After an hour of running to the village we finally found ourselves inside Hiccup's house but Stoick was apparently waiting for us. I motioned Hiccup up the stairs with me and we tried to sneak up but with Hiccup's 'amazing' luck the stairs creaked. "Son." Hiccup became nervous. "Uh dad! I uh have to tell you something." He said while coming down with me alongside him. "I also have something to tell you and Matt." Stoick said. I sat down on a piece of wood and listened. 'They'll talk at the same time and go 'what?' Wolf said and laughed when they did.

"You first." Hiccup said. Stoick sighed. "Ok, you got your wish. Dragon training tomorrow." My eyes widen. Uh oh. Hiccup instantly regretted his decision. "Oh man I should have gone first. You know there are too many dragon slaying vikings, I think we need more bread-making vikings-" "Bread making vikings? Really?" I interrupted with a blank look. Hiccup looked at me annoyed and I raised my hands in defense. "You need this." Stoick said giving Hiccup an axe. "I don't want to fight dragons, dad." Hiccup said nervously. Stoick chuckled of course. "Of course you want to fight dragons."

I frowned. Hiccup doesn't want to. "Ok rephrase that. I can't kill dragons." Hiccup said louder. "But you will kill dragons." Stoick said with a frown. "No I'm pretty sure that I can't kill dragons." Hiccup tried to convince his father. "Hiccup." "Are you even listening?" Hiccup said before being interrupted by Stoick. "This is serious, son! When you lift this weapon with you. You walk like us." 'Oh sure walk like a buffoon.' I smirked. "You speak like us." 'Great! Hiccup will talk like them! Nightshift, get the soap.' I laughed mentally at that. "You think like us." 'What's thinking all you have are rocks for brains.' I frowned at that. 'What? It's true." "No more...this" Stoick said gesturing to Hiccup. My eyes slitted but only for a moment. "You just gestured to all of him." I said annoyed. "Deal?" Stoick said ignoring me. "This conversation sounds one-sided." 'just like the other conversations, Hiccup.' "Deal!?" Stoick said firmly. Hiccup sighed. "Deal." Stoick nodded. "Good, and Matt? Keep an eye on Hiccup. I don't want another mess up." I snarled lowly but not enough for him to hear and nodded. 'HE HAS SOME NERVE!' Wolf roared.

Once Stoick left for the expedition to the nest, which he won't find anytime soon, I turned to Hiccup and snarled. "You need to teach him that he's underestimating us." Hiccup responded by raising his hands to the air and yelled. "YOU THINK HE'S GOING TO LISTEN!?" 'He has a point.' Wolf spoke. I sighed. "Lets just go to bed. We need the sleep. And NO excuses on projects, last time you did that I could barely fly-I mean walk straight!" I almost revealed my secret. Hiccup raised his eyebrow and stepped forward and I felt cornered like a wild animal well I am a dragon. "Ever since we found that night fury you have been acting strangely. Matt what's going on?" Hiccup asked concerned. I want to tell him but I can't, not now. But maybe if I reveal some of my past his curiosity will be sated. Hopefully.

"I knew that night fury long ago." I said revealing some of my past. "Wait What!? You knew that night fury!?" Hiccup said in shock. I waved my hand in stop motion. "I'll tell you later but for now you need to trust me, Ok." "Ok, but still you knew and I feel like there's more of your story than let on." Hiccup said suspiciously. I snarled and Hiccup flinched at my words. "Let. It. Go." Hiccup nodded his head but I could see the hurt in his eyes and my dragonic personality isn't helping in the matter, weird it's never …that aggressive before. "I'm sorry Hiccup, it's just been a long day. Hopefully we'll survive dragon training. I bet Gobber will probably say…"

"Welcome to Dragon Training!" Gobber gleefully introduced us this morning. "No turning back." I heard Astrid whispered thanks to my dragon hearing. "I hope I get some serious burns. I want to feel the pain." Tuffnut spoke out loud. I laughed at his last sentence while Hiccup sarcastically said, "Yeah pain. Love it." Everyone turned to our direction with disgust and disappointment but they wouldn't dare say anything while I was with Hiccup. "Tuff if you got serious burns there is a chance that you'll be crippled and the public won't be attracted to you anymore." I said chuckling.

