p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Chapter 4 - The Wings of War/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"It had been two months since Harry left the Edge in search of his old friends and during this time the Dragon Riders seemed to get a grip on themselves and start working together again and just in time, because Viggo was planning something big./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Back on Niflheim a hunter entered Viggo's quarters. "Viggo, I've got a report for you regarding Ship #297"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Ship 297? What's going on brother?" Asked Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Viggo stood up and took a piece of paper from the hunter. "I gave ship #297 a special mission to track down and kill our old friend Dagur"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Ryker slammed his fist onto the table, "Dagur! He's alive?"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"A few months before Viggo attacked Titan, Dagur the Deranged was working with the Dragon Hunters. That was until he came to the realisation that he was expendable and considered a laughing stock by Viggo and Ryker. One night Dagur tried to leave Niflheim when Ryker attacked him. After a brief fight Dagur was thrown into the ocean and assumed to be dead, until now./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yes brother, one of our hunter's spotted him on a boat at sea. They pursued him towards Berzerker Island and marooned him on a ice covered Island between that and Dragons Edge. Explained Viggo/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""This is unacceptable! We need to go there now and finish him off!" Yelled Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Calm yourself brother, wait a minute there's more on this report. Ship #279 has also marooned another ship that was sailing from Dragon's Edge" Said Viggo/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""A ship? From Dragons Edge? Why would a ship be coming from there?" Asked Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""This report is dated from 2 months ago, I'm assuming that since we first met the child of Titan 2 months ago, and I explained to him that we didn't catch his entire village, he must've left the edge in search of his people" -V/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Ryker walked over to examine the report for himself, "Why would he be on a ship? I thought that since he was with the Dragon Riders he would of gotten a dragon"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Viggo began walking towards the his table where the plans for his big operation were, "I don't believe that he ever trained a dragon, which could be why he's on a ship. However, if he was marooned on an Island with Dagur the Deranged, then maybe we don't have to worry. I can't imagine those two getting along"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Another hunter entered Viggo's quarters, "Viggo, we have had a new report come in from our training Island. Your dragon army is ready"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Dragon army brother?" Asked Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Brother, are you aware of our actual leader?" Asked Viggo/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""One armed man? Doesn't take any interest in our operations. He shouldn't be the leader" Said Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yes well, for now he is. He has ordered us to create a dragon army. He has his own dragon rider issue" Explained Viggo/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What does that have to do with a training Island?" Asked Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well you see brother, I find it important to draw inspiration from your enemies. Hiccup and his friends ride dragons and it makes them formidable opponents. Our leader wants a dragon army, I also thought that we should put riders on his dragon army, that's why we have an island for training" Explained Viggo/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, what kind of dragons are we using?" Asked Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""The deadliest and most obtainable dragons to us. Singetails" -V/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Obtainable?" -R/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We have setup numerous ships around the islands known to contain high concentrations of ice-tail pike" -V/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So when will we be using our dragon army to take down the riders?" -R/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Soon brother, first we must make sure they know what their doing. Don't forget that Hiccup and his friends have been riding dragons since they were young, Our ruiders have been doing so for a few months" -V/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What about a test mission? We send some of them on a mission for Dagur and the dragonless dragon rider" -R/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"That's a great idea brother, it's good to finally see you are getting some brains under that thick skull"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Viggo's comment annoyed Ryker, but they were brothers so he was going to let it slide./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"*2 Months Ago*/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Astrid, I'm sorry" Expressed Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Sorry isn't going to cut it Hiccup. You haven't been around, you haven't been leading and you weren't even here for the attack by Viggo! I nearly died Hiccup! I would have if not for-"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAstrid froze as some water came to her eyes"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I know. I'm sorry. I let everyone down and we nearly lost the Edge, but we can fix it. We can still fix is..." Said Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Astrid stayed silent for a few seconds. She was a bit annoyed that he still spoke about an 'us'. She hadn't told anyone about her kiss from a few nights before. "Hiccup, I don't want to talk about an "us" right now, there are more pressing concerns"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Pressing concerns?" Questioned Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What has happened to you! Can't you see that this team barely acts like a team anymore? The only reason I survived that last attack was because we had Harry. He's gone now, if we don't all get back to the way things use to be... Then we wont survive" Said Astrid as she picked up her axe and went for a walk./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Just as Astrid left the clubhouse Heather walked in but she avoided eye contact and stayed silent./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What's got her down?" Asked Heather/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I don't know, she's mad at me because I wasn't here for when Viggo attacked" Replied Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh, yea that makes sense. That was the night Viggo had her dead to rights" Explained Heather/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What do you mean dead to rights? It was Viggo that nearly killed her? How has it nearly been a week and I didn't know about this" Asked Hiccup with frustration/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Heather stood there in shock for a few seconds. "Hiccup, you don't have the right to be angry. You weren't here. But to answer your questions, by dead to rights I mean she was on the ground, defenceless and Viggo was about to run her through with his sword. He would of too, but Harry managed to get there just in time to stop the attack"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After hearing what Heather had to say, Hiccup realised he might have to come to terms with the fact that he's ruined his friendship with Astrid./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Don't worry Hiccup, I'm still here" Winked Heather as she exited the clubhouse./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Hiccup was a little confused at what just happened./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Daggur the Deranged! Come out and accept you're fate!" Yelled a Hunter that was outside a cave./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""You will never take me!" Yelled Dagur through the cave./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""You're trapped Dagur! We have dozens of men here waiting at the only exit for you" Shouted the Hunter/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagur found himself trapped in a cave with no weapon and marooned on a small Island surrounded by Hunters. Dagur knew his only escape was going to be to steal a ship except that was going to be next to impossible in his current situation. He doesn't have any allies to come help him and he's defenceless./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Captain, what should we do?" Asked a hunter/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, you never want to back your prey into a corner, they tend to fight back, We'll wait here for Dagur to surrender himself to us" Replied the Captain of the hunter ship./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagurs time was running out, he'd have to try something sooner or later./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""And Captain, what do we do about the other Dragon rider on this island?"