AN: Hello everyone! After the positive response to the first chapter, I decided to get straight back into writing the next chapter, so here we are! Before we start, I have a guest reviewer to reply to:

"I see potential in this. The plot so far is pretty nice, and the quality of the writing itself is really high, which i have to congratulate you for - I've read a load of transformation stories but this already is really high up there. Just don't say something along the lines of "i went into the nest and there were BILLIONS of dragons lining the walls" and you're set :)"

Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm glad to see you enjoyed the first chapter! Luckily for you, I don't intend on introducing the nest for quite a while yet. I have a little something else planned that you might see the start of in this chapter.

With that said, I think it's about time to let you guys get into the chapter! Please be sure to leave a review on the chapter to let me know what you think and to inform me of any errors I may have missed in editing. Enjoy!

EDIT: I've gone through and tidied up a few things, such as removing a few unnecessary commas and fixing a couple of typos. I've also added a couple of lines in spots that I felt were lacking. Nothing major nor plot changing, but I figured I should put this here so people know that the chapter has been tinkered with slightly.

"Human Speech"

"Dragon Speech"

'Thoughts'

Chapter 2

Toothless gave him a comforting lick on the top of his snout. "Of course. If I'm the reason you're stuck with the body of a Night Fury, then the least I can do is teach you how to use it."

Hiccup sniffed, blinking away tears. "I don't know what to say. Thank you so much. If you weren't here, I'm not sure I'd make it."

"I'd have to be a monster to leave a hatchling to die. Don't worry, you're in good paws," Toothless said with a reassuring purr. "Now what do you say we get started?"

Hiccup gave a small smile and was about to respond when he was startled by the sound of his stomach growling hungrily. Blushing under his scales, Hiccup gave Toothless a sheepish look. "I don't suppose we could get something to eat first? I haven't eaten all day, and I'm not even sure if that meal transferred over when I transformed."

Toothless laughed. "Sure. Oh, and you're lucky that you weren't down-aged any farther. If you were even two months younger, you'd be stuck eating regurgitated fish. Hatchlings are unable to eat solids until they reach five months of age."

Hiccup gave Toothless a disgusted expression. "Thank the gods. I'm not sure I'd be able to stomach that, even if it was my only option. I assume I'm stuck eating raw fish for the time being?"

"Yep, will that be a problem?" Toothless asked, noticing the way Hiccup's nose scrunched up.

"No, it's fine. Humans can't eat raw meat without getting sick, so it's not exactly an appetizing thought, but I'm sure I'll manage." Hiccup replied.

"Well, in that case, you just stay put and try to stay out of trouble. I'll fly out to sea and catch a meal for us," Toothless said, before nodding towards a large tree that was positioned in the center of the cove. "If you hear anyone approaching the cove, I want you to go hide in the roots of that tree. We don't want any vikings stumbling upon you while you're alone."

Hiccup shuddered at the thought. "Ok, how long do you think you will be gone?"

"No more than twenty minutes," Toothless replied, before glancing at the sun. "I should get going so we can eat and get a decent start on your training before the sun goes down. I'll see you in a few minutes."

With that, Toothless launched into the sky, flying in the opposite direction from the village. Hiccup watched him go with a contemplative look. Standing on shaky legs, he managed to stumble his way over to the water's edge and peer at his reflection.

To be honest, he wasn't sure what to think of the face that greeted him. It was pretty much a smaller and admittedly cuter version of Toothless's own. He also noticed something odd. He had absolutely no teeth. Surely dragons grew their teeth in by this age, right? Something he would have to ask Toothless about, he decided. On one hand, it hurt to look at his reflection and not be sure exactly who he was looking at, but on the other hand, he had to admit that this body was definitely better off than his human one, despite being a hatchling. He was still rather slim, but rather than making him appear small and weak like it did when he was human, the sleek figure almost gave him a rather intimidating appearance as a dragon.

After a few minutes of staring at his reflection, Hiccup decided to get a head start on learning his body with the simplest thing he could think of: walking. Turning away from the pond, he began to slowly make his way across the cove, stumbling every few steps but thankfully never actually falling. He continued practicing until he saw Toothless land in the cove with several small fish carried in his mouth. At the sight of the fish, Hiccup's gut let out another rumble, and he slowly made his way over to Toothless. By this point, he had found a rhythm with his movements and only stumbled once by the time he reached his draconic friend. 'Friend? Since when did I start thinking of Toothless as a friend?' Hiccup pondered. 'I guess it's not a bad thing to have a big scaly friend looking out for you.'

