A/N: Oh my gosh! Thank you all so much for your comments and dms on Instagram you guys are amazing! I read them and reply to you when I'm on the train and it's just my favorite thing to do lately.

I really don't have time to reply to you this week so I'll do it in the next chapter 3

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["I love you..." She whispered through her tears.]

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"Oh great! Just great!" He screamed in frustration.

"My ship is gone, I almost drowned and I am stuck here on an island in the midle of nowhere, with no boat, no clue how to get back and no way of leaving!"

He spent the last 5 hours walking around in circles, after the mysterious mermaid left him.

Who is this mermaid anyway?

Why the hell did she save him to just abandon him there? To become gull food?

Those damn creatures.

Those damn devils that think everything is a game and like to treat humans like they are toys.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

His scream reached the far edges of the horizon.

He let the weight of his body lay on the hot sand.

How much longer would he last? He has been there for long enough without any food or water.

He was doomed.

"Is this it?" he cried out. "Is this gonna be the end of the glorious Captain Haddock? The master of the sea?"

The sun was a cruel mistress that day, beating down on him in her relentless way.

His eyes were losing their colour. His breath became heavy and he had no drop of saliva left on his dry lips.

"Funny Poseidon. Very funny." he laughed. "I dedicated my life to you and you let me go like that?"

He waited as if he expected a response from the greek god of the sea.

"kprrrrrrrrrrrrr" an odly strange sound he never heared before in his life came from the water.

"What the..." he rose his head directly towards the sourse of the sound.

"KRRRRiiiiiiiiiii" the creature shouted again from afar.

And then he saw it.

It was a...dolphin?

No...dolphins are not supposed to be black. Are they?

Maybe it was a whale. Nuh...it wasn't big enough to be a whale.

But no matter what it was...it was beautiful.

Unlike whatever water creature he's seen. It's back coloured in shiny black like the night. His belly white like sea foam. It had the shape and body stucture of a large shark but in a dolphine kind of way...very odd...very exotic...but oh so beautidul.

It was such a graceful and magneficent creature. The way it stroke the waves with its fins, the way its tail was dancing with he water.

Hiccup could fall in love with it.

"H...hey buddy...are you lost?"

"griiiiiiiiiii"

"It's okay..." he laughed. "They abandoned me too."

Multiple times actually.

First he lost his mother, then his father tells everyone that he is dead, then a mermaid saves his life only to abandon him in this stupid island!

He gets abandoned a lot if you think about it.

The strange creature splashed water on him, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Hey!" Hiccup laughed.

"kprrrrrrrrriiiiii"

"Okay bud...are you trying to tell me something here, or are you just a jerk?"

"skriiiiiiiiiiiiiii"

"Yeah...I have no idea what that means."

The dolphin-like creature made another sound, but then it did something that made Hiccup realize what was happening. It had turned its body around, with its tail being just in front of him.

Hiccup somehow connected with the creature's brain, and immediately knew what that meant.

It meant " Hop on."

"Oh...oh you want me to..."

"skriiiiiiiiiiii!"

"Oh! Okay then!"

What was he doing?

He was on top of a black dolphin he just met.

Where did it even come from?

"Poseidon? Did you sent me this? When I asked for help I meant like a boat or something! Not one of your sea creaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Before he could finish his sentense, the dolphin was already swiming away from the island, with him holding on to his back.

"NO NO NO NO WAAAIIIITTT!"

His screams were pointless, and only made the creature go faster.

OKAY SHIT.

I AM RIDING A DOLPHIN.

I AM RIDING ON A DOLPHIN.

WHAAAAATTTTT

"Skriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" the creature shouted out its happiness that he trusted it.

But when it open its mouth, Hiccup noticed something he didn't expect.

"Toothless?"

"SRRRRRRRRRRRR!"

"So is that your new name?" he laughed.

"Prrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

The creature took a huge deep dive into the water, almost drowning Hiccup before getting back to the surface.

Yeah...I think he likes it.

In water more blue than any ocean the dolphin leaps high into the sultry air of a very hot day. From his shiny black topside and whiter under belly fly water droplets, cascading down, bejewelled in the light. His body arcs and tail flips and down goes with a splash.

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A few hours of later, they finally managed to reach the land.

Exhausted from the endless hours of swimming nonstop he layed on the soft sweet sand and kissed the dirt.

"skriiiiiiiit!"

"T-Thank you T-T-toothyless...you're...you are amazing."

"Pkrrrrrrrrr" the cetacean made before he vanished into the ocean again.

Did all that really happen? Was he really rescued by a strange cetacean AND a mermaid in less than 24 hours?

It must be a dream. A really weird dream.

Images of the angelic presence of the mermaid flashed into his mind once again.

Oh it must be the best dream he's ever had.

"There he is! I see him!" he heared the voice of Snotlout running towards him.

And the dream just turned into a nightmare.

"Captain Haddock! Oh thank Poseidon! We thought those demons drowned you!"

Hiccup slowly got on his feet with the help of his crew.

"Yeah...to be honest for a minute I thought so too."

"You are very brave Captain!" Ruffnut said.

"He's as strong as they come."

