In Toothless's eyes

Chapter 5

One day I walked out of the draughty, soot blackened cave we slept in and into the daylight to see my mother standing alone under the trees, staring off into the distance towards the mountains that bordered the valley that was our home. She had a forlorn, miserable look around her, a dark melancholy mood. She did not even notice when I walked up to her and asked her what was wrong, in fact she leaped two metres into the air like she'd been shocked by an electric eel (Those things are the bane of dragons, if ordinary ones are terrifying, these are your nightmares come true). It would've been funny if she had not seemed so depressed beforehand. When she looked over at me she just sighed miserably.

"I am sorry, Myrkr, but I have taught you all that I can. I have to go now, already I can sense that we are being hunted, that eyes are watching us from all around. Maybe one day you and I can live in peace in a better and kinder world, but that is not now, and until then our paths cannot meet. I will give you some last advice. Walk not towards the kings of dragons, for they are not all benevolent, some will try to kill you outright because they see you as a threat. Beware also the queens, the Red Deaths, the Screaming death, the Fireworm queens, for they will also try to make you serve them and will ultimately try to kill you. May the wind always be in your wings and the fire in your soul burning high. Hug me one more time, for it will be long ere we meet. I wish I could have given you a better goodbye, but this is all I can give you. I have already stayed too long."

So we hugged, a long and emotional one, a hug shared between two people whose paths may never cross again. I knew I would not see her for a long time then, and I would be on a long and lonely journey from now on, trying to reclaim a home and a place for my people.

Just like that, my mother flew away, and I watched as her dark form became smaller and smaller into the distance. I had a sense that this could not be happening to me, but it was. Just like that my world was turned upside down, for I did not have my mother to fall back on and protect me now, I was all alone. I felt freedom to go wherever I wanted, but also fear for what would happen if I failed to make the right decisions in life.

But a sense of fear swept over me, and I could feel that others were indeed onto me. I quickly swept my wings, going into flight, a twelve year old dragon all alone in a crazy and dangerous world, for dragons are not only dangerous to humans, but other dragons as well.