Hello! It's me! Yipee!

So this is a new take on "Family on Edge" from the Dragons Race to the Edge Netflix series. Thanks so much for the comments on my last story "Hurt | Fire" It means a lot to me :D Please let me know what you think of this and I'll post the next chapter real soon! (I already have it typed up so literally, you'll get the next chapter in like a couple of minutes) Enjoy!

"Where is he?" Heather muttered to herself as she tried to peer through the fog.

"There he is!" Astrid shouted pointing towards a rocky outcrop. There was Dagur, slowly flying on his Gronckle towards the island where Viggo's ship fleet was.

"Okay, here's the-" Hiccup started but Heather's Razor whip zipped past him before he could finish. "plan." He finished lamely. "Come on gang, we have to follow them!" he called and Toothless zoomed forward, following the two siblings.

Dagur dodged Windshear's fire balls, and then remembered Astrid's suggestion about flying into the sun. He pulled Shattermaster up and began to go into the strong light.

Heather lifted her hand, trying to shade her eyes from the sun, looking for Dagur. Unbeknownst to her, Dagur flew back around up behind her. Heather whirled around, Dagur narrowly missed being cut through with Windshears tail. He then started to head towards the island, Heather close behind him. Windshear blasted a ball of fire, hitting the Gronckles behind. Shattermaster yelped in pain as he began to fall through the sky, landing on a rock outcropping, throwing Dagur from his back.

Hiccup and the others flew up beside Heather, who as about to attack her brother.

"Don't!" Hiccup shouted. Heather ignored him as she dived towards Dagur, who was now standing holding a dagger in his hand.

"Heather, honest I'm trying to change. Please believe me!" Dagur shouted.

"No." Heather spat at him, pulling out her ax and unfolding it. "You'll die today, Dagur." She ran at him screaming. Hiccup and Toothless landed right before her as she charged. She skidded to a stop and stared at Hiccup menacingly. "Let me through!" she shouted.

"No, Heather! We have to get to the ships and destroy them. They'll be leaving the port soon and then it'll be even more difficult to stop them. Dagur's your brother. You can't just kill him." Hiccup pleaded with her. The others were still flying directly above them. "We'll tie him up and leave him here, where he can't do any damage. We can come back for him later."

Heather lowered her ax as she calmed down. "Alright, Hiccup." But then she looked over Toothless to Dagur, "but he'll be mine to take."

"Okay. Snotlout, tie him up, you can catch up with us when you're done. Come on guys lets go!" Hiccup and Toothless took off into the air, while Heather jumped onto Windshear.

"Alright just as we practiced gang. I'll dive in first and get towards the back of the cove while you guys take care of the ships. I have to rescue any dragons they may have back there."

They flew into view of the ships, and everyone began to tense up, preparing for the battle about to take place. Toothless grunted uneasily. Hiccup leaned forward and patted his neck, "I know bud, I don't like this either. But we have to kill in order to save innocent dragons." Toothless let out a small roar. "Come on bud!" he shouted diving in towards the ships. But he realized too late that it was a trap.

Men were standing at the net catapults, aiming and preparing to fire. Men were standing at arms with bows and arrows ready. Hiccup began to panic as he realized their mistake. Dagur had been right.

"Toothless, look out!" Hiccup shouted as nets came flying through the air towards them. He pulled on the saddle, making Toothless duck, but another one was coming at him at the same time, and it wrapped it's way around them. Hiccup shouted as they fell through the sky towards the ocean.

"Hiccup!" he heard Astrid shout. He turned towards her, seeing her diving towards him and Toothless.

"Go back to the Edge!" he shouted as loud as he could before he and Toothless hit the water. They began to sink, Toothless thrashing wildly. Hiccup began to pull at the ropes, pulling out his dagger and cutting at the net as best as he could. His lungs were begging for him to breath, but he fought against it as he struggled to get him and Toothless free. Toothless accidently swung his wing out, knocking Hiccup in the chest, thrusting whatever air that was left in is lungs out. Hiccup took in a breath, filling his lungs with water. He gasped trying to find air. He and Toothless were now being pulled through the water by a rope towards one of the ships. He felt the blackness start to engulf him as he took in more water. He felt his dagger slip from his hand as he fell unconscious.

/o\

"Hiccup!" Astrid shouted diving towards him.

