Reading Ledger:
"Normal Speak"
-Dragon Speak-
'Toothless&Hiccup Telepathy' [This telepathy has no limit distance-wise, but only Hiccup and Toothless can hear it.]
*All Dragon Telepathy* [This version of telepathy is not long distance, but can still be used if individuals are close enough even when they are not within each other's vision. Has around a 100-meter distance.]
Chapter 4 - Sofferenza
When Hiccup had returned to the village he'd just made it home when a small dragon raid started. He turned his head to see a terrible terror staring at him in confusion, *Are you human or dragon young hatchling? Why do you smell so much of Night Fury?*
Confusion was all Hiccup felt, *Human*, 'Toothless why can a terrible terror talk to me, and why do I understand it?'
Toothless was quick to respond, 'It's an ability you received with the bond I would assume.'*Lies. You must be a strange wingless dragon if we can communicate. Come with me and I shall save you from these nasty creatures.* The terrible terror clearly was confused by the circumstance.
Hiccup wasn't even sure how to explain this situation, but Hiccup knew he needed to convince the small dragon to leave before someone saw him and tried to attack him, *I have to stay here so please go before they attack you.*
The terror looked conflicted by his request before finally, it flew off, and Hiccup made a quick retreat to his house and up into his room.
(-Hiccup3Toothless-)
The conversation with the terror had been unexpected, to say the least. Hiccup was just happy he had managed to get the small dragon to leave before anyone else saw it. Now he was sitting at the desk in his room drawing with a small piece of charcoal. He was in the middle of sketching a picture of Toothless from memory when his father walked in. Without thinking he'd hid the picture that he was working on under a few of his older drawings and turned to his father, "Dad?"
"Why aren't you outside helping with the dragons?" Stoick looked down at him.
"You don't actually expect me to kill dragon's, right?" Hiccup said in a dull tone.
Stoick sighed in response, "No, I definitely don't expect you to kill a dragon, but you could help the fire team or go help Gobber in the forge at least. Anything is better than you staying in here and hiding."
Hiccup stood up and stared at his dad, "You already know that they would all prefer it if I never left this room."
"It's not their fault that you're so different, Hiccup." Stoick stated plainly, "If you tried more to be like everyone else and caused fewer problems then maybe they'd treat you differently."
Hiccup was shocked, "Did you seriously just say that?" Hiccup said as he glared at his father, before responding sarcastically, "Of course I forgot! All anyone here ever does is blame the victim. It's my fault I've been rejected by my home and abused by the other kids my age. I get beaten up because I don't try hard enough to belong."
"You know that's not what I meant Hiccup," Stoick responded to Hiccup, frustration and exhaustion clear in his voice, "Never mind just stay in here, it will make clean up easier anyways." Stoick quickly turned and left the room closing the door behind him.
Hiccup was taken over by anger and frustration as he kicked the chair he'd previously been sitting on. He felt pain in his foot as he whimpered, swore under his breath, and dropped down to grab it, "Owe..."
'What just happened? Are you okay? I felt a sharp pain in my leg.' was the blast of Toothless's worried voice Hiccup heard in his head.
He responded quickly, 'I'm fine. I just kicked something out of annoyance. Why did you feel my pain?'
'I've only heard of pain transference being a side effect of a bond a few times. It's a rare and special ability that only the strongest of bonded pairs gain,' was the quick explanation Hiccup received.
Hiccup had one question looming within his head, 'How strong is our bond?'
It took a moment before Toothless finally responded to him, 'I think our bond is special and that we have bound together as strongly as we can. Even with the bond already stabilized our link continues to strengthen and combine which is unheard of in a dragon-dragon soul bond. When two dragons bind together once the bond stabilizes it stops strengthening, but the intensity of our bond continues to enhance the longer we are connected.'
Hiccup wasn't exactly sure how to respond to what he'd just heard, 'So then as more time passes we may receive more abilities from the bond?'
'It depends. We won't know unless it continues to happen,' was the response Hiccup got.
(-Hiccup3Toothless-)
The morning came around far quicker then Hiccup was ready for because he didn't really want to go outside yet where he has to deal with a village full of people who don't give a rat's ass about him. His own father blamed him for all the abuse he had suffered over the years. No one had ever really cared about him, instead, they simply tolerated his existence because they couldn't just get rid of the chiefs only son. The only one who was pleasant to be around was Gobber, he'd been more of a parent to Hiccup then Stoick ever was. Stoick's priorities were set in stone, he'd always worry about his village first, and his son last. Maybe Hiccup would have tried to fit in if he thought that it would make a difference, but he knew no matter what he did that they would always find a reason to hate him.
After getting ready for the morning and eating in the great hall with the rest of the villagers, he simply wandered around the village deep in thought about the last couple of days. Hiccup couldn't think of a good reason for the continued war that has always existed between their two species. How had no one ever tried to change the way that Vikings perceive dragons, in the hundreds of years that they'd been at war? He didn't understand why dragons and humans had become content with this way of living when they could do so much more together. Instead of coming together to change their lives for the better, they continued to fight and slaughter each other without questioning anything.
Before he'd even noticed Hiccup had already accidentally wandered towards the arena where he could hear loud noises that sounded like dragons screaming. When he first heard the hearing one part of him knew that he needed to get away from here as quick as possible or risk being overwhelmed. Yet, he continued closer towards the horrible place where his kind continued to slaughter such beautiful creatures. He looked at the closed door within the arena from where he was in the audience stands and wanted to cry instantly. A small barely noticeable pain was pulsating in his chest telling him that this was wrong. He had an overwhelming want to go down there and open the cage that locked up the creatures that he now felt were his brethren. He wanted to cry because he could feel their fear and pain, and he knew that there was nothing he could do to help them, 'Why does seeing this hurt so much? Why can I feel their fear as if it were my own?'
'Take a moment to calm down. Breathe, now get away from them if you can,' were the soothing words from Toothless that rung through Hiccup's head in response.
'We have to do something, we have to help them. It hurts Toothless, they're in pain,' he cried out through his soul link to Toothless because it was the only thing he could do.
Toothless responded quickly, 'Hiccup, you can't help them right now. Please, try and get away from where ever you are.'
Hiccup slowly walked away from the arena as he heard them screaming out in distress both out loud and within his head, *Help.*, *Please don't leave us here.*, *We need you.*, *Save us.*, *Please make the pain stop.*, *We just want to go home.*.
*HELP*