~eight year old Guffnut pov~

We were being attacked, i didn't know who or why, all i knew was that we were being attacked....and that it was supposed to be our enemy...i think...I'm not really sure...

I was trying to find some place safe, even though i knew no where was safe right now...all of a sudden the boat plunges and i move along with it and fall down.

Suddenly i was picked up and carried off, i looked up and relaxed when i noticed who it was...it was one of my cousins, he was older then me by about five years....or so...

He puts me down and grabs my shoulders, "stay here, it should be safer." he said and he ran off to help the others without waiting for my reply.

I whimpered a little, it was all so scary...this is the first time this is happening to me and I'm only eight...i didn't know how to handle this...not at all...

I hope i don't end up falling overboard...i know how to swim but for how long can i swim is anyone's guess....

I stayed there, holding onto something so i didn't end up falling into the water. The ship was still moving uncontrollable, i held on tighter.

I'm worried...both sides are fighting, and i-wait...what? Who is that? Did he just sneak on the ship? ...And he's heading for my cousin too...oh no...this can't be...he has a weapon too...

But...my cousin told me to stay here....no, this isn't worth his life just because i was trying to obey what he told me earlier...

So i sneaked off, my eye's focused on them only, I'm getting close, he's so close to start attacking my cousin as i jump on him from behind, holding on to him and he struggled to get me off.

That struggle made my cousin look up from what he was doing, his eye's widen with shock and horror as he took in what was happening...

Then my foot was grabbed and i was hanging upside down, he smirks down at me as he quickly made his way to the edge of the boat. My cousin starts running to us immediately, shouting in panic, "Gruffnut!"

Which caused some of the others to look over and horror enters their eyes.

He then throws me overboard as i let out a small yelp as i was thrown. My body enters the water and i quickly resurface to breath..

I let out a cough, i think i ending up getting some of the water in my mouth....woops...i carefully look over as the water that clouded my vision vanished as i continued to blink. I could see a bit better, not as much as when that guy threw me overboard and into the water but still enough to see the ship's in front of me.

..and was it just me or was it getting farther away as i hear my cousin and some of the others yelling "GRUFFNUT?!" in panic and worry?

I tried swimming to the boat but it just kept getting farther and farther away as i tried...i soon lost sight of the ship

I look in every direction, still trying to find them...i begin to feel terror, i let out a whimper.

I starting swimming in a direction that i thought the boat was going...i don't know where i am...after hours of swimming i finally felt tired enough that i might fall unconscious...oh man...am i never going to see my family again? Including tuffnut and ruffnut? Those two were one of my favorite because of the pranks we would sometimes pull on other people...

I started to see black spots as my eyes grew heavy...I'm going to die, aren't i? I let one last whimper as i fell unconscious...and unknown to me, someone heard my whimper of fear and distress...

~time skip to a few hours later~

I slowly came too...wait, I'm still alive?! ...and above water too...what is this am i feeling beneath my body? I slowly open my eyes to see what was going on. I slowly sit up and look down, i let out a small squeal.

The now-i-know-what-it-was and who-it-is that saved my life made me surprised...isn't this a scauldron? Which is one of the dragons i thought should be avoided...

I held on to the scauldron, hoping that it-i-don't-know-the-gender-yet-wouldn't kill me...i was still afraid but not as much as before.

After a while i finally saw land, is that...yep i think it might be a new island...that hasn't been discovered yet....I don't know where i am but I'm grateful to still be alive, maybe I'll live long enough to see my family one last time before dying...well who knows? Maybe I'll meet ruffnut and tuffnut when I'm older...

I hope i do, even if I'm dying because i just want to see some family, even if it's only one or two...i would love to see ruffnut and tuffnut because i was on the way to visit them...

I came out of thinking to see that we arrived at the island. The scauldron drops her head to the land, i slowly get off.

I look over at the now confirmed she scauldron. How i knew the dragon was a she? ...Well I'm not sure myself, i just felt that the dragon was female...

The dragon still had her head laying down, i slowly got closer. Lifting my head up, her eye's narrowed a bit but didn't do anything. I left my hand there and turned away with my eye's closed, hoping that this action didn't get me killed or something. The next thing i knew was that the dragon face or was it a head? Pressing forward to touch my outstretched hand. I look over as i relaxed a bit, this dragon wouldn't hurt me...i just knew that somehow.

I think i should give her a name, "how about swimmy?...What? Don't give me that look, i couldn't think of anything right now and considering that your a dragon from the waters and swim, i thought it would be perfect!" i said as well as she gave me a look that said 'oh please you could do better then that'.

Challenge accepted...now to find a better name, scauldron...scaul, scauld, dron, scaudron, scadron, scaldron, scally, scal, spinoffelm, scaudly, avinly, night wind, water wind, windly, windy, flyer, fleur, fli-no wait that would be a little too girly even for a girl...skinplas, skinpeal, scaughel, drony, stony, stone, ston, stinniny, scauly, i-oh wait i think i know the perfect name!

"How about glider? Since scauldrons practically glide when your underwater..." i asked and said as gl- i mean she since she didn't decide if she wanted the name yet. She had a thoughtful look in her eyes before purring as she looked down on me.

"Yay! You like the name glider! Not bad for an eight year old, right?" i said and sort of asked.

"Glider..thank you for saving my life and...well..just being there i guess.." i said with a hint of a blush forming...never really thanked someone outside of...well those who helped me or family...or something...

Glider continues to purr, kinda as if a 'your welcome.'

Glider...thank you...i guess I'll live another day to maybe see my family again someday...maybe...

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I got the idea from a dream, like what if gruffnut wasn't that bad? What if it might be an act? What if he was one the first dragon rider? What if he wasn't even like how he was in the movie of i think defenders of berk? So i made this and i continue for another chapter or so since i know what to somewhat get started...so...

Ja ne~! ¬°¬