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YOU TOOTHLESS AND HICCUP flew together in the teeming clouds wing by wing. "Do you think Hiccup is okay?" Toothless aksed you as you shrugged, glancing over at the green-eyed scaleless. He stared ahead as you and toothless glides over the clouds in a location flapping of leather wings. Suddenly you see his face twitch in a scowl, and he yells out. You and toothless recoil, but you quickly calm down, brushing toothless's wing with yours "it's okay, he's not mad at us." You assured him, flapping your wings to gain a little more altitude.

Soon you hear hiccup's voice. "Don't worry, bud. I'm not going to let anything happen to you. Any one of you," he says and glances over at you as you smile, turning yori's head to look ahead again. Suddenly you feel another presence and twist your lip in a warning sneer, letting a growl spill out. Toothless and hiccup perks at this, looking at you "what's wrong, shadow?" Hiccup asks, but you don't answer, only stare at some disturbance in the blanket of clouds. Suddenly a strange and arresting masked warrior rises from the shadows like a spear of warning.

The warrior is standing on something unseen, which was unsettling for you, but you could feel the aura from this person. It wasn't one like the White Walker captain you'd met and killed. Then just as gradually as he rose, the warrior dips back beneath the clouds, disappearing. You grumble and admire but clam sound and tilts yori wings, so you're over toothless and hiccup. You have a feeling something terrible is going to happen.

What though you don't know

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SHADOWTOUNGE BELLWOEED IN FEAR and dismay as she saw toothless plummet toward the icy water below. She growled in anger as a dragon flew by her, hissing, "follow us, stranger!" Shadow didn't follow. She snapped back ferociously, "you let my friend fall and separated him from his rider! So no, I'll never follow you!" she sighed and gave a loathful glare to the dragon before diving toward the deadly waters filled with the secrets of night and ice.

She could hear toothless's helpless calls as he leaps and crashes again into the water. You see his distress as you come closer and closer. Until... you finally grasp his shoulders, dragging him up of the water, and without anyone of you know it, the helmet to hiccup falls, landing in the water before bobs to the surface, marking all that remains.

Tootles is a little heavier than you, and you strain to keep up with the flock of dragons as you fly. Soon, you follow them to an alien landscape, harsh and foreboding. Then, out of the fog looms an ice formation significant and -- jagged, spiked, and similar to the icy aftermath of Eret's fort, but many times its size. You follow the dragon escort with toothless grabbing onto your talons as you dive through a multiveil cavernous chamber made of ice and columns of basalt rock. It's heavily populated with dragons of all kinds looming in the shadows.

You drop toothless a little away from the main center of the cave where hiccup is fallen and rushes over to the night-black dragon. "You okay?" You hurriedly ask; toothless shakes his head and stares at you as you scan him for any injuries but luckily find none. You breathe a fluke of flames in relief, lifting your snout to the air and sniffing the unfamiliar scent of wild dragons. They're living in a dragon paradise, you think blissfully. "Go," you hear a voice and snap out of yori thoughts seeing that toothless's moss green eyes are still trailed on your form. They're full of unexpected adornment and love.. why? So you think but device to aks him afterward.

"What?" You say when you remember that he said something. Toothless chuckles and twitch his tail aorund to lay at his front paws "go o out there and explore. I'll stray here until I feel better. Find hiccup," his voice is strong and determined. He doesn't want you to eave,t he knows you find your rider. In fear and alarm, you girls immediately twacin his shoulder with your cold and salute tail "feather brain! No, I can't! What if another dragon finds you and kills you? Or hurt you? Hiccup, nor I would've endured such a pain."

Toothless is taken back by your words and signs, closing his orbs of moss green. "You must. To find Hiccup and bring him back to me. Go, I'll be fine, " he assures, looking into your eyes as he opens his own. You see love again but also fear. He's afraid he'll not forgive himself if something happens to you. You lick his forehead in fondness and nod "okay," you say and slither off, going a flustered Nightfury.

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