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Toothless was left alone in the pasture, grazing in a semingly peaceful and serenefashion. Well, not exactly alone, as a bit farther from her were the other cows of Jarrus, some of them giving mildly curious glances from a distance at the new black cow. However there was indeed something beneath that phlegmatic look of her.

Her mind couldn't be as complex as it was as a dragon. Cows' brains just weren't wired for that. But deep inside of it, she, or he was still himself. Aware, in a way, of what was happening and what has happened to him. She knew what she was supposed to be. She was remembering everything. And she desperately wanted to turn back. But as soon as she would stop and try to think about it... everything was becoming more ellusive, her reasonings were losing their meaning... and it would quickly be brushed off her mind. She would return to graze, the only thing able for the time being to make her more at ease. Yet still with that same disturbing, displeasant feeling of malaise, almost sickening, lingering in the back of her diminished brain. And that was without mentioning that there were other alien feelings in her new body she had to take into account. That itchy warmth inside of her. Specifically located in the area between her hinder legs, deep under her skin. Something like a fire softly burning. Something that would make her newly shaped private parts quite more sensitive to the soft fresh breeze of Berk than they should be. That too, was making her uncomfortable.

Sometimes here and there Toothless threw a bovine eye towards the other cows. The natural ones. Looking at them, being with them, in that same living space, was causing in her mixed feelings to occur. On one hand, she shouldn't be here. She didn't want to be here with them. She was NOT part of them, and didn't want to. She was a dragon. A nightfury. Yet... it still felt kind of right ? She wasn't looking like a dragon anymore, at all. Even her own voice would confirm her that. Wasn't it, somewhat normal to be with those like her ? Like how she currently was ? How could she be around dragons now ? The mere idea of it was so intimidating, and that last thought was what she was resting on when the thinking was getting too hard to handle. And after all, she was strangely drawn towards them as she kept grazing in the field, taking step after step closer to the other cows and their youngs. A noise caught her attention behind her, and as she lifted her head up from the grass to look at the source of it, she would see two man entering the pasture after the fence's entrance has been closed. Her face took a much more expressive look. Hiccup ! Hiccup was back !

Hiccup was very confused as he followed the farmer into the enclosure made for the cows. Jarrus has been extremely vague, but it definitely sounded like something bad happened. Oh no... did Toothless go berserk on the cows ? But they didn't seem scared in the least, and their was no trace of such an event. Jarrus walked ahead of him and guided him towards the livestock. The young viking's heart was beating fast and soundful, his breath a little frantic.

Jarrus suddenly started to slow down. Hiccup looked around for Toothless, or any sign of him, but couldn't see anything. By the gods, did he ran away ?! But his panick attack would immediately be cut short as Jarrus stopped in front of a black cow. The only totally black cow he had, actually. Toothless frowned a bit, before he heard « Here he is...well, he... I mean... There is Toothless. » Hiccup looked around again, confused. « No, no... » Jarrus stopped him « Your dragon is right here in front of you. Just... no so much of a dragon anymore. »

Hiccup did look in front of you, his eyes laying upon the black cow looking at him. His heart skipped a beat. « ...Too...T-Toothless ? » The cow's green eyes, which were like weirdly...sad ? Seemed to light up as she looked back at him, and she lets out what he would hear as a moo of joy. He almost straight up fell off on his butt, stumbling backwards, thunderstrucked, befoe managing to regain balance with his iron foot. « Toothless ?! » He moved his utterly shocked eyes to Jarrus, almost believing it was a very stupid prank. « By the gods, what the hell ?! T-This can't be Toothless ! Jarrus, where is he ?! »

The farmer had his arms crossed, lips tight and pinched, looking at the black cow while thinking every word ahead of letting them out. « I'm no joker, chief, I ain't kidding you. This cow really is your dragon. Was... whatever, that's really your Toothless. »

