Alright. You guys asked a butt load of questions. So here I am to answer them. Thanks to Kirsten (she was the guest) for giving me the idea of Toothless being able to shape shift!
NightFury: I can't tell you. You need to read this chapter!
Morana123: No, Hailey will not be shape shifting.
Drippy: I can't tell you how they will act, but I can tell you that they will scream like little girls.
Reilly Edgar: Yes they will scream like little girls and yes they will hide behind Hailey.
And I'm really sorry about the delay. I've been really busy. But here is the next chapter. This one will be a long one, since it contains a ba–
Hailey: NightFuryOne! Shut up before you spoil the chapter!
NightFuryOne: Hailey, aren't you supposed to be somewhere?
Hailey: Well, I think so. *turns around* Tooth! Don't mess with the test tubes! *explosion*
First Battle
Hailey had talked to her father about giving her friend, Tony, a ride to school. It took her some persuading, but her father agreed. The girl was showing Tony around the school. She told him he would get lost from time to time, but he would get used to it. She was going to share her schedule with him, that way he could stick with her. All of yesterday, she had taught him everything he would need to know about school, what to do and what they would learn.
She asked her dad to get them to school early so she could show him around. When her dad had asked where the boy was from, she told him he lived out in the forest with his parents. Hailey didn't like lying to her father, but she was doing it only until she could tell him about Tony being a dragon. For now, that was a little secret between the two.
Her father had introduced the boy to all of the teachers, given him books for classes, a locker right next to Hailey's, and a copy of her schedule. He had also given him the P.E uniforms he would need. Hailey had shown him how to put books in the locker and took the books that he needed out.
She was walking around the school with Tony being extremely interested in this 'school'. He was still wary about it, because it contained people that harmed his human. There were a few people walking around, making Tony nervous but Hailey calmed him down. They walked past multiple rooms with teachers sitting at their desks, typing away on the computer.
"... and here is where the chemistry class is held. It starts at 8:20." Hailey explained in Dragonese, gesturing to the room in front of them. The two had agreed to speak in Dragonese to each other whenever no one was around.
The boy looked inside the room to see multiple desks lined up, a tiled floor, labs at the back of the room, and a skeleton near the door. The skeleton made him nervous, as he thought it was a real person's skeleton. His eyes widened with fear as he backed away from the door.
"Why is there a person's decayed body in there?" he asked shakily, his eyes darting from Hailey to the door. His hands were clenched so tightly, that his knuckles turned white.
"What?" she sounded confused. She looked through the door to see the skeleton hanging from its stand. She chuckled and turned back to Tony. "That's not an actual person. It's a display model so we can learn visually about the skeleton." Tony stared at the door for a moment or two, then nodded and unclenched his hands.
"Now come on," Hailey urged. "Let's go inside and I can give you a quick run through of what we do in chemistry class." She opened the door and led Tony inside. The teacher was not in the room. The labs were all tidy. The microscopes were put up, the sinks were off, and the desks were neatly in line. Tony looked around in amazement. Hailey looked at him strangely. "What are you doing?"
Tony, startled, turned back to the girl. "Just looking around," he replied. "What do you do here?"
"I'll tell you later. But first off, let's find you somewhere to sit." Hailey looked around for a moment, before her face lit up and she rushed to the back row. "We can both sit here. See, Frank sits here, I sit here and you sit there." She gestured to the three seats she had just mentioned. The boy looked confused for a moment, before understanding. He nodded and took his seat next to Hailey.
Soon after the two had sat down, the rest of the class came in, with the teacher right behind them. Everyone took their seats, dropping their bags next to them. The teacher, Dr. Brown, walked into the room and over to his desk.
"Hailey," Dr. Brown said as he turned the projector on. There was a white projector on the ceiling where the teacher could project anything from his computer. He used a remote to turn it on. "Would you mind pulling down the overhead?"
"Yes sir," Hailey replied as she stood up from her seat. She walked over to the overhead, but not before tripping on Silvia's extended foot. She laughed as Hailey looked around at her with an expression that said all to clearly, Seriously? You went with that move?
Hailey pulled down the overhead and made her way over to her desk, carefully avoiding Silvia. What the red head failed to notice when Silvia tripped her, that Tony was growling quietly at Silvia. She bumped her fist against Travis' who was snickering along with her. Hailey looked at Travis and instantly realized his zipper was down. She could see his sponge bob boxers. Hailey turned red and face palmed.
How embarrassing, Hailey thought.
# # #
Hailey and Tony were in their uniforms and heading towards the gym where they found coach and the rest of the freshmen. Hailey pinched the bridge of her nose thinking, We're late.
I'm guessing that's a bad thing. Tony thought to Hailey. The girl nodded as they approached the coach. He turned around and said to the whole class, "Today is a free day! We will be outside and you do whatever you guys do." The class clapped and they made their way to the outside doors.
It took them a couple minutes to get out there because of everyone bundled up in one group. Tony and Hailey were walking behind, smirking at the sight of everyone shoving each other through the doorway.
