Author's note: Hello my fellow writers and readers I am back with another chapter. I just want to say I've been losing interest in this story, due to school, but I've been doing a lot of reading to keep my interest. I kinda gave up on my older story The Time of Tomorrow, but I WILL get back to it. I have come up with a crossover story called The Inhertiance of the Dragons.

As some of you may already know, I took over the story Zero to Assassin by BlankSoraShiro and renamed it Hiccup to Assassin, it is a good story a bit similar to this one but at the same time very different. Thank you to all my supporters who give me encouragement, you guys are the real MVP. Without further adieu here is chapter 8.

Outcast Island

Alvin the Treacherous was sitting on his thrown when suddenly the doors busted open and some guards came running in.

"Sir the prisoners have escaped!"

"WHAT!" Alvin said outraged.

"And somehow all the dragons escaped as well, sir."

Alvin grabbed the two guards by their throats and raised them off their feet.

"WHO DID THIS!?" he roared. They men were choking in his grasp and couldn't speak, Alvin dropped them and they fell to their knees gasping for air.

"We—spotted someone-with a cloak-and a sword." The guards said as they panted.

"How long ago?" Alvin said darkly.

"A couple of hours, sir."

In a rage Alvin flipped the table in the room spilling all the food and mead over the floor, he moved on to the weapons that hung on the wall and began throwing them. The two guards managed to doge the swords, maces, and axes that came their way. Alvin was huffing angrily.

"We needed them as leverage for the GIRL! If she finds out that her parents are gone the deal is off!"

Suddenly Alvin calmed down and stood tall with a wicked smile on his face, the two guards looked at each other nervously.

"She couldn't find out, she's all the way at Berk, which means she wouldn't know about her parents missing, which means she's still working for us, and with the upcoming dragon raid we could just dispose of her." Alvin explained. The guards nodded theirs heads in agreement, and then Alvin began to laugh maniacally.

"HAHAHAAHAHAAHA!" the guards began to laugh as well, this caused Alvin to stop, giving them a dark look.

"What do you two think your doing?! This isn't a comedy, GET BACK TO WORK!" he roared, the guards quickly left the room in a hurry.

Meanwhile

Heather and Hiccup had landed on Berk; the sky wasn't so dark, so they had to move fast. They dropped off the Nadder into its cage and flew to the cove. Once they got off Toothless they walked out the cove and through the forest.

"Where will you go after we've finished?" Heather asked.

"I'm not sure, maybe out of the archipelago, find new dragons and discover new lands." Hiccup shrugged at this. Heather seemed a bit disappointed, but brightened up to a thought she had.

"You could stay on my island, my parents would love to have you." She smiled. It was a good idea, but it wasn't what Hiccup had in mind.

"That would be great, but…"

"Just for a little while, until you're ready to move on." Heather said quickly.

"Thanks Heather, but I—"

"Please Hiccup." there was a lot of sincerity in her voice, Hiccup looked into Heather's eyes and saw desperation, it was as if she needed him to say yes. Hiccup didn't want to hurt her, but he also didn't want to be held down to anything after this, except maybe to her.

"OK." Hiccup nodded. A smile grew on her face and she hugged Hiccup tightly.

"Oh Thank you Hiccup! You won't regret it. Come on let's go!" She then grabbed his hand and dragged him along.

When they got to the house they managed to get some rest before the sun rose.

A few hours later, everyone was awake, the village bustling with movement, kids running around with wooden axes and maces, just another day on the island of Berk.

Hiccup was upstairs in his room packing; he was going back and forth from his desk collecting papers, and extra clothes. He began to go through a checklist, when someone knocked on the door.

"Come in."

It was Heather; she walked in and saw the packed bags on the bed and the scattered papers.

"Hey…um I made breakfast if you want some." She said. Hiccup finally stopped moving around and turned towards her.

"Thanks, sorry about the mess, just a bit nervous." He admitted.

"What's there to be nervous about?"

"The whole Outcast situation is bugging me, there's a whole fleet right by the shores and we can't do anything."

"What if we could?"

"How?"

"What if we took Toothless for a ride and scared them away."

"In broad daylight? They'll see us!"

"That's partly true, but so far Toothless is the fastest dragon, if we go in fast they won't have time to react let alone see us."

Hiccup seemed to ponder this a plan began to formulate in his head.

"That's actually not a bad idea, we could use the fog as cover and blast a hole in most of the ships, leaving only enough for them to escape."

