Thanks for the fav/follows/comments X3. This chapter is longer than my usual length of chapters. The draft was around half the length it is now. I'm not sure how long other chapters will be. I do have like half of the draft done, but that doesn't say anything about the length of the actual chapter. It will probably vary a bit, but I will try to keep consistent.

Anyway, the next chapter will take a bit longer before I will upload it. I am working on a Toothless hoodie which needs to be finished before the 28th so I can wear it to the Dutch Comic Con.

Still looking for a beta-reader!

Chapter 1: Enslavement

The sky was clear except for a black dot that was souring in the air with amazing speed. It suddenly went down and dove under the wings of some thunderdrums, before going back up in the air and slowing down a little.

"All right let's give it a try."

Toothless let out a snort, probably calling his rider reckless.

"Toothless, it will be fine. There's nothing around to crash into, except the sea," his rider replied a little offended.

The dragon rolled his eyes as Hiccup readied the tail-fin. He then unhooked himself and let himself fall down. After dropping a few feet, he hooked up some loops on his arms to some hooks near his feet and spread out his arms. On each side a triangle shaped sheet, looking much like wings, caught air and Hiccup was send up again. Now he looked like a flying squirrel, floating on the wind.

"Oh ya! It's working!" he screamed from the top of his lungs with joy.

Carefully he tried steering and going up and down, while Toothless kept an eye on him just in case he lost control over his flying suit. Although he thought of it more as a floating suit. After Hiccup had dropped quite a bit, the ocean was getting too close for comfort, Toothless flew underneath the boy and caught him. Hiccup placed his foot on the steering peddle again before he started putting away his 'wings'.

"That went well," he grinned from ear to ear.

Toothless agreed with him.

An island came into view, which was nice because they definitely needed to find themselves a place to spent the night. There had been nights in which Hiccup would sleep on Toothless, but ever since he fell off and almost died because of it, Toothless wouldn't let him. The dragon had sulked about it, feeling guilty about the scratches the boy had gotten, but Hiccup had cheered him up by saying it was actually his own fault. He hadn't checked his safety line before he went to sleep.

Hiccup looked down at the island. He hadn't been paying attention to their direction or surroundings, because had been too excited about testing his flying suit and now he wished he had checked. The island that was getting closer was Berk.

It had been two years since he left Berk. An amazing two years. He had seen so many things of the world, learned a lot of things and felt more like himself like he ever had. Over the last few months he had finally gotten his grow spurt. Which made him postpone his flight suit project quite a few times, the testing part that is, because he had to alter the suit so it would fit him again.

To be back in the region he was born in was somewhat strange, because he told himself never to come back again. The place still looked the same from up in the air. He wondered if anything had changed at all, but he didn't want to go find out.

"Let's go around that," Hiccup told Toothless.

Toothless didn't object and steered away from the island. Hiccup closed his eyes and enjoyed the wind going through his hair. Thoughts entered his mind, things he hadn't thought of over a year. He suddenly wondered if they thought he was dead. If his father even cared about the fact he was gone. How Astrid was doing. Quickly he shook his head as he told himself to stop thinking about her. She never liked him anyway, so why in the world was he still thinking about her? She was part of the reason the dragon training arena was destroyed and she never said a word about it. She just let him take all the blame. He hoped she felt guilty about it.

Toothless made some worried noise.

"I'm fine bud. Let's go find some place to spent the night. It's getting dark."

The dragon said something again and, although Hiccup couldn't understand the exact words, he did understand what his dragon companion meant.

"I'm not going back there," he pretty much growled at Toothless, who rolled his eyes and replied. Hiccup let out a frustrated sigh and looked over his shoulder. Berk was barely visible now.

He was convinced he had made the right choice by leaving. He totally loved the freedom he now had. No-one would miss him there anyway. Except… maybe Gobber would and yes he missed his teacher. At points he would miss a place to stay. Going from one place to another wasn't always fun, just most of the time. He also missed speaking his mother language, but since he was in the region anyway he might as well go to one of the other tribes.

"No… I don't miss home," he mumbled and looked ahead again, though it slightly sounded like he was trying to convince himself of that.

They came across a thick fog. It didn't bother them, it was just a lower cloud so Toothless entered it with the same speed he had been flying already. Out of nowhere a giant rock appeared. Hiccup was just in time with his pedal work so Toothless could fly around it, only to almost bump into a next pillar.

"Slow down, Toothless. I don't want to risk crashing into one of those," Hiccup told his dragon.

With a much slower speed they continued their journey through a maze of giant rock pillars. One bigger and wider than the other. Hiccup's eyes widened a little when he saw a group of Viking ships hanging between rocks. He watched it as they passed by, recognizing them as ships from Berk.

