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.]

Original Character Names:

Terrible Terror - Remi

Chapter 13 – Il Vero Inizio

When night had fallen, he snuck through the village making his way towards the arena. After making sure no one was around he made his way inside. He closed the large gate behind him and looked upwards at Toothless who he could see due to his heightened sight, 'Ready Toothless?'

'Good to go up here. You can start whenever you feel ready. If anything happens I'm right here,' Toothless stated.

Hiccup grabbed the door to the cages and yanked it right off of the wall. He set it off to the side before going into the room full of cages. He unlocked all of the cages setting the dragons free before destroying the cages as quietly and quickly as he could, -Stay in here until I get Toothless to destroy the top of the arena.- He said out loud to his small dragon army before sending Toothless the signal, 'FIRE!'

Four purple shots rained down from the sky onto the top of the arena completely obliterating the metal chains used as a roof for the arena. Immediately afterward Toothless landed within the cage and looked at his mate, -Hiccup!-

Hiccup ran out of the room full of cages with the rest of the dragons following closely behind him. He quickly reached Toothless nuzzling his mates face in a mixture of glee, excitement, and nerves at the idea of getting caught, he used the contact with his mate to calm himself before moving to jump up onto his back so they could escape, -Go quickly before the Vikings get here. They'll already be on their way with weapons in hand.-

He didn't need to say a single word more before Toothless jumped out of the arena and then took off into the sky. The other dragons quickly followed them out before disappearing into the night escaping the village as quickly as they could. Hiccup and Toothless having successfully completed their mission headed back to the cove hidden by the shadows of the night.

(-Hiccup3Toothless-)

When they finally landed Remi was sitting in the opening of the cave waiting for their return. He flew out of the cave as quickly as he could right into Hiccup's waiting arms, -Welcome back.-

-It's great to be back, finally, we can leave this godforsaken island. I'm so sick of the stench of Vikings coming from everywhere, now that the dragons have been freed there is nothing holding us back anymore.- Hiccup smiled kindly down at the small dragon.

While they were talking the first droplets of water started falling. The rain increased as the night slowly continued on, falling heavier and heavier. Until soon so much water was falling from the sky that they could barely see outside of the cave. Remi looked at Toothless, -We can't possibly go anywhere in this can we?-

-No. I doubt that Hiccup could handle the trip with this heavy of rainfall, especially with how far away our destination is. That's not even the biggest problem, I'd have a hard time flying through this let alone you,- Toothless explained with a sigh.

-This sucks,- Hiccup said annoyance clearly laced in his voice, but still he accepted that they were right. His body is to frail, and even if he can form scales on his skin, he can't do it over his whole body nor can he maintain it for a long duration of time.

Toothless dropped Hiccup's furs on him before wrapping him in the safety of his wings, -It's fine. We can leave once the rain lets up, Until then this is our home and it's time for all of us to sleep.-

Hiccup nodded and laid down letting Remi crawl into his arms to help keep him warm before Toothless closed his wings around them all.

(-Hiccup3Toothless-)

When they had decided to wait out the rain, they had done so with the expectation that the rain wouldn't last for more than a day or two. Of course, they were completely wrong and a week had passed by without the rain letting up, and it didn't look like it planned on stopping anytime soon. So, they were still stuck on Berk, which left them all way to close to a large number of Vikings for comfort. Hiccup was currently alone in the cave because Toothless and Remi had gone fishing since they were getting low on food. As he was sitting drawing in the driest part of the cave wrapped in furs, he thought he heard his name being called so he moved over to the opening to take a quick look outside.

To his surprise, he saw Astrid force her way out of the brush as she walked into the cove still yelling his name, "HICCUP!"

He didn't say anything to alert her of his presence, instead, he simply observed her searching the area for him like he imagined a curious baby dragon would. Clearly, the first thing she noticed that had her raise her guard was the dragon tracks spread out across the muddy cove below him. She also was probably on edge because she wasn't able to recognize what type of dragon it even was from its tracks. Astrid continued to search the area finding an assortment of Hiccup things that were left out of the cave because they wouldn't be hurt by the rain. He heard Astrid muttering to herself, "So this is where Hiccup was always running off too. I wonder if the dragon that left those marks got a hold of him." Clearly, she thought she was alone as she spoke to herself. She continued to look around before she ended up right underneath where he was basically standing. Suddenly, Astrid looked up which shocked Hiccup causing a squeak to escape his lips as he fell back flat on his ass, "HICCUP? What the hell?" Astrid yelled at him.

"Hi Astrid," he said as he peeked over the edge.

"Have you just been there this entire time?" she asked.

He nodded, "Yeah, Why?"

Astrid was looking around well she spoke now, "We've been looking all over for you. The dragons all broke out well you were gone. How'd you even get up there, there isn't anything to grab onto to use to climb up."

Hiccup held out one of his hands willing it to dragonifiy in front of him, "Don't need any foot-or-hand holds, I just dug my claws into the rock and climbed on up." He didn't exactly want to tell her the truth, but what else could he do since she'd already made it all the way here."

She began to back away from him, "What… the… Hiccup what's wrong with your arm?"

"Nothing's wrong with it," he sighed not exactly surprised by her reaction, "It's a side effect of a thing called soul-binding. Pretty awesome if I do say so myself."

Astrid's fear and disgust easily showed all over her face, "I've never heard of such a thing before."

Hiccup laughed, "Of course not. It's something done by dragons, not humans. Although, Toothless might have compared it to a human marriage when we first met if I'm remembering correctly, but I think it's closer to a mix between marriage and best friends than anything else. It's such a weird but neat thing."

