GENDERBEND! HTTYD!

The Viking and the Dragon Maiden.

Chapter Nine; Meeting the King, First Flights and New Weaknesses.

Ash's POV.

I yawned as I stretched and got out of my hammock. More like fell out of it, because Freefall, who was in my lap, complicated a few things.

She jumped off at the last minute when I fell and landed on my chest, chirping in triumph. I smirked, before sitting up and heading towards the cave entrance.

I smiled at the sight of Dragons starting to wake and heading out for a flight, or nocturnal Dragons just coming in to fall asleep. I then heard rapid footsteps coming towards me and looked to my side to see Fishlegs coming towards me, a few Dragons Books nearly slipping from his grip as he kept them close to his chest.

"Hey, Fishlegs."

"Hey, Ash. You should really read all of these books sometime. There's even this Dragonese Dictionary that teaches you how to speak Dragonese! How amazing is that?!" he cried excitingly, and I smiled, rolling my eyes a little at his fangirl moment, before I caught sight of Hicca, who was with Toothless and a Dragon that I remember seeing in the Book of Sharp Dragons a Razorwhip. Two other Dragons were with them. A Grapple Grounder and a Changewing. Both wearing grey armor with colored markings on them, the Grounder having yellow and red, the Changewing, having green and light blue.

"What's going on down there?" I asked, and his eyes averted over to where my gaze was set on, and became as curious as I am.

"Don't know. Let's go check it out." as he said this, Stormfly and Meatlug came out of their caves and knelt down for us to get on. We did and we glided down towards the ground. Though I couldn't help but think about how awesome it would be to fly like Hicca and Toothless did, I'll settle with gliding and just riding them on the ground for now.

"Hey, Hicca!" she turned to the sound of my voice and smiled, and my heart almost melted.

"Hey Ash! Hey Fishlegs!"

"What's going on?" Fishlegs asked, gesturing to the armed Dragons, "The way they're wearing that armor, it's as if they're going to war.". Hicca's smile faded.

"Not a war. Just a spy mission. One of our Dragon Heart leaders sensed that Infernia is planning something big and Windshear, Strangler and Shifter are going to spy on her, to see what she was planning." wow, pretty, smart, and battle ready.

She turned back to the Razorwhip, that was looking at her fondly.

"You be careful, alright?"

"Oh, Hicca, since when am I not careful?" the steel-covered Dragon asked in a silk female voice, as Hicca raised an eyebrow, and Toothless and the other Dragons laughed that Dragon-y laugh.

"Don't answer that." and with that, Windshear took off.

"She'll be fine, Hicca," Toothless spoke to her as she watched the team go. "Windshear is one of the strongest, smartest and most strategic of Dragons in the nest."

"Yeah, and she's also the most reckless." she huffed as he laughed, agreeing with her.

She then turned around to look at us and we both felt a little awkward.

"So, uh, what do we do?" I asked, wanting to release the tension that was brought between us. Hicca shrugged.

"I don't-" she was cut off by a loud screeching. We looked and froze at what I saw.

A Stormcutter.

A large male Stormcutter had landed beside us, and I shook a bit with fear. I was face to face with the Dragon that left Stoick daughterless. It had a scar on his facial horns, big yellow eyes that seemed to stare into my soul, and two large massive wings.

He was magnificent.

"Hey, Cloudjumper. This is Cloudjumper, my guardian and friend of my father." she introduced us to him, and he bowed his head in respect and we bowed back.

"Hicca, your father would like to meet these new 'Dragon Riders' as most Dragons are calling them." he told her in a wise like voice.

I froze at his words. Meet her father. Oh, Odin's ghost, what was going to happen? Was he going to send us off on our way? I didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay here! With Stormfly, and her hatchlings... and Hicca. I wanted to stay with her most of all, I wanted to tell her how I feel...

Hicca turned to us with a smile.

"I guess now is better then never."

A Few Minutes Later.

"So we're gonna meet Hicca's dad?! Awesome!" Snotlout cheered on top of Hookfang as they let them carry them to where the White King was. I couldn't help but wonder why he was called the 'White King'. Did he wear a white tunic and robe? Was he albino? Does he have a white Dragon, like an alpha Night Terror, or a Snow Wraith? Who knew.

