high_seas | He's no Dovahkiin, that's for sure.

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He's no Dovahkiin, that's for sure.

Who: Toothless, and a group of idiots. (The crew of the Antoinette.)
Where: Isla Empieza docks; the Antoinette
When: Backdated to February 12th, late afternoon.
What: Hikaru manages to bring home a dragon instead of any of the things he set out to buy.
Warnings: dragondragondragondragondragondragondragondragon
Style: ~~Deep-fried~~ ...Whatever people feel like?
Status: Open to anyone in the vicinity of the Antoinette.

It took the sacrifice of bread, cheese, and a really good bag; an entire barrel of fish; a lot of bucket removals; finding the patience to deal with inquisitive sniffing, and a lot of time to get here but finally, finally Hikaru and Toothless have arrived at the bottom of the gangway leading up to the Antoinette. It's here that Hikaru pauses, considering. He's fairly confident that the dragon can get up it without breaking it - those things were made to take much heavier loads, he's sure - but... should he really just introduce it to everyone all at once? That seems like a pretty bad idea when he thinks about it, especially if the only thing he knows about handling animals is that people should stay calm around them.

With a glance at the dragon, he decides to try and call down his crew one by one to introduce them. Knowing them, it would probably fail - but he wants to at least show Kaoru first! And at least if they do all descend at once after he tries to get them one-by-one, it's their own fault and he can't be blamed if the dragon reacts badly. Right?

He doesn't know who's on deck right now, though theoretically they all should be.

"Oi, Kaoru!" He yells out, hoping to be heard over the noise in the docks. He doesn't know who's going to answer his call first, but he can hope for his twin! He's not sure he trusts the dragon to stay put while he goes onboard to fetch anyone, so aside from using his journal, he doesn't really have any good ways of getting anyone's attention. ~~Maybe he can convince the dragon to set something on fire, if nobody hears him.~~

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Well, obtaining the dragon definitely wasn't the easy way; his ruined, dirt-covered pants can attest to that, and so can the bottom part of his shirt still covered in the dragon slobber and gunk he wiped off his face. Still, in that particular situation, he'd rather get a bit dirty than get run over. Plus he got a cool dragon.

Kaoru's words just make him grin, feeling quite pleased with himself. Yes, Kaoru, it's a dragon. He hasn't verified if it's the fire-breathing variety yet, but at this stage he doesn't even care - it's cool enough as it is.

"What bad language, Kaoru!" He tuts jokingly, raising a hand to place on Toothless. Then, much more earnestly; "You've gotta help me name him."

This one sounds almost like his new friend! But they have different color hair. How odd!

Toothless remains where he sits, almost mimicking Hikaru's grin, save a bit more gummier for lack of teeth.

"Name him?" Kaoru's eyebrows raise high. Hikaru must be kidding. He can't be serious. This is- there's no way this is happening. Except apparently it is and on the one hand, dragons are pretty cool, but on the other hand...

"You say that like we're definitely going to keep him. What do you think Kyouya's going to say about this?"

Hikaru's grin changes to something a bit more smug, and his eyes narrow a little in satisfaction. Because you see, Kaoru;

"He's already given me permission." Well, not explicitly. "Actually, it's more like he just didn't say 'no'." Same thing as giving permission, really. The point is that Kyouya really shouldn't just humour him when Hikaru asks for something, because a month later he's apparently going to find a way to get it.

"Besides, we need something more to keep us safe around here, right? Nobody would ever attack a ship with a dragon!" Come on, it makes sense to keep him. Please Kaoru, please please please please? He'll put it back where he found it if Kaoru tells him to, but come on Kaoru, dragon.

His loses the smug look and turns to a more childishly hopeful look instead; eyes wide and earnest, shoulders brought forward, indicating his good will with his entire body. He knows his twin will see through the act right away, but dammit he wants to keep his new pet.

"Just touch him!" Hikaru's sure that once Kaoru actually interacts with the dragon, he'll come around. "It's a real life actual dragon, Kaoru! How cool is that?!"

Not like he can follow the line of conversation here, so Toothless looks back and forth between the twins at their exchange. Humans sure like to talk a lot, but it's kind of funny to watch, sometimes.

"Oh man." Hikaru knows Kaoru can't say no to that look. He tries to squint away from it, but to no avail. The wide-eyed look is just way too big and appealing.

So he steps closer to the dragon, eyeing him carefully before sticking out a hand. That's how you approach a dog, right? And they can't be that different. "Hey... Dragon. Nice to meet you."

Damnit, there's just something endearing about that gummy smile. He touches the dragon's snout for a couple seconds before slumping. "I'm going to get killed by the Shadow King because of you. We're both going to get killed. I hope you're happy."

Happy? Ecstatic. If his victory cheer weren't enough of a give away, he also pumps a fist in the air excitedly. You're the best ever, Kaoru!

"Nah, he won't hurt us." It's said a bit too casually; Hikaru's pretty sure that he's going to get into trouble for at least the fish bill if nothing else, but that's different to 'us'. And he's pretty sure that there's nothing Kaoru can get into trouble for on this one; it's all him this time.

Toothless sits perfectly still while Kaoru nears, letting that hand rest upon his snout. He gets a good sniff of it while its there, snorting lightly then before he gives the hand a nudge. It's a little confusing, this reaction from the other human. Much to the contrast of his brother. Strange humans indeed.

