The peaceful morning on Berk was undone by the loud sound of the alarm horn blowing. Normally, it would have been sounded if there had been an attack but not today. This alarm horn was meant for the training of the eight members of the Berk Dragon Training Academy.

Fishlegs Ingerman gasped and bolted upright from his bed. "Flyers attack!" the chubby blond boy said and jumped onto Meatlug, his female Gronckle, who was still asleep. "Wake up, girl! We gotta go! Come on, Meatlug, wake up!" Fishlegs said, shaking his Gronckle to get out of dreamland and get flying.

Hanging upside-down, the Thorston Twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, woke up to the sound of the alarm horn blowing. "Ugh…what's that horn for? Please tell me it's breakfast," Tuffnut said sleepily.

"It's for the Dragon Flyers!" Ruffnut said excitedly, wide awake, and making her brother fully wake up.

"Whoa, that's way better!" Tuffnut grinned as he and his sister got down on the ground and rushed out of their house and mounted Barf and Belch, their Hideous Zippleback, taking off.

"Up and at 'em, girl! Dragon Flyers!" Zenna Fiersome hollered to Stryka, her one-eyed female Night Fury, and grabbed her battle sticks and shield. Stryka rose from her rock slab bed and was immediately raring to go, her and Zenna flying out of the house faster than a speeding bullet.

Meanwhile, Astrid Hofferson and Stormfly, her Deadly Nadder, were headed for the Great Hall when…

"Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"

Snotlout Jorgenson and Hookfang, his Monstrous Nightmare, flew by the two girls, nearly crashing into them! "Snotlout, what are you doing?!" Astrid yelled, glaring axes at the Jorgenson boy.

"I'm sorry! Did I scare your girly little dragon?" Snotlout asked mockingly.

"Out of my way! I have to get to the Great Hall," Astrid snapped at him.

"No, you don't. I have to get to the Great Hall. You have to get to the armory," Snotlout informed her.

"Hiccup and Zenna assigned me to the Great Hall yesterday, you heard them," Astrid scowled at him. "Tell you what? Whoever gets there first, me, gets to guard it," Snotlout challenged her.

"Fine with me," Astrid agreed before Snotlout suddenly tossed a couple of fish at her!

"Snotlout!" Astrid yelled, Stormfly accidentally firing a few spines into a nearby house down below.

"Ha! Ha! Astrid, I thought you liked cod!" Snotlout laughed when Astrid recovered from the fishy surprise.

Growling, Astrid had Stormfly pursue Snotlout and Hookfang, harming the pompous Jorgenson boy being her main objective!

"Oh no…" Snotlout gulped and tried to make a hasty retreat but Astrid was relentless. Eventually, Stormfly and Hookfang crashed into each other and ended up crashing into Aurora, who was the first one up, "WAAAAAHHH!" she screamed as she was barrel into the Great Hall where Stormfly and Hookfang made a complete war zone of the place!

Toothless and Strkya landed in front of the Great Hall in time to see the people running out of the Great Hall while screaming in fear. "Not quite a good start to the morning…" Zenna sighed, shaking her head.

"Oh, great, I can see my father's face already…" Hiccup sighed as well, wondering how on earth he was going to explain this mess to his Dad.

Stoick the Vast was not pleased.

He had been rudely awoken from his heavy slumber by the shouts of his people and had rushed outside to investigate. And what did he find?

His son, Zenna and the other Riders trying to stop an angry Astrid and an angry Stormfly and a terrified Snotlout and an also angry Hookfang from completely destroying the Great Hall!

Needless to say, Stoick was not having a good morning. With Gobber and Zenna's parents, he glared at the teens.

"When you told me you'd be running a Dragon Flyer attack drill I assumed you wouldn't actually try to destroy the entire village!" Stoick loudly told the teens off.

"Uh, technically, Chief, it was just the Great Hall," Fishlegs piped up meekly. Stoick glared at him and Fishlegs squeaked, "And now I'll let you take it from here…" clamming up.

"Dad, this was supposed to be a practice run but it just got out of hand. I'm sorry," Hiccup apologized while Zenna made sure to stay between Snotlout and Astrid since the two bickering Riders looked ready to tear each other apart. "Eh, sorry doesn't un-burn Silent Sven's chest hair," Gobber informed Hiccup, motioning with his head to Silent Sven's smoking chest.

