Here's the next chapter, where we see the other dragons' reactions to Dani.
Onto the story!
All The Dragons Hate Dani… Well, Except For The Night Terrors
The dragons went, for the lack of a better word, berserk at sensing Dani's presence.
The dragon nearest to Dani, a two-legged bird-like dragon with a horn on it's snout and it had a crown of spikes with blue scales and a cream-coloured underbelly, began squawking and flapping it's mottled blue and yellow wings, pupils narrowed in terror, and flicking it's tail with spine impressions on it frantically as it's neighbour, a black and orange coloured dragon with huge wings and a crocodilian-like head with it's lower teeth sticking out and four black horns also began roaring and flapping it's wings and whipping it's tail around frantically. Across from the bird-like dragon, the two-headed one began roaring nervously and the right head began spewing gas as the left head's mouth sparked with electricity.
Okay, that's cool, Dani thought, feeling a bit scared herself at all of this dragons being so frightened by her ghost form so much.
"Whoa, Stormfly! Easy girl," Astrid said, heading to the bird-like dragon, which Dani guessed was Astrid's dragon, and trying to calm her down.
Beside the stocky blonde Viking, what Dani believed was a couple of boulders turned out to be an actual dragon; a dragon that was also terrified of her. The dragon whimpered and shrunk to the floor, really scared.
"Meatlug! Are you okay, girl?" The stocky Viking asked the dragon. He looked at Hiccup and asked, "Hiccup, what's going on with the dragons? They were peaceful a minute ago, and now it's like an eel has been thrown into their faces."
"Actually about that… I think it might have something to do with Dani," Hiccup told Fishlegs.
"Dani?"
"That will be me," Dani said meekly, waving sheepishly at Fishlegs.
Fishlegs' eyes slightly widened.
"Hey, aren't you the girl that was unconscious and Hiccup thought was Heather?"
Dani sighed in annoyance. "Yep, that's me."
"And, she's not Heather," Hiccup said, like that bit of information was important.
"Wow; Dani, you actually look a lot like Heather."
"Thanks for the compliment."
"But Hiccup, why do you think that Dani is making the dragons scared?"
"Because Toothless had the same reaction to her a while ago."
"Wait, seriously?"
"I'm not joking. But, at least the other dragons aren't-"
"DANI, GET DOWN!"
Dani, who had been standing in front of Stormfly's cell, immediately dropped to the floor as something blurred through the air where Dani's head had previously been. When she looked over her shoulder, she saw a yellow barb stuck in a wooden beam, and still quivering. She looked back and saw that Stormfly's tail was raised, and the spines she thought were impressions in her tail, were now raised and primed to shoot another deadly barb into her head, or her heart.
"Stormfly!" Astrid shouted, her tone stunned, her eyes wide, as if she was shocked at what her dragon had done.
"And I spoke too soon," Hiccup said, also shocked at what Stormfly had done.
Dani sat up and shuffled to another cell, her eyes wide.
Okay, Astrid's dragon hates me.
Her back met a wooden beam and she heard a snarl behind her. Turning her head, her eyes widened in fear as she gasped at seeing the orange and black dragon. The dragon glared at her, still snarling… and set itself on fire.
"WHAT THE HECK?!" Dani screamed, scrambling away from the flaming dragon, her eyes even wider.
THIS DRAGON CAN SET ITSELF ON FIRE?! How isn't it's Rider already chargrilled? How can it set itself on fire? But more importantly… THIS FREAKING DRAGON CAN FREAKING SET ITSELF ON FIRE?!
Dani heard another snarl and whirled around to see Fishlegs desperately holding on to his dragon, Meatlug, as she tried to break away, snarling and growling as her claws, well, clawed the floor, desperate to go and rip her to shreds. And Dani didn't even need to look to know the two-headed dragon was also on the Kill Dani! Team.
Scratch that. ALL the dragons hate me.
"Dani, I think it might be wise for you to get out of here," Astrid advised her as she tried to calm down her dragon, who looked ready to try to impale Dani in the head with a spine shot from her tail again.
