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Tyra, Eldrid and the other Night Furies had followed Hiccup and some of the other Vikings to the arena where the dragon training would normally take place. The dragons could hear the cries of their kind crying from behind the gates as they entered.
"Why are they locked away like animals?" Tyra demanded.
"They were captured during raids when they attacked our village," Gobber said looking over his shoulder to the young girl.
"We use them to train the children, they learn about what they can do and…..how to kill them," he explained reluctant to tell her the last part.
The other Night Furies began to growl but were quickly silenced with one look from Eldrid before she turned to Gobber. The man didn't know a time when she had felt more uncomfortable than now under the glare of the dragon queen.
"I want them released," she said simply.
"What?!" a voice said out of nowhere.
Everyone looked around for the owner of the voice until the form of a little old man appeared much to the annoyance of the Vikings.
"You want us to release those beasts after so that they can help you rip us limb from limb," Mildew said approaching the queen at a steady pace much to the objection of the others.
"Mildew! Stoick will handle this when he gets back, stand down," Gobber said sternly.
"Bugger off Gobber! You and Stoick may have been taken in but I will not be so bewitched by Hàkon's dragon whore wife and unholy spawn," Mildew spewed.
Dragon and Viking alike stood in shock as Tyra seemed to teleport from her spot beside her mother to holding the old man by his neck above her head. In her anger she had allowed the hand grasping Mildew to revert to her dragon form, dark scales slowly began to appear on her face and neck standing out against her piercing blue eyes that held a fury unlike anything any of them had ever seen.
"Watch your mouth old man before I slit your throat and watch the dust fly out," she hissed sending the group into a terrified silence as she squeezed his neck harder.
Toothless watched surprise completely mesmerized by the girl's strength considering her heritage until he heard a whimper. He looked down to see Hiccup had backed up into his leg and had hidden his face into it afraid of the sight before him. He quickly wrapped his wing over Hiccup's body and gently cooed to him comfortingly.
"Tyra release him," Eldrid commanded her daughter.
The Night Fury turned to her mother and nodded respectfully before returning a dark glare at Mildew and roared in his face before dropping him to the ground roughly. The girl returned to her mother's side in an instant and lowered her head as they began walking further into the arena leading the way for everyone else.
"Forgive me mother, my temper got the better of me," she apologized after a while.
Eldrid smiled gently at her daughter before resting her hand on Tyra's head and said, "it is a strong leader that can admit when they have made a mistake. We will focus on meditating to help you control your emotions."
"I would like that very much mother," Tyra replied obediently.
"Very well but for now it is time for you to be the teacher now my child. Our friend is very much behind on his knowledge as a proper member of our court and our young Hiccup will need to know how to protect himself from the mad queen. I expect you to teach them both properly in the art of fighting like a dragon," Eldrid said.
"You are not going to train them mother?" Tyra asked confused.
"I have business to attend to concerning our people that have been taken prisoner with Stoick," the older dragon explained looking over to the cages.
"Besides child you need to start growing into the leader they need you to be," she explained resting her hands on her daughter's shoulders.
Tyra became silent as her head remained lowered and her shaky hands held tightly onto her mother's wrists firmly. Guilt ate away at Eldrid knowing that thejourney ahead for her daughter would be a difficult one because of what she was. It was hard enough being responsible for so many lives but trying to earn the trust of those lives was a harder task when you were a half breed.
'Oh yes a young, half breed queen to follow the mad one…..that should go over well among the others' Eldrid thought before she tipped her daughter's chin to look at her.
"I know your father and I will not be with you long and it saddens me that it is possible we will not be here to watch you become the leader we know you were born to become. My heart breaks for you Tyra and the burden you carry on your young shoulders and the difficulties that will come with it. I truly believe child that even though you will be the youngest queen in our history and the first half dragon queen, you will above all be a great queen," Eldrid said before kissing her daughter on her forehead.
"I am not as strong as you, I will be lost without you both here to guide me," Tyra mumbled trying desperately not to cry in front of her mother.
"I am always with you and I will always be proud of you," Eldrid replied as she pulled the girl into a protective embrace just as she had done when Tyra was just a little girl.
The older dragon pulled the girl away and touched their foreheads together before she whispered, "go."
Tyra took a deep breath before she turned around with her head held high and walked over to where Toothless and Hiccup were. When she approached the group again the other Vikings were telling the old man that he had brought the wrath of the dragons down upon himself. Hiccup was the one scolding Mildew the most much to the amusement of everyone watching the seven year old yelling at the grown up half his size.
