Hiccup makes his way into the Cove, bringing with him a huge bag of fish and a bundle he finished making last night. He woke up early, not earlier than Bloom though - all he found on her bed was a note that said she was out.

He dumps the basket of fish on the ground, and discovers dragons hate eel - Toothless growls at it, looking like he could blast the thing to slimy smithereens. He quickly picks it out and throws it into the pond, which instantly calms Toothless down.

While Toothless eats, Hiccup fits the replacement tailfin into place and stretches it out - and then he gets taken along for an unexpected ride while clinging to Toothless' tail. He ends up soaked through because he got flung into the cove pond, but it was so worth it. The design just needs some work is all.

That day in class, nearly everyone gets 'killed' by the Hideous Zippelback until Hiccup gets close enough for it to smell the smoked eel hidden in his vest - seems all dragons hate eel.

How'd Bloom know that? I'll ask her later. He looks up at the seats to see Bloom grinning hugely and giving him a thumbs-up. Everyone else, however, is staring at him in total shock - like he's sprouted an extra set of arms from his head or something.

That night, he makes a saddle to ride Toothless on - and accidentally dozed off, only to wake up and find he must've completed the saddle before that.

Dragon Training gets infinitely easier with him going off into the woods after each session to the cove Toothless is in - he found a kind of grass he's calling Dragon Nip, discovered dragons have a sweet spot under the chin that makes them go limp when scratched, and he's the top of the class. All the others want to know his secret - all but Astrid. These days, when he sits down with Bloom at the empty table, it fills up with most of the other students.

Bloom hasn't said a word about his coming home late every night, with leaves and twigs stuck in his hair and clothes, it's really weird - just commented on how he smelled like a kind of grass she found in the woods a few years ago, at the very most. He came up with a nervous explanation of having stumbled on it - instead of Toothless having accidentally rolled him off and started rolling around in it - and she suggested that he soak his clothes in water with it to get the day's smell out - only if he wants to get swarmed by every dragon that sees him.

He finally perfects his design for Toothless' tailfin, and together the two of them can fly! Truth be told though, it's almost like he's been getting help - because he'll wake up after dozing off and the metal will be worked exactly the way he needs, or he'll be halfway through stitching up the latest saddle design and have to go to dinner, only to come back and it'll be completed.

And one feature he knows he didn't design, a release catch for the hook to keep him on the saddle.

Then, when he takes Toothless flying - really flying - for the first time, he gets the shock of his life when he sees a Light Fury soaring above them. "Look, Bud, it's a Light Fury. A female Night Fury…is that BLOOM?!"

Sure enough, as the Light Fury goes into a twisting dive, he can hear his sister's shouts of excitement. When the Light Fury pulls up next to Toothless and Hiccup, Bloom's looking excitedly at him - she calls "Follow us!"

"What are you doing? How are you up here? And why don't you have a saddle?"

It's too late though, Bloom and her own dragon have flown downwards and are flying right over the water.

Five minutes later, they're on a cliffside with a pile of fish and some Terrible Terrors. And Toothless and Brightfire apparently know each other, as they're rubbing their heads together and Toothless proceeded to smell all over the Light Fury's body.

Hiccup's listening to Bloom's whole account of things that've been happening in secret over her whole life - how Terrible Terrors would sneak into the house and play with her while Stoick was being Chief, how she'd walk in the woods and Deadly Nadders and Monstrous Nightmares would play with her. How she even knows of a Changewing hiding in the woods somewhere. How her whole life, as far back as she can remember anyway, dragons have never hurt her once.

Hiccup's dumbfounded, if the rest of the village knew…

"NO!"

Bloom's sudden shout startles him, and he asks "What?"

"They don't know, they can't know! The forest is filled with dragons! And nobody in the village knows! They haven't hurt anyone, they don't steal anything! And my guess about the rest of them, they don't actually want to."

"…What?"

"Think about it, Hiccup. Dragons are wild animals, and wild animals don't just attack people without a reason - there've been no attacks from the forest, only from the sea. We've lost countless warriors trying to find their nest out there, there's got to be something out there driving them back again and again. We don't know what though."

"Yeah, well, nobody speaks dragon, so we can't exactly find out."

Bloom shrugs, and says "Yeah, well, another thing. If anything of the three boats of warriors that left weeks ago remains, they'll be back soon. And when dad hears of your 'success' in school…"

"Right. He'll think I want to kill dragons. When I don't. When we don't."

Bloom sighs and says "We don't belong here, Hiccup. Not with a bunch of people who just want to kill the creatures we understand so well."

Hiccup shrugs, then something dawns on him and he asks "You're the one who's been helping me, aren't you? All this time since I met Toothless. The way stuff would be finished, how it might even be better than I'd designed…"

"Yeah, that was me. Hiccup, this…what we're doing, its important. It means that humans and dragons can coexist, we just have to learn how to. But the others won't see it that way, they just see creatures to kill."

They both look out at the sea, and Hiccup asks "So, what are we gonna do now?"

"I don't know. Fly away? Live double lives for as long as we live?" Bloom shrugs, then whispers "We should get back. People are going to wonder."

"Ok, but first, why don't you have a saddle?"

Bloom grins, seeming much more like her usual daredevil self, and says "I ride bareback. Want to try?"

"No! No thanks. Tried it by the tail, it didn't work out. I got an early bath that day."

Bloom snickers, and says "That explains why you smelled like fish that night."

A Terrible Terror curls up next to her, thrumming away contentedly when she runs her fingers along is scales, and Hiccup whispers "Everything we know about them is wrong."

Bloom whispers back "Everything they know about them. I've known this stuff for years. Like the fact that dragons aren't very fireproof on the inside."

Hiccup whistles, and runs a finger along the now-sleeping dragon's scales himself. "This is amazing. Bloom, this is truly incredible."

"There's so much most people don't know. For instance, Shift is behind us."

Hiccup looks behind them both suddenly, and the empty rock wall behind them suddenly changes color to reveal a Changewing sitting behind them. "Woah! Bloom, how'd you…?"

"Know? He let me know. Brushed my back with his tail. I've known him for a while. He's a friend."

They both stand up, Bloom after waking the Terrible Terror and running her hand along the Changewing's nose and scratching it under the chin, and head back.

AN: Yeah, i know, training went really fast - but it does in the movie to! And yeah, Bloom's been secretly helping her brother all this time - you notice she didn't want to know all Hiccup's secrets? They were hers first! And while Hiccup's been making a saddle and testing out Toothless' prosthetic tail, she and Brightfire have been flying all over the place in secret. So, yeah, they're really good fliers - having had all that time to practice, and all. Because, come on, the movie made it a montage, but it probably would've been a few weeks at least between the start of Warrior Training and Stoick getting back. Anyway, enjoy! please review if you've got questions! Wondering what'll happen when Astrid finds out? Next chapter!