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Sorry this one's been a while but i have been away on a camp, unable to write but here it is - chapter 10!

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When I awoke the next morning, Hiccup was already awake and catching fish in the lake with much success as he had a large pile of cod next to him, just waiting to be eaten.

Since when did you get up so early? I asked him, inching my way towards the inviting pile of fish to his side. I normally have to throw you out of bed to get you up in the morning!

'Since today – I'm just so dang excited.' He answered, chuckling to himself, 'fish?' he offered, nudging me the biggest cod in the pile. I took it and swallowed it instantly, taking a couple more from the pile without him noticing. 'When do you want to start?'

When I've had enough food – don't rush me, I teased him. I knew the only reason he offered me a fish was to try and sweet talk me so I would begin his lesson earlier. Not so. Hiccup had made me wait several times over the past few months for my fish and now will be my revenge.

'Do you guy's always make so much noise when you're eating?' Astrid's voice sounded from behind us and Hiccup immediately grabbed a fish and took it to her. 'Thanks. You wouldn't mind, would you?' She asked, gesturing towards the unused pile of wood next to the ashes of the previous fire. Hiccup obliged, sending a small fireball into the pile, setting it alight so Astrid could cook her food.

Why do humans bother cooking food? It tastes so much better fresh and whole.

'We have to – our stomachs just cannot take raw meat. If it's raw, we just vomit it back up.'

You mean their stomachs cannot take it and they would just vomit it back up, I corrected him – he was still talking about himself as a human but he would have to accept that it's not going to happen.

'I can still dream, can't I?' he asked sarcastically. As much as he loved being a dragon, a Night Fury, the most powerful being alive, he so wanted to be human again.

After breakfast, Astrid had packed up the tent and taken it back to the village so I am could get both Hiccup and I back into the air in peace. You ready then? I asked him, but the answer was obvious.

'Ready? I've been ready for the last half hour! Now let's start already! He commanded, stretching his wings and wiggling his tail.

Ok, flying is a lot like fire breathing – it's easy when you have done it once. It's fairly simple. The fins at the end of your tail control pitch, the small wings in the middle control turns, I told him, extending my secondary wings to show him. Night Fury's are the only species of dragon to have more than two pairs of wings and this is what gives us our amazing speed. Finally your big wings control speed and height.

'Right, should be easy. I think'.

It will be – its instinct for dragons to know how to fly. Once you're up there you won't even realise what you're doing.

To show him how to take off, I decided to go first. I extended all 3 pairs of wings (using the strap around my paw for the left tail fin) and leapt into the air and an abnormally slow speed as to give Hiccup a chance to take it all in. I then turned back towards him and landed, with quite a lot of relief as I was expecting to fall out the sky on my first attempt – maybe this new tail fin won't be so hard to use as I thought.

Go on, give it a try, I told him, it can't be that hard or I would have failed just then, wouldn't I? I sat down, watching Hiccup walk forwards to the clearing in the centre of this ravine we were in, and he started unfolding his wings. After steadying himself for a brief moment, he shot into the air, leaving nothing but a dazed me and some dust behind. I stared into the air, watching him perform fancy loops and plummeting dives all in quick succession.

'Wow, THIS IS AMAZING!' he shouted down to me. 'Come on up, I'm finally going to beat you in a race!' This was a challenge against my honour and I did not intend to back down.

You asked for this I replied, leaping into the thin cool air once more. I quickly picked up my pace, zooming straight past Hiccup who was hovering in mid air, waiting for me. Unfortunately, my glory was short-lived because almost as soon as I had cleared the chasm, he came straight past me, laughing as he went.

'You may have the experience Toothless, but I have the tail!' he retorted, climbing to the heavens above Berk. I was not going to lose that race, and even with a slight handicap, I still had a few tricks down my mouth. Flying as fast as I could after Hiccup, I breathed up an incredibly small amount of gas into my mouth, and then I waited. The finishing post, as always in our little races, would be the beach where we liked to hang out, and at his current speed, he would win; so I lit the gas in-between my jaws, feeling it burn me slightly but not enough to cause pain, and I waited. Eventually, hiccup stopped climbing and turned to freefall back towards the planet, wings tucked in at his sides. Immediately, the Night Fury's signature screech made itself known, the wind rushing past Hiccup's wings saw to that, and I spewed out all the smoke from my fire into his path on his way down.

You may have the tail Hiccup, but I have the experience! You can't beat me, not here!' I shouted at him, hoping to lower his hopes. Granted the smoke would sting his eyes slightly, forcing him to slow up but it would wear off. I quickly snapped my body around to face Berk once more and flattened my wings to my sides. Hiccup was now only about twenty metres in front of me and I was gaining. Ah, the sweet smell of victory.

Landing back on the ground, Hiccup was only a few seconds behind me, but that was enough to annoy him.

'You cheated! You blinded me on my way down!' He roared, tackling me to the ground and successfully pinning me in one smooth motion. His strong black tail wrapped itself around mine; rendering it useless and he leant forward onto his front legs, pushing my shoulders firmly into the grass beneath me. There was only one way out of this now and that involved me sending a fire blast into Hiccup's neck. Not an option.

Alright, I submit I told him, and he finally got off me, grinning happily.

'Who needs to beat you in a race when I can beat you in a fight?'

You didn't beat me, I could have easily have got you off but it would have nearly killed you.

'But dragons are immune to fire on the outside' he replied, and he was right – if I had blasted his neck it would only have hurt a little, but nothing more; Night Fury scales are more resilient to fire than anything else.

I didn't want to take that chance. It was the best I could come up with at the time, plus it was marginally true – I didn't want to hurt Hiccup, even if it meant putting up with his bragging.

Around noon that day, Hiccup and I returned from yet another flight together; my wings were tiring now but by the looks of things, Hiccup only wanted to go out again.

'I can't believe I actually did that – fall from thousands of feet in the air and survive!'

Oh come on Hiccup, we've done that loads of times before!

'yes, but this time I was in complete control, if you get what I mean' and I did – I didn't want to admit it, but flying alone again did feel good but nowhere near as good as it did with Hiccup on my back. How I would miss those days. 'Do you want to go again?'

Not this time Hiccup, you have to rest now. Tonight were going back to your village and you are going to have to face your father. At this comment, the expression on Hiccup's face immediately changed from one of joy to one of dread.

'What's he going to do Toothless? He finally started caring for me as a human and now I'm a dragon he could just shut me out like he did before.

You know he won't though. Even if he does, how is he going to stop a Night Fury from getting inside that house? He tried stopping me when you were unconscious after that battle but he failed then. Besides, he's your father and despite how vikingy and tough he looks, he does care about you.

'Yeah, your right. If he doesn't let me in I'm going to torch his beard off. Hiccup chuckled to himself, but he then became serious once more – 'Stuff it. I'm only going to worry until we get there. Let's go now.' He looked at me straight in the eyes, his face lacking the usual 'Hiccup flair'.

Are you sure?

'Yes. Let's go now.' And with that, Hiccup and I jumped into the air once more. Heading for the village of Berk, two Night Fury's flew towards their home.

As much as I didn't like to say it out loud, I thought being a Night Fury was being at the best of existence – the peak of living world, but I was wrong. Hiccup, my little Hiccup now had the home field advantage; neither of us knew it yet, but Hiccup had an ability beyond imagination, it just took a spark to ignite it, and that spark was on its way.

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