Chapter one
*LUNA POV*
Luna walked in the darkness of night, passing her favourite park where she would go to sunbathe and go on picnics in the summer, and in the night she'd watch the moon shine brightly in the sky.
She always loved the night, it would make her forget that she lived in the bustling city, filled with smoke and vehicles. The night gave her a feeling of warmth and safety. Many people were afraid of the dark, but not her, her urge to explore would bring her through.
She walked over to the meadow in the park that she would mainly hang out in. She pummeled into the grass and breathed in the fresh earthy scent. Soon Luna looked up at the stars, their faint glittering made her smile.
Luna sighed realizing her parents would be worried if she was gone much longer. she yawned again and smiled, staying around for a few more minutes wouldn't hurt.
She felt the wonderful light breeze go through her hair she looked up at the sky. She saw some stars disappear and reappear a few moments later. Luna looked more closely and saw that what was making the stars disappear was a shape in the sky, she shrugged looking at it, it is probably a bird or a bat.
But it didn't look like a bird when she looked more closely.
The thing in the sky had four muscular looking legs that came into view when its huge wings didn't hide them. In an instant, Luna realized she had stood up and started to run towards the creature that had started to run away she started running after it.
Luna felt her lungs screaming, begging her to stop, but her legs just kept going. As Luna continued to ignore the pain in her chest and kept running, she looked up at the sky again and saw the creature fly deeper into the park until it landed near a trail that led straight into the forest.
"Had I already run to the forest? how long had I been running?" Luna asked herself and got distracted again as her legs started running again.
The forest thickened and her heart beat faster, she could barely see anything, or the trees were blocking the light of the moon. As she was running the tripped on a root and got up and dusted herself off.
Luna looked around and saw she was in a small clearing, the trees loomed over her like dark shadows, and in the middle, there was a patch where moonlight seeped in.
She shivered and felt a gush of cold air. She heard a huff and turned around, her eyes widened as she saw what was in front her, she was face to face with, a THING. She couldn't tell what it was though, it was hidden in the shadows, all she could see were its eyes.
Luna looked into its eyes, which were green as lush and bright as a rainforest. The creature looked at her for a few seconds until it came closer, as the creature approached she was able to see what it looked like in the moonlight.
She saw it had a muscular shape. With black scales covering its body, the beast had some scars that indicated battles it had won.
Its large wings were tucked into its sides, and it had ears at the top of its head. The creature started to circle her, its eyes turning into slits, its tail came out of the shadows, showing two large black tail fins.
Luna soon realized it was a Nightfury, a dragon from her favourite movie, How To Train Your Dragon. But it was fictional! Right?
"Impossible..." Luna breathed as the dragon's eyes had become softer and it sat down in front of her, its breath went onto her hair. She stayed still and looked away as the dragon sniffed her head and grumbled to itself. The Nightfury nodded to itself and she put her head up so she was looking into its eyes again.
The Nightfury's eyes showed a mixture of emotion, fear, pain, and trust. It opened its mouth, luna smelled the dragons fishy breath and chuckled lightly, not quite sure of what to do.
Luna looked up at the sky and sighed, she turned back to the Nightfury and saw it's throat glowing and turning into a bluish-purple colour.
Then she realized that it was preparing to fire at her, her mouth opened in shock. She hadn't done anything! she had just stayed still, why was it firing at her!?
Luna slowly started to back away, not sure what to do. "Please don't shoot!" She yelled covering her face as the light became brighter.
The Nightfury didn't stop, moments later she heard a plasma blast erupt from its maw. Luna felt a warmth engulf her, but not a good warmth. The warmth of lava, burning her skin, it felt like her flesh was being torn straight from her body.
She opened her mouth to scream, but nothing came out.
Then her vision went black, all her thoughts fading.
*Hours Later*
Luna's eyes opened, her head was roaring and she groaned at the headache.
She slowly lifted her head and looked around, it was hard to see in the dark, but she could see the edges of sinks and toilets. Was she in a public bathroom...?
She blinked "This isn't happening" she murmured and closed her eyes, she opened them again. Still in the same place.
She looked around and saw that there was a door on the left side, the moonlight still was glittering outside, it was still nighttime. She realized she needed to get home, her parent's would probably ground her FOR LIFE. For all, she knew it could be close to sunrise!
