A/N: Woo-hoo! I finally posted my last chapter for Riders of Berk! I would like to give a thank you to everyone who read, followed, favourite and reviewed my stories and even patiently through all my rewrites. I hope it was worth the wait and I will continue to update whenever I can, which may not be regular due to my college work. Please read and review. And all those twilight fans reading my work, do take the time to read and review my latest fic 'Rising Sun'. I would appreciate the comments and criticisms.

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Chapter 21: We Are Family II

Previously on the Haddock Twins: Riders of Berk

It is Bork Week and Stoick gave Hicca and Hiccup notes made by Bork containing everything he learned about dragons. After finding a hidden note, the Haddock twins discovered a place called Isle of Nights, which is believed to be a home for Night Furies. The twins then set out to find the mysterious place. However, in the end, it turned out to be a trap by Alvin the Treacherous who got help from Mildew. As a last minute attempt to stop the Outcasts, Hicca managed to escape their clutches. But she is now stranded on the island, while Hiccup, Toothless and Midnight were taken to Outcast Island.

On Outcast Island, Hiccup was taken to the dragon cages with his hands tied in front of him. "Where are Toothless and Midnight, Alvin?"

Alvin and Savage were walking behind Hiccup, pushing the younger boy forward. You'll see them soon enough. I guarantee it." Alvin simply said.

"You know, I have to admit... luring me and Toothless to the Isle of Night, building a fake Night Fury... not bad." Hiccup said.

That made Alvin chuckle "Ha ha! 'Not bad...' says the one-legged boy in manacles."

"But turning Mildew into an Outcast? Using him against us? Come on, Alvin. That's low-hanging fruit... even for you." Hiccup finished.

That caused Savage to snicker, which made the Outcast chief hit the other man on the head. "No one thinks you're funny, boy. Now, keep movin'!" Alvin said, shoving Hiccup forward.

The three of them reached a Whispering Death cage, where they saw a restrained Whispering Death trying to escape by digging a hole through the ground.

"You know it's gonna keep doing that, right? It is a Whispering Death." Hiccup pointed out. They moved on to the next cage, which had a Scauldron. The water dragon was drinking some water and then spraying it at the Outcasts guard. The guard ran for cover.

"A Scauldron... impressive. You might wanna cut back its water." Hiccup advised as they continued walking.

"Oy, write that down." Alvin ordered Savage. The two men paused in front of the Scauldrons' cage. The Scauldron saw them and was about to shoot water at them, when Alvin and Savage quickly moved away.

They then came to the third cage, which seems to be empty.

"It's escaped again!" An Outcast guard exclaimed.

Hiccup then noticed something the others didn't. "Actually, no. It's right behind you." Hiccup corrected. "Changewing."

The Changewing then started shooting acid at the guards. "Aah!"

"Whoo! Wow, you guys really don't have a handle on these dragons, do you?" Hiccup commented.

"Well, that's why you're here. Welcome to your new job, Hiccup." Alvin said smirking.

"A job? Me? As inviting as that sounds, I'm gonna have to pass." Hiccup declined, though he knew it wouldn't be that easy.

"Hiccup, Hiccup, Hiccup... Why do you have to make things so difficult?" Alvin mocked.

"Really not the first time I've been asked that question." Hiccup answered. He then stopped when in front of a cage when he saw two very familiar dragons all chained up. "Toothless! Midnight!"

The two Night Furies snarled, struggling to break free from their chains. "Hang in there, you two. I'll get you both out." Hiccup promised.

"They're not going anywhere. Neither are you. Need I remind you that you're only savior is stuck on a dragon-less island?" Hiccup glared at the Outcast chief. "You will help me train these dragons."

'Don't do it, Hiccup!' Midnight said.

'We'll be fine, Hiccup! Don't worry about us!' Toothless said.

"And if I don't?" Hiccup challenged.

"Well... then they're no good to me. None of 'em! Especially yours and your sisters'." Alvin responded, before Savage brought Hiccup to his cage.

"Can I get you anything... food, a cozy blanket, some warm yak milk?" Savage offered in a mocking tone. Hiccup just glared at him, as the second in command slammed the cage door shut. "Ha ha ha! Yak milk!" Resigned to his fate, Hiccup sat in his cage and hoped that his sister was having better luck, finding a way out of the island. It was literally a desperate, last-second plan he thought of that might be able to help them escape Alvins' clutches, but it backfired when Alvin decided to leave her there. Now Hiccup could only sit there and wonder how Hicca is, and he is not happy with that.

