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Chapter 5

The Vikings watched as the portal closed.

"Well now what do we do?" Astrid wondered out loud.

"We're back to regular, boring routine." Ruffnut complained. "Boring!" Tuffnut grumbled. "And we were just getting acquainted!" Snotlout said dramatically.

"Uh guys, hello? New dragon species to document here, how in the name of Thor can today be boring?" Fishlegs said excitedly as their other dragons returned from morning flight and instantly hit it off with Blitz and Tridacna.

"New dragon and new friends? I think today so far has been really exciting." Hiccup grinned.

"Can't wait to see those three again. 'Specially that Marina lass. She is quite the aquatic 'birdie'." Gobber chuckled as they went out of the arena.

Angrid was silent as the others discussed on what to do with Jack and Sapphire's dragons until they got out.

Just how on earth did a portal open up so easily?

Then she remembered how Sapphire said how homesick she was before the portal suddenly appeared.

Angrid wasn't sure if her sister and her friends thought of it as strange, but she did.

'I'll have to look into it some other time. Something's going on…And I wanna know what.' She thought as she left, without noticing a horse and small dragon both made of black sand watching from the shadows of the arena.

The duo quickly flew off, looking like black streams streaking across the sky until they reached Outcast Island. Alvin was watching his army readying the ships when he noticed the two Nightmares. Pitch's dark gold eyes flashed as his Nightmares relayed information to him.

"So they have arrived…Excellent." He said, pleased at the report.

Then Savage and another Outcast soldier came over.

"The ships are ready, Alvin sir." Savage said abruptly. "Our whole army is also ready for invasion of the Shivering Shores." The other Outcast reported. Alvin smiled darkly. "Wonderful." He said, joining his men on one of the ships.

"Today, we will strike fear into the heart of the Shivering Shores and all who dare stand in our way!" he shouted, raising his hatchet in the air.

The Outcasts cheered as more Nightmares appeared around their ships. But they didn't fear them because their leader didn't fear them. He commanded them!

Little did the Outcasts know was that Alvin the Treacherous was now also Pitch Black, the Boogeyman!

"Please get off of me, Marina!" Jack groaned as he struggled to get the giant white swan off of him.

"Sorry Jack! I could have sworn I entered that portal first…" the swan apologized as she got off the winter spirit.

When they landed out of the portal, Jack was first followed by Marina, who flattened him onto the ground and then Sapphire was the last one to come out.

"First a dragon, now my friend? What's next? A whale?" Sapphire laughed before a sly look crossed her face.

"Don't even think about it." Jack warned her knowing very well that the water spirit could summon any aquatic animal on command. And he did not want to get crushed by a whale, shark, giant squid or anyone of Sapphire's sea friends for that matter.

That's when they noticed the glow coming from Sapphire's pocket.

The water spirit reached into her skirt pocket and pulled out the dragon fang. It was glowing and suddenly Marina squawked in shock when the two Guardians noticed that their hands were also glowing!

"Okay…This is freaking me out." Jack mumbled, watching his hands glow with a faint green light. "You think this is how we got home?" Sapphire asked him, also stunned at how both their hands were glowing along with the dragon fang half.

Then a hole opened up in front of the trio and a pair of rabbit ears poked out.

"Bunny!" Marina whispered to the two Guardians frantically.

Quickly Jack dropped his staff and shoved his hands into his pockets while Sapphire hid the fang and her hands behind her back as the Guardian of Hope popped out of the hole.

"I thought you two were out on a race? What're you ankle biters doing back here in the Seasonal Gardens?" the rabbit inquired.

Both teens tried to think of an excuse but they could only smile innocently like Bambi.

Luckily Marina saved them by ad-libbing. "Oh yeah we did. It was first one around the North Pole and back here." She lied smoothly, much to Jack and Sapphire's relief.

Bunny looked at them for a few seconds until he decided to just cut to the chase.

"Well alright…Anyway, you two just missed World History, Advanced Algebra with Trigonometry and Physics. Where have you three been for the past two hours?" he asked curiously.

The two teens started to panic again only to be saved by Marina again. "Hey it takes time to reach the North Pole and back here, you know." She said calmly.

Bunny shrugged. "Okay whatever. Anyway, we've got Geography now. Into the hole." He instructed.

"Ok!" the Guardians of Fun and Equality said quickly as Bunny went in first.

Marina glanced at the Garden's sundial. "Weird…We're two hours ahead of them in Berk." She muttered.

