View of a dragon: Night Fury 4
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View of a dragon: Night Fury 4
The morning sky beckons me forth to get back up again. My eyes fluttered up and down as vision was blurred by the morning lethargy. I just don't understand why every single morning, my body feels aching all over. Slowly and gently, my body began to get back up, yawning and giving out low rumbling purr. The lapping sound of the lake got the best out of me, smacking my lips out of dryness.
In the end, I carried my heavy body over to the lapping waters of the lake and began to lick away at the clear and tasty water. As my tongue flicks at it, fishes swam off from shore, away from me and I wasn't even surprised by that fact. Once my thirst has been satiated, I looked up to the morning sky once more.
The clouds, such beautiful clouds, and the sun shone as brightly as can be. Oh, how I missed the open air. It feels so wrong for a dragon to be on the ground for such a long time and these wings are beginning to miss the thrill of flapping and gliding. Heck, wings isn't the only one that misses the clear blue sky, my heart yearns so much to be back up there but right now, my main priority is to learn more about this human.
Sure, the human didn't kill me and he actually came back yesterday but perhaps, today, he might come back and when he does, I think an up-close and personal view of him is in need. My stomach growled all of a sudden. Ears falling flat on my head and letting out a loud sigh, mixing with grumble. I've not been feed properly lately. The amount of fishes in the lake isn't sufficient to feed my large stomach. I won't say that I'm fat or anything but truth be told, I consider myself kind of fit compared to some dragons. Gronkel comes to mind, much?
Spreading my wings open, I glided off to a nearby rock that's situated directly next to the entrance. I've scanned and examined this whole place already and the only safest place for a human to enter into this lake is through that crack of a rock. Unless humans can fly and glide downwards, I would have seen them coming in from high above but right now, this is the next to best access way to enter.
My body perched on to the rock formation, both front claws digging in to it, ready for anything that's going to come. Tail was left hanging, swaying from left to right, head on the rock now, waiting for my prey to actually fall in to place.
Time begins to pass slowly but being a dragon as I am, I have a whole lot of patient in me. Looking up to the skies above, morning had actually passed right by and at this very moment, its noon already.
Wow, didn't realize that I sat on to this very rock for hours on long. Usually, back home, if I stay perched on to a spot for too long, my body would get all cramped up but this time, I do wonder why that didn't happen. Maybe I was too eager to see this human. With that thought, my mind began to wonder off to somewhere else; dreams, thoughts and the anatomy of humans.
Humans... are not like dragons.
Thank you, Caption obvious.
Humans... can't fly.
Wow, sometimes, I amaze myself at how obvious I am.
Humans... have a heart.
I should give myself a prize! I just answered everything that there is to know about humans!
I rolled my eyes at my sudden sarcasm. Opening my mouth, I let off a low growl that indicates so much as a yawn.
Time begins to pass for a few minutes and I was about to give up on this simple pursuit to know more about humans. Just as I was about to glide off to the lake, a faint smell of fish attacked my nostril. Looking around the ground, I tried to figure out if I had left any fish uneaten. Not possible because I was too damn hungry not to notice any food around.
The faint smell was getting closer and closer and all of a sudden, there was a loud slop and out came a fish from the entrance of the rock.
A flying fish!
Oh wait, that's not a flying fish. It's more like a dead fish to me. Eyes stared at the fish and I wanted to go forth to the food, wondering where that fish came from but halted when a small grunt was heard from the entrance. Pulling back to my position, I turned and saw the human again, the very same skinny (and puny if I may add) human that I saw two days ago and yesterday.
He walked forward while holding a shield but stopped completely when it got stuck in between the rocks. With his miniscule strength, he tried to remove the shield from getting stuck but he gave up as quickly as he had even started. Diving low, he crossed through the border, away from the shield and padded near to the dead fish.
Oh, you have got to be kidding me. He tried to lure me with a fish? Such foolish humans...
I shook my head at that thought. How stupid could these humans get? Sure, food is what is important to me now but using this as a trick to lure me, not a smart one either.
