All four of Vanessa's friends and Vanessa herself stood in the nearly abandoned park, looking at me expectantly as I spread out my canvas and picked up my stick, but before I could start Steven stopped me, 'hold on, I got some people coming, better wait for them,'

'What?' I asked.

'Steven!' Vanessa and Tanya complained.

'What? I told some of my friends... Or enemies, I can't remember which, they should be coming around now,' Ralph said, picking his nose, 'what?' He asked when we stared at him.

'Erm... How many people did you tell?' I asked him, 'erm, just a few,' they both said, then as if on que, several people arrived, 'hey Steven, we didn't think you'd mind, we got a few friends coming,' one of the boys said, then more and more arrived, saying the same thing, until practically the whole highschool was there. I felt my cheeks flush slightly, the night fury in me wanting desperately to flee.

But I swallowed it down, its OK, if you can do this in front of complete strangers you can do this in front of your entire... Judgmental... Rude... Backstabbing school, right?

I took a deep breath, holding the end of the fire stick to my lips, as I did, I spotted Colin looking smugly at me, probably expecting me to fail.

And that kindled the fire in my throat.

And I lifted my head instead, and fired, not a flame, but a plasma blast, which exploded like a firework in the sky, small bits of blue plasma floating down.

I dodged each blob that floated down, doing a somersault, I wasn't doing any of my routines, this was straight of the top of my head.

I lifted the fire stick, set fire to both ends using two plasma blasts, which made it look like the two ends exploded. I spun it round my head and in front and behind me, throwing and catching it without even losing the rhythm I was in, I passed it between my legs and stuck the end into my mouth, doing a backward somersault and pulling it back out with both ends still lit.

I lifted my head and breathed out a stream of pure blue fire, which lifted up like helium, until it disintegrated.

I lifted the metal container and heated it to boiling point again, this time even hotter than I'd ever done before. I poured it out while turning on my heel and lit it.

The flame that erupted into a blazing inferno was taller than a two story building. It burned hotter than ever and I stood in the middle. The crowd reeled back in horror and I decided to do something stupid and impressive, I changed. And roaring I spread my wings, a dark silhouette in the fiery blaze, then before the flames died down I changed back quickly and met the crowds awed cheering, they picked me up like I'd won the Soccer world cup and cheered.

I knew I was taking a huge risk, but I didn't care, especially when I saw Colin's face.

*

The next morning was Saturday, I stretched my arms and rubbed my eyes, struggling to get out of bed.

I was going to spend today with my dragon friends, we were heading to dragon island, off the coast of Berk, to the volcano for a swim.

I changed into a night fury and flew to Snag's house, banging on the door with my tail.

Snag came out and found me, 'oh hey Mr. Scholar, the others will meet us at the pool.' I nodded, 'race you to the pool!' I shouted and flew off faster than Snag could ever hope.

'Hey! No fair! You're a night fury!' Snag complained and quickly changed and flew off after me. I flew breezily over the ocean, waiting for Snag to catch up, when he did, flapping furiously, I flew at exactly his speed, 'this is no use, we'll never get there, take a lift,'

Snag nodded weakly and collapsed on my back, holding with both claws onto one of my spines. I flew off, faster and faster, with Snag clinging on for dear life. I reached dragon island in about ten minutes, and Snag dropped down and we both changed to humans.

We walked down a cave which led to our private pool, which we'd found about ten years ago, no one really came in here because it was such a long walk, but it was so worth it.

After half an hour we arrived at the best place in the world.

It was a huge underground cave, with a waterfall made of lava pouring from a hole in the ceiling, it fell into the pool, huge lava slides which we'd carved out of the rocks twisted and turned all around the cave.

Three dragons were swimming in the lava, a Timberjack, its giant wings outstretched, lay floating on his back, a Zippleback dived into the lava before gasping up for air and the two heads snapped at each other and a monstrous nightmare sneezed out its magnesium fire which dripped down a rock, the yellow flames tinged with green, before diving into the pool.

'Hey guys!' I called. Snag grinned at me and I was rushed at by four people.

The Timberjack, Thunder, punched me playfully in the chest and the Zippleback twins, Flight and Flame both hugged me, while the Monstrous nightmare, Shade, who was actually really timid for a monstrous nightmare, stood back and called out my name in a slightly nervous voice.

Thunder, with his blonde ruffled hair and slight stocky figure, looked allot like Steven, the twins both had really long viking style hair which was a muddy brown, and Shade was a really small and skinny girl with a high pitched, whining voice and short blonde hair.

This was the group I'd hung out with my whole life, even before I became a fully fledged dragon, they were always there for me.

'So your a little graduate now, hey Scorch?' Thunder chuckled.

He chose his name thunder because of the fact that he loved chasing thunderstorms, despite being a Timberjack, he could fly almost as fast as me, Flight and flame got their names because of Flights love of... Well... Flying and Flame loved blowing things up with the spark in his mouth.

'So what?' I asked them in defiance. And I ran past them and dived into the lava, resurfacing with lava covering my clothes, but not burning it in the slightest. 'Ha ha, you and you're fancy fireproof clothes, we get it!' Flame said, rolling his eyes. Flight sighed and put her hand to her forehead, 'I wish I could meet the boys at highschool, and live a normal life away from this chump,' she pointed to her brother.

'You could come if you want,' I said to her, 'but you'll probably have to change your names, mines causing enough suspicion already.'

'Hah! Are you kidding? Like we wanna spend all day locked up in a torture room when we can be flying above the clouds,' Snag laughed.

'Like you can fly above the clouds, you're wings are so small I doubt you could fly over a tree!' Thunder teased,

'Wanna bet on it?'

I smiled, I was definatly back home.