Gobber helped Stoick onto the dock. The fleet was attacked by dragons.

"I trust you've found the nest at least?"

Gobber asked.

Stoick shook his head, "Not even close. I hope you've had better success than me."

"Well, if by 'success', you mean your parenting troubles are over, yes."

A small group of Vikings came to greet Stoick and tell him the good news.

"Congratulations Stoick! Everyone is so relieved!"

"Out with the old and in with the new, right?"

"No one will miss that old nuisance!"

"The village is throwing a party to celebrate!"

Stoick was confused. Who were they talking about? Were they referring to….. Hiccup? But that couldn't be.

He turned to face Gobber, "She's gone?"

"Yeah." said Gobber, "Most afternoons. But who could blame her? The life of a celebrity is very rough. She can barely walk through the village without being swarmed by her new fans."

"Hiccup?"

"Who would have thought huh? She's figured out a new way to use her powers for the benefit of the village. Since she's part dragon, the dragons might fear her, thinking of her as some kind of goddess or something. This could give us an advantage! She has this way of controlling the beasts."

Stoick thought about everything he was told. He decided to speak to Hiccup.

Hiccup and Toothless were out flying. Hiccup was testing her latest idea. She had her little cheat sheet clipped to the saddle in front of her.

"Okay, Toothless," she suggested, "we're gonna take this nice and slow."

Hiccup adjusted the foot pedal to position four. The Night Fury turned gracefully. "Yes!" exclaimed Hiccup, "It worked!" She became overconfident as she came to a sea-stack. As she tried to steer the dragon past it, she accidentally made Toothless bump into it.

"Sorry." she said.

She tried again. But collided with another sea-stack.

"My fault!" admitted Hiccup.

Toothless slapped Hiccup with his ear, "take us higher. We won't hit anything up there."

"Yeah! Yeah! I'm on it!"

Hiccup adjusted the foot pedal to position three. Toothless flew so high that Hiccup felt her ears popping.

"This is so amazing!" exclaimed Hiccup, "the wind in my-"

The cheat sheet came too loose in the clip and began to fall.

"Stop!" screamed Hiccup.

Toothless stopped ascending. He stopped so quickly that Hiccup's belt unlatched from the saddle.

Hiccup and Toothless began to fall toward the earth below.

"Oh no!" Hiccup screamed over and over again.

"What are you waiting for?" asked Toothless, "Use your wings! Fly towards me!"

"No!"

"Why not?"

"Because I can't!"

"Just flap your wings and fly to me!"

"I can't!"

"Can't what?"

"I can't fly!"

"You can't what?" Toothless was so shocked that he accidentally slapped Hiccup with his tail. The accident turned out to be a good thing, because it created a wind current that brought Hiccup close enough to grab hold of the saddle. She pulled herself into place and put her feet into the pedals.

Toothless spread his wings, trying to stop. But the dragon was falling so fast that they didn't have enough time to stop or turn before they would crash into a maze of sea-stacks that was right in front of them.

Hiccup tried to look at the cheat sheet. But the wind made it impossible.

Hiccup let go of the sheet and recalled everything she could.

With some source of luck, Hiccup was able to remember each function of each position. And she safely guided the Night Fury through.

Once all was clear, Hiccup threw her arms up in the air, "Ye-e-e-a-a-a-h-h!"

Toothless shot an orb of fire in front of him.

"Woah!" exclaimed Hiccup as she covered herself with her wings, protecting herself from the fire.

Hiccup sat in front of the fire, cooking a fish that she had caught herself. She couldn't stop thinking about the possibilities of anything like that could've happened.

Her thoughts were interrupted by Toothless, "You can't fly?"

"No." Hiccup answered, "I can't."

"Why?"

"I'm not allowed to use my powers. My dad said that it would lead to me killing someone. I tried to tell him how learning to use my powers would help me control them. But he just… doesn't listen to me. So, I never got to learn how to fly."

"Well. I'm going to fix that tomorrow. Tomorrow, you're going to learn how to fly."

"I'm warning you. I'm going to crash more than you ever have in your life."

"I know."

"Gee. How comforting."

"Kid. Are you going to master walking on your first attempt?"

"….. No?"

"Will you master running or jumping on your first try?"

"No. You'll fall."

"Exactly. You're going to fall. That's part of learning. The fun part is getting up again. We dragon's have a saying that a lot of us live by. It goes, 'fly or die.'"

"'Fly or die'?"

"Yep. When we're really scared, or sure that we're most likely gonna die, we fly away."

"But you're the deadliest creatures known to man. How can you be scared of anything?"

"I was today. I was scared that we were gonna die when we were falling."

"I always thought you dragons were nothing but brave and courageous."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, Kid, it's staring fear in the face and pushing forward anyway. Because you know that you're facing your fear for something you stand for."

Hiccup stared at her fish. It was nearly burnt after the conversation.

"Here." suggested Toothless, vomiting a fish head on the ground, "Have mine."

"Uh… no thanks, I'm good."

Toothless chuckled, "Your loss….. you know? Meeting you was probably one of the best things that happened to me."

"Yeah. I guess it was."

"I'm actually looking forward to tomorrow, Hiccup."

Hiccup stared at Toothless in surprise, "Did you just call me 'Hiccup'?"

"Consider yourself one of my friends. I only call my friends by their name."

A group of Terrible Terrors landed near Hiccup and Toothless.

Hiccup watched as the small dragons tried to steal the fish from Toothless. One was about to shoot fire at Toothless, with the black dragon shot an orb of fire right into the Terror's mouth.

Toothless smiled as the dragon stumbled away.

"Not so fireproof on the inside? Are you?" asked Hiccup. She threw her burnt fish on the ground next to the Terrible Terror.

The small dragon are the fish contently.

"Thank you." It said shyly. It was male.

Hiccup smiled, "No problem."

The Terrible Terror walked over to Hiccup and rested on her lap, letting her scratch his back.

"Everything we know about you guys," Hiccup said to herself, "it's all wrong.