a/N Hey sorry guys this seriously should have been up yesterday but I got out of the writing groove chase all the songs I've been listening to well I write this got boring so I was sad. :) Before you read this make sure you read ROB or at least epi. 13 or some of this will make no sense. ;)
Disclaimer: I only own Haedryin!
The cave was dark and torches are lighting it. I watch from far away next to Toothless and the other riders as Fishlegs was, "Interrogated."
"Tell us what you know about the dragons, girl. Tell us how you train them." Tuffnut says, I was quite impressed with his impression of an Outcast honestly. I would mistake him for one.
"I won't talk!" Fishlegs shouts, struggling against the ropes she was tied up in, "You can't make me!" She adds.
"Oh, I think we can." Tuffnut says and looking up from the paper he was reading his lines from and gives me a thumbs up. I lift up my hands and one by one freeze the torches until the cave was engulfed in blackness. I watch Fishlegs from where her form was dimly lit in the cave.
"Hello?" She whimpers, "Is anybody there?" She asks and Ruffnut starts to raise her hand but I whack it down and she looks at me and shrugs, "You-you can't leave me here!" Fishlegs says before she takes in panicking breaths.
"Okay! Okay! Haedryin is the leader of the Berk Dragon Academy, she has magic ice and lighting powers and rides a Night Fury named Toothless! And then there's Asher! He's mean-but in a nice way, his dragon is a Deadly Nadder shoots spines loves chicken, Snotlout rides a Monstrous Nightmare-we're not actually sure who's more more Monstrous her-or the dragon. And then there's the twins, they share a Zippleback-Actually they fight over it." Fishlegs spits out. I nod to Toothless and he fires a plasma blast blowing off the frozen fire and relighting the torches.
"Well I don't think you missed anything." I say dryly and Fishlegs looks at us as everyone but me holds up torches and gives her long stares.
"Guys! You know I hate the dark!" Fishlegs shouts and Tuffnut lifts up his torch and stares at the girl.
"Great job Fishlegs." Tuffnut says sarcastically, "More like guppy-legs, oh geeze." He adds looking back at Ruffnut who nods.
I stare at the girl, "Fishlegs! You can't cave in! Alvin will do a lot more than turn out the light to get you to talk!" I promise thinking back to my own experience on Outcast island,that I had just returned from, yesterday. Fishlegs looks at me, "He had me locked in a dunged ready to be executed!" I add and bite down on my lip as I look around me at the other riders. I haven't really told them about my experience on Outcast Island, and none of them knew that, when no one reacts I look at Toothless, "Toothless was chained and muzzled for days!" I exclaim.
I look at him and spin the snowflakes in my hand, "You need to stick with what we discussed, your name, where you live, and nothing else." I finish and she looks at me.
"Alright! I'll work on it!" Fishlegs agrees and I point out a hand and fire a lightning bolt from it and it hits Fishlegs' rope and the disintegrate to pieces.
"Mean? I'm not mean." Asher says and huffs angrily before turning around to walk out of the cave.
"It's okay Asher, I like mean boys." Snotlout assures as Asher gives a sound of disgust.
….
"Grounded?" I repeat looking up at my dad from where I was following him along the docks, "All of the dragons are you serious?!" I demand looking at his back.
"Deadly serious" Dad answers, "From this point forward, there is a ban on flying. Period." Dad adds and I look at him my jaw falling open slightly I clamp it closed and look at him.
"What about patrolling? Training?" I ask looking at him.
"What part on ban on flying did you not understand, Haedryin?" Dad asks looking back at me. I shake my head and snort.
"Oh, nothing I understood it perfectly-but that's ridiculous!" I exclaim.
"I want that wall higher!" Dad shouts and looks at the wall several Vikings we're working on.
"Ay sir!" The Vikings call. Dad turns back to me.
"Are you calling your father, "ridiculous"?" Dad asks me. I fold my arms across my chest.
"No, no, don't worry, my father's right in the head. It's my chief I'm worried about." I say and he looks down at me.
"Careful Iyn." Dad says and looks at Toothless, "You to, dragon." He adds before walking off. "Put your backs into it boys!" Dad shouts up at the Vikings building the walls and I trail after him.
"Dad Alvin has his own dragons, Changewings, Scauldrons, Whispering Deaths! I saw them with my own eyes." I say and he looks back at me.
" you were kidnapped and locked up in an Outcast prison." Dad says before turning around again. I bite down on my lips what was it going to take before he took of the ban?
"He's also read the Book of Dragons...half of it and seen Asher train a Monstrous Nightmare, and he still has Mildew who I doubt will hold up under questioning." I say and walk up in front of him.
"Haedryin-" Dad starts.
