Hey guys! Another chapter! Yay! Okay so, for the ones that ask about Santana, I do give hints about her, read between the lines guys! It is HTTYD with a twist after all, so just wait and see you will understand in a few chapters... Off to read you go!
It was a few days later and Brittany was currently at the forest, looking for some herbs her father had asked for, wandering around the tall and taller trees that at points of the trail obscured the brightness of the sun from above without actually looking for them, she could look later; it was early so she had no problem with taking detours. She remembered a little lake she used to visit years before, when the dragons hadn't come yet and her mother was still alive, and decided to go there; maybe she could find some of the plants there, who knew, right?
Once she approached and passed the two big grey rocks that acted as a portal to the little piece of paradise she saw that she wasn't alone.
The black dragon was there, trying to take flight but unable to do so, she climbed a rock and took out of her satchel a notebook and a makeshift pencil and started to draw the dragon; she was actually quite the artist herself, drawing with great detail even the most little of things.
Suddenly the dragon roared, frustrated of not being able to fly, and startled the blonde, making her drop her pencil, drawing the attention to herself. Brittany swallowed soundly, scared while getting down from the rock, the dragon was looking at her with its big chocolate pools and getting closer by the moment until it was towering beside her and once again roaring at her, sniffling around a bit and surprisingly enough, finding her uninteresting and skipping away.
Brittany got up and walked slowly and still a bit shaken up towards the beast, it grumbling at times and not emitting any sound at others, until she decides that it was enough serendipity that she was still alive so she wouldn't take risks so she went back to the forest and looked for the plants, once she found them she went back to the village to give them to her father.
"Welcome back child, go with your uncle to work for a bit, yeah?" her father told her taking the plants from the girl.
She went to see her uncle and started the routine until the afternoon when he let her go as always.
'It's still soon, what if I go back to the lake? The dragon has not hurt me once so maybe I can study it some' she thought.
So she did just that, she grabbed her knife putting it in the side of her boot just in case and started her walk to the lake, when she reached it the dragon was cuddled beside the lake's crystal clear waters, probably asleep, so she sat down beside the rock she had used before that day, finished her drawing and took some notes, such as that the dragon had lost part of its tail, half of it to be exact, and that it was probably the reason why it couldn't fly, then drawing possible ways to fix that, in case the dragon would let her, which was a very minute possibility but still one none the less.
The blonde continued to watch as the beast slept and could not but compare it to a puppy while it was asleep, it moved and once Brittany could have swore she heard it whimper a bit, it was probably the most adorable thing she had ever seen a dragon do and it was starting to warm up her heart to the beasts in general. After a while the dragon woke up and stretched its limbs drawing its claws into the sand and 'oh my gods' Brittany thought 'it is totally like one of those cute puppies or kittens'; she had seen several in the village and when she saw and heard the dragon doing what was closer to purring while stretching that any other thing she could not but be in awe of the enormous beast, it could not be an adult dragon, it wasn't as big as the ones she had seen and her father had said were indeed adults, but it wasn't a pup either.
It jumped right into the water and started to play in it, showing to Brittany that dragons were not as different from humans as everyone thought and also making her laugh lowly as it produced sounds and floated on its back while some kind of bird sat on its belly, not bothering to make any movement to make it go away. Brittany decided to come back the next day, seeing as it was darkening already and made her way to the village.
"Where have you been all noon Brittany?" asked Quinn, her cousin.
Quinn wasn't as tall as Brittany and where the other girl had eyes that changed between different shades of blue hers were golden green, she was also a blonde but her hair was a bit darker and much shorter that her cousin's, hardly reaching the very top of her shoulders.
"Out in the woods, I've seen a family of ducks Quinn, isn't that great? They were so cute!" she invented.
"Right, well uncle George told me to tell you whenever I saw you that he was going to the closer mountains with my father and a few other men and that we will be leaving together for a few days, also you will have to go to work tomorrow" Quinn explained.
"Well, it's no problem. Has father said when they will be back?" Brittany asked.
"No, but I don't think it will take more than a week, if it does take as much" Quinn answered thoughtfully.
Brittany nodded silently and they went to the tavern, Quinn was working there, helping the cook so she went to the kitchen to make some fast dinner and, once finished, ate with her cousin.
"I think we should stay at your house, it's bigger and so we won't have to share a little bunk or even a room a that, seeing as your house has three of them and mine only too" Quinn pondered.
"Good idea cousin, let's go then"
They went to Brittany's and the shorter blonde entered the room beside Brittany's which had belonged to her brother Sam when he had still lived in the village, having moved to another one in search of adventure before the dragons had started to come, he had obviously paid a visit when their mother had died but he had gone back a week later, with the promise that he would come someday.
"Goodnight Brittany" the short blonde said from the other girl's door.
"Goodnight Quinn" Brittany answered from her bed, turning around once her cousin closed the wooden door and looking at the stars from outside the little window one of her walls had until she fell asleep dreaming of dragons and kittens and puppies.