It had been a few weeks since Toothless had magically transformed into a human like entity.
The villagers had gotten used to the larger than life figure and even talked with him on a daily basis, which helped Toothless with correct word pronunciations. Other than that, the dragon spoke little and didn't brashly engage in festivities as he once did in dragon form.
It was bordering three months and Toothless had not said one word to Hiccup that pertained to his transformation. Of all the things that changed about Toothless, his personality was not something that was even dented. Toothless was still the most infuriating dragon, person, thing he had ever had the pleasure to meet and talk with.
Not only would he not disclose what had happened, he would also infuriate Hiccup by being mystical about it.
"You'll see."
"You'll find out soon."
"Ah, ah, ah, don't think you can get it out of me that easily. The time will come."
What time?! That's all he would say and go on his merry way to Thor knows where. The only upside is the dragon's overly attached actions have ceased for the most part, at least when they were in public. Anytime else Toothless would rarely let Hiccup leave his side, and if he did, not more than thirty seconds.
All this frustrated Hiccup to the max. Just what was that damned dragon trying to prove? What was he even supposed to see? Nothing has changed in his village since they first let dragons live peacefully alongside them. Grumbling, Hiccup hoisted his fur vest on and opened his house door to the outside cold. It was approaching fall now, he told himself and calculated how much more he should start wearing.
He hobbled down the slope from his house, already used to the weird way his fake foot operated. Once at the base he turned left and headed for the stables, where he knew Toothless to be, petting the dragons he had been friends with a few months prior.
Hiccup noticed the weirdest things, days ago. The interactions between his dragon and the others. He had thought, because of the change, that the dragons would not recognize or respect Toothless. Only… It was the exact opposite. The dragons knew who he was, straightened up around him and heeded his every move. It seemed the dragons that inhibited Berk held more respect for Toothless than they did in previous times. He seemed like a leader that they looked up too.
Hiccup sighed as he came closer to the stables, and Toothless was indeed there, petting Stormfly's neck and humming to himself. Shaking his head, he approached the dragons. Toothless gave until Hiccup came closer to turn his head and smile down mischievously at the short male. (Hiccup was beginning to think he got the short end of the stick on height genetics in his family.)
They didn't talk, enjoying the silence of being with the dragons. Briefly, he had wondered if Toothless wanted to fly. He spends so much time with the dragons these days when Hiccup was learning crucial things to become village head, he wondered if Toothless was despondent and melancholy about not being able to fly. He could glide, as he always could, but flying was a different mechanism in its entirety. Whenever he would question him, Toothless (no matter where, even though he had learned to tone down the affection giving) would nudge and kiss the base of his neck where it met his shoulder in response to the question and assure his friend he was fine.
Hiccup heaved a breath and a shiver was sent up his spine when a cold gust swung past him as he continued to observe the dragon's interactions.
It hadn't occurred to him before, as he did not look upon the dragons that often, but something was different about Stormfly…
Toothless watched from the corner of his eye as Hiccup contorted his face into confusion, the ends of his lips twitching upwards.
Hiccup said nothing about this observation, opting to not think too much and find out something later when he had solid evidence to believe something was happening with Stormfly.
"Come on, buddy. Let's go home. It's time for supper." He said instead, turning around to head back. He supposed it was his fault for turning his back to Toothless when he wore that mischievous grin. His body heaved forward when a solid body collided with his small frame and he was sent crashing forward, a startled yell passing Hiccup's lips.
Before his body could hit the ground, strong arms encircled his waist and he was suspended between the ground and Toothless's body. There was a large gust of air that spread around them from the large expanse of his wings. It continued and soon he realized they were leaving the ground.
Now, Hiccup loved to fly. It was his favorite pastime in the world, flying with Toothless. But this… this was insane!
"Toothless! Put me down this instant!" He screamed at his partner in crime when he felt himself slip down a little bit in his grasp. He instantly held on to the arms that held him, finally scared at the distance between him and the ground that he could potentially fall to his death with. Not that he didn't trust Toothless, but the loose hold and his uncanny ability to slip out of places (quite literally) left his blood pressure rising.
But Toothless flew higher and in a random direction. The physics laws of a dragon and the physics laws of a hybrid seemed to be different. Though he had trouble balancing while in flight because one of his tail wings was missing, he had no trouble with flight. He kept flying higher and higher, Hiccup's legs grazing the tip tops of trees.
Hiccup slipped a little more in his grasp, the muscled arms now languidly holding him by the upper part of Hiccup's torso.
