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Oh wait, I should add a disclaimer every now and again so here it is. I do not own the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, idea, or characters (however much I wish I do); they belong to Cressida Cowell and DreamWorks. I only own whatever characters I create, and the plot of the story which you are reading.

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"Hiccup!" A voice echoed through the boy's head as he woke up with a gasp. Looking around he expected to see the back of Zahnlos's head and the sky, as that was the last thing he remembered from before he passed out. They were flying through the sky away from the Queen as his shield was starting to fail. However, that was not what Hiccup saw when he opened his eyes.

"AHHH!" Hiccup shouted out as he fell flat on his rear as he saw where he was. He recognized where he was as his mindscape, but there was something horribly wrong with it. Instead of just a house in the rolling hills and forests of Berk, there were now huge sections of rock floating in a circle around the house and more chunks of the earth were being torn up and joining the ever-growing flying circle of natural materials.

What's going on here? Hiccup thought as he observed everything that was happening. The Queen. He didn't know when or how but he was sure that the Queen had somehow broken through his mental barrier and was destroying his and potentially Zahnlos's mindscape so that She could control them as She did with all the dragons in her nest. Hiccup stayed laying on the ground just outside his house as he awaited his fate, watching the huge chunks of stone and dirt circle spin faster and faster, knowing there was nothing he could do to stop it. The ground started to tremble as all the material that was floating around Hiccup's location started to fly towards the ground and was creating a mountain around him, raising him and his house higher and higher. Hiccup was scared out of his mind, imagining the mountain would soon turn into the volcanic nest that the Queen resided in.

"Hiccup!" The boy heard the voice of Zahnlos and started to frantically look around for his best friend.

"Zahnlos, where are you!?" Hiccup shouted out in his mind, afraid and looking for a sense of normalcy in the changing chaos of his mindscape. It was then that Zahnlos materialized in front of the boy and before the dragon could say or do anything he was tackled by his rider in what was meant to be a bone-crushing bear hug but just felt like a normal hug to the large reptile. "Oh Zahnlos, I'm sorry for insisting we scout out the Nest." Hiccup said to the drake as he was wrapped up in the Dragon's wings in an effort to comfort the boy as the ground was still shaking and earth was still flying around.

"And why is that dear rider?" Zahnlos responded, nuzzling the top of his rider's head gently.

"Don't you see what is happening to my mindscape? The Queen is taking over." Hiccup said, letting his emotion flow out of him in droves.

"Stop it. This isn't the work of the Queen." Zahnlos said as he looked up to take in the changes that had happened to his rider's mindscape, finding it looked an awful lot like a bad combination of both his and his rider's mindscape.

"What else could have caused this and how do you know it isn't Her?" Hiccup asked, still not sure of what was happening, but calming down now that he was back with Zahnlos.

"I'm not sure what has happened, but I do know this isn't Her doing as this is a mix of yours and my mindscape. If it was her you wouldn't even have your own mindscape as She takes it completely over." Zahnlos said as a small shiver went through him and Hiccup got an image in his mind that felt like a memory of a mindscape that looked like the Nest they had fled from.

"Did it look like the nest?" Hiccup asked, not knowing where the image had come from.

"Yes, how did you know? I didn't send it through our bond." Came the surprised response.

"I don't know, it just appeared in my mind like it was a memory." The teen said to his dragon, even more, confused now about what was happening. It was then that the ground stopped shaking and the thuds and bangs of rock and earth slamming back into the ground stopped. Zahnlos peaked his head out of the small cocoon that he had trapped Hiccup in before opening his wings to let said teen out. What they both saw before them was a beautiful mountain top paradise of a small forest that reminded them both of the same thing; home. As they scanned the area Hiccup spotted something off to their right in one of the walls. Getting up from where he had been sitting against Zahnlos, he walked over to what he had seen with the dragon right behind him.

"Wow." Hiccup said as they got closer to the wall, now being able to see it in better clarity. It was Hiccup's house but carved partially into the rock around the entrance to a cave.

"Hiccup, I think I may know what has happened," Zahnlos said as they both stood there and admired the combination of stone and wood that was their home. "Somehow we have completely bonded in an instant."

"We did what?" Hiccup asked as he turned to look at his friend who had laid down in the grass just outside the front door, so he sat down and leaned up against his side.

"You see when two dragons are bound by fate to be with each other they bond, just as we have. That bond grows over time as the two are together till almost their entire minds are connected, allowing each to feel the other's feelings, hear their thoughts, see memories, know their pain, and some other things that I'm sure I'm forgetting." Zahnlos explained, he didn't really have a good idea of what had happened as mental bonding took decades, centuries even, to get to this level, even with the most willing of dragons. Hiccup didn't say anything, digesting the information that Zahnlos had just dumped on him.

"Then how did we reach it so soon?" Hiccup asked, laying down and getting wrapped up in Zahnlos's wings once more.

"I don't know Hiccup, I truly do not know." With that statement the two fell into silence, neither knowing what to say and neither wanting to break the silence that seemed to relax them both so much.

"Where do you think we are? I mean where do you think our bodies are?" Hiccup asked, breaking the silence after a few minutes.

"I don't know exactly but before I passed out and came here I landed back at the Sanctuary," Zahnlos said, the memory of landing at the Sanctuary finding its way to Hiccup.

