The White Fury Tribe Chapter 16:

Groaning, Hiccup pulled his upper body from the comfort of his bed. Rubbing his eyes, Hiccup tried to think about what happened yesterday: he could remember his father's speech, and then he walked back home with Toothless and Fradokos; he said goodbye to Fradokos, and then...

Hiccup couldn't remember anymore after that, but he had a feeling that it was something important. Yawning, Hiccup went to put his hand out over his mouth, but as he did, his eyes widened in shock. Blood. Dried blood covered his upper lip and nose. Wincing slightly, Hiccup brought his hand up to his nose, and felt that his nose was bent to the left slightly. Taking a deep breath, Hiccup grabbed his nose and, groaning is pain, snapped his nose back into place. As it snapped into place, Hiccup let out a loud groan of pain, which woke up the sleeping Dragon next to his bed.

Crooning in worry, Toothless rested his head on Hiccup's lap. "I'm alright, buddy," Hiccup said in a hoarse tone, "just a little tired from yesterday...whatever happened." Judging by his Dragons slit eyes, he didn't believe him. Sighing, Hiccup swung his leg over the side of the bed, and stood up, only to fall back on the bed again. Sighing, Hiccup wrapped his arm around Toothless' neck and walked towards the door and opened it. Once they were down the stairs, Hiccup and Toothless heard a knock at the door.

Curious, Hiccup let go of Toothless and, shaking slightly, walked over to the door and opened it to reveal Astrid. "Hey, Hiccup, how are you...what's happened to your face?" she asked, shocked. Hiccup, still dazed from the sun hitting his eyes when he opened the door, didn't answer at first. "Hiccup? Hel-lo, Hiccup?" asked Astrid, waving her hand in front of Hiccup's face. "Ha? Wha? Oh, Astrid, hey there," answered Hiccup, smiling toothily. "Hiccup, what's happened to your face?" Astrid asked, again. Hiccup looked confused, but then remembered the blood under his nose. "Oh, that...I'm not really sure how it got there."

"Don't you remember anything about that," Astrid asked, pointing at the dried blood. Hiccup shook his head, thus ending that conversation. Minutes later, Cloud swiftly landed in front of Hiccup's house, grunting at Toothless. Curious, Hiccup watched Toothless walk over to Cloud, and they started to grunt to each other. "What is the meaning of this, Cloud?" asked Toothless rather rudely. "You must tell your rider this information, and I think it will be of good use to you, as well: Ice and White Shadow have returned to Berk." At this information, Toothless' eyes widened in shock: Ice didn't know how dangerous it was for her and Marko to return at this moment.

"Where are they now? I need to see them...now!" hissed Toothless and Cloud said, "Follow me," and with that, Cloud gave an all mighty flap of her wings, and was soon flying high about Berk. Not too soon after, Toothless walked back over to Hiccup, who was now talking to Astrid. Toothless rubbed his head against Hiccups arm, and tried to tell his rider that they needed to go, now.

"What is it Toothless?" asked Hiccup, and Toothless pointed his snout to the skies, and Hiccup understood. "Oh, you want to go flying, do you, bud?" asked Hiccup, and Toothless nodded. "Hiccup, do you really think it's a good idea to go flying in your condition?" asked Astrid sternly, and Hiccup stopped halfway between the doorframe. Thinking about it for a moment, Hiccup replied, "Okay, then. I'll get Toothless' 'Self-Flying' tail fin." After Toothless had completely destroyed his tail fin that Hiccup had made for him during the Viking Christmas holiday, it had taken Hiccup several weeks to fix it. Normally, toothless wouldn't have wanted the tail fin on without Hiccup riding on him, but this time it was important: he NEEDED to see his mate. Toothless waiting patiently while his rider attached the tail fin to him, and once Hiccup had given him the all clear, Toothless grunted a 'thank you' to Hiccup, and he gave a mighty flap of his wings, and he was soon high about Berk, flying level with Cloud, who had waited for him to get up into the sky.

