Sorry if this chapter comes across as rushed and/ or lazy. I was tired when I wrote this chapter so it may not be up to par with my previous chapters.

The sun was just starting to rise as a boat pulled up to Dragon's Edge, riding on the boat was Cooper, Guy Diamond and Creek. Reby and Heather was working with the dragons when they saw the boat pulling up. At first they growled at the thought of those three showing up after siding with Branch's stupid idea but they decided to go greet them anyway and at least see why they were showing up.

"Why are you here?" Reby asked Cooper when he and the other two stepped out of the boat.

"I thought we could try to bury the hatchet and make peace," Cooper replied

" Unless you three admit that you were stupid for agreeing with Branch's idiotic plan I highly doubt that will happen."

"See," Creek pointed out "I told you this was a stupid idea. They aren't interested, this was a complete waist of time."

Guy Diamond instantly silenced Creek as he turned to Heather. "Look Heather, Biggie showed up at the Troll Tree this morning in a attempt to try to make peace with Branch and get the team all on the same side again. He doesn't like the idea of us splitting no more than I. We've all disagreed with how situations could be handled in the past and always worked things out, it can happen again."

"This is different though Guy Diamond, he is selling himself out to the enemy out of fear."

"That is why Biggie is talking to him. He didn't agree with Branch or us but unlike the rest of you he is actually approaching him with a clear head and calm manner."

"What do you mean unlike us?" Reby snapped about ready to lunge at Guy Diamond before Cooper came in and broke them apart.

"Enough, we did not come here to insult each other and pick fights. We came here to settle our differences. Now if we could all just act like adults."

"Forget it," Reby replied.

"Enough!" They all turned around to see Oaken walking up to the pier. "All of you! All five of you are acting like immature little children."

"Hey for the record I have mostly stayed out of this," Creek replied which got him a look from Oaken.

"All of you are letting your differences jeopardize what is a powerful friendship."

"It has nothing to do with differences," Reby "This isn't about how we are going to attack an enemy, it's about caving in to the enemy."

"Reby, I am very disappointed. I thought we talked about this yesterday about how Branch is having to make difficult choices as chief and how you abandoned him without even attempting to come up with another plan of action. Now your friends are trying to make things right and you are spitting in their faces. This is exactly what the enemy wants, for you all to split yourselves apart. He knows how powerful you are together so he is trying to break you all apart. Why do you think he attacked Heather's home first? Because she was by herself without the backup of her friends. You are giving him exactly what he wants and now that some of your friends are trying to make piece you are instead choosing to still act like a spoiled child not getting their way and crying about it. Now what are you a grown up mature dragon rider? Or a child?"

"Wow?" Creek thought out loud "Oaken sounds a lot like Rosiepuff."

"What do you think drew us together?"

Heather sighed in guilt. "I guess if Biggie can make peace between Branch we can at least try to. I will never agree with what Branch decided but if he can make peace and work out a new solution to our predicament than we can."

Reby sighed "It will take a lot for the two of us to regain what has been lost, but I guess that doesn't mean I can't at least try."

"Good, now are you all going to get on that boat and go back to the Troll Tree and make peace or am I going to have to tie you to the ship and sail you back there myself?"

Suddenly there was a explosion coming from the other side of the island. Turning and running to the direction of the noise they all gasped to see Grim invading the island. Smidge, Fuzzbert, and Suki was fending off the hunters as best as they could but they was soon finding themselves surrounded.

"There is to many of them!" Smidge screamed as she clashed swords with one of the hunters.

"I don't understand it?" Guy Diamond gasped "They accepted our compromise this was not supposed to happen."

"Well it has!" Suki screamed as she impaled her sword through one of the hunters.

"Heather, Oaken, free the dragons and get them to the Troll Tree as fast as possible." Reby took out her crossbow and loaded it before turning to Cooper, Guy Diamond, and Creek. "You three are with me."

Heather and Oaken nodded as they fled to free the dragons. Reby then charged the hunters firing her crossbow into one of their chests. Creek grabbed a ax and started swinging it, letting out a war cry as he planted it into the chest of a hunter. Cooper took a mace and while holding it in his teeth he started swinging it at the first hunter he saw, beating him across the face.

Guy Diamond was the most upset of the group, he had witnessed the hunters agree with Branch's proposal, he thought the war was over. Why are they still attacking?

"Why are you doing this?" Guy Diamond screamed as he clashed swords with one of the hunters. "We made a truce, the war is supposed to be over. Why are you still attacking?"

"Your denying us the best dragons!" The hunter answered as he swung his sword scraping Guy Diamond's arm and causing him to drop his sword. The hunter raised his sword ready to finish Guy Diamond off when he felt a arrow go through his back. As the hunter fell Guy Diamond saw Reby standing behind him reloading her crossbow.

