"Lea, it isn't what it looked like"

"Like hell it isn't." He growled, pushing past Eclipse as she desperately tried to get inbetween the two males. "I'm going to rip your fucking throat out for touching her." He threatened, yet Toothless stood firm and remained unfazed - but in truth, he was actually scared. He had fought the Red Death, he had beaten an alpha, fought countless skrills and whispering deaths, but Lea wasn't any of them - he was a Nightfury, just like him. An older and stronger one at that.

"There's no need for violence. I promise you I never meant for that to happen." His voice was firm and strong, but calm and none threatening. He really had no interest in getting involved in a fight, especially infront of two girls he had only just began making a good impression for - and one of those girls just happened to be this guys little sister. He never bothered to advance, or back away - instead he just stood his ground, waiting for Lea to make the first move. Conflict was the last thing on his mind, and so was dying and having his throat ripped out.

"Come on boys, stop it. Lea just calm down man - he wasn't trying to do anything." Autumn got in the way of him, but Lea was having none of it.

"He owes nothing to our flock. To him it doesn't matter if his kicked out because he isn't really one of us Autumn. I know males like him - what they do. It's fucking sick."

"What? What are you talking about?" Toothless questioned.

"You... You're sick. You go to find a flock, then you hunt down the girls and fucking rape them. You were gonna rape my sister! And I bet you were going to rape Autumn next! Thats what other males are like. They take advantage of girls in different flocks.. Then they fucking leave! Thats what happened to my mom when she fell for me!"

"Wh...what?" Eclipse's voice shook. "Lea?"

He sighed, obviously distraught at the fact. "Eclipse - I'm sorry... But me and you... We're not full siblings... My dad isn't your dad... You know who your dad was, but I don't."

"But dad always said you were his. He always told me you were his."

"He knew what happened to mom when she fell for me... But he still saw me as his. I always saw him as my dad, but he weren't... I'm so sorry Eclipse, I couldn't tell you, I never wanted you to find out, it would destroy you... It destroyed me when I found out, but I kept seeing you as my little sister, you still are." He walked towards the crying dragoness, who almost immediately snuggled up against him for comfort. "Mom and dad made me promise to not let what happened to her happen to you."

He turned back towards Toothless. "And I don't intend to break my promise."

"Look, I assure you, I swear on my firesoul I would never do something like that. I'm an alpha of a flock myself, and I would never take advantage of any females in my flock, nor would I eer take advantage of females in different flocks."

"You're an alpha?"

"Yes." Toothless done his best to not seem smug or cocky about his postion. He knew it was almost unheard of for a dragon his age to be an alpha.

"How do we know that? The guy who took advantage of our mom said he was an alpha, and said the exact same thing! The moment dad left her to go hunting, he raped her! How the fuck do I know you won't rape Eclipse and Autumn when I leave you alone with them?"

"Because I swear on Draco himself I wouldn't. I swear on my firesoul and my life, I swear on everything I hold sacred and dear to me I wouldn't."

Lea still seemed greatly untrusting of him, and with good reason. Toothless couldn't imagine how that must feel to him, he didn't know much of his own family - but he knew for certain that both parents were his, that his mom never went through that pain. He wasn't like that - but he knew dragons - male and female - out there were, and it sickened him. He'd never let something like that happen in his flock and the culprit get away with it. There were times in the Nest where dragons were taken attacked in that sense - even ones he knew personally, like Stormfly when she was younger, like himself - when he was younger, and the Queen knew about it and never done anything.

"Lea? What happened to him? The one who... Did the alpha ever catch him?"

"No... He got away, escaped our alpha for years. Then the sick fuck found a nest a few years after the alpha's son went missing, and went into it... According to the alpha, the twisted male ended up raping a young Nightfury male, and the Queen didn't do anything about it. That poor Nightfury..."

Toothless felt his heart fill with the pain and horror. He knew how much it hurt, how painful it was to endure something like that, it happened to him as well when he was younger. 'Why in the name of Draco were some dragons so twisted and fucked in the head?' 'Draco help those who have endured that pain - give them strength like you did with me and Stormfly' He kept his ground, and looked around. Autumn obviously had no idea what to do now, and Eclipse was just hiding against Lea for comfort.

If things could get worse, they would - and they did. Hawk, Falcon had both returned, with a third Nightfury. "Thats the new one alpha" Hawk gestured to Toothless, and the alpha looked at him with a gaze that could have even given Stoick the Vast chills to the bone should they have met.

"Who are you?" He growled.

"I'm known as Toothless to my friends, my real name I don't actually remember."

"Where is your family? You seem to be still quite young" He questioned.

"I got lost when I was younger, we got seperated and I don't know what happened to them. They never found me, but to be honest I doubt they even looke for me. My mom might've, but my dad? He always saw me as a dissappointment, as not worthy to lead the flock" He sighed.

"I know the pain of losing someone from your family young one - my mate and I lost our son many years ago. We never found him either. I regret the way I was as a father"

The alpha's mate landed beside him, looking at the young Nightfury who stood facing them. She took a step past her mate, looking into his peridiot green eyes and sensing his firesoul, yet almost instantly she recoiled in shock. "What is it? Ikora? What's wrong?"

She ignored him, staring intensely at Toothless, making him feel uncomfortable. Taking a step closer, she whispered in a tone of surprise and shock.

"Cayde?"