"V-Valka," I whispered, stammering not because I was scared but because I'm shocked and couldn't believe what it was that I was staring at. A Light Fury. An actual Light Fury. Right in front of my very eyes! And what a beauty she is. There are definitely similarities between her and Toothless, but being a subspecies there are also differences, starting with the color.
She's whiter than snow and sparkles just like it too when hit with that perfect angle of light. She hardly has any nubs and her skin looks so smooth, probably due to the lack of spikes. I wonder if they're retractable like their teeth?
"Valka," I try again, my eyes not leaving the dragon's, who seemed just as fascinated with me as I was with it. No, her. It's got to be a her. She looks very female. I boldly look over to my side to face her, breaking the eye contact between the dragon and I, but she wasn't there. Neither was Cloudjumper.
For a moment I thought that she abandoned me, but I noticed her furs and our other supplies still on the ground. She's still here. She didn't leave. So where the Hel is she? It's the middle of the night. Did she go to the bathroom somewhere?
The Light Fury looks to where I'm looking and finally moves away from me to sniff the furs that Valka was previously laying on. Her ears perk up and next thing I know her wings are open and she takes off into the sky.
"Hey!" I call out to her, quickly stumbling to my feet. "Wait, come back!" And of course...I followed her, running at full speed into the jungle as I watched her from the sky. Eventually, she flew through her own firing blast and turned invisible, disappearing from my sight. I knew I was going to lose her eventually, and when I did, I had no clue where I was at, and was pissed.
"Gods damn it!" I exclaimed. I just found my soul dragon after desperately wanting to find her for a whole year, and when I do find her, or rather when she found me, I end up losing her.
Although I really shouldn't be surprised. She's wild. It's not going to be easy to gain her trust. But...she didn't seem afraid of me. She only left after smelling Valka's furs. Perhaps she's trying to find her for me? I hope so. Wherever Valka is, she's definitely not using the bathroom. I would have passed her if she was, and there's no way she'd venture so deep within the jungle to do so.
Minutes go by as I continued to search for both the dragon and the woman who I consider to be my adopted mother with only the moon as my source of light. Thank Thor she's a full one tonight. A few more minutes pass before I finally hear a voice.
The only problem was that it wasn't Valka's voice.
It was a male.
"Hey, it's okay. Calm down, girl. I'm not going to hurt you." A growl was then heard and my legs took off running in a panic before I was even aware of it.
That was my dragon. Whoever that man is, he's with my dragon. Even if she wasn't my soul bonded, I still need to save her. Valka said that no one knows of this place besides herself. So who the Hel is this?
My feet come to a halt when I came across an open meadow. Standing in the very center of the meadow was a black figure. When my eyes fully adjusted, I noticed that the black figure was a human man wearing black armor that covered him all over from head to toe. Armor that looked liked…
My face paled and my stomach churned in disgust.
His armor is made of dragon scales and the only dragons that I can think of that are black are Night Furies. Oh my god, did he...did he kill Toothless? What about Hiccup? Did he come across them and kill them? How long ago was this? How long have they been dead? Or do the scales he wears come from a different Night Fury? A different dragon species perhaps? Either way, I'm sick to my stomach, but I can't help but pray that the scales are from a dragon that's not Toothless.
I became even sicker when I saw the large white creature in front of him, tangled in a net. Her blue eyes were dilated and her teeth were bared as she hissed and growl. The man had a hand stretched out, which was holding onto a dagger, and as he started to lean down towards her I started to frantically look around for something to throw at him. I was in the mercy of the Gods when I noticed a bunch of rocks resting at my feet.
I grabbed the biggest rock I could find and shouted, "Hey, asshole! Think fast!"
The man's attention turns towards me, but I threw the rock as hard as I could at him before he could see me. I didn't need to worry about aiming; I have perfect aim all the time. I still praised myself though when it hit the man right on the forehead. He stumbles back in surprise.
"Ow! What the-"
I ducked behind a nearby tree and watched as the man looked around. "Um...hello? Is someone there? Who threw that?"
I couldn't help but smirk at his stupidity. Of course someone is here. You were just called an asshole and got hit with a rock. Plus, an attacker wouldn't expose themself. Is this guy an idiot? Sounds like it. Hiccup better not have gotten murdered by an idiot. I'll kill him in Valhalla if he really did.
The Light Fury took the man's distraction as her opportunity to escape. She burns the net with one fire blast, which makes the man jump out of the way when it almost hit him, and flies off into the night. The man merely stood and watched as I was doing. He didn't curse in anger or try to go after it. Instead he sighs and says to himself, "I guess she didn't need my help after all."
Help? He was going to help her? Who is this guy?
I wasn't going to stay and ask. I was, however, going to spy.