Test Flight
Toothless and Hailey lifted up into the sky, passing through multiple clouds. The girl kept glancing between her journal, the sky, and the tail fin. Hailey checked the clips holding in her journal once more.
"Okay there, bud," said Hailey keeping her eye on the sky and patting the side of Toothless' neck. "We're gonna take this nice and slow." She looked at the journal for the 'left' position.
"Calm down, Hailey. Everything will go just fine." said Toothless, sensing his human's nervousness. Hailey rubbed the top of his head and looked back at her journal.
"Okay, position three. No! Four." She looked at the foot pedal as she click her foot into position. She let out a sigh of relief as the artificial tail fin opened up smoothly. They glided through the air as Hailey looked at the tail fin again.
"Okay, it's go time, it's go time." She leaned forward as she clicked her foot into a 'diving' position and they went into a nosedive. When they were close enough to the water, they evened out. Toothless, on a reflex, turned a little which caused his wing to slice through the water's surface.
"I love doing that!" Toothless exclaimed joyfully. He let out a dragony laugh as he pulled his wing out of the water. Hailey chuckled at the dragon's movement, then focused back on the flight. They soared under an over hang and white seagulls followed them out. A perfect maneuver.
"Yes, it worked!" said Hailey, smiling as she looked at the fin. She looked forward again and planned to go straight through the tall rocks jutting out of the ocean. But of course with her luck, she managed to smack Toothless' underside to the side of one of the rocks. "Sorry!" she tried to even out their course but managed to smack into the other rock. "That was my fault!" She finally got them back onto their course and flying straight.
"One word for that: Ow." said Toothless as he smacked Hailey with his ear flap to make sure she got the message. She did.
"Ow!" Hailey shook her head and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, I'm on it! Position four, uh, three." She fiddled with her foot pedal and clicked it into the correct position. She pulled up on the saddle, causing them to fly straight up into the air.
"Yes! The fun part!" Toothless always loved flying up into the clouds. As they flew higher, Hailey could feel the excitement flowing from her dragon to her. So, she had to let it out, too.
"Yeah!" she shouted, tightening her grip on the saddle. Just because she enjoyed flying, doesn't mean that she wasn't scared out of her wits. "Go baby! This is amazing! The wind in my–" Her journal was blown out of its clips by the strong wind. Hailey's excitement turned to terror as her journal was about to fly out of reach.
"Journal! STOP!" Toothless slowed his flying until they were hovering in the air. Hailey had managed to grab her journal, but the sudden stop in Toothless' flying caused the clasp keeping her and the saddle together unhooked.
Hailey didn't notice until she looked underneath her, and Toothless looked above him and their eyes locked. Normally, that wouldn't be a problem. But in this situation, it's a crisis. Both of their eyes widened in shock.
"WHOA!" they both shouted. Sadly, gravity did not work in their favor. Hailey flailed around in the air while Toothless was using all of his might to keep from flailing around the way his rider was.
"This is bad! This is really, really bad!" Toothless shouted as he attempted to turn around. Hailey turned herself around to face Toothless.
Hailey wasn't doing to good on the not panicking either. She twisted around in the air shouting, "Oh gods! Oh no!" She put her arms out, only to have them cause her to spin around, again. She twisted around so that she was falling with her stomach down.
"Okay. You gotta, kinda, angle yourself! No, no come back towards me. Come back towards m-OW" Toothless' tail smacked Hailey sending her flying near a rock mountain.
"Sorry!" he shouted. But Toothless managed to even himself out. Hailey saw this and tried another one of her crazy plans. She stuck her journal in her mouth, freeing both arms to grab a hold of the saddle. Once she did grab the saddle, she hooked herself back into place and stuck her foot into the foot pedal.
She pulled up on the saddle, just nearly missing the tree tops. They glided along the top of the trees with Toothless screeching at the top of his lungs and Hailey trying her best not to freak out at the situation. She pulled the journal out of her mouth, which didn't do her any good considering the wind was making the pages flap all over the place.
"Hailey! Maze of rocks!" shouted Toothless. Hailey jerked her head up, only to see that Toothless was right. A large maze full of rocks was coming up very quickly. She glanced between her journal and the rocks before shoving the journal in her belt and leaned forward into the saddle. Toothless got the signal.
