Fish and eels

Toothless' POV

"Hey Toothless!"

I heard the sing song call of Jaiden. I suppose he was calling me Toothless now. It wasn't like I could really object to it.

He was carrying a large basket that looked much too heavy for him. Under his other arm was a strange looking contraption. I didn't know what it was, but the enticing smell of food caught my attention. There was fish somewhere.

"I brought breakfast," He said, "So I hope you're hungry."

I was a large beast that required a vast amount of nutrition for sustenance, of course I was hungry.

He dropped the basket and kicked it over. To my delight, a pile of fish tumble out and spread along the ground. I hope he didn't plan to share with me, I thought greedily, because I was going to eat all of this.

"We've got some smoked Salmon," Jaiden said, "some nice Icelandic Cod and a whole smoked eel."

I paused. Eel?

I growled and backed off, showing my disgust.

Eel was not good. Not only were they slimy and cold and disgusting, but when they were alive there were feral things to catch and I hated them.

Jaiden tilted his head, reached into the pile and picking up the vile thing.

I hissed viciously and bared my teeth just to show my utter disgust.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" Jaiden exclaimed quickly, "Its ok!"

He threw it to the side and held a hand out to me as if to try to calm me.

I snorted at the smell still on his hand.

"Yeah," Jaiden said, wiping his hand on his clothes, "My best friend didn't like eel much either. And it's not exactly my favourite thing ever."

I paused for a moment before digging into the pile of fish, barely listening to Jaiden mumble things.

It seemed like he was talking to me, but he also seemed to just be muttering to himself.

I was just eating the meal in front of me. Thank goodness Jaiden had come to feed me. Because I wasn't able to go out and hunt anymore. I couldn't seem to be able to fly out. And I think it had to do with the piece of flesh missing from my tail.

I guess I owed him something. What, I didn't know. I couldn't exactly give him any food back or anything.

Actually, why he was here in the first place confused me. Didn't I terrify the boy?

I twitched my tail when I felt something but I ignored it in favour of moving forwards to get the last fish from the basket.

And then I felt something tightening around my tail. I raised my head and the basket fell off and dropped to the ground with a soft thump.

I wriggled my tail and paused. I think Jaiden was on my tail.

Well, if he was that bold to sit on my tail, I was going to make him regret it.

I silently spread my wings and waited for him to stop moving and stop tightening whatever it was that he'd put on me. Then I took off quickly, eliciting a yell of surprise from him.

I screeched as I felt myself falling but then suddenly I was flying. I was flying up in the sky! My tail was working! Maybe I didn't need the other half!

I felt Jaiden pull something near my tail and suddenly I was forced to change direction and dip back down to the water hole where I'd been trapped.

"Yes, I did it!" Jaiden exclaimed.

I looked underneath my wing to see he was sitting, clinging to my tail, holding some sort of… Fake tail? He gave me a tail so I could fly.

I could've licked the boy silly, but I opted out for favour of flicking him off my tail. I hoped it wouldn't hurt the boy. But now I had my flight back, I needed to get out of here so I wouldn't perish.

However, I screeched in frustration when my flight suddenly was off balance again. I turned slightly to see the fake tail wing was closed, the wind flapping uselessly against it.

And then I tumbled into the water.

I turned to see Jaiden seemed unharmed. He, in face, seemed rather pleased as he threw his soaking arms into the air, shaking his wet mop of hair out as he did so.

"Yeah!" He exclaimed.

I snorted at him for being so happy after I failed and trudged back onto land. I shot plasma fire at the ground and curled up top to dry off.

I seemed to work this fake tail, I would need Jaiden's help. But I didn't like him sitting on me and controlling my flight like he had.

I would stay grounded until I figured out how I could work this tail myself.

However, Jaiden seemed to excited. He swam to shore and ran out, grabbing the basket on his way and throwing the revolting eel over his shoulder, under his coat. Well, good. He could take the nasty thing away for all I cared.

"Bye Toothless," He called, "I'll come back tomorrow."

I rolled my eyes and settled down for a nap.

If he came back tomorrow, he'd better bring me more fish.

