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Hiccup POV:

A sharp pain shoots through my leg and I snap my eyes open, my fingers flying over the wound. I shake my head several times to clear away the fog of sleep looking down at my foot.

Toothless's head snaps up blinking rapidly as I hiss in pain. To tired to try and navigate through the halls of the building last night, Toothless and I had just plopped down on the balcony going to sleep.

I pull my feet closer and grab the straps of my prosthetic and rip the metal and wood from my foot, gripping the stump.

Phantom pains are nothing new, but never, ever will I be used to the sensation. Its like getting my leg twisted off, burned to a crisp, stomped on for foot measure than chewed on slowly by a Monstrous Nightmare. I bite my lip to keep the next cry of pain from escaping my fingers turning white from how tight I'm gripping the stump.

Toothless coos before he plops his head into my lap purring. I remove a hand from my foot flinching at the next wave of pain and put it on his head rubbing the scales. Toothless's tail wraps around me as if he can protect me from the phantom pain.

He can't.

Nothing will help.

Grinding my teeth and clenching my jaw I close my eyes tightly trying to mentally banish the pain. A sharper burning sensation shoots through the missing limb like fire. My eyes snap open and I snap a hand over my mouth to muffle the pained gasp.

Toothless curls tighter around me, cold scales brushing against my hand pushing it against the stump. A blood curling scream escapes my lips, dying in my throat as my voice cuts out. Panting for breath, I close my eyes tightly trying to breathe. It will go away. It will go away. I assure myself, my limbs fall limp as I curl in on myself, gripping Toothless in the tightest embrace I can manage. Toothless purrs comfortingly and leans into my death grip.

Nothing hurts worse, not even having a blade plunged through my middle was anywhere near as painful as this.

In some not part of my fuzzy nearly unconscious brain I hear footsteps. Then panicked shouts. I groan softly, as someone touches my shoulder but I dont loosen my grip on my dragon.

"..cup!" A voice shouts.

"..Iccup!" It repeats more frantic.

"Hiccup!" The voice finally draws me from from the fog of pain that has clasped all my thoughts laughing murderously. I lift my head away from Toothless's neck my blurry vision hardly able to make out anything beyond blurs and blobs.

Blinking several times, my vision clears enough for me to make out several shapes, the first being Eret, the second some other man I dont know and the third, Drago. I guess, my scream didn't go unnoticed.

"'m fine." I mutter the nagging sharp pain dying down.

"Mate, your- do you honestly think we believe that?" Eret demands stopping mid sentence to take a calming breath.

I look up at Drago again but see his gaze not on me, but the prosthetic lying a few feet away. Oh. He didn't notice my missing foot.

Pulling away from Toothless with one hand my fingers scramble for the peg leg. I grasp it and pull my foot forward, tying the clasps around my foot trying to ignore the last sharp pains of the foot. Most of the time it lasts for hours, but today it had pity on me.

Toothless draws away from me, allowing me to get to my feet. "See." I say looking at the adults pleading with them silently to believe me, I hate having people worry about me.

"Ryker, take Viggo and Eret and go for another hunt." Drago commands. The man in the corner nods, he and Eret stalking off through the doorway. Drago turns his piercing gray eyes to me, "Mount your dragon and follow me." He commands and starts to walk off.

Silently thanking him for not making me walk, I climb onto Toothless's back my feet subconsciously locking into the riding gears. Toothless moves forward after Drago keeping up with his brisk pace easily.

I dont say anything and neither does Drago, just empty silence as we walk forward down halls past people, and into and onto a boat. Toothless jumps next to Drago and I slide from off his back looking down at the water.

Drago gives me a half smirk/smile before he lets out a dragon call. Me and Toothless share a look before the water bubbles before something bursts from it.

My eyes widen and water rains down on me soaking my clothing. I pull my bangs away from my eyes my jaw so desperately wanting to drop onto the ground and stay there.

The dragon is a stunning white, but bits of it are covered in gray edges with no tusks, its head reminds me of a giant peacock with a giant feather crown. Its breathtaking.

Drago laughs drawing me from my amazed stupor and I look over at him, "Whoa." I breathe. Drago sets his staff down, raising his right hand up, the dragon leans forward pressing its head against his hand. Its so huge, one of its eyes is as tall as I am.

"This is Shards." Drago says and Shards pulls away, turning her gaze to me. "Last female of the Bewilderbeast clan." He says and Shards blows softly on me.

My wet hair frosts over and Toothless sneezes. I shake the snow and ice from my hair looking over at Drago, "She's amazing. How did you.." I trail off unsure what to say. Looking at Drago the last thing I want to say is "train" but its what's happened here.

"I found her after an attack and nursed her to health." Drago answers to my unfinished question.

Toothless looks over at me eyes wide. "Toothless lost his tailfin, I helped him fly again." I say and Drago's gaze flickers to Toothless's tailfin.

This is amazing.

Shards huffs again before she dives back into the ocean, tail flipping in the water. I duck another blast of water and Drago watches me with an amused expression. Toothless pulls away from the railing and shakes himself sending water everywhere.

I sigh and brush water away from my eyes. "So have you made your decision?" Drago asks after a few minutes of silence.

I jerk my head up, "Huh?"

"Your healed enough to move. You could have left. You've made your choice?" Drago asks.

I wring my hands, "Um..." Have I? I'm still furious with Stoick for the lies, but some part of me stubbornly refuses to believe all the proof. "I-I have." I say and put a hand on Toothless who is suddenly next to me.

Drago watches me quietly.

"I-I'm going to stay. I believe you." I say. The words are relieving on my tongue, but at the same time, terrifying, there's no going back now.

Drago's eyes widen but he lifts out a hand resting it on my shoulder. "Good." He says and moves his hand away grabbing the staff from the ground.

So, now what?

Sudden footsteps make both me and Drago's head snap left watching as Eret and Ryker burst onto the boat. "Sir!" Eret says gasping for breath.

"Dragon riders." Ryker finishes.

Dragon riders? Astrid!

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