Hiccup stared at his hand at disbelief for a long amount of time. I even had to tell him that there was nothing interesting in it, it was a hand with five fingers just like any other one. Then he stopped.

"I just... Feel weird." He told me.

"About what?"

"All of this. It's... New."

I smiled. "And you tell me, viking. I'm still getting used to the fact dragons live among you." I said and he chuckled. It felt nice when he managed to crack a smile and laugh a bit with me when everyone else in this village seemed to bully him all the time.

By the time we arrived to the village, it was already night. There was very little light, since most of the houses were empty because the vikings were on the search for the nest, what I still thought it was stupid. But what great viking in the name of Thor the God of Thunder will ever listen to an adolescent like me? No, what great viking would listen to a girl like me?

"So, how are you gonna name it?" I asked.

"Who?" He frowned.

"The night fury. It needs a name right? For example, Black?"

He shook his head. "No."

"Right, too racist. Scaly?"

~What kind of name is that? Even Hiccup is better!~

I had to agree. Those names were ridiculous, not even my cat was named Stripped or Grey or Furred-mammal-with-four-paws-and-a-tail.

"Too obvious. Sleek? Fury? Midnight? Toothless?" He bit his lip and eye widened. I sighed. "I was never good with names, by the way."

"Actually, the last one fits. And besides he seemed to like back there." He said with a smile. I brightened and lifted my fists in the air in triumph.

"So Toothless it is. Not a bad name. Although do you think he would like it?"

He shrugged. Hiccup just called Toothless a he not an it. That meant that from now on Toothless was special. Toothless was different. Toothless was unique.

A bright light coming from a tower called my attention. I lifted my head, and saw the gang and Gobber with some baskets on their hands. Since we didn't have anywhere to go –because I didn't want to go to sleep at the moment– we made our way with them. Not that it was a very good idea.

They brought two baskets filled each one with fish or chicken. Both were raw, we were gonna cook them ourselves, something I was not very good at and neither was Hiccup. I chose a single chicken leg and he chose a single fish. The others seemed very hungry, both Snoutlout and Gobber grabbed an entire chicken each one, Fishlegs grabbed the two biggest chicken legs that occupied the half of the basket, Ruffnut and Tuffnut grabbed three fish for each one. Astrid seemed the only decent one among them, grabbing just two chicken legs. Still, I avoided to make eye contact with her.

Gobber told us the story about how he lost his limbs encountering with dragons. I wasn't paying too much attention, I was lost in my own thoughts. There wasn't any other dragon like Toothless, there were no other night furies, not even in the raid when I arrived here. Did they lived in another island? In the nest? Were they active only at night? Nobody seemed to know enough about them because there wasn't any information in the dragon manual. But something Gobber said caught my attention.

"Is tha wings n'tha tails ye really wan'. If it can't fly, it can't get away. A downed dragon, is a dead dragon." I eye widened and shared a look with Hiccup, who was just as overwhelmed as I was. I tilted my head to the side, gesturing him that we had to go and he nodded. Fortunately nobody noticed us get up and leave.

Or that's what I thought.


"Follow me!" Hiccup said and I did as I was told. It was difficult to run in the darkness, at home dark meant no sun but there was light from the streets, here was a darkness that you couldn't spot a dragon a feet away. At least I wouldn't.

We arrived to the forge and Hiccup entered through a curtain. I entered as well, and gasped when I saw plans of what I supposed were his inventions. They were very complex and I didn't understand all those numbers on them, but it was incredible.

"Hiccup, you did this?"

"Hm?" He was distracted, looking for his notebook and a pencil. "Yeah, I made some of those. Some crazy ideas."

"Wow. How did you..." I turned to him and noticed he did something with the drawing of the night fury. He redrew the left tail fin. "Why did you drew the fin again?"

He looked for a larger piece of paper and began to draw again. "I'm gonna help Toothless fly again. But..." He turned at me. "I don't think I can do this alone." I raised my both eyebrows.

"You want me to help you?"

His cheeks turned slightly red. "If you don't want to, I'll understand. Besides this can be kind of–"

"Of course! I'll help with what I can, though I have no experience at all with this so..."

"It's alright." He assured me. "Staying here with me it's enough."

That made me blush. The hours passed by and I helped with all I could. He did most of the work, I have to admit. I cutted the fin and sewed, he worked with the metal and fire. When we were done, we admired our work. We made an artifial leather fin for Toothless, together.

"Well done, brother." I patted him on the shoulder.

