"Dragon's speaking"
'telepathical speaking'
Thinking
"Dragons and Guardians: Riders of Berk
Author's note: Remember readers, Hiccup rides on Toothless's back while Aniu flies using her wings. And Barf and Belch is one dragon. Nava and the other guardians also fly while their wings and Nava and Aniu don't have dragons but they're still part of the gang. This note is here just to avoid confusion.
Chapter 4: Terrible Twos
"Follow me." Hiccup ordered as he and his friends plus their dragons flew through the forest. Aniu flew beside them in her human form. "Low level evasive manoeuvres. Come on, bud." Hiccup said. Toothless sped up and zig-zagged past trees and other obstacles.
"When you're riding a dragon, communication is key. You almost have to read each other's minds. Or else."
"Hey! What are you doing?" Snotlout screamed when Hookfang (his Monstrous Nightmare) flew into a thicket of trees. Once Hookfang flew out, Snotlout had been and walloped by a few tree branches. "Are you trying to kill me?!" He asked loudly. Hookfang roared in reply. "We've gotta go back. I think you missed a branch."
Hookfang instead flew into another thicket of trees, causing his rider to scream and be clobbered by more tree branches. When they flew out, Snotlout had two twigs stuck up his nose and two pinecones impaled onto his helmet horns. "Got it." He said weakly. Hookfang snickered at him. Nava (who was flying in his human form behind them) chuckled, flapped his wings , turned into his Masked Owl form and flew effortlessly through the thicket, not hitting a single branch.
"And you have to have an open mind, because sometimes your dragon knows better than you."
Astrid and Stormfly flew past Hiccup and Toothless and the four of them gave each other a nod. Then Stormfly spotted a triangle shaped tree up ahead and chirped a warning to her rider. "Stormfly, up!" Astrid ordered. But her Deadly Nadder only obeyed half the command and throw her rider off her back and dove through the gap in the trees. Astrid screamed as she flew over the two trees and landed safely on her dragon's back.
"You were right, Stormfly. It was down. Whew, I almost died." Astrid sighed in relief. "I will never let you die, Astrid." Stormfly said. "Almost died? I would have died!" Snotlout snapped, flying beside her on Hookfang. Then he started pulling a twig out of his nose. "That's a good look, for you." Astrid said, hiding a smirk at how stupid Snotlout looked. Snotlout promptly put it back into his nostril, thinking Astrid liked it.
"Hiccup, where are Fishlegs and Meatlug?" Aniu asked. "I don't know." Hiccup said."Hey, has anyone seen Fishlegs?"
"I saw him yesterday. Does that count?" Ruffnut said, riding on her half on the green Hideous Zippleback who was named Barf and Belch. Ruffnut rode on Barf's neck while her twin brother Tuffnut rode on Belch's neck. Hiccup and Aniu groaned and flew off to search for the large Ingerman boy and his sweet, affectionate Gronckle. They found Meatlug stuck high up in a tree and Fishlegs was stuck in the fork of a Y-shaped tree.
"Whoa, there you are, Fishlegs." Aniu exclaimed in surprise. "Are you okay?" Hiccup asked. "I'm fine! Just hanging out. It's not like Meatlug and I crashed or anything. Okay, we crashed. There, I said it." Fishlegs (whose backside was facing them) said sheepishly.
Hiccup and Aniu both grabbed Fishlegs's feet, pulled and accidently pulled his boots off. "Oops." Both teens cringed at the smell of Fishlegs's boots. Good thing Boot night was only a week away. "Sorry about that." Fishlegs said. Hiccup and Aniu tried again to pull Fishlegs down (while trying not to pull his socks off) but failed.
"Yeah, you're pretty stuck." Aniu told Fishlegs. " I think I know how to get you down but you have to stay perfectly still." Hiccup said. "Why? What are you gonna do?" Fishlegs asked. "Be careful, bud. Don't wanna hurt him." Hiccup said to his Night Fury. Toothless growled in agreement.
"Huh! Wait a second. What did you say about not hurting me?" Fishlegs asked desperately before Toothless fired out a blue plasma blast. It hit Fishlegs on his backside and knocked out of the tree where he landed he landed on Toothless's back. "Thank you." Fishlegs said, getting off Toothless's back. "I believe those are mine." He gestured to his boots.
Hiccup and Aniu gave the boots back to him and Fishlegs put them on. "Now what are we gonna do about Meat..." Hiccup asked but at that moment, the branches holding Meatlug broke and the female Gronckle crashed to the ground. "...lug?" Hiccup finished his question.
Fishlegs walked over to his Gronckle. "Can you two please not tell the others that Meatlug broke the trees. (whispering) She's sensitive about her weight." He said, gently stroking Meatlug's Gronckle wing- shaped ears. "How did this happen?" Aniu asked. "I don't know." Fishlegs answered. "I was just flying along, taking notes on the flora and the fauna, typical guy stuff. Then something weird jumped out of the bushes. It was like a –like a flaming squirrel."
