"And with one twist..." Gobber said to the other trainees not minding that Hiccup wasn't listening, he knew how the boy didn't care much for his stories.
"It took my hand, and swallowed it whole. And I saw the look on his face. I was delicious," he continued "He must of passed the word, because it wasn't even a month before another one of 'em took my leg...'
Up on an old watch tower the Dragon Training class and Gobber were having dinner, roast chicken. But as always, Hiccup has fish.
Strangely he liked fish more than any other food on the island, though he didn't really like eels all that much.
"Isn't it weird..." Fishlegs spoke up "To think that your hand was inside a dragon? Like if your mind was still in control of of it, you could kill the dragon from the inside by crushing his heart or something."
'Don't these people know anything?' Hiccup asked himself in his head 'Once a hand or anything comes off of the hosts body it's dead. Also it's a one-way-trip to the stomach or lungs from the mouth. No where near the heart.'
"I swear I'm so ANGRY right now," Snotlout said holding up his chicken to see if it was alright.
"I'll avenge your beautiful hand and your beautiful foot," he said to Gobber "I'll chop off the legs of every dragon I fight... With my face."
'Good luck with that...' Hiccup said to him telepathically rolling his eyes at his cousins remark.
"Ememem No..." Gobber said clearing his mouth, digging into his chicken pulling out the wish-bone "It's the wings and the tails you really want. If it can't fly, it can't get away. A downed dragon, is a dead dragon."
Hiccup was listening to that.
His mind began to race with how the Night Fury didn't have it's left back tail fin. 'That's why he can't fly away...'
Placing down his fish, Hiccup slowly got up and quickly left running down the steps of the tower to get to the forge.
***A Dragon Soul***
When he got there, he pulled out his note book and redrew the tail to give him an idea on how it should look.
All through the night, he pulled off scrap pieces of metal from other things such as shields and too damaged to be fixed swords and reshaped them.
Then he went digging in Gobber's 'There-If-It's-Needed' chest and found some left over leather.
After sliding the leather onto the rods, he was done.
'Now I just need to test it,' he thought smiling proud of his work.
***A Dragon Soul***
The next morning, Hiccup woke up early, went down to the docks, 'borrowed' a basket of fish and with the tail fin, headed to the cove all the way trying to think of a name for the seemingly toothless Night Fury.
"Hey that's it, I'll call him that," he said quickening his pace.
***A Dragon Soul***
"Hey Toothless..." he said as he came into the cove and began to walk up to the dragon who was just waking up.
"I brought breakfast," he said placing down the basket and kicking it over for the dragon. "I hope you're hungry..."
'You try going without anything for three suns Hiccup...' Noche was about to say but was stopped when all the fish came out of the basket.
"Ok... that's disgusting," Hiccup said stepping around the pile to see what was there "Err... We've got some salmon, some nice Icelandic cod, and a whole smoked eel."
'WHAT?' Noche asked crouching down and showing his teeth to the eel.
Confused, Hiccup picked it up to see what was wrong with it.
'GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!' Noche screamed backing away.
"No no no no no?" Hiccup said throwing the eel away his eyes staying on to Toothless.
"Ok. Yeah I don't care for eel much either..."
With that Toothless began to enjoy his breakfast not taking any notice on what Hiccup did.
"That's it..." the young Viking said stepping backwards towards the tail.
"You don't mind me... I'll just be back here... minding my own business..."
Slowly Hiccup placed the tail on the ground and moved it towards Toothless' one - which moved.
Looking up Hiccup saw that the basket was nearly empty, showing he didn't have a lot of time.
He tried again, and failed again.
After a few more tries, finally getting it on and seeing that it indeed worked in looks, it wound up with Hiccup clinging to the Night Fury's tail for dear life as it shot off into the sky.
And then Hiccup saw it didn't stay open and they began to fall.
Reaching out, Hiccup grabbed onto the fake tail fin and yanked it open and they began to climb the air again.
"Oh my..." he said surprised "It's working!"
Moving the tail with the real one, the two of them curved back to the cove, flying over the pond.
"Yes... YES I did it!" he said happy.
Noche heard his brother cry that from his tail and was confused, he thought Hiccup was still by the basket.
Twisting around he saw Hiccup was controlling the fin that Noche was sure was not there before.
'Because of him...'
Confused and angry Noche flipped his tail making Hiccup fly off it.
And then began to fall again.
Looking to see what was wrong, he saw the fin his brother was controlling was all curled in and flapping around.
Suddenly before anything else, Noche plunged into the pond.
