Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train Your Dragon and do not own any of the character. Halla and Ash are based on character from the movie Hiccup and Astrid, but have been modified for my story.
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I want to warn anyone reading this story that due to school starting I may not be writing as much as I used to, but give me time and I will update I don't plan on ditching this story ever. I will update when I can.
Also I am starting to revise, review, and correct the starting chapters because yes I did reread the chapter that I made almost two years ago and some of them have errors I can't ignore anymore, so I will be updating as I correct chapters
Halla's point of view:
It had been about two weeks since Ash and I have talked in the forge, and it's been a long two weeks. Toothless and I still practice with a tether and a post, but I could tell he was getting restless. Scarlet was hunting for both herself and Toothless since the food shed is running extremely low something dangerous this close to winter. Gobber has been training the teens which according to him Ash has been getting quick ruthless, beating all the other teens. Auntie and her crew were slowly, getting accepted by the village, but there are still some that sneer and snarl at them. The village was getting fixed little by little, but the forest seemed to be getting thinner and thinner on the east side of the island.
Gabriel has been busy helping the rest of the crew with the village that I haven't seen him for a while, but he always finds time to tell me the cover story on my absent just in case someone asks, which is odd because Vikings are actually starting to care where I go, some actually joking with me asking if I'm off killing anymore dragons.
I sighed as I stood at the edge of the cliff with Toothless. It was early morning the sun just over the horizon, the early morning wind blowing. I looked out at the horizon looking at all the jagged sea stacks and rock formation erupting from the sea. 'It's a perfect obstacle course' I thought, 'You know if you survive.' I couldn't help, but look down and think about how far of a drop it was. I took a quick breath before checking over Toothless saddle one last time. With another calming sigh I began to climb onto Toothless saddle.
"You ready bud" I asked, sinking into the saddle. Toothless roared and with no hesitation jumped off the cliff. With a quick shift of my foot and the spread wings of Toothless were soaring calming in the sky. "Dear Odin you could have given me a warning," but Toothless just snickered.
I could only let out a shaky breathe, happy that we weren't plummeting to the sea 'We just started' I thought, a moment of dread hitting me. Quickly I shake my head to banish that thought, 'this is no time to be a coward.' I thought closing my eyes for a moment before taking another deep breath.
"Okay there bud, we're gonna take this nice and slow" I say checking the cheat sheet clipped onto the harness my scribbles of the different tail position and their pedal position. Toothless seemed to give a small nod, but I could only think that he was rolling his eyes.
"Okay here were go. Here we go…position three, no four." I say pressing the right pedal down causing the tail to flare. We roll off into an arcing bank and I can't help, but smile that the harness and vest are actually working. 'The foot controls are making the tail prosthetic work quick and it seems to be responding well. ' I thought, watching as much of Toothless movement as I could trying to match his natural fluctuations with the prosthetic.
I looked straight a head finding a towering arch of stone. "Alright, it's go time." I mutter Toothless taking us into a dive lining up the pass through the arch. "Come on. Come on buddy!" and we zip through the arch, 'A perfect maneuver' I thought looking above the arch watching the birds fly higher than us. 'Not for long' I thought watching, as we existed the stone arch.
"It worked Toothless, it worked." However I got so excited with our first success I got distracted and Toothless smacked into one of the jagged sea stacks. "Sorry" I shout embarrassed trying to pull us away from the rock only to hurtle us into another rock pillar. Toothless grumbles.
"My fault, sorry" I say leaning into Toothless, who just kept grumbling, until he gently swatted me with one of his ears. "I said I was sorry sheesh, I won't get distracted again." I quickly look down into the cheat sheet "Position four, no three" I say second guessing myself.
Toothless doesn't care as he takes into a climb. He climbs higher and higher and I can't help, but hear the thumping of my heart over the passing wind. For a moment we pierce the clouds and for the first time in my whole life, I could see the entire island below me. 'This is amazing' I thought, the wind howling as we kept climbing. 'Its so high' I thought swallowing hard tightening my grip on the handle of the saddle, but as Toothless kept moving feeling comfortable in the sky. I couldn't help, but enjoy it to.
"Go Toothless! Go! Yes! Oh this is amazing!" I shout loosening my grip a bit to try and enjoy this moment. I mean I am the first Viking to very ride a dragon; I should appreciate this for everything it is. "Its so cool Toothless! The wind in my…" I was cut off as something dark crème flutter by my face. "CHEAT SHEET! STOP!" I shouted trying to grab the airborne sheet. "No" I shout, frantically reaching for the sheet, taking a sigh of relief as I nab it before it gets carried away.
However what I was not expecting was for Toothless to actually stop moving, so as I took a sigh of relief I found that we were falling, since Toothless had listened to my stop command and stopped beating his wings. We slow to a stop before Toothless body starts to drop since he was heavier than me as I go weightless. The rings of my vest float off of my harness hooks, and suddenly I find myself detached, free falling slightly above Toothless.
