Chapter 4

Dragons

A/N: Spoiler for those of you who haven't seen How To Train Your Dragon 2!

After the experience of flying for the first time, Hiccup has been going into the forest a lot more often. Sometimes even all night! He hasn't even gotten caught yet!

Not many people are paying attention to him again. He's fine with that as long as he's with Toothless. Gobber is only with him if he is teaching him to be a blacksmith now. Since Hiccup is a fast learner, he has started on the next lesson: knowing which material to use for which weapon. Hiccup kinds of regret making these weapons. The more he'll make in the future, the more people are going to use them to kill the dragons.

Even though he is a viking, he's started to not like the idea of killing dragons. Heck, he probably won't even join the training when he's older.

The more Hiccup goes to see Toothless, the more he learns about dragons. He's even seen some other dragons while flying!

This one night he found a Monstrous Nightmare! Yup, you heard correctly! It attacked them at first of course. But with a lot of flying experience, Hiccup has easily manuvered around the attacks. They were mostly the breath attack. It even tried using it's talons at them. Hiccup only got scratched once on his arm. That made Toothless mad! As the Monstrous Nightmare swooped down at them getting ready to breathe fire, Toothless got his purple flame out and shot inside the red dragons mouth. The red dragon gagged and lost flight control. He started to spin in circles as he fell to the ground. Hiccup gasped. He made Toothless go down as fast as he could. But they didn't reach the dragon in time.

It already crashed into the ground when he got there. Once Toothless landed, Hiccup quickly jumped off of him and ran towards the red dragon. Toothless noticed this as his ears went up and made an annoyed growl. He chased after the kid.

When Hiccup got to the other dragon, he felt something pulling him back by his shirt. "Toothless!", he shouted. The black dragon used it's teeth to grab the kids shirt to pull him back. The dragon made a type of warning growl. "I know I know! But it could be hurt!", Hiccup protested and yanked out of his dragons grip. Toothless's eyes narrowed in annoyance and followed closely behind.

~Monstrous Nightmare's POV~

After the dust went away around the red dragon, it started to make some coughing noises. All of a sudden, it felt something warm and soft on it's nose and opened it's amber eyes right away. It saw a small kid with brown hair and bright green eyes. It's eyes looked down at it's nose and saw a tiny human hand resting on it. For some reason the dragon didn't move. It seemed to like the feeling of the human flesh on it's hot scales. It calmed the Nightmare down. More than it should. It's eyes narrowed and started to growl a bit when it saw the black dragon. "It's ok. It's ok. He won't huwt you. I pwomise!", said the kid softly. Amber eyes looked back down at green ones. Hiccup's other hand went up higher on the dragons nose and started to pet it. "I'm sowwy he did dat to you. He was only twying to pwotect me.", squeaked the kid. The red dragon started to make a purring noise and swoosh its long tail a bit. This made Hiccup giggle. The dragon likes the kid already! Normally it doesn't like kids, (humans in general) but this kid seems to know a lot about dragons. Besides killing them anyway…

The red dragon made a type of smile that made Hiccup smile as well. Toothless knew that the dragon won't hurt his friend, but he's still going to keep his eyes and ears opened. The red dragon feels the black dragons tension. He's going to have to work hard to receive that dragons trust. And he knows just how to do that!

~Hiccups POV~

Hiccup took his small hand away from the dragon and looked at his with a smile. Toothless lifted his head and tilted it. He looked back at the Monstrous Nightmare with his big green eyes.

The red dragon was busy looking at the black dragon. It's long scales on the back of it's neck and back were quivering. Making a type of purring noise. Hiccup looked over at Toothless and noticed that the flaps on it's neck were quivering also. It seems like they were communicating with each other! Hiccup figured that this conversation would be a while and plopped down on his butt. The dragons noticed this and continued conversing in their own dragon way. The kid really wished he could speak dragon. It would be so much easier!

For what seem like a few minutes, both dragons nodded. To Hiccup, it seems like they have agreed on something. Hiccup tilted his head in confusion. He could feel a gust of wind blow on him as the red dragon swooped up in the air high above the tree. Hiccup was about to shout 'goodbye' when something grabbed his shirt. Toothless grabbed his friends shirt and through him in the air until he landed on the dragons back. Hiccup squealed in surprise. Once the kid was on his back, he flapped his wings and raced into the sky, following the red dragon. "Toothless! Where are we going!?", Hiccup squealed loudly. He had to yell threw the wind that was slamming against his face.