Meanwhile, oblivious to what happened, the other teens accompanied by Gobber, Stoick and Thornado arrived on the Isle of Night.

"The Isle of Night!" Fishlegs exhaled. "Finally, the chance to see Night Furies in their natural habitat! I'm bursting at the seams!"

"Don't wet yourself. I'm right behind you." Snotlout warned.

"Gobber and I will check the North side. You kids head south. If we find anything, you'll hear it from Thornado." Stoick instructed.

They then separated.

"All right, this place is gonna be crawling with Night Furies, so let's fly low till we get a sense of where Hiccup might be and how many Night Furies there are." Astrid said.

"And be careful. Remember what Bork said about the hostile dragons." Raeda warned.

Back on Outcast Island, Hiccup was devising a way to escape when he heard some voices coming in his direction. "Alvin, I gave you what you wanted. We had a deal!" Mildew said as he was being pushed by Alvin.

"And now we have a new deal." Alvin said, before pushing Mildew in a cage opposite of Hiccup. "Oh, I believe you two know each other. Don't get too chummy. Mildew's hours are numbered, much like you and the Night Fury." The Outcast leader then took Phil, who baaed.

"Oh! No! Where are you taking Fungus?" Mildew demanded.

"I'm taking him to prepare your final meal. It's lamb." Alvin sneered as he took away the sheep.

Mildew gasped. "Fungus! No!" He exclaimed, desperately holding his hand out of the cage.

"Berkians. Still as dumb as the day I left." Alvin said as he left with the sheep.

"What have I done?" Mildew sobbed, sinking to the floor.

On the Isle of Night, Raeda spotted something. "Guys, look! A fire!" She pointed out. "It must be Hiccup and Hicca."

Astrid spotted something near the fire. "The fire's near a Night Fury." She said. The teens flew to get a closer look. Once they got a closer look, they realized something. "Uh... guys, this isn't a..."

Unfortunately, the Thorston twins didn't notice it. "Night Fury!" Tuffnut yelled, before he and Ruffnut commanded Barf and Belch to blow up the "Night Fury"

"But it's very realistic." Fishlegs noted.

"Definitely used good paints for this." Raeda commented.

"Yeah. Good thing we came along when we did." Tuffnut said proudly.

Astrid gave the blonde twins incredulous looks. "What were you thinking? If that was Toothless or Midnight, you could have killed them!"

"Actually they wouldn't because all dragons are fire-proof on the outside." Raeda pointed out.

"Yeah, well, if my chicken had horns, he'd be my yak." Tuffnut said.

"And if I were weak and girly, I'd be my brother." Ruffnut said.

"Yeah!" Tuffnut agreed, before realizing what his sister said. "Wait. What?"

Just then Thornado flew in. "We saw the Zippleback fire from the sky. Did you find something?" Stoick asked.

"We did. A fake Night Fury." Astrid reported.

"Where is it?" The Berkian chief asked.

"Uh... gone?" Fishlegs said, hesitantly "Blown to pieces, actually."

Knowing who was responsible for this, the chief glared at the two culprits who tried to look innocent.

Gobber got off Thornado and examined the remains of the fake Night Fury. "Eh. Well, what do we have here?" He then smelled the material and shuddered. He put the material in front of Fishlegs. "Smell this." He said. Fishlegs did so and gagged at the aroma. "Nasty, isn't it?"

"Oh, I wanna smell. Put it near my face." Tuffnut said eagerly.

"This false head was made of dragon skin then covered with ash from a charred Loki tree." Gobber informed the others.

"Oh no." Raeda said, her eyes widening along with Stoicks'. Both of them knew about Loki trees and knew where Gobber was going with this and began to worry.

"Loki tree? Never heard of it." Snotlout said.

"That's because it only grows in one place." Stoick said grimly.

"Outcast island." A voice called from behind the group. Startled, the group turned to see the source of the voice and saw Hicca coming out of the forest.

"Hicca!" Stoick said, running to hug his daughter.

"You're okay!" Raeda exclaimed, relieved to see one of her best friends alright.

"Where're Hiccup, Toothless and Midnight?" Astrid asked, hoping that the other three were somewhere around this island.

