As soon as dawn broke Toothless and I packed up and left the current island. It was sunny, so we could travel for a couple of days if we were lucky.
Around noon, my hunger had been killing me, so I had Toothless grab some sardine from the ocean. He took me underwater and swam around, looking for the prize. We spent an hour underwater just hunting for food. By the time we found it, I was so hungry I couldn't stay awake. I nearly fell off twice because of the headache the hunger gave me alone.
There was a small island in the middle of the sea, so Toothless left me there to eat and sleep while he watched for Vikings or dragons.
After a couple of hours napping, I went to see how Toothless was doing. For some peculiar reason, he seemed grouchy.
"Toothless," I said, petting his nose. "Are you pouting like an ickle baby?"
His response sounded something like I'm not pouting.
"Aww." I clasped my hands together and put them by my cheeks. "Do you need mommy and daddy?" I said in a mommy voice.
Toothless growled and stuck his tongue out at me.
"Oh Toothless," I said as I petted his nose. "You're the best friend ever."
And he seemed to have felt the same about me.
We spent another week traveling until we saw an island. There appeared to be ice everywhere. It stuck up like spikes, and I could see ships along the shore, which meant there would be people there. Best not to stay there, especially since they would be suspicious about the fact that a very small girl that looked like she was seven was traveling alone. I was supposed to turn eleven in November, which was six months away, which would make them even more suspicious.
We flew around the island with me looking down. I could see a lot cages on the ships, and inside the cages were what appeared to be dragons.
"Let's check what's down there, bud." Toothless dove down and landed on one of the ships. I got off of him and ran to one of the cages, using my sword to break a Gronckle free. I felt sorry for the poor thing. It looked like it had been beaten and starved. It could barely even walk.
Whoever did this to dragons will face the wrath of Siren Horrendous Haddock, I thought as I freed all of the dragons on the ship. I went to all of the ships and freed the dragons, watching them walk free. Once all of them were free, Toothless and I left.
I set up the campfire as Toothless licked his paws. I looked behind me.
"Bud," I said, standing up and brushing a lock of blond hair back. "Do you think someone's following us?"
Toothless tensed and his ears perked. He purred.
"I thought so too." I picked up my sword.
Who was out there? Could it be a dragon? Could it be another Viking tribe or nomads? Or worse, could it be Dad?
Yes, I changed Siren's age because when I came with her, I pictured someone similar to Camicazi in the books. I don't want to make her a copy of Camicazi.