"Toothless! Let me down now!" His voice cracked a bit with how much adrenaline pumped through his veins. As normally the dragon would heed his command and set them down on the next available piece of land, it was quite startling to feel Toothless lessen his grip and fly higher. He dug his nails into the dragon's arms that encircled him, letting the other know he did not appreciate being treated in such a manner, that and his fear of being dropped had escalated.
When he felt the nails dig into his skin, soft as it may be, it was very durable, he gripped Hiccup closer to him to lessen the anxiety he can feel rolling off the younger boy. Soon enough, he found a large boulder to perch them on top of.
Once Hiccup felt them stationed on something that wasn't air, he gave a sigh of relief and tried to wiggle out of the seat Toothless had made for him. Only when he felt Toothless grip his arms around him harder did he survey his surroundings, and was lucky Toothless didn't let him move more from that stop, as the boulder was high enough that he would damage his legs had he slipped off.
And so, like any other time, he let himself be pulled along by Toothless's thoughtless antics. He didn't know how long it had been until he heard Astrid calling his name, flying ever closer to him and his dragon on Stormfly who still looked like something way different about the dragon.
From the corner of his eye, he saw Toothless make a face, an eyebrow hitched before neutralizing his face and administrating more affections. Hiccup can only guess it was to make Astrid jealous (why? He didn't know, but he did know their relationship will either end really soon, or will get worse really fast…).
He watched curiously as they landed on the ground and Astrid jumped off. It was then Hiccup noticed how abnormally small the Nadder looked next to Astrid. Sure, she had grown, but a few days ago the dragon overshadowed her fit petite frame. Today, it just looked like Astrid got on the wrong dragon.
"What are you guys doing up there?" She questioned skeptically, sending one glare at Toothless before lessening the intensity in her eyes. It's not like she could do anything about the affections given to Hiccup. "It's half past suppertime." She scolded.
Hiccup shrugged his shoulders, his body like a ragdoll as he leaned against the human heater that didn't even seem fazed by the setting sun.
"That's what I was trying to get Toothless to go to. And then this happened." He raised his brow and turned to look at Toothless, who only gave his toothy smirk and a light chuckle. "We'll be down as soon as Toothless decides he's hungry." Hiccup informed her dutifully. He had always been more compliant towards his dragon than anyone else, he had a feeling it was pretty mutual between them.
Staring skeptically, Astrid got back onto her smaller than usual Nadder (Hiccup didn't think she noticed) before flying to the sky with a yell of "You better!" as they made their escape.
It wasn't long before he was hoisted up and into the hybrid's arms again, this time more comfortably as the dragon had gotten his playfulness out of his system.
It wasn't until a few days later that Hiccup had started to see the change he saw in Stormfly happen to all the other dragons.
They seemed to be smaller, for the most part. Their appendages growing shorter, physiques differed.
Stormfly was the most easy to tell. The dragon's mug had shaped differently, obtaining a skewed humanesque outline. He stared hard to find the obvious differences between what the Nadder had first looked like, and its appearance now.
The more he stared, the more the dragon seemed to change before his eyes. He rubbed his eyes and looked away, unable to comprehend if his eyes played tricks on him.
He left and came back later in the afternoon to Stormfly looking the same as he left her, Toothless trailing after him that evening. He stared and stared hard at the form that had changed in front of his eyes this morning, but the changes have stopped. He overlooked this slight anomaly in favor of searching for dinner.
An hour later Hiccup found himself walking with a stick of cooked fish, Toothless lazily hanging over his small stature in a childish manner, making it hard for Hiccup to walk right or even at all. His torso draped on the top of his head, arms strewn over his shoulders and picking at the fish with his claws as he toyed with their treats. He slowed Hiccup's walk to a slow shuffle, something he didn't particularly care for, but it was almost a hindrance walking on his prosthetic foot this way.
As the duo walked on, Hiccup couldn't help but hear a sickening pop coming from the stables.
Crack!
Hiccup heard again, it sounded like someone was cracking their spine or knuckles, but even doing such meager chiropractics, the snapping didn't sound like that! He approached the stable where he had left the Nadder that morning, throwing open the doors in alarm, his tasty fish treats forgotten and more than likely swallowed up by the beast that is Toothless.
He froze the moment his eyes landed on the Nadder. It took him a moment to find his breath, which he regained when Toothless placed his hands on his hips, careful around him. He stared in disbelief for a moment, speechless.
Stormfly let out a screech, so dragon, as a final pop of her bones was heard. Not long after, Astrid came running to aid her best friend, and stopping short of reaching before she stopped, stared, and seemed to lose consciousness.
Hiccup didn't judge her for that. He had had the same reaction the first time.
Bringing his eyes from the fallen Astrid to the Nadder, he overlooked the changed he saw happening not two days ago.