"Really? A flaming squirrel?" Hiccup asked doubtfully, folding his arms across his chest."That makes no sense at all, Fishlegs." Aniu said. "Or a chipmunk." Fishlegs tried again. "Or some other flammable rodent." When Hiccup and Aniu continued staring at him doubtfully, he snapped.
"I don't know, Hiccup and Aniu. It scared us. Isn't that enough for you." Hopping onto Meatlug's back, he and his Gronckle flew away. "He's telling the truth, you know." Meatlug said before she and her rider flew out of sight.
Hiccup turned to his two best friends and hopped onto Toothless's saddle. "Did you two hear that? A flaming squirrel. Everyone knows there's no such thing as a... FLAMING SQUIRREL!" A ball of fire shot past the three and into the bushes, knocking Hiccup off Toothless's back. "Whoa. You two saw that, right?" He asked.
"Yeah, we better go see what it is." Aniu said. Peeking over the log in front of them, what they saw made Hiccup and Aniu's emerald green eyes widened in amazement. A little dragon was hiding inside a tiny cave instead of a flaming squirrel. The dragon didn't seem to be any species that they knew about. Slowly and carefully moving closer, Hiccup and Aniu bent down in front of the cave.
"Hey, little guy. Who are you?" Hiccup asked softly, slowly reaching out a hand to the dragon. But it hissed and snapped its jaws at him. "Whoa! Settle down, little fella. I've never seen anything like him." Hiccup said. "Neither have I." Aniu said. Toothless crawled closer to get a better look and growled at the small dragon. "You're not helping." Hiccup and Aniu told him. "You know, I think we may have discovered a new species here." Hiccup said to his surrogate sister. Aniu nodded in agreement.
Toothless walked up the two teens and shoved them away from the little dragon. "Whoa, hey, Toothless." Both of them protested. "What has gotten into you. It looks like he's hurt." The dragon retreated back into its cave and accidently bumped its leg against a wall, shuddering in pain.
"Don't be afraid. We're friends." Aniu said gently. Hiccup took out a small sprig of dragon nip from his vest. "Here. " He held out the sprig to the dragon, but it growled and backed away. "It's okay. It's just a little bit of dragon nip." Aniu told the dragon. The dragon reached forward to take the sprig but Toothless growled, scaring the little dragon into jumping into Hiccup's arms.
Now that the little dragon was out in the open, Aniu could see it had deep orange scales, a gray head and neck. Two large dark grey horns on both sides on the little dragon's head resembled Stoick's helmet horns.
"Come on, play nice."Hiccup said before the little dragon accidently scratched him. "Ah! Little dragon, big claws.' Hiccup yelped. "Come on, let's go. We'll fix you right up." The little dragon stared at him innocently before looking at Aniu. "Hey." It said in a male voice. "What's your name?"
"My name's Aniu." Aniu told him. "I'm a guardian. The Night Fury there is Toothless and the human is Hiccup. What's your name?" Aniu was aware Hiccup and Toothless were listening to their conversation and she had never seen a dragon like this one before. "My name's Torch." The little dragon said. "Can we go now?" Toothless asked impatiently. Aniu nodded and turned into her dragon form. "Come on, let's go." She said and together, the four of them flew back to Berk with Torch riding on Aniu's back, he was making sure he didn't dig his talons in too deeply.
"This is so exciting! It's a whole new species!" Fishlegs gushed when Hiccup, Aniu and Toothless arrived and showed Torch to them. "It doesn't look like a flaming squirrel to me." Tuffnut said, staring at Torch. "Why don't you tell us your species, young one?" Nava asked. "Sorry, but I want you guys to figure it out by yourselves." Torch said. "He said he wants us to figure out his species by ourselves." Nava said to his fellow Dragon Trainers.
"We have no idea what's he capable of!" Fishlegs exclaimed in awe. " There's no telling what he might do." Tuffnut lowered himself down to Torch's eye level. "Flame. Do it." He commanded. Instead of obeying, Torch leapt onto Tuffnut's face and bit his nose."Aah! Get it off! Get it off! Aah!" Tuffnut yelled as he tried to pull Torch off his face. Ruffnut laughed at her brother's misfortune and found herself being attacked by Torch as well. "Hey, that is funny." Tuffnut chuckled, his nose swollen and red.
"Come on, you guys. This is serious." Hiccup said as Torch landed in front of him. "We have to figure out what to do with him. He's hurt." Aniu said. "He's hurt?" Tuffnut asked, rubbing his nose."He's just really scared. He'll settle down." Hiccup said. "Um, new species, remember." Fishlegs butted in. "We actually don't know what he'll do."
"Well, somebody's gotta take him home." Astrid said. Everyone steeped away, leaving Hiccup and Aniu with Torch. "Wello, little guy. Here's your somebodies." Both teens said. Torch just chirped at them.
