A Dragon's Soul c6

"Is this some sort of a joke to you?" Astrid asked/yelled to Hiccup who was curled up on the floor in a fiddle position.

He had got into that position after Astrid ripped his shield off his arm and whacked the Nadder around the head with it.

Today's exercise was about Attack. But Hiccup was distracted because he was asking Gobber about Night Furies since the Book of Dragons had nothing on them.

"Our parents war, is about to become ours. Figure out which side you're on."

With that, she and the others left, everyone congratulating her on how she handled the dragon and (once again) laughing at how Hiccup was and calling him 'Useless'.

'More points for that tally then...' Hiccup thought as he went to choose a new shield since his old one got smashed.

"Eh Hiccup," Gobber asked coming over as he began to stack the wooden fences away. "Why all the sudden do you need to knows about Night Furies huh?"

"It's just..." Hiccup said moving to the wall and sliding down to stay out of the way trying to think up something. "Well as I said the book had nothing on them. And isn't it you who said 'We need to live and breath this stuff'?" he asked mimicking his teacher/friend/uncle/second father. "How can we do that, if we don't know everything about every single dragon?"

"Well you do understand that Night Furies are very rare 'round here don't you boy?" Gobber asked over his shoulder. "I only know one person who saw some once. But she's gone now."

"Some?" Hiccup asked "You mean she saw more than one when she spotted them? Well then why didn't she you know take notes and such on them."

"Because she saw then in the middle of the night," Gobber said now going over and collecting the weapons "And they were only in the light for a few minutes before they flew off and were never seen by anyone that close again."

For the rest of the time Gobber spent cleaning up, Hiccup was going through his book and studying the sketch of the Night Fury he did yesterday, wondering what he could do to get close enough to study it, without hurting it or himself.

"And I'm all done," Gobber said placing the last shield back on the pile, and clapping his hand(s?) free of dust. "Thanks for sticking around Hiccup," he said smiling.

"But I didn't do anything," the boy said confused getting up and collecting his new shield.

"You kept me company..." Gobber said smiling as they headed out with his apprentice.

As they left, Gobber went to the Hall, and Hiccup went to the docks where the fishing boats were coming in, and asked Bucket and Mulch for a fish surprised that they just handed one over to him.

Thanking them he headed off for the cove.

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When he got there, Hiccup found a more safe way to get into it.

Holding his shield up just in case the dragon was going to attack, Hiccup slowly walked forward.

Looking over the top of the wooden disc, he threw the fish into the cove, not having a very good result. Seeing that the dragon wasn't there, Hiccup moved forward again, only to get his shield stuck. Crawling under it and to the other side, Hiccup tried to get it out, but it was stuck.

Sighing and rolling his eyes he just picked up the fish and continued his way into the natural wonder of untouched wildlife, the isle of Berk had.
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Noche Oscura had been lying by the pond when he heard a 'SPLAT' and the smell of fish reached his nose. He was about to go after it, when another smell joined it and the sound of something metal scraping against something hard reached his ears.

Quickly Noche got on top of one of the rocks and looked around to see what was coming to attack him today, only to see it was the same boy as it was the last few times.

The one who Rainbow sneakily suggested was his brother.
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Looking around, Hiccup couldn't find the dragon, until a noise from behind him and he spun to see the big black beast above him, coming down eyes always on the boy.

Looking from the dragon to the fish in his hand, Hiccup held it out slowly trying not to shake.
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Slowly Noche began to crawl forwards when something shiny and metal, hiding under the boys top fur caught his eye making him defensive.

Quickly the boy pulled back the fish looked to where the Noche was looking and revealed the knife.

'Get rid of that or I'll get rid of your head...' Noche said angrily.

Seeming to understand the boy slowly took the knife out of it's hold and dropped it to the ground.

'Further...' Noche said motioning with his head, eyes still slits.

Keeping eye contact the boy flipped the knife onto his foot and kicked it to the pond sending the thing to the bottom.

'Better,' Noche said calming down eyes getting bigger now. 'Now why are you here?'
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Once again Hiccup held out the fish trying to hold it still, this time with both hands.

Slowly the dragon came forward, sniffed it, and opened his mouth.

"Huh? Toothless," Hiccup said noting the pink gums. "I could of sworn you had..."

Suddenly two rows of sharp teeth popped out of no where and snatched the fish up away from the boys hands biting it in half and then swallowing it.

"Teeth..."

Slowly the dragon began stepping forward sniffing Hiccup with confusion.

"Err no no no I..." he said tripping up and being backed into a rock. "I don't have any more..."
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Noche heard what his (possible) brother said but didn't pay attention to it.

