Late that night Hiccup and Toothless settled down to go to sleep. It was getting darker, and soon it would start raining. Hiccup was just about to fall asleep, when suddenly he heard a growling noise. At first he thought it was just the wind, but when he heard it a second time he sat up looking at the window. A dark shadow ran passed it, and Hiccup heard it growling again.
He gasped as he saw the figure then he realized, "it might be a dragon." He thought. "But what was a dragon doing outside this time of night? Usually they were all in the stables asleep."
Slowly and quietly, he pulled the covers off of him and strapped on his prothetic. He had decided to go see what was outside. He walked towards the door, and he glanced towards Toothless, knowing he would be in huge trouble if he left the house without the dragon. Toothless did not like him wandering around by himself, but Hiccup decided one of these days he would have to manage on his own.
Then Hiccup slowly opened the door, and headed downstairs. He opened the back door and looked around and he grabbed a lamp off the table and set foot outside softly closing the door behind him.
He wobbled a bit on his metal leg, but soon regained balance. He heard the growling noise again and looked towards the woods. And he slowly began walking, but stopped to look back at the house wondering if he should just go back inside but he just kept walking.
Soon, Hiccup was deep inside the woods. He used the lamp to find his way through. he had been walking for quite a while and had not seen the dragon anywhere.
He sighed. "I guess it ran off." He said to himself. "Guess I better just head back home before Toothless finds out I left."
Hiccup turned to head back to Berk, and gasped in fear. There, in front of him was a dragon. But not just any dragon, it was a skrill. A very dangerous dragon. He gulped in fear staring up at the fierce dragon.
"Umm..uh." He stuttered. "H-Hey there." he said trying to sound calm, but his voice was shaking. The skrill, sensing his fear, let out a loud roar and lunged at Hiccup.
The boy jumped back in fear. He dropped his lamp and quickly turned to run deep into the woods. Hiccup ran as fast as he possibly could. His prosthetic begging him to stop but he wouldn't let his aching leg stop him.
He hide behind a tree, hoping the dragon wouldn't see him. It was starting to rain lightly. Slowly, he turned and peaked out from the tree. The dragon was still there. Hiccup gasped in fear and quickly hide again. He was breathing heavily, and shaking. He had no where to go, but wait till it left and hope it doesn't find him. He gulped and peaked out again the dragon was gone. He sighed with relief and turned, gasping again the skrill was right in front of him.
"Ahh!" Hiccup screamed, and lost his balance and fell down.
The dragon roared loudly at him, and prepared to attack. Hiccup gasped in fear and he closed his eyes, covering his head.
"Oh Odin! This is it!" He thought.
Then before the dragon could attack, he heard a loud familier screech and he looked up and gasped.
Toothless jumped in front of Hiccup and stood in front of him protectively growling ferociously at the skrill.
"Don't you dare touch him!" Toothless growled.
"You're protecting this dangerous human?" The skrill growled back.
"Yes of course I am!" Toothless snapped. "He's my human! And if you lay one finger on him I'll kill you!"
"You dare betray your own kind?" The skrill growled angrily.
"Yes! I dare it!" Toothless snarled. "Leave now! The human belongs to me!"
The skrill growled angrily, and Hiccup was suprised that the dragon did what Toothless had said. He wondered what the skrill was saying, he could understand some dragons but mostly just the dragons that lived in Berk.
He looked up at Toothless, he was not at all happy with Hiccup. Not in the slightest. "Toothless I-" Hiccup began, but Toothless cut him off.
"Hiccup! What did you think you were doing out here?" He demanded.
"I-I'm sorry!" Hiccup said. "I-I heard growling sounds, I thought it might be a dragon from the stables, so I just decided-"
"Decided what?" Toothless snapped cutting him off again. "Decided to kill yourself?"
"N-No, it-it's not like that!" Hiccup said, but Toothless cut him off once again.
"You could've been hurt!" Toothless growled. "Or even killed!"
"but-but I-" Hiccup started, but Toothless did not want to hear any of his excuses.
"Do you even know what that was? What he was capable of? If I hadn't gotten here in time, you would have been killed! I was worried about you Hiccup! Why would you wander aound looking for dragons at this time of night huh?" Toothless asked him. "You know you shouldn't have been walking around on that leg, especially when it's raining! It's dangerous! What would I have one if anything happened to you?"
"I'm sorry Toothless!" Hiccup said. "I know I'm not completly used to this thing, but one of these days I'm gonna have to manage on my own. If I'm gonna be chief one of these day's I can't be weak and useless like I am right now!"
Toothless stared at the boy his eyes softening, he was about to reply, but soon realized they were standing in the rain in the middle of the forest. He decided they would continue their talk back at the house. He looked at Hiccup and realized he was shivering.
"Come on." Toothless said gently. "Let's get you home."
Hiccup sighed, and he climbed onto the dragon's back and Toothless hurried back to the house, he didn't want the boy getting sick.
Back at the house, Toothless gently layed down in his spot by the corner. He motioned Hiccup towards him, so Hiccup slowly walked over the the dragon and sat down leaning against his belly.
Toothless pulled him close using his tail, and nuzzled him gently. Hiccup sighed softly and nestled close to the dragon for warmth. Neither of them spoke, till Toothless broke the silance,
"Hiccup, you're not weak or useless." Toothless said softly. "You're actually the bravest, smartest, kindest, viking I've ever met. I know that you'll have to manage on your own one day, but see you're still very young. I'm not saying that you're too young to be own your own, but you just had your leg removed and just now have had the prothetic put on. You need to get used to that leg first. And I'm just trying to keep you safe because I care about you more than life itself."
Hiccup looked up at Toothless, he started to smile and he wrapped his arm's around the dragon's neck and hugged him tightly. "I love you Toothless." He said softly.
"I love you too kiddo." Toothless replied gently.
He licked the boy's cheek, and Hiccup giggled in return. Then he yawned and he began to fall asleep. Toothless chuckled and shifted so they could both be comfortable and wrapped his strong black wings around his small human, and fell asleep.
Well hope you liked it! :D R&R And the next chapter will be up soon!