Eden gasped, startled back awake upon feeling the wind tearing her red hair back away from her face. It took a moment to grasp exactly what was happening before the dragon-girl remembered. Her eyes were beginning to burn and she closed them tightly, trying to keep the wind out.

She knew she had a fairly limited time to change back into her dragon form before she hit the ground. And if she hit the ground at this speed in her human form… well there wouldn't be much left of the princess to be found.

She sucked in a heavy breath, wheezing slightly as the wind pulled the air forcively from her dry lips, leaving her struggling to stay conscious. She tried again, keeping her eyes pressed closed, summoning as much strength as possible to sprout her large green wings once again and fly to the aid of Hiccup and Toothless.

"Gah!" A shout tore through her lungs and caught in her throat before she realized that she was no longer falling. Her eyes opened, looking up to see Takara gripping her once again only to realize that whatever had stopped her from smashing face first into the pebbly beach below had caught her from below.

"Fishlegs?" She asked tentatively. Eyes widening at the sight of her friend. His arms were wrapped tightly around her and both he and the Gronkle they were now hovering on looked quite startled by the sudden addition to the load.

The burly boy shook the shock off of his face and a large smile bloomed, sending freckled cheeks up high by his eyes. He had obviously been quite surprised by the fact that he had actually caught the falling girl rather than crashing his Gronkle or missing her entirely. "Are you okay?" He asked loudly, trying to overcome the volume of the wind howling in their ears.

Eden nodded. The Gronkle let out a low bark of warning and both teens looked instantly behind them to see that Takara had yet to give up the chase. Eden scrambled out of Fishlegs arms, taking the small space behind the boy and the dragon's large tail and gripping tightly to Fishlegs' furry vest tightly to keep her from tipping off the back end as not much room was allowed for her to sit.

"That doesn't look good." Fishlegs stated plainly, scooting forward to allow the redhead more room behind of him although the tension of her tightly gripped fingers didn't loosen in the slightest bit. She shook her head as The Gronkle tried to fly faster.

Despite the dragon's small wings and large weight hefted upon its shoulders, the Gronkle was managing pretty well at staying ahead of the black dragon behind them as she roared with rage.

"What now?" Fishlegs shouted over his shoulder, snapping Eden from her thoughts as she had been staring intently at her sister as she sliced the air in front of her with the large overgrown claws. She looked around, surveying the area before she caught sight of Hiccup as he took off into the clouds.

"Can you get me up there?" She asked, letting go of the fuzzy vest with a shaky hand to point towards the dark clouds just as the tail of the Green Death disappeared into the vast maze of the mist that now filled the sky with ash and smoke.

Fishlegs choked a shout of utter surprise just as the Gronkle let out a roar of disagreement. "I don't know, what about her?" Fishlegs asked, jerking a thumb back at Takara.

Eden shook her head. "She won't be able to see up there, without her sight, she has nothing to rely on." She shouted back.

"Um, I don't know if you've noticed but we won't be able to see to clearly either!" He shouted back, gripping the small rope tied about the Gronkle's neck tightly.

"No but we can lose her up there." She said.

The Gronkle gave a whine of discontent before hunching its shoulders and taking off higher into the sky. The thick clouds were less water droplets and more smoke and floating ash that burned Eden's lungs as they entered the masses above them.

Both Eden and Fishlegs let out loud gagging coughs as the new air filled their lungs with a putrid burning smell that made both teens dizzy as they were sent into a coughing fit. It seemed to be hours before Takara's unmistakable cry of rage filled the sky.

"She's up! Go back down!" Eden ordered, clawing at Fishlegs' vest even tighter. The Gronkle didn't have to be told twice as she dove headfirst back through the thick clouds. Eden had to close her eyes tightly in order to evade the thick pieces of ash from stinging her eyes further.

A sudden rush of cool air washed over them and both Fishlegs and Eden gasped like fish out of water for the air that they had once taken for granted. She patted the large boy's back as he was sent into yet another set of coughing fits. Although much more vulnerable in her human form, Eden couldn't compare any sort of hardship as a human to a true human being. She was still stronger and less innocent than any human because of the dragon blood coursing through her veins.

"Sorry." She said, her head still dizzy and clouded by the smoke. "But I think we lost her… for now at least."

Fishlegs sucked in a large gulp of air before turning and smiling at the girl. "That was fun, where to now?"

"We need to help Hiccup!" She shouted back. "Where is he?" Her heart started beating even faster than she had thought possible as it threatened to burst from the confines of her thin frame all together. Where was Hiccup? Her eyes scanned the rocky shore the best that they could with limited vision when a loud screech filled the air.

The Gronkle whirled around, all three expecting to see Takara bursting back through the clouds, but it seemed as though she was still caught in the thick and endless maze of smoke above them. No, what they saw was much worse.

"HICCUP!" Eden shouted.

Up ahead, emerging from the clouds was the thin streak of a Night Fury with his brave rider clinging tightly to his saddle and behind them, the massive jaw of Green Death. All he needed was the snap of his jaws to catch Toothless' flaming tail and they would be gonners.

Eden's eyes widened. Was she seeing this right? Surely she must've been hallucinating. She was blind. It was a trick of the light. But when her eyes opened yet again, Toothless' tail was indeed ablaze. The prosthetic was burning!

"We have to get there!" She cried, shaking Fishlegs by the shoulders.

"What!" He shouted as the Gronkle's flight faltered in protest. "Eden, I know you want to help Hiccup, but there's nothing we can do! He has a plan, he can do this!" He argued but Eden heard none of it.

"Excuse me, but I do believe that this belongs to me!" Fishlegs let out a garbled cry as he reached after Eden. Before she knew it, Takara had plucked her off of the back of the Gronkle and was taking off towards the Green Death. Claws dug into her arms as she hung limply from the tight grips that would surely leave black and purple bruises.

She struggled frantically, trying to regain her strength to change back into her dragon form and escape r sister's clutches. Her sight landed on Hiccup again.

"You wanted to see your boyfriend, I thought you might have wanted a front row seat." Takara laughed as she stopped flying just yards from the fight. Eden struggled again to summon the blue flame to find that nothing was coming to her aid.

Her eyes narrowed as she tried to get a better look at the scene just a little ahead of her and gasped. The green Death's mouth was beginning to fill with a thick green gas. All he needed was a spark and- she wasn't even able to finish her thoughts before Toothless swung his tail sideways, sending Hiccup and himself falling backwards so that they were now freefalling and facing the Green Death face to face. Toothless shot out a burst of lightning and the massive dragon snapped shut his jaw.

At first, Eden had thought that they had missed or that her father had blocked the blast with his thick scaly lips. But when his mouth opened once again, it was filled with flame. The fire tore up his body, blowing holes in his scaly body and tearing itself through its seemingly paper-thin wings.

Toothless opened his wings again, trying to get him and Hiccup out of the way as the larger dragon gained speed and tumbled toward the Earth. "They're not going to make it!" Eden shouted as realization struck her. The explosion was impossible to escape.

"Ha! Then we can see you both die!" Her sister's voice penetrated deep and the world seemed to move in slow motion for a moment before the idea struck her hard.

Eden looked up at her sister and Takara smiled, mistaking the look of defeat as one meant for acceptance of their fate. "No." She stated softly, biting her lip in determination. "Just me." And with that she bit down on Takara's thinly scaled hand and she was dropped into the rising flame that reached up to envelop her.