It has been an entire year since I left home and I am now 10 years old. "What an adventure." I mumbled to myself and looked at a map on a boat that belonged to a trader named Johahn. "Aah. Find anything interesting, young lad?" Johahn spoke to me. For some reason, I felt a deep distrust in him but I didn't say anything about it. Instead I answered his question. "Yes sir, I found this map and it said something about the ac-cri-peli-go." I tried to pronounce the name but since four years with no humans teaching me can be a bit difficult. "That would be arch-i-pela-go my lad." Johahn corrected and then got excited with a story. "OH! That reminds me about the time I first visited the islands, especially of Berk! An island full of friendly vikings who always swarm my ship looking for every interesting thing I come across. Like little Hiccup's ink, where it came from a giant squid that infested the waters of dellapore-" "Berk? Hiccup? What are you talking about?" I interrupted his story.

This guy sure was a chatter and good at faking. "Oh. Berk is a small island of the hooligan tribe, a tribe of- ``''Hooligans." I giggled. Johahn just had a blank face and quickly changed back to normal, well faking. "More or less, and the answer to your second question is that Hiccup is the name of a young boy about ...your size and strength and is the heir and son of the Chief of the hooligans, Stoick the Vast!" he stated knowingly. 'Asked him about the dragon raids on the island.' Wolf asked in my mind. "What about dragon raids on Berk?" I asked curiously. Johahn's posture changed to sadness. "Oh the dragons raid the island almost every night and it got worse when a night fury showed up." He said sadly. He's faking it and it's good...wait did he say nightfury!? 'We should be wary then. Night furies don't join in raids unless controlled by a queen or king. And if they sense you they might try to take you with the controlled dragons or mentally attack your mind.' 'Noted.' I told Wolf. "Well I think that would be my next stop there and hopefully find a home.' I whispered the last part.

"Alright young lad. Oh wait! Take this blade as a gift. It was made out the strongest steel from a place called Japan. You might need it if your going to Berk." He then gave me a beautiful carved sword with dragon inscriptions on the blade. I sheathed the blade and thanked him and went into the forest. When no one was nearby I shifted into my night fury form and flew towards Berk.

After hours of flying I finally reached the island at dark where it was already being raided by dragons. "Jeez. Didn't expect it to be this tense." I spoke to no one in particular. "Night Fury!" I heard a voice to my left and turned seeing an orange Deadly Nadder. "Hello" I spoke kindly. "Why aren't you raiding? You need to blow up wood creatures!" The nadder spoke commandingly. I frowned. I don't like people telling me what to do and asked why. "Because we need to feed the queen! Thats why! Now do your job!"

I was about to retort when the familiar sound of a night fury diving caught our attention and saw an explosion of purple flashed in front of a building. I turned my attention back to the nadder and the nadder gasped. "Two Night furies!? I thought there was just one! Forgive me, you just look like the other one and if it wasn't for your scar you would be like twins!" That stopped me centered. Twins! It can't be ...Zyrus. No! It's been a year it can't! I shook my head of my thoughts and retorted, "What are we endangered? Of course there's more than one night fury." The nadder then froze and his eyes become slitted and started speaking like he was in a trance. "Yes that's true. After the raid we take you to the queen where she can give you a role and place for a new home." I didn't like the nadders change in mood and started growling cautiously. 'Child why don't you listen to him.' I heard a female voice in my head.

I was confused and for some reason I wanted to listen to that sweet voice but Wolf roared fearfully 'DON'T LISTEN TO THE VOICE!' Soon the voice was heard again when I resisted. 'You are not one of my subjects. Hmm. This is interesting, You're a shifter. A legendary dragon. Listen to my voice young one.' I then felt a buzzing in my head and my sight became blurry but it stopped when Wolf blocked my brain from the voice. But this caused us to become separated from each other mentally for a short time but I dealt with it.

The nadder charged me but I turned into a black mist making the nadder go through me and I struck the nadder with my strong tail knocking him into the village where he was killed by a red bearded viking. 'That must be the chief.' I thought to myself. I heard a sound to my right and met a bulky tail to the face. It knocked me to the ground out of vikings sight but the gronckle threw a lava blast at me but I just shield myself with my wings.

When I unfold them I saw the gronckle charge at me but I just smirked and back flip kicking the assailant away and into a bunch of spears sticking out. The gronckle died instantly when I found a spear struck his heart. I shifted into my human form and pulled out my sword when I saw a red Zippleback charging at a blond girl maybe two or three years older holding an axe ready to unleash it but when he caught sight of me he turned to my direction confusing the girl and saw me.