The former dragon was looking at Hiccup and Jarrus confusedly, but mostly focusing on Hiccup. Why was it harder for her to understand him... She was roughly getting the meaning of what he was saying, but without a doubt not as clearly as she used to. Hence her confusion to Hiccup's reaction. Her rider's face was livid, his eyes wide open and pupils tight as grains of sand. He had a hand on his forehead, which was sweating insanely. He wiped it off with the back of his palm, but when the hand touched Toothless' head to lay between her horn, big drops of salty water were already pouring from his skin again. « Toothless.. ? Buddy.. ? Is this... real ? Are you still in here ?? Oh dear Thor, this is so crazy ! » His voice was shivering as much as his hand. Toothless, in return, gave a soft, melancholic moo, and rubbed her head into his hand a bit. The viking gulped down, holding back his breath. At least his dragon didn't forget about him... hopefully, his mind was untouched. He caressed her head a bit, and cupped her cheek. « By Odin... what happened... » He turned his head to Jarrus, slowly starting to calm down. It was a miracle that poor Hiccup didn't faint after having a panick attack. A few years ago, that's surely what would have happened.

The stockbreeder cleared his throat « Well... » he moved a hand to rub behind his thick neck « Like I told you, when you left I've put Toothless in the backroom of my stables, and I've examined him everywhere to see what was wrong. I got it straight as soon as I saw him, almost. The feisty boy was in rut, I've seen enough bulls in my career to now what that mean, yup. But I thought you wouldn't really, uh, like it if I were to take care of it like I do with bulls, y'know ? »

Hiccup frowned at the farmer, teeth clenched « And you thought just right, yeah. » The farmer cleared his throat again, a fist in front of his mouth « Yeah, heh.

• And so what ? » Hiccup was starting to lose patience.

« Well, you still told me to try and take care of that in some way ! So that's when I thought of something else... » As Jarrus kept explaining how everything went, his face was getting more and more perplexed. He got a little angry when he got to the syringe part, but managed to hide it. After all, the guy was really trying to give his help. He was still stroking Toothless' new furred jaws while listening to the big man, and she was enjoying it mindlessly, almost forgetting about everything happening around her.

« And when I came back, well... Toothless was there, like this. That's... all I can say, sadly. » He shakes his head and puts his head in his strong farmer palm « Listen boy, I'm really, really, really sorry about that. That's hands down the biggest mistake I've made since I'm living here, I've never felt so ashamed in my life. If I can help in any way, I'll do, now if you wanna punish me or something I'll accept it, that's all I deserve. I'll face it with honor like a true viking does. »

Hiccup sighed and closed his eyes, resumed to Toothless, and scratched her ear in silence before speaking again. « It's... okay. You meant only good, you've made a mistake sure, but we all do. In the first place, I wasn't even able to understand my dragon enough to see he was just in rut. » He moved his hand off Toothless' head and turned to face Jarrus. Meanwhile the black cow leaned her head down to graze.

« We're both in this mess, so now we have to fix it. » He rubs his fingers in the corner of his eyes, frowning « Where is your wife ? She must know something that could help.

• Yeah, surely, the thing is Ana's not here right now, she's out seeing friends of her.

-Ah... » Hiccup scratched his head « Mm... Then... let's keep all that a secret until she's back. »

Jarrus blinked, unfolding his arms from his chest « Uh... Alright ? Can I ask why though ? »

« I...just... don't want this to be known. Everyone's going to be curious, they're going to talk, it's gonna put even more mess over the mess, and it's going to make it more messy to deal with. And that's already going to be a big enough mess with only the two of us to take care of it. So, not a word to your wife, your kids, or anyone. Got it ?

• Gotcha. » He answered nodding seriously. He wasn't in any position to contest the young chief's orders.