Tuffnuts eyes widen from what I just said. "By Loki your right Matt! I need to have my handsome image. Thanks for keeping my mind straight." "Which Mind? The unstable or the stupid?" I smirked while Tuffnut glared. "You sir are playing a dangerous game! Also was that a trick question?" I was about to answer "stupid then" but Gobber interrupted our conversation. "Let's get started. Whoever does well in training will have the honor of killing their first dragon in front of the entire village." Gobber explained and Snotlout, as always, teases Hiccup and me. "Hiccup already killed a night fury and demon boy killed more dragons than anyone so does that make them disqualified or…" The Twins laughed until Snotlout called me demon boy and Astrid and Fishlegs flinched and froze

"What did you just call me?" I coldly snarled with Hiccup and Gobber trying to calm me down and having a hard time holding me. Snotlout laughed uncomfortably and tried to avoid my gaze but when he glanced at my eyes he became afraid. Astrid understood the situation and punched Snotlout in the stomach instantly making me calm again.

Ever since I became a Berkian Astrid wanted to know more about me and she figured out what helps calm me down or what makes me angry and once upon a time we were friends but we drifted apart because of the coldness she gives to Hiccup. I nodded my thanks and we joined the rest of the teens but not while Gobber was talking to us. "Don't worry Hiccup. You're small and weak. They'll think of you as sick or insane and go for more viking like teens. As for you Matt, you are capable of dealing with them but with all the increased raiding and dragons chasing you, well I hope you had a light breakfast." "You better hope you have a light breakfast Gobber because your increasing your chances of losing another limb if you keep calling Hiccup weak." I growled.

Hiccup glanced at me in concern and I don't blame him because ever since my reunion with Zyrus my dragonic side became erratic, especially since the queen constantly invades my mind with the combination of staying in my human form and the urge to transform and fly became harder and harder to resist her and Wolf doesn't help since he's resisting it as well but once he breaks I'll break and I'm afraid of what happens if anyone besides a dragon is near. Gobber hobbled forward with a smile apparently not hearing my threat.

"Behind these doors are just a few of the many species you will learn to fight! The Deadly Nadder!" "Speed: eight; Armor: twelve." I heard Fishlegs says and decided to join in. "The Hideous Zippleback!" "Plus eleven times two." I stated. Fishlegs turns to me and grins since we love to compare dragon facts. 'For a human, legs that are fish aren't bad in knowing dragon's stats. I say intelligence: forty-two.' Wolf stated proudly towards Fishlegs intelligence. "The Monstrous Nightmare!" "Firepower: fifthteen." "Eyesight: nine." Fishlegs and I said. "The Terrible Terror!" "Attack: eight; Venom: twelve!" "Intelligence: six!" "CAN YOU TWO STOP THAT!?" Gobber yelled and placed his hand on a lever and continued calmly. "And ...the Gronckle." Fishlegs leaned towards me and whispered, "Jaw strength: eight." "Twelve if hungry." I whispered back with a smirk. "Woah woah wait! Aren't you going to teach us first!?" Snotlout said panicky. I snorted and replied, "You forget that Gobber believes in learning on the job." "I believe in learning on the job." Gobber said and activated the lever, freeing the gronckle from its prison.

Everyone split up to avoid the dragon and I almost got smashed to the wall but I slid under the dragon who slammed into the wall destorianting it for a second. "Todays about survival. If you get blasted, you're dead!" 'Thanks for the reminder.' I thought to myself. "Quick! What's the first thing you need?" Gobber instructed. "A doctor!?" Hiccup yelled and I rolled my eyes of his answers. "Plus five speed!?" Fishlegs blurted out and I got irritated. "A shield!" I yelled alongside with Astrid. We both glanced at each other and split up towards the shields when Gobber told us to get them. "Your most important piece of equipment is your shield! If you must make a choice between a sword or a shield, take the shield!" Gobber instructed while helping Hiccup with his shield.