We all came upon a tall cliff that over looked a large body of water, a waterfall added for good measure. It was a beautiful sight, but I couldn't see any White King.

"Where is he?"

"Watch." she smiled, stooping down low into a bow, her arms spread out like wings in front of her, Toothless, Cloudjumper and our Dragons doing the exact same thing as we looked at them in confusing.

I looked back at the waterfall and stopped there. I thought I saw something. I saw a shadow of something inside the waterfall, and then, I saw what I thought was eyes appear behind the waters.

Then, slowly but surely, a large white creature emerged from the waterfall, it's big, slow steps thumping under the pond it resided in.

"B-B-Bewilderbeast. Gigantic." Fishlegs stuttered, smiling deliriously before falling flat on his back.

I don't know much about Bewilderbeasts, but I read in the Gigantic Dragons book that they, along with their brothers, were one of the most powerful Dragons in the whole world. Snowy white scales with charcoal highlights tips on the spikes which protruding from the back of the neck, large tusks shooting out from the top of his maw. I could see fins around the tail and ankles of the beast, meaning he was a Tidal Dragon. He stared at us with those eyes, those piercing yet gentle icy blue eyes that seemed look straight into my soul, making me feel metaphorically naked.

Hookfang shoved Snotlout a bit then continued to keep his head down. The message was clear; show your respects.

We all bowed before the same way Hicca was. Even the Twins knew not to riffle with such a powerful and majestic creature. I saw Hicca smile from the corner of my eye.

"Father." she greeted, her head and body still down in a bow.

What? This Bewilderbeast was her father?! How was that possible?!

"Hello, my sweet fire. It was about time you introduced me to your friends." he said in a powerful yet gentle voice. I found it amazing that such an intimidating animal can have such a kind voice. "You may rise." he told us, and we all slowly rose, looking at him nervously.

His eyes scanned us one by one. First he looked at the Twins, that for the first time in forever, seemed afraid of him, worried what he might do, but all he did was blow an icy breath at them, covering them with frost. They stood there, frozen, before grinning wildly and banged heads, shaking the snow off in the process.

Then he looked at Fishlegs, who's eyes was mixed with wonder and a bit of fear, but calmed down, some what, when the Dragon repeated what he did to the Twins.

Then he looked at Snotlout, who took a fearful step back, but didn't go any farther when Hookfang gently nudged him towards him. The Bewilderbeast took a sniff of him, before blowing frost on him too.

Oh, Gods. My turn.

When he looked at me, it was as if time froze, and it was just me, and the Bewilderbeast. How this magnificent creature can never have been seen before I will never know. He seemed to smile at me, before blowing ice on me too, stinging my skin with cold.

I heard Hicca laugh.

"He likes ya." I chuckled and shook the ice off my hair.

Wait? Ice?

"You breath ice?" I asked, making him chuckle.

"Yes, small one. There are a good few that can breath other elements other then fire. I am one of those few." he told me in a voice so wise. Then the Twins started raising their hands while jumping excitingly.

"Can we name him, please, please, please?!" they cried at the same time, as Hicca and her father chuckled.

"He already has a name guys." we all looked at her expectingly. Snotlout talked first.

"What is it?! No, no, no, don't tell me! Let me guess it!" he put his fingers to his forehead, before grinning. "I know it's something horrific, something that strikes fear into the hearts of enemies! It's...it's...!"

"Snowy?" we all turned to look at Tuffnut, who was staring at the White King before staring at us. "What?"

"There is no way, that such a huge Dragon can have such a puny name!" Snotlout exclaimed, crossing his arms across his chest in disbelief, before a low chuckle brought our attention.

"Actually that is my name. Well, Hicca's nickname for me. My true name is Snowstorm. You almost got it though, Tuffnut." he complimented as Tuff began to smile wildly.

"He knows my name!" he scream in joy, while Snotlout looked shocked.

"So your nickname is really 'Snowy'? I'm not buying it." he crossed his arms stubbornly as the White King chuckled.

"It is not the name that shows your character, it's your heart, and what you do, that is how someone should be known." he said wisely, making Snotlout's eyes wide, before he smiled and nodded.

