Thora and I flew around Berk, doing record time. We were about to reach the goal line. When we crossed it, we landed on the Academy and a big smile spread on my lips.

"So?" I asked, panting. Flying around at an incredible speed would certainly tire me out. "How'd we do?"

"New record." Fishlegs said exited. "You've really progressed. Thora is the third place of the fastest dragons."

"Third?" I asked and he nodded. I think he should record times again, we were almost going at super sonic speed!

"Toothless is in second place." He added and I frowned. Okay, I admit Toothless was even faster than Thora, but how could he be second? Wasn't it supposed he was the fastest dragon of them all?

"How is that possible?" Hiccup asked as confused as I was as he petted his dragon. "How can Toothless be getting slower?"

Fishlegs shook his head. "He's not. Stormfly's getting faster."

We looked surprised at Stormfly and Astrid, who had a big satisfactory smile. I narrowed my eyes and crossed my arms, eyeing her suspiciously.

"Anything you'd like to share, Astrid?" Hiccup asked.

Astrid smirked. "Let's just say I'm experimenting with what she eats. And apparently, it's working."

Stormfly erupted and a stream of fire escaped from her mouth.

While we discussed which were the fastest dragons, we were interrupted when Snotlout and Hookfang arrived and Snotlout seemed more happy than usual.

"Woo-hoo!" He exclaimed in exitement and crossed his arms. "You guys won't believe what I just found."

"A severed head?" Tuffnut guessed.

"Our cousin Lars?" Ruffnut continued.

"Our cousin Lars' severed head?"

"Lars died?" Fishlegs asked with wide eyes.

"Who said that?!" Tuffnut exclaimed.

"Um, excuse me?" Snotlout called our attention again. "Do you guys want to see this, or not?"

"See what, exactly?" Ahti asked raising an eyebrow.

He didn't got answer, Snotlout and Hookfang just took flight and we supposed he wanted that we follow him. We rode our dragons and we followed him until we arrived to a beach, one I never visited before. But here, there was a wrecked boat. We all got close to it, questions rising in the air.

"Just remember, I saw it first, so it's mine." Snotlout said before he showed us what he found. It wasn't what, it was who. It was a girl. "Remember, I get to keep her!"

"Are you crazy! It's a person!" I practically yelled on his ear.

"Right?! How lucky is that?"

I just elbowed him for being an ignorant, and hard. He whimpered in pain and even moved aside, giving Ahti more space to see. I smiled victorious.

"Hey." Hiccup crawled his way to the girl and shook her gently, waking her up. She pushed herself up and she looked disoriented, until seeing us. She got scared and backed away as much as she could. "It's okay, we're friends." Hiccup said with a warm smile.

The girl coughed hardly and looked at us. "Do you have any water?" She asked and gasped when Tuffnut, Fishlegs and Snotlout tried to offer her water at the same time. Ahti just pushed them away from her and offered her his bottle.

"Here. Drink it all." He smiled with generosity.

She thanked him and drank as much as she could, then gave it back. "Where am I?"

"This is Berk." Hiccup answered and suddenly Toothless appeared, scaring her. Hiccup pushed him back and allowed her to come out. "Uh, do-don't be afraid! He won't hurt you. Come out, it's okay."

She leaned her head out and watched how Toothless followed Hiccup's commands, sitting on his place calmly.

"How did you do that?" She asked in awe, standing up.

"That?" Snotlout asked. "That's nothing. Watch this. Hookfang, get your butt over here!" He yelled. Hookfang glared at him, before flying off. Everyone just stared at him. He laughed awkwardly. "He'll be back. Jokester." He said under his breath."Oh! And just so you know, I'm the one who rescued you." He said trying to flirt out with her.

Thankfully, Hiccup walked to them in time. "And I would be Hiccup." He introduced himself.

"Heather." She answered. She had black hair in a side braid that lay down her left shoulder, and green eyes. She wore some green and brown clothes, and she had a horn on her belt with some symbol in it, but I couldn't see it right.

"So, Heather..." Astrid began. "What happened to you?"

"My family and I were on our way home to our island when our boat was attacked by pirates." She explained.

"I wanna be a pirate!" Tuffnut interrupted of a sudden. We all turned to him. "Or a fish cleaner." He continued with a hand on his chin. "I'm still on the fence."

