'I was sleeping for a few hours but I felt a lot better but not enough for me to forget the incident.' I opened my eyes for a few moments before yawning and started stretching my limbs and wings. I popped my neck and stopped when I heard something. *Snap* A snap of a twig in the forest not too far away was heard and I knew what caused it or more specifically… who caused it.
"Hiccup." I whispered then I saw a fish fly out of the crack in front of me. Toothless heard the sound of the viking and took me behind a rock to hide. We watched Hiccup come out of the cracked entrance but he got his shield stuck and tried to pull it out but after a few seconds with no success, left it. 'You got to admit he's brave for leaving his only protection.' Wolf mentally replied observing Hiccup until I saw him holding two fish in his hands. "Ooh he brung snacks." I said to Zyrus who narrowed his eyes at Hiccup, who has his back turned to us.
Zyrus motioned me with him and we got on the rock doing a small growl causing Hiccup to freeze on the spot and slowly turning around until we were eye to eye. Hiccup looked cautiously at my brother before putting his sights on me and stepping back a little surprised that there was another night fury. Zyrus and I pounced on the ground and slowly approached Hiccup before stopping a few feet away. Hiccup was nervous and slowly lifted his arms up which was holding the fish and presented them to us. "Is the human giving us an offering?" Zyrus growled confused tilting his head at me for an answer. "I believe so, you should know after all, you're the older brother here." I crooned before approaching carefully opening my mouth a bit until I smelt metal.
My eyes went to slits and a threatening growl escaped from my throat causing Hiccup to dropped one of the fish and reach for his side, where a knife was. "Don't you dare." I growled in norse, disguising my voice so Hiccup won't recognize it. Hiccup froze and muttered, "Did you just talk?" Zyrus growled at Hiccup and was ready to pounce if he was going to try anything. I didn't say anything else but a few words. "Drop it." Still shocked, he took it out his blade carefully and dropped it. "Now get rid of it." I said flicking my head to the water and Hiccup lifted the blade with his foot and tossed it into the water.
Once the main threat was gone, me and Zyrus perked up and sat like waiting puppies with our eyes huge and expectant impressions. 'I bet he thinks you're both cute.' Wolf chuckled causing me to frown. Hiccup nervously lifted the fishes up again and we approached carefully, still suspicious of what he's going to do, well for Zyrus anyway. Me? I just do it for fun and to see his reaction. We opened our mouths, revealing our gums with our teeth sheathed to surprised Hiccup. Hiccup was indeed surprised. "Toothless?" He said confused observing my brother while I snickered silently. Ha! You wish. "I swear you had-" That was when Zyrus and my teeth came out and launched ourselves at fish, chunking it down our throats. "Teeth." Hiccup whispered in shock. Once we were done with our snack, we stalked towards Hiccup causing him to back away until he was cornered on a rock. "This human looks skinny. Is he always skinny? Because he looks like an eel on legs. Am I talking too much?" Toothless rapidly asked observing Hiccup with curiosity. I glanced at Hiccup before blankly staring at Toothless. "Don't you dare." I said but after a few moments I slowly smiled and widened my eyes. "Unless you're giving him a big one." Toothless responded with a smile of his own and started regurgitating his meal for Hiccup.
Hiccup groaned in disgust once the regurgitated fish landed on his lap and me and my brother were waiting patiently for him to eat it. Hiccup looked at us in shock while we motioned to the fish. We did it a couple of times until I got tired of it and snarled. "Eat it." Hiccup sighed in defeat and grabbed the fish with his hands and lifted it up to his face. After a few more moments of hesitation, Hiccup finally took a bite and I laughed at the gross impressions. Hiccup tried to give us back the fish with a mouth full of fish, refusing to swallow, but I shook my head and swallowed, telling him to actually swallow the food in his mouth. 'Stop saying swallow.' 'Shut it Wolf! This is my story and I can do what I please!' Hiccup slumped in disbelief and forced himself to swallow getting a shudder from him. I nodded in approval while Hiccup gives us a forced smile trying to tell us he likes it. I knew better though but I humored him by giving him a gumless smile of my own surprising Hiccup. Toothless probably thought smiling looked cool so he gave it a try but it was a bit difficult for him.
