Yo dudes!

TheGallopingCupcake here.

So yeah, I'll be writing the first chapter of 'HTTYD: Community Style!' XD

Thanks sooooo much to Dawnbreaker Dragon for allowing me to write this (and also thanks for coming up with this awesome idea), it was really nice of you :D

Hope you guys like it!

ENJOY

The sun.

I've never really liked the sun that much. It's not that I hated it or anything, it just wasn't as peaceful and comforting as the moon. The moon was pale and soft against my scales, while the sun was bright and hard; especially on those days when all of us would be feeling like all of our scales would melt off at any second, and that was saying something, believe me, since me and all of my kin are cold-blooded, we aren't affected by the warmth as much as humans.

Once two of Hiccups friends (you can probably guess which ones) stupidly decided to stay out in the sun during one of those blazing hot days that I absolutely hate, and when they finally chose to come back indoors, their skin looked raw. It was actually quite amusing to us dragons as we watched them try to move their limbs without feeling that Red Death awful stinging pain prickle through their skin. I've never actually had the displeasure of dealing with the awful sensation that humans call 'sunburn', but I'm sure that the majority of my kin (including me), have been burned by another dragon's flame (though that's very unlikely to happen, since fire doesn't affect those of us who breathe it that much).

Of course, certain species of us would find it completely impossible to burn something. Like the Thunderdrum for example, but I have had certain encounters with them that may have caused a few injuries that felt like stabs from a hot metal rod. Those weren't exactly my fondest of memories, as you might imagine.

So I hope you understand the rather annoyed feeling I got, as I lay soundlessly on my stone slab, when bright yellow sun rays blasted through Hiccup's bedroom window, lighting up the entire room, and landing directly on, yes, that's right, me.

I grumpily opened my eyes, blinking a few times to get used to the sudden wave of light. I tiredly lifted my head up, not bothering much with my earflaps, and glared as menacingly as I could at the sun rays as they slowly moved closer to the other side of the room. Though I probably didn't look at all impressive as I was still trying to wake up the rest of my brain.

'Go away and give me back my beauty sleep,' I growled, sitting up and shooting another piercing stare at the light, daring it to get closer.

And, of course, it did move closer, much to my dismay.

'Evil sunlight.'

Though I completely forgot about the fact that it was the morning when I heard Hiccup's bed creak ever so slightly as he sat up, stretched his arms out (which I always found quite odd, since us dragons stretch differently), and yawned what I hoped was a 'morning', since his yawn seemed louder than his actual speech.

My earflaps instantly sprung forward, I wagged my tail slightly and leaped to the edge of his bed, balancing my four legs on the beds footboard. I pushed my entire face into his and stared into his forest green eyes excitedly. The second Hiccup's laughter burst out of his mouth, I jumped off of the footboard and ran to the side of the bed. I then grabbed the end of Hiccup's furry blanket with my teeth and tugged, making it fall onto the ground.

Hiccup laughed even harder, all signs of tiredness gone from his features. With a smile still stuck to his face, he swung his legs over onto the ground, making sure to be careful with his metal prosthetic, and slowly stood up.

I stepped backwards to give him some room, eyeing his metal leg carefully, just incase it buckled and he lost his balance. Hiccup had gotten used to the metal leg, though I always made sure to be around whenever he got up in the mornings, since it was when he was getting out of bed that he was most likely to fall over. It would've been funny under different circumstances, sure, but thankfully the last time he tripped over because of the metal leg was a while ago.

Hiccup stretched one more time, while I waited patiently for him to say the magic words.

Hiccup gasped as a sudden realisation hit him, and I sat up a bit straighter, a bit surprised. He looked at me with a big grin on his face. "Trader Johann will be here today!" he gasped excitedly.

I blinked. Those weren't the magic words.

Why couldn't he have said, 'Let's go for a ride, bud!' like he usually did?

But for Hiccup's sake, I tried to look interested, but all the while I was thinking: 'Oh no. Not him again!'

It wasn't that I didn't trust Trader Johanne, it was just the fact that the stories that he told were enough to make even the most easily impressed creature fall asleep and most likely die of boredom, it nearly happened to the boy 'Snotlout's' Monstrous Nightmare, Hookfang, once.

