A/N: Hello! How is everybody? Hope your still good, I'm excited, I'm moving into the Rider's of Berk, I have a number of idea's as well as a few that were sparked off requests (Of which I've actually only received one.) But hey, I take that as I'm doing things right! Why else am I excited? I have an idea for a second HTTYD fiction, this next one will be a complete AU, I won't spoil anything for it but you can expect it to be up either later today or tomorrow! Without further ado, onto the chapter!

Hiccup moved through the door of his home with a resounding stomp, his helmet was yanked unceremoniously off of his head and slammed into the wall, he leant on his new prosthetic and lurched forward quickly catching himself on the dining table and growling a string of incoherent curses at the new limb, he stun his stump of a left leg around and detached the prosthetic, it slammed into the wall and thudded against the floor next to his helmet, her drew his right knee up and placed his arms on it, resting his chin against his forearm as he glared at the wall.

The front door squeaked as it was opened slowly, Hiccup didn't really mean to glare at his father, he was just only glaring at the moment.

Stoick raised an eyebrow at his son, he took in the boys appearance, he noticed his sons hair matted to his forehead, a small puddle of water beginning to pool beneath the chair Hiccup sat on.

"Rough day of flying?" Stoick asked simply

"When the highlight of your day was the take off?" Hiccup groaned sarcastically, head thudding against the table.

"That bad?" Stoick asked, taking a seat opposite his son.

"No, it gets even better, I crashed, four times," Hiccup's head lifted slightly, his eyes locking onto his father's "Dad, when I rode Toothless the first time I didn't crash once, and I was riding him through a twisted maze of sea stacks at a break neck pace."

"Well," Stoick intertwined his fingers together "Son, you lost your leg, your body learned to balance on that almost fifteen years ago, it's gone through a radical change, you can't expect the same skill you had a week ago to instantly return to you."

"Yes, I'm very aware I'm now a cripple." Hiccup sounded sarcastically

"You aren't a cripple," Stoick paused, his sons unimpressed gaze causing him to shift slightly "Okay, you're a little bit of a cripple, but Gobber lost his leg and he does fine."

"Great," Hiccup half smiled in mock excitement "I'm sure I'll figure out how to fly Toothless again with sentiment!" He exclaimed bitterly.

Stoick sighed "Look, when your uncertain the only thing you can do is move forward," Stoick began "If you can't run, you walk-"

"If you can't wall you crawl and if you can't crawl you claw." Hiccup finished lifting his head slightly

Stoick paused with his mouth still hanging open "How do you know about that?"

"I may not have been entirely upfront when I said I survived on my own," Hiccup explained hastily "Vonor looked after me, for a long time actually."

Stoick paled slightly "Ma? Well, uh, that, uh, explains a lot." The large man nodded his head in slow understanding.

"She packed a wallop." Hiccup chuckled, rubbing at the back of his head.

"That she did," Stoick nodded "But well, the point is, if you're going to fly Toothless again you need to start from the beginning."

"Yeah, I don't have a right to complain until I've exhausted every method of moving forward," Hiccup recited, waving his finger around and rolling his eyes "Haaaaah, I hate it when she makes sense."

Stoick laughed as Hiccup hopped towards his prosthetic, retrieving his helmet and clipping the leg on, he limped upstairs and flopped onto his bed.

'Yeah, I can do this, I tamed a Nightfury and ended a three hundred year war,' He thought to himself as he silently pumped himself up 'Tomorrow will be better!'

It wasn't, the day after was worse, he crashed more, he came home more bruise than person and stalked upstairs, not even bothering to speak to his father and fell on his bed, attempting to will himself to sleep without eating, his stomach argued vehemently and it won, he lifted his head to move down stairs when his father walked up the stairs, placing a plate on the table beside Hiccup's bed, he gave the boy a knowing smirk and Hiccup shifted over to eat, staring down at the prosthetic angrily, he finished the plate of food and rolled over, forcing himself to sleep.