But Stoick wasn't exactly happy to have another dragon in his house, no matter how small it was. Namara helped her daughter bandage Torch's leg. "No, no, no. He's not staying here. I've got a one dragon limit." Stoick said. "Oh, come on." Hiccup said. "He's not a very big dragon. Think of him more like a flaming squirrel."
"I don't want one of those, either." Stoick dropped a few logs into the fire pit. "Toothless, what are you waiting for?" Toothless readied a plasma blast but Torch beat him to it by shooting fire into the fire pit. "Ah, looks like you got torched." Stoick chuckled. The Night Fury grumbled and turned his head away.
"Oh, that's his name by the way: Torch, isn't it?" Stoick asked. "Yep, it is." Torch chirped happily. "Yep, it is." Aniu repeated Torch's words. "So, he can stay?" Hiccup asked hopefully. "Well, we can't throw him out now. It'll be rude and impolite." Stoick said. "Namara, Aniu and I will eat dinner here if that's okay with you, Stoick?" Fengo said. "Be my guests." Stoick chuckled.
When dinnertime arrived, Hiccup and Aniu gave a basket full of fish to Toothless and one big fish to Torch. "Okay, one hundred for you." Hiccup said to Toothless. "And one for you." Aniu said to Torch. "There you go, boys. Your first supper together." Hiccup said. Both teens left to join their parents for dinner.
Toothless smacked his lips and prepared to eat his fish only to see Torch in his fish basket, trying to steal one of his fish. "Hey! Would you like if I stole your fish!" Toothless snapped."Sorry!" Torch exclaimed and returned to his own fish. Toothless glared at him before eating his own fish.
When Stoick fell asleep and Fengo and Namara returned to their own house, Hiccup, Aniu and Toothless were in Hiccup's room helping Torch find a place to sleep for the night. "Okay, Torch. This is where you are going to sleep." Hiccup said, sitting beside a small stone slab on the floor next to Toothless's.
But Torch curled up on Toothless's stone slab instead. The Night Fury saw him, growled, grabbed Torch's tail in his jaws and threw him off the bed. But when Toothless turned his head around, Torch was back on his bed again! "Awe, look at that." Aniu cooed. "He made himself at home."
"Toothless, you don't mind sharing your bed for the night, do you?" Hiccup asked. "Yes, I do mind." Toothless snapped, but no one in the room listened to him. He growled angrily and jumped up into the rafters, curling up to sleep. Torch curled up to sleep on HIS bed.
"I hope he sleeps through the night." Hiccup said, lying down in his own bed. "Oh, I hope he does so he doesn't cause any mischief." Toothless growled, laying his head down. "And you, go to sleep. Good night, Aniu." Hiccup said, blowing out his candle and pulling the blanket over himself. "Good night, Hiccup." Aniu said, turning into her Barn Owl form and flying out the window to her own room. When she inside, a smile crawled across her beak. Her room was much like her old room back at Guardian Island where she was born and raised. It contained a comfortable bed, a desk with a chair, a closet and a bookshelf. The room was big enough for her to walk around in her dragon form. There was an owl-sized perch as well as a fur carpet. Turning back into her human form, Aniu pulled back the blankets on her bed, lay down, pulled the blankets back over herself and fell asleep.
Out in the forest where Hiccup, Aniu and Toothless found Torch, a mother dragon returned to search for her baby boy. But when she found nothing, she roared in rage and breathed fire over the whole area.
In Hiccup's house, Toothless heard the roars and woke up. He looked at Torch before leaping out of the window and running to a good vantage point which gave him a clear view of the flames. The Night Fury got the feeling that something bad would happen soon and he had to be prepared for it.
Early next morning, Hiccup and Aniu brought Torch into the academy. Toothless let Hiccup ride on his back and once he got off, the Night Fury ran up to a ledge and stood guard. That was very strange behaviour for him.
"All right, Torch. Let's figure out what you are." Hiccup said, putting Torch down on a wooden table. "Oh, this is so exciting! Documenting a whole new species. Learning all about it." Fishlegs nearly squealed. "Wait, learning?" Tuffnut asked. "No, thanks." Ruffnut said, crossing her arms. "Learning is very important and can be fun, depending on what you're learning." Nava told them. Only his fellow guardians knew that Nava was a secret bookworm and he loved reading books.
"There's nothing in the Book of Dragons that looks anything like him." Hiccup said, flicking through the Book of Dragons. 'Beside's a Timberjack.' Aniu mentally told Nava who mentally nodded in agreement. "We even get determine what his species is called." Fishlegs said, awestruck. "Huh. That is a really big responsibility. I don't know if I'm ready for that."
"I am! I'm gonna name the snot out of it!" Snotlout exclaimed. "Thirty inches for the wings. (That sounded more accurate.)" Astrid said, measuring Torch's wings with a measuring tape. "That's a big wing-span." Hiccup said. Just wait until you see a Timberjack's wings. Nava thought. Timberjacks occasionally visited Guardian Island when he, Aniu and her parents still lived there and he had been lucky enough to see them sometimes. He had even talked to a couple of them once.
