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A Night Fury is one of the rarest breeds of dragons in both the book series and the movie adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon. This is, purely and simply, because no Viking to date has seen one and lived to tell the tale (which is to say, no Viking to date has seen one at all). They are known to be very fast and very smart, never steal food, and never miss when they fire their white-hot lightning-like fire. This does nothing but add to the Vikings deeply-rooted fear of the mysterious beasts. They are elusive, they are dangerous, and...
The village outcast managed to shoot one down.
Toothless has very little background prior to being shot out of the sky on evening on an unsuspecting raid of a Viking village on Berk. It is assumed that he, like the other dragons shown in the movie, was along on a raid as a "job" of sorts to keep their hides safe from the Green Death to whom they answer. Unfortunately for him, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III escaped out the back door of the blacksmith shop where he works and is essentially babysat, and using one of his more creative inventions knocked the Night Fury right out of the night sky. In the fall, Toothless lost half of what I can only describe as a tailfin or a rudder-- a leathery flap of skin at the end of one half of his tail that cost him the ability to fly. Were Hiccup not Hiccup, the dragon likely would have died due to the injury.
Thankfully, Hiccup didn't have the heart to kill the felled dragon, and instead cut him free, earning the scare of his life. Curiosty then won the young Viking over and much to Toothless' irritable surprise, he was continually stalked by him. After fashioning a sort of prosthetic tailpiece for the dragon, Hiccup took Toothless for a sort of impromptu "test drive", and slowly they began to grow fond of one another. As time goes on, Hiccup's father decides he wants his unusual son to start Dragon Training, and Toothless helps Hiccup discover the secrets to training and taming dragons as opposed to hunting and killing them. This leads him to be a "master" in the ring, against all types of dragons. When Stoick and the other Vikings return from seeking out the dragon's nest to no avail, the Chief of Berk discovers his son had clearly been holding out all his life and was in fact a legendary dragonslayer.
Little did the village know, Hiccup was in fact using things like reflected light, eels and catnip-like grass to fend off the dragons as opposed to any sort of violence.
The day before Hiccup's "final test", where he is to go up against a Monstrous Nightmare before the entire village, Astrid (a pretty young female Viking with anger issues whom Hiccup is quite fond of) discovers Hiccup's little secret. As she heads off to tell the village that Hiccup has been training a Night Fury, Toothless rushes forward and, with Hiccup on his back to steer the prosthetic rudder for his tail that allows him flight, they take Astrid to the top of a tall tree in the forest. Here, Hiccup implores that if she won't listen, Astrid allow him to show her why he's chosen to train and befriend Toothless as opposed to slay him. When she consents on the stipulation that they simply get her down from the tree, Toothless chooses to be an unholy brat of a dragon and fly recklessly and without abandon in order to scare the wits out of the poor girl until she apologizes for being a haughty closed-minded brat about the entire situation. Toothless then calms down and flies calmly, showing Astrid that dragons are actually pretty darn cool.
After a long while of pleasant flying and bonding between the two teenage Vikings, Toothless suddenly becomes on edge and stops outrightly responding to Hiccup. The three soon find themselves in a sort of flock of hundreds of dragons and are lead back to the dragon's "nest", where they witness hundreds of the dragons the Vikings have spent years fighting away from their livestock and homes simply dropping the stolen goods into what looks like nothing more than a giant, horridly deep chasm. Unfortunately, when a Gronkle turns up with only a tiny, measley fish to offer, a much worse horror makes itself apparent-- a gargantuan dragon known as the Green Death rears its ugly head and swallows the entire Gronkle whole. The dragon then appears to smell Hiccup and Astrid's presence, and Hiccup spurs Toothless to get the hell out just as the dragon lunges for their hiding place. With this newfound information that the dragons raiding the villages are only behaving as such to keep the giant at bay, Hiccup decides he has to do something about the Viking's attitude toward them, deciding he will show them that dragons do not have to be feared in the ring with the Nightmare the following day.
