When hiccup is the 'focus' of the scene, here is what the writing style will be:

"Bold": Dragonese

"Italics": English

"Normal": Norse

Chapter 3

The two radar operators had been sitting and staring at the same screens for the past few hours. So far all they had seen was a few stray airliners at the far edges of the radar station's range, but they were of no concern as their IFF transponders registered them as airliners.

"Hey Jack, how much time do we have left staring at these screens?"

"William, I told you five minutes ago that we still have about an hour left on duty." The more senior of the two replied.

"Why are we even watching these screens? It's not like the Soviets are going to attack, considering their army is knee deep in sand right now." William, being just a simple PFC, asked.

"One of their army's yes, but they have multiple army's on each side of the nation," Jack replied, expecting a quick response from his friend. When he didn't reply, Jack looked over at him to see if he was fine to find him staring deeply at the radar screen.

"Hey William, everything ok over there?" He asked, slightly startling the man.

"Ah, oh um you um, you might want to um, come take a look at this." Was the reply Jack got as William pointed at his screen. Jack got up from his station to go look at what William was seeing at his station. When he got there and looked at where William was pointed at on his screen, he was also confused.

"What do you think that is?" William asked once Jack got over there. There was a small blip, it almost didn't register on the radar screen, that had no IFF transponder.

"I don't know," Jack answered as he looked over a sheet of paper, "there aren't any scheduled flights that far out north."

"Then we have an unidentified bogey flying our way?"

"Yup, I'm going to call it in," Jack answered as he picked up the phone to call in the bogey.

Two F-15C's soared through the air towards the odd radar blip.

"Control, this is flight lead. Picking up the boggy on radar." The first pilot radioed back to the control room back at base.

"Roger that flight lead, proceed with mission." The response came over the radio.

"So what do you think it is?" The wingman, call sign Vulture, asked.

"I don't know," flight lead, call sign Machine, replied, "It could be anything from a loose weather balloon to a Cessna with a broken transponder to a new Russian stealth fighter."

"Let's just hope it's a weather balloon or a Cessna instead of a Russian. So how do you want to do this?" Vulture asked.

"They are going low and slow so I say let's take a medium speed pass to identify and then pull alongside and escort it back out to international airspace or to an airfield." Was the reply from Machine.

"Roger that." Vulture replied as they kept flying towards the boggy. The rest of the flight went in silence as they got closer and closer to the relatively slow-moving radar blip. As they got closer, the boggy increased its speed slightly but kept the same heading. The two fighters arrived at the location of the boggy and dropped out of the cloud cover they had been above the whole way. As they did a pass at around 200 knots, or 230 miles per hour, they both saw something they were not prepared for.

"Did I just see what I think I saw?" Vulture asked over the radio.

"Well if you saw a black dragon with a person on its back, then I would say so." Machine replied.

"So how do we deal with this?"

"We get them to land and call in ground units. Let's pull up beside them and pace 'em, then you call it in and I will work on getting them to land cause I seriously doubt they have a radio." Machine answered.

"Roger that flight lead." Vulture said as they maneuvered to pull alongside the odd pair.

A Few Minutes Earlier

"Toothless, we need to find a place to land." Hiccup said to his dragon friend as they had been flying for a few hours.

"Why is that Hiccup? I could fly for several more hours." Toothless responded. The fact that Hiccup could now understand Toothless whenever he had the sliver of that weird gem on him still slightly freckled him out, even though they found it on the island they stopped at before passing through the storm barrier.

"You may be able to bud, but I can't. I wish I could, but I need to be on the ground to rest every now and again." Was Hiccups quick reply.

"I understand, I will try to find some land as quickly as possible." Replied the great flying reptile that Hiccup sat atop. Toothless speed up so that his human would be able to rest, and he was also slightly tired as well. Toothless's ear flaps then perked up as if he had heard something.

"What is it Toothless?" Hiccup asked as he noticed Toothless's ear flaps come up.

"I hear something, it sounds like a rumble," Toothless told Hiccup as he had the better hearing.

"I can start to hear it as well; what do you think it is?" Hiccup asked as the rumbling sound got louder and louder. Before Toothless could respond, two very large metal birds came flying out of the clouds and blew past the two.

"What in Thor's name was that?" Hiccup yelled as the two contraptions went by and turned around.

"I don't know, but whatever they are, they are coming back around." Toothless replied as he watched the two fake dragons come and pull up next to them. Once they did, Toothless started to speed away from them, hoping to outrun the odd flying things.

