Gothi entered the cottage, snow blowing in little wafts around her head. The gentle clunk of her walking stick echoed off of the walls of the home.

Hiccup always felt an odd, uncomforting aura around Gothi. Her authority practically radiated off of her.

"Gothi," Hiccup spoke in a reverent tone when the elder smiled at him.

"Hiccup," Stoick said, "Gothi would like borrow some spare ink and paper."

Hiccup nodded and ran up to his room to fetch some ink and paper for the grey haired lady. He could hear Stoick talking to the mute Gothi down below. Hiccup walked over to his rucksack lying on his desk and opened it. He rummaged through it, pushing all of the books, old charcoal pens, and other things gently out of the way. When he found the flask of black ink, he realized that it was the last one he had. Trader Johan had not been around as of late so there was no way for Hiccup to get more. As tempted as he was to run back and say they were out of it, he could not let Gothi go without ink. Gothi was very mysterious to everyone, but that was something people respected greatly. So Hiccup figured whatever Gothi needed with this ink was probably much more important than what he would do with it.

He sighed heavily, "Well, now I won't be doing much drawing or writing. Could this get any more boring?"

He snatched up some paper along with the flask of ink and then he turned around. It surprised him to see Toothless resting on his stone bed. Hiccup had not realized that the dragon had snuck back up stairs.

Toothless' bright green eyes gazed at Hiccup with friendly intent and the dragon gurgled. Hiccup took notice that the dragon was slightly shivering and guilt spread over him. He wondered if he supplied Toothless with body heat just like Toothless did for him.

Hiccup set the ink and paper down on the desk and walked over to his bed. He pulled the sheet that covered the bed off and little bits of straw flew everywhere. Usually the Vikings would just sleep on the wooden boards of the bed frame, but considering the already painful temperature conditions they decided that sleeping on straw would be much nicer.

Hiccup made his way over to the Night Fury with the blanket in hand and gently laid it on the dragon's back. Hiccup did not know if it would do any good, but at least it was something.

Toothless twisted his head back and examined the sheet that covered his back. He grunted at it, not sure what to make of it. It did seem to help with his coldness a little bit, but Toothless did not know if he liked the idea of something covering his shiny black scales.

"There," Hiccup smiled, reaching out to scratch under Toothless' chin, "That any better bud?"

Toothless shut his eyes and growled in pleasure. A goofy smile spread across his muzzle that showcased his pink gums.

Hiccup chuckled, grabbed the ink and paper from the desk again, and headed down the steps with Toothless at his heels. When he reached the foot of the steps Gothi smiled gently at him. Hiccup smiled back and walked toward her.

Gothi took off her back an old heavy rucksack made of warn down leather and set it on the floor. She held out her hands, beckoning for the items that Hiccup held in his. He handed them to her and she gently fit them into her over stuffed rucksack.

"Keeping warm up in your cottage, Gothi?" Stoick asked the old woman.

She nodded slowly and went to pick up her baggage. But just as she lifted it off the ground, the old straps broke and the bag fell to the floor. With a slight bang it hit and all of the items rolled out onto the floor.

It was the oddest collection of things Hiccup had ever seen. There was the ink and paper Hiccup had given her. But along with that there was old, ink stained quills, a fish wrapped in parchment that appeared to have a strange orange sap on it, little minerals, and herbs of all different sorts.

"Oh, let me help," Hiccup offered to Gothi, who looked very annoyed at the brittleness of her leather bag. Hiccup knelt down and began to gather the scattered items, Stoick did likewise.

Toothless watched as they cleaned up. He too looked over the items, but when he saw the fish his stomach grumbled. He was so hungry. He knew it was Gothi's fish, but he was starving. He knew it was wrong, but when he was sure no one would catch him, he dived for it. He grabbed ahold of the tail with his teeth, flung the fish into the air, caught it, and gulped.

Gothi's surprised gasp could be heard all throughout the room. She pressed her palms to her cheeks in horror and dropped her walking staff. It hit the ground with a hollow thud.

Hiccup turned to the dragon and gave him the sternest look he could conjure up, "Toothless!"

The dragon realized that Hiccup was upset at him and felt guilty for giving into temptation. He knew better. The dragon's ears fell and his head drooped in shame. He gazed up at Hiccup with wide eyes.

"Don't give me that look! That wasn't your fish!" Hiccup continued.

Stoick laid a hand gently on Gothi's shoulder, "Don't worry Gothi, we'll give you one of our fish. You can't blame him; a dragon has to do what a dragon has to do."

Gothi ignored him and rushed over to Toothless. With panicked little movements, she appeared to be checking his eyes, his scales, and even his pulse. Hiccup was just as confused as Toothless was. He was sure that Gothi was on her way to smack the dragon and Toothless thought the same.

