Toothless started to come more frequently after that, not during the day, for he and his human 'partner' had things to do. Echo didn't mind though, she slept during the day like a normal night fury. It had been a week since he had saved her from drowning and her wing was feeling much better, she guessed that in another week she's be able to fly again. That night he came and looked rather pleased with himself. "What's got you all cocky?" Echo asked dropping down from the branch to greet him. "I," he said, obviously proud of himself "Got Hiccup to let me sleep all day today." "Ooo lucky you." She purred touching noses to the male. "And," he said "I know a way to get your wing to heal faster," Echo's ears pricked before she realized what he meant. "No." She said taking a step back. "But-" he started "you know I don't like humans" actually that was putting it minimally. Echo hated humans, they were cruel and dangerous, with their iron weapons and chains that drew blood. They were the ones who had killed her best friend, they had killed Shadow, and even her mother too. She had once trusted a human but that ended in her blaming herself for that humans' death, leaving her hollow and cold. "These humans are different! Please? Let me at least bring Hiccup, I trust him with my life." Toothless pleaded, Echo looked at him for a long moment. She knew that he meant it and that he just wanted to help her heal but... she took a deep breath. "Not yet Toothless, I'm not ready to put my life in the claws of humans yet." Toothless deflated a little and sighed. "Ok Echo, if your not ready yet I can keep him away." "Thank you" she purred. He smiled a little and she smiled back. She padded to the water's edge right beside her line. Toothless followed and sat down beside her. "Echo" he said after a moment of watching the water that was glittering with starlight. "I've been wondering, what was your life like before you got..." he trailed off searching for the right word. "Broken." He finally said. Echo could tell that he meant more than her wing. She didn't like talking about her past and hesitated. "I can go first," Toothless said gently, "I've never had anyone to tell about my past life, considering Hiccup is a human and, well, the other dragons don't really care, besides Stormfly, but she's usually off training." "I'd like that," Echo chirped quietly. Toothless smiled and began his story...
(Insert Toothless's back story here. I leave room for ✨imagination✨)
As Toothless finished his story Echo blinked at him, purring quietly. "Your turn" Toothless said gently bumping her side. Echo spread her left wing, staring into it's starry depths she whispered. "I guess it's time you learned... my story..."
"I was born under an eclipse, no moon to light my hatching. And.. for night furies, hatching under an eclipse makes the dragonet... different. It gives them something that sets them apart from the others. For me it was my wings, and my darts. As I was hatched and pushed through my eggshell my mother was waiting, she pulled me into her wings and looked me up and down for anything wrong with me. When at last she saw my wings she gasped, "oh they're beautiful..." she brought me back to the small colony that was left of us. "Is she alright?" A night fury, my mother's sister I found later, asked worriedly. "She's wonderful!" My mother announced, showing me to her sister. "They're their little one." She murmured as I cried from being set away from her warmth. "Oh she is wonderful!" My mother's sister cried happily, after looking at my wings. "What are you going to name her Dawn?" Dawn, my mother, looked down at me, her ocean blue eyes glowing with pride and love. "I down know Flicker, how about you name her" Flicker fluffed out her wings and smiled, "I know what her name should be." She said after looking up at the sky. "Eclipse." And that was my first name, my first life. The discovery of my darts was when I was being taught how to hunt. But none of the other night furies cared. I was having a full life, a happy life... until the humans came. They swept onto out island intending to hunt the last of us down, I had just barely learned how to fly when we were forced to flee. Only four of us remained, and we scattered, I was just a small dragonet and I was left to fend for myself, with nothing but the memories of my mother being dragged down from the sky with chains and the light leaving her eyes as a human shot her heart with a poisoned arrow. After a few months I had done some growing up, both physically, and mentally. I had to learn how to hunt on my own, and I became one of the best. Along with teaching myself to fly and to save energy. I thought I was all alone until I bumped into another fury. But she wasn't a night fury, she was white and glittering, a light fury. Her name was Luna and she brought me back to her home, where her kind was forced to flee to before any humans found them and used them as a target like they did with night furies. It turned out, that most of the light furies are vein and focused mostly on themselves. Luna and her friend Stardust were some of the only good ones. Most of the light furies saw me as a threat to their beauty charade. One look at me alone was enough to have them dislike me, looking at my wings made them down right spitting mad. 'Oh so you think you can just walk in here and be the best?' 'What happened to you did you smack into a star on your way here?' 