Oh man. Sorry if the plot isn't too good or the characters are out of character or if another plot hole is thrown into the mix. I was on brief hiatus while I recovered, so that's why there weren't any updates for awhile. My memory always is terrible after I get a cold/fever. So yea… Sudden recovery from fever at one in the morning? That's normal. (not really. It's probably gonna come back, so if there's another brief hiatus that's why.)

The twins, being the twins, entered as noisily as possible. Ergo, explosion. Hiccup didn't know how they found another Hideous Zippleback that's as fond of explosions as the twins and Barf/Belch, but they did.

Fishlegs showed up soon after that, with Snotlout, and Astrid following soon after.

In Astrid's company was a Razorwhip. It's eyes were a pale green shade, and it's scales had a reddish tint. It settled its gaze on Erza. Erza eyed it warily, before stalking forwards.

Hiccup panicked slightly. "Uhh, you really shouldn't approach a Dragon like that, especially one that's been in captivity…"

Erza continued nonetheless, finally stopping right in front of the Dragon. She knelt down to its level, placing her hand on its horn. "Hello. I'm Erza, I think I'll call you Strawberry."

Hiccup was surprised as to how easily the Dragon submitted to Erza. The Razorwhip purred, rubbing its head against Erza's armoured chest.

Erza laughed, and rubbed its neck. Hiccup sighed, these people seemed to be defying everything he knew about Dragons. Or about anything. They just defied logic in general.

Wendy sat back, and the healing green glow that was over Natsu disappeared. "I've gotten rid of most of the rope burns, and bruises. He should be ok, he just needs some time to regain his magic. When he wakes up we should probably get him some fire."

Gray patted Wendy on the shoulder. "Good job. You're getting better at healing." Wendy smiled.

Hiccup called everyone over to him. "Ok, now for the matter of transportation. Dad, is there room on Skullcrusher for Gray?" The large man eyed his dragon, judging how much he would be able to carry. "Yes, I think he'll handle Gray just fine."

Hiccup then turned to Erza. "I'd let you ride on Strawberry, but you don't have a saddle."

Erza turned her gaze to him, before there was a flash of light, and she held up a saddle.

"Where did you even get that?" Hiccup walked over, inspecting the quality of the saddle. "It has a berserker emblem painted on it, are you ok with that?"

Erza turned the saddle in her hands. "Not really…" Another bright flash of light.

Hiccup thought she was going to carve out the emblem, but instead, she had a bucket of magic paint remover. At least, that's what it advertised on the side.

Erza held it up with a gleam in her eye. "I've been waiting for a chance to use this!"

She then excitedly started cleaning the saddle. "I guess that clears that up." Hiccup said, "Now, how do we transport Natsu?"

He eyed the sleeping Dragon Slayer. Gray chuckled. "FlameBrain's so thick he wouldn't now how to fly a dragon if the instructions hit him upside the head."

Natsu shot bolt upright. "FIGHT ME!" He demanded, pointing an accusing finger at Gray.

"Oh, Natsu you're awake, that's gre-" Hiccup was cut off as Natsu flopped back over, asleep once more.

"Looks like he's not awake anymore. I'll take him on Stormfly, can you handle Wendy? Probably wouldn't be best to let her ride with the twins or Snotlout." Astrid said.

"And Meatlug is too small to carry anyone else." Fishlegs added. Hiccup agreed.

One confused detour, (Erza got lost) two cases of Natsu lighting himself on fire (Hiccup did NOT like spontaneous fires) and a Terrible Terror attaching itself to Gray's face (they couldn't get it off, Gray finally made an ice duplicate and the terror attached itself to that instead) later…

Breathing heavily, the gang finally landed back on the edge. "I, for one, am going to bed." Fishlegs marched off to his house.

"I'd better be getting back to Berk. Odin knows what Gobbers done while I've been gone." Stoick mounted Skullcrusher and flew off.

One by one, people headed back to their houses. They had figured out sleeping arrangements on the way there, Wendy and Erza were staying with Astrid, they were girls who weren't accustomed to loud explosions whole sleeping.

Gray had grudgingly agreed to staying with Snotlout, and Natsu was staying with Hiccup.

Hiccup had been worried about where to put Natsu, so he wouldn't light the house on fire, but Toothless solved that, nudging Natsu onto the rock he usually slept on.

"You ok with sharing your rock bud?" Hiccup asked.

Toothless cooed, and curled his body away from the sleeping Dragon Slayer.

In Astrid's house

Astrid tapped her foot impatiently as she tried to figure out where Wendy and Erza could sleep. She didn't have an extra bed, and she doubted that Stormfly would share her slab of rock.

Wendy tentatively approached the older girl, "um… Astrid-San, Erza-San has already set up a room for me and her…"

"Just call me Astrid, and where? Exactly? Did she set up this room?" Astrid said.

Wendy pointed over to the storage room that Astrid had added to her house, it was where she kept her Dragon equipment and axes, there was no space for a bed, let alone two.

Astrid marched over to the door, pushing it open to… An empty room. Well, empty, aside from the two beds, dresser, and armour stands. Erza stood in the middle of the room, surveying her work.

"What are you doing! Where's all my stuff?!" Astrid exclaimed.

Erza turned to face her, glaring. "Is there a problem?" Astrid wouldn't back down so easily, however. "Yes! Yes there is a problem! Where in Odins name is my stuff!"

Before a bloodbath could start, Wendy butted in. "Erza-San's magic is called Ex-Quip. She has a pocket dimension where she can store all her armour, money, clothes, anything she needs. She's using it to store your stuff right now. If you need anything, just ask."

Erza and Astrid both hmmphed and turned away from each other.

Snotlout's house

Snotlout wasn't holding anything back as he hoped off his house. With flamboyant gestures he made it seem like he was walking through a legend.

Gray, however, was less than impressed.

"Yea, yea, I know this is your house, you don't need to introduce every room as 'this is the great Snotlout's bedroom, where he yadda yadda yadda.' Just show me where I can sleep!" Gray exclaimed.

Snotlout was stunned into silence for a few moments.

"You know what! Nevermind. I'll go make a house." Gray marched towards the door.

"Oh, yea, because you can totally just make things out of thin air." Snotlout shouted after him.

"As a matter of fact I can! My magic is Ice-Make!" To demonstrate, Gray froze Snotlout's bedroom door shut.

"HEY!"

There you go. So I took like, three hours writing this, mainly because I'd forget what I'd already written, and have to delete whole paragraphs. If you don't know why I forgot, DO THE SCROLL OF SHAME. Go back and read the first Authors note. I also fell asleep while writing. ~ShadeShadow