"If Alvin learns to how to train his dragons and attacks with them, our only chance is to fight back with ours." I say and dad puts his hands on my shoulders his fingers twitching.
"I understand that." He assures and I look up at him, "But I'm not going to risk your life or the lives of your dragons riders." He says and pulls his hands away and looks at me, "This is my final word." He says and I sigh as I turn back to Toothless to tell the other riders.
….
"And you agreed!? Just like that?" Asher asks looking at me angrily.
"What other choice did I have?" I ask and look at him, "He's the chief, who also happens to be my incredibly overprotective father." I say and Asher looks at me.
"Well we have to get him to change his mind!" He exclaims and Fishlegs looks at Asher.
"Um….Stoick the Vast? Yeah, good luck with that." Fishlegs says and Asher shoots him an angry look.
"So what am I supposed to do with Hookfang if he can't fly?" Snotlout demands and we all look at her, "Do you know what happens when his inner warrior is caged up?" She asks and I shake my head.
"Nope. No clue." I say and Hookfang lifts up his flaming tail and whacks Snotlout across the back and she flies across the Academy landing at Asher's feet and Asher puts out a foot on her face to stop her from going any further.
"That, it's what happens!" Snotlout says still under Asher's foot.
"We should have cadged his inner warrior a long time ago! That was awesome." Tuffnut says and Ruffnut gives a nod of the affirmative. I bite down on my lip and look at the riders.
"Look, I know this is going to be hard, but I'll keep working on my dad and hopefully he changes his mind." I say and Asher looks at me.
"And what if he doesn't?" He asks and I sigh and my shoulders slump.
…
Later me and Asher walk along the docks as the sun sets, "Wow, I forgot what a long walk it was from the Academy." Asher says and I huff through my nose at the obicouses hint, "Sure would be nice to be flying home." Asher adds.
I give him an irritated breath, "Thank you, Asher for that observation." I say and Asher smirks and I add, "Because I really don't have enough on my plate right now." Toothless comes up to us and jumps around me rubbing against me as he stares out at the sun. I put a hand on his head and he stops.
"Whats up with him?" Asher asks.
I sigh and look at the sun, "It's sunset, we always take a lap around the island at this time, he loves it." I explain and Toothless walks over to the hill and sits down waiting for us to take off but I know we won't and I bite down on my lip so hard it bleeds.
"Poor Toothless." Asher says and I look at him, "No family, no night flying, what's left for him really?" Asher asks and I give him a sharp glare and lift up my hand and snap my fingers and a small storm cloud appears over his head and Asher dodges a lighting bolt.
"Okay, you know what? I think I take that all back." Asher says as he leans back from the lighting. I give him deadpan look and fold my arms across my chest waiting for "I'm sorry." He looks at me and thunder crackles through the air over his head and it starts to snow over him.
"Okay! Iyn! You win! I'm sorry." Asher says and I walk forward and wave a hand through the cloud and it disappears. Asher looks at me and folds his arms across his chest, "Okay, how about I just leave you to alone." Asher says.
I play with my hair and nod, "Yeah, that's probably a good idea." I agree.
….
I shove the knife down into the wood and carve another latch into it when a tail hits me in the face. I gasp and pull back and look at Toothless who gives me an irritated look.
"What?" I ask looking back at him knife still in hand. He looks out at the sky and I turn back to the shield knowing Toothless will manage to convince me to go flying when I was trying really, really hard to follow my dads rule.
Toothless nudges my back and I jerk forward and look back at him and he smirks, "Toothless you have to relax." I command and point out of the forge, he moves a little before he sits and roars at me. I shake my head softly at the dragon before making a lay down motion with my hands and Toothless lays down where he was and puts his tail in front of his face angrily. I sigh and pick up the ice edges around the shield and pull it closer to me.
"Nice to have you back in the shop, Iyn." Gobber says holding a sword as he walks into the forge, "Usually you and Toothless are out enjoying a beautiful evening flight around this time, of course you can't do that anymore with the ban on flying and all." Gobber says and I shoot him a glare and he lifts up his hands in surrender and smiles sheepishly.
"Shame about that. So what are we making?" Gobber asks. I pick up the shield holding the frozen edges.
"What do you think?" I ask and Gobber stares at it.
"All this work for a shield?" He ask and I grin.
"It's not just a shield." I say and pull on a trigger and a ice rope flies out of the center and wraps itself around Gobber. There was an awkward silence for a second and Gobber looks down at me.
"Handy." He says and I pull the latch back and the shield's rope recoils into the shield.
"Don't see what all the fuss is about, you can just magic everyone away." Gobber says and I shrug before nodding.
"Yes, but I really don't like freezing people or zapping them with lighting." I explain and turn away from him picking up the knife again in my gloved hands.
