How to Let Your Dragon Go

Chapter Three

"Grimmel?" Toothless repeated. "He kills Night Furies?"

"Yeah" Electra replied. "He's hunted us to near-extinction. That's why I can't stay for too long. I really have to relocate, and fast."

"No, I have a better idea" Toothless told her.

"Reeeaallly?" Electra said, sounding skeptical. "I live in a nest" Toothless started. "A NEST!" Electra almost shouted. "We could be safe there! Grimmel couldn't hunt us!"

"Yeah, I was just getting to that" Toothless muttered.

"What?" Electra asked.

"Nothing" Toothless said.

"But..." Electra started. "I'm not sure about this nest thing... umm... would it be okay for me to think about it for a bit?"

"Sure" Toothless told her. "That would be fine"

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Toothless and Electra met every day for a few weeks. They started to grow closer. Then one day, Electra said yes, she would come to the nest.

The two dragons lifted off into the air together. The night sky seemed less empty with Electra flying beside him. Soon the volcano came into view.

"That's my nest" Toothless said proudly.

Elecra looked at it. "Oh"

She seemed dissapointed with it, like she was hoping it would be more grant or something.

Wait till she sees the inside of this place.

As they flew closer to the volcano, Toothless felt the Queen's prescense re-enter his mind. "What do we have here?" she asked. "A new dragon?"

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Electra also felt the presence in her mind. But to her, it was completely new and strange. Like something alien had invaded her brain and was trying to read her thoughts. She shook her head, trying to clear it.

"You okay?" Toothless asked her. "Yeah" she said, looking back at the creepy volcano. This was the nest? Really? It looked so scary.

She watched Toothless plunge into one of the tunnels. She hesitated for a moment, then went in after him. Toothless landed on black rocks when the tunnel got to narrow to fly through. She did the same.

The rocks were warm and seemed to hum beneath her feet. She wished that she could keep flying.

And then they came to the center chamber.

Rock pillars rose out of a giant cauldron of lava. Dragons huddled around the edges, chatting with each other, sharing their meat, sharpening their claws.

She was overwhelmed by the choas of her new friend's nest. If it weren't for Grimmel, she would have left immediately.

The huge dragon in the lava also made her want to leave, too.