Sapphire and Jack took their hands out. To their relief, their hands were no longer glowing along with the fang.

Remembering what Marina said, Jack looked at Sapphire. "If we ever go back there, let's maybe make a schedule." He suggested with a grin on his face.

Sapphire smiled and pocketed the fang once more. "We'll try tomorrow. And you get to keep the fang." She said before Bunny's voice echoed out from the hole.

"You two don't get in here right now, I'm issuing a quiz later!"

The two teenage Guardians just sighed, "Coming!"

Marina cheerfully waved them off. "Have fun studying!" she said as the two of them jumped into the hole.

Arriving at Bunny's Warren, Jack and Sapphire quickly settled down on two piles of soft, green moss as Bunny handed them their notebooks where they had written an essay on the Seven Continents as homework the day before.

"Well Saph, your essay's pretty much A + material…Jack, for the record North America's lowest point is Death Valley not Niagra Falls." Bunny corrected the winter spirit who just rolled his eyes.

"Don't tell me I get an F, Kangaroo." He complained. "Nah, just a B-." Bunny said calmly.

"B-?! Really?!" the winter spirit protested. "Remember the stunt you pulled last week?" the Guardian of Hope reminded him.

Suddenly they heard a loud crash.

The Guardian of Fun looked behind him to see a Sentinel Egg skid across an icy patch of the dye river Jack had frozen.

"Oh yeah…sorry." He said apologetically.

"Alright! Let's get on with today's lesson." Sapphire interrupted before the two Guardians could waste the entire Geography period bickering.

Bunny then started the lesson. They've already tackled the basics on the Seven Continents. Now, the two teens had to study on the different regions and countries in each continent, beginning with Bunny's favorite, Australia AKA Oceania. While Bunny still liked the old term, Sapphire and Jack mostly referred the Land Down Under to as Oceania.

Bunny had created an impressive multi-colored map of Australia and its surrounding areas on an old, smooth egg shaped boulder and was rattling off a bunch of facts about the topography, not really noticing that Sapphire and Jack were passing a piece of paper back and forth.

Turns out they were creating a Time Management Chart in order to divide their time in their world with their time in Berk.

HOME PLANS

7-9AM

Breakfast, routine check on kids worldwide, World History, Advanced Algebra with Trigonometry and Physics lessons.

BERK PLANS

5-7AM

Feed dragons, join Vikings for breakfast or whatever they wanna do. Study up on Norse runes and language before asking for dragon training lessons.

HOME PLANS

10:00AM-12 noon

Play and have some time for friends for 30 minutes. Geography and Math classes before having lunch.

BERK PLANS

8:30-10AM

Begin dragon training, explore Island either on foot or by flying (either by winds or Marina until dragons allow to be ridden) Learn more about different dragon species.

HOME PLANS

2-4:30PM

Apprentice training and combat training for one hour. Science and Foreign Language classes for another hour. Have time with friends again and possibly plan on pranks and such.

BERK PLANS

12noon-1:30PM

Lunch with Vikings. Go on adventures with Vikings. Study up again on language and runes. Play with dragons and learn more about them as well as feed them.

HOME PLANS

6:30-7:30PM

Arts and Crafts and Sign Language classes. Dinner.

BERK PLANS

3:30-4:30PM

Do whatever Vikings and dragons wanna do.

HOME PLANS

9:30-10PM

Final routine check before getting ready for bed.

BERK PLANS

6:30-7PM

Feed dragons and brush their teeth. Wish them and Vikings good night.

NOTE: Schedule may change depending on duties or any emergencies, meetings etc.

Sapphire and Jack nodded at each other.

This schedule could work, as long as they remembered the two hour time difference. They quickly made another copy on another sheet of paper before Bunny turned around from his discussion.

"You two taking down notes?" the rabbit asked them.

"Yeah we are. Just keep going." Jack said, pretending to write in his notebook. "Really interesting stuff, Bunny! Very interesting." Sapphire said brightly as she tried to copy the map on the boulder. "Good." The Guardian of Hope praised them before glancing at an egg shaped clock nearby that read 11 o' clock.

"Study up, mates. We have a quiz tomorrow." Bunny told them. Sapphire and Jack stood up and prepared to leave.

"Oh hold on Frostbite. You better undo the damage here." The rabbit stopped Jack, who was about to leave. "It'll thaw out on its own, Kangaroo. Besides I've got Math class in five minutes." The Guardian of Fun complained.

"Then I'll have to give you a five point deduction tomorrow." Bunny smirked, knowing that the winter spirit already had enough close calls to flunking lessons. (Luckily he always managed to pull through with a B- average.)