« Good. I really hope Ana knows how to make an antidote... » The dragon rider glances at Toothless masticating the grass from the ground, her small tail casting the flies away, sometimes her ear twitching. « But I'm still going to look into any books I can find, anything that lay be useful. » He resumed to the farmer, looking into his eyes more seriously than ever. He had regained enough control over himself to almost make any traces of shock from earlier disappear. He had to prevent himself from panicking. His friend needed him.

« For the time being, Jarrus, I want you to take care of Toothless here. Treat him... ugh...her, like your own cow. I mean, no, better than your own cow, like my own cow ! I-I mean, my own dragoness ! I-I mean d-dragon ! He's...She's...T-Toothless' my dragon ! » And, after all, the awkward insecure boy was back from under that supposedly tough viking chief's ethos. His heart, calmer a second ago, was once again racing like crazy, sweat dropping on his cheek. Jarrus nodded and placed a warm hand on Hiccup's back.

« Yeah, your dragon, will always be, I'll take care of Toothless like my own child. » While the stockbreeder patted his back, Toothless nudhed his side with her bovine snout and rubbed into his hand, trying to reassure her friend. He looked down at her, slowly breathing through his nose to calm down, and cupped her cheek affectionately. He slightly smiled for a second before sighing.

« I'll come check on Toothless as much as I can. If the others ask, I'll see he's here until he's doing better. »

Jarrus nodded. « Understood. » He staid silent a few minutes, Hiccup saying nothing, just caressing his cow's snout. « You can stay here as long as you want. I'll leave you two alone for now. » He took a step away, glanced at them again, and eventually left the field.

Hiccup's eyes were locked on Toothless' new form. He sat in the grass next to her, caressing her thick neck. « This is so unreal... » The cow looked down at him, they both looked into each other's eyes, and she gave him a slow blink. He sighed, his hand on her neck still.

« This is still you, right ? You're still my best buddy Toothless, you're still my one and only annoying lizard in there... » she mooed lightly, and gave him and gentle lick on the cheek, tasting the salty sweat from his skin. He smiled a little bit.

« To me, looks like you are. » He really hoped so, and couldn't help but wonder if he wasn't taking his desire for reality. When he was looking into these green bovine eyes, he could still see the particular light of the dragon's gaze he's been so used to. But... he could also see the dull pupil of a common cow like thousands of others. Which one of the two was the most preponderant... he honestly couldn't know. Sometimes he would only see the latter, when she was grazing absentmindedly, or looking at nothing in particular as if nothing mattered. But sometimes he would swear to be back with his dragon friend, when she was looking for cuddles and trying to communicate with him. They staid like that for many long minutes, and Hiccup took her head in his hands, laying his forehead against hers.

« No matter what, you'll still be the same Toothless to me. The same dragon I love more than anything, that means the world to me. » He pulled away, holding her head in his hands, looking into her eyes « We'll find a cure, I promise you. You'll be back in your actual body, and we'll go flying together. » He smiled at her, this time trying to reassure her himself. She was looking back into his, and right now there was no doubt that it was his Toothless he was looking at. She lets out a soft moo, and rubs her snout against him. « I know, I know, it's not easy. But we'll get through this together, like we always do. » His smile was confident, she looked up to him as he caressed her head. She huffed and gave another moo, that he heard as a prove of her trusting him. He nodded, and slowly got up.

« I'm sorry I have to leave you here, but I'll come back as soon as possible. I'm not abandonning you, okay ? Never. You know that buddy. » Her ear flickered, and he gave one last stroke on her neck « See you tomorrow girl. » He blushed « b-buddy ! I-I meant buddy. Uh...yeah... good night Toothless. » He immediately turned back and walked away, feeling suddenly very embarrassed at how naturally that came out.

Toothless didn't notice how he called her. She wasn't able to tell such details anymore. But she was still sad to see him go away. She hoped he would come back soon... the sun was setting, the place was getting darker. As the viking went out of sight, she leaned her head down. Grazing. What else could she do, she was a cow.