"YEAH!" Hiccup said fist-pumping the air and swimming over to see if Toothless was alright.
After getting a splash from the dragon confirming he was fine, he then swam to the bank, laughing, took out his note book and began to jot down some ideas to keep that tail fin open.
After a few minutes and Toothless was out too, Hiccup picked up the basket and the eel and after saying goodbye, rushed out of the cove.
'Ok don't know what got into him...' Noche said shaking himself dry.
Once he did that he curled his tail around and sniffed at the new one Hiccup just made.
'I hope I don't get exiled now I can't fly on my own...' he said worryingly.
'Well if I do... At least I'll be with my brother and could fly, rather than not be with him and be a downed dragon,' Noche said standing tall, smiling.
***A Dragon Soul***
The Trainees were surrounded by green gas, each one holding a bucket of water and paired up with someone.
"Today is about Teamwork," Gobber said off to the side as the arena got coated in the stuff.
"Now a wet dragon head can't light it's fire..." he continued. "The Hidious Zippleback, is extra tricky. One head breaths gas, the other head lights it. Your job it to know which is which..."
Hiccup looked around trying to find the dragon but all he could see was smoke putting him on the edge. It didn't help that Fishlegs was reciting 'fun facts' about the Zippleback'
"Razor sharp serrated teeth that inject venom for pre-digestion," he began spinning around with Hiccup "Before it's ambush attack of crushing it's victims..."
"WILL YOU PLEASE STOP THAT?!" Hiccup scream-whispered an almost never seen angry look on his face.
Then over to the right he heard Snoutlout say "If that dragon shows either of its faces... There!"
To the left both girls screamed in surprise.
"Hey it's us idiots," Ruffnut said annoyed.
"Your butts are getting bigger, we thought you were a dragon," Tuffnut said.
"Not that there's anything wrong, with a dragon-ess figure..." Snoutlout's loud voice said only to be cut off by what sounded to be a punch to the face.
And Tuffnut sounding like he was hit with a bucket and then suddenly screaming, making Hiccup grip his bucket a bit more.
After a few seconds the girls screamed as if they had fallen over and then Tuffnut came running out screaming "AGHHH OH OH I AM HURT! I AM VERY MUCH HURT!"
"Chances of survival are dwindling into single digits now..." Fishlegs said, him and Hiccup the only two left with buckets of water.
Then from out of the smoke came one of the Zippleback's heads coming forwards sniffing, inspecting Fishlegs who quickly threw his water onto the head.
Only for it to be the gas head.
"Oh..." he said with a nervous smile "Wrong head..."
"FISHLEGS!" Gobber called as the gas head let out as much gas as it could, sending the boy running towards the others, leaving Hiccup all on his own.
As soon as he was taken care of the gas head and now the spark head, came together to inspect the last one standing.
'There's something off about this one...' Spark said to Gas, who was closer to the kid sniffing him.
'How?' Gas asked coming over too.
'One, he's not like the rest,' Spark said looking over to the others who were all hard faced, strong, loud, angry, violent seeing as how that loud one and the ugly one got harmed by the females...
"Now Hiccup!" Gobber's voice called out to the boy, as the heads were conversing how strange this boy was.
With all his might, Hiccup threw the water towards the spark head.
But it didn't get very far.
"Oh come on..." he said.
Angered that they were interrupted in the middle of a conversation, and they couldn't understand what was wrong with the kid, the Zippleback spread his wings and lunged forwards making Hiccup trip backwards as he tried to get away.
"HICCUP!" Gobber cried running forwards only to freeze at what he saw when the gas cleared.
The Zippleback was backing away, almost in fear, away from Hiccup.
"Back, back, back," he said stepping forwards and with every step the dragon took a step back, back into his cage.
"Now, don't make me have to tell you again..." Hiccup continued as he was being watched by the class in wonder and the village elder, Gothi.
"Yes that's right. Back into your cage," he said firmly sneakaly revealing the eel he had yet to get rid off which was what the Zippleback was truly scared about.
"And think about what you've done." he said throwing the slimy sick black and yellow, beast into the cage making the Zippleback back as far into the back corner as it could.
Promising that he'll come and retrieve the eel later, Hiccup closed the doors and turned around to see everyone staring at him in shock and awe and wonder, each one asking themselves 'How in the name of Thor did Useless just single-handedly make a Zippleback back away from him as if it were terrified of him?'
"Ok..." Hiccup said smiling. "So are we done? Cause... I've got some things I need to err..." he said trying to think something up.
"Yep I'll... See you tomorrow..." and with that he was off and rushed straight to the forge bringing out his note book and began to get to work...