/~~Shadow's P.O.V~~/ 

"Yeah, yeah that's right," I said encouragingly to Toothless as he concentrated. I grinned as the flaps near his ears flared blue.

"Why can't it stay like this?" He asked looking into the stream we were next to and seeing the blue flaps. I purred happily, I liked being the smart one in this.... relationship. I looked at Toothless's reflection and admired his eyes. With the light from the sunset they looked bright and alive. His head disapeared as he pulled it away. My heart sunk slightly. 

"Well, it's getting late, we should be getting back." Toothless said stretching his wings out ready for flight. I followed him up into the air. I roared happily as I spun up and up. Toothless followed me and soon he was vertically in front of me. We beat our wings slowly so as not to hit each other. I smiled as a sudden idea poped into my head, I lashed my tail out and tapped his wing. 

"You're it" I growled still smiling as I folded my wings around my body and fell down. 

I spun over so that I was facing the ground below, I couldn't hear much with all the wooshing from the wind but I guessed that Toothless was behind me. I closed my eyes and put my head out straight to gain more speed. Now perfectly streamline I ignored everything else in the world and just enjoyed the sensation of falling. 

"Shadow" I heard like a whisper in the wind around me. "Shadow, stop!" this time it was lowder, I recognised it to be Toothless. He was asking me to stop, well I wasn't going to let him win! 

/~~Toothless's P.O.V~~/

Terror filled me up as I watched Shadow hurtling to the ground, me hurtling after her. I roared her name as she began to get dangerously close to the ground. She was either ignoring me or couldn't hear me. I folded my wings around me copying her postition and folded my two pairs of tail flaps in cutting off any direction, the only direction now was down. I roared her name and told her to stop. 

Her stupidity made me mad and I felt myself speed up as the wind became louder, alost as if the sky and air wanted me to get down to her. If I strectched out my claws I would be able to grab her tail, but I couldn't risk something happening to it, I wouldn't do that to another dragon. I was so angry that I considered shooting a fire blast at her, it would have been funny in a different situation. I was gaining on her fast about a foot a second, but every second I got closer, the closer we got to the ground. 

Finally I pulled up along side her, I shoved into her opening my tail flap to direct me. Her eyes snapped open wide at the sight before her. We were but a mere 30 feet from the ground now. 

"Open you wings!" I roared at her. Unfurling my own wings so that they were now poised at my side slowly I began to open them. I pulled up from the nosedive and spread my wings fully gliding, speading 15 feet from the ground. I glanced behind me to see Shadow hot on my tail, her face was a mask of concentration, but her eyes betrayed her distress at the near death experience. 

I beat my wings upward in the direction of the caves we spent our nights. I glided down onto my edge and looked around expecting to see Shadow on her own cave, I then would have flown down to rage at her. Instead when I turned around I came nose to nose with her. She whimpered her eyes asking me a silent question. I lay down my back to the mountain that my cave was set in. The inside was lit by the almost set sun as I opened my wing and Shadow lay down next to me. She was shaking. 

"Are you alright?" I asked quietly. 

"No" She said truthfully. 

"Do you do this on a daily basis, this speading to the ground death experience?" I asked rememebering our first meeting. She shook her head setting it on the ground near me. "You scared me." 

Smiling slightly she growled quietly, "I scared myself." 

"No," I growled faking astonishment "you scared? I mean it's not like we just almost died or anything." 

"Ha ha." She growled turning her head away from me and shifting her body so that she was obviously blocking me out. I sat in silence for a while before setting my head down next to her. 

"Sorry" she said. 

"For what?' 

"For scaring you." 

"I wasn't scared." I said smiling slightly 

"Ughhh yes you were." She said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Honestly they way you called me, it was like you had lost your wings, Shadow, Shadow." She joked. I stiffened at the 'like you lost your wings' part. She noticed it and imediatly realised what she had done. "Oh, Gods, Toothless i'm sorry, it's just a thing my mum used to say when we were kids." 

"Nah it's ok." I lied. "I'm gonna go fishing, is that ok with you?" 

"Yeah, that's fine." she said quietly after a pause. I got up carefully extracting my wing, I walked over to the edge of the cave and jumped out, falling for a few seconds before beating my wings and soaring upwards. Looking back I could see Shadow looking saddly after me. I shook off the uneasy feeling I felt and soared towards one of the less crowded streams. 

/~~Stormfly's P.O.V~~/ 

"What did you do?" I demanded when Shadow came down to the ledge that me and the other academy dragons slept. She looked confused. "What did you do to Toothless?" I growled more angrily this time. 

"Nothing, we just had an... accident while flying." Shadow told me. 

"An accident, that's not what I call an accident." I growled stepping towards her. She held her ground, annoyingly. 

"If you already know what happened then why are you asking me?" Shadow challenged. 

"I was just giving a chance to here your explination before I-" 

"Stormfly!" Meatlug cried thudding over. "What's gotten into you, Toothless is fine now, isn't that what matters?" 

"Stay out of this." Shadow growled turning to her. I took my chance, sending a volley of vicous sharp spikes at her. She ducked, plasma blasting me. I avoided her blast and got ready to breath some red hot fire at her. She must have known what I was doing, but she just stood there. I my fire came blazing forawrd and hit her full on. But all the time she just stood there. When the fire stopped I was surprised to find her unharmed. 

"You missed a little fact about Night Furys, we are the unholy offspring of lightning and death i. Fire doesn't weaken us, it makes us stronger." I took an unvolentary step backward. "I'm not going to fight you, I don't want to hurt you." 

"I won't be the oen getting hurt." I growled about to run at her when a Deadly Nadder intercepted my path. 

"Woah, Woah ladies let's calm down shall we?" He said, I looked him up and down. A mix of all the colours of the sunset. Phew he was hot. 

"And what authority do you have to stop this?" Shadow asked while I said at the same time. 

"No it's ok you can stop us,"

"Ok... well I just heard an argument and thought I had better come and check it out." 

*sigh* knight in shining armour! 

"Look i'm going to like go and help Toothless... so yeah." Shadow said flying off. My swooning must have been pretty obvious. 

"So, what's your name?" I asked the new Nadder.

"Ember, yours?" 

"Stormfly." 

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ok, ok I updated, i know I said i wouldn't do it until i had finished the other books, but I couldnt help myslef. 

(I also felt kind of mean making you all wait so long) 

The support in this book is amazing and is really nice thank you so much! 

So if you've read my other book, specificaly chapter 4 of the LTDR 3 book you will know who Ember's rider is, or future rider. 

Stay tuned to find out what happens with the rivalry between Stormfly and Shadow. And of course Ember <3 

Anyways hope you all enjoy it:D 

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