A/N: Hello! :) Yep, I should be working on the episodes...and Wash Away My Color but I wanted a break. Speaking of which, I need to go on a hiatus soon to keep my sanity in check. ;) Anyway, I'm going start those soonly. By the way for those of you who have seen season 3 any suggests or plot modifications you want? I love doing those. XD -Goodness, I'm ridiculously talkative today. ;)

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Set: RTTE S3

Summary: Haedryin is severely injured and Asher is struggling to take care of the Haddock. As he waits for a rescue from Berk, and begs a nearby island for help, Haedryin's condition only seems to be getting worse rather than better.

Ailing Part l

"No, I'm pretty sure it's left."

"Tuff-"

"I just have a feeling. Remember the Edge and no one believed me, well guess what was there?-dragons."

"Tuff."

"You have to trust me H. I just feel we should go left. If you don't come with us, me and Ruff will head that way."

"Tuffnut."

"No seriously trust him he's insticital map is unmatched."

"Well my real map disagrees with his instinctual."

"So? Tuffnut knows what he's doing."

I let out a long sigh staring at Ruffnut inwardly reminding myself that I love the girl like a sister and don't feel the need to grab her throat and give it a good throttle. I feel terrible, my head is pulsing and a phantom pain is ringing through my missing limb and it's who knows how long before I can't keep it to myself.

We were taking a patrol and a storm built up, I'm not entirely sure whose brilliant idea it was to declare we go left but now, me Asher and the twins are lost with only a basic idea on where we are.

The twins are insistent that we turn left and head in that direction for a long time but I can't see that going very far. According to my map of the Archipelago we should head east, or the opposite direction that both Thorsten's are insistent on.

Asher has remained neutral for the most part but I can tell he's heavily irritated with me but I'm not entirely sure why. I have a few theories but it's not like anything screams 'this is the one'. I'm pretty sure he's ready to strangle me, drop me from the sky, let me fall for a long time before diving after me then throttle me slightly. Asher's fury is not to be unmatched, tamed or compared to anything beyond a roaring fire-the sun.

"Iyn, I think we should trust the twins." Asher says and I look up from the map my jaw falling slack slightly.

"You're kidding right?" I demand and me and Toothless share a look. The Night Fury and I turn our gazes towards the Hofferson, rain is pouring down on us water rushing across our skin and hair soaking us. Its freezing. "But t-this says that we should head east." I say lifting up the map slightly.

"Well, your map hasn't gotten us very far, has it?" Asher snaps from underneath his heavy hood and everything clicks at that moment. Ah, the map. He's frustrated that the map, and I haven't been leading us in the right direction. Even now as their leader, it should be my job to look after all of them and I've done a terrible job.

Thunder ripples overhead and we all look up.

With a frustrated groan I fold the map back into the book and give a soft irritated look towards the sky. My head is pulsing to much to even attempt at stopping the storm with magic. I grit my teeth and fold my arms across my chest."Fine."

"Yes! Back in business baby!" Tuffnut yells and the Zippleback dives past me the two cackling madly. I shake my head softly and Stormfly and Asher dive past both of us, the Hofferson not even giving a glance back to see if we're following.

Toothless looks up at me, "Yeah, really not my first choice either, bud." I admit before giving the Night Fury a soft pat on the neck and he draws back his wings before blasting forward through the storm the wind and rain bouncing off of his wings and smacking me in the face. I wipe water from my eyes before my eye lashes can freeze shut. Its happened before and I am not in the mood to deal with that again.

Maybe pay attention to where we were going too, but I haven't felt a hundred percent all day and now, it's worse. I get a strong vibe that it's going to be a while before we get home, I just hope Fishlegs, Snotlout and Heeth have been able to keep things in check. Sometimes it feels as if they're worse than the twins when they have something to argue about. I mean, Heeth can usually keep them from strangling each other and Fishlegs and Snotlout have matured but their still more than happy to leap on each other.

Thunder ripples overhead drawing me from my thoughts and Toothless tenses looking back at me. I give a reassuring tight smile and rest my hand on his neck.

Lightning.

Metal.

A person who controls lighting and has a annoying problem of attracting it.