He smiled. "Thanks for helping me, sister." I yawned and rubbed my eyes, he chuckled. "Someone's already sleepy, it seems."

"What are you talking about? I'm not–" Yawn. "–sleepy."

"Sure, and I'm a yak." I elbowed him playfully, he laughed and then yawned.

"Who's the sleepy head now?" I asked and he laughed again.

After that, I must have walked asleep, since the next morning I didn't remember how we ended in Hiccup's room. We ate something quickly before leaving. I was carrying a basket full of fish and Hiccup had on his arms the artificial fin.

We had a plan to try it on Toothless. I would distract him while Hiccup put him the fake fin on and compare it to the real one. Then we would make the necessary corrections, we wanted to make it perfect.

We arrived to the cove early, we had training about an hour, so we had time. "Toothless!" Hiccup called him. We found him napping, but quickly woke up when he heard Hiccup. I didn't expect to respond to the name, but he did so that was.

"Brought you breakfast. Hope you're hungry." I said as I setted the basket down. The fished slipped from it and Toothless sniffed it, before eating them. "Okay, so we've got some salmon... Some, eh, I don't know what kind of fish is that..."

"Icelandic cod."

"Okay, and... An eel." Toothless eyes snapped open and got away from the fish. I frowned and grabbed the eel, earning a roar from him and I tossed it away before I ended deaf. Boy, my ears were ringing. "Toothless it's okay! It's okay." He calmed down. Then I reached one of my ears. "Ow..."

"Well, I don't like the eel either." Hiccup commented and I shook my head. Not that I have tried it before but definitely was not gonna eat that snake-like thing, all squishy and gelatinous. A shudder ran through my back. When Toothless continued eating, I nodded to Hiccup and he made his way to the back, towards the tail.

"That's right... Don't mind any of us..." I went with Hiccup. He placed the fake fin besides the tail but Toothless moved. Hiccup tried again and Toothless moved again.

"It's okay..." Hiccup said, sitting over Toothless tail but he was struggling to get it right. I had to put my hands on the tail while he adjusted the fin. "Okay... There." I stood up sighing and noticed Toothless had the basket on his head. I chuckled, but suddenly it fell, revealing a shocked expression on his face. He narrowed his eyes, before dropping his wings and jaw. Then very slowly, he raised them.

"Uh, Hiccup..." I called. Toothless spread his wings, ready to fly off. Hiccup was still. "Hiccup..." I said a bit louder. Hiccup opened the fin.

Oh-oh.

Toothless flew off like a bolt with Hiccup on his tail. "Whoa! No! No! No!" He screamed, while he held tight for dear life.

"Hiccup!" I screamed terrified. Toothless beat his wings hard, but the fin wasn't operating and soon they were falling again. "The tail! Open the fin!"

They were almost touching the ground. And suddenly...

Whoosh!

I had covered my eyes with my hands so I didn't know what happened. I didn't know to expect a death or something else. I separated two fingers and gasped. I couldn't believe it. They were flying! They were actually flying!

"Ha ha! It's working!" Hiccup cried. "Yes! Yes, we did it!" However in a turn, Hiccup was thrown to the lake. With no one to operate the tail, Toothless fell down in seconds to the water. I gasped and ran to the edge. Both resurfaced and Hiccup smiled. "Yeah!" He exclaimed and I laughed exited. He swam until the edge and I help him get to his feet.

"Woo hoo! We did it!"

"Yes, it works!"

"I know! It was awesome!"

"The tail worked!"

"I can't believe it!"

We jumped in excitement for some moments. Then we calmed down. "Okay, that was totally terrifying and awesome at the same time." Hiccup said. "I want to do it again."

"No way! You almost got yourself killed, again!"

"It's not like the first time I've been close to die." He muttered.

"What do you–" A noise caught my attention. I thought I heard a splash or something move throught he water like some sort of fish, but when I turned around there was nothing. "I think we should go."

"Hold on." He said and turned to something on the ground. The eel that scared Toothless. He picked it up." I think I have an idea. What do you say?" I just shrugged, wondering what he had in mind.


"Today is 'bout teamwork!"

BAM!

The doors of the dragon's cage opened, and instantly the ring was filled with some sort of green gas. We had to separate in teams of two, but my team was of three with Ruffnut and Astrid. Great, just what I needed. It reminded me when the teacher of Maths tried to out me and Chloe on the same team. Not a good idea.