Hiccup held a sad expression after her hug as she turned to face everyone else. "It was a trap. The whole thing, the notes, the map, the island. There is no Isle of Night. It was a trap to lure the four of us here by ourselves right to Alvin the Treacherous. I managed to escape but Hiccup, Midnight and Toothless weren't that lucky."

Everyones' eyes widened at the revelation. "This doesn't make sense. You guys got the note from Borks' book. How in the world could an Outcast sneak into Berk, unlock the chest and slip the note in the book without anyone noticing?" Fishlegs questioned.

"They didn't, Mildew did." Hicca answered grimly. I saw Mildew on the Outcast boat before they left.

"Oh wait till I get my hands on that old man." Gobber said.

"Get in line." Raeda said, clenching her bow.

"Enough! We'll deal with that later. We need to get to Outcast Island and rescue Hiccup, Toothless and Midnight." Stoick said.

On Outcast Island, Hiccup was trying to dig a tunnel in his cage using a rock, but with no luck. "Really, this is so hard to watch." Mildew said, as he watched the boy from his cage.

Hiccup sighed in annoyance. "What now?"

"Well, I just thought Stoick raised a smarter boy than this." Mildew said. "You'll never save your dragon by sitting in this cell, digging in the dirt. You need to go get him... and soon!"

"And how would you suggest I do that?" Hiccup questioned, not trusting the old man one bit after what he did.

"By giving Alvin what he wants." Mildew answered.

Alvin and Savage were checking the cages with the new improvements Hiccup suggested on. "We reinforced the floor with cast iron." Savage reported, gesturing to the Whispering Deaths' cage, which was now built to withstand the dragons' force, making the dragon unable to dig out. "And this one only gets enough water to keep it alive." He said, referring to the Scauldron cage. Due to the minimum water, the Scauldron was unable to produce any boiling hot water to spray.

"Boy's proven useful already." Alvin commented.

"You'd be quite a sight riding into Berk on either his or his sisters' Night Fury." Savage said.

"I would, wouldn't I? I'll have to change my name." Alvin said. "What's worse than 'the Treacherous', ey?"

Meanwhile, something seemed to be wrong with Toothless and Midnight as the two Night Furies, just hung there limped. Two guards noticed this. "What's wrong with those Night Furies?" One of the guards asked.

"They won't eat or drink. Neither of them has moved in hours!" The other guard answered.

"Well, keep them alive." The first guard ordered. "If they die, we lose our leverage with the boy."

Back in his cage, Hiccup decided to set his plan in motion. "G-guard, guard! I can't take it! Please! I'll tell Alvin whatever he wants to know. Just let me out of here." Hiccup pleaded. The guard came to his cage and pulled out the keys to unlock the cage. What the guard didn't notice was that Hiccup removed his prosthetic leg and hid it behind himself. As soon as the guard opened the door, Hiccup whacked him in the head with the prosthetic using as much force as he could gather. Unfortunately that wasn't enough as the guard was only knocked backwards and looking quite angry. "That worked a little better in my mind." Hiccup admitted.

Just as the guard took one step, Mildew knocked him out cold with his staff!

Hiccup walked out of his cell, looking at Mildew with shock. "Wow. Thanks."

He was about to leave when Mildew stopped him. "Wait! Take me with you."

"You're kidding me, right?" Hiccup asked, raising his eyebrows.

"No! I know how to get around this island. I can help you, Hiccup. Please... let me make it up to you." Mildew pleaded.

After a brief internal debate, Hiccup sighed and grabbed the keys from the unconscious guard. "Don't make me regret this, Mildew." He said as he opened Mildews' cell door.

Meanwhile, the two guards were still trying to help Midnight and Toothless. "Try a cod." Guard #1 suggested. "I-is it breathing?"

"What, the fish?" Guard #2 asked dumbly.

"No, you simpleton! The dragon! Oh, never mind." Guard #1 opened the cage door and began to remove Toothless' muzzle. "Remove the other Night Fury's muzzle. We have to get them to eat. If they die... we die."

As soon as they removed the muzzles, Toothless and Midnight looked at the two guards and snarled.

"Uh-oh." Guard #1 said as he and the other guard step back, realizing that they have been tricked.

The cell was suddenly filled with plasma blast and a few moments later, Toothless and Midnight emerged from the cell and ran off.

