Meg and Hiccup were flying back to the cove, none of them daring to say something.
Once there, Hiccup dismounted Toothless and he said good night to him and Meg. She just nodded and watched him leave. She sighed and turned back to look at Luna and Toothless playing. She chuckled and called Luna for the night. She decided to sleep in the cove and keep company to Toothless. She was still under the surprise of that guy riding a night fury.
Thinking about it made her eventually fall asleep at some point.
The next day, Meg stayed in the cove, playing with the two furies. Luna was still a bit cautious with Toothless. It was cute and funny to watch. Then Luna pushed Meg to go flying, her wings hitching and wanted to be away from the black dragon. Meg chuckled. She petted Toothless on the head, telling him they'll come back in a bit and climbed on Luna to go flying.
They came back after two long hours. But Meg saw Hiccup. With another girl. Her axe in her hand and Toothless not so far. She frowned and landed on top of the cove.
-"Luna, hide!", Meg whispered.
Luna turned invisible by heating her scales and stayed next to Meg, watching the dialogue between that girl and Hiccup. She saw him presenting Toothless before the girl ran away. Hiccup sighed and just let her go, which made Meg not so happy.
-"Hey!", she shouted, gliding the long of the rock wall.
-"Ah! Meg! Hey Meg, I thought you were gone.", Hiccup chuckled nervously.
-"So you'll just let her tell everyone you have a Night Fury here and let them kill him?!", Meg snapped.
-"What- No! Of course not!", Hiccup tried to say.
-"You better, cause or else it's you that they'll find dead.", Meg whispered coldly.
-"What? You wanna kill me?"
-"If it's for a dragon safety, then yeah."
-"You wouldn't-"
-"Try me.", Meg warned.
She had her eyes turned into daggers and shivers went all the way up to his spine. He swallowed hardly and shook, definitely scared. She wasn't joking, he could feel it.
Meg turned around and started to walk away. She stopped in her tracks before adding.
-"You better stop her now and made her change her mind about telling your people.", then she disappeared into the woods.
Hiccup sighed and scratched his head. He looked at Toothless and suddenly had an idea.
Meg was throwing rocks into the ocean, Luna beside her, still with her invisible cloak. She was fuming. She knew she shouldn't have trust a fishbone like this Hiccup. She should have guessed it just by his name. What bad could he bring to her? But what harm could he cause to dragons? The Night Fury actually defended him when the girl was harassing him.
She pulled her hair, making Luna whined in compassion.
-"It's okay sweetie. We just need to find a way to-"
She got interrupted by a high pitch scream in the sky.
She lifted her head up and saw a black shape turning around and around in the sky and going straight to the water then coming back. Meg couldn't help but grin when she saw the girl and Hiccup on the back of Toothless. Maybe he was getting his revenge for having humans riding him without permission. She climbed on Luna and decided to follow them far behind. She laughed on how scared the girl was.
Suddenly, Toothless stopped and went above the clouds. Meg furrowed an eyebrow and so was Luna. So they continued following them. The girl stopped screaming and looked like more amazed now. Meg couldn't help getting more curious. The girl even looked like she was having the time of her life and enjoying it a lot. They approached the village but quickly turned around it and flew away from the small island.
Meg wondered where Toothless was actually bringing them so Luna and her stayed behind them. She heard them talk but couldn't get what they were talking about. She told Luna to get a bit more close but Luna suddenly snapped and her invisible cloak turned opaque. She became all crazy and dived and grazed the water, flying fast toward a big cloud of fog.
-"Luna! Luna where are you going?!"
Luna was like hypnotized. She wasn't listening to Meg and kept flying toward now what looked like a huge volcano.
But before Luna could fly into it, Meg pinched her skin under her neck and covered her ears with her arm. Luna suddenly went limp and went to crash down.
-"Wake up Luna.", Meg whispered gently in her ear.
Luna's eyes opened and she shook her head before opening her wings again and avoiding the hard smash on the rocks. She flew away from that weird island and went back to the cove.
Meg turned around, trying to see if she could find Toothless but she could only Nadders and Zippleback. She sighed and stopped looking back, hoping at least the Night Fury was okay.
Meg was pacing around in the cove, getting worried for the black dragon. Until she heard talking. She ran to hide behind a rock, Luna behind her as well.
-"No No, it totally make sense! It's like a bee hive, there're the workers and that's their queen. Come on, we need to tell your dad!"
Meg gasped. So it was a dragon nest. And that girl wanted to tell everything. She started to thought about killing that girl right away. She looked at them again.
-"Hiccup, we just discovered the nest! The thing that Vikings were looking for since first sail here! And you want to keep it as a secret?! Uh, to protect your pet dragon?! Are you serious?!", the girl chuckled.
-"...Yes.", Hiccup said really serious.
Meg blinked. So that guy really was attached to Toothless. Meg thought better about him. But her mind got stopped when she heard a kiss and then the girl running away.
Hiccup was just going to let her running away?! She groaned and decided to stop hiding.
-"So you're just gonna let her go?!"
Hiccup jumped, not expecting her at this time.
-"Gods, you're scared me!", he said with a hand on his heart.
Meg walked toward him, anger building inside her. She grabbed him by the collar.
-"Are you aware that she might reveal everything?! That she can lead an entire village to a dragon nest?! And you said that you won't let that happen?! Are you kidding me?!", she shouted.
-"No! Astrid won't tell anyone!"
-"How are you so sure about that?!"
-"Because! It's Astrid! It's a woman of her word!"
-"Oh really? And how do you know that? Is she your friend?"
-"Yeah!...no.. I don't know!"
-"You don't know?!", Meg exclaimed.
-"She's a good person! I know she won't tell!", Hiccup shouted back.
-"Oh. I see. You have a crush on her.", Meg scoffed, letting go of his shirt.
-"W-what?! Nooo...", Hiccup blushed, rubbing his neck.
-"Well, I don't care. I'm not trusting her. I should throw her into the ocean.", Meg sighed.
-"What?! I told you I know she won't say a thing!"
-"I don't care about what you say! I don't trust you either anyway!", Meg snapped.
-"Well, maybe you should. I don't wanna hurt a dragon, just like you! My best friend is a dragon, also just like you! Maybe it's time you trust people.", Hiccup snapped as well, actually for the first time in his life.
-"Well guess what, humans are not worth the trust and they proved it many times!"
A silence took place.
Hiccup looked at Meg, determinate. Just like Meg toward Hiccup.
-"I should go.", Hiccup finally say.
Meg snorted and nodded.
Both teenagers walked away and went to sleep on both on their side, thinking about the same thing.
How to keep their dragons safe.
