How To Train Your Dragon

Chapter 1

Fire all around me, burning everything, no where to escape... and yet I feel so cold. I try to clear my head. I try to get my breath back then I hear thunder, but when I look up the only thing in the sky is smoke of my burning house behind me. I hear someone call "RUN, RUST PLEASE GO!!" It was my mothers voice and I new this was a memory I have relived over and over since I left my home.
I awake and think over to try to remind myself of who I am, "My name is Rust Mae, I am 16, I have blonde hair and dark blue eyes, someone burned my home and is coming after me, my favorite color is blue, I want to bond with a dragon, I am running. . . for . . . my. . . life." I get up seeing it was dawn when I opened my eyes. I was under the shelf of rock I found before it started raining but it was a poor choice because the wind blew the rain on me and I am soaked. I grab my pack which has little food from when I started off (which wasn't much in the first place). I put on my Boar Hide belt with my dagger in it. Then started of through the woods.
It was sun high by the time I got to the top of the hill and took a break. Suddenly, I heard a roar that I knew to well from fighting with the village against dragons. It was a Night Fury. I don't know why but I headed toward the Night Fury's roar. Within a few minutes I found the Night Fury and I found the reason it hadn't been attacking the village in a while. It was caught in a Net Trap. I started to pull out my knife and the beast growled. " I'm only going to cut you out of the net don't worry I am not here to harm you in any way." and I was serious because only the mad tried to harm a Night Fury even if it was trapped. While I'm climbing the tree I hear someone speak, "Foolish human looks like a Tree Frog." they voice had an accent that I haven't heard before and I know a lot of them because my home was a trade village. I look around but there was no one there but the beast and myself. "Hurry up stupid human this net makes my scales itch." the beast growled and I looked down at it in awe. "Now what's wrong with the human?" I blinked "I can understand you... like I can hear you speak." the beast looked surprised then said "Well if she can then she needs to prove it for me to believe her." I spoke then "Well you want me to prove it to you, but you said it a longer sentence." I hear a rustle in the undergrowth and I started to cut faster "Who's coming... please tell me!" I heard the rustle again and looked pleadingly at the dragon and she spoke "It sounds like two large men... Do you know them?" I let out a squeak in fear and cut as fast as I could. The dragon fell out of the net and flew up to hide in the tree. Suddenly two large men, just like the Night Fury said, walked out of the undergrowth. I climbed up using the holes in the net. Suddenly, I felt it give out and I fell letting out a yelp of surprise that caused the men to watch me fall. When I hit the ground it knocked the breath out of me. I saw the men smile at each other and for some strange reason they waited for me to get my breath back. I got up slowly and glared at them, I had only seen their shadows before. I study them and reach for my knife, but it wasn't there. "My only defense to protect myself... is...gone!!" I think and start shaking when I see their daggers ( which aren't really theirs because both of them belong to my parents). I start to form a plan in my head an I sink to the ground crying, or more like fake-crying, and the smaller one of the two approached me and he stroked my hair like my father would, speak in a soft tone, and reached to hug me or what seemed to be a hug but I didn't trust him one bit, "There, there little one everything will be ok." when he spoke those words I went into a rage because those words were the words that my father spoke when my home was crumbling down in flames. I ditched the rest of my plan (which was to punch whoever approached me and run away as fast as I could) when I went into the rage I jumped on his arm and I bit as hard as I could. He yelled in pain. I heard the dragon speak again "Now the human looks like a lion." and I bit harder. My victim howled in pain. The other man spoke, his voice was deep and sounded like stones being grinded together, " I told you not to approach the kid Griffen.". The man who is called Griffen spoke with clenched teeth, "Well I am sorry, Hal, she looked so defeted I didn't think she could. . . Will you just get her off my arm? Please?". The man called Hal took out the dagger that was in his belt and spoke "Fine.". He rose the dagger to my neck and said "Let go of Griffen or I will slice your throat.". Slowly I let go of Griffen's arm and backed away. Hal walked toward me with the dagger still at my throat and I kept backing up until I backed into the tree the Night Fury was hiding in. "What are you going to do now? Slice my throat? I let your friend go." I spoke bravely to Hal. "Well that would be a slow death... but... I was thinking of a different type of slow death." Suddenly he dropped the dagger and grabbed my neck. He picked me up three feet off the ground. His strong grip made it to were I couldn't breath much. I started clawing at his arm. I realzied thay I was slowly losing what ability I had left to breath. I hear the branches creek and a growl sounded from the tree. "I won't sit here and let him kill you. If someone should die then they should do it in battle human." The Night Fury growled out the words in her mind. The hold around my neck went away. I fell to the ground breathing in deep breathes and was on my hands and knees coughing. When I happened to look up I see the Night Fury sitting on top of Hal and growling at Griffen in warning. "Take the blade and run. I know it will be hard to run because you almost died but try to. I will meet you later... GO!" The Night Fury spoke her voice suddenly gentle yet firm. I started running as fast as I could with my father's blade in hand. A few minutes later I found a tree and start my climb up it.
Later in the morning I find myself still in the tree that I took refuge in for the night. I start my climb down the tree and I realized that the Night Fury was waiting for me at the bottom. "Hello Night Fury." When I spoke my voice sounded ruff. "Hello Human. I have a request. Let us learn each others names." She spoke hesitant. "Ok my name is Rust Mae but you can just call me Rust. How about you? What's your name?" My throat hurt when I spoke because it was dry. "My name is Sapphire.". I sized up the dragon the same time she sized up me. She cleared her throat an spoke "You look like your trustable..." She paused and I waited for her to finish speaking, "Hmm. Your just the right size of a rider... I think" She said more to herself than me. "Ok. Do you want to be my rider?" She cocked her head waiting for my answer. All of a sudden the main thing I was thinking came out, "Of course, I want to be you rider! I love dragons and I always wanted to bond with one, so I could fly and. . . So I could have a friend since my village was burned by those two people.".