Toothless dropped the six small fish he was carrying and gave Hiccup a smile. "I see you are starting to adjust to walking on four legs," He said with a nod before taking a step back from the fish. "Well, eat up and I'll help you with that."

Hiccup eyed the fish warily, before glancing up at Toothless. "What about you?"

Toothless laughed. "I ate my fill before I caught these for you. If you're afraid of the taste, just swallow them whole. It helps keep away the flavor, although I personally enjoy the taste."

A thought crossed Hiccup's mind, and he gaped. "You expect me to eat all of this?!"

"You underestimate the appetite of a growing hatchling," Toothless said with a grin. "It only increases as you get older, as well. I had around twenty fish myself."

Hiccup looked at him strangely for a moment, trying to see if the larger dragon was messing with him, but Toothless was dead serious. "Wait, how am I supposed to chew, anyways? I don't have any teeth!" He asked, opening his mouth and displaying his toothless gums for reference.

Toothless laughed. "Oh! I completely forgot to explain that. Night Furies have retractable teeth. We are born with them retracted. Feel around your mouth for a moment and you should feel the muscles that control them." He opened his own mouth and pulled in his teeth for reference. "Now I see why you were confused by the name 'Toothless'!"

"Yeah, it makes far more sense now," Hiccup said with a chuckle. Doing as instructed, he felt around for the muscles that controlled his teeth. He was able to locate them rather easily, and after a few seconds of pulling odd facial expressions, his teeth shot from his gums with a slck.

Unused to the feeling, Hiccup retracted his teeth and repeated the process. He practiced for a couple minutes before looked back at the fish, unable to believe that he was actually planning on going through with this.

"Well, let's just get this over with..." After a few seconds, Hiccup hesitantly took one of the fish in his mouth. He was surprised to find that it didn't taste half as bad as he expected. Taking a cautious bite, he realized that the fish actually tasted rather good!

Toothless noticed his expression and grinned teasingly. "Not as bad as you thought it would be, huh?"

Hiccup swallowed the fish before smiling sheepishly. "I guess one positive thing I can say about this form is that I seem to have a new set of taste buds. If I was still human, this would no doubt taste absolutely disgusting As I am now it's actually pretty good."

"Well I guess having any positives at all is an improvement," Toothless said. "I'm sure you'll come to find other things you like about your new body eventually. Just wait until I get you up into the air!"

Hiccup's eyes widened slightly at what Toothless was implying. Why hadn't he realized that earlier? He had wings, for the gods' sake! Unable to help it, a small grin formed on his lips at the thought of flying. He was interrupted from his daydreaming by another growl from his stomach. 'Huh, Toothless wasn't kidding! I don't think I could have eaten that whole fish as a human, and I'm still starving!'

Hiccup leaned down to take another fish in his mouth, deciding to just finish his meal for the time being. Not even three minutes later, Hiccup swallowed the final fish before looking down at where the fish had been with surprise. "Dang, you weren't kidding. I can't believe I ate that much."

"Told you," Toothless said with a smug grin.

Hiccup laughed. "Oh hush!"

After a moment, Toothless decided to speak up. "Well, we should probably continue working on your walking. We'll be leaving tonight and you'll need a few hours of sleep in order to make it through the night, so I would like to get this covered as soon as possible."

"Wait, what do you mean by 'leaving'?" Hiccup asked, confused.

"We can't stay here for much longer," Toothless explained. "Your village will likely be sending out search parties to find you by tomorrow morning, and we really don't want a group of armed vikings coming across a pair of Night Furies in the woods while looking for a missing hatchling. From what I've seen of your kind, vikings tend to kill first and ask their questions to the corpse." After a moment, he realized who he was talking to and quickly added. "Uh, no offense."

Hiccup laughed. "It's hard to take offense when it's completely accurate." He looked down at his feet for a moment, deep in thought. When he looked up, he had a slightly worried look in his eye. "Hey, Toothless? Can you do me a massive favor before we leave?"

Toothless frowned slightly, but nodded. "Anything. What do you need?"

"Considering this is more than likely the last time I'll ever see any of my friends or family again, I want to leave my father a message letting him know what happened and that I'm alive and safe. He's already lost my mother to a dragon raid back when I was a baby and I'm not sure if he would be able to handle losing me as well," Hiccup explained with a sad smile. "I'm hoping that letting him know I'm safe will help with that and prevent him from wasting time on useless search parties that won't find anything when he should be preparing the village for the winter."