Jack sighed and whispered to Sapphire, "Let me borrow your research on Australia later."

"If I can do it tonight. I've still got that Chemistry report to write." Sapphire whispered back before she left. She didn't really pay that much attention to Bunny's lectures either. Usually she'd just do some research to get the facts and such.

Jack then looked at the frozen dye river. It was a pretty large part of the river he froze last week. Good thing it was always Spring in the Warren so he only had a few frozen patches to defrost.

Sighing he got to work, tapping the frozen parts with his staff to call back the ice. Suddenly a herd of white eggs skidded across a patch Jack had yet to unfreeze and flew through the air, landing in a newly defrosted part of the river as Jack was about to move onto the next frozen part with a great 'splash!'

Bunny covered his mouth with his paws as he watched Jack get splattered with paint. The winter spirit just groaned wiping the color off his face before glancing at his paint covered hoodie.

It was definitely gonna have a couple of permanent stains after he washed the paint off.

"Great…" Jack huffed before going on with the task at hand. Bunny just snickered.

Meanwhile on Berk, Hiccup and his friends were examining Blitz and Tridacna up close. The dragons were docile as Fishlegs measured their wingspans and bodies.

"Himalayan Fury 48 feet wingspan… Head to tail length about 28 and a- half feet. Scauldron 54 wingspan… And…whoa! Head to tail length only 39 feet! That's got to be the smallest measurement for a Scauldron! Fascinating…" the husky Viking teen exclaimed, writing down all the information in his notebook.

"Why not just write it directly in the Book of Dragons?" Angrid asked curiously. "I'm going to draw them with Jack and Sapphire. They're their Riders after all." Hiccup replied before giving both dragons a few pats.

"Next up…Eel Reaction Test." Snotlout said gleefully as the twins approached Blitz and Tridacna with two eels.

The two dragons immediately recoiled at the sight of the vile creatures and growled at the twins in warning.

"Yep they hate eels too." Tuffnut reported, taking a step back. "Like really hate them." Ruffnut added, wiggling her eel in Blitz and Tridacna's faces.

Both dragons then roared in the Viking girl's face.

They did not like eels.

Especially when someone was wiggling one right in front of their faces.

"Okay we got all those tests out of the way. How about flying?" Astrid suggested. Hiccup grinned. "Good idea. Let's try racing with them."

At that suggestion, Angrid raised an eyebrow. "If you guys used your dragons and the two of them don't have Riders, wouldn't they like fly the coop?" she asked. "They won't. I'm sure they're still waiting for Jack and Sapphire to come back." Hiccup said reasonably.

Toothless wagged his tail excitedly as he growled at Blitz and Tridacna about their plans. The two new dragons began psyching themselves up as Hiccup, Astrid, Snotlout, Fishlegs and the Twins got on their dragons.

Angrid then got on the Monstrous Nightmare and gave it a friendly scratch.

"Since when is he your dragon?" Astrid asked her, confused. "Since you already have one dragon. Besides, this big guy knows you and I are related." Her big sister replied in a superior tone. Astrid just rolled her eyes as she readied herself and Stormfly.

"A Monstrous Nightmare, huh? An excellent choice." Snotlout said suavely. "I'd blast you now but then again, I think Hookfang beat me to it." Angrid smirked, noticing the smoke coming out of the boy's butt.

Ruffnut and Tuffnut snickered as Snotlout jumped off Hookfang and ran to a nearby water trough.

"Everyone ready for this?" Hiccup asked. "Hold one second!" Fishlegs fed Meatlug a rock from his pocket. The Gronckle happily crunched on the hard snack.

"Alright on your marks, get set…GO!" Gobber yelled.

Meatlug then fell to the ground, asleep while Blitz, Tridacna, Toothless, Stormfly, Hookfang, Barf and Belch and the other Monstrous Nightmare flew up into the air, leaving Fishlegs and his Gronckle behind.

"Oh well…" the Viking boy shrugged as he watched his friends slowly disappear from view.

Blitz and Toothless happily roared as they sped across the waves.

"This is so cool!" Hiccup whooped, enjoying the thrill of speed.

Tridacna proved to be a real high and fast flier by zooming past the Twins and Barf and Belch, the former once again arguing.

"Nice going, Butt Elf! You're slowing us down!" Ruffnut shouted at her brother. "Me?! You're the slowpoke, Bride of Grendel!" Tuffnut yelled back at her while their dragon just looked at each other and shook their heads.

