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The Dragon Girl 4

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~Hiccup~
I was following Astrid’s lead as she tracked the footprints from the river into the forest.
Toothless was prowling behind me with Stormfly looking very agitated.
I was gripping the handle of my shield so tightly that my knuckles were starting to turn white.
And why was I so tense? Because I was worried that whoever it was that we were tracking might be after Toothless.
Those sort of people come across us…..far more than I would like.
But we soon came to a clearing at the base of the cliff that also had a large cave that was big enough to house a Thunderdrum.
Astrid then stopped moving and got low to the ground.
“The tracks lead toward that cave.” She whispered softly as she narrowed her eyes, her hands gripping her axe tightly.
I nodded and released a breath I had been holding before taking a deep one.
“Think whoever this is will be a threat?” Astrid asked as she glanced up at me.
“Not sure.” I said as I kept my eyes on the cave.
Toothless then warbled and nudged my hand. It was pretty much an automatic response that I placed it on his snout to comfort.
“But it’s better to be safe than sorry.” I said as I patted my best friend’s snout a few times to ease him. “Let me go out and see if I can coax whoever is in that out.”
Astrid nodded. “Alright. Just…..for once try and be careful?”
I smirked at her. “Now where would the fun in that be?” I joked as I then stepped out of the bushes we had been hiding behind.
Holding my shield at my side, I carefully approached the cave.
Glancing down, I saw that the foot prints went right into the cave.
And at the entrance, were larger prints in the dirt.
Clearly something that must have been a two legged dragon with three talons on each foot.
Gulping and hoping that I wasn’t walking into something dangerous……again…..I stood before the cave and peered into the darkness.
“Hey in there.” I said as I tried to look for life where the sunlight wouldn’t reach. “We aren’t going to hurt you. Can you just….please come out?”
It took a moment but I thought I heard a soft hissing from within the cave.
A second later, I yelped out in pain as something hit me in my arm. The very same arm that was holding the shield.
So from the shock of the hit, I had dropped my only protection.
Looking to see what had hit me, and saw an arrow sticking out of my arm!
Right when I heard Toothless snarling at seeing me hurt, I yelped again, this time in shock as I was then tackled to the ground.
Whatever tackled me, rolled with me until it was on top.
Before I could even realize how dazed I was, my hands were grabbed, my legs were pinned and something sharp was pressed against my neck.
I immediately froze at feeling the sharp blade and looked up in fear at my attacker.
I then gasped as I saw it was a girl! A girl with dripping wet red hair, bright green eyes, a damp off white tunic under a dark leather trench coat, and fingerless leather gloves.
I couldn’t really see what else she was wearing with her pinning me down like she was.
“Fos los dreh het?!” She……Did she speak a different language? “Fos los dreh het? Fos nuft los nii tol hi kiibok zey?!” Yep she just did.
“Uhh……”Was all I could say as I stared at her. Mostly because, I just had no damn clue as to what she was even saying!
But then I heard Toothless snarl and jump out of the bushes.
The girl over me snarled and then glared at my dragon. “Waan hi laan daar sen wah lahney, hi fen rigir vau ges nu!”
Toothless stopped feet away from us when she barked at him but still snarled.
The girl then hissed back and pressed the blade, which just had to be a dagger, against my neck again. “Zu'u saag rigir vau vulon nah!”
I was shaking as I thought for sure the blade was cutting into my skin.
Panicked, I looked at Toothless pleadingly. “Toothless! Whatever she’s saying? Just do it!”
Flicking his tail in announce, Toothless snorted and sat down. He was still growling at the girl while glaring at her.
She snorted right back and looked back at me, lessening the pressure of her blade on my neck. “Nu zu'u luaan hi einzuk. Fos los dreh het?”
“Uhhh……” Was all I could say again. “I uh…..i have no idea what you are saying.”
The girl rolled her eyes at sighed. “I said, what are you doing here?”
Now that time I understood her. “We….we were just looking to see if the island was inhabited by dragons!”
“For what purpose?!” She yelled as she barred her teeth at me and growled a bit.
“J-Just to see if dragons were migrating to new islands!” I said quickly as the blade pressed against my neck again.
“And who sent you?!” She yelled as she glared at me. “Was it that Barbarians? The Romans? Or one of the Viking tribes trying to claim me as their prize?!”
“NO!” I yelped as I tried to get free of her grip. Which was actually surprisingly strong. “We came on our own! We didn’t even know you were here until we saw the tracks by the river.”
“And who is we?” she asked as I heard the leather on her dagger gripping hand crack as she tightened her grip.
“I came with him!”
We both looked over and saw that Astrid had come out of hiding, Stormfly growling behind her.
The girl on me glared at the girls before hissing back at the Nadder. “Fahvos Nadder drey daar jul meyz?” She then asked in that weird language again.
Stormfly looked stunned for a moment before squawking at my attacker.
To which, the girl frowned. “Ful hin jul los ni mindin zey? Nust nunon hind wah locate kolos dovah leret?”
Astrid then watched as her dragon tilted her head and clicked in response.
The girl sighed. “Hi fund kos eldraag vir pogaan jul hind wah siir kon med zey tol vis tinvaak ko dovah tinvok.” She frowned as she then got off me, sheathing her dagger in her boot.
I stayed frozen for a moment before slowly inching away from her.
She eyed me carefully before huffed. “Oh just get up already. The Nadder has claimed your innocence.”
“Stormfly did what?” Astrid then asked. “How do you even know what she said? Dragons don’t speak human!”
The girl snorted. “And yet I know what she said as if she were speaking to me as you are currently.”
“Do….Do you speak dragon?” I then asked as I then got up off the ground, gripping my wounded arm that I had forgotten about until she was off me.
The girl just glared at me. “Why? You gonna fly back to your island and have your brutes come imprison me again?” She said as she then stormed up to me. “Because I’m telling you right now, I am not going back. I got out of one hell, I’m not living in another!”
“You were captured?” Astrid asked as she came up to me.
Toothless came over as well and started licking my arm where the blood was bleeding through my tunic.
The girl then rolled her eyes. “Oh no. I was just on a vacation within a barred room.” She said sarcastically as she then headed back to the cave that she had been hiding in.
Astrid then placed a hand on my shoulder and whispered to me. “She almost sounded like you just then.”
I nodded, having noticed that too as the girl picked up a bow that she must have tossed aside when she tackled me.
Okay NOW here's the Dragon Language from Skyrim

Translations

Valkari: "What are you going here?!" x2 "What purpose is it that you follow me?!"

"If you want this boy to live, you will back off right now!"

"I said back of Night Fury!"

"Now i question you again, what are you doing here?"

"Why, Nadder, did this man come?"

"So your man is not after me? They only wish to locate where dragon nest?”

“You would be surprise how many man wish to capture a girl like me that can talk in dragon language. ”


Dovahzul: the dragon language, is property of Skyrim's creators, Bethesda Game Studios.

(thank you kikan09 and hammarbomber for telling me the game company that makes Skyrim)
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