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This chapter is going to be yet again longer than the previous chapter, and before reading this chapter, you must know that this chapter have a few spoilers for those who have not seen HTTYD 2 yet.

In this chapter we will be using 'Shimmer' as the OC's name and most of the following chapters thereof,

And please leave a comment to tell me what you all think and tell me if I have made any mistakes any ware, Don't be afraid to be honest.

And I hope you all will enjoy, because there will be a few surprises ahead.

Hiccup (POV)

It was still very early in the morning, when something started to tap on me, "toothless, please, just a few minutes longer, you know I was up all night",
it was quiet for a moment and then suddenly Toothless decided that it would be a very good idea to drag me out of my bed and then to lick me awake, Again!
"OK, OK I'm up, I'm up, please stop for Thor's sake", "Toothless you know that it doesn't wash out", Toothless stopped and started laughing,

I have been up till late working on my newest flight suit that would hopefully not break or tear while I'm flying, Hopefully it will hold, and I have also made a new peg to improve the air flow over my legs,
I went over to put on my new flightsuit, Today I'm going to test it out after so many failed attempts,

Toothless was less than pleased with the idea of the flightsuit, toothless don't like it if I test my flightsuit's because he must always save me, when something goes wrong, Toothless started pacing around impatiently while letting out a soft growl to let me know to hurry up, "calm down bud'

I was barely finished with putting on the flightsuit and outside when toothless suddenly came up from behind and flung me onto his back, "you should really not do that bud",

Me and Toothless took to the skies and flew around the island for a few minutes before we decided to fly out over the sea, toothless started flying above the white clouds into the thin cold air above,
'This seems like a good height to start, what do you say bud?" toothless just gave a moaning growl,
"Relax bud", I locked toothless's tail fin in place and jumped.
I put my arms around the hoops and pulled my arms out as far as I possibly could.

"Ooohh yeah its working!"
I were gliding through the air for a few minutes with toothless behind me, when suddenly, I felt both of the straps that were keeping the flightsuit's wings attached to my arm break loose, I started to plummet down towards the ocean below, when suddenly toothless came up from under me just in time,

"Thanks bud", suddenly I got a hard slap from one of toothless dorsal plates, and a very clear upset growl, "Sorry bud, I didn't know that would happen",
I only got silence in response.

We flew for another hour before we returned back to Berk.
When we arrived at berks smithy I were surprised to see a large crowd of people in front of the smithy,
I had to struggle to get inside, I saw Gobber standing there talking to the crowd of people, of what I know not.

Suddenly my dad showed up and a line of people made way for him to pass through, and I have that sinking feeling that it's about the new items that the people want, and I decided to head inside before they notice that I'm here.

"Now why did these straps break?".

Shimmer (OC)

It has been 2 weeks since I found my book. And I have learned allot since, I also grew allot, in the last 2 weeks I have grown to be just a bit taller than Valka when I stand on all fours and are now a little bit longer than 10 feet from my nose to the tip of my tail in length, and my wings are longer than that, each being over 10 feet in length from shoulder to wingtip,

I have practised my flying skills allot and have started to race against some of the other dragons, at first I were not always able to keep up but now if been able to outrun some of them.

I have been making drawings of myself in my 'book of dragons', if you can call it that, and writing down my stats and updating it as I improve it, I also decided to put up the dragon species name as 'The Shimmerscale' from the name Valka gave.
I have many different species of dragons in the book that I have encountered and of what I could get information of, many of are native to the barbaric archipelago and a few that have only been seen here a few times, but there are a handful, amount of dragons that I know of but have little to no information about, some like the Snow wraith, Typhoomerangs and The Night Fury. Of which I do not have anything other than a vague description of.

One early morning I were ruefully awaken by Cloudjumper, I'm not pleased to be awaken so early and were not eager to know why but I anyway asked went ahead and asked, "Why did you have to wake me up now? It is too early",
"It's not early little one, and we are about to raid a Dragon trappers outpost not very far from here"
"We?"
"yes, Me, Valka, The king and a selected few, You included little one",
"you know I have a name, please don't call me little one, it's annoying",
"Then Wake up, we will depart soon",
Ahhg Why me?! I stood up from my resting place on a ledge and jumped down,
It took me a moment to realize that the king is busy gathering all the dragons that should stay behind, It was nearly an hour later when we finally left the nest heading Far to the south,

It might have been far but of all the dragons that were chosen to accompany Valka was luckily very fast and able to keep up with the Bewilderbeast speed, it took us a few hours to fly there, but the sun is still high up in the sky and we had enough time to do whatever we are about to do,
We went past a dense forest of Birch and then I saw it, a big wooden outpost, or rather a fort from the size of it.

