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Chapter 4

After hiccup got away from the ring he thought back to how the Nightfury tried to catch some fish but couldn't. Deciding to make a peace offering he goes down to the docks and gets a small bag with 5 fishes. When he got the fish he stops by the armory and gets himself a shield. After that he heads back home to get his dagger, there are still wild animals in the forest, and stores it inside his vest. When he got everything he wanted he goes into the forest behind his house and makes his way back to where the dragon was. On the way there, he tries to think of a way to show it that he doesn't mean no harm. When he reached the cove he still didn't come up with a plan but decides to go in anyway.

Holding the shield infront of him he moves between two rocks only for the shield to get stuck in between. Pulling it out didn't work so he ducks under it and tries from the other side but with the same result. That thing is stuck there pretty good. Looking around he can't find the dragon so he puts the bag on the ground and pulls out a fish. Turning around he walks in a bit more trying to see if he can find the dragon. After a few steps he hears a soft growl behind him. Turning around he spotts that sneaky animal on top of a small rock pillar. The Nightfury slowly stands up and climbs down infront of the boy sniffing for the fish. It stops a few feet infront of him and looks at him in curiosity. To show it what he wanted to do he holds the fish out to the dragon. It slowly approches him it spotts the dagger on him and moves back and gave him a warning growl. Seeing that the dragon was eyeing his dagger he decides to unarm himself by throwing it away wich causes it to land in the pond. After the dragon saw him now unarmed and holding the fish for it out again, it creps closer and opens his mouth. Showing the boy a toothless mouth.

"Huh. Toothless. I could have sworn you had..." he gets cut off by teeth pooping out of its gumms. The dragon snatches the fish out of his hand and swallows it in two bites. "Teeth." Hiccup finishes sheepishly. Looking at the young viking it aprroches him to look for more. "I have four more if you want?" he told him (the dragon probably doesn't like to be called an "it") and moves to the bag and empties it on the ground. The dragon gave a happy warble before gulping down the few fish in a few seconds. As he looks back again at the boy he walks closer noticing its thin stature. Hiccup backs away until his back was against a rock and watches as the dragon makes a choking sound until a slimy half of a fish drops onto his lap socking his clothes with dragon slobber.

Looking disgusting at the fish he sits back up and looks at the dragon, wich now sat on his hind legs, confused at his actions. The dragon decides to help him and looks at the fish and then back at him again. 'This has to be a joke...' he thinks before picking up the slimy object and takes a bite out of it. The taste in a word was. Disgusting. he doesn't like raw fish and now it was coverd in dragon spit after it was in the dragons stomach. Holding the raw fish back at the dragon and hoping this would be enough he forces a smile to convince him that he got it. But the Nightfury makes a swalloing sound to wich he only dropped his arms in defeat. Trying his hardest he tries to swallow the fish only that he nearly pukes. Forcing the puke and fish down he shudders at the awful taste. Smiling at the dragon he tries not to think of what he just did. The dragon sees him smile and narrows his eyes before mimicing the smile without his teeth. Hiccup looks fascinated at the dragon and tries to reach out for him but the dragon growls and flys towards the other side of the cove. Making himself a ash bed with his flame the dragon lays down to sleep. hiccup decides to leave him alone and starts drawing in the dirt.

After a few hours the dragon woke up. Somewhere in these hours the dragon decided to hang upside down from a tree branch. Looking around, because the dragon could still smell the viking, he spotts him sitting on a rock and decides to see what he was up to.

Hiccup was drawing the dragons head as he notices a shadow behind him. looking to his right discretly he sees that its the Nightfury. he decides to continue drawing but looks back when the dragon walks off. The dragon pulled out a small tree and starts drawing random line (for him, since he doesn't know it has a meaning) in the dirt. hiccup accidently gets hit on the headt with the top of the small tree but doesn't really mind since he's paying more attention on the dragons action. When the dragon finishes he sits down with an approving nod to show he's done with his masterpiece.

Hiccup stands up to look at it from a different angle but accidently steps on one of the lines wich caused the dragon to growl. Pulling his foot of the line the dragon stops growling. he steps a few times on the lines and everytime the dragon growled until he put his foot on the other side of the line. That earned him a small purr from the dragon. Stepping over the lines he was to focused that he didn't notice the dragon moving to where he would end up. When Hiccup bumps against something with his back he freezes as he felt a warm breath on his neck. Slowly turning around he sees the dragon infront of him with an expectant look in his eyes. Trying his luck he decides to stretch out his arm towards the dragon but he got a small grow. 'It's not a threat... he wants me to show him something. But what?' Then one word came into his mind. Trust. So hoping it would work he lowers his head and looks away from the dragon while slowly stretching his arm out but stops a few inches from the dragon.

The dragons eyes widen at this. he didn't think that the human would trust him but thinking to himself 'if he can trust me then I can trust him. Maybe we can form a friendship.' with his mind made up the dragon closes his eyes and puts his snout in the palms of the young boy.

