Before the chapter begins I'd like to let you all know that I will now be including brief character descriptions for characters that are introduced in the previous chapter. This is so that you can imagine their character in the story to make it more fun.
Character Descriptions:
Robert: Male, 6 ft 4', White skin, short black hair, black overall shirt with green pants. Big black fur coat/cape, uses a giant Battle axe.
Harry: Male, 6 ft 2', White skin, short brown hair with a wave at the front, slightly muscular body build, black shirt with blue stripes, light blue pants, armour plated sleeve on his left arm. Brown fur boots. Weapon of choice: Unknown
Sa-Sar: Female, 5 ft 10', White skin, long brown hair, lean build, black singlet with no belly, short white fur cape attached at the shoulders, tight blue pants, brown fur boots. Weapon of choice: Mace
Willem: Male, 5 ft 11', White skin, long hair tied up in a bun at the top, skinny build. Red shirt with beige pants and brown boots. Weapon of Choice: Unknown
Jordao: Male, 6ft 2', White skin, medium length brown hair, red shirt with brown vest, brown pants and brown fur boots. Weapon of choice: Unknown
Eden: Male, 5 ft 8', White skin, short brown hair, skinny and athletic build, white shirt, navy blue pants, black boots. Weapon of choice: Unknown
Jessalyn: Female, 5 ft 6, White skin, long and curly black hair, lean build, green and yellow shirt, black pants, light brown boots. Weapon of choice unknown
Addy: Female, 5 ft 8', Light brown skin, long straight black hair, lean build, yellow singlet, navy blue pants, brown boots. Weapon of choice: Unknown
Ishbel: Female, 5 ft 7', pale white skin, medium length brownish-red hair, chubby build, loose red shirt, long green vest, light blue pants, black boots. Weapon of choice: Unknown.
All other characters have their base looks from Race to the Edge.
Harry slowly came to consciousness as he sat up and took a look at his surroundings, they were unfamiliar. He knew he couldn't be on Titan as the building he was in was well kept, no holes in the ceiling or walls, no chunks missing and no mould or plant life was growing.
'Where am I?' Harry said to himself as he got up out of bed and made his was to the door. He was stumbling, off balance and struggling to remember what had happened. When he made it to the door he opened it taking. He was on some sort of floating house overlooking an Island.
Harry stopped and just admired the beauty of it all, a clean island, clean water around it, no pollution. Next thing he knew he looked to his right and a dragon was sitting there looking at him. The dragon was all black with green eyes.
"Ahhhhhh" Harry screamed as he jumped and prepared to fight
"Woah woah woah, don't worry he's not gonna hurt ya" Said a weird voice from the side of the house
"Who are you? Where am I? Why can't I remember anything?" Asked Harry with clear confusion in his voice.
A man walked around from the side of the hut and began to pat the dragon "You are on Dragons Edge. My name is Hiccup, this is Toothless and as for your memory... I don't know"
"How are you doing that?" Asked Harry
"Dragons aren't dangerous creatures, they're are kind and amazing... Now, you're from Titan?" Replied Hiccup
"Yea I think so... I dont know- my head is aching" Answered Harry as he held his head
"Well in that case, you should go back to bed and rest. When you're feeling better we can talk" Asserted Hiccup.
Harry was in an unknown environment with a dragon, he wasn't about to argue back, so he went back inside the hut and laid down.
A few hours passed and Harry's head began to stop aching, he hopped up and exited the hut, once again taking in the beauty of this island. He looked around to see what his surrounding's were. Along the walkway he was on appeared to be a few more huts, each had a dragons head on top and were coloured. He walked to the edge of the walkway and looked down. There was a training dome, stables and a rock pool. He looked towards the centre of an island and there was another building, this one was bigger than the other huts, so Harry thought that it must be some kind of gathering area or club house, meaning that was were he needed to be.
As he got closer he started to recognise the sounds of more familiar dragons, ad deadly nadder, a montrous nightmare and a gronckle. He got to the door of the of the clubhouse and he could hear conversations happening inside.
