The Dragon Island castle was beautiful...and vacant. No dragon was in the castle. Although, the only ones who were there were the dragon younglings, as well as Edelweiss. They were currently playing at the tide pools near the beach of the island. The adults realized that their children weren't as young as they used to be, and felt they deserved a little more freedom now that they were older.
Even if they were slightly reckless, they were responsible enough to not get into too much trouble, irony aside. So Chris and Serenity, as well as the royal dragons trusted them to babysit Edelweiss. Even then, they weren't really babysitting her. Her parents didn't want her to be bored by herself. So they decided that it would be a wonderful opportunity to let her play with her dragon friends while they were away, because they knew the dragon younglings would protect her fiercely while entertaining her; they would kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
However, while the kids were out playing, they didn't see a shadow slip into the castle unnoticed.
The shadow silently landed next to the front door, obscured by the shadow of the building. Looking all around to check if it was noticed, the shadow then sprinted to the front doors, quickly entered, and shut the door quietly.
Once inside, the intruder exhaled the breath it had been holding. The intruder staked out the castle from the cover of the surrounding trees and waited a good while, after the royal dragons left, to make its move.
However, this intruder was no ordinary burglar. The intruder was a Night Fury; A female Night Fury. She was much like Windwalker in size and shape, except for her eyes. In fact, her eyes distinguished her among any other dragon. She had different colored eyes-her left eye was blue while the right eye was green.
She was awed at the sheer size of the entrance hall, taking in the vastness of it. But then she remembered why she came here for and focused on the task at hand. She quickly stayed in the darkness of the shadows and traveled throughout the castle, searching for something.
After about an hour of wandering the castle and admiring the beautiful, and probably valuable, artifacts, she entered a cave. Once she did that, her eyes widened and settled on her prize.
"Hmm. I think they will like this", the Night Fury thought.
The prize in question fit the qualities she was tasked to find: it was small, shiny, and would probably go unnoticed. It was a black crown, shaped like a wreath, with a silver hurricane shape on the forehead piece. It was resting besides a suit of black, shiny armor.
She thought about taking the armor but someone would probably notice it was missing. So, she decided that she would take something of value that was small enough that it could be misplaced. Ergo, the crown was the perfect match.
Carefully, she retracted her teeth and picked up the crown with her jaws. She then snuck her way out of the castle before the sun started to set.
She flew high above the clouds as to avoid being seen by others. She knew she had to go to a nearby island quickly and bury the crown if she wanted her plan to work.
"But would it work?", the Night Fury thought to herself.
Considering all that she has done, the last thing she wanted to do was steal from the king and queen. But considering that she just stole something of value to them, she was desperate.
"Maybe they'll understand. They have to understand", she told herself.
After about 2 hours of flying, when the moon was shining in the sky, she finally found an island. It was densely packed with trees and had a mountain or 2 but either than that, she couldn't describe more of it.
As she flew low over the trees, she spotted something that took her off-guard; it was a beautiful cove that was in the ground, that was enclosed by steep walls. It was wide and had a massive pond in the middle of it, with the surrounding land forming a crescent-type shape around the water, as well as a waterfall the supplied the pond with water. It had some boulders here and there, and the roots of some of the trees near the top of the cove zig-zagged downward toward the bottom of the cove. All in all, it was beautiful, and she decided this would be the perfect place to bury her treasure.
She gazed back and forth until she found the perfect spot. She trotted over to a large boulder and peered behind it. The spot was literally between a rock and a hard place, technically. The boulder was adjacent to the roots of an overhead tree, obscuring the spot from plain sight; It was perfect!
She dug into the ground, clawing at the dirt until a deep enough hole was created. She dropped the crown into the hole and hastily covered it up with the upturned dirt. After looking around once more she took a deep breath, going over her plan in her head.
"Okay, okay. They are going to come in about 3 days. Then, I will somehow lead the king and queen to them, and they will be captured!", she thought optimistically.
Her train of thought was interrupted when her stomach grumbled loudly. She was slightly startled by her hunger.
"Oh. I guess I'll get some fish then", she decided, "Let's see if there are any deer on this island!".
And with her new plan in mind, she flew out of the cove and flew above the tree tops, trying to find game. However, what surprised her was that on this island was a village. She quickly ducked down into the canopy of the trees. Clinging to a tree, she surveyed the village in front of her.
