(A/N) Sorry for late update guys, this idea came from someone named grimes19. So this one takes place one month after blindsided. What if A baby Night Fury came into play at the same time one of our favorite characters was blinded?
Summery:
Hiccup and the dragon riders decided to let Toothless lead them to an island after A dark shadow flew across the Night Sky near the edge and the Night Fury started acting weird. Hiccup was the only other person who saw the dragon, and had A gut feeling that this was A dragon they'd really want to see. Shortly after they arived, they were met by an awful sight. A female Night Fury was sick with an infected wound. Hiccup and Toothless were devastated after learning there was no way she'd survive, but they had some light shed on the situation when she showed them an egg. If there was A mate, there were likely even more Night Furies. She trusted Hiccup and Toothless the most, and they grabbed the egg just as she moved on, after having been promised the two and there friends would protect there egg. Shortly after, an awful storm hit. The riders were forced to take shelter, and Toothless slipped, letting the egg go. Hiccup ran to grab it, but as soon as he did, lightning shot A tree in front of him, the flames and powerful blast knocking him back unconscious.
Toothless roared loudly. He grabbed the Night Fury egg in his mouth, before catching Hiccup who went flying backwards after A lightning blast. "Hiccup!" Any rider who wasn't stunned in shock shouted for there leader. Astrid grabbed him, dragging him into there shelter. A large cave, with sharp rocks hanging from the ceiling, and A small pond in the middle. She used the pond to clean soot from his face.
"Common Hiccup! Wake up, please." Hiccup wasn't breathing, and was completely limp. All the other riders looked to each other, at A complete loss for words. Toothless licked his rider but the boy wouldn't move. Astrid checked his pulse, and it was week. "Common Hiccup wake up." Ruffnut said in A complaining voice. "Hiccup.." Snotlout and Fishlegs trailed off. "What do we do?" Heather sounded freaked out. "Well he needs to breath sooner or later or he'll-" "No!" Tuffnut cut Dagur off.
Astrids breathing increased as she started to go flushed. She just got together with Hiccup, and now his stupid stunts were about to take him away from her?! Her worry turned to anger the second she thought about it. "Hiccup I told you to be careful." Her voice was quiet. "Common you lizard flying hard headed peg leg!" The words came out in fury, and as they left her mouth, Astrid punched his chest, A motion meant to wake him up for being stubborn.
It worked. "Gah! Why would you do that!?" Hiccup shot up to A sitting position, his eyes pinched tightly closed. Astrid sat back as he sat up, before she suddenly embraced him in A hug, confusing the boy. "As-" "Be. More. Careful." Astrid said sternly. Hiccup nodded, A small smile gracing his lips. "I'll never understand you." "Is that such A bad thing?" They both shared A small laugh, the other riders releasing held breaths, and smiling at the couple.
Seems seemed fine, before Hiccup opened his eyes. "Uh...guys where are we?" He asked, pushing A little bit away from Astrid. Then he began to panic as he remembered something. "And where's the Night Fury egg?" His voice began to raise as he thought about his dragon and his species egg.
"Um...Hiccup the eggs right here with Toothless." And to make his rider feel better, Toothless responded to Fishlegs by laying the Night Fury egg in front of his rider. Hiccup raised his hand to feel the egg, and used his other to place over his eyes. He heard the thunder outside, jumping slightly. "Uh guys? Bring back any uh...memories?" Hiccup felt uneasy, but didn't show it thanks to his dragon beside him.
"Aw common, please don't say it." Astrid grabbed Hiccup hand. "Can't-" "Oh no he's gonna say it." Tuffnut cut in. "See." Hiccup finished, sighing and petting his dragon for comfort from the scared feeling the sounds of thunder and unfamiliar surroundings with A lack of sight produced.
Astrid frowned as she saw A scared look flash across Hiccups expression, before he masked it with A smile, holding the Night Fury egg with Toothless behind him. "Hiccup, we'll head to Berk after the storm alright?" Hiccup nodded, reaching out with his hand witch Astrid took.
Suddenly, A cracking sound echoed thorough the cave, and before anyone identified what the source was, Hiccup moved the egg from his lap as soon as he realized the vibrations in the egg he was holding meant it was about to explode. A second after that, the explosion was heard, and A small roar sounded. Everyone went silent for A few seconds, and Hiccup was confused after not hearing anything but rain for to long.
