Chapter Summary: Hiccup is curious and Toothless is over protective.
Disclaimer: I do not own How To Train Your Dragon or anything related to the movie/ Netflix series.
Clarification: Hiccup is ten years old.
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Hiccup's legs gave out and ended up down on the ground facing the sky.
"This is great," he sputtered, "terrific."
Toothless sat down next to him.
"Don't worry," reassured Toothless, "I'm sure they're all still alive, just stay positive." He looked out towards the sea were in the horizon a small ship was burning. It was hard to spot but he was sure it was still there.
He narrowed his eyes.
Definitely still there.
Hiccup sat up from the beach. Sand rolled off his back as he looked towards where Toothless was looking at.
"Oh Gods," Hiccup moaned and threw himself back onto the the beach. He placed his hands on his face and started rolling back and forth. "You're talking about keeping a positive attitude while a berkian ship's on fire?" he muffled out.
"Fine." said Toothless, "just stop panicking."
"Who said anything about panicking?" Hiccup snapped. " I'm just shocked, is all." He stood up brushing of the sand off his trousers. "Just you wait till I've fully absorbed the situation and found my bearings. Then, I'll start panicking!"
"How else would one act when they, basically, set a fire to one's ship?" he continued. He turned towards the islands forest and started walking towards it. They'd be able to hide there if the shi- survivors made their way towards the island.
"Hiccup,"
"Dad's gonna be super mad." He started.
"Hiccup," Toothless walked besides him wearing an annoyed expression.
"We shouldn't have done that," he droned on.
"Shut up."
"We could have helped the-" he was cut off when he saw and felt water land on his face.
"Too-Toothless?" He wiped the water from his face with his sleeve and faced the dragon. "Where'd you get the water?" he asked
incredulously.
"That does not matter."
Hiccup continued to wipe at his face furiously, "Of course it does! There's no water near-"
"Shut up."
"Toothless I-" Hiccup continued to be interrupted.
"Do you regret saving the water spitter?"
"The water spitte- the Scauldron? No. Of course not, it's just that-"
"Then stop talking about it. What is done is done and there is nothing you can do about it." Toothless started walking again, "Besides," he added over his shoulder, "the fire should be out by now."
A faint boom could be heard in the distance.
Hiccup shot a dry look at Toothless who was ahead of him,"You were saying?" he said dryly.
Toothless ignored him and continued walking with no destination in mind. Hiccup sighed and ran up towards Toothless. They continued walking for sometime. Hiccup had a vague idea of where they were, he was certain that they had flown east of Berk, over Hysteria towards a tiny island that was very flat and held a lot of vegetation. It was a perfect place to explore.
They walked for a couple of minutes till they found a clearing. They made them self comfortable and laid down.
"I don't wanna be here."
"In the clearing? I quite like it. It's a nice sunspot." Toothless rumbled out. He closed his eyes and let out a dragon like sigh, enjoying the warmth on is back.
"You know what I'm talking about."
Toothless grumbled and opened one of his eyes, "Hiccup," he warningly said.
"Toothless," he whined, " I'll be back, i'm just going to explore around, may-be find some new dragons or something'."
"That's what I'm afraid of."
Hiccup narrowed his eyes and gave him a flat look.
"Fine." Toothless curled up and made himself comfortable. "It is not my fault if you get eaten."
Hiccup leapt to his feet and ran off, " Be back soon!" he called over his shoulder.
Toothless watched as Hiccup ran off, he exhaled and curled into himself deciding to take a much needed nap.
It had been a while since Hiccup had left Toothless in the clearing.
He had not discovered much, just some old dragon shells and a couple of fruits that were rare in Berk. The island's forest was quite different from Berk, Berk's forest had always looked so calm and sturdy, a consent. This forest looked wild and untamed, as if something might pop out at him any minute. Maybe it was because the forest was new to him but he couldn't shake of the feeling of being watched
There was nothing but quietness, a vast void of silence and obviously, he was all alone but he couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched.
He was about to head back towards where he had left Toothless when he heard some chirping close by. His curiosity was piqued.
He walked forward towards a couple of leafy green bushes and parted them.
There were little dragons about the size of terrors. They were all different colors and were playing with one another. Hiccup figured that they were from the same nest judging by their color type and bodies.
Hiccup chirped a dragon chirp that Toothless had taught him a few month ago.
They chirped back. ::Hello:: ::Hello::
And so that is how Toothless had found Hiccup.
Surrounded by little dragons rolling around in the mud and playfully biting at each other.