Snotlout immediately began spouting out possible names for Torch's species. "Big Wing, Big Wingspan?" He asked. "May I have the honour of administering the claw test?" Fishlegs asked, holding up a blank sheet of parchment in front of him. Torch sniffed the parchment and used his wing-joint claws to slice it to pieces. "Look at his wing-joint talons. They're razor-sharp." Fishlegs said.
"Sharp Claw, Razor Talon, Razor Sharp Claw Talon!" Snotlout exclaimed. "Really, Snotlout? There must hundreds of dragon species out there with razor-sharp talons or claws." Aniu said, annoyed. "Snotlout is very bad at naming things." Nava said. "Hold on, is he serious?" Tuffnut asked, pointing at Snotlout. "You know what's next, don't you?"Fishlegs asked Hiccup. "No, not really." Hiccup said.
"Only the most important test to determine a dragon's reaction to eels." Fishlegs said in excitement. Hiccup smiled at him. "The eel reaction test." Fishlegs opened a basket and took out an eel. Stormfly, Meatlug, Hookfang, Barf and Belch shrieked and flew out of the academy at the mere sight of the slippery, slimy sea creature. But not Torch. Instead of shrieking and running away, he sniffed the eel, then ate it!" That made everyone stare at him.
"He ate it! He ate the eel!" Fishlegs exclaimed. "Eel Eater! Come on, that's perfect." Snotlout interrupted. "Fishlegs, has there ever been a dragon who wasn't afraid of eels?" Hiccup asked. "I've never heard of any." Aniu remarked. "Never in recorded history." Fishlegs interrupted, laying his arms around Hiccup and Aniu's shoulders. "We're in uncharted waters, my friends."
Torch chirped at them. "You here that, Torch?" Hiccup asked the little dragon. "You're one of a kind." Aniu said. "Now we need to get Torch to fly." Nava said. Aniu smiled at her boyfriend. "Maybe if Torch saw Toothless fly." Hiccup said. "Toothless, let's take a ride, bud!"
Toothless glanced at his rider but stayed where he was, although he did want to go flying. "Toothless!" Hiccup called up to him. "I'll do it, then." Aniu said, spreading her wings but Snotlout walked up to Hookfang laughing. "So much for the Dragon Trainer. We've got this." He snickered, mounting his dragon. "Watch and learn."
"Watch and learn." Hookfang repeated, chortling. Then he shot out of the arena, into the sky and flew towards a bunch of sea stacks. "Hookfang! Aaaah!" Snotlout screamed. The other dragons, riders and guardians watched as Hookfang spiralled upwards rapidly, Snotlout clinging to his horns for dear life. Then the Monstrous Nightmare dived towards the ocean, barely missing Toothless (who barely twitched an eyelid) and flew back into the arena.
"Okay, your turn." An out-of-breath Snotlout said, dismounting his dragon. "But don't think you have to live up to that." Torch walked to the end of the table he was perched on and jumped off, landing on the ground. Then, he stared walking around in a circle.
"What's he doing?" Ruffnut asked. "I think something's wrong with him." Astrid said, concerned. "Oh, man. We broke him." Tuffnut whined. "Maybe he can't fly." Hiccup said. "Maybe he's too young." Nava said. Torch chose that moment to prove them all wrong by emitting sparks from his head and rising up into the air, still sparking. Flying higher with every spiral, Torch flew laps around the arena. The teens gasped in amazement as Torch flew to the center of the arena and spiralled down.
"You are one incredible little dragon." Hiccup said, picking up the no-longer-sparking Torch and holding him in his arms. "Whoa, look at that burn mark." Ruffnut gasped in awe, staring at the spiral-shaped burn marks on the stone floor of the arena.."Huh. Look at this burn mark." Tuffnut showed her his smoking, burnt armband. "Did you see how he flew?" Fishlegs asked. "He spun like a typhoon."
"And he came back just like a boomerang!"Astrid exclaimed. "And he spiralled like a boomerang too." Nava exclaimed. "Hot Spinner, Flaming Comebacker!" Snotlout yelled. "No, Typhoomerang." Fishlegs said, savouring the words on his tongue. "Typhoomerang?" Snotlout asked. "Nah, I don't get it." After those amazing discoveries, everyone left the arena to do their own things.
Later that day, Aniu and Nava took Torch for a walk around the village. The Typhoomernag was particularly interested in all the new sights, sounds and smells. Dragons and Vikings alike stared at him curiously. "This place is so fascinating!" Torch exclaimed. "Yep, it is." Nava chuckled.
