Dragon Prince

Fog covered a ship in the night in the middle of the ocean. A man walked amongst the deck, passing cages, a lantern in his hand. He rapped on one of the cages when something growled inside.

It was a dragon. All the cages they were carrying were filled with dragons.

"Quiet!" He looks around and watches as a bright orange flame lit up the darkness as the man saw a dark shadow in the shape of a man, holding a flaming sword. "What are you?!"

The shadow made a shh gesture with his finger. "Shh!"

The man gasped as he turned around and saw a black dragon slink it's way off of the top of one of the cages. In a moment of panic, he raced to the man and notices his armor but the masked figure was able to fight him back with his sword. The man dropped his lantern and it shattered on impact, setting fire to the deck.

The man screamed as the two walked through the fire as if it were nothing.

"AAH! YOU'RE A DEMON!" He shrieks.

The shadow raised his hand in surrender. "Shhh! Shh, shh, shh! No, no! I'm not a demon! I'm not a demon!" He pushed up his helmet up, revealing Hiccup. "See? Just a guy! Just a guy...well, more or less. And I'm here to rescue these dragons, so..." he gestured to the cages around him, but the man continued to panic.

"But you walked through fire!" He points to Hiccup.

Hiccup rubbed the shoulder pauldron of his armor. "Dragon Scales! Dragons shed a lot."

That was kind of a lie since his skin is fireproof, but he didn't want some Hunter like him to know about his dragon half. Also, his outfit did in fact come from Toothless' scales.

The man shook his head, backing up even more. "No, I know a demon when I see one! No human legs are that skinny." He turns to run away, but gets his face smacked in by a double blade axe.

"He's gonna be fine." A person wearing an all silver armor says and removes her mask to reveal Heather as Windshear joins him.

"Heather. I had him where I wanted him." Hiccup complained.

"And you got him where I wanted him." Heather replies and places her axe to her back and raises her hood. "Now let's just get to work."

"Come on." Toothless pushes Hiccup along.

They set to work, unlocking the cages, freeing all the dragons on the boat.

In one cage, Hiccup found a Stormcutter and it has a muzzle on his face and it tries to act aggressive while moving to the back.

"Shh. We're gonna get you out of here." Hiccup promises him.

"I don't believe you." The Stormcutter says.

"I know you have no reason to believe me...but I want to help you." Hiccup replies.

Just then, the Stormcutter looks to him in shock. "You can understand me?"

"Yeah, now come on. I wanna free you." Hiccup says when more guards come out and start attacking Windshear, Toothless, and Heather.

"Hurry it up, guys!" Heather tells them.

They free the rest of the dragons when the Stormcutter flies past and picks up Hiccup on his way.

"Wait! Wait! Where are you taking me!?" Hiccup asks as he's flown off.

"That's our que." Heather says, seeing Hiccup being taken. "Clear out, guys. Go, go!" She tells the dragons as she runs to the edge of the deck and gets picked up by Windshear at the last second as the Night Fury flies off to save Hiccup and Heather goes to bring the other dragons home and knows Toothless can handle a few dragons.

"Uh, Hey, where are you taking me?" Hiccup asks the Stormcutter as it continues to fly with him in its grasp.

The dragons continued flying, then all at once as they came to an lion's mane-like structure of spiked, jagged ice. Hiccup held his breath, and the dragons swooped towards it.

They flew over a thick piece of ice, and under another one. Just like that, they were inside a cave, lit by nothing.

The dragon stopped at the Bewilderbeast's nest and placed Hiccup in front of him as Hiccup regains his legs and looks around to all the dragons.

The giant dragon suddenly made himself known to the other dragons and every one of them stopped what they were doing. They placed their attention on the confrontation that was about to happen between the two dragons and the human. The Bewilderbeast scanned the area and took a good glance at Cloudjumper and the human.

"A human," he rumbled. "Cloudjumper, why have you brought a human into our home?"

"Dear king, I was captured by hunters and believed my life was over when this human and his friends came in and saved us. Not only that, but he understood me." The Stormcutter, now named Cloudjumper, explains to the gigantic dragon.

"Could it be?" The king dragon asks and moves closer to Hiccup who moved backwards on impulse. "After all this time, is it really him?"

"Uh...who do you think I am?" Hiccup asks.

"What is your name, child?" The Bewilderbeast asks him.

"Hiccup." He answered, confused to what's happening.

"Hiccup...you are the Dragon Prince." The Bewilderbeast tells him.

"I'm...I'm the what?" Hiccup asks, lost for words what the dragon is telling him. "What...What does that mean?"

The Bewilderbeast blows ice and Hiccup is surrounded by darkness and the ice starts to form shapes of dragons and humans fighting.

"For over 300 years, the war of humans and dragons has been fought, and nobody could speak up for us because they never understood us. They'd capture us, stole us from our homes, attack us, or just kill us. Over many years, we would beg for a miracle, someone who could walk the world of humans but understood the dragons. We dragons have a prophecy that a human would be born with the soul of a dragon. This human would have the capabilities of all dragons, and would unite the two worlds of dragons and humans." The Bewilderbeast explains when another dragon comes into view and it's nothing like Hiccup has ever seen before.

"But you can only unlock your full potential, when you hear the Bells of Frey. These bells will reveal to you the location of this Foreverwing. He started this legend of you. Only he can call you, and when you answer the call, you'll be ready and unlock your full potential."

Hiccup takes a minute to collect himself as the light returns and he's back facing Cloudjumper and he takes a seat to collect his thoughts.

"I know this is a lot to comprehend, but this is who you are. This is who you are meant to be." The Bewilderbeast says. "And this is where you are meant to be."

Now Hiccup doesn't know what to think. He's meant to join the world of dragons and humans, stop the war, and now he needs to leave his home in order to do it. That's also when they hear a roar and look to see Toothless flying in and he sees Hiccup.

"Hiccup! You're okay!" Toothless cheers and licks Hiccup when he noticed the Bewilderbeast in front of him. "My king." He looks down, showing respect to the alpha dragon.

Hiccup and Toothless flew back to Caldera Cay where they got everyone together and told them what happened.

"So you're leaving?" Heather asks.

"I...I didn't know." Hiccup tells her. "I feel like I belong here. With all of you, my friends, family. But another part of me is being pulled back to what he told me. Like...I need to go. Learn who I am meant to be."

Mala was the only silent one in the group when she faces her brother.

"You have to go." Mala says and everyone is surprised at her advice. "Father said what you have is a gift. And they are giving you a chance to live up to your potential. You...you have to."

Hiccup looks to Toothless who's as surprised as the others. "You really think I should?"

"Yes." Mala answers and pulls her brother into a hug. "And it's not like you'll be gone forever, right? We can still visit. Terror mail."

"Yeah...Yeah...of course." Hiccup promises as he pulls his sister closer and knows she's right.

He needs to embrace his destiny.

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