~The Edge~

Hiccup and Toothless sat on the roof of their hut looking at the stars.

"Really something, eh bud?" Hiccup sighed. Toothless just crooned gently at his rider in agreement. "We've discovered so much, and yet.. there's still so much we haven't explored yet.." Hiccup looked back up at stars.

Hiccup turned as he heard footsteps coming up the ladder. Astrids blonde hair appeared from below as she lifted up the trapdoor. "You're still up here?" she asked him.

"No, I'm in my bedroom." Hiccup rolled his eyes.

Astrid sighed at Hiccups sarcasm. "You should come inside, get some sleep. It's been ages since you got a good nights sleep."

"How can I sleep when I know that there's so much more to discover?" Hiccup looked back up distractedly at the moon and stars. "I haven't been out exploring in weeks."

"We had to deal with Meatlug's injured wing first, Hiccup. Now that she's all better, we can continue to explore the islands." Astrid put a hand on Hiccups shoulder.

"I was thinking we explore this island.." Hiccup pointed to a large island on the eastern edge of the map.

"Hiccup, that's really far.. It's got to be two days straight flight at least, the dragons can't fly that far all at once.." she sighed.

"Astrid, it's a massive island. Think of all the new things to be found! Think of the dragon species to be discovered!" Hiccup said excitedly.

"The resources needed for this trip would take a while to gather, we'd also have to make rest stops for the dragons. This is a massive trip." Astrid argued.

"Astrid, think of all the possibilities!" Hiccup was grinning like a moron.

"We'll sleep on it, then we'll confront the rest of the group on this," Astrid said, "Get some sleep. It's late." She descended down the ladder, Hiccup missed the slight frown across her face.

He looked to Toothless. "Think of all the things that are out there bud.." he sighed. "I just wished the rest of them understood." Toothless lay his head down and looked up at the dragon rider. "Yeah, I know you understand bud."

Astrid looked at the map. The island Hiccup wanted to go to was a four day flight there, including rests. She sighed. They would need a lot of food and supplies. Not to mention that many of the islands on the way were extremely dangerous. Astrid sighed and folded up the map. Like she said, they could talk about it in the morning.

"Oh Stormfly, why does Hiccup have to be so adventurous?" Astrid pet her dragon's nose. "He's going to get himself hurt one of these days.."

Stormfly gently cooed as if to say, Oh he'll be fine, don't worry about him.

Astrid groaned, put out the candles and plopped down on her bed. She looked up at her ceiling and slowly drifted off to sleep, stuck with her worried thoughts.

Hiccup was up at dawn. He was already mostly packed, and Toothless had a new tail made specially for long distance flying and endurance. All that was left to do was talk too the rest off the riders. He took a deep breath and stood before the rest off the group.

"Okay, first things first.. Fishlegs, how's Meatlug's wing doing?" Hiccup asked.

"She's doing much better! She's good to fly again! Aren't you girl?" Fishlegs gave Meatlug a scratch under her chin.

Meatlug's tongue hung out of her mouth as she gave Fishleg's a loving smile, yes I am! she grinned.

"Do you think it's possible for her to fly long distance?" Hiccup asked hopefully.

Fishlegs looked unsure, "I don't know... maybe... she could use some exercise I guess..." Fishlegs looked too meat lug to see if she was up for it. Meatlug just gave a light smile, indicating she was up for the challenge.

"Ok great. Well.. we haven't visited many new islands lately so I was thinking we got to this one.." Hiccup pointed to the island on the far eastern side. "It's enormous. There are so many possibilities. New plants, new dragon species, new landscapes! It's a long flight, including rest stops its a four day trip there. I think we should stay at the island about 4 days to a week to make sure we can really explore it. Then it's a four day trip back. All together the trip will be about two weeks long. Now, some of the islands on the way are dangerous, so we need to make sure we set up camp on the safe islands." Hiccup examined the map. "We can land on the Gronkle Lands, since gronkles are fairly passive dragons. We can also land on the Terror Island, here," he pointed to a small island in-between The giant island and the Gronkle Lands.

"That island's really far away Hiccup..." Fishlegs said nervously.

"We can always take an extra rest day if Meatlug's wing is acting up." Hiccup said trying to quell Fishleg's troubles. Fishlegs hesitated for a minute before modding, agreeing to the trip.

"Dude, that island is seriously far from the Edge. It's almost off the map!" Tuffnut exclaimed.

"What? Too wimpy?" Ruffnut teased her brother.

"You're too wimpy," Tuffnut shoved his sister.

"You!" She retaliated shoving him back.

"You!" shove

"You!" SHOVE

"YOU!" SHOVE

"YOU!" SHOVE

"Fine! You're on!" Tuffnut turned to Hiccup, "We're in!"

"Yea!" chimed Ruffnut.

"Yeah, this trips not gonna be a problem.." Snotlout scoffed and flexed his muscles, "Right Hookfang?"

Hookfang just rolled his eyes at his rider.

Astrid sighed, "I still don't think this is a good idea." She crossed her arms. "What if the island turns out to be really dangerous?"

Hiccup shrugged, "It's never stopped us before." He stated. "So does everyone agree to give this trip a try?" He looked around to see if there were any objections. "No objections? Okay. Let's get packed, we'll leave in two days."

The group dispersed to go pack and prepare for their long journey. Hiccup turned to Toothless, "Ready to go on another adventure Bud?" He grinned. Toothless' tongue lolled out of his mouth happily as he looked up at Hiccup excitedly.

Two days later the group sat on the beach. The dragons were saddled up and ready for take off. Hiccup looked at his compass, and then his map, "Okay guys, we're going to head straight that way." He pointed North East. "Let's go."

The riders all mounted and took off towards the horizon.