Chapter 4

Wielder of the Night Fury

"Astrid! Astrid dear, wake up!"

The girl in question lurched into a sitting position in her bed; she'd had the craziest dream that Hiccup had a Strike Class spirit, and not just a Strike Class spirit, but a Night Fury. She shook her head, Hiccup having a Night Fury spirit, that's impossible, it was determined that Night Fury spirits didn't exist, hell the first dragon spirit was the grandchild of the Viking chief who trained a real Night Fury dragon and even he had a Nadder, so why would Hiccup have it?

Astrid came down the stairs still in her pj pants and a night shirt and putting her hair into a messy braid, her parents where sitting in the living room chatting animatedly over cups of coffee, there was even a third for her. She picked up the cup and took a sip, a cream and two sugars, just the way she liked it. "So what was so urgent you had to wake me up almost an hour before I normally get up to go to school?"

"History has been made my girl." Her father responded and hit play on the remote, drawing Astrid's attention to the TV where a recorded news broadcast was playing. She nearly did a spit take when the caption 'History in the making: Worlds first Night Fury spirit sighted in Berk?' scrolled across the screen. A video was displayed, and there was the incident from the day before, which apparently hadn't been a crazy dream after all, it played the moment when Hiccup was hit by fire before getting up and unleashing his plasma blast of the poor man and freeing Toothless, which the camera failed to catch. "Isn't that the Haddock boy? The governor's son, right?" Astrid nodded dumbly, but her father was looking to his wife for confirmation and missed it. Luckily the Astrid on the TV never removed her helmet, so her parents were completely oblivious to the fact that she had been there.

"HARVEY!"

Said boy groaned as he sat up in his bed, he was familiar with that tone from his father. It was the same tone he heard constantly before he lost his leg, it meant he'd done something and his father was less than pleased about it. He mused at how he was actually less clumsy with one foot than with two, the miracles of physical training he supposed. He checked the time, he still had an hour before he even needed to start getting ready for school, so with a sigh he lazily pulled on his jeans and fastened his leg on. Trudging down the stairs revealed his father with a stern look on his face, a break from the stoic look he normally wears that earned him his nickname, Hiccup had always been able to get a reaction from him; usually to something related to anger or irritation. Hiccup looked up at his father while still rubbing sleep from his eyes, "What's up dad?"

Hiccup tried to look around the man in an attempt to spot his mother; she was usually the peacekeeper between the two when his father started to get angry. Unfortunately, it seemed she was upset with him too today. "You've been keeping secrets." Stoick said, immediately causing Hiccup to start panicking. It must have shown because Stoick took a step forward, "Just how long did you think you could hide it from your mother and me?" Hiccup's heart rate sky rocketed, how could they have found out about Toothless? His father was always too busy to watch the news, and his mother didn't care for TV in general, so even if the incident yesterday made the headlines they would be in the dark for at least a little while. He tried to say something but, he just ended up stammering and tripping over his own voice, his father must have known he was trying to make an excuse and cut him off, "Nothing happens in this town without my knowing about it." Hiccup gulped, "So… let's talk about what happened yesterday…"

"Oh god, dad I am so sorry, I was going to tell both of you… I-I just didn't know how- Uh." Hiccup started but stopped when he heard his father chuckling. He looked up to see his mother was also stifling a laugh as well and looked between them in confusion. Their chuckles soon grew into full blown laughter and Hiccup nervously joined them before deciding to risk voicing his thoughts, "You're not upset?"

"WHAT!? We were hoping for this!"

"Uh… You were?" Hiccup asked even more confused, they were hoping he'd befriend a potentially dangerous animal?

"And believe me, it only gets better! Just wait til you take part in a no holds bar sparring match for the first time!"

"Or when you learn to take flight, there's nothing like it son!"

Great now his mother is joining in on this, so they apparently are still really excited about his dragon spirit. "Ah who who've thought it? After the last three years of being the first person to not have a spirit and you turn out to have the first Night Fury! It was rough, I almost gave up on you, and you were just subconsciously holding out on me!" His father said practically oozing happiness; it was almost creepy when Hiccup was so used to seeing exasperation on his face. But at least Toothless was safe, for now anyway. Speaking of the big cat, Hiccup figured he should go check on him before school.

Wait did his dad just mention that he had a Night Fury spirit?