So when things go awry in the ring Toothless scrambles his way, flightless, out of the basin he had taken residency in, into the ring to rescue his trainer and best friend (much to the horror of the other Vikings). Toothless is then captured by the Vikings, much to Hiccup (and Toothless' own) dismay, after he nearly attacks Hiccup's father. In a heated argument between father and son, Hiccup lets slip that they had seen the dragon's nest and that only a dragon could find it. Stoick then takes Toothless hostage with a fleet of Viking ships and heads out for the nest despite Hiccup's imploring he listen and think about what he's doing.
Well, lo and behold, the Vikings showing up to destroy the dragon's nest does little more than piss the Green Death off, and all Hell breaks loose. The giant dragon makes child's play of the fleet of Viking ships, and towers hundreds of feet above the helpless Vikings below. While they flounder and flail and attempt to not get killed, Hiccup shows the remaining teenagers left back on Berk how to properly handle dragons, and they set off to save their violent parents. After rescuing Toothless from a ship that was first on fire and then underwater, the pair take on the Final Boss.
And as is to be expected, they win! With some crafty ideas and some fancy flying, the Green Death's own firepower becomes its undoing, as Toothless lights up the gaseous fumes the giant expels to shoot fire with his own and causes a massive explosion. Unfortunately, as they had to lead the dragon straight toward the ground, they then had to fly up alongside it and were thrashed by the beast's giant club of a tail. Toothless dove into the flames after Hiccup who was thrown off his dragon's back and managed to shield the Viking from most of the harm that could have befallen him, but the teenager still lost the lower half of his left leg in the fall (which leads to a tragically adorable match between the two of them-- Hiccup has a gimp foot and Toothless has a gimp tail).
Though Hiccup's loss is hardly for naught; when he opens the door to his house and looks out upon Berk after the fact (after a minor heart attack over the fact that Toothless was in his house), he finds that Vikings and Dragons are living in harmony, and the rest of the village has learned from his example to train and befriend dragons as opposed to hunt and slay them.
A Night Fury is one of the rarest breeds of dragons in both the book series and the movie adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon. This is, purely and simply, because no Viking to date has seen one and lived to tell the tale (which is to say, no Viking to date has seen one at all). They are known to be very fast and very smart, never steal food, and never miss when they fire their white-hot lightning-like fire. This does nothing but add to the Vikings deeply-rooted fear of the mysterious beasts. They are elusive, they are dangerous, and...
The village outcast managed to shoot one down.
Toothless has very little background prior to being shot out of the sky on evening on an unsuspecting raid of a Viking village on Berk. It is assumed that he, like the other dragons shown in the movie, was along on a raid as a "job" of sorts to keep their hides safe from the Green Death to whom they answer. Unfortunately for him, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III escaped out the back door of the blacksmith shop where he works and is essentially babysat, and using one of his more creative inventions knocked the Night Fury right out of the night sky. In the fall, Toothless lost half of what I can only describe as a tailfin or a rudder-- a leathery flap of skin at the end of one half of his tail that cost him the ability to fly. Were Hiccup not Hiccup, the dragon likely would have died due to the injury.
Thankfully, Hiccup didn't have the heart to kill the felled dragon, and instead cut him free, earning the scare of his life. Curiosty then won the young Viking over and much to Toothless' irritable surprise, he was continually stalked by him. After fashioning a sort of prosthetic tailpiece for the dragon, Hiccup took Toothless for a sort of impromptu "test drive", and slowly they began to grow fond of one another. As time goes on, Hiccup's father decides he wants his unusual son to start Dragon Training, and Toothless helps Hiccup discover the secrets to training and taming dragons as opposed to hunting and killing them. This leads him to be a "master" in the ring, against all types of dragons. When Stoick and the other Vikings return from seeking out the dragon's nest to no avail, the Chief of Berk discovers his son had clearly been holding out all his life and was in fact a legendary dragonslayer.
Little did the village know, Hiccup was in fact using things like reflected light, eels and catnip-like grass to fend off the dragons as opposed to any sort of violence.