"If we can't ride dragons we have to defend ourselves somehow." I say and shove the blade into the wood again.
"You know, Haedryin, you're father is just doing what's best for you. He's trying to keep you safe." Gobber says and I look back at him running my gloved hands along the wood.
"I know." I say and my shoulders slump, "But the problem is, the safest place for me is either in a magical ice palace or on Toothless." I say and look at Gobber, Toothless shifts at this.
"Well I'll leave you to it." Gobber says and I shove the knife into the wood trying to find another place for a hatch, "I imagine you'll probably be here quite a while, to bad really, have you seen that moon, I can't imagine a more beautiful night for a flight." Gobber says and I slam the shield down onto the desk and look at him.
"Are you trying to get me to break the ban?" I ask and Gobber blinks.
"No, not on my to-do list." He assures and I let out a frustrated breath and look at him and he smiles sheepishly. Gobber turns and walks away from me and I look forward again and let out a startled gasp shoving my foot onto the ground as Toothless' face appears next to mine.
He flicks an ear innocently and I shake my head looking at him with a sigh, "I know what you're thinking and you might as well forget it." I say, and Toothless lifts his head up up to the sky with big eyes where the moon was shining down merrily.
I bite down on my lip before I let out a breath and put the shield down and pull of the gloves I'd been wearing as protection against the heat. I then grab my flight vest from off the floor and glance around making sure there were no people around before I pull up the vest and pull the straps over my chest and click them into place the X across my chest with the purple snowflake in the middle I look at Toothless.
"I don't know how you manage to get me to do this." I say and walk out of the forge waving a hand and freezing the candles I hand been using. "If we get caught, I am blaming you for being locked in the house for a few days." I say and Toothless rolls his eyes before I jump onto his back and he takes off into the air.
We fly forward for a little Toothless' wings echoing in the wind before I see Asher behind us. I lead Toothless forward and click the tailfin and he zooms past him several times. Toothless flies through the sea stacks and I look down at the raging ocean before I lead Toothless over to a arch and he lands.
"That was a close one." I say and look around me for the boy that was not here.
"Nice flying, bud. I think we lost him." I say and pat Toothless' head.
"Think again." Asher says behind me and Stormfly flies into view, "Your highness." Asher adds and I bite my lip before looking at him.
"Asher, we we're just talking about you." I say and look at him as Stormfly lands on the same small cliff.
Asher looks at me, "So I guess this is the part where I ask you if you're father changed his mind and you tell me he didn't and you're going behind his back." Asher says and I open my mouth to respond, "Again." Asher adds.
"Actually no, this is the part where I tell you my dad is wrong." I say looking at him and Asher blinks.
"So he knows?" Asher asks. I wince.
"I didn't say those words exactly." I say and look back at Asher trying to get him to agree with me that banning flight was stupid, "Look you we're there on Outcast Island just like I was. You know what Alvin is capable of." I say look up at him.
"So you we're just going to fly around at night by yourself and say nothing?" Asher asks looking at me and I bite down on my lip. Yes, that is my plan.
"Well, that was my plan." I say looking at him,"Little less my plan now." I add. Asher raises an eyebrow and I bite down on my lip before I point a hand out at the village, "I didn't want to get anyone into trouble, I was trying to do the right thing…..sort of." I say and look down at the snowflake on my chest.
"We both know what the right thing is, your highness." Asher says and I lift my head to look up at him, "But if we're gonna ride dragons behind your father's back, we all need to ride dragons behind your father's back." Asher says and I jerk up my head.
"You're right." I agree and he looks at me with a questioning glance. "I'll tell you tomorrow, right now, I'm working on something in the forge." I say and he nods and I click the tailfin and Toothless takes off and we land next to the forge a few minutes later. I toss the flight vest to the side and pick up the shield when I see Thornado's saddle laying over a desk ready to be updated.
Why would he need an update when there was a ban on flying? I glance around for Gobber before I walk forward and lift up a small list that Gobber had written next to it and shrug, why not? The shield could wait.
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"Dragon Flight Club, I like that!" Snotlout say as we explain the idea to her the next morning she looks at Hookfang, "What is it?" She asks.
Asher looks at her, "It's a secret dragon flying society. We train at night, under the cover of darkness." Asher explains and I walk forward looking at the girl.
"Sharpening our skills in case of possible dragon attacks by Alvin." I add and Snotlout slowly nods her head. Asher looks at her.
"But remember it's a secret, nobody can know." Asher says and I glance to the left for a second.
"Uh, Asher...Isn't that was a secret is?" I ask and Asher lifts up a hand before he nods slowly. I look at Snotlout, "As far as you're concerned it doesn't even exist." I add and she nods her head before Asher looks at me and I look at Snotlout.