I rolled to the left, grabbing my shield in the process, when I found a fireball came towards me and almost took my body if it wasn't for my agility and instincts. "SCALES! That was too close!" I yelled and turned and saw that the Tuffnut and Ruffnut were fighting over a shield. 'I heard of being distracted during a battle, but this is just ridiculous.' Wolf chuffed mentally. 'What do you expect? They are the Twins.' I thought to Wolf. I heard a snort meaning true and then the twins shield exploded into splinters and knocked the twins into a daze getting them out. "Tuffnut, Ruffnut, you're out!" Expected. "Those shields are good for another thing: noise!"

I widened my eyes and cursed. I hate noise especially with my dragon hearing. "Make lots of it to throw off a dragon's aim!" I heard Gobber say before the teens started hitting their weapons against their shields and causing me and the gronckle to shake our heads violently. Everything became blurry and I couldn't focus and almost fell to the ground if Hiccup hadn't caught me. I could barely focus but I could tell there was worry and confusion on his face before the gronckle blasted Fishlegs shield to pieces knocking us out of our stupor.

The noise thankfully stopped and I got up surprising Hiccup and laughed when I saw Snotlout got out as well. It was just me, Hiccup and Astrid left. Hiccup turned towards towards Astrid and smiled a bit. "So, I guess it's just you and me, huh?" He said to Astrid. Oh lovely. "Nope, just you." She said and ran away leaving me and Hiccup alone with the gronckle who fired a lava blast between us knocking Hiccup's shield away from him and blinding me for a minute. "Last shot left! Hiccup!" I heard Gobber yell. I turned towards the gronckle who was charging towards Hiccup and pinned him to the wall and was about to fire.

I became enraged and only one thing was clear: protect Hiccup. "NO!" I roared and with unnatural speed I crashed into the dragon making it miss Hiccup by a head. The gronckle was desoriated but I didn't give it any chance to adjust. I smashed my fists into the gronckles side dodging a bite in the process and unsheathed my claws slicing into the gronckles hard skin making it roar in pain. I smelt the gronckle's fear and tried to escape and beg for mercy but I grabbed the gronckles tail and pulled knocking the dragon to the ground and I got close to the dragon's face.

My eyes were slitted and I snarled in dragon with only the gronckle hearing. "If you dare try to kill Hiccup again, I will slit your throat and feed on your entrails. Am I clear!?" The gronckle eyes widened and replied fearfully in a femine voice, "Y-Your a s-shifter? O-Of course, just p-please don't kill me! D-Death by a shifter is worse than any d-death caused by h-humans!" I snarled one last time and finally let the gronckle go who quickly went back to her cage, and turned being greeted by shocked expressions from everyone. I ignored them and went towards Hiccup who had a dumb struck expression on his face, so I did what I always do to snap him out of it. I slap him.

*Smack* "OW! Was that really necessary!?" He yelled which I replied blankly, "Yes." Gobber finally got out his stupor and said, "Well that was intense as always Matt. Anyway a dragon will always ...always go for the kill." The last part was directed towards Hiccup who had a thoughtful expression on his face. I smirked knowing he wants answers.

"Why didn't you?" Hiccup asked to no one. We were back in the forest studying the ropes that Hiccup cut to free my brother. I answered his question. "You freed him. You gave him mercy and he the same to you. Not all dragons want to kill, they just want to be left alone." Hiccup nodded but he asked something that made me tense. "What was that about in the arena? I have never seen you like that before and ...actually I don't know what I saw but I swear that you had claws." He said shaking his head but he became suspicious when I avoided eye contact with him. "Matt? Do you have something to say?" He asked narrowing his eyes. I was sweating bullets but I calmly told a white-lie. "You remembered that I wore gloves during raids and at the arena?" Hiccup became confused but he nodded. "Well like you, I invented something to help me in battle. Within the gloves are retractable claw-shaped blades and it took a long time to build and find the materials for it." I lied smiling at the end.