"That's perfect!" Heather exclaimed.

"Alright I'll just pack this stuff into the cove so that we can leave with no problems."

"OK I'll help you after we have breakfast." Heather smirked. Hiccup wanted to object, but the look on Heather's face stopped him. He put down the bags and rolled his eyes.

"Fine." He said. Heather giggled and followed him downstairs.

Hiccup and Heather grabbed as many bags as they could and went out into the forest; everything was going fine until they heard:

SNAP

The two of them stood still, neither of them made the noise since they were very careful to stay light-footed.

"Someone's following us." Heather whispered.

"I know, but who could it be?" Hiccup asked.

"Astrid, most definitely." Heather said narrowing her eyes.

"You're probably right. Let's split up." They nodded to each other and ran quickly through the brush in opposite directions. Heather was making good headway when suddenly-

BAM!

Someone tackled her to the ground. The sudden impact disoriented Heather, she looked up at the figure waiting for her vision to focus, then she saw that it was-

"Astrid!" Heather sneered.

"Hello Heather." She said narrowing her eyes.

"So it was you following us! What do you want?"

"I want to know what's going on. You and Hiccup are acting strange."

"I don't see what's so strange about two friends spending time together." Heather smirked.

"You two? Friends? Give me a break, who would want to be friends with him? He's a Hiccup."

Heather narrowed her eyes at this. How can she be so pig-headed and narrow minded?

"Maybe I'm not as shallow as you and I look past the outside." Heather replied

"I'm not shallow, ok." Astrid said firmly

"Could've fooled me, Astrid."

"What's all that stuff?" Astrid gestured to the sack Heather was carrying.

"None of your business." Heather said holding the sack out of view.

"Oh I think it is my business when I suspect foreigners on my island."

"You don't want to mess with me Astrid." Heather said as she readied her sword.

"Oh I've been waiting for a rematch." Astrid said as she gripped her axe.

Astrid charged at Heather, swinging her ax, Heather ducked under the swing and punched Astrid in the gut. Astrid paused in pain but quickly recovered. Heather swung her sword but Astrid blocked.

"Are you jealous that Hiccup likes me and not you?" Heather smirked.

"What?" Astrid said confused. Heather used the distraction and kicked Astrid hard in her shins. Astrid fell in pain and gripped her leg.

"Word in the village is that Hiccup always had a crush on you, frankly I don't see why." Heather then punched Astrid in the face.

Astrid felt something warm fall from her nose, she touched it and saw that it was blood. Heather continued to taunt her.

"How could he? After all you did lose your title as best warrior, I beat you without a sweat, which must really hurt the pride, huh?"

Enraged Astrid turned and tried kicking Heather's legs out from under her, but Heather jumped back.

"Were you jealous to see me kiss him in the village? Did that make your blood boil?"

Astrid thought about that night she saw Heather kiss Hiccup, a part of her knew what Heather was trying to do, but another part gave in. She did feel indifferent when she saw them, the way he looked at Heather. At some point in time she had caught him looking at her that way but that wasn't the case, not anymore. Astrid grabbed some dirt and threw it into Heather's eyes, causing her to scream.

"AAAAHHH! My eyes!" Heather dropped her sword and began rubbing her eyes. Astrid got up and kicked Heather in the stomach.

"That's for almost breaking my nose you butt-elf!" Astrid yelled, she looked around for her ax once she spotted it she went to pick it up, when she turned around something flashed before her eyes followed by pain to her head, everything went dark.

Heather stood over Astrid's unconscious body and smirked.

"That's for stalking me and everything else, bride of Grendel." Heather picked up her sword and the bags and ran to the cove.

Hiccup was in the cove waiting patiently with Toothless, it had been some time since he made it into the cove once he was sure he wasn't being followed; now he was waiting for Heather.

Suddenly he saw her walking through the cove wall, but something was wrong. He jogged over to her with Toothless in tow.

"Heather where have you been?"

Once he got closer he saw her a bit bruised and her eyes were red.

"Heather what happened to your eyes?" He gently held her face as he looked at her puffy red eyes.

"Astrid happened."

"What?"

"She attacked me, but I fought back, she threw dirt in my eye and kicked me in the stomach, its hurts so bad Hiccup." Heather slid down to the ground clutching her stomach. Hiccup helped her over to a rock and laid her gently against it.

