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"Though there's no one there to guide you,

No one to take your hand.

But with faith and understanding,

You will journey from boy to man."

My heart raced in my chest and excitement coursed through my veins as I neared the valley. I was so eager to see if the fin I had made actually worked that, even though I'd worked so long the night before, I woke up extra early today. Training with Gobber wouldn't be until later today, which suited me, just fine, I had to know if it would work.

Shifting the basket of fish on my left shoulder, I carefully slide down the incline to get to my secret entrance. It was much harder and I had to go much slower because I had my hands full and I couldn't grab onto branches for support. Still, I couldn't hide the huge grin on my face. I practically leaped from the last boulder into the clearing below, raced toward the entrance, and carefully slipped inside.

"Oh Toothless," I glance around for the dragon, who wasn't that hard to find now. I saw him right beside the same stone I'd found him by yesterday. Only this time he was waiting for me without the wary look and predators gaze.
Grinning, I slumped the basket onto the ground in front of the mighty dragon. "I brought breakfast; I hope…I hope you're hungry." I really hope you are, because then that would mean I spent all those hours this morning for nothing.
Pressing my foot against the basket and, with some force, kicked it over; this caused the contents to come slipping and sliding out onto the ground.

Hearing the squishing sound, they made as they slid over each other made my stomach turn. "Okay, that's disgusting. Uh…" My eyes glance at Toothless as he slowly inches toward the pile of fish. "I got some Salmon, some nice Icelandic Cod…and a whole smoked eel." After I'd said that, he nosed a fish, recoiled and started growling at the pile of fish. Quirking a brow, I watch as he slowly backs away from the pile as if disgusted. 'What is…' I glance down at the pile, seeing the eel had been where he had nosed before he recoiled.

'I wonder, is it the eel he doesn't like?' Experimentally, I picked up the slippery thing in my fingers. Holding it up, Toothless glowered at it before pulling back completely and hissing. "No, no, no, no!" My heart jolted seeing that he was looking ready to fly; I didn't want to undo all that I'd done, so glancing to the side I threw it as far from him as I could. "No?" He turned his head and looked at me; I hold my hand out to show that I didn't have it anymore. "Okay." I smile as he shakes his head, content that the eel was gone, can't say that I blame him eels don't really taste that good down here.

"Yeah, I don't really like eel that much either." I wipe the slime from the eel on my vest as he turned and started eating the fish. Excitement drilled into me again, seeing that he was focused on eating, like I knew he would be, I started slowly backing up toward his tail.

"That's it, that's it! That's good stuff." I back away, making sure he wasn't watching me. I didn't want him to move his tail, or run away when I tried attaching the fin. I hope that the fish would keep him sufficiently distracted, leaving me with enough time to check and see if the tail fin matches. "And don't you mind me; I'll just be back here…minding my own business."

Kneeling down, as quietly as I could, I lay the artificial tail fin next to his tail. I glance up; to make sure he hadn't noticed anything yet. Seeing that he hadn't I gently nudged it closer to his tail. Anticipation consumed me as I finally got it close enough to attach it when, it slide away. Blinking, I scoot it closer again. Only to have it slide…again. Sighing, I glance at Toothless to make sure he wasn't doing this on purpose. He snapped and chewed at a fish, still not looking back at me.

'Okay so he hasn't noticed me yet…I can still do this before he finishes the basket.' Furrowing my brows I slide it over next to his tail again, this time I was ready to attach it. Then instead of sliding it away, he surprised me by flapping it up. Gasping, I lean back slightly not wanting to be hit with it and look up at him.

I began to wonder if he did know what I was doing, and was just acting as if he didn't. So just in case that was the case I try to reassure him, "No, no it's okay." When it flapped again, I'd had it. Frustration fueled me to launch my self onto his tail to try to keep it still. Whether he was doing on purpose or not didn't matter to me anymore. I wanted to attach the tail fin, and I was going to do it.

Angrily glowering down at the still moving tail, I began to wonder if it had a mind of it's own as it pulled me left, then right, and back again. 'Oh come on you useless reptile! Stop moving!' Having had enough, I sit straddling his tail facing him. Pulling the tail fin next to his I manage to fasten the top one before he pulls me forward.

"Ah!" Thankfully, I had good enough reflexes to catch myself before I fell face first, then I flipped around facing his tail fin. So that the next time that he moved forward it wouldn't knock me forward. He didn't seem to move anymore, which was fine as this allowed me to fasten both the top and the bottom straps to his tail. I gave the bottom strap on more tug, before reaching up to make sure that the top one was secure.

Satisfied that they both were tight enough to keep it on, but not to tight to hurt him, I sat back. Sighing, glance between the original tail fin and my artificial one, seeing as they had come out to be the same length made me smile. My calculations on the length had been correct, but what about the width. Reaching down I extend the tail fin to get a better view of how it compared.

