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Chapter 13: The Dragon's Den

Toothless takes a hard right suddenly and my eyes widen with surprise,"Toothless what's happening?" I ask. He doesn't even seem to notice my voice as he flies forward. Towards a valley of dragons in the sky.

"Get down!" I hiss to Asher and lean down as far as I can on the saddle. Asher leans down over me and I watch as a Zippleback and a Monstrous Nightmare fly in close to us.

Every dragon is carrying some sort of animal in it's claws, or mouth"What's going on?" Asher asks.

I shake my head and look back at him,"I don't know." I whisper. What is going on!? I watch them for another second. "It looks like their hauling in their kill." I note.

Asher tenses, "Uh, what does that make us?" He asks.

Dead.

"Toothless you got to get us out of here, bud." I whisper, putting a hand on his head. Toothless shakes my hand off and I look up around me in fear. I felt terror falling through the air yesterday, but compared to this, that was a big ball of bright cheery happiness.

My heart beats quicker and I force myself to remain calm. I know Toothless wouldn't let anything happen to us...okay...me, Asher….He might let Asher get eaten.

A Zippleback gives me and Asher a long hard, cold stare. Toothless dives suddenly and I let out a cry of surprise, Asher echoing me. I duck my head into Toothless's neck and look at the handles to his saddle they're covered in ice. I close my eyes tightly and dont move until Asher shakes my shoulder softly. "Iyn." He murmurs.

I pull my head up, my breath hitching. In front of us is a huge volcano. Its hissing, and smoking but Toothless dives into a narrow opening similar to a cave tunnel. When he reaches the end there's thousands of dragons lined along the walls of a large cavern surrounded by red mist. "What my dad would give to find this." I breathe. Toothless glides over the red mist before diving to the side.

He lands on an overhang and I look at the red mist, my eyes wide,"Well it's satisfying to know all our food has got dumped down a hole." I mutter sarcastically. Asher takes in a sharp breath as a dragon flies past us dropping a sheep into the mist.

"They're not eating any of it." Asher says. We both watch as a single Gronckle flies over the hole. It drops a small fish out of it's mouth and hovers there for a second scratching the side of it's head.

A huge head snaps up and it's jaw slams around the Gronckle. My eyes widen and my heart skips a beat as I lean away from the end. Asher's arms tighten around me in fear. "What. Is. That?" Asher breathes.

I have no idea.

And I dont want to know.

Monster. That thing is a monster.

All of the other dragons back up into their hideouts as the head descends slowly before all three eyes on the side of the head snap to us. "Toothless, we need to leave." I say. Toothless nods his head and takes off into the air, wings flapping powerfully.

The sudden movement surprises me and my hands slip off of the ice coated handles. I fall backwards and hear a horribly click as the leather cords detach from the saddle.

"TOOTHLESS!" I shriek and fall backwards. Asher's hand snaps out and grabs my wrist the other holding the saddle handle tightly. Toothless flies up and I look back at the tail and my legs dangling uselessly.

I jerk suddenly and watch in horror as my glove starts to slip from Asher's death grip. The fabric detaches from me and Asher looks at the glove a terrified expression on his face. "HAEDRYIN!" He yells.

I fall.

I look as Toothless's head spins around looking back at me before something grabs my shoulders. I loom up and see a blue Zippleback. It growls at me slightly before it flies over to Toothless and drops me on his back. Asher grabs my shoulders and I slam my feet into the stirrups and click the left one.

The huge dragon head snaps up at us and Toothless soars upwards the Zippleback that saved my life is grabbed from the air and dragged down into the dragon's mouth. Toothless flies up to the top of the volcano and then out of it.

I'm breathless and Asher grips my shoulders tighter. I'm shaking with fear and force myself to take in several calming breaths.

Toothless flies faster than I have ever seen. When we land, Asher jumps of off Toothless and looks at me, "It totally makes sense." He says and stares at me, "It's like a giant beehive their the workers and that's their queen." He says and turns, "Let's find your dad." He says and starts to rush off.

I jump off of Toothless and rush up to him and grab his shoulder with my gloved and he turns around, "No! Asher we have to think this through." I say and look back at Toothless, "They'll kill Toothless." I add.

Asher looks at me and I walk back to Toothless as he speaks, "Haedryin, we just found the Dragon's Nest. The thing we've been searching for since Vikings first sailed here and you want to keep it a secret?" He demands. I don't answer and he adds,"To protect your pet dragon are you serious!" He demands. I turn to him.

"Yes."

I look at the ground as he makes no comment. I sigh and then look up to see as his face softens, "Okay, so what do we do?" He asks. I fiddle with the straps on my flight vest keeping eye contact with Asher. His blue eyes are focused on me, waiting for an answer.

"Just give me until tomorrow, I'll think of something." I mumble.

I shove on my glove that I'd been holding tightly in my hand and Asher watches my fingers for a second. His mouth opens as if he wants to ask a question, but closes it. "Ok." He says.

"Ok?" I repeat. That's it! You should have way more to-Ow! Asher punches me. I grab my upper arm and wince."What! What was that for?" I demand.

He grins. "That's for kidnapping me." He says then pauses and adds as an after thought: "And for dropping me out of the sky."

I give him a deadpan look and look back at Toothless, he rolls his emerald green eyes and continues drinking water from the pond, "It was him." I say and point a finger and Toothless.

Asher rolls his eyes and brushes his bangs away from his eyes. He watches me for a second before he leans forward kisses my cheek and pulls away. "And that's for every moment after that." He says and I stare at him in shock.

He pulls my arm up and kisses my gloved hand and grins at me, "You truly are a princess." He says and turns around. He races forward, picks up his axe, and with one last glance at me he races out of the cove.

I watch his retreating back and my face breaks off into a smile, princess. I've been teased with that title for years and now he used it as if it held the most honor and respect one could offer.

Toothless comes up behind me and purrs. I jump and look at him, he gives me a lopsided grin, his eyes twinkling he looks me in the eye. I snap out of my blissful daze and look at him, "I-uh, What are you looking at?"I demand.

He looks away from me and sniffs my hands and looks up at me clearly disliking my gloves still on my hands. I pat his head and sigh, "Why do you not even like me to wear these?" I demand and look at him. Toothless sniffs the glove again and doesn't even look at me. I pull my hand away from him and look at the saddle. The handles had so much ice on them I was amazed Asher hadn't noticed anything.

I wave a hand and the ice bursts into small snowflakes. I can't be restrained. I thought the gloves would help, but they dont.

No gloves nor person can control the curse.

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