Then 'Snowy' looked over at Hicca with a smile, before turning back to us. "It has come to my attention, that you came here originally to find my daughter and hold her in captivity." oh, crap. Is he mad at us? "Do not fear though. I understand why such thoughts would come from. Infernia has made it seem like all Dragons are nothing but an enemy." he told us afterwards, and we all looked a little shameful.

"But then she told me of how you are 'warming up' to our kind, and our ways, mostly with these young fellows." he gestured to our Dragons behind us, who seemed a bit bashful. I laughed a bit as Stormfly covered her face with a wing.

I turned to the King, "We really are trying our best to look past what we were taught." I told him earnestly, but he only laugh.

"I know, young one. I know."

"So, have any of you had a real flight." I froze again. Did we have to get into that?

"Uh..." we all said in one go. We still weren't use to the idea of flying Dragons, so...

The White King seemed to know what we were thinking, for he started to smile. "Well, that certainly wont do. Littlefire?" he raised a reptilian eyebrow at Hicca, and she smiled, before walking over to me, grabbed my hand and pulled me towards Stormfly.

"Uh... what are you doing?!" I asked her, panicked as she had Hookfang lift me onto her back.

"You'll be fine. Just don't pull on any of her crown spines, she spent years on those." with that she snapped her fingers, and Stormfly let out a mighty cry into the sky, before charging towards the edge of the cliff! My panic just increased to a whole new level. Were they trying to scare me to death!?

"STORMFLY!" I cried as she jumped off the cliff, doing a nose dive towards the pound. Oh, Thor help me!

Her wings opened, and she shot towards the sky!

I'm sure I was screaming my head off as we flew towards a small opening at the top of the Nest. I had to close my eyes as the sun was getting brighter and brighter the closer we got. I buried my face into Stormfly's scales as we finally entered the outside world of the Nest.

Calm. All I'll felt was calm wind wiping my hair. I slowly looked up and saw nothing but beauty. The sun was setting, letting off a beautiful glow to the area, I saw different islands, each filled with a single Class of Dragon.

I heard wings flapping behind me and looked to see Hicca and Toothless coming up from behind us, the others coming up from behind her. I smiled at her, before patting Stormfly on the neck, wanting her to go faster, and she did, the others close behind.

We ended up really close to the clouds, which had become a mix of orange and pink and I ran my hand across the them. I always thought they would feel like water, but it was actually really soft. I raised my hands into the air and smiled. This was a good feeling. I can see why a Downed Dragon might as well be a dead one. This flying was magnificent!

She then swooped down towards the water, and I saw a few Thunderdrums and Seashockers leaping from the water like Dolphins. I noticed that Stormfly was letting one of her claws touch the water, making a small trail of bubbles as we zoomed by. Slowly and steadily, I sat up on Stormfly's back, and raised my arms out beside me like I was flying, and my smile doubled.

I let out uproaring whoops of delight, as we glided through the mist, before she went higher again. I heard a laugh that sound like a tinkling melody, and looked to see Hicca giggling, as Toothless let out a toothless smile, his tongue hanging out and lapping in the wind. The others were right behind us.

I laughed.

Before Snotlout's stomach grumbled.

We all laughed a bit as he blushed faintly. "What?! I haven't had breakfast yet!"

"Well, I'm glad your hungry!" Hicca smiled, "It's feeding time!"

Toothless's POV.

Me and Hicca couldn't wait to show this to them! It's always so funny, and we couldn't wait to see their reactions!

"Um... Hicca?" we looked behind us to look at Fishlegs and Meatlug, the latter looking behind his shoulder to look at the approaching Dragons, "I thought we were going to eat?" we smirked.

"Oh, we are, alright!" Hicca held her hand out for them all to stop, and they complied, and we just waited. With a smile, we looked down, as they did, and saw all the Seashockers herding some fish, zapping at any that tried to get away.

They left, just as a white blur began to approach the surface, and our father breached the water, the fish in his mouth, and then spat them all out, causing a rain of fish to fall in.

We looked at their faces and just roared with laughter. I noticed that Barf and Belch were just dying to start eating, but looked to the Twins for reassurance, and with big smiles, they agreed and they all dived. Me and Hicca did too, and caught countless of fish in my currently gummy mouth.

I laughed, before we all landed and got ready to eat. Me and my friends were kind enough to not eat most of the fish, and gave them to our humans and cooked them.

