A/N: Sorry for the wait. This chapter sucks.
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Hiccup POV
I let out a soft groan and sit pu shaking my head back and forth several times. The world is spinning slightly, my head is pounding painfully behind my skull, but other than that, I'm pretty sure I'm unscathed.
I mumble something I don't understand before I rub my temples and look around myself. Its a dark and cold, a cave I'm guessing. I get to my feet and look around myself for any sign on where I am.
When nothing presents itself, I grab Inferno from off my leg and click the latch watching the flaming blade extend. The flames provide enough light for me to make out several sleeping dragons around me.
Wait. Dragons.
Toothless!
I move forward as quietly as I can my prosthetic making a soft thump. Nothing I do will make it quieter so, I'll just half to live with it and hope these dragons are lazy enough to stay asleep.
After a few minutes of wandering I come across a tunnel, I jump over several rocks, swinging over others and I duck under another walking forward.
Bright light blinds my briefly before it settles reveling a giant nest. My jaw drops slight as I see it and I stumble forward looking at all the dragons as they soar around the long stalks of ice covered in vegetation.
Towards the center is a Bewilderbeast similar to Shards, but with giant tusks and a pure white body. I click back Inferno and attach the sword to my leg walking forward.
Wow.
"What are you doing here?" A sharp voice demands. I freeze and spin around to face a tall women. Her brunette hair is graying but tied back in a long braid and she has a stormy expression on her face.
"Uh.." I stutter trying to piece together an answer.
"The dragons should have attacked you when you moved." She says and I fold my arms over my chest pursing my lips softly. She reaches a few feet in front of me before she scans my face.
Her eyes widen with horror, "No." She breathes and takes a step backwards. "No, no, no!"
"Where's my dragon?" I demand.
She looks back at me, "Hiccup?" She whispers. I blink in surprise. How does she know my name? "Hiccup." She murmurs.
"Should I-should I know you?" I ask. She sighs heavily and walks towards a Stormcutter.
"No." She answers and turns back looking at me. "You were only a babe. But family, never forgets." She says I take in a sharp breath. Valka. My aunt is alive!?
"You're my aunt?" I ask the words tasting weird on my tongue. She nods softly.
"I am. Your dragon is over there somewhere." She says and points in a general left direction.
I hum and start to move that way when her hand curls around my shoulder. "Hiccup, when did Drago take you from Stoick?" She asks. The desire to laugh builds in my throat.
"He didn't. I stumbled across him after being stabbed." I say and move forward looking for Toothless ignoring her sharp intake of breath.
"Toothless!" I call. There's a sound of footsteps before a black blur crashes into me. I laugh as Toothless's tongue wipes itself across my face. "Toothless." I groan and shove his head away. "You know that doesn't wash out." I say and flick the spit onto him. He continues to wrap himself around me purring happily.
"I think he likes ya." Valka says and I turn looking back at her.
"Yeah." I say and rub the top of his head. After a few more seconds of empty silence, I turn and make eye contact. "You're not mad at me anymore?" I ask.
"Well, I have no doubt now, that you and Toothless are bonded. I feared for the worst." She mutters the last part but I still catch it. There's an awkward silence where I just rub Toothless's head looking at her. She looks up and forces a tight smile. "Are you hungry?" She asks.
I look at Toothless who perks up nodding his head. I smirk, "Well, I'm not, but bottomless put for a stomach over here is." I say teasingly sending a look in Toothless's direction. He glares at me and I grin before looking back at Valka.
She smiles softly, "Good. Its feeding time." She climbs onto her dragon's neck and I climb onto Toothless's back. Part of me is screaming we should just take of for the armada right now but the other part, that generally wins no matter what I say or do argues that maybe, I can convince Valka to stop taking the dragons. I mean, we're healing them now, not conquering.
Toothless jumps into the air after my aunt and her Stormcutter. After a few minutes of flying through the tunnels, we break into open air, the hundreds maybe thousands of dragons following us.
Toothless glides forward happily looking around. I watch my aunt for a second before she pulls to a stop and gives me a wise smile. I smirk and look down as the Bewilderbeast bursts from the water spitting out fish every where.
My jaw drops and I watch with amazement as the fish fall from the sky like pouring rain. Toothless looks up at me and I click back the tail making a 'go on' gesture with my hands. He dives ripping fish from the air easily and swallowing them nearly as fast.
Grunting with pleasure, he dives towards Valka and then next to her, she gives me a half smile and a laugh before she throws her arms out. "Oh when I'm up here I dont even feel the cold. I just feel-"
"Free." I finish and she smiles.
"This is what it is to be a dragon Hiccup." She says and I smirk detaching myself from the saddle. I pull up on a latch locking Toothless's tail fin.
"Its all good to call yourself a dragon, but can you fly?" I ask and stand on Toothless before leaping off his back. I pull out the flight suit and jerk upwards from the sudden air rush.
I flip around looking back for my aunt but see nothing. After a second she pops up next to me, eyes wide with amazement. I flip around and glide through the air spotting Toothless down below me. Angling myself in a certain manner, Toothless's back twitches for a second before his second set of fins pop out. He pulls up and I grab the saddle attaching myself to it in a few seconds. When Toothless steadies out, I throw my arms up into the air. "YES! Finally!" I cry and Toothless fires out a plasma blast. I sigh letting my arms drop again. "Oh come on."
Several minutes later, I sit next to Toothless in the snow, my hair burned back in a wind blown manner. First time I went home to Drago like this, he was so worried it was hilarious.
Valka is standing next to Cloudjumper (as I learned her dragons name is) and is laughing so hard she can barely stand upright. I roll my eyes and get to my feet sending Toothless a dirty look. He proceeds to jump into the snow tail flipping wildly.
"Does...he...do...that...every...time?" Valka asks.
I grab a handful of snow and throw it onto my head rubbing it into my hair. "No. Only when we succeed at a lethal trick." I say. Toothless pops out of the snow next to me, raining the frozen water everywhere.
I wipe it from my face and roll my eyes slightly, "Yeah, thanks for that." I mutter sarcastically and Valka laughs again.
"You remind me so much of your mother." She says her eyes adopting a sad distant look. I bite down on my lip Astrid's words coming to mind.
"Hmm." I hum softly and she looks over at me.
"I never approved of Stoick taking ya. Haedryins death was hard on all of us, I guess I needed a way to cope with the pain." Valka says softly and she sighs turning away from me.
"We should get back to the sanctuary." I say after a few more minutes of silence. She nods and gives me another half smile.
"So, what did your uncle think of your Night Fury friend?" She asks and I cringe thinking back. His words echo in my head: You're not a Viking, You're not my son.
"He didn't take it all to well." I admit and rub Toothless's head. "But then, he changed." I say and Valka murmurs something. I catch only one word: Alvin.
Alvin. Right. The crazy treacherous man who's been chasing me across the Archipelago for nearly a year. Yeah, Alvin. Needed a reminder of him to brighten my day.
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Roughly half an hour later I reattach and tighten several straps on my arms watching Toothless get tackled by baby dragons. "Come on, bud. We should head to Berk and explain everything to Stoick, then head home." I say and finish the tightening of my arm gaurd.
I dust off bits of dirt and sticks from my shirt, freezing in place from shock as a hand slams over my mouth.
A/N: Oh I hate that chapter! So much! *Buries head into pillow and starts to sob dramatically.* Sorry guys!
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