A/N: I am late, sorry! But hey, at least this is an extra-long chapter. I dunno where to stop so I kept writing. Sorry for being late again. Now let's go on to the story!


Beta: The one and only, TheBookRider!

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"human speech"

"Dragon speech"

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"Toothless!?" Hmm… Where is he? the human thought as he stepped inside the cove. The black dragon was not lying under a tree like the last few times he'd come. Unknown to Hiccup, the dragon was behind him, sniffing at the newest invention and wondering if it would actually work. The dragon bumped it with his nose.

"Ahh!" The human, now breathing heavily, weakly said. "For Odin's sake, don't do that again. You scared the wits out of me…Probably took seven years off my life!" But the dragon was focused on the contraption and pay his word no mind.

"What is this? Is this the fin?" the dragon crooned.

"Oh hey, do you know what this is? It's your new tail fin, bud!" the human announced proudly.

The dragon stared at the folded mess of leather and metal more. "How would this mess even work?"

Seeing the dragon's confusion, he grubbed the contraption with both hands, then pulled it open. "See?"

The prosthetic fin was made from some scrap metal around the workshop. It was a skeleton made of one long metal rod that hed five short rod that stuck out. It was made by a melted down rusty axe. Two sheets of leather were bolted onto the frame and looked as if one gust of wind would blow them away. The whole thing didn't seem safe for use flying, but it would do the job for the moment.

"Will that even stay intact moving around?"

The human understood the dragon's worry. "Don't worry! It's definitely gonna work. It may not look that… believing, but it can get us in the air! You just need to stay still while I strap it on…" He soon knew that a dragon would never stay still if you told them to, especially a downed one. While he was trying to lock the belt, the dragon scratched an itch, starched his wings, caught a butterfly, and more.

After almost half an hour and dozens of annoying shouts later, what was supposed to take a minute at most was finally done. The human sighed. "Finally…"

With his tail balanced and possibility of touching the air again, he extended his wings fully, not knowing that there were more than strapping on the fin. A human was sitting on his tail. "Okay, bud. Now comes the important-"

The dragon bolted up into the sky, carrying the human with him. "Ahh! No, bud, no!" The rope that was supposed to hold onto the tail fin flew from his hand. There was nothing holding the tail fin open; therefore, it hung around uselessly and provided no lift. They entered an uncontrollable dive.

The human noticed it. He managed to grab and pull the fins open. With them now providing lift, the pair barely missed the cliff. They were now moving above the cove. They were touching the sky together.

They were flying.

The dragon was excited. He never thought that he would touch the sky again. From the moment that he saw his torn-off tail fin, he had been sure that he would be a ground bunny forever. Now, it felt good, maybe even better, than before.

On the other hand, the human was relaxed. Yes, a ground creature who lived his whole life in a flat world, now gaining a new way, up was more relaxed than a dragon who had been in the air from birth. He felt oddly comfortable, like he has been in the air before. He felt oddly free, free from the ground, like he was supposed to be flying over the trees, the forest, and the island. He felt oddly safe, like falling to his death wasn't possible.

Once again, the feeling was back.

But as happy times always fly by quickly, they flow too high to be stable. The human fell off, splashing into the lake underneath them, with the dragon following closely behind.

"Hoh! Yah! That was awesome! Gotta try that again!" The human shouted. His mood was not affected by failing into the lake or getting completely wet.

"Thank you, Iota, for giving me a way to return to the sky again," the dragon exclaimed joyfully.

"Well, bud, you seem quite excited. Let's do that again!" The human grabbed another rope and got on to the dragon's back.

Together, they returned to the sky.


A bright white with a purple dim flash exploded from behind the locked door. Then the Communication Lock clicked.


It was now nighttime. The sun had moved past the horizon. In Berk, night guards were in their assigned positions, watching the sky carefully to spot any possible dragon raid. Everyone else had all gone back to their houses. Some were still eating, but most had gone to sleep. All except one.

Hiccup had been trying to fly with his dragon friend all day long. He wrote seven pages of changes that needed to be done with the tail fin and another book fully about ways to control it.

His exorbitance ended when the dragon laid on the ground, telling his human friend that he didn't want to try again. So they sat around a camp fire.

"Bud, tomorrow, I will go back to the village for a bit to make the changes on the flying gears. We will have a successful flight!" the human told the dragon.

"Not again! I have crash landed sixty-five times already! Can we just… enjoy a full day where we don't have to do anything? Hhh… How am I gonna tell-"

"Don't worry. We won't crash again! But if you want to have a full day just hanging around… That's a good idea actually!"

"Wait, you actually guessed what I am saying?"

They finally noticed. The dragon now thought of all the previous talks with his friend. He noticed his friend was getting what he said more and more accurately. He tested his theory out.

"Hiccup, can you hear me?"

"Yes, what is it- Wait, I can hear… Bud, did you just ask if I can hear you?"

"Yes…" The dragon replied also by nodding his head.

"Oh Odin's luck, I can hear you! I can understand you! We can have proper talks now! YES!" The human jumped up and down.

The dragon was also excited, but puzzled at the same time. He was thinking how it could be. He knew that by bonding with a human, the human might see a bit further and clearer, but that was supposed to be it. And even that was rare. He had only bonded with his human for a week. How was that possible?

After the human calmed down, the dragon decided to ask a question that he had wanted to ask for a long time, "How do you know about Iota?"

The human was surprised by the sudden change of topic. "So… you know what an 'Iota' is?"

"Yes, every dragon knows about it."

"What is it then? Can you explain it to me?" Hiccup asked, curiously.

