yay, thank you so much for all the follows I received for this story already. You don't know how happy I am. To reward you fine readers I have already posted the second chapter. I have a good feeling about this story. Enjoy.

About an hour after sun up Hiccup returned back to the village with Toothless. Hiccup walked slowly, not even looking where he was going. His head was down and his eyes were half open. If any of the villagers saw him now they would have thought the boy had another fight with his father over something trivial.

In all honesty, Hiccup was simply worn out. The nightmares that constantly played on his mind, circling his thoughts day and night, meant he had lost so much sleep. Hiccup was now feeling extra groggy as he left his bed this morning instead of trying to get back to sleep.

Blacksmith duties and dragon training wouldn't wait though, so he knew he had to spend the day hard at work once again whilst trying to hide his strange new ability.

Hiccup remembered when it first appeared. The same as this morning it also happened that day. Thankfully the only being with him was Toothless.

They had a fabulous day of flying, trying out new tricks which Hiccup always wanted to push to the extreme. At this point in time Hiccup was working on a type of flight suit that would allow him to glide through the sky like a dragon.

It was still in the prototype stages and Hiccup wasn't quite ready to use it too high up. He would jump from low level cliffs with the wind blowing out to sea. If it went wrong he would simply plunge into the waves and swim back to shore. So far he was making progress.

It was after the excursion at cliff he used, which was situated on the northern side of the island, that when he sat on the beach drying out he ended up sneezing.

Toothless was there, watching the whole time. His ears lay flat against his neck as his teeth flashed in shock.

Hiccup was equally shocked, even more so than his dragon. Just now tiny Golden flames surged out when he sneezed. They were tiny, but bright. They lasted for a few seconds before the wind blew them out.

Hiccups greengage eyes watched in horror. How did that occur?

Before Hiccup could start to wonder Toothless growled, snatching his attention for his own. It was time to head back.

Ever since then Hiccup learned that he had the ability to breath fire like a dragon. He still wasn't sure how he controlled it and sometimes it would come out by accident. So far the flames only burned small, but they were exceedingly bright and energetic, unlike any fire seen wielded by any dragon.

Thankfully no others except Toothless has seen this seemingly bad omen. Whatever it was it couldn't be good. It scared Hiccup. A human shouldn't be able to expel fire of any kind from their lungs, only air that has been breathed out.

Hiccup decided he had no appetite so he trudged back towards the academy where he would spend the morning working with the other teens and giving advice to the villagers on the care of their own dragons. The afternoon he would spend with Gobber in the shop.

These past few days he barely touched the food that was set in front of him. He only spent time in the great hall when his father urged him to go there and eat. Hiccup went, sat down with something like a chicken leg in front of it and spent at least an hour picking at it, slowly eating it.

More often than not the other teens were there. Many of them didn't pay much attention but Astrid and Fishlegs were the first to notice Hiccups despondency lately. They came and sat with him at the table and noticed his eyes seems to be staring at nothing in particular. In actual fact it looked plain creepy and forced Astrid to lightly punch him on the shoulder. Hiccup then woke up from his silent haunted expression and focused his eyes on the Blonde haired girl.

Hiccup tried to explain that there was nothing wrong but it was plain on Astrid's face that she thought differently. Thankfully she left it at that. For now.

Nearing the training area Hiccup was woken from his thoughts when he heard a massive explosion, then there was shouting and growls emanating from the arena. Sighing with barely contained ire Hiccup entered quickly with Toothless growling close behind.

"Oh dear gods, what's happened now?" Hiccup decided already it was too early for this and his lack of sleep was making him less patient than normal. Usually his patience would be tried over a certain length of time. Hiccup was good at collecting the calm in his mind, but now his patience was wearing as thin as a melting ice sheet. One surge of hot air would crack it down the middle.

"Nothing to get annoyed at." Snotlout had just dismounted from his dragon Hookfang and was pointing to the other side of the arena. "If you want to blame someone blame those idiots over there."

"Now wait just a moment. It was your suggestion in the first place, I just did it better." Tuffnut had his arms crossed over his chest, one eyebrow raised.

Suddenly a skinny girl who resembled the long blonde haired boy came flying out of nowhere, punching him in the face. "You mean 'we' idiot."

It was then the twins started to have a mini brawl in the middle if the arena with their dragons double heads watching in amusement. They made chirping noises as they watched their riders quarrelling in the dust.

"Ruffnut, Tuffnut, please would you stop!" Hiccup had to shout just to be heard. "Snotlout, what happened here?"

