Eyla sat in the big room in her family`s house. She thought about the blue dragon. She was quite sure it was a "he". She thought about the moment they touched, how it felt like the time stood still. It was like something she had never felt before. Her father, and everyone else, have alwyas said dragons were dangerous, she had been told so since before she could walk. She had believed it. Now she wasn`t so sure. That black dragon, Toothless – what a name for a dragon- didn`t seem so dangerous, and the blue dragon didn`t seem dangerous either. But she wasn`t sure. The attack the other night had scared everyone, like it always did, even if some people would never admitt it.

She still wondered about the first time she encountered the blue dragon. How she grabbed his tail falling down the cliff. Why he didn`t do anything to her when she held on to his tail. Or when she had been thrown up on the cliff again. Why he had just looked at her. Dragons attacked and they killed. They didn`t just look at you. Maybe this dragon was different…

"Eyla, are you awake or are you sleeping?" her mother asked when she entered the room. "You look like you are sleeping with your eyes open."

Eyla blinked and looked at her.

"No, I was just thinking."

"About what?"

"Nothing special."

Her mother looked at her.

"Can you set out some traps in the woods?" she asked.

"You don`t think I will mess up?"

"No, I don`t."

While Eyla was walking in the woods setting out traps, she thought more about dragons and the attack. She had started to see dragons differently, but the attack scared her. They were wild creatures. No one got killed last night, but people had been killed by dragons.

Some birds took of from the ground and startled her, and she lost balance. She got her foot under a root and tumbled down a wall of rocks and loose stones. She hurt her wrist and ankle. When she came down she looked around the cove. She moved her hand to test her wrist. It was painful but it wasn`t broken. She got up on her feet. Her ankle hurt, but she could walk, not without limping. She took some painful steps and looked around again. She would have to climb, but with her ankle and wrist in pain, it wasn`t something she wanted to do. There had to be some other way she could get out of there.

She stopped when she saw the blue dragon. He walked towards her, but she still felt worried. He stopped a few feet away from her. The dragon sat down, which surprised Eyla. He still just looked at her.

"Looks like we are both stuck here", Eyla said. "Or rather, I am. You can fly."

The dragon didn`t move for a little while. Then he stood up and lift his swings, and she saw a spear that was stuck under the left wing. So the dragon had been hit during the attack. But for some reason she didn`t think he had been there to hurt anyone, although she didn`t know why she thought so. Still she was nervous when she slowly walked up to the dragon and grabbed the spear. She had to calm herself down before pulling the spear out of the dragon, afraid he would bite her or burn her. The dragon made a sound, but did nothing to harm her. When the spear was out the dragon flapped his swings and Eyla stepped back. He stood still and looked at her and then came closer. She took a few steps back and the dragon stopped. He lay down and put his swings on the ground. Eyla looked at the dragon.

"Wait", she said suspiciously. "You want me to get up on your back? Fly?"

The dragon let out a puff of smoke. She looked at it for a few seconds.

"Fine", she said. "But no sudden turns, no free falling, no diving. Or I`m getting off. Wait, no I won`t. Just… be nice. Okay?"

The dragon looked slightly offended.

She carefully climbed up on the dragon and sat down in front of the wings. It fluttered in her stomach when the dragon took off. She felt a little nervous. The dragon flew higher and higher. Eyla looked down, but quickly looked up again.

"Bad idea. Really bad dea."

The dragon leveled off. Eyla was afraid of falling down, but the dragon calmly flew forward. They where wery high up, much higher than she ever wanted to be, but it started to feel quite okay. She started to relax a little. But then the dragon turned, and made a quick turn down.

"No, no, no, no, no, no! Not ready for that. You ave to fly straight and calm."

The dragon straightened up and Eyla breathed out.

The dragon flew lower and got closer to the water. Eyla stretched out her hand to touch the water that splashed up. She started to like this. This was actually fun.

The dragon rose into the air again, but not as fast. Eyla looked down again, but didn`t feel so afraid this time. The dragon flew towards the island again and landed in an open area in the woods. Eyla stayed on the dragon for a few seconds.

"That was amazing." She got of the dragon, stretched out her hand, hesitated, and then pet the dragon. "Thank you."

Hiccup and Toothless were at the cove, where he first got to know Toothless. It had become one of his favorite places. Nothing could beat flying with Toothless, but this was where it all started, and maybe that was why it had become his favorite place.

Hiccup was sitting down, leaning his back agains the lying dragon. Hiccup looked at the shallow water. It was peaceful here. No one else never really came here, and if they did, it was usually Astrid or Valka, looking for him.

So much had happenes since the day he was going to kill the Night Fury, but just couldn`t find it in him to do it. And now he was the chief. He wiped away a tear. It had been almost a year since his father died, and now he was the chief. They even had a dragon race in honor of Stoick. That was Astrid`s idea. Hiccup did his best to be a chief his father could be proud of. But Stoick`s shoes were very big to fill. Especially since he wasn`t there to help him. He wasn`t just away on a long trip, he would never see him again. He wiped away another tear.

He started thinking about the girl instead. Eyla. He had thought about her every now and then the last couple of days. Had she really climbed up that cliff just to look at the view? Without a plan how to get down? And before she left, how she almost touched Toothless, like she wasn`t really aware of what she was doing, and then changed her mind.

"What do you say we go find that girl again?" Hiccup asked Toothless.

He could feel the dragon move, about to get up.

"No, not today", Hiccup said. "Tomorrow. It`s too late to go today."

"Hiccup?" a girl called.

Hiccup looked up at the opening between the big rocks and saw Astrid standing there. She climbed down and walked over to him. She sat down next to him and kissed him on his cheek.

"Thinking about your dad?" she asked.

"One of the things", Hiccup said looking at the water again.

"People were wondering where you were."

"Yeah, well, you know me. I hide."

He wasn`t really hiding, and they both knew it.

"I don`t know if I`m any good at this", he continued.

"He would be proud of you", Astrid said and took his hand.

"I hope so…"

"You know he would."

"Okay then", HIccup said after a little while and stood up. They started walking. "What did they want?"

"Some people just wanted to know if you were gonna be in the race", Astrid said.

"What do you say Toothless? You wanna race?"

Toothless nodded eagerly.

"Okay then." Hiccup smiled. "What did the others want?"

"It was just me and Valka wondering where you were."

The race started shortly after they came back. Both Hiccup and Toothless enjoyed the race. It was fun, it was fast. Hiccup and Toothless won, not to anyone`s surprise.