"If you say so." But now Kaoru is... a little distracted. He bends down to inspect the Dragon more closely, smiling unconsciously at the nudge. "What sort of name do you think we should give him?"

"I was thinking something fierce, but he really doesn't seem like he'd live up to it at all," Hikaru shrugs. "At this stage, I'm thinking he might be best with something more clever than cool."

With this doofy look? Probably not, but if they ever got into a tight spot, Toothless could show them how fierce he was. For the moment, he seems content to just get to know these two humans a little better.

As Kaoru bends down for a closer look, the dragon tilts his head. It's kind of strange, how eager these humans are to come so close to him. His tail swishes from one side to the other as he looks on.

"So nothing like Batman or Vengeance Of The Night, huh." He thinks about it for a little, making a face as he ponders. And then - "Shadow?"

Kaoru is artistic, okay, but that doesn't mean he's creative with naming.

"Shadow's too boring," Hikaru muses, shaking his head. No good. Granted, at this point the only name he can think of is 'the Devourer', in honour of all the fish that it casually scoffed down earlier. ~~Names are hard.~~

He reaches out to poke Toothless, faintly hoping that maybe that will evoke some sort of naming idea. The swishing tail draws his attention back to the red fin, but his curiousity on that can wait. Naming comes first!

"We could always call him 'Idiot', but do you think Tono would get confused?"

He wrinkles his nose as he's poked. Really, hadn't Hikaru learned the first time? With a small snort, he nudges the offending hand away. Does that mean he can poke you back, Hikaru? Keep at it and he just might.

"We're not calling him 'Idiot'," Kaoru huffs. "He's too cute, and Milord is too stupid. It wouldn't work." He gives the dragon a calculating look. "He looks more goofy than idiotic anyway."

Oh--it doesn't like being poked this time? Right, last time it had nudged him into putting his hands on its snout. Must've been telling him off then too, whoops. Well, does Toothless prefer his neck being rubbed? Because that's what Hikaru is aiming for in lieu of any more poking ~~for the moment~~.

He sticks his tongue out at Kaoru, mostly because he can, and then gestures to the saddle and gear on the dragon.

"Should we call him something with a cowboy theme?" Because it seems like it's used to having a rider, and, well, Hikaru initially thought it was some kind of horse.

That's much better than poking. Seeing Kaoru look at him, Toothless eyes him right back. What?

He's getting a little bored of sitting there, however, and all these two are doing is talking. Turning his attention away from the twins, the dragon looks around to see if there's anything else interesting to investigate while he's here.

"Cowboy-themed." Give him a moment now. He sticks a finger up in the air when he has it. "What about something like-" he poses dramatically, then says, "Red-Winged Thunder!"

C'mon. Hikaru has to admit that sounds cool. And Kaoru will be looking at him expectantly, not noticing at all that the dragon's attention has shifted to the rest of the ship.

"YES!" Kaoru gets instant approval. Hope he's in the mood for hugs, because Hikaru immediately turns around to give him one in celebration. Red-Winged Thunder, it's brilliant!

He has also failed to notice the dragon's attention shift, and is in no position to try to stop it from doing anything it wants right now.

The two are still talking, so Toothless figures there's no point in sitting around. He looks towards the gangway leading up to the ship. That's where the other one had come from, right?

The dragon slinks along towards it, but just before he can try going up, something else catches his eye- a splash in the water. He edges along the dock, peering at the waters intently.

Hugs are always okay. Well, not always, but always from Hikaru. Kaoru squeezes back, a smug sense of victory practically radiating off of him. "Well, you know me. Mr. Creative and all."

And then the dragon's - wait, no - Red-Winged Thunder's movements catches his attention. Kaoru pauses for a moment before asking, "can he swim?"

Huh? Why would Kaoru want to know if Red-Winged Thunder can swim? Hikaru peers around him to see what the dragon's doing, and--huh.

"I don't know," he admits openly. "He likes fish, so I guess so?" That makes sense, right? Don't most animals only like food that they can catch themselves? Still, though, he doesn't want to have to try to fish it out if it turns out it's a sinker. He releases his brother from the hug in favour of quickly walking to the dragon, hopefully getting to it before it decides to do anything like throw itself into the water. They should probably start moving him onto the ship soon, anyway, before they draw attention from outsiders.

The water is too far below for him to make any quick snatches at fish even if they came close enough to the surface, but that doesn't stop Toothless from watching for them. He looks up slightly when he sees that the twins have noticed he's gone off. Well, guess that means no fishing.

"Hey. Red-Winged Thunder." It's the first attempt at calling him by that name. Kaoru winces. They're going to have to come up with a nickname - and fast. "Let's get on the ship, boy. C'mon." And here he grins over at Hikaru before motioning over his shoulder. "Follow us."

"C'mon, Red-Winged Thunder." Hikaru's call is made at the same time as Kaoru's, and he reaches the same conclusion; they definitely need a nickname. Maybe just Thunder? Ah well, they'll figure it out later. He reaches to grab one of the straps around the dragon to help steer it, still unconvinced of its ability to understand them. He shoots a return grin to Kaoru, and tugging lightly on the strap, begins to give getting Red-Winged Thunder onto the ship a try.

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