Hiccup's encounter with the god of night.

A/N this story is based off a beginning of story provided by the amazing Nightfuryfanfic. Produced with permission.

Chapter 1.

It had been 3 months since the defeat of the red death and the village of Berk was still rejoicing in their victory and new peace.

All except one. the hero, Hiccup: he was flying around enjoying an afternoon flight alone with his dragon and best friend. No one else to bother him, enjoying the spray of the ocean, the wind in his hair and the adrenaline from the breath-taking stunts.

The sun dipped low on the horizon as the rider and dragon came to a steady glide. "alright bud best get back to Berk its getting late" And with short grunt of acknowledgment the rider and the dragon turned north back to Berk. Suddenly was sharp ear piecing whistle that startled dragon and rider. But before they could even match it up to the cry of a night fury Hiccup was torn from Toothless back, claws ripping straight through his green tunic and piercing flesh causing him to cry out in pain.

Toothless fell from the sky helpless and crying out for his rider before splashing into the ocean just offshore of a small island. Meanwhile Hiccup was thrown to the ground on the small island with a loud thud and snap as his arm twisted horribly. As Hiccup scrambled up, heart pounding a mile a minute he tried to face his attacker.

As Hiccup got to his feet and regained his senses he realised he was staring into the very angry eyes of a night fury, causing Hiccup to stumble back in fright. As Hiccup tried to calm the dragon down Toothless dragged himself to shore and started a desperate run to his rider.

Meanwhile on Asgard, a god was watching the scene play out. He was the god of night, god to the night furies and he was desperately hoping that the boy survived. After all that boy was very important to the god of night as he tamed a night fury and stopped a war. Sadly, the god could only watch in horror as a plasma blast tore from the newcomer night fury's throat and impacted with the boy, hurling him several yards, and killing him instantly.

This caused the god of night to frantically pace he needed a way to save the boy back on the island. Toothless could only look on in horror, grief and rage as Hiccup, his rider, was blasted to death. he frantically scrambled to his rider hoping to god he was alive. But as he got to his rider he could smell the burning flesh and death in the air and with a roar of grief he turned to his rider's killer.

"why would you do that? What did he do!?" growled Toothless

"he was riding you like a beast of burden. You're a night fury. You should not stoop to those levels. I set you free" growled the unknown night fury.

"you just killed my rider, my best friend and took my flight away from me!" roared Toothless but before he could charge a massive wave of plasma appeared, sending both night furies flying. A man covered in a black robe with black hair and piercing blue eyes appeared. The god of night

"calm yourselves night furies" shouted the god of night causing both dragons to whimper in submission "Toothless, don't worry your rider will be saved. And for you night fury I should kill you right now for your stupidity and cruelness". And with that the god vanished into purple/blue mist and went into Hiccup.

suddenly Hiccup found himself in a white room with another being. "who are you and where am I?!" shouted Hiccup

"I am the god of night the god to the night fury and we are in your head. you were killed, remember?" said night

"y-ye-yea" stuttered Hiccup "but what do you want with me"

"to save you. You died unfairly, and you were a very important hero. But there is one problem: I can't save your human form" said night

"so how are you going save me" stuttered Hiccup in confusion.

"well Hiccup, I know you don't want to be another animal because then you can't return home or complete your destiny. But I can't save your entire human form, so I'm going to make you half night fury and infuse some of my energy into you, making you half god of night. But be warned, you will be given tremendous power and abilities but also changes to your appearance and habits. You will have new strength and weaknesses, you know, being half dragon. So, try avoiding dragon root and that kind of stuff. got that?"

"yea but why do I deserve this honour?"

"because you united two worlds. And one more thing: your name is now midnight because you're not really your parent's offspring anymore. You know, being half dragon and half god. but you can still go by Hiccup."

And with that he vanished. Appearing outside of Hiccups body and watching as Hiccup healed and changed to look older. and out of nowhere his tunic fixed and went purple, his trousers did the same. And then a completely black set of leather armour with a purple strike symbol appeared on his body with a Helmet like the night fury head. Then his eyes changed to dragon's eyes and several scales appeared across his body.

Then Toothless' s tail fin turned purple with a black strike symbol on along with the saddle going black. Then two sword hilts appeared, pitch black in colour, and attached to Hiccups belt. And with a flash of purple light it was over.

Hiccup gasped for breath as he came back.

"rise, midnight, half god of night and dragonkin." said night. And he was gone with a flash. Hiccup stumbled up, admiring himself. he looked at the two, now bowing, night furies.

"errrr you don't need to bow" stuttered Hiccup, trying to grab hold of the situation. But before his mind could get to grips he was assaulted with a barrage of licks. "Toothless stop! you know that doesn't wash out!"

After freeing himself from the clutches of the over enthusiastic night fury Hiccup wanted to know what he looked like. The god had said he now had changes to his appearance and he wanted to know more. When he looked into the water he didn't see anything different the first time, confused he looked again and noticed things like his eyes had changed, and his skin was much darker than before.

He was surprised by the changes but was thankful that it wasn't more noticeable. He slowly walked over to Toothless, so they could return to Berk. He regarded the new dragon with suspicion.

