Today is like any other day hear on Berk. I wake up, eat and get a disappointment stare from my dad who is also the chief of our village, go to the blacksmiths, create a crazy new invention to prove my worth, do something that would screw everything up, get shouted at by my dad, ordered to stay in the house until tomorrow, I sneak out by the back door and wonder into the woods.

It has always been like that since I was five, and nothing will change that. At least that was what I thought. My name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock 3rd, great name I know, but not the worst.

Today after the general routine, I was walking in the calm and silent beauty of Berks forest, in a way, the lush greenery was more friendly to me then my own farther. I was heading to my favourite spot, a small cove where when the sun shines, it make the place look like it is being watched by the gods themselves. There, I could finally be alone with my thoughts without the worry of intrusion. I was wearing my usual clothing, brown gilet over a green long sleeve top, with boots and green pants.

When I reached my destination, I discovered I was not the only one who finds the cove a sanctuary.

A young girl, with bright blond hair, bright blue eyes, and a very Viking attitude was also in the cove. Practicing with her double bladed battle axe, on some nearby trees. When she spotted me on the opposite side to the cove, she gave me a look that said 'don't talk to me or I will demolish you' and went back to terrorising the defenceless trees. The girl in questions name is Astrid Hoffison, pretty much the only Viking girl in the village who had looks better than a yak and a name that does not sound like a insult. She is also the one of the very few people in Berk who doesn't treat me like, well, a Hiccup and more like my Dad. At least I hop so.

I decided to take this opportunity to draw the scene before me, before I get spotted and have an axe thrown at my face. I took out my sketch book from my vest, including my pencil, sat down leaning on a tree and started to draw. I was very good at drawing due to years of practice. It was one of the few activities that I did not screw up in and enjoy doing.

First, I started with the setting of the cove , then I added Astrid in the far corner of the drawn up cove in a fixed axe throwing position. Her armoured skirt and shoulder pads reflecting the sun light. Next I added the lighting of how the cove seemed to be the only thing the sun could shine upon. Finally, I finished with a bit of shading here and there and… Done.

I admired my work, perfect replica of the day. If only I could show Astrid so that she can see I am not a complete screw up, but she would probably just start moving away as a best scenario , and the worst having an axe at my throat.

As I laid there watch the young Viking practice with her axe, I did not notice something coming from behind me.

Silent as the calming wind, two dark clothed figures slowly crept behind me. One holding a small cloth, damp with a chemical I did not recognise. Before I noticed what was happening, the one with the cloth suddenly wrapt there arms around me and shoved the cloth to my face.

I tried to resist, but as soon as I breathed in the chemical, my head started to feel heavy and my eyelids started to close as tiredness threatened to take over. All I could hear was shouting from Astrid, faintly hearing her yell my name and then at the attackers , before she was muffled by the second figure. I then fell into complete un-conscienceless.

When I awoke, I was in some sort of cage. There was dark metal bars in front of me, preventing me to escape, and three very thick stone-like walls on either side and behind me. There was little lighting, so it took me awhile to realise there was several identical cages directly opposite me an expanding to either side, forming a corridor.

Then I spotted Astrid, still un-conscience, on the opposite cage. "Astrid, are you ok?" I asked, hopping for something that would show that she is ok. I was rewarded, by a very aggravated groan and slight movement of her arms, showing signs of awareness.

After a better inspection of my surroundings, I noticed that each cage is split into two parts. After a rather embarrassing incident that had me slamming face first into the divider, I realised that there was some sort of clear wall, and on the other side of it caused me to skip a heart beet. There was a un-conscience black dragon on the other side of the divider, it had huge bat-like wings, a very smooth streamline body, a set of ear flaps on its head, and a tail that is almost as long as the rest of it. Everything about the beast screams that it is built for speed and agility. I never seen this type of dragon before, but something in the back of my head is telling me that this is a being of lightning and death itself.

A Night Fury.

It was less impressive than I thought it would be, but looks can be deceiving. This is when I noticed Astrid starting to come around and began to shake of her daze, puzzlement edged on her features as she looked around. That was until she turned to look at the other end of her cage. She immediately jumped and started crawling backwoods to one side of the wall. In her cage was another dragon, a Deadly Nadder, which as also regained conscience and is looking directly at her.

I should be extremely worried about a defenceless Astrid in the Same cage as a dragon, but I also new about the divider. "Astrid" I called to her, her head snapped to face me, clearly not wanting a conversation. "It won't get you, the cage is split with some sort of clear wall"

"Are you SERIOUSLY having this conversation with me?" she shouted back.

"Trust me" I replied

"I prefer not taking the advice of a Hiccup"

wow, that hurt.

But before I could snap a reply though, the Nadders tail spikes snapped open and was aiming at the still defenceless Astrid, it's eyes blazing with anger. The Nadder flicked its tail and eight, very deadly, poisoned spikes started to fly toward Astrid. However, when the, then, very dangerous spikes suddenly dropped out of the air, all forward movement stopped. I could not stop myself from smirking very childishly at the very bewildered looking Viking girl. She just gave me a death glare, which made me silently thank whoever put us in two different cages.

