I groan as I stretch my arms out. We've been flying for a while now, I didn't relise we went so far out. Everyone seems pretty excited to see everyone and meet Heather. Astrid looks like she can't wait to see her again. She said Heather had taken over the role of chief since Dagur married Mala and is living with her on the wing with the defenders. She told me that Heather was so happy for both of them and that she'd told her about me, which made me even more nervous. I've never been great at making friend. Claire was introduced to me through another friend and then Holly and Mia just started hanging out with us. Jessie was new to our school and just started hanging out with us. I have got a good group of friends but I'm not great with people I don't know. And this is different, I've watched the show and seen how she thinks and hiw she works, but I still don't know her, if you know what I mean. And everyone that lives here, in this universe, they are so much more different than to what I'm used to. I'll just have to play iy cool, however that works.
"We're here" Astrid yells and I jolt to conciousness. The sun is just starting to rise and everyone is already up and at it. I can see Fishlegs in his garden trimming his plants, and Snotlout is doing something stupid with the twins, clearly not being helpful at all.
We land in front of the stables and everybody is stretching from the long flight here. Someone walks out of the stables and Astrid hugs them. They look over to us and I see who they are. Their dark olive coloured hair should have been a dead give away but it's not the same as watching it on tv, it's so much more real. She starts walking over and I feel myself get tense. Her eyes are a stunning poison green eyes and I suck in a breath as she steps up to me. "You must be Indi. I've heard a lot about you". I blush. 'Come on Indi, get over yourself. Useless lesbian' I tell myself, still blushing. "Hey, we're still here you know?" Mia says, waving a hand in my face. "Mmm sorry. Ah this is Holly and Lancer, Mia and Sybous, Claire and Tiamat, and Jessie and Eragon. And this here are...", "Shadow and Arrow right?" "Yeah how'd you...?" "Astrid told me". "Huh". I nod, not knowing what to say next. "How'd the taming go?" Hiccup says, interupting the arkward silence. "Yeah it went great. We'll tell you all about it" Astrid says, giggling at my arkwardness. "Can't wait to hear about it".
"And then she almost got eaten" I say, describing what happened while Holly was taming Lancer. "Did not" she say, denying it. "Well he could have taken your arm off" Jessie says, backing me up. "Yeah or you could have just run away screaming" Claire interupts, and we start laughing, knowing that would never happen. "That eould be halerious" Mia says, still laughing. "Hey!" Holly says, trying to make a point. "Well sounds like you had fun" Heather speaka up. "It was certainly interesting" Astrid says, and we all start laughing again. "Hey, where'd all the dragons go?" Snotlout asks, and I relise they're all gone. "I'll go look. You guys stay here, I'll find them" I say, grabing my satchel off of my seat. "You need any help. I'll give you a hand" Heather says, walking towards me. "Uh, ummm thanks?" I say and my friends start laughing. The rest of the group just stare at us with confused faces. "Shut up" I whisper under my breath and make my way out of the meeting area with Heather following.
"What where your friends laughing at earlier?" Heather asks as we climb down to the docks. I blush, "umm nothing. They're just weird. And where are all the dragons?" I pant as we make our way back up to check the stables. "Well they seem like really great friends. How long have you known them?" "Well I met Claire when i was twelve. Met Holly when I was thirteen and met Mia and Jessie when I was fourteen". She nods. "So you've known them for a while now?" "Yeah. We're in our last year of school this year". Heather gives me a confused look. "Umm how do I explain. When you turn five ir dix you start school. From there you learn maths and science and english and stuff like that. Each year you go up a grade and it gets harder. When me and my friends start this year it'll be our last year. After it we'll go out and get a job and maby get a girlfriend or boyfriend and start a family". I finish my explication and hope she doesn't question my "girlfriend or boyfriend' thing. "Ok. Yeah that makes sense. Sounds fun". I chuckle. "What?" She gives me a look. "It's not that fun. Best part is probably seeing your friends each day". She doesn't say anything as we make our way over to the stables.
"What are you all doing here?" The dragons spin around to face me and Heather. "Windshear what are you doing?" The dragon skwarks and turns back to the group. "What the?" I make my way over to the group and push my way through. "No way..." I gasp as I see what they are all fussing over. "What's going on?" Heather asks as she makes her way through the group. "Wow...". I look to Shadow and Toothless, who are curled up around five datk coloured balls of scales.