I glanced at the girl and back to the dragon where it charged and tried to tear me apart but I stepped to the right with great speed hearing a gasp from the girl and a grunt from the dragon. The dragon swung his tails at my chest but I did a 360 degree corkscrew over the tail and cut both of them in the process. I glanced at the girl again and saw her jaw dropped and her bright blue eyes widened in shock. I grinned and waved only for one of the dragon's heads to smash me into a wall. Before I blacked out I saw the evil grin of the dragon but I heard a scream and the young girls axe met the dragon's back.

Everything was blurry when I woke up but I could tell it was morning and I felt dizzy. 'Wolf you there?' I asked my dragonic half. 'Yeah but I can't see squat. Let me take control for a second.' I felt Wolf's energy in my mind grew stronger and I allowed him to control my body. 'It still feels weird controlling your body.' Wolf spoke. 'That's because you hate my legs.' I stated. 'Dragons don't walk on two legs. It is unnatural especially with no tails to balance yourself. Also, you have no protection.' Wolf retorted. I mentally rolled my eyes. 'I know you hate human skin and rather have scales but we don't know where we are right now and I don't want the vikings thinking of us as monsters.'

Wolf didn't say anything for awhile and said yeah uncomfortably and I realized what he said and felt disgusted. 'No protection? You're disgusting, you know that?' 'At least us dragons hide our gender. And besides we share the same body and had this conversation already.' Wolf blankly told me. 'Just give my body back, the blurs gone.' Wolf mumbled something about me being possessive and went back into my mind. Eel-eater. 'I heard that.'

After ten minutes of searching the building, I believe it's a healer's hut, the door open revealing an old lady and the red bearded man I saw last night. "You must be the mysterious stranger I heard about. I am Stoick the Vast, Chief of this island. And what is your name lad?" Stoick asked suspiciously. "My name is Matt. I'm afraid I have forgotten my last name years ago." I told truthfully. I couldn't remember my last name since I was never considered family by my blood related father.

Stoick looked like he didn't believe me but he went to the next question and acted a bit surprised. "According to Astrid she saw you go against a zippleback and she told me that you showed great agility and speed against it. I got to say that I wouldn't believe it until I saw it myself when you did that impressive move to avoid that dragon's tail but to also cut it off cleanly earns some respect in battle. If only my son, Hiccup was like you." He then had a thoughtful expression but he shrugged it off but I knew what he was thinking. "Where did you come from? Where are your parents?" Stoick asked.

I became nervous but I sighed and told mostly the truth. "I came from an island outside of the archipelago. The tribe I came from was called the blooders." I noticed that Stoick flinched to the tribe's name but I ignored it and continued. "My mother died giving birth to me while my father is somewhere on the island being the chief he is." I spoke glumly. "You're his son?" Stoick asked in shock. I snorted. "Son? No I was nothing to him but I don't want to talk about it."

Stoick was about to ask another question but the old lady raised her hand to get the chiefs attention and wrote in the ground and pointed at me at the end. Stoick arched his brow but he nodded. He then motioned me outside and being the curious shifter, I followed. When I got outside I saw a beautiful village on land. Stoick smiled proudly and looked towards me and asked me one last question. "Are you a threat to us?" he asked seriously. I couldn't blame him and replied, "I am only a threat to my enemies but to my friends and allies I will protect them by my dying breath because it's my nature." Stoick smiled at my determination to protect people and proudly stated. "Then welcome to Berk, Matt!"

After my conversation with Stoick and my injuries check by Gothi, the village healer, I explored the village and met a few friendly vikings. While I was looking at a cart full of apples I saw a group of teens walking towards my direction but I paid them no mind until I heard a stutter behind me. "Um e-excused me." I turned around and saw the teens.

The one that spoke was chubby and I could tell was a bit timid and shy. "Hello, my name is Matt. What's yours?" I asked raising my hand for a handshake. The boy stuttered his name and shook my hand. He's quite large. "M-my name is Fishlegs Ingerman." 'Fish don't have legs though and he doesn't look like a fish.' I heard Wolf confused. I chuckled and told him that's a good name. Two blond guys ...wait one of them scent is a girl, approached and introduced themselves. "Hi I'm Tuffnut." The male said. "And I'm Ruffnut." The female joined in. Then they both said, "Together we are the Thornstan twins." and knocked their heads together. 'More like nutcases.' Wolf snickered. I introduced myself to them and then a boy that looks like my brother of my first life approached with a smirk and looked me up and down and then frowned. "He doesn't look much! Look at him I bet he's a weakling like Hiccup the Useless."

