The Dragon Valkyrie

The Resonance

Toothless remained still as Hilde carried on with her routine of attaching the prosthetic fin to his tail while Karina was feeding him basket of fishes, this time it was different feeling but it wasn't bothering him, so he let them be. His priority was on the fish they had brought him and devoured with glee. They were going to try again as usual, sooner or later they would learn to let him fly. But for now, he was happy to oblige her wonder and quirks so long as it meant she would take him into the broad sky again.

Hilde looked down at her new design of Toothless' tail fin. She had used the stronger leather this time. She had added a leather straps around his arm and a tight, hard rope ran down the length of his body attached to the fin itself. Though, it was linked to the left stirrup of the saddle. She was going to flick it open with all the ease Toothless would when he flew on his own. Depending on how the other half of his tail moved would determine how her fin worked. She'd figured it out last night and worked hard again. Especially when she had Karina to help her. All he needed was more of practices in flying before they could try on next level.

It appeared the practice resulted with a bit of problem as due to Toothless' size and weight, the tether snapped and caused him and Hilde to fell into the woods. Groaned, she gazed up from where she fell on as Toothless shook his head getting on his feet. Feeling herself tugged along, Hilde saw the hook of her harness was crushed onto the rope's ring.

"Oh, great..." Hilde rolled her eyes, groaning then saw Karina catching up to them.

"You okay?" The blond girl asked.

"Umm... need little help here."

Even though it took hours in attempt to free herself, Hilde had come to a conclusion that she couldn't get herself off from the harness. The only option she had was to get to the forge so she could pry the hook open with any gadgets she use. Currently, the three were sneaking through the village at middle of a night reaching to the forge. She tugged Toothless along by the tether as Karina inspected every area. The black-scaled dragon seemed to be looking around either in anxiety or curiosity. It was his first time on the village ground for he usually flew around, so to him it was familiar yet so strange and fascinating witness the night of village on a surface. As soon as the Viking was approaching, Toothless duck behind the forge as Karina and Hilde hid him behind them. Hilde waved as the Viking greeted her and walked pass them, oblivious of the Night Fury's presence.

Gently pulling Toothless from his attempt to follow the Viking, she entered inside the empty forge with the dragon and Bog Burglar girl. Toothless only observed the forge like curious cat while Karina and Hilde were looking for the gadgets to loose the hook. In wonder, the Night Fury sniffed around, oblivious of their growing impatience.

"Hilde...?" Three froze by the voice of a young boy.

'Asgard...!' Karina snarled internally as Hilde panicked.

The auburn-haired girl gestured Karina to 'get rid of him', in which Karina GLADLY nodded in response. As soon as Hilde opened the shutters, Karina threw her dagger close to Asgard's foot and got out of counter, closing the shutter again.

"Hey, loser." Karina greeted, crossing her arms.

The blond-haired boy frowned, but he could have sworn he saw silhouette of Hilde inside.

"Normally, I don't care what people do, but Hilde's been acting weird lately." Asgard said, gesturing at the closed shutter of the forge where Hilde was in.

Both jolted as they heard Hilde cursed loudly with a small crashing shout.

"ACK! RUT MY ARSE!"