"They are crazy for entering this place with a ship," he gasped, "wait… then this is the direction of a dragon nest, maybe we should turn around and go somewhere else."

Toothless used his ear flaps to slap Hiccup's arm as he let out a growl which Hiccup could understand as 'how dare you'.

"Oh, come on. You know I don't mean it like that. I'm just not in the mood for fighting dragons, because we're trespassing their territory. Already have enough scars from the last time, thank you very much."

Their last encounter with a dragon nest didn't go so well. There was a large scar on his right arm from that, which was still healing.

Toothless growled something at him, making Hiccup glare at his dragon only until he realised it wasn't paying any attention to him. He gave up and just begged to the gods they wouldn't end up in a nest with very territorial dragons.

At last the land came into sight. Hiccup stared at it with a somewhat eerie feeling. The island was mostly one giant mountain, looking very much like a volcano. He hoped it wasn't one or if it was, it wouldn't erupt any time soon. The land was barren except for a few dead trees and bushes that had dared to grow there. The beach was nothing but rocks and pebbles.

Toothless landed smoothly and looked around. He too seemed to be a bit uneasy here.

As Hiccup looked around, he found no dragons. Just silence and nothingness.

"Isn't this the nest you used to live, Toothless?" Hiccup mumbled.

Toothless huffed, letting Hiccup know he never liked living here. Hiccup could understand why. He slid of the saddle and untied his travel bag which he dropped on the pebble beach.

"Just for one night," he mumbled to himself as he once again let his eyes travel around, "Go look for some fish. I'm gonna gather some wood."

Hiccup left his bag with Toothless and walked around in search for wood. There were quite a few sticks around so he didn't have to bother himself with the trees. As he walked back to his bag and Toothless, he wondered where all the dragons could be. Maybe they were on a raid?

Hiccup setup the wood for a fire and went through his sticks to find one that he could use to hold his fish above it. When finding one he looked over to his dragon companion who had a small pile of fish next to him.

"Bud, a little help here," he told Toothless as he pointed at the fire.

Toothless looked around and shot a small blast at the wood that immediately got on fire . After that he slapped a fish into Hiccups direction with his tail. Hiccup caught it and stuck it to his stick. What he hadn't expected was a second fish coming his way, which landed on his face. The raw fish then landed on the ground as Hiccup threw Toothless an annoyed look. The dragon on laughed.

"Ya… funny," Hiccup growled at him and made sure to keep an eye out for possible new flying fish as he held the one on the stick near the fire.

Toothless decided to eat the remaining fish and made some disgusting noise as he devoured them. It looked mostly like he was drinking them. In the middle of it he stopped and looked at something in the distance as he let out a soft growl. Within seconds he was next to Hiccup to protect him. Hiccup, not oblivious to Toothless overprotective behaviour, stuck the stick in the ground and pulled his knife as he looked in the same direction as Toothless. Not much later he could hear the sound of something or someone walking on the beach. He could not yet see who or what it was within the mist. On guard he waited, not sure of whatever that was coming closer was friend or foe. He tried listening to the walking pattern and concluded that this didn't sound like a dragon, but more like a person. Were there people living on this barren island?

A figure was now visible in the fog and Hiccup saw he had been right with this being a person. Soon the person was close enough that Hiccup could see it was a woman. Her hair was long and in loose braids. The strands of grey told him she should be somewhere in her forties, maybe fifties. Her clothes were a mess, partly ripped and partly sewed back together with sloppy stitching. They were dirty and it was obvious they no longer fitted her. Her face was one Hiccup had seen when he was imprisoned in Rome on the faces of slaves and those who would participate in gladiator fights. A face of lost hope, ready to die. It made the boy lower his knife as he watched the woman who had yet to spot him.

Suddenly she stood still and laid her eyes upon him. He looked back, unsure of what to do. She looked lost…

The woman shook her head in confusion.

"You can't be real…" she whispered and then noticed Toothless.

Her expression suddenly changed to one of fear and she backed away. Only to stumble over her own feet.

Hiccup let out a sigh and he put his knife away.

"Calm down, bud. She's harmless," he whispered to Toothless as he gave the black dragon a quick scratch.

He then walked over to the woman and stretched out his hand. She looked confused, terrified and somewhat happy at the same time.

"I'm real. No hallucination your mind made up," he grinned at her.

She carefully grabbed his hand and her face lit up when she realized he was indeed real. Hiccup helped her back to her feet and then walked back to Toothless and his fish. She stayed behind watching him. Hiccup gave her a glance from the corner of his eyes. Why was that woman here? And for how long had she been here?

Toothless seemed to have gotten curious too because he trotted towards her. Hiccup heard a soft squeal from the woman and pulled at Toothless his saddle. Not that he could stop the dragon with his strength, but he got his attention.