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We can worry about him later. Dagur is the priority. Now, go and send a report to Viggo. Let him know that we've got Dagur marooned on this island... Oh and make sure mention something about the Dragon rider" Ordered the captain/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagur managed to hear the chatter about a Dragon rider being on the island, he realised that was going to be his way to escape./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"But that still left Dagur with the problem of getting out of the cave./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After giving himself 10 minutes to come up with a plan for escape, Dagur decided he was going to surender himself and then try to fight his way out. He was still on a snowy island so he wasn't going to last long in this low temperature./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As Dagur emerged from the cave, the hunters all trained their cross bows and weapons at him and gathered together. Dagur however was highly surprised to see some sort of egg being rolled towards the hunters feet./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Huh?"/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What?"/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who did this?"/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Those were all examples of what the hunters were saying to eachother./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"While the hunters were looking at the egg at their feet, Dagur noticed a large figure coming in from above them./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Is that a- Monstrous Nightmare egg?" Asked one of the hunters sounding scared./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Seconds later an enraged Monstrous Nightmare landed on them causing a rampage. The hunters had to take their focus off Dagur for a few seconds and focus on dealing with an angry dragon./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Psssst, over here" Said a voice in some bushes/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagur went running over and jumped into bushes where he met Harry./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who are you? You're not a Dragon Rider" Said Dagur/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Run now! Talk later!" Replied his rescuer./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After the two spent a while running through the snowy forest they managed for find shelter in the form of another cave located on small cliff./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We can't stay here long, with all of that snow they will be able to track our footprints" Said Harry/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who are you! And why did they call you a Dragon Rider? Do you have a dragon here? Do you know brother Hiccup?" Asked Dagur with excitement./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""My name is Harry, I do not have a dragon, yes I know Hiccup and its because I've been with the Dragon riders for a few months so that's probably why they called me a Dragon Rider"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well if you are budd-" Said Dagur before he was cut off/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Shut up!" Barked Harry/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I don't understand?" Asked Dagur/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Weren't you listening? I've been with the Riders for a few months. Do you really think I didn't hear about all the terrible stuff you've done?"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Ok, Ok, I know I've done some questionable things in the past. But I've changed. After I saved Heather, I realised something... And it's that I don't want to be the person that I was anymore." -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry stood silent for a few seconds, after all the stories he was told about Dagur, he questioned whether this really was the same Dagur?/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Alright Dagur here's the deal. I don't really know you and you don't know me. But if you say you want to be a good person now, then prove that to me by working with me" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""How do I know I can trust you?" -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well I did just save your life" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""You? Hahahahaha! You threw the Nightmare egg? Good one my new friend" said Dagur as she placed his hands on Harry's shoulders/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Alright, look over to the East, there is a massive storm coming our way. I'd say we've got about 2 hours tops before it hits. We need to be off this island before then" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""How do we get out of here? I know we could try to fight out, but without weapons, it's going to be tough" -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Speak for yourself" Laughed Harry as he grabbed one of his batons./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As the two heard the lightning strikes come closer and closer they realised their window for escape was closing./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We need to steal their ship, but how do we do that with their ballistas, crossbows and weapons all ready for us?" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh Harry, don't you know that a trappers trap can trap the trapper? Hahahahaha!" -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry stood their bewildered by that quote, "What?"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, if you can keep the hunters busy on the beach. I can sneak onto the ship and use the ballistas and weapons to help you" -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry wasn't the biggest fan of this plan, but time was running out. If the storm reached them on the island, it would most likely be far too cold to survive. So he accepted Dagurs plan and the two made their way towards the Hunters./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Captain! Look there, at the tree line" yelled one of the hunters./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As the captain of the fleet looked to the tree line, he saw a figure emerge./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""You're not Dagur!" Yelled the Captain./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who's Dagur?" Replied Harry/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Doesn't matter. Seize him!"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"All the hunters rushed Harry with their weapons raised. With the sight of all the hunters rushing him Harry turned and ran back into the forest with the hunters close behind him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Meanwhile Dagur has successfully boarded the ship and taken out the few crew members that remained on board. He got on the ballista and aimed it towards the beach waiting for Harry to double back./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After 5 minutes Harry arrived back on the beach and ran towards the ship. He stopped to look and make sure Dagur was ready. That was when he felt a sharp and excrutiating radiate from his upper right thigh. He felt to the ground at the sight of an arrow sticking through his flesh./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh no! Harry! Quickly, get on the ship" Yelled Dagur./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry looked back at the tree line and saw the hunters begin to emerge. "No Dagur! Start the ship! Get out of here"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagur knew he couldn't save Harry so he did what he was told and let down the sails. A few of the hunters noticed and ran after the ship grabbing onto panels or ropes and sailing off as well./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"About 6 hunters remained behind and stood over Harry./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""This is where your journey ends" teased the Captain./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Right as the captain finished his sentence, their attention was drawn to the lightning storm that was above the island, it didn't seem like any ordinary storm and some of the hunters were becoming worried./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"That was when from a bolt of Lightning appeared a Skrill. The 6 hunters appeared afraid but weren't willing to run./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh my, a Skrill! And look at that unique colour! If we brought a Skrill and a dragon rider to Viggo, we'd be rich!" announced the Captain./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"This