How To Train Your Dragon [Volume #1]

06. "Night of The Hunter"

The destroyed longships from the expedition were docking at the pier, Gobber was there to greet the exhausted chief. "Well, I trust you found the nest at least?" Gobber said falling in step with the man.

"Not even close."

"Ah. Excellent." Gobber said. He could feel his body and mood plummet with those words. "I hope you had a little more success than me." Stoick didn't protest when the sack he was carrying was swiftly grabbed and tucked under Gobber's arm. "Well, if by success you mean that your little Hyd-Hiccup troubles are over with, then... yes."

"Congratulations Stoick! Everyone is so relieved." Phelgma said before going to help unload the ships. "Out with the old and in with the new, right?!" A man said excitedly. "No one will miss that old nuisance!" Another chimed in. "The village is throwing a party to celebrate!"

Stoick turned to Gobber an eyebrow raised, Gobber briefly wondered if he got it from Hyde. "She's gone?" He asked. "Um, yeah. Most afternoons." He replied 'let's not mention the fact that he's found her sleeping in trees in places that were not, where she was meant to be sleeping at night.' Gobber thought. "But who can blame her? I mean the life of a celebrity's rough. She can barely walk through the village without being swarmed by her new fans. And considering most of them were previously for killing her rather than against, that's saying something."

Stoick placed a hand on his shoulder. "Hiccup?" He asked in disbelief. "Who would have thought, eh? She has this way with the beasts."

Stoick straightens himself out. "It takes a beast to kill another." Then walked forward with speed determined to find out how well Hiccup was doing. Gobber sighed. "That's her father, not her." He murmured.

"Alright there, boy, we're gonna take this nice and slow." Hiccup leaned forward. "Position, three, no four. Alright, lets see what you can do." Toothless kept a steady pace as he glided through the air, Hiccup turned around in her saddle to check the tail. "Alright, It's go time." She leaned forward and Toothless made a sound of excitement as the two started plummeting back to the ocean. Toothless made a smooth transition from plummeting to the ocean to glide across it, heading towards the sea stacks. "Come on, Buddy, come on!" Hiccup changed the fin position. "Yes, it worked! Smooth sailing so far, eh bud?" Hiccup leaned to the side to signal a turn. Ultimately crashing Toothless straight into a sea stack. "Sorry!" She tried again and fly the Night Fury into another. "My bad!" He shook his head, hitting Hiccup in the face with his ear, she cried out in pain. "Yeah, yeah, I'm on it." She glanced down at her cheat sheet. "Position four, no three." Hiccup leaned back and the two started to climb in the air, to see how high they could go. "Oh, this is amazing!" Hiccup looked down just in time to see the cheat sheet get blown away by the winds. "No!" She tried to reach for, she almost had it in her grasp, and then she was falling, "No!" She cried out again, as she tried to get to Toothless. Toothless was flailing around as he spun around. "Toothless, you gotta, you gotta-" she could barely breath. "Ow!" She cried out as Toothless's tail hit her sending her spinning in the air and probably a bruised eye. Hiccup desperately reach out for the saddle. She gasped and yanked on it when she finally reached it pulling herself onto the saddle and slipping her feet into the peddles. "Come on." She said to herself. "Come on." She louder as she spread the tail fin to a random position. "Come on!" She said pulling at the saddle leaning back as far as she can to try and help Toothless stop them from crashing into the forest.

Toothless roared as rocks appeared suddenly in front of them previously hidden by mist. Hiccup panicked slightly "The cheat shee- No!" She leaned forward. "I'm Hyde, I don't need one." A small movement from her foot and the two were swerving through the rocks at high speed, Hiccup could feel Toothless beneath her, feel when he had a different idea of where to go or how to do it, all Hiccup had to focus on, is the tail fin. Her eyes widened as she saw the end, the dark waters and the empty sky never being more of a relief than that moment, the stop was slow yet fast, a smile spread to Hiccups lips, mad and Cheshire-like. "YEEAAHH!" She celebrated arms in the air. Toothless lets out a blast of fire, then much to Hiccups horror began to fly to it. "Ah, come on."