Alright, longer chapter! Mild language appears in this chapter. Fluff, drama, and a battle scene are involved in this chapter as well.
Kirsten: Okay, I like that idea. But sadly Toothless cannot turn into Tony, but I may use that OC thing. That seems like a good idea. Thank you for sharing that with me.
Hailey's Ancestors
Toothless watched in terror as he saw Hailey fall to the ground, her staff rolling out of her hand. He quickly ran to her side, nudging her, hoping to get some sign that she was still alive. Toothless rolled her gently onto her back. Then pressed his ear plate to her chest, sensing for a heartbeat. Thankfully, he found one. But it was faint. He saw Firestar drape a cool towel over her forehead. Toothless looked at Hailey's mentor in confusion.
"Her face is red," he said, adjusting the towel. "The towel will help cool her down." Scratching his head, he added, "Does she have a heartbeat?"
Toothless nodded. "She does, but it's faint." Looking back down at Hailey, he asked, "What happened to her? Do you know?"
"I do not, Toothless. But it does not surprise me that she knew the entire technique I was doing." He turned to Toothless, who was still looking at Hailey, fear clenching his heart. "She is an descendant from the strongest warriors. Most were Night Fury warriors. Some were Monstrous Nightmare warriors. Few were Deadly Nadder warriors. They were all strong, though. They were extraordinary fighters. Her parents are warriors, too." At this, Toothless turned his attention to Firestar as he continued.
"Her mother was an excellent Deadly Nadder warrior, or medic, if you would. Her father is an amazing Monstrous Nightmare warrior. He had the strongest blows. He also had strong feelings for her mother. She did for him as well. But her mother broke the warrior code. Medics are not allowed to have children. She did. And she was terrified of what was to happen to her.
"When we saw the child, however. She opened her eyes and we saw a flash of the eyes of a Night Fury in hers. Then, when we saw her birth-mark, that was when we knew she would make an extraordinary Night Fury warrior. We knew she would be the legendary-fighter. No matter what the legends said. So, we let Valerie slide on that. This girl had the spirit of a warrior, the loyalty of one, too. We knew she would care and love others. But we never thought her love would belong to a Night Fury."
Firestar looked at Toothless, smirking at him. Toothless smiled back. Hailey was practically made for him. But he never expected his love to belong to a human either. It happened though. And Toothless was glad it did. He was always an outcast from the other Night Furies. Having his tail fin ripped off by Vorpent was even worse. His tail fin was ripped off in front of all the dragons, laughing at him. He shuddered at the memory, accidentally moving his tail in front of him. He stared at it in awe.
"I wouldn't be able to fly without her," he mumbled.
"What was that?" Firestar asked. Toothless nearly jumped, almost forgetting that he wasn't the only one in the training hollow. He was hesitant at first, but then he began telling Firestar about Hailey's contraption she had made for Toothless.
"... she also made a saddle so she could control the tail fin from my back instead of clinging to my tail for dear life." He laughed as he finished the sentence. "She wrote down the 'positions' for the tail fin on a piece of paper. And when we were on one of our test flights, we nearly fell out of the sky! It was like free falling. Except scarier." Firestar chuckled as Toothless finished telling his story. Firestar then looked up at the sky, then back at Toothless.
"It is noon," he said. "You must go back." Firestar hoisted Hailey onto Toothless, as well as her bo staff. "I will send you back. And neither of you will speak of this training to anyone until further notice, agreed?" Toothless nodded. With a few ancient words from Firestar, Toothless and Hailey were back inside the Hanson Household.
Toothless walked up the stairs, nudging Hailey's room door open. He carefully walked inside, making sure to not break anything or to drop Hailey. As soon as he was next to her bed, he used his tail to lift Hailey up and brought her onto her bed. Toothless then grabbed her bo staff, shoving it under her bed, out of sight. He began walking down the steps when he heard Hailey.
"Mom!" she shouted. Toothless ran back to her room, opening the door to see Hailey sitting up in her bed, breathing heavily, wildly looking around the room. Her face was no longer red, but back to its normal color. Her eyes met Toothless' and he was relieved to see her bright green eyes, full of color and not pale. He bounded over to her, licking her rapidly. Hailey raised her hands in surrender, causing Toothless to stop licking her. He wrapped one of his jet black wings around her, drawing her into a hug.
"Okay, bud!" she shouted from inside his wing. "Can you let me go so I can change?" Toothless nodded, releasing Hailey. He then walked out of the room, closing the door behind him and walking down the steps into the living room. He laid down in front of the couch, patiently waiting for Hailey to come down stairs.
He laid there for several minutes before he heard a door open, and a thump at the end of the staircase. He turned around to see what had made the thump, and Hailey was laying on the ground on her back. Toothless panicked. He ran over to her, prodding her side.
"What happened?" Toothless asked as he helped Hailey up. She grabbed onto Toothless' neck for support and let him lead her to the couch. She sat on the back of the couch, holding one side of Toothless' head. Hailey was wearing a deep green shirt, dark blue shorts, and white sneakers. Her hair was shifted to her right side, the rest of her bangs hanging loosely on the other side.
"I tried to slide down the railing and I guess I lost my balance," she said, scratching the side of his head. "It worked before, but I guess I'm off my balance today." She chuckled which made Toothless smile. Oh how he loved hearing that laugh. But he was soon distracted by a dark light flashing in the sky. He looked over to it, causing Hailey to look at it as well.
"C'mon!" she shouted, jumping off the couch. She ran to the stairs signaling Toothless to follow her. They ran up to her room, Hailey barging the door open. She made a mad dash for the saddle and tail fin, making Toothless wonder what in the world she was doing. Before long, she had attached the saddle and tail fin to Toothless. She then dove under her bed, coming out a moment later with her bo staff at hand.
