It's hidden for a reason.
They knew they were looking for a hole in the ocean, but that it would be a waterfall down to the ocean was not what they had in mind. They thought the hole would be surrounded by a rock wall to keep the ocean away from falling in and it would be easier to fly inside.
"We're flying down that?" Brant asked out loud. "Into a… ocean waterfall?"
"I guess we are, brother." Thora answered.
"Come on!" Ingrid shouted and looked at the hole. "This is what we came for." she and Kyria flew first down, with her brothers and cousin following after. The Haddocks came after them and last to fly down was the Jorgensons.
When the water wasn't what all they saw; a view of plants, rocks, cliffs, leaves as big as their heads and lights. Lights that made them see underground, because that's where they were. Underground, the ceiling was green, but more like a dark green and brown, like a cave. A huge cave that looked like a whole another world.
"Look." Magnhild said to the rest and looked up. Over them flew small yellow dragons, like fireworm dragons. Hundreds of them making them looks like flying stars.
"This is amazing." Vylma whispered to herself and then felt a little worried about founding this place.
Dragons was heard in the distance. Some dragons they recognize and some they didn't. Which means there were dragons here they had never seen before, maybe even dragons they had never heard of before.
"Where should we start?" Frida asked, making the rest of the group come out of their admiration states from everything around them.
"Maybe down there?" Magnhild said and pointed to a green area that was coming towards them from under.
They all agreed and landed on green grass. It was like a round island with one not so deep cave facing the beautiful view of just many tones of green, blue and brown. A little hint of purple could be seen in there too.
Ingrid jumped off Kyrias back and ran to the edge of the cliff. Meters down there she could see; a lake and dragons of different spices, some she's seen before and some new, where standing around it drinking water and they looked so in peace she felt a little bad that they had come here.
What if they weren't welcome? These dragons could easily chase them away from here if they think they were here to hurt them.
Kyria came to her side and poked Ingrid with her snout. Ingrid smiled at her and patted her head. "You'll protect me right?" Kyria smiled and nuzzled her side, Ingrid laid her arms around Kyria. "I know you will."
"Magnhild!" Stoick stopped his sister from walking away. "Where are you going?"
"We came to explore and that's what I'm going to do." she and Temple walked away to the edge and she jumped down, causing Stoick to run to her but stopped when he could still see half of her body. "Relax, brother. It's like a staircase." and it was like staircase going down to another level.
"Should we split up or stay together?" Stoick turned and asked the group. "We don't know how big this place is and we can't see the sun so can't really say when we should meet somewhere."
"I'm going down here anyway." Magnhild gestured with her down down the staircase and started walking down with Temple behind her.
"Magnhild." Stoick grumble and walked after her with Egil behind him.
"I guess we're splitting up?" Finn checked with the rest of them.
Ingrid looked down at the dragons at the lake. "I want to go down there, just to see those new dragons species closer."
"I'll go with you." Olav and Leif said at the same time. Ingrid nodded in agreement at her brothers and they were off.
"I guess that's a yes." Finn confirmed and then looked at Vylma. He didn't have to ask her the question he was about to ask.
"Yes, let's follow our oldest and youngest siblings." she told to him before turning to the Jorgenson's and the Thorsten. "And you three? Are you following them or us?"
Brant looked at his sister then at Frida. Thora was looking slowly around her, taking it all in while Frida turned to Brant when she could feel his eyes on her. "I think we'll explore on our own." he said to Vylma who nodded, still having a worried feeling in her gut.
"Okay, but we'll meet here at some point."
Stoick and Egil walked down the path that they hoped Magnhild had taking, there wasn't another path that they could have taking, if not; they had lost them. His stupid sister had walked out of his sight, even Temple was nowhere to bee seen.
Stoick sighed and took a left turn and stopped in his track. There, laying down on a sand heap looking over the edge, was Magnhild and Temple. They were found!
He looked to Egil and he made the singel to sneak up to them. Egil nodded in understanding and started walking slowly towards the blonde and green and yellow dragon.
Stoick laid down beside his sister and quickly asked; "What are you looking at?"
"A white night fury I believe." she answered.
Stoick frowned at her, thinking he had heard wrong. "A what?"
"Hey."
Stoick turned his head and saw the rest of his siblings coming their way with their dragons in town. Vyma laid down beside Magnhild and Finn laid beside Vylma.
"What are we looking at? Or suppose to look at?" Vylma asked and scanned the small area before them. The area was surrounded by bushes, trees and rocks, the colour theme was the same as the rest of the place.
The bushes moved and out peaked a white night fury with light blue eyes.
Magnhild gasped and grabbed Stoicks arm. "Look."
The Haddocks jaw dropped in shock when they saw what came walking out from the bushes and into the clearing.
A white night fury with blue eyes was standing before them, not noticing the humans hiding a few meters from her that couldn't believe their eyes.
