[HTTYD] He's Not Dangerous (Slyfoot version, ch.2)

He's Not Dangerous [Slyfoot version] - Part 2 (rough draft)

A DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon fanfic by Raberba girl

A/N:  Sorry, Mugetsu. XD  But it'll change again before the end...!

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Alpha goes away.  He FINALLY goes away.  I am soooooooo happy, now there's no danger and no one who's scared and sad and upset, now I can go and smell the human all I want and lick him and bite him and play with him and tell him how interesting and fun he is.

Except other dragons want to do the same thing, NO IT'S NOT FAIR THEY'RE BIGGER THAN ME AND THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM AND THEY REACH CHARCOAL PAWS FIRST...!  It's not fair!  I want him!

FRIEND REACHES HIM FIRST.  FRIEND YOU TRAITOR, YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND I AM CALLING YOU BEAR BRAIN AGAIN.

"Hello!" Bear Brain tells Charcoal Paws, "You are a good person, so I like you!  I know you won't hurt us."

Charcoal Paws makes a funny sound.  Then Bee Eater starts investigating him and knocks him right into Bear Brain and Bear Brain is surprised, hah.  Shield is angry too, but no one listens to him now because Alpha is gone and Charcoal Paws is not dangerous and he is very a lot interesting so everyone wants him.

But I want him most, and now Bear Brain's big heavy body is out of the way so I can reach the human, FINALLY.  I want his funny little paws most, I like them very much.  But I only just touched one of them and then the bigger dragons yell at me.

"Orphan!"

"Get away!"

"We outrank you; we get him first!"

It's not fair it's not fair it's not faaaaiiiiir, I HATE being small and young and no one to help me except Bear Brain, it's not fair, I want the human, I want him I want him I want him I don't like being this very low rank at all!!!!

Shield very much doesn't like being ignored.  He chases everyone away and grabs his precious thing to take him away, nooooooooo, I barely got to play with him at all, I don't want him to go away!

"Wait, Toothless, wait, hold on...!"  Charcoal Paws says "Let go of me, I want to stay!"  I'm so glad, maybe I won't lose him after all.

"Why are you always so difficult??"

Shield is upset, but he loves his human and I know he's going to give in, especially when Charcoal Paws pleads.  He's making very many noises that don't mean anything, except I think it's his human way of saying "Please please please please let's stay."  Maybe Shield understands what all those strange noises mean.  I want to know, too; I want to learn.

Shield finally lets his human come greet us again.  Charcoal Paws is too small there is not enough of him for all of us to play with.  Only maybe two or three dragons can reach him at the same time, and he makes happy noises at them and pats them with his paws that smell like charcoal, but none of those dragons are me and I don't like that.

He picks up his human weapons again but not to hurt us, he puts one of them on his foreleg and the other one on his hind leg and they stick.  They stick to him, they don't fall off!!  I don't understand it, I want to know how he does it!  "How does he make his weapons stick to him?!" I ask Shield.

"Half Of Me can do anything," Shield grumbles.  He is upset because his precious thing won't go away with him and be safe.  "He is very much clever."

"Then why do you call him stupid?"

"Sometimes He's stupider than a hatchling, but sometimes He's smarter than me and does things I never thought of.  He's never normal smart."  Shield rests his head on his front paws as he watches his other half.  "It's okay.  I love Him when He's smart and I love Him when He's stupid, too."

Bear Brain can reach Charcoal Paws again.  I go over to them and I find room and I can reach the funny little paws again, so I get to bite one like I've been wanting to do very much.  I am gentle and don't use any teeth because Charcoal Paws is a weakling and I don't want to hurt him and Shield will get very angry at me if I do.  The human paw with its long narrow soft bending claws does feel very nice to bite, I like it.

"Eeeaauughh, dragon drool...you guys are so gross," Charcoal Paws tells me, and I don't know what he's saying but I hear affection in his voice.

Playing with Charcoal Paws is so fun, but it's so late and everyone is tired.  More and more of them go back to the nest so they can sleep again.  I like it because it's easier now to be close to Charcoal Paws and smell him.

His weapon that's not a blade so I don't know why it's a weapon smells like metal and human and fireskin and two-head.  I ask Shield how two dragons can fit into a tiny piece of metal, but Shield says there are no dragons inside, it's only their saliva and their gas.

How?!  I ask him that too, but Shield only says that his other half is crazy/smart and doesn't make any sense a lot of times, so his dragon flockmates just have to trust him.  I don't like that explanation, it's not an explanation because I still don't know, but when I ask Charcoal Paws, he won't answer me either, he just makes a happy noise and scratches my chin and it feels so so so good that I forget to keep asking.

Bear Brain is investigating Charcoal Paws's head-fur.  The outer layer of fur is stiff and sticky from when Shield licked it, but Bear Brain says that the fur underneath feels so soft and nice on his nose.  He starts to lick the back of Charcoal Paws's neck, but Charcoal Paws yelps and scrambles away.  I don't think he likes being licked, I don't know why.

Charcoal Paws has so little head-fur, I wonder how it can keep him warm.  Shield says it doesn't.  "Humans use animal fur and dead things to keep themselves warm instead, but sometimes that's not enough, either.  Then they have to make their stay-fires and cuddle with us sometimes just to stay warm enough."  I feel sorry for Charcoal Paws, so I lick him even though he doesn't like it.

I can tell he loves me so much, because he smells so happy and he keeps caressing me and crooning at me.  Then he wraps both of his forelegs around me and squeezes, what?!  What?!  He's threatening me?!  I jerk away and bare my teeth and wonder why why how he can threaten me when he still smells happy.  Shield laughs at me, so I'm offended.  "It's not a threat.  Humans do that to show affection."

"Huh?!"