I laughed at my brother's almost perfect dragon smile but I then see Hiccup was about to touch us. Our teeth snapped out and we growled a warning before we flew over to the other side of the cove. We ignited our fire on a small patch of dirt to warm it up and slept on it but then I felt a strange but somehow familiar soul-fire. I looked up and found Hiccup sitting right by us a few feet away with him waving at me. I stared for a while trying to process what I felt but when I focused on Hiccup it wasn't there anymore. 'Strange' I thought before putting my tail in front of my face to sleep until I felt Hiccup get closer. "Don't" I said loudly but when I felt Hiccup was about to touch my tail, I lifted it up and gave him a shifter glare. "WHAT DID I SAY!?" I yelled, causing Hiccup to quickly get up and walk away. I sighed in annoyance at my attitude towards Hiccup. 'Why can't I do it, Wolf?' I mentally asked my dragonic guide. Wolf thought for a few moments until he replied, 'I don't know. Perhaps you are afraid of what will probably happen?' I nodded my head sadly, knowing that he was right. I was afraid and I did not want to lose Hiccup's trust and friendship. He was the one who truly accepted me on Berk despite not knowing what I am. I closed my eyes to think until I heard the sound of my brother climbing a tree and sleeping upside down.
I rolled my eyes in amusement before catching sight of Hiccup drawing something in the dirt. I walked up right beside him and looked where he was drawing. I growled in approval of the picture. Hiccup was drawing me and Zyrus with perfect detail and I wanted to do the same. Apparently Zyrus had the same idea when I heard him rip a tree from the ground and started drawing. I stared at him drawing the ground before shrugging and flew to the forest, coming back with another tree to draw with. When you can't draw like a human, draw like a dragon! Once I landed by Toothless I started making lines of what our old home would look like but it was a bit difficult with remembering the last years. We were moving and drawing like crazy wanting to finish our masterpiece until we finally finished and observed our work. There were swirly lines everywhere but if you look closely from above it was a picture of our old home where me and Zyrus onced lived.
Hiccup was amazed by our drawing because;1. He's a human and we showed him were quite intelligent. 2. We were compassionate about our work. And 3. We only used sticks. We purred in enjoyment of Hiccup liking our drawing until he stepped on it. We growled in warning causing Hiccup to stop and slowly lifted his foot up to make us stop growling. We stopped growling and purred but Wolf started to speak mentally to me and Zyrus. 'He's going to do it again.' And Hiccup did and we growled in desperation of protecting our artwork. HIccup lifted his leg again and we stopped growling and he did it again. We did it multiple times until I finally had enough and was about to pounce until Hiccup stepped over the line causing me to stop mid-pounce. We watched Hiccup avoid the lines we made like he's dancing and I realized something causing me to laugh. Zyrus turned to me in confusion on why I was laughing and pointed at Hiccup. "He has no clue that he's doing a mating dance in front of us! HAHAHA!" I laughed trying to calm down but failing miserably. My brother froze with widened eyes and jaw dropped and I started to hear mumbling. "I'm not gay." He whispered, giving me an amused eye roll. "Wow. Relax, besides Hiccup is straight as well. But if he did that dance in front of a female. *Wolf Whistle* Pray that Hiccup survives." I joked causing a deadpanned from my brother. "I do not support interspecies relationships, Nightshift. It's bad enough there are same gender relationships, I do not need a different species of dragon to another especially one to a human." He said with conviction while I gave a playful smirk. "What does that make me, brother? I'm human." Zyrus rolled his eyes at my clever display. "Very clever but your a Shifter. You and the rest of your species were blessed by Noctis and considered special. Just because I don't support interspecies relationships doesn't mean I support you and the rest of your kind." Once we finished our conversation, we found Hiccup right in front of us with his back turn causing us to huff our breath to tell him were behind him.