'It looks like your in the wrong place, aren't all of you supposed to be dead?' To name some of the cruel teasing. Luna could tell that the name Eclipse brought back too many memories for me to handle, so she called me Blackie, and the name just kind of... stuck. She was the best friend I could have asked for. Stardust had one older sister that was just like the other light furies so she did to the best of her abilities to keep Stardust away. Luna and I often hung out at the fungus pools. It was a quiet bottom area where the crystals filtered the light down, making it look like sunlight. Large toadstools and mushrooms grew around the sandy beaches. It was usually quiet and was just a great place to be inside the safety of the Secret Kingdom. But every now and then we'd get adventurous and fly out of the kingdom to see the real world. Every time we did it, we were safe. Humans never came close to the Secret Kingdom in their 'boats' and if they did, they'd either be elated by some dragons that were keeping watch, or they'd fall to their death, without wings they wouldn't survive the opening drop into the underground world that we lived in. We were catching some fish one time, when we saw the humans. It was a huge fleet of their boats heading towards us, we tried to use our plasma blast to cloak ourselves but it only made us invisible, not in touch able. They had seen us and shot out nets. We were dragged onto the boats. The humans were talking, and they said something like... "what's this white one? Think it'll get us extra?" "No. The night fury's enough. That white one won't get us more than a coin, throw it overboard." I didn't know what most of the words meant but I knew it wasn't good. Luna was dragged away by the big, reeking humans, and still wound in the net hauled overboard. I heard the splash and her scream. I could hear her breath escaping from her mouth in bubbles to the surface. I could hear her thrashing, trying to swim, but she was wound in the net and soon drown... I didn't trust the small amount of food they gave me so I didn't eat and the water was stale and smelled of iron, so I only drank when my body demanded it. I was being shipped to a island, I was forced into a small cage in the dank belly of the boat. The only other dragons there were two nadders and a monstrous nightmare. The nightmare was exceedingly shallow and hard to lessen to for very long while the two nadders were chattering like birds the whole time. After some days in the boat we were pulled ashore to an island swarming with humans. My cage was carted to be in rank with the many others. To my surprise another night fury was caged next to me. He was kind and gentle, he tried to get me to eat but I ignored him. One night, when the humans were getting the boat ready to ship me and this other fury to yet another human inhabited island, something went wrong. The port burst into flames, the boats quickly catching along with it. The humans hollered and ran around like disoriented terrible terrors. Some grabbed the night fury's cage and some grabbed mine, others were yelling for them to get back and help with the fire. We were brought into the woods and it was night. There was a feint whizzing sound and one of the humans dropped down, my night vision allowing me to see the arrow that now protruded from it's back. Two more dropped down behind me and I pulled myself as small as I could in the center of my cage. Soon all but three of the ten humans were left. A dark figure appeared a few meters away, standing still as stone. It was another human, I thought, but this one smelled like the woods and wildlife. And had some kind of armor on, I looked closer and saw it was made with scales, dragon scales. And not just any at that, night fury scales. One of the hunters took up a bow and shot an arrow at the figure. It took a step to the side and missed the arrow by a claw length. I pricked my ears, wondering if it was scared, but I could hear it's breathing and heart beat, and the dragon scaled human was breathing at an even, unhurried pace. The hunters were scared though, and they took a step back. "Dragon warrior" one of them whispered shakily. Those were two words that I could understand. The 'dragon warrior' started walking forward, the hunter with the bow tried to shoot at it again but it hit the arrow aside with deadly accurate reflexes. Sudden in their hands they were holding two silver knives. The dragon warrior threw them and hit two of the hunters in the head. The last one screamed and started running, but they didn't get far. One of the nadders from the cages spiked him in the back, stabbing him in the heart and spine. He stumbled then fell, no longer a problem. I pressed myself back from the scaled human as they approach my cage. They other fury was growling softly but I could tell that he was more curious that scared. Now at my cage they pulled the lock mechanism and took out a twisted copper wire. They inserted it into the lock and wiggled it around until it clicked. The lock fell and they opened my cage. They didn't come at me or try to attack they just moved on to the other fury's cage and did the same thing. They stepped back and made a noise that resembled some kind of bird call. Far off another 'bird' call answered. The dragon warrior came to my cage again and lifted a helmet off their head. I was slightly confused when I looked on the young female's face. She was what the humans would call a 'teenager' with long wavy black hair and icy blue eyes. "You can come out now," she said softly, she looked back over her shoulder and then back to me, "I can't stay long, I've got