-Meeting-
I yawned and stretched when I woke up. I didn't try getting out of the hole, because I knew that I would never get out. Then I smelt something in the air. It was human, and yet…. familiar. It was the same boy from yesterday. I hid behind a rock and waited for him to come. I looked out from behind the rock and I saw him throw a fish into the clearing. It took all of my strength to not eat it. I climbed onto the top of the rock and froze so his puny human eyes couldn't see me. He walked into the clearing without a shield, defenseless. It would be easy for me to use him as prey. He was looking for me as a watched him silently. I slowly crawled off the rock towards him. He was scared when he noticed me. I was starving, and he was right there, but I resisted and he showed me a fish. He held it out to me for me to eat, but then I noticed that he had something shiny on his waist. I backed away and snarled. It was the same weapon he'd almost killed me with. I was still snarling at him to get rid of it, but he'd probably not understand me. He took it off of his waist and dropped it on the ground. I motioned my head so he could understand me. Then he used his foot to throw it into the little pond. Then I relaxed knowing he had no weapons on him now. He held out the fish again. I cautiously inched towards him. I opened my mouth to grab it, and then he said, ''Huh… toothless? I could've sworn you had…'' Then I snapped my teeth out and grabbed the fish quickly. I was too hungry to think about the boy. I threw the fish in the air and then gulped it down. I licked my lips. It was the best fish I'd ever had. He finished his sentence, ''Teeth.'' Then I noticed that the boy was still standing there. Maybe he wanted some of the fish too. I walked up to the boy, and he backed away until he hit a rock. He was still scared of me. ''No, no, I don't have any more.'' he stuttered. I looked into his eyes. They were staring back with the same fear I had when he was about to kill me. I regurgitated half of the fish for him to eat. It landed on his lap. Then I sat down like him to get him to calm down a little. He was still scared, so I looked down at the fish and back at him to show him I wanted him to eat it. He sighed, but then he bit into the fish. I swallowed and then he swallowed it eventually too. I licked my lips again and his mouth formed a crescent moon. I looked at it for a while until I tried doing it too. He did the same back and then he tried to touch me with his hand. I showed him my teeth and hissed. I didn't want him touching me. Then I dashed to the other side of the clearing. Since my belly wasn't hungry anymore, I decided to take a nap. I burned the ground at my feet and patted it down. I slumped down and put my head down. A bird was in a tree overhead and I looked up to see it. It flew away and I watched it peacefully fly. When I turned my head to watch it go, I saw that the human had followed me over here. I put my ears back and put my head back down, and then put my tail in front of my face. ''Go away human. I'm taking a nap'' I heard him inch closer to me and I lifted my tail to see. He was reaching his hand out again, and I was getting annoyed, so I got up and walked away to rest.
-First Contact-
The sun was going down and the boy still hadn't gone back home. I walked over to see what he was doing. He had a stick and he was dragging it across the dirt to draw something. I watched the stick the stick as he dragged it and the picture was something that looked like me. I wanted to try it too, so I broke a tree to get a stick and I started dragging it on the ground too. He was sitting on the rock as I did it, so he didn't get in the way. When I was done, I looked at my work. I was happy with what I'd done, so I looked at the boy to see what he thought of it. He was standing now, and he was walking in the direction of the pond without thinking where he was going. He stepped on one of the lines I'd made, so I snarled at him to get off. He took his foot off and I calmed down. Then he put his foot back on, and then I hissed as I snarled. He took it off again and I was calm, but then he put it back on again and I moved forward a little as I snarled at him. He finally kept his foot off, and I stayed calm as he inched towards me, without touching the lines. Carefully, he went over each and every line, and it looked like he was having fun. He reached me soon after, he stopped when I breathed on him. He turned around, and he stuck his hand out again to touch me. I growled a little, but then he turned his head around. His hand was still extended towards me. He was less of a threat that way, so I thought about it, and this boy did save my life twice… So I touched my nose to his hand. It was warm, but soothing. It had been only heartbeats, and I opened my eyes, snorted, and ran to my side of the clearing. The boy left soon after. I was hungry, but not as much as I was yesterday. I slept peacefully again, and I knew that I'd see the boy again tomorrow.
