'This, is the story of how my world got turned upside down...' the voice over said to the audience in a strong brave voice that made you want to listen no matter what.

'I was once, a lone wolf, er... dragon more like. What?' the voice asked setting it's non-seeable confused eyes on the people cocking the owners head to one side. 'Oh... didn't I tell you I was a dragon? My mistake. Well now you know, and as I was saying... Before all of this, I lived out the world alone.

I wasn't alone because I was kicked out of each and every herd I tried to join because I was different. No. I was alone because I didn't have anyone to be with.

Then one night by some rather unfortunate luck and bad timing, I was shot down by the Human Prince of the village I was attacking with the other dragons.

I was always the overseer, causing distractions, and giving them cover so they could get away with their food to feed that tyrant that calls herself queen, so none of us gets taken instead.

How the Prince could spot me was, and still, remains a mystery. But to be honest, I was glad that he did.

Sure he might of made me lose one of my tail fins,' the owner said bringing his tail round to look at the bright red artificial tail fin a smile on his face remembering how he got it.

'But if he hadn't, then he would never of been able to see that us brothers-of-the-snakes are not so different than his own people and together with me, bring our worlds together after defeating the queen.

This story takes place a few moons after all that.

Hiccup, I learnt the Prince calls himself, and I were on a midnight flight (he was still having night-terrors about our battle with the queen, and flying seemed one of the few things to make him better again) when my ears started to catch hold of someone calling for help...

It was a cloudless night. The sea raging below them, and the skies going on for way more than their eyes could see.

A cool breeze was cooling Hiccup down, and relieving him of the cold sweat that had been on his face a few minutes earlier.

A few months ago, he defeated the beast the Vikings had now dubbed 'The Red Death' freeing all the dragons under her reign and bringing the two 'tribes' together - if you could call dragons a tribe that is. But as a result had lost the bottom half of his left leg after he was knocked off of Toothless' back by her tail making him fall into the inferno that was her burning from the inside-out.

And although he was knocked out, saved from it, and a Viking meaning he should not get scared at stuff like that, he had been having nightmares of that memory, each one always replaying what had happened, and sometimes going through 'What if?' versions like 'What if the kids hadn't got there at the time that they did?' or 'What if Toothless wasn't able to save him as well as he did as they fell?' not making them any easier.

Leaning back a bit soaking in the breeze and breathing in the cool night air, Hiccup smiled as he patted his dragon on the head in thanks.

"Thanks for doing this bud," he said smiling "I know you must be getting tired of doing it. I know I am of the nightmares that make this happen."

Toothless replied with sounds that Hiccup took to mean 'Anything for you Hiccup, as long as you're alright'.

They were about to head for home just turning back to Berk, when Toothless' ears started playing up, and his head was moving from side to side trying to work out where the noise in question was coming from.

Hiccup was about to ask what was wrong when the dragon beneath him zipped off out to sea for a bit before he paused to listen again, calling out a questioning call, going into the direction the reply came from.

Not knowing what was going on, but having been around the Night Fury long enough to know to just roll with it when he did stuff like this, Hiccup operated the pedal for the tail fin staying quiet, trying to hear what had got his dragons attention.

Then on the winds came a call.

Hiccup couldn't tell what was calling but the owner didn't sound all that happy.

Leaning down to narrow themselves a bit more, boy and dragon raced off for the owner to see what what was wrong.

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After a few minutes a small island was coming into view underneath them.

Toothless still in the air let out another call as he circled the heap of rock that was floating in the sea, Hiccup looking over the sides over the dragons wings not seeing much, but hearing a reply to the Night Fury's call.

Together they landed on the small island Hiccup jumping off quickly and together they set off to try and find the caller.

"Hello?" Hiccup called out after a while of not finding anything. "Anyone there?"

Toothless called out the same question in Dragonese playing with his ears, lifting them to their full height and sniffing the air.

An answer came from the right, and boy and dragon ran off in that direction only to come to a halt at the sight of what was in front of them.

It was another Night Fury.

~o~

'And that was when I first met Night Sky, ah...' Toothless told the audience dreamily. 'I shall never forget how she reacted when she found I had a Human with me...'

~o~

'Get the beat away from me!' the Night Fury in the net cried out as Hiccup stepped forward to see if he could help.

'That Beast dear sister happens to be my best friend,' Toothless replied getting defensive pulling Hiccup away a bit making him fall over backwards.

'What do you mean best friend?' she asked slight anger in her voice snarling a little, glaring at the boy. 'Dragons and Humans cannot be friends brother. They have killed THOUSANDS of us and our fellow dragons. Until you answered my call and came here I thought I was the last Night Rider.'

'And we have killed HUNDREDS of them.'

Toothless cried flaring his wings in anger at how this she-dragon was acting to him and Hiccup. 'We may have been only defending ourselves, but they had to defend themselves too as well as their hatchlings, and their homes.' Toothless said calming down and going over to the boy 'And just so you know sister, it's only because of this boy, that I was able to find you see?' he asked showing her his tail staying quiet as she took in the cables and saddle he was wearing. 'Without him, I can't fly, and we were there to answer your call because he had a night-terror about how the two of us stood up to the tyrant of a queen my flock and I were being ruled under.
If it wasn't for him I would...'

'Your flock?'

the other dragon asked cocking her head slightly happiness coming to her bright violet eyes. 'There are more Night Riders from where you're from?'

'No,' Toothless said not looking her in the eyes but not showing he was affected by this. 'I too thought, before we found you, I was the last Night Rider. My flock back where we come from consists of all types of dragons. Just not our kind...' Toothless made clear looking up into the night sky, closing his eyes for a bit.

"And done," Hiccup said as the last rope that was holding the other Night Fury down snapped and fell off.

Realizing this the she-dragon got up and stretched her wings and legs, making sure that everything was still alright. When she was done she turned to Hiccup, who while looking her in the eyes dropped his knife and kicked it away getting down low to say he meant no harm, letting her come closer to examine him a bit.

'See? The Prince means no harm to us,' Toothless said as he butted his head against Hiccup's hand wanting attention. 'He just wants to help.'

'I admit he does seem a little different from the other Humans.' she replied stepping back and shaking her head. 'But he's still one none the less. And it will take more than your words brother, and him freeing me, for him to earn my trust.'

'Fine,' Toothless said turning and motioning for Hiccup to climb on. 'You do not have to follow us sister Night Rider, but where we're from our kind can walk and fly free with their kind in harmony. But if you don't trust us so be it.'

With that Toothless shot off into the sky and headed back to Berk a slightly confused boy on his back on what the two were arguing and talking about, but as he let out a yawn and his eyelids got droopy, he decided to focus more on controlling the foot pedal so they wouldn't fall out of the sky.