Skrill was unique in both appearance and behaviour compared to other Skrills. It didn't have the normal purple colouration and it didn't go blasting for fun. This Skrill observed what the vikings were doing and had blue coloured scales./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The hunters all drew their dragon root crossbows and arrows and began shooting at the Skrill. With the its speed it easily avoided all the arrows and began to channel lightning through its metallic spines./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The lightshow above gave Harry a small window of opportunity to retreat back into the forest. He couldn't move fast but he had to push through the pain for the sake of his life./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"10 minutes later and Harry found himself deep in the forest. He sat down against a tree and looked at his leg. He'd lost of a lot of blood but the bleeding had momentarily stopped. Harry considered removing the arrow which would allow him to move a fair bit easier but it would also cause more bleeding which might make him lose consciousness so it was a risk he wasn't willing to take./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry took a moment to observe the lightshow the Skrill was putting on, which was when he heard a screech from the dragon. The Skrill had been hit by a dragon root arrow and was going in for a crash landing in the forest. Harry knew that if the hunters got to the dragon, then they'd kill it./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Rain started pouring in and the temperature dropped, Harry began moving towards where he saw the Skrill go down. Harry was closer to it than the hunters however they could move alot faster./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Soaking wet, limping and freezing, Harry made it to the Skrill. He pulled the arrow out of the dragons leg and moved towards it head./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry and the Skrill made eye contact but it was in too bad of a state to move properly, so he figured he was safe./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Thank you for saving my life" Said Harry./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Seconds later the hunters arrived./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, well, well. The Dragon Rider and the dragon. Both here and both wounded. Its our lucky day!" Claimed one of the hunters/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry noticed that this time there were only 3 of them, and that the captain wasn't with them./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Looks like the dragon got the better of your friends" taunted Harry/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The hunters didn't take too kindly to Harry's comment as they raised their weapons at him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Let me repay you" Said Harry to the Skrill/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry stood up and reached for the handles to his batons and activated them. He placed one baton on one side of the arrow at the front of his leg and the other on the other side of arrow on the back of his leg. With one movement he pushed and pulled on his batons and snapped the arrow removing it from his leg causing the blood to rush out again./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"1 of the hunters rushed Harry but he quickly spun to the side swinging his baton at the head of the hunter sending him to the ground unconscious. Two hunters who both had swords circled Harry, one moving to the left and the other moving to the right. They both swung their swords at him at the same time which he blocked with his batons. With his good left leg he kicked one of the hunters in the knee hard enough to knock him to the ground in pain. The other hunter sent a barrage of slashes Harry way which he had to continuously block with his batons. Harry managed to doge a slash and slip away. As he did that he remembered a move he pulled on Astrid during training one time./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As the hunter once again came in slashing a sword from side to side, Harry slid under the attack using one baton to take out the hunters knee and then the other to hit him in the back of the head sending him also to the ground unconscious./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As Harry got back to his feet he stumbled, realising that took a toll on him. He began to feel faint as he noticed a lot of his blood on the snowy and icey floor. But Harry still had one more hunter to deal with. He combined his batons into staff mode and readied for the last hunters attack. This hunter was foolish however, he chose to throw his sword. But the target wasn't Harry. It was the Skrill. Harry saw the hunter line up his target and with his last remaining strength, ran over to the Skrill acting as a human shield. As the sword came closer and closer the Skrill took notice of Harry's actions, and then the sword hit him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Fortunately, the handle hit his head but it did cause him to lose consciousness./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Stupid boy! Choosing a dragon over his own life" Said the Hunter as he bent down to pickup his sword./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As the hunter straightened up he looked at the Skrill which was also back to its feet, wobbly, but still on its feet. The Skrill roared causing electricity to surge through its scales, before blasting the final hunter with white lightning./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The Skrill still hadn't worn off the dragon root so it fell back to the ground./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry woke the next day with the sight of blue skies. He sat up and looked around and noticed that all the hunters were gone. As he continued to look around he noticed that the Skrill was 2 metres away and looking right at him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"He freaked out, quickly crawling his way backwards with the Skrill slowly walking towards him./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"He eventually backed himself against a tree and held his hand out to keep the Skrill at a distance, but the Skrill continued to close in on him. He closed his eyes, turned away and was ready to accept his fate./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Except what happened next, he never expected. He opened his eyes to see the Skrill pressing his nose into his hand./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Omg... Did I just get my own dragon?" Harry asked himself./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry sat up and gave the Skrill a smile as well as a scratch. The two made eye contact again and the Skrill lowered his head as a sign of respect and to allow him to climb on. Harry returned his batons to their handle form and put them on his belt before climbing onto the Skrill. They were both injured and needed to go somewhere safe./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I know a place that's safe" Said Harry as the two took off towards Dragons Edge/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After a short flight Harry could see Dragons Edge start to appear in the distance. He hadn't flown a dragon before and his vision was fading in and out, not to mention that the Skrill still had a bit of dragon root in its system so they were set for a rough landing./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Astrid was in the arena training with some practice dummies when she looked out towards the ocean. That was when she saw the two coming in for a really rough landing on the grass. The Skrill skidded along the grass as Harry flew off rolling himself. The two eventually came to a stop and that was when Astrid came running over./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Harry? Oh my gods, are you alright? Say something!" pleaded Astrid/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"It was no use, he lost consciousness again./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Hiccup and Snotlout landed as well and rushed over./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""He's back?" Questioned Hiccup./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who cares about him! Hiccup... Is this what I think it is?" Said Snotlout as he put his hands over his head./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh Thor! A Skrill? Where on earth did he figure out how to train a Skrill?" Asked Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We can figure that out when he wakes up. We need to help him. Look at this, he's lost a lot of blood" Said Astrid pointing at his arrow mark./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Fishlegs came just in time to help Snotlout carry him to the medical room. Once there Fishlegs began using some potions and ointments he'd gotten from Gothi to make sure that he didn't have any infections and was going to make a full recovery. Meanwhile Hiccup and Astrid took the Skrill to the stables and began making some dragon root