-New Tail-
When the boy was back, he had a basket on his back. I smelt fish inside it. He put it in front of me, and tipped it over. Tons of fish came out. I almost fainted at the sight of all that food. I stepped towards the fish and started to smell it. Then the boy said ''There's salmon, a nice icelandic cod, and a whole smoked eel.'' Once he said that, I backed away from the fish. Eels were the only other animal besides humans or other dragons that could kill a dragon. I was hissing at it until he threw it into the pond. I relaxed knowing that the threat was gone. I started to eat the fish. It was perfect just like the fish yesterday. I ate all of the fish on the ground, so I stuck my head into the basket. There were no more fish left. Then I felt something holding onto my tail. I moved my tail to see what it was. The boy was on top of my tail, and he was putting something on it. I could't believe he was touching me again. I knew I probably wouldn't be able to fly, but I opened my wings and got ready to take off. I didn't want the boy on my tail, so I flew into the air. At first I started falling, but right before I hit the ground, I somehow went into the air. I got out of the hole. I was free! Then I started to turn back towards the hole. I tried going away, but I couldn't control my tail. I was back in the hole when I heard the boy on my tail. I flung him off, and turned away, but I still couldn't control where I was going. I looked at my tail. The boy had attached something to it. I started to fall again. At least I landed in the water. Whatever the boy had done, it had helped me fly again. The sun was going down, and the boy had to go home. I went to my nest, and I fell asleep. With this boy, I'd be able to see my family again.
-Test Flight-
When the boy came back the next day, he had a strange leather thing. I felt a little playful, so I ran away from him so he had to chase me. He finally got me to stop when he got a fish and gave it to me to eat. It turns out that it was a saddle. He hooked it up, and then he got on. ''Come on Toothless. Let's try this out and see if it works.'' he said to me. Toothless was a nickname I'd received from him, and I was okay with it, since I couldn't tell him my real name. We took off and the boy tried his new invention. It was okay. At least I could fly with it. I couldn't control it, but the boy had an idea of what he was doing. He came back every day for a couple of days. One day I landed in some grass that smelt so good that I rolled around in it, and another day, the boy was scratching me on the neck, and then he found my special spot that makes me go limp. It felt so good too. Another day he brought me into the village to fix the saddle. He brought me into one of the huts and tried to unlatch himself. Then I heard another human voice. He left himself latched to me and ran out the door. I listened to their conversation. ''Hi Astrid. Hey Astrid.'' he said nervously. ''I don't care what people say, but you're acting weird.'' I spotted a sheep, and I was hungry, so I walked towards it. Hiccup was still attached to the saddle, so he was pulled towards the door. ''Well weirder'' the other human said. Then I ran to the sheep and the boy was dragged behind me. The other human didn't know what happened. The boy jumped onto my back and we flew away before the other human knew where he went.
About a week later, we actually test the saddle and new tail. There were a couple of big rocks in front of us. I heard clicks from the boy's foot, and then I hit a rock. ''Sorry'' he said. Then we hit another rock, ''That was my fault'' he said, and then I used my ear to hit him in the face. ''Ow! Yeah yeah, I'm on it'' he my new tail flap opened up and I started to fly upwards. ''Come on buddy, come on.'' He said. I flew as fast as I could. He held on tightly, and then his weight was gone somehow. I looked up and saw him above me. Then I started to fall with him, and I started to spin irraticly. The boy tried to reach for me, and I reached for him. We were getting closer and closer to the ground. Then, all of a sudden, the boy latched onto my back, and then I opened my wings to stop the landing from being hard. We hadn't hit the ground when I heard I click from where the boy's foot was, and then we were flying strait, but there were rocks ahead of us. He used his foot to steer where I was going, We narrowly missed all of the rocks. We were finally safe from hitting all the rocks, and the boy yelled ''Woooo Hoooooo!'' I blasted a fireball in front of us out of joy. It blew up in front of us in the air. ''Oh Come on.'' the boy moaned before we hit the fire. His face was burned when we landed soon after. I forgot that human skin wasn't as resistant to fire as dragon's skin was. We sat down next to each other next to a pile of fish. Me and the boy were, dare I as it, becoming very good friends. I heard little squeaks in front of us, and I looked up to see what it was. They were terrible terrors. Great. Just what we needed. I growled at them to go away, but the dragons paid no attention. I protected my fish from them, but one got a fish and dragged it away. He started to eat it, but another one wanted it too. They started to fight over it. I thought it was stupid how these little dragons couldn't get their own food. Then one of my fish moves, and I watch it. Then a terrible terror tries to get away with it. I grab the fish, and then rip it away from the little dragon. Then I ate it. I laughed at him. He was charging for a fireball. ''What are you gonna do? Burn me to death?'' Right before he blasted a fireball at me, I blasted one into his mouth. He fell down, and he staggered away. ''Not so fire-proof on the inside are you?'' Hiccup said. ''Here you go.'' he threw a fish at the terrible terror and it ate it quickly. After it gulped it down, it moved closer to Hiccup. When it was next to Hiccup, it nuzzled his hand, and lied down. ''Everything we know about you guys… is wrong'' he said. I yawned and rested for awhile until we left soon after.