"Don't. say. A. word" she said. After what she thought was certain death, she began looking at her surroundings again with a much clearer head. Ignoring the still raging dragon in her prison. That's when she spotted the Night Fury.

"Is that a-" she began. "A Night Fury, lighting and death itself, where no Viking has survived seeing one. Yeah, lucky me" I agreed sarcastically.

"You two are too young for what is to come" came a booming voice from a nearby cell, clearly male, which is much larger than the others. We both jumped to the new member to our little conversation. I also spotted the beginnings of metal chains, two on each side. The really bad lighting prevented me to see anything else in great detail.

"What exactly do you mean? Where are we? Do you have anything to do with this?" I could hear Astrid demand at the shadowed figure. I also spotted the Nadder, who seemed to have stopped it's blinding fury and is now staring at the darkened cage, almost as if it could understand what he was saying. Then I herd a small groan coming from behind me, which pretty much confirmed that the Night Fury was awake and is also listening to the conversation. Strangely though, I did not hear anything else from the infamous beast. No roars, no growls, not even the sound of it breathing fire. weard

The dark figure paused for a moment, almost as if it was taken back by the sudden bombardment of questions. "I am a mere prisoner, just as much as the four of you are" he replied, he seemed to be also addressing the dragons as well. "To answer your next question little one, we are beep underground, in a place where the suns great light fails to reach, where very dark and sinister, experiments are conducted on those misfortunate enough to be taken by Dr Hans Luther's darkened followers" so those were the ones that took me and Astrid, but why?

"I could answer your final question young child" all four of us, snapped our heads to where the new voice came from. It turns out that the newer player, was in fact in the corridor and is calmly walking up towards us, clearly enjoying what he was seeing. He was very scrawny for his height, he looked like he was in his 60s, wearing a long white cloak looking thing. He had a very sinister looking grin as he turned to Astrid, then to me, then to the dragons.

"You are probably wondering why I asked my… Assistances to bring you hear" he began "basically, I am on a mission to improve humanity as a race, starting with the two of you" both me and Astrid glanced at each other, clearly confused, but apparently the shadowed figure new exactly what he meant as the sound of his chain restricting him back was clearly heard.

"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO THIS TO THEM!" He practically roared at the skinny man. "WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO PLAY GOD?!"

"I have already told you, this is to great of me to simply ask them to do this" the man replied, I now know as the Dr guy, very calmly "and because no one else can" Then he returned to his little speech. "What I am about to do will transform your bodies into something no human can compete against nor become on it own natural path, afterwords, I will sent the two of you to my artificially created environment where both of you will be observed and monitored. Hopefully, this will also offer the right condition for the two of you to mate" Now THIS caught both me and Astrid's attention as we both yelled "WHAT!"

"We are not matting" Astrid stated who had seemed to blush at the subject, clearly embarrassed. I personally felt like fainting right there and then, but that would have been very un-Viking behaviour. The Dr simply gave her a small smile and replied "you will, you do not have a choice in the matter". This caused another, almost in-human roar from the mystery figure. The Dr's smile simply grew wider.

Then the Dr eyes suddenly widened as if he just remembered something. "I completely skipped what I was going to to do to you, I do apologise" he began. "basically I will merge you two with the dragons next to you, your bodies will become one, and hopefully the primitive minds of the dragon will disintegrate before any side effects of the procedure could be applied".

There was a moment of silence.

All of us, including the two dragons, watched the Dr in shear terror. Me turning into some dragon-monster thing, I could not even fathom the logic behind that or in our captors mind. I could guess the dragons are thinking something very similar as both of them suddenly began to panic. Running around shooting fire, or using there shear Weight to try and break free from there impending doom. To no avail.

"YOU CANT DO THIS TO US!" Yelled Astrid also trying to escape, I just stood there staring at the black dragon, and then to Astrid and the Nadder. I have no idea what to do.

"Don't worry, my friends" the Dr said comfortably "before you know it will be over soon"

Just then there was a bright light, shinning down on both my cage and Astrid's. The light seemed to consume myself and the Night Fury, I was blinded, but then I was in great pain. Every part of my body seemed to want to melt and then remould itself in a new image. The pain was unbearable, my mind suddenly seemed incomplete and is now throbbing, wanting to rejoin with its long lost half. I felt every bone in my body brake apart and start re-allying on there own, leaving gaps to allow something else to reattach there. My skin and my muscles were on fire, as if whatever is doing this simply wanted it gone.

I screamed, and I could hear the scream of the black dragon as well, we are both in the same boat. But then, it seemed as if the dragons scream was coming closer, almost sounding like my own. Then I remembered what the mad-man had said:

'I will merge you and your dragons next to you, your bodies will become one'

That's when I blacked out.

So, this is the new and improved version of chapter two, please inform me of any oddities or any area that still needs more info. Please comment, follow, and add to favourites. Thanks.