One human and dragon lightning rod.

I don't think that this fact has crossed anyone else's mind but Toothless and I have been struck by lightning more than once. When Mildew had plans on getting rid of Toothless and the Skrill incidents.

"Just watch your tail and I'll watch my foot." I murmur quietly to him leaning towards his neck to make sure he, and only he, receives the message. Asher and the twins are already irritated enough with me, mentioning the fact of the lighting probably won't help anything.

Probably? No, it wouldn't.

After an undocumented amount of time I look up as Toothless gives a small growl. Stormfly, Barf and Belch immediately grasp my divided attention. Through my blurring vision I can spot both dragons dropping incredibly in flight. We should land.

None of the other dragons besides Toothless are coping.

"Hey guys!?" I try but at that moment, thunder picks the most inconvenient time to rumble, not like it was being very suitable before but it rolls across the sky blocking out my voice. Annoyance flutters through me but I push it to the side.

"Guys!"

Asher looks back at me first, then the twins seeing his sudden shift follow the action. "I think we should find somewhere to land, none of the dragons besides Toothless are coping." I yell.

"Nah, they're fine!" Ruffnut shouts back at me. Toothless and I share an irritated look, had it been Toothless he would have let me know he's tired and we would have landed, no questions or delays, sometimes they can be so stubborn.

"Have you been watching Barf?" I return suddenly feeling snappy.

"Iyn, in case you haven't noticed, there isn't any islands around here." Asher says gesturing outwards with his hands. I did. I squint my eyes and look forward trying to locate some sort of sea stack, arch or an island to land on.

Echo location.

I want to throw up my hands and yell, "duh!" but restrain myself, "Toothless, do your thing, search." I request and Toothless nods before rearing his back slightly and letting out several sonic rings.

The purple waves travel past the twins and Asher and after a moment Toothless's ears perk, "Did you get something?" I ask and he nods. "Come on!" I command them before Toothless dives forward past the twins and Asher.

The two exhausted dragons let out equal soft groans before diving after us. About five minutes pass before I spot what Toothless's heard, there's several large sea stacks and arches then a small island center of them. Toothless glides across the sky for a moment and I jerk my head up as lighting cackles, barely missing my leg. Toothless leaps left and I'm nearly thrown from the saddle at the sudden movement. Thunder roars above us and I go rigid with shock, momentarily blinded from the close range.

"Oh, man, that was close." I groan quietly my ears ringing. I lift up a soaking hand and wipe my eyes trying to clear my fogging vision but its getting worse.

"Haedryin look out!" Asher's voice suddenly screams. My senses perk but I can't see anything, for what!? What's coming towards us, what is it!? Toothless jerks down, heading for a dive as something smacks me in the chest.

Pain racks through my rips, face shoulders and I feel myself jerk from the saddle. Everything aches but feels like nothing. I'm disconnected. My limbs are limp and I want to scream at the pain shooting through me but can't. My voice is dead, my head spins everything is screaming. Why does it hurt so bad!?

"HAEDRYIN!" The voice is blurry and sounds more like "Play drone!" than my name. Is it my name? I can't focus! My back smacks into water causing more pain to pile on top of the blinding, searing hot, and pulsing screams of my body.

Water.

I'm in water.

My lungs give a desperate shout.

Air.

I need air.

Why can't I get air!?

Water starts to seep in through my nose and mouth where air should be piling on top of the panic already building.

I can't breathe! I'm going to drown but I can't do anything about it!

A hand wraps around my wrist but I don't really feel it, it's more like a distant feeling. Something not my own. Maybe it's not. Don't be daft, it's your arm, Iyn. We break the surface of the water, but I feel it rather than see. My eyes are squeezed shut as I try to gasp in air but fail.

"She's not breathing!" A voice screams.

"Is she conscious?" Another demands.

"I'm not sure! Iyn! Haedryin! Come on, just breathe! Breathe!" The voice sounds panicked and I want to open my eyes and assure them I'm fine. Am I though? I don't think so. A hand smacks down on my back and air wrestles its way down my throat.

