Ch. 5- Lessons and Tails

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"Hey, Toothless," Hiccup called, walking into the cove. I followed closely behind. Toothless and Violet quickly showed themselves, but slowly came near us. "I brought breakfast. Hope your hungry."

Hiccup pushed over his basket full of fish as I did mine. We had each brought a whole basket full of fish for our dragons. While Hiccup's dragon ate, he put the new tail on. My dragon had a full tail so I didn't have to.

I watched my dragon eat her basket full of fish. Hiccup's dragon didn't like his eel so much, a good thing for me that I didn't catch one.

"I'm guessing you like your fish," I said to Violet.

Toothless suddenly lifted his head, trying to find out what Hiccup was doing. Shock came across his face as his wings went down. He prepared himself for flight.

"Hiccu-" I yelled, trying to warn him.

"Ah!" Hiccup screamed as his Dragon suddenly took fight.

"Hiccup!" I screamed. Violet flew above me and picked me up with her teeth. Then she tossed me on her back and took off for Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless.

Me and Violet followed Hiccup and Toothless. Hiccup had to hold the tail open and made Toothless turn around and fly back over the cove. Toothless looked at Hiccup and then flung him off his tail.

"Hiccup," I yelled as he fell into the pond.

The tail Hiccup made closed for he wasn't able to hold it open. Toothless noticed this before flowing Hiccup into the pond.

Violet growled as Toothless also fell into the water.

"Yeah!" Hiccup yelled in excitement. "It worked!"

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The thick green fog- which was gas- spread quickly around the arena.

"Today is about teamwork. A wet dragons head can't light it's fire. The hideous Zippleback is extra tricking. One head breaths gas while the other lights it. Your job is to know which is which," Gobber announced today's assignment.

I sat this one out because there wasn't enough people for me to be on a team with someone.

The teams were Snotlout and Tuffnut, Ruffnut and Astrid, and Fishlegs and Hiccup. Each person had a bucket of water to splash on a dragons head.

Fishlegs was talking about the Zippleback when Hiccup whispered "Would you please.stop that?" That caused him to shut up.

Snotlout and Tuffnut mistook Astrid and Ruffnut for the dragon and they got into a small fight before Tuffnut got pulled into the green fog screaming.

"Oh, I am hurt! I am very much hurt!" Tuffnut yelled, running out and away from the thick, blinding fog.

The Zippleback made its appearance. Nor Astrid's team or Snotlout's team had any more water. Only Fishlegs and Hiccup did.

The others fled, leaving the two weaklings. Fishlegs panicked when the first head appeared.

"Ah!" Fishlegs gasped as a Zippleback head came out of the fog. He scrambled back a bit before splashing his water onto the head- just to have more gas come from it's mouth. "Oops, wrong head. Ah," he screamed as the dragon blasted him with gas.

The second head came out of the green fog. When Gobber said, Hiccup- the only one with water left- threw his water into the air, only for it to miss the dragon and to fall back on him.

"Hiccup!" Gobber yelled as I rushed to Hiccup's side.

"Back!" Hiccup shouted- before I got there- the dragon went back. "Back! Back, I tell you!" The Zippleback went into its cage as Hiccup looked over his shoulder to make sure no one saw when he threw in an eel before shutting the cage door. I was wondering why he put the eel under his vest before we left for training.

Everyone but me stared in Aw. I smirked, thinking- nice job, Hiccup.

Hiccup turned to find an arena filled with shocked faces, all staring at him. "Okay, so... are we done here because we have- um, ya see you tomorrow!" Hiccup called as we ran out of the arena.

We each made a saddle for our dragons before going to see them.

When Hiccup showed his Dragon, Toothless, the saddle, he smiled at Hiccup and ran around playfully, making Hiccup chase him. Violet didn't. She let me put it on.

"Good girl, Violet." For her reward, I gave her a few extra fish.

After Hiccup finally got Toothless's saddle on, he tied a string to the tail he made so he could control it.

Hiccup and Toothless learned how to fly together as my and Violet took it easy and followed at a distance.

Before three minutes of flying Hiccup fell off of Toothless. Toothless, not being able to fly without Hiccup, fell to the ground nearby.

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"There. Now I wont fall off," Hiccup said, admiring his work. He made basically a rope that attached to his saddle so he wouldn't fall off again. I made one just like it.

