About twenty days - give or take - had passed since we left the main camp. Mother's words of worry still rung freshly in my mind, don't do this, do that. She was just too overprotective sometimes. We were just about to leave our temporary camp as the suns first rays of light shone across the ice and snow covering the land, causing it to sparkle brightly. It looked as if the world was made out of diamonds. Beautiful, sparkling diamonds. "I think we're just about there guise" I said, looking at the three dragons surrounding me. "If my calculations are correct we should arrive at night fall." They all roared in agreement. I made sure everyone had their equipment properly secured before getting up in Ice's saddle.
'Are you ready?' Ice's voice echoed in my mind.
'Never been more ready!' We took off in a quick pace wanting to cover as much ground as possible before lunch, then, after a short break we would hopefully not have too many more miles to cover before we could finally end our long journey - we were all tired and could use a good rest.
After about six hours of constant flying we took a short break. As we finished the last of our rations one of our main camp Night Fury scouts landed with news from home. Apparently a rare Sqauldron had wandered in to our territory and caused quite the scene. It was all under control now though.
Another seven hours passed and Berk was still nowhere in sight.
'Are we off course or something, Ice?' I asked through our mind link.
'I don't DO off course, Aliane.'
'Oh, I know Ice. You don't have to get so upset about it! But we should at least be seeing Berk by now!'
'You do have a point' he grumbled.
As we bickered the smell of food assaulted our noses. 'I believe we're close.'
'Close to somewhere at least' he grunted, still offended by my comment about whether or not we were on course.
After a few minutes of flying in silence an island appeared on the horizon. "We're almost there, everyone!" I sheered and everyone let out happy roars, as they did the sound of alarms ringing and panicking villagers could be heard in the distance. Ice let out a small laugh, admittedly sounding more like a growl than a laugh but what can you do, he's a dragon.
'Humans sure can be silly sometimes' he laughed through the link.
'Hey!' I slapped him playfully on the head. 'I'm a human to, you know!'
'Trust me, I know.' I could feel him rolling his eyes at me.
'Are you calling me silly?' I said, feigning hurt.
'Maybe.'
We flew in over the shores of Berk and the ruckus grew - children hiding and warriors assembling to face the appending 'threat'. We land in the small plaza and we're quickly surrounded by the tribes warriors.
'Ooo, scary' Ice snorted in my head.
'Come on now, be nice!'
"Who are you!" an authoritative voice echoed over the plaza. "And what do you want?"
"Me?" I said, gracefully sliding of Ice's back. "I'm Aliane Dragonrider, and I'm here to teach you how to fly."