I gasp and throw my eyes open jerking forward taking gasping breaths. My lungs scream along with various parts of my upper body, I can't feel my feet but the main source rests solely on my ribcage.

Toothless.

Where is Toothless?

"Too..th.." I croak looking forward.

"Just breathe, Haedryin." A panicked male voice instructs. I look up and meet eyes with worrying blue ones. Asher. "We got him." He adds soothingly. Good. His fingers rustle through my bangs and I give a soft groan before my eyes slip shut and unconsciousness takes me.

(Asher POV)

There's a whole lot of times I've wanted to strangle Haedryin.

I take in a slow breath. We've been flying for a long time now in the rain and I'm freezing, moody and feeling something next to beyond irritable. Everything anyone says for the last hour or so has made me want to rip my axe off of Stormfly and toss it at their heads.

Haedryin and Toothless are about fifty feet in front of us, looping around the small island and sea stacks we found. Stormfly gives a groan of relief as she sees them and guilt rushes through me. I know she was tired but didn't realize how much, "Sorry, girl." I murmur and give the Deadly Nadder a soft pat on her neck.

She gives a small croon, letting me know it's alright.

Thunder ripples and look up at the sky turning my glare towards it, this really wouldn't be half as bad if it wasn't raining. My entire body is soaked from head to toe and it's going to take at least an hour maybe more to regain feeling in anything when we get back to Dragon's Edge. Amazing.

Lighting flashes abruptly and Stormfly rears as I flinch ducking my head. The source of stinging pain is gone just as quickly as it had appeared and I something moves quickly through the corner of my eye. I track it with my gaze immediately recognizing it to be a boulder, headed for Haedryin and Toothless!

"Haedryin look out!" I scream in warning. Toothless gives a cry of surprise and jerks down for a dive but not quick enough, the boulder smacks into Haedryin's chest and she gives an ear splitting scream she's jerked off of Toothless heading for the waves below. "HAEDRYIN!" I scream hardly recognizing my voice.

That could have killed her.

She could die and the last thing we did was argue.

This can't be happening! Haedryin's back smacks into the water before she plunges into the depths below. Toothless, without his counterpart echoes Iyn's descent. I watch frozen for a moment before I urge Stormfly forward, "Ruff Tuff grab Toothless!" I shout.

I don't look back at them to make sure they followed the command before I suck in a deep breath of air and urge Stormfly to dive. She does so and plunges into the icy water below. The precious air I have gathered almost escapes me at the temperature but I force myself to keep my lips pursed together tightly.

Iyn. Where is Haedryin?

The inky blackness makes it hard to spot but Stormfly dives down deeper, she can track things from miles away, I trust the Deadly Nadder with my life. She'll find her.

A glint of silver catches my attention and after a moment I spot Haedryin, I point towards her and Stormfly gives a soft nod before diving towards the sinking young adult. I grab her wrist as soon as we're close enough and pull her onto the saddle before Stormfly turns around and shoves her way through the water towards the surface.

We break it and I take in gasps of air my hood falling away from my face. Haedryin however, doesn't follow my suit. I turn my attention towards her my eyes widening, there's a deep gash across her forehead but everything else seems to be internal. She isn't breathing.

Haedryin isn't breathing.

No, no, no, no, no!

"She's not breathing!" I scream towards the twins as they break through the water, Toothless clutched in the Zippleback's claws.

"Is she conscious?" Tuffnut demands, for once sounding completely and utterly serious.

"I'm not sure! Iyn! Haedryin! Come on, just breathe! Breathe!" I scream, I can't stop the panic that swirls through my voice but I see her eyelids flutter. I re-position my grip on her before smacking her across the back. Haedryin's eyes snap open and she jerks forward gasping for air.

Her usually bright green eyes are dimmed, unfocused and pain filled.

"Too..th.." She croaks looking forward.

"Just breathe Haedryin." I instruct forcing my nerves to calm. She's still alive. She has to be better. Her eyes meet mine and I bite my lip slightly before glancing at Toothless. "We got her." I add. I move my hand forward and peel her soaking bands from her forehead. She groans quietly before her eyes slip shut and she goes limp again.