"Well… it's going to be a long explanation, so lie down and listen. Iota is a creator. What is it called in the human's word? It is basically like Odin."

"A god."

"Good. So Iota is our god. He created us and also helped to keep peace. By the way, he was also the first god in this world. Your human gods came later. At the start, Iota helped Odin to establish his realms and his other… semi-gods? What do humans call Loki and Thor?"

"Well it's just gods. We call Odin All-father too. But it's more like a nick-name."

"Well, let just call them semi-gods for now. We also have them. They are Alpha, Beta, BloodMoon, who is dead because of treason, Zeta, who left and cannot be found. We, Night Rulers, or Night Furies, are semi-semi-gods."

"Semi-semi gods? What is that?" Hiccup laughed.

"Semi-semi gods are those who have Iota's power, but very little of it. It was because Iota gave us ten percent of his power, split evenly across our kind. When the numbers of our kind drops, we will have more power, as it is more concentrated. Unfortunately, that is what happening now. I can feel my power is strong."

"What happened?"

"I don't think you humans know this, but we dragons are in a Second War now. Beta betrayed us. He spread lies about us. He wanted us to stop ruling the dragons and keeping peace. He succeeded. Everyone was hunting us down. Those who got captured, wanting to be alive, told the others that the lies were true, further making more and more dragons believed in the lies. Things have gotten better once Iota was back from his realm, but not for long. When he was back, he told everyone about Beta's plan. Then the strongest of dragons gathered together for a final fight with Beta. We should have won with Iota's power. But for unknown reasons, Iota did not use his power, and he was killed… by Beta. That's why I want to know how you get those dreams. Is there an instruction to tell me about something? I must know!"

The human scratched the back of his neck. "Well… sorry, bud, but from what I can remember, there was no instruction. The dream is so out of place."

"Iota has the power to replace other's dreams with his dreams. He may have used it on you. But in order to do that, he must still be in the realm, alive."

Hiccup sighed. "… I have no idea how I got the dream, sorry, bud."

"That's… fine."

"Well, then, why do dragons raid us every week? It is clear that dragons aren't what we thought they were."

"Beta. She commanded us to raid nearby islands for food. Beta controls them using the power from Iota. Most dragons can't resist it, but I can. Iota once gave me a special power to be able to resist any kind of command. I need to find a way to destroy Beta's control, but the only dragon that can do that is Iota…" The dragon was sad. His job in this world was to keep peace and he failed. He could not think of any ways to do it.

"I'll help you. I'll help you make peace. Not just on the dragons' side, but also between dragons and humans," the human said, not just wanting to cheer his best friend up, but also setting a goal for him to complete. Possible or not, he could not tell, but trying was at least better than doing nothing.

"Is it even… possible? When Iota isn't here anymore? We have to defeat a semi-god! How can we do it? For the love of the skies, where do we even start? It is… impossible…"

"Have you tried doing it?"

"No…" The dragon now realized in all this time, he was trying to find others to solve it, but never tried to do so himself.

"Then how do you know it is not impossible?"

"I… don't…" the dragon admitted.

"Then it is possible!"

The dragon wanted to point out the faulty logics, but he thought, Maybe that is the human's advantage. Maybe that is why they can build their nests out of trees, and create tools using metals from the ground. All because they believed that they can do it. He stayed silent about his doubts.

Together, they watched the star shinning above, both thinking about how they could complete their goal. Neither of them came up with a plan.

The human decided to change the subject. "What was your live like? I mean… are you popular? You are a semi-semi god, so…"

"My life was like yours. I was an 'outcast', in your language. There were great times, before this war broke out, about three thousand years ago, but many-"

"Three thousand years ago? Wow, that's… so far in the past. How long do you guys live, then?"

"For most dragons, about four to six thousand years. But Night Rulers never die of old age. I lived for almost about… twenty-three thousand years, I think. I was the first of the Night Rulers to be created. Most other dragons don't remember that much, even the other Night Rulers. I only remembered it because I was Iota's personal guard. Remembering the history was one of my jobs."

The human was amazed. Standing in front of his eyes was a twenty thousand years old creature that was also his best friend. He would have never guessed it. But then, comparing the dragon's age to human's lifespan, he felt how small he actually was, and how little an effect he had on the word. "Do you know how long can a human lives at most?"

"I know that you are feeling sad because of the short lifespan that you have, am I right? A human at most can live up to seventy years. It always amazes us how you humans can do so much stuff in such a short time."

"I dunno. I guess, we just live as long as we can, doing our best to complete our personal goals. By the way, how do you know about the human language and lifespan? That's not something that you can learn by spying on us."

"We know much more than just your languages. Before this war was a time of peace. We call it the Second Great Peace. In the late time, humans started showing up. There was no fighting between dragons and humans, We actually helped each other. We caught food for humans, and in return, they gave us a comfortable places to live in. In that time, we slowly understood your languages, culture, and more."

"There was a time when humans and dragons were in peace? That must be wonderful. Flying on the back of…" The human stopped. He now felt guilty about shooting his best friend down.

"Do not worry about it. I would never blame you. Think of it this way. If you hadn't shot me down, you would not have found me, and I would not have such a great friend on my side. Yes, losing the ability to fly is bitter, but 'Lose in order to gain'. I gained a friend. At least you have helped me get back in the air. So I have lost nothing in the end."

"I… You are right. So, you forgive me?"

"There is nothing to forgive. Now, it is late. I don't think you will go back to your nest. So lay down on my wings. It is time to sleep."

The human laid down his head on his friend's wing comfortably. He said one last sentence before closing his eyes.

"Thank you, Toothless."


A/N: Hopefully I will not be late again.

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