When the two touched the suddenly were pulled into each others mind. Seeing what the other lived through and that they where wuite simillar.

The Nightfury saw that the boy was treat harshly for how he was different then the others. They bullied him and sometimes even beat him up. He saw that his father never cared about him to even try to train him. How he was made the choice to get good or be banished. Anger starts to fill the dragon as he sees that the people who were supposed to protect him treated him. He wanted to slaughter this entire village for this. Especially five teens who were the most buratl to him.

The dragon wants to make the village pay since he knew that the boy was special to him. He heard of this bond being formed only by two soulmates. It was never heard of to be made between a human and a dragon but he knew that this boy was his soulmate. The bond would allow them to feel the others emotion and know what they want to do even if no one said anything. It even had the small possibility that the senses of the boy would improve to his standards and he might even get stronger.

Hiccup saw what the dragon lived through. He saw that the dragon never really had friend because the dragons tend to keep to their species and since he was the only Nightfury no dragon never really wanted to anything with him. The other dragons always whispered behind his back saying that he was cursed and would be extinct in a few years. He experienced how they would somehow ally themselves to push him out of his cave in the nest because to them he didn't deserve a sleeping place. Hiccup started to feel anger towards the dragons who treated him like that. He wants to make them respect him since he was the stongest dragon off all of them.

When they pulled away from each other the looked into each others eyes for a minute. Then the dragon nudged him in his middle to which to boy happily laughed. Hiccup hugges his head "I know what you had to live through. I'm sorry for you. You never did anything to them and they treated you like some pest. I'm so sorry." he said to him.

"Don't worry about me young one. I'm more worried about you. I saw those people beat you up and talk you down. If I could still fly I would tear them apart one by one." the dragon said. Hiccup looked shocked around the cove trying to find out where the voice came from. as he fins nothing he looks back at the dragon and decides to test his luck. "Did you just talk?" he asks. The dragon grunts but replies anyway "Yes, I talked to you. I know it sound wird but I will explain it tomorrow. You need to go back to your village since it's starting to get dark. And don't worry about me I'll wait till you come back tomorrow. You will come back tomorrow, right?" Hiccup just smiles and petts him on the head "Ofcourse I will be back tomorrow. See you tomorrow!" he shouts back as he runs out of the cove and back home.

(In the village)

Walking back to his house, lost in thoughts about todays events, he didn't notice the five figures approching him. That is until he gets punched in the back of the head. Hard. Her drops to the floor holding his head and looking up. His eyes instantly widen in fear as he sees his five most prominent tormentors above him. "What was that for?!" he yells at them. That only earned him a stomp on his stomach from Astrid. "That is for nearly getting us killed in the ring today." she told him. Ruffnut and tuffnut brought him back up but only made him kneel on the ground while holding his arms out to the side. Snotlout punched him next in his rips. He could swear he heard something crack. "That was for being useless again." he taunted him laughing. The twins and Fishlegs joined him soon afterwards. And for the next 20 minutes he got beaten and taunted until they dropped him carelessly on the ground. "Hope that will you teach you a lesson that you will never be good enough to be a true viking." Astrid told him as they walked away leaving a bleeding and broken Hiccup on the floor.

After 5 Minutes of lying on the ground he struggles to stand up but he managed to get up. Slowly limping to his door he opens it and closes it behind him. Not bothering to make a fire he just drags himself up the stairs until he remembered that the Nightfury said that he could'nt fly anymore. He pulls out his journal and opens the sketch of the dragon. "maybe I can make you fly again..." he said in a whisper.

With new found determination he drags himself out of the house and to the forge. When he was in the forge he heated it up and putts the journal down on his workbench with the Nightfury drawing open. He redraws the tailfin and gets to work with his goal in his mind.

After hours of work in the forge he holds down a finished prostetic tailfin. Glancing out the forge he sees that it's still dark so he decides to just sleep in the forge. Putting out the forge and hidding the tailfin he gets in his little workroom and puts some furs on the ground. Lying on the furs he almost instantly fell asleep. This was the first days since a few years were he fell asleep with a smile on his face.

(the next morning)

Hiccup get awaken buy something shaking him. As he slowly opens his eyes, he sees Gobber above him looking at him with a worried face. "What happend to ya lad? And why are you sleeping in the forge? Not that I'm angry at you but I still would like to know."

"Sorry Gobber I had a few 'accidents' yesterday so don't worry about me, I've been through worse. And for why I was sleeping in the forge. Well, it was the closest and I was really tired." Hiccup answers hoping that Gobber wouldn't try to go after the teens. He very well knew that Gobber knew of his treatment but he told him that he shouldn't do something because he's not worth it. Even though Gobber thinks otherwise but he respects Hiccup wishes even when he doesn't understand them.

Sighing, Gobber helped him up and put a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Alright. But I wanted to tell you that dragon training was set to take place in the afternoon because I have to help the fishers with their work. So come to the ring about 6:00p.m, alright?"

