In this chapter, I flashbacked to hiccup's 1st meeting with thane, and his transformation, it may hurt Hiccup, a little, but not as bad, so Chap. 4 everyone. Oh, and one more thing, could you guys vote for a more epic sounding name, cuz I'm having trouble thinking of one:
Cratos
Zaf
Warz
Thanatos
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Chapter 4: Hiccup's Memories
Dragon Island, Hidden Room
Hiccup POV.
I woke up, my head hurting, my muscles aching, and a warm blanket covering me.
Wait…warm blanket? I then shot out of the bed and I found myself sleeping in a room filled with books, a strange platform with weird symbols that I couldn't understand, and a fireplace burning with a blue fire. Then I noticed something wrong, I flipped over the blankets, showing me that instead of my left leg, a wooden prosthetic was in its place.
"Good you're awake." Said a voice
I turned around, to see a man wearing black clothes, spiky, long jet-black hair, scars all over his body, and a strange sliver scar, running across his eye.
"Wh-who are you?" I asked
"The man who saved you." He replied, and then Toothless came up from behind him.
"TOOTHLESS!" I said, which made Toothless run towards my side a lick, "Hahaha, I miss you too bud."
"So is he the trainer?" asked the man to Toothless, and then he gave the man one of his original smiles.
The man started grunting, and hissing, which was replied by Toothless with more grunts and hisses.
"What was that?" I asked to the man
"Oh, I forgot, you humans don't know Dragonese." Said the man, gaining a confused look from me.
"Dragonese? Wait…did you say human?" I asked "Aren't you human?"
"Well, to answer your 1st question, Dragonese is the language of the Dragons." Replied the man, "And to answer your second question, yes and no."
"Yes, and no?" I said
"Yeah, I'm kinda half Dragon, half human." He said "Crazy huh?"
I was surprised; I didn't think that there was such thing as half Dragon half humans.
"You're half Dragon, are you for real or am I dreaming." I said, putting my hand over my head and lying back down on my bed.
"Hmm…perhaps a demonstration is in order." He said
Then he did the strangest thing, he breathed fire, and not just any fire, and he breathed a wall of gray fire around himself. Instead of the man I saw a while ago, a heavily scarred Night Fury jumped out of the wall, which made me stumble out of bed next to Toothless.
"Gaaah!" I screamed
"Yeah, gets em' every time." Spoke the Night Fury in Norse, and then it surrounded itself with gray fire and turned back to a man.
"Who are you?" I asked, afraid if I asked 'what are you' he'd roast me alive.
"Well, for starters, my name is Thane Nightson, and I am a Dragonborn." Said Thane
"Dragonborn?" I asked as I struggled to get back on two feet, or a foot and a prosthetic.
"Yes, sons and daughters of men and Dragon, or riders who mastered the powers of Dragons and Magic." He replied
"Riders, you mean, like me?" I said pointing to myself
"Yes, and it seems that you are a very successful rider, your Dragon wouldn't move ten feet from you without trying to bite my hand off." Said Thane, showing me his right hand with clear signs of Toothless' teeth-marks, or gum marks.
"Toothless! You don't bite other people. No haddock for a week. (I wasn't sure what Toothless' favorite food was so I just put Haddock; ha see what I did there) " I scolded him, and he just looked at me with his saddest look.
After staring at me for the next minute, I gave in.
"Huh, fine, I can never stay mad at you." I said giving my best annoyed look, but Toothless only just smiled his original smile.
"Huh, I can see why he likes you." Said Thane
"Yeah, I don't know what I'd do without him." I replied, scratching Toothless on the neck.
"Good, you're ready" Thane said.
"Ready?" I asked, "Ready for what?"
"For your final stage…you don't know what I'm talking about do you." He said
I gave him a questioning look.
"Toothless, you didn't tell him?" he scolded Toothless, who gave a grunt as a reply.
"Hey, watch your language!" said Thane
"Uh, tell me what?" I asked
"Oh, sorry." He said, "Ok, when taming or bonding with a Dragon, there are five stages. First stage is called first contact: when you and your Dragon first start the bond."
Like when Toothless pounced me in the forest. I thought recalling the first time I met Toothless.
"The second stage is Trusting: when you and your Dragon start to trust you enough to let you ride on his back." He said, looking at the saddle of Toothless
"The third stage is Friendship: when your Dragon fully trusts you and won't leave your side." Said Thane, holding up his hand full of Toothless' bite or gum marks.'