"Down boy. She's scared of you."

Toothless huffed insulted.

"Don't give me that. You know very well you can come off as something scary. Heck, when we were in Paris you were proud of it. You're a night fury after all. The biggest fear of any human," Hiccup grinned and scratched his pet dragon. Toothless purred content.

"Th-that's a n-night fury?!" the woman let out not sure if she was in awe of how Hiccup was able to actually touch it or be totally horrified by being close by the creature.

"Yep, his name is Toothless. Don't worry. He isn't going to harm you. He only attacks when he's threatened or when I'm in danger."

Hiccup propped down near the fire again and checked if his fish was done yet. Toothless made himself comfortable behind the boy. Hiccup took a bite from his dinner and looked over to the woman, who seemed like she didn't believe Hiccup on his words. It wasn't surprising, no-one ever did, especially when it involved dragons.

"Would you like some fish too?"

"N-no thanks," the woman quickly replied still studying the two however.

Hiccup shrugged and took another bite of his fish.

"So how did you end up on the island of a dragon nest?" he asked the woman.

"How do you know it's a nest? There aren't any dragons around except the one behind you."

"That doesn't really matter," Hiccup replied.

He wasn't in the mood explaining this woman he used to live around these regions and his father would give anything for finding out where this place was.

He waited for her to answer his question. She looked uncomfortable,

"It happened years ago. I was grabbed by a dragon during a raid. Meant as food for the queen no doubt," she mumbled.

"Queen?" Hiccup said and noticed Toothless shudder, "what queen?"

"The one that lives inside that mountain," the woman said with a tremble in her voice as she pointed at the mountain in the middle of the island, "she controls the dragons. Make them bring food to her."

Hiccup looked at the mountain and then to Toothless who seemed uncomfortable ever since that queen was mentioned. He must have been under the control of that queen, but why wasn't he controlled by her now?

To comfort his friend a bit he petted him softly and turned to look at the woman again. Wondering how she knew about the dragon inside the mountain.

"How do you know there is a queen inside that mountain?" he asked.

Once again the woman shuddered.

"Years ago. Soon after I got here, I wanted to know why I was brought here. I didn't understand why I wasn't eaten and every day I saw dragon bring in their prey inside the mountain. I followed, carefully. Worst decision of my life. Dragons were everywhere, I was certain I was gonna die, especially when I saw a head coming out of the deeps. It was huge… immense. It swooped one of the dragons that didn't bring enough food right out of the air and swallowed it whole. That… thing… is as big as the mountain itself. I ran out right after that and waited for the day that I would be thrown into her mouth."

Hiccup decided that the woman used to be a lot braver around dragons than she appeared to be now. Clearly a Viking willing to die. He also was a bit disgusted by her that she still thought she would be thrown in as a quick meal for a queen to please. If that would happen, it would have happened years ago. Why were Vikings so short sighted. He let out a sigh.

"Why didn't the dragon offer you?" he asked, perhaps he was able to change her mind about dragons? He doubted it much. Vikings were hard to get them to change their mind.

"I don't know," she answered confused by his question and jumped when she heard a something behind her.

Hiccup saw a dragon landing near them, the fog was fading a little so he had a perfect view. It was quite big and it looked back at him. Hiccup wondered if this was the dragon that brought the woman here. He studied it carefully, but it wasn't one he had seen before. Not even during his travels around the world. Then again, the world turned out much bigger than he ever thought it was. Just because he didn't see it before, didn't mean he somehow recognized it. It looked a bit like something his father described once; a stormcutter. The only difference was that this one had two wings, not four.

He turned his attention back to the woman who looked horrified at the dragon and gave quick glances to the mountain. She was probably wondering if today was the day she would be offered to the queen.

"Did something happen during the flight to this place?" he asked her.

She looked over to him, still keeping an eye on the dragon in the distance though. It didn't come any closer though, just watched the scene.

"Uhm…" the woman started as she tried to remember an event from years ago, "it crashed in one of those rock pillars around the island, thanks to the storm. It's wing g ripped. I thought I was going to drown or crushed. In the madness I climbed on its back and did something crazy," she ended with a mumble.

Hiccup loved crazy things. He himself was full of crazy things. Difference was, he considered his crazy antics mostly as good, this woman apparently thought her crazy moment was something terrible.

"What did you do?"

"I fixed his wing… sewing it together as well as I could at that moment. It was good enough to get us both out of the water. He could fly again and we landed somewhere in a cave, not this island. I wanted to escape once the storm was gone, but it brought me here before I could. Then again… it's a maze out there."

Hiccup stared with widened eyes at her. So she helped a dragon… but how could she still think it was going to use her as food? It clearly wasn't.

