****In the forest****

"Why did Gobber have to mention that then Of all times? Why then, right as I was about to see the dragon, Which reminds me… a snow terror Fury! Of all of the dragons I could have seen and apparently injured based on the fact that it had one tail fin, it had to be one of the most dangerous dragons in all of Viking history!" As I wandered towards the cove-like area, where I had last seen the dragon, I was ranting my thoughts, seeing as no one could hear me.

After a good twenty minutes of rant-walking, I arrived at the entrance to the cove, that I now noticed was too small for anyone but me to enter.

Well maybe Austen could if he sucked in his gut. Gods Hicca stop thinking about him!

Anyways I slipped inside, put down the basket of fish that I had somehow managed to get all the way here and saw that I was in a different position than last time I was here. I looked around for the ledge I was on before and found it on the totally opposite side of the cove. As I looked around, taking in the true beauty of the cove, It suddenly got quieter than before, I could just make out the sound of deep breathing close by me. I tensed and slowly turned around. Not far from me was the night fury, hanging from a tree branch like a bat, sleeping. I drew in a breath and started to walk backwards, trying to keep it sleeping. Maybe I'll just come back later…

But as I was walking backwards I didn't notice that I was heading towards the basket of fish. So you can understand my surprise when I suddenly fell backwards into a large pile of fish.

"WOAHH!" I yelled as I fell backwards. I quickly slapped my hand over my face and peeked through my fingers at the dragon hoping that it was still sleeping.

Unfortunately, everything always goes wrong in my life.

With a snapping sound, the dragon opened his wings and dropped to the ground, teeth bared. He looked around until he saw me. Then, he froze. Scrapadoodles!

But instead of charging and mauling me to death, as I expected, he simply sat there, staring at me with his big green eyes. After a few minutes of us staring at each other- him calm, and me wary. I decided that I should go.

"Okay, since we're probably going to be here like this for a while, I'm just gonna go… Oh yea, there's fish for you over there." I pointed towards the fish not far from me, but still a decent distance away. Then, after a few seconds, he moved. But, not where I thought he would go. Instead of moving to where the fish was, he moved towards me. Seeing this, I immediately dropped to the ground and covered my head.

Maybe I wasn't attacked last time because he couldn't get to me. Oh, gods, it was a mistake to come here. Please don't kill me!

But, instead of teeth and fire and mind-blowing pain, I simply felt a light brush of air against the top of my head. Then a nudge. What the heck?

I slowly looked up and saw that the dragon was in the same position as me; curled up while our heads are up, facing each other. We were almost twins… except for the fact that… you know he's a dragon and I'm a human girl.

We stared at each other for a while, then I slowly leaned back and sat on my knees. He copied and ended up looking like a cat when it sits down, as well as putting distance between us. I noticed this a thought occurred to me;

Will he copy everything I do?

Deciding to test that, did various tests. I tilted my head slightly to the right, so did he. I slowly stood up, so did he. I crouched quickly, so did he. This went on for a few minutes, with him copying me each time. Finally, after doing a cartwheel, and him… attempting to do one (and failing) I noticed that he had slowly gotten closer and closer to me within that time. He was literally closer than my arms' length.

"How did you get so close to me without me noticing?" I asked out loud.

He looked at me, then the ground, then back to me, measuring the distance between us. After doing this a few more times, he leapt back with a squeal-like noise and looked at where I was, on the floor, laughing my butt off. As I looked at him, and him at me I tried to speak between my laughter.

"You-hahahaha-squealed-hahahaha-like-*gasp*-a little girl!"

Hearing this, he huffed and slinked towards me, causing me to stop laughing immediately.

"Oh no, what are you doing?" I asked as he looked at something behind my back and slowly went around me. I turned to see where he was going and saw the pile of fish not far away.

Of course, he must be hungry.

I saw him pick up a few fish with his face, nosed one out of the pile, and slid it over to me. It landed at my feet, covered in dirt. I looked at the fish then at him. His face said eat it.

You have got to be kidding me

"Noooooo. You can't- I don't- whyyyyyy?" I asked looking at him. He simply moved his gaze from me to the fish then back to me again. I groaned, got up, and started walking to the lake that was in the cove.

"Fiiiiiiine, then at least let me clean it off first, and you better be up for grilling something because I am not eating a raw fish. Nuh-uh. No way."

He simply grumbled and trotted after me. I kneeled down and washed it off, running my hands over the smooth scales. After a few moments of cleaning, I got up found a stick and impaled the fish on it. I turned to him and waved the fish. He tilted his head at me and began to suck in a breath.

"Wait!" He froze

"I have to make a fire pit or something because I am not being this close to an open flame without it." I walked into the woods and began gathering sticks and stones to make a fire put out of. Once finished, I turned to the dragon, pointed to the pit-thing and said: "Now you can set fire to the sticks in there."

He simply sucked in a breath and released a small flame, that was angled surprisingly well might I add, towards the pit. It immediately lit. I held the fish over the flames for a few minutes until it was cooked the way I liked it.

"Well you can eat, too, you know. Don't let me ruin your appetite."

With a happy noise, he leapt towards the pile of fish a few feet away from me and began to scarf down the fish, like 4 or 5 whole fish at a time.

He, of course, finished before me and lumbered back over, sitting across from me, staring at me through the fire. I put my fish aside and stared back, silently.

After a few moments of silence I spoke up;

"You need a name, don't you? I can't keep calling you 'dragon' or 'he' all of the time." He looked at me then made a weird face. Then he did what I guessed was the dragon equivalent of a yawn.

As he yawned, I noticed something odd; he was toothless, he literally had no teeth whatsoever.

"How about Toothless?" He looked up with a questioning stare.

"Since you know, you have no teeth and all." He looked at me with a gummy grin and nodded. Almost like a puppy.

"Well since I gave you your name, it is only fair that you know mine, right? My name is Hicca." Not waiting for a second, I continued.

"I know silly right? But, my dad said that it was supposed to ward off trolls or something." He looked at me with an odd look that I couldn't place. I didn't wonder too long and laid back on the grass and stared at the stars, seeing as it was now night time.

Wait… WHAT!

I shot up and ran over to the basket that was lying, discarded on the ground. I looked up and saw Toothless peering at me with a curious look in his eyes.

"Well Toothless, I have to get home." His face dropped, causing him to look sad "But I will come to visit you soon." After I said this he looked up at me with a hopeful expression.

I laughed while walking backwards towards the entrance to the cove. I turned around to face forwards and as I was leaving the cove, I thought I heard a male voice faintly call; "I'll see you soon Hicca."

Oh well, must be my imagination again.


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~Night Fury's Avenger