NFF- Hiccup's encounter with the god of night

A/N:

changed my profile so that you know that I am going to be splitting updates between my stories.

Big thanks to Nightfuryfanfic. This story is his brainchild and his cover for my first story is nearing completion.

Suggestions for Shadewrath' s personality?

Part 4: trick shots!

Hiccup looked to the distance with a set expression. He knew that the problems with the dragon hunters was only a start. Those dragon hunters would fight tooth and nail to capture or kill the two night furies who came with him.

Toothless realised (with a helpful message from the god of night) that Hiccup hadn't used the full extent of his powers.

"Hiccup you do realise there's more given to you than just dragon eyes and darker skin?"

Hiccup turned his face to displeasure, this was not really what he wanted to talk about.

"I do realise that there is more to this gift but it's too risky! What if the village freaks out and labels me an outcast for life?! I can resist slight displeasure but full on hate is another."

Toothless crooned to calm his rider

"don't worry Hiccup, although Vikings are Vikings and stubborn with that they can change. For need of a better cliché you know how they can change because you made them change. It's heavily repeated by now but you are the first to get Vikings to like dragons! Never forget that."

Hiccup smiled at the assurances of the dragon.

"I hope so, but it was hard the first time and I don't think it will be much easier this time. Also, I'm worried I won't understand it."

Shadewrath was underwhelmed.

"that is acknowledging defeat Hiccup. Your abilities are a part of you and your subconscious knows that."

Hiccup smarted at this.

"well how am I supposed to reach my subconscious?! It's subconscious for a reason!"

Shadewrath stayed unimpressed.

"pure instinct will drive you at first and then you will know."

After Shadewrath said this he started to charge a plasma blast while aiming at Hiccup. Hiccup was horrified at this sudden attack

"why are you doing that?! Nooooo-!"

As he was interrupted from his protests by the blast being fired. He raised his hands instinctively and prepared for the inevitable death. The plasma blast hit his arms, and to his surprise, broke up on contact and didn't harm him as the explosive sprayed into the air behind him. He was astonished and immediately checked his hands for injury.

What he found astounded him, not only were his arms unhurt, but they had also grown black scales to protect against the blast. Shadewrath decided to continue this lesson on the mystified boy.

"now that's out of the way we can move onto stage two of "yes you can access the subconscious you silly Hiccup."

As Hiccup was both surprised that there were stages of this and irritated that he had decided to choose such a long winded name. Shadewrath then took a hold of Toothless' s tail. Hiccup responded in panic.

"what are you doing to Toothless?!"

Toothless was also confused until Shadewrath encouraged him into action.

"come on Toothless! I got you, so you can flip him for stage 2."

Toothless was confused until logic offered him clarity. Stage 2. What must be the flying stage of hiccup's teaching. He half rolled into inverted flight. Hiccup fell screaming off Toothless' s back.

Toothless watched as Hiccup fell. He shouldn't do anything to halt the onset of Hiccup's instincts, but it was hard when he could see his friend plummet while screaming for help.

Hiccup was falling helplessly towards the ocean below. In his panicked state he resorted to just screaming for help on his horrifying plummet towards earth. To make it worse Toothless was just sitting above him watching him fall as Shadewrath stabilised Toothless at the tail.

Hiccup's gaze once again shifted towards the ground. In the middle of his near death experience strange things started to happen. Suddenly he knew his speed, he knew his altitude and then suddenly he felt two large appendages launch from his back into the air around as well as one long one lengthening from his tailbone.

As Hiccup was about to dismiss these appendages as merely near death insanity playing it's role he felt these appendages shift to start catching air. Hiccup was merely an onlooker for a moment as his wings and tails acted independently to keep him flying. After having recovered from his shock he looked up and saw Shadewrath. Angrily he gained altitude to meet him.

Toothless looked on with awe at the stunning metamorphosis as Hiccup gained flight in physical terms. He was however worried when Hiccup looked up at them and started to fly rapidly towards them, fury evident as glowing markings on his skin.

Hiccup came behind Shadewrath and prepared to give him a loud shout of anger. As he had inhaled in preparation he noticed something peculiar in how he took his breath, it didn't seem like he was using his lungs.

Toothless continued watching as Hiccup came up behind Shadewrath and shockingly started to produce a plasma blast. Toothless started to warn Shadewrath

"Shadewrath? Hiccup's preparing a plasma bla- "

He was cut off by Shadewrath who replied in a calm tone

"stage 3"

Toothless was astonished by the risk that his night fury friend was taking and was nervously anticipating the shot. Just as Hiccup shot, Shadewrath pitched up and allowed the shot to pass below him. Hiccup was overcome with worry after he saw what had come out instead of his shout of anger.

"are you okay Shadewrath? That shot passed awfully close to you."

Shadewrath just gave a smile back

"Don't worry Hiccup it was all part of the plan and I was ready to dodge that strike. Now you know exactly that you can tap into your dragon knowledge."

As hiccup noticed both the truth of Shadewrath' s statement and how he had let himself fall into the dragon's cunning trap he sighed. Toothless gave a small chuckle, Hiccup was confused at what was hilarious about the affair.

"what's so funny Toothless?"

Toothless replied with mirth

"Night furies supposedly never miss. That however looked an awful lot like a miss to me."

Hiccup sighed again as he realised his disappointing shot.

Meanwhile the shot by Hiccup careened towards the ocean. Happening upon a fishing vessel the supercharged shot hit the ship. The ship was blown apart and the mast was sent skyward. It tumbled end over end towards the flying trio.

