Hey guys, another chapter for all of you
And if anyone is wondering what song I used for the Candlelight Dance scene in Chapter 18, I thought of using "Reaching" by Audiomachine. I listened to it a bunch of times and I just thought that it was perfect.
Anyway, on with the story!
Note: All rights for ROTG and HTTYD go to DreamWorks Animation and all respective owners.
Chapter 19
And then what happened?" Sophie and Donnie asked, their eyes wide.
"Then everyone partied like mad! A bunch of the adults passed out from too much mead. Lucky none of the dragons got into the supply or the party would've really turned crazy." Sapphire told them, laughing.
Jack promptly hiccupped.
"You've been hiccupping a lot lately." Jamie observed. "I never should've accepted Snotlout's mead chugging challenge. That stuff's a bit too strong for me…" the winter spirit managed to say as he hiccupped rapidly in succession.
"You two didn't get drunk, did you?" Layla asked, slightly concerned. The two Guardians looked kind of tired.
"Nah…We just got really tired after the festivities. As soon as I got home, I fell asleep on the floor!" Sapphire smiled and shook her head. "So did I!" Jack laughed remembering North's reaction when he found the winter spirit snoozing on the floor of his room.
"Sounds like you two had a lot of fun." Marina giggled.
"So what are you guys planning now?" Donnie asked the Guardians of Fun and Equality. "Well we were thinking of taking you kids to Berk. Your dragons missed you when you weren't at the island's anniversary celebration yesterday." Jack had finally managed to stop his hiccups and looked at the four kids expectantly.
"Really, as in right now?" Jamie asked excitedly. "Of course! Maybe today, you and Layla can try riding your Snaptrapper." Sapphire smiled as Jack handed her the fang.
"Better keep your helmet on, Don. Today's going to be amazing." Layla told her brother. "You bet it is!" Donnie adjusted his horned helmet.
"Are we going?" Sophie asked, giggling. "Climb on, you little rascals!" Marina called.
They flew to the Pond, where Sapphire opened the portal. They were chattering excitedly amongst themselves so they didn't notice the sleigh up in the sky.
"Shouldn't we follow them now, mate?" Bunny whispered, gulping nervously as he looked down. "They'll spot us immediately once we arrive there. Just be patient." North told him.
Tooth carefully scanned the skies. Baby Tooth chirped a question.
"Mother Nature and Father Time are gonna create a portal as soon as that one closes…" the Guardian of Memories murmured.
The portal at the Pond closed and Sandy jumped up in his seat as another portal opened up in the sky.
"That's our cue! Here we go!" North cracked the reins and in no time, the sleigh and the original Guardians were sucked into the vortex.
Today, Jack and Sapphire got to practice giving hand signals to their dragons.
"Blitz, freeze!" Jack flicked his wrist, palm down. Blitz obeyed and let loose an ice blast at a flying shield Jamie tossed up, hitting it spot on.
"Tridacna, scald!" Sapphire wiggled her fingers as she waved her arm. The Scauldron then took a breath and shot out the hot water she had been keeping in her stomach at a bunch of targets set up for her by Layla.
Jamie and Layla even got their chance to give their Snaptrapper a few attack commands.
"Aim and Fire, bash!" Jamie connected his left fist with his right palm. The Snaptrapper's left heads knocked down a wooden wall with force.
"Summer and Winter, sweep!" Layla extended her right hand and made a sweeping motion. The heads on the right used their tail to fling the wall's remains away.
"Great work you guys!" Hiccup congratulated them. "For a couple of newbies, you two get along with your dragon pretty good." Astrid complimented on the two pre-teens, who smiled proudly.
Then they heard the Twins arguing-again.
"Too bad those two always fight." Donnie remarked as he petted Sniper.
"Their dragon's heads argue too." Sophie fed Terri a fish as she watched Barf and Belch snap at each other.
"You want a piece of this?!" Ruffnut slugged her brother in the face. "Give me the whole thing! It hurts good!" Tuffnut retaliated with a kick to his sister's knee.
Barf & Belch were about to blow each other up when Toothless and Stormfly broke them up while Fishlegs and Meatlug handled their Riders.