"The fourth stage is the Link stage: when you and your Dragon become linked, and your Dragon can tell how you feel, where you are, and if you're dead or not." He said
"And the final stage is the Full Bond: when you and your Dragon become one." Said Thane.
"Become one?" I asked, "What does that mean."
"Becoming one means to become one in body, mind and soul." Thane said hitting his chest, "In short, its one of the ways to become a Dragonborn."
"Wait…so I'm supposed to be able to become a Dragonborn like you" I asked pointing to Thane
"Ever since you first contacted Toothless, you had no choice." Said Thane, "I too had a Dragon once, my friend Blackbolt. We reached stage five, and to be honest, it isn't really that bad, being a Dragonborn."
I nodded, not knowing if I should be exited or scared that I'm gonna be half Dragon.
"But the last question is, do you want to be a Dragonborn or not?" he asked, "I already asked Toothless, and he said yes."
I thought about it for a while.
"Well, I'll give you a while, it's a hard decision, it took Toothless half the day to give me an answer." Said Thane walking away.
I thought Should I become a Dragonborn. Maybe, but what will dad think, more importantly, will he kill me if I do. But Toothless, but dad, but Toothless, but Astrid.
Astrid, a name I could never forget. She didn't really stand up for me when Snotlout and the others started tormenting me, but my heart still burned for her. But now that I think about it, I can't go back to the village after what I did.
Well, I guess that's that. I thought, finally finishing my decision.
"Thane, I have my decision!" I called, and then I saw him come out of the darkness behind the bookshelves.
"Well, that took shorter that I thought." Said Thane, "So, what's your decision."
"I…will be a Dragonborn." I said with a hint of determination in my eyes and Toothless started running around and grunting.
"Toothless says he's happy of your decision." Thane translated, "Well, let's start the ritual. Oh, by the way, I didn't get your name?"
"It's Hiccup, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the III." I replied
"Well, Hiccup, lets get started." Thane said.
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Secret room on Dragon Island, Strange Platform
Hiccup POV
I was kneeling down in the middle of a large circle with lines of strange symbols surrounding me. Toothless was sitting down in front of me and Thane was standing on the outside of the circle.
"Now Hiccup, not many people survive this ritual, cause of the overwhelming power of two soulfires inside your body." Said Thane, getting a scared and confused look from me
"Soulfire." I asked
"Yes, it is the power of your soul itself, it is your life, emotions, abilities and even your magic potential and each soulfire is a unique, which is why there are so many colors, like my gray soulfire." Replied Thane, making me recall the gray wall of fire he surrounded himself with to transform.
"Now, this ritual combines your soulfire with your Dragons, allowing you to become one. When this happens, you can be sure it will hurt, a lot." Said Thane, making me regret my decision a little bit.
"But don't worry, once you and your Dragon merge, you will gain some of its traits and characteristics, like the transformation, flight and even fire breath." Said Thane, turning the other way and shooting a blue fire bolt at the floor, leaving a black stain.
"Wow." I said
"Now, you can die if your soul and your Dragon's soul don't merge, causing you and your Dragon to burn from too much soul power, and believe me, it ain't pretty." Said Thane, scaring me a little.
"Now, are you ready." He asked.
I huffed a little to prep myself for what was about to come.
"*huff, ready." I said
"Toothless?" Thane asked, making Toothless give him a nod.
"Alright." He said
Then it began. Thane started chanting some words and the circle and symbols started glowing blue, then blue fire came up from the circle, surrounding me with a wall of blue fire.
"This is the color of your soul, blue for harmony." Said Thane
Harmony, huh, I never thought that my soul would be harmonious. I thought, remembering all the problems I caused everyone back on Berk.
"It's rare for a soulfire to have a pure color, it means that you have something important to do in your life." Said Thane, making my spirits light up just a little.
"Now, back to the task at hand." Said Thane, "I want you to repeat after me:"
Form together we shall,
To make one body, one soul, to meld.
Now I before my Dragon I've knelt,
To form a bond, to never be broken until I've fell.
"Ok." I said, repeating the lines.
"Good, now close your eyes." Said Thane,
I closed them, and I heard Thane chant some language and what happened next was a mystery. But if I didn't close my eyes, I would see that a strange white mist surrounding Toothless, turning him into the mist and moving closer to me.
