HTTYD: Meeting: Part 2

                                                       Meeting Part 2

                                                        Toothless' POV

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The Speedy Deaths approached us cockily, making my blood boil at their arrogance. I could tell that one was a female and the other was male. The male was a few inches shorter than the female, and she was a few inches smaller than me. They both looked incredibly similar, their markings almost alike so I could make a guess that they were siblings. The female was much sleeker than I was and her head and body was long. The male was a similar sleekness, but he was bulkier.

"Greetings Gray Demise," The female purred to me, making me hold back a rumble of irritation. "My name is Bluefire, and this is my younger sibling Black Fury."

"Greetings," I rumbled back politely, subconsciously making myself seem bigger than I already was to the younger Speedy Deaths. "And I am called "Toothless" now." I informed them gruffly.

As I expected the female narrowed her eyes in amusement. "Really? What an unusual name. Who gave you that name?"

Black Fury snorted all of a sudden and I realized that while they we were conversing Hiccup had come up beside my head, staring at the two dragons in curiosity. I growled at him, trying to get him to go back out of sight from the two dragons but it was too late. Both dragons immediately came up to him and began to sniff him. Hiccup cringed back but didn't move otherwise.

The female narrowed her eyes as she sniffed. "Your scent is all over him…he is yours?" Her eyes held a gleam and I immediately regretted placing my scent on Hiccup. I should have gotten different dragons besides myself to add dragon scent to him as well. Now they were assuming that he was my "territory"…and I hate that right now he sort of is. I did not think that any Speedy Deaths would appear today.

Speedy Deaths are different from other dragons. Since we are the most powerful, we have to have some sort of balance between us and the other dragons. So there is only one Speedy Deaths at a time controlling the Nest and the other Speedy Deaths would go too far away islands to survive and prepare for the next festival…where they would fight the Speedy Death in charge for control. Anything that belonged to that dragon if they were beaten…would go to the dragon who won…and that included Hiccup.

When I won against the last leader, that leader had two young ones. These two must be them.  I had a feeling that the Female was going to be the one fighting me, since she was the oldest, but since they were siblings they would both reap the rewards as top of the nest. I bristled at the thought of Hiccup being taken away from me, and fear clenched my stomach when I realized they would probably kill Hiccup as well.

"Who is he?" The male asked me. Some of the Little Ones flew in and started telling them excitedly about how Hiccup and I killed the Queen. I glared at them, for now they were too interested in Hiccup. If I had kept Hiccup somewhat hidden they might have forgotten about him…but now…I looked over at my human and noted how confused he was. I carefully grabbed his sleeve with my teeth and pulled him back behind me.

"Interesting…" Bluefire purred, staring at Hiccup with a gaze I did not like. I growled at her warningly and Hiccup hid behind my back more, feeling the female's stare. She averted her eyes and stared at me challengingly. "Looks like this fight will have a fascinating prize at the end. I wonder what I should do with this human…after I win."

"Do not make such claims so soon." I growled at her. "I am determined to keep my rank."

Bluefire chuckled. "We will see."

There was a flapping of wings and we looked up before bowing respectfully. It was the oldest dragon of our nest. He was a Fire body and he was extremely wise, and extremely old. He landed with a grunt in front of us and we averted our eyes respectfully. Two small Spiky Tails came up next to his sides and let him rest his weight on them.

"How exciting." He rumbled deeply, making all of us look up at him with awe. "We will be having a Speedy Deaths fight this festival. The last one we had Gray Demise," His eyes twinkled down at me as he looked at me. "Or, Toothless, become our new leader. By the end of the day, will a new one take his place?"

The female puffed up in pride and a growled. There were growls of unhappiness within the cluster of dragons, and I knew that since I had helped defeat the Queen I had many dragons on my side. That gave me confidence. The eldest continued. "The fight will be when the sun reaches the third highest rock peak.  Now we will have our flying contests. First will be the Sharp Wings…" The cluster of Sharp Wings landed behind him and the dragons began to rumble in excitement. Hiccup peaked over my shoulder to look at them.

Watching the Sharp Wings flying contest was exciting. It was out behind the island where we had a multitude of trees and they actually had to race through the trees, cutting them down with their amazing wings. I knew Hiccup would want to watch, so I rumbled over to a Spiky Tail to my left. I asked him if he could take Hiccup with him to watch the contest and the dragon rumbled happily and told me he would watch him carefully. I turned to Hiccup and gave him a big lick on the face, causing him to laugh before nudging him to the Spiky Tail. He looked at me with confusion before the dragon carefully wrapped his tail around his waist and hoisted him up onto his back, making Hiccup squeal in shock. I rumbled to him comfortingly and he relaxed and gripped the dragon's back and watched as the dragons took off to the other side of the island.

I called for my friends from the village to stop and they landed in a circle around me.

"I need you all to do me a favor." I started with a sad rumble.
The Gas Blower, one head was called Hydra (the twins would always giggle when they said that name, but I didn't understand what was so humorous about it. The other was called "Tuffnut Jr." for some reason. The Twins were strange creatures.) asked what I wanted.

The Rocky Skin growled lowly. "Is it about the human?"

I nodded. "Yes. If I lose, I want, no, I ,need you to try and get Hiccup back to the village without Bluefire knowing. I refuse for him to be killed by those two."

Flurry nodded in understanding. "We will do our best."

The Spiky Tail, called "Yellow Eyes" by the human girl asked, "But couldn't you just escape with him?"

I shook my head. "Either I will be killed in battle, or I will be sent away. And I do not wish to bring Hiccup with me to banishment where he would be away from his village. Also since he is considered "my territory"," I snarled at once again having to refer to Hiccup that way, "I could get in a lot of trouble trying to keep something that is mine. It is the way it is with Speedy Deaths."  I informed Yellow Eyes. He must have been born a few years ago and did not know the way of my kind.

They all nodded in understanding. "We will do our best."

Flurry nudged me respectfully. "Just try not to lose."

My eyes twinkled with determination. "I will do my best."

~!~

When Hiccup was returned to me safely, I enjoyed hearing him go on and on about the race. He had breathlessness in his tone that showed that he was amazed and excited at watching such rare dragons show their skill. I cooed and felt sad that I couldn't have watched, but it was important that I talked to my friends alone without one of the Speedy Deaths listening in on me. The elder than announced the next race, which was more normal. It was between the Fire Bodies. This one was in the air and we watched by perching on the rock pillars that stuck out from the sea. The Fire Bodies had to keep their bodies on fire for three laps around the Island. Whoever's fire was extinguished first was disqualified. These events helps all dragons hone their skill and become better.

I had Hiccup get on my back and flew us over to a bigger column so he could get off and sit. It was also closer so he could watch with his bad human eye sight. He got off me and sat and watched in excitement as the Fire Bodies lighted themselves and prepared for the race. Hiccup noticed Flurry in the dragon line and he yelled encouragements at him. Flurry roared back at him and he laughed in excitement.

As I looked down at him, I felt fear and affection attack me all at once. Fear because this could be one of the last moments with the human, and affection because I thought it was cute how enraptured he was in the event. I tensed when I felt a glare at my back and I turned my head slightly to look. I snarled when I saw Bluefire was staring at me cockily. Hiccup looked at up at me with a startled expression and I turned back to him and nuzzled his head. He gave me one last questioning look before turning back when he heard the roar for the race to start.

I watched the race and anxiety overcame me. I sat closer to Hiccup and he leaned against my front. What if I didn't win…?