"Thanks"

"We may be angry at each other but we're still a team," Reby responded. Suddenly they all heard a roar, flying out above the trees everyone gasped at the new dragon hovering above them.

"Is that a…?" Suki started to ask in fear.

"Poisonous gas sprayer?" Reby recognized "But we don't have one of those."

"That's because it belongs to me," Grim laughed stepping out of the shadows. Suki growled at the sight of Grim and charged after him, but as Grim calmly put on his mask the Gas Sprayer suddenly sprayed his gas at the riders. The riders all started coughing and gasping for air as the gas consumed their lungs. Suki suddenly dropped her weapon and fell to the ground, followed shortly by Reby, Creek, Fuzzbert, Smidge, Cooper, and Guy Diamond.

"What is that?" Heather gasped when she and Oaken saw the gas from the other side of Dragon's Edge. They had freed a third of the islands dragons and sent them on their way to the Troll Tree, including Melody and Rainbow Gem, but the sight of the gas had stopped them in their tracks.

"No, it can't be?" Oaken gasped "A poisonous gas sprayer?"

"A poisonous what?"

"Heather, get your friends out of here, now. I'll finish freeing the dragons."

"But Oaken?"

"Heather there's no time to argue, get them out of here and do it now, go!"

Heather wanted to protest but she knew better then to argue with Oaken. So grabbing her dragon she flew over to the gas, only to scream when she saw he friends laying lifeless in a cloud of gas. She had no idea if they were alive or not, but she knew that if they didn't get out of there now it wouldn't matter.

Holding her breath she ran into the gas grabbing one of her friends at a time and carrying them over to Windstorm. She grabbed Reby first, followed by Suki, Guy Diamond, Smidge, Cooper, Fuzzbert, and Creek.

"Your going to be okay everyone, your all going to be okay. Hang on." Hopping on Windstorm she flew as fast as Windstorm could fly back to the Troll Tree, praying to the gods that her friends would make it.

Oaken had freed about half of the remaining dragons and sent them on their way to the Troll Tree when he heard Grim and his men show up.

"I have heard of you and your kind." Oaken replied emotionless as he turned around to face Grim. "You hunt dragons for sport, take pleasure in the slaughter of helpless animals, void of any guilt over what you do."

"And I've heard of you Oaken," Grim replied taking out a double edged battle ax. "The Troll that spent almost two decades away from his family to protect the dragons, raged war with the infamous Blood. You are a mighty and honorable warrior. I admire that in a troll, but you must know you are over your head this time old man. I offer you this one chance to flee now, I would rather not kill you."

"If you want these dragons," Oaken pulled out a battle ax of his own and grasped it firmly in his hands. "That's the only way you are going to get them."

"As you wish," Grim swung his ax, Oaken barely dodged it as he swung his own, only to see Oaken easily block it. The two clashed for several minutes neither one easing up, but the longer the battle went on the more Oaken was starting to slow down.

"Your age betrays you Oaken, your tiring out. Grim spun out of the way as Oaken swung and planted his ax in Oaken's shoulder blade. Oaken screamed in pain as he fell to his knees. Grim put his ax away and pulled out a sword, holding it up to Oaken's neck.

"There never was going to be a truce was there Grim?" Oaken asked as his voice got weak from exhaustion. "This was all a ploy to break the team up, to weaken them in order to make them vulnerable for a attack to pick us off."

"Oh look, finally a rider with wisdom," Grim laughed. "You see as a team you riders were unstoppable, but if we were able to separate you, to split you apart, well you were much more prone to an invasion, powerless to defend yourself. And all it took was to gong after Branch's fears. By wiping out Heather's tribe Branch feared what would happen to his own if he couldn't stop us, so when I offered up this phony peace treaty he instantly jumped on it, splitting the team right in the middle. And it worked, Dragon's Edge is mine, half his team is fighting for their lives. Short on numbers his tribe will fall, and so will he.

"You underestimate my grandson, you may take dragon's edge, you may kill me and some of our dragons, but once my grandson learns of your treachery, he will not rest until you are dead."

"Oh, I am counting on him to try, not that it will do him any good. By the time all of this is finished, he will end up just like you.

Grim then ran his blade through Oaken's chest. Oaken gasped and wheezed as he felt himself taking his last breath. Soon he fell to the ground and died, and Grim wiped the blood off his sword on Oaken's own coat.

"They might have managed to get some of the dragons out of here but not all of them. Kill what is left but make sure you leave some of their body parts here for him to discover when he arrives. I want him to see the chaos he has caused due to the war he has started. I want him to feel responsible for what has happened today. I want him to suffer emotionally before he suffers physically. So when I finally run my blade through his chest, the satisfaction will be that much more sweeter. "

You all knew not everyone was going to make it out alive in this final installment to my dragons trilogy. But oh the bloodshed has just began my friends, there will be much more heartache to come, so prepare yourself for what's coming next, it's going to be insane.