NRA: hey guys, sorry this wasn't up sooner, I'm losing muse for this, and I was at the Cottonwood Gulch Camp for five weeks. If someone could give me an idea for this story, it would be great!


Double Helix
Chapter 7

I was shocked; I froze as the two people turned to look at me. The older man sneered. He was my uncle, the same uncle who's ribs I broke when i was just four.

"Rachel, you are a disgrace. You've made the family look bad." He grabbed the gun from the teenage boy's hands and aimed at me. "People that disgrace the family should Die." he pulled the trigger and I barely had enough time to clench my hands into fists and close my eyes before several bullets came out of the gun.

I was bracing my self for a pain that never came. After a minute or so, I looked up and saw -to my surprise- all the bullets surrounding me, but not touching me. The closest one was a few inches from my neck.

"Wha-" I started, but then I looked at the boy. His hand was stretched out and concentrating on all of the pieces of metal that surrounded me. When he dropped his hand, the bullets dropped with it.

My uncle looked down at the boy in shock.

"So, your power has finally come out, eh?" he said. The boy looked up at him with anger in his eyes.

"I have always had this power, but I hid it from you all these years. I can also do this." his face now showed no emotion as he stepped back. He raised his hand and had the gun come to him. He took the weapon and shot bullets in the air. As they came back down, he lifted his other hand and a strong wind moved the bullets toward my uncle. I stumbled because of the strength of the wind.
Many bullets pierced his skin, wounding him badly, but before the boy could finish him off, my uncle limped back to the pirate's ship.
When he left, the wind stopped and the boy ran to me. I was still frozen from the fact that my uncle just tried to kill me.

"Are you all right? Rachel! Talk to me!" cried the boy.

"Wh-who are you?" I asked, shaking my head.

"Y-you don't remember...your best...friend?" he said. I shook my head again.

"I don't remember much since the boat was attacked..." I sighed, and then froze. "Did you say, best friend?" he nodded.

"Rachel, I-it's Orrin, don't you remember?" he shook.

"No, I have no clue who you are." I said hesitantly. Skrit walked up next to me. Orrin gasped.

"White heart?" he whispered.

"What? Whose white heart?" I asked him.

"The dragon," he pointed to Skrit, who was rubbing her head on my side. His eyes widened further. "You befriended White Heart? She's the most elusive dragon
in the world! I remember only seeing her once!"

"Well, I grew up on her island. She saved me from the pirates when I was four."

Orrin's eyes were nearly popping out of his sockets. He glanced down at Skrit, who was laying down and looking up at him like he would give her a treat.

"Sh-she what...?" he mumbled.

"Yes," said Skrit in a mature voice, raising herself off the ground. "I heard your wish, Orrin."

"What?" I asked, suddenly lost. I looked at Orrin, and he was nodding with surprised eyes.

The thing Orrin did next was not what I was expecting. He grabbed my arm and pulled me forward. He held me in a warm embrace, one hand on my back, the other on the back of my head. His scent smelled like the sea and some kind of fruit. I breathed in and it tickled my nose with the wonderful smell. I closed my eyes and I felt as if we were meant to be in this position, together.

"I'm sorry Rachel," he said in my ear. "I'm sorry for not being there for you. You had to go through all of that with only yourself and your brother. It must've been so hard." I started to feel tears well up in my eyes. I wrapped my arms around Orin to pull him closer.

I heard wings behind us, but didn't look up. Orrin moved me behind him and drew a sword I hadn't noticed on his side.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" he asked. I looked at the people and saw my brother and Hiccup, then also Astrid, Fishlegs, Snotlout, Tuffnut and Ruffnut.

"Orrin, it's ok. They're here to help clean up from the battle." I said, grabbing his muscular arm that held his sword. His purple/black eyes looked down at me, some of his short black hair covering them.

"Orrin? Omygod! It's Orrin!" Jared jumped off Lucy and ran to our old friend. He grabbed him in a bear hug and picked him a couple inches off the ground. "Man, I haven't seen you since you were like, FOUR!" said Jared enthusiastically. Orrin grunted.

"Dude, you're crushing Me." he said, one eye closed as if he was winking.

"Aw man, sorry!" Jared put down Orrin and punched him lightly on the shoulder. "I just haven't seen you in so long."

"Well, your uncle, umm, kinda kidnapped me..." said Orrin, scratching his head.

"WHAT?!" my brother and I yelled simultaneously. We looked at each other, then back at Orrin.

"Uh, guys? What's wrong?" asked Hiccup.

I turned around to face him. "Oh you know, we just figured out our uncle has been a member of a group of pirates that have been killing our family for the past hundred years or so. The usual." I said sarcastically.

"Oh..."


"so yeah, when I went missing, it was because the pirates and the inside man, your uncle, kidnapped Me." he explained to Jared and I in my room. "I was forced to design ships and stuff, and I was also their delivery boy. They would send me through a portal that sends you to another time and place." he sighed and looked down. "It's probably my fault that they have those powerful guns..."

Jared put a reassuring hand on Orrin's shoulder. "Nah man, they got guns themselves. I watched them. I was kidnapped around the same time you were."

Orrin raised his head and looked at him with teary eyes. I sat on the other side of him.

"Yeah, don't feel like you were the reason that caused this, they would've had somebody else that wanted to do it if you refused, anyways." I said and put my arm around his shoulders. He looked at the floor and his cheeks flushed.

"I-I guess..." he mumbled.

"Well, I'm gonna leave you two for a bit to get some food." said Jared after some silence. I looked up after him and Orrin kept his head down.

After the door closed, Orrin whispered so quietly I almost missed it. "Rachel..."

"Hmm?" I asked, trying to look at his face.

"I-I, uhh, do you mind getting off my foot?" for the first time, I looked down and realized my foot was nearly crushing Orrin's.

"Oh! I'm so sorry!" I cried, jumping off of him.

"It's ok." he smiled up at me finally. "I just needed and ice breaker, too."

"What?" I asked, confused.

"Rachel, you remember when I stopped the bullets from hitting you?"

"Yeah?"

"And you know how people from your family use powers like that?"

"...Yeeah?"

"I'm an odd case. I am not from your family, but I have powers."

"Ok, cool?" I said, not sure what he was trying to say.

"I was wondering, since-"

"Hey guys!" my brother and Hiccup burst into the room, eating some pheasant legs. "Did we miss something important?"

"NO! Ah, um..." said Orrin, shying away from us and sitting at the window sill.

"Rachel, do you want a tour of the Island?" asked Hiccup.

"Sure!" I said, happy something not involving pirates was going to happen.

"Come on." And Hiccup dragged me out of the room.

Little did I know, Orrin was throwing some pretty nasty looks at Hiccup.


NRA: well? I think that was a pretty good chapter for someone who's been loosing muse...

OH MY GOD, I love Orrin! he's just so...awkward!

but as I've said before, I NEED SOMEBODY TO GIVE ME IDEAS! ANYTHING, AS LONG AS IT IS SLIGHTLY RELEVENT TO THE STORY LINE! I know that they will have to battle out with the pirates more, but I want more to happen, and I don't know what to add. you guys dont want me to just bail on this, do you?