Hiccup got on the back of Toothless and I went to mount Starfire. As soon as I put one leg up she moved out from under me, knocking me to the ground. She turned around and made some laughing growls at this. Toothless made some growls to get her attention while I snuck up behind her.
I jumped on her back and said "I'm gonna be on your back one way or the other. So how about I get in a good position so we don't crash again.". After trying to buck me off she finally calmed down when she realized that I wasn't letting go. I used this opportunity to get in a riding position.
Toothless and Hiccup took off and Hiccup said "We should probably hurry back to Astrid. She was already kind of mad that I sped ahead of her back there and I don't think trying to clear the cave for longer than she has to will have put her in a better mood.". Hiccup departed and Starfire wasn't leaving.
"What's wrong? Why aren't you following them?" I asked. The dragon gave and annoyed huff and hit me in the face with her ear. She then looked back at me and glared. It was apparent that she really didn't like the idea of being ridden.
"There is more smoked fish where they're going." I tempted and she licked her lips and took off. It was very jarring as she clearly didn't have any sympathy for me when I was on her back. We followed Toothless and Hiccup to the avalanche site where we saw Astrid off of Stormfly as they were both wrenching rocks free from the mountainside and throwing them off the mountain. They were both too consumed in their work to notice the extra Nightfury against the black nights sky.
I called out to them "Did someone get trapped in there?". Astrid turned and saw me on the back of Starfire and her jaw dropped.
"WHA', HOW, YOUR ON THE BACK OF A NIGHTFURY!?" Astrid said in shock.
"And it looks like you have been working hard to get me out. I didn't think you would miss me that much. Come on, let's get back to Berk. I'd rather not explain here and then again with everyone else in Berk and then twice more for the twins." I requested. Astrid stood there, frozen, for a few more seconds until Stormfly nudged her. She then mounted her and flew up to me and Hiccup.
"How long was I taking rocks off that pile when you were already free?" Astrid asked me. I knew she was in a horrible mood and would probably take it out on Hiccup.
I responded "I don't know but when Hiccup found us he turned around immediately to tell you.". Astrid saw right through my lie and reached out on Stormfly and hit Hiccup in the shoulder.
"That's for keeping me waiting." she said and then hit him again. "That's for putting me on rock clearing duty." she said angrily. She then flipped Stormfly over us and hit me on the back of the head. "And thats for lying to me." she finished with a smirk.
I rubbed the back of my head and Starfire chuckled at this until I said "Keep it up. The more you laugh the less fish you get.". She scowled and then she followed Hiccup and Astrid towards Berk. During the flight Starfire got really close to Toothless and held her position, looking over at the other Nightfury.
"Um ... Freya do you want to give us some room to fly?" Hiccup asked as Toothless looked back over to Starfire.
"I'd love to but she's not really letting me lead. She is kind of stubborn" I replied and both Astrid and Hiccup laughed. I joined them and Starfire moved her head around to examine why I was making that noise. I smiled back at her big purple eyes and I began to see the traces of her making a smile. Suddenly she went into a free-fall and I fell off her back. I screamed as I was falling alone through the night air. Starfire then came back to me and aligned herself under me so that I could get back on. When I had grabbed her again she didn't pull up but kept free-falling towards the ocean. She pulled up feet before the ocean and I could hear us spraying water everywhere as the shear force of the dive was disturbing the water. She then did a few rolls and leveled out. Her head looked back at me again with a full smile now.
After I got over the shock of what just happened I smiled back and accused "Show off!". I scratched her under her ear and then prompted "Lets see how high you can go". For once she actually agreed with me and started climbing in the air. We kept going up past the clouds until it was too cold and too hard to breathe to continue. When we dived back through the clouds we could see Hiccup and Astrid again and the lit torches of Berk. Starfire started growling and tensing up and I tried to comfort her by rubbing her neck.
"It will be okay. They are nice to dragons here." I cooed trying to calm her. It worked a bit but she never stopped tensing up. Joining back up with Toothless calmed her down even more. Luckily, it was late and no one was up around the town square to freak her out.
However, Stoick burst out of his house and yelled "Hiccup why are you back so ... THOR ALMIGHTY! Is that a Nightfury?!". He pointed at Starfire and she panicked.
"Easy. Easy Starfire." I cooed to Starfire. She stopped panicking but glared at the chief from behind me.
"Dad this is Starfire, Freya's new dragon." Hiccup explained. Starfire took offense to being called 'my dragon' so readily and roared at Hiccup.
"Looks wild to me." Stoick stated.
"Ya, I guess I should have emphasized new." Hiccup defended.
"Well if it's really 'ere to stay take it to the academy and get back 'ome. You come back here too Freya, I'd like to talk to ya about your persistent mission to make the chief lose his sleep." Stoick said, sternly.
"Actually, dad we landed here for a reason." Hiccup said.
Me and Astrid both asked "We did?" at the same time.
"Um ... I don't think that Starfire is going to like being locked in a pen at the academy so ... I think it would keep her calm if ... she stayed with her own kind for tonight." Hiccup said awkwardly. I was shocked and a little angry Hiccup kept this to himself until now. Toothless bounced up and down excitedly at this proposal while Starfire was maintaining her glare at the chief.
"If anything gets set on fire tonight your refurbishing the whole 'ouse Hiccup." said Stoick, caving to his proposal and walking back inside. Toothless was ecstatic and Starfire looked at the playful dragon in distaste. I walked up behind Hiccup and hit him in the arm.
"Ouch" Hiccup said with his back still towards me "Astrid why did you do ...". Hiccup realized his mistake of his assignment of blame and Astrid did as well.
"What gives you the right to dictate where my dragon goes?" I yelled and Starfire once again growled at the use of 'my dragon'. Out of rebellion from my statement she followed Toothless to the window of Hiccups house and entered to claim her bed.
"See, she thought it was a good idea too." Hiccup tried to defend.
I fronted on him and declared "You ... are ... not ... the master of all Nightfury's Hiccup.". I stormed off realizing as I left what the twins and Astrid felt when I was working with their dragons.
I could hear Astrid behind me talking to Hiccup "Really? Someone hit's you and you automatically think that it can't be anyone other than Astrid?".
Hiccup, bravely, responded "Well you have hit me more than you have done ... well ... most things.".
"You think so, do you!" said Astrid in her fierce voice. I listened for the inevitable thwack of Hiccup getting hit but I heard nothing. I peeked around to see what the delay was and saw Astrid grabbing Hiccup by his tunic and pulling him towards her with their lips locking them in each others embrace. Was I going crazy or was everyone else. I shook the strange image of them out of my head an continued to the Great Hall. I stayed up pacing for a while, still mad at Hiccup. Finally, I noticed how much my limbs ached from the tests and crashing into a cave. I stiffly entered my bed and instantly fell asleep.