Okay, so my first chapter accidentally put the first part of the second chapter in there. I didn't mean to. Soooo sorry! But here is the rest of the second chapter from where it left off. If it repeats what I already had on the first chapter then I'm sorry. Thank you! Please Review!
I hated admitting that Gobber was right. I really hadn't known that I was falling in love with Toothless. I looked at her. She was staring off into space. She was a gorgeous dragon, I'll admit that. The green eyes, black scales, and my favorite thing about her, the big gummy smile.
"Hiccup?" she blurted.
"Oh, uh…yeah?" I shook my head.
"You okay?"
"Yep. Let's just…go to sleep."
"Um…okay." She came over and undid my prosthetic for me. I smiled.
"Thanks bud." I said. I lay down in my bed and pulled up the covers. "C'mere." She crawled over to the side of the bed and looked at me with big green eyes. I reached up and stroked the side of her head. She leaned down and put her head on my bed and I put mine on my pillow.
"Love you." She said. I hesitated for a moment, wondering if I should actually reply. Then I replied in the most normal way possible.
"Love you too, Toothless." I made it sound like the friend kind of way, as I have done so many times before without even trying. I just couldn't tell her.
I couldn't tell her I was in love with her.
Toothless POV
Something was up with Hiccup. He had told me it was insanely private but it still bugged me. I love him, but I couldn't tell him that I love him as more than a friend because he obviously only loves me that way. (A.N. Ahh, the sweet smell of NAÏVE in the morning! Could they be any more clueless? Back to the story…) It hurts to love someone like that knowing they don't love you the way you want them to.
So tonight was just weird. I found Hiccup staring at me, a smile creeping onto his face. I wondered what in Odin's name he could be thinking about.
"C'mere." He said when he laid back down. I walked over and he reached up and stroked the side of my head. I started purring, too quietly for him to hear, and put my head on his bed while he put his on his pillow.
"Love you." I risked saying. He was quiet for a minute. Oh gods I shouldn't have said that! Wait, why is this so weird now? I've been saying that ever since I learned how to understand English. Even before then in my own language! I thought.
"Love you too, Toothless." He finally said. He closed his eyes and I nuzzled my nose under his arm so it would be draping over my neck. His thumb moved back and forth playing with a small scale that was sticking up a little. I closed my eyes too. Pretty soon his thumb was still and his breathing was slow and steady. I was just about to fall asleep when-
"Night Fury!" Stoick hissed, not loud enough to wake up Hiccup. "I said one night only!" I didn't do anything. I just stared at him. When he realized I wasn't leaving, he sighed. Then he glanced at Hiccup and his brow furrowed. "Can I just tell you something out here?" he asked. I pulled my head out from underneath Hiccup's arm. Once we were in the hallway, he spoke in his normal voice. "I suppose you can sleep in there from now on. You haven't done any harm yet. Usually Hiccup is tossing and turning from nightmares, but when you're in there with him, he sleeps better. I don't know what it is, it just happens. So go ahead and stay in there." I gave him my gummy smile and he chuckled. After that he patted me on the head and I went back to Hiccup's room.
Already he was tossing and turning and murmuring in his sleep. Saying something like, "It's not possible…not possible…" I cocked my head. When he started sweating and looking like he was about to scream, I went over and put my snout on his cheek. He immediately calmed down.
"Tooth…Toothless…" he choked.
"I'm not going anywhere. I promise." I said softly. His face softened and his breathing went back to normal. I put my head back where it was before but made sure my snout was still in contact with his hand.
I didn't think about anything but this:
Maybe Hiccup will return my feelings for him.
It could happen. Right?
Still Toothless POV
It felt weird to wake up in the middle of the night. I never did that. And the minute I wake up I'm able to see perfectly. Even in the dark. But I couldn't see. I could faintly make out the outlines of things in the room. Only…I was sprawled out on the floor.
What the heck?
I pushed myself up, but stopped short when I realized I was on my back. I only slept on my stomach. And the floor felt different then the way it usually did. It felt weird to move, like I had a different body. I looked down and was shocked by what I (just barely) saw.
I had human legs, and feet, and hands and arms. But I was…naked.
"What in the name of Thor?" I whispered. I gasped. I could actually speak English. I got up and started to walk. I could walk perfectly. It felt weird, but I could still walk. Then I remembered, I still had no clothes on. I knew it wasn't good for one human to see another human without clothes on. I stumbled around in the dark until I found the place where Hiccup kept his clothes. I found a shirt and I struggled to figure out which holes my head and arms went in. Finally I got that, and put on the pants.