"Hiccup, how do we know we can trust this guy?" said a female voice
"When I found him he was about to be killed, by his Chief who I found out that night had a 5 year deal with Viggo" Replied Hiccup
Harry held his head as memories of that night came spilling out. How his uncle was about to kill him, about how he lost his entire village and about how his friends could be dead.
"So, that doesn't mean he's our friend!" claimed another male voice
"Snotlout, haven't you heard the saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend?" Asked another unrecognised voice"
"Look, he's from Titan! Have you all forgotten what proud history of warriors they had? Their leaders turned Titan into one of the best islands in the entire archipelago. And on top of that, for the past 100 years they were one of Berk's best allies" Explained Hiccup
Harry walked into the clubhouse instantly drawing attention to himself. He had a look around at the Vikings that were inside. He first took notice of a large viking with blonde hair who was a bit overweight but looked intimidating, next there were two blond vikings that looked very similar, probably twins he surmised. Next was a short viking that was decently well built, followed by a black haired woman with green eyes, wearing shoulder pads made from a dragons spines. As he continued to look around he recognised Hiccup and then... He saw her, A beautiful, blond haired viking girl with long legs and beautiful ocean blue eyes.
Everybody in the club house was quickly on alert and in fighting stance.
"How did you get in here?" Asked Snotlout
"Snotlout calm down! He's not the enemy, Viggo is!" Asserted Hiccup
"Viggo? The guy with short black hair, spikes on his shoulders and his insignia is some sort of a fist?" Asked Harry
"I still think their crest is better than ours" whispered the male twin to his sister
"quiet Tuff!" Said Hiccup
"So you know who Viggo Grimborn is?" Asked Astrid
Harry didn't say anything he just nodded
"So I take it your memory has started coming back?" Asked Hiccup
Harry didn't exactly want to say anything, because if he was being honest with himself he felt very intimidated. 7 vikings who all had dragons of their own.
The girl with black hair walked over to him, "My names Heather. Hiccup told me what happened, you don't have to be afraid of us"
"Thanks Heather. What do you all know of what happened to Titan?" Asked Harry to the group
"Not much actually. All we know is that the Chief was about to kill you before Toothless and I showed up and that the Dragon hunters were blowing up your villages shi-" Said Hiccup as he was quickly cut off
"Ships! Did they all get destroyed? Did any escape?" Asked Harry with urgency
"Calm down, we managed to distract the Hunters long enough for about half of the ships to escape through the sea... Oh, I'm Fishlegs by the way " Said The big viking.
Hearing this news Harry began to hope that his friends made it out. That maybe a new village of Titan was being created.
But that didn't matter, he had no idea where he was, no idea where his friends would be even if they made it out alive.
"You're more than welcome to stay here as long as you need" Said Hiccup as Astrid pulled him to the side.
"Are you sure that we can trust him? I wouldn't put it past Viggo to place a spy among us" Said Astrid quietly.
"Astrid, do you really not know who Harry is?" Asked Hiccup
"Should I?" She replied
"Let me put it this way... You know the stories about the former Chief and Chieftess of Titan? Well, Harry is the last remaining member of that family. He lost his parents and only brother" Said Hiccup as he began to feel sad about the loss of his mother.
Astrid found herself feeling a bit sad and guilty not only as a result of her comments, but also as she saw the way Hiccup felt.
Toward the outer reaches of the Archipelago, on an Island known only to a few as Niflheim was Viggo and his armada of ships. They had just returned from their raid on Titan
"Unload the ships! Take the children and put them into training, allow the hunters to have their fun with the females and put the men to work!" Ordered Viggo as he stepped off his lead ship onto the docks.
Niflheim is an island covered in snow, ice and glaciers which offer the perfect spot for Viggo and his hunting operation. Too cold for vikings to want to sail to it, cold enough to help train his hunters to survive in tough conditions and dragons couldn't fight back due to the severe weather.
"Ahhhh, I see you've brought in a fresh catch brother"
Viggo turned around to see his big brother Ryker. Ryker was a big man, buff, bald, armoured and walked around with two swords on his back made from dragon proof metal.
