"Enough!" Yelled the Change wing Alpha. "What are you? You're like nothing I've ever seen." Hiccup shied away. Embarrassed of what he was.

"He's my mate." Toothless defended. Why does it matter what he looks like?"

"He's just very odd looking is all. I didn't mean anything by it. It's just that he looks like one of them." The Alpha backed off.

"It, it's fine." Hiccup mumbled. "You've never seen anything like me because I'm the only one of me. I was born of the wrong species. We were told how it happened, and I was given the chance to become as close as I could to what I'm supposed to be. I was born human. With a dragon's soul. I cannot be what I'm supposed to be. But I was given the skin and tail. Teeth and insides. But this is as far as it goes." He looked down at his feet. Staring at the curved, razor sharp claws growing out of his toes. The Change Wing chuckled.

"My father's, father used to tell us stories of things like you. I never believed him. I owe him an apology. You are the first I have seen like this though. The ones who said they were like you never had the odd features you do. Sharing the traits of both species. Why are you like that but the others aren't?"

"I don't know anything about that. We were told about our situation but nothing else. If there were others like me, I know nothing about them."

"Hmm. Well I suppose it doesn't matter. But back to why you came. I don't know what the female you're looking for looks like. I will allow you to move around my territory freely. If you find who you're looking for bring them to me. I simply want to see them off. If you do or don't find them please come back here before you leave. I would like to personally investigate your claim of the Queen's death. I will be leaving with you." Toothless nodded and Hiccup hopped on his back.

"We'll search for the rest of the night. And come back here to bed down. We'll search again tomorrow but if we don't find her we'll set off the next morning." Toothless said. The alpha nodded as they took off. They went high above the jagged rocks and trees. Taking a few minutes to circle the area, looking at the land the Change Wings controlled. They began scouting the area. Looking for groups of the dragons to talk to. Toothless described what the female looked like as best he could. Having trouble giving enough detail to distinguish her from the rest. Before they knew it the sun had set and their day was over.

As promised they returned to the valley they were brought to. They found a spot against a rock face that was empty and laid down. Toothless and Hiccup chatted about their plan for the next day but were distracted by the dragons watching and talking about them. The Alpha uncamouflaged himself on top of the rock they were against. Hiccup yelped and Toothless stepped over him, bearing his teeth.

"Sorry that I startled you like that." The Alpha apologized. Hiccup climbed from under Toothless and stood, brushing dust from himself.

"A little warning would have been nice." Hiccup chuckled. He pat Toothless on the head calming him.

"Well I came over to see how your search went." Toothless laid down again watching the eyes watching him.

"Our search turned up nothing so far. We did have a chance to talk to some but not many. Hopefully tommorow will be better." Hiccup responded. The Alpha looked down at Toothless and looked at what he was.

"Don't worry about them Night Fury. Many of them are probably wondering if available for mating season." Toothless looked back at Hiccup to watch him react to that. As he expected, Hiccup pushed against him more and began to rake his claws against Toothless' scales. He chuckled deep in his throat.

"They'll have to go through him. So I don't think I'm available to them. He won't allow it." The Alpha wanted to test their closeness.

"Is that true, halfling?" Hiccup was watching the Change Wings closely. He was breathing heavily through his nose.

"I'd kill anyone who wants to take my mate from me." Hiccup growled.

"You sound very confident."

"Why shouldn't I be? You work best in groups and rely on ambushing prey. In a head on fight you're limited on what you can do. Because of how your body is shaped your claws are almost useless unless your prey us right under you. The big antennas on your head are easy to grab and likely hurt when they're pulled on. But, it's not all bad, your acid spit is very dangerous even though it gets weaker as you get older but not enough to say it's useless. And your ability hide yourselves plus your agility makes it hard to keep track." Hiccup listed. Toothless smiled smugly to himself.

"Well, well. That's quite the observation. How'd you figure all that out?" The Alpha asked.

"I've been obsessed with dragons my whole life. Believe it or not, Vikings do take some good notes. But rarely do they ever us them. I'm not going to go into my past but I like to watch and observe. If the notes we had were good than mine were amazing. Highly detailed with drawings and notes. Knowledge is my best weapon and it's got me through more than it should have."

"So I suppose that you know a lot about more than just my species than?"

"We have quite a few different kinds of dragons in our charge. Part of being an Alpha where we live is learning how each species interacts. Asking and learning who works best with who, who works best alone, who are good scouts, hunters, fishers. What species like being intermingled with others, what ones like to stay to their kind. So watching and learning is something we must do to make living in Helhiem's gate easier for everyone." The Alpha sat silent for a minutes, taking in what was said. He stood and jumped from the wall down to them.

"I'll make sure that no one bothers you two. Good night."

"Good night." Toothless and Hiccup replied.

"Well that was out of character. Is something wrong my love?" Toothless asked concerned.

"Hmm? Oh. Sorry about that. I just… When he said that some was going to take you from me, I, I don't know."

"Have you had that thought in the past?" Hiccup looked away, embarrassed.

"I'd be lying if I said I didn't. You get along with everyone. I see you playing with the others after you come back. You look really happy. I'm not questioning your loyalty or anything, it's just hard not to get those thoughts." Toothless dropped his head on Hiccup's shoulder.

"You're my one and only. A decision I made knowing full well what I was doing. You're worrying for no reason. Besides we were meant to be together. You heard the story." Hiccup sighed happily. He moved his dragon's head off of himself and laid down against him.

"Good night bud." Hiccup yawned.

"Night Hiccup."