I'm roughly 24 hours later than planned, but I didn't have the time to upload yesterday. Enjoy!

Chapter 17

[Scene cuts to Toothless soaring across the ocean, Hiccup on his back]

HICCUP

„Okay there, bud, we're gonna take this nice and slow. Here we go. Here we go... position three, no, four."

[He changes tail fin position]

HICCUP

„Alright, it's go time. It's go time. Come on, buddy, come on, buddy! Yes, it worked!"

[Hiccup accidentally flies Toothless into one of the sea stacks.]

HICCUP

„Sorry!"

[Hiccup flies Toothless into another sea stack]

HICCUP

„That was my fault."

[Toothless hits him with his ear]

Not much had changed in this friendship. It only had gotten even deeper.

HICCUP

„Yeah, yeah, I'm on it. Position four, uh, three. Yeah! Go baby! Yes! Oh, this is amazing! The wind in my..."

[The wind blows his cheat sheet out of his hand]

HICCUP

„... CHEAT SHEET! STOP!"

[Hiccup's diagram flies away and he tries to catch it, but unhooks the safety cord and falls. He tries to get back on the saddle, getting smacked with Toothless' tail in the process.]

I suppressed a scream. I felt like that day we met and Hiccup had jumped off Toothless to show me his own wings. Only this time, he didn't have any.

HICCUP

„NOOOOOO! Oh, gosh! Oh, gods! Oh, no! Alright! You gotta kind angle yourself! Okay, no, no, no... come back down towards me! Come back down- YOW!"

„Ouch!" I heard myself say.

[Finally reattaching, the cheat sheet smacks into his face. Hiccup tries to memorize the sheet before smoothly swerving through rocks, swiftly changing tail positions.]

I breathed out in relieve while thinking „Intuition is clearly the quicker way."

„YEEAHHH!"

[Toothless shoots a blast of fire and flies through it]

HICCUP

„Ah, come on!"

[Scene cuts to on a sea stack where Hiccup and Toothless are resting. Hiccup looks slightly singed by the fire earlier.]

[Toothless regurgitates a fish head for Hiccup.]

HICCUP

„Uh... no thanks. I'm good."

That's a good decision.

[A flock of Terrible Terrors try to steal fish and Toothless tries to chase them away. One of them fights Toothless over a fish and loses. It tries to attack, only to be blasted in the mouth by Toothless, causing it to briefly inflate.]

HICCUP

„Not so fireproof on the inside, are you?"

Not at all.

[He tosses the Terror a fish, which it swallows whole]

HICCUP

„There you go."

[The Terror curls up next to Hiccup like a kitten, purring softly]

HICCUP

„Everything we know about you guys is wrong..."

And there's still so much more to explore.

Yeah, Test Drive is done. I can't describe how much I love this scene. It's a close second to my absolute favorite, Forbidden Friendship.