"Now, take a deep breath." Said Thane
I breathed in the white mist that was my Dragon, and it was like inhaling volcanic ash. I started coiffing, and then it started. I could feel pain shoot through my entire body, starting from my legs, all the way to my head. I could feel my muscles, growing and stretching, and a sharp pain on my tailbone, and then I could feel that there was something wrong, and through the pain, I looked behind me and saw a four-foot Night Fury tail. And that wasn't the end of it, I felt my back hurt, like someone was ripping it open, then a pair of black Night Fury wings sprouted out, which made me scream in pain. Next the pain started moving to my head and I nearly pulled out my hair, my teeth started growing into fangs, and Toothless' ears (I have no idea what those things on his head are called) sprouted out of my head. I tried to shout, but instead, a Dragon roar came out, then my eyes, I felt them turn into slits, and then finally, the pain stopped.
"Hey kid, you alive?" asked Thane, and I barely managed to answer.
"My everything hurts like hel." I groaned at the pain I just experienced.
"Well, you survived, and are officially a Dragonborn, well…almost." Said Thane, bringing out a mirror for me to see myself, and when I did, I was shocked.
I saw myself, still me, but if I turned around I could see a four-foot long Night Fury tail with a missing left tailfin, I'll have to work on that later. I felt fairly stronger, like I could lift a boulder with one arm, and on my back was two, very large, black wings that made me happy, I could fly. On my head were Toothless' ears; this made me able to hear strange stuff, ants crawling, flies buzzing, even Thane breathing. My eyes and teeth surprised me, my teeth became as sharp as knives, and my eyes were that of a Dragon.
While I was admiring myself, Thane asked me a question:
"Are you ok?" Thane asked in some grunts and growls, that I immediately understood.
"Yeah, this is weird." I replied, surprised in the language I was speaking, "Wait…what am I speaking."
"You're speaking Dragonese." Said Thane, " You won't be able to speak Norse for a while, but you'll get used to it."
"Oh." I said
"Right now your still a newborn." Said Thane, "You won't be able to do a Dragon to Human transformation, or some other perks because right now, you're in neither Dragon nor human. But don't worry, in a few years, you will become a Full Dragonborn and all this will be behind you."
"Good, that's reassuring." I said.
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Berk, Present Day
No POV.
"So, over the next eight years, me and Thane started gathering Dragon riders and true Dragonborn." Said Hiccup, nearly finishing his tale to Astrid,
"The 1st one we found was Bomber, his village were very hostile towards Dragons, much like Berk, the only thing was that they kept Dragon body parts, they always killed a Dragon and sold its body parts as trinkets. Bomber found his Gronkle Swampy in a…well…swamp, she was stuck in a pit and she couldn't get out, he rescued her and they became lifelong friends, but his village found out and we helped Bomber get away before he was killed. Next we found Terry, a Terrible Terror adopted him, but the neighboring village found out, killed his mother, and locked him up. He soon learned that he had a talent for magic and made his escape and lived in the woods until we found him. He has an unusual attachment to Bomber, and me because we were the ones who rescued him from a predator Dragon. Soon after we found Natalie, the daughter of a man and a Nadder Dragonborn, her family was killed by the neighboring village, and she, like Terry was forced to live in the woods, and like Terry, we rescued her, her shadow spear was a gift from her mother, she could summon more shadow spears and use them to fight her enemies. We found Spitshot and Spitfire on an island, we think that their parents abandoned them, and they would have been dead if it weren't for their Dragon Rayne and Ryne. The Dragons brought the twins to a small tribe in the middle of the island and the islanders seemed to praise Dragons. The islanders were expert bomb makers, and they often sold their bombs to other tribes or villages. They also taught the twins to fight, and taught them both their special bomb-making secrets. Now Draco we found in a wealthy village, it was a happy place, but we soon found out that they were slaughtering and selling Dragons and their various body parts for potions and other magical or medical uses. We helped Draco save his Dragon Swiftwing from one of the slaughterhouses and he ran away from his village. Catherine was a fairly interesting story, she was Thane's sister, but she ran away after some incident that they both refuse to talk about. Something to do with that skull sword on her back, but she never really told me."
"Wow, interesting story." Said Astrid, struggling to keep up with me, "Hey wait, you never told me Thane's story."
"Well, that's a problem, he won't say anything." I replied.
"What do you mean?" said Astrid
"He hates to talk about it, he keeps saying I'll learn soon." I said, giving Astrid a confused look.
"Why would he do that?" she asked
"Dunno, its his business, I can respect that." I replied
"HICCUP, GET OVER HERE!" shouted Thane.
"Well, I better go." I said, leaving Astrid alone on the table.
Well he may not want to know, but I do. Thought Astrid, determined to know Thane's history.
Well Astrid's' becoming curious, and she will find out Thane's history, well thanks for reading .