Hiccup didn't leave his room much after that, the days slowly melded together for the boy, sleep, read a little bit of one of the many books he had strewn about the floor in his room, sleep again.

Toothless nuzzled his arm affectionately on the fifth flightless day, the boy gave the dragon a weak smile as he rubbed its nose "Not today bud." He sighed, getting to his feet and walking over to his bed, he laid down, crossing his arms behind his head as he stared at the ceiling, he rolled over and retrieved a book from the floor and flicked through it idly, anything to take his mind of the fact that he was pretty much hiding in his room.

The dragon moved to the large stone slab it slept on, igniting a small area under it to sleep on it settled down, Toothless was aware of his humans predicament, having lost his tail fin, Toothless had almost given up hope of ever flying again, the dragon warbled in almost a low chuckle, the dragon certainly had never thought it would be saved by the same boy that shot him down, the human had even gone far enough to return Toothless's flight, even if he was forced to rely on the human, it wasn't so bad, the human had a knack for moving how he was supposed to atop the dragon.

Hiccup watched the Nightfury and sighed, as much as he would have loved to just hide in his room forever, he owed Toothless, the dragon had helped him through thick and thin, saved his life and helped him change everything on Berk.

Hiccup snapped the book closed and got to his feet, Toothless lifted his head and watched the human spread out his arms as he moved, leaning heavily on his prosthetic, Hiccup felt the appendage give out and his arms reached out to grab a hold of anything, finding the top of his dragon Hiccup smiled, gave Toothless a quick pat atop the head and tried again. He managed to stay balanced a moment longer before he fell again, again being caught by Toothless.

'When I can get from one side of the room to the other I'll take a break,' He thought as he gritted his teeth, it sent lightning spikes of pain threw his body every time he leaned on the prosthetic, but if he was ever going to fly Toothless again, he needed to get a sense for his new limb on the ground.

Hiccup took a slow step forward, he winced as pain spikes through his leg, Hiccup didn't move for a moment as he pushed forward, taking a single step forward, a small smile broke out on his face, the second step already easier than the first, he got to the railing of the his small loft and smirked, looking down at the front door before turning and walking back to his bed, he took a seat and sighed in slight relief when the pain in his knee subsided.

He heard the front door open and he frowned, his dad wasn't due back for at least another few hours, he frowned as whoever the entrant was ascended the stairs, a head of blond came into view, followed quickly by the rest of Astrid's body, she stopped on the edge of his room, her cheeks only slightly colored as she peered around, Hiccup lifted an eyebrow at her questioningly, flicking a stay bang out of his eyes, he frowned at his unruly hair, he hadn't realized how long it had gotten.

Astrid placed a hand on her hip and finally spoke "Alright, come on." He gestured with her hand out the door.

"What?" Hiccup asked in confusion.

Astrid rolled her eyes, walked into the room and grabbed the boy by the arm, he picked up the pace to avoid being forcibly dragged from the room as he followed after Astrid.

"No boyfriend of mine is going to hide out in his room for no reason." She informed him matter of factly.

"Oh, no reason huh?" Hiccup replied sarcastically.

"Yup, no reason," Astrid shot at him, the eventually reached the arena "You haven't flown Toothless in almost a week, you barely leave your house, all because you lost a leg, Gobber lost an arm too, he still works!"

Hiccup rolled his eyes in annoyance "Why does everyone always bring up Gobber, I get it, Gobber's not as useless as me with one leg!" He exclaimed bitterly.

Astrid did not look very pleased, she walked up to the boy quickly and gave him a swift punch in the arm, Hiccup winced "You are not useless just because you lost a leg, you saved everybody even if you lost the leg doing it, you still have your life."

"I had my leg when I saved everybody," Hiccup countered "A limb I could trust completely, I can't even trust this thing to take half of my own body weight, let alone, fight or fly with it!"