"Go back to the Edge!" he shouted towards her just as they hit the water, sinking fast. She could see Toothless struggle to get to the surface but the net kept him from using his wings.

Astrid didn't stop, she kept going, but then HookFang and Snotlout flew in front of her, nearly causing her to crash right into him.

"Snotlout!" she screamed at him.

"He told us to go back to the edge! We can come up with a plan and will be able to attack easier."

"he's right, Astrid." Fishlegs said flying towards her. "We have to leave, now!" arrows were starting to fly towards them, although they were out of reach of the nets. Everyone turned and began to fly back the way they came, Astrid hesitated as she followed them, looking behind just in time to see some men pull Hiccup and Toothless on the ship. Toothless was thrashing but Hiccup was limp as they pulled him from the net. Astrid's heart skipped a beat as she saw a man slap him on the back, and then began to push on his chest.

"We'll be back Hiccup." She promised, although she knew he couldn't hear her. "I promise."

/o\

Hiccup gasped as he woke, finding himself lying on a cold wooden floor. The floor seemed to be rocking back and forth, and he realized he was on board a ship. How long he'd been asleep he didn't know. All he knew was that it was difficult to breath.

He began to cough, trying to force the water out of his lungs, he felt himself heave as he tossed a mouth full of water onto the ground. It hurt, and left him weak, but at least now he could breathe better.

Now he looked around his surroundings, taking in his cell. It was made of wood, accept one wall which was just metal bars. His arms were tied behind his back, but his legs weren't tied. He struggled as tried to stand, but he was too shaken to, so sank to the ground once more.

He coughed again, trying to get the salty taste out of his throat.

He heard the clump of footsteps coming towards his cell. He waited for the man to come into view, wondering who his captor was.

He wasn't surprised when Ryker stood before the cell.

"Hello, Hiccup." He said, grinning maliciously. "You took our bait like a starved cat takes milk." He chuckled,

"What do you want, Ryker?" he asked, his voice raspy from his coughing and almost drowning.

"Train our dragons and we'll let you go alive." Ryker explained, not bothering to look at him as he looked at his sword, running his finger down the blade as though testing it's sharpness.

"What've you done with Toothless?" Hiccup asked, ignoring Ryker's words for the most part. If they had hurt his dragon…

"He's all nice and cozy in his cell. Oh, and if you train our dragons, I might even let you see him one last time."

Hiccup growled at Ryker. Never would he train dragons for this man. "Never." He said calmly.

Ryker's face grew grim, "Alright then, but you'll regret saying that." He took out a key and opened the door, striding into the room. He put his sword back into their scabbards on his back, and instead pulled out a small dagger. "This should only hurt a little," he laughed as he quickly brought it down, stabbing Hiccup in his right shoulder. The pain was searing hot, shooting pain all through his chest and down his right arm. Hiccup let out a shout, biting his lip to keep from screaming. He would not give Ryker that pleasure. Ryker pulled it out and stabbed again, this time in his stomach. Hiccup let out a gasp of shock, then lapsed unconscious. again.

/o\

Heather went off to grab Dagur from his perch on the rocks. Astrid and the others flew silently, the only noise being the swoosh! Of the dragon's wings. Everyone seemed down in the dumps and at a loss without Hiccup leading them.

Astrid broke the silence. "We have to go back and get him before they hurt him…or Toothless."

Fishlegs spoke up, "I think we should land on that small island we passed, which is big enough for us to make camp on and rest. We'll go after the ships tomorrow." He suggested. Astrid thought that was a good idea. They couldn't get too far away from the ships or else they'd lose them.

"That's a good idea. I think that someone should also keep following the ships, keeping an eye on them and know where they're going so we can make an attack tomorrow." Astrid turned to the twins, "You two get to follow the ships." She figured they could at least do that without goofing. They would be the least helpful during the attack.

"ahhh." Tuffnut complained. "Chickens gonna miss me."

"That dumb chickens probably happy your gone." Ruffnut replied, banging him on the helmet with her fist.

"And you two will do it with stealth, and without one single mistake." Astrid warned them, pulling out her ax.

"Of course we will. What else do you expect from the Thoroston Sneaky Sloths?" Tuff said in his best detective voice.

"You mean sleuths?" Snotlout said in a mocking voice. "Although sloths does seem to be more appropriate."