"I could bring you back home, but you have sit on the back of a dragon."

She looked at him as if he had gone mad.

"I promise nothing will happen. Where are you from?"

"B-Berk," she stuttered as she focused on the black dragon behind him thinking she would never ever climb on the back of a dragon again.

Hiccup promptly turned his eyes to the fire.

"Sorry can't do that. Anything but there," he said to her as he grabbed a stick and started to poke in the flames. The more he found out about this woman, the more he wish he hadn't. He wasn't stupid, he could connect the things he heard and saw and the result of it wasn't something he liked. It just could not be true. He let that one small part of his Viking heritage take him over and stubbornly told himself this person was not and could not be his mother. The dragon in the distance wasn't a stormcutter after all. More people get carried away by dragons. Even on Berk.

"Why?" he heard her ask confused.

"Because I left that place and I refuse to go back," Hiccup growled.

Not ever. Not even to drop her off. He did not want to risk to walk into anyone.

"You… you're from Berk?" she whispered in surprise.

Hiccup nodded once and continued poking in the fire.

"They send you away because you sided with dragons?"

Hiccup stopped poking with the stick. Was this woman not listening? He left on his own free will. He said clearly just a moment ago. Okay, so it wasn't common to leave everything behind out of free will, but how obvious did she want him tell her.

"They don't even know about Toothless," he grumbled and looked over to her, "like I said, I left the place. If I hadn't, I would have been exiled the next morning and I really wasn't willing to sit on a boat alone drifting to wherever the sea would bring me."

She looked shocked, "You were going to be exiled?"

"Heard dad pretty much shout it," Hiccup replied getting more annoyed by the minute.

"But… only the chief can decide it."

"My father is the chief!" he shouted back at her as he jumped back to his feet, "he finally found a good reason to get rid of me. After being the biggest disappointment of his life!"

He glared at her and the look in her eyes was something he didn't like.

"Hiccup?" she whispered and did a few steps forward until she saw the dragon again and stopped.

Toothless had gotten on high alert, not sure why Hiccup was suddenly acting the way he was, but stood between the two humans, protecting the boy. Hiccup, crawling back to his feet, did a few steps backwards and shook his head. He didn't want to hear what she was going to say next.

"Hiccup… I'm… I'm your mother."

"No! You're not!" he shouted at her, "not anymore! She died after being carried away by a stormcutter!"

The dragon that had kept its distance was crawling closer now. He seemed on guard. Hiccup saw he lifted his wings and saw them split. Four wings. It had been a stormcutter after all. When he looked back at his mother he saw the pain in her eyes, but he couldn't care less.

"Hiccup, please," she started begging and really wanted to go closer, but didn't dare to do one step closer a night fury.

"No! A mother doesn't abandon her child!" Hiccup shouted back, stubbornly telling himself she was lying.

"You were save!"

"Safe?! At a place that is constantly raided by dragons? How do you call that safe?!"

"Your father would protect you!"

"He wanted me dead! I was to be exiled hadn't I left on my own!"

"Hiccup, I couldn't leave this island… I…"

"Yes you could! If for one moment you would have opened your eyes, you would have noticed that dragon over there has been watching over you. That he wouldn't feed you to the queen and he would be more than willing to bring you back home. But all you do is cower in waddle in misery!"

With that Hiccup search the ground for his travel bag. He wasn't going to stay here one minute longer. He tightened the bag to the saddle, quickly and with ease, after which he mounted Toothless.

His mother finally seemed to have overcome her fear of dragons, or maybe the fear of losing her son a second time was bigger, for she rushed over to him and grabbed his arm.

"Hiccup, please listen to me," she begged him as she held on tight.

He tried pushing her off, but it wasn't going fast enough and she would just grab hold of him again. Toothless eventually got annoyed with it and slammed her away with his tail. With a thud she landed on the pebble beach and looked up mortified.

A loud roar shock the three up and they all looked in the direction it came from. It was the stormcutter that marched their way. Spreading out his wings to make him look even bigger. Hiccup paled a little, knowing well what made this dragon so angry so suddenly. He had seen this behaviour in Toothless multiple times of the last two years. This dragon wasn't showing territorial behaviour, but protective and the one he was protecting was his mother.

"Tell him to stop," he said softly and then tore his eyes from the dragon that was approaching to his mother.

"Stop him," he urged.

"I c-can't… he doesn't listen to me."

"Yes he does! Tell him to call off the attack!"

Hiccup looked over to the dragon again. It was getting to close for his comfort.

"Toothless, up!" he quickly commanded his night fury.

With great haste Toothless flew up and away from the island. The stormcutter followed them. Of course it did, Toothless also followed the ones that attacked Hiccup, so this wasn't going to be over soon.

