Well! Back with another chapter! And trust me,this one will be AMAZING! And might have a part that no one was expecting...MWAHAHAHAHAHA! I was technically meaning to do the Monstrous Nightmare scene in the next chapter, but this would've been WAY smaller if I hadn't. Plus I couldn't wait to make it. ENJOY!

We entered a fog bank, but almost immediately there were more growls around us. The fog thinned, and a monstrous nightmare came out of it. Astrid gasped and we threw ourselves against the saddle so that it didn't see us. In a few seconds, more and more almost hundreds of dragons made their way into our line of sight, all of them carrying food. But none of them made a move to eat it. What was going on?

Voicing my thoughts Astrid whispered in my ear. "Why aren't they eating any of the food?"

"I don't know." I answered.

A zippleback made its way to the side of Toothless, and one of the heads caught sight of us. It alerted the other head, and gave a low glare. We pushed ourselves against the saddle even more, and then we all went into a slow dive. We twisted around sea stacks for what seemed like seconds and we came out of the fog to see a giant mountain. We only get a few seconds to gape at it before we go into a break in earth, and we're enveloped in darkness. When we come out again, we are inside the volcano with hundreds of dragons of all types dropping their food into the large mass of red fog below us. We land on a ledge and hide behind a small pillar of rock, looking out into the mass of dragons. Why were they all just throwing away our food?

"They're not eating any of it." Astrid says.

"I know." I say as we watch a nadder drop a large fish into the fog. A gronkle comes out of the group of dragons, who appears to not have any food. It stops in the middle of the area, and opens his mouth, emitting a very small fish which drops into the fog and disappears from sight. The gronckle itches it's ear, apparently pleased with itself, when a small but loud roar comes from below the fog. What is in that thing? The gronckle stops, and gives a small whimper before a dragon head the size of the great hall comes up snaps up the gronkle into its massive jaw. My jaw drops open along with Astrid's.

"Uh, Hiccup?" she asks. "What is that?"

"I don't know." I answer. The dragon seems to notice we're there, and its nostrils flare. I put a hand on Toothless's head. "We need to get out of here, bud." I say. "NOW!"

Toothless jumps into the air just before the large dragon jumps up and almost snatches us out of the air.

That was way too close.

The dragon doesn't give up, as it jumps up a second time. But this time I'm ready. I throw out my left hand, and shoot a massive stream of fire out of hand and into the dragon's face. It roars in pain before we fly up and out of the volcano, along with every other dragon in there.

. . .

"It all makes sense now." Astrid says as we land next to the lake. "The dragons are the workers, and that's their queen." She jumps off of Toothless and starts to run. "Come on, we need to tell your dad."

"Astrid wait!" I jump off of Toothless, who goes to get a drink at the lake, and I grap her hand. "We can't tell my dad." I say. "If we tell him, then he'll kill Toothless. I can't let that happen." I walk towards Toothless, but Astrid doesn't follow.

"Hiccup we just found the Dragon's nest." She said. "The thing thing vikings have been searching for since we first sailed here. And you wanna keep it a secret?!" she exclaims. "To protect your pet dragon, are you serious?"

I look back at her with a stern expression. "Yes, I am."

She opens her mouth to speak but nothing comes out. But after a minute she speaks. "Okay. Then what are you going to do?"

I turn away from her. "I don't know yet. Just give me until tomorrow."

She walks up behind me. "Then good luck." We're silent for another minute before she punches me in the arm. I wince and and look at Toothless. He nods his head as if to say, Your problem, not mine, and goes back to drinking. "That's for kidnapping me." She says. I'm about to just go over to Toothless and leave, but she grabs my vest and kisses me on the lips.

WHAT THE THOR?!

She pulls away, leaving me expressionless, and says "That's for everything else. And I don't think you're a demon." With that, she runs off towards Berk. I stare at her as she runs away, and Toothless gives me a look.

"What are you looking at?" I say, and he looks away.

. . .

The next day, I am waiting to go into the arena to face the Monstrous Nightmare and possibly the end of my cursed life.

Yippee.

I look out into the mass crowd of vikings, pleading silently that I don't screw up and reveal my powers. If I did, they would kill me and probably find Toothless and kill him too. I watch as my father comes up the place of the chief, and spreads his arms.

"Well I can show my face on public again!" he cheers, and the crowd yells in agreement. After they settle down, He speaks again. "If someone had told me that in a few short weeks, Hiccup would go from being, uh, well, Hiccup," another laugh from the crowd. "To placing first in dragon training? Well I would've tied em to a mast, and sipped em off for having gone mad!" The crowd laughed again, and my dad joined them. But after a minute, he silences them, and speaks again. "But here we are." He says. "And no one, is more surprised, or more proud, than I am."

