-Tuffnut-
The ground was beautiful from this high up. All the trees looked like dots, and the people looked like scurrying ants. The wind swept through his hair, and tickled his cloths. It was so perfect. Like flying on a dragon, but without the burden of the dragon beneath him. Was this what it was like to be a dragon?
For that moment everything was wonderful and exhilarating, but quite suddenly that feeling soured. Tuffnut didn't want to be dead. He wanted to live on the Edge with Astrid, Hiccup be damned. He wanted a bright and beautiful future where he was loved and wanted. He wanted to go on adventures with a warrior at his side.
But it was too late. The trees were growing rapidly, and now they reached up towards his face like the sharp spinning teeth of a Whispering Death. A scream was sucked out of his chest. His arms reached for help that wouldn't come and he would have given his left arm to see Astrid swooping up next to him on Stormfly.
Tuffnut folded his arms over his face and braced himself to greet the trees. He expected the sharp stinging pain in his sides from the first layer of branches… but the thick pain of lower branches never came. Tuffnut kept his arms folded over his face until he began to wonder if the ground impact was ever going to come.
Peeking out over the crook of his sleeve, Tuffnut could see the ground sweeping past him. But it was doing so horizontally, no longer jumping up towards him. Releasing his arms, Tuffnut looked up to see a giant orange belly above him.
In that moment, many things went through Tuffnut's mind. One of the most predominant thoughts was eternal gratitude for Dreamcatcher's sudden appearance. The secondary thoughts that would last much longer, was that he was not yet ready to loose Astrid. In that second there was a shift in Tuffnut's heart that changed Astrid from a friend he was assisting, to a woman he could not live life without.
A/N: And now, for the moment you've all been waiting for!