The Northern Highlands

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A black dragon was wizzing across the open, emrald green ocean its scales glinting brightly in the warm sun , and it was emitting a high pitched screech as it zoomed at high velocities .It was also wearing a harness and a saddle on which a dragon rider was lying, crouched, on it's back .The rider, suited up in a black and brown armor padding over his regular clothes, was gasping due to exhilaration behind his face mask . Seeing a few water dwelling dragons beneath the both of them through the slits in his mask,he sat up ,hunched onto his dragon's beck and then stepped on a foot lever on the harness that closed his dragons prosthetic tail wing shut , allowing his dragon to summeraault, as he steered it underneath one of the raised dorsal fins of those huge hydro dragons as the night fury whipped up and under each dorsal fin. Then, the rider, content with himself, steered the dragon skyward as the night fury shot up like an arrow towards the clouds. The rider laughed as his dragon screeched in excitement. After performing a few aerial loops , his dragon glided with extended wings. The masked rider mimicked his dragon, extending his lanky arms on eat her side horizontally , feeling a rush a cold air whipped at him. And the view, he thought , man, the view was amazing. He shut his eyes and felt the cold autumn breeze sneak into his mask and whip at his face gently. As his dragon stabilised it self, he pulled down a lever on the saddle and sat up , straight back as the wind rush reduced. "What do you think bud? " he asked his dragon, lightly patting it's neck " you wanna give this another shot?" He finished as he looked expectantly at his dragon. The dragon, however did not share his enthusiasm as it groaned with half open eyes." Toothless! It'll be fine!" He continued as his dragon groaned again. He slid his prosthetic leg ( the the rider, like the dragon, had lost a leg) forward in the foot lever of the dragon's saddle, locking it's artificial tail wing open in place. Then he unhooked himself from the safety catch and sat up straight as he took in a deep breath and slid off the dragon's back, free falling at a high velocity to the earth. After a brief moment, the dragon followed him as it shot downwards after its rider. "WOOOOOO!!!!YEEEAHHHHH!" The rider yelled happily as his dragon approached him from behind. As it levelled with him in falling velocity, it closed it's wings and stuck it's tongue out at the rider playfully. The rider grinned widely behind his mask. He looked ahead and , seeing the surface of the ocean rapidly approaching, reached down, inserting his forearms into two leather buckles on his pants and extended his arms, pulling the straps in the process. As he did so, leather 'wings' attached to his suit spread out as the wind caught him , slowing his fall suddenly as his dragon mimicked him, extending it's wings . The rider yelled at the top of his lungs in exhilaration .If only his friends could see him now, he thought to himself. He was practically flying alongside his dragon. He stablized his steady glide and then unlocked his spring coil which extended a dorsal wing on his back . This helped him cut through the air more easily
"WHOOOOOO!" He screamed as human and dragon glided across a blanket of clouds inches below them . He glanced at his dragon who cocked it's head to the right and looked back at him playfully. He nodded at it and turned around. He felt heat wip below him as the air exploded in front of him ."WHOA-HAH-HA! WOOOOOO! " he yelled happily as he pulled up, dodging the heat blasts. The dragon was firing static shots that exploded mid air just beneath the rider . The heat of the blast caused the rider to rise up . Two to three blasts later, feeling that he was ready to up the stakes, he looked at his dragon and yelled "This is amazing!" He saw his dragon tense up. He spun his head back and his heart almost skipped a beat. A few meters away from him was a mossy rock canyon that stood up , blocking his path.A few more seconds and the rider would crash headfirst into it. "No longer amazing!" He yelled."TOOTHLESS! " He called out desperately to his dragon for help. The dragon, toothless, tried his best to reach his rider but his locked up tail prevented him from zooming at his top speed. It screeched shrill, just as frightened as it's rider was."OH NO...NO.NO.NO.NO!AHHHHHH! " the rider screamed frantically as he was a few inches away from colliding into it. He clamped his eyes shut and prepared for the worst. But it didn't come. He opened his eyes slightly to find himself being protected by the dragon as it formed a protective cocoon like formation, preventing any injury for its rider. The rider glanced back at the canyon and grinned slightly. His dragon had blasted the rock formation in order to reach him in time. That moment of relief got lost rather quickly as the next second, he felt them crashing into a bunch of overgrown bamboo trees .After a few seconds of violent collisions, the finally landed on the green, mossy ground. His dragon groaned as the rider straightened up. "We...We gotta work on your solo flying there bud...."He said as he removed the appendeges that locked his 'wings ' to his body. He locked it back into place in a small sheath compartment on his shins.He heard a crash and spun around just in time to see the rock canyon that he had almost collided with crumble into a pile of debris due to his dragon's blast. "That...locked up tail makes for some pretty sloppy rescue meneuvers...eh? " he continued as he rewinded the spring coil , lowering his dorsal wing. He sighed and slid his helmet of his face.

