My eye's were useless. I had never known a truer dark than this. Nocturnal creatures would still have been frightened by the unforgiving void all around me. With my eyes not giving me any information of my surroundings I reached out with my ears. I could hear breathing. Not agitated or heavy breathing but calm. The Nightfury must have been knocked out by the fall.
"Ok, ok, ok. Your trapped in a cave with a dragon that's not going to be too happy with you when it wakes up. What do you do?" I talked to myself.
"Light! I need light, but how?" I asked myself. I then felt my clothing on my body. I ripped off my sleeve and placed it on the ground. I then searched the darkness for two good sized rocks. I smashed them against each other and I saw sparks. The sparks were almost blinding in the pure darkness. It took several tries but the cloth started to light. First there was smoke and then a little ember spread to make a flame.
"Yes!" I congratulated myself. I got my first look at my surrounding and immediately froze. Standing, not knocked out or constrained in any way, glaring at me was the Nightfury. It breathed a heavy breath out of it's nostrils and put out the flame. The darkness surrounded me again. I backed away as far as I could and I cringed when I heard the dragons movement through the cave. It was getting closer, realizing that I was defenseless. It must have been right in front of my face because I could feel it's hot breath on me. I crossed my arms in front of my face as a last defense but the dragon just knocked them aside with it's snout. I sniffed me and continued sniffing all around my body. It stopped when it got down to my left hip. The satchel!
"Ok ... you want the fish?" I asked.
The dragon made a huffing noise and I said shakily "Of ... course ... you do.". I slowly moved my hand down to the satchel and opened it. The dragon was making different noises and I assumed that it was getting inpatient. My hand went into the satchel and it touched something that was not fish. I grabbed the eel and pulled it out of the bag quickly. I could hear it retreating and making some whining noises.
"Ha. Whose the big scary dragon now." I said victoriously. I could then see a purple light form at the other side of the cave.
I ducked just in time and screamed "Whoa!" as the fireball hit near me. I was unscathed by the explosion and the purple fire burned on the rocks illuminating the cave.
The Nightfury was about to take another shot when I said "Whoa. Wait. Okay, I'm putting the eel away now.". I lowered it back into the satchel and pulled out a fish. The dragons expression softened. It sniffed the air and looked very curious. It must have been because the fish was smoked. I held out the fish and asked "Peace?". It pounced at me and snatched the fish out my of hand. I jumped back a little. The dragon finished it's snack and turned it's attention back to me.
"I'm sorry about making you crash!" I apologized, tentatively. The dragon just glared back at me and then stepped on the purple flames extinguishing the light.
"Come on!" I protested. The dragon just growled and I could here it move to the other side of the cave this time. It could obviously see me fine in the dark and it wanted to keep that advantage. I reached around in the darkness it try and find the sleeve that I had set ablaze earlier. I began hitting rocks above it and I heard the dragon moving again.
I stopped sparking the rocks and warned it with a hand on my satchel "I can bring out the eel again!".
The dragons movement stopped. I returned to sparking the rocks and an ember appeared on the cloth. I blew on it and it developed into a flame. I could see the Nightfury once more and it got up. I knew it was going to try to extinguish the flame again so I put my hand on my satchel. It reluctantly backed off and let me have my light. I looked over at the Dragon and it looked back over to me. It was very similar to Toothless. However, it was still in perfect health and was not missing part of it's tail. After I observed it for a little longer I saw that 'she' had several light blue and white freckles on her snout.
"Now I know why Toothless was chasing you so intently" I joked to myself. The Nightfury perked up it's head when it heard this. It then brought it's tail forward and collapsed the left side of its fins.
I smiled as I realized it understood me and continued "Yes Toothless was the dragon that was chasing you. His rider's name is Hiccup and my name is ...". I was interrupted as the dragon yawned loudly, displaying it's disinterest.
"Oh am I boring you. I didn't know you had better things to do." I said and the dragon gave out a soft rumble.