"…and your nothing but a bully Mildew so just go back to your smelly sheep," she heard the little boy say before he stuck his tongue out at the sheep farmer.
"Why you little-"
Mildew went to hit the little boy with his walking stick but was stopped in mid strike by a small hand with a big grip.
"Touch him again you disgusting old thing and I'll shove that stick up your backside sideways," she hissed before she pushed on the stick shoving the man back in surprise.
With one final authoritative glare she turned as she grabbed Hiccup's hand. She and the others began to walk away from him as Toothless gave him a warning growl.
'Consider yourself lucky that I didn't get to you first' he roared before following the group.
She looked over her shoulder as she continued to walk away and firmly said," be gone…Moldy was it?"
Gobber and the other Vikings had to stop because they were laughing so hard from the jab at Mildew's expense. The old man was furious as he stomped off the best he could with his cane with the sheep following behind him. After he left Tyra turned her attention to the Night Fury that had caught up and was walking beside Hiccup chuckling away.
'Heh Moldy…' Toothless thought amused.
"Dragon," Toothless heard and turned to see Tyra's blue eyes staring back at him.
"Are you ready to embrace your true potential?" she asked him and smiled when the dragon's expression went from an amused grin to a look of determination.
"Very well," she said before she turned to the others and said, "take the boy up where he can watch, it will be too dangerous in here for any of the humans."
"But I wanna train to," Hiccup said a bit disappointed.
'Soon little one, don't worry I will not leave you defenseless' Toothless said he nuzzled the boy's hair before he nudged him over to a waiting woman.
Tyra watched the interaction with great interest at the affection Toothless showed the human. Even if Hiccup was a treasure never had she seen a male give a hatchling that was not his own so much affection. She was curious to see just how quickly the male would take to the training. After the humans had left and were safely in the viewing area Toothless followed Tyra to the middle of the ring.
"I will do you a favor and get the painful training out of the way," she said as she slowly began untying the strings of her bodice as she had watched the woman do when she was helping her.
"The shape shift?" Toothless asked.
"The shape shift," she confirmed as she carefully removed her outfit and folded it over the shields.
She quietly walked over and stood in front of Toothless facing him before the sound of Tyra's bones started rumbling and crunching underneath her skin. Her porcelain white complexion was replaced with shimmering black scales. Her hands and feet were transformed into slender claws as she crouched onto all fours before, her tail and wings sprung out from her body revealing her incredible transformation.
'Incredible' he thought out loud as he beheld the stunning creature in front of him.
'In your case the word that you are looking for is painful, most Night Furies have already gotten used to the feeling of the change while they are still hatchlings' Tyra explained as she walked towards him.
Toothless was having a hard time concentrating at the task at hand, the girl's scent was even stronger to him now than when she was in her human form. The poor dragon was finding it harder and harder to not admit that he's was taken with the girl as he stared at her breath taking wings.
*whistle*
'Eyes over here novice, you want to learn or not' Tyra said irritated at the Night Fury in front of her.
'Sorry, where do I start?' he asked.
'Just focus on your breathing and have an image in your head of the kind of human you would look like. Keep that picture in your mind and just continue to breathe as your body does what comes naturally and you'll know you're doing it right when you feel it' she explained.
The Night Fury did as he was told within seconds his breathing had become calm and as he focused on breathing in and out a vision of a young, slender man appeared in his mind. His dark, untamed hair reached the length of his chin and blew wildly around his face. His piercing green eyes were the only indication of his true nature showing the world his dragon soul through his unreadable glare.
*Crunch*
*Snap*
*Grind*
The white hot pain hit him suddenly like a punch tearing through his insides. He could feel every bone and every muscle in his body reshaping itself into his new form. He wondered if the process would always feel this slow and painful if he lived through it. The Night Fury could no longer hold back and let out a cry of excruciating pain.
"TOOTHLESS!" he heard someone cry from the gate and automatically knew it was Hiccup.
He looked over to see that his hatchling had run down from the viewing area and into the ring trying desperately to get to his friend. Gobber was holding the tear stained boy back as he struggled out of the man's hold crying for the Night Fury.
"H-HicuuuaaaaaaAAAHHHHH" Toothless cried through his torment trying to call for the boy to tell him that everything was ok but the truth was nothing in his body felt ok right now. He suddenly felt comforting hands on his shoulders and looked up to see Tyra once more in her human form staring down at him with sympathy.
"Focus on the breathing you are nearly finished I promise," she encouraged him as his transformation completed itself.