"Yeah… that sounds like a good plan," Dani agreed.
She hastily scrambled to her feet and dashed out of there like a pack of hungry ghost wolves… or worse, Vlad… was on her trail. Inside, she could hear squawks, roars, growls and snarls of rage and definitely terror as she leaned against the wall, letting out a ragged sigh.
I'm gonna be fully killed before I find a portal back home. All of the dragons hate me and want to kill me…
Suddenly, Dani heard a series of excited squawks and yelped in surprise as five black blues tackled her to the ground, their leader immediately licking her face.
… Except for the Night Terrors, Dani finished her thought, pinned to the ground by most of the Night Terrors sitting on her chest.
"Hey again, Mini-Dragon, and co. Not that I mind the welcome, but would all be so kind as to GET OFF ME!?"
The Night Terrors stubbornly remained sitting on her chest, Mini-Dragon still licking her.
Dani sighed. She could make her eyes glow their ectoplasmic green colour in her ghost form, but not only would it scare all of them a bit too much, she was worried that the Night Terrors' scared squawks might have Hiccup, Astrid and Fishlegs come out of the stables, and that they might see her eyes before they changed back to blue. The first time she did that trick with Mini-Dragon, she had been lucky that Hiccup and Astrid hadn't seen her eyes change colours. Considering that, being Danny's clone, she had almost certainly inherited his bad luck, she didn't want to push it.
But Dani couldn't see a way out of this without doing something ghostly.
Seeing no other choice, Dani looked back at the stables to make sure neither Hiccup, Astrid or Fishlegs was looking in her direction, and when she saw they weren't, she turned intangible.
Sitting up, the Night Terrors fell right through her with surprised squawks and Dani immediately stood up, turned tangible again and headed for the dragon arena, adding a bit of flight into her steps to get there faster.
It took a while, maybe around thirty minutes, but she had arrived. Panting, Dani rested her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath.
She almost had when she heard a familiar growl behind her.
Gulping, Dani straightened, turned around slowly… and saw Toothless was behind her, just a metre away, and was growling threateningly at her.
"Uhh… hey Toothless."
…
Meanwhile
Back in the stables, Hiccup, Astrid and Fishlegs has finally managed to calm the dragons down. They were still skittish, but now that Dani was out of the room, they had calmed down a lot.
Astrid pulled the spine that Stormfly had shot at Dani out of the beam it had been embedded in a second ago and said, "I don't get it. Why are the dragons scared of Dani? Not to mention, they wanted to kill her."
"It's very strange. Meatlug is usually pretty friendly. But she acted like Dani was something to be afraid of, and yet was also a threat," Fishlegs said, standing next to his dragon.
"Look, whatever it is about Dani that is both spooking the dragons and making them feel as if she's a threat, it only seems to make the bigger dragons feel like that," Hiccup said.
"What do you mean by that?" Fishlegs asked.
"Apparently, the Night Terrors love Dani. One of them tackled her and began licking her on our way here," Astrid told him.
"Oh."
"Well, whatever it is, it might be wise if we kept Dani away from the bigger dragons for the time being; just until they get used to her," Hiccup decided.
"Good plan, Hiccup."
"Thanks Astrid. Now-"
"Uh, guys? Wasn't Dani out here a minute ago?"
"Yeah. Why?"
Fishlegs didn't say anything. He just pointed.
Hiccup and Astrid looked at each other before looking outside as well, following where he was pointing, and their jaws went slack.
On the landing strip were five confused Night Terrors, squawking as they tried to find a certain someone. And that certain someone…
"Where's Dani?" Astrid asked.
However, she got her answer when she heard a roar over at the dome.
The three Vikings shared an uneasy look, knowing who had made that roar… and who he had roared at.
Toothless had found Dani.
Well, Stormfly, Hookfang, Barf and Belch and even Meatlug are both scared of Dani and they hate her and want to kill her, while the Night Terrors still love her. How will her interaction with Toothless go? Will they have a truce, or will it end badly? You'll have to wait and see…
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