"No, it certainly does not which brings me to your punishment," Stoick shook his head at the team.

"Now, now, Stoick, don't be too harsh on them," Henna chastised the Chief.

"Besides, we all know that the ones who really deserve to be punished are the ones who crashed their dragons and themselves into the Great Hall in the first place," Edgar said, giving Astrid and Snotlout a stern look.

"Uh... does any know where Aurora went to..?" Fishlegs wondered, seeing their friend absent. Then Medic, Zenna's Death Song now in its teenage stage, came over and nudged her towards the Great Hall, "Medic, what is it girl?"

Medic flew into the Great Hall and, just like she was trained to do, circled around an injured victim with several Nadder spines sticking out of her back and some Nightmare claw marks.

"What the-?" Zenna took a close look and gasped in horror. "HOLY SHIELDS! AURORA!"

Yep, the victim was indeed Aurora... the poor girl was groaning from the Nadder spines in her back. Hiccup and the others came over and gasped in horror.

"Hiccup, go get Viggo and Gothi, NOW!" Stoick said and HIccup and Toothless burst out of the Great Hall to get the two.

Soon, Aurora was laying face down on Gothi's bed as Viggo pulled the Nadder spines out, "OW! DOW! OW!" Aurora grunted as each spine was pulled out.

Meanwhile, Hiccup, Zenna and their friends were outside trying to keep Astrid and Snotlout from killing each other, "Its your fault she's hurt, Snotlout!" Astrid blamed.

"Me! My dragon didn't send poisonous spines into her back." Snotlout yelled.

"Guys, enough!" Zenna yelled, clamming them both up. "It doesn't matter whose fault it was. What matters now is getting Aurora well again.."

Astrid and Snotlout sighed but still glared at each other.

That's when Stoick and her parents came out with Viggo. Aurora was supported between Edgar and Henna were bandages around her stomach, chest and back. "Hey sis... are you alright?" Zenna asked gently.

"Y-Yeah..." Aurora grunted.

"Gothi said she needs lots of rest and daily shots of the Nadder anti-venom so the poison doesn't harm her anymore." Edgar added.

"O-Okay." Zenna stated. "What about the bite marks?"

"Gothi put some ointment on them and they should heal in a few days." Viggo added. The others nodded as Edgar and Henna took her home to rest. "And as for you two.." Stoick said, looking at Astrid and Snotlout, "You two will be helping to care for Aurora while she heals as your punishment."

"WHAT?!" the two riders exclaimed in horror.

"It's your faults she was hurt so now you two have to care for her.." Stoick stated as he walked away. Snotlout growled, "Great, look what you got me into."

"Me?! Why you-!" Astrid growled.

"Stop that!" Zenna yelled and Stryka hissed at them. "Look I know you two are mad at each other but who matters the most now is Aurora. So can you please just work together for her...?"

Astrid and Snotlout growled and looked away from each other. Zenna and Hiccup sighed.

A little while later, Aurora was walking and half limping over though town when Astrid and Stormfly landed near her, "Hey Aurora, you wanna ride?" Astrid asked.

"Huh? O-h N-No I'm good.. ow.." Aurora winced.

That's when Snotlout and Hookfang landed near Aurora too, "Hey Aurora, don't you want help from my dragon instead of Astrid's dumb dragon?!" Snotlout challenged

"Guys…" Aurora said nervously before Astrid interrupted.

"My dumb dragon? Your flaming Snotmare was trying to barbecue us," Astrid glared at him.

"Guys…" Aurora's feeble voice was drowned out by his cousin's yells.

"Snotmare?! Snotmare?!" Snotlout yelled and, then, looked at Hookfang.

"I kind of like that," Snotlout said after a minute. "You would," Astrid taunted him.

"Oh yeah, I would, huh?" Snotlout glared at Astrid who said, "Yeah! Yeah, you would!" prompting him to snap back at her with, "How about I call your dragon ugly!" and Astrid retorted with, "I'll tell you who's ugly!"

"G-Guys...!" Aurora said but unfortunately for her, they started fighting again and so did their dragons... which ended with her, getting... well... burned.