Then Skyflier, Forestflier, Violet, Ignitis, Infernia, BoomerBanger, Stonecruncher and Sweetiepie ran up to them. "Hey, Nava. Hey, Aniu." Ignitis chirped."Hey, little ones." Nava said. "Who's this?" Skyflier (the unofficial leader of the Rider Dragon Hatchlings (or RDH for short)) asked, staring at Torch. "Hey." Torch chirped, lifting a wing in greeting. "This is Torch." Aniu said. "He's a Typhoomerang."
"Wow." Infernia said. "Do you like setting things on fire?" Boomer and Banger asked simultaneously. "It depends on what they are." Torch said. "Would you like to be our friend?" Sweetiepie asked shyly. "Okay." Torch smiled brightly at her. "Aniu and I are taking Torch on a tour of Berk, young ones. You can come with us if you like." Nava said. "Okay!" Eight young draconian voices chirped. Then the young dragonets followed after Aniu, Nava and Torch.
That night, Toothless stood guard over Aniu's house and the Haddock house. Aniu was inside Hiccup's room, playing with Torch who was wearing Hiccup's helmet while Hiccup tried to draw Torch's picture inside the Book of Dragons. "Did you have fun with your new dragon friends, Torchie?" Aniu asked the Typhoomerang. "Yes, I did and their parents are very nice." Torch said happily.
"Okay, Torch. Hold still. I'm trying to draw you." Hiccup said. "You're getting your own chapter." But since Torch wouldn't stay still, Hiccup decided to play with him too by making a growling sound. Aniu decided to read a book. Torch growled back at him and the growling match continued until Toothless heard a loud roar. It sounded exactly like the roar from the last night and it sounded closer then where it was.
The Night Fury leapt into the room and accidently knocked Hiccup of his chair, breaking his charcoal pencil. He also accidently knocked Aniu's book out of her hands, causing the book to fall to the first story of the house. "Toothless, look at what you did." Hiccup scolded. "Toothless, I was enjoying that book." Aniu complained."And now I've got to get more charcoal." Hiccup sighed, going downstairs. "Toothless, you behave yourself while I'm gone."
"I'll go get my book." Aniu said, following her surrogate brother downstairs. Torch made to follow the two teens. "It's okay, little guy. We'll be right back." Aniu said, stroking Torch's head before going downstairs. "You better behave yourself, Torch." Toothless said before he heard the same roar in the distance.
Toothless leapt forward to hear better but his tail accidently slammed Torch to the side. Growling angrily, the Typhoomerang bit it, causing Toothless to growl loudly in pain and glare at Torch. He then proceeded to chase Torch around the room. Torch spat out fire to defend himself. The wooden floor in front of Toothless's stone bed was set on fire. Hiccup and Aniu heard and saw the flames and scrambled up the staircase into the room.
"Toothless!"/ "Torch!" Both teens yelled. Hiccup grabbed his blanket from his bed to put out the fire. Aniu helped him out by using water magic to throw water onto the flames. "What is going on here?"Hiccup snapped angrily. "Toothless, why did you do this? What is wrong with you?" Toothless roared and leapt out of the window and ran into the forest."Toothless, wait!" Aniu yelled. But when Toothless didn't come back, Aniu sighed. "It's okay, little guy. He's starting to worry us too." Hiccup said.
Toothless ran through the trees (and sometimes jumped from tree to tree). Didn't Hiccup and Aniu know that Torch was actually a baby? No one else except for him seemed to know that Torch was a baby, either. Maybe he should've told them but none of them ever seemed to listen.
He stopped when he saw two Typhoomerangs Torch's age and size playing in a small, grassy field. One was blue and evidently female. The other was yellow and evidently a male. A squealing sound was heard from the bushes and both Typhoomerang siblings looked up. A wild boar emerged from the bushes and ran straight at the two young Typhoomerangs who screeched in fear.
The Typhoomerang mother was nearby and was already angry about her other baby missing and landed in front of the boar. She roared in fury and breathed fire in front of the boar who was attempting to flee. Flying up into the sky, she spun around in a circle, still breathing fire. Eventually, the boar was burned to death. The mother Typhoomerang snarled in anger at the burnt corpse of the boar who dared to try and attack her children. Stared at the scene and ran back home. He had to tell Hiccup, Aniu and everyone else before it was too late.
"It's weird. It's like Toothless is jealous." Hiccup said to Gobber as the blacksmith sorted through coals in his forge. "Which is great. So, my first girlfriend is a dragon." The two last sentences were complete sarcasm. "I thought Astrid was your first and hopefully last girlfriend." Aniu said. "{Can't we discuss my love life later?" Hiccup asked her.
She was standing beside Torch who was perched beside the bellow. "Another thing we have in common." Gobber joked, hammering out a piece of metal "Something must be going on under the surface." Gobber continued. "Dragons are complex creatures, Hiccup. They operate on many emotional levels. Me? I've only got the one." Toothless ran into the forge at that moment, roaring. "Whoa! Okay, Toothless!"Hiccup tried to calm his dragon down.