Astrid was pissed. Not because Hiccup had a Night Fury spirit, but because from the second she walked into the great hall in school everyone was talking about Hiccup. Girls were talking about what classes they had with him, she overheard one girl mention having fourth period science with him when fourth period Hiccup had English with her, Astrid just rolled her eyes and moved on. Unfortunately the raving wasn't something easily avoided or ignored, many girls believed they could date him but didn't know the first thing about him, guys talked about being 'bros' with him when Astrid knew for a fact they didn't even know his real name and almost all of the people who had bullied him before his spirit ignited bragged about how they just got to joke around with him like that, it all made Astrid sick and want to punch something or someone.

And to make matters even more irritating, Hiccup himself was nowhere to be seen. He wasn't in either of the classes they shared and other than herself and the teachers, none of the people talking about how close they were with him even seemed to notice. It was going to take some serious self control on Astrid's part not to impale someone with a Nadder Spine, she almost lost it when Heather blatantly told a group of girls in their year how she was going to dating him within the week, among other far less innocent things that would make the Hiccup Astrid knew turn scarlet at just the mention of. Lunch rolled around and she found herself at her usual table with the twins, Fishlegs and Snotlout, much to her chagrin, and once again no Hiccup.

"Can you believe everyone is buying into this stupid rumor that Hiccup has a Night Fury spirit?" Snotlout asked, "I mean come on, we've been told since we were kids that the Night Fury was one of the most powerful dragons back when they existed. Why would anyone believe my scrawny wimp of a cousin has one?"

"Have you already forgotten how he whipped your tail when you attacked him last week?" Astrid asked incredulously, "Besides they have video evidence of him using his dragon class art, so it's not really a rumor."

"Please they can alter videos to look like that for almost anyone, right Fishlegs?" Snotlout countered while looking to their larger friend for some support. Astrid shot him a glared that said 'do not encourage this idiot' but Fishlegs clearly didn't get that part.

"Well they can alter video like that yes, but I doubt a news media would do that." Fishlegs started, "But statistically speaking there's no way Hiccup could have a Night Fury, no one has a Night Fury. That said I think if Hiccup did do this he's smarter than to choose a dragon like that." Astrid stood so fast it caused the others to jump.

"Ok you know what!? I was there! I saw him use his dragon class art and it was a Night Fury! He has the Strike class symbol on his right shoulder where it would be covered by his sleeve and he used a Plasma Blast attack, go back and watch the news report, he was with another person and that was me, I went to see why he missed dragon training yesterday and we ended up fighting that guy he blasted!" She snapped, realizing her mistake a moment to late.

The entire great hall had gone silent, everyone one was looking at her with wide eyes. The barrage of questions coupled with everyone trying to stand next to her at once made Astrid extremely uncomfortable, she'd only meant to shut Snot up not alert the entire student body that she was friends with the Night Fury spirit wielder. The more she tried to push people away the more they'd push towards her, it was like for every student she shoved back two more took their place. After a minute of being hassled like this Astrid was beginning to feel claustrophobic and ignited her spirit to give herself some breathing room, it worked well enough as people suddenly remembered her reputation for having a short temper if bothered. They backed off to give her room to move and parted as she made her way out of the lunch room.

Astrid stormed outside and huffed in annoyance at her schoolmate's antics, if Hiccup was subjected to any of that it's no wonder he didn't show up for their classes. She noticed a few other students sitting on one of the stone benches whispering to each other and glancing at her when they thought she wasn't looking and with a scoff made her way to the school library's side entrance, knowing it would be deserted since everyone had smart phones to access the internet whenever they wanted now.

As expected the library was empty, she half expected to find a layer of dust on everything but apparently someone was still cleaning. Letting out a frustrated sigh Astrid made her way around the selves to one of the tables that were there to be used for studying and/or reading, she didn't except to find a boy with auburn hair and a missing left foot to already have one of them occupied with his head in his hands in a clearly upset manner. She froze and just looked at him for a minute; this must be where he'd been hiding all day and since no one ever really came in here it really was the perfect place, after all she had come in here to avoid the parasites that are their fellow students as well didn't she? Hiccup was mumbling something to himself and Astrid's feet moved quietly of their own accord until she was close enough to reach out and touch him, she was about to do just that when his words stopped her.