POV Change: Hiccup
I felt the breath of the night furies on the back of my neck and slowly turned around finding myself staring at the two night furies. They both stared at me waiting and I reached out but they growled making me pull it back. The dragons stopped growling and for some reason, I held out my hand and looked away with my eyes closed. I heard the dragons speaking to each other and then silence. I didn't hear anything for a few moments and was about to give up until I felt scales on my fingers causing me to look back finding the bigger one of the dragons, head on the palm of my hand with its eyes closed. I stared at the dragon in shock and happiness until the dragon snorted and ran to a different part of the cove.
I stared at the dragon for a while and then felt the smallest dragon's head on my hand. I turned to the dragon and smiled until I caught sight of a scar across its left eye. I reached out my other hand towards the scar and touched it causing the dragon to flinch and opened its eyes. It stared at me with its green forest eyes and treated like it was almost scared and shy. I laughed and rubbed the dragon's head. "You remind me of my best friend Matt. You have the same eyes and scar like he… does." I stopped talking and looked closely at the dragon's face again and observed it. The dragon tried to pull away like it was scared of something but I kept hold until I remembered something with my time with Matt.
FLASHBACK; THREE YEARS AGO
"Matt? Are you sure this is going to work?" I asked my best friend who was staring towards the raiding dragons attacking the village. Matt gave me a grin and thumbs up before he jumps towards a nadder and landed on its back and started riding it. The nadder jumped up and down and tried bucking my friend off but he was pretty much not letting go. "YEEHAW! EASY BOY, DON'T WANT TO HURT YA NOW!" I heard Matt yelled before he struck the nadder on the back of its head. The dragon roared in pain and collapsed with Matt tying the dragon up while laughing. Matt turned to me and gave me a thumbs up before we heard the familiar sound of a night fury and a charge of its plasma blast.
Matt turned to the sound and I heard an annoyed muttered. "Oh Scales." Before I knew it, a plasma blast from the night fury exploded in front of Matt and replaced him with a cloud of thrown dirt and smoke. "MATT!" I screamed in pain and tried to go to him only to be stopped by an enraged deadly nadder growling. The same nadder Matt was riding. I gulped in fear when the nadder flicked her spikes and growled. I stepped forward nervous but determined to find my best friend and brother. "H-hey I don't know if you know this b-but my friend is in there and I need to g-get him back." I said nervously but not backing down. The deadly nadder chuffed repeatedly like it was… Laughing wait what?
"HAHAHA! Foolish Hatchling. You think you can take down a spike-tai." I heard, causing me to scream in fear. "AAAAAH! HOW ARE YOU TALKING!?" I yelled loudly. The nadder stopped growling and stepped back in shock. "H-How can you understand me?" I heard the nadder squaked before it narrows its eyes. "Unless… you're a shifter." I raised my brow in confusion and asked what a shifter was but I shuffled back when the nadder got closer. "You don't know what a shifter is? How can this be? And-" The nadder stopped asking questions and started gasping like it was in pain. I stepped back in fear and confusion until it spoke. "N-No! N-Not h-her! S-Shifter! Y-You need to g-get out of here before-" The nadder collapsed before it could finish its sentence and I just stared their confusion. "Well… That was weird." I said before screaming in pain. My head… It hurts! 'Yes the shifter! I have you now…' I heard a voice in my head and I didn't like it. I tried to speak but it was hard but I was able to answer. "W-Who are y-you." I was able to think clearly when some reason the pain stopped only for it to come back but this time worse. 'Hm? You're not the shifter I was looking for? Your mind is weaker than the other one. Why isn't your half protecting your mind?'
I was about to respond until a new voice was heard in my mind but it felt more powerful and respected and… loved? 'Leave him be, False Queen. He and his mind are under my protection for I am his future king. I am the Alpha Shifter, Nightshift and as ancient tradition goes you must kill or defeat the existing alpha to have his/her followers. And I will not let him go easily.' I heard before a black mist appeared around me and I saw the nadder that collapsed got up and charged me only for it to disappear entirely.
