"Toothless!" A panicked feminine voice screeched. "What did you do to me!?"
Toothless could only sit there with a confused expression upon his face as he watched the female dragon across from him jump around and screech in panic. It just wasn't any dragon though. It was a female night fury. Its eyes were a shocking emerald green and its scales was a shade lighter than his own, tinting violent in the sunlight. She was smaller than he, but was very similar in structure. The only thing that set him off was the dragon's back left leg. Instead of a normal leg, in its place was a mere stump.
"Answer me!"
Toothless was shook from his thoughts as the dragon yelled once more. He honestly didn't know who she was or how she got there. How she even knew his name was beyond him. "I, um, I don't know?"
It turned out to be the wrong answer as it only proved to set her off even more.
"You don't know?" The night fury looked beyond furious. "You don't know!? One minute we are flying through the sky with me on your back as a human! The next thing I know, I wake up and I'm a dragon! A FEMALE DRAGON! How did this happen!?"
His eyes widened. "Wait! You...you're Hiccup!?"
The female dragon only growled lowly and snorted. "Who else would I be!?"
Toothless could only shake his hid as his mind tried to wrap around the fact that this was indeed his human standing before him looking very much like a dragon. "Um, now, uh, Hiccup, just calm down."
Hiccup's eyes only widened and he gaped. "Calm down? Calm down?! I am a fire breathing lizard and you want me to calm down?!"
Toothless rolled his eyes at the term and stood. "Look, how are we supposed to think with all your shouting?"
"How am I supposed to calm down?! I wake up and I'm a dragon! A night fury! And you want me to calm down?!" Hiccup yelled and continued to panic.
Toothless sighed, finally fed up with his rider. Sure, it was very amusing to watch as the female Hiccup ran and tripped all over the cove, but he had to do something before she really hurt herself. She was, after all, very prone to accidents. Toothless ran and jumped suddenly, surprising the female night fury, and quickly pinned her to the ground.
Hiccup landed with an thud on the hard ground, the larger night fury's paws pressed harshly against his shoulders.
"Hiccup! Calm down!"
The dominance and assertiveness laced in the voice caused him to whimper pitifully, his ears flattening against his head. Toothless saw this and lifted the bulk of his weight from her, though she still remained pinned to the ground.
"Just calm down, Hiccup. Can you do that for me?" He asked, this time with a much softer voice.
He felt Hiccup shift underneath him and watched as he slowly nodded. Toothless sighed and moved to get off of her. Hiccup sat up, a little unsteady as she was still not used to her new body. She shook the dirt from her scales and looked up at the sky. She sighed.
"Sorry. I guess I over reacted a bit."
Toothless shook his head. "No. You had every right to act the way you did. Heck, if I woke up as a human, I'd probably do the same."
Hiccup smiled softly and nodded. "Right." Then he frowned. "The sun is setting though and we're stuck in this cove with no way out. We still don't know how or why I'm a female dragon and I still down know how to work this body." Hiccup growled lightly.
She walked unsteadily away from Toothless and slowly laid down. He watched as the sun danced off her scales and found his cheeks warming up. She was the most beautiful dragon he had ever had the pleasure of meeting...
'Wait!' his mind screamed. 'Hold up! This was Hiccup he was thinking about! His best friend! His human best friend. Well, he wasn't human at the moment, but that wasn't the point. It was Hiccup! He wasn't supposed to be thinking such things about him...er...her...'
He took a deep breath. There was nothing wrong with thinking his friend was attractive, especially when said friend happened to be a gorgeous female night fury at the moment. Toothless sighed. It had been so long since he had last seen another of his kind, even longer since had last seen a female night fury. His thoughts were totally plausible.
Anyways, there were more important things to think about like finding out why Hiccup was a female Night Fury.
As Toothless was caught in his inner mind battle, Hiccup watched from where she lay. The way Toothless would glance over at her made her shiver. His eyes were so intense. What was he thinking about?
Hiccup merely shrugged and laid her head on her paws. She was still getting used to this body. Being a dragon was so weird. That being said, how exactly was she a dragon? She remembered going flying with Toothless as they would every evening. They were high up in the clouds when she recalled feeling a chill before sleep started to take over. Hiccup had managed thankfully to steer them back to the cove before sleep could overtake them.
When they awoke, Hiccup was in the body of a dragon. A female Night Fury at that. Though the reason was still unclear, they were closer to figuring out how this had happened. Hiccup got up and wobbled over to where Toothless still sat, staring at the spot she had just moved from. Finally grasping how to move the muscles in her tail, Hiccup waved the tip of it with her two fins in front of his face. Toothless blinked in surprise and turned to see Hiccup sitting beside him.
"Toothless! I remembered something!"
Toothless tilted his head. "And that would be?"
"When we were flying, I remember feeling odd when we passed through that large cloud. I don't know how, but I think that cloud may be a clue as to how I'm like this. After we flew through it, I remember feeling very tired."
Toothless nodded thoughtfully, but suddenly looked confused. "That being the case, how am I not a human? If it turned you into a dragon, wouldn't it have turned me into a human?"
Hiccup frowned. "I didn't think of that."
"But maybe it only works on humans?" He suggested, trying to bring hope back into his friend's eyes. "If we have a clue on how you're a dragon, we may be able to find a way to change you back."
The female dragon sighed and slowly curled up. She wrapped her tail around herself and rested the tip beside her head. Toothless was amazed at how small his friend looked curled up like that. He was about to ask if she was alright when he heard something. It was a sniffle. His eyes widened when he realized that Hiccup was crying. He crooned worriedly. The sun had set by now and darkness had settled over the cove. There was a hoot of an owl and Hiccup jumped, quickly throwing her tail over her eyes and started to shiver.
Toothless' heart fluttered in worry, so he lay down beside, draping a wing over the smaller dragon and pulling her close. Hiccup yelped in shock before quickly snuggling into the warmth of her best friend. She was thankful to escape the chilly night air. Toothless was thankful he was blessed with dark scales as he was sure if they were any lighter, his blush would sure be very noticeable.
Toothless tried to focus on calming his racing heart. Why was he reacting like this? They were just friends, nothing moreā¦but even so, why was he thinking this way? Toothless felt conflicted and his mind muddled over these outlandish thoughts until sleep claimed him hours later.