Proud?

The word seems weird to me, almost foreign. He was actually proud of me?

Yeah right. A voice says inside my head. Just wait till he sees the real side of you.

Shut up. I tell the voice.

"Today, my boy becomes a viking." My father finishes. "Today, he becomes, one of us!" The crowd erupts into cheers, a few even screaming my name.

"Good luck out there." Astrid says behind me.

"Thanks." I say, and turn to her. "Astrid, if something goes wrong," I say. "Make sure they don't find Toothless."

"Okay." She answers. "Just promise me it won't go wrong." Just then Gobber comes up behind Astrid and gives me the nod and pulls the lever, opening the gate. "Knock em dead, Hiccup." He says, and I walk into the arena, with hundreds of people yelling and screaming. I take a small knife and a shield off of the rack, and give the okay. "I'm ready." I say.

Deep breaths, Hiccup.

The gate creeks, and the Monstrous Nightmare storms out of the cage, in full fury and fire. I can feel the anger coming off of it in waves, just as I can feel the heat and intensity of the fire on it's scales. The nightmare roars, and crawls onto the walls of the arena. It reaches the chains, and blows a stream of fire towards the vikings. They scramble away from the hot substance, and the nightmare crawls onto the chains above me. It finally looks down and notices me. Slowly, it comes down from the chains and stares at me.

OH THOR THIS IT! IT'S GONNA KILL ME!

I slowly back up, but the nightmare follows. I drop my knife and shield, still backing up, but holding out my hand. The nightmare doesn't make a move towards me, and I stop. It growls a bit, but I shush it.

"It's okay," I sooth it. "I'm not gonna hurt you." I reach for my helmet and take it off. "I'm not one of them." I say bitterly, and throw it onto the ground.

I heard my dad get up from his seat. "Stop the fight." he said.

"NO! I need you to see this." I said, my hand still out to the nightmare. "They're not what we think they are. We don't have to fight them." I say.

"I SAID STOP THE FIGHT!" My father roars, and bangs his hammer on the chains. The nightmare's eyes widen, and tries to snap my hand. I pull away just in time, and run.

The nightmare runs after me, but I refuse to use my powers. Not unless I am in dire need of them. I hear Astrid yell my name, and a second later the nightmare has a hammer thrown at it, and stops for a second before going after Astrid.

I turn to her, and my dad opens the gate, Astrid runs in, and I try to join her but the nightmare sprays a stream of fire onto the wall, causing me to stop and run the other direction. If I had known that was coming, I would've kept going. But I didn't know that, so I ran the other way. But I only get a few steps when the nightmare is on top of me, with me under it's foot.

There is no way out of this. I think. I have to use them.

I prepare to give the nightmare a large blast, when a high pitched whistle sounds overhead.

TOOTHLESS WHY?!

"NIGHT FURY!"
"GET DOWN!"

A plasma blast breaks through to the arena, and the nightmare is thrown off of me. I get up and try to see through all the smoke and ash.

Toothless why did you come here?

The smoke finally clears, and I see Toothless on top of the Monstrous nIghtmare, wrestling it. It finally manages to get Toothless off, and he growls and hisses furiously in front of me. When the nightmare tries to get close, it is swatted aside easily by Toothless. Now I know why they are called night fury.

The nightmare finally stops, and crawls away back into it's cage. And then it happens. Vikings flood into the arena, all brandished with swords and axes and yelling battle cries. Toothless immediately goes into a rage mode again, and starts to swat at all the vikings. When my father finally comes into the arena, Toothless goes after him, sensing he is the leader. My father is easily taken down my Toothless, and I realize what he is about to do the minute before it happens.

"TOOTHLESS NO!" I scream.

Toothless looks back at me, all anger gone from his face, replaced with sorrow. But then Vikings swarm around him, pinning him to the ground. I try to reach him, but Astrid holds me back from trying to defend him.

"Don't hurt him!" I screamed repeatedly.

My father gets up, sword in hand, holding it above Toothless's head, and I realize what he is about to do.

He's going to kill Toothless.

That was it. That was the last straw. I broke away from Astrid, and my body erupted with flames. I shot a white-hot jet of fire towards the vikings, not caring if I killed anyone. They screamed in agony, and then silence. I blasted the sword from my father's hand, and am about to give the killing blow myself to my father, when I realize what I'm doing. I gasp for air as my body returns to normal, no longer flaming. I look at my hands, no longer aflame.

What have I done?

There is a sharp pain in my backside, and the last thing I hear is Toothless's roars, and Astrid screaming my name before everything goes black.

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