"What the hell was that?!" Asked Jack as he collapsed on the floor, panting. He felt a huge cut across the left side of his cheek as he felt his face and his throat was gashed with claw marks. "I'm so sorry, Toothless just got freaked out that's all. I don't know what got into him!" Said Hiccup, trying to cover up for his best friend. "Who's Toothless?" Asked Jack slowly. "He's...he's my pet dragon." Hiccup sighed. Jack looked up at him in disbelief. "That thing, that's your pet?" He asked. How do these people survive with these things roaming around their houses? "What ever it is, you got to put it on a leash or something. What do you feed it, caffeine?" Asked Jack rhetorically. "What?" Asked Hiccup confused. "Forget it." Jack said to him. Do they even know what caffeine is yet? "This guy is beginning to sound crazier by the second!" Thought Hiccup. "So what's to explain that other dragon?" Said Astrid finally. "I don't know, these dragons are going crazy ever since you fell from the sky." Hiccup pointed to Jack. "Hey don't try and blame this on me, how was I supposed to know whether that thing was attacking you or not?" Jack said. "Or maybe it was because you told it to do so." Said Astrid cunningly as she stood up. "What?" Asked Jack confused. "She's on to me" He thought. "Don't play games with me, I heard you whisper a name while you where getting attacked by Toothless." She said. "That's ridiculous, how could it have possibly heard me from there?" Asked Jack. "He's right Astrid, I don't think it was his fault that Toothless got hurt." Hiccup said to her. She gave him a stern look. "So how come you where talking to the dragon, just before it left Jack? I know what I saw Hiccup." She said. Jack was beginning to sweat now. If he let this one out, this could mean the death of his new best pal, his guardian beast. Blitzen was sent here to cover Jack's back but now he had to cover the dragon's back, for both their sakes. "That never happened, dragons can't talk, can they?" Said Jack. "Crap, I need to compromise" He thought. "Even if it was my dragon and it did belong to me, it would only be self-defence wouldn't it?" He looked out the window and realised it had grown dark. Come on Blitz give me a break. "It's getting late guys, how about we sleep it of and figure this out in the morning?" He said. "He's right, I'm feeling a bit tired anyway." Yawned Hiccup as he rubbed his eyes. "I'm watching you newbie..." Said Astrid sternly as she walked out. "Astrid I swear, I didn't cause this!" He shouted after her.

Jack shut the door to the bedroom and sighed. What a day. He was beginning to find it hard to process all the events that happened today. One second he was there, in the battlefield and the next he was falling to his death. He looked at himself in the mirror. His face was scared with horrendous wounds. Just another couple to add to the collection. His clothes were torn in bits. He looked like a guy you would cross the road to avoid. "Hiccup was right, I can't go out looking like this." He thought. He walked over to a cupboard beside his bed and opened it in search of some clothes. Nothing but a couple of old moth-eaten rags. He sighed and closed the doors. He walked over to what looked like some drawers. He opened them and there was some clothes, sitting neatly packed in as if they had never been touched. He picked them up and looked at them. It wasn't the best but it will have to do. Quickly he changed into them and lay down on the bed. "These guys really know how to make it uncomfortable for me." He thought as he felt a sharp spring push into him. He lay there, reflecting on recent memories. This was far too much for one day. As he lay there, exhausted from the amount that happened today, he felt his eyes grow heavy and his mind give into the temptation of sleep.

Just then he heard a roar and then a growl outside his window. "Toothless." He thought as he turned over. Then he heard it again, this time louder, followed by a whining noise. Jack had had enough. Clumsily he rolled of the bed and pulled himself to his feet. He heard the whine again. This time closer. Wait a minute, if Toothless is in his stables then... Realising that he wasn't alone, he carefully creped past the table, grabbing his still loaded gun and whatever bullets he had left. He didn't know exactly what was out there. It could be anything on this island. He aimed the pistol at the window, shaking as he edged closer to the opening. The whine started up again, louder than before. He jumped and poked his gun out of the window. He scanned the ground for any sign of movement. He saw a black figure roaming around the perimeter, but as it edged closer to him, the image became more clear. It was Blitzen! Jack sighed in relief to see him out there. "Hey Blitz, you mind not waking half of the village out here?" Jack thought. "Sorry, you weren't responding to me any other way." Blitzen replied. "That's because I was sleeping, no thanks to you yelping out here!" Quickly but quietly, Jack opened the door of the bedroom and slipped downstairs. He could here a huge amount of snoring in the back room. That'll cover the sound of the door shutting at least. Gently he walked out of the house and slid the door closed, trying not to cause any further noise.