Astrid cleared her throat and we turned back towards Heather.

"They attacked our boat and took us back to our island, laying siege to it." She said as she walked to stare at the ocean. "I was able to escape, but my mother and father, they weren't so lucky." She looked down.

"Stupid pirates!" Tuffnut hissed. "I'm definitely gonna be a fish cleaner!" He stated and I rolled my eyes.

Hiccup walked towards Heather and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, everything's gonna be okay. My dad's the Chief. We'll figure something out." He assured as they walked to Toothless. I almost laughed at Snotlout's expression.

We all walked back to our dragons, and I noticed Astrid return to the wrecked ship checking for something and then walk towards Stormfly. For some reason, the alarms on my head went off and I got a bad feeling. I turned to Ahti and made a hand gesture to stay when everybody took flight. He nodded and we waited for everybody to go, except for Snotlout, who didn't have a way to go back.

"I knew I could count on you, guys." He said with a smile as he walked to my dragon, but I stopped him.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, there you mutton head." I got off my dragon. "Where do you think you're going? You have two legs, start walking!" I pointed the way back and he glared at me before walking away. Once he was far enough, I talked to Ahti. "Who is she?" I asked him.

"Heather." He simply replied, then he went quiet.

"I know that already. Stop messing with me!" I yelled.

"Whoa! Okay, calm down! I was just joking!" He raised his hands defensively. "Man, did you woke up on the other side of the bed?"

"Hey! Watch it!" I snapped. "Would you just tell me who she is!"

"Fine, I'll tell ya. I don't know much about her, but what she said about her parents..." He seemed to consider something. He looked around and checked nobody else was listening.

"What? What is it?"

He looked at me. "It's true."

"They were kidnapped by pirates?" I repeated. "How? I mean, is there a way to rescue them? Maybe we can help her to get them back..."

"We can't." He said.

"Why not?"

He just looked down and closed his eyes. It took me a while to let it sink in and I placed a hand on my mouth. "Oh my God." I said in a voice that was barely above a whisper. "What are we gonna tell her?"

"Nothing, we'll just let everything happen until it's time. Then we'll tell her. Right now, let's just welcome her and threat her like she's one of us. That way we'll gain her trust." He said. I just nodded. He was the one that knew about the episodes, so whatever he thought it was right, I would do it. We got back to the village, but before we leaved Thora grabbed Snotlout from his arms and we flew back.

By the time we returned, it was already noon. From what I've heard, Heather would stay in Hiccup's house in the meantime. Poor of her, I couldn't imagine her expression when we tell her about the loss of her parents. Ahti had told me to act natural and to not say a word to anybody, so that's what I was going to do.

However, there's was this feeling in my chest that was telling me something was wrong, but I let it slide. Probably were just the nerves, I was tired and it was bedtime. Whatever happened, we would figure it out in the morning.

I woke up and instead of getting ready to go and see my friends, I stayed in bed for a while, staring at the roof of my room. All this Heather situation got me thinking about how alike we were she and I. We were just teens, and we both have lost somebody special for us. Although she lost both of her parents, I felt like I did too. My mother was so strict with me since father disappeared. Once she was nice to me, now, she was just as cold as the ice.

I never knew why my father leaved or if he really died, but mother never wanted to talk about it and Dallas still couldn't get over it. Lucy didn't even had a chance to know him. And I, I was starting to forget him. As the time passed, the memories of him started to vanish from my mind, and there wasn't a single photo at my home for me to know how he looked like. However, mother says I look a lot like him, but I wonder if she meant physically or mentally.

Almost at mid-day, I got out of bed and walked towards the Academy. To my surprise, Hiccup and Heather were nowhere to be seen. Fishlegs was scratching Meatlug behind her ear with a branch, the twins and their dragon were sleeping, Ahti was adjusting his saddle to Oak, Astrid glared at the sky besides her dragon, and Hookfang wouldn't calm down.

"Hey, where's Hiccup?" I asked. Astrid didn't even look at me, but she pointed up to the sky.

"Giving a private lesson." She replied dryly. I followed her gaze and heard Heather's voice. It came from Toothless, and wherever Toothless was, Hiccup was too.