"Well, Tuffnut bet that his dragon could create a bigger crater in the wall with their fire than Hookfang could. I just wanted to prove him wrong, but then there was that awesome explosion, and here we are now."

Hiccup looked behind Snotlout to be met with the scene of carnage to the arena wall. The whole wall was coated in black soot and there were distinct little craters and one massive one in the middle. The wall was still steaming and the cracks still glowed with red hot fire.

The twins stopped fighting just then to dish out unhelpful comments.

"Yeah, but we were meant to create the explosions one after the other. His dragon couldn't wait."

"Hookfang is noble, he appreciates going first before you do."

Tuffnut put it upon himself to place his forehead against Snotlouts head, challenging him. "Oh yeah, you wanna have another go! Bring it with your overgrown lizard!"

The air in the area a suddenly turned icy so Hiccup ran up to them, pulling Tuffnut away from the black haired boy. "Guys, guys, we are all friends here, but causing explosions this time of the day is a sure fire way of attracting my dad or some of the other villagers to check in on us. I don't want today's sessions to not go ahead because of your disagreements."

Snotlout turned away and Tuffnut wrenched himself out of the small boys grip. "Yeah, whatever." They both said at the same time. They both scowled because of that.

Hiccup sighed, feeling more tired than ever. He actually felt like returning back to bed and sleeping until the next morning, but he knew that would rouse suspicion amongst his peers. The fact he lost sleep hasn't gone unnoticed.

"Hiccup, are you okay?" Astrid who just entered the arena with Stormfly walked straight up to him after she dismounted her dragon. She placed a hand to his forehead in an attempt to check his temperature, but Hiccup didn't appreciate her checking. He stepped back quickly, immediately firing off excuses.

"I'm perfectly fine,"his smile didn't persuade the pretty blonde haired girl. Her blue eyes reflected back a concern for the brunette boy. She knew Hiccup wasn't one to offload his troubles on others. Sometimes it was so frustrating, especially when the situation escalated so quickly that it becomes fit to burst like a Night Furies plasma blast.

"No, your really not!" Astrid's voice rose slightly in exasperation. "For days now you have looked like the walking dead. It's like you just crept out from the clutches of Hel.

"That isn't-"

She cut him off immediately "Your eyes look so tired. Your not as patient anymore, barely eating and sometimes I catch you napping when you are supposed to be working." By now everyone else had gathered to watch the exchange between the two teens. "What's wrong?"

Hiccup was nonplussed for a second, not believing how observant the stubborn young woman actually was.

Toothless took his moment of silence to nudge him in the back, a silent plea. Hiccup knew that his bud wanted him to at least relinquish some of the burdens troubling him. Hiccup sighed, his tired eyes closing for a while before he looked straight into Astrid's eyes.

"Ok," he whispered, "I will tell you this." He paused, biting his lip. He couldn't look into her eyes anymore so he lowered his gaze and looked at the ground. There was silence all around. Even he twins waited without speaking, eagerly awaiting what the chiefs son had to say.

"I haven't been right lately because I have been having nightmares." He said it quickly and quietly. For a moment he wondered if anyone actually ears for they didn't say a thing.

After a few moments the silence ended with a burst of three sets of laughter. Hiccup looked up and saw Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut attempting to laugh heir lungs out of their body. Fishlegs looked confused and Astrid looked simply perplexed, her eyes wide.

"Nightmares, hah, what are you, a child?" Ruffnut joked.

"Hah, he must be." Snotlout giggled with barely contained glee, "who still worried over nightmares anymore?"

Tuffnut didn't say anything for he was rolling about in the floor with laughter guzzling out from his mouth like Barfs green flammable gas.

Hiccup looked down again now feeling acutely embarrassed. He just told them the reason behind everything bad that was happening lately but they simply mocked him. It was like returning to the past before he met Toothless.

He was shocked when Toothless took that moment to roar out like the day they met when he had Hiccup pinned to the ground. The roar was so loud that the other dragons watching recoiled slightly away from the group of youths, watching with their pupils slitted in slight fear.

Another bout of silence followed. Hiccup was close to tears now. He was so frustrated with the situation that he wanted nothing than to return home and hide away forever.

"Hiccup,"Astrid said warily. She neared him once again and placed a cool hand on his cheek. She raised his head, looking into his eyes. "It's not as simple as that is it!" It wasn't a question, it was a statement.

Hiccup nodded. Deep down he knew he could count on Astrid to notice when something said was serious or not.

