"The past is coming back to you,
even if you destroyed it with fire."
"Is this what I think it is?" Ingrid looked with awe and wonder on the thing she held in her hands. It can't be what she thought it was. It would be impossible. "What do you think girl?"
Ingrid's gronckle, Kyria looked at the thing Ingrid held in her hands. She didn't know what it was but it looked like her rider knew.
"If I'm right, this can be-"
"Ingrid!"
Ingrid and Kyria looked up and saw Frida and Signe coming at them. Ingrid quickly hided her hands behind her back so Frida wouldn't see what they had found.
Signe landed a few meters from them and Frida jumped of Signe's back. "I've been looking all over for you." Frida began and Ingrid tried to hold a natural face. "We are heading back to Berk before it gets dark."
Ingrid nodded her head at that. "Great! Eh, we better get going then." she said and stood completely still.
Frida felt that there was something wrong or Ingrid was hiding something. They were cousins after all and Frida saw Ingrid as her little sister. After all, Frida was an only child and when she saw that Ingrid didn't really have anyone, she felt like she needed to be there for her. Olav and Leif was the twins of the group. Stoick and Finn was the brothers that had each other's backs. Brant was an overprotective brother to Thora, even if Thora told him to stop and she didn't need him to protect her, but everyone knew she secretly liked it because she felt safe. Vylma and Magnhild had this sister bond Frida wanted and Ingrid was the only one on the list that she felt comfortable and it felt logical to choose her as a sister. The only problem was that Ingrid didn't really understand that Frida saw her more as a sister than cousin. It hurt to be the only one who was the only child in a group of people who all had a sibling.
She narrowed her eyes and asked: "What's behind your back?"
Ingrid shook her head. "Nothing." her voice was squeaky, which was enough for Frida to know she was hiding something.
"Ingrid." she said slowly and almost threatening. "You're hiding something." Frida took a step forward and Ingrid tried to stay calm.
The thing she held in her hands behind her back, was not supposed to exist and if Frida knew about it, she would probably tell the others and she knew her parents and their parents would know about it somehow in the end and that would not be good.
"Ingrid."
"Okay!" she gave in and showed Frida what she had found. "I found this in between those rocks over there, or Kyria found it when she started to eat the stones."
Frida walked to Ingrid with wide eyes. "Wow. Is that-"
"The dragon eye." Ingrid ended with a smile.
They had never seen the dragon eye in person. They had only heard descriptions and seen a picture of it. And of course the stories around it. How their parents had been fighting guys named Viggo, Ryker, Krogan and Johann and even Dagur before he turned to the good side. Viggo had also turned to the good side before his death. Anyway, the biggest shock was Johann. The trader that became the traitor. He had planned the whole thing from the start and betrayed them all. Long story short; Johann got trapped in ice by the Berserker bewilderbeast dragon and to this day, he still stands there. Ready to strike down with his spear.
"Isn't that the thing our parents found years ago on some old ship?"
"Yes, it is!" Ingrid said with excitement. "The ship was called; the reaper and on it was the dragon eye Hiccup and Toothless found after facing booby traps. After that, Dagur tried to take it many times and-"
"Are you done?" Frida crossed her arms over her chest and looked bored.
Ingrid's excitement faded and she looked down at the dragon eye. She knew what they needed to open it, but she couldn't find the keyhole. Well there was a keyhole but not what she was told it looked like.
"I think we need another key." Ingrid said and looked at the two holes. One was bigger than the other and the one on the left was white on the edge. It did not look like the snow wraith key was the key to open this dragon eye.
"What do you mean another key?" Frida asked.
"Look," she showed the two holes. "This does not look like a snow wraith tooth mark. And it kinda looks like we need to keys."
"Frida! Ingrid!"
Frida and Ingrid looked up and saw Stoick and his blue monstrous nightmare, Egil.
"Come on! It's getting dark soon."
He was right. The sun was going down and they had a few hours to fly to Berk.
"Coming!" Frida yelled to answer and jumped on Signe. "Come on, Ingrid. Take the dragon eye with you. We can look at it when we get home."
Ingrid packed the dragon eye in her bag and they flew to the others so they could go home.
"Keep your eyes focused on the attacker and not just the weapon." Magnhild glared at Mala at this point. They had been practicing all day and Mala had said that sentence to her the entire time. Magnhild knew she had to focus on the attacker and not just the weapon, her mother had taught her that, but when you have just started to learn how to fight with two swords in your hands instead of one or an axe, it wasn't easy to adjust your eyes.
"I know, Mala." Maghild said annoyed.
Mala raised an eyebrow at her and stood with a straight back. "Maybe you should go back to Berk." she looked up to the sky. "It will get dark soon and I'm sure your parents wants you home before the sun sets."
Magnhild let her arms relax. She was tired, even if she wouldn't admit it. It has been a few months ago she thought she had this idea of fighting with two swords instead of one or an axe. Mala had come with the idea of giving her two swords that looked like her owns. Magnhild had been shocked when she got them and couldn't thank her enough. They had started to practice ever since. For the most part, Magnhild came to Berserker island or even on rare occasions to Caldera Cay but Mala had come to Berk sometimes to help her train. Sure, Magnhilds mother helped her with training and even her dad helped her sometimes. But training with Mala was something Magnhild prefered. Most of it was because Mala fought with a two swords herself and their swords was alike and Mala was more graceful with her fighting style than her parents.