The wind had finally stopped when Toothless started to fly straight. His wings would relax in the sky and every now and then he would flap them. Hiccup loosened his grip as he sat up more. "Toothless?", he asked. The black dragon tilted his head a little as he looked at the kid in the corner of his eye. "Where are we going?", he asked in a high pitched voice. Toothless looked straight ahead again as he shook his head making a playful growl noise. Hiccup sighed. He knew he would have to wait and see. But he wasn't scared. If Toothless wanted to hurt him, he would have done it the first time they met!

~.~.~

Little Hiccup had almost fallen asleep on his dragon when it made a growling noise to wake him. He blinked a couple times. "Where ah we bud?", he mumbled as he rubbed his eyes with his knuckles. Toothless made a purring noise and pointed at something with his muzzle. Hiccup looked at what his dragon was looking at.

His mouth gaped.

A river length away was a mountain of spiked ice! It's glorious baby blue shines in the sunlight. As waves from the ocean crashes against it.

Hiccups eyes widen as big as a boulder when he looks at it. Toothless's eyes were the same. He had heard about this place, but never actually went to it.

Their excitement was rising with each flap of Toothless's wings made. So, Toothless decides to go faster. "Woah!", Hiccup shouts as wind blows in his face again. The Monstrous Nightmare sees this and starts to race with the black dragon.

After a few more flaps, the dragons and kid flew into a small cave like hole with ice sticking out at different angles. Hiccup looked up at the ice cave with his mouth opened. "woah~", he said. Toothless looked up every now and then to look as well. Ice were shot out from the sides of the walls. The icy walls were in a circular type cavern. Blue and white was all you could see. (A/N: The place in How To Train Your Dragon 2, just think of that for a few more sentences.

Hiccup gasped when he ducked his head. The dragons started to speed up when they were going threw small tunnel holes. Every now and then, sharp ice would poke through. But Toothless made sure that Hiccup wouldn't get a cut.

They had to turn a few times until they reached an open area.

Hiccup and Toothless's eyes widened.

You could see a bunch of blue, white, and green. Blue and white ice surrounded the giant cave. In the middle of it all was an ice pillar that connects to the ground and ceiling. And around that was thousands, and I mean thousands of different types of dragons! More than the usual ones that his village fights!

Toothless managed to land on a type of ledge against the ice. His eyes just as big as Hiccups. They were speechless. The Monstrous Nightmare smirked at their expression.

"What daddy wouldn't give to find this!", Hiccup just barely whispered. Toothless was too mesmerized to even hear what the kid said.

Toothless's ears went up when he heard Hiccup gasp in surprise.

A human crouched down a few feet away from them. The person wore a blue mask with long spikes at the top. Giant holes were seen so that you could see the green eyes glaring at the dragon and the boy. It's brown armor mixed in a blue pattern to match the mask. On it's back was a blue shield mixed with red and orange paint. And in it's right hand was some of staff.

Little Hiccup whimpered at the human. Toothless started to growl and curl it's long tail around Hiccups legs in protection. The human seemed to have noticed this action and lifted it's head. Hiccup noticed from the small movements that the person made was almost like how a dragon would make. Hiccup tilted his head. Curiosity taking over his fear. The person also tilted it's head. Hiccup put head even. And so did the human.

The human put it's hands on the ground and scooted a few feet toward the boy. Hiccups fear returned and took tiny steps back against Toothless. Toothless showed his teeth and started to growl as his claws curled more sharply.

The human walked, or crawled, closer to the baby dragon. It lifted it's hand and made a little gesture in Toothless's face. Toothless's eyes widened and feel on his back and kicked it's hind leg a little. Hiccup's eyes widened in astonishment. He whimpered when the person got close to him. He was too scared to run and he didn't want to leave Toothless behind with this stranger and the many other dragons!

The human didn't care about the fear in the kids eyes as it crept closer. It lifted up it's hand to touch the kids face. Hiccups started to feel awkward and lifted his head backwards more to try and have the person not touch him.

The human was startled for a second like it saw something. In a quiet raspy voice it asked, "H-Hiccup?". Hiccups eyes widened. This strange woman knew his name?! The lady took off her mask and put it to the ground. She had a type of triangular face. Her hair tied back into a braided ponytail. She too had green eyes. "H-How…?", Hiccup stuttered. He was trying to ask her how she knew his name. She moves her eyes up and down to get a good look at him. "After all these years, you take after me…", she said with a sad smile. She stands up onto her feet. She stares at him some more until she looks down with a sad face, "And where was I…?", she mumbled to herself. Hiccup narrowed his eyes and tilted his head in confusion.

The lady notices this and looks at him with a sad smile. "I know you don't know who I am. And that you have probably been told some rumors that I was dead. But I…", she started. She looked down at him some more. Curiosity took over Hiccup once more. "-sigh- I am your mother.", she says, on the verge of tears.