And here we are, Chapter 10 of For The Deaf And The Telepath. I hope y'all enjoy it! There is a perspective change about halfway through the chapter but I don't announce it cause I wanted it to feel more natural than a hard cut, just a warning so Y'all aren't confused when it happens.

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As the two groups flew towards the Sanctuary, Hiccup noticed something. When he had opened his mind to speak to the dragon's following him, Hiccup has noticed that there were more minds he could connect with then he would have thought. He didn't understand who or what they were when he noticed them but he had other things on his mind. It wasn't until after he had spoken with the Queens rider's dragons did he turn his attention back to the new minds that should not have been there.

Still laying down atop of Zahnlos, Hiccup decided to look at the closest of the five new minds. The mind of each individual dragon is different in both color and intensity, depending on many different things from their mental prowess to the species of dragon they are. These five minds all looked the same and it was something that Hiccup had not seen before. Encompassing the closest mind to get a good look, Hiccup still could not determine what it belonged to but it was starting to look slightly familiar.

Hiccup was about to touch the mysterious mind and was expecting some type of mental defenses to appear and stop him, as every living creature naturally had some form of mental defenses. This mind had none and it appeared that none had ever been constructed. Hiccup took one short little look into the mysterious mind, and what he saw surprised him.

"Hiccup, our passenger is getting a little excitable," Zahnlos said to Hiccup, bringing the boy back into the real world after he quickly checked one more thing.

"Sorry, that was my fault. It seems that all the riders have a small amount of mental power. It seems like just enough for them to hear thought speech but only that." Hiccup said to his companion as the blonde-haired female stopped squirming about in Zahnlos's claws.

"I wonder why?" Came the response from the Night Fury.

"I don't know, if they were leading the raids then maybe the Queen did something to them at a young age to make it so they can hear her and the other dragons but not respond. I can only guess though." Hiccup responded, giving both of them something to think about, but given their bond, it turned into them think about the same thing. They stayed silent the rest of the way back to the sanctuary. It was only once they landed back at the sanctuary did they break that silence. The group landed on a ledge on the outside of the Sanctuary that had an opening that would lead further inside.

"Zahnlos, can you get everybody attention for me?" Hiccup asked him as it would be faster and easier to sign as only his mother could hear the thought speech. The Night Fury did as he was asked and soon the three adults were looking at Hiccup along with their passengers.

They did bond with their dragons and they followed us here. That caused a bit of a stir in the group that understood him. They just want to be with their riders and mean us no harm.

How do we know they won't take their riders and go straight back to the Queen? Valka asked Hiccup, worry evident on her face and in how she was signing.

I removed their connection with the Queen, they no longer respond or see Her as their Alpha. Hiccup finished just as the four dragons landed behind him on the ledge causing the Queen's former riders to go running straight to their dragons and both parties embraced one another in what was clearly a happy moment. After they finish the two groups of riders and dragons stand across from each other, stare one another down. After a few moments of staring each other down the blond-haired rider that Zahnlos had been carrying spoke up.

"She is thanking all of us for freeing them from Her." Zahnlos translated automatically for Hiccup, "But she says they have to leave to find their own path." Before Hiccup or anybody could respond to that the commanding voice of the King boomed through everybody's head who could hear it.

"COME, SPEAK WITH ME." The voice echoed through their heads. Just as suddenly as the group wanted to go, they wanted to stay as they had never heard such a kind voice in their heads before as the Queen was always mean. The group started to make their way inside the Sanctuary, the King's riders in front of the group.

As they made their way through the winding pathways that made up the passages from the outside to the inside, the new riders noted that the core of the new place they were was made of rock, and not ice like the inside. After a few more moments the group finally exited the tunnels and entered the heart of the Sanctuary, where all the dragon and the King himself resided. The Riders were awestruck by how much bigger he was then the Queen, yet he did not force them to do his bidding like She did. It was then that both Hiccup and Zahnlos were knocked over by a sudden flash of silver and in their place was a Razorwhip.

"Do you know how much I worried about you two!?" Windshear asked the pair as she sat on the duo and screeched at them.

"We can imagine Windshear." Hiccup told he as Zahnlos echoed his sentiment, "Now would you mind?" Hiccup asked her while gesturing to the fact that she was practically snuggling with the pair.

"Oh, of course." She replied before letting them up. It was only then that the trio noticed the group behind them had either started laughing or were looking at them with curiosity extremely evident on their face. Windshear instantly became embarrassed upon looking up at the group and if she could, her face would be red as a tomato.

"Did the plan work? Are these them?" Windshear asked Hiccup privately.

"Yes, they are. We were on our way to see the King, you can join us if you want." Hiccup replied.

"If you thought I wasn't going to join you then you're being silly." Came the response as the group got moving again with Hiccup leading the way, Windshear to his left and Zahnlos to his right. Everybody had their own thoughts and there was some whispering between the Queen's former riders. They soon exited out of the cave that they were walking in and into the Inner Sanctuary.

The Queen's former riders stopped in their tracks as soon as they exited the cave, in awe of everything. The green of the plants that were growing, the massive rotating spire of flying dragons, the relatively cold temperature, the white dragon that was even bigger than the Queen. They had never seen anything like it before, the Nest being in a volcano making it hot and as bland as the rocks that made up the walls.