When the last of the dragon's bones completed twisting and bending to his will Toothless laid naked on the ground soaked with sweat and breathing heavily. The first thing he saw in his new form was her smiling at him proud of his accomplishment before he turned to the distressed boy.
"Toothless?" Hiccup mumbled through his tears still in Gobber's arms.
The Night Fury replied with a giant grin spread from ear to ear and complete with Night Fury fangs being shown off. Hiccup quickly squirmed away from Gobber and ran full throttle right into Toothless' chest before wrapping his arms around his friend's neck and squeezing the life out of him.
"Hiccup…air," Toothless managed to wheeze out surprising the boy enough to loosen his grip.
"You can talk?!" the boy squealed in shock.
"Of course I can talk, always could it's just that now HOLY CRAP I SPEAK PEOPLE," Toothless said suddenly distracted and excited all at the same time of his accomplishment.
"I did it," he said more to himself as he stood up taking Hiccup with him in his protective embrace.
"Uh-huh," Hiccup replied finding his friend's excitement contagious.
"I DID IT! I DID IT!" he cheered spinning a giggling Hiccup up in the air and doing a ridiculous victory dance.
Dragon and Viking alike struck their faces with the palm of their hands at the awkward sight before them. Tyra giggled at them as she stood aside with her arms crossed and shook her head at the silly, handsome Night Fury.
'Handsome? Where did that come from?' she thought to herself before giving her head a shake.
"Tyra," she heard her name called and looked up to the owner of the voice.
The male Night Fury was in a dramatic masculine pose curling his arms parallel to his head and standing proudly with Hiccup beside him mimicking his stance.
"Well what do you think?" he asked clearly fishing for praise.
She put a finger to her lips and looked as though she was in deep thought before she answered, "I give you an 8 out of 10."
"What?!" he demanded to her retreating form that was secretly smirking in amusement.
"I am the embodiment of the perfect human male," he defended as he followed her over to where her clothes were.
"Is that a fact?" she replied putting on her clothes.
"I have perfect muscular physique, an attractive face," he listed off to the girl who only nodded her head in agreement as he continued.
"I have two legs, feet, arms, and hands…10 fingers and…10 toes which is the correct amount of appendages that a human rewires," he continued making sure to double check his numbers by comparing them to Hiccup's.
"Yes, this is all very true but my score still stands," she said firmly as she finished tying the bodice back on.
"Why," he whined as she walked over to him and crossed her arms, standing in front of the taller boy in an authoritative stance.
"Let me ask you this, have you ever seen a human with a tail?" she asked looking irritated as Toothless shook his head no.
"Then why do you?" she added leaning slightly to the side to see the Night Fury's tail.
Toothless leaned over to see his tail swish when it dawned on him and he looked back at her desperately and said, "you wouldn't make me…."
Tyra nodded her head with a deadly serious expression on her face and a chuckling Gobber standing a little ways behind her. He tried to look to Hiccup for help but he just looked back at his friend sympathetically. After a sigh of defeat Toothless took a deep breath and braised himself for the worst before his tail suddenly shot back into his tailbone.
"OOOWWWWWW," he cried as he fell to the ground and groaned in pain.
"Talk about a pain in the butt," Gobber chuckled as he turned and walked to the great hall for dinner.
"Toothless are you ok?" the little boy asked.
Not wanting to lose face in front of his hatchling the dragon put on a fake grin and hissed, "felt great, sooo good."
"There now that's a perfect score," Tyra said standing over the dragon with an amused smirk.
"Thank you so very much," he hissed at her.
"You're welcome," she replied before stepping over him to walk over to Hiccup.
As she took his hand to lead him to the Great Hall for dinner she said, "next time don't get cocky and question my judgement."
Toothless learned a very valuable lesson in that moment and swore he would never question his teacher again. As he rose to his shaky feet to go to dinner another very dark and awful realization came to him and he could help but groan.
'I still need to change back into a dragon.'
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Stoick rubbed his eyes in exhaustion as he entered the great hall for his meal. He had spent all afternoon listening to Mildew complain about what his 'evil and unholy' niece did to him.
"This day could not possibly get any longer," he said out loud as he sat beside Gobber who was looking ahead in shock.
"Gobber what is it?" Stoick asked.
"Let's just say your day got a whole lot longer," Gobber replied leading his friend's gaze to across the table.
Stoick's eye went wide in shock when he saw who his friend was pointing to. There across the table sitting among the Night Furries was a face he thought he'd never see again.
That's all for now I hope you guys enjoyed this lighter chapter and I'm sorry I left a cliffy but I couldn't resist I wasn't going to but my brain needed it to happen. So review and you'll find out quicker what happens