Author's Note: Glad to see you all enjoied my last chapter. Hope you like this one as well.

I don't own How to Train Your Dragon, only Hicca (female Hiccup) and Asher (male Astrid).

"..." Human p.o.v.

"..." Dragon p.o.v.

'...' Human Thought

'...' Dragon Thought

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Chapter 7: New Tail and Eel Fear

Later that night Gobber took his students up to one of the watch towers for some late night campfire stories. While the other teens were concentrating on Gobber's thrilling story, an uninterested Hicca listened in from her spot on the far side of the bench. Being the loser of the group, nobody wanted to sit next to her. Naturally, she had been the last to make it up to the tower and all the big chunks of beef and chicken were seized by the teens, leaving her with a scrawny piece of fish that she idly held over the fire. However she didn't really care as she was too lost in thought about her newly discovered ability.

"And with one twist, he took my hand and swallowed it whole! And I saw the look on his face: I was delicious! He must have passed the word, because it wasn't a month before another one of 'em took my leg." Gobber says pointed to the stump on his leg as the other teens let out cries of awe.

Hicca was the only one not to react. After working with Gobber in the smith all her life, she could recite the story word for word. Plus, she far too in thought about Toothless.

'Huh…I didn't call it 'the Night Fury' this time. What did I call him? Toothless? Haha, ironic, but cute…I had given him a name…' Hicca thought.

"Wow, isn't it weird to think that your arm was inside a dragon. Like if your mind was still controlling it you could have crushed his heart or something," Fishlegs said, banging her two drumsticks together trying to depict what she was talking about.

"I swear I am so angry right now. I'll avenge your beautiful hand and your beautiful foot." Snotlout announced. "I'll chop the legs off every dragon I meet…with my face!" She exclaimed pointing to her own face.

Hicca lightly smacked her hand on her forehead at Snotlout's declaration.

'That doesn't even make sense…' Hicca thought.

"It's the wings and the tails you really want. If it can't fly, it can't get away. A downed Dragon is a dead Dragon." Gobber explains tearing another piece of meat from his drumstick and tossing it in his mouth.

Hicca's head slowly looked up upon hearing what Gobber had just said. She stared off into the distance before coming up with a final thought.

'A downed dragon is a dead dragon? I know what I have to do.' Hicca says as she gets up leaves without anyone seeing her.

"Alright I'm off to bed." Gobber says with a yawn. "And you should be too. Tomorrow we get to the big boys, slowly but surely working our way up to the Monstrous Nightmare. But who will win the honor of killing it?" He asks the teens as they glanced at each other and then at him, each producing a sigh of awe and fascination while imagining themselves killing the terrifying Monstrous Nightmare.

"It's gonna' be me. It's my destiny." Tuffnut says, leaning into a casual pose. "See?" He says showing the other teens something.

Asher ignored his classmates when he noticed a lone fish on a stick that had, moments ago, been in the hands of Hicca. He walked over to the stairs while the others were distracted and could make out a figure with a small frame just disappear out of sight down the stairs.

'Where is she off to?' Asher thought. 'Probably just turning in.' He suddenly remembered their last dragon training class…when he…touched her. 'I'll have to apologize to her but when? When she's not in dragon training, she's either gone or in the smith. Still why does she hide that scar of hers.' He wonders.

"Your mom let you get a tattoo?" Fishlegs asks.

"It's not a tattoo. It's a birthmark." Tuffnut says to her.

"Ok, I've been stuck with you since birth and that was never there." Ruffnut remarks.

"Yes it was. You just haven't seen me from the left side until now." Tuffnut retorted.

Asher kept looking at the stairs, as if waiting for Hicca to reappear in his line of sight. But she didn't. He shrugged his shoulders and returned to his seat, wondering why he cared where she went. He picked up her forgotten stick and returned to the campfire as Tuffnut continued speaking about his 'birthmark'.

After completely coming down from the watchtower, Hicca ran back to the smith and entered her private little workshop, courtesy of Gobber. She cleared her worktable and took out her sketchbook. Flipping to the page of her drawing of Toothless, she set the book down and began drawing in the missing fin that she had smudged away earlier. It only took a couple minutes for her to draw up a full blueprint of her next biggest invention. Only this time, it wouldn't be used for fighting or killing dragons…it would be to help one fly again. She got to work, banging the welding hammer on a rod before putting it into the ice-cold water. She took a pair of pliers and pulls off the metal nuts from the shields in the shop and placed them in the fire. With the same pair of pliers, she hammered the nuts into a more round shape. Once that was done, she put them into scale to measure them and how many she would need. Lastly, she acquired some black leather and strapped it onto the rods. Within a few hours, she was finished. She held it open in her petite arms and compared it to her blueprint. It only looked a little different but it should work fine nonetheless. Satisfied, she folded up the tail and headed home to get some rest. She had a big day tomorrow.