"Toothless!" Hiccup stood up dropping a couple of the dragons that were on him. "Look!"
Toothless, at seeing what Hiccup was doing, adopted a menacing look and growled which scared the dragons. Toothless plucked Hiccup from the ground with his teeth and dragged him away from the hatchlings much to Hiccup's protest.
"Toothless! What are you doing?"
"I warned you about getting into trouble." Toothless grumbled, Hiccup's vest was still in between his teeth.
The little dragons followed.
"They aren't dangerous, i've been playing with them, they're little, harmless dragons, look!"
The wild dragons were still following them. Toothless spit Hiccup out from his mouth and growled at them trying to scare them off but they ran towards Hiccup and hid behind him.
"Toothless what's wrong."
"They're hatchlings, little annoying hatchling that have a very angry dam looking for them."
"A dam? Like a mom?"
Toothless nudged Hiccup forwards with his head making Hiccup stumble, but walked towards where he was being leaded.
"I didn't see a dam with them when I found them," He continued, "maybe they're abandoned."
"No they are not. I can smell her close by, that's why we need to go. Now."
Hiccup slouched, a bit disappointed but followed as instructed. Only, the hatchling's didn't get the memo. They followed Hiccup chirping and tripping over each other, crowding at his feet. One of the more brave and curio-user hatchlings crept closer towards Toothless, eyeing the long, black limb.
"No. Leave." Toothless barked out towards the hatchlings. The hatchlings moved closer.
The purple hatchling near Toothless's tale was creeping up towards it, like a predator about to pounce and just as he was opening his jaw ready to capture his prey, his dam showed up.
The hatchling's mother came bursting through with a roar. It was a giant, a mix of bright blues, greens and oranges, and it was angry. Toothless immediately went into defensive mood, standing protectively over Hiccup, stretching his wings to make himself look bigger and intimidating.
"Hiccup!" Toothless called out.
Hiccup scrambled towards a large tree and hid behind it.
The dragon -none like he's seen before-called out towards her hatchling, upon seeing them she wrapped her long thick tail around them protectively.
::Dam, Dam, food, play, safe:: Hiccup could only make out some of the little dragons chirps.
The mother ignored her hatchling chirps and focused on the black night fury standing before her. She roared at Toothless and stomped her paws on the ground as if to say this was her territory.
Toothless responded with a snort and a low growl. "No danger, safe. Protecting Hatchling."
At the mention of a hatchling the dragon seized her growls but continued to hold her ground.
"We are leaving." Toothless announced to Hiccup, but Hiccup had other ideas. He slipped out of his hiding place, jumped over Toothless's tail, got on all fours and scampered from underneath Toothless's wings to show the dragon they were of no danger.
The vividly colored dragon was surprised at the sight of Hiccup and growled at him.
"Hiccup!" Toothless stomped his forepaws once he saw Hiccup crawling towards the mother dragon. Of course Hiccup would do such a thing. Toothless let out a snarl but this time directed towards Hiccup, "Hiccup stop."
Hiccup chose to ignore Toothless's cries and continued on all fours towards the dragon, chirping hello's and safe and play.
"I will give you a fish if you stop." Toothless tried to persuade.
The dragon lowered her large snout towards Hiccup, which Toothless did not like at all. He let out a screech making the dragoness retrieve her snout back.
Hiccup continued his playful chirps and stretched a hand out.
Toothless glared at Hiccup and tried again, "Two fishes. I will give you two fishes."
The multicolored dragon once again lowered her large colorful snout towards Hiccup and sniffed him.
Toothless had not moved from his defense position. A mother dragon with hatchlings, no matter what species, was one of the most dangerous types of dragons, nightfury or not Toothless would not escape unscathed from a fight with this dragon.
"Three fishes. I will give you three fishes and get you one of your silly plant foods. That's my final offer before I go over there and drag you back."
Once the dragoness started sniffing she did not stop till she had sniffed all of him. She shoved her large hunch like snout at him and sniffed him all over and gave a trilled when she deemed him a friend.
Hiccup smiled triumphantly while Toothless looked at him displeased.
The mother was very friendly with both Hiccup and Toothless. She had allowed Hiccup to play with her hatchlings and had asked for Toothless to take care of them while she went of in search of food.
She had been awfully curious about Hiccup. She had never seen a hatchling like him before, one with fur and long limbs and strange scales but once she smelled him and heard him she realized that he was very much a dragon, a strange dragon like his guardian but a dragon indeed.
She trusted the nótt buðlungr, and even though he was young she knew he was fierce and trustworthy like most of his kind.
