Chapter 67: She's Alive?!
Takes place during The Past's Future Is Present.
"There was something else. Something – someone – I didn't expect to see. Not with them." Hiccup says.
"Who?" Fishlegs asks.
"Becky." At the sound of their sister's name, Ruffnut and Tuffnut look at Hiccup.
"She's alive?" Ruffnut asks.
"She's alive, all right. And sassy. She's not the Becky we once knew. She's changed." Hiccup says.
"Wait, so our sister – Becky, our sweet, naïve sister – is working with dragon trappers?" Tuffnut asks.
"She's not just working with them. She's married to one of them. And she's not as naïve as she used to be. Like Hiccup said, she's changed." Astrid says.
"Ruff, we gotta tell Mom and Dad! I can't believe our sister is alive after all these years!" Tuffnut says.
After Hiccup and Astrid leave to go after Eret, Ruffnut and Tuffnut head home to talk to their parents.
"Mom? Dad? We have to tell you something." Ruffnut says, sitting her and Tuff's parents down.
"What is it?" Lily asks.
"Becky's alive."
"As much as we'd like to believe it, you two, there's just no possible way that your sister is alive." Frank says.
"But, Dad, Hiccup saw her. When he and Astrid discovered that fort all blown apart and stuck in giant spikes of ice."
"How?" Lily asks.
"The guy she's married to must've saved her."
"Did she look any different? Act any different?"
"Hiccup said that she's not as naïve as she used to be. She's changed. I miss her." Tuffnut says.
Ruffnut puts a hand on her twin's shoulder, knowing how close he and Becky were to each other. They were as close as he and Ruffnut are.
"Guys? Stoick says we're going after Hiccup and Astrid. Wanna tag along and see if what Hiccup said about your sister is true?"
"Of course we do!"
"Stay safe, you two. And bring our Becky back home."
"Will do, Mom." Ruffnut and Tuffnut say.
When Ruffnut and Tuffnut do arrive with the others to rescue Hiccup and Astrid, Tuffnut can't believe his eyes: his adoptive sister is alive. Ruffnut, on the other hand, is occupied with some strapping young man who Tuffnut guesses is Eret.
Soon, the Thorston siblings are reunited…during one of the darkest hours. Their chief, Stoick, was shot and killed by Toothless, under Drago's command to his Bewilderbeast.
The twins wrap their arms around their sister, knowing she's needed them for a long time.
Together, along with Eret, Valka, Astrid, Gobber, Fishlegs, Snotlout and Hiccup, the Thorston siblings give Stoick a funeral fit for a warrior.
And, soon, the Thorston siblings return home, and Becky is reunited with her adoptive parents.
But that's a story for another time.