Craning my neck up, I saw the human slowly approaching the fish and lifting it up by its gills. He began to examine and scrutinized around the area, trying to find me but instead, it was me who's waiting for his arrival. Sure enough, I got tired of waiting and slowly glided off from the rock with my claws, digging through them and landing on to my feet.
He turned around and gasped at the very sight of Night Fury. My eyes were leered to the human, not taking it off from him, just in case he tried anything funny. Head going up and down, coaxing him to relax but if he did anything unusual, oh, he is so very dead. With slight fear, he offered the fish up to me.
Maybe I should just follow what he's trying to do. No one has ever offered me anything before. This is something really new to me. If... if this human is offering a fish or rather, it looks like a peace offering, perhaps, he's not dangerous at all.
I moved in closer and closer with caution and breathed in the smell of the fish. Oh, it was good. Fresh, young, tasty and best of all, meaty. It looked good and I bet it tasted good as well. Humans aren't that bad after all. If they are willing to share their food with us, maybe, just maybe, we have perception of humans wrong after all.
Slowly, I began to open my mouth so he could feed me but all of a sudden, my danger senses kept tingling and from what I could smell, the faint smell of metal steel knife came to mind. I gasped and rumbled hard with anger. He's heavily armed that's for certain. No human would possibly come in here unarmed.
Humans are deceptive! I am a fool to think of this human as such! No way is he -
My train of thoughts was broken when he revealed his knife.
Look at him!
The human gasped at my anger and I was ready to pounce and kill him. I didn't matter to me if my principal of 'an eye for an eye' is applicable or not in this situation but he wants to kill me already.
He reached out to his weapon and to my utter amazement, he... dropped the knife? Wait, is he for serious?
Something is wrong, no human would do that.
I growled back again and coaxed the human to throw that knife off. I didn't care if the knife is a mile away from him but as long as he still had it, I'm not going to come forward.
Plop!
The knife sank to the lake. Oh? He got the knife off? Now this is unusual. This is really unusually and exciting as well. This human, is here, unarmed and I have the upper paw in this situation. He can either die right under my claws or... or I could get to know him better.
This is very wrong but why do I feel... feel like my heart is tingling all over inside? I'm definitely going soft over humans.
Once the knife was away from the scene, I was relaxed than before. Ears perked up and my eyes opened wide into a cute manner. Being friendly is the first impression that I usually do while meeting with another.
But he's a human!
Not really caring.
Once more, he offered the fish up to me and this time; I was more relaxed but still a little cautious. Muscles ease up and began to move nearer and nearer, sniffing and taking in the whiff of the strong smell of the fish. It smells so good! It's almost intoxicating!
Slowly, my jaws opened and he saw it.
"Toothless?" He said out of curiosity. "I could have sworn you had - "
Oh for crying out loud! Feed me already!
Not being as patient as I was any longer, I grabbed on to the fish and gulped it down with one bite. The fish was down to my throat already, filling my gut and damn it was tasty. It was really good. So fresh, tasty and... so... so...
This is the best fish that I've ever tasted after so long!
With that, I licked my lips, tasting the fish that I had just gulped down and now, staring on to the human.
"Teeth..."
Teeth Smeeth. Now to search if you had any more. At this point, I didn't care if he was a human or a dragon. Nosing off to his chest, I began to sniff away at his body, trying to find if he had any of those fishes leftover perhaps, trying to play some hide and seek fish with me.
"Ahh.... Ahh.... N-No... no..." He began to stammer in fear as I moved forward. Pushing off closer and closer to the edge till he stopped to a rock. My flaring eyes were still fixated to him.
"I-I don't have any more!"
Oh great. He doesn't have any more of those fishes. Hey, maybe, if I share some with him, he would show me the place where he found those fishes! Yeah, that's it!
It was a stupid thought but hey, maybe he likes fishes too and judging by the look of his skinny and puny body, he most definitely needs some fattening up to do. That's settled then, Sharing is caring and being as the soft dragon that I am, I'm going to share the fish that he had offered up to me.
Eyes suddenly dilated over my pupils, trying to rake my body from the fish that I had taken a bite out of, hoping that it's not digested yet and what a relief when the fish burped off from my mouth to the human's hand.
Oh look, it's a half eaten fish.