Toothless nodded. "I suppose that makes sense. What will you need in order to leave the message?"

Hiccup thought about it for a moment. "I'll need some ink and some parchment. I've got some in my room back at my house. It's up against the woods and my father almost never goes into my room, so I should be able to climb in through the window and grab what I need without any trouble."

"And you're sure you can get in and out without being seen?" Toothless asked worriedly.

"Positive," Hiccup said in the most determined voice he could muster.

"Alright, then. Let's go grab that stuff now and come back here. We'll drop off the note when we leave tonight." Toothless said, crouching down and motioning to his back. "Hop on."

Hiccup cautiously clambered up onto Toothless's back before shooting him a worried glance. "Are you sure this is safe?"

"Relax, Dragons carry their hatchlings this way all the time," Toothless reassured. "Besides, I'm not going to be flying very high. Just enough to get us out of this cove. From there I'll carry you on foot. We can't risk being seen from the air and you're still too clumsy on your feet to get there and back in an efficient manner."

With that said, Toothless launched himself into the air with Hiccup clinging a little too tightly to his back. Luckily, his scales prevented Hiccup from accidentally drawing blood, and instead his needle-like claws latched onto them without piercing the flesh underneath.

Thankfully, Hiccup's little stealth mission went smoothly and without any issues. As soon as Toothless landed them back into the cove, Hiccup set to work on his letter. He flattened out the parchment to the best of his abilities and dipped a claw into the ink jar, deciding that would work better than trying to hold a pencil without fingers.

Hiccup started by explaining what had happened during the raid and how he had fled into the woods to wait out the raid when their home had caught on fire. He then went into details with his encounter with the witch, and carefully explained what she had done to him. There was no possible way his father would take this well, but there was no point in lying about it when he didn't plan on coming back regardless.

After that, Hiccup wrote about his meeting with Toothless, and was sure to emphasize that the dragon meant him no harm and was in fact taking care of him. He doubted his father would believe him, but there wasn't much he could do about that. When he went to write about what he planned on doing next, he realized he wasn't even sure exactly where they were going to be heading.

"Hey, Toothless, you haven't said where we'll be going. Will you be bringing me back to the nest?" Hiccup asked curiously. He wasn't exactly enthusiastic about the concept of living among his tribe's mortal enemies, but he supposed it was better than staying here.

To his surprise, Toothless was heavily against the idea. "Oh hell no! If I bring you there, the 'queen' will kill you within ten minutes! In fact, we are heading south east, directly away from the nest. There's an island I know of that we will be staying at. It's a little warmer than it is here, so we should be able to make it through the winter without much difficulty, and it's far away from any viking settlements, so we won't have to worry about any hunting parties."

Hiccup was surprised by how angrily Toothless had spat out the word 'queen'. "I take it you and the queen don't exactly see eye-to-eye?"

Toothless scoffed. "She's no queen to us. It would be more accurate to call her a tyrant. She's absolutely massive - I'm not even sure if she would be able to fit in this cove - and uses her size to rule over the other dragons. She forces us to raid viking settlements to feed her, and if we either refuse or fail to bring back enough she eats some of us instead. I want to put as much space between us and her as we possibly can."

Hiccup shuddered at the thought of a dragon so large, and was surprised to have been so willingly told the reason for all the raids in the archipelago. With new inspiration, he quickly finished off his message before signing his name and washing the remaining ink off his claw by dipping it in the pond.

"Ok, it's finished. I'll leave it on my desk tonight," Hiccup announced. "Like I said, my dad doesn't really go into my room unless he has to. He'll probably find it sometime tomorrow morning when he's looking for me." He let out a large yawn. "That's odd. I don't normally feel tired during the day. I normally stay up quite late, actually."

Toothless let out a yawn of his own. "It's probably because unlike humans, Night Furies are instinctively nocturnal. Regardless, we should get some sleep. It's a long flight from here to our destination, so we should get a few hours of sleep before the sun goes down." He walked over to Hiccup and wrapped his wings around him in a leathery embrace, coating the smaller dragon in warmth.

Hiccup let out a content sigh, or at least that's what he intended to do. Instead, he felt a soft purring erupt from his chest, startling him slightly. It was an odd feeling, but it wasn't unpleasant. Instinctively snuggling further into Toothless's embrace, Hiccup quickly fell into a deep sleep. Toothless smiled slightly at the purring mass of his charge. Pleased with the smaller dragon's comfort, he rested his head down and drifted off to sleep himself.