"That's not too bad…it works." A swell of pride consumed me as I saw that they were close to being the same width. They might be off by a few measures but that wasn't to terribly bad, he would still be able to fly at least. 'I might have to modify it to make it work…' My thoughts were quickly interrupted as the ground was suddenly ripped from beneath me. Reflexively, I grabbed onto his tail, clinging so I wouldn't fall off. My heart had sped up dramatically as I watched the ground get farther away from me.

"Oh, No, no, no, no!" The breath was swept from my lungs as, my hair whipped around my face and my screams were carried away on the wind that roared in my ears. We were moving so fast, I'd never experienced anything like this so I wasn't sure how to react. That was when I noticed the artificial tail fin was pressed to his tail now.

'Huh, I thought that I'd pulled that out…' Without much more thought I reached my hand out and, with all the strength in me, I pulled the tail fin out. He banked and surged upward, past the canyon wall. Amazement soared through me as we zoomed past the trees and into the sky.

"Oh my g…it's working!" Experimentally I tilted the fin and he leaned to the right causing him to make a full swooping turn. I couldn't help the smile that split my face. It worked…it was working! Joy and excitement coursed through my veins, and overwhelmed the fear I'd had a second ago. This was just too amazing for words; I'd helped to make Toothless airborne again.

"Yes! Yes, I did it!"

Oh, this was just to fantastic! I had actually built something that helped, and it didn't destroy anything either. It actually worked and someone benefited from it! I was so overcome by the sheer joy of my accomplishment that I didn't even realized that Toothless had banked with enough force to fling me off.

"Whoa!" The force had caused me to bounce like skipping stone on the water before finally landing in the cold water with a splash. Luckily, I'd stopped breathing before I sank into the water. Working off previous adrenaline, I propelled myself up to the top of the water again. I shook wet hair out of my face and blinked water out of my eyes as I come up in time to see Toothless land in the water with a splash. He hadn't been able to stay in the air very long without it closing on him, but the fact that it held up when I was holding it open, was a cause for celebration for me.

"Yeah!" The cold water that rippled around me as I bobbed in the water, seeped into my cloths and caressed my skin causing it to breakout in goose bumps. Had I been actually focused on that I would have cared, but I was to overjoyed about what had happened to even give it a second thought. Watching Toothless swim over to the shore and pull himself out, propelled me to do the same.

Panting, I began to feel the adrenaline was wearing off and the weight of my wet clothes was, at the moment, to heavy for my tired arms to hold up. So, I flipped my self onto my back, and laid there. Staring up at the sky, I began to wonder what it would actually be like to fly. To be able to soar beyond the trees and above the clouds, oh how amazing it must feel.

I close my eyes, remembering the wind rushing past me as it roared in my ears. The feeling of weightlessness that took over as the ground left your feet leaving you to be surrounded by nothing but air. My taste had been brief…albeit a surprise…but never the less still amazing. Tilting my head, I see that Toothless had burned himself a warm place to lie in the sun to dry off.

'So that's what you've been missing huh? If I could do it and it was ripped from me…I'd miss it too.' A shiver passed through me as a brisk wind reminded me that I was still soaked to the bone. Sitting up, I rub my arms to try and warm myself up as my eyes scanned the area for twigs and branches that I could use to make a fire with.

I would have gone home, but that's to far a walk and the wind was blowing a little to much for my taste. So, making a fire and drying off some would definitely be a better idea then walking home, and getting sick in the process. Taking my vest off, I lay it on a nearby boulder that was resting in the sun, hopefully the warmth that the boulder collected from the sun, and the sun beaming down on it would dry it off.

Shivering again, I walk around collecting sticks and branches to pile for a fire. Getting the feeling of eyes on me, I glance to see Toothless watching me curiously. I smile as I drop my accumulated pile of twigs and branches in a pile next to the boulder I'd rested my vest on.

"I can't stay warm like you can. I don't have the luxury of lying out in the sun and basking in its rays to warm my self like you do." He tilts his head, as I search for more twigs, "I wish, my skin absorbed the heat like your scales do, but unfortunately I'm warm blooded. There, I think that's enough, don't you?" I drop the rest of my accumulated twigs and some dried grass that I'd somehow managed to find among all the green. The hard part was finding two stones; I needed the stones to be dry, and able to make a spark.

Another shiver coursed through me, as the wind scratched at my still wet clothes, causing the cold fingers to scratch against my skin. Oh, how I wish he hadn't thrown me into the water. 'I hope I don't get sick..' I scrounge around, for a few more minutes before I finally find two stones, they were both dry and after examining them I concluded that they would have to do. Running over toward the pile of sticks, I clumsily started to strike the two together.

