I'm kind of surprised that the stats skyrocketed after last chapter, is it because the story became more different from the movie at that point? Anyhow, the story stats are currently at 8 reviews, 7 fav's and 10 follows. Anyway, let's continue with the story shall we?
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Hanna POV:
I cannot believe what that jerk did to me. I cannot believe that I used to like him. I cannot believe that anybody likes him.
Anyway, putting aside my personal thoughts, I went back to the cove. This time, I had a shield I may or may not have taken from the armory and a raw fish. Unfortunately, the shield got stuck and I was unable to get it out again, just my luck.
After realizing I couldn't get it out I just crawled under it, entering the cove with no protection at all. Unbeknownst to me, the Night Fury was on a high rock, ready to pounce on me. When I saw it, it walked down, still ready to pounce on me.
Swallowing my fear, I offered the fish to the dragon. It became less aggressive, but then saw something on me, becoming aggressive again. I was confused, but followed its eyes to my dagger. I started to pull it out of my belt, but the dragon growled. Swallowing my fear again, I pulled it out and dropped it. The dragon didn't seem satisfied so I picked it up with my foot and threw it into the lake.
The dragon instantly became docile, cute even. I offered the fish again, this time the dragon came without any hint of aggression. This was the second time today I noticed something I didn't expect, the dragon had no teeth, only harmless gums. "Huh, toothless. I could have sworn you had-" I didn't get to finish my sentence because teeth popped out of the gums and the dragon ate the fish whole. "Teeth…"
The dragon came closer to me, causing me to back off and trip. "Uh, no. No I don't have anymore." But what the dragon did was rather unexpected, it regurgitated half of the fish onto my lap.
After a few moments of staring, the dragon gestured to the fish. At that moment I knew what the dragon wanted me to do, and I didn't like it at all. Trying to get on its good side, I did what it wanted. I took a bite out of the fish. The dragon didn't seem satisfied and swallowed. I gave it an 'are you kidding?' look, but swallowed the fish anyway, nearly puking in the process. "Ugh, that was gross…"
This time, the dragon seemed satisfied. I gave him, I got the idea that it's a guy anyway, an awkward smile. To my surprise, the dragon started to smile to, albeit with his teeth retracted. I reached out to him, but he hissed and awkwardly flew to the other side of the cove, heated the ground below him, and started to sleep.
After he heard a bird chirping, he looked up. He looked at a birds nest and saw a bird fly away with a longing look in his eyes. Then his eyes fell on me, revealing to him that I sat a few feet away from him. I waved to him, but all he did was lay his head down again and cover his face with his tail fin. I scooted closer and tried to reach out to him again, only for him to pull his tail away. I quickly sat up and walked away from him, noticing that he walked away from me as well.
Later that day, in the evening, I was still in the cove as the dragon slept like a bat in a tree. I was occupying myself with drawing the Night Fury with a stick in the dirt. As I was doing this I noticed that the dragon woke up and looked at my drawing. A few seconds later, he walked away, pulled a branch from a tree and started drawing to.
I have no idea what he was drawing, but he managed to hit my head with the branch once, stopped and looked at me if I was okay, and then proceeded to draw once more. I started walking, but then heard the dragon growling. I didn't know why, so I looked down, discovering that I stepped on one of the lines in his drawing.
I stepped of the drawing and the dragon purred once again. I put my foot down and he started growling. I repeated the process a few times until I stepped over the line, preventing any growling. I stepped over another line and another and continued until I got only a few inches away from the dragon with my back turned to him.
I turned around and reached out for him once again, resulting in him growling again. I needed to make sure that the dragon trusted me completely. So I turned my head around, looking away from him, and reached out once more. After a few seconds, I felt scales in the palm of my hand. But that's not all I felt, I felt something that only Gobber ever gave me. I felt love, trust, a bond.
Then the third unexpected thing happened today, I heard a deep male voice in my head. 'I have decided to trust you, human.' I gasped, so shocked that I heard him speak. And after a few moments, I ran back to my home.
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Toothless POV:
I befriended the 'human' today and tried to talk to her, experimenting if she could understand me. She isn't an ordinary human so there would be a possibility that she could hear us dragons, unlike any other human.
I felt a bond with her unlike anything I have ever felt before when I befriended her, and I tried to talk to her. It worked! Unfortunately, she was so shocked by this that she ran out of the cove before I could talk to her again.
