Hiccup had her arms and legs stretched out. She let her body descend quickly toward the sea below her. A black dragon swooped down and caught her, just fifteen seconds before she would've crashed into the water.

"Nice catch, Bud!" exclaimed Hiccup, "A little close, but, better than last time."

"Gee." said Toothless sarcastically, "I'm so encouraged."

"Did you not hear the 'better than last time' part? At least I didn't say 'thanks for nothing you useless reptile again!"

Hiccup flew Toothless to join the others. She looked to Fishlegs, "Your turn."

Fishlegs looked down nervously, "I don't know about this."

"You have to believe that Meatlug's gonna catch you. That's why it's called a trust exercise."

"I like to do my trusting on the ground. Thank you very much."

"Like this, Chickenlegs!" exclaimed Snotlout. He took the chance he seemed to have been offered to show off his courage. He lifted his arms above his head and screamed in excitement as he let himself fall off of his dragon, Hookfang.

He was expecting Hookfang to fly down after him, but the Monstrous Nightmare didn't seem to even notice him falling off his own back.

Tuffnut looked to Ruffnut, "Should we mention something to Hookfang?"

Ruffnut looked at the red dragon, "Let me sleep on it."

"Uh... Hookfang?" asked Hiccup, "Your rider's fallen off your back. Aren't you supposed to be doing something? Saving him perhaps?"

"What?" Hookfang looked down. He saw Snotlout doing multiple out-of-control back-flips as he screamed, "I am not feeling the trust!"

Hookfang dove down toward the boy. He managed to catch Snotlout, but he was going so fast that he could stop his descend before he crashed right into a hut on a cliff, on the side of the mountain opposing Berk.

Snotlout looked around. He recognised the interior of the hut. "Oh no." Out of nowhere, he caught the glimpse of an angry old Viking. "Mildew!" he screamed in terror. Hookfang flew out of the hole in the roof of the hut as fast as he could. Mildew shook his fist at the two yelling, "You'll pay for this!"

As Snotlout and Hookfang rejoined the group, Hiccup looked at the broken hut. "Something tells me I'm gonna hear about this when I get home.

And that's what she did.

As she was seated at the table in her hut, her father, Stoick the Vast, slammed a broken shingle onto the table in front of her.

"Shingle again?" Hiccup asked humorously, trying to break the tension, "Didn't we have roofing material for dinner last night?"

Stoick glared.

Hiccup mentally slapped herself at her stupid question. Obviously this was not the time for jokes.

"Dad, it was an accident. I'm sure Mildew's making it sound worse than it is."

"A dragon and a huge obnoxious boy crashed through his roof." explained Stoick, "Twice!"

"I'm sure it sounds bad if you're gonna stick to the facts."

"Of all the houses on the island, a dragon had to crash through Mildew's? You know he hates dragons more than anyone else!"

"Believe me." said Hiccup, "I know. He's treated me worse than Snotlout. And that's more of a surprise than anything."

"Listen to me, Hiccup. I've given you the responsibility to train those dragons. Everyone on berk knows that. All eyes are on you. So everything the dragons do reflects on you. And everything you do reflects on me."

"I know. I'm sorry Dad." Hiccup stood up from her seat.

"Tomorrow," instructed Stoick, "you and your friends are going to go to Mildew's house and fix it. Without your dragons."

"Ugh." grumbled Toothless, "Your dad's so uptight."

"Got that right." replied Hiccup.

Hiccup and Toothless turned to go to her room.

"Not so fast, Hiccup!" exclaimed Stoick, "You're forgetting something. It's Boot Night." Stoick took off his boots and handed them to Hiccup, "They need to be aired out."

Hiccup groaned at the unbearable smell coming from the boots. She held them as far away from her as she could as she walked to the door. "I think it's gonna take more than air."

She opened the door and walked outside. She quickly set the boots down and rubbed her hands on her fur coat as if it would get the smell off of them.

"Why can't he just do this himself?" she growled. Since Hiccup was part dragon, she had better senses than the other humans. This meant she could see things better, hear things better, sense things better, and smell things better. Which made Boot Night much worse for her than anyone.

Hiccup walked back inside and went to bed.