I looked around and I couldn't see anything but darkness and two bright green slitted eyes. I looked around again but double backed to the eyes and gulped in fear. The eyes seemed to chuckle at my nervousness and its slitted pupils turned circular. "Hello Hiccup." It… no he spoke kindly and I wanted to just bow to him and I did. The eyes seemed to widen in fear and he repeatedly say, "Oh scales, nonononono, don't bow please." I looked up and nervously said, "S-Sorry I don't know what came over me." I looked at the eyes and heard a sigh of relief. "It's alright. Your a shifter its your instinct to bow to your alpha." He spoke causing me to be confused. "What do you mean its my instinct? I'm not an animal unless its the reason I'm always useless." I spoke out sarcastically, causing a growl from the person I'm talking to. I don't know why but the growl and the look of its eyes caused me to freeze up and looked down in fear and respect of its power. "Let me be clear with you. YOU. ARE. NOT. USELESS!" He snarled before calming down and looked at me gently. "You just want to be accepted into your tribe. I get it. I was like you long ago but my family and tribe shunned me for what I was and am now. I was weak, a runt, a nothing, a disappointment, a monster… A wretch." I rose my head on that last bit of information.
'Didn't Matt say he was from a tribe like that and he was called a wretch? Wait the voice it actually sounds like Matt.' I thought but when I looked at the eyes again only to find wooden walls of my house. Wait What? I observed my surroundings and found out that I was in my house and I was on my bed. I tried to think if what I saw and heard was just a dream but something told me it didn't… like… like an instinct is telling me that it was real. I tried to think more on it but I heard something from the side of my bed and when I looked I screamed in terror.
Right there in my chair was Matt! He was alive! I wasted no time but to hug him tightly causing a yelp but I didn't care. My best friend was alive. "WOAH! Easy Hiccup! Can't BREATHE!" Matt puffed from my hug before I quickly let him go and allowed him to breathe. Matt breathe a few times before turning to my direction and gave me a smile. "Thought I'll be dead from that blast? HA! I dealt worse with my father on my old island. May Hel burn there." He boasted until I asked him something. "Matt? You were called a wretch by your tribe and family right?" I questioned wanting to figure out what the words of that creature was and Matt's own story.
Matt seems to be frozen in fear and anger but he answered. "Uh y-yeah. W-Why do you ask?" He asked, causing me to shrug in response. "I just had this weird experience with voices in my head and met some sort of king called Nightshift." I responded while Matt gave me a strange face with a mix between curiosity and unbelieving but why do I feel like he already knows what I'm talking about? "Really? You. Met a king? Who is called Nightshift?" "Yes and he was extremely awesome. His black scales shining and his wings and tail was magnificent." I said sarcastically not actually knowing what Nightshift looks like but his eyes… eyes like Matt actually.
Matt froze like a deer caught in an ambush and quickly said. "W-Wait you saw what it looked like!?" "Yeah, OH! he also shoots rainbows out of its mouth!" I yelled dramatically causing Matt to buck back in his seat with a bewildered and offensive expression on his face. "What!?" Matt yelled shocked and surprised and I gave him a blank look. "Of course I haven't seen what he looked like. The only thing I saw was his eyes." Matt seemed to be annoyed by my trick but I thought I heard a mumble of 'at least he didn't see anything else' but I ignored it and asked Matt if he was doing anything in the morning.
"I'm going to cause havoc with Tuffnut and help him worship Joki with pranks." He said with a dangerous glint in his eyes and smile that can match Dagur. I shivered at the return of Matt the prankster in the morning. "Yeah well have fun and its 'Loki' Matt. Not 'Joki'." I corrected only to give me a smirk and shined his green eyes toward my face. WHY ARE THOSE EYES JUST LIKE NIGHTSHIFT!? "I can say whatever I want besides there is no such proof as Loki or Thor or Odin for that matter." I rolled my eyes and pointed at him while giving him a playful and stern look. "Don't let anyone hear you say that. You'll probably be kicked off the island." "I know the drill mommy." He baby talked before jumping out of the window. Why does he do that? I was about to turn over for the night until I heard a voice. 'He'll get mad at me for this but I don't care. One day you'll find the truth of who we are and I want you to understand. Connect the dots and remember your memories that will help you find the key to the truth. Sorry but that's all I can do. By the way, I'm called Wolf, Nightshift dragonic half." The voice disappeared and I was slant jawed from the one sided conversation. "Yep I'm going crazy." I sarcastically said before finally going to sleep.