The next thing Hiccup knew was him being in the middle of a dragon fight. Not that it had been his first, but this could have been completely avoided if his ridiculous mother would just call the stormcutter to stop.

It was annoying that this dragon was just as agile as Toothless was, so they had to rely on speed, something Toothless excelled at. With twist and twirls, arcs down and up and blast of fire just barely missing him, Hiccup managed to keep a hold on his dragon.

Toothless turned a hundred and eighty degrees, blasting a plasma blast at their attacker. Hiccup really wished this wasn't necessary as he reached for his pocket knife. He really didn't want to harm a dragon that was protecting someone, even if that someone was a fool.

Toothless had noticed his movements and because the two were so in sync with another, knew exactly what the boy was up to. They were forced to use the same tactics the last time they fought a dragon.

Hiccup made sure Toothless tail-fin was in the correct position as he pulled up his legs and got in a kneeling position on the back of the night fury. His knife ready in his hand he made Toothless close in on the stormcutter. There was one thing they hadn't thought would be such a big influence and that was the two extra wings this dragon had. With strong flaps it created a wind much stronger, making it a little harder for Toothless to get closer. When almost close enough the stormcutter slammed its lower wings against Hiccup, who quickly grabbed hold on the wing as Toothless glided underneath the stormcutter. The stormcutter hadn't thought Hiccup would grab hold on him. It started to try to get him to let go, even more so when it spotted the dagger the boy was holding.

Unfortunately for Hiccup this dragon had an extra wing on the side he was holding on to and it made it a lot easier for it to hit Hiccup. The boy managed to withstand the first two hits, but lost his balance. There was no need to pull out his new flying gear though, Toothless caught him. Toothless looked around worried at the boy on his back.

"I'm fine," Hiccup quickly replied and then got a wing right on the back of his head.

He fell forward, hitting on Toothless head. In his dazed state of mind the boy tried to get a hold on to the saddle so he wouldn't fall off. He hadn't hooked himself to it yet. However, before he could do so, another hit followed and a next. During the last he lost his conscience when he hit a metal piece of the saddle.

Toothless fired a plasma blast at the stormcutter and noticed Hiccup slipping of his back. One moment he lost his focus on his attacker to grab the boy, it had been enough for the stormcutter to slam the night fury on the head with its tail.

Now the black dragon too was slipping away, although it was trying to fight it. Toothless get several other hits until…

Valka crawled back to her feet. She was on the edge of crying as she watched the battle in the air. When Huccip fell down from the stormcutter's wing she stopped breathing for a moment. Fearing he would fall all the way and hit the rocks beneath, which meant instant death. She couldn't tear her eyes away from the scene though, no matter how horrified she was.

How she wished the stormcutter would stop. If it was the only thing she could do for her son, just to save him and then let him go wherever he wanted to go, then she would. The boy had all right to be angry at her. He was right, she abandoned him. But knowing that, didn't take away her fear for the creatures fighting up in the air.

Valka saw the night fury struggling. He was trying to hold on to Hiccup while fighting of the stormcutter. It was something she didn't understand. A dragon defending a human. Then it hit her. Not only the words Hiccup had spoken to her. The words that she should tell the stormcutter to call of the attack. Words that had confused her, for how would she be able to stop a wild dragon from attack? She also understood the situation. This fight. The stormcutter. Perhaps… she could stop it? It only started to attack Hiccup and his dragon when the night fury had slammed her away with its tail.

"Stop," the woman whispered as tears now rolled down her face, blaming herself for what was happening.

The stormcutter didn't hear it of course. Her breath was stuck in her throat as she gathered herself.

"Stop!" she shouted, "don't hurt them!"

To her surprise, but mostly relieve, the stormcutter halted its next attack and looked at her in confusion. Valka was in a shock when it grabbed the two out of the air and flew her way, carefully placing her son and his dragon on the pebble beach before landing itself. For a while she could do nothing, but stare in disbelieve at what just happened. She noticed the stormcutter crawling away from her son. The night fury kept on laying there however.

Carefully she made her way to her son, giving the black dragon a glance, it was unconscious. She then knelt down near Hiccup and rolled him on his back. Staring down, realizing this was her fault, tears rolled down once more. When she couldn't see him breathing, fear suddenly took over again. She lay her head on his chest and focussed on listening to his heartbeat, which she heard. Quite strongly too. Now with her head on his chest, she also felt it rise and fall ever so slightly.

She thanked the gods that he was still alive and sat up straight again. Staring at the boy she noticed several small scars. Nothing that wouldn't heal in a few days. Carefully she checked his arms and legs, but couldn't feel anything that was broken, though Valka wasn't a medic. She had to wait for him to tell her if he had any pain anywhere. Only then she could do something… or so she hoped.

