"We met many years ago on his island. He was only 15 summers old. He comes from an unlikely background. As he said, he was born the heir to the chiefdom of Berk. His family has been in charge there for many generations. All of his elders are great warriors and have lead their people in the fight against the dragons. As you know the queen used to rule these dragons. The island she attacked the most was Berk. As much as he says that he didn't like dragons before, that's a damned lie. He used to study and watch us as much as he could. He has books filled with his notes on what he could observe. Most of them were generally accurate. Things like size, and color. What really made the difference where his drawings. Unfortunately I can't have him show you them. All of his notes were lost when we were caught last time. But his drawings were so realistic.

The Queen had sent us to Berk again. She was becoming greedy and trying to attack more often. When we arrived, even though we surprised them, they were ready for us. Most of us got away but still.

Hiccup had created a machine that could throw bolas into the air. I don't know how, but he hit me with it. It had wrapped around my wings and brought me down. I crashed in the forest outside of their village. With no way to slow my fall the trees where my only way to stop. The pain was immense and I was sure that I had broken something. My body didn't want to move. Trying to force it wasn't working either. I was stuck and sure that a horde of vicious people were coming for me.

It wasn't until the early hours of the morning that anyone came. But instead of giant people with giant weapons, a small person with a small weapon came. Under normal circumstances he would have been to problem to take care of. But at that point even he was a threat. I was at his mercy and I didn't have much hope.

He released my bindings. He's a damned fool for doing so too. His people had many rumors about me and surely he'd heard of them. In the confusion of the situation I let him live. I tried to escape that island but found that I couldn't fly. Finding a place to hide I needed to figure out why.

You may not believe this but there is a huge hole on the island. It's deep and even has a pond in the middle. It was my safe haven, for a day. Maybe. My human is persistent to say the least. While I had time I searched for the reason I couldn't fly. One of the fins on my tail had been sheared off. I couldn't control my movement and my tail wasn't gaining enough lift to support its own weight. I was trapped on the island.

Somehow Hiccup found me the next day. Unfortunately for me I was stuck. So there was nothing I could do. He could draw, study and take all the notes he wanted. Though instead of that he decided that going into the hole was better. Due to the kindness he showed me, I didn't kill him on the spot. I didn't like him being there but he wasn't hurting anything. Until he tried to touch me. I wasn't going to let that happen. He backed off after I snapped at him. He didn't stay long after that. But he came back the next day, and the one after that too. That day he did something totally unexpected. He brought me a fish. Just one, nothing special. But I hadn't eaten in three days and couldn't fish in that little pond to save my life. When he came in I was hiding from him. I was jealous of his ability to escape and didn't want to see him.

When he dropped down, he had the fish in his hand and I wanted it. I back him up against one of the boulders and that's when he pushed it forward. I couldn't resist snatching it from his hands and swallowing it whole. It was the best tasting fish I've ever had. That's when he gave me my name. I couldn't help but notice how small he was though. I spit the fish back up so he could have it instead. He was hesitant but took a bite anyway. He didn't look like he enjoyed it very much and I would later learn that most humans don't eat fish raw.

I don't really know what happened next. He stuck out his hand and I let him touch me. But that was it. I retreated to the opposite side of the hole. He stayed for a very long time that day. The fool kept trying to touch me again until I snapped at him again. He ran to the spot where he normally climbed out but Instead of leaving he sat on a fallen tree. He started to do something in the dirt and for some reason I had to see what it was. I tried to sneak over there but I wasn't very stealthy as I loomed over his shoulder. Hiccup had drawn me, in the dirt. He'd inspired me. I found one of the small trees in the area and uprooted it. Returning to him, I tried to draw him. Personally I think did very well at it too.

But our friendship really began the next day. He brought a huge basket of fish and they were amazing and after a small incident with an eel, I was eating Happily. I failed to noticed the other thing he brought.

After pinning down my tail he attached the thing to it. It was really uncomfortable and too tight around my tail. I wanted it and him off of me. Something was different though. Even with the weight of the human on my tail it was creating lift. Enough that we got just above the lip of the hole."

"So you got out then? What made you stick around?" A different voice asked. Both dragons looked around for the voice. Hiccup sat up and rubbed his eyes. "What made you stay?" He asked again.

"Oh! Hiccup. Sorry for waking you. Were we too loud?" Toothless asked apologetically.

"Hmm? Oh, no. I've been having some trouble sleeping lately. Normally I listen to you sleep and that helps. Not tonight I guess." Hiccup chuckled.

"How much have you heard?" The Alpha wondered.

"All of it."

The Alpha turned away, embarrassed. "I'm sorry for asking such personal questions." Hiccup chuckled sadly again.

"It's fine, every word Toothless has said is true. And no matter how much we work on it, nothing seems to help. I'm one of the most powerful leaders in the world but don't have the confidence to do anything with the power. I'm lucky that Toothless is here to make the decisions I can't. I'd get all my people killed without him. I'd get myself killed."