Warning there are a few curse words in this chapter. I might use some in future chapters as well.

There was no way that Night was going to tell these idiots that this was clearly a stupid idea. Putting the almighty Night Rider in an arena with a dragon when he can talk to them, stupid idea. This did give him the opportunity to show them the truth about dragons.

"What do we do with his dragon genus, keep it from helping." Silent Sven, who appeared not to be silent anymore, added no one really picking up the main issue in this situation.

"Lock him in a cage let him watch." Spitelout always so caring, "and if the boy makes it…." he trailed, clearly not wanting to think too hard on it. They wanted to lock up Toothless and force him into an arena with an angry dragon. This wasn't sounding great but really it could be way worse. Stoick was quiet, think over what was just proposed. If he didn't make it past the dragon then that would solve their problem but if it went wrong they could have a very different problem.

"Tell the village to gather at the arena at noon we are going to have quite the spectacle. In the meanwhile put him in a cell and lock up the dragon." Stoick's order set the men in action Mulch moved to grab Night only to be cut off by Gobber who grabbed his hands and wrenched them behind his back. Spitelout and Sven moved towards Toothless who let out a growl and shot a look at Hiccup. Hiccup's strong and confident gazed caused Toothless to growl again.

"You have got to be kidding me, your plan better be good." he gave Hiccup a hard look before he let himself be led out and to the arena. Clearly not happy with the situation. They led Night off towards the cells where he knew that he would have to sit until his 'trial' of sorts. Gobber didn't say anything as he led him toward the cells, but he clearly wanted to say something.

Finally, they reached the cells and Gobber walked him into one of the cells he finally said something.

"You have to tell him, you know." with those words he closed the cell locked it and left Night alone with his thoughts. He was right no matter how much he didn't want to admit it he needs to tell his dad. Stoick was going to be mad no doubt, but he seemed to be angrier now then he was when Hiccup left.

Hiccup was still tired even though he had gotten sleep before they got here the flight here really wore him out. Before he even realized it he fell asleep.

He was pulled out of his sleep, literally when he was pulled up to his feet. His eyes shot open and his heart pounded as adrenaline race through his body. Spitelout was dragging him out of the cell and towards the arena. Snotlout was right behind them pushing Night with clear distrust.

They got to the arena and he was pushed in and the gate immediately closed behind him locking him in alone. He could hear Stoick saying something but it really wasn't clear he was trying to prepare himself for whatever was about to happen. They could really have any dragon locked up and it was not going to be happy. He could see Toothless, the dragon had clear distress on his face. Night took a deep breath and stepped forward. Stoick called for the doors to be opened and slowly one began rising.

At first, nothing happened then suddenly a Deadly Nadder jumped out of the darkness. Ok, a Nadder, not bad an easier dragon to train. The dragon was fully concern about escaping, he was frantically looking for an opening. When he didn't find one, something caught his attention, there was a human in here with him. This human wasn't like the others it smelt of dragons. This human also seemed to pose no threat, he smelled nervous but clearly wasn't going to attack him.

Night could see that this Nadder was curious, his body didn't show hostility, yet he moved with caution. They circled each other, Night could hear Toothless growling a warning clearly telling the dragon watch what he did. Night pulled inferno off his leg and dispensed the container of Hideous Zippleback gas, a green cloud filled the air. Quickly he ignited it this calmed the Nadder.

"You can control fire, what are you? You smell of us, yet look like them." the Nadder was now just slowly circling Night.

"As far as I'm concerned he is a dragon." Toothless growled from his cage.

"Bud!" Night shot Toothless a look. Then he turned his attention back towards the Nadder. "I have lived among your kind for five years, I mean you no harm." the Nadder stopped circling and came to a stand in front of Night. Slowly Night moved his hand out in front of himself, he turned his head away and closed his eyes give the dragon his full trust.

"YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!" the yell was followed by loud cries from the other villagers. Nights eyes shot open and towards the Nadder. Its eyes were slits and its tail spines were up. This was not going to end as he wanted it to.

Everything seemed to move in slow motion as he attempted to dodge a set of spikes. Three spines flew in his direction, he managed to dodge two of the spines. The third was heading straight for his prosthetic and there was nothing he could do about it. The impact of the spine threw him off his feet shattering the false limb, leaving him relatively defenseless on the floor. The Nadder was moving closer to him and he wasn't really sure if he was going to make it out of this situation unharmed. All the sound around him seemed to dim, though he thought that he could hear Toothless' roar, all he could focus on was the Nadder backing him into a wall. Eventually, he was going to hit the wall eventually, his mind was moving a million miles a minute. Then what seemed out of nowhere an idea hit him. Whatever was going to happen was going to happen, so he decided that he was going to stop what he was doing and just trust the Nadder. Just then he hit the wall, he just put his hand out in front of him and closed his eye expecting a blow. He waited but nothing happened, slowly he opened his eyes to find the Nadder looking at him with its head tilted to the side.