Jarrus came back a bit later to bring the cows back inside the stables for the night. They all let themwelves being guided out of the field obediently, the calves following their mothers. And Toothless, while feeling rather uncomfortable about following the flock just like she was part of it, still did it quite naturally. She may be the only black one in here, the other cows seemed to already have accepted the green eyed lass among them. The rooms inside the stables were one by one being filled, until Toothless was the only one left with Jarrus. There was one room left for her, one that was supposed to be used for particular occasions, but it'll have to do for tonight. He prefered to have the transformed nightfury isolated from the other cows when possible. Maybe they were having some effect on her ? He had no idea, but there was no problem with some extra caution. To lead the black cow to her room, he has put a collar around on her, just like those of the other cows, with a bell hanging under her neck. Toothless was a bit curious about it, but didn't really mind.

The room was a bit larger than the others, it was more space than one cow alone could use. At least Toothless would be comfortable in here, did he think. He held the door asshe stepped inside. « There you go. There's some hay in the corner, everything for you to feel just like at home. » He looked at her for a little longer, crossing her slow blinking gaze, and left after giving a tap on the door, closing it.

Jarrus went to bed alone tonight, his wife didn't come back yet. He spent the evening with his young son, tucked him to bed, before slipping into his own. But the farmer slept awfully bad. His brain would review again and again everything that happened today, keeping his mind busy past midnight and beyond. The guilt, above all, was keeping him awake. He saw how strong the bond was between Hiccup and his dragon friend, and because of his mistake, that bond was being harmed, maybe broken forever. While mulling over all the wrong he did, his mind kept wandering to the back of the stables where Toothless was now asleep. The transformed cow had eventually crouched in the hay, and thanks to her simpler brain, was less bothered with angsty thoughts that didn't prevent her from falling asleep. It has been a long day, and she was tired. It was almost the end of the night though when slumber finally got the better out of Jarrus.

Dawn was just coming in when Ana came into view of the farm. It was early morning, but farmwork required farmers to be up with the sun. She opened the door to her house, and saw her young son awake in the kitchen. « Mommy's back » she smiled at him as he came to hug her. She returned his affection and looked around « Daddy isn't up already ? »

The kid shook his head « No, he's still asleep in bed.

• Ah... well, looks like we'll have to start without him. How about you go check on the hen house ? » Right away he nodded, and putting a little cap on his head went outside. Ana, on the other hand, took some time for herself, making some beverage to get her ready for the day. Once she was totally up and running, she headed towards the stables.

Having grown in the farm, the cows were used to their daily schedule, and already awake. Ana went over each one of the rooms, greeting them like old friends. She was opening the boxes, getting them out and bringing them to their pastures one after the other. She then went to get the bulls outside as well, and finally the horses, each going to different places on the farm's domain. The last onesout, the farmer's wife came to check a second time on the stables' rooms, until getting to the lasts ones in the back of the building, those that were filled only in certain parts of the year. And, to her own surprise, saw yet another cow inside one of them. It was a beautiful animal, completely black fur, and looking in perfect shape. Toothless was still asleep, and opened her eyes only when the woman opened the door and came in with a broad smile.

« Hello there girl ! Are you new ? I haven't seen you here before. » Toothless lifted her head to look at the newcomer, still crouching in the hay. She slowly blinked at her, one ear flickering, and let out a simple moo. « My, you're gorgeous ! » she complimented her as she came closer, and helped her get up. Toothless was a bit warry, but felt like she could trust this woman who smelled a lot like Jarrus. She stroked her fur a bit, eyeing her over « Well, if you're here, that can mean only one thing... » she walked around the black cow to get a view of her crotch by lifting the little tail. She gave only a quick glance at those subtly swollen and blushing genitals before nodding « Yep, you're in heat girl. With how young you look it must be your first one. » She kept that reassuring smile on and came to the cow's head, caressing her snout. « Don't worry, everything's gonna be just fine. Come here girl » she took her by the collar, and made Toothless follow her outside of the box.

