Chapter Ten: Secret Love and Hatching Day
Jasmine, Heather, and Solar were curled up in the den when a question came to Jasmine. Who was Solar's mate?
"Solar, who is he?" Jasmine asked, making sure Solar caught her look.
"It's, um, er, don't tell Hiccup, or Astrid, or Stoick. It's Toothless," she said. Heather and Jasmine froze in surprise. Jasmine knew that Star Furies mates with Night Furies 70 percent of the time but Toothless? Since when did that happen? Solar smiled shyly and curled back around her eggs, which would hatch in the next 6 hours.
"We need to tell Toothless," Heather said. Solar looked up. At first she hesitated but she could tell the other two would not take no for an answer. She nodded. The other two leapt to their paws and shot out of the arena. Soon, they found Toothless.
"Toothless...we..have..to...tell...you...
something," Jasmine said, gasping for breath in between each word.
"You know Solar, how she has eggs?" Heather asked as Jasmine regained normal-ness. Toothless nodded slowly.
"You are the father to these eggs," Jasmine said. Toothless raised his ears at this.
"What? I am a father!" he hollered. "I mean, um, I am a father," he said, acting like he wasn't surprised.
"They are hatching soon, do you want to come?" Heather asked.
"Of course!" he answered. The three shot to the arena, taking a minute because Toothless couldn't fly. Solar was laying on her side, exhausted. Hiccup and Astrid were watching her.
"Who do you think the father is?" asked Astrid.
"I think I know," Hiccup said. "Toothless, is it you?" Toothless nodded slightly as they all gathered around her, petting her as she fell asleep.
TIME JUMP!
Hiccup, Toothless, Astrid, Heather, Jasmine, (both in human form) and Stoick were all gathered in the den. Solar was somewhat awake. Then, they heard a crack and all attention was on the eggs. They were hatching! Everyone crouched around the eggs. Then, Jasmine shifted into fury form and blew blue fire onto it. Solar did too. Toothless started third. Soon, Heather joined in. Then, all the eggs hatched. There were three tiny night furies and two star furies. Two of the night furies were female, one star fury was female. Toothless purred in happiness and pride. Jasmine smiled. Solar nudged one egg that still hadn't hatched. The rest noticed.
"I'm sorry, Solar. I guess it just wasn't meant to be," Jasmine said, but as soon as she had finished a tiny male night fury popped out. Solar purred and wrapped herself around her hatchlings. Toothless chuckled as the male Star Fury climbed up his arm and perched on his shoulder. Baby furies tumbled around, playing with their brothers and sisters. All was perfect, until just an hour later.
Solar had fallen asleep, her babies safely under her wing. Jasmine and Heather were racing through the skies, laughing as the other bumped into something. Then, they heard screaming. The two turned their heads to see towers of flames instead of the peaceful houses. The arena was safe, Solar was probably hiding with her babies. To top it all off, at least ten Death Furies were dashing around the village, as if trying to find out who they should kill next. Heather and Jasmine dove towards the village to see that the gang was holding strong, Toothless and Hiccup battling two furies at once. Heather and Jasmine immediately started to battle the other two. Astrid swung her ax and hit one on the top if its head, killing it. There were only four left. Toothless snapped one's neck, while Hiccup swung a sword and hit its wing, sending it falling. The two Heather and Jasmine were fighting quickly raced away. Toothless and Jasmine looked at each other. They nodded before diving towards the burning village. By the time they got there, however, dragons and their riders had already extinguished the flames and were beginning to clean up.
"What were those?" asked Stoick when he saw the group.
"Death Furies," whispered Heather.
Suddenly, Stoic walked up and smiled.