She groaned again and got up, she didn't want to be laying on the bathroom floor for longer then she needed to. She stood up and felt something dragging behind her on her back and rear. Luna started to walk towards the exit and found herself looking at the park she had relaxed in earlier. She saw that she was in the bathroom of the park's pool. Luna walked up to the pool, she wanted to know what was tugging at her from behind.
Luna walked up to the water and peered at the reflection, she saw a Night Fury and jumped, worried the dragon might have been back to hurt her. She wished she could have been friends with the Night fury, like Hiccup and Toothless!
She fell into the water and flailed around until she realized she was in the shallow end, she grunted in annoyance and then tilted her head in confusion as she felt no clothes on her body.
Luna looked down at herself and saw light greyish-silver scales.
Her rear had a large long tail which had two tail fins sticking out from her tail, she looked at her hands which were now claws. Her back had two large wings that where drooping.
"I knew it! I'm dead" Luna said and looked at her claws and lightly touched her scales.
She smirked and then slightly pinched herself. "Ow! I'm not dead, yet." She growled and got out of the pool, she shook herself off and sat down in front of the water again.
She moved her odd tongue in her mouth and looked back again and saw her wings and tail, then she tilted her head again as she saw that as her dark silver wings shine as they touched the moonlight. "Wow….." She said to herself.
She smiled as her eyes lit up in happiness.
"I can't believe this is happening, I AM A FREAKING DRAGON WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
She said in excitement and laughed at her own childlike gesture. She looked around cautiously hoping no one heard her, but the park stayed quit, some crickets chirped and she sighed in relief.
She got up, realizing that she should probably get going before someone sees her. She used her claws to trace down her scales, she got up and fell on her face as she tried to take a step.
She growled and got up again, walking on four legs was surprisingly harder she expected.
After several tries of walking, running, and jumping, she had finally been able to go around as she pleased without falling.
She smirked as she saw a wooden fence and looked at her wings, maybe she could be able to fly. Where would she go? Probably back to her house. But was it so bad if she wanted to explore, just a little? She could go see her friend Sarah, which she hadn't seen in what felt like forever. Luna had known Sarah since she was young, and they were both HUGE fans of How To Train Your Dragon.
Luna smiled as memories flooded her, but they were quickly dismissed with sadness. They texted every so often, but she always felt like Sarah had been somewhat distant from her.
But either way, Sarah lived too far away for her to go visit anyway, she would just go back home.
Before Luna realized what was happening she found herself at the large wooden fence. If she was able to climb up, then she would be able to try and fly, not that she knew how to fly, at all.
The wood was smooth and new, there was absolutely no way to get to the top, it was away higher then she was, and she was as high as a six-foot adult now!
Luna growled and smiled, she wasn't going to give up! This is only the beginning! What type of night fury was she if she couldn't even fly or climb a fence! She looked up and jumped, trying to catch the top of the fence, she thought shed just slide down, but she didn't.
Her two front claws attached to the wood.
Luna felt a triumphant face plaster onto her face. She heaved herself up ad used her claws to climb to the top. She heaved and gasped for breath and got up. Her tail dangled from the side of the fence. "What type of fences are 9 feet tall?" She murmured to herself and looked upwards at the sky.
Luna looked at her wings "Time for the hard part" she said and closed her eyes, imagining her wings opening. She felt her wings shift on her back lightly. She concentrated harder and jolted as she felt a sharp pain go through her wing. She turned around and saw it was fine, she must have just pulled a muscle.
Once the pain subsided luna tried once again, the feeling of other limbs felt a lot more different then she expected, as she continued for another ten or so minutes she was able to spread her silver wings half out.
Luna nodded to herself and looked down. "Here goes nothing" she murmured and crouched. Her legs lifted off from the ground. A feeling of freedom came over her for a moment, until she started to fall, she tried to bring her wings out, but they wouldn't budge. She fell to the cold ground with an "oomph!".
"That was terrible, again!' She said an ran up the fence once again, this continued numerous times until Luna felt out of breath, and she was panting and felt the clench of thirst.
She wouldn't give up though, a large gust of wind hit her, and on instinct she jumped, her wings opened to their full size, as she felt herself pummeling she waited for impact. Nothing came.
Luna opened her eyes and saw trees below her. She turned around to see her wings and saw them open fully, air going over and under them as they cut through the wind.
She howled in joy, almost losing her balance, she carefully felt her wings and was able to beat them upwards until she was high enough not to hit any buildings.
In her celebration, she realized she was actually going the opposite way from her house.
"How do I turn around?" she asked herself.