"Where did that come from!?" I demand, the boulder, where was it from? I twist around and look towards the island, we're about fifty feet off from it. "Pull back!" I command and Stormfly starts to dive forward. I keep a grip firmly on Haedryin the other on the saddle handle as we dive for an arch.

Stormfly lands with a ka-thump and I slide from off of her back keeping Haedryin in my arms bridal style. Barf and Belch set Toothless down before landing themselves. The Night Fury raises over to me and gives a pitiful groan.

I turn towards Ruffnut helplessly, tears starting to pool in my eyes. The Thorsten straightens her helmet and with no words said gestures for me to set Haedryin down. After a moment, I lean down slowly and rest the Haddock down. She makes no indication she's awake, felt it or even still alive.

Ruffnut returns moments later, strips of fabric in her arms, she was trained a few years back by Gothi for most healing properties, Tuffnut over the years has learned about broken bones and though the two would deny it, if they wanted they could take up Gothi's job. Ruffnut after a few moments of fumbling and a soft curse, she manages to unwind the bandages and turns her attention to Haedryin. I follow and suck in a breath my hands twitching. The upper part of her deep blue shirt, is soaked thoroughly with water like the rest of us but it's starting to turn crimson. Ruffnut's lips purse before she stretches out the bandage.

Toothless groans and plops down next to Haedryin's head the sudden wind causing me to shiver. It is cold. Very cold. When we're flying, it's pretty easy to ignore but this is...frigid.

Ruffnut looks up at me, "I need you to lift her torso we'll I wrap this. Until we can get back to Berk we should wrap this over her clothing." She says and I nod moving my frozen limbs forward and plopping down in front of Haedryin's front taking her head and upper body into my arms. I force my arms to remain steady as Ruffnut works quickly.

Her hands blur and Tuffnut drops a makeshift bandage next to his twin. I look up at them, we're still lost. This hasn't changed anything. "You two need to head back to Berk when this is done." I command quietly. Ruffnut looks up at me, tying off a knot before moving her hands along Haedryin torso cringing.

"That got 'er good." She says and looks back at Tuffnut, "Maybe her shoulder too." She adds after a moment. Tuffnut nods and kneels down next to his sister. Finally seeming to process my earlier order Ruffnut looks up.

"Wait, you want us to!?" She demands. I nod.

"Who else!? I'm not leaving her, Stormfly is exhausted, Toothless can't fly without Hiccup and you two are the only one's who can lead others back here." I respond my words mixing together.

Tuffnut shoves at Haedryin's shoulder and I squeeze my eyes shut as Haedryin flinches a soft groan of pain escaping her lips. "That's all we can do. Ruff," Tuffnut says and turns looking at his sister, "He's right. Asher will kill us if we don't go."

"But we don't even have a map! Berk could be hours from here." Ruffnut counters.

Map. Haedryin's map!

I let Hiccup's head drop onto the ground, albeit gently before working my way through the satchel she wears around her upper leg. I pull out the book containing the map and shove it between the two Thorstens whose foreheads are now touching at their anger. "Take her map and go, now." I add the last word after a hesitation and they look down at the leather before returning their gazes to me.

After a pause, glance, then a soft nod Tuffnut turns.

"We'll be back in two or three days."

"If she does wake up, don't let her move to much." Ruffnut commands and I nod.

"I will." I promise. She nods and the two rush towards Barf and Belch swinging onto the dragon's necks. The Zippleback leaps into the air the two bickering siblings already arguing over who gets to read the map. My fists tighten.

I turn back towards Haedryin and let out a sorrowful sigh. Toothless echoes me and we both move towards her. Toothless sits down next to the Haddock and raises his wing blocking most of the wind. I take Haedryin and gently pull him towards Toothless leaning her against the Night Fury's side. I sit next to her and watch as Stormfly plops down next to Toothless. I turn my attention towards Haedryin. I take her hand into my own and give the cold lax limb a quick squeeze, "Just hang on Haedryin, for Berk, for Toothless, your dad." I plead quietly. I let out a long shaky breath, "For me."

A/N: Next part'll be up in a few days. I shall start episode 15 soonly. Like a few days soonly. :) If you wanna review they're welcome, if not thats totally cool. ;)