Hidden Night (Hiccup x Fem!Reader)

[11] The Rider

*Second Person's POV*

You gulped in fear at the violet eyes staring you down. You couldn't move out from under the dragon's strong and heavy grip. So all you could do was stare back, eyes wide in fear. You don't know how long you stared into those eyes, minutes, seconds? Till the dragon did something quite unexpected.

It licked you. On. The. Face.

You felt disgusted, but at the same time. A little ... happy? Then, the furry dragon then gave you more slobbery dragons kisses.

"Ugh! Stop! That's gross!" You protested, trying to push the heavy dragon off you. The dragon let out a purring sound as they finally got off of you. Letting you scramble to your feet and shake the dragon saliva off. You make sounds of disgust as you flung off the spit, looking up and glaring at the dragon. The dragon made a laughing like sound, and looked at you with rounder, softer eyes. The pupils have widened, much like Toothless's when he's happy. Now that you are wiping off the last of the gooey disgusting stuff. You are able to clearly look at the dragon. It looks like a NightFury, but different. For one thing, tan fur covers its entire back, and the rest is tan scales. The dragon has a (F/C) underbelly, the bottom facing part of the wing membrane is tinted the same color. The tail frills held a different shape, more oval like (The pic but the belly color is whatever you wanted). And finally, a leather saddle that rests upon its back.

You eyed it curiously, and began to walk towards the dragon slowly. So you wouldn't startle it. You wanted to get a closer look of the saddle. The dragon only watched you approach slowly, as if it knows you're not a threat. Once you got within the dragon's reach, you looked upon the saddle. Your eyes widened as you see the symbol of your necklace burned into the leather. There is a small hunch in the back of your mind, as you started to piece things together, but you had to make sure.

"Where is your rider?" You asked hesitantly. The violet eyes seemed to light up, and the dragon made a gurgling sound. Before it nudged you in the side with its head. Then they looked back up at your eyes expectantly. You looked down at the strange over-sized necklace. And understanding flowed over you.

"I'm the rider?" You asked looking back up. The dragon nodded they're head and smiled a razor sharp grin. You couldn't help but smile too. But also, you were ecstatic about this. You had a dragon! You are a dragon rider! Your smile grew wider as these thoughts raced about your head. You then looked back down at the dragon's necklace, then back at the dragon itself.

"May I?" You smiled. The dragon responded by sitting up straight and tall, and playfully made a serious look. You laughed before putting the necklace back around its neck. Then a thought occurred to you. "Can we fly?" You asked the dragon. The dragon dropped its playful act and stood back on its four legs. Its violet eyes looked back sadly at you. You were confused why until the dragon showed you its injured right wing, it held it awkwardly. You looked at its wing sadly. 'How did I not notice that the poor thing's hurt?' You thought. The dragon let out another gurgling sound and looked at you, seeming to say 'Its not your fault.' You smiled sadly at the dragon and put a hand on the side of its head.

Suddenly the dragon whipped its head up to the sky with narrowed eyes. It let out a growl and bared its fangs. A loud thump behind you followed by a squawk told you what it was before you had even turned around.

"You have some explaining to do, (Y/N)!" The angry voice of Astrid growled as she jumped off Stormfly and began to storm over to you. Your dragon, seeing her being hostile, took Astrid as a threat, so it shoved in front of you protectively and let out a low threatening growl. Hiccup and the rest of the riders landed behind Astrid, who had stopped advancing towards you cause of your dragon.

"Its okay. They're friends." You said trying to calm your dragon. You tried to get in front of it, but it just shoved you back into their protection range. Making you fall on your butt.

"(Y/N)!" Hiccup called to you in worry. Thinking the dragon was holding you hostage. Toothless growled and bared his now visible teeth at your dragon. Your dragon snarled back. Hiccup stepped forward slowly, hand outstretched, trying to take the gentle approach and tame the dragon, but your dragon wanted to be stubborn and only snapped at him.

"Hiccup!" Astrid cried, before turning back to your dragon and growled, taking out her ax.

"NO!" You yelled, running in front of your dragon. "I won't let you hurt Skyler!" You shouted, surprising yourself. You didn't even know your dragon's name, yet you just shouted it out without thinking. I guess it also means the dragon's a girl, at least your mind says so.

"Skyler? Wait, are you the dragon rider we've been searching for?" Asked Fishlegs with a shocked expression.

"Um yes, maybe...? I'm just as surprised as you are." You answered. Skyler behind you took a step forward and growled some more. You kept her behind you by pushing her back with one of your arms.

"You still have a bit of explaining to do." Astrid growled pointing the ax at you, which made Skyler glare at her.

"Astrid's right. Can you tell us how you found out you're a rider?" Hiccup asked much nicer than the way Astrid had asked it.

"Alright, but lets get her wing taken care of first," you replied.