I'm sorry. I could feed you a million excuses, but none of them could account for my abandonment of this story. I'm back though, and I hope you all will forgive me and once again pay attention to this story. If not, keep in mind that I have a life and that means I have problems that need taking care of. But, I think I finally got everything sorted out and will be able to go back to posting chapters. I hope you will forgive me and like this chapter. Also, this chapter mentions some of Amber's rather dark past so you may not want to read that if you are faint of heart. This chapter isn't that horrifying but I thought that I should warn you.

Amber POV.

The sun was just now rising, sending brilliant shades of gold brightening the darkness of night. I usually wasn't up to see the sunset, instead deciding to just lay splayed out in some random cave and sleep into afternoon. I never really saw the point of getting up early. My sleep schedule usually consisted of staying up until the sky just started to brighten and then sleep until the sun was almost above me. I liked being awake at night, it gave me a silent thrill and make it strikingly easier to hunt. After all, in the night I was almost invisible. In the night I was the perfect predator. But now, I was awake. I was awake because something had kept me from sleeping. There was this pull in my chest I couldn't explain, a need to see how the human I had met earlier was. I didn't know quite why this human made me feel this way, Why I felt this connection that I couldn't quite explain. But I knew that there was something special about this one, something that drew me to her and made me want to protect her.

This led me to my current position, crouching in the bushes outside the village. I had seen the village before, but decided the best action would be to avoid it. After all, why bother attacking a village for no reason. I remembered the days back when the Great Dragon had ruled over the dragons. In those days some of the dragons decided to attack the village for easy prey, But I instead hunted the woods and the oceans surrounding it to find prey for myself and the Alpha. But then I had seen dragons with humans preached on their backs or necks with overconfident gleams in their eyes. They had attacked the Great Dragon, and taken it down. I had been grateful, but baffled at why the dragons wanted humans on them telling them what to do. It was one thing to be forced into working with them, but of their own free will? Why didn't they just live as wild and free?

I shook my head to clear it and instead tried to focus on the present. A few Vikings were walking around, all kinds of dragons by their sides. A dragon walked right in front of me, a blue and yellow Deadly Nadder. I backed further into the bushes for fear of being seen. But the dragon was too focused on the skinny girl with long braided blonde hair to notice me. The Nadder nuzzled her human affectionately, and the human smiled a wide smile in return. I backed away from them and then slowly crept out back towards the woods, deciding it was a stupid idea to have come here. Then a deep voice rumbled from behind me, "Toothless. There you are."

I froze in my steps. The voice was deep, one I didn't recognize. I had heard they called the other Night Fury Toothless. And they thought he was the only Night Fury. So it was reasonable when they saw my black scales they assumed it was Toothless. After all they hadn't seen my eyes, my tail, or my neck yet so they would obviously reach the conclusion of the fact that I was Toothless.

Then there were more voices, voices all around me, closing in. I jerked around in a quick circle, there were five people. An older man, three younger men, and a younger women. My wings flew out in a form of defense, my eyes narrowing as I surveyed them. I had a brief recollection of the last time I had been cornered. Then It had been dragons, not people, But both are prone to far more violence then called for. The last time I had been too weak to put up a fight, Back when I was a tiny black form coated in blood that flooded into a puddle beneath my feet from a rip in my wings. This wouldn't be the same. I could easily fight them or fly away this time.

They didn't seem to want to hurt me though, instead they seemed oddly curious. I blinked at them, wondering if that was deception in their gazes and not fear as I suspected. I then saw a black form in the sky, a black Night Fury with a red tail fin. It landed in front of me, and its rider quickly slid off on its back. The rider waved his dragon back. The dragon, Toothless was its name, backed away slightly. The rider motioned the other people away from me, "Quit, your gonna intimidate her. Back off."