Hiccup had spent a large amount of time playing with his new dragon friends.
He had never seen this type of dragon only the basic four and whatever Toothless was. He had seen the book of dragons though. But one look at it and he immediately shut it. The only things he could find in there were ways to kill them and whether or not they were dangerous. He didn't want that type of information. He knew that many dragons were not dangerous only showing signs of aggression when challenged or in this case when hatchlings were in stake.
To Hiccup the book of dragons was repugnant, unappealing and useless.
And because of this he had started a new book of dragons which was still a work in progress. He had a couple of entries in it; a terrible terror, a nightmare, Toothless, a scauldron, a nadder, a basic brown, a gronkle. Now he will be adding a new entry to his book, a dragon that he was sure no one knew of.
::Stay:: Hiccup chirped at the hatchlings but they refused to listen, preferring to bother Hiccup and investigate the strange wooden and string tools he had in his satchel and the strange bark he held in his hands.
Toothless let out a dragon laugh in the background. "They are hatchlings they listen to no one."
He wrote that down, his charcoal dancing across the page in smooth motions which attracted one of the hatchlings interest. It followed the charcoal with his eyes getting dizzy in the process.
"We need a name." he announced to no one in particular. He twisted his waist to turn towards Toothless. "What are they called?" he asked.
"They are called sniffers." responded Toothless.
Hiccup scrunched up his nose. "Sniffers," he repeated. "Why?" he asked.
Toothless lifted his tail just before one of the purple hatchling's jaw closed around it. He growled in annoyance before answering his question, "They claim to be able to sniff out a friend or foe. That is why I did not mind it too much when the is she came near you."
The purple hatchling was not discouraged in fact it was even more so encouraged to keep trying to bite down on the older dragon's tail. It once more made a jump towards it, his wings fluttering around uselessly as he crashed farther away than intended.
"That explains why they have a large snout it's almost as if they had a hunch on there nose" Hiccup continued to draw out what the little hatchlings looked like into his book.
"There. See?" He showed the hatchlings his new writings and drawing in his book. They looked curiously at it but soon dismissed it and continued with their play fight. Hiccup placed his book back in his satchel, along with his charcoal.
The hatchlings mother came back a couple of minutes later with a large bloody deer in it's jaws. The hatchling scurried towards their mother, pushing and pulling to get closer towards their food. The mother eventually put down the dear and the dragons attacked it as if they were wild animals - which they were.
The mother dragon chirped at Hiccup, ::Food, eat ::
Hiccup had tried to reply back but due to his limited vocabulary Toothless had to step in and save Hiccup from the horror of eating dragon killed deer.
They said their goodbyes- much to Toothless's relief- and head back towards Berk flying over pieces of burnt wood and through Hysteria. The sun was currently at it's highest point which meant that he had plenty time before his dad started looking for him. He had to go to the forge today which reminded him.
"Toothless?" Hiccup looked down towards his friends face. Toothless looked back up and rumbled as to say he was listening. " I think we need another way for me to hang on to you. I was thinking I could make a saddle."
Toothless snorted, "Do I look like a four-legged dumb land mammal?"
Hiccup flushed and stuttered out an apology. Toothless let out his dragon laugh and shushed Hiccup, "If it is meant for your safety then I do not mind. Gods know you need it."
"Hey!"
They continued to fly in silence for a couple minutes before Hiccup asked,"What about Snifflehunch?"
Toothless seemed to consider it, "Yes, I think that title is most fitting." He turned his head to look at Hiccup, " What do your kind call me?"
Hiccup shield his eyes from the glare of the sun and thought about it real hard but came up with nothing. "I dunno, I've never seen you in Berk's Book of Dragons and Gobber never mentioned a black dragon."
They landed in the cove, Hiccup slid off Toothless and reached into his satchel to write in the book. He closed it and hid it in between a couple of rocks that protected the book from the harsh elements. He said his goodbye to Toothless and left the cove towards Berk.
So Hiccup can understand Toothless, yay! So clarifications: Hiccup can only mentally understand Toothless, to understand a dragon other then Toothless he has to learn dragoness which Toothless had been teaching him. Toothless speech/thoughts are in Italics. Dragon's speaking are in these ::bad boys::.
Fun fact: Mother dragons are extremely territorial and will kill anyone and anything if they think they are a threat to the safety of there hatchlings/eggs.
This story was inspired by Hitchups if you haven't read it you should read it cause it's amazing. Comment/ review/ favorite/ follow and I'll see you guys next time.