Kara's eyes fluttered open as a grunt rumbled through the chest of the dragon that enveloped her. She looked to see that Hiccup was sketching something, sitting a distance from the girl and his dragon.
"Hic?" Kara mumbled, rubbing at her eyes. Hiccup looked up from his sketch and stuttered in surprise, face heating up.
"Oh, Kara! You're awake!" Hiccup exclaimed, obviously nervous. Kara looked curious.
"What are you drawing?" She asked, getting up. Toothless released her and she walked over to Hiccup, reaching for the sketchbook. Hiccup held it away. Kara smirked. She tackled Hiccup and sat on him, casually flipping through the sketchbook. "Hey, these are pretty good..."
She trailed off as she saw his most recent sketch. It was her and Toothless. It was...
"Wow..." Kara breathed, examining the details of the sketch. She then closed the book and slapped it down near his head. She leaned down and pressed her lips to Hiccup's, surprising the teen. She then stood and ran away.
"Kara, where are you going?" Hiccup called. Kara kept running. Hiccup looked to Toothless in confusion. Toothless only closed his eyes and rested his head on the ground. When Toothless opened his eyes, Hiccup appeared before him holding the new prosthetic. Toothless ran off as Hiccup chased him down. "Hey!"
"Yeah!" Toothless and Hiccup were zooming over the ocean. The tail broke free sending Hiccup flying. "Whoa!"
Hiccup and Toothless zipped through the air - his rudimentary harness and tail controls were working, barely. They crash-landed in an open field. Hiccup recovered to find Toothless still rolling around in the tall grass. Hiccup discovered that it's a patch of ‘dragon- nip.' Toothless writhed on his back, tongue wagging, in complete bliss.
Hiccup discovered new tricks over the next week or two. Kara stopped showing up to training, much to Hiccup's and Gobber's concern. Hiccup strapped a newly designed harness onto Toothless. With Toothless tied to a nearby post with a rope, Hiccup rode him in the air - while stationary. Toothless looked like a giant kite tied to a tree stump. This harness seemed to work. The rope the broke and the pair crashed into a tree. Hiccup's face was red.
"Oh, great." He mumbled. Kara laughed from a far rock pile and walked over.
"Good going, Hic." She said. She knelt down and rubbed Toothless' muzzle. He purred and relaxed. Hiccup looked curious as to how she accomplished to make Toothless so calm, and she revealed that she had dragon nip in her palm.
"Where'd you get that?" He asked. She frowned and dropped it.
"Nowhere important." She said, standing. Hiccup, grabbing the dragon nip, grabbed it up and looked at her.
"This came from a field way out in the middle of nowhere... how did you get out there?" Hiccup asked. Kara gave him a look that said 'drop it'. But Hiccup being Hiccup, he didn't. He walked forward and held the dragon nip up to her face. She held her breath and glared at his hand, before swatting the dragon nip to the ground. She turned and walked away.
Hiccup and Toothless lounged on a sprawling, deserted beach, snacking of freshly caught fish. As Hiccup cooked his over a fire, Toothless suddenly regurgitated a fish head. Hiccup smirked with forced politeness.
"Uh..no thanks." Hiccup gestured to his fish on a stick. "I'm good."
Several Terrible Terrors landed like seagulls, hissing and nipping at each other as they approached Toothless' pile of fish. One grabbed the regurgitated fish head and dragged it away. Another attempted to steal it from him. They faced off and blasted fire balls at each other to settle the fight. Hiccup and Toothless watched, amused. That is until Toothless spotted one of his fish leaving the pile. A stealthy Terrible Terror was exposed as the thief. They tugged on the fish, and it snapped back into Toothless' mouth. He swallowed it back tauntingly. Irate, the little dragon pawed at the ground and blasted Toothless. He opened his mouth, the gas hiss came, and Toothless fired a tiny flame straight into its mouth, causing the gas to backfire into the little dragon. It coughed up smoke and staggered away, looking ill. Hiccup laughed.
"Not so fireproof on the inside, are you?" Hiccup threw the hapless Terror his freshly cooked fish. "Here you go."
The appreciative little dragon gulped down the meal and approached Hiccup cautiously. He curled up next to him. Hiccup was amazed.
"Everything we know about you guys is wrong." Hiccup carefully petted him... sending the Terror into an immediate, blissful sleep. Hiccup looked up as a branch cracked. And he screamed.
There stood the Banshee, looking right at him. The Terror's squeaked and ran, except for the one next to Hiccup. He stumbled over to the Banshee and Hiccup stood, ready to mount Toothless. But instead of attacking the Terrible Terror, the Banshee leaned down and nuzzled his head. The other's Terror's ran forward and perched on the Banshee's back. The Banshee seemed to smile at the action. Toothless, who had been growling, sniffed the air and relaxed. He walked over to the Banshee and grunted. The Banshee snorted.
"Toothless?" Hiccup said. Toothless ignored Hiccup, grumbling to the Banshee, who nodded, then walked forward. The book was right, the dragons movements were fluid and graceful. Why did he think of Kara? The dragon stopped in front of him and looked him in the eye. Hiccup... he knew those eyes. He remembered seeing them many times, whether they were filled with mirth or tears... they were Kara's eyes.
"K-Kara?" Hiccup stuttered. The dragon began to glow, and when the light cleared, Kara stood there with a blank look. But the eyes were the same, hopeful and a bit sad.
"Hiccup..." She said.