"Follow me," said Cloud, and they started to make their way towards the north of Berk, where the trees started to become closer together and there much taller. After another few more minutes flight north, Cloud turned towards the west, towards the sea. Curious, Toothless followed her. After about ten minutes flight, they reached the sea: the water was crashing into the rocks just off the cliff. "Why are we here?" asked Toothless, but Cloud didn't answer: instead, she had started to go into a dive towards the cliff, and Toothless, not completely sure of what she was doing, followed her.

When they were almost level with the waves, Cloud stopped diving, as did Toothless. Just as they reached the cliff, a small cave appeared, a small orange light coming out of the darkness. Curious, Toothless followed Cloud into the cave, having to fold his wings against his body as best as they could to fit inside. And in the centre of the cave, a large, dimly lit fire roared, covering the entire cave in a bright orange-yellow glow. On one side of the cave, was Ice, curled up against the cave wall. Upon hearing someone enter, Ice perked her ears up and looked towards the entrance and gasped, "Toothless!" and ran up to him, nuzzling her neck against his.

As the two mates showed their affection towards each other, Toothless' eyes fell on something that was against the other side of the cave: it was Marko, breathing deeply, one of his hand clutching his the side of his ribs, and there was blood covering the floor surrounding him. Next to him, sat Rachel: she was holding a leave, which was covered in a strange green paste, and she was smearing it over the parts of the wound that Marko's hand wasn't covering. Looking up, Marko muttered, "Toothless, glad you could make it," before letting out a grunt of pain as Rachel put some paste over a large, rather painful looking area.

"I told you not to go: I knew this was going to happen," said Rachel harshly, but Marko didn't pay her any attention, judging by the plain expression on his face. "Marko, what happened?" asked Toothless, and Marko snapped his head towards Toothless. Marko then said, "Ambushed: me and Ice never stood a chance. Someone called 'Alvin the Treacherous' or something like that. From what I heard, he's a rival tribe leader. But that's not the important thing; the important thing is that your tribe is war with Alvin's."

Toothless' eyes widened in shock, but then went back to normal, and said, "You cannot be serious! We would have known about that!" Gritting his teeth, Marko slowly stood up, leaning against the wall for support. When he was at his full height, all be it him leaning slightly from his wound, and said, "I never lie. Now, if I were you, I'd go back to warn Hiccup. Go!" And with a final glare and a nuzzle to Ice, Toothless made his way through the cave opening, and started the trip back to Berk. And during the entire journey, he thought about nothing but what Marko say: we are at war.

Those words rang in Toothless' head for most of the journey back, but near the of it, he thought, Why should I be worried about a war between them? We Dragons and Vikings only stopped a thousand generation war a month ago. Why should this worry me? Shaking his head, Toothless found that he was over the village. Deciding that that question should be answered later, Toothless landed outside Hiccups house. Looking around, Toothless couldn't see his rider any were. He must be working at that forge of his, thought Toothless. Deciding that he should wait for Hiccup to finish whatever he was doing at the forge, Toothless curled up outside his rider's house, and almost instantly fell asleep, and that's when it started to get strange...

Toothless' Dream

Everywhere he looked, there was fire: massive, ten feet tall, walls of thick, orange fire. Normally, he wouldn't have been scared, but he felt that something...something was missing. He tried to light a fire inside his chest, but when he breathe out, nothing came out. His eyes widened: he had lost his fire! In panic, he looked around, hoping that there was some way out. Then, in the distant, he saw a gap in the wall of fire.

Excited, he began to run as fast as he could towards the gap in the fire. But, when he was within a few meters of the gap, and large figure landed in front of him, blocking the gap. Looking up, he noticed that the figure looked human, but he couldn't tell because there was a kind of helmet on. But there was something that confused him because it looked...it looked like a Night Fury. And looking at him, through a slit in the helmet, were a pair of acid-green eyes. And then, it spoke in a deep, rough voice, "You have been given a gift that few rarely have: take it as a warning from the future. Use it." And with that, he pulled a sword out from its sheath from his side, and with a slash towards Toothless' head, he was plunged into darkness...