'We need to find Hiccup quickly before someone finds us.' Toothless warbled to his mate

'I'm going to find a way out of here. I need to find the island and rescue Hicca.' Midnight warbled back.

'Okay, but be careful.' With that, the two Night Furies went their separate ways.

What neither dragons were aware of was that Hiccup and Mildew were already outside the prison. "Okay, what's the quickest way to get to Toothless and Midnight?" Hiccup asked.

"Through that lava field." Mildew answered.

"Let's go!"

"N... wait! You do realize those are wild dragons down there?" Mildew asked, rhetorically.

"Yep." Hiccup answered nonchalantly.

They went to the dragons and slowly approach a wild Nadder.

"Well, come on, then, let's go." Hiccup said, walking to the Nadder.

"Uh, let's not." Mildew said.

"I know what I'm doing, Mildew. Just stay behind me." Hiccup reassured.

"Oh, perfect. A 90-pound boy's my human shield." Mildew scoffed. "I'm not go..." He was cut off when he tripped.

He got up and they continued to approach the Nadder with caution.

Meanwhile, back in the prison, Toothless continued to sniff around for his human when he was spotted by a few more Outcast guards. "There's the Night Fury!"

But they were no match against Toothless as the Night Fury finished them off moments later.

Outside, Hiccup and Mildew came in front of the Nadder, but the old man decided to raise his staff in defense. "No, Mildew! The last thing you wanna do is threaten him." Hiccup warned.

"Me? Threaten him?" Mildew asked, dubiously.

"W-we have to show him he can trust us." Hiccup said. He then turned to the Nadder and made his way to the tail. He then smoothed it out. "It's okay. We're not here to hurt you. That's it, fella."

"Very impressive." Mildew admitted when he saw the Nadder calming down. The Nadder then spotted the old man and went to sniff him in curiosity, much to Mildews' dismay.

"He's just getting to know you. They can sense fear, so be relaxed." Hiccup advised.

"This is relaxed." Mildew said in a strained voice, as he clutched onto his staff.

"See? He wants to be friends. Isn't that nice?" Hiccup said.

"Got plenty of friends." Mildew mumbled.

"We're gonna need a way to get past all those guards at the dragon pit. I think we just found it." Hiccup explained.

The Deadly Nadder then started licking Mildew. "Eech!"

Meanwhile, the rest of the dragon riders, Stoick and Gobber were making their way to Outcast Island. "What's the plan?" Astrid asked the chief.

"Alvin knows we'll be coming in from the sky. We have to find another way onto Outcast island." Stoick answered.

"Then we get Hiccup and our dragons and we ambush Alvin with everything we've got." Hicca said with determination as she rode with Raeda on Sparkfire.

"I like that plan a lot." Tuffnut said.

Gobber looked down at the sea and spotted a very familiar ship. "Stoick." He said, pointing to the ship.

Stoick saw the ship. "Is that..."

"I think it is." Gobber answered.

The group then flew towards the ship, with a plan in mind.

In the Outcast prison, Toothless kept sniffing around for Hiccup.

'Please be okay, Hiccup. Please.' He said to himself.

He was then interrupted by another Outcast guard, who was rather amazed at seeing a Night Fury for the first time. "A Night Fury... with my own eyes."

'Idiot!' Toothless snorted. He then roared loudly at the guard.

"Oh!" The guard muttered, realizing what was going to happen next.

BLAST!

A few minutes later, the Outcast gathered excitedly outside at their docks as they waited for a ship to arrive.

The ship arrived and Trader Johann came out to greet the Outcasts. "Ah, Outcast! My favorite of all the islands I travel to!" He said, as he set the plank. The Outcasts then boarded the ship looking around. "That's right. Look around. I have weapons of every imaginable description." He then made his way towards the hatch that led to the lower deck of the ship. "And a little something special for my friend Alvin."

He then opened the hatched, and out came the dragon riders and Stoick and Gobber, charging right at the surprised Outcasts.

Stoick punched an Outcast through a shield, Gobber knocked out an outcast Astrid and Raeda faced off against two Outcasts and won, Snotlout swung an anchor against a few of the Outcasts, Hicca tripped an Outcast and pushed him overboard and Ruffnut and Tuffnut surprised another Outcast by falling on him from above.