Valka was in the lead and gave the signal to attack, I heard one of the trapper's scream "Fire", and saw nets flying towards us, none of the nets were able to hit any of us and we were able to close the distance quickly enough to avoid any more nets, Valka landed in front of a few trappers and I were close behind her along with a few others, Valka then commanded the leader to let go of all the captured dragons.

They started lathing and the leader stepped forward and for some reason introduced himself as if he thinks allot about himself,
"I'm Eret, The Son of Eret, The greatest dragon trapper alive, and who do you think you are barging in here and commanding us to release our dragons, Drago will have your heads!"

"I am Valka and If you do not release the dragons then the Alpha will!"
At that moment the Bewilderbeast emerged from the water and roared for all of the world to hear.

The trappers backed away and a few let loose a few arrows but missed, we went over and pinned most of the trappers to the ground while Valka went and released the captured dragons, I let go of the trapper for another dragon to pin him back to the ground, I went over to help free the dragons that were left and we all took flight to escape the Bewilderbeast attack, at that moment The Bewilderbeast spewed its icy breath all over the fort and immobilized most of the defenses,

One of the rescue dragons accidently lit part of the forest on fire because of an injury it has sustained,

I heard a faint boom and a crumbling of rock far to the west, North west of the fort, I looked to see if I can see it but it was too far away,
It took us longer to get back to the nest and the Bewilderbeast took the lead ahead,

We arrived later that night to at the nest, I was too tired to care for anything else and decided to go to sleep, on my favorite spot on the ledge, where the baby scuttleclaws could not reach me.
I soon fell into a deep sleep.

Since the raid on the trapper's fort, I have not been able to think of anything other than that I might have missed something on that shipwreck I found my book at,
I have decided to go back to the shipwreck and explore it again, but this time alone. I told Cloudjumper that I'm going out exploring for some time, and left my book on the ledge underneath a few leaves.

I left after a few minutes and wasted no time getting there, I arrived there in a little over half an hour late and started exploring around and inside the wreckage, I have searched every inch, nook and cranny for anything and found that there are a few footsteps leading to the other side of the island, and clear signs of a struggle, and gouges in the dirt from something that were dragged along.

And as it sometimes goes, Curiosity gets the better of me, so I followed the tracks through the woods to the other side of the island, upon getting there I saw a big ship, dragon hunters,
O no not now, what are they doing here, and what were they doing at the wreckage….
my thoughts were interrupted by the sound of footsteps right behind me, I then knew that there were trappers behind me and nowhere to hide or to run, I was about to take flight when suddenly I were hit by a net, the net came from the beach which lead me to think that they knew I were here and was waiting for me,
Augh I'm such an idiot to have fallen for a trap.

I tried to blast myself free but ended up being shot with a dragonroot arrow, it was painful but for some odd reason, I were unaffected by the dragonroot poison,
I let out another blast this time I aimed to the dirt below and, to my surprise instead of fire, it was a blueish grey ball that exploded into a big mass of fog,

I tried to break free from the nets just to be jumped upon by a few trappers and getting my snout bound shut with leather straps, strong enough to prevent me from breaking it,
Out of shear desperation I got my tail loose and whipped one of the trappers across the chest opening up a large wound and nearly cut another's throat before getting my tail restrained also, I then knew there are no escape for me.

Valka (POV)

I were standing at the ledge looking up to all of the dragons flying around a large pillar of rock and ice,
I started to wonder where Shimmer went, he were always nearby and never stayed away for more than a few hours at most, he have now being gone for almost two days now, and Cloudjumper were not able to find him, in a very quiet voice, "Where could you have gone off to?", Cloudjumper looked a bit worried whenever I were out looking if shimmer's back and finding that he's not.

I looked up to where he usually sleeps, I was about to look away from the ledge when one of the dragons swooped overhead causing a blast of wind to hit me, I saw a pile of leafs get blown off to reveal the bag shimmer always carries around when he's not flying around.

I climbed up and took the bag, there is something inside of the bag it feels too heavy for it to be empty,
I opened it up to reveal a dragon scale wrapped book, I opened the book, and to my utter amazement saw multiple drawings of dragons with each there own statistics,
"How remarkable, he have been recording all of this"
I were flipping through the pages going from the common gronckle to the whispering death to the Skrill, I then lastly fell upon him, an accurate drawing of shimmer with some information, it reads…

The Shimmerscale

Only known of my kind,

Very light weight and high speed

Large wingspan compared to body

Have a high fire resistance but a weakness to extreme cold

Scales shimmer when in contact with fire or any other sources of high heat

Might be able to change color

Further information unknown
need to further test myself

"he's the only one of his kind he knows of…"

