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I feel myself slowly coming to consciousness after falling asleep in my brother's hut as he didn't want me walking around yesterday.
Though my slow waking was quickly interrupted by someone shaking me causing me to groan in frustration at them. I open my eye's to see my brother shaking me and I close my eye's at the sight of him, I hear him groan at this and stop shaking me.
"You better have a good reason for waking me up," I tell him rolling onto my left side to face away from him.
"Ryu's locked up in his pen and I can't find the key for the pen anywhere," I told me, though his exterior seemed calmed anyone who knew him would be able to know that he was panicking on the inside.
I lay back on my back and prop myself up so I'm leaning on the bed head looking at him.
"Did you lock it last night?" I ask to which he shook his head 'No'.
"I'll come help--" I started trying to get myself out of bed only for Dracul to push me gently back down.
"No, you need rest." He put simply, giving me a stern look.
I roll my eye's at him and smirk "Y'know I am older than you."
"I'm sorry sister, but when it comes to your health that doesn't work on me." He told me shaking his head lightly.
"I'll keep looking for the key to the pen and you stay put, there." He said walking out of the hut.
Once he was gone for sure I smile lightly to myself "When have I ever listened to you little brother?"
I swing my legs over the right side over the bed so they touch the ground and look around for my equipment. I see it all sitting on Dracul's desk I stand up but feel a sharp pain shoot through my back causing me to tumble back down onto the bed, I screw my eye's shut and bite the inside of my cheek in pain.
"I got this," I told myself.
I stand up again to feel the same pain shoot through me feeling worse then before but I don't let myself tumble back.
I walk, or more so limp to the desk where all my stuff was.
I only had my undershirt and my leggings on and bandages wrapping my whole torso so I felt very constricted, but I persevered and got my shirt on, then my armour, then I clipped my dagger and sword to myself.
"That should be all..." I mutter but then I catch my necklace in the corner of my eye which looked to of just been freshly cleaned. I grabbed it and put it on myself since no one was around to put it around my neck for me and walk out of Dracul's hut.
The moment I walk outside I feel the sun hit my skin which gives me a warm feeling, it made me smile a little but the pain in my back quickly washed the smile away and I walked towards my hut.
I got to the clubhouse before my presence was realized.
"Y/n?" I hear the voice of Astrid question from behind me, I turn to see her standing there with a questioning look.
"Hi..." I greet her with a small smile only for her to walk up to me and whack me across the head gently, but I knew she didn't mean any harm by it.
"You Muttonhead! You're meant to be in bed resting!" She semi-yelled at me only for me to nod in agreeance.
"You're right in some sense, but I'm injured, not useless," I explain and she shook her head at me.
"Listen, if you were in my shoes you would be doing the same thing so don't lecture me!" I told her crossing my arms and she only grinned at that.
"I suppose you're not wrong." She agreed and she decided to walk me to my hut telling me about the whole pen situation with all the dragons.
"That's strange, who would've done that?" I question mainly to myself but Astrid answers anyway.
"Dracul assumes it was Heather, Neither her nor Hiccup have been seen this morning." She informed me this caused me to assume Heather was off doing something and Hiccup was investigating what she was doing as he told me yesterday.
"There's a high probability." I hummed and we reach my hut which had an open door.
"Why's the door open?" Astrid asked me and on cue, a roar was heard and it was the roar of a Stormcutter and Nyra was seen flying towards us with Mischief by her.
"That's why," I said as Nyra landed and walks towards me Mischief landed in front of me and he started rubbing himself against my legs. Nyra walks up to me and gently puts her head against me, I rub her scales subconsciously.
Astrid also puts a hand on Nyra and sighs.
"Are you alright? Like really alright?" She asked me causing my shoulders to slump slightly.
"No, my back is in a lot of pain but I'll manage," I tell her, she puts a hand on my shoulder.
"Just, tell me if it gets too much to handle, yeah?" She asks and I nod at her.
"Hey, I reckon I could pick-lock those locks," I told her and at that Astrid raises an eyebrow in question.
"Why didn't you say this earlier?"
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After saying hi to everyone down at the stables and a lecture from Dracul I pick-locked all the locks to the pens and the dragons all took off to fly around, eat, drink and stretch their wings.
"Well, I'm hungry so who wants lunch?" I hear Dracul ask us all after we watched the dragons take off.
