The Tides Return

by StormShear57

It's been thirteen years since New Berk was attacked by the General, and Pheda and Honest have spent all that time searching for answers, not to mention those of the New Berkians who went missing during the attack. Everything changes, however, when they find a girl named Everlynh on one of the ships. Can the answers they've been searching for be within reach? Sequel to Wings of War

3. Chapter 3

Everlynh leaned against the wall at her back, and listened to the sound of the waves sloshing against the side of the ship. Her little room was bare, with only a cot, a small table, and a chair. The door was locked with several padlocks made of a strong, light metal from nearly a century before, which likely forged by the Berkians. They were on the outside, and there was even a guard in the corridor.

Berkians. Everlynh had heard often of these strange people, who disappeared from the face of the earth, leaving behind their home island of Berk, and vanishing into the west. Some said they settled on the first fertile island they found, and became the New-Berkian people, which seemed likely, but Everlynh wasn't sure.

The timbers creaked, yet another reminder that she wouldn't be able to try to solve the mystery of the Berkians. She was trapped. On a ship. In the middle of the sea, and had been as long as she could remember. She didn't know how to swim, even. Will I ever see land?

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Pheda surveyed the ocean below from her seat upon Honest's back, high in the sky. Not a ship, trader or otherwise, was to be seen. You picking up anything? she asked.

'I was about to ask you the same thing,' Honest said. Then her black ear flaps perked up, and twitched. 'Wait. I hear something. It sounds like a NIGHT FURY?!'

Her head whipped around, throwing Pheda back a bit, and her eyes searched the clouds. She let out a roar, and Starflinger swooped down from where she'd been hiding in the clouds, with three other Night Furies about a meter behind her. Honest shook her head, clearly annoyed, and growled.

Starflinger tossed her head, speaking telepathically so Pheda could hear. 'I was curious, and they were too.'

The three Furies behind her said nothing, only soared beside their sister. Onyx, the other female Fury besides Star, watched the ocean below with wary yellow eyes, black scales reflecting the sunlight prettily. Spirit, a male Fury, was more silent than the rest. His red eyes never left Pheda, and his scales - silver in some places, dark black-gray in others - were bright in the sunbeams.

Well, Pheda said after a moment, it's too late to send you back to the Hidden World. You may be able to come with us this time, but you really shouldn't be sneaking out like that. You're the last of your kind, and if anything happens to even one of you, it could mean the final extinction of the Night Furies.

She looked ahead, eyes searching as she moved back upwards on Honest's back. After a moment, she nodded to herself. There was a ship this way; the signs of it lay upon the ocean's surface, the wake that had not yet vanished. Try to stay out of trouble, okay?