I growled and felt my eyes become slits but I focused on them not trying to be but it hurts when you hold them forcefully instead naturally. The kid smirked when he heard me growl and got into my face. "Oh what's wrong. Did I make you mad? Do you need your mama? I bet she doesn't even care about you because of your weak muscles. That why you're alone?" The bully mocked. I froze and the bully thought he struck me hard but instead I glared. Not just any glare. But a shifter glare. A type of ability that grants the shifter cold unfeeling power onto the target making them intimidated and aware of the shifter.

The bully didn't seem like he was affected but I saw the sweat pouring down his face. He started becoming uncomfortable. "Wooh, is it hot out here or what?" he asked no one in particular. I continued to glare and then grabbed his throat lifting him up in the air like he was a feather and spoke coldly. "'Doesn't care about me' eh? I think you got that wrong because my 'mama' loved me very much and the reason I'm alone is because I like being alone, have been for the last year." I referred to my dragonic mother and then grinned seeing the bully starting to choke. "You ok? Your breathing a bit too hard?" I chuckled darkly at the end. The bully was freaked out by my chuckle and I let him go making him fall on his butt and crawled as far away from me.

The blonde girl, that I saved from the zippleback, stepped up in front of me and my glare instantly shifted to a friendly demeanor. She blinked knowing the coldness was gone for some reason but she introduced herself. "I'm Astrid Hofferson. And the bully you scared was Snotlout Jorgenson. How did you do that anyway? It felt like a harsh winter swept up out of nowhere and you lifted Snotlout like he was a ragdoll." She asked. "My glare can have that effect on people. I'm kinda surprised you stepped up to be honest. I don't recall anyone ignoring my glare that easily. As for you second question? It's a gift." I said, ignoring the curious glances from the other teens. "Maybe because I wasn't your target." she shrugged.

I nodded agreeing with her on that observation. I then realized something. None of them is named Hiccup. "Shouldn't there be another one. Hiccup I think. I heard the Chief about his son and Snotlout mentioning him." I asked curiously. The teens groaned at the mention of the name. 'Aren't they cheery.' I heard the excited sarcastic comment. What did this kid do to them. "I would ignore him if I were you. He's always messing up." Astrid blankly stated. This reminds me of the conversations of my first life. Poor Hiccup. He's like me. "So what does it matter? Can you show me where he is?" I said acting a bit aggressive. "Fine but you'll regret meeting him."

After awhile I was at the blacksmith shop and entered to find weapons and other dragon killing items. Wolf whimpered in my mind of seeing all the weapons. 'Why do these viking have to make so many weapons to kill our kind?' 'I agree with you there but they need to protect themselves somehow.' I told Wolf mentally. 'You sure are neutral about this war of humans and dragons.' Wolf stated matter-of-factly. I frowned and replied, 'I'm just saying that if the humans don't protect themselves they'll go extinct wouldn't you defend yourself if your life was on the line.' 'I see your reasoning but still I wish there would be no more killing against us and humans.' "Hey there lad!" I heard a cheerful voice behind me.

I turned around and stepped back seeing a yellow mustached man who is missing an arm and a leg. "Aah. You must be Matt. Names Gobber, I'm the blacksmith around here." He said with his left arm up for a handshake but I didn't shake it since it was a hook. Gobber looked confused until he saw the problem and switched his hands so I could shake it. When I shook it firmly he was surprised by my strength. "You have a strong grip there, Matt. So what can ol' Gobber do for yer?" He asked. "Thank you for the compliment. I'm actually looking to meet someone named Hiccup. Do you know him?" I asked Gobber. Gobber laughed and explained why. "Know him? He's my apprentice for Thor's sake. He's in the back. I bet you'll two will get along just fine."

I thanked him and headed to the back where my head almost met an arrow. My instincts kicked in and quickly caught the arrow and looked at the attacker but instead of hostility it was fear. "OH MY GODS! I'M SO SORRY!" A boy yelled

I looked at him and I could tell why he was called Hiccup. He had brown hair and green forest eyes and he was scrawny, didn't have much muscle but like my sire said, 'It is not the muscle that makes you great. It's what you do that makes you great.' I put the arrow down and shrugged it off, surprising the boy. He was about to speak but I interrupted him. "Don't worry about it. Everything is cool. My name is Matt." "uh ...I'm Hiccup. And again I'm sorry about that. The mechanism that pulls the strings of the launcher snapped which made the arrow flew ...towards your face." He said the last part uncomfortably. "Thanks for summing that up." I sarcastically said.