"Yes, we took the Island of Titan and at least half of it people. They will serve our army well some day" Said Viggo
"Half? I thought our deal with their Chief was meant to allow us to take all of Titans people!" Said Ryker
"Yes that is true. But Robert got sloppy. He allowed a group of teenager's to set up a secret evacuation just before we arrived. Our ships were able to take down 5 of theirs and take prisoners but another 5 escaped before we were able to hunt them down" Said Viggo calmy
"Shouldn't our ships of caught them? We paid alot of gold to have fast ships" Questioned Ryker
"The other 5 or so of Titan's ships were unreachable. The Dragon riders showed up and our focus had to be on them" Said Viggo
"The Dragon riders showed up on Titan? And you also said that Teenagers planned an evacuation? Don't tell me we're going to have to deal with these teenagers) -R
"It is highly unlikely that these teenagers are going to be of any issue. They don't have dragons, they don't have a base of operations, they don't even have a leader. Plus, when our deal with Robert went wrong, we didn't pay him everything we promised and since he knows he can't attack us. He will be hunting down his former people and ending them" Said Viggo as he walked off with his arms behind his back.
The dragon hunters fortress was truly a sight to behold. Spacious enough to fit an entire fleet of ships and with it was a training arena. 5 ships worth of prisoners from Titan were being unloaded. Among them were over 100 Children, 200 Women and 200 Men. Women were transported straight into the holding cells for the hunters to have fun with.
Once every siege or raid when prisoners were taken. Viggo allowed his men to do whatever they wanted with the women that were taken prisoner and would then use the children born from those women for his next generation of soliders.
The young children were separated from their families and put straight on a new ship to be taken for training whilst the older children and the men were chained up and put straight into working.
Among these older children was an old friend of Harry's that did not take too well to being chained.
A month had now passed and back on Dragons Edge, everyone began getting along. Harry had let his guard down around his newly made friends and had seemingly become one of the Dragon Riders, without a dragon ofcourse.
Harry spent the last month learning so much about dragons. Things he probably would have never known had he remained on Titan.
Harry had now spent hours learning how to fly dragons, usually through lessons from Hiccup and a few by Heather, he'd also spent numerous hours studying the book of dragons and having discussions about new discoveries made since they all left their village of Berk and not to mention how much time Harry had spent sparring with Astrid in the arena dome.
Astrid was easily one of the best warriors in the entire Archipelago, when the two initially started sparring he couldn't last more than 20 seconds.
Harry knew that he needed to become my skilled in hand to hand combat, especially after he almost lost his life at the hands of his uncle who for all anyone knew, could still be out there.
Astrid was training him how to fight with an axe, like she did, but he struggled. For some reason Harry just didn't like the feel of an axe, he eventually became quite skilful with it, but he knew he could do better.
"Not bad Harold" Giggled Astrid
"Not bad? Harold?" Questioned Harry as he sat up off the ground that Astrid just threw him on
Astrid walked over to him, offering a hand to help him get up
"Next time, try to stay on your feet" Laughed Astrid
Harry grabbed her hand and helped himself up "Hahaha, aren't you full of jokes today" quipped back Harry
Harry got up a bit too close to Astrid and the two could feel eachothers breathing causing both to slightly blush in what became an awkward moment.
"So... Uhhh... I guess we should get back up there for dinner. Need a lift?" Stuttered Astrid as she climbed aboard Stormfly.
"No, I think I might go take a dip in the volcanic springs to wash off" Replied Harry scratching the back of his head
Astrid tapped Stormfly on the belly causing her to squawk and take off.
"Volcanic springs... Good one Harry, how do you suppose you'll get there?" He said to himself.
He eventually just settled for jumping into the water on the beach and running back to the clubhouse to dry off with thoughts about his awkward encounter with Astrid going through his head.
The next day Harry and Hiccup were together at the blacksmith station near Hiccup's hut. Harry was watching him try to create an updated version of his gronckle iron shield. While watching Hiccup pour gronckle iron into a mould for the shield, he came up with a new idea for his weapon since he didn't like the axe too much.
"Hey Hiccup, any chance I could grab a piece of design paper and pencil?" Asked Harry
Hiccup titled his head and raised an eyebrow with surprise, "You want to make something?"
