Flightmare

The Flightmare is a dragon that appears in Dragons: Defenders of Berk. It appears in the episode Fright of Passage.

Appearance
The Flightmare is a medium-sized Strike-class dragon that has a very ghost-like appearance. Its body is covered in small spots that almost resembles the night sky. Also it looks like a mix of a Skrill and a Night Fury, but glowing.

Abilities
The Flightmare's body glows by eating algae that shines along with the Northern Lights. It can strike with a mist that paralyzes its prey to give itself enough time to return and finish it.

Defenders of Berk
The Flightmare first appeared in Fright of Passage, terrorizing Berk every ten years. Last time, Astrid's uncle, Fearless Finn Hofferson, faced the dragon and seemed to be frozen by fear, shaming her family's name. Astrid and Hiccup set out to find the Flightmare, where Astrid tried to fight it, but was frozen by the dragon's mist. They learned that victims of the dragon were not frozen by fear, but paralyzed. They soon discovered a stream of glowing algae that gives the Flightmare its glow, as well as other dragons (as discovered by Toothless). Realizing that the Flightmare only attacked Berk because it thought the Vikings were threatening its food supply, Hiccup, Astrid, and Fishlegs created a new channel for the algae to flow into the sea, and the Flightmare left Berk. Hiccup explained to the village what they learned about the dragon and that Finn Hofferson truly was fearless, restoring honor to Astrid's family.

Appearances
Fright of Passage (First appearance)

Notable Flightmares
Wild Flightmare (see Fright of Passage)

Trivia

 * The Flightmare is the only known dragon that appears once every 10 years.
 * The Flightmare could be in the Mystery class because of previously unexplained glowing, freezing breathe, and schedualed 10 year apperance, but now that it is explained it might be in the Fear class, or even the Strike class.


 * The Dragon Tracker on the Dreamworks Dragons:Defenders of Berk Part 1 DVD (released 3/25/2014) reveals that the Flightmare is a Strike-class Dragon
 * The Flightmare is the first omnivorous or even herbivorous dragon to be seen as it feeds on algae.
 * The Flightmare's design is similar to that of the Skrill, resembling that of Pelican eels.
 * For a particular reason the flightmare is not in the dragon manual in the Defenders of Berk website and it is already 14 episodes far.
 * It is the only dragon that glows other than the Fireworm and Monstrous Nightmare
 * The Flightmare's mist can paralyze people and animals for about 1 - 2 minutes, which is pretty short, but it is long enough for the flightmare to get an easy kill.