Chapter 2 : New People and New Friends
Hiccup woke up first and found toothless curled up next to Hiccups' bed, Destin's hand hung off the side of the bed and it touched Toothless's back. Hiccup smiles at the sight and heads downstairs.
"Hey Dad, did anyone find a boat this morning?" Hiccup asks his dad, sitting down at the table.
"No. Why do you ask?" Stoick asks, looking at his son confused as to why he was asking.
"Toothless must have heard something because he ran out into the storm and dragged a girl out of the water . She's sleeping upstairs." Hiccup decided not to tell his father about her glowing eyes.
"Well I'll let you talk to her when she wakes up. I've got something I need to take care of." Stoick says getting up from the table and walks out the door.
Hiccup gets up and gets some fish for him, Toothless and the girl. He grabs the plate and fills a cup full of water and brings it upstairs. He sets it on the desk and sets Toothless's bag of fish on the ground. Right when he smells it he gets up and starts to eat.
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Destin smells the fish and her eyes open. She looks around the room and when her eyes land on Hiccup she freaks out her eyes glow instinctively.
"No, no, no, no, no, it's okay I'm not going to hurt you." Hiccup says, trying to calm her down.
She looks at Toothless and he says to her, "He can be trusted. He's my rider, Hiccup."
She takes Toothless's words into account and believes him, her eyes stop glowing. She slowly walks over to Hiccup and he hands her the plate of fish and the cup of water.
She takes it and eats the fish fast, then moves on to the water drinking all of it in a matter of seconds.
"Thank you, Hiccup for you hospitality. Are you the one that rescued me from the water?"
"Yeah, but how do you know my name?" Hiccup asks, very confused on how she knew his name.
"Your dragon told me and I am forever in your debt." She replies handing him back the dishes.
"How...how did my dragon tell you?"
"I can talk to them, I understand what they're saying."
"That is amazing, when did you learned how to do that?"
Destin takes a seat on Hiccups' bed and relies, "It became second nature to me. Living with dragons made it easier to learn."
Mumbling, "Especially when you turn into one."
"Do you think you could teach me?"
Destin looks down at the ground. She's never taught anyone how to talk to dragons or to understand them. She can't even remember how she was taught, let alone teach someone who can't even shift into a dragon.
"I don't really know of I could teach you, I've never taught anyone."
"Well you can try. Come on I can show you around and then we'll leave for the edge." He says as he walks down the stairs, Destin following close behind. Toothless follows them as well.
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Meanwhile back at the edge, the dragon riders were worried about Hiccup. They figured he'd be back by now.
"He probably waited out the storm. I'm sure he's fine." Fishlegs says to the rest of the riders.
A terrible terror comes flying in with a note attached to his leg. Fishlegs grabs the not and reads : I've waited out the storm, I'll be back before night fall. - Hiccup.
"He's okay, he waited out the storm." Fishlegs tells everyone as he rolls up the note.
"When will he be back?" A curious Astrid asks.
"The note says before night fall."
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Hiccup and Destin continued to tour the island. "You know, I've told you all about Berk's history but I don't know anything about you."
After hearing this Destin stops in her tracks. She couldn't tell him, he would probably think she a freak and then she'd get chased away and probably shot at.
"Well what do you want to know..." She asks, a little hesitantly.
"How did you end up living with dragons?"
"Um my home village was raided by dragon hunters so the children were separated with dragon guardians, mine died when I was 16. We lived in peace with them for a long time." I reply.
"That's amazing. What kinds of dragons did you live?" He asks, very interested in what I had to say.
"Well there were millions of different kinds of dragons that lived with us. There were Nightmares, Zipplebacks, Nadders, Grimblehorns, and there were even Night Furies."
Hearing the word night fury, gave Hiccup some hope of finding other Night Furies out there.
But little did he and Toothless know, that there was a night fury right in front of them.
A/N
Some of Destin's past is reveal. What's going to happen next?
How do you think the group will react to a new member?
Will they find out her secret?
Only time will tell.
P.S I'll try to make the next chapter longer. :)