antidote./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Both him and his Skrill were left to recover for the next day./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"All riders were assembled in the club house./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So, Harry's back?" Asked Heather/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Looks like it" Replied Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""How long do you reckon he'll stay?" Questioned Fishlegs/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who knows! Last time he left without telling anyone" Commented Snotlout./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well I say he's allowed for as long as he wants" Said Ruffnut/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yea I'm with you sister" agreed Tuffnut./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Whats with the change of heart? Last time you didn't really seem to want him here" Said Astrid/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, first of all he now has a dragon. And second he been hurt. So hes against the hunters" Said Tuffnut./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Does anyone know why he left so suddenly last time?" Asked Hiccup./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""He said he needed to find his friends and his people" Replied Astrid./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Alright, Harry was clearly in a fight so I want patrols constantly. 6 hour shifts each. We do this until we know we're safe" Ordered Hiccup./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'll take first, to get it over with" Said Snotlout./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Snotlout hopped on Hookfang and flew off./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Hey Ruff and Tuff, how would you like to do something dangerous?" Asked Heather./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""OH MY THOR!" Yelled Tuff/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Sister, you are speaking our language" Replied Ruff/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Our new guest's favourite food it electric eels. Think you can get some?" Asked Heather/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Harry eats electric eels?" Asked Ruff/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""No, not Harry! The Skrill you muttonheads" Said Astrid./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The twins took off to go find some electric eels, Astrid left to go for a walk and Fishlegs went/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"to check in on the new dragon, leaving Hiccup and Heather alone in the club house./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Heather walked over to Hiccup,/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"br /"So, have you given my offer any thought?" Asked Heather seductively/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Your offer?" Asked Hiccup confused/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yes Hiccup, my offer... Me" Said Heather as she used her hands to gesture her body/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Wha- What do you mean" Asked Hiccup scratching his head./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Heather realised Hiccup's mind only ever really focused on dragons and protecting them. She was going to have show him with actions as opposed to words./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Heather walked up to Hiccup and pushed her lips against his, slipping her tongue in his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe was quite surprised to feel his hands move towards her hips and his tongue battle with hers./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry began to awake, he sat up out of bed and tried to stand up, but he couldn't. He couldn't put any weight on his right leg without extreme pain. He grabbed his batons and turned them into a staff and used is as a form of walking stick. He made it to the exit of the hut and opened the door. Astrid was standing there about to open it for herself./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh my god! You're awake" chirped Astrid as she wrapped her arms around him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Owwwww!" Yelled Harry. Astrids hug caused him to lose his balance and use his right leg./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'm so sorry" she apologised./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Hahaha, it's ok. I'm glad to see you too" Said Harry with the return of the hug./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So question, how did you manage to train a Skrill?" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""He saved my life, and I saved his. Can you take me to him?" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry wrapped his arm around Astrid shoulder and she helped him towards the stables./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So umm- about the last time we saw eachother..." -A/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I have no regrets" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Astrid smiled as they entered the stables. Harry got his staff out again and hobbled over to his dragon, sitting next to him and patting him./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""He's still probably sleeping from the medicine we gave him" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What a magnificent creature. And to think we use to kill them on Titan" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We were the same on Berk, then we learnt a different way. Have you thought of a name for him?" -A/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I have actually, we met on an snowy and icey island where he saved me from hunters, so I thought Icebane would be a good fit" -H/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""That's a fitting name" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Also I met our friend Dagur. He was being hunted by the hunters. I saved his life and he told me he wanted to be a good guy now" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'll believe that when I see it" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Astrid walked over and sat next to Harry, joining him in patting Icebane. "So, about that other night on the bea-"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry cut her off by pressing a gentle kiss on her lips. "Nothing has changed, I have no regrets but I still need to find my friends"/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What if- what if I came with you?" -A/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'd love you to. But you know you need to stay here and be with your fellow riders" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As much as she wanted to go with him. She knew he was right and that she had to stay on Dragons Edge./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"2 days later and Icebane was fully recovered which meant it was time to saddle up. Fishlegs and Hiccup worked non-stop designing and making Harry a saddle to fly with./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry and Astrid were on a grassy cliff having a quiet lunch before it was time for him to go./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So how long to you reckon you'll be gone?" Asked Astrid/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""As long as it takes. They're out there somewhere. Although It'll be a lot quicker on a dragon" Answered Harry/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Not just any dragon, A Skrill! I still can't believe you trained a Skrill" Laughed Astrid./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Speaking of Icebane, he should be saddled up by now" Said Harry./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry stood up gingerly, his right leg was wrapped in bandaged but it was still in alot of pain. He held out his hand to help Astrid to her feet. The two walked over towards the Edge of the cliff that overlooked Dragons Edge./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry used his fingers to give out a loud whistle and called his dragons name. In only a few seconds they could see Icebane shoot out of the stables and make a line straight for the top of the cliff. As he landed Harry gave him a scratch under his chin and said "good boy"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"He turned back to Astrid, "Well, looks like I'm off again"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yea. Don't be too long" Said Astrid./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"They both leaned in for a goodbye kiss. Harry placed his around her waist as their kiss grew more passionate, causing Astrid to raise one leg./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After a few seconds the two separated and Harry grabbed a bag he had prepared the day before for his travel. He hopped on his new saddle and prepared for take off./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'll see you soon" He said as they took off./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"It had been two months since Harry left the Edge in search of his old friends and during this time the Dragon Riders seemed to get a grip on themselves and start working together again and just in time, because Viggo was planning something big./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Back on Niflheim a hunter entered Viggo's quarters. "Viggo, I've got a report for you regarding Ship #297"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Ship 297? What's going on brother?" Asked Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Viggo stood up and took a piece of paper from the hunter. "I gave ship #297 a special mission to track down and kill our old friend Dagur"/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Ryker slammed his fist onto the table, "Dagur! He's alive?"