With a relieved sigh she watched him. Her boy. After all these years. She could only dream of seeing him again and here he was. Grown up, almost a man still just a boy, but oh so mature already as she had noticed during the brief conversation she had with him.

"I'm so sorry, Hiccup," she whispered, holding back her sobbing.

Her eyes drifted off to the stormcutter in the distance. It was watching her, confused yet curious. It had listened to her begging, but she still feared it. It was the reason she was on this forsaken island. She looked at her son again. His arm was still bleeding. She wished she had some proper bandages and some herbs, although she had no idea what herb she would need to help the wound heal faster. She had never been great with herbs. There hadn't been any need to it either, Stoick never got hurt as he fought dragons.

She then looked at the night fury. It was still out cold, she couldn't spot any blood coming from him either. Then again, a dragon's skin could take much more than a human skin.

She spotted the bag, still tied to the saddle on its back. Perhaps it contained some bandages?

Valka got to her feet and gulped as she decided to do something she never thought she would. As she stepped close to the dragon she hoped it wouldn't wake up. Shaking and breathing uneven she tried to ban out all her fear for the creature as she untied the knots of the travel bag. It wasn't easy with her hands shaking so much, but eventually she got the knot out and pulled the bag of the dragon only to back away quickly after that. After giving the dragon another glance, she knelt down near Hiccup again and opened the bag.

She couldn't help but stare at all the items she found. Knowing he had been all over the world. At last she found what she had been looking for. Bandages.

She wrapped up his arm and cleaned his other wounds with another bandage. After that she just had to wait and hope he would listen to her when he wakes up.

I rolled to my stomach, my left wing was hurting from laying on it for too long. My head hurt as well, which made me wonder what had happened. It wasn't often that my head would hurt this badly. I needed to blink a few times before I could really open my eyes. Then I started searching for my human. He had to be somewhere around.

My eyes fell upon a woman hovering over someone. I sniffed once and found out that someone was Hiccup. For a horrifying moment I thought they were mating and I woke up in the middle of that, why oh why did I have to wake up in the middle of that?! Then I noticed they were both still wearing what they call clothes and sighed relieved. For mating those things needed to be gone.

My sighing had alerted the woman and she looked around. Her eyes grew wide when she noticed I was awake and she backed away terrified. Strange. I stumbled to my feet and walked over to Hiccup. After sniffing him a bit I could conclude he was fine, just not awake. Hopefully he would wake up soon though… and tell me how the heck we ended up on this place… and who she was.

I looked over to the woman, who backed away even more when my eyes were locked on her. Looking back at my human, Istudied him some more. When I noticed some new scratches and a bandage I wondered why I hadn't noticed those before. It made me wonder even more what had happened. Carefully I licked his new wounds so they wouldn't get infected and then waited.

After a while I got impatient, but resisted the urge of nudging him. He needed the rest, humans don't heal as quickly as dragons do. I hated to see him out cold. Especially if I did not know the reason. After a few hours I rolled on my back in boredom.

"Wake up already," I let out with a sigh.

Of course it didn't wake him up, so I decided to kill some time with trying to remember what had happened. I definitely remember flying. Hiccup was excited for testing his… soaring suit. I did not remember landing somewhere. Or a fight or maybe even him falling off my back. Please dragon of the sun tell me he didn't fall off my back again. Then I realised his wounds would be more severe if he had.

I rolled back on my stomach and looked around. It took me some time, but I remembered the place and I didn't like it one bit. Please Hiccup, wake up so we can leave. Did we land her because he got hurt? Or was he hurt because of landing here? If it was the later I was sure about me letting the pride getting the best of me, I really had to do something about that. Last time it got Hiccup into trouble as well.

It was only when the dragon of the sun had been way up high in the sky and I had started to slumber a little Hiccup woke up. Immediately after I heard him move about, I got back on my feet and walked over to him with a happy smile.

My body was aching I noticed as I sat up. Confused I looked around to see where I was, but something big and black blocked my view. It looked happy and I was sure I had to know what it was, but at that moment I couldn't find the word. It sniffed me shortly and licked my face.

"Thank the dragon of the sun, about time you woke up."

"Dragon!" I pretty much shouted.

That was the word I had been looking for.

"You're a dragon," I told the creature.

It stared at me a bit confused, "Yes… I am… are you alright?"

"I don't know," I muttered staring at him for a bit before opening my mouth again, "so uhm… since we speak the same language I take it I am a dragon too."

Its jaw dropped open, which looked rather comical, but I had no reason or even energy to laugh at it. I couldn't remember being a dragon, then again I didn't have the slightest knowledge of what I was or even who. Perhaps this dragon knew?