"You survived in the forest almost practically alone for twelve years, you shot down a Nightfury and trained it! You defeated the Red Death, you honestly expect me to just accept that a peg leg is going to stop the great Hiccup Haddock?!" Astrid shot at him, nailing each point with a sharp prod to the chest.

Hiccup let his token half grin fall on his face "Great Hiccup Haddock?" He questioned

"You seem pretty great to me," Astrid nodded resolutely "Even if you do kind of resemble a talking fishbone."

"Oh," Hiccup tilted his head to the side "You milady, you are playing a dangerous game." He warned, rocking on his feet slowly.

"Oh, really?" Astrid asked, eyebrow raising in intrigue.

"Trying to light a fire in all of this." Hiccup tilted his head, a smile on his face as he gestured to all of himself.

"Maybe I am," Astrid slowly moved around him, eyes taking on a glint that made his cheeks redden slightly as she circled him, pointedly rocking her hips as she moved, she ran her fingers over his collar bone lightly, barely ghosting against the bone as a smirk fell on her face "Maybe." She added again.

Hiccup lifted an eyebrow at the girl, her finger tracing lightly over his collar bone, he caught her wrist in his own and she paused, Hiccup pulled her arm towards himself, she thudded against his chest in surprise from the action, Hiccup lifted her chin with his index finger and peered down at her, she chuckled as she moved away from him.

"I might reward you," She almost purred "If of course, you can catch me."

Hiccup laughed quietly "Of course, milady." He bowed, flourishing his wrist as he widened his stance, Astrid lowered slightly and watched the boy carefully.

Hiccup glanced at his prosthetic for a moment, before pushing the uncertainty from his mind as he attempted to break into a run, it was more like an awkward half run, half limp as he was still unaccustomed to the leg, Astrid didn't move, or laugh, or even snicker at him as he stumbled more than once,.

Hiccup's eyes narrowed on the leg, determination set the green ablaze as he pushed to his feet, he grit his teeth as he lowered onto the prosthetic, allowing the mechanism to lock down, he lifted the weight of his leg, the spring got him going as he moved, swinging the peg leg out ever so slightly as he finally achieved a solid run, at least solid enough Astrid finally had to move, sweat began to bead on Hiccup's forehead, every step he took jarring the prosthetic and sending a lightning bolt through his leg, after a while the pain dulled, before it began to recede and finally it disappeared.

Hiccup slid to a stop Astrid copied the movement, sliding to a stop at the opposite side of the arena, Hiccup's smile was infectious as he hopped from foot to foot, the prosthetic giving him almost no trouble, Hiccup rolled his shoulders slowly, a few quiet pops resounded from his back as he lowered slightly, again he kicked off the prosthetic, finding the leg actually gave him a little bit more spring as he bolted after Astrid, the girl hadn't quite been expecting him to regain his former speed so quickly, she rolled to the side, the metal of his prosthetic grated against the ground as he pulled to a stop, his leg locking against the wall as he launched after the blonde, Hiccup may have had his speed back, but his agility had suffered, Astrid continued to dodge just out of his reach, Hiccup's smile only widened as the pair continued playing the slightly childish game for hours, every half hour or so, Hiccup's mind would just click, his freedom of movement progressively getting better.

The sun was setting when he felt like he had completely reacquired his original movement, his chest heaved and sweat poured from his face and hair as he sucked in air greedily, eyeing Astrid across from him.

She wasn't in a much better state, to make matters worse Hiccup had been progressively getting better and better as the game went on, his turns were tighter, he was able to roll after her and the prosthetic actually began helping him more than hindering as he learned to use the spring to quickly start and stop, if anything it was like he had gotten faster after losing the leg.

The wide smile on his face was mirrored on hers "Last stretch milady," Hiccup announced cockily, tilting his head, his grin turning into a smirk "I do hope your prepared."

Astrid laughed "You'll have to do better than that to catch me!" She challenged.

