A/N- Posted 11/9/2015 I don't own HTTYD

Anyone else remember when I posted weekly? Yeah, it has been a while.

I will note that my page breaks didn't work properly in my last chapter. That has now been rectified. We are now back to the /\/\/\. I will be going back to check for this in some of the other chapters.

Chapter 21- Celestially Alone

Toothless POV

Hiccup still rested, more peacefully now than he had a few hours ago. Yang treatments had obviously helped. Admittedly I still worried, but not nearly as much as I had initially.

Most of the dragons had settled down and now clumped together in several small groups around the island. A few of the younger ones had started an interesting game that combined hiding, chasing, and a few elementary aerial maneuvers. Several of the dragons watched the youngsters go about their game.

This must have been the first time these youngsters had been able to play like this. I wanted to believe that seeing them, free like this made it all worth it, but all I could think about now was Hiccup. I needed him to wake up.

I tried to distract myself, contemplating everything that had happened so far to the two of us. It was hard to believe that we had known each other less than a year and already I couldn't imagine a life without him. We had come so far and done so much. We bridged the difference in species and even become friends, we had learned to fly together, and we had run away together and learned to survive on our own. We had made new friends. We had overcome the wrongs we had wrought on each other in the past. We had travelled to places lost in time and talked with gods. Together we had defeated a monstrosity.

I looked over again at Hiccup. His breathing was even and he slept soundly. I knew I should probably go out and check on things. With a final glance at my brother's sleeping form, I went outside. A few of the dragons looked up as I came out and gave small nods out of respect. I had made it clear earlier that I wanted to be no one's master. Nevertheless, I, and Hiccup too probably as I thought on it, had been unofficially made the leaders of the dragons here.

I saw the setting sun and realized that Luna would be returning shortly. Her strange interactions with us over the time we had known each other left me pondering her history. Giving a final glance to the dragons that lounged about I headed back into the home Hiccup and I had built.

I curled around Hiccup protectively and succumbed to the sleep that had been calling me for the last few hours.

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The roars of several dragons woke me the next morning. I rushed out thinking that another fight had started. Instead I found all the dragons flying in a massive tornado above the island. I was left breathless. The colors and joyful roars of all the dragons blended in the cool morning air to create something that could be described as nothing short of art.

The elder fire skin from earlier landed beside me. "It is beautiful, is it not?" I could only nod in agreement.

"It is a flight done by dragons for millennia to welcome the new day. The queen didn't approve and quickly put a stop to it. She never could purge it from our minds however, and so we remember."

We both sat there watching in appreciation. Just as the sun breached the horizon the dragons took a collective breath and then a fire erupted in the center of the tornado. Every dragon adding their own flame to the column that shot into the sky. I couldn't help but to add my own fire and magic to the column and so I breathed in and fired up into the pillar of fire. With my fire added a wisp of blue could be seen twisting throughout the column.

A few seconds later the dragons flew out in all directions and the column exploded out in a disk composed entirely of flame.

With that the dragons flew off to complete their tasks for the day. To my surprise Sharpshot flew down and landed at my feet. He gave a small nod, licked his eye, and passed me to go check on Hiccup I presumed. I followed him in and sure enough found him curled up on top of Hiccup, fast asleep.

With a smile I headed back outside. Sharpshot would find me if Hiccup woke up. I went out searching for Luna. It was about time I got some answers. I found her nearly an hour later. Seems she had gone in to check on Hiccup and that's where I found her. I felt a bit silly really.

She glanced up at me as I came in. I cleared my throat before speaking. "Luna, I need to know your history with Yang." I could see her lock up, muscled tensing, breathing coming rapidly, and eyes darting about looking for an escape. "Both you and Yang will play integral parts in the time to come, it's just something I can sense." As I continued I could see Luna start to relax a little, a bit of resignation coming into her posture.

She settled down after a moment, her breathing slowing. She stopped for a moment looking off in the distance.

She then started speaking without preamble. "As you may or not have gathered, Yang and I come from a land far to the east, Tian Xia or All below Heaven1. It was amazing, dragons and man lived side by side. Dragons were revered by the people for our wisdom and power; in turn the dragons respected the people, protecting them and giving counsel to their leaders."

"However, things changed, a small number of the people thought that the dragons were trying to enslave humanity. The dragons ignored them thinking that the movement would die out. It didn't."

"War broke out and engulfed the land. To the dragons shock the revolution was far larger than imagined. At first the dragons elected to stay out of the conflict so as to avoid adding fuel to the flame. Eventually, they had to act as most of the Royal Dragon Guard, the personal army of the emperor, had been slain. The dragons had to fight so as to protect the emperor and to save themselves. By then it was too late."

"The dragons and the remainder of those loyal to the emperor made a final stand at Jiangzia. It was a doomed effort and everyone knew it. The revolutionaries wasted no time assaulting the city and slaying everyone, human and dragon alike."

"My egg was lain three days prior to that battle. Yang was a Captain of the Emperors personal guard. Yang, sensing the inevitable, stole my egg from the Dragon Den, the place of residence for the dragons in the city. He stole me and fled the country. Eventually, he made his way to this archipelago and made a new life for himself. When I hatched, I learned what he had done, how he had cursed me. I am the last of the Celestials. There were no other survivors of the battle of Jiangzia."

"I had to make a life for myself with no others of my kind to seek company or friendship. I was truly alone." She stopped for a moment. I could see she was remembering everything that had happened. "I travelled the archipelago, most dragons turned me out as I was different and the humans have never been friendly to our kind here. So I learned to fend for myself."

"That is until you and Hiccup showed up." She started again suddenly, with a small smile. "You and Hiccup gave me friendship and a purpose in life. For that you will always have my gratitude and my loyalty."

I knew then that she was desperate for our friendship. She clung to it as a lifeline to normalcy that she had never had before.

"Thank you for telling me Luna. And I think I can speak for the both of us when I say that Hiccup and I are forever grateful for your friendship."

Luna looked like she was going to say something but was interrupted by a sudden, panicked chirp from Sharpshot who leapt up and started sniffing Hiccup.

Then, Hiccup took a deep breath and started to stir.

Hiccup was finally waking up.

A/N- This chapter works (hopefully) to better include Luna into the story.

Tian Xia is actual name for China originating in the first century B.C.

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Next time, Hiccup wakes up and has to deal with a missing limb.