Disclaimer: The only characters I own are Selena and Jacinda

The war between dragons and vikings is long and complicated. It started when the vikings came to Berk, and two Night Furies snatched a baby Viking from her mother's arms. This wasn't senseless, though. Once every thousand years, an Earth Dragon is found by a random family of dragons. An Earth Dragon can manipulate the elements, but requires a human partner to magnify and share his or her powers. The Night Furies had found the egg, and had to find a same-gender partner for the newly hatched dracling. The Vikings were the closest source for a newborn female, so they took me.

My name is Jacinda, I have light blue eyes with gold flecks, long gold/red hair, and I am about five feet seven inches. I am bonded to Selena, the fifth Earth Dragon on the planet. We both have shared longevity, and have been alive for over three hundred years. We both can control and contort the five elements of earth

"Faster!" I hollered over the roar of wind in my ears. I was sitting on Selena's smooth back, her wings beating steadily on either side. As dragons go, she was a fairly large one, only a little smaller than a Monstrous Nightmare. She had no visible scales, smooth wings and no mouth. She could produce a growling or roaring sound through an organ in her upper forehead. She was a pale brown, and had a skin tone star in the middle of her forehead. Her horns were the same colour, and extended in a smooth curve from the crown of her head, with another bit curving out from that. A single ribbon the same pale skin colour extended from each of her horns, waving back and forth at the same rate, no matter what the wind. She stuck her nose up, flapping harder to pull us up towards the belly of the clouds, higher, higher. Then down. I threw my arms into the air, the only thing holding me into the makeshift leather saddle my feet and the suction Selena produced with the wind to prevent me from falling. All of a sudden, Berk came into sight through the clouds, glowing in the twilight. Selena and I lived in the mountain that used to be inhabited by the Queen Dragon and her workers until the Vikings came and shooed them out last month. I had seen him then. The One I was supposed to spend the rest of my life with. I had met him about four times before now, each time he had a different form, a different name, same soul. He kept dying on me. And coming back; he was always stubborn. I had been meaning to find him ever since then, but I was scared. What if he didn't feel the same way about me? That this last reincarnation didn't want anything to do with me? Tomorrow. I'd go tomorrow.

"He won't die this time." I promised myself, Selena being my witness.

...

"Snotlout! Get up! You're going to be late again!" Snotlout blinked and pulled his pillow over his face.
"Don wanna." he slurred. The nightmares were getting to him.

He was protecting something, something so precious he would give his life to save it. A girl, he thought. Every time the thing he was protecting her from would slip by him and kill the girl. Every time it felt like something inside him broke.
"Snotlout! You will get up now!" shrieked his mom, dragging him out of his bed.

"Alright alright! I'm up mom!" he pulled himself off the floor and changed into his clothes, his mom slipping out almost as silently as she had came. It was a mystery to Snotlout how such a big woman could move so quietly. He jogged outside towards the arena where he and his friends had trained to fight dragons, and had now been converted into an arena for the Vikings to connect with their dragons. He whistled, and his Monstrous Nightmare, Fire, picked him up in his front claws and carried him to the arena. All his friends had gathered with their dragons outside the arena and were talking seriously about something that cut off quickly as Fire set Snotlout down.

"You okay, Snotlout? You look..." Rufnut didn't finish her sentence. Snotlout knew he looked horrible, mostly because the nightmares that had started the day after getting rid of the dragons nest drained him of all energy. He also periodically blacked out, finding himself and Fire flying over the ocean.

"Yeah. I look like dragon dung. Thanks for noticing." Fire pushed his nose up against Snotlout's side, offering any comfort he could. Since the nightmares, Fire was the only one Snotlout's temper didn't flare up around. Tufnut opened his mouth to say something, when a low frequency humming filled the air, and something blocked out the sun for a moment. The humming stopped, and a dragon and rider landed on the land between the arena and the docks. The dragon was like nothing Snotlout had seen before; pale brown and perfectly smooth. But the rider was an entirely different matter. Somehow, he knew that this was the girl he was trying to protect in his dreams. She had long reddish hair, and was almost as tall as he was. But the most striking thing about this girl was her piercing blue eyes.

She swung herself off her dragon, and the two stepped towards the arena. Once she caught sight of Snotlout, her eyes narrowed and her fists clenched. Did she hate him when he so clearly knew that on sight he loved her? The ground started shaking, and everyone was staggering around to find a hand hold except for the girl and her dragon. Snotlout grabbed Fire's nose horn for balance, and noticed for the first time that his dragon was staring at the pale brown dragon like Snotlout was undoubtedly staring at the girl.

The drill for earthquakes was to gather in the arena, as there was nothing to fall down and crush someone.
Astrid waved a hand in front of his face, yelling something at him. It seemed so far away. Like it didn't matter. Someone, probably Fishlegs, grabbed Snotlout by his arms and dragged him into the arena. The girl seemed to relax a bit, and the tremors stopped, and she and her dragon headed for the arena. Everyone moved aside and stared at her as the last few people joined the group in the arena. She walked right up to Stoik, talked earnestly to him for a few minutes, and he nodded. Stoik clanged his shield against the nearby wall and instantly had everyone's attention.

"This is Jacinda. She has come to tell us about herself and her dragon. She also has information about dragons that live farther away than Berk."