I watched it shaking its head and then looking at me with strict eyes that scared me a little. Should I be scared? I wasn't sure. Maybe I should, since I wasn't a dragon. Were dragons dangerous? Why didn't I remember?!

"I can't believe I didn't notice you were actually talking dragonese," the dragon sighed, "anyway you're not a dragon. You're a human."

"Ah," I managed to say and studied my body.

When looking over my shoulders I did indeed not find any wings. I also couldn't spot a tail.

"Alright… so any idea who I am then? And who are you?"

The dragon started to look scared and started sniffing me more intense than before, causing me to giggle because it tickled. When he was done he looked at me with worry.

"I don't know what happened, but it caused you to forget everything," he mumbled and then gently pressed his snout against my chest, "I'm so sorry."

"Hey, its fine. Just help me remember then. Let's start with who you are and who I am."

The black dragon pulled back and sat down across me.

"I'm Toothless. It's the name you gave me. Dragons normally don't have names. You are Hiccup. Though you told me your full name once, you usually just go by Hiccup."

"Hiccup… I'm not sure I like that."

Toothless let out a snort and nudged me with his snout that I should stand up, which I did. It was when I looked around I saw someone sitting. As I was wondering what kind of creature it was, Toothless told me it was a human and female. She looked terrified and crawled backwards a bit when we got a step closer.

"Is she scared of us?"

"I think it's me she's scared off. Maybe she can help us figure out what happened and how we got her… if she speaks a language you understand that is," the dragon answered thoughtful.

"Do I speak a human language?" I asked.

He gave me a look that made me feel stupid. Of course I spoke a human language, after all he just told me I was a human. It just didn't seem very logical to me since I was speaking dragonese.

"Go ask her what happened, I'll wait here."

Toothless nudged me with his head and I stumbled forward. After a few steps I looked back at him. He made a movement with his head that I had to continue walking, so I did. She looked surprised and still a bit afraid, giving quick glances to Toothless. A few steps away from her I stopped. She stared at me, probably wondering what I wanted.

"We were wondering if you could tell us what happened," I said and I hoped it was in a human language.

Her eyes grew wide and got the feeling I had just spoken dragonese to here.

"You… don't remember?" she asked.

Oh, so I did speak her language. Well that was a plus side, although I had no idea how I switched. Quickly I shook my head a bit, answering her question. She let out a sigh, sounding relieved but also full of regret, no idea why I thought this.

I simply waited for her to hopefully answer my question. She remained silent though, looking back up at me with tears in her eyes. It confused me.

"Please tell me? I didn't even remember my name or his name and he doesn't remember what happened either."

She gasped, jumped to her feet and started feeling at my head. I winched when she touched sour spots.

"By Thor… you have a terrible form of amnesia."

"Uhm what?" I asked sheepish.

"Amnesia. It means you forgot things. In your case even your name… what do you remember?"

Good question, what do I remember. In fact, I had no idea. I mean… I knew Toothless was a dragon… and I was standing on something that one called a beach… with pebbles. But how I got here… heck I a moment ago I didn't even know what I was until Toothless told me I was a human.

Shrugging I shook my head looking slightly desperate at her. To my surprised she pulled me into a hug.

"I'm so sorry, Hiccup," she breathed into my neck, making sobbing noises.

First a dragon telling sorry to me and now her. Was everyone responsible for me or something?

"Please tell me what happened," I tried again.

She pulled back, but held onto my arms. Still with a teary face she gave me an uncomfortable look.

"You two got into a fight with another dragon. You were hit on the head several times, which must have caused the amnesia."

I nodded, trying to remember, but only got a headache. She pulled me into another hug. It felt strange. For me I was hugged by a stranger, though apparently seemed to know me.

Then I heard something. Something that made the woman quickly let go of me and look around frightful. Something that made the whole island we were on tremble. It vibrated through my body.

"Come my sweet ones," it sounded.

I looked over to Toothless, who seemed to be as terrified as the woman. His ears were pressed to his body, which he tried to make as small as possible as he looked around anxiously, walking backwards a little.

To me the words didn't sound so terrifying.

"Come," it sounded again.

It was calling me, I knew that. I felt it in every part in my body. So I looked at the mountain curiously. Wondering how I could enter so I could go to the that voice. Then dragons suddenly appeared in the sky, as if they came out of nowhere. I watched them, they too felt the same desire I had to enter that mountain. To answer to the voice. As I looked up, I saw the many dragons entering tunnels. It was a little high up, but sure I could manage to get there. So, without a second thought, I started to climb up the mountain.