Hiccup brushed his shaggy brown hair out of his eyes as he looked up into the diatance, feeling the cool breeze gently blow at his face. "Huh...looks like we found another one bud..." he said in wonder as he gestured to the new Land they had discovered up ahead of them. "OUCH!" He felt a sharp pain on the back of his head . His dragon, apprently not happy that his master had caused so much concern for him was cross with him. Hiccup approached toothless and cocked his head playfully. "What ? You want an apology? Is that why you're pouting, big baby boo?" His dragon looked away indifferently. Hiccup smirked as he threw his helmet down to the floor and charged at the dragon's neck. "Well try this on!...ohhhh yeah? ". He said as he pushed hard. "Ya pickin up on all my heartfelt remorse?" The dragon didn't budge. Hiccup tied his legs around the dragon's neck , trying to increase his force. Toothless yawned, stood up in an anthropomorphic manner and waddled along to the side of the cliff. Hiccup, oblivious about his situation continued." Oh C'mon you-you wouldn't hurt a one legged --HYAH!!" he yelled as he grabbed on the dragon's neck for dear life. He had just taken note of where the dragon was standing. Five hundred feet below them were huge waves crashing into the rocky cliff, spraying it's waters in different directions.. Admitting defeat hiccup pleaded "ok....okay. you win . You win.." toothless raised its cat like head ad made a cooing noise that brilliantly imitated human laughter. The next thing he knew, hiccup was down, sprawled on the ground with his dragon playfully punching him. He played along just for the heck of it. "Oaahhhh! And it ugly," he rasped as he blocked toothless's punches "dragons and vikings, enemies again, locked in combat to the bitter---- OAAHHHHHH! !!" he finished. The dragon had dropped his head heavily onto hiccup's stomach, pushing all the along air out of it. He felt something wet wipe his face. The dragon had begun licking him playfully from head to chest. Feeling slightly disgusted , hiccup pushed toothless away and rolled up , wiping the sticky saliva off his armour . "Toothless! "He exclaimed annoyingly."you know that doesn't wash out!" . Seeing hiccups annoyance, toothless cooed like a human laugh again. Hiccup , to get back at his best friend , flicked a bit of the saliva onto the dragon's face who's laughter dropped into an annoyed look again.

Shaking his head, hiccup looked out to the new lands , took in a deep breath and then took out a buch of old yellowing parchment from a compartment within his armour. He allowed toothless to lick one side of the paper before he pressed it down firmly onto a map that he'd sketched during his various adventures. He took out his dagger from its sheath on his arm gauntlet , used it to sharpen the end of a charcoal piece he possessed and was about to sketch the land when he paused and stared blankly at the area that he had sketched and marked as 'Arendelle' . He hadn't visited Arendelle in two months now. If he was being honest with himself, he did miss the dessert treat they had at the castle there. He missed Olaf's hilarious antics , the amazed look on the everyone's face when they saw his perform his meneuvers on toothless's back. And most of all, he missed Elsa. He hadn't seen her for four months now . The last time he visited Arendelle, she had gone on a trading expedition to corona. Only Anna and kristoff were there. Not that he minded the young princesses's joyous attitude . He chuckled as he remembered how she used to tease him about him elsa. Elsa was visiting berk that afternoon on a trading expedition. He had get back and face his father again. He groaned, shook his head and glanced at his dragon. "So,What should we name it?" He asked as he straightened the compass on his gauntlet. As an answer, toothless started to bite at an itch under his arms. Chuckling at this, hiccup stated. "Right....itchy armpit it is. So what do you reckon, bud? Will we find a few timberjacks in the woods? The odd whispering death or two in the rocks? Who knows--mabye we might track down another night fury....." As he began to sketch , he glanced at toothless as the dragon looked curiously at his map. " wouldn't that be somethin....So. What do you say? Just keep lookin? " As his dragon cooed, hiccup's ear caught the sound of another dragon's excited screeching from behind them.

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