"Stupid. I just had to use my dragon class art; I couldn't just knock him out with a DSE blast like any person who has an IQ higher than Snotlout." He said to himself, Astrid barely contained a giggle, which was strange because she does NOT giggle. "But I wasn't thinking straight, that guy had Toothless and Astrid was there and… Oh god Astrid. She didn't even speak to me after, just got of the bike when we got back and left without so much as a farewell or get lost freak, I should've known better!" Hiccup's self admonishment seemed harsh at first but Astrid realized that in her shock about learning what his dragon spirit was she might have come across as someone who didn't want anything to do with him given her competitive nature, after all the two top students in dragon training were to have a no holds barred sparring match until one gives up or is knocked out and with a Strike class spirit Hiccup was a shoo-in to be one of them, the Night Fury spirit practically guarantees him victory if a first time dragon class art left a trained adult out cold on the street. "And now she's probably never going to talk to me again and the others will stay with her because she was their friend first and I'll just go back to admiring her from across the great hall like every other guy she deems unworthy of her attention. I know I never stood a chance with her, but I could live with being her friend, right?" Hiccup continued yet again, this time bringing a rush of blood to Astrid's face. Again strange because she does NOT blush, yet she did when Gobber had made his comment the day before as well, why was she blushing when it came to Hiccup? She couldn't have a crush on him could she? She only just started to get to know him. Figuring she should stop this before she overhears anything else she shouldn't know or cause her to act like not Astrid, she placed a hand on his left shoulder.

Hiccup's head snapped up and whipped around to see Astrid standing there causing his eyes to widen to an almost comical size. Astrid offered a small smile, "You okay Hiccup? I haven't seen you in class."

"H-how long have you been standing there?"

Astrid knew what he was really asking, had she heard what he said? Managing to keep the rush of heat from reaching her face, again, Astrid gave him a curious look. "I just saw you sitting here just now and came over to check on you. So… you ok?" Hiccup managed to nod with a slight gulp while his eyes returned to normal and color returned to his face, Astrid gave his shoulder a what she hoped was a comforting squeeze and took a seat next to him. "So why are you in here? I am because I kinda snapped at Snot for saying the news about your dragon spirit was just you trying to get attention and told everyone I was there then everyone was trying to get info about you like a bunch of vultures."

Hiccup shifted in his chair before responding, "I guess you could say I'm here for similar reasons. Apparently everyone in Berk saw that news cast this morning and people were on me the moment I stepped the only foot I have through the door." He tried to interject some humor about his leg, but it only made Astrid frown and want to punch him in the arm for making a stupid joke about it. Hiccup took a deep breath and then continued, "On my way to second period Heather literally pulled me over to her and tried to make out with me. Not that I have anything against her or she isn't pretty but I know it's only because of my spirit, no girl would even think about kissing me otherwise." Astrid had to fight a third blush in the last five minutes and had less success this time, luckily Hiccup was back to looking at the table as he spoke. The idea of anyone, especially Heather, trying to kiss Hiccup bothered Astrid; a lot more than it should considering they were only just friends and the urge to tell Hiccup there was a girl out there (because Astrid was currently in the same room and she most certainly didn't have a crush on him) that wouldn't care about what his dragon spirit was and would be both very happy and very lucky to kiss him was strong but she managed to just pat his back.

"Well I'm your friend regardless of what dragon your spirit is. I admit I was kinda in shock yesterday and realized I didn't actually speak to you after everything. So I'm sorry about that" The lopsided smile Hiccup gave her made any residual frustration from being swarmed earlier melt away, "So did you check on Toothless after I left?"

The two remained in the library for the remainder of the lunch hour and talked, Hiccup told her that he found Toothless in their cove after what they now jokingly called the incident and other than being slightly more on edge the leopard was fine before they went on to make small talk and have a normal conversation like two friends would. Their building camaraderie was cut short when the bell rang to signal the end of the period, the stood and Astrid wasn't sure if Hiccup was just being a gentleman and seeing her out of if he was going to try and brave the student body again. "So what do you plan to do with about the out peers out there?" She finally asked.

"Just… give me until tomorrow, I'll figure something out. I hope" Hiccup responded, the sound of his prosthetic sliding on the tile implying he had no idea how or what he'll come up with. Astrid raised her hand to squeeze his shoulder again and it landed right on top of the Strike class symbol, just barely noticeable under his sleeve. The instant her hand with her own symbol touched the there was a reaction, their symbols started glowing, and both teens felt a strange sensation, they both became very warm and their eyes were drawn to one another. Neither is sure which moved first, but they knew that they were both leaning in. Just when they were close enough to feel each other's breath someone bodily crashed into the door leading back to the great hall and snapped them out of whatever strange trance they were in. They jumped back from each other, Hiccup rubbed the back of his neck and looked at the ceiling while Astrid used her hand to comb her fringe out of her eyes and turned her gaze to their feet. They stammered excuses and rushed farewells before she made her way to her next class trying and failing to get her mind off what had just almost happened.