"Good. I cant wait to test it out tomorrow," I smiled, excited at the thought.

"Me neither. I just love flying. Don't you?"

"Of course I do. It's so exciting."

"Yep, its the best thing ever. Now come on. We have to get plenty of rest for tomorrow."

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The rope worked, when Hiccup and Toothless fell, Hiccup followed the short rope to find Toothless.

Toothless started to roll around in the grass. Violet and I landed and when I hopped off Violet started rolling around in it also.

"What? Why?" I asked, confused at first to why they were rolling around in grass. It was a very special kind if grass- dragons love it.

Hiccup grabbed a piece of the special grass and brought it to training the next day.

When the Gronkle flew over to him he held his arm out, dragon nip -as we call it- in hand. The Gronkle landed in front of him. Hiccup rubbed the grass against the Gronkle's nose and made him roll over on his side.

Everybody surrounded him as we left the arena. "I've never seen a Gronkle do that," Snotlout said.

Hiccup took a few steps back and said, "Oh, I left my axe back at the ring. You guys go on, I'll catch up with you." He almost ran into Astrid, then continued to run back. Knew he left his axe for a reason,  I thought as I followed him. My big brother was smart for a hiccup- which is the runt of the litter in Viking terms.

He got his axe and we raced to our work space before getting what we needed and going to see our pet dragons.

"Violet!" I called when I saw her. She ran to me as Toothless ran to Hiccup and we went into a hug.

Me and Hiccup were getting very close to our dragons, always sad when we had to leave and excited as we ran to the cove almost everyday to see them.

Flying is awesome!

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We were scratching our dragons on their necks when I moved my hand down and she just fell.  Toothless was also on the ground.

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The next day at training we were fighting a Gronkle. Astrid was about to attack when I started scratching the Gronkle on top of the neck a few time before going under. As planned, the dragon fell to the ground. Astrid stared at me in shock.

That night at dinner, me and Hiccup grabbed our food and went to an empty table, like normal. This time, everyone surrounded us, trying to talk to us.

Astrid didn't come over and she looked pretty pissed that everyone else did.

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Toothless and Violet pounced at the shining dot of light. Following it as it moved. I laughed as Hiccup made it move again. He was reflecting the suns light off a hammer.

The next day at training we were introduced to the terrible terror. "Meet the terrible terror," Gobber said as the small dragon was let out.

"Ha!" Tuffnut said, pointing at it. "Its the size of my face." The dragon jumped on his face and he began yelling "Get it off."

Hiccup used his shield to reflect the sun's light and shined it in the dragon's eye. Using the light, he got the small dragon to go back into its cage.

"Oh I am hurt!" Tuffnut yelled. "I am very much hurt. He paced his foot on the door to stop it from coming out. Hiccup turned to everyone with a smile. "He's better than you every were," Tuffnut said to Astrid.

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We caught Astrid throwing her axe at a tree when we were on our way to see our dragons. When she saw us we ran and hid next to a giant rock. She looked past the rock and thought she lost us.

Hiccup put more stuff on Toothless as he ate before they went to a windy cliff to practice flying. Hiccup wrote what each foot potion did on a piece of paper. On one windy gust, the rope broke, sending them backwards.

"Hiccup!"

Toothless stood up, dragging Hiccup with us. The rope that kept Hiccup on Toothless was stuck. There was two metal pieces that kept it together. Later that night we snuck Toothless into the village to fix it. We got him to a work place. Hiccup was trying to fix the metal loop that kept him on Toothless.

"Hiccup?" Astrid asked from outside.

"Fix it. I'll be right back." Hiccup went outside to talk to Hiccup as I tried to fix it. I still heard the conversation. "Hey. Hey, Astrid. Hey, Astrid. Hey." You suck at playing it cool, Hiccup, I thought.

"I normally don't care what people are doing but your acting weird." Toothless moved, looking at a sheep. Hiccup must've moved with him because I heard him grunt.

"Toothless!" I whispered yelled. "Stop!"

"Well... weirder than usual," Astrid said.

Toothless moved again. So did Hiccup. "Toothless!" I whispered yelled again. I fixed it as Hiccup was pulled in by Toothless.

"Quick, get on!" We quickly hopped on Toothless and got out of there.

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