But thankfully Astrid's Deadly Nadder, Stormfly, freaked out when the twins were arguing over a quite dazzling looking sword and accidentally (at least I hope it was accidental, anyway) threw it in her direction. Stormfly had shot a bunch of spikes from her tail in surprise, and one landed right in front of Hookfang, which was enough to wake him up just in time before something bad happened.

So we flew down to the docks, me trying to take in the bliss of flying through the cool morning breeze as much as I could before we landed.

"Ah, Hiccup. You're the first to arrive today," Johann greeted as he lay down an exquisitely crafted crossbow against a large barrel.

"Really? I am?" Hiccup replied with surprise as he took his feet out of my saddle's stirrups and jumped off of my back, stepping onto Johann's boat and looking at the new items curiously.

"Ay, I don't even think anyone else is awake yet."

"Hmm…" Hiccup hummed, picking up a giant leather book off of the ground. It was covered in dust, and even from a few meters away I could smell its old, yellow pages, as well as what I think was the faint odour of Loki Tree.

'That's odd,' I purred quietly. 'The only place Loki Trees grow from is Outcast Island.'

I studied it carefully, it didn't seem to be dangerous, but I couldn't shake off the weird feeling that if it was in the wrong hands, it could do something really bad.

"Hey, Johann. What's this?" Hiccup asked, he hadn't even opened the book yet, and already his curiosity had sparked. It was a good thing he was asking about it, because if he hadn't, I would have snatched the book from his fingers and shoved it into Johann's face until he said something anyway.

Johann walked up to Hiccup and studied the book for a second. "Ah yes, that's a book on Astronomy."

Hiccup widened his his eyes and stared down at the book's cover. "Astronomy?" he murmured, clutching the book tightly.

Trader Johann stroked his beard thoughtfully. "Ay, It talks all about planets, stars, moons and whatnot. I got it off of this old lady a few islands away from here, I have a feeling she was blind, poor soul."

But Hiccup wasn't really listening, he already knew all about 'Astronomy' (which, I might add, is a very peculiar name, and I really want to know who came up with it), and I've been around him long enough to listen to him tell me about it. To be honest I didn't really understand much of it anyway, but it was clear that Hiccup was quite passionate about it, so I became interested whenever Hiccup was talking about the stars and all the other things to do with 'Astronomy'.

"Maybe this will tell me more about the moon from last night," Hiccup whispered with awe, any normal human wouldn't have been able to hear him properly, but us dragons have very good listening skills, so I knew exactly what he had said.

Hiccup slipped the book under his arm and grabbed the nearest thing next to him, which actually turned out to be the crossbow that I had been talking about earlier, and through it into Trader Johann's arms, causing him to stop rambling mid sentence. I marvelled at the intelligence of the boy, making it look like he was actually trading something for the book.

Before Johann could even comprehend what had happened, Hiccup had jumped back onto my saddle, the book in his arms, and we had taken off, flying high over the hills until we spotted Hiccup's house.

I dived down and landed neatly on the ground just below the doorstep. But Hiccup had jumped off of my back before my feet had even touched the ground, and was already running up towards the door.

"Come on Toothless! Maybe this book will tell us about why the moon looked weird last night!" He shouted over his shoulder, now inside and running up the stairs to his bedroom.

I followed him excitedly, my ears perked forward and my pupils large and curious. But after a while I stopped, realising the fact that we most likely weren't going to be going out for a nice long ride any time soon.

'Wonderful,' I moaned sarcastically, following Hiccup up the stairs, but now with much less spring in my step.

Phew, that took a while…..

I hope you guys like it! I really hope it's a good starting point for the person who will write the next chapter. Can't wait to read what the rest of you come up with, by the way.

This is gonna be EPIC!

Oh, and to Dawnbreaker Dragon: You are AWESOME, and you deserve infinite free cupcakes, on the house! :D

Can't wait to see where this story goes!

BYE GUYS!

~TheGallopingCupcake

-Dawnbreaker: And thank you TheGallopingCupcake for this marvelous start! I couldn't have wished for a better beginning for this epic story, I'm so happy I let you write it :D And oh, Thanks a THOUSAND for the free cupcakes!

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