"Think we should try and make it back to the real world?" Hiccup asked, looking up so that his forest green eyes meet the acid green eyes of Zahnlos.

"I think we should." Came the response as the both of them started to dematerialize to awake back in the real world.

—Real World—

The two woke up slower than they had in the past, both feeling quite sore. Looking around, Zahnlos was able to see that they were back in their cave in the Sanctuary, while Hiccup simply got a good look at the inside of the Night Fury's wings.

"How do you think we got here?" Hiccup asked, opening up the wings that cocooned him so that he could see out.

"Your Mother and Cloudjumper most likely carried us here," Zahnlos answered as they both stood but slowly. The two walked to the opening of their cave to see if they could try and spot somebody that they knew.

"Ahh!" Hiccup shouted out in shock as they started to look around, causing Zahnlos to quickly look over at him.

"What's wrong Hiccup?" Zahnlos asked him.

"I don't know, there is something weird with my eyes." Hiccup replied as he looked around the Sanctuary and took in his new vision.

"What does it look like?"

"The colors are more vivid, everything I'm looking at is clearer. Nothing hurts or anything but it just caught me unaware and I don't know where it came from." Hiccup said to Zahnlos before his eyes switched back to normal. "Wait...it's back to normal again."

"That may be one of the side effects of our bonding," Zahnlos said. "Climb on and let's go see the King about this." Hiccup did just that and they soon glided down next to the King's pool, Hiccup dismounted but stayed within arms reach of Zahnlos as they watched the mammoth dragon turn around to meet them.

"Hiccup, Zahnlos, it's good to see you two up and about. What can I help you with?" The King asked, noticing that the mental barrier was down to what would be considered normal now that they had woken up and in a place that was familiar to them.

"We have a few questions," Zahnlos replied to the massive dragon.

"About some of the specifics of your newly strengthened bond?"

"Yyyaaaaaa, how did you know?" Hiccup asked, both of them surprised by how easily the King guessed what they had arrived there for.

"I sensed your bond had reached that level when you arrived back here many hours ago, despite the barrier you had erected dear Hiccup." The King responded, confusing Hiccup even more, which the King saw and so he explained further. "When you both collapsed at the entrance your Mother and Cloudjumper brought you two to me as they had no idea what had happened and feared the Queen had corrupted your minds. As soon as you arrived I knew that to not be the case as you had erected a mental shield that was so strong that even I could not get through."

"How? The strongest shield I have been able to raise so far you could get through without much effort." Hiccup said before he was reminded of the bond by Zahnlos through the bond. "It was an effect of us fully bonding, wasn't it?"

"Yes Hiccup, it was. Your two together now have a combined raw mental power that has not been seen since the earliest days of the dragons." The King informed them. "Now I'm sure you have some questions about what else has changed since your bond, though first what do you know?" This time Zahnlos answered as he was the more knowledgeable of the two, but due to the bond, they both had access to the information.

"I know that almost our entire minds are connected which allows each of us to feel the other's feelings, hear their thoughts, see their memories and feel some of any pain the other is going through. I know there are some others but I don't remember or I was not informed of them." Zahnlos responded to the King.

"That is but the surface of what your new connection means." The King said to both of them before shifting his gaze over to Hiccup. "You will see the most changes young one."

"What changes will happen?" Hiccup asked, unable to stop himself from creating a mental image of himself as some Human Night Fury hybrid. An image that Zahnlos certainly did not think looked good.

"Nothing as drastic as I'm sure you're thinking. I'm sure you have already noticed you can change your vision, this is something that both of you can do. You can either see the world as you normally do or as Zahnlos does, through your eyes or his." The King stated. "And the same applies to you Zahnlos. If either of you concentrates, you will see how the other sees or what the other is seeing depending on what you wish to see at that moment." The two shared a look between them before looking back at the King.

"The next one applies mostly to Hiccup. Another one of the effects of a full bond is the lifespan of the one that lives the shortest will be prolonged to that of the longest due to you two needing each other to live."

"What does that mean practically though?" Hiccup asked, not quite grasping what he had been told.

"It means that you will live as long as me!" Zahnlos cried out as he started to dance around his rider in joy. Hiccup joined his bond-brother in celebrating once it dawned on him what was said. The King smiled as he watched the two play around before interrupting their fun.

"Calm down you two, there is still much more for me to tell you." The King told them before waiting for the pair to settle down in front of him before he continued. "The bonding and long life are not without their downfalls, however. You two are now a part of each other, if one of you dies the other will suffer greatly and eventually die as well. That means I expect you two to look after each other. I don't want to have to explain the effects the death of a bonded has on their bond-mate to either of you." The boys shared a demoralized look before looking back at the King.

"Anything else we should know?" Hiccup asked, interested about anything else their bond may have changed.

"Nothing that I won't tell you later." The King responded, which confused the pair as to why the King wouldn't continue. It was then that the King shifted his gaze up and Hiccup felt the wind shift behind him meaning a dragon had just landed behind him. Hiccup turned around to see his mother slide off Cloudjumper and run up and hug him as hard as she could and he could see the tears in her eyes as he embraced her back.

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Hello everybody. So, I've just kind of come to a natural stopping point in the chapter which is why it ended where it did. So this might be a little confusing to some, maybe. But if it was, just drop me a review and I'll do my best to help un-confuse it for you.

Semper Fi,

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