Hiccup's eyes widen and exclaimed, "That's incredible, Matt! Hidden weapons that's just a finger away! This will definitely change the turn in battle!" Then he frowned. "But you still haven't answer on what happened to you at the arena?" I frowned but I answered after a minute. "You were in danger. You're basically my brother and I care a lot about you. I can't stand around while your getting killed." "What about your unnatural speed?" Hiccup asked. "Are you seriously asking about my speed when I'm the fastest and strongest viking despite my physical appearance?" I stated gesturing to my muscles. "Ha ha. Yeah your right. But thanks Matt for saving me ...but I'm worried for you." Hiccup said to me. I raised my eyebrow in question if it was about the dragon I beat and decided to head towards the cove.

I heard Hiccup stuttered in disbelief and then I felt a hand on my shoulder and on instinct I instantly grabbed the perpetrator arm and threw him to the ground and put my blade to his throat. 'Kill him.' I heard the queen's voice and wanted to obey that sweet voice and just do her bidding. "MATT WAIT!" I heard throughout the ordeal and looked towards the voice and I felt myself froze when I found my blade at Hiccup's throat. I reeled back and spoke fearfully, "OH GODS! HICCUP I'M SO SORRY!" Hiccup nodded and slowly got up aware of my fear state. "This is why I'm worried about you Matt. This has been going on ever since you first came to Berk three years ago. Please. Tell me what's going on." Hiccup pleaded but I refused to look into his eyes. "I'm sorry Hiccup but it's too personal and the only way for me to tell you is to gain the night fury's trust. That's all I can say." I hate telling Hiccup that but that's all I can say.

Hiccup finally gave up interrogating me when he realized it was pointless. After a few minutes, we arrived at the cove but Zyrus wasn't there. Hiccup picked up a scale and observed it until a black blur flew in front of us and scaring us back. It was Zyrus and he was trying to fly. I was trying so hard not to cry but the guilt was immense. "You ok, Matt?" Hiccup said worriedly. I shook my head with tears in my eyes. "He can't fly. He loves flying and you took that from him." I cried but stopped when I saw Hiccup drawing my brother in his notebook. I was angry and slapped the back of his head getting an ow. "Are you seriously drawing him right now? You do realize that you took his-wow that's actually a good drawing." I said completely forgetting my anger and observing the great details of Hiccup's drawing. 'He truly is a master at making us handsome.' Wolf crooned also observing the drawing. Hiccup glared at me for the unnecessary hit but soon saddened by what my earlier words were. Hiccup turned back to my brother and noticed that he was having trouble getting fish from the cove. "Looks like he's having trouble getting himself food." I heard Hiccup and looked up from his drawing and sighed. "Yeah, he was terrible at being patient. When he hunts he does it by flying and fast movements while his brother is patient and clever using the environment on the ground." I said secretly referring to myself.

Hiccup gave me a surprised glanced and said, "He has a brother?" I nodded and motioned my head to the night fury. "Oh yeah, he's that dragon's little brother. Hehe, better at fishing and flying too." Hiccup was about to reply something but then his charcoal pencil went tumbling down the rock and hitting the ground, gaining my brother's attention. "Nightshift? Is that you?" I heard Zyrus moaned before setting his sites on Hiccup, who was frozen solid. After a little while, Hiccup tilted his head and Zyrus did the same. "Have I mentioned they like to mimic like the changewing. Night furies are intelligent creatures after all." I said before I saw Hiccup left and once he was far enough away, I winked at Zyrus and he winked back but not understanding my intent. I got up and waved goodbye and ran to Hiccup with one goal. Convince him to help my brother to fly.