The fish landed on to his lap and he stared from the fish and back to me and to the fish again. He seemed surprised at the sudden vomiting of the fish. He's... adorable?
Wait, did I just thought of a human adorable?
Shaking my head out of that stupid thought, I folded my wings and sat on the ground. I grinded my rump on to the ground to get settled and a loud thud was heard due to my weight.
The human was panting and gasping. Perhaps he was still afraid of me. Since he wasn't trying anything funny, it was my best assumption that it's safe to play around with the human. Apparently, it turned out to be a staring contest.
He looked at me and I looked back at him.
"Ah..." He continued to stare.
I stared back.
Is this some kind of game?
It was turning to be an awkward situation and if I hadn't known any better, I think the birds were actually staring down at both of us too. Here he was, staring back occasionally, turning away with the half-eaten fish at hand.
Hrm... maybe he doesn't know what I want him to do.
With that, I looked down at the fish and back at him.
Go on, eat it. It's yummy!
In the end, he looked back at me and the fish and let out a loud sigh. Finally, I managed to communicate with him. With his human mouth, it slowly opened and took a bite out of the fish. A loud slurp was heard and my ears perked straight up at that sound.
"Mm..." The human said after that bite.
He loves fish too! Dragons and humans aren't that different after all. Hmm... he's got good taste.
I smiled back at the human with happiness. He continued to bite and nodded in approval right back at me and offered the fish again. Oh no, come on, swallow it, it's good... real good... My head moved forward to gesture him to take it all in and he got the message. Albeit, he was kind of reluctant but finally, he swallowed the bite.
It was... how do I put it... fun to watch his expression and without noticing it, I licked my lips as he swallowed it all in. My stomach lurched with butterflies as I stared down at the human and he was doing something that I don't really comprehend. He started grinning or some sort. It was a smile. Humans can smile...
They have a heart and happiness is part of what they are. If he is happy and smiling like that, it means that he's... happy... and not dangerous.
In the end, my lips slowly curved up to a smile just like the human did. Sure, I guess one could say that I'm happy that he just ate the fish and offered it to me as well. Perhaps, this could turn out to be something else. Once my smile was fully formed, the human got more and more curious all of a sudden.
His hand slowly darts forth to me.
Wait, you've got to be kidding me. What is he even trying to do? I think... I think he wants to pet me!
I growled at that thought. No human is going to touch me, even though they are harmless. I'm not risking my life yet again to be captured and with that, I flew away from the human, finding a small resting spot that I usually slept at for two days.
Humans, touching me? Bah! I'm just being too soft and stupid.
I growled again and warmed the spot with my fire breath, laying down there once it felt comfortable enough to sleep. Once my body has adapted, I let out a loud sigh. What was I thinking? This is going too far already. This isn't right. Humans are humans and dragons are dragons. If I'm bonding with humans, this is a forbidden friendship right off the bat and both diversified worlds of humans and dragons would crumble. It has been this way all along, even during my ancestor's time. Humans in the village fight off dragons while we pillaged over to their livestock to feed 'him'.
Chirp!
Once again, my thoughts were broken when the sound of a bird chirped from above. Rising up my head at the sudden attention, I saw it flying off and what a sight I got once I realized something in front of me. The human was actually sitting next to me and he waved right back.
Oh brother, get off. I don't want to communicate with you any longer. Humans are humans and I don't want to get to know you anymore.
With an irritated look, I shifted from my place and covered my body with my expandable wings while tail coiled up to hide my face. I don't see him, he don't see me. Deal and nothing more can be said. However, my heart felt as if I was lost or some sort.
Come on, don't be afraid. He's just trying to be friendly. Oh wait, I think he wants to touch me, again.
Opening up my tail and wings, I saw him coming forward but quickly got up and walked away, pretending like he didn't do anything. Not only is this human tiny and skinny, he's a really bad at lying.
Sigh... human, come back tomorrow, please? I've had enough of human research for today.
I was kind of irritated again and moved away from my usual sleeping spot. Great, now I have to find a different spot to sleep. With a heavy sigh, I left the charred ground.