"Wow." Fishlegs said in aw, reaching towards the dragon. The baby bit at him, A small plasma blast escaping his mouth. Fishlegs pulled back, and the blast hit Snotlout, sending him to his feet.
"Hey! We're the adults here!" Ruffnut and Tuffnut walked towards the dragon, but it jumped up, bighting Tuffnuts nose. It then unlached, only to grab onto Ruffnuts arm. "Ow!" "Oh I am hurt!" Both yelled in sync, before the dragon landed infront of Astrid.
"Woah little guy, we want to help." The baby dragon shot another blast at Astrids leg, causing her to fall. "Hey watch it!" She lost her temper, only to be attacked on the arm like Ruffnut. Once Astrid tripped over Snotlout, the baby dragon started sniffing Dagger and Heather.
"Woah little guy! Easy." Heather moved back, slightly afraid. The baby dragon seemed sorry, and started nuzzling her and Dagger. It seemed to have calmed down, but Windshere and Shadermaster became overprotective, and the growling set the black as Night Dragon off. The baby shot two more blasts at both of them, making four blasts so far. When Dagger and Heather were on the ground, there dragons growled louder, bearing there teeth.
The baby dragon became scared, and ran to A nearby corner, tripping Fishlegs in the process, before blending into the shadows, and hiding out of sight. "What? Where did it go?" Fishlegs asked sitting up.
Hiccup, giving up on listening to figure out what was happening, gave into his frustration. "Guys what's going on!" He said louder than he wanted to. Toothless nuzzled him, and everyone frowned. "It's the baby dragon Hiccup." Astrid sat by him, taking his hand. Hiccup tried to face her, only to face A wall next to the left. "She's hiding from us, and went off when anyone got close." Fishlegs added.
"Guys, he's just scared. He just hatched in the middle of A storm, in A dark cave, with no support, no mother, and no comfort. He just needs to be approached slowly, not pushed into things he doesn't want to do. How would you feel if you stepped into A world you didn't know, with no backup, no one to lean on, and A fear of all the much larger people around you? Give him time, he'll come around." Hiccup didn't realize until after he said it, that this particular sentence reminded him of his younger childhood years.
Everyone agreed, before turning to figure out where that little dragon went. Hiccup heard A small plasma blast about to be blasted behind him, and moved just in time, reaching up to grab the tackling dragon just as it pounced. He quickly grabbed it by the scruff, before cradling it in his arms. The dragon thrashed, but calmed down as Hiccup rocked it and Toothless licked it. "Hey, now no need for all that. I know your scared, but we're here to help. Now, what in the world are we going to call you?" Hiccups voice was odd to the others. Soothing, gentle, and kind of like A gentle man would talk to A small child. It wasn't that they thought the voice in general was weird, they just never heard Hiccup like that.
"Well, it's A female. And after having she attack all of us, I can tell you she has retractable teeth, and scales the same as Toothless. Purple eyes though, like her mother." Astrid explained petting the dragon. Hiccup nodded, remembering to call the dragon by she and not he. "Hmm..What about Retract?" Everyone looked at Hiccup like he was weird, and after A moment of silence Hiccup smiled wile petting the dragon. "You know, retractable teeth?" "We get it, it just doesn't really seem to fit A dragon." Snotlout said. "True, but I have A Night Fury of all dragons named Toothless soooo." "True, so all in favor, say retract." Fishlegs said. Everyone agreed, and the name was decided.
Retract purred against Hiccup, seeming to like the name. "Alright, guess you like it?" Retract rubbed against Hiccups face, before nibbling his nose. "Ow! Okay, okay!" The dragon pulled back. "Yeah, love you to. Now, any one have any idea how long till this storm ends?" "It's still raining pretty hard Hiccup, and it's getting late." Astrid said. "Alright, well then we should set up camp then." Hiccup frowned, not really knowing how he could help set up the fire, or find A sleeping place without tripping into the fire.
Astrid caught onto Hiccup feelings, and placed A hand on his shoulder. "Yeah, i'll help with the fire, and you can sleep with Toothless wile protecting Retract, she doesn't really seem to like anyone other than you." And as if to prove A point, Retract bit at Astrid the second the girls gentle touch went past her head and down her back fins. "See?" Astrid said, before covering her mouth.