She stopped her examination and stepped back, she seemed almost afraid of the dragon.

Toothless gurgled and stepped forward cautiously, curious to why the Elder was so horrified. It was just a fish! But just as Toothless took another step, he felt a strange tingling feeling inside his stomach. He thought he was gonna be sick.

Hiccup noticed that the dragon was looking ill and he stepped towards him. But Toothless only backed up.

"Toothless? Bud, you okay?"

The dragon felt a dizzying sense fall over him and he tried to walk towards Hiccup but he stumbled. In fear of becoming sick Toothless turned and bolted up the stairs into Hiccup's bedroom.

Hiccup turned to Stoick, concern filling his eyes.

Stoick nodded at Hiccup, "Go check on him."

Hiccup didn't need to be told twice. He ran up the stairs, feeling an awful feeling of dread at the thought of a sick dragon in this weather. He might not survive sickness if the temperature kept going at the rate it was going.

When he reached his bedroom he expected to find the dragon throwing up or doubled over in pain, but what he found was not a dragon.

Lying on the floor at the side of Hiccup's bed, wrapped in a sheet, was a boy at the age of sixteen. He had shaggy black hair that fell a bit in front of his eyes, pale white skin that looked chalky white, and sparkly green eyes that glistened with tears.

"Toothless?" Hiccup breathed in overwhelming disbelief.

The boy blinked up at him, confusion obvious in his eyes. He glanced down and caught sight of his legs. He screamed.

The scream was loud and terrifying; it was enough to make Hiccup jump and Stoick to come rushing up the stairs.

"Son! What in Odin's name-?" He froze when he saw the boy on the floor, who was still shaking nervously.

Hiccup felt dumbstruck as he watched the boy examine his fingers and hands with distress. He didn't speak at all, but uttered little frightened murmurs.

Hiccup approached the boy slowly, being careful not to shake him up more than he already was. And so he wouldn't come off as intimidating, he got down on his hands and knees and crawled towards him. Though he had no idea what was going on and what he should do, he knew that somehow, someway, that this boy was still his Toothless.

"Toothless?"

The boy looked up at his name being called. A single tear rolled down his cheek and tiny whimper escaped his lips.

Hiccup sighed heavily and reached with his right hand slowly just like he had done when Toothless was a dragon. When Hiccup felt no rejection from him, he cupped Toothless' cheek tenderly.

"Hey bud, I don't know what this is and what's going on, but it'll be okay," Hiccup whispered. It shocked him at how calm he was able to stay in this situation. It's not every day a dragon turns into a human. In fact it hadn't happened before! So how he was able to keep a level head was beyond him.

Seconds passed of a strange and curious silence. Then suddenly the petrified boy burst into tears.

"Hey, hey, hey, bud, it's alright, it's gonna be alright," Hiccup cooed to the very human Toothless.

Stoick was confused as ever. He had no idea why Hiccup was calling this boy bud and Toothless. He also had no idea that his son was able to be that sensual, not that he cared. It was just different to see a Viking being as soft as he was being. It was obvious that the skinny black haired boy was scared of whatever was going on.

"Hiccup, what happened?" Stoick asked, alarm in his voice.

Just as he said that, the little Gothi trudged up the final steps and walked into Hiccup's bedroom. She froze in her tracks when she saw Toothless sitting on the floor by Hiccup's bed.

"Gothi, what is this?" Stoick asked the Elder.

Gothi shook her head and looked at the two boys on the floor. She gave Toothless an apologetic look that spoke louder than any words could. Then, without another glance at the two, she motioned Stoick to follow her down the steps.

Stoick shrugged and turned to follow her, but he paused, "Hiccup, will you be able to handle this while I talk to Gothi?"

Hiccup looked back over his shoulder and nodded to his father. Stoick gave a nod back and headed down the steps.

With another sigh Hiccup turned back to Toothless, who was still crying. The sharp green eyes stared back into Hiccup's; they were clouded with worry and confusion, mutual feelings that the two shared at that moment.

"H-h… Hmm-," Toothless whimpered lowly.

Hiccup's eyes lit up with curiosity at the little noises Toothless was making. It sounded as though Toothless was trying to speak, but Hiccup was quite sure that the new human was not going to be very good at communication.

"Yeah?" Hiccup urged.

Toothless blinked in concentration, "H-h-Hic-c-c-up?"

A bright, warm smile lit up Hiccup's face. He nodded, "Yeah Toothless, I'm here."

And Toothless gave another sniffle as he pressed gently into Hiccup's hand that was still holding his cheek.

Hope i didn't dissapoint with the new update! Review if you could! Critique a lot! Thank you! Luv ya! ~A

P.S. Who's ready for Dragons 2 tomorrow on DVD? I AM! :)