Hiccup was woken from his rest shortly after the moon had begun to rise over the treeline to the feeling of Toothless prodding at his side with his snout. Standing up, he stretched out his back in a similar manner to a cat and let out a yawn. He noticed that the sun had set and was surprised to realize that he could still see nearly as well as he could during the day. "Huh, well there's another perk of being a Night Fury; Night vision." He mused to himself before glancing over at Toothless. "Is it time to go already?"

Toothless nodded. "Yeah. Did you sleep well? We have a long night ahead of us and it would be best if you don't fall asleep while we're up in the air."

Hiccup couldn't help but smile slightly at the way Toothless fretted over him. "Yep, I slept great. In fact, that was probably the best rest I've had in years."

Toothless nodded with a pleased smile, before crouching down and giving Hiccup access to his back. "Good. Well, we're burning moonlight. We should get a move on."

Hiccup grabbed the message to his father and once again climbed up onto Toothless's back, making it up with slightly less trouble than before. With a single beat of wings, the pair vanished into the night sky.

It was early the next morning when Stoick the Vast realized that something was wrong. He was used to his son disappearing for a day every now and then, but he always came back before the sun went down. After a moment of pondering, Stoick realized that he had never actually checked whether or not Hiccup had returned home after the raid two nights prior.

Suddenly very worried, Stoick rushed over to the forge. He found Gobber tinkering with an ax. "Gobber! Have you seen Hiccup? It's important!"

Gobber sighed, setting the ax down on the counter. "Alright, what'd the lad do this time?"

"That's the thing, Gobber," Stoick said with worry evident in his voice. "He's done nothing. I haven't seen him since before the raid. Has he stopped by?"

Gobber's face quickly morphed into one of worry. "Nay, I haven' seen the lad since he came to work the day of the raid." Standing up from his workbench, he gave Stoick a stern look. "Now, normally I'd scold ye for not noticing he was gone fer so long, but now's not the time. I'll help ye search for 'em."

After nearly an hour with absolutely zero results, Stoick was on the verge of calling out a search party. "Now, hol' on, Stoick. Maybe the lad left a clue as to where he's gone off to. Let's not jump to conclusions just yet. Have ye searched the lad's room?"

Stoick frowned. "No, let's go. It should be obvious if something is out of place. He tends to keep his room clean for the most part. Something about it being hard to concentrate when he's knee deep in junk."

"Aye," Gobber said. "He learnt that from me. Can't do a good job forgin' a weapon if you're too busy trippin' over scraps."

At first glance, nothing appeared out of the ordinary when the pair took in the sight of Hiccup's room. His bed had been made, his dirty clothes were in a basket off in the back corner of the room, and all of his schematics and sketches were neatly stacked on one side of his desk, right next to a slightly crumpled piece of parchment, held open by a jar of ink that was acting as a paperweight. "Gobber, look," Stoick said, walking over to the desk. His eyes widened at what he saw written on the paper. "It's a letter! From Hiccup!"

Gobber rushed over as Stoick sat at the desk to read. The chair creaked under his weight Having been built specifically for Hiccup, it wasn't exactly the definition of sturdy. The blacksmith leaned over his shoulder to read the note as well.

Hey, Dad...

I'd like to apologize for all the trouble I've caused you these past few years. I know you had a lot of extra work because of my inventions. If you are reading this note, then it means that I have most likely turned up missing and you are looking for me.

I'm writing this note to inform you of my current predicament. On the night I disappeared, I had been forced to retreat into the woods to avoid the carnage of the raid after a Nightmare set our house aflame. I meant to come home after an hour or so; just long enough for the dragons to move on to a different part of the village, but I ended up stumbling upon something that I didn't even believe existed. A witch.

"A witch?!" Stoick exclaimed. "I swear if that demon hurt my son I will make her wish she were never born!"

"There's still more to read, Stoick. At least finish reading the letter before ye run off seekin' revenge," Gobber said in an attempt to reassure his friend, but his voice was grim. Witches were extremely dangerous creatures. If Hiccup had truly found one, then all they could do was pray to Thor that he had somehow managed to escape.

She had taken the appearance of an old woman, and attacked me as soon as I realized what she was. She froze my body in place, keeping me from fleeing, before telling me that she was going to use me to test one of her new spells.

She hit me with the spell, and I'm not quite sure what happened directly after that. I remember feeling the worst pain of my entire life, and then nothing.

When I awoke, the witch was gone. I tried to get up to get back to the village, but something wasn't right.