Cold fingers and shaking hands, however, are not good to for striking two rocks together. Growling, I began to curse as the rock flew from my hand as I tried in vainly to start a fire again. Situations like this made me wish I'd paid more attention to my dad when he took me fishing and was showing me how to start a fire, instead of going to hunt for trolls.

"I really should have focused more…" I mutter as I start to stand up, but out of the corner of my eye, I see something flash toward my pile of sticks and a fire flared up in front of me.

"AH!" I jerk back before the flames can lick my face. Dumbstruck it took me a second before could register what just happened. Panting I look over at Toothless who was now flicking his tail, observing the artificial tail fin that I'd made, and acting like he hadn't done anything. Shaking my head, I look back toward the fire and focus on the warmth that it gave me.

"You could've warned me before you did that..." I rub my hands together and hold them over the fire that flitted and flickered with the wind. I hear a snort in response, and this causes me to chuckle as I thought he responds as if he understands me. Brushing my hair out of my face, I glance at Toothless; he was now resting his head on the ground, still flicking his tail.

I chuckled as I watched the left tail fin slide in and back out with each twitch of his tail. His ears and eyes twitched in my direction, he turns his head to face me, but doesn't lift it off the ground. He left on ear up and one ear down, and I couldn't hide the grin on my face as the look he gave me gave me the impression that he was asking me, 'Do I amuse you?'

"You're probably not use to not being able to control both sides of your tail huh?" Closing his eyes, he snorted and flicked his tail again as if to say, 'You think?' Smiling I shake my head, the guilty feeling lightly tapping at my conscious. I stare into the fire; the dancing flames mesmerized me for a moment. My thoughts swimming on how I could keep the tail fin open in the air. It's obvious that it works when it was open, but getting it to stay open was the problem.

Tapping my fingers thoughtfully on my chin, I glance over at the tail fin. I couldn't very well ride on his tail the entire time…it was obvious he wouldn't let me do that, so then how? Thinning my lips, I turned options over and over in my head…but none seemed feasible without me being there. Biting my lip, I glance over at the dragon that was now, slumbering in the sun. It seemed to me that there was only one option…I would have to be the one to keep it open.

Walking over to where he lay, I crouch by his tail. His green eyes opened and he lifted his head, watching me. I was actually glad that he did that, mostly because I was trying to calculate how long of a rope I was going to need so I could pull the fin open from my position on his back…okay…well…maybe not his back per say…but close to his neck.

"Don't worry Toothless, I'm just…trying to figure out the best way to keep your tail fin open…it's obvious you're going to need it to stay open when you fly. So, I'm just trying to figure out how, all right?"

I grin up at the dragon, who was eying me warily. It seemed to me that he does understand; because he then laid his head back down and closed his eyes. Biting my lip, mentally I ingrain the width of his shoulders; from shoulder to shoulder and the shoulders them selves. I tilt my head to try to guess the length around his massive neck and underneath his two front legs.
This was not going to be an easy task, getting the length of rope I'll need to control fin would be easy…the saddle however was going to prove a little more difficult, seeing as how it was going to involve more rough estimates and guesses. I shouldn't be to hard on my self, I'd made the tail fin from rough estimates and it turned out all right, so the saddle shouldn't be much different…of course I have more mass to work around, so I would have to add more length to the straps so they wouldn't hurt him.

Sighing, I pat his side before pushing myself into a standing position. He let out a sigh like sound before standing up to stretch his legs and extending his wings to stretch them as well. I backed up so I wouldn't be hit, and watched as he lumbered over to the lake to get a drink. His tail swishing behind him as he went, I was still awestruck at how fluidly he moved. I'd thought that dragons would walk loudly, with stomping steps, not as silently and gracefully as he did.

"You are something else Toothless, you know that? I don't think I've ever come across a dragon such as you before."

His expressive eyes regarded me, slowly turning his head to look back at me. I smile earnestly down at him. "That's a good thing bud. You showed me that we were wrong about you…you're not as dangerous as I originally thought you were."

Something flashed in his eyes, and I thought I saw his mouth curl into a smirk. I didn't have time to react as his tail flicked out, wrapped around my middle, and lifted me off the ground.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa Toothless, what're you doing?" He then flicked his tail, to where it hovered above the water, my mouth fell open and I looked up at him. I swear he had a smirk on his face, and his eyes were watching me with an, 'I'll do it' look. "No, no, no, don't you dare." His grip loosened from around my waist causing me to slip a little, my hands grab onto his tail. "Ah, Toothless, stop!"

He tilted his head, eying me as if daring me to try and do something about it. I didn't know what I had done that spurred on this kind of reaction, but I had to do something otherwise I was going swimming again.

"What...what did I say? You're not dangerous?"

He gave an unhappy snort before loosening his tail again. Heart leaping into my throat I use my arms to hold my self up.