The other dragon addressed Hiccup (as midnight) with shame in himself. "midnight. I see that you view me as violent, while such a view is normal after my brash actions I beseech you to forget our differences. I Understand now that you mean no slavery on my people, I would like to escort you through your problems. Understand now that I offer my protection for your noble cause."

Hiccup was astonished at what the dragon had said, not at the offer contained within but the fact that he understood. He regarded Toothless with curiosity

"Toothless, can I now understand dragons? Did that dragon just offer me protection?"

Toothless bowed again and explained

"it would appear so Hiccup, and yes, that dragon did offer you protection. I trust him to keep his word, but I am a bit hesitant." He said with a slightly malicious look at the other night fury. The other night fury sighed and hung his head, he responded to Toothless.

"like I said, I am sorry for what I've done and prepared to make up for it by becoming your permanent escort on your journeys, my name is Shadewrath by the way"

Toothless was still a bit suspicious but after encouraging comments from Hiccup he warily accepted Shadewrath as escort for him and his rider. The group took off back in the direction of Berk, Hiccup knew that it would be hard explaining how he now had two night furies as well as changes to his appearance.

They arrived at the outskirts of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless started a circuit around the island as they planned what to do next when they arrived in Berk.

Shadewrath asked a question out of curiosity. "why are we flying around this Island?"

Hiccup responded. "this is Berk, my homeland, we are flying around because we don't know how to explain the changes that happened while we were away. As if on cue Astrid and Stormfly Flew up to the circling night furies, she was initially worried when she saw it was two night furies, but calmed down when she saw Hiccup riding one of them, she pulled up next to him

"what happened? Why is there another night fury and why…"?

Hiccup answered in a tone urging Astrid to calm down "we had a very complicated adventure, I can explain more when we land."

Astrid quietened down and the three dragons now glided into a clearing beside Hiccup's house. They landed on the soft grass and Hiccup and Astrid rushed inside to let Chief Stoick know the adventure which had ended up with Hiccup with one more night fury.

Once Chief Stoick had dressed he came to the dining room for the private discussion.

Astrid started off enthusiastically "Chief! Hiccup brought back another Night fury! Now we know that Toothless isn't the only one!"

Hiccup sighed as he realised he was going to have to explain the strange events leading to him getting a night fury as escort.

"So, me and Toothless were flying along when we encountered a night fury"

"the end?" chief Stoick wondered

Hiccup continued "not even close, at first this dragon attacked us, I died because of him."

Stoick was confused, the dragon had attacked and killed Hiccup. But hiccup was alive, and the dragon was his friend now, was Hiccup lying?

"yeah, yeah I know. It sounds crazy, but the dragon did attack me, and I did die. Luckily I met the god of night before I was lost forever, He healed me and made the dragon repentant. Sadly, however there was a price to pay, he couldn't save all my normal form, so he had to merge what was left with part of his spirit.

Stoick was laughing now, Hiccup met a god? What kind of nonsense is this? Hiccup just gave him a serious look.

"I am telling the truth, look at my eyes and my skin."

Stoick looked carefully at his son's eyes and gasped when he saw that they were now draconic, he looked at his bare hands in the light and saw they were much darker than they should be.

Hiccup continued again "Luckily it wasn't these features that changed, I now have abilities and powers I did not have before. Like being able to understand the speech of dragons, I haven't found anything else yet, but I know I have to avoid eels and dragon root now."

Now Hiccup had given his explanation he walked outside to the dragons again, the dragons noted his presence and turned to face him. After telling them that he was going to get some food both night furies took up position on both sides of him. Hiccup strode into the mead hall while gesturing for the dragons to have their fill at the dragon feeders at the sides of the room. Hiccup sat down at a table and prepared to have some meat.

He took up the meat, but something came over him and suddenly he only wanted to eat the beef and fish, raw. He was troubled by this change but decided to accept his instincts, he snuck into the storage area of the mead hall and stole some beef and fish. After devouring both he decided that was enough food and headed off back to the village.

Hiccup cleared the mead hall and headed back to his house, the night furies noticed his departure and charged out of the mead hall to take up their positions. Hiccup was surprised at this rush and asked a probing question

"why are you following me everywhere?"

Toothless gave a gummy smile at Shadewrath.

"Shadewrath wanted to make sure you were safe at all times, plus it's fun!"

Both dragons laughed as Hiccup continued back to the house. As he headed back to his bed he thought of the fact Shadewrath didn't have a bed.

"hey Shadewrath, do you need a bed"

Shadewrath replied "I already got one"

Hiccup was confused "how?"

Shadewrath gave a short laugh. "you guys took so long to talk that Toothless started talking about his bed, since you were so busy I made one myself."

Hiccup was astounded at the dragon's brazen explanation of his bed,

"so, you just wandered off and made your bed at the cliffs? In the middle of a Viking village?!"

Shadewrath just gave a casual reply "yep."

Hiccup sighed again but they had reached the beds and the dragons were already preparing to go to sleep.

Hiccup smiled at this, he got in his bed and gave a small cheerful comment to the dragons.

"goodnight"

"goodnight Hiccup" they both replied.