Once they were outside, the boys grabbed their soccer ball and ran out onto the field, while the girls walked around and chatted. Hailey and Tony, however, stood on the school wall, watching the boys play their game. Hailey laughed every time a boy was tackled with the soccer ball trapped between their feet. Tony smirked along with her laughing, but their laughing was soon cut short as they saw Silvia, Travis, Robin, and Adam walking up to them. Travis and Robin were punching their fists into their palms, Adam was tossing a rock up and down in his hand, and Silvia cracked her knuckles as they neared the two.
Hailey was close to having a panic attack as Adam threw the rock. It landed just above Hailey's head on the wall just before it split in two. Hailey slammed her back against the wall as Travis threw a punch. She braced herself for the pain, but nothing came. She looked in front of her and saw Tony clenching Travis' fist. Tony said nothing, but the anger in his eyes said it all.
# # #
The six dragons watched the sun. "Alright, 2:14," Stonespawn said as he stepped forward. The Whispering Death was the dragon chosen to lead the group. "One minute left."
"We can count, genius!" Blazebolt spat. He was envious that Stonespawn was chosen to lead the group instead of him. Stonespawn shot Blazebolt a glare and turned back to the sky. With a nod of his head, the six dragons crouched and took off. Angersneak charged next to Stonespawn and tracked the scent of Berk.
It took them no longer than two minutes to find Berk. Once they did, Shadowdash blew smoke from his mouth, enclosing the six in smoke they could only see out of. Stonespawn clenched and unclenched his paw, signaling Blazebolt to blow out lightning to make themselves seem like a storm cloud.
As soon as Blazebolt finished shooting lightning, Demonfury roared as loud as he could to make thunder. After that, Wavesoak spit his boiling water out and onto the field where the students of Berk High were playing.
# # #
Tony squeezed Travis' fist, turning it purple. Hailey cringed at the sight, then looked up at the clear blue sky to see a gray cloud moving along. Confused, she tapped Tony's shoulder and gestured to the sky. Tony let go of Travis' hand as he looked from Hailey to the sky.
"What the heck?" he asked. Hailey shrugged, but stumbled back as she heard a loud rumble coming from the cloud. She looked back at the field to see Frank running up to Hailey, clearly ignoring the other teens standing in front of her.
"Hailey! Did you hear that?" he asked as he stopped in front of her. Hailey nodded, confused about his excitement. Then it hit her. That rumble was the roar of the Thunderdrum. The girl mentally slapped herself.
"Oh Thor! That was a Thunderdrum!" she exclaimed. Frank nodded vigorously.
"Do you know what this means?! We can see a real live Thunderdrum! After over 1000 years, we can see a real dragon!" Frank jumped up and down while laughing his head off. Tony, who had just watched the two get excited together, felt something weird in his gut but just shoved it aside, thinking it was the lunch food. Though, another loud roar silenced Frank as he looked up at the sky in surprise. The teens watched as lightning came down from the sky.
"Skrill maybe?" Hailey asked. Frank nodded. He opened his mouth to say something else, but was silenced as they watched dragons fly out of the smoke and land on the field. The boys yelled in shock and ran off the field to where the coach was standing.
"Where's the girl and her dragon?!" the ChangeWing half asked half yelled. Hailey paled as she heard the dragon speak.
"Tooth?" Hailey asked shakily in Dragonese. Tony stood next to her to show he was listening. "I think those dragons are after us." She nodded to the dragons running around furiously on the field. Tony nodded in agreement. Hailey turned back to where the other teens were, and almost died laughing. She saw Robin and Travis fighting over who hides behind who, Adam shaking vigorously, and Silvia was standing in front of them, fear obvious in her eyes.
"C... come... on... guys," Silvia said as she turned around. "We... can obviously... take tho...those things." Hailey face palmed.
"Hailey, we've gotta do something before they," Tony whispered in Dragonese, gesturing to Silvia and the others. "get themselves hurt. We're the only ones who know how to do this." Tony lifted up Hailey's hand to show her the birth-mark. She looked closely at it to see that it was glowing. It sent a shock up her arm as Tony placed his hand on top of hers. As soon as the shock died down, Hailey looked at her birth-mark to see it glowing bright blue again.
"Why'd you do that?" she asked, looking up at Tony.
"I gave you the energy needed for your powers," he replied. "If we're gonna beat these things, then we'll need all the strength we can get."
"Wait," She turned around to look at the six dragons on the ground. "we can't save them?"
Tony shook his head. "We can't. They're the truly evil dragons. We have to kill them, as much as it pains me to do it." Hailey took deep breaths before nodding and turning back to the six dragons. It seemed like they were getting irritated.
"I'll ask once more, where is the girl and her dragon?" the ChangeWing asked again.
"Stop it, you nimrod!" the Skrill scolded. "Humans can't understand dragons! They'll think we're just roaring nonsense." The Skrill looked all over the field, before his eyes locked on Hailey. The Skrill flicked his tail at the Whispering Death, pointing at the girl. As the Whispering Death turned to look at Hailey. The Whispering Death flicked his tail, signaling the dragons forward.