I panicked when I heard that call. Of course I recognized it. I had heard it so many times when she had me in her control as well. Not many things terrify me, but that voice sure did. I certainly didn't want to become her slave once more. I was already happy that I had broken free of her grip, although it was still a mystery to me how that happened.

In my panicking state I hadn't noticed Hiccup climbing up the mountain to one of the entries. What was he doing?! Was he out of his mind?! Entering that place was dangerous, especially if you were a human. Well actually even for dragons it was dangerous… better yet anyone, no matter what species, was better to stay out of there. Yet he was climbing up there as if…

I swallowed as a thought came to me, one I did not want to believe was possible. There were only two reasons to enter that place. Someone crazy without fear of dying, sure Hiccup was crazy but not that crazy and he also didn't want to die as far as I know. Or… if you fell under the queen her spell…

Pacing a bit I kept on watching as he now reached the entrance, thinking about what I should do. I was terrified of being controlled again, but I also didn't want Hiccup in there. The decision was quickly made and I dashed over to the boy, passing the confused woman who stood frozen.

I clawed my way up and entered the mountain. Hiccup wasn't far ahead of me. I retracted my teeth so not to hurt him and grabbed his arm. He looked around, not understanding what I was doing.

"Come," the queen called out once more.

Several dragons flew over us. Hiccup watched them for a moment and then looked back at me, making some movement that I had to follow. I could feel the desire to continue now as well. It was hard to resist.

"It's feeding time."

Feeding time… already… I thought. I shook my head. Get it together, Toothless. Feeding… food… the queen was hungry. Wait… who was Toothless? And what about that boy I was holding, carefully too. Why careful?

He gave me a questioning look. Some vague memory then entered my mind. Him helping me with my tailfin in order to fly. I let his arm go and looked at my tail, showing it also to the boy.

"I need your help," I told him.

Without even questioning me, he climbed on me as if it was normal. Then I started flying towards the centre of the mountain, where the queen was waiting for us. I landed on the side, waiting for the orders. The last dragons brought their offers. I wasn't on gathering food duty I hoped, because I nothing to give. Then again she never put me on food duty, just destroy duty.

It remained quiet for a while, but then her saw her head come up, sniffing around.

"I smell something I haven't smelled in a long time… is it you my dear shadow of the night?"

I knew she meant me. I was the only shadow of the night at the nest, so I spread my wings and flew over to the closest rock to her. After landing I bowed my head, hoping the one on my back would do as well. To my relieve he soon followed my example.

"Yes, my queen," I answered her, looking up again.

"What is this? A human on your back. Why are you carrying a human?"

She sniffed at the boy on my back, who remained seated and let her do what she desired to do.

"Explain, shadow of the night."

I lifted my tail.

"I need him to fly, my queen. Part of my tail got lost. If not for him making me a new one and helping me fly, I would not be here," I answered straight to the point.

I gave the boy a look and he showed how it worked.

"But he won't understand you. He doesn't speak our language." the queen said confused by what was going on.

I didn't blame her. Working together with humans was an odd thing to do. They fight us. Kill us. Sometimes lock us up to train their hatchlings. They do not work together with us.

"I'm sorry to speak, my queen. I just wanted to say that I can understand every word you say and I would be honoured to help."

I knew my human had said the right words, especially since he bowed his head with the last part. The question was if she was willing to let him help.

She looked thoughtful and slightly confused. Maybe wondering if this were a trap, but most likely knowing no-one could stand up against her. Not even the small human on my back, especially not the small human.

"My queen, may I add something?"

"Speak, shadow of the night."

"Since he is human, he can help us during the raids. He can take down weapons or open places we cannot without destroying part of the food. He can trick humans into telling him where to find food. Infiltrate villages without suspicion to see where to find the food," I told her.

She nodded understanding what I meant. A human on our side was useful.

"Very well. Though, I cannot accept a human so easily. You shall be tested boy."

"Of course, my queen," my human said, "anything to show you my loyalty."

"You two shall go and find me food. Take four others along, not more. I want to see what you can do human, so make the food you will bring good and plenty."

The boy and I bowed as the queen went back to her chamber. I was already thinking of the dragons we should bring along. Many already flew away, not willing to work along with a human, but a few came our way. And with few I meant four, which completed the team. I guess we couldn't pick out who to bring this time, though I was sure we would in the future.

Among the four was a young male sting tail who had always been curious about humans. A male rock body. A female flaming body and a small female snapper. I wasn't so happy with that one. First of all they were annoying, second, they couldn't carry big things. But, like I said, we couldn't pick so it had to do. Maybe my human knew something to make the snapper carry more.

"I thank you for your cooperation," I said.

They nodded, looking curiously at the human.

"Seems like you got shot out the air at last," the male rock body said.

I let out an offended snort and spread my wings as I announced we were leaving for the hunt.