But Toothless ran around in a circle and roared again. "You see? This is what Aniu and I have been talking about." Hiccup said, pointing at his black dragon. Toothless roared and pawed at the air. "Toothless, calm down." Hiccup ordered. Torch leapt out of his arms and landed in front of Toothless. "I'm taking you back to your family, young one." The Night Fury said and grabbed the young Typhoomerang in his jaws before running off.
"Gobber, grab him!" Hiccup and Aniu yelled. Gobber ran in front of Toothless. "Ha! You wanna dance, big boy? Because I've got my dancing shoe on!" Torch squealed and sparked up, forcing Toothless to let him go. Toothless ran after Torch but Gobber grabbed his tail. "Gotcha! Whoa!" Gobber exclaimed triumphantly then screamed as he was dragged around the forge.
Toothless made Gobber let go of him when he slammed Gobber against a table. The he found something he thought he'd lost forever. "My panpipes! Now, I can get the band back together!" He exclaimed happily. Torch ran past Hiccup and Toothless stopped right in front of his rider. "Toothless! Back down!" Hiccup ordered angrily.
Both of them glared at each other until Gobber broke the silence by playing a merry tune on his beloved panpipes. "Not helping." Hiccup hissed through gritted teeth. "Sorry." Gobber said and stopped playing. "I don't know what's gotten into you but I don't like it." Hiccup said to Toothless who ran away. Aniu (who had stayed silent during the arguement) walked forward. "I don't know what is with Toothless, Ni." Hiccup said miserably. "Yeah, I never seen him act this way, either, Hic." Aniu said. Then Gobber started playing on his panpipes again. When he noticed Hiccup and Aniu were looking at him, he said "What?" and put his musical instrument away.
Later that afternoon, Hiccup tracked Toothless down and decided to leave in the Cove. Aniu was helping her mother heal a young Hideous Zippleback who had accidently injured one of its wings in a flying accident. "Whoa! Whoa!" Hiccup yelped when Toothless tried to fly in a different direction. "Toothless! The Cove is this way!" Hiccup yelled as he pointed at the Cove. "Where are you going? No, we are going to the Cove!" Having enough of Toothless's behaviour, Hiccup manipulated his dragon's prosthetic tailfin, forcing Toothless to fly towards the Cove. If he hadn't done that, Hiccup would've seen the giant-spiral shaped burn mark left on the forest floor from when Torch's mother protected his two siblings from the wild boar.
Hiccup landed Toothless in the Cove and dismounted. "Okay, you have got to stay here." He said. "I never thought bringing Torch home would lead to this. I've gotta separate you two until I can figure this out." Hiccup turned to leave the Cove but Toothless ran in his way. "Toothless, this is serious. You've gotta stay here." He walked past Toothless but the Night Fury got in his way again.
"Okay. A crazy, out-of-control dragon blocking my way out." He ran past Toothless again and the Night Fury was too slow to stop him this time. "Or not." Hiccup said as he reached the entrance to the Cove. He looked at Toothless one last time and left, leaving Toothless to roar miserably, his heart nearly breaking.
That night, Hiccup lay miserably in his bed, he looked at Torch who was sleeping on Toothless's stone slab of a bed. Aniu flew through the window in her Barn Owl form. "So, how did it go with Toothless?" She asked, perching on a wooden perch made just her in her owl form beside Hiccup's bed. Hiccup sighed and looked her. "He kept trying to stop me. It was like he was trying to tell me something. And also he kept trying to fly in another direction." He said. Aniu let out an owlish sigh. "I'll talk to him when I've got time to do so." She said, idly tapping her talons on the wood. "Goodnight, Hiccup." She said. "Goodnight, Aniu." Hiccup said, rolling over and going to sleep. Aniu nodded and flew back into her room where she settled down on her owl perch and fell asleep. Sometimes, she slept in her owl, wolf or dragon form to take a break from sleeping in her human form or when she couldn't find a comfortable spot to sleep in her human form.
In the Cove, Toothless hung upside down from a tree branch when he heard trees falling over and roaring in the distance. Letting go of the tree branch and landed on his paws, Toothless saw Torch's Mum walk through the forest, evidently still searching for her missing child. The Night Fury attempted to climb out of the Cove and warn Hiccup and Aniu but fell down again. Casting an angry look at his tailfin, Toothless roared in anger.
The next morning, Hiccup, Torch, Aniu, Nava, Astrid, Stormfly, Snotlout, Hookfang, Fishlegs and Meatlug gathered in the Academy. "You did the right thing with Toothless." Astrid said to Hiccup once he finished telling them what happened. "He'll snap out of it." Nava said optimistically. "He'll probably just jealous. I'll get jealous too if this happened to me." Stormfly said.
"Yeah, but what if he doesn't?" Snotlout asked. "Then you won't have a dragon to ride. And if you don't have a dragon to ride then you can't be the leader of the Dragon Academy. Ha!"