Something Magnhild didn't like about coming to Berserker island, was one of Mala and Dagur's two sons. Ragnar.
Ragnar was a year older than her and looked most like his father. Ragnar clearly liked her and reminded her every time they saw each other. She told him off, but he didn't listen. When she told her mother of this, she smiled and said she had the same problem with Snotlout at her age. Her mother assured her that they would eventually grow out of it and stop flirting with her. Magnhild could only hope.
Magnhild tanked Mala for today and she walked out of the training arena to her nadder, Temple. Her dragon nuzzle her when she stood beside him and Magnhild smiled.
"Yeah, I'm tired." she said to him and she placed each of the swords in the two swords holder on her back.
"Hey, Magnhild!"
She groaned at that voice. "What do you want, Ragnar?" she turned around and saw the red head. He had his father's body, but without the tattoos, scars and beard. His head was smaller too and his eyes shape was from his mother.
"You know what I want." he responded and gave her a flirty look. Magnhild rolled her eyes.
"Brother," Ragnar's big brother, Oswald came into view. A head taller than his brother and with blond hair. "I think you need to leave her be, before she behad you."
Oswald was the oldest by 1 year of the brothers. He was a 18 year old gentleman and Magnhild thanked him for that. He spoke in a calm manner, like Mala and he resemble her in many ways. But sometimes you could see the craziness of Dagur in Oswald. He and Magnhild had always come along in many things and he knew she didn't like his brother and even tho he tried to tell his little brother that, he didn't listen.
Magnhild smiled at Oswald.
"She would never hurt me." Magnhild raised an eyebrow at Ragnar at those words.
Oswald laughed a little. "Are you sure about that?" Ragnar glared at him.
"Anyway, boys. I need to fly home before it gets dark." She turned to Temple and climbed on his back.
"When will you be back?" Ragnar asked.
Magnhild thought for a second before answered; "I don't know. I'll send you a terrible terror."
"Have a safe trip home, Magnhild." Magnhild smiled at Oswald.
"Thank you, Oswald. I'll see you when I see you." She patted Temple, to singel to fly off up in the sky. Leaving the two brothers on the ground.
"Will you never understand that she is not interested in you?" Oswald asked his little brother.
Ragnar turned to his brother with a smile. "One day she will love me and when that day come, I'll have a engagement bracelet ready."
Oswald burst out laughing at his brothers future plans.
The dragon eye laid on the table and the teens stood around it. Ingrid held a book in her hands, searching for every dragon that could have something that look like the keyhole.
"Maybe a nadder spine?" Finn suggested and tilted his head as he narrowed his eyes at the the keyholes.
"I think we need a white spine." Stoick pointed out.
Thora turned to him with wide eyes. "What? A screaming death?"
"Exactly." Vylma responded and took the dragon eye off the table to inspect it closely. "And the second is hopefully a nadder spine. A screaming death is hard enough to get a spine from."
Footsteps was heard and they all turned to the door. Vylma hided the dragon eye behind her back. The breath the teens held was let out when Magnhild came into view.
"There you all are." she said and walked towards them. "You all should go home before-" she stopped and looked between the nine teens before her.
"What's going on?" she asked.
Vylma shook her head and took the dragon eye from behind her back. She didn't even had time to say anything before Magnhild spoke.
"Is that a dragon eye?" she walked to Vylma and took the dragon eye from her.
"How did you found it?" Magnhild asked and turned the dragon eye in her hands.
"I did." Ingrid responded, "Well Kyrja did, on a island that wasn't on the map so we searched it and Kyrja started to eat rocks and the dragon eye was in between them."
Magnhild nodded her head. "Have you told anyone about this?"
"No, and we don't plan to." Vylma assured.
"No one, especially our parents should know about this. They destroyed two dragon eyes years ago and we all know what happen when they had it and when they didn't." Stoick said.
"Stoick is right," Thora began. "We can't let anyone know about this. We're the only one who will know about this."
"It's a secret than." Leif finished.
I know it's a big time jump between this and the last one, but I need this story to continue and I have no idea what to write in the time we jumped over. But now it all starts to begin with all the adventurous and the fun parts.
33 - O&L: 13, S&F: 13, B: 12, F: 11, V&M: 11, T: 11, I: 11
34 - O&L: 14, S&F: 14, B: 13, F: 12, V&M: 12, T: 12, I: 12
35 - O&L: 15, S&F: 15, B: 14, F: 13, V&M: 13, T: 13, I: 13
36 - O&L: 16, S&F: 16, B: 15, F: 14, V&M: 14, T: 14, I: 14
37 - O&L: 17, S&F: 17, B: 16, F: 15, V&M: 15, T: 15, I: 15
38 - O&L: 18, S&F: 18, B: 17, F: 16, V&M: 15/16, T: 15/16, I: 15/16 ← We're here