"I'll be there Gobber. And thanks for you know what." Hiccup says as he watches Gobber leave and walk towards the docks. Now that he was awake he could put his plan into motion. Picking up the tailfin he heads back home and gets a basket of fish. It was hard for him to carry the tailfin AND a full basket of fish through an uneven terrain. After almost an hour of walking, normally it would have taken him about 20 minutes but he was injured and carried a lot of weight, he finally reached the cove. "I'm here Toothless." he says panting heavily falling to the ground and on his back.

Toothless seeing this quickly made his way over to him with a worried croon. 'What happend to you?!' he asks as he was sniffing at him. 'Did you get beaten up by those five teens again? I swear I will make them pay!' he shouts angrily before starting to lick the boy to wich he groans "EWWW! Stop that!" he says trying to get away but gets stoped when a pawn was gently placed ontop of him and Toothless looking worried at him. 'Trust me I know what I'm doing so please let me help you.' Toothless said softly. Sighing Hiccup lays back down and let him work. After a minute Toothless asked him to pull of his shirt to wich he complied. After Toothless was done he put on his shirt again but noticed that his pain was almost gone. Shocked he locked at the dragon wich only grinned at him 'I told you I know what I was doing. Also it is known that Nightfury salivia has healing properties. So what did you brought with you today?' he asks mentioning with his head to the basket and the tailfin. "Fish. eat up and then I will tell you what the other thing is." Hiccup told him to wich toothless happily agreed. Suddenly Toothless gave a terrified screech and recoils away from the basket.

"What is it!?" Hiccup asked running over to him with a look of worry. "There's an eel in there!" Toothless yells at him."So you don't like eels?" "Eels are poisonous to dragons. Didn't you know that?" "No not really." Hiccup walks to the basket and throws away the eel. After that Toothless happily starts eating. When he was done he walked over to Hiccup and the second thing he brought with him. Sitting down infront of him he decides to ask.

"So what else did you bring here?" Well since I somehow am the reason for the loss of your flight-" "Just to let you know. I already forgave you." Toothless interupts him. "How can you forgive me so easily?" "Otherwise we wouldn't have met. Now don't talk about that and start explaining what that thing there is." he said nudging the prostetic. "Alright so I thought about it and I made you a new tailfin." Hiccup explains excitedly.

Toothless looked shocked at him. He thought that the loss of his tailfin he was pretty much dead. So to hear this boy say he made one was pretty unbelievable. But his expression turned from shocked to awed to happy when Hiccup showed him the prostetic. "There's still one small problem with it. I don't know how to let you control it." Hiccup said with a saddend expression. He thought that Toothless would be devastated but what he didn't expect was that the dragon startet licking him, "I don't care because I know you will figure out a way to make it work! You managed to make a tailfin without any experience of flyinf so I believe in you!" Toothless told him. "I might have an idea to make you fly again. But it will come with a cost." Hiccup said as an idea came to him. Toothless only nodded to show him that he can continue. "I could make it work... if i would be the one controlling it. Wich would mean that I have to be on your back. But I know that's not comfortable so just forgett it." he quickly said. The next words from the dragon surprised him. "Then go with that idea! I would love to share the experience of flight with you!" Toothless happily exclaims. "Alright. Now I have some questions to how we can talk and to what in Thor's name happend yesterday. Can you explain that to me?" Hiccup asks.

"Fair enough. What we experienced was something called bonding. It#s a special connection between two living beings. I don't know a lot about it but it usually only happens when to soulmates find each other and build a deep trust to each other. Since yesterday you trusted me and I trusted you the bonding startet wich is why you saw my memories and I saw yours. I never heard of it that a human and a dragon got bonded but I guess there's a first to everything. Through the bonding you can understand the language of dragons but most dragons just decide not to speak. So don't be suprised if you don't hear another dragon talk. Antother thing that can happen with the bonding is that you could gain some of my abilities. Not like shooting fire but like having better smell, hearing and sight. Maybe you get my strength but since I said it rarely happens at all so there's not a lot known about it. The last thing is that you can only bond to one, but you can feel how the other is feeling, even if you don't see them or hear them. So that's about all I know of it." Toothless finished. Hiccup just sat there taking it all in. "Well, it's not every day that you find out that your solmate is a dragon. But then again, I never really was really a viking." he said shrugging.

Noticing the time he turns to Toothless "I got to go. I have to meet up with my mentor. Also I never really told you my name. I'm Hiccup, I know it's a stupid name as it literally means 'runt of the litter' but hey, it's not the worst." he said shrugging. "Be carefull. I don't really have a name so you can keep calling me Toothless. That way our names are not that different." Toothless said with a toothless grin. Hiccup hugged the dragon and started his walk back to the village.

So we finally got to the point where Toothless and Hiccup bonded. Let me know what you thought about it. See you next time!