This is a oneshot with my character Eyla and her dragon Storm from my fanfic A New Dragon Rider. If you haven`t read it, please do.
Eyla went through the window in the back of the house. When her feet hit the ground she started running towards the woods. Using the window, no one would hopefully see her. After a while she slowed down and started walking. She was excited to see Storm, even if she saw him every day. It didn`t matter. She always wanted to see him. When she was with him, all her worries disappeared. He was her best friend, and in just a couple of weeks, he had given her so much. She had changed, thanks to him.
When she saw the blue dragon by the cliffs on the northwest side of the island, she couldn`t help but smile. When the dragon saw her, he shrieked and was happy to see her. When she came up to him he nudged her and wanted her to pet him. And of course she did.
She often thought about the first times she met Storm. The first time on the rock pillar that she had climbed. How scared she had been having a dragon`s head only a couple of inches away. She had been terrified but when she looked into his eyes she had felt something she couldn`t explain. And when she had met him after that she had had the same strange feeling of a connection.
Eyla saddled the dragon and then got up on his back. Storm spread his wings and took off. He rose in the air, almost straight up. She remembered how scared she was the first times she was flying, so scared of falling down. Now there was nowhere she felt safer.
When Storm leveled off, she held out her arm and closed her eyes. When Storm turned she opened her eyes and put her hands om the saddle again to hold on when he dived. He leveled off and flew straight up agan, going in wide circles. When he leveled of again, she sighed satisfied. She loved this. There was nothing better. Nothing in the world could compare to be on a dragon and fly. The feeling of being… free.