"Yeah, then Aniu will take over. Do you really want that?" Astrid said. "But Aniu's not a dragon rider." Snotlout said intelligently, which was rather rare for him. "Even though she and Nava are part of the Dragon Trainer Group." Hookfang said. Then, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Barf and Belch flew in. "You guys would not believe what we just saw." Tuffnut said.
"Excuse me. We're having a power struggle over here." Snotlout interrupted. "We're not having a power struggle." Hiccup and Aniu said. "The whole forest. Ultimate destruction." Tuffnut said in an awestruck tone of voice. "It was beautiful." Ruffnut said dreamily. "The whole thing was torched."
"Torched?" Hiccup asked in alarm, looking down at the little Typhoomerang he held in his arms. "Show us." Aniu ordered. Sometime later, the entire group were flying over the forest. Hiccup rode on Stormfly with Astrid. Following the path of knocked-down trees, they saw the spiral- shaped Typhoomerang burn mark. "Like we said. Ultimate destruction." Ruffnut said as the dragons , Aniu and Nava landed and the riders dismounted.
"We've seen that burn mark before. Hiccup said. "Not this big." Astrid remarked. "You know what this means?" Fishlegs asked nervously. "Big burn mark..."
"...Big Typhoomerang." Hiccup finished the sentence. Sure enough, Torch's mother was flying over the scene of the crime, breathing fire in her anger and desperation. "He looks really mad." Tuffnut remarked. " Uh, that's not a he. That's a she. That's Torch's mother." Hiccup said. "And she's lookin' angry."Nava said.
"Torch is a baby." Astrid gasped in realization. "Why didn't we ever see that? The way Torch acted, the way he talked, his appearance..." Nava said. Torch revealed himself and perched on Fishleg's shoulders. "That's what Toothless was trying to tell me." Hiccup said. "And we didn't listen to him." Aniu groaned.
"Whatever gets between that mother and this baby.. IS GONNA GET FRIED!" Fishlegs squeaked nervously and handed Torch to Tuffnut. "You take him." Tuffnut said, handing Torch to Ruffnut. "I don't want him." Ruffnut said, handing Torch to Snotlout. "Just leave him and let's get out of here." Snotlout said, handing Torch to Hiccup.
Torch saw his mother and chirped. His mother (whose name was Redspiral) heard this, saw her son in Hiccup's arms and immediately assumed he had intentionally kidnapped her son. Roaring angrily, Redspiral flew down to them. "Uh-oh." Hiccup said, realizing the danger he was in. "Now, Torch. Go back to your mum." He ordered, putting Torch on the ground.
"Run!" Hiccup and Aniu yelled. The Dragon Riders ran back to their dragons and Nava prepared to fly. But Torch didn't do what he was told to do and flew after Hiccup and Aniu. Redspiral followed them. "You guys go that way!" Hiccup instructed. "We'll lead her back into the forest, away from the village." Aniu yelled. "Hiccup!"/ "Aniu!" Astrid and Nava yelled, alerting the two teens to the fact that Torch and his mother were still following them.
In the Cove, Toothless heard the roars and knew something was happening. "Oh, please stop following us." Hiccup and Aniu begged with Torch. After a few minutes of running, they reached the Cove where Toothless was. "Toothless!" Both teens shouted and leapt off the edge. Hiccup landed on Toothless's back and spread her wings, hovering in place.
"Thanks, bud. We're so sorry." Hiccup apologised to his dragon. "We should've listened to you." Aniu said. Redspiral roared and spat fire at them, the two teens and the Night Fury barely dodged it. "Toothless, evasive manoeuvres." Hiccup ordered. Toothless and Aniu flew upwards, past some sea stacks and over open waters.
It turned out that Typhoomerangs were very fast dragons because Toothless and Aniu had to speed up. "Oh, why won't she stop?" Hiccup asked himself. "Hiccup, you might wanna look behind you." Aniu said. Hiccup did so and found Torch looking up at him. "What the hell? Torch, what are you doing? You need to be with your mother!" Hiccup yelled at him. The young Typhoomerang merely chirped. "But I wanna stay with you guys for a while." Torch whined.
"Toothless, Hiccup, we have to try something else." Aniu said. "We'll use her size against her/" Hiccup said, formulating a plan in his head. Toothless and Aniu flew back to land. "Toothless, Aniu, up!" Hiccup ordered. The Night fury and guardian flew upwards. "Now, dive!" Hiccup yelled. Toothless and Aniu did so and pulled up just before they hit the ground.
Redspiral wasn't so lucky, instead she hit the ground as Hiccup planned. "I hope she's okay." Hiccup said. They didn't want her to get hurt, only stunned. "Mum!" Torch exclaimed and flew off Toothless's back to his mother. He gently nuzzled her and Redspiral woke up to see her missing hatchling right in front of her.