We all silently agreed to that and went to the Clubhouse to eat something.
We all got to the Clubhouse and heard two roars come from outside.
"What's that?" Snotlout questioned and just as he asked that Toothless, Hiccup, Heather and Windshear landed.
"You have a lot of explaining to do," I told them both.
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"Look, I'm sorry I locked up your dragons. I just didn't trust that you guys would let me go after Dagur" Heather explained to us while we were all standing around her.
"Trust does need to be earned with people and dragons," Fishlegs told her and everyone to which I nodded at.
"Thanks for understanding, Fishlegs." She said to him with a relieved look washing over her face.
"I don't really trust these guys either, Heather." Snotlout told her obviously trying to impress her to which I groan.
"You know, we can hear you." Astrid told him.
"What is it with every girl we meet, you flirt with her?" I added on and he only rolled his eye's at the two of us.
"Jealousy is an ugly quality, you two. But clearly, I understand where it comes from." He explained to us which caused Astrid to groan and myself to furrow my eye's together in a negative way, though out of the corner of my eye I see Hiccup shaking his head slightly.
He stops and puts a hand on Heather's shoulder.
"The point is, we have you back, Heather. You're one of us." He explains trying to comfort her and we all somewhat agree.
"Yeah, I stocked Windshear's stable with buckets of sea slugs." Fishlegs informed her with a smile, to which Heather returned.
Snotlout however grunted and tried to one-up him.
"And I made room for you in my hut!" He told her and I choked slightly on my own spit at what he just said.
"And I've made it clear to Snotlout that you're not staying in his hut." Hiccup said frowning at his cousin's behaviour.
"Even though you were the rogue dragon rider and you sabotaged our dragons and you snuck away in the dark of the night." Tuff monologues dramatically pausing for just a second as his dramatic face contorts into a confused one.
"Wait a minute, why do we like you again?"
"I'm truly sorry, Tuffnut," Heather said sincerely and softly to him, Tuff staggers back at the sudden apology.
"Whoa! That was... sincere. What am I supposed to do with that? I'm a little bit flushed and overwhelmed. Little help here? People?!" He yelled with a hand over his heart.
"Ugh. Help yourself." Ruff said in disgust, backing away from her brother a little.
"And if you need any help with Windshear--" Fishlegs told her edging a little closer to her while also changing the topic of the discussion back to the original topic of discussion.
"Why don't I show you around the Edge? I'm basically chief." Snotlout told her leaning in the wall next to her as everyone else besides Myself, Tuff, Dracul, Astrid and Hiccup start getting closer to her.
Heather started walking backwards, visibly uncomfortable.
"Thanks, guys, really. I--" She started with her back hitting the wall.
I shot Astrid a look of 'Get her out of there and she nodded walking over to her so they can spend some girl time together.
"Hey, glad you're back. Your dragon rocks." Ruff said lowly and Astrid grabs her arm and pulls her away from everyone.
"Let's go have some girl time." Astrid told her loud and clear so everyone hears her.
"Good idea." She said to her and they walked off to where ever to spend some time together.
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After a while everyone went to go do their own thing while I sat in the Clubhouse, I couldn't do much otherwise stitches would come out and it hurt too much to do anything. So I was adding to my map of the known world, adding various details to the sea and adding dragons to the map as well for fun.
Drawing tended to help past the time, hence why I have so many sketchbooks and why mum and dad had to burn some of them so I had room in my room for other stuff.
"Afternoon milady!" I heard someone say from behind causing me to get and spin around in one motion with my knife at the ready.
However, the person that talked was Hiccup.
"Easy, I'm not going to hurt you." He told me with his hand raised slightly.
"Sorry, it's just self-defence reasons" I explain sighing lightly and putting my dagger away.
"I get it, but you seem a little tense so I came to ask you what's wrong?" He explained walking over to me sitting in the seat next to mine as I sat back down.
"Nothings wrong Hiccup just caught up in my own thoughts is all," I told in an assuring tone twisting my pencil through my fingers.
He looks down at the desk where my map was and I saw his eyes widen in either amazement or something more negative.
"Y/n, did--did you do this?" He asked running his fingers over the map in pure amazement I think, I've never been good at reading a beings emotions.
"I--uh, yeah... Yeah, I did the whole map during my free time, it's all mainly taken from my notebook from when I fly around the few islands near here." I explained to him and he looked up at me with stars in his eye's as he takes my hand.