some friends to help, but I'd like to see you fly off first. I don't want the hunters to have you again." My mind thought about the nadder for a moment, it had been one of the caged ones, so maybe this human was helping the dragons get out. The hunters had called her a dragon warrior, what did that mean? The other night fury was already out of his cage. "Come on," he said flapping his wings a little. "I don't think she'll hurt us." I sniffed, looking the human up and down. She seemed to be waiting for me to leave, and I wondered for a moment if she'd hurt me if I didn't go. "RAVEN!!" A human shouted a little ways off from where they were, the human with black hair sighed. "Shut UP XAN you are ASKING for the hunters to find us!" She screamed back. She glanced back at me, "I have to go," she tapped the cage "And some advice, stay away from humans, most of them would love to kill a dragon just like you." She turned and strode out into the trees. I didn't have to be told twice. I leaped out of the cage and into the air. The other fury followed me but I didn't have the energy to stop him. I was headed back towards the Secret Kingdom when her flew in front of me. "Hey!" I exclaimed just managing to stop myself from slamming into him. I glared at him "Watch it!" He smiled "sorry" he flicked his wings apologetically "Its just... where are you going?" "The Secret Kingdom." I answered, trying to fly around him. "With all those flashy light furies? Here, I have a better place to go." He turned in the sky and started off in a different direction. He looked back and smiled at me, "Are you coming?" Now that I thought about it I didn't really have a better place to go, the light furies would be even more horrible now that Luna wasn't there and she was the only reason that I ever got anywhere there. So I followed him, I didn't talk the whole way, it seemed, to me, that it was a waste of energy. It was almost midday when we made it to the island he had mentioned. It was huge, and it was beautiful. A large extinct volcano was a mountain in the center of the tropical paradise. Colourful birds flocked among the trees and rainbows glimmered in the mist of a waterfall that splashed down into a pool of water. I was speechless as we glided over the island, finally landing at the mouth of a warm, moss covered cave. I went inside and collapsed by one of the walls, falling asleep almost instantly. When I woke up it was dusk the next day. There was a pile of fish in front of me and the other night fury was no where to be seen. I tentatively leaned to sniff the fish, it smelled fresh and delicious. They were kinds of fish I had never seen before, there was a thumping sound and the other night fury came into the cave. "Take them." He told me nodding his head at the fish. I didn't think twice about it. I snapped up the fish and sat up, unfurling my wings to stretch them. "I've never seen a fury with those wings before, they're..." he trailed off thinking, I closed my wings and looked at him, waiting to see what he'd say next. "Wonderful" he finally said, smiling at me. I blinked, "thank you." I finally said after a moment of silence. "Do you have a name?" He asked kindly "I'm Shadow." He tilted his head in a kind of gentle way that made me feel a small bit better. "My name's..." I stopped, the memories of my mother, and now Luna, being killed flashing before my eyes. I hadn't relized I was shaking until Shadow spread his wing over my back to comfort me. "You don't have to tell me," he purred, his dark green eyes warm with sympathy. "Could I make a name for you?" He finally asked, pulling his wing back, I was quiet for a moment before nodding slightly. "What do you think about Twilight?" He asked in his gentle voice, I could tell he was thinking about my wings when he had offered the name, but I lifted my head slightly, looking into his eyes. "I like that name" I said quietly. I grew up to a young adult with him at my side. And the jungle was our home, and it provided us with everything that we needed, food, shelter, warmth, and water. But they set it on fire. The humans came with their boats and tried to capture the dragons on our island. We fought them off and thought it was over. But it wasn't. They made an ember of fire and let it loose on our paradise. The smoke was heavy and black, covering the sky and making it hard to see or breathe. A heard one of the boats shoot something... a large boulder and it was followed by the roar of Shadow. I followed the sound and saw him half trapped under the stone in the midst of the fire. "No no no no no!" I shrieked, wings flying up. In my heart I knew he was going to die, but I didn't want to loose anyone else. "Shadow!" I cried, coughing as I tried to make my way to his side through the thick smoke. "Twilight?" He rasped, I laid down beside him and looked into his eyes. "Oh Twilight," he said softly, "I'm not going to make it." "Yes you are!" I said desperately. But I knew it was too late. "Twilight, Promise me something," he said softly, I leaned in to hear. "Don't forget to live, even if I'm gone. Remember that there will always be love, and that you won't fall into darkness." He said. I nodded, feeling tears burn my eyes. "Don't go..." I sobbed "I need you," but his eyes went foggy and he was lost. I roared my pain into the forest, letting the world know my sorrow. But I had to leave. There was too much smoke getting into my lungs. But I couldn't leave him... I used my plasma to blast the rock off him and carried him away to a different