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"A few months before Viggo attacked Titan, Dagur the Deranged was working with the Dragon Hunters. That was until he came to the realisation that he was expendable and considered a laughing stock by Viggo and Ryker. One night Dagur tried to leave Niflheim when Ryker attacked him. After a brief fight Dagur was thrown into the ocean and assumed to be dead, until now./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yes brother, one of our hunter's spotted him on a boat at sea. They pursued him towards Berzerker Island and marooned him on a ice covered Island between that and Dragons Edge. Explained Viggo/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""This is unacceptable! We need to go there now and finish him off!" Yelled Ryker/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Calm yourself brother, wait a minute there's more on this report. Ship #279 has also marooned another ship that was sailing from Dragon's Edge" Said Viggo/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""A ship? From Dragons Edge? Why would a ship be coming from there?" Asked Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""This report is dated from 2 months ago, I'm assuming that since we first met the child of Titan 2 months ago, and I explained to him that we didn't catch his entire village, he must've left the edge in search of his people" -V/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Ryker walked over to examine the report for himself, "Why would he be on a ship? I thought that since he was with the Dragon Riders he would of gotten a dragon"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Viggo began walking towards the his table where the plans for his big operation were, "I don't believe that he ever trained a dragon, which could be why he's on a ship. However, if he was marooned on an Island with Dagur the Deranged, then maybe we don't have to worry. I can't imagine those two getting along"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Another hunter entered Viggo's quarters, "Viggo, we have had a new report come in from our training Island. Your dragon army is ready"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Dragon army brother?" Asked Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Brother, are you aware of our actual leader?" Asked Viggo/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""One armed man? Doesn't take any interest in our operations. He shouldn't be the leader" Said Ryker/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yes well, for now he is. He has ordered us to create a dragon army. He has his own dragon rider issue" Explained Viggo/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What does that have to do with a training Island?" Asked Ryker/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well you see brother, I find it important to draw inspiration from your enemies. Hiccup and his friends ride dragons and it makes them formidable opponents. Our leader wants a dragon army, I also thought that we should put riders on his dragon army, that's why we have an island for training" Explained Viggo/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, what kind of dragons are we using?" Asked Ryker/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""The deadliest and most obtainable dragons to us. Singetails" -V/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Obtainable?" -R/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We have setup numerous ships around the islands known to contain high concentrations of ice-tail pike" -V/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So when will we be using our dragon army to take down the riders?" -R/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Soon brother, first we must make sure they know what their doing. Don't forget that Hiccup and his friends have been riding dragons since they were young, Our ruiders have been doing so for a few months" -V/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What about a test mission? We send some of them on a mission for Dagur and the dragonless dragon rider" -R/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"That's a great idea brother, it's good to finally see you are getting some brains under that thick skull"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Viggo's comment annoyed Ryker, but they were brothers so he was going to let it slide./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"*2 Months Ago*/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Astrid, I'm sorry" Expressed Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Sorry isn't going to cut it Hiccup. You haven't been around, you haven't been leading and you weren't even here for the attack by Viggo! I nearly died Hiccup! I would have if not for-"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanAstrid froze as some water came to her eyes"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I know. I'm sorry. I let everyone down and we nearly lost the Edge, but we can fix it. We can still fix is..." Said Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Astrid stayed silent for a few seconds. She was a bit annoyed that he still spoke about an 'us'. She hadn't told anyone about her kiss from a few nights before. "Hiccup, I don't want to talk about an "us" right now, there are more pressing concerns"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Pressing concerns?" Questioned Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What has happened to you! Can't you see that this team barely acts like a team anymore? The only reason I survived that last attack was because we had Harry. He's gone now, if we don't all get back to the way things use to be... Then we wont survive" Said Astrid as she picked up her axe and went for a walk./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Just as Astrid left the clubhouse Heather walked in but she avoided eye contact and stayed silent./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What's got her down?" Asked Heather/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I don't know, she's mad at me because I wasn't here for when Viggo attacked" Replied Hiccup/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh, yea that makes sense. That was the night Viggo had her dead to rights" Explained Heather/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What do you mean dead to rights? It was Viggo that nearly killed her? How has it nearly been a week and I didn't know about this" Asked Hiccup with frustration/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Heather stood there in shock for a few seconds. "Hiccup, you don't have the right to be angry. You weren't here. But to answer your questions, by dead to rights I mean she was on the ground, defenceless and Viggo was about to run her through with his sword. He would of too, but Harry managed to get there just in time to stop the attack"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After hearing what Heather had to say, Hiccup realised he might have to come to terms with the fact that he's ruined his friendship with Astrid./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Don't worry Hiccup, I'm still here" Winked Heather as she exited the clubhouse./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Hiccup was a little confused at what just happened./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Daggur the Deranged! Come out and accept you're fate!" Yelled a Hunter that was outside a cave./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""You will never take me!" Yelled Dagur through the cave./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""You're trapped Dagur! We have dozens of men here waiting at the only exit for you" Shouted the Hunter/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagur found himself trapped in a cave with no weapon and marooned on a small Island surrounded by Hunters. Dagur knew his only escape was going to be to steal a ship except that was going to be next to impossible in his current situation. He doesn't have any allies to come help him and he's defenceless./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Captain, what should we do?" Asked a hunter/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, you never want to back your prey into a corner, they tend to fight back, We'll wait here for Dagur to surrender himself to us" Replied the Captain of the hunter ship./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagurs time was running out, he'd have to try something sooner or later./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""And Captain, what do we do about the other Dragon rider on this island?"