"Hmm, a human village", she noticed. After realizing that its entire populace was asleep, she turned away until she spotted something delectable. Her mouth watered when she saw a big bowl of fish settled on top of a wooden pillar.
"Who needs to waste time trying to find food on land or in the sea when it is laying out for grabs?", she told herself rhetorically.
She made her way to the tray when she saw movement out of the corner of her eye. She was on alert and hid beside a building, the darkness camouflaging her perfectly. Her frame tightened when she saw another dragon extending its wings.
No. She was caught! At least that was what she thought until the dragon settled back down and resumed its heavy breathing.
"What is a sleeping dragon doing in the middle of a human village? Doesn't it know that humans are-", she halted her sentence when she realized that that wasn't the only dragon sleeping nearby.
Her eyes widened to dinner plates when she realized that dragons of all forms were surrounding her, sleeping on, or near the houses.
"What in the world?"
Many things were going through her mind at this point. The dragons weren't flying away from the humans, and the humans weren't killing the dragons.
"What is with this village?!", she said to herself.
However, her discovery didn't stop her stomach from gurgling.
"Uh, most of them are asleep. And I'm a Night Fury", she thought to herself before crouching down. With a silent, but strong flap of her wings, she was airborne and zooming toward the fish tray. As she flew over the tray, she grabbed as many fish as she could with her talons and glided down the rest of the way, to avoid making noise.
She landed softly on top of a hill, failing to awake any of the dozing dragons. And with that, she hungrily devoured the fish.
Toothless woke up to some noise outside.
Well, it's not like he was sleeping well, with everything on his mind.
As Toothless tunes into the sound, it sounded like someone was eating.
"No dragon is up this late", Toothless said.
He got up and left his room. He then walked to a nearby window and poked his head out the window and looked to the thing causing the noise.
His eyes widened when he saw what it was that woke him up. It was a dragon, and even though it was dark out and hard to distinguish what dragon it was, he could've sworn it looked like a...a Night Fury.
"Another Night Fury", Toothless whispered to himself. However, before he could do anything else, it flew away, obviously done with its meal.
"Wait!", he whispered loudly. She didn't hear him as she continued to fly away.
He panicked, "What was he doing here?"
Toothless pulled his head in and quickly rushed to the front door. He tried his best to pull it open but it was quite difficult considering he had no opposable thumbs. After a brief moment, he was able to hook the handle in his jaw and awkwardly opened up the door. After it was open enough, he dashed out and sprinted towards the tree line where he last saw him.
He ran through the woods looking from left to right, searching for the Night Fury. He sniffed the air, but got nothing.
"Where could he be?", Toothless wondered.
He dashed forward again, looking all around him for the Night Fury. Why he was so eager to met him? Toothless didn't know. Maybe it was just because he hadn't seen another Night Fury in such a long time. The only other Night Furies were Tenor and Windwalker, and Tenor was only half of one. It would've been nice to know why a Night Fury had decided to land on his island.
However, as he was running, he didn't notice the Night Fury in question running perpendicular to him. She too was running, trying to find the source of the peculiar noise she heard.
It all happened so fast. One moment they were running then the next thing they knew, they both collided with something heavy. They had both run into each other at top speed and their impact sent each other tumbling in opposite direction.
"Uhh, what in the world-?", she said, dazed and confused.
"Oooohhh", Toothless grumbled, suppressing the pain.
They both wondered what made them crash, and they both froze when they looked up and made eye contact with each other.
They stiffened. They either thought it was a boulder or a tree, but they never expected it was a dragon that collided with him/her, especially a Night Fury.
Toothless' eyes widened when he gazed into the different colored eyes of the female. He had never seen alluring eyes such as those before. His eyes opened further when he realized the dragon was a female Night Fury. To him, she looked graceful and sly.
The female on the other hand was taken aback. She had never seen another male Night Fury before, besides her father and brother. To her, he looked strong and slightly intimidating.
"If he catches me, I'm dead. If I plan this carefully, I can outfly him. But, he looks like a dragon you don't wanna mess with", she thought.
"What was she doing here? And what was she running from?", Toothless pondered.
Neither made a move, suspicious of what the other was going to do. They both didn't know it, but their chance meeting just set into motion a series of events that would change their lives forever.