Hiccup chuckled as he widened his stance, darting after her, Astrid ran towards him, quickly spinning around out of his reach, Hiccup whirled around and launched after her, he was hot on her heels as she lowered into a sprint, Hiccup was only a step behind her, his eyes narrowed on her back slightly as his eyes took in every inch of her, the way her head bobbed slightly as she moved, the quick glances she shot at him, the way her feet tilted ever so slightly in the direction she was going to turn, his eyes widened as he found the small opening he could exploit, Astrid watched the boys facial expressions carefully, she hid the small smile on her face as she turned around.

The pair continued the game of chase for another minute, Hiccup watched Astrid's movement carefully, her feet tilted ever so slightly right and he made his move, stepping to the right a moment before she twisted and darted to the left, Hiccup smile widened as the spring in his prosthetic moved him, he angled enough to he shot forward, crashing into Astrid's side as the pair toppled over, Hiccup sliding along his back as he wrapped his arms around Astrid's body on reflex.

The pair laid collapsed on the ground for a moment before breaking into hysterical fits of laughter, Astrid pushed herself up on her hands, her forehead still resting on Hiccup's chest as she laughed along with the auburn haired boy, whose chest heaved as he tried to catch his breath in between small laughs.

Both of them were quite tired, having been running at almost top speed for the better part of the day, Astrid's head lifted slight and he shifted, locking her lips around Hiccups forcefully, the boy pushed his head forward, sitting up quickly as his hands slid down her sides and came to a stop on her waist, her arms wrapped around his neck as the pair stayed in the lip lock until oxygen demanded they separate, Astrid leaned against the boys shoulder, looking over his back at the setting sun, Hiccup spun himself around, his arm pulling her closer to him, a gentle smile on his face.

"Thanks Astrid." He gave her a light kiss atop her head

"What kind of girl can't pull her boyfriend out a little self induced pity?" She questioned sarcastically, tilting her head to plant a chaste kiss on his cheek "Your welcome." She added simply, smiling at him warmly.

The two stayed in that simple embrace for awhile, watching the descend as the moon slowly peaked the horizon, Astrid's head grew heavy and it lulled slightly down, Hiccup chuckled lightly to himself as he placed a hand on the girls shoulder, shaking her back into wakefulness.

She started and rubbed at her eyes "Sorry, I was just resting my eyes a little." She excused, getting to her feet and dusting herself off.

Hiccup followed suit, getting to his feet the pair left the arena in silent agreement it was time to head home, as the pair moved through the now almost completely silent town, Hiccup found his eyes being drawn to the girl beside him, she was walking close to him, he could jut out his elbow and he's hit her ribs, the boy let out a quiet chuckle as he lifted his hand.

His knuckled brushed the side of her hand, Astrid started slightly, lifting her hand away, it hovered a few inches away from his hand and Hiccup smirked as he closed the distance, intertwining his fingers with hers.

Astrid colored scarlet, she was thankful to the dark for hiding the blush on her cheeks at the moment, although Hiccup was still in much the same boat, he didn't understand how something so small could generate this kind of reaction, I mean, they had already kissed, you'd think this much would be easy.

Astrid's home was closer to the arena, they paused out the front as she reluctantly broke contact, she stepped away from him slowly, a small smile on her face "Well, uh, goodnight." She waved.

Hiccup caught her wrist and pulled her forward, she gave a quick start before he pressed a light kiss to her forehead "Goodnight, milady." His voice came out in a husky whisper, Astrid stuttered an intelligible response and darted into her home, closing the door behind her and leaning against it with a sigh.

Her eye cracked open when her mother let out a small chuckle, her mother's mouth opened but Astrid spoke first.

"Not a word." The blonde demanded sternly.

Her mother just shrugged and chuckled again.

Hiccup arrived at his home a little later, intentionally setting a slower pace, he was debating taking Toothless out on a nighttime flight, Hiccup pulled the door to his home open and was greeted by the excited Nightfury as the dragon darted outside, jumping around happily as id it knew Hiccup had gotten the use of his leg down.