Hiccup handed Harry the paper and he went inside to sit at the table. After about an hour Harry had finished his design and was getting ready to show Hiccup when he heard an explosion. Harry ran outside the hut expecting to see another invasion but instead, just saw that Hiccups shield have blown up.
"Well that's gonna need to be fixed" Said Hiccup as he coughed on the smoke.
"How did you manage that?" Asked Harry
"Not important" Replied Hiccup
Hiccup noticed the sheet of paper in Harry's hand so he had a look at it.
After a quick glance all Hiccup could on the paper was two batons
"This is you're big design?" Asked Hiccup
Harry smirked and turned the paper over. These weren't just two ordinary batons. They were compartmentalised inside the handle and with the press of a button they would spring out. They could also connect at the handles to form a staff.
After reviewing Harry's designs, Hiccup decided he would help him build it. At that point in time it was nearly midday, Harry wanted to have his new weapons ready for his sparring session with Astrid so he could learn how to use them.
A fair few hours had passed but the Gronckle iron was poured into the moulds for the battons and now it was just time to let them cool and assmbled the battons.
While waiting for them to cool Hiccup looked out over the water and saw that the twins and Snotlout were messing around with the monstrous nightmare gel supply. Hiccup quickly whistled for Toothless as he hopped on and flew off to stop them.
Harry had nothing to do now but wait so he began walking around. He went inside the smithy hut and started going through some of Hiccups notes. That was when he saw a section labelled 'New Titan' Harry read through the section and saw that it contained information about where some of the survivors of Titan had set up camp.
Harry felt slightly betrayed that Hiccup didn't share this information with him. After all, they were still his people, he had a birth duty to take care of them.
After 20 minutes of Harry rushing through Hiccups notes, he heard Toothless land. He quickly put all the notes back where he found them and made his way to the door.
"So, lets assemble your batons" Said Hiccup with a smile
Harry knew Hiccup wasn't a bad person and that he probably had his reasons for keeping his findings a secret, so for now he was just going to pretend he never saw them.
The two spent the next hour assembling Harry's weapon and polishing off to make sure that it works properly. The gronckle iron rods were inserted and compressed into the two handles and locked inside. Harry picked up one of them and pressed the button on the handle for the weapon to activate. From the handle quickly extended the gronckle iron rod that was about 22 inches (or 56 cm), It functioned perfectly.
Harry grabbed the his other baton and activated it, then pressed the handles together to form the staff. Once the handles were together, a secondary extending action occured from the opposite sides of the handles to fully form the staff which was now about 60 inches long.
"Awesome" Said Harry as he took a long look at his new weapon
"So you gonna name it?" Asked Hiccup with a laugh
Harry hadn't given it any thought as it was uncommon to name anything other than places or people on Titan, but he didn't have anytime to dedicate to naming it right now, it was almost sunset meaning he was about to be late to his sparring session.
Just before sunset Harry arrived at the training arena, Astrid was already part way through destroying a training dummy with her Axe as she noticed his arrival
"Well, nice to see you showed up again" Chuckled Astrid
"Hahahaha. Why wouldn't I show up?" said Harry
"Well, after I kicked your butt yesterday, thought you might be scared" Said Astrid as she handed Him an axe.
The two went to separate sides of the arena and entered battle stance, both with their axes at the ready.
Astrid came charging in wildly swinging her axe expecting Harry to block it, but instead he slid along the ground under her axe and throwing away his to the side, before fully returning to his feet and standing a few metres away from Astrid.
"Getting rid of your weapon? Stupid decision!" Yelled Astrid as she swung her axe down from above her head.
Harry reached for his batons that were clipped to his belt and activated them, catching Astrids axe in an x formation.
Astrid was taken by surprise, she hadn't seen anyone use any kind of weapon like that ever, mostly because it wasn't deadly.
"Two dull batons? These are your weapons of choice?" Asked Astrid with a growl as the two were still locked.
Harry pushed up with his batons breaking the lock and spun around the side of Astrid quickly tapping her on the calf before backing a few steps away.