"Whoa! That was a lot better than just punching them." Tuffnut said to his twin, who nodded in agreement.

Fishlegs surprised everyone when charged at an Outcast, screaming at the top of his voice. Remember this side of Fishlegs, Snotlout quickly stepped away from the Ingerman boy as he flipped an Outcast overboard "That felt really good." Fishlegs said. "Is that wrong?" He asked, turning to Astrid, Raeda and Ruffnut who were looking very impressed.

Stoick grabbed the remaining Outcast still on board and held him up. "Now, where're my boy and my childrens' dragons?" He demanded.

They were interrupted by a roar in the distance. Hicca recognized the roar anywhere and ran out of the ship and to the docks towards the source. "Midnight!" She exclaimed, hugging her dragon. "Oh, Midnight! I am so glad you're okay! I was so worried!"

The others followed her after Stoick threw the last Outcast overboard. "Hiccup and Toothless aren't with her." Fishlegs noted.

"Midnight, do you know where they are?" Hicca asked. The female Night Fury nodded. "Great, take us to them."

Meanwhile, Hiccup was giving Mildew tips on taming a wild dragon. "Remember, dragon training begins and ends with trust... both of yours." He explained as he climbed on the Nadder. "Now, climb on."

Mildew reluctantly got on, grumbling on the way. "That's a good boy. Nice dragon."

"Wow. Uh, Mildew on a dragon. This is gonna take some getting used to." Hiccup muttered.

The Nadder then began shifting its' weight. "Eh, why's it doing that? What's happening?" Mildew demanded.

"It's okay, it's okay! He's just never had people on him before." Hiccup said. He then spit in his hands and rub the Nadders' scales. "A dragon's hide is dry. The moisture from your hands will soothe him." As if to prove his point, the Nadder squawked in delight.

Mildew did the same, causing the dragon to coo.

The Nadder then took off, much to Mildews' fright as the old man grabbed onto Hiccup.

"Uh, you know there's a lot of dragon here, Mildew. W-why don't you grab some of that?" Hiccup suggested, not liking the tight grip.

"Huh? Oh, fine. I'm fine." Mildew insisted. They flew through the lava pit and back to the place where Hiccup last saw Toothless and Midnight. However, when they arrived at the cell, they found it missing. "Toothless and Midnight are gone."

"Ah! Alvin must have moved him." Mildew suggested. They then flew through the pathway leading to the other cages and suddenly the cages holding the Scauldron and the Changewing opened, setting free two very angry dragons. Shocked Mildew and Hiccup looked up and saw Alvin standing at a safe height away from them.

"Let's see what you can do with some real wild dragons, Hiccup." He said as he pulled another lever to release the Whispering Death.

Now surrounded by three angry dragons, Hiccups' brain worked fast to come up with a plan. He suddenly got one. "Mildew, whatever happens in the next minute, do exactly what I tell you." He instructed.

"Why?" Mildew questioned, but changed his mind when the Changewing shot acid near him. "Uh, I'm all ears."

They then flew on the Deadly Nadder around the area to avoid getting bitten by the Whispering Death, the acid from the Changewing and the boiling hot water from the Scauldron. Alvin was watching all this in amusement from a safe distance. The Whispering Death then dove underground.

"At least that one's gone." Mildew said, slightly relieved.

"Well, uh, not for long, actually." Hiccup said. Changewings shoot acid. Scauldrons fire boiling water. And Whispering Deaths hunt from underground."

The Nadder then began to run and was chased by the Scauldron and the Changewing. "Aah! Have you lost your mind?" Mildew yelled as he hung on to Hiccup for dear life. Just then, the Whispering Death decided to emerge from underground, just inches behind Hiccup, Mildew and the Nadder, resulting in it colliding with the Scauldron and Changewing.

This gave the trio a perfect opportunity to escape, much to the irritation of the Outcast chief who watched them leave. They got out and landed at a safe distance from the prison

"You know your dragons. I'll give you that." Mildew admitted.

"Hiccup!" A very familiar voice yelled. Hiccup turned to the source and found his sister and Midnight flying towards them. And she wasn't alone. The rest of the dragon riders, their dragons, Stoick, Gobber and Thornado were with them.

"Hicca!" Hiccup yelled back, relieved to see that Hicca was here and not stranded on the island and the Midnight was okay.

