Lightning and death
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After the other Dragon rider disappeared, Hiccup and Toothless remained hovering in the air for a moment before they turned around returned to the other riders. Still trying to process what he'd seen. "Riders, back to the Edge!" He shouted over the storm as it grew worse.
"Did you see anything?" Astrid asked as the flew back toward Dragon's Edge.
I'm not sure, but I saw something," Hiccup said. "For now, let's get back to the Edge."
The Dragon Riders continued flying back to Dragon's edge, unaware they were being followed.
"Not too close, I just want to see where they are going," The rider said to his Nighfury.
The Riders landed back on Dragon's Edge, as soon as they touched the ground Fishlegs asked Hiccup.
"Hiccup was that another…?"
"Another NightFury? I'm not sure," Hiccup said.
Thunder crashed in the distance. "We'll go back and look tomorrow," Hiccup said looking at the approaching storm front "Everyone inside, now!"
The main brunt of the storm had missed Dragon's edge, but there was still damage to the huts
As they began the repairs to the edge, the familiar screaming of a Nightfury filled their ears. Hiccup looked up and saw a blackish streak fly across the sky, do a roll and turn towards them. The rider had followed them!
"Toothless!" He yelled calling for his dragon.
"Stormfly, come!" Astrid yelled.
Hiccup got on Toothless and watched as the other Nightfury circled around the base a couple times before landing at the stables. A figure got off the dragon and stood next to it and looked directly at the Riders, his face obscured by a hood.
Astrid and Heather both pulled their axes off their backs; Toothless readied a Plasma Blast, Hookfang flamed up.
"Whoa, take it easy bud, we don't know who that is, or what they want yet," Hiccup said as they approached the mysterious rider, who had a Viking sword on his hip and a shield on his back. Hiccup had uneasy feeling he knew exactly how to use them.
"Who are you?" Hiccup asked when they got closer. He remained on Toothless in case anything happened, up close the other Nightfury was slightly bigger than Toothless.
The Rider reached up and lowered his hood revealing a boy about Hiccup's age. The last time any other the riders had seen him, he and his Nightfury, Nightstorm had been plummeting toward the icy ocean around berk.
"Torin? Torin Shatter-Scales?" Astrid asked, and the rider nodded still remaining silent.
"But you died, we all saw you crash into the frozen sea," Hiccup said.
"No," Torin said shaking his head. "After Nightstorm and I crashed through the ice, I fully expected to open my eyes and see Valhalla. I woke up lying on an ice sheet with Nightstorm wrapped around me."
"I don't understand, where have you been the last three years?" Hiccup asked. "Why not let us know you were alive?"
"I will explain everything inside," Torin said.
Torin followed the riders inside one of the huts.
"Where have you been all these years?" Hiccup asked again once they were inside.
"Everywhere," Torin said pulling a map out of Nightstorm's saddle bag, laying it on the table. "All over the world, and there are Dragons everywhere, on nearly every continent."
The Rider's faces lit up with excitement.
"Did you find any Nightfuries?" Hiccup asked hopefully
"I'm sorry, but no," Torin said.
Hiccup's face dropped.
"But I did hear rumors," Torin added.
"Rumors?" Hiccup asked. "What kind of rumors?"
"Rumors that led me to the ends of the earth, and to this," Torin said pulling out a very old looking Dragoneye lens.
"Is that a…?" Hiccup started to ask.
"A Dragoneye lens? Yes," Torin said.
"It looks different than the others," Hiccup said.
"That's because it's for the Nightfury," Torin said. "I think it could lead us to more Nightfuries."
"Only one way to find out," Hiccup said retrieving the Dragoneye, putting the lens inside.
"Toothless, slow burn," Hiccup said holding the Dragoneye in front of Toothless.
Toothless's fire illuminated a large map.
"Fishlegs, do you recognize any of this?" Hiccup asked.
"No," Fishlegs said walking up to the map illuminated on the wall.
"I do though," Torin said. "Everything, except for that," He said pointing to the large land mass.
"Same here," Heather spoke up, making Torin turn around to see who had spoken.
"Heather," He said looking at the girl leaning against the door frame.
"Do you two know each other?" Hiccup asked seeing the looks on their faces.
"Windsher and I were struck by lightning several months ago," Heather explained. "Torin saved our lives."
"And you never thought to mention it before?" Hiccup asked.
"I'm sorry, I…" Heather began.
"That's my fault, I didn't want my survival to be known," Torin said interrupting her. "If hunters found out about him they'd hunt Nightstorm relentlessly, I didn't want to lose him."
"That's why you were attacking Hunter ships," Astrid realized. "No survivors means no one is alive to alert Vigo."
"Exactly," Torin said. "As far as we know, Toothless and Nightstorm may very well be the last two Nightfuries."
"There is, however, a slight that there could be more Nightfuries." He said pointing at the large land mass in the center of the map.
"Its so far away, though," Hiccup said. "We've never been out that far, not even close. I'm not sure if our dragons could even reach it."
"Hiccup is right," Torin said. "Nightstorm and I tried it once we'd need a ship, a big one."
"What kind of ship?" Hiccup asked.
"A dragon hunter ship," Torin. ""They…
"No! There is no way I'm putting Stormfly on a ship designed to capture Dragons!" Astrid protested, interrupting Torin.
"No, Torin is right," Heather spoke up. "Those ships are designed to be at sea for weeks or months at a time, and they have enough room for our dragons."
"Yes, thank you, Heather, that was exactly the point I was trying to make," Torin said looking at Astrid.
"Aren't you forgetting something? What about Vigo?" Astrid asked. "If we all suddenly vanish, He and the Hunters will have a field day hunting Dragons."
"Astrid's right," Fishlegs said. "We can't just abandon The Edge"
"Maybe we don't have to," Hiccup said thinking.
"What are you thinking?" Astrid asked him.
"I'm thinking, You, Torin, Heather and I go, while Fishlegs and Snotlout stay behind with the B team from Berk." Hiccup said.
"That could work," Heather said. "How are we going to get the ship, we can't just ask Vigo for one."
"Ya never know, that could work," Torin said. "But no, we'll have to steal one from the Hunters themselves."
The Mystery Rider is reveled! And he's met Heather before. What is this strange new land?