End of Flashback; Present Time
I gasp of realization when I actually figured it out and looked at the night fury who was closely staring at me. I breathed in and out slowly and with bravery I said the words I needed. "M-Matt? Is that you?" The night fury didn't say anything at first but it slowly lowered its head and closed its eyes like it was ashamed of what it did. "Yes, Hiccup." The night fury whispered, shocking me to step back. "I am Nightshift, the alpha shifter and future king of dragons but you know me from a different name. Matt Haddock, Best friend and brother to Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third and adopted son of Stoick the Vast." I then noticed tears coming out of his eyes and going down his snout. "I am also a l-liar and a c-c-coward that only wants to be l-loved and accepted by his f-family and r-refuses to tell the t-truth." Now Matt was crying fulltime and I stepped up and put my hand on his shoulder causing him to lean on my shoulder. "I-I-I a-am a-also a m-m-m-monster that a-almost k-k-killed A-Astrid H-Hofferson a-and s-should b-be feared and sh-shunned f-for w-what I d-did!" Matt roared in a complete emotional turmoil and cried his eyes out.
I was shocked by Matt keeping this a secret. I mean HE'S A DRAGON FOR THOR'S SAKES! I was angry that I was best friends with the enemy but then I realized that he was shunned from his tribe and hated as well as fearful that he will lose me… that I will leave him. His eyes matched the same as the other night fury and it makes sense. They're brothers in a way and Matt has the same emotions as the other night fury and it told me… that I saw myself. I patted Matt on the back and comforted him saying that everything was going to be ok and that I wouldn't leave him.
Matt got off my shoulder and gave me a sad and suspicious look. "W-Why are you being ok with this!? I LIED TO YOU!" He yelled causing a hiccup to surface. "Yeah but we have known each other for three years and I knew that you were different from everybody I mean come on… Super strength, speed, me imaging your eyes slitted once in a while." I chuckled when Matt gave me a smile and his eyes glimmered in memory. "And I understand why you were scared. You didn't want to lose me, in fear that I will never be your friend again and that I will tell the village what you are." I said earning a scared and terrified look from Matt. I easily calmed him down to relax. "Don't worry I won't tell them as long you don't tell them I didn't kill a dragon when I am supposed to."
Matt chuffed multiple times which was the sound of him laughing. "Don't worry I won't." Matt then frowned and looked at the sky. "You should probably head back to the village. Gobber will probably want to know where you are for the kids meeting." I nodded but asked him why he isn't coming with me. "I… I don't want to see everyone there be afraid of me and I don't want to see Astrid's… *Gulp* conditions." Matt said in fear of what they think of him. I nodded but I tried to convince him that he needs to apologize for what he did. "She won't accept my apology. Scales, she might kill me if I even face her." I shook my head and said, "You won't know if you don't try. Come on Matt, please." Matt stared at me for a few minutes until he sighed in defeat. "You vikings are sure persistant, I'll give you that. *Sigh* Fine but I don't like this. One bit." He relented and walked towards the other night fury to tell him he's coming with me. 'Hm, maybe I should give the other one a name. Like… Toothless? Yeah, Toothless. Hopefully Matt will be accepting of the name. Knowing him, he'll laugh and that's the goal.
Here is the newest chapter guys and I am so sorry that it took too long and it all the schools fault and video games! LOL ;) Anyway thank for being patient with me on this and I will get another chapter published hopefully this month well the next month since were almost to March and instead of a few months yeah? Again thanks for the support and one of you asked if my OC Nightshift will get a mate and the answer is no for now but when I start the Hidden World one then yes he will gain a mate alongside a few surprises here and there but that would be spoiling. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, Nightshift AWAY! *Flies off only to hit a tree* OW SCALES, SON OF A EEL EATER, NO GOOD SCALELESS COWARD, PIECE OF DRAGON DUNG, HALF OF A-!
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