Hiccup frowned, before shaking his head with his eyes closed. "Well, metaphorically speaking, she does seem to have an attachment. But that's probably just because I am always around Toothless' sent." Hiccup smiled along with Astrid, but then something happened that seemed to go against his theory.
Toothless nuzzled Retracts head, but the dragon backed up. Toothless was confused why she wouldn't let him do anything more than A light touch just like Astrid, and tried to lick her back, but the baby growled, shooting his face. Toothless growled, and wrapped his tail around Hiccup, but staying behind the boy.
"What the-did she just?.." "She just pushed Toothless away. When you were cradling and talking to her though, she was fine with him. Now that Toothless is trying to bond on his own with Retract, she's becoming aggressive with him." Astrid explained to herself and the other out loud.
"Well that's weird. Why would Retract be fine with Hiccup and not her own species?" Fishlegs asked. Hiccup started petting down Retracts hunched back, causing the baby to roar quietly, clinging to his chest. "Ow! Okay, little dragon, big claws!" Hiccup pulled her away, and cradled her on her back, laughing when he could feel her small claws playing with A loose piece of leather on his suit.
"Maybe it's because Hiccups not A threat. I mean he did just go blind." "Yeah, and he could understand her." "She pounced him, yet he held her instead of losing his temper." "And, he just cradled her in his arms after she just clawed his chest." "He has always been A naturally forgiving person." Ruffnut and Tuffnut finished each other in there own little explanation that sounded like A presentation.
"You know...they have A point. Hiccup has been the most gentle with her out of all of us." Heather agreed with the twins.
"Well, whatever the reason, I guess she's sleeping with me tonight. Alright guys, let's get some sleep." Hiccup said, hearing the crackle of the fire Astrid must have started. "Good idea. You okay? I mean I know the storm must be A bit unsettling to you because-you know." Astrid said, holding Hiccups hand in hers. "Y-Yeah, i'm fine Astrid. You guys are all here after all. So it's not like i'm alone." Astrid smiled at his words, and lightly kissed Hiccup on the lips, causing the boy to widen his eyes surprised, before lightly kissing her back, there heads turning to opposite sides as they once again were in there own little sweet moment.
Once they pulled apart, Astrid lightly knocked Hiccup against the arm with her hand, something she sometimes did when she had no words, and went to sleep, not very far from him. Hiccup smiled, rubbing his arm, and laying against Toothless. Retract curled up in his lap, purring wile Hiccups hand rested on her back. Within minutes he fell asleep, shivering wile Toothless curled up tighter, trying to keep him warm.
Astrid noticed Hiccups shivering, and sat up. She crawled towards him, grabbing A blanket from Toothless' saddle bag. Well she would have, except there were none. She sighed, looking towards the others who were asleep. Astrid looked back to Hiccup, and sat close to him. She looked to Retract, who was, thank the gods, sound asleep. She was careful not to wake the boy, or the baby dragon. Astrid gently moved Retract to Hiccup chest after laying him down. "How do you stay asleep?" She asked quietly to herself, before laying by Hiccup, throwing the blanket over them. As Astrid lay down, Toothless allowing her and Hiccup to use his tail as A pillow she was oblivious to the small smile appearing upon Hiccups lips.
He would have told her he was awake, really. It wasn't like he liked to have something to tease Astrid about before getting punched, laughing and saying it was true, and then having her kiss him because his playful, sarcastic nature. No, he just didn't want to her to be embarrassed, then say he could sleep alone because she was trying to be nice, but then wound up waking Hiccup up and look like A sweet, caring girl. In his eyes, she was in her own way, and that wasn't A bad thing, but Astrid was A strong warrior and hated to mention her week spots. Hiccup didn't consider love as A weakness of course, and neither did she, in life at least, but sweet cute moments weren't something worriers normally shared, and Astrid was the best worrier he'd ever seen.
Heather was also watching, and oh was she gonna give Astrid A hard time about this. She also caught Hiccups smirk, and thought the fake sleeping so Astrid didn't think she was caught was cute. "And it took them so long to realize." She said to herself before falling asleep as well.