Now, this is where everything goes from crazy to unbelievable, so please keep an open mind. I'm going to put this bluntly. That witch transformed me. I'm no longer human. She trapped me in the form of a dragon. I later came to realize that I was a Night Fury.

Before you go throwing this in the trash and calling me insane, I need to tell you something else. Shortly after I awoke, I was startled by a massive explosion in the woods, and fell into a natural cove. I landed in a pond and almost drowned, but I was saved at the last moment.

This is even more unbelievable, but the person that saved me was another Night Fury; The one from the raid. He's been looking after me for the past day or so, and he's surprisingly friendly. I know you won't believe me, but I guess that doesn't matter. I started calling him Toothless; don't ask.

Before you go out searching to get your revenge on the witch, I should inform you that she is already dead. Toothless made sure of that. The issue is that now that she's dead, she can't change me back, meaning I'm stuck like this, probably for good.

Toothless feels terrible about it, and has promised to teach me how to live as a Night Fury. He's already started showing me a few small things. Apparently Night Furies have retractable teeth. Who would have thought?

Toothless says we are going to head south east. He wants to put as much distance between us and the nest as possible. He fears that if he were to bring me there, the queen would kill me. He also wishes you luck on taking it down. He wants that tyrant dead just as much as we do. If you don't believe me, then please try to notice the lack of any Night Furies during future raids. He was the only one in the nest, so you will never have to deal with one of them again.

If you truly want to seek us out, then please only do so peacefully. I wish I could have stayed, but I'd be killed within a week and my head would be decorating someone's fireplace; probably yours. We wish to live in peace, but if you ever come to be willing to find me and put your hatred for dragons aside, then I would be the happiest son on Midgard.

If you seek us out in order to kill us, I'm sorry to say that I will not hesitate to kill you, however much it might pain me to do so. Please try to understand.

Until the day we meet again

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

Stoick gingerly laid the parchment back onto the desk with shaky hands. "My son… My poor son..!" The desk split in two as Stoick pounded his fist onto it with strength fueled by grief.

"What do we do, Stoick? Do ye think all of this is true?" Gobber asked in a small voice, very unusual coming from such a large man.

"Hiccup would have no reason to lie about something like this, however unbelievable it may be. I just hope that the Night Fury that found him truly intends on helping him. Otherwise, he's as good as dead," He looked towards the window, before noticing something that made his heart go cold. On the windowsill laid a small pitch black scale. A small note next to it simply read "A gift to remember me by".

Stoick reached out and took the scale in trembling hands. "...So it's true then. My only son really has been turned into one of the beasts." He turned to Gobber. "No one from the village can know the truth. They won't understand. We'll have to hold a funeral for him tonight. In the meantime, I'll send a search party into the woods to make it look convincing. "

Gobber frowned as he reread the note. "What are ye going to do about the last part? He said the Night Fury was taking them south east. Will ye go after 'em?"

Stoick thought hard for a moment. "Not yet. I want to believe it, Gobber, I really do! But it's too much to take in all at once. Winter is nearly upon us, and if we go now, we won't be able to return here until the ice melts in the spring. We'll wait until spring, and if the Night Fury stays truthful and doesn't take part in any more raids, then the two of us will sail south east and attempt to locate them."

"The question is, will ye be goin' in peace?" Gobber asked hesitantly.

"If the Night Fury remains truthful, then I will go in peace. Even if it is a devil, I owe it upon my honor for looking after my son; let alone saving his life." Stoick said in a voice that very clearly left no room for argument.

Stoick took one last glance out the window before turning to leave, the black scale still held in his grip as he whispered out a prayer. "May Odin protect you, my son."

AN: So, what did you think? This chapter turned out to be even longer than the first one, and I'm pleased with how it turned out. Lots of bonding between Toothless and Hiccup, and the pair have finally set out for new lands.

I know that Stoick was pretty out of character in the final section there, but as stated in the story description, I'm going for a more laid back approach to the Dragon!Hiccup formula. Because of this, I felt that it wouldn't make sense for Stoick to outright reject Hiccup's explanation and declare to kill the Night Furies like he does in pretty much every other story in this genre. Hopefully there aren't many grammatical mistakes this time around. I did my best to avoid them, but I'm sure one or two managed to slip through the cracks regardless. Before you click off, please make sure to leave a review on the chapter to let me know what you think! Reviews are by far my biggest inspiration, and any constructive criticism can only help me to improve! Well, that's all I have for today, so I'll see you all in the next chapter!