island. I buried him there, and slept over his grave. Guarding him from other dragons that might harvest his body for food. I stayed there and didn't bother getting up for food, that by the time a human found me, I was too weak to move. She had the look of a girl who had been on her own for a while, with cloths that seemed to be made from leafs or ferns woven together. She approached me and I didn't trust her, I hissed, flapping my wings weakly to try and scare her into backing off. "Woah, woah, shhhhhh, I'm not here to hurt you, I'm not like other humans." She said softly, I normally didn't understand human, but her voice wasn't threatening and her brown eyes were warm. I laid on my side and expected that if she wanted to, she'd kill me. I heard her leave and rolled back into my original position. Odd. My stomach growled and I felt like I was about to pass out, but I heard rustling and then the human came back into the clearing, holding a salmon in one hand. My mouth watered at the delectable sight of fish, but I was still cautious to take it from a human. She smiled at me, and dropped it in front of my head. I didn't waste another moment and scarfed it down in one bite. I looked at her and tilted my head. "Oh, I have more, if that what your asking, I can go get it." As a night fury I can learn other languages rather quickly compared to other beings and I was starting to understand most of what she was saying, I guess I just never gave the chance to learn it to other humans that I had encountered. Day after day she returned and fed me, and I started to trust her more and more. One early morning before her usual visit and stood up. For the first time in days I stretched my legs, my wings, my neck, and my tail. I rested my nose on the earth I had slept on for a week. "I'm so sorry Shadow." I murmured "But to keep your promise, I have to leave." I stood up and left the clearing, hesitantly at first, but more confidently after I remember, this is what he'd want me to do. I soon caught the human's sent and followed it to her little make-shift camp. She was just waking up and I could tell she was overly surprised at my appearance. She slowly stood up and cautiously made her way up to me. "Your up!" She said happily. She reached out with one of her hands but pulled back a little, she turned her head and held it out more slowly, waiting for me to make the first move, I thought for a moment, and then reached my head out and lightly pressed my nose to her hand. She looked back and a smile split her face. I could tell she was happy, and, that made me happy. I stayed at her camp for another week, and we bonded, I helped her fish and collect food. We become close and one day I wondered if there was a way I could fly with her. I didn't like leaving for a long time, I had lost so many dragons that I didn't want to risk her too. One morning I stuck my head in her little 'tent' and stared at her until she notice, she woke up with a start at seeing me staring her dead in the eye. She stood and followed me out. I turned my head to point to my back as well as I could and looked at her meaningfully. I completed the motion again and sniffed. "You want me to get on your back?" She asked slowly. I nodded, flapping my wings. "Ok," she took a deep breath, "I trust you." She said, walking to my side and swinging her leg over me so she was sitting just above where my wings met my shoulders. I leaped up into the sky and spiraled down, flinging my wings open at the last moment and launching back up into the clouds. She was yelling and holding in tight, I felt her slipping so I slowed my pace to a more measured beating of my wings. She relaxed and eventually lifted her arms up to feel through the clouds. "This is beautiful" she leaned down to say close to my ears as we glided over the clouds in the early morning sunrise. After that we flew more often and further and further till we made it to unknown islands and found different dragons. But there was a problem, some of the dragons we found disliked humans like they were poison. We managed to avoid and survive the attacks we couldn't. We were both experienced but one night it wasn't enough. We were flying up in the clouds, looking up at the stars, she had named me Midnight by then and I had started to call her Lotus. Suddenly the air currents shifted and I felt her suddenly start to wobble on my back. It was then that I noticed the shift in air currents meant that the oxygen that she needed was no longer in the supply that she needed to breathe. I noticed this and started diving down but I didn't want to go too fast because she'd fall. But I wasn't going fast enough and she went unconscious and fell off my back I dove to catch her but her momentum was too much and when I caught her her insides were rammed into her and she was killed. I still blame myself and.... I promised to never love again. I buried her where her camp sight was and left. Keeping to myself I tried to avoid everyone I could and it was working until..." "Until you found me." Toothless finished. Echo was crying silently and Toothless unfolded one of his wings over her back, she leaned into him and pressed her face into his shoulder.
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To Open a Heart (httyd fan fic)
Fanfiction(Eleven months before the second movie) Toothless must try to earn a injured female Night fury's trust before her wing is healed and she flys away forever. While that same fury must remember that it is not what you lost that matters, but what you st...