As she tried to turn left she realized that she was falling. Her wings flailed around and she landed on a balcony of an apartment building. Luna groaned and looked inside the apartment, it seemed somewhat familiar.
"This is Bethany's house, what are the odds?" She said and groaned. Memories flooded with her former friend, they used to be close until she started to hang out with the popular children in the school leaving her alone to rot. Now whenever someone made fun of her Bethony would join in.
Luna continued to peer into the house, she'd give Bethony quite a scare, but it would be what her grandmother would call "rude" or "unacceptable" if she went into the house without permission. But at the moment she wasn't here, and she knew that there was a possibility that he might not be a Dragon forever, so she was going in.
Luna opened the door of the balcony with her talons, she slipped in as silently as a serpent, except for the occasional grunt as she had to squeeze through the doors. Her dark form walked from room to room, she saw Bethany's sister and mother, her father must have been out for the night.
As Luna approached Bethany's room, the smell of noodles flooded her nostrils, along with the smells of chocolate, garbage, and sweat. Her large nostrils wrinkled in disgust, she could smell everything! She already had a strong nose like a human, but these smells where just taking the cake! Which she could also smell in the fridge downstairs.
Luna grunted in annoyance as her talons tried to open the door when she finally opened it the smell of sweat became stronger. With one of her talons, she tried to plug her nose but her newly shaped muzzle was making it hard to do so.
The Night fury looked around and saw Bethany's empty bed. She turned around and saw a large lump, slightly plumper looking than herself. Although she could see the wings and a large rigid tail.
"Hello? Who are you? And what are you doing in Be-a human's room!" She said, trying to act like an actual Dragon, she didn't know why Night furies were coming out of the blue. But she might as well act like one if they were in her former best friend's room!
The other night fury turned its head towards her, the dragons green eyes reminded her of autumn grass as it started to turn bare and brown. Luna felt like she knew those eyes anywhere, she saw them every day at school, that could only be, "Bethany?!"Luna asked in disbelief
"That is my name, Who are You? How do you know my name? AND WHY IN FRICKS NAME ARE YOU IN MY HOUSE?!" Bethany screeched. Luna grabbed onto her muzzle and growled. "Are you insane!? First of all, it's Luna, second of all we are in an apartment building filled with civilization all around us." Luna growled quietly and took her talon off her mouth.
"What happened to m-!?" She tried to say before Luna but her talon on Bethany's huge mouth once again. "Ok….. Tell me what happened, quietly." Luna said.
"And I don't care if we aren't friends, just tell me."
"Fine, I'll tell you." Bethany began in a snarky tone
"My mom kicked me out of the house she wanted me to go outside, so I hung out at the park near the school on my phone until the sun started to go down. Then when I was on my way home I got knocked to the side by something, I thought it was a dog, or maybe you because you smell like one." Bethany sneered.
"Ok, continue….." Luna said to her wanting to gut-punch her, but resisting the urge.
Bethany continued, " I started yelling at it and then I saw its ugly face, with scars and stuff, I could barely even see it except for its orange eyes, soon enough saw its wings and tail and realized it was a dragon. So I tried to scream and the dragon blasted me with its fire, it hurt like hell! So I'm now a dragon, you're the dragon freak, so what do we do?" Bethany finished.
"Well, let's start with leaving, I don't really know what to do because I have never literally been a dragon before." She said gruffly to Bethany.
"Well, you better fix this, because I can't go to school looking like a crusty burnt piece of toast!" Bethany scowled.
"You're only upset because you won't see Hawk again, and you Looooooooove him." Luna said with a large smirk plastered all over her face. Bethany's figure wasn't very clear in the dark, but luckily Luna's eyes adjusted slowly to see Bethany with an angry scowl on her face.
"I DO NOT!" Bethany almost yelled at her but stopped herself. Luna smirked again and left the room and went to the balcony and squeezed through the door. Bethany followed and for her, it was a lot harder for her to squeeze through then Luna.
"Well, it's time to go! If more than one person is for some unknown reason is turning into Night furies, which is first of all awesome, then we should see if there might be a reason this is all happening, so let's fly to a place where we can sleep, then we will figure out something later, is that good with you?" Luna said in a flat tone, feeling quite upset that the one she was stuck with was someone who cared less about How To Train Your Dragon and hated her guts.
"I am not going anywhere with you! And if you think I'm jumping then you're a saltless pretzel!" Bethany yelled looking down at the land below.