"Hold on let me get some water." Hiccup tore off a piece of his tunic and went to the pond, soaking it a bit; he went over to Heather and wiped here eyes. After some time Heather's vision cleared completely, her eyes were still a bit pinkish in color but other than that she was fine.

"Thanks Hiccup."

"Sure. Can you tell me what happened?" he asked.

"I already told you Astrid attacked me."

"Yes, but what happened to Astrid?"

"I-I knocked her out."

"Oh boy." He said grabbing his hair.

"I had no choice it was either that or let her find us."

Hiccup paced back and forth nervously before he turned to her.

"OK, this doesn't change things…much. We can still go and scare the Outcast and prepare for the raid, while simultaneously getting a crazed Viking girl off our backs, everything is ok." Hiccup said calmly.

Toothless and Heather looked at each other and then to Hiccup a bit concerned at his calm tone.

"You stay here, while I go attack the Outcast."

"What? No way! I'm coming with you." Heather insisted.

"You're wounded and don't have a dragon, plus what if you fall off? Then the Outcast would have you again." Hiccup explained.

Heather thought about what he said, and he was right she'd be no use to them, and what if the Outcast got her again? There's no way she could go through that again.

"Fine." She puffed. "I'll stay here."

"Thank you."

Hiccup gathered the bags into a pile behind a boulder and saddled Toothless; he then put on a black cloak and looked back at Heather.

"Don't worry I'll be back before you can say Snoggletog." He smiled his goofy smile. Heather smiled and shook her head.

"Just be careful, okay?"

"I will." Hiccup nodded. He turned around and patted Toothless. "You ready bud?"

Toothless rumbled in agreement and flared his wings.

"Then let's fly!"

With a great flap of his wings Toothless launched straight up into the air, out of the cove and over the trees. Hiccup looked back and waved at Heather one last time before they shot out of sight. They flew high out of sight and slowly made their way above the sea stacks, where the outcast ships were hiding.

"Alright bud, let's teach those Outcasts not to mess with Berk."

Toothless roared in agreement and dove.

With Savage and the Outcasts

Savage was looking towards with a stern look on his face, his eye caught movement and he saw a black dot, but before he could get a better look, it disappeared.

"Probably nothing." he said to himself. He turned around and saw his men sleeping on the ship, his blood boiled at their laziness.

"GET UP, YOU POOR EXCUSES FOR VIKINGS!" he yelled.

Immediately all the men were awake and alert.

"This isn't bed and breakfast! We're on a mission!"

"But we're tired; we've been here all night and morning Savage!" An Outcast complained.

"You shut your mouth or Alvin will here of this! Am I understood?"

All the men quieted down at the mention of Alvin, he would have them killed if Savage told him they were disobedient.

"Yessir."

Savage sighed and turned back to look at Berk, suddenly there was a whining noise in the air. He thought nothing of it until it got louder and louder, it was then he realized what was making that noise, it was a-

"NIGHT FURY!"

"Get down!"

All the Outcasts ducked down on the deck, Savage looked up just in time to see a ball of fire explode in the water, creating a cloud of steam, which made it hard to see.

"Is everyone alright!?" Savage shouted. The men got up from the deck and checked their bodies, it seemed they were okay.

Suddenly a flash of black passed through the fog, scaring the men. Savage was going to be deterred.

"Archers ready! We're going to kill us a Night Fury!."

The Outcast cheered and gathered their bows and arrows ready for the Night Fury to strike.

With Hiccup and Toothless

Hiccup and Toothless hovered above the fog cloud waiting to see if the Outcasts would leave, but nothing happened.

"It looks like you weren't scary enough for them bud." Hiccup said. Toothless growled angrily at the statement.

"I guess we're gonna have to be more persuasive." Hiccup shrugged. Toothless smiled at this, he would show those Outcasts the true power of a Night Fury.

"Alright bud let's show them whose boss!"

Toothless dived into the cloud heading for the first ship in sight. It turned out they were ready and had bows and arrows.

"Fire!" the Outcasts yelled. They released their arrows and they flew at Hiccup and Toothless.

"Toothless Barrel Roll!"

Toothless obeyed and rolled to the left in midair, avoiding the oncoming arrows. Once they were clear Hiccup yelled-

"FIRE!"

Toothless dove straight for the ship. He avoided the arrows as he blasted right through the ship, in a giant explosion. Outcasts literally flew in the air, straight into the water.

"Good job bud! Now let's finish the rest."

