Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train Your Dragon.
Author's Note: One more chapter!
Time Period: Race to Edge after the season finale assuming all is well dandy.
The rain finally stopped as Astrid sighed in relief as she commented, "I think we can starting looking for the others."
"Others?" asked Hiccup confused at who she referred to.
"You know our friends," replied Astrid but he still had a confused face. "Fishlegs, Ruff, Tuff, and Snotlout."
Hiccup's eyes widen in fear before he remembered her words as he asked, "We're friends?"
Astrid's eyes softened at the pure innocence on his face as she nodded as she grabbed his hand and said in a calm tone, "Come on. Let's go find our friends."
Stormfly looked at the sky as she said, "Let's go Toothless. We have to find our Riders and the other Dragons."
"You never said anything about other dragons," replied Toothless as he narrowed his eyes towards the Nadder.
"Well, we have a Zippleback, Nightmare, and Gronckle. Do you Furies have a problem with those species?" asked Stormfly as they all walked out the cave to start looking for the other Dragons.
"We have problem with all species," commented back Toothless with a straight face.
"Then I hate to see your reaction to the Riders," joked Stormfly with her form of laugh.
"Still don't believe we have Humans ride us," commented Toothless as he followed her out the cave.
Astrid and Hiccup walked across the island as Astrid yelled out for Stormfly till Hiccup pulled her back. Astrid then turned confused, "What's wrong?"
Hiccup pointed to the cliff as he said, "You almost headed straight for that cliff."
"Oh thanks, I never even noticed I was so worried about the others," thanked Astrid as she frowned at the thought of them being missing.
Hiccup noticed as he bit his lip before he said, "Hey, we'll find them."
Astrid smiled as she saw some of her old Hiccup though before she could say something she heard a high pitched scream. "That's Fishlegs!"
Astrid then suddenly grabbed Hiccup as they ran and saw Fishlegs stuck in a tree as she yelled, "Fishlegs!"
"Astrid! I need help!" yelled Fishlegs as he felt his palms start to sweat.
"How did you get up there?!" asked Astrid as they walked closer to him.
"The ground underneath started to shake so I grabbed the branch but the land sunk down too far for me!" yelled back Fishlegs as Astrid tried to figure out how to get him down.
"Do you think you could jump to this ledge?" asked Astrid as she saw a nearby ledge near him.
"No! I think it's too far!" yelled back Fishlegs as his hand slipped before he grabbed the branch again. "Hurry!"
Hiccup watched as they thought of ways for him to make the ledge. He had a gut feeling he could help, but what? He sat on a fallen tree as he thought before he looked down and slightly pushed it as his eyes brighten when it slightly budged. "Astrid! I have an idea!"
Astrid turned around as she saw Hiccup pushing the fallen tree then connected the dots as she helped push the tree as she yelled, "Hang on Fishlegs!"
"That's all I really can do!"
Eventually they successfully pushed the tree enough that FIshlegs could reach it as Fishlegs quickly jumped onto to the tree and ran across it. "Whew that was close."
As if a hidden force heard him they made the tree fall off the cliff. Hiccup then whispered, "Really close."
Fishlegs turned to Hiccup as he asked slightly nervously, "Um, do you remember our friendship?"
Hiccup shook his head sadly as Fishlegs sighed as he whispered, "It's fine."
His eyes widen as he yelled, "I need to find Meatlug!"
"Meatlug?" asked Hiccup unfamiliar with the name.
"Hang on sweetie! Daddy's coming!" yelled Fishlegs as he headed towards the forest with Astrid and Hiccup following closely behind.
Stormfly sniffed the air to try find the nearest person or dragon before Toothless commented, "So, why are you sniffing the air? I can't smell anything?"
"According to Astrid I'm something the Humans call a Tracker Class," answered Stormfly as she kept smelling. Her eyes then narrowed to slits as she caught a smell. "Follow me! I think I found something!"
"Wasn't I already doing that?" asked Toothless sarcastically as he looked at the forest nervously before he ran faster to catch up with Stormfly. When he did he saw a Gronckle excessively eating away at rocks. "This one of your friends?"
"Meatlug!" called out Stormfly as she looked up from her rocks.
"Stormfly! Oh thank the Gods! Did you find Fishlegs?" asked Meatlug concerned for her Human.
"No, but I found Toothless. Problem he doesn't remember us or the Riders," said Stormfly as she gestured to Toothless with her head.
"Not even Hiccup?" asked Meatlug shocked before she rushed over to Toothless. "Oh, you poor thing, Don't worry we'll help you."
"Stop! I'm not a Hatchling!" argued Toothless as he glared at the motherly act.