As soon as the group landed, Hicca leapt straight into her brothers' arms. "Oh, I am so glad you're okay! I should not have left you three back at that island." Hicca said.

"Don't say that, sis. I told you to do that for a reason. It made me feel a bit better knowing you weren't captured with us." Hiccup said.

"Oh, thank Thor you're all right." Stoick said to Hiccup as he walked to his children

"I am, but I don't know if I can say the same for Toothless." Hiccup said.

"And Mildew is on the back of your dragon." Tuffnut pointed out.

"I know." Hiccup said.

"Weird." Tuffnut commented.

"How in the world did that happen?" Hicca asked, surprised but what she was seeing, but still mad at Mildew for luring them into the trap.

Gobber suddenly yanked Mildew off the Nadder by his tunic with his good hand and held the old man high up. "I should run you through right now." Gobber exclaimed, raising his prosthetic hammer.

To everyones' surprise, it was Hiccup who stopped his mentor. "No, no, no, Gobber! Gobber, no! He helped me escape. Dad, I owe Mildew my life."

That surprised everyone even more. "Getting weirder." Tuffnut commented.

"I'd never thought I'd hear this coming from you." Raeda said. "You definitely need to tell us what happened."

"I will." Hiccup promised. "Right now, I have to get to Toothless."

An idea then came to Hicca. "What if you don't have to go to Toothless?"

Astrid caught on. "You could bring him to you."

Understanding what the two girls were saying, Hiccup went to the edge of a nearby cliff, cupped his hands near his mouth and gave out a Night Fury call. A few seconds later, they heard another Night Fury call. Immediately, all the humans got on their dragons and flew to where the dragon roar came from.

Hiccup finally spotted his dragon. "There he is!" He exclaimed, pointing with a bug smile on his face. They landed and Hiccup ran off to his dragon.

"Toothle-" Hiccup was cut off when the male Night Fury tackled him and started licking him. Hiccup just chuckled. "Are you okay, bud?" Toothless nodded. "Oh, I am so sorry, Toothless. This was all my fault."

"You're not the only one to be blamed here, bro. Finding the 'Isle of Nights' and going there by ourselves was a mutual agreement." Hicca said as she and Midnight joined the guys.

Suddenly, Toothless started growling as he saw something in the distance. Midnight did the same, much to the Haddock twins confusion. "Whoa. What's the matter, bud?"

"What's wrong, girl?" Hicca asked Midnight.

"Hey there! Boy!" A voice they detested yelled. Hiccup, Hicca and the others turned to see Alvin on a cliff ledge.

"You weren't gonna leave before we finished our business, were you? That's what I would expect from one of Stoick's little runt." Alvin mocked.

Hiccup took a deep breath, trying to remain calm. He knew that Alvin was trying to bait him. Unfortunately Hicca didn't think of that as she glared at the Outcast chief. No one talks to her brother like that!

She then got on Midnight. Hiccup noticed what his sister was doing and started to panic. "Hicca, don't!"

But Hicca didn't listen to her brother as she and Midnight flew off to teach Alvin a lesson.

"Hicca, no! We got what we came for!" Stoick yell pleadingly as he watched his daughter fly into what he knew was a trap. After all, Alvin wasn't dumb enough to confront his enemies alone, especially when said enemies rode dragons.

"Do it, boy. I'm right here!" Alvin invited with his arms stretched wide and a sinister chuckle. As soon as Hicca and Midnight were at a good distance, Alvin gave a signal. "Now!"

The out of nowhere, a bola was shot at them, knocking them to the ground and binding them together, to the horror of their friends and family. Toothless roared as he saw his mate tied up.

"Hicca!" Hiccup cried as he watched the Outcast soldiers run to get his sister and her dragon.

"Dragons, everybody." Astrid ordered. They turned to their dragons, only to find them missing! Even Toothless wasn't with them.

"Uh, would love to, but as you can see..." Tuffnut trailed off.

"Trusting dragons. This is what it gets you." Mildew complained.

Raeda got annoyed at the old man. "Mildew, if you could just stop complaining about just once-"

She got interrupted by Astrid. "Wait. Look!"

The humans looked up and saw their dragons flying towards Hicca and Midnight (except for Toothless who was running on foot). Toothless and Hookfang fired at the Outcasts to keep them from getting any closer. Barf and Belch sparked up a fire wall to protect Midnight and Hicca from the Outcasts.