I looked at Hiccup, who was just a lump under the covers. I started to walk over to him but then tripped over something on the ground that I, once again, couldn't see. I landed with a thud hitting my head and winced. I looked over at Hiccup to make sure he didn't wake up. He moved under the covers and I froze right where I was on the floor. I didn't move at all. The last thing he would like to find is a girl in his room with Toothless missing. He continued to move, and then after a while, was completely still, except for his breathing. I let out the breathe I was holding.
I got myself up and resumed walking to the bed. When I reached it, I felt around with my new hands and tried to find where Hiccup's legs were. When I found them, I sat down next to them at the end of the bed. I tried to find a comfortable sitting position, but everything felt weird to me in this new body. I finally settled with my legs crossed in front of me, one foot under the other legs knee. Like the way the little human children sit when being told a story or something. I was still and quiet after that.
How on earth did this happen? I didn't even know dragons were capable of doing this. It felt so strange, being a human now. My eyes were just now starting to adjust to the dark. I could still barely see, but it was better than before. I felt around with my tongue in my mouth. Soft lips instead of a scaly mouth. And my tongue wasn't forked. My teeth were not jagged and sharp, but rather smooth and square. I wasn't able to pop them in and out anymore, which greatly irritated me. That means I can't do my smile anymore. But I can probably still smile. I lifted up the corners of my mouth and parted my lips, pressing my teeth together like I had seen Hiccup do so many times.
I guess that's what a human smile actually feels like. I wondered how I looked. Was I pretty? What will Hiccup think of me? No, what will Hiccup think of this in general? So many questions popped into my head at once that I got dizzy.
After I calmed down a bit, I started to fall asleep just sitting there.
Pretty soon I did.
Hiccup POV
As soon as I woke up, I felt the need to stretch. I tensed up my muscles and did just that. But I wished I hadn't done it. A shearing pain went up my leg and cramped it. I sat straight up and resisted the urge to scream my head off. I grabbed my leg and started hyper venalating. After scrunching up my face a few times and gasping, I laid back down when the pain was only dull. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. That wasn't even the leg with the prosthetic! But then I realized something.
My breathing stopped.
My eyes shot open.
I sat up again.
At the foot of my bed was a girl. She was staring at me with curiosity in her eyes. That didn't stop me from freaking out.
"Holy Mother of Thor!" I yelled. I fell out of my bed. The girl crawled across it. She was in my clothes. When she got out of the bed and got closer to me, I used my good leg to scoot farther away from her until I was up against the wall.
"Who the hell are you?" I said. She cocked her head.
"Hiccup, are you okay?" she asked.
"Of course I'm not okay! I wake up and find some random girl sitting on my bed wearing my clothes…wait. How do you even know my name?" I asked suspiciously. She sighed and walked up closer to me. When she put her face right in front of mine, so close I could feel her breathing, I tried to scoot farther away but I couldn't. She held up the backs of her hands to me.
"Look at me. Look at me and tell me you don't know who I am." She said. I gave up trying to get away and stared at her. Her hair was jet black, and hung loosely down a little bit past her shoulders. Her bangs hung in front of her eyes a little. I looked at her hands. They had small black things trailing in a swirly pattern on them, and then trailed up her arms disappearing under her sleeves. She was skinny. Not super skinny, but like my kind of skinny. She was curved and looked fit. But she also looked very strong. Then I saw her eyes. They were a shiny light green. They looked hard into mine. The pupils looked just a little bit bigger than most peoples, and shrunk a little every now and then. They reminded me of something…
It couldn't be.
"Toothless?" I whispered. She put down her hands and smiled.
"Yep!" she squealed. "I don't know what happened! I went to sleep a dragon, and woke up in the middle of the night a human. I had to put on some of your clothes because I woke up without any." She blushed. Her hands went up to her face and brushed her cheek. "This still feels really weird." She murmured.
"How on earth did you turn into a human?" I asked.
"I already said that I don't know. If I had known I was able to do this, I probably would have told someone. Who knows, maybe only Night Fury's can." She said. "Oh, um…here." She looked around and found my prosthetic and handed it to me.
"Uh, thanks." I said. I put it on and got up off the floor. "I don't know if I should even call you Toothless anymore. Maybe a more human name?"
"No." she said abruptly. "I'm still Toothless no matter what. Just because I'm human doesn't mean I need a different name. Toothless is the only name I've ever had, so I don't want to loose it." I smiled.