"You have to show me all the islands on here." He told me and I dramatically rolled my eyes at him.
"Fine. Fine." I said playfully and I got my hand out of his as I started pointing at different islands and explained the flora, fauna and general landscape of the area.
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After a while Hiccup started adding his own details to my map from his, trying to come up with a way to put them together and I was sitting on the table swinging my legs.
I noticed Toothless sniff around near Heather's black leather satchel and I raised an eyebrow at his behaviour. He got the satchel open and put his head in it and made a noise of confusion, which caused Hiccup's attention to go to him.
"Hey, would you knock it off, bud?" Hiccup told him as if they has already happened today and Toothless' behaviour caused me to giggle, as Nyra also walked over to him.
Nyra tilted her head at what was going on and tried to grab the satchel off Toothless' head but Hiccup stands between the two.
"Okay? Snooping will not gain her trust." He told Toothless taking the bag off his head but the words were really meant for both dragons which causes me to giggle more and Hiccup turned to me smiling lightly.
However, my giggling stopped falling out of the bag.
"Isn't that Heather's horn?" I ask aloud and Hiccup nodded his head as he bent down and picked it up examining it up close.
After a minute his mouth open's slightly and his posture tensed lightly.
"Huh. Wait a minute!" He muttered to himself though it was loud enough to hear.
"That's my dad's Chief seal!" He exclaimed walking over to me and showing me. I run my thumb over the engraving.
"Hiccup, you should take this to your dad, he might be able to explain the story better." I told him and I looked up at him and you could tell he had a million thoughts running through his head.
That and he didn't answer so I got up and walked over to place my hands on my shoulders.
He looked up at me somewhat startled.
"Hiccup, go to your dad he'll tell you the story of what happened." I told him sternly but gently at the same time and he simply nodded before giving me a quick hug.
"Thanks, Y/n." He whispered in my ear before pulling away and getting on Toothless to fly to Berk.
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"We gotta go now. Dagur won't be out in the open for long." Heather told us after she and Astrid came back with information on Dagur's location.
"Wait a minute. You want us to go into battle with Dagur and the Berserkers without Hiccup and Toothless?" Fishlegs asked astonished at what Heather just said.
"Guys, I wish Hiccup and Toothless were here, trust me." Heather started with a plea breaking through.
"But they're not. And we can't wait. Dagur's ships are rigged with dragon-proof chains and grappling hooks. And the ships he's buying are even more powerful. But with all of us attacking at once, Dagur won't know what hit him." Heather finished.
"I have to say any aerial assault of this magnitude would be foolish without Toothless. He's the most powerful dragon in our arsenal." Fishlegs explained and I shake my head at him and looked at Heather.
I could see the desperation at her, the want, the need to want to avenge her family... her home. I knew the feeling, the feeling of being lost but I had people around me, my brother, Astrid and everyone else but Heather... she had no one. Then another thought hit me, they're all scared to do something like this without Hiccup and Toothless.
So I spoke up between Snotlout's talking.
"Hey!" I called out and they all looked at me.
"Listen, I understand being hesitant about doing something like this without Hiccup and Toothless, I truly do. But, there is going to be a time when we're older when we can't rely on them, even today. We shouldn't always be scared to do something like this without them, we have to learn to do what we think is right. Even if we don't have everything we would like." I stated and I turn to Heather.
"But this mission isn't about what happens to Dagur, or about you and me but it's about Heather. Yeah, she hasn't always been the best but she did what she did for her family. I know what it's like to be alone, to lose family." I started and I glanced at Dracul.
"Us L/n's here we lost out parents but we had you lot, to distract us, to make us smile, laugh and cry with, you lot were there for all of us." I took a deep breath at this point.
"Heather is in a similar situation and she was alone, so why should we not do something to help her when she needs people to be with? Just cause something isn't here to increase the odds of success. Besides, Hiccup wouldn't want Heather facing this all alone, so we should be with Heather, in her time of needing people." I finished and walked over to her placing a hand on her shoulder and faced everyone, showing everyone that I trust her.
Astrid walked over as well.
"If we're gonna do this, it has to be a capture mission, not a kill mission." She said to Heather and she looked over at me and I took my hand off her shoulder.
"Agreed?" Astrid asked and Heather nodded slightly.