Magnhild slowly stood up from the ground letting her brother go, wanting to go forward and have a closer look at the dragon.
Vylma noticed what her sister was doing and grabbed her arm, "Magnhild." She hissed, but Magnhild pulled off her grib.
The dragon heard that and turned to the sound, staring right at Magnhild who was the only one standing of the humans.
Blue eyes staring at green and everyone being still until the dragon flew up to the sky, shooting a plasma blast and disappeared.
"Did she just, disappear?" Magnhild asked shocked.
"Wow." Finn said and stood up. "Toothless is not the only one."
"Yeah, but this is a white night fury, so it's more like a... bright fury..." Stoick wondered.
"A light fury." Vylma said amazed, still looking where the dragon had disappeared.
"Yeah, that's... yours is better, probably." Stoick agreed and rubbed his neck.
Magnhild glided down from the little hill and looked where the white dragon had come from. "Do you think we can find more light furies here?"
Vylma walked down to her. "Lets not go walking straight into a light fury nest and anger them. We don't know if they have the same abilities as night furies, clearly they don't because this light fury just disappeared through a plasma blast and I'm pretty sure Toothless can't do that." she crossed her arms over her chest and looked up to the sky, waiting that maybe the light fury to reappear.
Magnhild narrowed her eyes at her sister. "Wasn't it you who walked straight to the screaming deaths mother and could have easily been killed?" she asked.
Vylma turned to her and shrugged. "Yes, but I've known about the screaming deaths existence all my life. We have just discovered a whole new species and not any species, but a similar species to the night fury. Everyone thinks Toothless is the last of his kins, but he clearly isn't."
Exploring the hidden world was exciting. The place was big, filled with different dragons and the atmosphere was like no other.
The Haddocks had found the Ingermans and told them about the light fury they had found. Ingrid were as happy as on Snoggletog and demanded to take her where they last saw the dragon.
They went back to that place, but no light fury in sight. Ingrid had wanted to find the nest but Vylma had stopped her, telling her what she had told Magnhild.
"But we need to find out more about them!" Ingrid argued.
"I agree with Ingrid." Magnhild said.
"This is our chance to study a whole new species!" Olav chimed in.
"Yeah," Finn began and starting question his sister, "Why are you so against it of all people? You of all people should be excited of this discovery!"
Vylma rolled her eyes and sighed. "Because this is the dragon nest, this is where dragons come to be safe from humans and I'm pretty sure they can't tell the difference between humans that are good or bad, especially if no human has ever been here and we're the first. Even if we have dragons on our sides, these wild dragons may not accept that-"
A scream interrupted Vylma and the attention went from her to the scream direction.
"Thora." Finn said under his breath and jumped on Lyrkes back and flew off, the rest of the seven humans and six dragons followed them.
Thora, Brant and Frida had found the light fury nest and the light furies had found them. Thora was sitting on the ground, dragging herself backwards with her hands staring with wide scared eyes at the light fury a few meters from her. Brant ran towards her and grabbed her arms and dragged her away from the dragon. Frida laid under the wing of her dragon protected from everyone else. Signe growled at the light furies that was standing around them.
Finn and Lyrke flew down to Brant and Thora to make sure they were alright. Ingrid, Leif and Olav flew down to Frida and Signe. Magnhild stared at the light fury that had stood a few meters from Thora but now stood still, ready to defend its kins if anyone attacked. Which Brant did. He shouted and threw his fists up in the air. The light fury growled and was ready to jump on him. Magnhild couldn't let that happen.
She guided Temple to fly down and then she jumped down off his back before he had touched the ground. "No!" she yelled and held her hands up to stop the light fury to attack Brant.
The light fury's eyes stared at her, still growling and waiting for anyone to do something more than Brant had done already. "Please, we are not here to hurt you." Magnhild said gently. "We would never hurt a dragon. We are just here to explore."
Temple stood behind Magnhild, ready to defend her at any cost.
Everything was quiet and everyone was looking at the light fury, waiting for a response. The response finally came when the light fury stopped growling and relaxed. Her eyes went from Brant back to Magnhild before taking a step back, showing that she wouldn't attack the humans.
Magnhild let out a breath she didn't know she held. "Thank you." she let her arms fall down to her sides and Temple nuzzle Magnhilds hair and she smiled at him. "I'm fine, boy."
The light furys turned away from the humans and let them be.
Vylma ran up to Magnhild. "Are you okay?" she asked, looking over her sister. "And even how amazing this whole hidden world is and these light furys, we can't interfere." she turned to the rest of the group. "We should leave."
"What?" Ingrid asked surprised. "Why? We just found this place and it holds so many different dragon species- we just found light furies! A species close to night furies. What would your father and Toothless do to find this place?"
"But if we tell them, we need to tell them about the dragon eye." Olav said.
"Well yes," Ingrid began and looked around at the group. "Do you all wanna leave?"