"All right. Wait, shouldn't you not be able to speak English?" I asked. She jumped up on the bed and let herself fall backwards.
"It comes easily to me. I was able to talk as soon as I woke up human." She said, staring up at the ceiling. "Okay, maybe I'm wrong, but aren't you a little weirded out by this? You seem perfectly calm."
"I am freaked out. But making a big scene isn't going to help. I would just rather go along with whatever happens. I just hope that my dad doesn't find you here. That would involve a lot of explaining." I said. "It's still early in the morning. Lets go over to Astrid's and see if she can give you some clothes so you don't have to walk around wearing mine. C'mon." I opened the door to my room and we quietly walked down the stairs.
When we reached Astrid's house, I helped Toothless climb up to the roof where the window to Astrid's room is. The she pulled me up. I opened the window and me and Toothless tumbled in. Astrid was still in her bed sleeping.
"Astrid!" I hissed. I shook her shoulder. "Astrid wake up!" She jerked away. I wasn't ready for what happened next. Without warning, she turned over and punched me straight in the face, right on the bottom of my mouth.
"Wait!" I screamed, a little too late. I stumbled backwards. Toothless was in front of me in a second. She crouched, like she was ready to attack Astrid. Astrid stayed where she was, looking confused. I put my hand to my lip and took it off when it stung. I looked at my hand. There was blood on it. So that meant my lip was bleeding. I looked up at Astrid from where I was on the floor. She stared at me in horror.
"Oh, gods Hiccup! I'm sorry! I didn't know it was you!" she said. Toothless moved off to the side now, but still kept a watchful eye on Astrid. I got up off the floor and Astrid got out of her bed. Toothless moved back to where she was before. She crouched in front of me.
"It's all right. It was an accident, bud." I whispered to her. She looked back at me like she didn't believe me. I put my hand on her shoulder and she stood up and moved out of the way. Astrid came over, not paying any attention to Toothless.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"Yeah, no permanent damage done." I said.
"Not yet anyways." Toothless muttered. I elbowed her. Astrid looked at Toothless.
"Who is she?" she asked. I sighed.
"Just a friend." I said. "But we need to borrow some of your clothes." By now Toothless was over at a mirror lifting up her hair and looking at herself. Astrid looked at me like I was crazy. I broke into a fit of laughter.
"No! Not like that!" I said.
"Well, if she's just a friend, then why is she in your clothes?" Astrid asked suspiciously.
"That's why we need to borrow some of yours." I said. She just stared at me clueless. I sighed. I was going to have to introduce her to Toothless again. "Astrid, this is Toothless." Her eyes went back and forth between me and Toothless. Then she started to laugh.
"Yeah right! Who is she really?" she said.
"I'm serious! It's Toothless! She somehow turned into a human overnight. We need to use your clothes so she doesn't have to wear mine." I said.
"I still don't buy it." She smirked. "Hiccup, if this is a secret girlfriend or something you can just tell me." My face started burning as heat flooded into it. I glanced at Toothless. Her whole face was red too.
"No! Astrid, if you don't believe me, then let Toothless show you." I said.
"Show me?" she asked. "Don't you mean tell me?"
"No. I mean show you because the last time I asked to explain something to you, you said you weren't listening to anything I had to say." I said impatiently. I looked at Toothless. "Go on." She blinked and realized what I meant. With Astrid staring at her in confusion, she showed her the hands and the eyes. "Just look at her and you'll see that it's Toothless." Astrid squinted. Then her eyes widened.
"Oh my gods, it is." She said. "This is really weird."
"How do you think I feel?" Toothless said. "I'm supposed to be a Night Fury!" her eyes crossed up to a piece of hair dangling in front of her eyes and blew it out of the way, puffing up her cheeks and looking kind of funny in the process. I pressed my lips together to keep from laughing.
"How did this happen?" Astrid asked.
"I said the same thing. Neither of us know how it happened." I said.
"Can you ask the village elder? Or maybe the medicine woman?" she suggested.
"No. Astrid, I know more about dragons than anybody in this village. If I don't know how it happened, then they sure won't know how it happened." I said.
"Oh. I forgot about that." She mumbled. "So…I guess you can use this one outfit I have. I never wore it because it just didn't look good on me. So you can keep it." Astrid went over to her drawers and pulled out an outfit that looked like it was mostly black. She handed it to Toothless.
"Thanks." She said, and went outside the room to put it on.
