Waking with a start, dreaming of the boar attack again, flailing long enough for wing to wake up too. Seeing that I'm not in the forest, but wrapped in wings, wings. Taking in a few deep breaths, I lay down, taking in the fact that I very well could have died the night before.

"Ok, wing, we need to find a new place to sleep, at least for the last three days before the race." I tell wing as I pat his chest, signaling him that he can let me go. As wing opens his wings, my eyes adjust to the light that was flooding in from the cave.

"Have a nice dream?" Asked Hiccup in a shadow of the cave, revealing both him and
Toothless.

"Can you please not do that," I ask him, "remember the first time you did that? Wing almost set you on fire." I tell him.

As hiccup puts his hand on the back of his neck he says, "Yeah, that WAS, almost bad."

"Almost? You just ducked out of the way in time."

"Ok. different topic, you think you're ready for the race?"

"Yeah," I tell him," The harness you had rigged up is working wonderfully."

The harness is made mostly of leather and small wires, made out of a strong light material. The wires were hooked around the corner of wings lips, there was a bone plate there so it would not cause wing much harm. The wires were strung down wings neck, held to his neck by leather loops, which can be easily attatched, but a little difficult to undo, by design. The wires came up on to Wings back, where I stood on a leather "saddle" on his back, that i use to step on. Hiccup and I came up with an idea for foot wear, it had a hole in the the soles of the shoes, that grip firmly onto a multitude of small hooks in the saddle.

"Everything's holding up, nothings loose, or needs tweeking?" Asked hiccup, needing to know if anything needs adjustments, so it does not fall apart in the race.

"No, not really, we've been getting better actually at manuvering, but not much, do to his large wing span. I think we're bonding nicely, don't you wing?" I ask Wing who nods in agreement, "You did that to make me feel better didn't you?" Asking wing, who shakes his head left and right in a 'maybe' way.

"Heh," chuckled Hiccup, "it does look like you guys are getting along well, better then Snotlout and Hookfang are getting along." He congratulates.

"Cool. So all I have to do wait in a tree, before everyone arrives?" asking Hiccup, excited that after almost two weeks I can show my face again.

"yeah, then you would be able to attend one of my classes." he says as he walks over to wing, who lowers his head for Hiccup to scratch his lower jaw.

"He, seems to like you, too," I say. "though he does like having less people around, seems to be recluse by nature."

"In the Book of Dragons, not too much is known about them, wingspan, size, speed, sure we know that, but not too much more, we could expand our knowing by studying Wing."

"Well, we'd have to have wings approval for that, and I'm not sure he wants to be poked and prodded, for a book. I probably wouldn't like that either, don't do that, without either of our say so."

"Ok, we won't prod, or poke either of you, fair?" He says as he holds out his hand for me to shake.

As I shake his hand, "Deal, oh, and I saw another one of those net traps, didn't see anyone set it up, and it was setup pretty recently."

As Hiccup listened intently, he looked like he was deep in thought, "This is not like Alvin, who I'll tell you about later, If he came to the island, he'd bring his entire outcast clan."

"This guy already sounds like I'm going to hate him." I say aloud.

"If he knows you know me, he will not treat you kindly. He'd probably torture you to get information."

"Ok, I definitely hate this guy. Why does he hate your village so much?"

"He wants to control dragons, not for any good reason either."

"Let me guess, he wants to rule with an iron fist, and controlling the dragons would make his follow believe him from fear, rather than loyalty?"

"Yeah, that's right on target, actually." he says, surprised at my guess.

"Ok, that's all the information I have to relay to you, anything helpful you could tell me to place better in the race?"

"Chicken helps keep your dragons energy up, makes them able to burn hotter for longer, basically."

"Ok, thank you for that info." I thank Hiccup, "See you on race day, bring your best riding leather." I joke as he climbs onto toothless, laughing sarcastically.

"Ok, make sure you show up on time." He tells me as he leaves out the cave entrance.


A/N: I'm sorry that this chapter took longer to get published then normal, my computer was not getting along with Fanfiction too well, and my friends were getting an area at one of our houses so we can play D&D, which was better than I expected it too be. Please rate and review, and I will try to fix the FanFiction problem, and get the next chapter out as soon as I can.

-Slaya49