Chapter Twelve: Flying Lessons

The next morning Eira was kneeling beside Dust unwrapping the bandages off her wing. When the she was done, Dust was stretching out her wing making sure it was not hurting too bad. Hiccup was placing the saddle and rig on Toothless and while looking over at the girls he could not help but ask Eira something.

"Hey Eira?"

"Hm?" She turned to look at him finishing his work.

"How is it that Dust allows you to fly with her?

She snorted, "Well why does Toothless let you fly him?"

"Well that's simple, we need each other and we have a bound like no one else."

"Same goes for me and Dust," she told him as she hopped on top of her dragon, "now if you don't mind I believe some reptiles want to stretch their wings before it gets too late."

At that cue, Dust began to run straight in the forest leaving Hiccup and Toothless to scramble to catch up.

When they did, Eira smiled and Dust narrowed her eyes at Toothless daring him to catch her. When Toothless realized what was going to happen he ran faster making his trainer holler with excitement. Before either trainer could, catch on both dragons had their wings spread. Hiccup made the adjustment as quick as he could and Toothless was weaving in and out of the trees. Unfortunately, Dust was still having trouble and every time she would flap her injure wing a certain way she would cringed. Eira saw and felt this and so she called out to Hiccup who ended up turning around in time to see where the two girls had landed.

Hopping off she immediately went to hug Dust and to cheer her up, "its okay girl we just need to keep practicing." She ran her fingers over her scales and in return, she pressed her muzzle into her palm.

Hiccup and Toothless came landing in a short while after that. Hiccup speaking up for both of them, "what's wrong?"

"Nothing she's just not a hundred percent yet," she gave a sympatric smile towards her Night Fury, "but we know when you are you'll be flying circles around these boys huh?"

"Oh really? Could that be a challenge I am hearing bud?" the male teen asked holding his hand up to his ear.

"You know it after all girls is better than boys," she winked at him.

He ignored her comment and the wink she sent, "so are we taking a break?"

Dust answered by standing back up and puffing out her chest, not wanting to give up. Eira was very proud at her friend in that moment, climbing on top of her once more before leaving the boys there alone as she took off running.

Not wanting to seem weak in front of Toothless, she kept trying to fly, but all that came about was her gliding in short spurts in the run. She felt like a newborn again and she hated it. The ride was a bit shaky so much so that Eira almost fell off a couple times. Hiccup noticed this and made them stop for the rest of the day having them land in the cove.

They sat in the grass watching their dragons catching some fish for their lunch. Eira smiled when she saw Toothless up chuck a half of a fish for Dust when she missed one and of course, the female Night Fury ate it.

"That's gross," Hiccup said.

"But sweet," she piped playing with her chain that hung around her neck.

Hiccup turned to talk to her, but his breath was lost at what he saw. The sun was shining through the trees making the rays place different sizes of light to hit her, almost like she was under different spotlights. Her dark brown hair showed that it had a golden brown hue to it and her eyes, whether it was the sun or not, held a twinkle in them, "Beautiful."

"Did you say something?" she turned to him.

He snapped his head forward, eyes enlarged saying," nope, nothing."

She eyed him suspiciously for a bit before letting it go. After a while of silence, she called his name, "Hiccup about yesterday."

"I'm sorry," he said quickly.

"Why?" she cocked her head to the side gazing at him.

"Because I made a fool out of myself and not to mention I made you upset."

She stopped him from continuing, "No I mean why were you trying to flirt with me?"

"Oh well," he rubbed his for arm in hope it will provided him so courage," a few people may have mentioned that we would be good together."

She frowned and have a lace of disappointment in her voice," I see."

"Eira."

"Besides," she brushed him off, "just because people believe in something doesn't make it true right?"

"Right," now he sounded sad.

"Anyways Dust should be able to fly in a few days," a weak smile crossed her face, "and when she can we'll be heading off once more." Dust noticed what her trainer was saying and she turned to look at her with slit pupils. Eira spot this and got up to see what was wrong, "Dust?"

The dragon growled out a warning towards her and took a step back.

"Dust what's wrong?" again she took a step forward and again the Night Fury repeated her actions. When Eira took one more step, Dust took off clawing up the rock's wall to get out of the cove and away from them. "Dust!" she cried out.

Quickly hiccup was on Toothless and calling out to Eira to hop on. When she was securely on, he leaned down to the reptile's ear to tell him to go. Instead of moving though, Toothless sat there.

"Come on Toothless lets go," Hiccup urged, but the Night Fury was just like a statue. The male Viking did not know what to do, as the female pleaded with the dragon to follows hers. Once again, Toothless sat there making the girl frustrated, so she ended up jumping off and running out of the cove to chase her dragon down.

"Dust!" she cried out again as she pushed bushes and tree branches out of her way. Even with her still injured wing, the dragon was faster and by the time, the girl realized that fact she had already lost her best friend. She staggered around out of breath still searching and calling out the dragon's name. Sooner than she realized though she was lost herself and ended up sitting on a rock tired and confused of what to do. She buried her head in her hands trying not to cry.

That is how Hiccup and Toothless found her. He walked up to her slowly calling out her name. When her blue eyes locked on to the yellow green eyes, they turned cold, "you." She snapped up and started to scream at the reptile, "This is your entire fault!"

Hiccup tried to calm her down as he stepped in between the two, "now Eira it's not his fault."

"No, if he would have just followed her like normal I wouldn't be sitting here separated from my dragon and wanting to rip his scales off!"

Toothless growled ready for her to attack, but Hiccup played the peace maker," Toothless, no. Eira just calm down he must have had a good reason to do what he did."

She was just glaring at the dragon hoping he would burst into flames on how he acted, but she gave up letting out an angry scream then turning that anger on the teenager, "forget it I wish we would have just left as soon as I saw your face, then none of this wouldn't be happening to me!"

He stood there in shock and hurt as she continued," but no we stayed because I wanted to trust a person again." She turned to look at him in his green eyes," I really wanted to trust you, but look how that turns out. Your father was right to name you hiccup because you are one."

He wanted to yell, speak, to say something and yet nothing came out as his mouth hung open looking like he was going to.

"Save it Hiccup as soon as I find her we're leaving and never coming back," and she stormed off deeper in the woods to search.

Hiccup wanted to follow her, but Toothless was walking back towards their home, which was in the opposite direction. He was torn, but in the end, he followed his dragon determined to forget about everything about her that he memorized in the weeks she has been there.

A/n: Another chapter let me know how you like it in the reviews.