Hiccup smirked, her darted inside and retrieved his helmet, slamming it over his head as he moved outside and leapt onto Toothless's back, the boy paused when he heard his dads voice.

"Hiccup!" His dad called in greeting, giving the boy a quick wave "It's good to see you up and about again."

Hiccup smirked, he had a feeling Stoick had something to do with Astrid coming to help him, not that he'd ever tell his father that he was aware of it.

"Yeah, Astrid came by today," Hiccup began casually, Stoick's ever so slight shift in his shoulders confirmed Hiccups suspicion "She really pulled me around."

Stoick chuckled "Well, maybe she was worried about you in her own way." The large man replied knowingly.

Hiccup nodded "We'll talk later dad, I have a feeling if this dragon doesn't get some time in the air he might eat me."

Toothless warbled in agreement and Stoick nodded, giving his son a wave as the Nightfury took to the sky.

Hiccup took a deep breath, with his trust in his leg restored he didn't doubt he could fly Toothless, but they decided to start slow anyway, Toothless could feel the boys caution as he moved, leaning lightly on the prosthetic as he turned into a slow bank right, Hiccup took a deep breath, finally feeling in control of the tail again, a small smirk played on his face.

"Let's pick it up a little." He gave Toothless a scratch on the back of the neck, the dragon warbled happily as Hiccup shifted slightly in the saddle, the pair dropped into a straight dive, picking up speed quickly, the twisted around the large sea stacks surrounding Berk, coiling over the and turning through small gaps, Hiccup's smile widened at the familiar rush, the moved around one last sea stack before ascending into the air and leveling out.

Toothless warbled happily, glad to be in the air again, a sound caught the dragons ears and his head perked up slightly as he peered around, Hiccup heard it too and frowned as he twisted in his saddle, looking for the source of the noise, he only noticed something was above them when a shadow fell on Toothless's back, he was glad it was a full moon that night as her jerked Toothless to the side, as whatever it was rifled passed them.

Toothless growled and Hiccup shifted in the saddle as they descended after the unknown dragon, the only thing Hiccup had caught was a flash of silver, he couldn't even guess the dragons size as they followed after it, it's dark color making it difficult to spot, the familiar whistle played through Hiccups mind as they chased the ghost of a dragon, the twisted through a tunnel and came out the other side, the dragon had completely disappeared, Hiccup rotated in the saddle trying to gain some kind of insight as to where it had gone, both Toothless and himself groaned in annoyance, before turning back to Berk, landing beside his house with a soft thud, Hiccup pulled his helmet of slowly as he entered the home, his confused frown still plastered on his face.

Stoick glanced at his son in curiosity "Still having trouble flying?"

Hiccup glanced up, placing his helmet on the table as he took a seat "No, now that I'm used to the leg it's as good as new." Hiccup replied

"Oh, well, good." Stoick nodded

"Yeah," Hiccup agreed with a smile "No, I ran into another dragon while I was out, well, more like it rocketed passed me and Toothless while we were out."

"Oh?" Stoick hummed curiously

"That's the thing," Hiccup started "I can't place it, it flew similar to Toothless, so all I can safely say is it's part of strike class, like Toothless."

"Well, you'll just have to go back out tomorrow, see if you can get a better look at this mystery dragon." Stoick concurred simply.

Hiccup nodded "Well, to be honest I wasn't going to asked for permission anyway."

Stoick laughed "Alright, to bed with you, I have meetings with the council tomorrow, there are important matters to discuss, I'll leave the new dragon to your discretion."

Hiccup nodded gratefully as he moved upstairs, Toothless jumped through the gap the built for him and settled on his stone, as Hiccup collapsed into his bed.

Toothless warbled in concern and Hiccup glanced at the dragon calmly "Don't worry bud, we'll find out what that dragon is, it's not the Red Death, it'll be fine."

Toothless gave the boy an unconvinced look and snorted, Hiccup waved the dragons concern off and rolled over, excited to begin the search for the new dragon, which he had simply named 'Ghost.'

