Chapter 7

In the next few weeks that followed, Hiccup and I learned a lot about each other and he was working on a tail and saddle to help me fly again. It was all working well and it was nice to see him more and more comfortable around me. He stopped hesitating and was actually happy to be around me. He even went as far to get on my back to ride me.

Not how I wanted to bond with him but when we flew together it was as if we were one, I could feel his heart beating in sync with mine. One night he fell asleep against my side and I heard mutter to me in his sleep like he was calling for me.

I heard someone coming and covered him with my wing to hide him. I was frightened to see who it was. It was my mother.

"So have you learned your lesson? Have you forgotten about that human and ready to come home and assume your duties as our princess?" she said.

I didn't like the tone in her voice. I glared at her. "I never wanted to be the princess. It may have been what you wanted but all I ever wanted was love. The only one who ever showed me any form of love was father and if you're here that means he's gone and you know you can't hold your position as queen for long."

"You are our princess and you will do what I say." She growled.

Suddenly I felt Hiccup stir underneath my wing and try to get out. I was in a panic, if my mother saw him, she would kill him. He kept trying to get out but I couldn't let him out or my mother would know.

"What are you hiding under those wings?" she asked looking at the form struggling under my wing.

"Nothing." I said in a panic.

"Toothless, let me out!" Hiccup cried out.

Finally, I couldn't stand frightening him anymore and opened my wing to let him out.

"Toothless, what has gotten into you?" he asked sounding out right scared.

I was feeling many emotions at once. Mostly fear and guilt. Fear because now my mother knew about him and guilt because I had scared the one person I had tried so hard to get to trust me.

"Who is this?" he asked looking at my mother. "Another Night Fury, amazing." He breathed.

"Who is this?" my mother growled. "And why would let him call you such a demeaning name?"

I couldn't hide it anymore. "He's the human I imprinted on. He cannot understand us, and I do not mind the name. Anything is better than being called your daughter or the princess of the unholy offspring of lightening and death itself." I explained standing in front of him protectively. "And I am not going to let you hurt him."

"You imprint on a human, you deny your duties as our princess and now you let this human ride you like a common animal." She growled at him. "How low are you going to let yourself fall before you feel the shame you should right now?"

"I don't feel any shame nor will I ever. I love him and I am happy with this. He has given what you took from me. He has helped me fly again."

"What if I told you I could give it back? All you have to do is dispose of that human." She lured.

"I would say I would rather face the Midgard Serpent blind. I will never hurt him even if you could give me back my tail. He has done it for me, you're only offering it to keep your high and mighty head above mine. You may have brought me into this world, but you are no mother of mine." I growled keeping Hiccup back.

All at once my mother lunged at me and was trying to throw me out of the way to get to him but I was not going to falter. I wasn't going to let her get to my Hiccup. She bit at my throat and clawed at my wings and threw me to the side. She stalked toward me.

"I gave you a chance to repent of your crimes but I now see there is no chance of saving you. So now, I will end your life to save our kind from the poison of your lost mind."

I was trying to get to my feet but I was losing a lot of blood. I kept going, I had to protect Hiccup. As I tried to get up, my mother was getting closer. Just as she was standing over me, Hiccup threw himself between us.

"Please no, don't hurt Toothless." He pleaded as if he would understand us.

My mother stared at him in shock. Hiccup crumpled down beside me and hugged my battered body. Feeling his hug made me feel strong again even in my battered state.

"Why would he do that? He knows I can kill him with even trying and yet he would try to stop me, to save you." My mother asked bewildered.

"Because that's what those who truly care for each other do, they protect each other no matter how hopeless things may get." I said purring as he rubbed my neck to ease my pain. "I love him mother, and even if he doesn't feel the love I do, I know he cares for me just as I do."

My mother continued to stare at me and Hiccup as he continued to soothe me as I rested from my mother's attack.

"I never got the chance to know that kind of love. I never imprinted on anyone, your father forced me to be his mate. He said he loved me, but truth be told, I think the only one he loved was you. I guess I was just so jealous of that love he gave to you instead of me, that I wanted you to know what it was like to be matched with someone you don't love because I had forgotten what it felt like." She said like she was ready to cry. "I know I hurt you, I am so sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. I am so sorry for all this."

"Mother, you never imprinted?" I asked in shock.

"Yes. And when I heard you say that you had, I was mostly angry and jealous that my daughter had imprinted and in all my years, I hadn't. It was never that you had imprinted on the boy, it was just that you had imprinted period. I am so sorry, I understand what he means to you now, and what you mean to him. You don't have to come back if you truly don't want to, we'll find someone to rule the kingdom. I hope they are as full of life as you."

"Mother, I don't think it's too late for you to keep trying to find the one you imprint on. If it isn't a dragon, maybe it's a human. You can try, I really want you to imprint and find someone to truly care about. I want you to be happy." I cooed as she turned to leave.

"Thank you. I won't bother you or the boy again, I promise. I hope you two stay strong together." She said as she took off.

I watched her go and hoped that she would keep trying to find the one she was meant to hold close to her heart. I now understood her actions, she never cared for being queen, she just wanted love because she never had the chance to have it to begin with. I understood her because I went through it too.