Toothless was clueless, she was just following that strange woman outside of the room, then outside of the stables. But instead of bringing her to the field where the other cows were, she guided her the other way. Toothless started to feel stressed. It was different from yesterday, and her bovine brain didn't like that. Her dragon mind neither. But Hiccup said he'll be back soon, that everything would be fine until then, so... there was no use in trying anything against it. They passed by the horses' field, to a more secluded area of the domain. Ana led Toothless to another set of fences circling green grasses, just like the cows' pasture, but smaller. The farmer lady opened them to get Toothless inside, and let go off her collar. « There you go girl. Do you have a name ? I guess we'll figure one out if need be. » She patted th former dragon's neck.There was a weird scent in the air that she would pick up with slight apprehension, looking around for its source... that she would soon see approaching.

« Ah, there he is ! You two must be around the same age, you should get along just fine. I'm sure he'll take good care of you » said Ana as she was already walking away towards the fences, and hurrying to jump over them.

Toothless' pupils tightened in terroras she saw the brown bull coming closer and closer to her. Right now, she was fully aware of what was going on, and she hated where this was going. Letting out deep moos of fright did nothing for Ana to come back and take her away, the farmer has left already. It didn't do any better in repelling the strong male bovine. She could see_very clearly the effect she was having on him. And, maybe more unsettling, the effect _he was starting to have on her. Before she knew it, she felt his warm breath on her skin, something pressing against her rear, and her whole body tensed...

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Morning has almost entirely passed by when Jarrus finally awoke. The viking farmer grunted as he slowly sat on the edge of his bed, scratching his messy beard. One glance through the window, and the grumpy stockbreeder swore as he hurried to get prepared. « Damnit... overslept. Again. » Hopefully his son would have started to take care of stuff. He was a good boy, hard worker and dutiful. But that made himself feel even more of a poor example for him. Dressed in the simplest clothes he could find, Jarrus walked downstairs, only to find his wife sitting in the kitchen with a hot steamy bowl in her hands. She smiled at him, and bashfully returned the grin « Hey...heh, howdy there beautiful.

• Howdy~ » she chuckled as he came to sit with her « Slept well handsome ? Looks like yes, so much you wouldn't leave your pillow alone.

• I had a terrible night, but that's alright. » He stretched a bit and sighed « When did you get back hon ? »

She took a sip from her bowl « Quite a few hours ago actually. Don't worry your little head, me and your son took care of most things already. »

Jarrus was relieved to hear that, and relaxed a bit. « Thanks love, I dunno what I'd do without you sometimes. »

She grinned and winked at him « You'd screw everything up. »

His face immediately took a grimmer look. He scratched his bearded chin glancing away « Yeaah... Speaking about that... »

Ana looked at her man curiously, before slightly frowning when she saw how serious he suddenly went. « Honey ? What's wrong ? » Getting no immediate answer, she sets the bowl back on the table. « Jarrus, what happened while I wasn't here ? »

The farmer sighed and sits back in his chair, crossing his arms on his large chest. « It's...okay, it'll sound kinda crazy, but this is not a joke or anything. The new chief came to me yesterday. He told me about his dragon acting strange and all, thinking he might be sick or something. I don't know nothing about these lizards, but since I know my way around animals and since he ran out of option, he asked me to take a look and hopefully fix things for him.

• It's the nightfury, Toothless right ? I always liked that big flying cat, and Stoick's son goes so well with him. I hope it was nothing too bad ?

• Oh, no, nothing serious really, the lizard was just going through his first rut. Pretty late for a first, but I guess dragons works different from livestock on that stuff. Anyway, now I see that the guy's getting all feisty and grumpy from the urges, so I gotta take care of that like I've been told to. »

Ana blinked at her husband « Wait, don't tell me you..?