I can't really blame her though, this is as shocking to her as it would be for me if she decides to hunt her own food.
If only she stayed, I really like her company.
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Austen POV:
I was searching for Hanna, I haven't seen her since training, no one has. At first I only searched for her to try and apologize to her, but Gobber told us that if we find her we should tell her that we would have a bonfire in the abandoned catapult tower.
I searched and searched everywhere in the village but I couldn't find her if my life depended on it….knowing Stoick it probably does. Make no mistake, I don't want to apologize to her because I'm afraid of Stoick, even though that does play a part in it, but because the incident was just uncalled for and I regret it deeply.
I asked everywhere to everybody, but they all had the same excuses.
"No idea."
"Don't care where the freak is."
"As if I would waste my time searching for that freak."
Perhaps it wasn't a good idea to ask Snotlout and the twins. Those muttonheads don't know anything, let alone where Hanna is.
Then I tried her home once again, thinking that she may have returned there. To my luck, I saw the beautiful brunette in question go inside.
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Hanna POV:
After returning home I still could not believe what happened. The dragon just spoke to me. How is that even possible? Maybe it's something that only Night Furies have or something? Anyway, I decided to go to bed since I was feeling tired, but I was stopped by somebody knocking the door. "Who is it?"
"It's me, Austen." Oh great, now this jerk comes to my house to? Just my luck.
I opened the door and glared at him. "I am not in the mood to talk to you."
He seemed a little bit uneasy. "Gobber told me to tell you we are eating at a bonfire in the abandoned catapult tower."
"Tell him that I'll be there." I proceeded with closing the door, but he put his foot in the way.
"That's not the only reason I wanted to talk to you Hanna." That got my interest, slightly. "I wanted to apologize to you, for the….incident in training today."
Does he really think that it's going to be so easy? "Austen, I simply cannot forgive you for this." Then a thought occurred to me. "Is it because of what my father might do to you?" He visibly flinched. I sighed. "Look, Austen. I may not forgive you for what you did, but I'm not going to tell my father. I don't want to be responsible for whatever may happen to you."
He relaxed slightly, but still seemed nervous for some reason. "Hanna, my fear of the chief had nothing to do with it…..okay, maybe it did but-"
He didn't get to finish whatever he was saying, because I slapped him again. "You jerk! An apology doesn't matter if it isn't honest and only came from the fear of my dad!" I didn't give him a chance to talk anymore and slammed the door in his 'handsome' face.
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Austen POV:
Well….that was a disaster.
I tried to apologize to her, I really did. Then again, doing what I did would piss any woman off and would be really hard to forgive. I admitted that my fear for the chief was partially the reason why I apologized to her, but all that resulted in was a slap and the door slamming in my face.
At least I managed to tell her about the bonfire.
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Hanna POV:
I was at the bonfire with Gobber and the other teens, including Austen, ugh.
Gobber was telling us how he lost his arm. "…and with one twist, he took my hand and swallowed it whole! And I saw the look on his face, I was delicious! He must have passed the word because it wasn't a month before another one of them took my leg!"
"Isn't it weird to think that your hand was inside a dragon? Like, if your mind was still in control of it you could have killed the dragon from the inside, by crushing his heart or something." That's a bit disturbing Fishlegs.
"I swear, I'm so angry right now!" It's easy for you to get angry Snotlout. "I'll avenge your beautiful hand and beautiful foot. I'll chop off the legs of every dragon I fight- with my face!"
"Uh-Uh. It's the wings and tails you really want. A downed dragon is a dead dragon." Gobbers words made me realize something, the Night Fury would die if he stays in that cove and it will be my fault. I may not know him to well, but he is a nice dragon. I have got to help him.
Gobber spoke again. "Alright, I'm off to bed. You should be too. Tomorrow we get to the big boys. Slowly, but surely, making our way up to the Monstrous Nightmare. But who will win the honor of killing it?"
Making sure nobody was watching me, I set my fish down and quickly got up to leave. I thought I saw Austen look at me for a moment, but it must have been my imagination.
I quickly went into the forge, put my notebook down and opened it up to the page with the Night Fury on it. I added the tailfin on the drawing once more and set to work.
With determination, I made and took every piece that I needed for what I was making. After some time, my newest invention was complete, or the prototype was at least. A prosthetic tailfin.
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Well, that's another chapter done. TheDoctor1998 here, signing out.