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We can worry about him later. Dagur is the priority. Now, go and send a report to Viggo. Let him know that we've got Dagur marooned on this island... Oh and make sure mention something about the Dragon rider" Ordered the captain/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagur managed to hear the chatter about a Dragon rider being on the island, he realised that was going to be his way to escape./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"But that still left Dagur with the problem of getting out of the cave./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After giving himself 10 minutes to come up with a plan for escape, Dagur decided he was going to surender himself and then try to fight his way out. He was still on a snowy island so he wasn't going to last long in this low temperature./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As Dagur emerged from the cave, the hunters all trained their cross bows and weapons at him and gathered together. Dagur however was highly surprised to see some sort of egg being rolled towards the hunters feet./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Huh?"/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What?"/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who did this?"/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Those were all examples of what the hunters were saying to eachother./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"While the hunters were looking at the egg at their feet, Dagur noticed a large figure coming in from above them./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Is that a- Monstrous Nightmare egg?" Asked one of the hunters sounding scared./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Seconds later an enraged Monstrous Nightmare landed on them causing a rampage. The hunters had to take their focus off Dagur for a few seconds and focus on dealing with an angry dragon./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Psssst, over here" Said a voice in some bushes/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagur went running over and jumped into bushes where he met Harry./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who are you? You're not a Dragon Rider" Said Dagur/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Run now! Talk later!" Replied his rescuer./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After the two spent a while running through the snowy forest they managed for find shelter in the form of another cave located on small cliff./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We can't stay here long, with all of that snow they will be able to track our footprints" Said Harry/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who are you! And why did they call you a Dragon Rider? Do you have a dragon here? Do you know brother Hiccup?" Asked Dagur with excitement./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""My name is Harry, I do not have a dragon, yes I know Hiccup and its because I've been with the Dragon riders for a few months so that's probably why they called me a Dragon Rider"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well if you are budd-" Said Dagur before he was cut off/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Shut up!" Barked Harry/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I don't understand?" Asked Dagur/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Weren't you listening? I've been with the Riders for a few months. Do you really think I didn't hear about all the terrible stuff you've done?"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Ok, Ok, I know I've done some questionable things in the past. But I've changed. After I saved Heather, I realised something... And it's that I don't want to be the person that I was anymore." -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry stood silent for a few seconds, after all the stories he was told about Dagur, he questioned whether this really was the same Dagur?/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Alright Dagur here's the deal. I don't really know you and you don't know me. But if you say you want to be a good person now, then prove that to me by working with me" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""How do I know I can trust you?" -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well I did just save your life" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""You? Hahahahaha! You threw the Nightmare egg? Good one my new friend" said Dagur as she placed his hands on Harry's shoulders/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Alright, look over to the East, there is a massive storm coming our way. I'd say we've got about 2 hours tops before it hits. We need to be off this island before then" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""How do we get out of here? I know we could try to fight out, but without weapons, it's going to be tough" -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Speak for yourself" Laughed Harry as he grabbed one of his batons./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As the two heard the lightning strikes come closer and closer they realised their window for escape was closing./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We need to steal their ship, but how do we do that with their ballistas, crossbows and weapons all ready for us?" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh Harry, don't you know that a trappers trap can trap the trapper? Hahahahaha!" -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry stood their bewildered by that quote, "What?"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, if you can keep the hunters busy on the beach. I can sneak onto the ship and use the ballistas and weapons to help you" -D/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry wasn't the biggest fan of this plan, but time was running out. If the storm reached them on the island, it would most likely be far too cold to survive. So he accepted Dagurs plan and the two made their way towards the Hunters./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Captain! Look there, at the tree line" yelled one of the hunters./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As the captain of the fleet looked to the tree line, he saw a figure emerge./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""You're not Dagur!" Yelled the Captain./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who's Dagur?" Replied Harry/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Doesn't matter. Seize him!"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"All the hunters rushed Harry with their weapons raised. With the sight of all the hunters rushing him Harry turned and ran back into the forest with the hunters close behind him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Meanwhile Dagur has successfully boarded the ship and taken out the few crew members that remained on board. He got on the ballista and aimed it towards the beach waiting for Harry to double back./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After 5 minutes Harry arrived back on the beach and ran towards the ship. He stopped to look and make sure Dagur was ready. That was when he felt a sharp and excrutiating radiate from his upper right thigh. He felt to the ground at the sight of an arrow sticking through his flesh./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh no! Harry! Quickly, get on the ship" Yelled Dagur./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry looked back at the tree line and saw the hunters begin to emerge. "No Dagur! Start the ship! Get out of here"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Dagur knew he couldn't save Harry so he did what he was told and let down the sails. A few of the hunters noticed and ran after the ship grabbing onto panels or ropes and sailing off as well./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"About 6 hunters remained behind and stood over Harry./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""This is where your journey ends" teased the Captain./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Right as the captain finished his sentence, their attention was drawn to the lightning storm that was above the island, it didn't seem like any ordinary storm and some of the hunters were becoming worried./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"That was when from a bolt of Lightning appeared a Skrill. The 6 hunters appeared afraid but weren't willing to run./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh my, a Skrill! And look at that unique colour! If we brought a Skrill and a dragon rider to Viggo, we'd be rich!" announced the Captain./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"This Skrill was unique in both appearance and behaviour compared to other Skrills. It didn't have the normal purple