~AN: Sorry guys and girls, life has just been a emotional hell for me lately (no surprise there), but it's helped me realise the things important to me, and separate the things I love doing to the things from the things I don't: and, thankfully, writing does seem to help me relax, so - hopefully - this story, and my others will probably start getting up to the point I had originally intended them to be at by now so long ago. ~
"Cayde?" That name, the voice of the female, they sounded so similar upon Toothless' ears, but why? He had never met anyone here before, at least in his memory. It wasn't just the voice, it was her physcial form as well, she looked so much like he did, same as her mate. 'Nah, it's just a very creepy coincidence.' He took note of her, her eye colour, not his green - amber, but it held that same glow, and her mate, his eyes, they didn't hold that glow but they were a perfect match of green to his own.
He realised the silence that had unintentionally ensued, and decided to break it. "Whose Cayde?" He questioned, assuming it may have been their lost son he was being mistaken for... Maybe we look alike?
"Cayde was our son" The male sighed as his head fell down, the weight of his shame upon his subconscious. "The son I was a terrible father to..." His mate nuzzled him, as she spoke in a hushed tone.
"I miss Cayde..." Was all Autumn could say, her voice barely above a whisper, ".. He was like a brother to me..." She whimpered. Falcon, not knowing anything about this, merely walked over to Autumn and nuzzled against her side, hoping to comfort her. He assumed he was too young when Cayde was lost, too young too remember. But from the way Autumn always spoke of him, he wished to have met him. A loveable rouge, someone who liked to bend and break the rules and just have fun... Much like him... Maybe thats why the alpha was so strict? Would explain alot.
Autumn nuzzled back with a whispered "thanks", Lea, Eclipse and Hawk, they all seemed to be, lost in thought...
Toothless was unsure of what to do, unsure of how to handle his situation, so he just offered his condolences to them. His gaze swapped between each of the dragons, and something beyond his comprehension told him to go to Eclipse, something just said to him she needed him, a shoulder to lean on, that wasn't her brother, but his brain knew how stupid it was. Try to get close to her with her protective brother next to her after what happened just before the alpha got here? Most likely a suicide mission.
As the alpha and his mate finished their almost silent conversation, they turned their attention back to Toothless. "If you're not our son, who are you?" She asked.
"I'm Toothless, alpha of the flock at Berk."
"You're an alpha?" The disbelief in the males voice was slightly amusing to Toothless, though he wasn't foolish enough to act upon his amusement. With a proud but none cocky posture, he shown off his status, without trying to be too much of a show-off, or accidentally make the alpha assume he was trying to show him up. He had no interest in any violent conflicts.
"Toothless? How long have you actually been an alpha?
"No more than two years"
"How does one so young attain alpha rank? And remain in control? Where you choosen? Guided?"
"Not choosen, but I have been guided, My beta served under a great Bewilderbeast for many years, and has helped me more times than I can remember. I don't lead my flock alone, I have my friends beside me." They nodded.
"Toothless? How did you become alpha? I want to know the story" He smiled softly towards Eclipse - she sounded like a big kid - earning a soft hiss from Lea. He obviously still didn't like him... Made two of them...
"The Bewilderbeast who ruled before me was killed, he lost a fight against another Bewilderbeast, one who turned our wills into his own. He didn't really take into account a certain few factors about me, and well, his control over me kinda led to his downfall. You see, I don't like having my will forced into anything, so I bascially said 'fuck you' and broke free... The alpha attacked someone very close to me, someone I saw as a brother, and trapped us both in ice... Then, I unlocked my TitanWing. Enough to say, after a few powerful blasts, and losing a tusk, the Bewilderbeast surrended and withdrew, making me the alpha in the process" For obvious reasons he never mentioned Hiccup, and withheld and changed some details, but more or less, the story was the same.
He surpressed a smirk as he took note of her awe-struck like expression. "I wish I could be as cool as you" A tint of jealously was evident in her tone. He shook his head and took a few steps closer to her, noting that Lea seemed to ever-so-slowly lowering his guard, and just possibly starting to trust him around his little sis. Autumn and Falcon were just standing beside each other, seemingly too embarrassed to look at each other any-more.
"Toothless? What were you doing out in the ocean when I found you?"
"I was with some friends, we were hunting for a dragon who attacked us and made a getaway. I got caught in a Waterspout, seperated from them. They searched once it was clear, but they didn't find me. When they left, thats when I broke the surface, when you found me and brought me here.. And I never did actually thank you for that"
"Thank me later" She giggled with a wink, causing Toothless to blush and flatten his ears against his head. Sensing they were not needed, the alpha's departed with Hawk following close behind, yet Lea lingered to provide a warning to Toothless, with a growl to prove he was serious.
"If you hurt Eclipse, Autumn or Falcon in any-way I will rip off your limbs, one at a time and ram them down your throat." Toothless gulped audiably and nodded his head rapidly to show he understood that Lea was serious. That growl sent a shiver down his spine. Satisfied, Lea took to the skies and disappeared quickly.
"He always so harsh?" Falcon half-chuckled, half whimpered.
"Yep..." She sighed, before turning to Toothless, "Now what?" The male made the equivalent of a shrug, before averting his gaze to the sky. Winter? Snow? How had they not noticed it earlier, there was snow. Alot of it falling and building rapidly. Maybe it was normal here? 'Snowball fight!'