"Every night for the past few days, I witness the same thing each time." Hiccup walked over and stood next to Toothless, placing his hand on his thick neck.

"Toothless is there to witness me every night, waking from a nightmare plaqued with the shadows of beasts. They circle me in the darkness, heckling me, growling. All I see is their eyes and fangs. It's eerie, but not as much as the figure."

He paused, taking a deep breath, suppressing a shudder. His audience silent. He felt sort of glad to be sharing his night terrors with someone other than his dragon. Even though Toothless understood he wanted someone to respond back to him in Norse, telling him in words that everything would be ok.

"The figure tries to speak, but I don't understand them. The figure looks human, but I know I have never seen them before. It's tall and thin with wild hair. I don't even see their eyes. After that I'm dragged down somewhere where a beast with sword like fangs attempts to tear into me, I always wake up after that."

"What does that mean then?" Astrid asked the question as soon as Hiccup finished, not wanting there to be another silence.

Hiccup closed his eyes, his heart beating fast. "I don't know."

"Woah now, this is getting sort of depressing," Snotlout said in an attempt to break away the tension.

"Yeah, let's talk about other things, like, our dragon beating his dragon in contests of strength." Tuffnut looked slightly uncomfortable with the whole situation. He was one to be more freaked out by ghost stories than the others, even though he didn't show it.

"C'mon Hiccup, now that we know we can take today easy, maybe finish early so that you can go home and rest for a while." Astrid was smiling at the tired boy now. Hiccup looked at her feeling much better than he did.

"Thanks Astrid," he said. With more energy than he could muster before he got back to the situation at hand. Dragon training.

A couple of hours later Hiccup emerged from the arena with the others, who all took off on their own dragons to do their own thing. Hiccup didn't follow as he hadn't yet placed the saddle and tail fin onto Toothless yet.

Toothless knew that his human wasn't in the right state to ride today, so he knew he had to put up with his natural urges to fly, at least for now.

Hiccup walked wearily again on his one prosthetic foot, not noticing the abandoned spear blocking the path. Luckily before he landed with his face in the ground Toothless caught the back if his tunic with his wide mouth, his teeth snapping out at almost lightening speed to catch his friend.

"Thanks bud, I'm ok." He scratched Toothless affectionately behind the ear. They continued walking towards the village after.

Hiccup was thinking that because they finished early he could go home and sleep for a while. Making up his mind he began to walk towards his house. That was until he heard it.

Looking towards his right he saw a crevice in the rock with a deep dark gloom settled inside it. Hiccup peered into it, his forest eyes focussing on something that wanted to remain unseen.

"Here...please come here..." The voice was quiet, like a hiss and it scared Hiccup to the core, but he found he couldn't move.

Toothless began to growl. Whatever was in there it wasn't good. It may be more powerful than even he.

"Come here sweet boy...I have so much to show you..." The voice giggled, the sound like a keckle. A warning shiver passed through Hiccups flesh. A cold shiver raging down his spine. "Blood...spill the blood of the dragon lord...take him away to the darkest place in existence...watch him suffer... Heahahahaha."

Toothless had had enough, he threw the paralysed Hiccup over his head, placing him with a juddering halt onto his neck and ran towards the village at breakneck speed.

He blitzed away from the dark crevice, over the bridge that led towards the arena, through the village taking no heed of the people he almost ran into. He simply jumped over them. Hiccup clung on with surprising strength, his face buried at the base of his dragons neck.

Even Toothless was immensely spooked by the voice, and it wasn't very often that even a Night Fury became scared like a lesser animal. All he could think of was getting the terrified boy away from whatever was lurking inside the shadows of that crevice.

Toothless ran right towards their home. He roared out to get the attention of the man inside. Some of the villagers followed, wondering what had just happened.

Hiccup didn't appear to notice anything, even when his father was running towards him with a worried look on his face. Hiccup didn't even register the scared voice of his father or the worried warble of his dragon.

The voice he heard, he recognised it.

It was the voice from his dream.

All through the exchange between the boy, his dragon and the eerie voice, the same pair of ebony coloured Ravens watched from amongst the grooves in the cliff side. The voice worried them. The time was coming sooner than they expected. They had to report to their master once again.

Raising high on their jet black wings on the cold up droughts of air, they rose over the land and flew towards the sky.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I tried to make it a little chilling when the voice in the crack was speaking. I may need some work though. I would really appreciate reviews, I would love to hear what you guys think of this story. Till next time.