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A/N: For those that have read this chapter: I went through and made some minor edits. Nothing has really changed from the original chapter.

Night and Day Chapter 5:

Previously:

"How did it go?" Astrid asked when she heard the door open behind her. She turned her head and did a double take. Hiccup was standing there with a perplexed and confused distant stare. "What? What happened Hiccup?" Astrid asked worriedly as she stood up and went over to her husband.

Hiccup shook himself out of his thoughts and looked at Astrid with a slight frown. "Everything went fine. Better then fine." He walked past Astrid and went over to sit down so he could eat his food. "I spent the day teaching the class how to approach and introduce themselves to dragons. They practiced on the white night fury." He rubbed his forehead and his frown grew. "When they weren't trying to meet the white night fury Toothless was teaching her how to fly. I think."

Astrid watched Hiccup worriedly as he rambled on about what had happened at the academy. "Why do you look like you were forced to fight a dragon then?" She punched Hiccup on the arm when he didn't answer her right away.

"She can write." Hiccup said with a gasp of pain. "The white nightfury. She knows how to write." He looked up at Astrid with a bewildered frown. "And her name is Star."

"W-what?" The silence that had filled the room was broken when Astrid was finally able to say something. "But...Toothless...You and your mother both tried teaching Toothless how to write, but he never understood."

Hiccup ran a hand through his hair and leaned back in the seat. He was silent for a few minutes as he looked up at the ceiling of the room. "I have a theory." Hiccup said slowly. "I think she's a sub species...like the screaming death was." It was the only thing that made sense. Nightfuries were so rare and up until a few years ago they had never been seen before. A white nightfury would have been impossible up until a few days ago.

"So...what does that mean Hiccup?" Astrid asked slowly. She remembered the screaming death and she hoped to never see the giant dragon ever again.

"It means whatever we know about nightfuries might not be true with her." Hiccup covered his eyes. "It's possible that she's young enough to learn things an adult nightfury can't. I don't know what to do. This is...this is all new territory."

Astrid smiled a bit and walked over to Hiccup. She waited a moment before punching him in the arm. "Then do what you do best."

Hiccup yelped and rubbed his arm. "Something stupid?" He smiled goofily up at his wife.

"Learn." With that Astrid turned and headed up stairs leaving her befuddled husband behind to his thoughts.

Hiccup chuckled as Astrid left. She was right of course; Astrid was almost always right. Having such a strange nightfury around was the chance of a life time for Hiccup. With Star so young it meant he would be able to observe her as she grew up and he would even get the chance to teach her things. He'd be able to really enlarge what they knew about nightfuries in a way that no one would ever be able to again.

As excited as Hiccup was, and he was very excited, he was going to keep the knowledge that Star could write a secret. Until he could figure out just how smart the little nightfury was he wouldn't tell anyone. Even after years of being with the dragons there were still some vikings that were nervous about new dragons.

Hiccup stayed up for a few more hours before finally dimming the fire and heading upstairs. He'd finished his meal and made a few entries into his journal. Tomorrow he would take Star to his mother to see if she knew anything about the little white nightfury.

10 Years went by and soon enough that little hatchling that has been brought to Berk by the tides of fate grew up into a graceful and slender nightfury. During those early years the people of Berk would come to learn that Star was a one of a kind dragon; not even Valka, who had over 20 years of knowledge and experience when it came to dragons, knew exactly what Morning Star was. All Valka could confirm was the fact that Star was physically exactly the same as a regular nightfury; other then her abnormal coloring.

Despite the mysteries surrounding Star the people of Berk grew fond of the orphaned dragon. During her time with the people of Berk Star became comfortable enough to call the village her home and the people and dragons within it her family. Although she never forgot her original home with her mother and sister, Star knew she had found a home with the people and dragons of Berk; just as Toothless had promised.

"Come on Toothless! I want to see who's in the new class!" Another cold morning came to Berk and the slender white nightfury was bouncing around the room she shared with Toothless. The room, which had been originally intended for one dragon, had been expanded over the years since Star had shown no inclination to choose a rider.

Star jumped up onto a wall and pushed off so she could get high enough to tackle Toothless. She let out a mock roar and gnawed on one of his ear plates with her teeth retracted. She squeaked when Toothless rolled, effectively knocking her off of his back and onto the floor. Star did a full roll and grinned up at the sleepy older nightfury once she was back on her stomach.

