The dragon moved a little and someone on its back straightened up. It was a guy her age with beautiful eyes and tousled hair. She stood up.

"So, how did you get up here?" he asked again.

"I uh… climbed. She scratched the back of her head. And kind of flew", she added with a lower voice.

"Why? Just to enjoy the view? Which by the way is amazing."

Who was this guy? And what was he doing on a dragon?

"I eh… trying to do something about my fear of heights…"

The guy smiled a little and looked at her with an amused glimpse in his eyes.

"So how do you plan to get down?" he asked.

That was a very good question. She felt really silly. She never thought about actually getting down, all she had thought about was getting up there.

" haven`t really thought about that."

"Do you wanna climb down or fly?"

"Did I mention I`m afraid of heights?"

"And yet you climbed all the way up here alone." He smiled a crooked little smile. "You only have two options. Climb down, or fly."

Eyla squinted a little and looked at the dragon.

"Is it safe?"

"As safe as anything else." He looked down. "Probably safer."

That didn`t really make her feel better. She looked at the dragon and the guy, then down the steep cliff wall.

"Fine", she said and looked at them.

She slowly walked up to the dragon, nervous not only about flying down. The guy helped her up and she awkwardly put her arms around him. When the dragon took off, it fluttered in her stomach and she gasped. At first the dragon was calm and she started to relax. But then it flew faster, made sudden turns and dived. Eyla screamed and clung to the guy. The dragon calmed down and flew straight again.

"Did I mention I´m afraid of heights or did you just forget?" she asked.

"He just didn`t listen. He does that sometimes when someone new is on his back."

"Great."

When the dragon landed and Eyla got off, her legs were shaking and she had to sit down on a stump.

"I do not wanna do that again", Eyla said. She looked at the guy, like she just now realized that he was actually riding a dragon. "Wait, you ride a dragon?"

The guy smiled and nodded.

"But.. uh.. they´re… I…" She was gesturing and could see the dragon follow her hand with its eyes and she stopped. "Dragons are dangerous!"

"He`s not dangerous. He`s a Night Fury, so technically he`s the most dangerous dragon", he said gesturing with his hand, "but no, he`s not dangerous. He`s my best friend."

Eyla didn`t really feel convinced. She looked at the Night Fury and the guy. She didn`t know what to believe. She had always been taught that dragons were dangerous. But it was something about that dragon. Then she saw that the guy had a prosthetic. The fake leg was such a natural part of him she hadn`t even thought about it. He must have had it for a long time cause it didn`t seem to bother him at all.

"What happened to your leg?"

The guy looked down at his left leg and moved it a little.

"We were in the sky, got hit and we fell and he couldn`t save all of me. But it was a long time ago." He shrugged.

He didn`t say any more and Eyla didn`t want to ask.

"Okay… So, I should get going." She started to turn around but stopped. "What`s your name?"

"Hiccup."

"I`m Eyla. So… Thank you Hiccup, and…."

"Toothless."

She raised her eyebrows.

"And Toothless… for getting me down."

She raised her hand and slowly stretched it out towards the dragon. He looked at her curiously. Then she realized what she was doing and stopped and let her arm fall down. She turned around and left them.

Hiccup got up on Toothless and watched her leave.

"There`s something about her."

Toothless agreed.

Eyla walked through the woods and thought about everything that just happened. How she did climb that cliff. The amazing view. And how she almost fell all the way down, grabbed the tail of a dragon and got tossed up again, And then that dragon as black as the night that almost scared her to death, and that guy with the beautiful eyes. When she thought about the flight down her legs started shaking again and she had to lean against a tree until it stopped.

When she came home her mother wondered where she had been for so long and she just said she had been wandering around in the woods. She couldn`t tell anyone about the rest.