"Yeah, we taught him that!" Tuffnut exclaimed proudly. He then turned to his sister. "We didn't teach them that, did we?" Ruffnut just shrugged. "I didn't think so."

Meatlug, Sparkfire, Toothless and Thornado continued to fire at the Outcasts to keep them back, while Stormfly and Hookfang swooped in and carried Hicca and Midnight away from there and back to the group.

Immediately after the two dragons set down the bounded girls, Snotlout and Gobber cut them free form their binds.

"Never do that again, sis." Hiccup said, coming to his sister.

"Trust me, I won't" Hicca said. She then looked at the returning dragons in amazement. "What happened? "

"The dragons saved you on their own." Fishlegs answered, also amazed.

"It's the first time that happened." Raeda noted.

"Looks like they took their training to a whole new level." Astrid commented.

"We can catch up later. Right now, we need to get out of here." Stoick urged as he saw more Outcasts charging after them. Everyone got on their own dragons while Gobber and Mildew got on the Nadder. With a sonic blast from Thornado to clear the path, the Berkians were able to make their escape.

Unfortunately, Mildew was hanging on to the tip of the Nadders tail.

"Mildew!" Hiccup shouted, alerting Gobber.

The dragon dentist turned to see the old man "Ah, for the love of Thor. Mildew, get back up here." Gobber tried to pull the old man up, but it was no good. "Don't you let go, old man."

But Mildew held a sad expression. "Tell the boy and girl I'm sorry." He said before he let go.

"Mildew!" Hiccup yelled. If it wasn't for Mildew, Hiccup would still be stuck in that cell. Hiccup couldn't just leave him to find off the Outcasts by himself.

"Go, Hiccup. You have to leave me." Mildew insisted as the Outcasts surrounded him.

"He's right, son. We can't help him now." Stoick said.

"We can come back for him later." Hicca suggested.

Reluctantly, Hiccup pulled Toothless out of there before the two of them got captured and the group headed back to Berk.

The Outcasts captured Mildew and brought him to Alvin. "Well, well." Alvin said as he and Mildew came face to face.

Mildews' worried expression suddenly turned into a smirk. "Not bad, eh?"

"Not bad at all." Alvin commented. "Now, tell me, Mildew. What did you learn from Stoick's boy about training dragons?"

"Oh, I learned plenty, Alvin. You're going to be very pleased." Mildew said, revealing that his double cross to Alvin was actually a trick to get Hiccup to teach him about earning dragons' trust!

There was a baa sound. "Why, there you are, Fungus." Mildew said to his sheep, which was revealed to be alright the entire time. You played your part well."

"You both did, Mildew. Tomorrow is a new day for the Outcasts." Alvin announced, earning cheers from the Outcasts.

Later, unaware that they had been duped by Alvin and Mildew, the Berkians made it back home.

In the Haddock Household, Hiccup and Hicca were getting rid of the fake notes on the Isle of Night. "We're sorry this map wasn't the real thing, guys." Hiccup said to Toothless and Midnight. "But, hey, there's nothing wrong with being one of the few of your kind, right?"

Midnight and Toothless warbled, but they sounded kind of sad.

Hicca understood why. "Are you guys upset because you two didn't find your kids there?"

The two Night Furies nodded.

"Don't worry you two. Hicca and I haven't given up on finding your kids, so neither should you two." Hiccup said.

"We will find them one day. After all, we did other impossible things these past few months." Hicca added.

The door opened and Astrid rushed in. "Would you guys come on?" Hiccup and Hicca looked at the blonde girl in confusion "Bork week? The parade?" She reminded them.

Realization came to them as they ran out with their dragons and Astrid

A family isn't just something you're born into. It's also the friends who stood with you. The ones who fought by your side.

The eight dragon riders were high in the sky with their dragons, pumped and ready to perform their first ever air show while the villager cheered them on from below.

You know that you'll be there for them, and they'll be there for you, for the battles that are yet to come.

What they didn't know that while they were happily enjoying the rest of Bork week, Alvin and Mildew decided to test Mildews' new found knowledge on earning dragons' trust on the Whispering Death. Alvin slowly and carefully placed his hand on the snout, indicating a bond formed. Alvin and Mildew then shared a sinister laugh, ready for an invasion on a certain island.