After a couple weeks had passed since Star had arrived, the town of Berk had discovered that the white nightfury was a very early riser. Her shyness had faded as time passed and as the nightfury grew it was almost customary to see Star bouncing around outside before the sun was even up. Her curiosity growing up had gotten the little nightfury into enough trouble that Hiccup had had to talk to Star about her staying with Toothless until the fish bowls were filled. This led to Toothless being the target of the curious and hyper hatchling, and he learned very quickly how to handle it.

"Toooothless! Wake uuuuup." Star whined as she put her front paws on the older nightfuries neck and pushed. "I wanna go to the academy!"

Even though Toothless was a fine morning dragon he wasn't the morning dragon that Star was. Now he had a vague notion as to why she'd been named 'Morning Star'. So when Star woke up and started bouncing around the room Toothless had simply ignored her so he could get a little extra sleep. Ignoring her had become more difficult as she grew in size.

"No one's even at the academy yet Star." Toothless rolled and looked at her through half opened eyes.

Star squinted at Toothless and huffed before getting off his neck. "We could get there first!" She pointed out in an attempt to get Toothless to get up. "Surprise the new class!"

Toothless chuckled, but he gave in somewhat and lifted his head up. Even though he was awake and paying attention to the younger nightfury Toothless continued to lounge on his stone sleeping slab. He was silent for awhile which made Star squirm. When he nodded Star gave a happy yelp and quickly ran over to the door to open it with her head. "We'll go fishing first for breakfast. That should give people plenty of time to wake up." Toothless stretched on his stone slab before getting up and following Star out the door.

As they left the village and headed for the little glade Toothless took the time to really look at Star. She'd grown a lot over the last 10 years. As was usual for a female nightfury she was smaller then he was, but she was more slender and her fins were larger then his. Star probably wouldn't grow much more in size though. She was still rather young for a nightfury and she wouldn't fully mature for another couple years.

That last thought made Toothless pause for a moment. He'd been really thinking about what would happen to Star once she fully matured. From what he could remember from his mother's teachings once a female nightfury was fully matured she started looking for a life mate. Would Star leave them when that happened? Or perhaps she would consider...Toothless shook his head to stop the thought. They had a few years before anyone had to worry about that.

"Come on slow poke! We'll never make it to the glade at this rate!" Star had gone on ahead while Toothless had been lost in thought. Toothless felt a rumble in his chest build up when he looked up at Star. She'd climbed up onto a rock before looking back to find him. The way the morning light played off her scales was breath taking.

Toothless shook his head again. "Go on ahead. I'll catch up." He could have sworn he heard Star grumble about him being an old man before rushing off. Toothless chuckled at that; he was definitely a lot older than Star was.

Once he was alone Toothless had time to actually think. What in the world was wrong with him? Ever since Star had grown up into a full sized adult he'd been having these sorts of thoughts a lot. He'd raised her as his own so he should only see her as his daughter...shouldn't he?

"Toothless?" Toothless jumped in surprise and looked to his left to find a worried Star standing close to him.

"I thought you were going on ahead." Toothless' surprise doubled as the smaller white female came up and nuzzled the side of his head. "What are you doing Star?"

Star rumbled softly in her chest as she nuzzled Toothless. "You've been acting really strange lately. Distant. You've been distant. And it worries me."

When Star looked up at Toothless all he could see was her love and worry for him. His mind was made up and his decision was made when he saw the affection for him in Star's eyes . As much as he had dedicated himself to be her protection over the years he was in fact not her parent. He needed to stop trying to act like one and start acting like the single dragon that he was. With that in mind he grinned and pushed Star over. Toothless pounced on Star and nipped at her sides to make her laugh.

After making Star squirm and laugh from the tickle attack for a few minutes Toothless finally let her up. "I'm fine Star. Just had a lot on my mind." Toothless let out an oof when Star head butted him in the side.

"Don't worry me like that then! I thought you were sick or something!" She huffed in irritation at him before sticking her snout in the air and started walking for the glade again.

Toothless chuckled and sidled up next to Star so they could walk side by side. "You're just worried I won't catch my own fish." Toothless laughed as Star swiped a paw at him.

"That's right I am! Just because I'm the better swimmer doesn't mean you get out of catching your own breakfast." Now that Toothless seemed to be back to normal Star wasn't as worried. Hopefully whatever had been on his mind was gone now. She hated it when Toothless acted distant around her; it made her feel lonely.

Toothless chuckled and nudged Star as they walked. "You always catch more fish. It's good to share."

Star growled softly at Toothless and then snorted. "My catch is my catch." Like all dragons Star was in fact possessive of her tasty fish.

The little cove with the lake was quiet when the two nightfuries arrived. The two enjoyed the serenity of the scene for a moment before Star let out a whoop and jumped into the air to dive right into the lake. She came up moments later with a wriggling fish in her mouth.