Then I got that feeling again bothering me. Everything was fine seconds ago, but when I got to see Hiccup and Heather together, I just got a bad feeling.

~If I didn't know you, I would say you we're jealous~ Sabrina smirked.

What?! That's ridiculous! I'm anything but jealous!

"I didn't know he gave private lessons!" Fishlegs said, but he seemed to like the idea. Even I would like it, if it didn't involve Hiccup AND Heather. "Can anybody get in on that?"

"Yeah. I know she's knew in the island and she shipwrecked and all that, but I think that's too much." I said placing my hands on my hips.

"Uh-oh! Looks like there's another hen in the rooster house." Ruffnut smirked.

"Uh-oh. Yeah. Another rooster in the hen house." When he realized what he said he sat up. "Wait, what?"

"Nothing." I said. "She thinks I'm jealous, which is completely ridiculous."

"Oh, right, right. Wait. Of who? Me? Wait, am I the rooster, or the hen?" Tuffnut asked to himself.

I rolled my eyes and shook my head, walking to my dragon. "Trust me. The last thing I am is jealous." I was being honest when I said that. If Ahti hadn't told me about her parents, then I would probably be jealous, but just a bit. Now, I only felt bad for her, though I had to admit seeing her with Hiccup... They just didn't go along.

"Top of the morning, class!" Hiccup greeted us cheerfully, hoping off Toothless' back. Heather got off too and she gave a turn staring in wonder at the arena."How's everyone doing today?"

"Oh! Nice of you to show up." Astrid said with sarcasm. I smiled in the inside. Thank you for pointing that out, Astrid.

Hiccup frowned, and of a sudden he realized what she meant. "Ooohh, we were supposed to meet up. I'm so sorry." He facepalmed himself.

The teens walked to us and Snotlout said something to the twins I didn't catch. "Ooohh, Annabelle's jealous of the pretty one, right?" Tuffnut asked of a sudden and I snapped my neck at him, glaring at him to shut up. Not because he was right, but he didn't had to say it out loud. "Why talk about hens and roosters?"

Astrid gave a step forwards. "So, Heather? Sleep well?" She asked.

"Very well. Thank you, Astrid." Heather replied with a small smile, while Astrid just glared at her. I could feel the tension rising in the air. Heather looked down for a moment as if she knew why she got that look, and then changed the subject.

"So... This is it? Your Dragon Training Academy." She said.

"No. Our Dragon Training Academy. Remember, I called you the pretty one." Tufnutt chuckled, and his sister just looked at him awkwardly.

"We've been training the dragons to become part of our everyday lives." Hiccup explained.

"And all of it goes right here." Fishlegs showed up with the Book of Dragons on his hands. My eyes went wide. How did he got it? I was working on it updating the pages three days ago and I left the book in my house. Did he steal it?

Heather suddenly got interested in it, like, very interested to the point she was almost jumping from excitement. "Really? Everything?" She asked.

"Mmm, yep. I'm kind of the Log Keeper. Log Master, really." Fishlegs said, arranging his helmet. I closed my eyes. If I didn't know them, I would say he, Snotlout and Tuffnut were all trying to flirt with her, and it was getting annoying.

"Can I see it?" Heather asked, but out of the blue Astrid snatched the book from Fishlegs' hands and walked with Hiccup far away from them. "I'll take that, thank you. Excuse us."

Okay. Now I was one hundred percent sure I wasn't the jealous one here, Astrid was. But, why she glared at Heather when she asked her how did she sleep? And Heather also acted like she was trying to avoid it. Maybe I should talk to her, just in case something was bothering her.

Ahti and I walked to her and all the teens wanted to show her their own dragons.

"I would like to see them, thank you." She answered politely. "But how am I gonna be in different places at the same time?"

"Maybe you could take turns." Ahti suggested. "I mean, maybe you could go first with Fishlegs and let him show you his dragon, then with the twins and then with Snotlout."

"What about you?" Heather's question caught Ahti off-guard.

"M-me?" He stuttered.

"Of course. I see you own a dragon too, I would love to know about him." Heather smiled, and... Was that a tint of pink on her cheeks? I turned to my sleeked haired, blue-eyed friend and noticed he also was turning pink. Oooh... I see what's going on here...