"There is no Dragon Flight Club." I say and she looks at Hookfang.
"Hey, what do you think?" She ask and Hookfang looks down at his rider before he fires at her feet and she flies several feet away into a cart. Me and Asher look at cart as the dust clears and Snotlout lifts up a hand in a thumbs up.
"He's in!"
….
"So listen, this is very, very important." I say looking up at the twins as they hang from a rafter looking at us, "The first rule of Dragon Flight Club is that there is no Dragon Flight Club." I say and they give me confused looks.
"Okay, so wait a minute." Tuffnut says and jumps down onto the ground and looks at me and Asher, "Is there a Dragon Flight Club?" He asks and Asher smiles.
"Yes." He says and Ruffnut jumps down from the rafters landing in front of me, "There is a Dragon Flight Club." Ruffnut looks at him.
"But she just said there is no Dragon Flight Club." Ruffnut says and points at me.
"No," I correct and look at both of them, "The first rule of Dragon Flight Club is that there is no Dragon Flight Club." I say and look at both of them. "Get it?" I ask and Tuffnut gives me a slow nod.
"Absolutely." He say and then looks at Ruffnut, "Not." He adds and Ruffnut lifts a hand up to her head.
"Yeah, I think I need to lay down." Ruffnut says and turns around, as Tuffnut looks at us.
"Me too. Why don't you come back later when you've made up your mind." Tuffnuts says and they both walk over to their room as Tuffnut calls back to us,"When you've stopped saying, "Is" So much." He adds and me and Asher share a confused look.
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"Um, I'm not sure this is a good idea." Fishlegs says and I look at her from where I was sitting in the window seal of Meatlugs stable. Asher was in front of me his arms folded across his chest. "Besides I hate having to wake her." Fishlegs says and rubs her hand along Meatlugs scales."She's so beautiful when she sleeps." She adds as Meatlug farts.
Fishlegs hugs her anyway and I jump down from the window and walk over to her.
"Fishlegs, this is a defining moment in the history of the Berk Dragon Training Academy. Hundreds of years from now, when there building statues of us in the middle of town they're going to hearken back to the courage it took for all of us to stand up from what we know is right, regardless of the consequences." I say and look back at her.
Fishlegs runs her fingers together, "So...I get a statue?!" She asks excited. I look at her and sigh, was that really all she got out of that?
"Yes, Fishlegs, you get a statue." I say and lift up a hand to her and her face breaks into a wide smile.
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In the Academy later that night at sunset I walk in front of the other riders, "Okay Dragon Flight Club members. You know why you're here." I say and Tuffnut huffs.
"Speak for yourself." Tuffnut says and I give him an irritated glance before I continue.
"We need to be ready for riders on any type of dragon. From a Typhoomerang, Scauldron, to a Changewing, even a Whispering Death." I say and force a happy smile on my face, "So, I've put together some training exercises." I say and Snotlout rolls her eyes and leans against Hookfang.
"Bla, bla bla, can we go already?" Snotlout asks looking at me with an annoyed expression as Hookfang roars impatiently.
"Let's mount up." I agree and climb onto Toothless' back, "First stop-"
"-Changewing Island." I say later as we fly over said island, it was clouded by mist and Tuffnut looks at it a wide smile breaking across his face.
"Oh yeah! Stones of good fortune!" He says and I shoot him a glare but he continues anyway, "I can't wait to get my hands on one of those!" Tuffnut finishes as Asher flies next to them.
"Tuffnut, we've been over this, those are not stones of good fortune, those are dragon eggs." Asher says and Stormfly dives down as Fishlegs and Meatlug fly in where she was.
"And leave them alone! Please I really don't want to visit the Changewing debacle." Fishlegs pleads with the twins.
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Later on the island were hidden as we watch wild boars get attacked by Changewings. I watch as the Changewing's scare a single boar away from the pact.
"Changewing's hunt like wolves." I explain, looking down from the tree, "One Changewing lures a single boar from the herd." I say and Toothless stares down at the dragons watching the boar with interest.
"Then the other Changewings surround it." Fishlegs adds and the twins perk up looking down at the boar.
"Hey don't we know that boar?" Tuffnut asks his sister and Ruffnut stares down at it for a second and I look at them, how would the boar they know get transported to Changewing Island?
"Yeah we do!" Ruffnut says and looks at her brother with disbelief, "how could you forget, that's Bjorn Boar." She says and Tuffnut's face breaks into a scowl as he stares down at the Changewings.
"Are they serious?" Asher asks and I shake my head.
"Apparently." I say and Tuffnut points a finger out at the Changewings.
