Seeing Myself

"I wouldn't kill him, because he looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him... and I saw myself."

I saw him.

Big.

Black.

Wide green and black eyes.

Lithe. Agile.

Scared. Frightened.

I couldn't kill him. I wouldn't kill him. I might be of Viking blood but I wouldn't kill him. His staring eyes penetrated through mine, dilated fear spread through them. I looked closer...

His wing was cut off. He couldn't escape. That was my fault. Guilt was scraping at me from the inside. I glanced around the area, he was stuck. He couldn't fly out, the barriers wouldn't let him. He could die of starvation here. I saw no food sources.

Was I supposed to be proud of my achievement?

Was I meant satisfied...overjoyed at killing a dragon

A normal Viking would be. A normal Viking wouldn't have hesitated to kill the Nightfury. A normal Viking would have been celebrating at the Nightfury being incapable of flight. A normal Viking would be proud.

I snorted, I wasn't a normal Viking. And I unquestionably wasn't proud.

I was Hiccup the Useless. The rut of the Vikings. The screw-up, but the only one who managed to find the mysterious Nightfury.

I felt nauseous, the urge to throw-up gripped my body.

The only Nightfury in land...maybe the world and I immobilised him. And I was supposed to kill it, just because it was a dragon. Because it was what Vikings did. A tradition. A unwritten law. A social convention.

I wasn't a killer. I couldn't do the thing that all other Vikings could. I couldn't kill a dragon in cold-blood. That wasn't me.

From legend, Nightfury were lonesome creatures, other dragons too afraid to be close to one. Isolated by their own kind.

It was different, a loner, an outsider, the 'black sheep' of the dragons...

It was me, the reject of the village.

It didn't harm me. He was scared.

I looked him.

I stared closely into his eyes...I saw my reflection...I saw myself gazing back at me.

I wasn't going to kill it, it was me.

An idea struck me. An utterly and completely stupid idea.

I was going to help him...whether he wanted it or not.

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