• Nah of course I didn't. I mean, yeah that's the first thing that jumped to my head, but of course I wouldn't do that without asking Hiccup first. » He scratched his beard again « Though... I still had orders, and, y'know, maybe I wanted to impress him more than I should. Anyway, I... thought about an alternative. » He left a short blank, Ana listening carefully. « You know, the potion of...how d'you say that again, "apatho...ies..a.." »

• "Apatheia." The potion of Apatheia, that calms down one's burning passions and makes them more manageable.

• Yeah, that. Well, I've been trying to adapt the recipe to make it work for sexual urges specifically. You know, to make the bulls less of assholes, by relieving them dickheads from their naughty cocky tendencies, but without having to get rid of what they're packing between the legs. »

Ana's eyebrows lifted in surprise, and, admittedly, skeptically. « Oh really ? And... is it working this time ? I told you to be very cautious with alchemy since your last try. »

• I know, I know, I've been super cautious. So, yeah, I tried it to deal with the nightfury. »

Ana's frown hardened « You _tried_on him ? How many tests did you do before ?

• Well, uh... this counted as a test, I guess. » Seeing his wife's shocked face, he immediately tried to defend himself. « But I've really been cautious when I made it ! It took me weeks to finish it, I really did everything right !

• You can't know that until you test it out, that's what being cautious means Jarrus. » Ana's stern gaze was making the strong farmer feel concerned about the next part of the story.

« A-Anyway, so yeah, I gave it to the dragon, it seemed to react well enough so I left him in the backroom with my workshop and I went to finish the work of the day. »

Ana's eyes were locked on her husband, both confused and warry, not sure what to expect from this. « ...And ? »

Jarrus fell silent for an instant, not daring to cross his wife's gaze. He cleared his throat before continuing « When I came back a few hours later to check on him... err... he, hum... the dragon, was changed into a... cow. » Ana's face was blank. « I mean, an actual cow, horns, hooves, snout, tail, udders, everything like a true female cow. » Jarrus was starting to speak at a high speed, throwing up everything as fast as he could. « S-so I brought him, err, her to the field with the other cows, then I explained everything to Hiccup, h-he won't punish us or anything but he wants us to keep the secret for now and to help him find a way to turn the dragon back. Then he left, I brought the cows back inside, I brought Toothless inside with them, of course there was no room left so I put her in a breeding room for the night... »

Ana's eyes gradually widened as he kept explaining, and her face flashed livid. « Wait, the black cow in heat, in the breeding room, is..?

• You saw her ? Yeah, that's the dragon.

-Oh no, by Odin ! »

She right away jumped off her chair, almost making it fall, and stormed out of the kitchen. Jarrus blinked at her in confusion, getting up as well « Honey, where are you going ? » He just had the time to see her slam the door open, and went outside holding on her skirt to lift it up while she was running. Jarrus did his best to follow her, barely managing to catch up.

Ana was exhausted when she arrived at the enclosure where she left the black cow, but not as much as Jarrus several feet behind her. She jumped above the fence and ran in the grass until she could see Toothless, near the brown bull grazing. The black cow looked at her as she was standing there a few meters away, and gave both her and Jarrus catching up a gaze full of confusion, followed by a slight moo. Jarrus was panting next to his wife, looking at Toothless in fear of what he was understanding from where she was. And from the bull right next to her.

« Did... did she get..?

• Only one way to make sure. » She said hiding her dread. Jarrus gulped down and nodded, walking up to the bull and driving him away while Ana came to the female. Both were looking into each others' eyes, and before checking any clinical sign could see in these green eyes the confirmation of what happened. « It's okay sweetheart, it's okay... » She said patting her neck and flank as she was getting around her, lifted her tail up. She froze an instant. Jarrus was looking at her from afar, biting his cheek.

« ...Jarrus

• Ana ?

• She's been bred, Jarrus. »

Toothless couldn't understand what the two humans were saying. But she needed no explanation to know what happened to her.

And how, despite the fear, she loved every second of it in an uncanny way.

End of Chapter 2