1. How To Train Your Predacon (Book 1)

Chapter 8: His name is Toothless, The Hideous Zippleback

The next morning when dawn broke, both Hiccup and Emily got up early when they went to the cove before the training started. Emily was able to sneak into the food storages in the village and got two baskets of fish. They trek the forest down the familiar path and finally arrive at the cove.

Hiccup was carrying the prosthetic tailfin and the basket of fish in his hands while Emily had the other basket which she put some fruits she found in the forest. They both walked to where their scaly friends were and saw that they were still sleeping.

Emily giggled when she saw Optimus sleeping like an owl with Toothless sleeping like a cat. Hiccup had to admit that seeing the two dragons sleeping is a sight to see but he knew that they had to wake the two up.

"Hey, guys." The sound of his voice woke the two dragons up as Optimus blinked his eyes sleepily as Toothless stretched like a cat to get the remaining sleep from their system.

"Morning, Optimus." Emily said lovingly as Optimus got down from his spot and nuzzled her lovingly as she set the basket down for him.

"We brought breakfast. I hope you two are hungry." Hiccup said while setting the basket down before pushing it down and dumping the fish pile in front of Toothless who eyed it hungrily.

So many to choose from! Toothless cautiously approached the pile while Emily takes out fishes for Optimus to eat as he gratefully ate them.

"Okay, that's disgusting. Uh... we've got some salmon, some nice Icelandic cod and a whole smoked eel." Hiccup said as he named the types of fish that were in the basket but the word eel was another story.

Toothless started to back away from the pile while growling as Optimus became a little tense at the word as the instincts in him were telling to get as far away from the eel right now.

Emily quickly searched in the basket and found the eel before throwing it away far from Optimus. Hiccup searched through Toothless' pile before pulling out the slimy eel that he found.

That got an instant reaction from the Night Fury who reared back at the sight of the eel as fear was in his eyes and the two realized that dragons don't like eels. Optimus let out a small yet disgusted sound and she quickly calmed him down with rubs under his chin while Hiccup threw it away.

"No, no, no, no! It's okay." Hiccup quickly reassured Toothless who snorted a little and was calming down from the small scare.

"Yeah, I don't really like eel much either." Hiccup said as he looked to Emily who finished feeding Optimus.

"Emily, can you come here?" He called as she tilted her head and walked to him as he started to whisper.

"I need you to distract Toothless while I try to attach the prosthetic to his tail." Hiccup whispered as she nodded

"Got it." She answered in a whisper and moved in front of Toothless who started to eat his fish while eyeing the blonde female curiously.

Emily starts to distract him while he eats as Hiccup starts to sneak around to his tail with the prosthetic tailfin.

"Okay. That's it. That's it, just stick with good stuff. And don't you mind me. I'll just be back here... minding my own business." Hiccup said slowly as he was by the tail.

He kneeled down and moved the tailfin closer to the tail but the tail shifted. He looked up and saw that Toothless was almost done with the fish and knew that he had to hurry. He tried to attach it but Toothless kept moving and making his tail move in the process.

"I-It's okay." Hiccup reassured Toothless and was able to get a hold of the tail and was now having a hard time putting the prosthetic tailfin on the tail.