Previously: "It's ok," she said over her shoulder to the others "He's alive, just appears to have been knocked out and..." she said pausing seeing the state his leg was in.
"And what?" Astrid asked trying to make her way to Ryder and Mari.
Mari ignored her and looked at Stoick.
"How good are your doctors Stoick?" she asked in a slightly nervous voice.
"Good enough to handle cuts, burn, scars, and amputations, is need be," Stoick answered her coming to see why she was asking this question and saw the boys leg "Thuggory, Heather, fly back to Berk and tell Gobber, and Gothi to get ready for us when we get back."
Nodding in understanding, they got onto Killer and Windshear and headed back to Berk.
Now with two dragons gone, the others could see Ryder better, Cami and Astrid gasping slightly at the scars on his face, Stoick sure he knows this boy from some place before.
Saying to himself he would work it out later, Stoick told the girls and dragons what to do and all together they, somehow got Ryder and Toothless back to Berk.
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At Berk, everyone and everydragon were swarming around as they came back wondering if their hero was ok or not.
"MAKE WAY! MAKE WAY!" Stoick's loud voice called out splitting up the crowd "He's fine but he needs to get to the Healer's Hut now!"
With that and no more interruptions Stoick rushed Ryder to go see Gobber and Gothi, Toothless, Snowdrop and Mari close behind him.
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Inside the Healer's Hut, Gobber and Gothi were waiting with any tools necessary to fixing up Ryder.
Soon the lad was brought in, Gothi's eyes widening a little as she saw him, but she kept her thoughts to herself until she was sure.
Gobber was about to get to work when Toothless butted in and stood over Ryder.
"Toothless," Mari said gently getting his attention. "I know you don't want Ryder getting hurt, but the only way to make sure he doesn't get more hurt, is to let them do this..." she said softly hoping to make the dragon understand.
Whining Toothless curled up around Mari and flattened his ears and closed his eyes obviously not wanting to see or hear his best friend as he is put through the pain of having his lower left leg removed.
Not wanting to see or hear it either, Mari hugged the black dragon tightly and nodded to Gobber.
For the next fifteen minutes, all that could be heard in the village were the screams of Night Ryder as Gobber dealt with his leg for him.
After the scream had died down and the leg was bounded to stop the bleeding, Mari looked up and had to fight with herself from being sick; she was never all that good with seeing blood.
Slowly Toothless came up and sniffed Ryder's leg licking it a little.
"Oi dragon stop that," Gobber said waving a hand at Toothless.
"No Gobber let him," Mari said making him stop "Ryder said that Night Fury saliva helps heal things faster."
"If ye say so lass," Gobber said cleaning up not really believing her.
Mari was about to help when she felt Gothi lightly tap her staff on her shoulder making the girl turn to the old woman.
"Yes Ma'am?" Mari asked.
Right away, Gothi sprinkled some sand got to writing.
"Do I know who this boy is?" Mari read confused "Of course I do, he's Night Ryder, the Dragon Lord, the one who says that dragons and humans can live together."
Gothi writes some more.
"What do you mean 'No he's not'?" Mari asked confused, Toothless coming over and paying attention to the old lady.
With that, Gothi told both of them about how, 14 years ago, the Chief had a son, how he was a runt, how he was always picked on, and how one day he decided to run away.
"So..." Mari said quietly when Gothi was done "You believe that Ryder is... Hiccup?" she asked getting a nod from Gothi who smiled a little and looking to Toothless to check if she was right.
Sighing and rolling his eyes a little, Toothless nodded and went back to watching over the now known Hiccup Haddok III of Berk.
"So why are you telling me? It's not like I will be able to do anything to make him come back. Especially after all the things you said the others did to him as a kid, and that nest he created for all those dragons. " Mari asked Gothi confused.
'Because I believe he trusts you, and cares for you.' Gothi wrote after rolling her old worn eyes a little 'Why else would you think the dragons only let you see him on Dragon Island?'
Not sure what to give as an answer, Mari just said she would stay here want watch over 'Hiccup', Gobber and Stoick already having left.
Nodding in understanding Gothi grabbed the girl a blanket, and then left.