"Work together and yeh migh' survive." Gobber continued. Might survive? "Now, a wet dragon can't light its fire. The Hideous Zippleback is extra tricky. One head breathes gas, tha other head lights it. Yer job is ta know which is which."

Oh yeah, sure. Because both heads looks exactly the same we are gonna know which is which. Thanks for the help, Gobber. What you just asked us for is to identify the difference between twins.

~One is annoying and the other is extremely annoying?~

We were all back to back, listening carefully for any sign of the dragon. The green fog didn't let us to see anything futher than two feet. I looked to all my sides and caught sight of a shadow.

"Hey, look." I called at the girls. "Is that–"

I couldn't finish the sentence because from one moment to the other I was coughing to get the water out of my lungs. While I was almost completely wet, Astrid and Ruffnut just got a few drops.

"Hey!" Astrid said. When the fog cleared out, it revealed to be Tuffnut and Snotlout. I groaned.

"It's us! Idiots." Ruffnut said.

"They're more than just a pair of idiots." I said, getting the water off my face and glaring at them.

"Your butts are getting bigger. We thought you were a dragon." Tuffnut chuckled.

~Grrrr. You son of a...~

Snotlout continued. "Not that there's anything wrong with a dragon-esque figure..." But he just earned Astrid punching him on the face, followed by my bucket of water and Ruffnut did the same with her twin, who fell to the ground. Suddenly he was pulled back out of sight. We froze. Ruffnut walked forwards but Astrid stopped her.

"Wait..."

A tail out of nowhere hit us from behind and made us fall to the ground. Astrid's bucket spilled on the ground. Suddenly Tuffnut ran out of the fog yelling, "I'm hurt! I am very much hurt!" Then behind us, Fishlegs and Hiccup appeared.

"Chances of survival are dwindling into single digits now..." Fishlegs said and I rolled my eyes.

"Grrrr..."

Sabrina, just stop.

~That wasn't me.~

Wait...

Turning around, a head from the dragon emerged from the fog and sniffed Fishlegs. He hurled the bucket at it to my relief, only to find out it was the wrong head. It opened its jaw and Fishlegs ran screaming. The only one left was Hiccup.

"Now Hiccup!" Gobber commanded and he tried to hurl the water at the second head that appeared, but the water just fell around him and didn't even reach the dragon.

"Oh, come on!" Hiccup groaned. The Zippleback was ready to end him.

"Hiccup!" Gobber shouted, but paused when he noticed something weird. In fact, we all did. The dragon of two heads was backing away from... Hiccup?

"Back! Back! Back!" Hiccup yelled. "Don't you make me tell you again!" The Zippleback hesitated, and slowly made its way backwards. Hiccup placed his both hands out, as if he could control the dragon.

~He controls the dragons! He's a dragon lord!~

Oh gods Sabrina, when did you actually got so dumb?

~Did you just said "Oh gods"?~

Guess I did.

"Yes, that's right. Get back in your cage! Now think of what you've done." I would've laugh at that, he sounded like my mother!

Hiccup closed the doors and I walked to him. Before I could say anything he placed a finger on his lips and we turned around to find the gang and Gobber speechless and dumbfounded. The only sound was when Fishlegs dropped the bucket in shock.

"Okay! So are we done?" Hiccup asked innocently. "'Cause Annabelle and I've got some things we need to... Yep, so... See you all tomorrow!" And we got out of there. When we were far enough so they wouldn't hear, we bursted out laughing at the image of their stunned expresions.

"Now," I said still laughing, "How did you do that? The dragon backed away from you like that?"

"Remember the eel from the morning? I had it under my vest all the time. The Zippleback smelled it and then I just tossed it at their cage, so they wouldn't go out."

"Wow. That was really smart, I wouldn't have thought about it."

He blinked. "...you really think so?"

"Yeah, that was really amazing."

"Thanks, just remember me to come later and pick up the eel."

I glared at him with a frown. "Okay...?"

Things seemed to be changing slowly. When I met Hiccup he wanted so desperately to kill a dragon and prove everyone he was one of them, now he just wanted to be more like himself and I liked the idea. If only you could tell that to adults. If only you could tell that to my mother.

And all because of a friendship with a night fury. A forbidden, but truly friendship.


Annabelle and Hiccup are getting closer! What do you think? ...Shippings anyone? Hiccstrid or Annaccup? You can leave a review with a ship and then I'll see on which couple I'll focus. Hope you like it!

04.04.16. I rewrote many things here, since I felt it needed to have a bit more of content and to be more optimistic. Hope I did well.

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