Then noticing how skinny he was wondered if the creatures here were looking after him right.

'Well since he's part dragon, he should like this then,' Noche thought and coughed up half of the fish into his 'brothers' lap, slowly sitting back on his haunches staring at the boy.

But he didn't do anything.

Nodding to the fish Noche said 'Eat it then...'

Looking to the fish in his hands the boy rolled his eyes, almost as if he didn't want it, then slowly he brought it to his mouth and took a small bite out of it.

Nodding the kid tried to give the fish back to Noche but the dragon saw he hadn't swallowed so told him to do that.
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Giving the dragon a 'Really?' look, Hiccup swallowed the raw-and-regurgitated-covered-in-dragon-spit fish admitting it was... different and didn't taste as bad as he thought it would... But he'd still stick with cooked and saliva free fish.

Happy he didn't throw up Hiccup smiled a bit pushing the fish away.
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'What..?' Noche said confused, never seeing a movement like this before 'What's that thing you doing with you face?' he asked mimicking his 'brother' to work it out.

Slowly the boy began to come forward and reached out his paw to touch him.

'No touchy,' Noche growled and flew away, not trusting that this was his brother just yet, and needing a nap to get his brain time to work things out.

Scorching the ground Noche lied down for a nap when a bird's singing caught his attention.

Watching it fly away, only made him a bit more upset reminding him he was stuck here.

'Because of him' he thought as his eyes reached the boy who was sitting right by him.

Not wanting to see him, Noche curled his tail around himself and used it to cover his eyes.

But then he felt small shifts in the ground, and something reaching for his tail, lifting it up he saw it was the boy, who stood up really and walked away.

Getting up as well, Noche went over to a tree and decided to hang from it, for his nap.

Get more blood to the brain Pa always said, so that should make him understand all... this better sooner.

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The sun was almost gone by the time Noche Oscura woke up and saw the boy was still here.

Wondering what he was doing, he went over to inspect.
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Hiccup had been there all afternoon, every once in a while needed to remind himself that this wasn't a dream.

This was real, he was actually in the cove on Berk with the most feared dragon of all Viking time taking nap, a hanging from the tree.

Just after the Night Fury had went to sleep, Hiccup had thought about going back to the village to get the others to bring them back to tell them about it.

But then he remembers that no one ever believed him about anything.

And to be honest... he just wanted this to be a secret between him, the gods, and the Night Fury.

"That's something now isn't it?" He asked while he was drawing some more sketches and taking notes in his book of the dragon.

"I can't keep calling you 'It' or 'Dragon' or 'Night Fury' can I?" he asked putting the book away and collecting a stick and went over by the pond.

"Then again, Vikings aren't the best with names, I mean check out mine..." he said sighing thinking over some names he could give the dragon as he began to draw him.

Suddenly he felt a presence next to him and saw it was the dragon.

Pretending he wasn't there, Hiccup continued drawing, finishing with a perfect replica of the dragon's face.
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'Hey that looks like fun' Noche said happily looking around and finding a tree.

Getting up, he went over to it and up-rooted it. Then sticking the end into the dirt, began to draw the boy.

After the first few warnings because the boy stepped onto his drawing, Noche watched as the boy span around and somehow ended up right in front of him.
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Slowly Hiccup turned and looked up at the dragon and tried to reach out to it again, only for him to flinch slightly and show his teeth, not trusting him.

'Trust that's it...' Hiccup thought as he brought his hand back, looked away and reached out again, showing that he was trusting the dragon not to chomp off his arm, stopping right in front of his nose.
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Seeing what the boy was doing, Noche sniffed the boys paw slightly at first, not sensing any tricks or danger.

His mind still running around trying to work out if this was whether or not his brother.

'Then again, with all these facts about him, and he hasn't harmed me on purpose anymore than he has already done...'

He thought trusting the boy - no his Brother - Noche pressed his snout against his paw.
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Feeling  something against his palm Hiccup turned and saw the dragon had his snout against it his eyes growing with wonder.

Slowly the dragon pulled back, eyes on him, shook his head and returned to his tree.

Seeing the sun, Hiccup decided it was about time to leave.

Before he did he had second thoughts about retrieving his knife, but let it stay at the bottom of the pond.

As he was about to leave he turned back and called out "My name's Hiccup," he said happily "See you tomorrow," and he left.
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'Hic...up?' Noche repeated confused. 'What sort of name is that?' he asked coming back to the drawings smiling happily.

'Well I suppose it could be worse...' he said more to himself as he looked to where 'Hiccup' just left.

And if that's the name he has grown up with, that will be the name Noche will call his brother. Hiccup.