Toothless noticed the mast flying towards them but was unable to get across a warning before the mast hit Shadewrath in the gut. In a quick turn of events Shadewrath let go of Toothless' s tail in pain forcing Hiccup to rapidly remount Toothless before he fell. Recovering from his pain Shadewrath went to pick up and inspect the projectile.

"how did this get up so far?" Shadewrath asked with pain still apparent.

Toothless noted something interesting on one end of the mast and notified Shadewrath with mirth entering his voice.

"It both seems to be a warm dragon blast that propelled it up here and the result of a plasma blast."

Shadewrath looked crestfallen as he realised the gist of Toothless' s explanation

"you don't mean that – "

Toothless gave a cunning smile as he expanded.

"yes, I do. Hiccup lived up to the maxim and landed one Helheim of a trick shot. What a lucky shot!"

Shadewrath was unable to comprehend the turn of luck on Hiccup's shot while Hiccup was astonished at the turn of events.

Toothless was curious of how it had happened.

"try it again Hiccup."

Hiccup lined up the shot like he had before but just before he shot he realised his vision went past Shadewrath to pick up another target. He released his shot as before and watched as it passed by Shadewrath with another one of his evasive manoeuvres. The trio waited for the result before seeing a slightly burned tree end heading in their general direction.

Shadewrath was astonished.

"firstly, Hiccup That is one Helheim of a shot. Secondly, I think this one will miss me."

Hiccup was a bit disappointed that he was going to miss this trick shot, but his dragon side evidently refused the idea. Hiccup was charging a shot before he knew it and discharged it into the log.

Shadewrath watched the log as it sailed towards him on a trajectory he knew would miss. Just as it was about to pass he saw Hiccup charging another shot. He was about to manoeuvre again but it was too fast, and Hiccup wasn't aiming directly at him. Hiccup released the shot into the log.

Before Shadewrath could fully comprehend the significance of Hiccup's shot hitting the log. the log was thrown sideways into him. He cried out and Toothless was watching with morbid curiosity.

"well he sure served you right for saying that comment."

Shadewrath, the mighty night fury, was a gibbering wreck at the show of the two most creative trick shots he had ever seen. Hiccup was astonished and excited at the honed edge of his abilities.

Toothless was sure that this had gone too far and made sure Hiccup was calmer.

"Hiccup I think that's enough for today, Shadewrath is in a pretty bad shape. Let's get back to the base before anything else."

Hiccup returned to a calm attitude and distracted himself with concentrating on flying. Shadewrath muttered curses at his own arrogance. Hiccup reached into the saddle bag of Toothless to give Shadewrath a fish to distract him from the pain. Shadewrath was grateful for the gesture.

The dragons and the gifted human came into sight of the village. They were thankful and glided in to rest at the stables. Hiccup again cared for Shadewrath before heading off into the village to figure out how to release his nervous energy. He wandered over to the dragon training academy to spend time with the others of his age. Hopefully they would get rid of this hyperactivity he was experiencing.

He arrived at the Ring and entered to find the others there. He walked in while preparing to deal with the fact that he would have a lot of questions to answer.

"where were you? You were gone for so long!"

"why are your eyes weird?"

"find any new dragon species."

Hiccup calmly responded to their questions in turn

"I was doing some more dragon hunting like I always do, it took longer than expected. I'll tell you why my eyes are weird later. Also, I found no new dragon species but another night fury.

They had been about to ask about the implied extra information about his eyes, but they dropped it when they heard about the new night fury. Fishlegs was happy while the rest were astonished. Astrid gave her own words for her astonishment.

"damn. I thought he was the only one out there. well done!"

Snotlout remembered the earlier avoidance about his eyes (somehow, I didn't know he had it in him!).

"so, what's with your eyes. I'm sure they are different from earlier."

Hiccup gave his honest explanation for fear it may come up later.

"I had an encounter with god."

The teens were transfixed with violent disbelief.

"surely you're joking!"

"what god could you possibly have met?"

Hiccup was glad that this initial shock had been dealt with, he continued while ignoring further comments.

"I was attacked by the night fury that I found. The night fury killed me. Nearly forever but the god of night decided to revive me by replacing the damaged part of my body with part of his own essence."

The teen's minds were blown, and it took more than a full minute before one of them could recover. Snotlout was first to interject his rejection of Hiccup's words.

"there is NO way that a god gave you part of 'his essence'! Firstly, weird! Secondly, why would any god want to help you?"

Hiccup responded to Snotlout' s predictable but annoying rebuttal

"I have proof and the god shared his essence with me because I ride a night fury. The night fury is obviously quite important to the god of night."

Snotlout paced. Hiccup asked what he was waiting for, Snotlout explained

"for your 'proof'! you said you had some and I won't believe you until I see it."

Hiccup was irritated by Snotlout' s continuous insults. He prepared a night fury blast and decided to prank Snotlout with it. He picked a point of interest close to Snotlouts head and distracted him.

"you see that large white mark on the wall behind you."

Snotlout turned and looked at the white mark while Hiccup exposed his preparing blast to shoot. The teens were too distracted to warn Snotlout. Snotlout kept looking at the wall until he got bored.

"what about it there's nothing to see- "

He was interrupted by a shot that passed right by his head. The heat singed his hair and it shocked everyone when it hit the wall with an earth-shaking explosion. Hiccup looked pleased

"Is that evidence enough for you? Anyway, I've got to go back to the new night fury, his name is Shadewrath and he's getting used to the island."

Before he left Fishlegs caught his attention.

"can you come here tomorrow morning? so we can see more of what you can do."

Hiccup blushed at the awed comments of Fishlegs before he left the ring to go back to Shadewrath and Toothless.