"Agreed. We'll sink Dagur's armada, and drag him back to Outcast Island. Let him rot there." Heather explained to us all.
"Okay. Then we're with you." Astrid said simply.
"Well? What are we waiting for? Let's go get the dragons! And we'll meet at the hanger" I said and they all ran off to get their dragons.
"Y/n, I can not thank you enough for the support through that, I really felt like I was going to be alone during this." She said to me and I gave her a small smile.
"Just promise me you'll capture him and not kill him, it's worse than ending it early." And at that, her grateful look turned to a confused one.
"You're not coming with us?" She asked simply and I nodded.
"Yes, It's best for me to not fly or do much so the wounds in my back do not rip and I bleed out again," I explain and she nods at that, the map was still in her hand.
I grab the map from her.
"You know where Dagur is right?" I asked and she nodded.
"Good. Then you won't need this." I said to her, taking the map out of her hands.
"It'll tell Hiccup where you all are, now go and drag Dagur back to Outcast Island to rot," I said and she nodded and flew off to everyone as I waved farewell.
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I was in the stables fiddling with a locked lock when I heard a singular dragon land, I walked out to see a very confused Hiccup and Toothless.
"Heather?" He called
"Guys?" He called again
"Where did everyone go?" He asked Toothless who then turned his head towards me and ran over.
Once he got over to me I scratched his head "Hey buddy!" I greeted with a small smile.
"Y/n!" I hear Hiccup yell and I look up to see him run over with the horn firmly in his hand.
"Heather and everyone are currently out hunting Dagur," I answer just as he opens his mouth.
I hand him the map that showed Dagurs general location.
"They should be here or near that general area, now go!" I tell him stepping back from Toothless and he mounts Toothless and they fly off to find Everyone.
"Odin's speed guys," I mutter to myself before turning back to go fiddle with the locked lock.
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I had finally unlocked the lock and started somewhat cleaning the pens lightly and I heard Nyra roar and I walked outside to see them all landing, I could tell the mood of everything had changed.
I see Heather and Windshear go to Astrid's hut with a sad but confused look on her face, somewhat like a sad wolf pup.
I walk over to Dracul "What happened?" I asked and he sighed.
"Heather's Dagur's sister." He told me and he walked off to most likely spent time with Ryu.
I look over to see everyone else also slowly disband all with defeated looks on their faces, Astrid more than the others.
I walk over to her and pull her into a side hug.
"You alright?" I ask even though I know the answer to that.
"I-- I don't know." She said truthfully.
"Talk to her about it," I suggested and she nodded and went to her hut to help heather grab her few belongings.
Hiccup walk over to me and stood next to me with his arms crossed.
"I think Heather's going to leave and be by herself again," I told her and I nodded at that.
"Yes, we cannot change what her choice is as it is what she thinks is best for her," I told him and he seemed to see where I was coming from and what was meant.
After a while, Heather was readying to leave and Astrid was walking up to her with her friend's axe in hand while Hiccup and I were standing off to the side.
Astrid handing Heather her axe "Guess you're leaving. Again." Astrid said looking away from Heather.
"I thought you were tired of being alone," Astrid told her and Heather looked sad.
"I am." She put it simply.
"Then don't be. It's safer here. You have support." Astrid said trailing off before looking her in the eye "And I'm here." She said, really not wanting her friend to leave.
"I know. I just have a lot I need to figure out." Heather explained mounting Windshear and she looked back at Astrid once more.
"Thanks, Astrid. It was nice having a friend again" She said before turning away.
"Let's go girl," She told Windshear and they took off into the sunset.
Hiccup and I walk up to her, both of us standing on either side of her.
"Hey, I know you guys got pretty close. I'm sorry you're losing a friend." Hiccup said sadly and I spoke up.
"Don't worry, we'll see her again, I'm sure of it." Astrid put her arms around both our shoulders.
"But I still have you lot." She said simply and we watched Heather fly off.
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Dragon fact of the chapter:
Unlike the Deadly Nadder, the Razorwhip does not have poisonous barbs, as they have poisonous tears.
That was 3,600 words exactly! WOW!
Sorry for the lack of updates the HTTYD flow has been a bit... Eh.
BUT! But, I'm trying my best cause you all deserve it and the next chapter is going to be my fav for the next few chapters cause I read on dragons too much when I'm bored :,D
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