The next morning, the riders woke up around the same time. Hiccup sat up, holding Retract in his arms. The little dragon was full of energy, and he had to hold her by the scruff of the neck so she didn't go attack the others who were putting there stuff up. "Woah! Easy now, easy. Ugh, can't you save the energy boosts until after I get my sight? No, okay, well what about let Toothless take care of you?" Hiccup held the baby dragon to Toothless, but both dragons growled after Retract bared her teeth. "Fine, but just try to hold sti-ow!" Hiccup pulled back as Retract bit his arm. "Please...let...go." Hiccup bit his lip, breathing the words as blood came out of his arm.
Retract made A sad sound, and licked Hiccups arm as if she was saying sorry. Toothless growled at the baby who hurt his human, and Retract launched at Toothless. Hiccup grabbed her, using his hand (After pulling his thick leather suit sleeve over it) as something to bite rather than Toothless. Her teeth got thorough, but only left bruises. Hiccup hissed thorough his teeth, but said nothing. Astrid noticed his arm though as she put her gear up (She got up early to move away from Hiccup unnoticed).
"Hiccup you need to be more careful." Astrid said, grabbing the boys arm. Hiccup yelped in surprise at the sudden movement and voice, and blushed as he realized it was to late to hide it. Astrid loosened up the grip on his arm. "Sorry." She said quietly. "It's fine, it wouldn't normally scare me after all, it's just..." Both stayed quiet, before Retract realized she didn't like Astrid messing with Hiccup. Luckily Hiccup heard the soft purr like Growl she gave before she pounced, and grabbed the dragon just before she attacked Astrid.
"How did you know she was about to attack?" Astrid asked, smiling as the little dragon thrashed at her wile growling with what sounding like A squeaky purr, and it honestly looked and sounded cute. Retract seemed to hate the fact Astrid was smiled, and made sounds that sounded like A mad cats meow, but not quiet A hiss. She thrashed more as Hiccup held her by the scruff A little longer, until she calmed down, finally out of energy.
Hiccup sighed in relief as Retract finally calmed down, and went limp, obviously tired. He held her against his chest, ignoring the sore, twisting feeling in his previous bite as Retract put pressure on. Feeling safe, she curled up against Hiccups chest, purring and falling asleep. Hiccup smiled, scratching the little dragon behind the ears. "Alright, Toothless, think you might want to try and get close to her now?" Hiccup asked, facing his dragon. Toothless faced Hiccup, before making A grunting sound. Apparently he was still mad that this little one was hurting Hiccup and there was nothing he could do without upsetting his boy.
"Alright, I get it. So, think we can head to Berk now?" Hiccup asked. "Actually, I think we should before the break in the storm stops. Common guys!" Astrid said, as they all took off. Fishlegs, Snotlout, the twins, and Dagger headed to the edge, Heather, Astrid, and Hiccup heading to Berk. Astrid insisted on sitting behind Hiccup because the tail fin. He had insisted it was fine, but Astrid didn't want him flying on his own wile he was blind, and in all honesty, he did feel A bit safer knowing someone would be right behind him if he steered Toothless the wrong way, so Astrid used hand signals for Stormfly.
A wile later, they landed on Berk, Astrid catching Hiccup who slipped wile getting off. Instead of standing them both up though, they both slipped on hard stone. Astrid landed under Hiccup, facing him wile he landed rather awkwardly on top of her. To make matters worse, Stoick was nearby, and Hiccup didn't hear it. He was confused and lost, before opening his eyes, and moving his hand to feel where he was. Of course, his hand landed awkwardly when he tried to place it on the ground.
Stoick walked over, Heather waving for him to come over after landing Windshere. Just as she did though, Hiccup and Astrid landed in A rather awkward position, Retract landing not to far away. He looked confused as Hiccup moved his hand, pushing against Astrids breast before widening his eyes and moving his hand, instead moving it to land beside Astrids head after accidently brushing against her cheek.
"Um..A-Astrid?" Hiccup asked, the sounds of the village, and shock that he probably just made her pretty uncomfortable making him feel more lost. Astrid tried to stop A rare blush, before smiling. "Yeah, it's me. Now I think we should uh...get going?" She asked. Hiccup blushed A rare blush as well, before nodding and moving back, reaching out for Astrids hand. Just as she was about to take his hand though, A soft growl was heard nearby. That squeaky, purr like growl, and the sound of tiny claws scratching across the ground. Just as Retract pounced, Hiccup let go of Astrid, and reached out just in front of her arm.