Hiccup instantly laughed and I joined in just because. "Haha. I always say that." Hiccup said when he calmed down. "Really!? That's convenient." I said. Then Hiccup's face saddened and I became concerned for him. I asked him if he's alright and he shook his head. "No it's not that its just I haven't felt like this for a long time with…" He stopped for a moment and turned to my direction. "with a friend." he finished. He was exactly like me and he has no friends to count on to be there for him. 'Then become his first friend.' Wolf spoke smiling in my mind. I smiled as well and said, "You shouldn't be sad because you already have a friend." Hiccup looked confused. "Who?" He asked. I rolled my eyes and pointed at myself. "Me duh." Hiccup looked surprised. "B-but you shouldn't be my friend. I'm Hiccup the Use-" "Finished that word and I will throw you off the highest mountain." I threatened interrupting him.

Hiccup glared at me but when my eyes shifted a bit he became spooked and shook his head and looked again only to find them back to normal. 'Jeez you almost blew it.' Wolf told me. 'I can't help it when people tick me off.' I mentally thought to Wolf. He just scoffed. Hiccup looked into my eyes again and looked away when nothing else happened and spoke. "Look, Matt. No one likes me because I make everything worse and if you are my friend you will be an outsider like me." I didn't listen and instead argued with him calmly. "Hiccup you have no idea what I have been through to get here to this island. I know what it is to be an outsider already Hiccup and I don't want you to be alone like I did." I whispered the last part. Hiccup asked what I meant. "What is your father like? Personally." I replied with a question.

He seemed confused by my question but he answered slowly. "Well...uh, dad and I have more of a one-sided conversation and uh, everytime I do something wrong he sees me as a disappointment." I started to tear up and Hiccup noticed instantly. "Do you know what it feels like to not just be shunned but also beaten up by your own father? Telling you that you will always be the Wretch of the family? Do you truly know what it's like to never be loved by your own flesh and blood. To be considered… a freak?"I told him my awful story.

Wolf started to be concerned for my well being and wanted to comfort me physically but to do that he has appear to others but with a human nearby he can't do anything. Hiccup started to be concerned as well and asked softly, "You're joking, right? I-I mean I sure that never happened to yo-" Hiccup stopped talking when I nodded telling him that's how I have been all my life. 'Untrue, you had your night fury family.' Wolf tried to comfort. 'But I left mom and my brother, who blames me for sire's death.' I coldly my thoughts to Wolf was interrupted when I felt Hiccup pulling me into a hug. I felt myself starting to cry and found myself hugging him back.

After a long moment of crying and hugging Hiccup, we let go and found ourselves outside with Hiccup being my guide. He showed me everything from the great hall to the dragon arena to the center of the village until we were stopped by Snotlout and his gang. I narrowed my eyes at him and the others and looked around, we were alone. "So, you think having a friend will protect you, Useless?" Snotlout smirked.

Hiccup was shaking terribly but I put my hand on his shoulder and put him behind me making me the main target now. Snotlout's smirked dropped but only for a second. "Shouldn't have done that. Now you'll pay for what you did to me." Snotlout sneered cracking his knuckles. 'Let this human try!' Wolf roared in excitement. Snotlout went for a punch but I was faster countering the fist towards the side and went for a jab to his nose. "Ow! Ow ow ow! Uh I think I'm going to black out!" And black out he did.

Everyone in the area was shocked at how quickly the fight ended. 'That's it?' Wolf spoke disappointed then roared. 'Just one punch. ONE PUNCH AND HE BLACKS OUT!" Like Wolf, I was disappointed and frowned until Tuffnut punched me in the cheek. Everything froze and I slowly looked at Tuffnut who was sweating bullets. "Uh, Wrong move?" He said nervously.

I smiled surprising him and said 'nice punch' then grabbed him and his sister and slammed their heads together, knocking both of them out. 'I got to say that Tuffnut had guts punching you.' Wolf praised the human. I nodded mentally and turned to Fishlegs, who was as pale as a ghost, and Astrid looking shocked by my strength and speed of taking down Snotlout and the Twins in just a few seconds. Fishlegs seemed like a nice guy but Astrid I don't know. "Leave." I growled coldly. Fishlegs screamed and ran like a monstrous nightmare was after him and Astrid slowly retreated but looked back before leaving.

"Wow." I heard Hiccup behind me. I smirked and went to the great hall but not without Hiccup following me. Oh yeah I could get used to this.