They rushed through the fog attacking ships, avoiding arrows and catapults.

As they flew by one of the ships an Outcast noticed something on the dragon's back. The man quickly ran towards Savage.

"Sir, there's someone riding the Night Fury!"

Savage thought the idea was preposterous, until he himself looked up and saw a hump on the dragon's back.

"Well I'll be a Jotun's uncle; there is someone on the bloody beast! Alvin has got to hear this."

Heather watched from Berk as lights flashed within the cloud of fog and she could faintly hear yelling and screams of the Outcasts. Hiccup and Toothless destroyed most of the ships, leaving only one for them to escape. They hovered in air and watched the Outcasts sail away. One of the Outcasts shook his fist in the air a yelled-

"CURSE YOU DRAGON RIDER!"

Hiccup's eyes widened at this, they saw him? How was it possible? Maybe he should have stayed up high instead of getting close to the ships. It didn't matter now, what's done is done, and besides they didn't see his face so that's a bonus, right?

Hiccup looked down at Toothless and patted him on his head.

"You did good bud, now let's go home."

Toothless turned back towards Berk and circled the forest to land back in the cove.

Somewhere far southwest of Berk

The black falcon, released by Trader Caatar flew for a few miles and came upon a big sea stack, covered with trees and bushes. It flew through the small forest and came upon a man by a campfire. It perched on a log and screeched. The man stood up from the fire and turned to the falcon.

The man was tall and muscular; he wore a hooded cloak and armor underneath. He had blonde unkempt hair and beard, he also had green eyes. He walked over to the falcon and took the letter attached to its feet. He read the letter thoroughly, and as he read it his eyes widened. Once finished, he folded the paper and put it in his cloak. He turned to the sky and cupped his hands around his mouth and let out a dragon like roar.

A few minutes later his call was answered, a dark shape dashed across the sky and descended upon him. The dragon landed with a thud and rumbled. The dragon was black as night, it had a fan-like tail and great bat-like wings. Its eyes were green just like the man's eyes, it was big, about the same size as a full grown Monstrous Nightmare if not bigger, and it had tendrils under its chin giving it the appearance of a beard. This dragon was no ordinary dragon; this was a Titan Wing Night Fury

"Deathwing, there's seems to be a Red Death up in the North." The man said patting the dragon. The Night Fury growled at this.

"I know, hopefully this one can be trained like Blackfire was."

The man put out his campfire and climbed onto the saddle on Deathwing's back, along with the falcon.

"I also have some good news; it seems your lost offspring survived."

Deathwing's eyes opened wide with anticipation as he crooned.

"Caatar says he's healthy and that he's bonded with someone. We'll go find him after we gather some reinforcements."

Deathwing grumbled at this and with a great flap of his wings they launched into the air and flew off at great speed.

Berk

Heather and Hiccup had everything ready for tonight, Hiccup had books, tools, weapons, and clothes packed and ready for departure in the cove. All they had to do was wait for nightfall when the raid started. They would use the Nightmare to blast the pen doors in the arena to make it seem like a dragon freed the others, then they would have the dragons carry them to the cove and meet Toothless and fly away.

Now that the Outcasts were done with, all they had to do was fly away to Heather's home.

They were currently in Dragon Training; the whole village came to see who would be chosen to kill the Monstrous Nightmare and become champion.

The Gronckle hovered above the ring, hunting victims as the teens scrambled for ducked behind a barrier only to find Hiccup and Heather already forces her axe at Hiccup's throat, seething in anger.

"Stay out of my way! You too Ms. Shipwreck, I'm winningthis thing."

"Please, by all means." Heather smirked. With that Astrid darted off.

Astrid went from barrier to barrier, closing in on the Gronckle. The crowd cheered her on.

"You got it Astrid!"

Hiccup and Heather stood up and looked at the chaos around them. Amidst the crowd ofonlookers, Stoick watches keenly, beaming with locks eyes with Hiccup, giving him a nod of adjusted his new helmet and forced a half-heartedsmile.

Unbeknownst to Hiccup, the Gronckle spots him and makes a bee-line toward him. Heather see's this and quickly taps Hiccup.

"Uh Hiccup, we've got a problem." She said panicked.

Astrid hid behind a barrier just a meter away as she tried to catch her breath. She scowls, and has afocused, determined look on her face.

"This time- This time for sure." She said to herself

With a fierce battle-cry she leaps from cover, axe cocked tothrow.