colouration and it didn't go blasting for fun. This Skrill observed what the vikings were doing and had blue coloured scales./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The hunters all drew their dragon root crossbows and arrows and began shooting at the Skrill. With the its speed it easily avoided all the arrows and began to channel lightning through its metallic spines./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The lightshow above gave Harry a small window of opportunity to retreat back into the forest. He couldn't move fast but he had to push through the pain for the sake of his life./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"10 minutes later and Harry found himself deep in the forest. He sat down against a tree and looked at his leg. He'd lost of a lot of blood but the bleeding had momentarily stopped. Harry considered removing the arrow which would allow him to move a fair bit easier but it would also cause more bleeding which might make him lose consciousness so it was a risk he wasn't willing to take./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry took a moment to observe the lightshow the Skrill was putting on, which was when he heard a screech from the dragon. The Skrill had been hit by a dragon root arrow and was going in for a crash landing in the forest. Harry knew that if the hunters got to the dragon, then they'd kill it./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Rain started pouring in and the temperature dropped, Harry began moving towards where he saw the Skrill go down. Harry was closer to it than the hunters however they could move alot faster./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Soaking wet, limping and freezing, Harry made it to the Skrill. He pulled the arrow out of the dragons leg and moved towards it head./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry and the Skrill made eye contact but it was in too bad of a state to move properly, so he figured he was safe./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Thank you for saving my life" Said Harry./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Seconds later the hunters arrived./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, well, well. The Dragon Rider and the dragon. Both here and both wounded. Its our lucky day!" Claimed one of the hunters/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry noticed that this time there were only 3 of them, and that the captain wasn't with them./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Looks like the dragon got the better of your friends" taunted Harry/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The hunters didn't take too kindly to Harry's comment as they raised their weapons at him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Let me repay you" Said Harry to the Skrill/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry stood up and reached for the handles to his batons and activated them. He placed one baton on one side of the arrow at the front of his leg and the other on the other side of arrow on the back of his leg. With one movement he pushed and pulled on his batons and snapped the arrow removing it from his leg causing the blood to rush out again./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"1 of the hunters rushed Harry but he quickly spun to the side swinging his baton at the head of the hunter sending him to the ground unconscious. Two hunters who both had swords circled Harry, one moving to the left and the other moving to the right. They both swung their swords at him at the same time which he blocked with his batons. With his good left leg he kicked one of the hunters in the knee hard enough to knock him to the ground in pain. The other hunter sent a barrage of slashes Harry way which he had to continuously block with his batons. Harry managed to doge a slash and slip away. As he did that he remembered a move he pulled on Astrid during training one time./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As the hunter once again came in slashing a sword from side to side, Harry slid under the attack using one baton to take out the hunters knee and then the other to hit him in the back of the head sending him also to the ground unconscious./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As Harry got back to his feet he stumbled, realising that took a toll on him. He began to feel faint as he noticed a lot of his blood on the snowy and icey floor. But Harry still had one more hunter to deal with. He combined his batons into staff mode and readied for the last hunters attack. This hunter was foolish however, he chose to throw his sword. But the target wasn't Harry. It was the Skrill. Harry saw the hunter line up his target and with his last remaining strength, ran over to the Skrill acting as a human shield. As the sword came closer and closer the Skrill took notice of Harry's actions, and then the sword hit him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Fortunately, the handle hit his head but it did cause him to lose consciousness./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Stupid boy! Choosing a dragon over his own life" Said the Hunter as he bent down to pickup his sword./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As the hunter straightened up he looked at the Skrill which was also back to its feet, wobbly, but still on its feet. The Skrill roared causing electricity to surge through its scales, before blasting the final hunter with white lightning./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The Skrill still hadn't worn off the dragon root so it fell back to the ground./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry woke the next day with the sight of blue skies. He sat up and looked around and noticed that all the hunters were gone. As he continued to look around he noticed that the Skrill was 2 metres away and looking right at him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"He freaked out, quickly crawling his way backwards with the Skrill slowly walking towards him./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"He eventually backed himself against a tree and held his hand out to keep the Skrill at a distance, but the Skrill continued to close in on him. He closed his eyes, turned away and was ready to accept his fate./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Except what happened next, he never expected. He opened his eyes to see the Skrill pressing his nose into his hand./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Omg... Did I just get my own dragon?" Harry asked himself./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry sat up and gave the Skrill a smile as well as a scratch. The two made eye contact again and the Skrill lowered his head as a sign of respect and to allow him to climb on. Harry returned his batons to their handle form and put them on his belt before climbing onto the Skrill. They were both injured and needed to go somewhere safe./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I know a place that's safe" Said Harry as the two took off towards Dragons Edge/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After a short flight Harry could see Dragons Edge start to appear in the distance. He hadn't flown a dragon before and his vision was fading in and out, not to mention that the Skrill still had a bit of dragon root in its system so they were set for a rough landing./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Astrid was in the arena training with some practice dummies when she looked out towards the ocean. That was when she saw the two coming in for a really rough landing on the grass. The Skrill skidded along the grass as Harry flew off rolling himself. The two eventually came to a stop and that was when Astrid came running over./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Harry? Oh my gods, are you alright? Say something!" pleaded Astrid/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"It was no use, he lost consciousness again./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Hiccup and Snotlout landed as well and rushed over./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""He's back?" Questioned Hiccup./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who cares about him! Hiccup... Is this what I think it is?" Said Snotlout as he put his hands over his head./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh Thor! A Skrill? Where on earth did he figure out how to train a Skrill?" Asked Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We can figure that out when he wakes up. We need to help him. Look at this, he's lost a lot of blood" Said Astrid pointing at his arrow mark./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Fishlegs came just in time to help Snotlout carry him to the medical room. Once there Fishlegs began using some potions and ointments he'd gotten from Gothi to make sure that he didn't have any infections and was going to make a full recovery. Meanwhile Hiccup and Astrid took the Skrill to the stables and began making some dragon root antidote./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Both him and his Skrill were left to recover for the next day./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"All riders were assembled in the club house./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So, Harry's back?" Asked Heather/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Looks like it" Replied Hiccup/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""How long do you reckon he'll stay?" Questioned Fishlegs/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Who knows! Last time he left without telling anyone" Commented Snotlout./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well I say he's allowed for as long as he wants" Said Ruffnut/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yea I'm with you sister" agreed Tuffnut./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Whats with the change of heart? Last time you didn't really seem to want him here" Said Astrid/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Well, first of all he now has a dragon. And second he been hurt. So hes against the hunters" Said Tuffnut./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Does anyone know why he left so suddenly last time?" Asked Hiccup./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""He said he needed to find his friends and his people" Replied Astrid./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Alright, Harry was clearly in a fight so I want patrols constantly. 