I went to the next page and saw a loose piece of paper fall out of the book, I picked it up and saw that it has something written on it which reads,

I have been looking for anything that might help me find out where I came from
and what I'm doing this far north, and why I decided to travel here of all places

I have learned to live like the other dragons and to learn how to be a dragon
since I might stay one forever, so I have to embrace it,

I'm having a wonderful time now here at the sanctuary, this is now my new home
since I have a new family here who cares about me, and I owe my thanks to Valka and Cloudjumper,
and also to the king,
If I ever find a way to become human again….
I don't know what to do then
it is wonderful to be a dragon and I have a new life now,

But I will continue my search for the answer I seek
and I'll start at the shipwreck…..

This left me completely confused to what he meant by becoming human or his search for the answer he seeks, it doesn't make any sense at all.

He might be at the shipwreck where we found him almost two months ago….
but why?

"Cloudjumper, I think I know where he might be", Cloudjumper gave out a loud roar to let a few dragons know to follow him to go and search for Shimmer, and to see what's more out there at the wreckage, we set of as soon as we possibly could.

Shimmer (OC)

I have been trapped in a dragon proof cage for about two days now, sailing on a ship along with a few other captured dragons, including a Rumblehorn and a Sand wraith with a strange green and brown coloration.

The ship arrived at some island, I guess a dragon hunter outpost,
The ship docked and I heard a clatter of boots above and the front part of the ship opening
The ship was specially designed to carry dragons and to make it easier to load and unload.

The trappers moved us out of the ship onto the docks and then moved us further into the island where they keep the rest of the dragons.
After they finished moving us, they departed leaving only one guard to look over the dragons,
I noticed that he had the keys to the cages on him, and he has placed it in his pocket.

I then thought that this is my moment to escape, but the biggest problem is that the guards change positions every hour and worst of all is that my wings, tail, snout and front legs were bound, so I could not use them, but my back legs are not bound,
I silently moved my back right leg forward towards my arms and I managed to cut the bindings loose with my claws, and then after I got my arms loose I took the bindings off of my tail, trying my best not to let the guard notice what I'm doing, I got my tail loose and went closer to the cages gate, and positioned my tail just right where it can reach the guard,

The Sand wraith next to me noticed what I was doing and said "Careful the next guard is going to be here soon, and then I'll help you",
I nodded in response and waited,
what the sand wraith said was true, because the next guard came to take the previous ones place and like the previous one placed the keys in his pants pocket.
but this guard only stayed in one place where he could look at all of the dragons and the entrance at once.

"Great what now?"
I tried to get the Guards attention by trying to talk to him, 'knowing that he won't understand me and that the harness on my snout is not helping,
but the Guard only shouted to us to be quiet,
I tried again out of desperation to talk to the guard to get him to come closer, by saying
"Hey, you guard, come here", I heard no sound coming from me but I spoke, and suddenly I noticed that the guard tensed up before saying,

"who's there? Show yourself!",
Did I just communicate to him telepathically?
The guard started to walk around looking for the source of the voice, "this is not funny! Show yourself!"
I answered, "I'm right here you idiot, come here",
"Stop playing games, Show yourself!" sounding very nervous, he stepped in front of my cage looking away from me, and asked,
"Where are you, you coward", I smiled and said,
"Right behind you",
He spun around and looked at me with shock, and I said
"Got your leg", I wrapped my tail around the guards leg and yanked him to the floor so fast that he did not have enough time to respond, I broke my harness and blasted an electric bolt right at him.
I took the keys from the guard and unlocked my cage.

I went over to the other cages and unlocked every single cage, most of the dragons except for the sand wraith and the rumblehorn left after being rescued, both of them thanked me, and we were about to leave when I noticed that an alarm has went off and that we were surrounded by a dozen dragon trappers with bows, the rumblehorn was the closest to the Dragon hunters and they all took aim at him, I jumped in front of the rumblehorn and shot a blueish grey ball straight at the trappers causing the projectile to hit them and explode into a gray mass of smoke right before they released a volley of dragonroot arrows,
Most of the arrows except for one mist us, the other struck me across my side leaving a small gash,
the poison had no effect on me so I were able to resist it's effects, The rumblehorn and sand wraith both opened fire upon the dragon trappers giving us a chance to escape,

We all took flight as soon as we came upon a clearing, I just then saw a net shoot past me missing me by a hairs breach, I looked back and blasted a powerful fire ball back towards the dock, and saw the dock quickly go up in flames, ships also perished in the flame,

The three of us started to fly north towards the nest, finally free from that cage.