The next morning, Hicca woke the minute the sunlight hit her eyes, excitement stretched across her face. She went down to the docks with a basket-backpack to get some fish for Toothless before marching back to her house to get the tail. She then was stopped by Asher.

"Hey Hicca." Asher says to her.

"Oh uh…hey Asher…good morning." Hicca says timidly still haven't forgotten about what happened last dragon training class.

"Listen I know we haven't been close or even 'friends' for that matter but I feel like I need to apologize about what happened in last class." Asher says scratching the back of his head looking away from her to hide his blush.

Hicca is shocked at first that Asher was actually apologizing to her but then she remember her promise to Toothless about bring him breakfast.

"It's fine. Not exactly how I pictured something like that happening but let's just let it go. Look I've got to run but I'll see you and the others at today's lesson." Hicca says as she walks past him and heads into her house to grab Toothless' new tailfin and sneaks out the backdoor and makes her way to the cove.

An hour later Hicca arrives at the cove and makes her way into it the same way she did last.

"Oh Toothless…" Hicca sang, waking the sleeping Toothless as he yawns and awoke when he heard her. "Good morning." She says with a smile setting the basket and tailfin down and sits on her knees in front of him.

"Good morning uh…" Toothless begins when he realizes he doesn't even know her name.

"Hicca…Hicca Horrendous Haddock III." Hicca says introducing herself to the dragon.

"Interesting name. Wait did you call me 'Toothless'?" Toothless asks as his ears shot up and his pupils changed into those big black orbs as he looks at her.

"Well yeah. I can't very well keep calling you 'dragon' or 'Night Fury' now can I?" Hicca says.

"Guess not. So umm did you bring…" Toothless begins.

"You something to eat?" Hicca asks receiving a nod from the Night Fury. "Of course I always keep the promises I make. So anyway I hope you're hungry because here's breakfast." She says with a smile as she pushes the basket forward causing it to dump its contents making Toothless drool at the sight. "Ok, that's disgusting. Okay we have some trout, salmon, some nice Icelandic cod, and a whole smoked eel-" She says but Toothless halted catching her attention.

"A what?!" Toothless asks in a loud voice growling and his eyes turning into slits.

Hicca reaches into the pile and pulls out the black and yellow-stripped eel. Once Toothless saw it, he let out a roar and backed away in fear.

"Get that thing away from me!" Toothless roars.

"Ok, ok! It's ok!" Hicca cries, tossing the eel aside. "There, no more eel. It's all right." She says, holding her hand out to Toothless. He sniffed her hand, smelling the lingering odor of the eel she had touched and snorted. "Yeah, I never cared much for eel myself either." She says.

"Neither do dragons. They dangerous to our kind." Toothless tells her and immediately relaxes and refocuses his attention on the pile of fish while Hicca wiped her hand on her hood jacket.

"Don't mind me. I'll just be minding my own business." Hicca says, making her way behind Toothless as he swallowed the fish whole.

Hicca gently placed the artificial tail on the ground and scotched it closer to Toothless, who moved his tail. She quickly looked at Toothless but he was still focused on the fish. She tried again, but he still moved. She let out a sigh of annoyance and moved the tail closer, only for him to move away again.

'Does he have eyes in the back of his head or something?' Hicca thought furiously as she looked back to Toothless who was still contently eating the fish, paying no attention to her. 'Well, he is pretty distracted…' She thought.

Hicca prepared to secure the tail to him when Toothless suddenly stuck his head into the basket, no doubt to look for more fish, causing Hicca to be pulled forward quite roughly.

"Oh, come on." Hicca says and without another thought, she climbs over his tail so she was sitting right on top of it, her back facing Toothless, as she pulled the black leather tail up against Toothless' tail and began strapping it in place and she then tightens the final buckle and leans back, examining it from afar.

Hicca pulled it open, smiling when she saw that it was almost the exact same size as Toothless' tail fin and the same color as well.

"It's not too bad, looks good. Might actually work…but how would we test it?" Hicca asks herself.