"Oh gods! Oh no" I shout, fear now replacing any sort of happiness I just felt; Toothless must hear my voice because he looks over his eyes widening in panic when he notices I am no longer on his back. He screeches as he beings to loose control of his tail. We start to spiral downward the wind hissing at us. Toothless was moving franticly, but all it did was put him in a spin.
"Alright, okay. You just gotta kind angle yourself. No, no…come back towards me. Come back down-" As I extended my arms and legs out trying to stretch myself as far as I could to get towards Toothless, but Toothless wasn't listening and before I knew it the Toothless wing made contact with my face. The hit stung, and if I had to time to worry about it I probably would have had cry out, but I was falling who knows how many feet into a jagged rock ocean. I didn't have time to worry about a slap to the face.
I tried to realign myself towards Toothless who seemed to try and calm down. I was floating right above him stretching to reach Toothless saddle. 'Come on, come on' I thought, putting my cheat sheet in my mouth trying to stretching my finger a bit more. 'So close, so close' I thought, barely skimming the handle. With one big stretch I was able to grab onto the saddle 'Yes' I thought, hurrying to reattach myself. Toothless was trying to minimize his spinning trying his best to pull up, but without his tail he wasn't able to. 'Shit got to get out of this dive' I thought, switching the tail position and pulling Toothless as hard as I could out of his dive. Toothless spanned his wings letting out a screech at the same moment I thought 'we're gonna die.' Toothless screeched louder stretching his wings as far as he could as I pulled on the saddle. We were skimming the treetops 'Shit' I thought as the trees started to clear and the woods started to faded back into out treacherous course of jutting sea stacks.
'Shit shit shit' I thought, taking my cheat sheet out of my mouth trying to figure out what my next move would be, but the blowing wind was making it impossible to see the sheet. 'Damn it' I thought, looking down at the sheet and than at the sea stacks. 'We are not dying this way…not today' I thought throwing the sheet into the wind and focusing only on what was in front of me.
My blood was rushing in my ear, the wind whipping at my face, but it was like there was nothing, but Toothless and I. I could feel every twitch and tension from Toothless. 'Shift down….turn left…shift left….both down…turn right.' It was like I knew exactly how to move, like I've done this a hundred times before. Before I knew it we made it past the sea stacks and know skimming over open water…safe and unscathed.
My breath was ragged, but there was the biggest grin on my face that I was sure my face would hurt later. "We did it," I muttered trying to catch my breath looking behind us to see everything we just went through. Before I even knew what I was doing I was throwing my arms in the air, shouting at the top of my lungs "YYYAAAAAYYY." I heard a little roar come from under me before watching Toothless shot out a small fireball in the distance. At first I was happy watching the blue and purple dance in the sky, until I noticed that we were going to fly through it. "Ah come on," but it was to late.
"Toothless" I shouted after the residue from his fireball disappeared my hair was signed. "Blah" I shouted, trying to wipe some of the soot off my face, but Toothless was just chuckling to himself.
I gave a short irritated sigh before leaning back on the saddle to reach into the small pouch I added. Digging into the bag I began to take out a fishing net. "Think you can try not to set me on fire, while we try to fish" I said, untangling some of the knots. Toothless chuckles but seemed willing to cooperate.
After a few failed attempts at fishing on dragon backs Toothless and I were actually able to make a successful system. "Come on Toothless, think you can fly with lunch." Toothless gave a little roar almost as if insulted that I would ask such things. The slack of the fish net was tied to Toothless' saddles handle, but it did nothing to stop the smooth flight.
It didn't take long for Toothless and I to find a deserted beach and begin landing. I untied the fish net some of the fish spilling onto the rocky shore. Toothless landed shortly after before disappearing. Not worried knowing he would be back soon I began to pour out the fish from the net. 'If we get another couple of loads like this I'll defiantly fill the food shed' I thought, shaking out any of the last remaining fish. Just as I finished untangling the net Toothless trotted back in with a log in his mouth.
"Good job Toothless" He gave me a wide smile before throwing the log against one of the rock nearby shattering everywhere. I sigh "You know your gonna have to start that for me right." Toothless just made a coo noise before trotting over to the fish. I just roll my eyes and begin to dig a fire pit.
Toothless had already devoured half the fish; by the time I was done setting up the fire. "Toothless you mind buddy?" Toothless swallows one of the fish whole, humming in appreciation before shooting a small fireball into the fire pit, "Thanks Toothless?" I say grabbing two of the shattered sticks to put fish on each of them and placing them over the fire.
"God I'm starving" I mutter leaning against Toothless, the smell of cook fish slowly making its way to my noise.
Suddenly Toothless started to twitch making a somewhat familiar noise. When I looked over Toothless was starting to regurgitate one of fish. I looked over to see a fish head next to me.