Just as expected, Retract tried to go for Astrids arm, but Hiccup felt her back brush against his palm, and he grabbed her with quick reflexes. "Retract! It's okay if other people want to touch me." Hiccups voice contained A small laugh, as the dragon thrashed in his grip, before deciding she would prefer to be in his tunic rather than in his hands. She quickly climbed up his arm, and climbed down his shirt, her small head sticking out the neck hole. "Gods."
Astrid couldn't help but laugh, along with Heather as Retract climbed down Hiccups shirt, causing A yelp to escape the boy, and poked her head out the neck hole. "Ugh, i'm starting to think this dragon thinks i'm her father!" Hiccup said frustrated as Retract bit his shoulder, causing A small trail of blood to fall down his arm. Hiccup didn't even flinch, he was starting to get used to this. "Hiccup, your going to wind up getting one of those bites infected!" Astrid said sternly. She tried to take Hiccups arm, but Retract growled at her. "Try telling her that, i'm sure Retract is quick to listen if your stern enough." Hiccup said sarcastically.
Astrid frowned at Hiccups words, but sighed knowing now wasn't the time to argue. Suddenly, Stoicks voice echoed near them. "Hiccup, what are you doing here? Not that I mind of course." Stoick placed A beefy hand on his sons shoulder. "Uh dad, I wouldn't do that if I were you." Stoick looked confused, but then A baby dragon that resembled Toothless shot towards his hand, just before Hiccup grabbed her with the quickest reflexes the man had ever seen. He must have been doing this for A wile now.
"Who is this?" Stoick asked, about to touch the dragon, but was only met with her thrashing around in Hiccups grip. "This is Retract. We saved her as an egg after her mother, A new Night Fury, died during A storm." Hiccup frowned but then continued. "She's attached to me like A Gronkle to A rock garden, but won't let anyone I know lay A hand on her. Not even Toothless." Hiccup moved the baby dragon to Toothless, who growled as soon as she became overly hyper. "I don't think he likes her habits of being hyper and biting, especially because I get caught in the middle of it." Hiccup pointed to his shoulder.
Stoick looked at Hiccup, before nodding and touching his shoulder suddenly. Hiccup flinched at the touch, and Stoick looked to his eyes to see if he was hurting or just surprised. Instead he saw glazed over eyes, brighter than usual, and they didn't focus on anything, even though Hiccup seemed to try and face Stoick. "Alright, how did you manage to lose your sight? We had this same situation A month ago!" Stoick sounded frustrated.
"Oh uh you see...when we found Retract as an egg, Toothless dropped her and I went to grab her. But Lightning sort of struck A tree and the explosion knocked me out. I woke up like this. Pretty much the same thing that happened to Astrid but different places and times." Hiccup shrugged. Stoick looked upset about something. "What's it with you and getting struck by lightning?!" He asked, referring to when Hiccup got shot by lightning when he was younger wile trying to prove Thor wasn't attacking Toothless.
"Hey! Technically I didn't get struck by lightning this time. There was A tree an-" "There really shouldn't be A this time to that sentence." Stoick cut his son off. "I have A naturally adventurist personality. Plus fire's kind of my thing, you know, dragons, and the Night Fury is named after lightning in his definition. The offspring of lightning itself?" Stoick frowned. "Hiccup!" "What, i'm stating the truth." Stoicks shoulders slumped. There was only one person on Berk who could win an argument with him thanks to stubbornness, and that was Hiccup.
"Alright, lets just get you to the healer." He said sternly, placing A hand on Hiccups back who rolled his eyes as he grabbed Retract the second she was about to pounce. Astrid and Heather tried to hold back A laugh as they watched the father and sons exchange. "I have no idea how you put up with him all the time when your on the edge." Heather said. "Eh, he'll listen to me as long as it's not about Viggo or finding new dragons. Otherwise, Toothless holds onto him." Heather and Astrid shared A small laugh as they followed Hiccup and Stoick.
(A/N) Hey guys! So i'm going to make this one A two shot, so be ready for another chapter soon. Your amazing, and if you have ideas, I deleted my list by accident, so feel free to review them please.