"Sometimes I wonder how I was ever friends with you in the first place, and that insult is getting REALLY old….. "Luna muttered to herself and jumped into the air as her wings caught the wind. She beat her wings once again, slowly turning to she didn't leave Bethany behind, no matter how much she wanted to.
"Lean left to go left, lean right to go right…," Luna muttered to herself, she hovered in the air and smiled that she wasn't pummeling to the ground from the top of an apartment building.
"I am not jumping!" Bethany yelled once again.
"Worse case I'll have to catch you, but just remember that you just open your wings and flap." Luna said back to her twirling in the air.
"If you think I even know how to flap these wings on my back then you might as well be the dumbest person on earth!" Bethany yelled and turned back to her apartment.
Bethany said again trying to move her wings but barely able to get them to move at all, emphasizing her point. "I'm just going to stay here, I'm not going to die from trusting a dragon girl!" Bethany said once again.
"Well too bad!" Luna said and took her talons with her own and dragged her off the ledge
"AUGH! YOUR CRAZY! WE ARE GOING TO DIE!" Bethany yelled as she clutched onto Luna's shoulders as they started to fall, her wings went towards the lake as they fell and they pummeled into the cold water.
*Bethany POV*
Bethany's eyes stung as she stuck her head out of the water, she shivered as she gasped for breath, why did this have to happen to her? WHY DID LIFE WANT TO KILL HER AND LET HER BE MISERABLE!?"
Her attention turned to Luna, how she felt a violent hatred towards her, they used to be best friends, but when she started hanging out with other people Luna got SOOOOO mad for some reason, and Now luna spends most of her time with Hawk, which she didn't want to admit she was slightly jealous.
She swam to shore not looking up, she spat out the water that tastes like garbage and duck poop, oh how she hated her life!
She turned to see Luna get onto shore with one of her dumb grins on her face, how was she happy? How could this possibly be a ti-why was Luna staring at her?
Bethany saw that Luna was not looking at her eyes, but her back. She turned around to see that her scales had a thick looking layer that looked like fog on top of her dark grey scales.
'Great, I'm even uglier as a dragon." Bethany growled and turned to Luna.
"Since you almost killed me and made me really cold how about you just leave me alone?" Bethany growled at her and started to walk away.
"Wait! You won't last a minute without me, you're not a human, you cant roam around as you please, let's just go with my original plan and find somewhere to stay for the night?" Luna said to her.
"Fine, only because you literally locked me out of my own house." Bethany growled at her and looked at her blankly "Are you going to teach me to fly or will just be a pile of bones by the time we're done?"
She saw Luna sigh, always with the sighing, she was just a burnt piece of bread with no flavour.
"Yes, let's just go where no one can see us," Luna mumbled and walked over to a beach surrounded by trees, it was one of the only spots that Bethany knew of where she couldn't see
"So just try and jump, and if you fall you'll just go into the water, you will not succeed the first few times so chill if you don't get it first try," Luna said sitting down.
"Are you going to show me how it's done or are you just going to sit there?" Bethany growled.
"Pretty much, I'll just give you tips." Luna said making Bethany growl, sometimes she wondered if she didn't mean to be so unhelpful or if Luna was doing it just to spite her!
Bethany felt another growl rumble in her throat as she looked down at the water, more sewage and poop water for her, yay. She jumped and felt herself fall, she fell into the water and the cold wrapped onto her like her blankets in the morning, tugging her back into the covers.
She got up again and saw Luna looking at her blankly, she scowled and continued jumping falling, after ten times she fell onto the ground tiredly, "I can't do it." She muttered.
"Yes you can, get up and ACTUALLY try, it took me WAY more than ten tries to get it right, just wait for a breeze to come in." Luna said and walked back to where she was sitting.
"Wow, mostly useless information, bland unsalted pretzel…" Bethany growled and went over to where she would jump off. She waited for the wind and jumped, she felt her wings open and didn't feel the impact of the water.
Bethany breathed in the scent of the cold night air and looked down and saw her as flying right on top of the water, she didn't dare to moe, she was already a terrible swimmer, and she was going further towards the lake and farther from the land.
She started to struggle in fear and saw Luna beside her, "Lean right to turn right, lean left to go left." Luna said to her calmly. "That's the most useful thing you said all day!" Bethany said carefully turning around and falling back onto the land, her mouth now filled with sand.
"Well now that you can actually fly let's go, I think I know a perfect place for us to sleep tonight." Luna said to her and jumping and hovering above her.