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"

Later that night...

After another trip to Gothi's Aurora, Hiccup and Zenna were hanging out in Hiccup's house with Stoick and Zenna's parents. Aruora now had a bandage on her face from the burn marks and now on her legs. "So, son? How are Astrid and Snotlout doing with Aurora?" Stoick asked as his son and his son's best human friend set down two big baskets of fish for their two Night Furies.

Zenna gave her parents a look that clearly said, 'Not so good.' prompting Edgar and Henna to give her sympathetic looks. Hiccup, on the other hand, said brightly, "Oh, Dad, it couldn't be going any better."

Stoick kept talking as he sharpened his axe.

"Really? Hm, because word around the paddock is that Astrid and Snotlout set Aurora on fire due to another episode. Come again?" he asked his son. Hiccup managed to force a strained laugh out of his throat.

"Oh…Oh, that! I-It's just a minor…ah…disagreement. You know how they are," Hiccup said before somebody knocked on the door.

"Now who could that be?" Zenna raised an eyebrow with a coy grin on her face.

"In fact, I'm-I'm sure they've already forgotten about it," Hiccup added, going over to the door.

"Let's hope," Stoick said.

When Hiccup opened the door, he fully expected Astrid.

"Hiccup, I refuse to work with Snotlout!" the blonde Hofferson girl said before Hiccup said, "Ah, Astrid, what a beautiful night! Let's talk outside!" and hastily went outside and closed the door.

"Something's wrong," Stoick said to Zenna's parents. "Don't we know it!" Edgar and Henna agreed with him.

Outside, Hiccup and Astrid talked.

"Uh, didn't we talk this out?" Hiccup asked his Milady. "You talked. We listened, as usual, but I'm not going to put Aurora in danger by working with that muttonhead who can't even control his own dragon!" Astrid told him. Hiccup sighed submissively and said, "Fine! Fine! I will deal with it tomorrow, I promise."

"Thank you," Astrid smiled at him.

"You're welcome," Hiccup replied and gave her a quick kiss before going back inside. Seeing his father's expectant look as he sharpened his axe as well as the knowing looks the Fiersome family was giving him, Hiccup quickly said, "Ah, just this Academy business. No big deal." Before the door knocked again.

"Hmmm…now who could it be this time?" Zenna asked, pretending to look thoughtful. Hiccup gave her a slight glare before saying, "Ah, let me grab that." answering the door.

Of course, it had to be Snotlout.

"Hiccup, I-" Snotlout began to rant before Hiccup said, "Oh, look! A full moon!" and pushed his cousin outside.

"When he comes back inside, I have a feeling he's gonna lose it," Zenna remarked.

"He's gonna have to let it out sometime," Edgar nodded.

"Poor dear…He's already stressed out as it is," Henna sighed, pitying the Chief's son. Stoick merely shook his head and chuckled.

"You are killing me!" Hiccup told his cousin in exasperation.

"Me?! Astrid has totally lost control of her dragon! She's probably distracted by my manly presence," Snotlout said angrily before flexing his muscles.

"Are you insane?" Hiccup asked him.

"Hookfang sees it! Don't tell me you don't!" Snotlout retorted, his Monstrous Nightmare not wanting any part in this conversation. Hiccup merely gave Snotlout a deadpan look.

"Never mind. Here's the deal…" Snotlout began to say before Hiccup interrupted with, "Let me guess: You don't want to work with Astrid tomorrow."

"Exactly! Was that easy? Come on, Hookfang! Let's go think with our muscles," Snotlout grinned before leaving with his dragon. Hiccup sighed and went back inside his house, already weighed down by the stress.

"Problem, son?" Stoick asked, still sharpening his axe.

"Uh, problem? What problem? No, no, everyone is happy. Everything is great," Hiccup smiled, hoping that his father wouldn't see the desperation in his eyes.

"Good to hear," Stoick said. "Yep! Yep! Yep, everything is right as rain," Hiccup said brightly. "If you say so," Stoick said casually.

"I do! I…say so," Hiccup said, looking away from his Dad.