"Well, unless you can find another way out. We are going to be here until they can dig us out." I said and the dragon groaned. Suddenly the dragons head perked up as if it remembered something and it made a similar roar to the one Toothless gave while we were chasing her. An awful ringing sound preceded it and she seemed to be very disturbed by the noise. After the sound subsided the Nightfury got up and disappeared behind a crease in the walls of the cave that I did not know was there. I was wondering if she actually found a way out when I heard her shooting at something. I grabbed my detached sleeve on the parts that were not burning and started moving to were the dragon disappeared. With my light moving around I could now see that this cave was honeycombed by smaller passages in the walls. I could probably fit through some of them and some were large enough to fit a dragon. Luckily I found the one the the Nightfury went down. It was stuck trying to fit into a passage that was too small for it.
I giggled behind the dragon and said "Well it looks like you did have something better to do.". The dragon, now aware of my presence, squirmed extra hard to try to free itself.
"Calm down and let me help." I soothed and then I grabbed its tail. With the dragon relaxed I pulled and freed it from the tight space. As soon as it was free it through me off it's tail and pinned me. It growled at me for a few second before it got off and extinguished my light again.
"Hey!" I yelled at the dragon as it bounded off to the main cave. It made a sound like laughter that echoed through the caves.
"You know I could fit through that hole if I could see." I yelled down the cave. I soon heard footsteps getting closer. Purple light illuminated the ground and the flames clung to the stone. I could see the dragon blocking the way back to the main cave. It slowly approached and started nudging me to the area it was stuck in.
"Alright. I already said I would go. Stop with the pushing" I said as I stood up. She didn't relent despite me asking her and she nudged me closer to the hole. I got down on all fours and easily fit through the gap she was stuck in earlier. The tunnel widened again and I saw the blast marks she made on the ceiling and there was an odd, clear stone that had fallen down.
I picked it up and turned around to see the dragon with it's mouth open providing light.
"Why do you want this rock?" I asked and it rolled its eyes and did that roar again. The stone vibrated and hummed in my hands. My light source was extinguished as the dragon was in distress and was not concentrating on lighting my way. Soon the noise stopped and the dragon provided me with light again.
"Alright, you want to get rid of it." I reasoned. I got back on all fours and crawled back through the opening, pushing the rock as I went. I stood up on the other side and saw the dragon was backing away from me now as it seemed scared of the rock. I walked towards her and repelled her back to the main cave.
I had noticed there was dirt under my feet and so I pointed down and commanded "Dig". The dragon looked annoyed that I was giving it orders and refused. I sighed and set the rock down and started digging myself. As I was digging she grabbed the rock and through it against a wall and shot it twice. The rock broke apart a few times and so she roared again. There were several different buzzing noises coming from the bits of the rock now.
"That's not going to work!" I taunted as it was incapacitated from the noise. I had finished making a large enough hole and so I went an grabbed all the pieces. I placed them in the hole as the Fury watched. I then shoveled the loose dirt over them and then gestured to the Fury for it to do it's roar again. I could tell it didn't like being told what to do but it, reluctantly, roared again. There was no buzzing this time and the Fury's ears perked up. It's head darted to face an opening and it shot off into it.
"No no no. Please don't leave me here!" I pleaded. I was in darkness again without the Dragon. However, a light appeared down the opening the dragon had disappeared into. I got up and walked to the opening and saw that there were spots of purple flames stuck to the rocks marking my path. I followed them and it took me through a maze of underground tunnels. After a few minutes of walking through the tunnels I started hearing whimpering. I saw the Fury clawing at the sides of a tunnel that was, once again, too small for it to fit through. I could see light on the other side so this had to be the way out. It was desperately trying to widen the tunnel and was whimpering as it realized that it couldn't get out this way. I knelt next to it and put a hand on it's neck trying to calm it. It shrugged me off and growled. It then, somberly, moved away from the hole so that I could go through. I couldn't think of anything to do to help it so I crawled through the hole. As I got to the other side an idea struck me.