Brant pressed his lips firmly together. "Well yeah, my sister got attacked by a white night fury and I'm pretty sure the dragons here are looking at us in disgust." Nightmary nodded in agreement with his rider. "'Living in peace' and 'living were they can't be found' makes sense now, because they don't want humans to know about this place. That's why this world is hidden and is under the ocean."
"That's what I been trying to tell you." Vylma threw her arms in the air with wide eyes. "We can't stay."
"The light fury let us be, didn't she?" Magnhild argued. "Every light fury left us alone and this seems to be their nest. As long we don't make harsh movements or sees as treats, they won't harm us."
"Tell that to the dragon that came out of nowhere and attacked me." Thora chided and crossed her arms over her chest. She agreed with her brother and Vylma, they shouldn't be here.
Leif walked to his sister and grabbed her arm so she turned to him. "Ingrid, we didn't know what we would find. Dragons sure, but at this scale and so many different species, it could be dangerous if it came out in the world."
"Then we'll never speak of it. No one knows where we are and no one knows about this place but us! Maybe we didn't think this through, but like you said; we didn't know what we were expecting when we found the dragon eye and this is way more than I thought we would find." Ingrid clenched her fists together in anger and annoyance that her brother wasn't on her side.
"We may have dragons on our side, but not all of them." Olav spoke up and took a stance beside his brother. "And being in the one place where they are safe and hidden, they can easily see us as threats and force us to get out of here."
Ingrid took a step back and frowned at her brothers. Angry that they none of her brothers where on her side. She turned to Frida, who still stood by Signes side and now she looked confused. "Frida," the girl turned her attention to her cousin. "What do you think? Should we leave or stay?"
Frida's brow wrinkled and shook her head slightly. She had seen the light fury come running towards Thora and she had heard of how everyone was afraid of Toothless before Hiccup shot him down and befriended him, what if these white night furys was like Toothless before he and Hiccup became friends. They looked like they could be like his specie and they are wild. Probably never seen a human and could see them as intruders, maybe even hunters. All dragons here didn't look at them with disgust or with suspicious eyes, but she had a feeling they weren't welcome here.
Ingrid sighed and pointed a finger at her brothers. "You two are not allowed to follow me whatsoever." She told her them with a stern look before flying off.
Stoick sighed and sat down in Egils saddle, ready to follow Ingrid.
"Where are you going?" Olav asked. "We can't follow her."
"She told you two not to follow her, not me." He responded before taking off after her.
Ingrid saw Egil and Stoick behind her and shook her head. "Seriously." She whispered and told Kyria to land on the nearest empty area she could find.
"Why didn't you want your brothers to follow you?"
Ingrid turned with crossed arms to give Stoick an answer, "Because they will talk about the issue and ask so many questions my head would burn off of frustration and irritation."
Stoick walked up to her and nodded. "Still, they just want to help."
"I know." She simply said and bite her lip, feeling slight guilty for telling her brothers off. "And why did you follow me?"
He shrugged, "Making sure you're okay and don't wander off in this... huge place." he gestured to the mysterious world around them.
Ingrid smiled at him, "Worried that I would just go and interfere with some new and dangerous dragon?" She asked.
He crossed his arm. "Yes." He simply said.
She switched her weight to her other leg and looked down at her feet. "I was afraid when I saw the new species here, but," she looked at Kyria. "I know Kyria will always have my back and won't let anyone harm me. I'm not a warrior, Stoick."
They looked at each other and she continued; "I barely fought when Drago attacked. I was with Gothi, ready to take care of the wounded. Well until I saw them coming into the village and I flew on Kyria into the battle. But she did all the work. When I later fought on the ground, I got a few bruises and retreated because I couldn't handle it. The only way I can defend myself, is either having Kyria taking the lead or… or I can throw a knife at them and pray for a lucky strike. I'm not a killer. I don't live up to Viking standard."
Stoick placed his hands on Ingrid's shoulders. "You are a Berkian, which means you're a Viking. It doesn't matter if you can swing a sword or not, you have Viking blood in your veins and you are smart enough to survive as one. You are brave enough for being here while you are afraid and you're kind enough to take care of the wounded." She looked away from him and he grabbed her chin gently and turned her head to his. "You don't kill because you can't, you don't kill because you care."
"It seems that I didn't care about these dragons life's before my own curiosity." She let her arms fall down to her sides while she walked away from Stoick to look at the dragons flying everywhere around them. "Vylma, Brant, my brothers, everyone are right. This is dragons safe place and we just came here out of nowhere. We shouldn't be here."
Stoick walked up to her and stood beside her. "You want to go home and forget this place?"
Ingrid turned her head to him. "How can I forget it? How can anyone forget this beautiful and amazing place?"
Stoick shrugged and smiled, "I don't know." He turned his head to her. "But I know that I won't and can't. It's way to beautiful."
Ingrid tilted her head at that. "Was that to me or the place?"
Stoick smirked. "Wouldn't you want to know."