"Oh, come on Toothless…you've gotta be kidding me…I'm not meaning that you are a pushover...just that you're not a mindless beast…that's all."

He gazed at me for a while, peering at me not letting me down but not dropping me either…not seeing any option, I continue. "You're smart; you have a higher intelligence that we didn't think was feasible in dragons. You're calculating, thoughtful, and you also seem to understand emotion too. You…you're amazing."

I watch as his chest puffed up and he brought me to where I was over dry land and he set me down. Plopping down, I gaze up at him as he seemingly grinned down at me with his toothless grin. Seeing that I couldn't hide the smile that split my face. He really was an amazing creature, he then leaned down nuzzled his head against my chest. I couldn't help but place my arms on top of his head. As he started nipping at my shirt I began to wonder what he was doing, then I felt a firm tug on my shirt.

"Toothless what're you…" Another tug and a glance up at me, and it then registered that he was asking if I was dry enough. A smile tugged on my lips as I caress his head, "Yeah, I think I'm okay. At least I won't freeze to death now." He looked up at me, and the next thing I know I'm being lifted and before I could say anything else, I was plummeted back into the freezing water below.

Gasping, I shiver as I come back up above the water. Cold and wet all over again. I propel my self out of the water and onto the shore. Coughing, I hear a slight tittering sound and looking up I see Toothless sitting there, his head bobbing as if he was laughing! Brushing wet hair out of my face, I push my self up and start running for the dragon. He gets up and bounds off away from me.

"Argh, You useless reptile, what in Odin's name was that for?" He just leaps up onto a tree branch out, of my reach. Glowering up at him, he seemed to grin smugly down at me. "Amazing, yes…but you're also amazingly vindictive too." He just snorted at me and laid down watching me. Shivering I storm back over to my fire which was dwindling now, grabbing more sticks I throw them onto the fire spurting on more flames.

"Great, now I will get sick I know it…" I grumble, now irate, as I had to dry myself off all over again.

I looked up at the sun and almost cursed to myself, jolting up I throw my vest on and kick dirt on the now dwindling fire. Rushing over I picked up the abandoned basket and hurriedly sling it over my shoulder.

"Oh, man I can't believe I'm late! Gobbers' gonna have my head!" As I whip around to leave, I noticed the eel lying by the boulder, where I'd thrown it. Remembering how Toothless had recoiled I began to wonder if all dragons hated eels, or if it was just a Night Fury thing. I leaned down and picked up the eel then threw it in the basket, not really wanting to carry it by hand. With one last look around the valley I noticed Toothless lounging in the sun again, his green eyes caught mine before closing them again.

"I bet you think you're real cute huh? You're just lucky I'm in a hurry…" I made the mistake of turning around to walk toward the exit because the next thing I know I'm lifted off the ground again.

"Hey, hey, come on Toothless!" My grip on the basket handle tightening so that it wouldn't slide off my shoulder, or worse take my arm off. "I'm serious Toothless, I gotta go." Looking down, I noticed that I wasn't that far off the ground so I let my arms slide through the loops and I drop to the ground. Looking back at the dragon who was still holding the basket in his mouth, looking as smug as ever. Grabbing the bottom of the basket as best I could I tried to pull the basket from him.

"Let go, I need this." He didn't budge, just sat there with the strap still in his mouth. I knew very well that he could definitely win in a tug of war, especially with me. I also know that the result would be a broken basket, I could make another one but I didn't want to have to make one. Dropping my hands to my sides, I tried to think of the best way to get it back.

I thought about leaving it, but then I remembered that I wanted the eel in the basket. That gave me another idea, the eel was in the basket and Toothless had the basket...if I got the eel close enough to where he could smell it…then. Grinning, I look up at him, an he gave me a curious look. I just put my hands on the bottom of the basket but instead of pulling it, I pushed it up so it tilted, hopefully just enough to get the eel close to his nose to smell it.

It must have worked because I got the reaction that I'd seen earlier. He dropped the basket and launched himself away hissing at me. Chuckling, I grab the basket and run out as fast as I could.

"That was for dropping me into the lake the second time!"

A growl was all I got in return, I knew that he would probably do something worse to me next time I came in, but I knew that he wouldn't hurt me it was almost like…playing. Smiling I shake my head, out of all the dragons I had to find the one that was ornery and frustrating, but at the same time fun and amusing. I would just have to see what he has in store for me tomorrow, because I have a few tricks of my own. I may be small, but I'm just as smart as him and he's not the only one who can be tricky,

"Just you wait Toothless, I've got a surprise for you."

A.N: I was gonna add on the training with the Zippleback, but I feel like it can wait until the next chapter, it'll help start off Hiccup and Toothless getting to know each other really well...seeing that's how it all started anyway! Hope you all enjoyed it! Thanks for reading and reviewing!