Hiccup returned with the Book of Dragons under his arm. "Sorry about that, here you go."

Before Heather could grab it, I spoke up. "Actually, Hiccup, I still need to finish with the updates. You know, there's a lot of work to do." I reminded and he retracted the book.

"You're right, I'm sorry. I forgot." He gave me the book and I smiled. Heather frowned for a moment, but then regained her charming smile.

"So, Fishegs, when can we start?"

"Right now!" He said and they walked out of the Academy to the village. Heather gave a last look to Ahti and waved him before leaving. Ahti smiled like an idiot and waved back. He hadn't even noticed I'd been watching the whole time. I cleared my throat and he turned at me. "What?"

"Heather and Ahti, sitting in a tree-" Before I could go on, he covered my mouth with his hand. I just laughed under his hand, and he was bright red.

"I should go... I have things to do... and well... see you later!" He excused himself, running off as fast as he could.

I just shook my head with a smile.

Later...

I returned to my house and continued with the updates in the book. There were hundreds of things to edit, and I was considering to do another book. The first five pages were already edited and re-written by Hiccup, so I continued since there. I added some details here and there, made some drawings, erased and rewrote information, etc. It took me hours to get to the middle of the book.

I didn't noticed when I fell asleep. I blinked a few times and yawned, stretching myself. Maybe I should get some rest and go to sleep, but before I did, I had to return the book to Hiccup. I stood up and stretched a hand to reach out for it, but I grabbed nothing. The book wasn't there. I knelt down, but the book didn't fall of the table. I searched behind my furniture and I even wondered if I left it in my room. No, I didn't. I did found a book, but it was the one Trader Johann gave me.

I started to panic. Where the heck did that book go? Where did I leave it? Okay, I had to retrace my steps. I was at the Academy, Hiccup gave me the book, I arrived here and started to work and then... Hold on... Before Hiccup gave me the book, he was gonna give it to... Heather.

Oh no... she probably sneaked in my house and got it while I was asleep. But, what was the purpose? She could just had asked me for it.

I ran out of my house and the first thing I did was knock at the door of Ahti's home. The door was open, and there was no sign of him. Of course! He likes her, he must be with her!

I ran to Hiccup's house, but in the way I found said girl talking to Astrid in her house. I hided behind another house, eavesdropping their talk.

"Don't give me your innocent routine." Astrid snapped. Wow, did I miss something here?

"I wouldn't think of it. You're way too smart for that, Astrid." Heather replied and my eyes went huge. She... was acting? All this time, she had been lying to us? How dared she, if we just gave her our support and our friendship and... it was all for naught! She was just playing, and we fell right on her game! I felt a sudden rage burn inside my stomach, and she was gonna pay for it.

"I think your dragon likes me." Heather said. "See you later, Stormfly." She said before leaving Astrid alone. I covered my mouth to stiffen a gasp. This couldn't be true.

"Really, where's the loyalty?" Astrid asked Stormfly.

"She gave me chicken. I like chicken. I like her."

I growled and ran off to the woods to clear up my mind, I just couldn't believe what I heard. I wanted to scream for being an idiot. Since when she had been lying? Probably since we knew her! Which would meant her parents could be alive! Wait, Ahti said they were dead...

No, he didn't. He never said it, he just went quiet and told me to let things happen, I was the one who assumed he meant they died. Oh my God, I was so stupid! I should have listened to myself! Why do the good guys always fall in the bad guys' games?

I punched a trunk of a tree and I jumped when it rumbled as I punched it. I stared in shock at my fist, and wondered how mad would I be to punch that hard, until I heard the same loud noise again and I realized it wasn't me. I walked towards the sound, and heard a familiar voice too.

"Astrid?" I called and she looked surprised to see me, she held her axe in her hand. "What are you doing here?"

She lowered her axe. "I could ask you the same thing. Do you still have the Book of Dragons with you?"

I furrowed my eyebrows at her question. "No, it disappeared. I assumed some of you guys would have it, though my first suspicion was Heather." I admitted.

"Ugh! I think it's time for you to know the truth." Before she could say anything else, we heard a twig broke. We both froze. I turned around and saw Heather running through the woods. Instantly, we followed her until we reached the same beach we found her, except that the wrecked boat was gone. Now that I remembered, we never returned here to check if she didn't come alone.

