The Dragon Boy - Part 3 - The White Dragon
Frostcup fanfic

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Hiccup urged Toothless down towards the middle of the trench, avoiding the cliff face. Astrid did the same. The dragons seemed nervous, they kept sniffing the air and glancing round like they were expecting an ambush. Skittering about nervously. Hiccup and Astrid exchanged nervous looks at their behaviour and put themselves on high alert.
"Come on." Hiccup started following the trench towards to it's end and, after some careful persuasion and calm reassurance, the dragons followed. They all kept quiet so they walked in eerie silence past the spiked trunks and stumps that littered the area.

They finally reached the trench's end, the sheer side of the mountain looming ominously.
"Hiccup." Astrid whispered in amazement. He followed her gaze and gasped at what he saw.

A pure white dragon, bleeding from several cuts all along its body, unconscious at the base of mountain.

Hiccup's breath caught in the back of his throat. The creature in front of him was absolutely stunning. The edge of it's scales were covered in a slight frost that made them glimmer in the sunlight. It's snow white colour marred only by the red of the blood rimming it's wounds. Something was wrong about that, but he couldn't figure out what. He moved closer, examining it's shape. It was similar in size to the Monstrous Nightmare ,but it was very different from it: slimmer, with a single row of short back spikes and with forelegs as well as wings. The horns that adorned the back of it's head curved back grandly away from the neck. It's snout was shorter than a Nightmare's but longer than a Night Fury's.

From the slim build and large wings, far out of proportion to it's body, Hiccup thought it must be a Sky Dragon. Dragons that live up in the clouds, flying so high it was said they could almost touch the moon. They rarely came down to earth, so many believed they were just myths- but here it was. Hiccup would need Fishlegs to determine it's actual species, but he wasn't bothered about that right now.

As he moved closer to it, he became aware that it wasn't moving. Not even the slight rise and fall of it's sides. "No." he thought "we're too late... it's dead." Still, he walked over to it's head and bent down to touch it's snout, if nothing else, in respect for the great creature. Suddenly its eyes- sky blue eyes- opened, it was alive!

Hiccup found himself staring into two vastly intelligent blue orbs. They had the cat-like slit of most dragon eyes, but there was something else there- not just intelligence- something almost... human. It took one look at his outstretched hand and, with painstaking slowness, somehow found the strength to raise it's head, and attempt to shuffle away from him. The attempt only moving it a few inches away before it couldn't go any further, and Hiccup saw why. It wasn't just due to a lack of strength.

Several tree tops and a large boulder pinned it's outstretched left wing down. It must have been in excruciating agony, but it glared at Hiccup defiantly, raising it's lip in a threatening, snarling growl. The threat was returned by Toothless, who likewise growled at the unfamiliar dragon. No doubt warning him not to hurt his master.

Astrid, who had remained quiet until he saw it moving, shouted Hiccup's name. Shouted at him to move, to get away from the creature, but Hiccup stayed where he was. Toothless fired a warning shot of fire at it and the dragon met it with a blast of its own, but it wasn't fire... this dragon breathed ice.

Both of the dragons and riders were stunned by this display of power. Still growling menacingly, the creature bared its jaws, revealing dozens of razor sharp teeth- like everything else on the dragon, they were sparkling white. Toothless began to run forwards and leap to Hiccup's defense.
"No, Toothless. Stay back." Hiccup told him. Toothless stopped in his charge and looked uncertainly from Hiccup to the dragon.
"Hiccup, are you insane?!" Astrid screamed at him. "Just trust me" he said confidently. She went quiet, she trusted him- what she didn't trust was the wild and potentially dangerous dragon that was threatening to tear him apart. "Toothless, down." Hiccup repeated and reluctantly the dragon lay down, still glaring at the larger dragon and ready to spring to Hiccup's defense if needed.

The white dragon shut it's jaws, but continued snarling. Hiccup could almost see it thinking to itself ,"Who is this boy that can control a dragon?"
"Easy, easy..." Hiccup spoke calmly and gently, holding up his hands to show they held no weapon and that he posed no threat.
"I'm not going to hurt you." The lip lowered a little, but the growling continued, it's head lowered slightly. Either it was taking in Hiccup's scent, or losing the strength to keep it there. Hiccup hoped it wasn't the latter.
"I'm here to help. I'm a friend." He wasn't sure a dragon would understand the meaning of the word "friend", but at that it's eyes widened and the dragon finally seemed to deem him trustworthy. It stopped growling completely, though it's eyes remained somewhat wary, and it gave up on holding its head up, so that it landed on the floor at Hiccup's feet. Hiccup crouched down to meet it, cooing words of comfort and calm at the distressed creature.

Astrid released the breath she had been holding. She'd seen Hiccup do this many times before and it never ceased to amaze her.
"Hiccup, you are amazing." she praised. He looked up and grinned at her for a moment, before movement from the dragon drew his attention once more. It hissed in pain and attempted to shift it's injured wing. Hiccup understood, it didn't have that long left. He turned to Astrid
"I need you to go find the others, we need to help it get free." Astrid nodded.
"What about you?" she asked in concern.
"I'll be fine," he said reassuringly, "Besides, I've got Toothless." Toothless rumbled a confirmation. Satisfied that he would be safe on his own, Astrid mounted Stormfly and flew off.

The dragon watched the conversation- curious, but suspicious. "It's alright, she's gone to get help." Toothless stayed where he was knowing better than to spook the injured dragon knowing he was more than able to protect him from where he was. Hiccup just stared into its great, crystal blue eyes, marvelling at the beauty and intelligence in them.
"It's okay... Everything's going to be alright... You're gonna be fine." he soothed. The dragon seemed to relax some more and Hiccup decided to try and reach out to it again.

This time the dragon didn't flinch away from his hand, but let him touch it's snout. Hiccup ran his hand along the dragon's scales-unlike most dragons which practically radiated heat, this one was cold to touch. Truly, hiccup thought, this is dragon like no other.

He settled down beside it, stroking the dragon's head and speaking softly to it, as he waited for help to arrive. He could only hope it got there in time.