Hailey clicked her foot into position just as the first tall rock showed up. Every single rock jutting out of the water were easily avoided as Hailey and Toothless seemed to become one as they flew. Both of their minds filled with determination as they flew through the maze. They came out of the clouds without a single scratch. Both beings incredibly surprised that they were able to pull that off.
"YEAH!" Hailey shouted while throwing her arms straight up in the air. Toothless shot out a plasma ball out of his own excitement. It exploded just a few feet away from them. "Humans aren't fireproof!" Hailey ducked onto the saddle just before they flew through the flames. The fire burned the back of her shirt and pants, covering her entire back with black. As they passed through the flames, Hailey lifted herself up, wincing at the new burns she got.
"This will take some explaining." She looked at her back, then back at the sky. "Okay, let's head back to the cove, bud." Toothless nodded and they flew back to the cove.
# # #
Vorpent watched through his crystal, replaying the girl and dragon's test flight. It angered him to see that she was able to restore the dragon's flight. Green Death was watching as well, but he was growling at the dragon. He didn't really care for the little human. Actually, he could care less.
"Great. The little human maniac managed to get that dragon into the air." Vorpent grumbled. "I thought after ripping that tail fin off, there would be no 'dragon and rider'."
"Master, I don't like it anymore than you do," said Green Death. "But we must make sure that that little nuisance doesn't notice the dragon's lightning bolt." Vorpent nodded in agreement.
# # #
The duo had landed into the cove and Hailey had begun taking the riding gear off of Toothless. She was almost done taking off the saddle before her phone hang in her bag. She walked over to it and pulled out her white iPhone. The caller ID said: Uncle Gordon.
"Oh!" she shouted. She knew her English was going to be rusty after speaking Dragonese for two days, but she still knew it well enough. She slid the green button and held the phone up to her ear. "Hello?"
"Hailey? This is Uncle Gordon." said Gordon.
"Hey uncle G! What's up?" Her English had returned.
"I need you to come down to the forge. Only Odin knows why but the entire forge is a complete mess! And I need your amazing cleaning powers to help me." Hailey was amazing at cleaning things up. She once cleaned her entire house in under 15 minutes.
"Alright, I'll be right over." She hung up the phone, placed it in her bag and walked over to where Toothless was. But she had run into a dark hide instead. Toothless had walked over to her while she was on the phone.
"Oi. Okay, Toothless, I need to go and help out my uncle. But, I'll be back tomorrow." She looked at Toothless' forehead and noticed a bright blue lightning bolt above his left eye. "Toothless, why do you have a blue mark above your left eye?"
Toothless sighed. "There's a lightning bolt on my forehead isn't there?" Hailey nodded. "I'll explain what it means tomorrow when you get here okay?" She nodded again.
"Alright. I'll see you tomorrow bud." She kissed his forehead lightly before packing her stuff up and headed out the cove.
# # #
Gordon was scanning the messy forge. He was trying to find his lucky bashing hammer. It was the one he would use to bang in the strongest of ores. But, it was also the hammer he lost all of the time. He wore a black shirt, gray jeans and black shoes. His hair was a dirty blonde and he had blue eyes.
"What the heck happened in here?" asked Hailey as she walked into the forge. Gordon didn't hear her come in and was startled by her voice. He literally jumped out of the pile and landing back on the pile.
"For the love of Thor, Hailey. Don't scare me like that." said Gordon as he stood up from the pile. "Anyway, thank you for helping me clean this up. I honestly have no idea how this happened."
"I'm happy to help Uncle Gordon." With that, the two set off to clean the forge.
# # #
Toothless kept thinking about how he would show Hailey what the lightning bolt meant. He knew it would come some time. But he never thought about how his human would react to it. He paced around the lake, worried about what Hailey might think. In frustration, he blasted at the pond making steam come off of the surface. He shook his head and walked over to the cave he had slept in. He decided to sleep on it. He only hoped that Hailey would still accept him, even after what he can do.
That she would accept him for being able to turn into human and back to dragon.