Before anyone could say or do anything Stormfly's eyes narrowed again as she informed, "I smell someone else! Come on!"
Fishlegs kept running as Astrid had an easy time keeping up but she soon stopped as she saw Hiccup was having a hard time as she yelled for Fishlegs as she asked, "Hiccup, are you okay? Do you need to take a break?"
"No!" denied Hiccup quickly even though his red cheeks and sweat told otherwise.
Astrid gave me a blank face before she started, "Hiccup if you're lying because you think we might think you're weak you need to kn-."
"It's not that! We need to find your friends," interrupted Hiccup before he just interrupted the Great Fearless Hofferson. "I'm sorry for interrupting!"
Though to his surprise both Astrid and Fishlegs smiled at the signs of Hiccup getting braver and more like the Hiccup they knew. Though they soon a loud growl which caused Fishlegs and Astrid to drag Hiccup towards hoping it was one of their dragons. Though it wasn't instead it was….
"You're doing it wrong! That's not a Zippleback call!" yelled Ruffnut as she slapped her brother upside the head.
"Wait? I was supposed to do a Zippleback call? I thought I was just making random noises," replied Tuffnut which caused Ruffnut to hit him upside his head.
"Ruff! Tuff!" yelled Fishlegs as they all rushed over to hug them. "Oh, I've been so happy to see you two!"
"Oof! See I was able to call our friends," bragged Tuffnut breathlessly as him and Ruffnut saw Hiccup hiding behind Astrid.
"Heya H!" greeted Tuffnut as him and Ruffnut went over to hug Hiccup which he reluctantly returned.
Suddenly a deep roar echoed through the area as the Riders turned to the woods and saw a Snaptrapper appear. Ruffnut groaned, "Great! You called a Snaptrapper!"
The Snaptrapper roared as it went for the Riders as they all dodged to avoid it and hid behind a set of rocks.
Hiccup cried out, "What do we do?!"
"I don't know we usually try to do the Hand Thing!" yelled Tuffnut to the deaged Rider.
"The what?" asked Hiccup confused at such a title.
"It's a thing we call your trick to tame dragons," explained Fishlegs as he covered his ears from the sound of the Snaptrapper.
Hiccup bit his lip from fear. Him, the runt of the tribe, taming a dragon? That sounded ridiculous but he is still taking to heart what Astrid said about showing no fear, so this was either extreme bravery, stupidity, or craziness, because he got out his hiding spot and ran straight to the Snaptrapper.
"Hiccup! What are you doing!" cried Astrid as she saw Hiccup going to the dragon.
"Something stupid!" answered back Hiccup as he felt around his pockets, he had to have something if he was this great dragon tamer. He soon felt something in his pocket… it was grass. "Seriously?!"
The Snaptrapper came to towards him as Hiccup, out of pure instinct, held out the blades of grass towards the dragon. Then with a skid the dragon came to a pause as Hiccup dropped the grass as the dragon went into a state of pure bliss.
He held his heart out of shock as he ran to the other Riders to try find another Rider as he asked, "What was that?"
"You must have Dragon Nip on you," answered Astrid with a smile as they far from the Snaptrapper to try find the last Rider and hopefully their dragons.
Stormfly led Meatlug and Toothless to a dirt patch as Stormfly said as she looked up, "I think I found Barf and Belch."
"Barf and Belch? What kind of names are those?" asked Toothless with a disgusted look.
His question isn't answered as Meatlug and Stormfly went to the dragon that hid their heads in the dirt to help them out. Stormfly said to the heads, "Sorry if this hurts."
Stormfly was about to bite on the neck before Meatlug stopped her as she said, "Wait! We don't want to hurt them by doing that!"
"Do you know another way we could get them out?" asked Stormfly as she gestured to the two necks deep in dirt.
Meatlug looked before she saw a hole in front, probably for a gopher or rabbit, as she suggested, "Perhaps if we dig through that hole we could get them out."
"Would our claws even fit?" asked Stormfly as the hole was about as small as her foot.
"Perhaps not us but Toothless could fit," suggested Meatlug as they turned to Toothless.
"Oh no. Nonono. I am not doing that," replied Toothless as he saw Stormfly's pleading look before he huffed in annoyance. "Fine."
Toothless walked over to the hole as he began to dig straight down till he began to dig forward til he saw two heads as he greeted, "Hey."
"Toothless!" yelled Barf and Belch in unison in shock.
"Hey, so which is Barf and which is Belch?" asked Toothless as he looked around to see how to get them out.
"You don't know?" asked Barf shocked at the reveal.
"Yeah, according to that Nadder I lost my memories. That doesn't matter just get out of this hole," ordered Toothless as Barf and Belch tried but their heads were stuck.