Astrid was left speechless for what may have been the first time in her life as far as Hiccup knew. It wasn't exactly a surprise though since Vikings knew nothing of such things. Hiccup smiled at her, "He's my soulmate."

"You trader!" She screamed up at him.

Hiccup scowled at her, "How can I betray you guys when I've never been accepted by any of you from the very start?" Growling sounded from the trees behind Astrid causing her to look backwards. Hiccup looked to the black dragon as it exited the brush still growling at her with Remi watching from his spot sitting on Toothless's back. "I've felt more accepted by dragons on multiple occasions for the short time that I've been around them, then I'd ever felt by you guys my whole life. How can I be betraying you? All of you guys hate me so what is there to even betray?"

"I didn't hate you," Astrid said clearly upset by what he had just said. But she was obviously still scared by the growling dragon because she never let it out of her sight.

Hiccup laughed, "You didn't start caring until lately, before that you always avoided me every possible chance you could."

-What is she doing here?- Toothless growled out loudly.

Hiccup responded to the dragon with a smile on his face, -She was out looking for me, and must have wandered here while searching.-

(-Astrid-)

Astrid was looking between them as they exchanged noises back and forth. She could barely process the noises let alone differentiate between them, and she was completely confused by Hiccup being able to make and understand the strange noises. She took a good look at the black dragon, and recognized it from the first night she'd been out with the village looking for Hiccup, "It's the dragon that was stalking you?"

"Obviously that was a complete lie. Our bond had still been stabilizing so I needed to be near him," Hiccup explained from his spot in the lip of the cave above her. She was still looking between the dragons and the boy, making sure that she was ready if the dragons chose to attack her. Astrid watched as the tiny dragon flew above he landing in the boy's arms where it nuzzled against Hiccups face before curling up in his arms and looking down at her curiously.

She looked to Hiccup, "You weren't planning on coming back to the village, were you? When I checked your room most of your stuff was gone. The Chief didn't believe me when I told him because he is in denial like usual, but I never thought that we would actually find you this time."

Hiccup looked at her, "Then don't tell anyone that you did find me. I don't belong here so let the memory of me die as it should. You never would have found me if the rain had decided to let up. We would have already left for the nest if it was safe to make the trip."

Astrid frowned, "You planned on going to their nest?"

Well yeah. It's Toothless's home and since our souls are bound together, I can go there with him. I'll be accepted by his kind easily because I smell like them. All of the dragons I've met so far are nice to me, and have accepted me for who and what I am almost instantly."

"But you would be leaving us all behind, your father too. Doesn't he mean anything too you?" She asked. Astrid didn't understand how he could just abandon everything and leave like that.

She watched him carefully as he looked away from her before responding, "I would be lying if I said I regret leaving. The second that I started caring about dragons I began to dislike Vikings even more than I already did. You guys only care about killing and fighting. You knew dragons were living creatures, but instead of respecting them they were being kept in cages far too small for them, and being forced to fight for their lives. We use a living creature to train our children to kill their kind and no one sees a problem with this," For the first time ever Astrid could see the hate and rage in his eyes, "So I broke them out of that hell they were being kept in."

She glared at him, "You broke them all out. You let them destroy the whole arena because some dragons were suffering, what the actual hell Hiccup?"

"Some dragons weren't just suffering, the nightmare died in that place because of being mistreated at its age." Hiccups eyes were tearing up as he stared down at her. Astrid knew when to keep her mouth shut, and after looking at his face she knew to be careful with what she says next because Hiccup looked like he might just kill her if she says the wrong thing. With a dragon, she'd never seen before, and a boy who might as well be a dragon at this point, she knew she needed to hold her temper and remain calm. Otherwise, she might end up losing her life tonight, "If I say nothing about finding you and your dragons, can I go?"

"GO… but if anyone else comes here, know that their blood is on your hands," with that he disappeared into that cave. Black dragon left out in the rain to make sure she actually left.

(-Hiccup3Toothless-)

Once he knew for sure that she had left Toothless made his way up into their den. When he was inside the cave he moved over to where Hiccup and Remi were sitting, -She's gone now.-

Hiccup smiled at his partner. Toothless nuzzled Hiccup face in a calming manner, -Good, I hadn't expected her to show up here at all. Why was she even out looking for me she never gave a crap about me before.-

-Should we leave since she found this place? We can't make it home, but we may be able to find a small cave on a nearby island that may be safer to stay in,- Remi suggested.

Hiccup shook his head, -No, we should just stay here. She won't tell anyone about this place. She is too scared of what would happen if she did. As long as no one else wanders over this way then we should be fine here.-

Toothless growled protectively, -Even if they do find us we're more than strong enough to deal with a few humans.-

Hiccup laughed and gently rubbed Toothless's head, -I know bud, but I don't think the chances of that are very high. Astrid's smart so she'll probably tell them that she already searched this area so that the others won't have any reason to come over this way. It's more likely that one of the twins will wander here while they're fooling around trying to avoid working.-

Toothless nuzzled his face up against his mates head affectionately, 'Either way I will always protect you.'

'I know, I trust you completely,' Hiccups smile was the brightest thing that Toothless had ever seen, -How about we cook up that yummy fish you two brought?-

Toothless watched as Hiccup went to work using his clever little hands to prepare the food, while Remi flew around the boy making a number of excited squeaks and happy chirps.

AN - So here is chapter 13, prob won't post another chapter until January now. Seeing as Christmas is a thing that I partake in. Merry Christmas, and see you next year.