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The sun with it's bright light beaming downward onto the cold waters. Toothless awoke with a groan; his body ached. The sandy earth beneath his paws came to into focus as he slowly stood up. Where was he? Then in a split second everything came crashing back. Hiccup! Oh no! That human took him! But, where did they go? Toothless remembered following them for the longest time. But then effects of that dart...Toothless looked; the dart was still there. He tried to move his leg. He whined in pain. It really hurt! He turned back to the island; a dark forest was laid out before him.

Toothless then turned to look at the ocean; forcing himself to ignore the pain from the dart. Which way was it? Toothless thought hard. It was...North, right? Which way is North? The after effects of the dart made his mind a little fuzzy. Toothless sat down; frustrated. Why? Why did this happen? The Devil must be stopped! Hiccup...he wasn't like any other human. So why? Why was he taken from Toothless? Wait...that human...They were riding on a dragon. An idea came to Toothless. That human had Hiccup, but it was apparent that they don't kill dragons like other humans. Maybe...maybe the human that took Hiccup could help! Hiccup could explain to them about the Devil. Yeah! Yeah that could work! Toothless' new found joy quickly dropped when he realized one thing; can he even find this human?

As Toothless sat there a feeling came over him; loneliness. He didn't like it. It was then that Toothless realized that he missed Hiccup. The dragon was surprised by this. They had only spent a day together. How could they get this close? Friend...Toothless remembered the word.A human and dragon...friends. That didn't sound odd anymore! Toothless shook his head. Devil or no Devil he had to find Hiccup! Toothless shot up into the air; paying no care to the pain in his leg.

Toothless flew over the ocean. The more he flew; the colder it got. So he was definitely going North. A few hours into the flight Toothless began hearing it; that Hum. His instincts were screaming to follow it, but, that was why he and Hiccup got caught in the first place. Toothless tried to ignore it, but quickly realized that the direction he was initially flying is where this Hum was coming from. The dragon groaned then roared loudly. Ignore it...find Hiccup. He ignored the Devil's Hum; he can ignore this one. But then something came to Toothless. Some call it intuition. Toothless wasn't sure on why, but, he had a feeling that Hiccup may be where this Hum is coming from. A little unsure about this; Toothless decided to follow the Hum.

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The sun slowly started to sink below the horizon. Toothless had been flying all day as he followed the Hum. He prayed that his intuition was right. Night Furies were able to fly for long periods at a time, but, as the sky started to grow dark, Toothless' wings were starting to ache. As much as he didn't want to; he needed to land. Toothless was gliding in the air when he heard something. It wasn't like the Hum...but more like a...call...a...song? The song sounded lovely. He looked to see that the song was coming from an island. Oh, good! A place to rest! Toothless was glad. He turned and flew down the island. Toothless landed then whined from the pain in his leg. Then the song came again. It was odd. It was almost like the song was...calling to him. Without much thought he trotted further into the island to find the source of the song.

Toothless walked in the forest until he came upon a terrible sight. A huge pile of bones...dragon bones! Toothless tensed up; his nerves on edge. What in the world?! What or who killed all of these dragons?! It couldn't of been humans; Toothless knew that. Humans did use the bones of dragons they killed. But if it wasn't a human...then what?! Suddenly the song came again and Toothless felt the urge to go to it. Toothless looked at the pile again. That must be what killed them. Whatever was making that song. It must be a dragon; Toothless assumed. He had to do something...erm...did he? Toothless was trying to find Hiccup. This here would be wasting his time.

Toothless started to turn back, but the song came again! He was ready to ignore it yet his legs had a different idea! Toothless was now running towards the song! Luckily, Toothless was able to stop himself. But just as he was on the edge of the forest and what looked to be a mountain-like area he heard other dragons. With an air of caution Toothless peeked around a large boulder and saw shocked to see tons of dragons all trapped in some orange...stuff. Toothless walked towards them. There were Deadly Nadders, Gronckles, and Terrible Terrors. What was this orange stuff? Toothless sniffed it; it smelt sweet. Yet when he bit it the stuff was harder than rock. The somewhat silence was interrupted by a loud roar and flapping of wings. Toothless quickly hid behind a trapped Nadder.

From within the forest a huge dragon appeared. It was unlike anything Toothless had seen before! It looked to be seventy-five feet long. The blue fins on it's head slowly vibrated as the dragon crooned. Then it slithered it's skinny orange body around the trapped dragons. Which one would be it's next meal? That was what the dragon was deciding. There was no way Toothless could free these dragons; he knew that now. This bigger dragon, whatever it was, was just doing what came natural to it. Keeping an eye on the dragon Toothless slowly tried to creep away. But the Nadder he had hid behind started to whine; begging him to not leave.

This caught the attention of the big dragon. It whipped it's head around and spotted Toothless. It reared up, spread out it's butterfly-like wings, and roared at him. Toothless faced it and roared back. He may have to fight this dragon. The dragon lifted it's head and let out a piece of it's siren song. Then hissed at Toothless and spat it's orange stuff. Toothless quickly dodged it. Toothless concentrated hard. He couldn't get trapped like these dragons. He couldn't! Toothless fired his blast at the dragon. But to the amazement of the Night Fury, the big dragon simply dodged it. Toothless was stunned. He had never missed before! Toothless quickly took to the air to dodge another attack. He shot a the ground; making the dragon back up. The dragon roared and spat again. Toothless went to dodge, but he was just short! The orange stuff hit his tail and exploded. He dropped from the sky.

But Toothless wasn't trapped like the other dragons. He looked and , to his horror, his tail fins were caught! Without them he couldn't fly! The big dragon charged him and Toothless ran. He tried to not panic. What was he going to do?! What was he going to do?! Toothless stopped and faced the dragon. It roared at him. That's when an idea came to Toothless. The big dragon reared back; ready to shoot. Toothless readied himself; he had to get the timing right! The big dragon went to shoot, but Toothless quickly fired first. His purple fire hit smack in the dragon's mouth. If this dragon breathed fire, then that would of caused it's entire insides to explode. But this dragon was lucky, if you could say that. It reared back from the blast and fell to the ground.

It laid there; in pain. Toothless slowly approached the dragon. It tried to whine but that made the pain even worse. The dragon looked at Toothless. He readied himself in case the dragon tried to attack. But, instead, the dragon stood up and ran away. Toothless watched it run into the forest. Then he sat down. That was too close! But now he had a new problem. Toothless looked at his tail. How was he going to remove this stuff? Toothless stood up and banged his tail against the ground. No good. He groaned in frustration. What was he going to do now? He couldn't swim the whole way!

Toothless looked at the trapped dragons. Then he noticed something. The orange stuff that trapped the Monstrous Nightmare had some green stuff on it. Toothless walked over and smelt it. He quickly drew back; it stunk! That smell could only be Monstrous Nightmare gel. The stuff that those dragons used to "Fire Burst". At least that's what the humans called it when they ignited themselves on fire. Wait...that might work! Toothless crooned to the dragon. He asked the dragon to rub it's chin against the stuff on his tail then ignite the gel. Although confused, the Nightmare did what was asked. He rubbed his chin all over the stuff on Toothless' tail. Then he slowly set the gel a blaze.

The stuff began to crack. And then to broke off! Toothless was delighted! And so was the Nightmare. Working with the Stoker Class dragon Toothless was able to free the dragons. They happily took the air; their wings pumping hard to leave the island quickly. Toothless joined them in the air. His wings were still tired, but there was no way he was going to rest on this island! He turned around and continued North. He would rest on another island. One without a song!

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