Evening had arrived but somehow, it was darker than the usual evening; couldn't blame the surrounding area anyways. It is a forest and like I've said from before, the morning rays of the sun tried to pierce in through the forest as much as possible, even though it knew that the forest was a heavy one.
I blinked once and twice before opening my eyes, searching and scrutinizing around. Since my favourite spot was invaded by the human, I had to search for a place where he couldn't come and disturb me and the best spot was hanging upside down to a tree. Oh well, better than nothing and a good rested afternoon nap too.
The human probably went home by now. Don't tell me he's still here.
Lo and behold, how wrong was I when my vision laid eyes over him. He was situated not far off from my favourite spot and he was doing something that aroused my curiosity. Using my wings to support, I glided gently off near to the human. At this moment, I don't seem to be afraid of him any longer. I mean, if he were to kill me at this very minute, he could have done that while I was asleep but instead, he actually stayed for hours on end for me to wake up.
This is a very weird human indeed. I've never encountered one like him before. Perhaps, again, he's not as bad as he looks, is he?
I stood on my hind legs to watch what he was doing. My eyes blinked once and twice before registering his actions. With a stick, the human started carving or rather, drawing some sort of picture on to the soft ground. I didn't know that that's possible and what is he drawing anyways?
He stopped momentarily once he knew that he wasn't alone but ignored that fact. Without a moment to lose, he continued his drawing from left to right, making lines after lines after lines and eventually, a shape began to form, looking more like a head of a creature. All of a sudden, my eyes bulged open as I recognized that very face.
Wait... wait... that's me! I-it's me! That's me!
My heart leaped and jumped for joy all of a sudden when the human finished off my eyes with a final touch. It looked so much like me that I couldn't stand how happy I was to know that this human was artistic enough to draw a specimen of a dragon, mainly, me!.
This is really different! Oh he's good, real good. Hah! But not as good as me! They don't grade me at the top of the class for drawing for nothing you know.
With heavy thumping on ground, I grabbed hold of a tree and made it to my own personal drawing stick. It wasn't as sharp or bended as the ones that I was used to but well enough for me. Now, let's see if my touch is still there. Sure, he did impressed me and now it's my turn to impress you, little human.
One by one, I began to dance around him, making lines after lines on to the ground, circles after circles, crisscrossing up and down and all over. It was actually fun to go back into drawing and looking back to the human, he was amazed at what I can do.
Now you know what I am, human. You're not the only one that can be this talented.
I made a point with the edge of the tree and continued to move around and around him, circling and at one level, slapped him with the branches. Apparently, it was a little funny and I actually let off a small giggle in my heart. It's fun, to be honest.
After a while, my masterpiece was finished. I sat at one corner, admiring my own artwork. Sometimes, I amaze myself at what I can do and right at this moment, I actually impressed this human. My heart leaped with joy. Of all the humans out there, no other has seen my talented skill of drawing and basing on the look of his expression, he was impressed.
Well he should be, it was done by me, of course.
The human got up and admired my handy work around him, the lines were inline and working all the way to make a perfect match of an object that I like most. As he walked about to admire my work, he stepped on the line.
Oh no you're not!
A loud growl emits from my throat, giving him a warning to step off from my masterpiece. It's my work, why should he even destroy it! But he quickly lifted off his feet from there with ease, looking as if he's sorry for what he had done.
That's right, don't step on the line.
My expression changed from being angry to calm again but before I could do anything, the human had stepped on the line, again.
Human!! Get your foot off from my artwork!
With that, he lifted again, moving away.
Good.
But went down to step back.
Okay! That's it! This human is going down! Down with him! He's not going to destroy my work of art! Down!!
I was about to pounce before he lifted away.
Oh god, please don't play this sick game with me, please? If he stepped on it again, so help me, I will tear him limb from limb, regardless if he was sorry or not.
However, the human surprised me once more by stepping 'across' the line. I emphasize on across because it felt different and weird when he did just that. I just can't explain what's going on in my heart but it's all giddy and jumpy all over, like a little hatchling that just got their first toy for the day. He looked up to me and smiled. That down to earth smile was very soothing to be honest; it felt... it felt right and good.