And I have discovered that I were able to mimic other dragons, and communicate telepathically with others, I have allot to learn,

We flew most of the day without stopping, we only stopped for the night to rest, before setting of the next morning,

We caught some fish from a nearby pond, it was not much but it was something.
We decided to each take turns to keep watch, The rumblehorn took first watch, and the rest of us went to sleep.

I were awaken by the sand wraith for my turn to take watch, she went back to her spot and went back to sleep, I looked up to the stars, noticing how different they look from where I came from, but mostly just in a different position in the sky, or its just because I can see them better because of my dragon eyes.

It has been about two hours since I took watch, it's quiet except for the occasional gust of wind or the waves from the sea crashing upon the rocks,
I were about to wake the rumblehorn up when I suddenly heard something among the trees, I tensed up, I looked at the trees and then I saw something moving, it was blending in with its surroundings, I then knew it was a Changewing, I quickly woke the others with a quick jab of my tail without looking away from the changewing,

The rumblehorn was the first to notice the changewing, he took a defensive position and I readied myself for a fight, I were the first to speak,
"Stop right there, Reveal yourself", it did as I said revealing himself, he was standing there alone, looking at us, he snarled at me when I took a step closer to him, he did not back off, but instead stayed his ground, taking up a defensive position,

"Who are you and what are you doing in my territory? And why are you three so different from each other hmm?",
"We are sorry for intruding onto your territory, we are only resting here for the night, we do not intend to stay", I answered.
"And why do I not believe you trespassers",
"We are not intending to stay, we will leave as soon as the sun rises, is that okay?"

He was silent for a while before answering,
"okay, I'll allow you to stay for the night, but only if you can defeat me in a fight",
O great, he wants a fight, this is going to end badly, I knew it was going to be unavoidable.
"O fine, let's just finish and get over with it",
The other two dragons backed away, knowing not to intervene in a fight like this.

We both got ready to fight, watching each other's every move, I wondered, if I can mimic other dragon's breath attacks, then ill maybe be able to do the same with a changewing, Maybe.

The changewing was the first to attack, lunging at me, I dodged his attack and struck him on the back with my tail, which did nothing to him, he we both turned to each other and lunged towards each other, I discovered that he has the upper hand in weight, but I had more strength.

From what I can remember is that a changewing had very weak armor and weak jaw strength, but makes up in a shot limit of 10 and high stealth,
we both tried to pin each other to the ground, and neither one of us could, so I decided to break loose from his grip by using my tail to squeeze the air out of him, it worked and he let go of me, he quickly recovered and lunged at me again, but he was not fast enough and then he shot acid at me, I held up my wing to deflect it, the acid did not burn me, but did cause my scales to shimmer a bright orange, I knew then that is how I were able to mimic other dragons attacks.

Now it was my turn, I blasted him with a bright green ball that exploded into a big mass of flaming acid,
The changewing did not expect me to be able to blast him with acid also and got stunned by the blast,
I then went in and caught him off guard and pinned him to the ground,
he tried to get free from my grip but failed, we both knew at that moment that I have won the fight,
he stopped trying to escape my grasps and submitted,

"Okay, you got me, you win, I submit",
I got off of him and let him go, he gave a slight bow before departing into the woods.

It was my first fight as a dragon and I won, I turned around to see the other two staring at me with wonder, "What? Why are you two staring at me?",
The sand wraith was the first to answer, "it's the first time I have ever seen someone being able to mimic their attackers, in such a way, How did you do that?",

"I –I don't know, it's like if they attack me with their fire or whatever, when my scales get into contact with any type of fire or electricity, or in this case the acid, it shimmers and then I'm able to use that attack, I guess",

They just stared at me for a moment before they went back to their positions before the attack,

I went back to my position on the ground to go to sleep, when suddenly the sand wraith asked,
"What is Your name – I never asked you, right?"

"No you have not", I shifted my position so I can easier see the sand wraith,
"My name is Shimmer, And yours?"

There were silence for a moment, I was about to go back to sleep when she answered,
"I don't really have a name… but you may call me… Storm",
"Hmm, interesting name, I like it",
"Y –you do ?"
"Yes, Why so surprised?"
"O no reason",
"You two should get some sleep, I'll take first watch", said the rumblehorn.

Neither of us objected and went straight to sleep.

Early the next day we decided to set out early for the sanctuary, and we flew most of the morning,
The icy mountain came into view early afternoon, it took us almost an hour to reach the mountain, just to see it destroyed and the King dead,
and many broken machines and weapons lying about among the many dead dragon hunters and dragons alike,
What happened here and where are all of the dragons,

And where is Valka and Cloudjumper?

Well there you have it
That's end of chapter 3,
Chapter 4 will be out soon
I hoped you all enjoyed,
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