Toothless, however, began noticing something different in the atmosphere. He perked his head up, causing the basket to fall to the ground. He narrowed his eyes when he noticed the human girl was gone, but discovered where she was when he heard her voice behind him. She could feel her hands on his tail. He decided to experiment; he moved his tail, and to his surprise he felt something he did feel last time he tried this.

'Did she…?' Toothless thought as his jaw drops and eyes widened at the new sensation he felt.

Toothless slowly proceeded to open out his wings while Hicca continued talking to herself.

"It just might- WHOAAA!" Hicca screams as Toothless launched himself into the air and Hicca grabbed his tail with her arms and legs out of reflex and held on for dear life.

Hicca was so startled by the sudden jump and wind brushing through her hair, causing it to fly all over the place, when she heard a flapping noise. She saw that the tail wasn't staying open. Toothless suddenly lost control and was tilting too much to the left, causing him to fall for the ground. He let out a roar as he neared the ground. Without hesitation, Hicca reached out and pulled the black leather fin open. It had an immediate reaction as Toothless suddenly rebalanced and zoomed up into the air and out of the cove. Hicca was nearly at a loss for words.

"Oh my…I-It's working!" Hicca shouts over the wind as she turned the tail so Toothless would turn around and return to the cove. She was overcome with joy as Toothless glided over the lake. "Yes! I did it!" She cheers.

Toothless turned when he heard the girl behind him, he hadn't realized she was there…he quickly performed a sharp turn causing Hicca to lost her grip and fall into the lake. Toothless tried to fly again while getting a glimpse at what Hicca had put on him but he lost control again and fell into the shallow area of the lake. Toothless brought his tail to his face and sniffed the black leather prosthetic that Hicca had fashioned.

"So that's what happened. This is like a replacement for my lost tailfin. It's very well made and matches my scales. I need to thank her." Toothless says as he looked around for the human girl and saw something in the water.

"I can't swim!" Hicca cries, desperately trying to stay above the surface where all the precious air was, but to no avail.

Toothless instantly understood what was wrong and jumped into the lake. It was small lake, but a certain part of it was very deep, that was where the fish hung out a lot. He swam over to Hicca when she felt him near, her flailing arms grabbed onto Toothless' body. Once he felt her holding on tightly, he swam back to the shore. Hicca let go once she was on dry land out of fatigue. She sat up on her hands and knees, coughing up water. She almost died…but he saved her…Toothless saved her. She looked up at her savior who sat right by her, his tail wagging as he gave her his adorable toothless smile. She wrapped her arms around Toothless' neck.

"Thank you." Hicca whispers as Toothless purred in response.

"You're welcome but let me get this straight. You live on an island but you can't swim?" Toothless asks.

"My father never lets me venture near the docks or the beach in fear that I might cause trouble or hurt myself so I was never taught." Hicca says but then noted the position of the sun. She was late for dragon training! "Oh no! I'm late!" She cries, getting up and running to the exit of the clearing.

Toothless' head shot up and her sudden leave, giving her a questioning look. He quickly chased after her, thinking she was playing tag, but she stopped him.

"Wait, don't go! I finally got back in the air! Let's try again." Toothless begs.

"Sorry sweetie, I'll be back tomorrow! I promise!" Hicca bid Toothless farewell.

Toothless whined. He had just flown again successfully and now she was leaving? He wanted to play, to fly some more! He quickly grabbed her long auburn hair in his mouth. She usually wore her long hair in a braid but the sudden take-off flight caused it to come undone.

"Oww! Toothless!" Hicca cries as she turns around and saw his big black pupils looking back at her. "I'll be back tomorrow. I promise. Now sit." She says, pointing to the ground and a second later Toothless sat, giving her his usually cute look while wagging his tail.

'Why am I acting like a pet?' Toothless wonders.

"Now drop my hair." Hicca says but Toothless shrugged and gave her a reluctant look.

'But it smells so good.' Toothless whines taking a whiff of her hair's scent and instantly falls in love with it.

"Drop it!" Hicca says more forcefully.

'Fine.' Toothless drops Hicca's hair from his mouth and already misses the scent.

"Oh you're such a good boy!" Hicca says causing Toothless' ears shot up and his tail was wagging furiously. "I want to stay and play so more too, but I have to get home! We can play some more tomorrow, ok?"

"Okay!" Toothless purrs excitedly and licks Hicca's face.