The others backed away, listening to the young man. I narrowed my eyes in warning, my tail fin flicking back and forth. The man, Hiccup I remembered, approached me cautiously. He slowly looked away from me and then closed his eyes when he came close. His hand slowly reached towards me, I flinched at first. But then thought of this as a kind of surrender, he was making himself vulnerable for hoping that I would accept him. I slowly folded my wings and then reached my neck forward, sniffing his hand. He smelt of dragon, pine, fish, and oil. His eyes fluttered but didn't fully open when I gently pressed my muzzle against his hand. A gentle smile pulled at his lips and I backed away so that he would know it was okay for him to open his eyes again. He opened his eyes and gave me a crooked smile. I retracted my teeth and then smiled to show I'd done so. He smiled broader and reached towards me again, his hand gently stroked the side of my broad muzzle. I nuzzled into the touch, surprised that he knew that was the place Night Furies love to be scratched. But then his hand drifted lower and touched the top of my neck.

The reaction was instant.

I froze suddenly, ice flooding my veins in waves of terror. Memories flooded back into the front of my mind and this caused white-hot rage to take over just as quickly as the fear had. I jerked away from his gentle touch, my jaws began snapping blindly at everything in sight. My wings snapped out again, and I reared up onto my back legs, front claws slashing at the air around me. I had a vague recollection that I had hit something with them, but I wasn't sure what. All I knew was that there was pressure on my neck, just like that wretched collar from years ago. There was a voice in the back of my mind that reminded me that not all people were bad and to remember that people had helped me before. But all I remembered was the pain that that human had caused. A memory struck stronger than ever as the phantom touch of pressure on my neck seemed to intensify at my thoughts. I remembered the chains, digging into my flesh and jerking at the metal collar around my neck. Pain suddenly burst from my left hind leg. I roared out in pain, tossing my head even wilder.

I launched off the ground, my powerful wings sending me high in the air. The rhythmic beats calmed me enough to realize that I was high in the sky above the very same spot I had just stood under. I flew a bit lower to see if I had hurt someone in my horrible moment of blind terror. I saw Hiccup was examining Toothless's bleeding front right leg but it didn't seem to badly hurt. Yet I saw puddles of blood spread about the ground. I flew even lower and saw that Hiccup was now bandaging Toothless's leg. Hiccup's voice drifted over to me faintly, "That wound was barely bleeding. I'm just worried about it getting infected."

Toothless purred and nuzzled Hiccup. Hiccup let out a quick laugh and then looked around at the other humans. They were all uninjured. I wondered where all that blood was coming from. Then my hind leg twitched and I looked at it.

Oh. That's where the blood came from.

Three really deep and extra long slashes ran across my left hind leg, Night Fury scratches. Toothless had scratched me. The scarlet flesh looked strange against my dark scales, not that seeing flesh hanging off of my leg would look normal ever. I gasped against a sudden wave of pain. I then began to fly away from the village. I knew there was a clearing someplace past the woods if I can reach than I can- I knew that I wouldn't be able to reach it. I was losing too much blood. My blood was dripping from me and onto the ground far below.

The world suddenly seemed to spin. I blinked and shook my head. My vision was suddenly blurry and a darkness lurked at the edges of my sight. Then the world tilted and I felt myself fall. I tumbled through the air, thrashing wildly as I tried to regain my balance and keep flying. But the ground was approaching me fast, or more specifically the tallest trees I had ever seen because I had been flying over the woods. A ragged call erupted from my throat. The impact was jarring and I found myself splayed out on some crisscrossing weak tree branches. I thought for a second that they would hold, but then they creaked and shattered. I squawked out helplessly as the ground loomed in front of me. But then there was something there, Strong powerful legs of a dragon straining under the pressure of trying to keep me from falling onto the ground onto my injured leg.

I didn't get a chance to find out who had probably just saved my life before the world went dark from pain.

Who do you think I should have save Amber? Toothless and Hiccup? Toothless and Jay? Hookfang and Snotlout? Meatlug and Fishlegs? Barf, Belch, Tuffnut, and Ruffnut? Stormfly and Astrid? Or just Hookfang by himself? Meatlug by himself? Barf and Belch by themselves? Or just some random OC?

But more importantly, Who should I ship? Astrid and Hiccup? Jay and Hiccup? Jay and Snotlout? Jay and Fishlegs? Amber and Toothless? Stormfly and Toothless? Amber and Meatlug? Amber and Hookfang? A different ship I haven't listed?

Whoever saves her and whoever I ship her with will influence the story, and you get to help me choose who. You may choose more than one choice. Leave your choices in the reviews if you wish to choose. However, this story will remain being an Adventure/Angst story. The romances and friendships will be minimal and on the side.