We hided under a tree and watched she just sat on the sand, looking at the distance. Astrid and I shared a look.

"This was stupid." I said, already leaving but she called my attention.

"Wait..." She said and I returned to my place. We saw a figure in the distance approach the shore, and I recognized the crest on the sail, along the people that were in the ship. "That's an Outcast boat!"

And suddenly, three men got out of the boat. "Savage..." I whispered. What in the name of Thor were they doing here? "What's really going on?" I said out loud.

"I don't know, I can't hear anything."

We leaned over the tree a little more trying to hear the conversation, but it didn't work. We jumped when we heard a sound behind us. We turned around, and I managed to hear the sound of footsteps running away. My eyes went wide.

"Somebody saw us." I gasped. "We have to go! If somebody else saw us, no doubt he'll think we were working with the Outcasts and he'll make his way to Stoick!"

"We have to stop him!" She said as we chased him back to the village.

"This way!" I yelled as I heard his footsteps becoming closer. I stopped of a sudden when a pack of boars ran past us and then we regained the chasing, but the footsteps sounded further. "He's getting away!"

"He won't!" Astrid threw her axe at him, but missed my some inches. What we did heard was a yelp and Astrid ran to get her axe back. I saw her pausing to catch her breath and she collected something, before catching up with me.

We ran with all our strength and suddenly the trees ended, as we arrived to the village. We had advantage since it seemed like we arrived first, so we used it and ran to Hiccup's house. Astrid kicked the door and then kicked Hiccup to wake him up. I winced when he yelped in pain, but there was no time for that. The Outcasts could attack in any minute!

"OW! WHAT-!" Hiccup snapped open his eyes and sat up, glaring at us. "Why would you do that? What are you doing?" He asked, the last question more to me than to Astrid.

"Saving our butts! We just saw Heather talking to Savage! She is working with the Outcasts!" Astrid explained. Hiccup just looked at her confused.

"What? She's upstairs, sleeping."

"Oh yeah? Let's go find out." She challenged as we three made our way upstairs, but Astrid and I gaped in shock when we found Heather was indeed sleeping in Hiccup's room, and Ahti was here too! He was sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall with one of his knees bent and he leaned his arm on it. Actually, they just woke up at the sound of our footsteps.

"Hey guys." Heather yawned. "Is everything okay?" She asked, and now I felt embarrassed. Ahti rubbed his eyes and gave a yawn.

"Yes, Heather. Everything's fine." I said in a low voice. "Sorry for waking you up." I apologized and Astrid gave me an 'are you kidding me' look. I avoided her gaze and gestured them to leave. "Come on, Astrid." I said walking downstairs and Hiccup got us out of his house to talk to us.

"What was all that about? Are you girls okay?" Hiccup asked, looking concerned towards us.

"No, we're not." Astrid yelled as she looked at me. "Why you did that?! Tell him what we just saw!" She exclaimed, startling me a bit for yelling so loud. She was a lot like my mother when she got mad.

"What are you talking about?" Hiccup said. I sighed and shook my head.

"Nothing, Hiccup." But Astrid wouldn't let it go, so she talked for me.

"Heather was talking to Savage! We both saw it with our eyes!"

Hiccup rolled his eyes, tired of this situation. "Astrid, don't you think it's possible you saw something else? I mean, it's pretty dark out there." He reasoned.

"I know what I saw. The girl is not who you think she is!"

"So who is she, then?" He crossed his arms, expecting an answer.

"I-I don't know... nobody knows!" She said, looking away. My mind clicked in that moment. There was one person who did know. Ahti. "She just mysteriously washed up on our beach. You don't find that strange?" She waved her arms for emphasis.

Hiccup shook his head. "No, because her ship was taken over by pirates. Her whole island is under siege."

"The only thing 'under siege' is your brain! You're not thinking clearly!" She snapped.

"Oh, really? Me? You should listen to yourself, Astrid! Since Heather arrived you've been acting strange and very rude towards her. " Hiccup shot back. "Are you jealous of her? Are you both jealous?" He asked looking at me too and I gasped. Now he went too far. I had heard it already and I just let it slide, but hearing it from Hiccup? That was a whole different thing.