"Shut up you mutton heads." Astrid ordered. "Ruff, Tuff. Go follow those ships and stay out of sight." She watched the twins fly away, then she caught sight of the island. "Alright, guys, lets land and set up camp for the night. We have a .,kolk[ooooooragon trainer to rescue tomorrow."

/o\

Hiccup groaned as he woke up. He was still in his cell, his arms still tied behind his back. His head pounded painfully, and his whole torso was in excruciating pain. He also felt cold, sticky and wet. He opened his eyes and looked down his chest, seeing his chest and stomach wound bubbling a purple liquid. His flight suit was soaked in blood. For some reason, the first thought that came to his mind was, "Can't let my flight suit get ruined. I just finished it." Instead of "Should probably try and block the wounds from anymore blood loss."

He didn't even try to sit up. Instead he looked around with bleary eyes, trying to gather his bearings. He looked out the metal bars towards the mesh hatch. It was dark out, with only a little color in the sky. Hiccup couldn't tell if it was sunset or morning, since he didn't know how long he'd been unconscious. He leaned his head back down, breathing heavily. His lungs were struggling to bring in any air at all, and every breath sent a searing pain through his chest. Not only that but his throat burned from thirst.

Hiccup lay there, trying to just focusing on breathing, until he finally felt like he had enough strength to try and stop the bleeding. He carefully reached down to the bottom of his already bloody shirt, and pulled a piece of the thick woven cloth. It took a few more tries before it finally tore, leaving him with a strip of cloth to use as a bandage. He quickly pressed it against his stomach, gasping at how painful it was. But he knew in order to survive this he would have keep himself from losing any more blood. He loosened his pressure a bit, just because it hurt so bad, then let his hand rest over the cloth on the wound. Hiccup could feel the blood-soaked cloth seeping the sticky liquid onto his hand. But he didn't care, for he was falling into a staticky blackness once more.

/o\

"Ha! I have caught sight of the enemy." Tuffnut said lifting his finger into the air. Then he moved his hand in an arch in front of him dramatically, "Where our dear friends Hiccup and Toothless are captives. We know not if they live! Oh, the horror-"

Ruffnut punched him in the shoulder. Hard. If they hadn't been in the air she would've tackled him.

"Shut up Tuff! We want to live to see our next birthdays, right? Then we'd better not fail or Astrid will kill us."

"Yeah, she does seem rather touchy lately…" Tuff said swinging his legs dangling from Belch's neck.

"Well wouldn't you be touchy if you're best friends in danger?" Ruff said knocking her head against his head, jingling their helmets.

"Hey! He's my best friend too-" Tuff began, amazed at his usually equally ignorant and nutty sisters behavior.

"Yeah, but with Astrid it's different." Was all Ruffnut said as she began to pull back on Barf. "We can't get any closer or they'll see us."

Tuffnut also pulled back on Belch's head, slowing down to a mere flutter. The sun had already disappeared, and all was left was the semi darkness, but thankfully the lights from the ships kept them on their tail.

The twins were silent for the rest of the time. Tuff would give an occasional joke, and Ruffnut would joke back, but they soon began to doze off, although Barf and Belch continued following the ships. Soon morning was upon them, and they looked at the island the ships were heading towards. Viggo's base.

/o\

"Okay everybody, mount up! We have to hurry." Astrid shouted as the twins relayed their message. "If they're already nearing Viggo's base, we don't have much time. We cannot let them reach the island."

Everybody hurried to collect their things, then jumped onto their dragons. Snotlout and the twins- especially Tuffnut to Astrid's amazement- were actually behaving so far. Astrid jumped onto Stormfly and took off, following the twins and Barch. The sun was now just hovering of the sea level, suggesting it to be nearing eight o'clock. Astrid urged her natter to go faster, fearing what those barbarians had done to either Hiccup or Toothless. A thought suddenly struck her. What if they had killed Hiccup? What if they were too late, and he was already gone..? Astrid's shoulders shuddered as she tried to keep from sobbing. She could not imagine life without Hiccup in it. Life would be so…dull. No happiness, non of his dry sarcasm, and she also realized, no person she really cared about in a special way.

"Hurry Stormfly!" she shouted, determined to rescue Hiccup as soon as possible, and then to never let him get hurt again.