"We can't."
Toothless growled in annoyance before he dug his head right in the center of Barf and Belch and fired a Plasma Blast above them. Shaking off the dirt off his face he saw Stormfly and Meatlug with a face of relief as Barf and Belch lifted up their heads to help Toothless out.
"Thanks Tooth," thanked Barf and Belch as Toothless just nodded a 'you're welcome'.
"Well I guess we just have to find Hookfang," announced Stormfly as they walked to what's left of the island.
The Riders ran far from the Snaptrapper without really looking where they were going then suddenly BANG! They ran right into Snotlout.
"Snotlout!" cried out the Riders shocked they just ran into their last Rider.
"Finally I found you but we need to go to the other direction!" yelled Snotlout as he ran past them.
They turned and they saw a dragon which the Riders never recognized but Hiccup screamed, "It's back! That's the dragon I saw from earlier!"
Hiccup then bolted and ran to follow Snotlout as the other Riders looked at the dragon. It was deep ocean blue with a long neck then atop its head was a dorsal fin. Fishlegs asked fearfully, "What kind of dragon is that?"
"I don't know but I want it!" announced Tuffnut with glee before the Tidal Dragon shot a stream of scalding hot water at him.
"Hehe now I want it," commented Ruffnut at the sight of dragon aiming at her brother.
"Come on you two! Let's get outta here before that thing kills us!" yelled Astrid as her, Fishlegs, and the twins ran in the direction where Snotlout and Hiccup went.
When they caught up with Snotlout and Hiccup the dragon still followed them. It then let out a scalding blast again at the land behind them to the point it made the dirt turn to such a soft mud it began to melt till it began to form a sinkhole.
In that moment Astrid realized what's been happening to the island, "That's why this land is getting smaller this dragon has been turning the ground so soft to the point it began to collapse!"
The dragon satisfied with it's work flew off. Astrid then jumped across to the more solid land before the land under her collapsed as she yelled, "Come on! We need to find our dragons before that dragon does!"
The twins quickly jumped without a second thought as Fishlegs gulped before he jumped then suggested, "I suggest we call it Meltwing."
"Who cares!" cried out Snotlout before he jumped to solid land.
They all turned to Hiccup who is the last one as Astrid encouraged, "Come on Hiccup! We'll catch you!"
"Are you sure?" asked Hiccup as he looked at Snotlout, who was the closest to him, which made everyone realize what he was really worried about.
"Yes! Even Snotlout will catch you!" reassured Astrid as Snotlout realized why Hiccup looked at him.
"She's right! I'll catch you!" added Snotlout which Hiccup still didn't jump. "Look I'm sorry! I really am! I'm sorry for calling you all those names and beating you up! Look if I could redo one thing in my life it would be that! I was upset that you were still better than me in so much stuff! But please just trust me this once!" begged Snotlout as Hiccup gulped and jumped right into Snotlout's arms. "You okay?"
"You-you actually caught me," said Hiccup breathlessly and shocked.
"Of course I did. Can't let my cousin fall into the ocean," replied Snotlout which caused Hiccup to smile. "Plus, Stoick would kill me if I almost let you die again."
"Again?" asked Hiccup confused before Snotlout avoided his gaze and walked to the other Riders.
"So where are our dragons?" asked Snotlout as he didn't see his Hooky anywhere.
"We're still looking," answered Ruffnut as they all heard a series of roars. "Our dragons!"
Soon everyone ran towards the direction to help their dragons.
The Dragons walked till they see Hookfang fighting the dragon that scared them and their Riders. It was a dark brown color with black spikes covering its body. Its pupiless eyes stared at Hookfang challenging him to continue the fight but the Dragons could see some scratches to know that Hookfang shouldn't fight the dragon.
Stormfly let out a Spine Shot towards the other dragon as she yelled, "Hookfang! Get out of there!"
"No! If I keep him above ground he won't dig to make the island sink more!" roared Hookfang as he tried to breath fire but he already used up his shot limit. "Oh no."
Soon enough the other Dragons, except Toothless, gave a shot of their fire to help their friend which Hookfang prowled over to them as he asked, "Did you guys find the Riders?"
"No!" cried out Meatlug as she shot out plume of lava toward the dragon.
Though music to their ears they heard….
"Stormfly!"
"Meatlug!"
"Barf!"
"Belch!"
"Hookfang!"
The Riders and Dragons were reuinated at last except for Hiccup and Toothless who just stared at each other for a long time before everyone turned to see the Meltwing and the dragon fighting Hookfang stared at the Riders with an angry stare as they were prepared to blast them.
A.N: And cliffhanger! The last chapter will be up in hopefully three days!