The rest of the day was a blur for Astrid, she couldn't get her mind off what she suspects was an almost kiss between her and Hiccup, and she really couldn't bring herself to wish it hadn't happened. In fact she mentally slapped herself more than a few times when part of her had wished they hadn't been interrupted. They were friends, period, right?

She ended up returning to the library after her final class to see if Hiccup was still hiding out there and apologize in case he got any ideas from it, only to find it devoid of life. Hiccup was already gone.

The next day proved to be even more trying than the first for Hiccup. Students still tried to buddy up to him as if they hadn't been ignoring or picking on him before he had a dragon spirit and now that he was ready for it, it really annoyed the youth to no end. He had hoped he'd get a respite from the unwanted attention when he found Astrid and the others for lunch, sadly that hope was dashed when Tuffnut's best friend joined their table.

"So now we're letting useless sit here? Are you guys seriously buying into that Night Fury bull he's having spouted?" Astrid and Fishlegs groaned while Ruffnut rolled her eyes and returned her attention to some magazine about hottest guys in dragon spirit battling. Hiccup himself just released a worn sigh, he was used to his bulkier cousin's ego so it only makes sense that he'd be in denial about Hiccup having a stronger spirit, let alone the first to have the spirit of what is considered perhaps the most powerful dragon history knew of. Luckily Astrid had told him about this the day before and he was prepared to deal with his cousins arrogance, he just wished it was a little later in the day. Without a word Hiccup stood and turned so that his right shoulder faced the hexagon shaped table they were sitting at and rolled up his sleeve to reveal the Strike class mark that was there now, the entire group with the exception of Astrid had their jaws dropped and the sandwich Tuff held fell back onto the styrofoam plate they were given by the lunch ladies.

"Told you guys he wasn't lying." Astrid spoke, noticing for the first time that everyone else in the section of the great hall they were occupying had gone silent as well and was trying get a glimpse to Hiccup's mark.

"T-that doesn't mean he has a Night Fury spirit, he could just have a Skrill like that Dagur guy, or a Woolly Howl* spirit." Snotlout stammered trying to recover some ground to make his cousin look like a fraud.

"Skrills shoot lightening and Woolly Howls fire a frost blast." Hiccup said calmly, lifting his hand low enough so none of the teachers who walk out to check on the students would see, he hoped, and his hand became engulfed in purple-blue flame. "Apparently Night Furies fire a ball of super heated plasma, it might not burn as hot as say… a Nadder's magnesium based flame, but it does pack quite the punch when it explodes." He closed his hand to extinguish the flames and sat back down and sent Astrid a look of thanks for giving the surrounding teens a glare that kept them all at bay as he focused once more on his cousin. "Snotlout, you know I'm not one for showboating. In fact I would've been happy just ignoring all the people suddenly looking to leech off me if you weren't trying to make me look like some sort of liar, let's not be like our fathers in that regard ok?"

Snotlout grumbled and took a larger than necessary bite out of his lunch without really giving Hiccup an answer, but the rest of the lunch period passed without much incident after that. Hiccup was half tempted to ask Astrid to escort him to his next class with that glare of hers, but decided that was both stupid and might also make her think he was trying something after their almost kiss yesterday. As much of a crush Hiccup had on her he wasn't quite stupid enough to ruin it back perusing her romantically, since she deserves someone leagues better than himself. He was perfectly content to pretend it never happened if she was, and seeing as she was still on his side when Snot started being, well Snot, it seemed like she was.

The final two periods of the day passed in what felt like the blink of an eye and suddenly they were all in the training ring while Gobber fussed over the tablet again to set up the lesson. Hiccup had helped install and program the thing when he was 15 not long after he had finally gotten the hang of walking with his new prosthetic and knew Gobber was mostly fussing because he liked having to set up things the old fashion way, like fixing up someone's car. The other teens he had taken to spending time with were standing or leaning against the wall nearby chatting about what the lesson might be today. Hiccup sighed before making his way over to Gobber, his godfather would spend the entire lesson whining about the tablet if he had the chance.