Sometimes their Riders were completely hopeless cases.

"Come on Stormfly let's do this!" Astrid cheered when Angrid suddenly caught up with her and went ahead!

"Hey!" Astrid protested. "Anything that happens up in the sky be fair game, Astrid!" Angrid yelled at her as she sped up.

"She does have a point." Snotlout piped up appearing next to Astrid.

Astrid then looked at Stormfly and nodded.

The Deadly Nadder then launched a couple of spikes at him and Hookfang before continuing on her way.

The race began to pick up as the teens and their dragons reached the rough patch of the ocean with rocks jutting out of the water.

"Here comes the skill course!" Hiccup warned everyone.

Blitz and Tridacna looked at each other and smiled. Now the fun really begins!

The Vikings and their dragons weaved through the course with ease. Toothless and Blitz definitely matched up in speed as they were neck and neck with each other.

But Blitz was a lot more daring as he suddenly began to jump fly from one rock to another!

Then as the Himalayan Fury did one last jump, he accidentally bumped into Toothless!

"Whhooaaa!" Hiccup hollered as he and his Night Fury began to spiral crazily in the air.

Hiccup's dagger slipped out from his belt and fell into the water.

Luckily, the duo managed to right themselves before nearly colliding into a rock pillar.

"You okay?" Astrid caught up with them along with Tridacna.

Before Hiccup could answer, Angrid and her Monstrous Nightmare flew past. Tridacna was so startled, her tail automatically flicked in Stormfly's direction! The Nadder quickly swerved in order to save her and Astrid. Unfortunately, the Scauldron's tail swatted Astrid's axe right out of her hand!

"Oh no!" Astrid cried as her precious weapon met the same fate of Hiccup's dagger.

There was nothing the two Vikings could do except finish the race at the Peak. After all the dragons and Vikings had landed, that's when Astrid marched up to her big sister.

"Nice going, thanks a lot for losing my axe!" she stamped her foot on the ground angrily. "Well why did you even bring a battle axe to a dragon race? You could've at least fastened it onto you before taking off." Angrid said nonchalantly.

Astrid glared at her. "Hiccup made that for me!" she snapped. "Aww, that was a gift from your boyfriend?" Angrid cooed teasingly.

Hiccup just blushed and looked away while Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut watched the two sisters' fight escalate.

"You really don't understand me, do you?!" Astrid yelled.

"Well I do understand that you like making mountains out of molehills!" Angrid shouted back at her.

"How do you make a molehill a mountain?" Ruffnut whispered to her brother. "Find a giant mole, duh!" Tuffnut answered as the two Hoffersons continued to bicker.

"I was right! You never understand! You don't even care to try!" Astrid shouted.

"I can't understand why you're being such a drama queen!" Angrid yelled.

"Um…so who exactly won?" Snotlout was wondering about who placed first he hardly heard the two sisters argument until both of them shouted, "JUST FORGET IT!" at each other, startling him.

Angrid then just stormed off to her Monstrous Nightmare and took off while Astrid just angrily watched her leave.

For a minute, nobody said anything…

Then Tridacna nudged Astrid with her head and whined an apology. "It's ok, Tridacna…It wasn't your fault." The girl Viking said quietly.

Then Hiccup walked over to her. "I…I'm sorry about the axe…I guess she was right. I should've been more careful…" Astrid said, feeling somewhat ashamed.

The boy placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, I can always make a new one but Astrid…I really think you should try to talk to your sister." He said comfortingly.

Astrid shook her head. "We've never seen eye-to-eye to each other, Hiccup. I doubt we'll ever get along." She said sadly before getting on Stormfly and flying back to Berk.

Hiccup sighed as he once again noticed that the small knife in his belt was gone. Blitz gently rubbed his snout on his side, wanting to apologize. "Don't worry about it, Blitz. I can always make another one." Hiccup smiled slightly but Blitz softly whined in a mournful tone.

Toothless gave him a comforting tail rub on the back and softly cooed.

"You want to try flying with Jack, don't you?" Hiccup asked the Himalayan Fury, who nodded. "He'll be back soon. I'm sure of it…Sapphire too. We just have to wait for them." The Viking boy said encouragingly to both Blitz and Tridacna.

The two dragons looked at each other and nodded before joining the rest of the Viking teens in flight back to the island of Berk.

As you can see…Angrid and Astrid are not getting along so well…

Can Jack and Sapphire help fix that?

You'll find out in the later chapters ;)