6 hour shifts each. We do this until we know we're safe" Ordered Hiccup./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'll take first, to get it over with" Said Snotlout./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Snotlout hopped on Hookfang and flew off./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Hey Ruff and Tuff, how would you like to do something dangerous?" Asked Heather./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""OH MY THOR!" Yelled Tuff/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Sister, you are speaking our language" Replied Ruff/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Our new guest's favourite food it electric eels. Think you can get some?" Asked Heather/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Harry eats electric eels?" Asked Ruff/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""No, not Harry! The Skrill you muttonheads" Said Astrid./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"The twins took off to go find some electric eels, Astrid left to go for a walk and Fishlegs went/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"to check in on the new dragon, leaving Hiccup and Heather alone in the club house./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Heather walked over to Hiccup,/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"br /"So, have you given my offer any thought?" Asked Heather seductively/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Your offer?" Asked Hiccup confused/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yes Hiccup, my offer... Me" Said Heather as she used her hands to gesture her body/p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Wha- What do you mean" Asked Hiccup scratching his head./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Heather realised Hiccup's mind only ever really focused on dragons and protecting them. She was going to have show him with actions as opposed to words./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Heather walked up to Hiccup and pushed her lips against his, slipping her tongue in his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanShe was quite surprised to feel his hands move towards her hips and his tongue battle with hers./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry began to awake, he sat up out of bed and tried to stand up, but he couldn't. He couldn't put any weight on his right leg without extreme pain. He grabbed his batons and turned them into a staff and used is as a form of walking stick. He made it to the exit of the hut and opened the door. Astrid was standing there about to open it for herself./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Oh my god! You're awake" chirped Astrid as she wrapped her arms around him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Owwwww!" Yelled Harry. Astrids hug caused him to lose his balance and use his right leg./p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;" /p
p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'm so sorry" she apologised./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Hahaha, it's ok. I'm glad to see you too" Said Harry with the return of the hug./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So question, how did you manage to train a Skrill?" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""He saved my life, and I saved his. Can you take me to him?" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry wrapped his arm around Astrid shoulder and she helped him towards the stables./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So umm- about the last time we saw eachother..." -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I have no regrets" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Astrid smiled as they entered the stables. Harry got his staff out again and hobbled over to his dragon, sitting next to him and patting him./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""He's still probably sleeping from the medicine we gave him" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What a magnificent creature. And to think we use to kill them on Titan" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""We were the same on Berk, then we learnt a different way. Have you thought of a name for him?" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I have actually, we met on an snowy and icey island where he saved me from hunters, so I thought Icebane would be a good fit" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""That's a fitting name" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Also I met our friend Dagur. He was being hunted by the hunters. I saved his life and he told me he wanted to be a good guy now" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'll believe that when I see it" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Astrid walked over and sat next to Harry, joining him in patting Icebane. "So, about that other night on the bea-"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry cut her off by pressing a gentle kiss on her lips. "Nothing has changed, I have no regrets but I still need to find my friends"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""What if- what if I came with you?" -A/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'd love you to. But you know you need to stay here and be with your fellow riders" -H/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"As much as she wanted to go with him. She knew he was right and that she had to stay on Dragons Edge./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"2 days later and Icebane was fully recovered which meant it was time to saddle up. Fishlegs and Hiccup worked non-stop designing and making Harry a saddle to fly with./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry and Astrid were on a grassy cliff having a quiet lunch before it was time for him to go./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""So how long to you reckon you'll be gone?" Asked Astrid/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""As long as it takes. They're out there somewhere. Although It'll be a lot quicker on a dragon" Answered Harry/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Not just any dragon, A Skrill! I still can't believe you trained a Skrill" Laughed Astrid./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Speaking of Icebane, he should be saddled up by now" Said Harry./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry stood up gingerly, his right leg was wrapped in bandaged but it was still in alot of pain. He held out his hand to help Astrid to her feet. The two walked over towards the Edge of the cliff that overlooked Dragons Edge./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"Harry used his fingers to give out a loud whistle and called his dragons name. In only a few seconds they could see Icebane shoot out of the stables and make a line straight for the top of the cliff. As he landed Harry gave him a scratch under his chin and said "good boy"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"He turned back to Astrid, "Well, looks like I'm off again"/p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""Yea. Don't be too long" Said Astrid./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"They both leaned in for a goodbye kiss. Harry placed his around her waist as their kiss grew more passionate, causing Astrid to raise one leg./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"After a few seconds the two separated and Harry grabbed a bag he had prepared the day before for his travel. He hopped on his new saddle and prepared for take off./p
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p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;""I'll see you soon" He said as they took off./p
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