Torch's siblings leapt off their mother's back to greet their brother. "Good job, guys." Hiccup said, stroking Toothless's head scales. "Everyone's back where they belong." Aniu smiled happily. The three young Typhoomerangs hopped onto their mother's back and Redspiral prepared to take off. "Good bye, Torch!" Hiccup and Aniu waved goodbye. "Take care of yourself, young one!" Toothless called up to Torch. "I will! Say goodbye to my new friends for me, please!" Torch yelled down to them.
Sparks flew out of Redspiral's back and she took off, ascending in spirals before flying away. "Let's go home, guys."Hiccup said. Toothless and Aniu flew back to Berk where they told the Dragon Trainers what happened. The Rider Dragon Hatchlings were rather sad they didn't get to say goodbye in person.
Stoick, Fengo, Namara, Hiccup, Aniu, Toothless and Gobber had dinner together that night in the Haddock House while Gobber played his panpipes. Hiccup and Aniu happily fed Toothless fish. "Ah. I wrote this song just for the occasion." Gobber said and continued playing. "We should've known you were just trying to protect us. That's what you do." Hiccup said, stroking Toothless's chin. The Night Fury then regurgitated a fish head onto his rider's lap. "And then you do that." Aniu groaned. Toothless chuckled at them.
When dinner was over, Aniu flew to Nava's room in Astrid's house. "Hey, Nava." She said, landing on the windowsill in her Owl form. Nava glanced up from the bookhe was reading in his human form. :Hey, Aniu." He said. What only a few people knew was that Nava was a secret bookworm.
"What are you reading?" Aniu asked her boyfriend. Nava held the book up and Aniu saw the title: Guardians of Ga'hoole: The Capture. "Can I see what part you're up to?" She asked. Nava nodded and showed her page he was reading:
Chapter Twenty-Three: Flying Free
In the dark soul of that night, Soren and Gylfie only saw the stars and the moon on its silvery path into the infinite blackness of this new heaven through which they wheeled in flight. So once more the world spiralled. But this time there was a difference. It was Soren who was carving these spirals and loops. With his wings he scooped air, shaped it. There was not the desperate need for flapping and pumping now. Instinctively, he stilled his wings and rode the thermal updrafts., rising higher without even stirring a feather. He looked down at Gylfie, who was a few feet below him, catching the lower layer of the same updraft. Grimble was right. They knew exactly what to do. Instinct and belief flowed through the hollow bones of the two owls as they flew into the night.
Aniu read the first paragraph and nodded. "We used to read those books when we were younger." She said. "Well, I decided to read them again." Nava chuckled. Aniu smiled. "Good night, Nava." She gently nuzzled her boyfriend's head with owlish one and flew back to her room in her parent's house.
A very rare group of guardians found ways to look into the future. They didn't learn about a lot of things but they learned about movies and converted them into books and brought them as well as books and other things like songs back to their world. The Guardians of Ga'hoole books were written by a popular author named Kathryn Lasky. (disclaimer: and those books do not belong to me although I have a copy of every GoG books Kathryn Lasky has published.)
The next morning, Hiccup, Toothless and Aniu flew through the same part of the forest where they had found Torch.
"Communication between dragon and rider goes both ways. Not only must the dragon follow the rider's lead but the rider must listen to the dragon as well."
The three of them flew over the spiral-burn mark Redspiral had left behind. It turned out that Typhoomerang sparks were a brilliant fertiliser as colourful flowers were growing in the spiral-shaped burn mark.
"Because sometimes what the dragon is trying to say is what you really need to hear.
Hey, everyone. When I was writing this chapter, I was thinking about how big Torch was in Terrible Twos (this chapter) and how big he was in Defenders of Berk: Zippleback Down. Both of these episodes take place in the same year (well I think they do). And that's a very short time for a dragon like a Typhoomerang to grow from a baby to a young adult. Valka said Toothless was Hiccup's age (twenty years old) in How to Train Your dragon 2 and Toothless was smaller in How to Train Your Dragon 1. Maybe some dragons just take way longer than other dragons to full size.
I believe only adult dragons can unlock their Titan wing form and Toothless unlocked his when he saved Hiccup from the Bewilderbeast's ice blast in Httyd 2. I also believe that Stormfly, Hookfang, Meatlug, Barf and Belch are the same age as their riders and they had children in Gift of the Night Fury when they were like fifteen.
And as for a review for this story here's your answer: yes, I will write Race to the Edge. But obviously I must finish this story then write out Defenders of Berk. I'll be publishing another multi-chaptered story then I'll do Race to the Edge. After that will be How to Train Your Dragon 2.
Call of the Death Song was pretty cool in School of Dragons. But the hardest part was (Spoiler Alert!) chasing the Death Song around on Thornado while shooting at it. I've gotta do that three times! I had to keep taking breaks whenever I could because my heart was beating so rapidly.
# I noticed something: how could Torch eat that many fish! He was a small dragon so he could only have eaten one or two fish not one hundred.
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Updated: 6.09.2015 Australian Time