Hiccup stopped in front of the stall smiling to himself as he thought about how grateful this new dragon wound be to have some food in her stomach only when he looked over the low wall he saw something abnormal. Soft human flesh turning up hay and his mind blanked, his fingers slacking and the barrel sliding out of his hands spilling the fish over his feet as her eyes met his. There was no mistaking them. He couldn’t even stutter, only a weak sound like ’ah’ escaping him as he paled. Toothless lowered and bared his teeth at the girl, not yet recognizing her as more than a stranger that was causing his human distress. Though he was not so sure as to why. His gaze flicked sideways to Hiccup as he uttered that small gasp and he abandoned his tough act to duck his head down and catch him before he crumpled face first into the pile of fish. His body having gone slack as he fainted. Not the first time for it but it’d been awhile since he last lost consciousness do to shock.
He lowered him gently, letting him slid off his snout onto the hay before snapping his gaze back to the girl with her lack of furs and hair that was not the color of a human‘s. Not any human he had ever seen before in any case. He growled at her, crouching over Hiccup so the only way to get to the boy would be by going through him. While an intelligent dragon he was not using his mind beyond ’weird human that freaked out Hiccup’ and as such he needed to keep her away at least until Hiccup recovered.