"Aye! The master of the sea!"

"Aye! Ahoy to our Captain that looks death in the face and spits on it!'

"AHOY!"

"Guys...Guys...please keep it down...my head..." Hiccup tried to say as his men were throwing him up and down on their shoulders.

But he was too tired to keep his eyes open for a second longer.

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The next morning Hiccup woke up in his old bed at the palace.

He slowly opened his eyes and let himself adjust to the sunlight.

This was his room. His old room back before he became a pirate. Before he was Captain Hiccup Haddock. Back when he was still Prince Henry the third.

He noticed that nothing changed since the last time he's been there.

The same paintings were hanging on the walls. The room painted in the same green boring shades. And his father sitting on his chair next to his bed.

Wait what?

Rubbing his eyes one more time, he saw his father sitting next to him.

"I see you're awake son."

"Wha...how...how did I-"

"The guards brought you and your crew here after your ship wrecked."

Hiccups eyes widened again.

"The Night fury!"

"Calm down son. My men are building you another one as we speak. It will be ready for sale by tomorrow morning."

"I don't want anything from you."

"I know. I am aware. But without a ship how are you going to catch me that mermaid?"

"Right... of course you didn't do this gift out of the generosity of your big heart." Hiccup ironically rolled his eyes and started to get dressed.

"What happened?"

"Them. What else would happen?"

"The Mermaids?"

Hiccup nodded while pulling his shirt over his head.

"We only found your crew at first, how did you survived so many hours alone in the sea?"

He walked to the window to look over the ocean. It was so beautiful this time of the day. Well it was always beautiful but when the sun reflected in it playing with the sky's colours, it was a sight Hiccup would never get sick of.

"I was saved."

"Saved? By who?"

"A mermaid."

"What? That's impossible. Why would one of them save you?"

"You tell me. All I know is that I heared a voice calling to me and two arms grabbing me and before I knew it I woke up out of the water."

"Did she speak to you? The mermaid?"

"Yes...she did but she didn't say much. I don't think she trusts me enough to open up to me."

After a long hour fill-in on the evens of Hiccup's last 24 hours, King Stoick tought for a second and then spoke.

"Well then...this might be an unexpected but fortunate turn of events."

"What are you mumbling there?" Hiccup said with his eyes never leaving the window.

"If you get this Mermaid to trust you, to open up to you...maybe then we can capture her like a fish in a net!"

"So you want me to what? Seduce a demonic creature?"

"Not seduce her. Just befriend her."

"Come on be serious. Why would that mermaid trust me anyway?

"I don't know you tell me! She must have resqued you for a reason."

"And then what? How do we know she'll tell us what we need to know?"

King Stoick smiled.

"Oh I have my ways to make her talk. You can leave that to me."

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Sunset.

Hiccup was now sitting at the edge of his new ship, staring at the horizon, recalling the events of yesterday.

Did all of that really happen? Was it all a dream? Was it a hallucination caused by all the shock?

Of maybe too much exposure to the sun?

Did he really met that mermaid? Did she really save him?

"Well...what do you think Captain?" Fishlegs pat him on his back interrupting him from his thoughts "While you were fighting for your life with the waves we worked for you and made this new baby."

"Thank you Fishlegs, you really did a great job as a first mate."

"Meh I was sure you would make it. I know how tough my Captain is."

"If I hadn't survived, you would have to find a new Captain."

"I only follow one Captain. And that is you."

Hiccup smiled at him. He was so grateful that his crew was so loyal to him. It was unusual for Pirates.

But then again...how would he know? He wasn't a real Pirate after all. He was the Prince who ... was dead but really wasn't.

"So Captain, what are our next plans? Are we still after those monsters?"

For some odd reason he felt the urge to punch Fishlegs in the face and throw him in the sea right there and then.

Monsters.

He knew there were. Weren't they?

She wasn't. She definitely wasn't. Was she?

How could a monster look so... beautiful? So...angelic?

Would a monster save his life not only once but twice?

But they kill...they drown they...

Not her.

Or does she?

Of course she does! He shouldn't fall for her trick. This could all be a trap. Maybe she wants to play with him before she kills him.

No.

He can't fall for this demon's looks.

He knows better than that.

Besides he's on a mission. King Stoick promised him his freedom and he plans to take it.

"Yes. We stick to the plan. And we capture one of them."

"Good good but um...how exactly are we going to do that?"

Hiccup smiled.

Maybe this was his chance.

Maybe this was an opportunity.

Maybe he could use this whole story to his advantage after all.

He had to see her again. He had to learn more about her and the rest of them. Their habits, their weaknesses.

"You know what they say Fishlegs? About keeping your friends close and your enemies closer?"

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["Then prove it." I replied in anger.]

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Toothless is actualy not a dolphin. It's just that Hiccup couldn't possibly have the knowledge of knowing all the spiecies names.( National Geographic is not a thing in this story.) I chose Toothless to be a Pilot Whale for this story. They are black and extremnely cute just like him and I think is serves this AU perfectly. (you can google it to see what he looks like.) Like I've said before...I've done my recearch.

Thank you for reading another chapter!