Jaiden's POV

When Paul opened the dragon's cage this time, the gas dragons used to light their fire burst out and spread around the arena, sucking up all oxygen. I was glad the roof was open or we probably wouldn't be able to breathe by now.

Through the thick, visible gas, I couldn't see the actual dragon.

"Today is about teamwork," Reggie said.

I was paired with Harley and I was already annoyed. He reminded me why I never befriended many of the other young adults. Granted, Harley was 23 compared to me being 18, but he gibbered nervously in his high pitched voice so I could hardly hear anything else.

Or maybe that was just Harley.

"A wet dragon head can't light its fire," Paul said.

"The Hideous Zippleback is extra tricky," Reggie said dramatically, "One head breathes gas. The other, lights it."

"You'll have to know which is which," Paul said.

I circled around, trying to spot any sign of the dragon. So far, I'd almost died every session. I was determined for this not to be the case today.

I couldn't hear anything with Harley gibbering nervously about how this particular dragon ingested its prey.

"Will you stop that," I hissed at him, causing a hush to fall.

"If that dragon shows either of its faces," I heard Gary said, "There!"

I heard water splashing and then girly shrieks.

"Its us, you idiots!" may shrieked.

Ash laughed heartily. "You must be getting bigger May, we thought you were a dragon."

There was a groaning sound as Ash got pelted, I assume by May.

"Hey, not that there's anything wrong with a dragon-esque figure," Gary said seductively to, I assume, Leaf.

He grunted in pain and I heard the painful sounds of a fist hitting its target. I think I could safely assume that Leaf had punched him.

There was a roar and Ash let out a shriek.

"Ash!" May yelled in horror.

"I am very hurt!" Ash yelled, running past, holding his arm.

The gases cleared slightly and I could see the girls get tripped over by a tail, both dropping their buckets.

One of the dragon's heads appeared from the gases and slithered around. It looked at May and briefly I saw a look of curiosity before May and Leaf quickly ran back to safety.

The dragon then looked at Harley and came towards him.

Harley shrieked (rather femininely might I add) and tossed the water at the dragon's head.

The dragon opened its mouth for a small stream of gas to pour out.

"Oh, wrong head," Harley said in relief, before he shrieked and ran away as the dragon pelted gas at him at an alarming rate.

"Harley!" Reggie yelled.

The other head came into view, flicking sparks in its mouth.

"Now Jaiden," Paul commanded.

I threw the water up, but it was just my luck that it didn't reach.

"Aw, come on, really?" I asked sarcastically.

I tripped over backwards to avoid teeth.

"Jaiden!" I heard Reggie yell.

I put my hands out slight, stupid move, as I waited for my end…

…But it didn't come.

Instead the dragon hissed in repulsion and I blinked in shock.

My eyes widened as I realised it was not looking so much at me as… the eel I had hidden under my coat still.

I'd forgotten to dispose of it in my haste not to be late and now I was glad.

I stood up and made a step forwards. The dragon took a step back.

"Back," I called as I pushed it towards the cage.

Turns out the Night Fury wasn't the only dragon who hated eels.

"No don't make me tell you again, back," I yelled, feeling kind of stupid for talking to a dragon, "That's right. Back into your cage. Now think about what you've done."

I threw the eel in the cage, making the dragon hiss in the corner as I shut the door and locked the cage again.

I turned and wiped my hands off. I probably smelt like fish and eel now. I think I'd need a shower.

However, everyone was staring at me, wide-eyed.

I scratched my head nervously. "Are we done?"

Even Ash, who seemed to have only suffered a minor cut to his arm, was staring at me and it made me uncomfortable.

Harley dropped the bucket he'd been holding and his mouth dropped open. "Now how did you do that?"

"How did you do that?" Reggie asked, blinking in disbelief.

Even Paul looked impressed.

"I… Um…" I stuttered.

I hadn't thought of how to explain it.

"I don't know," I said, "Anyway, I gotta go now."

And I darted out, not looking back even as they called my name.

I had decided I was going to get that Night Fury, Toothless, to fly. And I was going to make a saddle so I could stay on this time.

Me: I feel like Toothless would be sort of playful

Jaiden: to my expense

Me: Of course.