just enough to allow some of the light to filter through so that Hiccup could see the scribbles of the island and noted that there were at least seven caverns that were above sea level.

Four of which were well hidden and close enough to a fresh water source, and plentiful vegetation and varying types of animal life that he could easily imagine Skye living there. "Alright Toothless, you don't want to eat eel again for disobeying me-" Toothless closed his mouth, cutting off the light he'd created so that he could nod absently. "Good, because I have a whole basket and then some just waiting for you back at the keep if you don't take me to Skye's cavern right now."

Toothless began to look a little green as his stomach knotted- if that was at all possible for a creature that was pure inky black- as Toothless huffed for a second before moving forward so that his rider could climb onto his back. Once on Toothless's back, Hiccup turned to the others and barked out a few orders.

1) He needed everyone of them to return to the keep.

And 2) He needed Fishlegs to see if he could find anything at all in their archive on mythology and legends and such about a species of dragon that was capable of not only looking human. But capable of human speech as well.

The more information he had about what type of species Skye was, the better off he would be.

Upon hearing this Fishlegs began to get excited while the others became curious about what he was talking about. As far as they all knew there was no such species. Yet Hiccup simply looked down at them and muttered, "Then either Skye is something new..." Or she was something very, very old.

Something that had been thought either lost to human's or dead.

Whatever the reason, he still needed to find her and return her to the keep to protect her. After all, a pretty little thing like her would fetch quite a price on the dragon market. Especially if the buyer was a slave trader of some sort looking for something new and exotic to sell.

After he finished giving his orders, he patted Toothless on the side of the neck and muttered, "Alright boy, lets go." And held on tight as his dragon shot up into the air and disappeared as fast as inhumanly possible.

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As soon as she reached her cavern and went inside, Skye collapsed onto the ground. Her body shivering violently as a soft gust of wind brushed her sweaty skin uncomfortably as she crawled a little ways further into the darkness. Her teal eyes glowing softly as she carefully stretched out onto her back on the ground and lightly pressed her hands against her flat stomach.

Already feeling the seed from her earlier mating taking root within her womb. Closing her eyes, she quietly counted the young forming inside of her and let out a shaky breath when she only felt the presence of one. Which was unusual for one of her kind.

Especially when in heat.

But one couldn't argue with results no matter how slight they may be.

She would be a mother again, possibly to a new generation queen like herself. Which meant that her poor little Nightfury may very well find himself mated later on in life to his human's child.

She giggled softly at the amusing thought as she imagined her mate and the Nightfury at odds with one another, albit temporarily, as they butted heads on how her young should live it's life and so on. She imagined the to arguing in their own peculiar way.

Her mate snapping and snarling at his dragon to stay away from his 'daughter' while the Nightfury would take exception to his tone and begin growling and hissing at him until he merely got tired of trying to speak with his human and shot a plasma blast at his head in warning.

She'd imagine the Nightfury winning that round of arguments. At least until her mate figured out how to hurl fire back at him. Which would result in their home probably being burned down... Several dozen times over the years.

But all in all, and this was the most important part- she could imagine them all being happy.

Feeling her lower stomach attempt to twist itself into a painful knot, she moaned softly to herself as she bit down on her bottom lip with her small fang like teeth as she twisted her body so that she lay on her side. Her arms wrapped around her stomach as she drew her legs up to her chest and used one of her wings to cover her body in an attempt to warm her chilled skin.

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"I'm not saying that I don't exactly understand," Hiccup finally said to Toothless as they flew. The teen had managed to hold onto his temper towards Toothless for a little bit longer before finally deciding to break the silence and began speaking to him. "After all, I saw her too..." And did something- well, okay- several things that I probably shouldn't have done. He mentally reminded himself as he thought back to the whole encounter with Skye from beginning to end.

"All I'm saying is that you didn't have to hide her from me. I get it. She's something new. And most people don't deal well with things that are new. However if she is a new species of dragon- one capable of human form and speech- then that makes her just as much a target for the dragon hunters as it does anyone else. I mean, come on! Even I was surprised to see that the girl I had had-" Okay he wasn't going to go there. He was not going to bring up the fact that he'd had sex with Skye. It made him just a little bit uncomfortable just thinking about it. So he floundered a bit as he spoke his next few words. "An- An encounter with."

Toothless jerked his head sharply to the side so that he could look at his human. Noting the slightly lost expression on his face, the Nightfury chirped at him. Encouraging him to continue putting his foot in his mouth.

It was interesting.

And just a little bit funny, Toothless thought to himself as he bit back a low purr when Hiccup's hand began to gently pet one of the sensitive spots on his neck.

"My point is, boy, that you didn't have to hide her from me. I wouldn't have hurt her." Hiccup said as he inwardly cringed at hose last words while again thinking back to his brief encounter with Skye.

Oh yeah, he wouldn't hurt her.

He'd only slammed her into a tree and held her there while he wrapped his fingers around her long slender throat and possibly left dark splotches on the tender skin there from when he had tightened his grip on her. So while one part of his mind agreed that he wouldn't hurt said female, another part of him- a darker part called him a damned liar.

And after a moment or so of thought, he realized that that dark part of himself was utterly right.

He was a liar.

When he'd seen her in the clearing with his dragon, he'd wanted to kill her. He had thought nothing but the worst, especially when she had began speaking to Toothless. Admitting to the animal kills and other things.

He'd recognized then that she was dangerous. Probably in more ways than one after seeing the effect that she had on his and everyone else's dragons.

And that was just another reason why he had briefly wanted to kill her. But the moment he had her pinned against the tree and she hadn't bothered to struggle, something else had taken root in his mind. It was primitive and possessive and tugged at every wicked part of his heart and mind.

Darkly whispering to him- MINE! Even now when Skye was away from him he still felt it. Still felt the pull of it.

She was his.

And he'd kill anyone who so much as dared to try and lay their filthy hands on her.