Much like Toothless, the dragon took on a humanesque appearance. It's body screaming woman as the curves were obvious.
The face was another interesting appearance. Large almond eyes that shone with a brilliant gold, petite bird like nose, round, slightly scaly cheeks the color of cream. There was a horn protruding from just below the bridge of her nose, a crown of horns spiking out on her scalp, white blond hair dropped to her collarbone, haphazardly thrown as she let out a croon.
Hiccup noticed her teeth alignment was much like Toothless's, much like a cats. He observed the same scale pattern on her face as his own dragon's, light blue mini scales flittered around the protrusion of her horns, and ears, and he didn't doubt that he could find some more near the horns on her head. Near her eyes, in simple pattern, where purple scales that collected themselves at the corners, blending in with the blue near her facial horn, hairline, and ears.
The dragon inclined her head forward and to the side, trying out the mechanics of her new human neck. Hiccup watched with a keen eye as the rest of her body followed a simple pattern. Her arms hung loosely, scales bundling at her hands, elbows, and shoulder blade. Her wings protruded gracefully behind her, their vibrancy never dwindling of changing with her new form. The dangerous spikes started midway down her spine, following the slight groove of her back and spreading wildly on her tail that trailed as long as her body.
The scales around the wings in her back curved around to her front, over a majority of her breast. They were small for how large she was (compared to a human, that is), but they seemed to fit her body and the curvature of her hips.
God, why did they have to be naked?
Was a thought Hiccup had in the back of his head. He knew why, he wasn't stupid. But why?
Down the Nadder's legs, patches of green scales, morphed together with blue and purple, some milky white and off yellow, spread like wildflowers the closer it got to her ankles. On her feet there were slight claws from her toes, but also one that poked out just behind her heel, nicking the ground underneath.
After taking observation, he looked to Toothless questioningly, as he still hung over his frame like an overly large coat. The dragon wore an accomplished smirk, giving a quick glance to Hiccup and a nip to his ear before letting out a chirp that sounded through his complex, morphed trachea.
Stormfly, now fully changed, unharmed with no more bones cracking from the change, chirped back and spread her wings like arms in triumph.
Besides them, Astrid woke up in a daze, taking in her surroundings. Hiccup had tried to go to her when she first fell, but this damned beast of a dragon didn't let him budge. She helped herself up and stared in disbelief once again at her dragon, nearly Toothless's size, in a humanoid body. Accusingly, she looked to Toothless who only gruffed out a dragon like laugh. The one he would use when he made a Terror puff with an explosion.
"You have some explaining to do." She pointedly told Toothless and his master before turning and going to her Nadder's side to observe the changes at a closer look. Stormfly nudged her head to Astrid's neck much like Toothless first did, showing much of their love and appreciation that way.
Toothless let the two go and dragged Hiccup out of the den, a triumphant bounce in his step as he kept Hiccup close to him.
As Hiccup was smart enough to figure out, this wouldn't be the last change Berk would see.
A/N: First off, I'd like to thank my supporters and all the reviews, because that's really the only reason why I would ever finish my stories OTL. Did you guys like the second chapter? Sorry for taking so long! Does it sound weird? It wasn't how I wanted it to start out, or end, but my wacked mind wouldn't let me fish out the true beginning after my phone met an unfortunate ending and erased what I had originally written. I'm sorry if it's out of my usual speech patterns.
&& Yes! I have seen the trailer for the second film oh HTTYD. I spazzed for two hours and nearly passed out. :3
Also, I'd like to take the ending to explain something to those that don't understand my word usage and lack of warnings in my summary. I will say it in little worlds (but I'm kinda raging on the inside. The first one especially was kind of an insult to my knowledge).
The first was people seemed to be offed by me using the word "pet" to describe Toothless. They use it in the movie plenty of times, even by Hiccup himself.
The second was I have had some complaints I don't put Anthro!Toothless warning in my summary. I have a simple explanation. I don't do that in my summaries. Some people do, and they are entitled to do what they want. So am I. If you get upset I don't put warnings, then you're entitled to that. As I am to not put warnings. After all, I only have twenty seconds to grab my lovely reader's attention.
And the third were spelling of names. I think they can be interchangeable, because they're from a different country. Like my name would be spelled "Victoria", but because I hail from a different base language it's spelled "Viktoriya", because that's the closest they can get to with the language transition. So, whatever sinks your ships guys. (: (this didn't offend me at all, since I'm kinda dyslexic, anyway.)
This leads me to thank you guys once again for reading and criticizing and reviewing. You guys really are the only things that make me come back to finish stories. **love-vibes
Thank you for reading!
Disclaimer; I do not own How To Train Your Dragon