"I'm. Not. Jealous!" I finally exploded. "Can you explain me what the hell was Ahti doing upstairs?!" I snapped. Now I was furious.

"Heather was having nightmares, he just came to watch over her."

Riiight. And I talked to ghosts. Ahti knew something and he wasn't telling me. I wondered what was it and if it was so important for him not to tell me, his best friend. I felt like the Clone Wars season 5 finale was happening all over again. Ahsoka trusted Barriss, and she betrayed her. I was trusting in Ahti, and he was betraying me. At what cost?

"Hiccup, the Outcasts could be attacking any minute!" Astrid cried returning me to the real world.

"Astrid, if there's one thing I know, it's this: Heather... is not working for the Outcasts." He said at last. Then he went back inside and closed the door.

"What did you get when you threw the axe at the one who spied us?" I asked her, and she looked at me puzzled.

"Why do you care? You don't even told Hiccup the truth!"

"Because I knew he wouldn't believe us." I explained. "You know, I have experience in this stuff, even if you got all the proves, he won't believe you because he kinda likes her. It's like a spell. You can't trust in anybody, but in yourself. Now, what do you have?"

"How do I know I can trust you?" She narrowed her eyes at me.

I gave her a funny look. "Come on, Astrid! I'm not either blind or deaf! Hand it over." I extend my hand and got from her pocket something super small, capable of hiding from view in her fist. She gave it to me and I raised an eyebrow when I saw what it was.

"Is this... hair?" I asked.

"I reacted the same way." She said.

It was a lock of sleek hair, and it was short. It could be from anybody, I knew a lot of people with dark hair. It could be from Heather herself, and that would explain why we found her sleeping. Maybe she did arrive first.

"Now what?" Astrid interrupted my train of thought.

"Now we have to get clues." I said. "We have to research for the owner of this lock and watch over Heather to make sure she doesn't give anymore information to the Outcasts."

"Right." She gave a yawn and I yawned too. "Let's start tomorrow, first hour in the morning, okay?"

I nodded and she walked away. I gave a last look to Hiccup's house and sighed, before walking to my home. This was a mess, and I didn't want things to turn out worst than they already were.

The next morning when I got out of home, I noticed Oak wasn't sleeping outside Ahti's house, what was weird. I went to knock at his door, but it was open like I left it yesterday. Oh, right, he stayed with Heather.

I went to Hiccup's house and knocked the door. Stoick greeted me with a smile.

"Mornin' lass, what can I do for you?"

Before I could say anything, Hiccup walked to Stoick. "Hey Dad, have you seen the book?" He asked, alarming me.

"You'll have to be more specific, son." Stoick said, but I knew which book he was referring to. Either way, Hiccup answered his question.

"The Book of Dragons. I can't find it anywhere."

"Did you look in your room? Or did you asked Ahti or Heather?" I said.

"Tha-that's another thing." He said with a frown. "None of them were in the room when I went upstairs. Maybe they woke up earlier."

That was all I needed to hear. Everything made sense now. The Book of Dragons, Heather and Ahti gone? All at once? Not a coincidence. Heather was indeed working with the Outcasts, she made everything up. Last night when we found her talking to the Outcasts, somebody sneaked up on Astrid and me, and said person had sleek hair.

There was only one person who would help Heather. Ahti. He lied to me since the beginning, he knew she was gonna betray us and he lied to protect her because he was in love with her. He lied about her parents, he lied about not knowing her, he borrowed the Book of Dragons from me and he helped her get away from Berk when everybody else was sleeping.

I stomped the floor in frustration. "He's gone!" I yelled, catching Hiccup's attention.

"Heather?" He guessed and I shook my head.

"No, Ahti! He helped little Miss Innocent get out of here with the Book of Dragons!"

That was all it took Hiccup to understand Heather lied all this time.

Moments later...

"Oh, this is bad. This is bad, this is bad, this is bad!" Fishlegs cried. We were all gathered in the arena and I had already explained everything to the gang. "This is catastrophic! I-If Alvin gets that book-"

"He won't." Hiccup said, and he was having a hard time to believe what happened. "Heather... I can't believe it."

"Me either." Snotlout said. "How could she walk away from this?"