Charcoal Paws is crooning apologetically at me, reaching to me with his forepaws.  "Aw, hey, little guy, sorry, it was just a hug.  Just a hug, see?  You're so cute."  He scratches the sweet spot under my chin again, and it feels so good I have to forgive him.

Half of his hind leg smells like metal and wood and not like a leg at all.  Shield says it's because Charcoal Paws lost his real leg, so he made a new one for himself.

He made it.  He made a leg, how?!  He's walking around like normal even though one of his hind legs is a not-leg!!

"Half Of Me is amazing."

He is...he iiiiiisssss, aaaahhh, I love this human, I want him!

Charcoal Paws pulls away from us and goes to look for something.

"He is hungry?" Bear Brain asks Shield.

"No.  A lot of times stupid Half Of Me doesn't eat even when His body is hungry.  I know He's going to do a crazy interesting Half Of Me thing instead."

We all watch this very so much interesting human.

Charcoal Paws comes back to us, carrying a big stick instead of food.  "Look, guys, I wanna show you something."  He puts the tip of the stick on the ground, and then he drags it.  He drags and drags, and it's confusing.

"Look at all the marks he's making on the ground," someone says.  "Are they human marks?"

We all look to see what they say, but they don't say anything, they're just scratches in the dirt.

"I don't understand."

"What's he saying, Humanhalf?"

"Territory??  Food??  Mating??"

Shield went to curl up on a boulder and sulk.  He's jealous that his other half is more interested in us than him.  "Figure it out yourself."  So we look some more.

Charcoal Paws is crazy, so I think probably he doesn't want normal things.  He loves us, so he wants us.  I bet these marks are saying "I love nightwings, they are amazing."  Some of the marks are even shaped like very flat nightwing wings.  And...and--

Curious understands it the same time I do, but she says it before I can say anything.  "NIGHTWING!!  It's a nightwing!"

The others tell her she's wrong and what she said is stupid, these are just meaningless marks in the dirt and not a dragon, but they're the ones who are wrong, because I can see it now.  I see the marks that are eyes and the marks that are head plates and the parts that are a neck and chest and....

It's so very confusing that my eyes don't feel good and I keep not seeing the nightwing in the marks until I try hard to see it again, but I know that Charcoal Paws somehow made a nightwing with his marks.  They're crazy human marks that still don't mean anything, but I understand now.  It's scary and exciting at the same time.  Human minds are scary and very so much crazy, but also so so much interesting, I'm excited.

Curious ran to get a stick so that she could make real marks and not crazy ones, and now we all want sticks, too.  I get a stick and I press the tip of it to the dirt like Charcoal Paws did, and I drag the stick so that it makes marks.  They are not strange human marks, they are good marks that say something.

I draw lines to show that there is a human but he's a good human, and he's crazy but in a good way.  I want to show that his name is Charcoal Paws and I like him very much and he loves me, but there's no ROOM, grrr!  When I try to drag my stick to make the 'name is paws that smell like charcoal' part, I can't because Spine Shredder's 'new scary fun things' marks are in the way.  He snaps at me, so I can't make my marks and I get mad, but I can't do anything because he outranks me and he will beat me if I challenge him.

But the others are running out of room too, and they get mad and challenge each other and forget to keep marking.  I see that they are distracted.  I see that because they are fighting, now none of them are close to me, and there is no room for my marks on the ground, but there will be room if their marks are gone.

When I see that Spine Shredder is very busy and distracted because Curious is gnawing on his head, I rub my paw on his marks until they're gone, and now I have room to finish making my marks, heh.

"Whoa, hey, guys, wait! It's okay, it's just-- Come on, we'll find another-- And you! Stop laughing!"  Now it's Charcoal Paws who's upset and his other half who's amused.  I think this gentle human doesn't like to see us fight, but Shield thinks it's funny because we're all distracted now and he gets to be close to his precious thing again.

Some of the ones who lose their fights go away back to the nest so they can sleep again.  But even the ones who win are too tired to keep making marks for very long, and their aeries are too far away, so they just curl up to sleep right here.  We are close to someone with a precious thing right now; even if danger approaches, he will keep watch over his precious thing and fight to keep it safe, and if we stay close, we'll be safe, too.  Shield is an alpha.  He's not our alpha, but he can still protect us, and he will because his other half loves us.

Bear Brain climbs right up to Charcoal Paws, cringing submissively when Shield growls at him, but ignoring Shield when Shield says to go away.  "I will be good and lowly, yes, but I won't go away because I love this creature and want to be close to him," Bear Brain whines hopefully, as if he thinks he can make Shield not be mad at him even though he's provoking him.

"NO!  No, I don't like it, I don't like it, everyone loves Half Of Me and He loves them back, will He have enough love left for me?!?!"

Charcoal Paws comforts his other half and reassures him, trying to quiet him.  I love Charcoal Paws and I will be very unhappy if I go away from him and I won't be able to sleep, so I fly up to the boulder too and I curl up close to Charcoal Paws and rest my head on his very nice soft leg.  Shield gets angry at me too for being close to his precious thing, but I can tell that Charcoal Paws likes us to be here, so I know I can stay.

Charcoal Paws tells his other half "I love You I love You I love You, please shut up because it's okay and I will stay close to You even though I love and am close to these other dragons too," so Shield finally is quiet again.  He comforts himself with the scent of his other half and by licking him to reassert his claim on him.  They talk to each other in their strange two-halves way.

I don't understand what they're telling each other but I like listening to them, and I fall asleep as I listen.

To be continued....

Author's Notes:  I realized that I totally forgot to clarify it in the previous chapter, but yes, Bear Brain is Pinecone. ^^

Ftr, kiriban's still open to the first person with an FFN account who requests a fic that I'm capable of writing~

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