After Hiccup set up the lesson for the day Gobber had the class line up. "Today is about teamwork. You lot are gon' get into teams one of which will play the role of fiendish villains that the other must try to take down. Now I'll leave you all to decide the teams…" And with that statement all hell broke loose. Every student there converged on Hiccup without warning, Heather even going so far as to wrap her arms around one of his in an attempt to keep him next to her. Astrid tried to get through the crowd, knowing Hiccup would probably be having an anxiety attack if this kept up much longer and saw Gobber trying to pry students back as well to get to Hiccup, sadly neither had much luck as the others were far to preoccupied with trying to team up with who they thought had the most powerful student.

Through the gaggle of others all vying to be teamed with Hiccup one could just make out his own voice asking people to stop and let him go. Astrid's resolve doubled and she began bodily shoving past other teens, if she could just get to where Hiccup was she could get the others to back off. Unfortunately she didn't make it in time.

"I. SAID. STOP!"

There was a flash of night blue light before an explosion of dragon spirit energy sent everyone flying back, those closet ending up slamming into the stone walls and doubling over in pain. In the center of the ring stood Hiccup, fists clenched, teeth grit and eyes completely white, his DSE around him with an intensity Astrid had never felt before. The energy swelled and took dragonic form above him, the Night Fury wasn't a big dragon, it was about the same height as Toothless was on all fours, but longer than most dragons and had a 40ft wingspan as it flapped to stay above its wielder and caused a gust of wind with every beat. All in all, Hiccup looked possessed.

Despite the fact that he just threw them all back and was currently holding the most aggressive stance one could have, some of the other kids were still dumb enough to approach him. The first was boy that Astrid remembered having a Nightmare spirit, nowhere near as strong as Snotlout's but still strong enough to hold his own. "Whoa, that was a cool one buddy, whattya say you and me-" the boy never got to finish his sentence as Hiccup back handed him and sent him when flying into another student, Astrid failed to keep the smirk off her face when she realized it was Heather. Her attention returned when she realized Hiccup's spirit energy was increasing in intensity; it was so strong the dark clouds overhead where beginning to swirl around the ring, giving the atmosphere an eerie feel.

Everyone, even Gobber, kept their distance from the new enraged Hiccup, who now had blue light glowing under his skin on his arms, along his back, in his hair and even the inside of his nostrils that seemed to be pulsing in time with his heaving shoulders as if to emphasize his anger. "Who else wants to try and suck up to me, huh?" Hiccup asked, his voice distorted as the inside of his mouth also held the blue glow, without warning he whipped around to where a group of kids were still lying on the ground and staring at him, half in fear half in awe there was a slight whistling noise before Hiccup opened his mouth again and pushed his head forward a bolt of plasma leaving his throat and heading directly for the small group. They would've been incinerated had it not been the timely placed DSE blast that intercepted it and caused a small explosion. Gobber stood with his hand stretched out, he was shaking a little, relieved he had managed to react in time. Unfortunately this caused Hiccup's attention to be turned on the instructor, Astrid finally recovered enough and grabbed the others as the light pulsing in Hiccup sped up in time with his growing rage.

"Guys, Hiccup has clearly in dragon mind again."

"Well yeah, I mean all those people trying to cling to him? Only Snotlout would like that much attention" Tuffnut responded, normally the others would stare at him in shock for his rather astute observation, however there was no time and only Snot responded with an incredulous 'Hey!'

"Ok then, Ruff Tuff you two get on either side of him and try to distract him. Make him mad."

"That's my specialty." Ruff said.

"Since when?" Tuffnut asked affronted, "Everyone knows I'm more annoying than you!" As if to prove his point he hooked his fingers in his mouth and pulled them apart while making a strange noise.

"Guys focus! Go use that on Hiccup before he hurts someone." The twins eagerly obeyed the order to misbehave. "Fishlegs, see if you can find any openings for me or Snot to get in close and try to knock him out. I don't think we're getting through to him this time." The portly boy nodded and began studying Hiccup as he tried to decide which twin was more bothersome. "Ok, Snotlout look, I know you and Hiccup aren't on the best of terms but-"

"Save it Astrid, I may not like my cousin that much, but he's still family and I didn't really help matters when I was harassing him earlier. If I see a chance to knock him out I'll take it for his own good." Snotlout said, surprising Astrid with a moment where his ego didn't come first, if he were like this more often she'd actually wouldn't mind calling him her friend.