"Hailey, what are yo-" Toothless started, but he was soon interrupted by the girl as she stood up.
"We need to get out there and see what's going on!" She said promptly. She then got on his back and they flew out of the hatch on the roof. They flew towards the black light which had now turned into a dark cloud. Then, a man appeared wearing a black cloak. Toothless peered forward to catch a glimpse of the blood red eyes inside the hood. The man turned his gaze to the dragon and his rider, terrifying both of them. The man's lips curled back into a snarl.
"My minions should have killed you!" he shouted in Dragonese. The voice rang in Toothless' ears, sure to give him nightmares for days. The man flicked his fingers and a large dragon came out of the smoke as well. It was twice the size of Toothless, a dark green color of its scales. Red spikes along its back, and immense wings on either side of it.
"Oh I'll kill those nuisances!" the large dragon shouted. "Master Vorpent, I think we should take care of this ourselves." Vorpent laughed, glaring at Toothless and Hailey as he pulled his hood back.
"So do I, Death." Vorpent mounted his dragon, and the two charged at Toothless. He heard Hailey squeal and he felt the tail fin switch positions, causing them to bank left, narrowly avoiding Vorpent and Death. Toothless looked behind him to see Vorpent shooting blue fire out at them. The Night Fury felt a burning sensation on his tail.
"Tooth! Who is that?" Hailey shouted from Toothless' back.
"I'm 94% positive that that person is Vorpent the Evil!" he roared back.
"What's the other six percent?"
Toothless looked up to her for a brief moment, capturing the glow of her green eyes. "The other six percent is the large dragon is Green Death. You know, the dragon that spits deadly green poison?" Hailey went pale, scaring Toothless a little more than it should have. Vorpent, who had an opportunity to fire, ordered Death to fire his burning white flames. Hailey had just enough time to avoid it. The two swerved out of the way, quickly finding a hiding spot from Vorpent and Death. They hid under an overhang, jutting out of the side of a mountain.
"What do we do?" Hailey fiddled with her bo staff.
"Um," Toothless gazed around for a moment before remembering the old legends his mother taught him. There was an alternate language besides the ancient language. It's called Latvian. It was used to summon portals to send evil spirits back to the underworld. "I've got it!"
"What?" Toothless brought his head around to face Hailey.
"Do you know the language Latvian?" Hailey nodded. "Good. Say this in Latvian: Send these evil beings back to their world! Send them through the Great Portal and into their land!"
Hailey took a deep breath before aiming her bo staff at Vorpent and Death. She spoke the words distinctly in Lativian A bright portal opened in the sky, sucking Vorpent and Death into it.
The last thing that Toothless heard was, "Damn you, Hailey Dragon Hanson! I will get you yet!" Then the portal swallowed them up and it disappeared into the sky.
Hailey turned back to Toothless, shaking visibly. "Let's go back to the house." Toothless nodded and shoved her onto his back. They took off towards the house where Hailey crashed on the floor, Toothless beside her. She let her bo staff roll out of her hands as she turned to Toothless. She was still shaken up, her eyes filled with fear. Toothless licked her comfortingly, earning a slight chuckle out of the girl.
"I didn't know you were fluent in Latvian," he said, trying to get her to calm down.
"Yeah, it was one of the languages I learned easily," she replied, sitting up against Toothless' scales. "I've learned a lot of languages."
"Like?" Toothless nudged her arm, trying to get her to speak in different languages.
"Um, oh! Estonian!" Coughing, she looked to Toothless. But she quickly turned away and Toothless could barely see her cheeks turning red. "Ma armastan sind, Hambutu."
"What does that mean?" he asked causing Hailey to look at him. Her cheeks were red, and it seemed like she was hesitant to translate it in English. "Tell." He nudged Hailey's arm, encouraging her to translate.
"It means, um..." she scratched the back of her head. She quickly wrapped her arms around Toothless, surprising him. "It means: I love you, Toothless." Toothless wrapped his wings around Hailey.
"I love you too, Hailey." Toothless didn't think it would be hard for her to say that to him, but he was extremely happy she did. He didn't mention that to her, but it seemed like she read his thoughts.
"I know." She messed with her hair. "I normally don't feel like this with anyone else. And it's kinda hard to just say it. I'm just not used to it. But a voice in my head kept urging me to tell you, but another kept saying, 'Don't do it! He won't feel the same!'. I just wasn't sure. But I'm glad I wasn't silent about it."
"So am I." Toothless pushed his head into Hailey's stomach in an attempt to tickle her, and it worked. The two continued their playing for two hours. They stopped when they heard the door open. Toothless looked up to see Stephen walking in the house, carrying a textbook.
"Hey, Hailey!" he greeted as he walked into the living room. "I have your homework. You're lucky. You barely have any homework. All you have to do is write a report on a specific type of creature. You could write it about Toothless." He handed Hailey her book. She glanced at Toothless, then turned her gaze back to Stephen.
"Thanks dad. When is it due?" she asked.
"It's due next week, September 18. So you have a whole week. You get extra credit if you turn it in before then. Are you ready to go back to school?" Hailey nodded. "Alright. Don't forget that Toothless can come as well." The girl smiled as her father walked down the hallway. Toothless guessed into his room.
"Let's get started!" Hailey ran upstairs.
"Ugh, so much stair walking." Toothless complained. But he went up the stairs all the same. He walked into Hailey's room where she was already set up at her desk, her pen at hand. She was looking back at Toothless, smiling, obviously ready to write down whatever Toothless could tell her. The dragon walked over to her desk, sitting next to her. He then began telling Hailey all he knew of Night Furies and their similar social structure to humans.