Hiccup gave Toothless a light pat as they hovered over the area they had lost the mysterious dragon the night before, looking around, there wasn't any large land formation in the immediate vicinity, so he turned Toothless north, venturing further away from Berk, in hopes of finding another island.

When the direction came up empty, Hiccup pulled Toothless around, arcing back to the starting point towards the west, hopping the dragon would make its appearance known or he'd find an island a dragon might use as a nest. They arrived at the starting position and Hiccup sighed, turning Toothless east they set out again, at this point Hiccup was just hoping the dragon would try and attack them again.

Toothless let out an irritated roar as they continued the search, progressively widening the area as they went and repeating the same thing, no land masses, no new dragon.

Hiccup stretched out slightly, catching sight of something above them, his head lifted in curiosity, he knew he had a spotted something, he lifted a hand to block the sun in an attempt to better his view, his eyes widened as a large grey spot came into view, he jerked Toothless to the side and the dragon sped by them, Hiccup was already in pursuit, Toothless giving out a warning growl as they chased the grey dragon.

Hiccup could only see the dragon's back, but from his position it was very similar to Toothless, the only differences being it's color, and the dual row of dorsal like spines that ran along the top of its back, even the whistle it's wings made when it dived was the same.

Hiccup quickly realized that the dragons color allowed it to easily blend with the clouds, both at night and during the day, similar to how Toothless preferred to fight at night. being able to hide himself in the dark.

The grey dragon's head turned slightly to the side to peer at its pursuers, it was surprised to find the dragon was hot on its heels, even with the human on its back, it's eyes glanced at the dragons tail, it noticed the mechanical appendage and it growled, it's head pulling back to the front as it lowered towards the ocean, it was moving fast enough to part the water beneath it.

Hiccup flattened himself against the saddle as Toothless gave two powerful flaps of his wings, dropping into the same position as the grey dragon in front of him, generating the same effect as they followed after the dragon, an island appeared on the horizon, it was small, but large enough to easily hide some large caves and hold a fresh water supply, the grey dragon veered towards it, dropping into a darkened gap in between the rocks, Toothless and Hiccup came to a lurching halt, hovering above the hole, the pair ascended over the island.

"It can't hide in their forever bud." Hiccup assured Toothless, he was right, but the dragon was far from hiding, it position itself under the rider and the black dragon and watched them carefully, a small fire built in its throat as it loosed a quick flying bolt at them, the ball was similar to Toothless, only instead of the usual purple glow, it was a bright blue, Hiccup noticed and moved to the side, the bolt of fire flew passed him and Toothless let out a panicked shriek, Hiccup's head darted towards the tail as he realized the fire blast had melted through the connection rod in that split second, Hiccup's eyes widened as they plummeted towards the island, coming down with a loud crash in a small cove, Hiccup was thrown from the saddle as Toothless rolled to a stop, Hiccup pushed himself to his feet, ignoring his heads screams of protest as he ran over to Toothless, the Nightfury shifted back to his feet, green eyes glaring over Hiccup's shoulder as a guttural and threatening growl reverberated through his throat, Hiccup's hand snapped to his knife as he whirled around, meeting the bright blue eyes of the grey dragon, Hiccup blanked in surprise, the dragon in front of him looked exactly like Toothless.

It snarled at the other Nightfury angrily, Toothless's eyes widened slightly in surprise.

"Who are you and Why do you keep coming into my territory!"

A/N: There it is, I hope I covered all the bases, even if I'm leaving you with a slightly evil cliffhanger, just going to give a little explanation, I have decided that the dragons can communicate with each other, although the people around them will still only hear them as, growls and other general dragon noises, the dragons themselves will be able to understand them, so when the dragons converse just keep that in mind.

On that, What'd you think of Ghost? That's right, my OC Nightfury is going to be named Ghost, I think it fits her perfectly, I'm not entirely sure how this will effect everything in the overall story, but I have a few ideas, so I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I will see you guys next time! Peace!