"Toothless, there are men inside of those things and I think they want us to land." Hiccup said after a few minutes of staring and trying to understanding what the person in one of the loud metal flying contraptions.

"What do we have to worry about? They don't seem to be a threat." Toothless replied.

"I think we should follow what they say. I mean, we are in new and undiscovered territory and they are much more advanced than anything I have ever seen before." Hiccup told Toothless, who grunted in annoyance before angling down to land on a shoreline that had just appeared. The pair landed on the beach and the two flying things started to circle overhead.

"Hiccup, why are we still here? Clearly, they are not going to land and talk with us." Toothless said after they had been waiting on the beach for a few minutes. Right after he said that a new noise was heard. They both looked around for the source or the new noise when Hiccup spotted the source.

"Toothless, over there," he said while pointing at the source of the noise, "it looks like two more flying contraptions."

"That is right, except these are suspended in the air differently than the ones we first discovered," Toothless told hiccup as he had the better eyesight of the two. Before hiccup could say anything, they were upon them and started to land on the ground, blowing up a large amount of dirt and sand. People in strange clothing with what they could only presume was weapons, jumped out of the crafts. Once they had all gotten out, the odd flying things lifted back off and started to circle just as the first pair of strange flying things had.

"Hiccup, get behind me," Toothless said to Hiccup, even though he was already pushing the boy behind him and curling his tail around him protectively. Toothless got a plasma blast ready and Hiccup pulled a dagger out of a sheath on his belt.

"Put the knife down!" One of them shouted at Hiccup, but it was in a language he had never heard before so he did not know what was being said. The group of men had half-way surrounded the pair and had their weapons pointed at the pair. They started to slowly advance on the pair but stopped when Toothless growled at them.

"Toothless, let's see if we can get out of here." Hiccup said to Toothless. Hiccup then tried to get onto Toothless's back but the yelling from the strange men, whom Hiccup had started to think of as warriors, stopped them. After that, everybody just seemed to stay where they were as an odd sort of truce was exchanged; nobody moves and tries to do anything and nobody gets hurt. After a tense thirty seconds, the sound of a third of the hovering crafts was heard just before it came into sight. It was a much smaller craft than the others and only dropped one man off, instead of the group of six as the others had, and stayed on the ground instead of taking off.

"Everybody stand down, that's an order." The newcomer told the others, who then lowered their weapons and the newcomer walked forwards. Toothless growled at him, so he stopped walking and then did something unexpected. The man was an oddity for Hiccup as the man's dark skin was something Hiccup had never seen before.

"It's ok, I don't want to hurt you or your rider." He said in Norse instead of the odd language he had spoken with the others in. This got Hiccups attention as he didn't expect to hear the man speaking in a language he could understand. Toothless on the other hand, seemed to completely trust the man as he stopped his growling and stood up.

"Who are you and how do you know my language?" Hiccup asked, slightly unnerved at how quickly Toothless trusted the man.

"My name is Benjamin Underson, I'm a Colonel in the United States Air Force and I was taught your language, Norse, by another person who is very similar to you. I have a question for you though." The now named Colonel Underson said.

"I have a few of my own to ask, like what's the United States Air Force?" Hiccup asked, still not in a very trusting mood.

"I say we should trust him," Toothless said as he heard the way Hiccup was talking to the Colonel.

"Fine, I will try it," Hiccup replied before turning back to face the man, "if he gets these men to back away."

"Give us some room." The colonel said to the men around them, and after some grumbling, they complied.

"The United States Air Force is the branch of the US military tasked with all thing pertaining to the air. Now I'm sure you have much more questions and I will answer them, and much more, once we arrive at the base I am in command of." Benjamin told Hiccup, who safe to say was very confused at that time.

"Let's go Hiccup, how bad could it be?" Toothless said after waiting about thirty seconds for Hiccup to think about it.

"Fine, but are you going to be like this all the time?" Hiccup asked.

"Perhaps." Toothless slyly replied.

"You overgrown lizard." Hiccup silently said before receiving a tail to the back of the head.

"So you will come?" The colonel asked.

"Yes, we will come to your base and see what you have to say." Hiccup replied.

"Wonderful! I'm going to get back into that helicopter and then you can follow us back to base." Benjamin said before turning around and walking to the helicopter.

I bet you didn't see that coming! So who do you think this other person is and how does the Colonel know what a Night Fury is? Any guesses on who he is? Well, you will all get to see next chapter! So who caught my hidden references? I expect at least one person to get them. Thank you to the core of justice for the OC that became the colonel.

Semper Fi,

Thearizona