He was descrete with his tail, hoping no-one would notice what he was up to and give himself and head start. It had taken some time to form a rough snowball, and stop it from falling off his tail - but he succeeded in the end, and the calm silence was broken with the thud as it hit her face head on, collapsing and covering her scales in the pristine white substance. With a grumble and a shake of her head to rid the snow, he smirked towards Toothless.
"Oh, so it's a war you want" She giggled, and in a surprise attack, she flung two snowballs at once towards Toothless, both hitting his face and turning his scales from midnight-jet black to pure white. She laughed as his eyes appeared beneath the snow, but silenced herself as a snowball rammed into her shoulder. Turning towards the culprit, Falcon looked uneasy, yet Autumn had the biggest smirk on her face. Not knowing which one was the true attacker, she flung snowballs back at both, Autumn failing to dodge the projectile due to not noticing it. As laughs were shed, snowballs flew from all directions for the immediate hours ahead, draining their energy levels completely; leading to them collapsing in exhaustion and seeking shelter from the falling snow in the nearest cave they could find - Toothless'.
With space inside scarce, and the winter chill biting at their scales, they created a ring of flame in the centre to which they huddled around, Eclipse knowingly huddling close to Toothless, something about him made her feel comfortable, feel safe. She found solace within his wings and embrace. Of late she had hidden her emotions behind a facade of joy and happiness, masking her own despair and loneliness. It had finally hit home that many of her friends were developing crushes and finding mates, Autumn and Falcon - it was so painfully obvious to everyone they liked each other, but the poor souls couldn't figure it out themselves. Honestly - Lea thought someone would have to connect all the dots for them 'maybe his right' she mumbled mentally. Speaking of her brother, he seemed to have developed a crush on Falcons and Hawks older cousin - Jewel.
How none had sensed the loneliness in her firesoul she never understood, maybe she was masking it so well? The heat from the flames, and their soothing crackle had led to Autumn and Falcon entering the void that was sleep, only her and Toothless remained awake. With a glance at the male she felt her heart flutter, her cheeks darken and heat up; thoughts entering her mind. Toothless looked SO much like how Cayde would've by now, and he had a very similar personality, at least she assumed he did. With an evil smirk plastered on her expression, she tapped Toothless' fore-leg with her tail.
"Yeah?"
"Time for you to thank me" The smirk really caught him off-guard.
"W-w-what? H-h-how?"
"I know how" her smirk never left her face, making him uncomfortable. This was so fun! She pushed him onto his back, then pinned him down and climbed over him. His expression was priceless: shock, horror, surprise, confusion all melded into one. She was struggling to keep her composure - god this was like the most fun prank ever.
"E-E-Ecl-Eclipse?" He yelped in surprise, somehow not waking the sleeping dragons - mind you... Autumn said herself "I could sleep through the comet that kills the Unicorns" whatever that meant... and she somehow did manage to sleep through an entire five hour long fight with a Screaming Death... and Falcon? He must've shared Autumns 'sleep through the end of the world' gift. Barely containing her laughter, she kept up the smirk and lowered herself closer to him, barely touching his body with her own. His scales were flush red, and his expression was still priceless.
"What? You shy? Never thanked a girl this way before?" It was beginning to build, the pressure too high for her to handle. 'C'mon a few seconds longer'
"W-what?" His look of pure horror was the icing of the cake, and she rolled off of him and burst into laughter and tears of pure happiness and amusement, leaving a extremely confused and still slightly horrified Toothless laying on his back and staring at her with the look that was a mix of 'have you lost your fucking mind?' And 'what the fuck was that!'
"O-oh my god!" She cried between her laughs "The look on your face was priceless" She then looked at him and tried to mimic his horrified expression, but failed miserably and continued laughing. "You...you...you...haha!" Toothless was still confused and traumatised, then it sunk in; 'ok... I'll give you that one... But I'll get you back...hopefully'
"Oh I'm so going to get you back for that" He grumbled.
She, through her laughs and hiccups, replied in a cocky sense "I doubt you can scare me as much as I did with you. Tell you what, how about this, we make this into a little competetion" The idea definitely intrigued Toothless.
"Sure" He perked up from his previously annoyed state. "Hows it work?"
"Well, every week or so, one of us plays a prank on the other one, and if we scare them enough - like I just did with you - then we get a point, first person to five points wins... And the loser has to do whatever the winner wants them to do for a whole day. You in?" That sounded like his type of competition - the win and lose thing, not so much the pranking, but he was definitely in. "Oh and the rules are no major physical and/or mental harm or pretending to be dead" He nodded, those rules were good enough.
"Right, I'm in, and in other words, the loser becomes the winner's slave for a day"
"Yep. Cool, well, u have to prank me by Saturday next week, starting from this Sunday, and I've already got my first point... Hope your looking forwards to being my slave for a day" She laughed and finally began to calm down, purely because her lungs and chest was starting to hurt and she was very slowly losing more oxygen than she was gaining.
~AN: So, now we have a little competition between Eclipse and Toothless - and I'm going to include you guys in this competition - mainly because I'm not good with pranks. I want you guys to come up with a prank for either Toothless or Eclipse, or both, and leave it in a review - a brief description of the prank; how it works and who is the one being pranked. Theres also going to be a poll on my profile where you can vote which character you want to win this competition (in other words, which character you want to be the 'slave') Also, the rules for the pranks are - like Eclipse said: no major physical and/or mental harm - including physical injury and possible traumatising pranks, and no faking deaths - any that do will either not be included or - if possible - will be altered slightly to fit the rules of the competition. Only pranks in the reviews or PM's will be written down, if I have none it'll most likely just be a point assigned to whoever has more botes on the poll.
