A/n: Whoopsy-doopsy. I meant to finish this yesterday, but I was too busy with the real life things...
I've started working on the requests from guest too, so they'll be turning up next.

Eret, son of Eret, wasn't one for waiting. He wasn't one for being nervous either, or at least not for admitting his nerves, so he concentrated on keeping his head up and his expression neutral while he waited for the - now late - chief of the tribe.

He already knew Hiccup. That wasn't what he was worried about. Today, he was going to properly learn how to train dragons. "How to befriend dragons," he knew Hiccup would insist, though being as the leader of Berk still hadn't thought to grace the former dragon trapper with his presence -

"Hey!" Speak of the devil. Hiccup ran over, waving slightly and panting. "Sorry I'm late, we were trying this new -"

"It's okay," Eret laughed. A chief apologising to his people... amazing... "So, what's the first lesson?"

"Well, usually the first step is to find your dragon, but I think you and Skullcrusher get on well enough, so..." Hiccup paused, looking around, "Where is Skullcrusher, anyway?"

"I don't know," Eret shrugged, "Where's Toothless?"

Hiccup smirked, raising his hands to cup his mouth. "I'll get them both," he told Eret before letting out a strange cry. "Dragon calls," he explained upon seeing Eret's wide-eyed expression.

Eret nodded. Wow, I really have a lot to learn about these dragons...

Yes, Hiccup? Toothless padded over, Skullcrusher hovering behind him.

It's Eret's first lesson. Be nice.

"Woah, woah, woah!" Eret stared between the equally amused chief and dragons in awe, "What was that?"

"Dragonese," Hiccup explained. "I learnt how to understand it, and now I'm trying to speak it. It makes speaking with wild dragons a lot easier, and it's fun!"

Eret nodded. Just another reason to admire the chief. An entire language in just a few weeks... "So, the lesson?"

"Oh, yeah," Hiccup said. He'd forgotten about the lesson amidst Eret's amazement and his own amusement about speaking Dragonese. "Do you know the first rule?"

Eret sighed. "Earn their trust." he droned. Everyone on Berk knew that rule; Hiccup refused to stop talking about it.

"Yes. Anything other than that?"

"Not really..." Eret confessed. Honestly, he hadn't spent much time with his dragon since the battle against the bewilderbeast; in between settling in and repairing the village, there hadn't been time to spend with Skullcrusher.

"Okay. Then you probably haven't ridden him, have you?" Hiccup guessed. Eret nodded. "Right. That's what we'll do. Come on guys!"

With a quick whistle, Hiccup called the two dragons over. He'd noticed Toothless giving Skullcrusher a quick reminder that his rider was unused to dragons and couldn't help but smile at his intuitiveness. Extra cod today, then.

"Let's go," Hiccup encouraged, and the four shot up into the air. Eret yelped in surprise, not anticipating the dragon grabbing him by the leg and flying off with him.

"This is worryingly reminiscent of my first flight!" Eret shouted nervously, glancing up at the smiling dragon.

Hiccup smiled. "Stormfly?" he guessed, "Yeah, they do that." Skullcrusher, let him up.

Skullcrusher obediently tossed Eret up into the air, causing the ex-trapper to scream again. His fear was short-lived, as the dragon made sure Eret landed safely on his back.

"Shut up," Eret snapped, embarrassed at Hiccup's mirth, "Bet you were just like this on your first flight."

Hiccup paused for a moment, smiling at the memory. "I was more excited than scared," he admitted, "Until we crashed into a lake, that is..."

Now it was Eret's turn to laugh. "Well, hopefully I'll be a bit better!" he joked, only slightly worried that he wouldn't be.

"You'll be fine," Hiccup picked up on the nerves from the strain in Eret's voice, "I only fell because I couldn't control the tailfin yet. You have a fully functioning dragon to do that for you!"

I'd hardly say I wasn't fully functional, Toothless pouted.

Aww, big pouty baby boo. Hiccup teased, You got me back for it, we've discussed this!

"Uhh... guys..." Eret said slowly, noticing that Skullcrusher was slowly losing altitude. The dragon was starting to tilt towards the ground, and Eret was sliding down his back.

You're just as useless, Toothless wasn't about to drop the subject, but he spoke of it with a laugh.

Oh really, Mr Big Alpha? At least when someone tells me to stop licking them, I actually do it!

"Guys..."

So you're saying you lick people?

What - no - oh, fine. You wi-

"Guys!" Eret snapped. Both dragon and rider turned in mid-air to watch Eret finally lose his grip and slip off Skullcrusher, giving a short shout of surprise that ended in a large splash. As Eret resurfaced, soaking wet and spluttering, Hiccup laughed.

"I'd say this went about as well as mine did, after all!"