Comet Nights (HTTYD Fanfic)

Chapter Twelve: How Much Do You Trust Me?

The wind blasted Hiccup in the face as he gritted his teeth, determined to stay on Comet's back whatever it took. He hadn't anticipated how hard riding her would be. Unlike Toothless, this Night Fury wasn't trained in the least, and it was a miracle that she let him onto her back at all. Comet responded to none of the subtle hints and commands that Hiccup used with his dragon, and it was only her keen intelligence that saved them from ending halfway across the world.

Not only that, she still hated humans, even if she was fond of Hiccup. Fear would occasionally take over her mind, and at those times, she would buck and yaw wildly. It took every bit of Hiccup's strength to stay on and not fall to his death.

"Comet!" he cried as she suddenly looped, giving him nausea as she jerkily rose in the air. She grunted in apology and suddenly thwacked him with her ear.

"What was that for?!" exclaimed Hiccup. Then he looked up.

Eclipse Mountain loomed ahead of them, the jagged black form starkly contrasted against the white snow. Hiccup gave a happy crow and tried to direct Comet to the cusp of the mountain, only to have her unexpectedly swerve.

"What's going on?" he asked. Then, a spiraling line of multicolored scales at the top of the stony structure caught his eye.

There was a huge amount of dragons of every shape, size and color streaming into the crater in the mountain. They were too far away for Hiccup to identify, but he knew the reason why they were there.

Toothless, their alpha, was calling for their aid, and they obliged. How could they not? He was their leader, their ruler. A Chief among dragons.

"Come on, we need to go up there!" he called to Comet, but she refused. Instead, she upped her speed, forcing Hiccup to lean in close to the saddle from windforce.

"Comet, please! Astrid and Toothless are in there!"

The Night Fury trembled a bit, but ignored him. And Hiccup realized the ultimate flaw in his plan.

Comet was too scared of Drago to go back, and she didn't trust Hiccup enough to risk herself in the mountain again.

So he simply leaned sideways- and fell into thin air.

Activating his gliding membranes and back fin, Hiccup glided down to the thick snow below. A moment later, Comet landed in a poof of white flakes. She glared at him and hit him with her tail, obviously annoyed that he had scared her like that. Suddenly, a piercing scream rang out, and Comet leaped straight onto him, covering him with her black wings.

"What's going on?" Hiccup poked his head out from under her midnight scales for a moment- only to be saved in the nick of time by Comet's talons as she pushed him back under. A bolt of lightning had nearly blasted his hair off. Standing before the Night Fury was a purplish-blue Skrill, one of the rarest kinds of dragons known. It roared at her, with Comet roaring back, and then with the sound of strong wingbeats flew away. Comet lifted off him and balanced on her hind legs, watching carefully with her jewel-blue eyes.

"You saved me."

Comet's pupils expanded at the words and she purred, lashing her tail happily.

Another shadow flashed by, making her move closer and curl a tail around Hiccup's body. He knew that there was nothing more to do but wait until the dragons thinned out, so he sat in the snow. Comet curled fully around him, placing a wing over in a protective dome and placing her head inside to gaze at him like a mother with her hatchling.

Feeling lonely and bored, Hiccup slowly began to sing...

I'll swim and sail the savage seas...