"Good, then it's a deal. I'll see you tomorrow, Toothless and I'll try to make some adjustments to the tailfin." Hicca says as she kisses his forehead and hears him purr signaling he likes that.


Later that day Hicca and the other teens were at dragon training inside the arena with Gobber.

"Today is all about teamwork." Gobber began speaking as each of the teens held a bucket of water. Everyone was carefully looking around as a thick green smoke covered the arena. "A wet dragon head can't light its fire. The Hideous Zippleback is extra tricky. One head breathes gas and the other head lights it on fire. Your job is to tell which is which." He says.

The smoke eventually covered the entire arena, leaving the teens in pairs: Hicca and Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Asher and Tuffnut and Snotlout.

"Specializes in sneak attacks. Teeth inject venom for pre-digestion," Fishlegs started spouting her facts about dragon.

"Fishlegs, would you please stop that?" Hicca whispers rather loudly.

"If that dragon shows either of its heads…" Snotlout bragged, "I'm going to – there!" She cries pointing to a horned figure in the smoke as she and Tuffnut threw their buckets of water at them.

"Hey! It's just us you idiot!" Ruffnut shouts.

"You're butts are getting bigger, we thought you were the dragon," Tuffnut laughed.

"Not that there's anything wrong with having a muscly dragonesqe figure," Snotlout tried to get out of Tuffnut's insult by complimenting Asher. Asher, however, walked up to Snotlout and punched her in the face as Ruffnut threw her bucket right into her brother's face, knocking him to the ground.

"Ah!" Tuffnut was suddenly pulled into the smoke by an unseen force.

Ruffnut ran after her brother, but Asher held up his arm to stop her.

"Wait a minute." Asher held up his bucket of water, ready to douse the first dragon head he saw when all of a sudden something came out of nowhere and swept his and Ruffnut's feet causing them to fall to the ground and Asher's bucket spilled onto the stone.

They could hear Tuffnut screaming and a growl in the distance as they stood. Tuffnut suddenly emerged from the smoke, crawling on all fours desperate to get away from whatever it was that attacked him.

"Oh, I'm hurt! I am very much hurt!" Tuffnut shouts running past Hicca and Fishlegs to get to where Gobber was standing, which was miraculously the only place not completely covered in smoke.

"Chances of survival are dwindling into single digits now." Fishlegs comments.

A Zippleback head suddenly snaked out of the smoke and danced its way over to Fishlegs, sniffing her. Fishlegs was far too easily spooked and she doused the head. Angry, the Zippleback head opened its mouth, a green smoke bubbly in its mouth.

"Oh, wrong head." Fishlegs says.

The Zippleback opened its mouth and breathed gas all over Fishlegs who ran away screaming.

"Fishlegs!" Gobber cries.

The other head suddenly came into view, taking a place next to its other head, sparking.

"Now Hicca!" Gobber shouts.

Hicca nodded and threw her bucket of water at the spark head. She held the bucket over her head in case the dragon attacked her, but she looked up when she heard the water fall onto the ground. The dragon was far too high for her…the water didn't even touch it.

"Oh come on…" Hicca says.

The Zippleback brought its head down to Hicca's level and growled, advancing on the girl as she dropped her bucket and fell to the ground, backing away.

"Hicca!" Gobber cries, ready to jump in and rescue the petite girl.

All of a sudden the Zippleback let out a cry of fear and began backing away from Hicca, who was slowly standing up and holding out her hands.

"Back! Get back!" Hicca says to the Zippleback as it continues backing away from Hicca as she made pushing motions with her hands until it was back in its cage. "Don't make me tell you again. Now be a good boy and think about what you've done." She says reaching into her hood jacket and pulled out the black and yellow eel that had spooked Toothless earlier, tossing the eel into the cage, causing the Zippleback to back up away from the eel. Its back legs climbed up the wall while it's two heads were pressed close together against the wall, desperately trying to get away from the offensive creature.

"Don't worry I'll come back and get it later." Hicca whispers as she shuts the doors on the Zippleback as its whimpers could still be heard through the wood and she felt their shocked emotion at what she said she'd do.

Hicca turned around and wiped her hands on her jacket. Everyone was staring at her while Fishlegs dropped his bucket, obviously shocked by what she had just been able to do.

"Ok, are we done? Because I've got some things I have to take care of so…see you tomorrow!" Hicca babbles before running off from the arena while the other's eyes simply followed her as she left, still shocked by what happened.


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