"You leave Bjorn alone!" Tuffnut shouts and the Changewings looks up at us and shake his hands, "You're on you're own Bjorn!" He shouts and I duck as acid is fired over my head. Toothless jumps from the tree and into the air the other riders following after us I shoot out a hand and freeze some of the green acid before it can hit a tree that would have smashed the twins.
"Keep your distance! The acid is only effective at close range!" I shout looking back at the Changewings and Fishlegs looks at me with a unhappy face.
"Not very comforting when you're riding the slowest dragon!" She shouts and I look back at her my long bangs blowing into my face,"I'm sorry girl, it had to be said." Fishlegs adds and looks down at her dragon sadly.
"I'd imagine so!" I say sarcastically and Snotlout looks around at the acid flying by her.
"There's to many of them and they come out of nowhere!" Snotlout yells. I look back at the Changewings and realize that she was right, there we're too many for us when they had cover.
"If they don't have anything to camouflage against-" I start and Fishlegs finishes my sentence.
"It will take away their advance!" She says and I nod and look up through an opening in the trees as Asher pulls Stormfly up.
"Up! UP!" He shouts and we all follow him. Stormfly spins before she fires a row of spikes at the Changewings. Me and Toothless follow him and a second later I hold out a hand to zap the Changewings well Toothless fires a plasma blast and the Changewings retreat.
"What did I say about the Changewing debacle!?" Fishlegs says her voice panicky, "Was no one listening?" She demands and I take in a deep breath as Toothless flies forward to catch up with the other riders.
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Stoick walks to the forge and sees Gobber inside trying to figure out Haedryin's shield. Gobber lifts up the shield and pokes his hook at it, "Now where did she hide it? Where is the trigger for that-" Gobber starts and is startled as Stoick walks into the forge and fires the same trigger he had been looking for.
The ice rope wraps around Stoick and both Gobber and Stoick are smashed together. Gobber looks over at Stoick from the side of the anvil he was on and they hold and awkward stare.
"Uh, huh, so I'll just unwind that and hopefully no one is looking." Gobber says and pulls back on the trigger and the ice rope retracts back into the shield. Gobber looks at Stoick, "So what can I do you for?" He asks, both Vikings pretending that the last ten seconds never happened.
"I came for my saddle. Did you make the adjustments I asked for?" Stoick asks. Gobber shrugs.
"Nah, you're daughter was heartbroken about the flight ban and was in here all last night. Completed everything I needed to do." Gobber says and looks up at Stoick, "That's why I was playing with her shield." He adds.
"So did the adjustments get done?" Stoick asks.
"Yup. It's done and back on Thornado," Gobber says and looks at Stoick, "What I had planned and Haedryin was probably went over but it should do wonders for your maneuverability." Gobber says and Stoick nods.
"Good." He agrees.
"Of course that shouldn't matter with the ban on flying and all." Gobber says and looks at Stoick.
"And what ban would that be, Gobber?" Stoick asks looking at his friend. Gobber gives his chief a bewildered look.
"Stoick the ban, on flying dragons! The one where no one is allowed to- Ahhh, I see." Gobber says and then whispers to Stoick, "The ban where no one is allowed to fly dragons except the chief."
"Someone's got to patrol the island, might as well be me." Stoick says to Gobber and Gobber nods his head.
"Uh huh." Gobber agrees.
"And not a word to anyone." Stoick commands and then says firmly, "Especially Iyn. I mean it, I'll be dodging lightning bolts for a week!" Stoick says and Gobber waves his hand.
"Stoick, I'm nothing if but care-" Gobber begins to say and jumps when he's whacked in the chin by a small catapult that he's set off. He shakes his head slightly, "Catapult. Should have seen that one coming." Gobber adds and Stoick gives him a disbelieving look before he leaves the forge.
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"Much like the roots inside of a tree, the scorch mark can tell you the size and then the age of the Typhoomerang in question." Fishlegs explains to us the next night on a island. I touch the mark and pull my hand hissing through my teeth.
"It's still warm." I say as all the riders look up at me with confused faces.
"Which means it wasn't hear to long ago." Asher says looking down at the mark and running his hand on burned ground.
"And if you look at the mark you can tell which way it came from and which way it's was heading." Fishlegs says with a nod as if to confirm her words and stares down at the mark.
"I know which way it's headed without all that stupid stuff." Snotlout says and stands. I look up at her.
"Oh really?" Asher asks looking up at her, "Wheres it going?" He asks and she shakes her head slowly and purses her lips.
"It's not going, it's coming." She corrects and shoots her hand up, "At us right now!" Snotlout yells. I whip my head around to see a Typhoomerang coming at us looking angry and spitting fire. I look over at the other riders.
"A-anything else we needed to learn?!" I ask jumping to my feet.
"Nope!" Tuffnut says.
