Stoick had a fit "You just decided to take a nap in the middle of the track. What id wrong with you? You know how embarrassing that was? Gobber couldn't get you or Toothless to wake up. Did you just decide not to sleep or something?" Stoick went on for a while. Astrid finally interrupted. She wouldn't just stand there and let Stoick go on like a lunatic. "Well he told me that he stayed up practicing and lost track of time. He's an adult now so he isn't hyperactive. I know if I stayed up all night I would pass out. You were the one who wasn't listening to him. If he hadn't fallen asleep right away he probably would have crashed so it isn't as bad as it could have been. So if you would SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE! It would be much appreciated." she lectured.
Both Haddocks were silent. Hiccup liked having a friend who would stand up for him but she never let him fight his own battles. He loved her for it either way. He actually smiled at her." Uh what she said." Stoick just shut up. He didn't really want to fight with Astrid and embarrass himself anymore. "Okay." he pouted and stepped aside. Astrid held her head up with a smug smile and walked into the house. Hiccup dashed after her. "Impressive." she grinned even more.
When they got to Hiccups room she sat on the bed and stretched out. She had no personal boundaries. Toothless jumped on the bed too trying to push her off. He was very protective of his territory. Hiccup chuckled and pat his head telling him it was fine. Hiccup checked on the egg. Thankfully it was still an egg. He rolled it out and placed it next to Astrid. She cocked her head and picked it up examining it."I found it last night. It was buried in the dirt and there were no signs of a nest. The egg is too big for the mother to be tree dwelling. Don't worry I still checked. I was going to show it to Fishlegs but I thought it was like midnight so I went to bed. I had like five minutes of sleep. I apparently have no concept of time"
When he finished Astrid gave it back to him. "You might want to show it to Fishlegs now. It could be a new species." Hiccup nodded and they set out to find Fishlegs.
They found Fishlegs drawing Meatlug sleeping. Toothless woke Meatlug up and they started play fighting."Hey!" Fishlegs yelled. Hiccup patted Fishleg's shoulder. "Sorry about that. I found a dragon egg. There was no nest so the mother id probably..." He couldn't finish. Fishleg's snatched the egg. Hiccup growled quietly. "It isn't any egg I've seen before. We can check it out when it hatches and see what it is. It could just be a Typhoomerang. We've never seen one of their eggs." Hiccup didn't like the idea of them poking and prodding at an innocent baby dragon. He took the egg and agreed. Astrid added "You know he's probably right. Just keep it safe until it hatches and we can study it then." Now Hiccup was worried.
Him and Astrid went to their own homes. When Hiccup got home he made a false nest out of his pillow, some blankets, some rocks, and a board. He didn't want to leave in case his dad found it. The day trudged by. It felt like forever just watching an egg that might not even hatch due to his stupidity scratching it. At last night had come. The nest was set at the end of Hiccups bed so he could hide it under his blankets.
Hiccup woke up to a slight screeching noise." Hey bud wake up!" he whispered to Toothless. The dragon slept on so he threw a small hunk of crap metal he had on hid nightstand at the sleeping lizard. Toothless woke up and snorted and cringed when he heard the noise too. Hiccup hopped out of bed and removed the blankets from on top of the egg. Toothless walked over and cocked his head. They both watched as the egg rolled out of the sorry excuse for a nest Hiccup built. The egg shell shattered and a small baby dragon emerge red.
The dragon had a longish neck with a round head. It had tiny horns and bits of feathery fur on its wings and head. It's eyes were a dark emerald green. It had four weak but surly would be strong legs. It had shiny red scales that shimmered in the moon light. Hiccup was stunned. Defiantly not a Typhoomerang. He reached out his hand which the baby dragon gently brushed with its snout before becoming distracted. Hiccups hand burned and prickled. His cut was gone. After unwrapping the gauze he saw a silver mark on his palm. He shook his hand still there so not a trick of the light. "What the..." He was interrupted by Toothlesses humming. The two dragons touched snouts. Hiccup thought it was cute until Toothless backed off and shook his head. He pawed at his now silver nose.
Hiccup looked back at the baby who had curled up on his bed and fallen asleep. "Wow!" Toothless crawled up on Hiccup's bed and curled in a ball around the small red dragon. Hiccup cleared the blanket nest and shell off his bed and tried to squeeze were all piled on top of each other. 'We'll sort this out tomorrow." Hiccup told himself before he yawned and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning Hiccup rolled out of bed and stretched. He glanced at the dragons and smirked. "Come on bud." He pushed Toothless." We have to go see Fishlegs." He noticed the silver mark left on Toothlesses nose. "It wasn't a dream." He glanced down to examine his own left hand. "Weird." Toothless crawled of the blanket waking the baby dragon. The hatchling began crying. The boys looked at each other. Hiccup looked back and forth between them and pointed to the red dragon. Toothless shook his head and pushed Hiccup toward the baby.
Hiccup slowly extended his hand. The hatchling crawled up his arm and rested on his shoulder. It started barking. "You are one strange dragon." When he saddled up they flew to the academy where Fishlegs was tutoring the others on the Sculdron.
When he landed everyone stared at the small dragon on his shoulder. Only Tuffnut noticed Toothlesses grey nose." Is that the dragon from the egg you showed me yesterday?" Fishlegs asked. Hiccup nodded and the dragon rubbed against his cheek. "Cool right. "Hiccup answered. He took the dragon from his shoulder and held it like a cat, hugging her while it looked around." I want to see her for a second." Fishlegs stole the baby from Hiccup. Toothless growled when the baby cried. Fishlegs put it on a table and started poking around and pulling it's tale and wings." She beautiful for sure." Hiccup snatched the baby and held it protectively while Toothless stood in front of Hiccup protectively. "She? Well I guess that makes it easier to name her."
Toothless sat up next to Hiccup and glared at Fishlegs angrily."Names? You can't keep her. She could get huge. We need to study and release her. Berk can't handle another Torch." Hiccup's eyes widened. "She's only a baby. I brought her back to Berk so she would be able to survive. She needs a mother but she doesn't have one. If we let her go now she'll die. I'll keep her until she is old enough to take care of herself. If she doesn't get giant she can just stay on Berk. And as for the studying that id an awful plan. She goes insane unless me or Toothless are holding her." Fishlegs saw how attached he had become. "Look Hiccup you already have Toothless. You don't want to make him jealous." Hiccup sat the baby on Toothlesses nose. She bit his nose playfully. toothless pretended to be hurt and rolled over play wrestling. "Really?" Fishlegs ran out of arguments."Fine. But if she get too big she has to leave. Also if it turns out her mother is alive you'll have to give her back." Even though Hiccup was sad at the thought of losing her so soon he agreed.
"Alright that's all fine and dandy but why is Toothlesses nose grey?" blurted out. They all looked at Toothless. Astrid joined the conversation. "How did we miss that?" Hiccup replied. "OH ya. Last night when she hatched she touched Toothlesses nose and left that mark. She left one on my hand too." He held out his palm." It healed that cut that I had on my hand. Pretty cool huh. And you wanted to rid of her. She's awesome. Isn't that right Ruby." He rubbed her head. Ruby seemed pleased by her new name.