Chapter X

,,I got to admit that was a really smart move. But did you see the look on their faces?!" she asked laughing again. I wasn't really paying attention on what she was saying. I was looking at my sketches again.

,,There must be a way to keep that thing open." I mumbled. I was thinking for about fifteen minutes.

,,Oh, I almost forgot. My dad said that you'll have your trainings at the afternoons. He hates getting up early." she said looking over my shoulder. I was still in deep thoughts.

,,Hiccup? Hiccup!" she called me twice.

,,Huh? What?" I asked confused. She shaked her head and sat down on the table.

,,You're not paying attention." she said grabbing my head to make me look at her.

,,I know. I' m sorry. It's just... I can't figure out how to..."I said getting back to the sketches.

,,Then why don't you help him keep it open. You did it well the last time except you almost died." she said getting off the table.

,,And how do I do that?" I asked lifting a brow. She walked to a crate and started rummaging trough it. She threw some papers and books out until she got out a paper and opened in front of my face.

,,A saddle? You're a genius!" I said grabbing it.

,,I know. We need to make them for tomorow." she said lifting her sleeves up.

,,Them?" I asked confused by the plural.

,,Yes. One for Toothles and you and the other for Heartbeat and me." she said pulling out diffrent types of leathers.

,,But Rina you...".

,,If you're going to try dying so am I. We're doing this together." she said puting a hand on my mouth. She smiled and I couldn't argue with her like that.

,,Okay fine. Let's try this." I said looking for needed materials.

,,How do you think they'll react to them?".

...

,Hell no!' was the face Tootles made when he saw the saddle. He just made one glance at it and it was run for your life.

,,I say he took it pretty well." said Rina smiling while putting her saddle on Heartbeat who was standing perfectly still.

,,Toothles get back here!" I yelled running after the crazy dragon.

,,Give him a break Toothles." said Rina when she saw I was fighting for my breath.

Heartbeat made a growl agreeing. Finally Toothles stopped and let me put the saddle. We got on. With a few difficulties but we did it.

,,Okay let's try this." he said and we took off. We glidded above the lake not taking too many risks for one day. We were doing good. Rina was actualy doing bether than me. I tried oppening the fin but it broke and sent us flying into the lake, again.

,,Hiccup what happened?" asked Rina landing gently with Heartbeat.

,,I think we'll need to do some adjustments.".

...

The next couple of days were really crazy. Rina and me were with the dragons or working on improving the saddles. We tried a lot of things to get the saddle and the fin better and we were getting closer and closser to building a perfect type.

We also managed to learn a lot of interesting things about them while spending time together. I even used some of the information in the arena. Like the one time when we tried the improved saddle. We were flying ower a field when I accidently pulled on the fin too hard and Rina lost her balance and we fell down in the midle of tall grass. We looked for the dragons and found them rolling and purring on the grass. We found out it wasn't the usual type of grass and we called it the dragon - nip and I used it that afternoon to calm down a Gronkle.

Then I remember one time when Heartbeat couldn't scratch herself properly and Rina helped her but she accidently scratched her under her chin and Heartbeat went numb. It came in handy when I almost got eaten by a Deddly Nadder. It went for me but stopped when it heard Atrid charging at it and that gave me the chance to scratch it and it did the exact same thing as Heartbeat. Astrids face was priceless. And there was the time when I used my hammer to make a patch of light on the ground and a few second later Toothles chased after it like a cat. It was useful for getting a terible terror in its cage and for playing with Toothles and Heartbeat.

And in the mean time I got kind of famous. All that winning at the arena got me a good reputation. Now everyone wanted to hang around me. My life was finaly going up hill.

Today we were testing the new saddle. I think we finaly got it figured out. I just needed to make a few notes to know when to make the right move to put the fin in a corect position. We were floating only a few inches over the ground, tied up to a rock while Rina and Heartbeat were practising their turning. It was going great until the rope that was holding us snapped and we went backwards crashing on a tree.

,,Are you guys okay?" asked Rina getting down from Heartbeat.

,,Yeah. Oh great!" I said looking at the string that attached Toothles and me together and saw it was stuck. It wouldn't let us seperate.

,,Now what? We didn't bring any tools." I said trying to get the string off.

,,I can go home and get something." suggested Rina.

,,No, it's too dangerous to walk around alone.".

,,I can try to go with Heartbeat.".

,,She won't leave Toothless and he won't leave her. Well have to go together." I said and we went toward the village on our dragons. We managed to sneak by without anyone noticing us. We got inside the stall but Toothless and Heartbeat pressed themselfs inside, rooting through stuff and making a racket.

,, Quiet you two or...".

,,Rina? Are you there?" called Astid from the out side. Rina showed me to stay hidden and quiet.

,,Yeah I'm here." she said jumping trough the window right in front of her.

,,Oh, I was wondering if you could borrow me your comb. My broke and I need to by a new one." she said looking suspiciously at the stall.

,,Sure. Here. Got to go." she said giving her the comb and jumping back inside.

,,Out, now!" she whispered and we left on Toothless's and Heartbeat's backs before Astrid could see us. That was way to close.