"We're good!" Ruffnut promises. I race over to Toothless and jump onto his back as the other riders climb onto their dragons. A little while later as we got closer to Berk Tuffnut looks at me,"Hey Haedryin!"
"Yes Tuffnut?" I ask looking back at him.
"When did your dad join Dragon Flight Club?" He asks. I look at him confused
"Uh….never." I say and look at him, why would he ask that my dad was on Berk sleeping like everyone else.
"Oh, weird." Tuffnut says and I look at him.
"What are you-" I start.
"'Cause he's right there." Tuffnut finishes and points down. I whip my gaze around to look at where he was pointing where my dad was under us flying on Thornado. My eyes widen.
"What the-" I start before letting out a breath through my nose and looking back at the other riders, "Quick! Evasive cloud maneuvers!" I command and Toothless pulls up and into the clouds and I lift out my hand and touch the clouds with my fingers and they darken as they follow my command for either a electrical storm or a blizzard.
"We have to stay up here in the clouds until we're right over town." I say and look around for the twins and see them at the bottom of the clouds with their heads poking out.
"What are you doing?" Asher asks them and Tuffnut looks up at us.
"We can't see in the clouds!" He says and I whack my forehead.
"Yeah! It's to cloudy!" Ruffnut agrees.
There was a pause and then I hear my dad's deep voice, "What in the name of Thor?" I bite down on my lips and and look down at the bottom of their Zippleback.
"Uh..You guys, if you're not in the clouds my dad can see you." I warn.
"Uh, not going to disagree with you there." Tuffnut says and a few seconds later both twins join us in the clouds and I wave a hand and it gets extra dark where they were. I look back and can see my dad starting to break through the thick layers of clouds.
"Great. Alright guys, split up, head home and please keep the dragons out of sight! I'm going to start a thunderstorm so my dad can't track us by the wing flaps." I say and the other riders nod and Tuffnut nudges Ruffnut.
"I've never seen her make a storm before." He says and I bite down on my lip, I had never purposely made a storm before. I lift up both my hands in a wide arc and a lighting ball shoots from my fingers and hits the clouds and a light shoots through the clouds before their was a ripple of thunder.
"You can't not get away!" My dad shouts into the air and lightning flashes through the air and the other riders quickly disappear from sight as I lead Toothless home away from them, splitting apart, and heading home without getting caught. Hopefully.
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The twins race over to their house jumping off of Barf and Belch landing on the roof as Barf and Belch fly over to their stable. The twins jump from the roof swinging into their bedroom onto the bed and under the covers.
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Hookfang and Snotlout fly over the Yorgensen house and Hookfang tosses Snotlout from his neck into her room where she surprisingly lands on her bed.
"Way to go Hookfang!" Snotlout yells at her dragon, Hookfang then races off to his stable.
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Asher and Stormfly race over to his house and Stormfly lands and Asher slides down her wing racing over to his house and throwing open the door as Stormfly rushes over to a stable. A second later the door opens and Asher makes a lay down motion with his hands and Stormfly does as she's told.
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Toothless dives into my room and I jump from his back before he hits the ground onto my bed and the wood creaks and ice shoots out from my feet but I shove it off and pull up the blanket trying to slow my heart rate as thunder ripples overhead.
"This never happened." I say and Toothless curls up into a ball closing his eyes as we both pretend to have been asleep for the last few hours.
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Meatlug and Fishlegs land next to her house and Fishlegs slides off her dragon jumping at sudden thunder and looks over at Meatlug, "We did it girl!" She whispers and pats her dragons face, "I knew we we're smarter than those-" She starts to add but a shadow looms over her and asks.
"Smarter than who? Fishlegs?" Stoick asks looking down at the girl as she gasps and jumps back.
"Chief." She says and her hands clasp together in nervousness as Stoick leans down close to her face, "What are you doing up?" She asks and Stoick stares down at her for a second.
"You're coming with me, lass." Stoick says as Fishlegs let's out a whimper.
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In the Great Hall much later with Gobber, Stoick tries to pry information from Fishlegs, "I'm going to ask you one more time, Fishlegs. What were you doing out there flying? And who was with you?" Stoick asks.
Fishlegs looks up at both men and glances at the portrait of Haedryin and her father before she looks back up at the two adult Vikings, "My name is Fishlegs, I live on the island of Berk. I don't know anything about dragons or those who ride them." Fishlegs says and Gobber looks down at her.
"Why does she keep saying that?" Fishlegs asks Stoick, "It's kind of giving me the willies." Gobber adds.
"My name is Fishlegs, I live on the island of Berk. I don't know anything about dragons or those who ride them." Fishlegs repeats and looks down at her fingers.
