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Merida woke to the sound of bells. Today was the day the competitors would compete for her hand in marriage. She rolled out of bed feeling worse than ever. Then she remembered. Hiccup had promised to come back! "That's silly." She mumbled to herself. "That was 7 years ago. He's not coming."
Something nudged her back onto her bed. " I know your hungry, firefly." The large, white dragon became visible, wanting food. The light fury took up most of her room. No one knew about it, of course. It had been 4 years since she found it, she didn't know how much longer she could keep this up.
Firefly looked up at her with her big, blue eyes as if to say, "He will come."
"Even if he does come I don't know if he'll win, and I don't know what he'll think of you." She sighed, flopping onto her bed. Firefly went silent as footsteps came up. She shot out some purple and vanished. Her mother walked into her room and motioned to the turquoise death trap her mother was making her wear. Once she got it on she squeaked, "I can'tâĤ breath!"
"You look beautiful." Her mother sighed.
Merida almost tripped on her way down the stairs, but was caught by invisible firefly. "I told you to stay in my room!" Merida shrieked quietly.
Firefly became visible and still had the same look in her eyes.
"He will come."
Merida stood on the stairs scolding her dragon for quite some time. "You can come, but only when I think it's safe. I'll call you and you can come, not invisible." Firefly looked confused. "I'm showing you to the kingdom today." Merida sighed, preparing herself for her light fury to panic. "It'll be ok!" Merida struggled to calm her dragon. "I'll make sure it's safe. And I'll protect you, OK? Wait on the roof for me to whistle. Then you can come."
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Hiccup was talking to his father. "But dad I need to go!" He whined.
"Why son?" He asked. Hiccup wanted to take toothless out to try his new tail, but it was too windy.
"DAD!" he gasped when he realized what he had forgotten. "Merida!" Stoik's eyes widened.
"Well hurry up son." He laughed. Hiccup ran to toothless and the big, black, soft nightfury gracefully lifted off the ground and flew like a speeding bullet into the yellow sunrise. Hiccup was worried how he would explain it to her. He shouldn't have been. He should've been worried about the 3 huge clans who have never seen a dragon. As they flew over the castle she could see people talking, but couldn't make it out. The first challenge was starting!
"Wait!" Hiccup cried. Everyone looked up.