Silvia, Robin, Travis, and Adam screamed. To Hailey and Tony's sensitive ears, it sounded like someone was trying to paralyze a Piffleworm. The four teens ran behind Hailey and Tony, while Frank yelled something in Norse and ran off to the coach. Hailey shook her head.
"Tooth, let's go," Hailey said, facing the boy next to her. Tony nodded and they ran behind the school. Once they were out of sight, Hailey asked, "Okay, how long does it take for you to transform?" As soon as she said that, Tony had already transformed into dragon form.
"Ready?" Toothless asked. Hailey nodded and mounted the saddle.
"Alright, let's do this thing, bud!" Hailey shouted. Toothless crouched, and with a couple beats of his wings, they were in the air. As they hovered above the six dragons, Hailey called down to them, "Hey dragons! Looking for someone?" The dragons looked up at the Night Fury, pure anger clear in their eyes. They looked up at the human on the Night Fury's back and dashed up towards them while the teens screamed in terror.
"GO Tooth!" Toothless nodded and they flew straight up with the dragons following close behind.
"Hailey! They're part of Vorpent's dragon army!" Toothless called to his rider. Hailey nodded in agreement and looked behind her to see the dragons roaring wordlessly at her. As she turned back around, the dragons managed to catch up to her. She looked side-to-side, remembering each type of dragon.
"Come on bud. Let's loose 'em!" She whispered in his ear. They swerved into a dive and dove straight down, the six dragons following suit. Hailey and Toothless evened out and were just barely touching the ground. The Smothering Smokebreath and Thunderdrum were not prepared for the evening out and crashed into each other, falling to the ground. Hailey laughed at the sight.
"Two down, four to go!" They swerved to the left and up, causing the Scauldron to spin out of control and crashed into the forest. A flash of light distracted everyone for a mere second. The light transferred the Scauldron back to where Vorpent was.
Toothless turned his head around to see the Skrill taking a deep breath. He zipped his head around. "Hailey look out!"he shouted. Hailey looked behind her to see the Skrill about to fire. Just as she was about to fly out of the way, the Skrill fired at Hailey, burning her back. She screamed in pain, spinning them all over the place.
"Hailey!" Toothless, in anger, fired at the other dragons, shooting them out of the sky and into a large portal, taking them back to Vorpent's. Toothless landed carefully on the ground, making sure to not jostle Hailey on his back.
As soon as they landed, the principle, Stephen Hanson, came outside. "Hailey?" he asked. Hailey looked up at the sound of her name.
"Oh, hey dad," she said, hoarsely. She looked down at Toothless, petting his head. "Bud, you mind helping me down?" Toothless nodded and crouched to the ground, giving Hailey an easier time getting off. As her feet touched the ground, Toothless raised his head, allowing Hailey to use him as a crutch. He licked the side of Hailey's head comfortingly, earning a little chuckle from the girl. The dragon watched as Hailey's father approached them cautiously.
"Hailey, who is this and what is it?" her father asked.
"Um... dad, meet Toothless, my dragon." Hailey introduced, then switched to Dragonese. "Tooth, meet Stephen Hanson, my father." Toothless eyed Stephen warily. He was a tall man, maybe about 6 feet tall. He was slimmer than the others. He wore a suit and had red hair, just like Hailey's and green eyes just like her.
"He can be trusted, right?" Toothless asked, waiting for his human's approval. Hailey nodded, but winced as her back sent another shock of pain coursed through her. Toothless whined as he watched his human draw in a sharp breath.
"Hailey, what happened to your back?" Stephen pointed to the large burn on Hailey's back.
On reflex, she looked at her back, but quickly turned around as another sharp pain went up her back. "Um, Skrill attack. Lightning burned my back. You know, the usual." Hailey said, burying her head into Toothless's neck.
"Okay, Hailey. If your um, dragon, can be trusted, I want him to take you back to the house. I'll bring back your work and then I can tend to your burn. Okay sweetie?" Hailey nodded slightly, mumbling something that resembled a 'thank you'. Stephen then turned so his gaze met the dragon's.
"Take care of my daughter. She will show you the way to the house. Make sure that you don't knock anything over and take her to her room. Okay?" Toothless nodded, careful not to jostle Hailey. "Thank you. Hailey," he turned to his daughter who had enough courage to face him. "I'll be home as soon as possible." Hailey nodded as he kissed her forehead.
"Come on bud." Hailey said, slowly mounting Toothless. "Let's go." And with that, they were up in the air.
For all of those who have not read the books, a Piffleworm is and I quote, "The bite of a Poisonous Piffleworm is so deadly that you will die in a quarter of a have a deadly neurotoxic venom that is injected directly into the jugular in the neck. They are also easily irritated and will often spray their venom up to 30 feet. Piffleworms however cannot stand the sound of whistling, they freeze like statues when they hear this noise. They like to eat paper."
I got that from the How To Train Your Dragon wikia.