"Hey Jack sorry about that..." Jack interrupted him. "Wait, how come I'm hearing you outside of my head now?" He asked the beast. "It's called talking, you're doing it right now" the dragon smirked, "ever since I became a guardian, I was given the ability to talk, through vocal and mental methods. Unlike other dragons, I can speak English." He came out of the shadows, showing his full image. He was very similar to Toothless, the only difference being the thin blue stripes streaking down his body like bolts of lightning in a night sky. He pulled out his paw and placed it in front of Jack. "See the top of my paw? That is the sign of the guardian, greatly respected by all of dragon kind. There was a time you see where dragons and humans roamed the earth. The dragons were sent here to protect the humans and care for them. All was fine until a tyrant, his name unknown to this day, started rumours that the whole dragon race was using them and plotting to kill them. But yet we stood strong, still willing to protect these people at any cost. Long story short, we were beaten of until only a couple of us still survived. We began to hate them for what they'd done to us, how they'd repaid us for what we had done for them. But still, the way of the dragon was being taught to a selection of dragons, our sole descendants, even though they had banned it. We were identified by a single sign on our paw, the sign of the dragon, and with this comes respect from all dragonkind and humankind alike. And now, still the way of the dragon is still being taught today to chosen dragons, only if we think that they are good enough"

spotted! "Why? Why did you do it?" She asked, moving towards the two. "Blitzen, get out of here!" He whispered to the dragon but he wouldn't move. He was frozen, his face showing both shock and fear. He knew what they would do to him if they caught him. After all he did start a fight with the chief's son's dragon. Who knows what they'd do to him. "Astrid it's not what it looks like, he was only trying to protect me!" Jack said quickly, getting up from where he sat. "Oh I've heard enough." She sighed. "The fact that you would just blatantly lie to us, after all we done to you!" She spoke in a raised voice, the words painfully leaving her mouth. "Astrid I was only returning the favour, after all, he did save my life back there." Jack explained. "He nearly killed him, Jack! Toothless nearly died back there!" She was now yelling at him. She felt the anger rush through her like a wildfire before exiting her mouth. Jack turned around and looked at Blitzen. He could feel the beasts sorrow inside of him. "Hey Astrid can you keep it down out..." Hiccup shouted out the window, before seeing the other dragon standing behind Jack, "...there"

The two looked up at him. "I was right Hiccup, this is his dragon!" Astrid shouted up at him. "What?" Asked Hiccup confused. "But he only just got here, how could he have a dragon already?" Hiccup looked confused as he looked out the window at Jack. "He was trying to protect me from Toothless, he saved my life!" Jack shouted up to him. "Almost killing Toothless at the same time?" Hiccup sighed. "I'm just glad that everyone's ok and no one really got killed. Wait where is he anyway?" Hiccup looked at the empty space where the dragon once was. Jack turned around. "I don't know, where did he go?" He looked around. Where is that dragon now? "Blitzen! Blitzen where are you?" He called. "I knew he was called Blitzen, that's what you called out when you where uh being strangled by Toothless!" Astrid said to him. Suddenly Blitzen appeared and walked around the corner of the house. "Blitzen were where you bud?" Jack asked, but the dragon moaned at him and walked straight past. Jack could see the unforgettable look in his face, that face of realization that you screwed up big time. He was sorry about the incident with Toothless indeed, Jack could see it in his face, but he seemed different. Like all the life had been drained out of his soul. He was holding an axe in his mouth as he plodded up to Astrid. He shoved the axe into her hand and lay down in front of her, giving Jack a trill as he waited, accepting his fate. "Wait, what's he doing?" Asked Astrid. Jack looked at him in shock. "I think..." He said, in a saddened voice, "I think he's offering you his life!"