"Uhh…no thanks" I say trying to be nice, while suppressing the shiver that went through me when I remembered eating the last fish uncooked. 'Never doing that again.' I thought cringing. "I'm good."
Toothless tilted his head, but was distracted by a loud squeak. We both looked over to see a pack of Terrible Terrors flying towards us. Unconsciously I moved closer to Toothless so growled, teeth bared as he shifted over his food more. The Terrible Terror were all hissing and nipping at each other as they tried to get closer to Toothless' pile of fish. Toothless just snapped and growled at them. Neither of them seemed concerned with me at all.
I watch as one grabs the regurgitated fish head. Toothless makes a small growl and an attempted to grab the fish, but with the other two Terrible Terror still trying to nab fish from his pile he let the fish head go with a snarl.
As the Terrible Terror dragged the head away another one attempted to steal it from him. They start to fight each other nipping at hissing at one other. Until the one that stole it lashed out a stream of fire towards the other. I watched a little amused at how dragons and Vikings could both be territorial with their food. Toothless though looked unamused at the fight, huffing that such a dragon stole his present to me.
However Toothless' focus went back to his pile as he noticed one of his fish leaving. Without either one of us noticing to distracted by the previous fight a stealthy Terrible Terror had made its way into Toothless pile. Toothless waits until the Terror climbs out of the pile to snap onto the fish's head. The Terrible Terror tries desperately to tug the fish out of Toothless mouth, but with a quick jerk of his jaw Toothless steals the fish out of his mouth. Toothless throws the fish into the air swallowing it whole, laughing maybe even taunting the Terrible Terror that had landed on its butt clearly not expecting to loose the fish. Irritated the little dragon started to paw on the ground and hiss at Toothless.
Although I wasn't worried about Toothless getting hurt, I was worried that he would hurt the Terrible Terror. The Terrible Terror begins to open his mouth, hissing as a little bit of gas comes out clearly ready to shoot out a fireball. However Toothless seems unimpressed. As the little dragon steps closer its hissing getting louder raising itself to its hind legs, Toothless fires a tiny flame straight into the little dragons mouth, causing the gas that was escaping the Terrible Terror's mouth to backfire in his mouth. "Toothless" I screech grabbing onto his saddle cringing as I watch the Terrible Terror get lifted into the air, its stomach expanding, fire erupting from inside its mouth. I couldn't help, but think back to Scarface.
But none of the dragons pay attention to me. Toothless has this satisfied little smirk on his face as the Terrible Terror staggers away coughing up smoke, looking sick and lost. Toothless must have final felt my vice grip on his saddle because he turned to look at me his face shifted from smug to worried. He cooed at me nudging his head to my cheek. "Be nice Toothless." I say petting the side of his face. He groaned clearly not liking the idea of being nice to the pack of Terrible Terrors. I giggled "I said be nice, I didn't say you had to give them all of your fish." Toothless still groaned going back to his fish pile watching the rest of the pack.
I turned to the Terrible Terror that was still walking a bit clumsily "Not so fireproof on the inside, are you?" I say already knowing the answer and without thinking I take one of the fishes on my stick off and toss it to the disoriented Terror. "There you go."
The Terrible Terror perks up gulping down the fish as fast as he could before taking a tentative step towards me. It stops to sniff the air before taking another step towards me another sniff and another step until it nudges itself underneath my arm, for a moment I was in awe. The spine spikes soft, its body warm. It started to wiggle its way to my side curling underneath my hand so that my hand was resting on its back.
Toothless looked over towards us rolling his eyes, grunting. "What" I asked leaning against his side, the Terror shifting due to my movement. Toothless just grunted again, turning back to his fish. I smiled, petting his side as the other Terrible Terror sat around Toothless piles. Toothless allowing one fish for one dragon, "Ah don't worry Toothless you're the only dragon for me." He huffed, but continues eating, the Terrible Terrors content with one fish.
After a while of just sitting there the Terrible Terrors full from their meal come next me and start to fall asleep all around me, one feeling so brave that he climbed into my lap and fell asleep. Toothless giving another small snarl at the bunch. I pat his side, Toothless budging the Terrible Terrors out of the way pushing off the Terrible Terror in my lap so he could put his head their. I laugh as the Terrible Terrors squeak and nip at being moved, but quickly finds a new spot around us to fall asleep.
"Its funny" I say out loud, not sure if any one was still awake to listen to me "everything we know about you guys is wrong." Just than a gust of cold wind blows by. I probably would have shivered if dragons didn't surround me, their body the perfect thing against the cold. The sun was sitting at full height now and the wind that blew was even colder than before. 'Winter is coming' I thought, snuggling into Toothless side 'Which mean Stoick and the rest of the Vikings will be home soon.' I didn't give my chance to stress about what would happen when my father did come home, or what that would mean for Toothless and Scarlet. Right now at this moment I relaxed and took a nap beside my best friend.