"Aaaahhhh!"

As she clears the barriers, she sees that Hiccup hasalready laid the Gronckle out on the ground.

"No! No!" she yelled.

In rage she starts yelling and banging her axe and swearing

"NO! NO! SON OF HALFTROLL, RAT EATINGMUNGE BUCKET!"

Heather looked on a chuckled to herself

"I don't know which is funnier, the way you flinch or seeing Astrid's pride go downhill." She whispered to Hiccup.

"Oh ha ha." He said sarcastically. "Come on let's get out of here."

A loud CLANG rang out from the crowd above, Gothi, thevillage elder, stepped forward, tapping her staff. Everyonelights up excitedly.

"Wait! Wait!"

"So, later." Hiccup said as he tried to leave, but Gobber snags the scruff of his shirt

"Not so fast."

"I'm kinda late for-"

He was interrupted by a livid Astrid who was tired of playing games.

"WHAT?! Late for WHAT, exactly?!"

Stoick raises his hand to silence the crowd.

"Okay quiet down. The elder hasdecided."

Gobber stands behind Hiccup and Astrid. He pointsto Astrid as the crowd waits in silent anticipation. Gothishakes her head 'no.' The crowd 'Oooohs.'Gobber then points to Hiccup. The elder nods an affirmative'yes.' The crowd erupts in turns a seething, deadly glare on Hiccup.

"You've done it! You've done it,Hiccup! You get to kill the dragon!" Gobber cheered.

"Ha, ha! That's my boy!" Stoick cheered with pride.

Hiccup is hoisted onto the teens' shoulders and carriedout to the cheering spectators, but he wasn't a cheerful.

"Heh, heh. Oh yeah! Yes! I can'twait. Just my luck."

Later that day Hiccup and Heather stayed in the house instead of going to the cove, now that the village was in a good mood, they didn't want to look suspicious, especially to Astrid, who would try to follow them again

Instead of the final exam starting next week The Chief decided to have it tomorrow, but they would be gone by then and be half way across the ocean.

Heather was sitting by the bed reading the Book of Dragons while Hiccup paced back and forth nervously.

"Hey, you alright?" she asked. Hiccup sighed and sat down in a chair; he took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

"I'm fine; it's just that I'm nervous. What if something goes wrong? What if someone follows us?"

"We'll go through the back door, where no one will see us."

"What if the Nightmare's fire isn't strong enough?" Hiccup panicked.

"Hiccup, it's a Titan Wing Monstrous Nightmare, I'm pretty sure it's strong enough to blow down some doors." Heather smirked.

"You're probably right. I'm overreacting." Hiccup sighed. Heather set down the book and went over to rub Hiccup's shoulders.

"It'll be fine, once the dragons raid all of Berk will be too busy to worry about two teenagers."

"Yeah you're right."

"Good." Heather went back to the bed and back to reading. "Now let's enjoy the time we have left and relax."

Hiccup relaxed a bit in his chair and smiled "Okay, thanks Heather."

"No problem."

Somewhere far south

The blonde man stood at a cliff, facing the ocean, beside him was his Night Fury, Deathwing. They stared at the ocean for some time until someone walked up to them.

"Father, can I speak with you?" the person said. It was a young lad around 15 years of age, with short black hair and blue eyes, he was a bit tall for his age and he had toned muscles under the robe he wore.

The man turned and faced his son as well as Deathwing.

"What is it Derek?"

"I want to come with on this mission."

"You know you can't, it's against the rules."

"You are Grand Master Calder; surely you can bend the rules for your son?"

"That would be unfair to the others in your rank and you know it." At this Derek looked downcast.

"Is it true what they say? The lost Fury has been found and someone is riding him?" Derek asked.

"It would seem so."

"And a Red Death as well?

"Yes, hopefully I can train it like-

"Like Blackfire!" Derek exclaimed excitedly.

"Precisely."

"What of the boy? What will you do with him?"

"Hopefully I won't have to kill him. From what Caatar said in his letter, it doesn't seem like the boy knows of the Creed or the Eye."

"Isn't that good?" Derek asked confused. Calder turned back to the ocean and sighed.

"Only time will tell."

Author's note: Sorry for the wait, I promised myself I would update but it took so long. Well I finally did it. I hope I haven't gotten rusty. Tell me what you think in the reviews. Ask questions PLEASE! Tell me what I need to work on. Likes and dislikes. Thank you!