Toothless laughed and opened up his wings to glide into the lake as well. It took very little time for Toothless and Star to make two little piles of fish for them to eat. Toothless even tried to steal one of Star's fish only to get hit on the back of the head by her tail fins. Star didn't even look at him as she used her claws to draw her fish back over to herself so she could finish eating.

"One little fish won't hurt." Toothless grumbled softly as he ate his own fish. "You're smaller than me. You don't need as much food as I do!" He pouted at Star and made grumbling sounds to try and get her to give him some of her fish. She had in fact caught more fish then he had.

Star was silent as she finished her third and fourth fish before she flipped one up into the air at Toothless. She rolled her eyes as he caught it and swallowed it whole.

Toothless finished his pile and then went over to start batting at Star. He plopped down on top of her making Star squirm. "I'm withering away! Woe is me! What a way for a majestic nightfury to die!"

"Get off!" Star squirmed and tried hitting Toothless on the stomach with her tail to try and get him to move. With him being so much larger Star really had no chance to get free. "Fine! I was gonna give you the rest of my fish anyway!" She huffed and quickly stepped away when Toothless jumped off of her. He just let out his signature laugh and gobbled up the last of her fish. "You're worse than a Terror!"

"And yet you love me!" Toothless laughed and ducked away from the playful swipe of Star's paw. "You would never let a Terror eat your fish!" He ducked again before opening up his wings to jump up into the air.

"At least Terror's say thank you!" Star called up at her darker companion. She huffed and opened up her own wings. Once she was in the sky Star chased after the laughing Toothless. "Maybe I'll go move in with the Terrors! They appreciate me!"

Toothless laughed and led the way back to the village. The two of them had spent enough time with breakfast that the village was actually awake. Toothless made sure to nuzzle Star's neck once they were both on the ground. "Thank you for the fish."

Star grumbled a little but she did smile and give Toothless a nuzzle back. "Next time catch your own." She said as sweetly as possible before starting the walk to the academy.

The walk to the academy brought the two nightfuries right past the docks. "I wonder what's going on?" Star wondered curiously as the paused. There was a commotion on the docks and several sea vessels were moored there. Star hung her head over the side of the cliff to look down at the docks. Her tail wiggled back and forth as she watched people go to and from the boats.

Toothless looked over at the boats and rolled his eyes. "That looks like Trader Johann's boat." He snorted when Star continued to wag her tail in curiosity.

"Wonder why he's here? Do you think he has anything interesting?" Ever since she'd first seen Trader Johann as a hatchling she'd been fascinated. Just the very idea that he could bring things to Berk from around the world made her curious about what was out there. Star had voiced to Toothless that she didn't want to leave Berk, but she did find the outside world to be at least interesting.

Toothless poked at Star with his tail. "I thought you wanted to go to the academy?" He pointed out to her as she inched ever further over the edge.

Star stopped in her forward inching motion and looked at Toothless with big eyes. "I did didn't I? But I didn't know Johann would be here!" She continued to use her big eyes as she looked at Toothless. "Can't we look? For a moment?"

Toothless let out a long sigh. He didn't understand why Star was so fascinated by human things. There was natural nightfury curiosity, but she actually collected baubles. Hiccup had built shelves in their room back home so Star would have a place to keep her things. It didn't help that his Hiccup actually bought the things for her when she found something she liked.

"After the academy. You need Hiccup with you." Even though Johann was respective of Berk's dragons he had never really gotten used to having them on his boat. The trader did seem to like Star enough though to let her on his boat, but only when Hiccup was around.

Star pouted but nodded. The two of them turned away from the docks and continued on their walk to the academy. What they failed to have noticed was the second person on Johann's boat that had been looking up at them.

"So that's her." The unknown man whispered as he watched the two night furies retreat. "Time to sound the horn." He mumbled to himself as Johann approached him. The man cleared his throat. "Thank you again for bringing me here Johann. I would have gotten lost among all these islands."

Johann laughed and waved off the thanks. "What can I say? You paid well and I do love showing off my favorite island."

The man nodded and looked back up at the cliff. "Do you think the people of Berk would mind if I had a look around?"

Johann rubbed his mustache for a moment. "They're good folk. Don't do harm to their dragons and they'll be pleasant to ye."

The man smiled a bit and hopped off the boat. "I would never dream of harming a dragon." And with that he started walking up the ramps to the village. He'd heard quite a bit about the village of Berk from Johann and other travelers of the years and he really wanted to see just how many of the stories were true.

A/N: Pay attention now. Something is going to happen in the next chapter. I'll give a cookie to whomever guesses!