As if all were falling into place, he began to dance around the lines but not actually stepping on it. The holes in between the crisscrossing lines was his sole's resting place and each and every time he managed to move about, my heart leaped again and again. I just couldn't explain what's happening but it just felt right and not wrong. This time, I ignored the fact that he's human at all but more of an equal. Maybe, humans aren't just humans. We just don't know them because these species of the land are quite something.
For each and every step that he took, he came closer and closer to my direction. Left, right, up, down, sideways, tipping over, turning round and round and eventually, he stopped and landed on to the last blank step, which was nearest to me.
I was utterly amazed at him. All this human did was walk around and around without an aim or direction and how he ended next to me was as amazing as it even started before. Each step that his boots landed gained something from my heart; something that answered... Trust between each other. Don't know how that turned out but all in all, it was astonishing.
My nostril flared and the air brushed upon his long Viking hair. He most definitely felt my breath and winced slightly, looking up right at me while I looked back from above. Ears flicked out of amazement and the human continued to gape back.
Close that mouth before you catch a horrible bug in there.
My heart chuckled lightly but was halted when the human brought forth his hand to me. Once again, he wanted to touch me. I winced.
Surely you... you don't want to touch me... right? I mean, I'm Night Fury and there is a possibility that I might kill you.
However, the human paid no attention to that fact, even though I growled really hard at him, baring my glittering white teeth as my lips quiver as a warning. With that, he pulled back.
Yeah, please... human, maybe... we should leave it as it is; dragons are dragons and humans are humans. What do you say?
Again, he sighed and this time, he looked down, not at me at all while he raised his arms to shoulder level, within an arm's length between me and him. I don't know why but this time, I kind of ignored the fact that he's human and stared at the hand. I literally stared at it and it felt.... it felt okay. That human hand looks as if it beckons me to move forth, to touch it.
Slowly, inch by inch, the human's hand was fully extended and my head was just an inch of from it. This is it, the trust of a human and a dragon. If he can feel me this way, perhaps, I can feel him the same way too.
My head moved forward to close in the gap and it happened, he touched me. Finally, it was sealed. The trust that I have for this human was up heaving; no other dragons in my clan have ever done this before and.... And it felt weird.
His hands were hot, not cold like any of us. The heat could be felt radiating from just that palm. My eyes were closed with earnest as we stayed on just like that for a few seconds. That few seconds felt like minutes or rather, hours to me but I just had to let go.
I have given a dragon's touch to the human.
I heard gasped eliciting from the human and my eyes opened to see what was going on. Nothing, really; just him being surprised that he had touched a dragon and not just any dragon, Night Fury.
Shaking my head with a growl, I turned to leave him. There were so many jumbling thoughts in me that I just need time to consume.
I need to think about this new relationship. It's not natural for a dragon and human to forge a friendship. It... never is...
And that was the end of my story but the beginning of a whole new relationship...
Well, judging by the looks of it, I was wrong completely. Toothless here, once more, not a Night Fury but hey, I want to keep that in mind that I was 'once' a Night Fury. Hrm... Night Fury... Feel my fury of my breath!
Cough
Right, sorry about that. So, this is my story and what my view of it all was. From once being a wild and frivolous dragon, not to mention adding some selfish and cockiness as well, be tamed and trained by a human. I'm not ashamed at all because from now on, this, here, is Berk.
A village of Vikings, the land where dragons and humans collide and appeared to be as one. My trainer, Hiccup, is one of the best riding partners that I've ever had in my whole entire life. When he was nearly brunt to crisps at the battle, when that 'dragon' died, I was scared out of my wits that I would have lost him forever.
It may be a forbidden friendship from the beginning when I touched him but I'm happy that that happened. There are no regrets in my actions and hey, I'm still the best artist among the whole dragon clan. Be there at my drawing exhibition, counting on it.
"Toothless!" Hiccup roared out of nowhere. "Get your butt out here right now! Tuffnut and Ruffnut are yearning for another flying challenge and this time, they're going to eat our dust!"
Well, gotta fly. Till the next training session. With that, I bid you farewell.
There, the final mini series of HTTYD that I did few years back when the movie was released, was that last year? or two years back? Dunno. Critics, comments, cookies, anything!