Good Job. You ruined her life before you even knew her.
The fire in her eyes return again.
"Why do you care! You're the one that tries to kill other dragons simply for flying by! Why would you care at all?" She growls.
She turns away disappearing Into the trees.
Because you would go hide in the territory of the dragon that just pulled you from the sky. Well maybe she's Like Stormfly and has weird mood changes.
Or maybe she is traumatized. The Voice puts in.
Or that
I start to run after her, not wanting the only Night Fury I've seen to leave me. A yell followed by the squawking of a Deadly Nadder stops me in my tracks. I pin point where the noise is coming from before running in that direction. The smell of fear gets stronger as I get closer to the source of the Fighting.
I skid to a stop, digging my claws into the dirt. I'm near a channel where a river meets the sea, only the river has washed away the land so that it is now far below with two rocky walls on each side. I approach it thinking about the yell. Looking over the side I see the blonde hair of my rider's one and only love.
After me of coarse.
Only her finger tips and a thin ledge of rock is keeping her from falling to her death. A piece of crumbly dirt falls from the edge of the cliff from under me that causes Astrid to look up.
" Toothless! Don't just stare, Get me out of here,"
" I was. I mean I am" I answer back reaching down for her. I lay down and reach a clawed paw down and and just about am close enough to grab her when the fight between the dragon and the Nadder erupts out behind me.
I scramble Back up the side of the cliff only to be whacked in the face with a tail. I Growl loudly. This stops the two from their fight. The blue Nadder, Stormfly stakes the chance and dives down the channel for her Rider.
Her opponent Is a strange breed of dragon I have never seen before. From a ways away he could have been mistaken for a dragon of my own Breed. With Dark scales, similar tail, and body. But the Head of the dragon is what defines the difference in the dragon. They had white horns where their ears would be if they were a Nightfury. He had smaller eyes, and not such an aerodynamic shape.
He looks kind of a downgrade of your breed. The voice adds
" You! The Pure," The dragon sneers.
" What do you think you're doing, Attacking my dragons?" I growl.
" They are weak and pathetic. Relying on the humans,"
" They don't rely on humans. Only seek their friendship. What are you doing here?"
The strange dragon gives an evil smile. " Why, to kill the last Pures. To end the prophecy before it has the chance to start! The Shade-Lights will be most powerful Dragons in-" His little speech is cut short as a shield meets the side of his head.
I take the chance leaping up on the dazed dragon, letting the fire within ignite my scales with the Alpha markings.
" You go back to where you came from. Tell Your other 'Shade-Lights' to leave my dragons alone" I growl sinking my claws into the dragon's scales. Eyes filled with fear I force him up and shove him into the air. He takes flight making a beeline for the ocean. I aim carefully as I form the fireball in my throat. It hits my mark as a screech fills the air. The dragon would surely carry a scar at the base of his tail for the rest of his life.
I give Astrid a grateful nuzzle before turning to Stormfly.
" Tell me what happened when I get back."
"Ok I'll be outside your window at sunset." Taking to the air with her rider.
I look up into the sky it's still early in the day.
I turn away and run back to where I had last seen the female. I need to track her down. For whatever reason I start to walk towards the cove. I can't use her scent to track her. A breeze carried it away when I was gone. I start to think of the first few meeting I had with Hiccup in the cove. How awkward and annoying I had at first found him. Then how I had so impatiently waited for his arrival after realizing the value in his friendship. I internally smile at the memories that I do posses.
I stop when I get to the edge of the rocky wall of the cove. I look down into the basin and to my luck and surprise, the unfamiliar, shining black scales catch my eye. Excitement and fear fill my chest as I carefully shimmy down the acutely angled wall, I glide after I'm half way down.
She was on the other side of the pond doing something, she hadn't noticed me yet.
I shyly walk around the lake until I'm finally Behind her. She is angrily mumbling to herself.
" Err... Hi"
She jumps at my voice and turns around to face me. She stares at me for a moment, fire blazing in her icy eyes.
" Come to interrogate? Oh or perhaps force mating upon me?" She snaps.
I stare at her wide eyed at the statement. It's always disgusted me at the thought of a male dragon doing that to a female. It made my blood boil at the thought. Even after Stormfly explained it was quite a normal occurrence in the dragon world, That most males have the draw to do so. She said even I must have done the deed at some point in my life.. I didn't speak to her for the rest of the day for the insult.
" No! I would never think of doing that!" I snap taking a step away.
She rolls her eyes. " Sure you haven't. The Alpha of this teritory, and you've never taken advantage of a female. That's a sad joke."
" I would never do such a disgraceful act. I'm not like that,"
" So are you saying you don't know how? Is that the reason?" She asks taking a step forward.
" No, I know how the process works! I-I I just haven't had first hand experience! And why is this even the subject of our conversation?" I say looking away. If I were a human my cheeks would be as red as Hookfang's scales. Or Hookedclaw as he calls himself.
" Wow you're really telling the truth aren't you?" She says sitting down giving me an odd look.
I don't answer or dare to look up at her. No need to restart that conversation.
" What's your name?"
This makes me look back up. " My rider calls me Toothless."
" Oh, well that's cute. But what's your name?"
" I don't know..."
She tilts her head to the side. " What do you mean you don't know? Did your parents ever give you one?"
" I don't know. I can only remember the last five full seasons of my life. And all of it I've lived with my rider." I answer.
"Huh" She looks me up and down. " Well you're obviously older than five."
Obviously " Yeah"
" Well, I'm Nightholly."
"And soon be found the Holly of Night," The wind seems to whisper.
I return my attention back to Nightholly. " Sorry for pulling out of the sky, I just sort of had no idea of what to do. And I couldn't let you leave. You're the first Night Fury I've ever seen. And.. You know... you probably would have flew away"
" Huh. Okay." She says nodding her head seeming to understand my motive. " I guess I can't say I didn't panic at the sight of you. It was from a mixture of 'Holy pickles, there's a Night Fury I'm not related to behind me! And crap you've gone and done it again. You're going to get hurt by this one too if you run NightHolly'. If you know what I mean by that" She winks.
I don't try to think to hard about it. " I do have a question. Why were you so upset When you discovered the Queen is dead"
She looks at me with and expression I can't read.
Closer up I notice that her eyes are even more detailed. Under the darker shades of icy shards, there are white lines. Making her pupil the center of a snowflake.
"Her voice brings me back to the world.
"-I waited until they had all left to hunt before I went inside. Soon I found myself agreeing to the Queen's compromise. She would give me my family back. many full season's later I found her son. He was much like her. He was the Alpha of another nest. He was much more approachable than his mother. He too was blue like her but only had two eyes and his tail faded from blue to green. He had given me one of his scales to bring back to his mother to prove that my quest was complete... But On my way back I ran into you..." She reaches over to a rock and pushes it over to reveal a large, gleaming, bluish green scale. " I was fifteen full seasons old when I started my search. It took me another four to get the scale and come back."
A long silence follows her story.
" You know. I think I've seen you before."
" Really?" I ask in excitement.
" I believe you were leading the flock of dragons. You must have been the Queen's beta, to be allowed to lead her subjects-" she stops. "Wait. The Queen had stated that I would have family. Not necessarily my old family. Maybe.. she really just meant I would have you?"
Hope you like the chapter. Sorry if it's not the best, but it will improve.