"I mean you no harm if anything I would love to get you out of this place and free." all he did was speak not moving afraid that movement would be seen as a sign of aggression.

"How did you learn to speak like us? How do I know that I can trust you?" he seemed calmer and more willing to talk this out. His body language moves from defensive to more curious caution.

"I would never kill a dragon, After all, my best friend and brother is one." he gestured to Toothless in the cage. Toothless nodded and let out a protecting growl clearly telling the Nadder to watch himself and that he wouldn't hesitate to protect his brother. The Nadder backed down and allowed Night to attempt to stand using the wall. Once he was standing, he looked up at the crowd all of their faces showed pure shock. Slowly he scanned the people until he reached Stoick he couldn't really tell if he was impressed or angry he was completely straight-faced.

"You see people of Berk they aren't the beast that you believe they are, and if you would allow me I would help you train them and live in peace with them. They don't need to be killed gain their trust and they will be peaceful." as he spoke he continued to scan the crowd his eyes landed on the young adults of the village they were all there, Snotlout, the twins, Fishlegs and Astrid, she must have caught up on sleep. They looked absolutely pissed, his three former bullies were booing and shouting. While Astrid just watched him and Fishlegs stood there with his mouth hanging open. Slowly he hopped along the wall to the cage that Toothless was in. It wasn't long before he heard movement and then the door opened releasing Toothless. He looked up to see Gobber stepping away from the lever.

He grabbed a hold of Toothless' saddle refusing to get on the dragon and instead walk. Everyone in the village seemed to gain a respect or at least fear of him. The door to the entrance of the arena was lifted and he began to hop alongside Toothless out of the stone circle.

"Now I request the use of you village forge, as you can see I need to build a replacement." he turned towards Stoick waiting for some kind of answer.

"Only with supervision, of course, our village smith will watch you make sure you don't do anything shady." he looked toward Gobber giving him silent orders to find out more about this stranger.

"That's to be expected, now can we get on our way Gobber."

There was something about the man that was familiar. Like he had met him before they way that he carried himself seem so oddly familiar. He also had an uneasy feeling about him there was something he was hiding he knew too many things. By height, he looked to be around twenty. Stoick's mind drifted to Hiccup he would have been twenty, oh how he missed his son. He had been the only thing left of Valka and without him, he had a gaping hole missing in his life. Hiccup always reminded him so much of his deceased wife. Without them his world seemed colorless and agonizing, he wished he could have gone back and tell Hiccup that no matter how bad he was at showing it he loved him with all his heart and that living without him was an utter nightmare.

This Night was like no other Viking he had ever meet. His person spoke of confidence, for that Stoick was impressed and even respected him. He had a background and somewhere along the way he had lost apart of himself. Stoick couldn't help but be curious as to how this may have happened. He allowed him permission to use the forge with supervision to maybe get more information on him he clearly was a smart boy, but he needed to know just how smart he was. They needed to know what they were dealing with. Nights proclamation from moments ago popped into his head. What if they could really make peace with the dragon, stop the fighting and unnecessary death. He after all needed to think of his people and ending this war would be the best thing for them.

Astrid couldn't believe that that had just happened Night had just subdued a Nadder by doing almost nothing. It was just crazy to watch. He continued to impress her with his confidence the way that he carried himself was astounding. She really couldn't be mad at him when she found him so amazing. There was a flutter in her chest, something she had never felt before. What was she doing she is Astrid Hofferson and Astrid Hofferson didn't ever get feelings like this she is too badass to be falling for a guy and let alone a stranger.

She couldn't help but watch as he hopped out of the arena with Gobber. There were many things that he wasn't telling them but for the life of her, she really didn't care.

"Hey Astrid, you in there." Ruffnut was waving her hand in her face. Oh, gods, she had been staring. "Oooh you've fallen for the stranger you-" Astrid grabbed Ruffnut covering her mouth and dragging her away for the rest of the village.

"No I have not." she was trying to sound hard and authoritative, but it came out as more of a weak statement.

Ruffnut pulled herself free from her grip and started to run back over to her brother and brother Snotlout. "You keep telling yourself that, ok." she let out a laugh as she reached her brother's side.

This chapter is a bit longer and I wanted to apologize for the wait I was having some mental health problems and really just an overall lack of motivation, but hey I'm back and let's hope the next chapter doesn't take this long to write.