"Ya, No, I'm going home, if my mom knows what happened maybe shell be able to find someone to help, you should go back too." Bethany growled, she knew that Luna could gt ahead of herself, and since they had stopped being friends Bethany learned not to trust Luna, she was the weird one in the class after all.
"Fine, don't come with me, but you seriously don't believe you'll get help, right? How will you communicate? If you turned to a Night fury, there must be others out there! Maybe we'll find a way to turn back! I get its hard to leave everything behind! But go on this adventure with me, you'll see! Do you really want to be stuck here for your whole life?" Luna said and tilted her head.
Bethany turned away not meeting Luna's gaze, she didn't want to admit it, but Luna could be possibly right, and Bethany knew that she missed luna somewhat, she missed her adventures side, her smile, along with hawks, but she'd never admit it. Bethany turned to luna again and opened her wings.
"Fine, ll come with you." Bethany growled and waited for a large gust of air to come and she jumped up and started to fly away from the lake, where Luna followed.
Bethany felt herself going lower, she had to beat her wigs upwards to stay level, her wings felt like they would stretch. Bethany turned to luna and saw the tired expression on her face.
"Well, where are we sleeping, and whats your master plan?" Bethany said blankly.
"Well, theirs a How To Train Your Dragon convention happening tomorrow, I was planning on going but now I'm actually a dragon…. So I thought we could find a way in, maybe pretend to be a statue? Then well go in, and honestly, since now we know that dragons are real, we can kidnap the person who made the book series, you know Cressida Cowell right?" Luna asked.
"No, no I don't, your plan sucks! KIDNAPPING SOMEONE?! DO YOU EVEN HAVE A BRAIN!?" Bethany screeched at the top of her lungs.
"I'm just saying, she might know something about it, maybe she will know what happened, and I guess it's not really kidnapping, it's borrowing." Luna replied beating her wings upwards again.
"Well, I won't help you, I'll just stay where we sleep and wait for you." Bethany grumbled.
"Ha! Ya ok, fat chance." Luna said and turned left.
Bethany followed, "Where are you going?! Why are we going out of the city?!" Bethany asked breathlessly looking down at the ground again, seeing if she would fall shed almost certainly die. "We're going to where the convention is, which is in a town OUT of the city."
"Oh did I mention don't agree to this plan? I don't think there is ANY way that a woman that made some dumb book will be able to help our situation here, and won't people notice that we aren't mascots and that we have REAL scales?" Bethany asked.
"Well, I thought you weren't coming with me to the convention?" Luna said smugly looking at Bethany.
"I-I don't know ok! And don't give me that look!" Bethany growled and dove down when Luna dove into the forest.
The two dragons landed and looked around, you could hear an owl hooting in the distance, you could smell the pine trees and the sap that leaked out, Bethany hated it! Shed only gone camping once in her life, and THIS was not how it went
*Luna POV*
"So there is a How To Train Your Dragon convention around HERE? Because I don't think anyone would come if it was in the middle of the woods" Bethany grumbled and lifted her talon off the mud.
"Yes, that's what I remember seeing on the Internet," Luna answered smiling at the forest around her.
"This is the most stupid plan I have ever heard!" Bethany shouted, "First I turn into a dragon, I end up stuck with you, and now I have to sleep in the woods!"
"Well, we need each other at the moment!" Luna hissed, "So get used to it." she said running over to a large boulder that protected them from the wind
Luna looked around and saw a fallen log.
"Look we can sleep under the rock, and we will get protection from the wind!" Luna said.
"Right, and were not animals Luna! Maybe we could go into the town and find a tent to steal or SOMETHING other than a rock!" Bethany hissed walking over to her.
"We are animals, and since that's what we are we're going to sleep like them, so lay down!" Luna said laying down beside the boulder.
"Fine! But don't blame me if we get covered in spiders or dirt, or SOMETHING!" Bethany grumbled laying down beside her.
When Bethany laid down Luna looked at her and told her to stay there, she'd find some bedding or something to make them more comfortable. While Luna walked throughout the woods, she saw a trail that was obviously made by people, she followed it until she saw the outskirts of the large town where the convention would be.
She smiled at the thought of seeing the author of the original book series of How To Train Your Dragon in the first place, Bethany may have not been excited, but she certainly was!
She walked back through the forest back to Bethany where she smiled and laid down, Bethany grumbled slightly. Seeing that Bethany was already asleep Luna closed her eyes and waited for sleep to engulf her.