Turning back to Fishlegs, she quirked an eyebrow in question. "He leaves his back open to attack when he turns his attention to one of the twins; if you act fast enough you might be able to catch him off guard." He told her while keeping his eyes on Hiccup in case he revealed another weakness they could use. Astrid and Snotlout nodded and split up, taking positions near each of the twins to wait for Hiccup's guard to lower and give them their chance,both hoping it came soon as the pulsing just kept speeding up and adding to the pressure his DSE was exuding.

It came when Ruffnut fired a rubber band at Hiccup and managed to hit his cheek. He rounded on her with Astrid standing just to her left as the light under his skin stopped pulsing and glowed brighter as the attack built. Snotlout charged and ignited his spirit to deliver the strongest punch he could. Unfortunately the hit did nothing but draw his cousin's attention the pulsing returned and was pulsing so quickly Astrid could barely tell when it dimmed down anymore. Snotlout backed away with his arms held up in front of him in an attempt to stave off being attacked, Hiccup growled as his spirit energy burned stronger still and his feet began to leave the ground. He was hovering a few feet in the air and sent a beam of DSE out of either hand to incapacitate the twins, when Astrid decided to make a desperate move.

Hiccup remained hovering in the air when something caught his wrist. His head snapped around to find Astrid standing there holding onto his arm with a concerned look on her face, she gave him a gentle tug and to everyone's surprise his foot and prosthetic met the ground once again and he turned to face her while his spirit died down a great deal so it wouldn't send her flying and the pulsing began to slow. Astrid's grip loosened and she slid her now open palm on his arm until it rested on his shoulder, just like the day before on his Strike class mark. His spirit energy cut out so quickly that a small gust went out in all directions as the green returned to his eyes, his face softened back to its normal state and the pulsing light faded altogether. Once again their marks began to burn brighter as Hiccup returned to himself and calmed down as the warm sensation enveloped both teens again.

"Beard of Thor, at their age?" Gobber said to himself, the phenomenon happening in front of him managing to render him speechless upon realization of what it was.

Astrid brought Hiccup into a tight hug, once he was out of the dangers of dragon mind and he returned the embrace shakily. No one spoke for several minutes, it was Hiccup how broke the silence with a whisper only Astrid heard. "It happened again. Astrid I don't know if I will ever get control of my dragon spirit if things keep going like this." He told her in a shaking voice, the blonde squeezed him tighter to her and whispered back to him.

"Don't worry about a thing Hiccup, it's training for a reason. And from now on I'll make sure you're partnered or teamed with me or one of the others, we'll help you control it because you're our friend and we look after each other." She heard him release a strangled breath of thanks and forced herself to pull out of the warm embrace with more difficulty than she should have. Thankfully no one was seriously injured so Hiccup wouldn't be in any trouble outside of a few upset parents.

"Well done Astrid," Gobber said as he recovered from the entire situation, "You see what she and her friends did class? They worked together in order to snap Hiccup out of dragon mind and were successful. Astrid may have been the one to actually get through to him but she wouldn't have been able to get close enough without her team's support." He went on about the importance of team work while Astrid, Hiccup, the twins, Fishlegs and even Snotlout ambled out of the ring, Hiccup was helping Tuff walk as he was now sporting a limp and apologizing profusely to the group as a whole and individually, hoping he could make it up to them and offering to pay for shakes at the Dragon's Den as a start. No one refused.

"Alright Gary we're all here what is so important that you needed five of us to come to the meeting room?" one of the men asked, they were all getting ready to clock out for the day when Gary had pulled them in saying he had a big job for them. In response Gary flicked on the projector and the screen showed a picture of a news cast from a couple of days before. "Yeah okay, so you want revenge on the kid? From the video it looks like you kinda forced his hand."

"Oh it's not the kid, it's why the kid fought me in the first place, the cameras miss it but he chased me because I had caught a black leopard out near that old garage earlier that day and he claimed it was his friend. I know for a fact he isn't licensed to have such a dangerous animal for a pet so the six of us are going to catch that beast tomorrow." I followed the kid yesterday and found that he keeps it out in a secluded area of the woods where people won't come across it easily." Gary stated with a rather malicious grin, the others knew he could be rather sour, but this seemed to be going out of his way. If the boy was keeping the animal away from people and not in his home then technically all he's done is tame a wild animal, but it was still dangerous and had to be either relocated or euthanized. And tomorrow the six men would do their jobs.

* Woolly Howl is the third addition to the Strike class of dragons according to Dreamworks: Rise of Berk, I'm going to be using it as a guide for dragon classifications.