Hiccup ignored him, like everybody else did. "How could I not have seen it?" He wondered and that's what I was questioning too. When was he gonna learn to listen?

"Because your brain was 'under siege'." Tuffnut said.

"Do you even know what that means?" Hiccup asked him annoyed, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes... no... it's not good, right?" Tuffnut asked confused. I shook my head.

"No, it's not good." Astrid said as she mounted her dragon and I got on mine. She and I shared a little smile, because we trusted each other and all this time we were right.

Hiccup walked towards us and I could see in his eyes he was really ashamed, but a simple "I'm sorry" wasn't going to fix things right.

"Girls, look..."

"Save it!" Astrid barked raising a hand. "You can apologize to both of us when we stop them from getting away." She stated. Hiccup looked at me sadly and I just avoided his stare.

"Alright, let's go." He said as he mounted Toothless and we took off. "We can't let them reach Outcast Island!"

"They won't." I muttered, and I had a hard time believing Ahti could do this to me.

It felt like hours until we finally saw a figure on the sky. At first it was a dot, but then it became a figure and then I recognized the Timberjack and the two riders on it's back.

"There! I see them!" Fishlegs exclaimed.

"Come on Stormfly!" Astrid yelled as she flew past us and quickly caught up with Oak, followed by Toothless and Thora. Astrid moved above them, while Hiccup and I flew around, to make sure they wouldn't try to escape. Suddenly, Heather opened her satchel and from it she got a chicken leg, then she gave it to Oak, what increased his speed.

"I-is that... chicken?" Hiccup asked, as he turned to Astrid. "Is that what you've been..."

"Really? You wanna talk about that now?" She yelled back. "Steady, steady..." She extended her arms and jumped, landing perfectly on Oak's saddle. Thankfully, Oak was almost as big in size as Torch's mother, so she could easily stand up on him. "Going somewhere?" She asked, as Heather and Ahti turned in surprise when they saw her.

Heather just turned back and pushed Astrid off with her back, and she would have fallen off if she didn't grip Oak's tail.

"Astrid!" Ahti yelled in alarm. "Oak, tail flip!" He ordered. His dragon did as told, and soon, Astrid was on Oak's back.

I had to admit that caught me off guard. Although he was helping Heather to escape, he had a good heart and didn't let Astrid fall to the water. But still, that didn't mean we were not gonna stop them.

"This is gonna be awesome!" Tuffnut sang.

"Uh, Hiccup? I really hate to be the voice of doom, but we just crossed into Outcast waters." Fishlegs pointed downwards, and then we noticed we were flying above the sea stacks from Outcast Island.

"Astrid, Heather! Both of you stop!" Ahti yelled. "This will just make it worst!"

"Oh, really?! You're the one to talk!" Astrid shot back as she and Heather fought.

"Astrid! You got to trust me! We need to get to Outcast Island!"

"Why would we go there in Odin's name?!" She said as she managed to grab Heather from the wrists and pin her down on Oak's back, while the latter struggled to get free from her grasp.

"Because-"

"Watch out!" Hiccup yelled.

Out of nowhere, flaming boulders were fired at us. We started to dodge them as we approached Outcast Island.

"Guys!" I yelled.

"Don't you ever, betray us, again!" Astrid yelled, ready to throw a punch.

That was all it took Heather to get her strength and push Astrid off. She lost her balance and soon she was falling towards the water along the book.

"ASTRID!" Hiccup cried.

"Thora, fetch!" I yelled and we flew towards her. Fortunately, we saved her just in time and she landed safely behind me. Once I was sure she was alright, I looked around for the book, watching as Ahti, Heather and Hiccup plummeted towards it.

"Come on, come on, come on, come on, bud!" Hiccup encouraged. But they got way too close to the island and a boulder flew past him, burning him in the arm. Toothless sensed the pain in his rider and they got no choice but to return. In the air, Heather managed to grab the book with her arms, and they flew towards Outcast Island, as the Outcasts themselves cheered for their victory.

Hiccup soon joined us and we all looked sadly at him. Fishlegs flew besides Hiccup, hoping he somehow got the book. "Please tell me you got it."

Hiccup just looked down, placing a hand on his wound. "I was too late. They flew away with the Book of Dragons."

Wow. That was intense, don't you think?

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