After we finished eating, Me and Hicca showed them all of our Islands, from Boulder to Strike. Everyone was really fascinated with their respected Dragons own homes.

After that Fishlegs got out all the maps he had in his pocket, trying to find where abouts we could be in the world. Hicca decided to help him out, and drew a map of the world we had explored. I couldn't stop myself! I loved this game! I started writing scribbles of my own in the snow, before the icicle I using got stuck on my tongue.

Hicca got a Scauldron to help me out, by spraying only hot water on the icicle to make it melt, but my tongue was still limp, and would take a while to regain feeling, so it just hanged out of my mouth. But if Stormfly thought it was cute and funny, I won't complain.

Then Hicca introduced them to some geysers, and some Dragons were just hovering there. We decided to join the fun.

Hicca decided to show off, and jumped off from Dragon to Dragon, first hopping on Hookfang, then allowed herself to be wrapped up in Barf and Belch's tails, which flung which over to Meatlug, who allowed her to grab on to her legs, then grabbing Stormfly's tail spines and used them as a ladder to climb up behind Ash, who smiled at her. I know there is a connection between those two. She pulled his hood over his head, and seemingly slipped off Stormfly's wing, and landed back on me. Good. Though I have nothing against my friends, Hicca was my human.

Then we all flew up higher, away from the geysers and just flew.

"Wow! I don't even feel cold!" Ruffnut spoke, and her brother nodded, "Yeah, I just feel... I don't know what, but it's awesome!"

"Free." we all looked to Fishlegs, who had his eyes closed blissfully, having the wind whip his hair, "I feel free." he told them, and they all nodded in agreement. Snotlout spoke next.

"So this is what it is to be a Dragon, huh Hicca? I can see why you were born here." he told her, a bit flirtatiously, and I resisted a warning growl.

"I wasn't born here." they all stared at her, shocked with her response.

"What?"

"I wasn't born here. I was only raised here." they all went silence after that.

Yeah, I knew Hicca wasn't a Dragon. I knew it from the first time I meet her. I was a little hostile towards her when I first meet her, but after realizing that she had no bad intentions towards me and Sharpshot, I got to know her better, and we became like siblings.

Hicca seemed to notice that they were a bit uncomfortable with the information, and decided to lighten up the mood.

"And it's all well and good to call yourself a Dragon, but can you fly?!" she leaped off my back, causing gasps of horror to admit from them, before she let out bright red wings made of fabric from her suit.

"WHOO HOO!" she flipped around to look at them, but were surprised to see them gone. But the surprise faded when I saw them fly beside me near her level of gliding, balancing on their Dragons backs, arms spread out. I smiled at me, and I smiled back, before flipping over again, and to my dismay, was about to hit a sea stack.

"TOOTHLESS!" I managed to come to her aid just in time, and wrapped my arms and wings around her, shielding her from the fall that was sure to come. We went through a gap small enough for us to slip through and crashed into the snow.

"Wow! What a rough one!" I exclaimed, before unwrapping my wings, "Right Hicca?" I expected to see a goofy smile to answer, but surprised to find nothing there. "Hicca? HICCA?!" I looked around wildly, praying to Draco that she was okay, before snow fell on my face when she suddenly popped out from underneath the snow in front of me, arms raised in celebration.

"Woo! We almost had it that time, bud!" I sneezed some of the snow off, and glared at her.

"That's it! You got this coming!" I tripped her over with my tail, causing her to fall flat on her back.

We heard some laughter from the Twins, and I looked with a gummy smile as they approached us, the Twins and Snotlout shouting out how awesome that was. Fishlegs was squealing over on how fascinating that was, and Ash just said that it was incredible. And I couldn't help but notice her blush at his compliment.

After that, we all decided to settle down and do our own thing.

The Twins and the Zippleback went off to do Thor knows what, Snotlout and Hookfang went off flying, seeming to be fighting over control. And Fishlegs and Meatlug were by the beach, eating berries and rocks. I decided to spend some alone time with Stormfly.

"So... how's been Ash treating you and your kids?" I asked her, and she seemed to smile.

"He's been really nice since his visit with Sharpshot. I think he's gonna fit into the Nest just fine." she told me, and I smiled. Before noticing something.

