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"What do you mean you're the last one? What happened? Where did they all go?" I shout, shocked.
"I don't know. All I know is when I was a hatchling, a child in your terms, I was in my family's cave. I suddenly heard strange noises and rushed outside. Instead of seeing my family happily playing with each other, I see an empty space, filled with strange boxes and things. I ran back into my cave, gathered everything I could carry in my claws, and flew away. I didn't want to stay long enough to find out what was in the boxes." He says sadly.
"So you have no idea what happened to your family?" I ask sadly.
"Not at all." He says, looking down at his paws.
I simply stare for a moment before rushing forwards and tackling him in a hug, the force of it knocking him onto his back.
"I'm sorry…" I trail off, not knowing what to say.
"It's not your fault. Besides, if that never happened, I would have never met you."
"What do you mean?" I ask
"Well, instead of going around to different islands, I would have been with my family. I would have probably stayed on our island."
"You never know, you could have joined the raids and seen me?" I ask
"Maybe…" He trails off, deep in thought.
Ever since his story, there was one thing in the back of my mind;
"You know, I lost my mother in a dragon raid." I say really quiet.
"Really?" Toothless asks me just as quiet.
"Yea. Apparently when I was really young, still a baby, my mother was home protecting me while my dad was fighting the dragons in the raid. I don't remember anything but apparently, a dragon somehow was in my room and my mother ran in to protect me. By the time my dad got there, there was a giant chunk of our house missing and my mom was gone. I was alone in the house, in my crib crying." We both lose ourselves in the silence, thinking on the families we could have had.
"Okay… NEW TOPIC!" I shout, desperate to get away from the sad memories we were both trapped in.
"There has been something bothering me this whole time." I start.
"What is it?"
"Well, it's technically two things. One: Have you always been able to talk like this?"
"Yes, but we don't typically speak to humans. This is the way that dragons talk, just in our own language. You humans hear growls and other noises but to us, it's a language like this."
"Wow. That's amazing. So anytime you guys are growling, you're speaking to each other?"
"Yep. What was your second question?"
"Oh! Well, if you could always do this, why would you only choose to talk to humans now?"
"Well for one, I wasn't even sure if it could work between a dragon and a human so that's one reason. Two, you reacted by screaming and running away. That was after you had spent time with me and knew I wasn't going to hurt you. Imagine what the other humans would do."
"Oh gosh, I can see it now," I say, images swirling through my mind of Vikings freaking out and impulsively lashing out at the dragons.
"It's kind of funny to imagine, a 'big and bad' viki-" He cuts himself off, snapping his head towards the cove entrance. I shift when I realize that when moving into a defensive pose, he managed to slightly block me from the cove's entrance. I moved slightly, going to stand up but froze at his growl.
"Sit back down Hicca." Those three words caused a shiver to run down my spine.
"Why? What's going on?" I say, sitting down and glancing between him and the entrance.
"Someone is coming. They're looking for you." " He says, looking back at me. "And they don't sound friendly."
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~Night Fury's Avenger