"Fishlegs, this is not an interrogation." Stoick says as FIshlegs starts to repeat it again and she stops and looks up at them her mouth firmly closed, eyes wide, a gust of wind blows into the Great Hall and the torches are blown out and thunder crackles overhead lighting up the doors in a haunting way.
"Actually Stoick," Gobber says as he turns back from looking at the torches, "This does kind of feel like an interrogation." Gobber finishes and Stoick looks at him.
"Not helping Gobber." He says and Fishlegs gives a squeak at the dark and jumps as lightning flashes through the cracks of the doors and both men turn to look at Fishlegs.
"My name is Fishlegs, I live on the island of Berk. I don't know anything about dragons or those who ride them." Fishlegs says and both Vikings sigh knowing they we're going to get nothing out of her except a line memorized from how many times they'd heard it.
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"He put the screws into me, I thought I was going to crack." Fishlegs explains and I watch her from the top of one of the wooden fenches as she tells us what happened last night, "Especially when the lights went out and the thunder was crackling overhead but I held firm." She says and I grin, yes! She finally did it.
"Because I know that the first rule of Dragon Flight Club is that there is no Dragon Flight Club." She finishes firmly with a concentrated face.
"Oh great, this again?" Tuffnut asks and Ruffnut groans.
"You did great Fishlegs," I assure and Ruffnut looks over at me.
"So what are we doing tonight?" She ask and I look back at Asher.
"Nothing." I say and Tuffnut looks up from his fingers.
"That doesn't sound fun at all." He says and I bite down on my lip and look at them trying to explain, that if we go flying soon, we'll all get caught and we'll be grounded for a very long time.
"My dad is on to us, it's important that we lay low until it blows over we need to be invisible." I say and wave my hands dramatically. A roar cuts through the silence of the air and I whip my head around as Hookfang not quite at all on fire to be exact comes screeching into the Academy and if possible Snotlout screaming louder.
"Hey! Hey! You guys!" She shouts and I duck as fire is thrown over my head from Hookfangs coat. I look at her and whack my forehead.
"Snotlout, what did I tell you, "No dragons"." I say.
"Yeah, even I knew that." Tuffnut says from behind me. I stare up at the girl and she looks down at me as Hookfang settles down slightly.
"Whats so important anyway?" I ask and she shrugs.
"Well let's just say that I may have saved this entire island." Snotlout says and I look at her and raise an eyebrow.
"Right." I agree and she smirks.
"ALvin and the Outcasts are attacking as we speak." She adds and my eyes widen. Alvin here? So soon, it's barely been a two weeks since the Isle of Night!
"Alvin." I repeat staring down at the ground as frost spreads under my feet.
"So what do we do now?" Asher asks behind me, and I turn to look at him and stare down at my feet.
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On the Outcast's boat out to sea and an Outcast walks up to Alvin, "Alvin, we're getting closer." The man says and Alvin looks back at him.
"Yeah, we are, and the closer we get the stronger the smell." Alvin says walking up to the Outcast. The Outcast looks up at him.
"The smell of what?" He asks.
"The smell of Berk's destruction." Alvin answers as both Outcasts turn to stare at Berk that was growing closer in the distance.
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I rush forward in the house to where my dad was sleeping on a chair and shake his arm, "Dad dad!" I cry and with a yell he opens his eyes and grabs an axe from off the floor and grabs my arm pulling me off the floor and lifts up his axe, ready to chop me in two.
"Dad! It's me!" I say and add, "Please don't chop me." Dad sets me onto the ground shaking his hand from the cold and looks at me.
"Haedryin! What did I tell you about sneaking up on me when I'm asleep?" Dad asks. I look up at him and rub my upper arm.
"Well it's not fun for me either!" I say and he turns.
"But this is an emergency!" I add and when he doesn't look back at me I add, "The Outcast are sailing towards Berk." His back goes rigid and he turns and looks back at me.
"And how would you know that?" He asks and I look to the left for a second.
"It was flown into my ear by a magical snow animal-do I really need to answer that question?" I ask tugging at the tinted blue edges of my hair. He puts the axe onto the wall and picks up his helmet.
"I told you, no flying, Haedryin." He says and I shrug.
"You know what else you told me? Oh I don't know something along the lines of just because you're the chief doesn't mean you don't need to follow the rules." I say and look at him as his eyes widen, "Or a ban on flying dragons would include, oh, I don't know, a Thunderdrum." I add and he puts his helmet on his head.
"Well talk about this later." He says quickly and I fold my arms across my chest and smirk and he walks past me, "Wake the others." He adds and opens the door, "Well need the full Academy." He say and looks to where all the other riders we're waiting for us.
"Hey chief." Fishlegs says.
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In the sky a little while later we fly through the clouds and break through them and I can see the Outcast boats sailing toward Berk. Dad looks at them and I fly up beside him.