"Hey ... um ... dragon." I called back into the tunnel. It looked at me with distaste as it envied my freedom. "Block this tunnel off with your wing." I requested. It looked at me with the same look as when I asked it to dig. "Come on. When have I done anything other than to help you?" I asked. It's eyes looked at my satchel were the eel was. "Ok ... but other than that." I admitted. It rolled its eye's and got up to block the opening with its wing.
After it did I yelled into some of the other honeycombed passages "Over here!".
I heard a grunt from the dragon and then she took off following my voice. I went to check the opening to the outside for some fresh air and I coughed as the air was anything but fresh. I saw that the outside I thought was in fact the hollow inside of a dormant volcano. The air was hot and stunk with sulfur. I saw an opening in the top that actually led to the outside but there was no way to get through it without flying. This is when the Fury came crashing through a tunnel opening and slid across the rocks and hit it's head. It picked itself up and shook it's head. It saw the light and started pushing me out the opening.
"Whoa. Stop I'm going to fall!" I screamed and it relented, realizing that this was actually an entrance to the volcano. It then tilted it's head and motioned for me to get out of it's way.
"I don't think so." I protested "You are my only way out.". The dragon shook it's head violently at this and snorted. "Yes you are." I confirmed "I solved the rock problem and I helped you get here. You owe me.". The dragon made some mocking sounds but eventually caved and lowered her head. I got into a position that would not interfere with her flight and she took off into the volcano and up through the hole in the top. Once outside the Nightfury landed and violently flipped me off of its back.
"Ow" I exclaimed as I hit a boulder and ended up in a sitting position with my back against it. The Nightfury stared at me an slowly approached until it was standing over me and sniffing. If it was going to eat me there was nothing I could do about it at this point. The only thing I could do was reach out my hand towards the dragons snout. I closed my eye's waiting for it to strike when it grumbled out of annoyance. There were a few more sniffs and then I felt something rub against my palm. I opened my eyes and saw her rubbing her snout against my hand and purring softly. I smiled in relief and moved my other hand to scratch under her chin. The purring got louder. I realized there were still two fish in the satchel and I put my hand in the bag. She immediately jumped back expecting the eel to come out again.
"It's okay. It's just fish. You hungry?" I cooed. I pulled out the two remaining smoked fish and through them to her. She snapped them out of the air. I decided to take out the eel and throw it into the opening of the volcano. I then pulled out some Dragon nip to coax her back over to me. She sniffed the air and started walking towards me. She curled up next to me and I held the grass next to her nose. Her pupils instantly widened and she snuggled her head next to me.
It was all going fine and then Hiccup had to ruin it all. Toothless spotted us on the volcano and they dived towards us. My Nightfury noticed the sound and got up and ready to attack.
"Freya get away from it!" Hiccup demanded.
"What are you doing Hiccup? Tell Toothless to back off." I replied standing between Toothless and my Fury.
"How did you get out?" He asked with concern still in his voice.
"We helped each other find a way though the caves. What were you doing not trying to dig me out?" I accused.
"I got Astrid and Stormfly on that and we went to scout if there was another way into the cave that might lead us to you." Hiccup said.
"Here calm him down" I said as I through him the satchel with some dragon nip remaining in it. I went over to my dragon and used the dragon nip to calm her and Hiccup did the same with Toothless. When we were all calm and the two Nightfurys got accustomed to each other Hiccup asked "So what are you thinking about naming her?".
"I don't know" I replied.
"How about ..." Hiccup started but I interrupted him.
"Not a chance Hiccup. I'm coming up with my own name." I said.
"What then?" he prompted.
I looked at her for any prominent features and saw the freckles on her snout looked like the stars above us. "Star..." I started and then I thought back into the caves and remembered the first nice thing she did for me, marking the path with "...fire".
"How about Starfire?" I stated.