The day before Hiccup's "final test", where he is to go up against a Monstrous Nightmare before the entire village, Astrid (a pretty young female Viking with anger issues whom Hiccup is quite fond of) discovers Hiccup's little secret. As she heads off to tell the village that Hiccup has been training a Night Fury, Toothless rushes forward and, with Hiccup on his back to steer the prosthetic rudder for his tail that allows him flight, they take Astrid to the top of a tall tree in the forest. Here, Hiccup implores that if she won't listen, Astrid allow him to show her why he's chosen to train and befriend Toothless as opposed to slay him. When she consents on the stipulation that they simply get her down from the tree, Toothless chooses to be an unholy brat of a dragon and fly recklessly and without abandon in order to scare the wits out of the poor girl until she apologizes for being a haughty closed-minded brat about the entire situation. Toothless then calms down and flies calmly, showing Astrid that dragons are actually pretty darn cool.
After a long while of pleasant flying and bonding between the two teenage Vikings, Toothless suddenly becomes on edge and stops outrightly responding to Hiccup. The three soon find themselves in a sort of flock of hundreds of dragons and are lead back to the dragon's "nest", where they witness hundreds of the dragons the Vikings have spent years fighting away from their livestock and homes simply dropping the stolen goods into what looks like nothing more than a giant, horridly deep chasm. Unfortunately, when a Gronkle turns up with only a tiny, measley fish to offer, a much worse horror makes itself apparent-- a gargantuan dragon known as the Green Death rears its ugly head and swallows the entire Gronkle whole. The dragon then appears to smell Hiccup and Astrid's presence, and Hiccup spurs Toothless to get the hell out just as the dragon lunges for their hiding place. With this newfound information that the dragons raiding the villages are only behaving as such to keep the giant at bay, Hiccup decides he has to do something about the Viking's attitude toward them, deciding he will show them that dragons do not have to be feared in the ring with the Nightmare the following day.
So when things go awry in the ring Toothless scrambles his way, flightless, out of the basin he had taken residency in, into the ring to rescue his trainer and best friend (much to the horror of the other Vikings). Toothless is then captured by the Vikings, much to Hiccup (and Toothless' own) dismay, after he nearly attacks Hiccup's father. In a heated argument between father and son, Hiccup lets slip that they had seen the dragon's nest and that only a dragon could find it. Stoick then takes Toothless hostage with a fleet of Viking ships and heads out for the nest despite Hiccup's imploring he listen and think about what he's doing.
Well, lo and behold, the Vikings showing up to destroy the dragon's nest does little more than piss the Green Death off, and all Hell breaks loose. The giant dragon makes child's play of the fleet of Viking ships, and towers hundreds of feet above the helpless Vikings below. While they flounder and flail and attempt to not get killed, Hiccup shows the remaining teenagers left back on Berk how to properly handle dragons, and they set off to save their violent parents. After rescuing Toothless from a ship that was first on fire and then underwater, the pair take on the Final Boss.
And as is to be expected, they win! With some crafty ideas and some fancy flying, the Green Death's own firepower becomes its undoing, as Toothless lights up the gaseous fumes the giant expels to shoot fire with his own and causes a massive explosion. Unfortunately, as they had to lead the dragon straight toward the ground, they then had to fly up alongside it and were thrashed by the beast's giant club of a tail. Toothless dove into the flames after Hiccup who was thrown off his dragon's back and managed to shield the Viking from most of the harm that could have befallen him, but the teenager still lost the lower half of his left leg in the fall (which leads to a tragically adorable match between the two of them-- Hiccup has a gimp foot and Toothless has a gimp tail).
Though Hiccup's loss is hardly for naught; when he opens the door to his house and looks out upon Berk after the fact (after a minor heart attack over the fact that Toothless was in his house), he finds that Vikings and Dragons are living in harmony, and the rest of the village has learned from his example to train and befriend dragons as opposed to hunt and slay them.