Hicca alone with Ash by the campfire. Oh, Draco. I told Stormfly to keep it down,and we crouched down low, spying on them.

"Hicca," Ash started, and Hicca turned to him after taking a deep breath. "Yes?"

"Thank you. You have changed our view of the world so much, that I can't even find the words to describe what a big help you've been to the group. The Twins are actually restraining themselves from doing something too destructive. Yet anyway. I've never seen Snotlout this caring of anyone, much less one of the most lethal Dragons in the world, and Fishlegs has been more confident into sharing his knowledge about Dragons then ever. And..." he trailed off.

"'And'?"

"And thank you for making me a better man then I was before." I smirked when I saw that Hicca was starting to blush a bit, and I think he noticed, because he chuckled. Then he took hold of her hand. Oh, Draco, was this really happening? If it is, don't make it stop. It's too hilarious!

He was inching closer, so was she. We almost made contact. This was it.

But Ruff and Tuff just had to fly by on Barf and Belch, ruining to moment! They jumped apart, blushing even harder then before

I almost let out a growl. Damn it, Barch!

Windshear's POV.

We finally made it to the Eastern Border, and Red Death's Nest. I just hope nothing goes wrong. Strangler and Shifter made sure to keep quite. Good. The last thing we need is a bit of hassle. I spotted two soldiers, a Monstrous Nightmare and a Deadly Nadder, by the entry sea stacks. I took a quick sniff, and softly growled. This was one of Red Death's most loyal followers. Those that only worked for Red Death out of fear were slaves, those that followed her willingly, were soldiers.

I looked to the two Dragons with me, and nodded. They understood, and split up. I flew straight through, directed their attention to me. I heard chirping from the enemy, flapping, and then the sounds of claws unsheathing, and falling bodies. I knew what happened.

Shifter and Strangler returned to my side, and nodded to confirm what needed to be done.

"Let's keep moving." they nodded. I looked ahead, and spotted some commotion going on. We flew in, and halted by some boulders and peaked over, to see... slaves! Mostly Boulder Dragons like Gronckles and Whispering Deaths.

They seem to be mining for something. But what?

"Shifter." I called to the Changewing and he stood proud, awaiting command. "Do your thing and try to find out what you can." he nodded, and seemed to vanish, his armor doing the same and I sensed that he crawled towards the mines. After a while, he returned and materialized right in front of me.

"They're digging for some sort of stone. It's blood red, and seemed to have a dramatic effect on them. Do you know anything about this?" he asked me. It was understandable that he thought I would know. Before I was a resident of the White King's Nest, I used to live in another kingdom far away, before I was chased out of there by a bully Typhoomerang. I lived in Snowy's kingdom ever since.

"No." I was said to say that I didn't know about this gem. I heard chirps, and we all hid as some Terrible Terrors flew over us, seeming tired as they flew with sacks filled with these red stones.

"See those Terrors? Follow them." we took off, and stealthily flew not that far behind them, before halting at the sight of guards.

I looked at the two on the platform, a Thunderdrum and a Gronckle, before looking up to see a Nadder.

"I'll take out the Nadder, you two get the Gronckle and the Thunderdrum." they nodded, and I flew stealthily behind the Nadder, before taking him out. I looked down to my comrades, and saw that they had succeeded. Before Strangler looked over at me with a baffled expression.

"Their fakes!" he cried out, holding out what was indeed, a Thunderdrum dummy.

"What?" I whispered, astonished. Before looking over at some chirps and saw Terrible Terror soldiers pulling at some sort of contraption, and red aura suddenly sprung out and seemed to attack my comrades! They screeched in pain, and writhed on the floor, seeming to be in excruciating pain. I was about to fly down and help then, when Shifter spit acid towards me, making me stop in my tracks.

"Don't! It does something to us! Go! Now! Warn the King!" they both cry out, and I just couldn't watch this anymore. With a heavy heart, I took flight, some soldiers right behind me.

Whatever this new force is, it's bad, and I have to warn the king.

Then I noticed a few Nadders and Nightmares coming towards me. With a growl, I charged.

If I was going down, I was going down fighting!

Yeah, that's all I got! I plan on making a sequel based on all of this. It'll come soon. Seeya!