Hiccup's POV
Oh man. They've found out. I watch as Toothless runs over and out of the corner of my eye, Astrid raises her axe too attack him. Without thinking clearly, I rip it out of her hands and run over to Toothless to calm him down. I grab his head, pushing him backwards, and then turn around to see their eyes glued to both me and him.
"I can explain," I try to reason with them without getting any luck. They head for the exit of the cove, trying to escape. They really don't know anything.
"Da, da, da. We're dead," Toothless walks away as if it's not his problem. I follow him to convince him. "Where do you think you're going? If they get back to my village, my father will hunt you and me down," He still didn't seem convinced.
"Ok Mr. Grumpy, let's play fetch," His face lightens up, and he bows, allowing me to get on him. I attached my feet in the stirrup, checking the prosthetic tail, and we flew of. We spot Fishlegs far behind the others and Toothless grabs him with his claws carefully not to hurt him and we fly back to drop him off. With no time to land we drop him a few meters off the ground and fetch both the twins at the same time.
"Come on bud, we're running out of time," He speeds up, dropping them both on top of Fishlegs and we scoop off to fetch Astrid and Snotlout. I notice Astrid after having fetched Snotlout, she's holding her axe.
"Can you remove her axe without splitting it in two?" I ask him, he gave me the 'of course I can' look and flew down to get her axe. Then he dropped it a few feet away from her. Surprisingly, Astrid didn't run away, she stood almost paralyzed and scared as she saw us grabbing her. Luckily none of them screamed while flying high above the ground. We landed in the cove with me and Toothless blocking the opening. "Now, will you let me explain?" I ask again, they nodded, giving up. Hahahahaha, in ya face.
"Basically, I shot down a night fury which I named Toothless and trained him," I said, pointing at the not so very pleased Night fury behind me. He ate his breakfast after our little workout, but did not look very pleased by having company.
"Why did you name him Toothless?" Fishlegs asked, gesturing to the eating dragon. I look back, and Toothless knows what I mean. He gives them a Toothless smile, and then starts eating again.
"Woah," Ruff said.
"Can I pet it?" Tuff asked, moving his hand forward. Toothless looks up from his food and growls.
"He doesn't like strangers touching him," I explain. "How did you find me anyway?" They all went silent, but Fishlegs couldn't hold it in. I gave him a death glare and he gave up.
"Stoick asked Gobber if he could tell us to find out why you always run off to the forest all the time. They grew suspicious," Fishlegs explained fast. I hardly got what he said. The others gave him a death glare and he covered his mouth. To be honest I'm a bit disappointed that Gobber was a part of it, but he must follow my father's orders to keep their friendship.
"Aha, is that so?" If that's true, then I'm in big trouble, and so is Toothless, "I need you to promise me something. You can't tell anyone about Toothless." They didn't seem to agree very much and Astrid confirmed it.
"And if we do?" She asked with a threatening voice.
"Then Toothless here will have a nice breakfast," I said, standing up. Their faces fell with a priceless expression. They nodded in agreement.
"What are you going to do about the monstrous nightmare tomorrow? It's obvious you can't and won't kill it," Snotlout snapped at me, earning a punch in the face by Astrid.
"I have to prove them that dragons mean no harm. I have to try."