"COME." The voice once again rang through their heads as they were coaxed forwards towards the massive white dragon laying down in a lake in the middle of the massive cavern. As they walked forwards they noticed their escorts and other dragons bow in respect to the dragon. They stopped and stood in awe at the edge of a cliff as it lifted its head to be level with them. They all felt the urge to bow to the power and respect that he seemed to command.

"This is the great Bewilderbeast. Every nest, including your old one, has their Queen but this is the King of all dragons." The women said as the King frosted them with his breath. "It seems he likes you."

"She is correct, I can sense the good in your hearts," The masculine voice once again sounding in their heads. "Therefore I welcome you nine to the Sanctuary with hopes you will stay and join our flock." The group of nine all looked at each other. This was what they wanted, someplace to settle down permanently that was far enough away from the Queen so that She would never be able to capture them in Her controlling grip. This Sanctuary was the perfect place that was everything they were looking for and more.

"That sounds nice but how do we know you are who you say you are and not putting on a front?" The Deadly Nadder asked the King.

"You think the King is like Her?" Zahnlos asked disbelief and a hint of anger in his voice. "Cause I can tell you that He is nothing like that monstrosity who calls Herself a Queen."

"Be calm Zahnlos, their fears are perfectly valid and I understand if they wish to leave." The King said to the Night Fury as Hiccup was also mentally chastising his bonded for the rude outburst. The King could feel that they wanted to stay but fear of the Queen and being controlled like that again made them want to leave.

"What if you were to stay around for a few days to observe our Nest then after that decided if you will stay or go?" The King suggested, not wanting the group of dragons and riders out in the world all alone. The group all turned together and started to talk amongst themselves, discussing the proposal that they had been given.

"The sounds like a fair proposal, we accept." The Deadly Nadder responded to the King, acting as a spokes dragon for the group.

"Wonderful! I will appoint Zahnlos and Hiccup as your guides while you are here." The King said, looking down at the pair that was standing before him before looking back at the group. "I leave you in their very capable hands and paws." The King settled back down into his pool and the group of newcomers looked at Hiccup and Zahnlos.

"If you're our guide then I guess we should introduce ourselves." The blond hair rider of the Deadly Nadder, Aqria, said to the two who were tasked with showing them around the icy nest called The Sanctuary. The boy, named Hiccup according to the King, who looked to be around the same age as them made no move that he had heard them but the Night Fury, apparently named Zahnlos, which had carried her looked up towards them.

"You have to excuse him, he was born deaf." The women who rode the Stormcutter responded to them.

"What does that mean?" one of the twins asked.

"It means that he can't hear anything." The larger of the two other men said. "and because of this he can barely talk so he doesn't."

"Then how does he communicate with everybody?" The other twin asked.

"That is how." The larger of the two men answered them. It was then that they noticed the boy, Hiccup, start moving his hands and making signs with them towards them and the women who responded with a single sign.

"Looks like he is trying to swat a bug." Blaze, the Monstrous Nightmare rider, scoffed to himself as they watched the hands move about. His dragon smacked him upside the head as he saw Zahnlos look over at his rider with a death glare.

"What did he say?" The larger Gronkle rider, Earthen, asked her.

"He asked who you are, and since we are talking about it let me introduce us," She said before starting to gesture to the two men who were standing behind her. "Those two are Mason and Unole with their Night Fury's Specter and Penumbra. My name is Valka and this Stormcutter behind me is Cloudjumper, and those two over there are Hiccup and Zahnlos." Valka finished introducing everyone as they all looked at each other.

"Hello," Aqria said as she started. "I'm Aqria and this is my Nadder Stormfly. That is Earthen with his Gronckle Meatlug and next to them is Blaze with his Nightmare Hookfang. Finally are the twins Spark and Boom with their Zippleback Barf and Belch." While she was talking, Valka was signing all the information for Hiccup so he could understand the information.

"Welcome to the Sanctuary Aqria, Stormfly, Earthen, Meatlug, Blaze, Hookfang, Spark, Boom, Barf, and Belch." They all heard in their head, but it didn't sound like the King. They all started looking around to see who had said that.

"Did he just say hello?" Valka asked them. "I'm sure he will explain everything if he wants but for now, Hiccup has the very similar abilities to that of any other dragon." The group looked at him for a second as if he was going to sprout wings and breathe fire but quickly stopped.

"I'm not going to transform or anything." They once again heard in their head. "Now if you'll follow me I'll show you around the Sanctuary and where you'll be staying for the next few days." With that, they were off with Hiccup and Toothless leading the group on a three-hour tour of the inside of the Sanctuary made of ice.

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So here is the next chapter, I hope it was good. So since I posted the new "Moving On" chapter yesterday I decided I would post this one today cause why the hell not. I'm already about 530 words into the next chapter and I have been working consistently on it so here's to hoping it doesn't take like half a year for me to finish and post it. So to all of you out there eagerly awaiting this chapter and the next one, hold on cause it's coming. I just looked and this is at almost 670 views. That is awesome guys, did not think this story would ever do this well.

Well, I guess this is it for Chapter 10, see Y'all in Chapter 11!

Semper Fi,

Thearizona