The tap wasn't very painful as the two were just sparring but the face he pulled such a manoeuvre on her and she couldn't do anything about it, greatly annoyed her.
"Yep! I don't ever want to kill anyone. My conscience and guilt must stay clean if I am to be the best version of myself. So with these, I can still fight and win without needing to worry about killing someone" Said Harry
Astrid could do nothing but admire Harry's words, but that didn't change the fact that the two of them were still sparring as she once again rushed in for battle.
30 minutes of sparring later and the two were coming to the end of their strength. Both sweating heavily, out of breath and struggling to keep their feet under them it was now a question of who was going to fall first.
Astrid was swinging her axe wildly and taking big strides while Harry was being more conservative, parrying her swings and keeping his distance.
Astrid decided to give all she had left to one last flurry of attacks. Harry couldn't get his movements to be quick enough causing him to loose his footing and fall, taking Astrid along with him.
Much like the day before, the two found themselves in an extremely close proximity, except this time they were both on the ground with Astrid laying on top of Harry. The two were frozen again with his dark brown eyes locked in on her ocean blue ones, feeling the heat radiate off of each-others body combined with the short gusts of wind cause by their combined panting. After a few more seconds of awkwardness Astrid found herself blushing red in the face as she quickly got back up on her feet, extending a hand to Harry who was still on the floor to help him up.
"Alright well, good session" said Harry quickly
"where are you off to now? The hot springs again?" laughed Astrid.
"I meant to go yesterday, but it was dinner so there wasn't enough time" Chuckled Harry
"Well, I'm absolutely filthy and need a wash so that's where I'm going... Want a ride?" Offered Astrid as she rung out the base of her shirt.
Harry was also in desperate need of a wash, sometimes at night he struggled to sleep if he felt too dirty, and tonight was definitely going to be one of those nights, so he had little choice but to accept her offer. The two climbed aboard Stormfly and took off towards the Edge's volcano, after that awkward encounter Harry didn't really want to have to wrap his arms around Astrid so he just tried to keep his balance.
The two arrived on the mountain where the hotspring was located. Stormfly went off to go play with a grouping of Nadder's while the two vikings tested the water temperature. It was hot, but not too hot that it was uncomfortable. Harry began taking off his boots and his armoured chestpiece and his sleeve, then he hoped in the water.
Astrid observed him as he took off his clothing, Harry had a nice build, not too much muscle that it looked weird but not much fat either, Astrid found herself once again blushing.
While Harry was busy washing himself Astrid began to take off some of her clothes. Her shoulder-pads, spiked skirt, and her fur boots all had to come off. Finally so did the shirt, but not her bra, that had to stay on. Harry couldn't help himself but to take a peak out of his peripheral vision. Astrid had a clear ab lines, toned shoulders, curvy waist and she looked even better with her un-braided.
As the two were now shoulder deep in water they felt no awkwardness facing eachother. The two made their way to the side of the hotspring that overlooked the entire island.
The island looked amazing as always, but seeing it from this height at sunset...
"This island, it's really something" Said Harry
"Yea, sometimes I forget to take it all in" Replied Astrid
As the two were staring over dragons Edge, they noticed Hiccup and Toothless taking off
"I wonder where he's going" Said Harry
"Probably just for his usual sunset flight around the island" Said Astrid
Harry turned and looked at Astrid, "Soooo, Heather tells me that you and him are..."
Astrid was quick to cut Harry off, "no no no, just friends, and barely even that anymore"
Harry was intrigued by her response, "Really? Heather has been telling me all these stories about the way you two use to be"
Astrid didn't take long to reply, "Keyword use to be. I use to really like him, alot. But then ever since we came to the Edge it seems like all he wants to do is focus on new dragons, and then it was the dragon eye, and now it's Viggo. I lost those feelings for him months ago"
Harry became slightly happy with that response
"So what about you? You and Heather seem to be spending alot of time together?" Questioned Astrid
"Hahaha, no. She just knows what its like to lose your entire island. She's helped a lot, been a good friend but no, nothings happening there"
Astrid also found herself happy with his response. "So about Titan, do you think Viggo got them all?"
Harry gave himself a second to think. "Astrid I need to tell you something"
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