Zenna merely gave her one-legged surrogate brother a knowing look while Aurora, Edgar and Henna began counting down the seconds, "Three, two one.." Aurora pointed and Hiccup snapped, "Oh, fine, you win! Snotlout and Astrid are driving me completely insane! They're acting like mental cases! I actually don't know who's worse, them or their dragons! I mean at least with the dragons you can lock them in their pens until they behave!"

Hiccup was all out of breath by the time he finished his 15-seconds-long rant while Aurora, Edgar, Henna, Zenna and Stoick were all completely relaxed.

"Feel better?" Stoick asked his son.

"Uh…a little," Hiccup admitted, mentally exhausted.

"Just let it out, lad. It helps," Edgar advised him, Zenna nodding in agreement. Then Stoick decided to give his son some fatherly advice.

"Alright, Hiccup, there's three ways to deal with Vikings who aren't getting along," he began.

"I'm all ears," Hiccup said, ready to hear what his Dad had to say.

"Option One: Give them both axes and you let them fight to the end," Stoick said, holding up his axe.

"No!" Henna cried out in alarm.

"That one sounds a tad, uh, permanent. What's Option Number Two?" Hiccup asked uncertainly.

"You give them both maces and let them fight to the end," Stoick said, giving Hiccup a heavy mace.

"That's also a tad bit permanent," Zenna informed the Chief while trying to keep her mother calm.

"Do I even want to know what Option Three is?" Hiccup asked nervously.

"Easy, I stay in the house until I heal up!" Aurora exclaimed, exasperated. "Problem solved!"

"Aurora, you can't stay in the house for two weeks." Zenna stated.

"I can try!" Aurora claimed.

"A-Any other ideas dad?" Hiccup asked his father.

"Hmm, its quite devious and can have grizzly repercussions. Then again, it can go down like a treat or about 50-50 either way," Stoick told him.

"That gives a 50% chance of success and a 50% chance of failure. Even odds," Zenna remarked while Hiccup waited for his father to tell him what Option Three was.

"I'm listening," he said hopefully.

"You trick them into working together," Stoick said.

Hiccup looked thoughtful for a minute before he got an idea.

"Zen, you think you can help me out on this one?" he asked his one-eyed surrogate sister.

"Always ready to help, Hicc!" Zenna smiled.

"I'm staying here!" Aurora declared, but Zenna went over and picked her up bridle style, "Hey! Wait!"

"Sorry sis, you're a part of this plan too." Zenna smirked.

"Why...!" she whined as they went upstairs to Hiccup's room, leaving the adults to talk shop.

"A fifty percent chance of success and a fifty percent chance of failure. Stoick, aren't you even a little worried?" Henna asked her Chief in concern.

"Not at all. Hiccup's a smart boy. He always finds a way," Stoick said as he put his axe and his mace away. "Plus with Aurora, they'll be fine.."

"Aye, and don't forget, our daughter's always there for him," Edgar grinned. And Stoick nodded and smiled. Yes, Zenna had always been there for Hiccup and he had a feeling that that wouldn't change ever. Edgar and Henna's daughters were definitely Hiccup's most loyal followers.

The Next Day...

Hiccup and Zenna put their plan into action. They had Astrid and Snotlout both get some things for Aurora. Astrid got ointment for her puncture wounds while Snotlout got some more bandages. When the two came to the Fiersome house, they saw each other and groaned, "Oh come on.." Snotlout grumbled.

"Tricked us, agh..!" Astrid added. But either way, the two entered the house and found Zenna, Hiccup and Zenna' parents. "Really Hiccup?" Astrid deadpanned.

"You left us with no choice, Astrid." Zenna replied.

Snotlout scoffed, "Seriously?"

"You two have to compromise with each other for Aurora's sake." Edgar stated.

"We know you two haven't gotten along lately, but you have to or else you might injure Aurora again. Do you really want to have your friend injured because of a small argument?" Henna questioned.

Astrid and Snotlout sighed and said in unison, "No..."

"Good, now can you two please work together..?" Zenna asked the two. Astrid and Snotlout looked at each other and then back at Zenna, "Yes.."

"Good, now I believe you both have a patient that needs attending to." Hiccup teased. Astrid and Snotlout rolled their eyes before they walked past the group and went upstairs to tend to Aurora. "How long do you think they'll last?" Zenna asked.

"I'm not holding my breath." Hiccup replied.