"Bunny......."

The next few weeks after hiccup was testing different saddle ideas on me and attempting to find a rider for me. My wings had healed and I could finally fly and change back into a human I spent a week in the woods running around on two feet the wind in my hair and finally able to talk. Toothless found me and after I explain what my species could do he was happy though worried about me living in the woods for a bit i told him not to worry I would go back to the village in a bit.

Dragonese is verry intresting when your human and not a dragon. I still turn into a human at night sometimes and keep to Frigg's form during the day to ease suspicion. I've made a nesting area on top of the hill near the cliffs and many in the village know that's where I usually am. It was a warm summer night something I found rarely in burk. I was in my usual spot in human form watching the stars and the moon over the water. It's about the season and time I lost them, and I can feel my soul breaking by the hour.

A shuffling behind me scares me and I turn quickly crouching ready to run if I don't want them to see me. A shocked valka looks at me a sheeps blanket in her arms,

" wh-who are you child?"

I hide my face quickly and shuffle away from the edge and her." I-I'm sorry, I was just admiring the moon"

" don't worry, one of the dragons usually sleep up here I didn't expect anyone else either, I won't harm you dear, do you mind if I join you?"

" o-oh. Um n- no i don't mind."

She sits down near me and I start haveing a battle within on weather I should come clean, I trust this woman but I have told outhers who I've trusted and they have turned against me more often then not. Thinking they could control me or sell me off let alone kill me. We sit in silence watching the sky and soon she asks me a question.

" what's your name? I don't think I've seen you in the village."

" oh um it's alayah, I have outher names, um I'm not really from the village either really.."

" hmm, you must be from one of the outher villages then. I know some have sent women here to marry in ways of peacekeeping therough the chiefs, hiccup hasn't been that excited with them usually they try to bed him, hahah Astrid nearly killed a girl for sneaking into the chiefs hut one day. You should've seen the look on his face....."

I start to relax a bit as she speaks laughing a bit with her as she tells some story's about the village and her son. I realize that I have nothing to fear from this woman or the village, as they all have shown me nothing but kindness in this time I've been here and decide that she should be the first I show my secret to in a long time.

" valka? Can I show you something? I haven't showed many people and those I do usually try to kill me so can you do me a favor and have an open mind?"

" of corse!, I don't know what could possible be so terrible someone would want to kill you for it. But I promise I'll keep an open mind"

"Ok, just stay there I'm, going to change behind that rock because I don't want my clothes to get ripped just uh stay here please."

Nervously I change behind the bolder valka being able to see my head I take a deep breath to calm myself as she watches carefully. Closing my eyes I breath deeply as I feel the shift begin hearing a gasp of surprise as I feel myself grow taller and overall larger. Now in my dragon form I look at valka she standing in shock watching me I shake my skales a bit a few shedding in the process. She walks up to me and I freeze. She stands in front of me when her fave breaks out into a smile and hugs my body. I take a deep breath and muzzle into her much more happy that someone in the village whose human knows what I am. She releases me and I go to stand where I was to change back softly changeing afterwards.

She tackles me in another hug when I step out from behind it and we go and sit back on the hillside overlooking the ocean. I tell her my story and why I look so young but my eyes are older and why I have many scars over my body dragon and human. Then I get to the hard part telling her about my kids I start slow watching the moon as it floats in the Sky, I tell her how we met, why I stayed and my life with them. I didn't even realize I was crying untill she hugged me. Then I told her how I lost them,

(She is also telling valka this as she remembers)

MemoryIt was after the melting about ten years ago, the night was very much like this one, warm and comfortable. That day a man came to the town with massive ships and some dragons asking the townspeople where the dragons were coming from. My presence had kept many of the usual dragons away and he seemed to realize that a powerfull dragon must be in the area, he and his men stayed for weeks and scouted the woods where I lived.

I had told them that since my house was hidden by trees many dragons did not come near us and we had only rebuilt a few times since moving here. The man was as cold as a war forged hammer and showed only two emotions that I saw, anger and pleasure but only when he caught a dragon. his name was drago bloodfist. His men caught a good amount of dragons while they were there, it was horrible, I couldn't change for fear of being seen and had to wait on them many times at the inn I worked at. He saw how I disliked him and in return he took interest in my son, him being fifteen at the time I had allowed him to work at the docks to make extra money for the time and his sister tended to our gardens selling what we grew in the markets.

I hated how he acted around my son, acting like a father to him and showing him how to catch dragons and hurt them. My children know I had a secret, but I never had the time to tell them what I was. I had warned them both about Drogo and I prayed he listened. About a month after he arrived the snow had all melted and everyone finally shed their winter furs for more comfortable cloth the sun hotter now. He came with an offer to my son, asking him to travel with his crew and catch dragons for his dragon army and he would teach him more. My son told him no as he could never leave me and his sister for long, Drogo did not like that and threatend our family if he did not join.

My son escaped and ran home to me telling us what had happend, I was worried and told them to pack anything they could and we were leaveing in the morning to the nearest village over. I made a stupid mistake that night, one I will regret for the rest of my years. I left that night into the woods the repression of a healthy dragon is hard to keep up, them being wounded is one thing but when they are healthy and safe they always itch to appear, I had been repressing my dragon for nearly a month and I had to change sooner or later. I went into the woods and changed forms flying higher into the Sky above the clouds for miles, when I turned back I saw fire and smoke. I hit the ground and I ran torward my home, the house was aflame and my children were inside, a stake was left with Drogo's flag at the entrance. I was distraught and in my agony my body shut down I couldn't change to save them.

I screamed and cried for what felt like hours, when the flames died I searched for anything I could save I couldn't bare to go near my children's rooms, I couldn't think of seeing their body's, there was a amulet that was spared I had one made for all of us out of my spare scales that had fallen, heartbroken I left the wreckage into the woods a shell of a human I had changed into a dragon after that and flew miles to a small island. It took me weeks to move lat alone months to change back to human form and even longer to heal my heart and soul, even now they still are unhealed.

"- I wear this necklace everyday in hopes that I will heal, the scale returns to my body when I change forms allowing me to change effortlessly. I will never forgive that man for what he took away from me, my own children"

I had curled up near valka soaking her lap in tears for I had never said what had happend to another human. When I had finished sobbing I sat up and tried to calm myself. She let me calm down before asking,

" you poor dear, no mother should have to deal with that, what was their names? Your children?"

A soft smile grown on my face and I take the amulet from under my shirt a onyx scale dotted with a thousand stars glistens in the moonlight, three chips engraved in the edge, the biggest on one side followed by two smaller ones, a initial above each one, takeing the necklace off I show valka.

" this biggest chip is me and that is my fist initial A, my second child is in the middle, my daughter her name was Helen so she has an H, and my.. youngest was Eret, he was quite a lady's man, but I loved them dearly even if they were not my blood children I would never have changed a thing."

" Eret? "

To be continued......