"I'm going to draw the first round of fire. When there reloading you attack." Dad says and then looks back at me, "But not before."
I give a brisk nod at this and he and Thornado dive down to start the attack. He was fired at by catapults and arrows that Thornado changed the direction of with a sonic blast. He stands up on Thornado and catchs a boulder and fires it back at the ship. I lean down on Toothless as the first round of fire is over.
"Now Haedryin!" He shouts. I ready a ice ball as Toothless builds up a plasma blast and fires. I throw the ice onto the same ship and it creaks from the unbalance and half the wood frosts over before snapping under the feet of the Outcasts. Toothless pulls up and the other riders fires their attacks.
There was a squeak and I whip my head around as Changewings fly from the bottom of the deck Alvin was on and look at us like we are the enemy and start to attack.
"Changewings!" I shout and they fly past us.
"We can't let them get to Berk!" Asher shouts.
"If the get to town they'll tear apart Berk and we won't be able to see them!" Fishlegs adds and I bite down on my lip before the clouds catch my eyes. I had started an electrical storm yesterday…
I look back at the other riders, "I have an idea!" I shout and look over at Asher, "If this works, Asher you and the others lead them towards Changewing Island and make sure they don't head back this way!" I say and he nods.
"What are you going to do?" Fishlegs asks. I take my hands from off the saddle and Toothless steadies to help me balance as I lift up my arms and shoot ice and snowflakes into the sky. The blue light was almost blinding and I watch from a distance as a white things starts to move towards us.
"What is that?!" Snotlout asks. It gets closer looking like a white monster and the Changewings seeing this turn around and start to fly towards us. I jerk my hands down from and the blue light fades.
"Now Asher!" I shout and he waves a hand and the other riders chase after him as the Changewings fly away. I watch the white cloud of snow the blizzard so bad it looked like a cloud moving across the water. I look back as my dad pulls up from the Outcasts boats and the blizzard hits them and then it stops moving and explodes in a blue light.
I duck as wood bits even from where I was in the sky over sixty feet above the boats fly over me. The wood stops flying and I watch as Outcasts start to climb onto the one remaining boat.
"Retreat!" Alvin shouts and I look down at him as he shoots a glare up at me. I stare down at the boats feeling as though something was off. I look down at it as my dad flies up to me.
"Now that was a blizzard." He says and I shrug.
"Not my best." I say and dad looks at me before he sees my face.
"What?" He asks.
"It's just that I thought Alvin would have had a better plan than this."I say and look back at him.
"Let's just be thankful he didn't" Dad says and leads Thornado back to Berk while I trail after him.
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But on Berk a single Outcast ship was docked. Savage leading a small party put crates into caves under Berk from what Mildew had told them.
"Ha ha! Alvin's diversion worked." Savage says Mildew standing next to him while a single Outcast carries a crate forward.
"Hey! Are you sure we're puttin' these in the right place?" Savage asks turning to Mildew. Mildew waves a hand and the lantern he was holding creaks.
"I'm sure, these caves are directly underneath Berk. They'll never know their are Whispering Deaths right beneath there feet." Mildew assure and at that moment a Outcast who was carrying a crate trips slightly and manages to regain his balance.
"Careful with that!" Savage yells and another Outcast rips off the lid and Mildew and Savage stare down into the crate and the Whispering Death eggs. Both with smirks.
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I walk down the stairs walking over to my dad who had a quill in hand and was reading a paper. I sit down at the table and lift up the spoon of soup from dinner I had missed to my mouth and pause as my dad turns to look at me.
"I don't like that you disobeyed me, Iyn. But I can admit when I was wrong." Dad says and I put the spoon into the soup and look up at him. Was he lifting the ban?
"I shouldn't have grounded the dragons, I was just being a father." Dad says looking at me with his green eyes and I look at him.
"And I understand that." I say and Toothless plops his head onto the table and I roll my eyes at him before I open my hand and a frozen fish flies into my hand from a basket a few feet away. I had started frosting them to make them last longer. I toss it to Toothless who eats it happily.
"Alright, now, tell me about this nogarD Flight Club of yours." Dad say and I grin and look up at him, "And don't leave out a thing." He adds and I smile.
"Well the first thing you have to remember is that their is no Dragon Flight Club." I say and wave my hands dramatically and start to tell him everything.
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Far under Berk right under the town where the eggs were left a single egg cracks and explodes and a small white dragon pops out looking around for it's mother it cannot find, before like this small white dragon the other eggs crack and the small grey/green Whispering Deaths pop out.
A/N Word backwards is, "dragon". And can I say how much I love the cover for this one! I LOVE THE COVER FOR DOB! :)
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