"So what's next on our training agenda?" the Ingerman boy asked curiously as Meatlug started hugging him. "Weaponry and Hand to Hand Combat." Angrid arrived on Magnus with a bunch of weapons in tow.
"Alright! Snotlout, Snotlout! Oi! Oi! Oi!" Snotlout was itching to get to the exciting part. Even Hookfang roared excitedly with his Rider.
Jamie and Layla hung back with their dragon and siblings to watch.
Jack could now hold the long sword without any problems and was now deftly parrying blows with Hiccup.
Sapphire on the other hand, had become quite a sharpshooter with her bow, hitting the bull's eye every time.
After practicing with their weapons, the two teenage Guardians sparred with the other Viking teens, who loved a good brawl every now and then.
"Whew! What a workout!" Sapphire wiped her forehead as they left the Dragon Training Academy to grab lunch.
"Next up is best trick competition." Hiccup told her.
"Wait till you see what Blitz and I've been working on. It's gonna blow you all away." Jack grinned.
"We'll see about that." Astrid smirked at him playfully giving him a punch in the shoulder.
"Hey since it's so nice out today, why don't we have a picnic?" Layla gestured to the clearing where the Viking teens' houses were located. "Yeah it'd be such a waste to eat in the Great Hall on a day like this." Jamie agreed with the 13 year old Aquamarie.
"Picnic! Picnic!" Donnie and Sophie chanted gamely.
Everyone thought that a picnic was a great idea.
"I'll go get a tablecloth!" Marina then flew off to the Great Hall while the teens went to get some food to share.
The dragons plopped down at a massive food dish and began to eat. Their Riders also sat down on the grass and ate.
Halfway through the meal, Blitz suddenly roared in pain and loped over to Jack and showed him his open mouth. "Hmm…This looks like it'll need Gobber's attention." Jack frowned.
Wrapping up their meal, the teens and four kids headed for the blacksmith's place.
"I told you we should've followed them! Now look where we landed ourselves!" Bunny grumbled he leaned back with the reindeer. "We did follow them! We just have to look for them now!" North argued with the Guardian of Hope as he gave the reindeer strict instructions to stay in the clearing they were at now.
"Alright you two, break it up! Let's just find them already." It took all of Tooth's bubbly cheer and Baby Tooth's incessant chirping to break them up.
North regained his leadership composure. "You're right, Tooth. I say we go this way!" he used one of his swords to point to the west.
"I think they went that way!" Bunny pointed his boomerang to the east.
That started another argument that Tooth and Baby Tooth once again, had to sort out, even as they began to move through the forest.
While the other Guardians lagged behind, Sandy formed a search radar out of sand and and got searching. If Jack and Sapphire were here, he'd find them. To his excitement, a gold arrow appeared on the radar.
The two of them were here!
Excitedly Sandy picked up the pace. Soon he came across the clearing where Gobber's forge and most of the Vikings' houses were.
Hiding, Sandy's eyes widened upon seeing the dragons roaming around. Some big, some small and some just plain huge!
Then he saw them.
Sapphire was feeding a big blue dragon some fish while Marina also had her lunch.
Jamie and Layla were petting a four-headed dragon and Donnie and Sophie were playing with two smaller sized dragons.
Sandy watched them interact with the dragons and Vikings in awe before he spotted Jack standing next to a white dragon that looked like it was in a lot of pain, talking to a one armed and one legged Viking with a blond mustache.
"Aye, he's got a fish scale stuck between his jaws. He can't retract his teeth because of that devil." The Viking peered into the dragon's open mouth before turning to the Guardian of Fun. Jack cocked his head. "How stuck is it?" he inquired.
The Viking rubbed his chin. "I'm sure all that scale needs is a good yank. Problem is that thing's wedged way in deep. "You'll have to…stick your whole head in there just to get a crack at it!" he informed him.
Sandy was confused. He watched Jack as he looked at the white dragon, who whimpered at the winter spirit.
"I'll take a shot at it Gobber." Jack said.
The Viking Jack was talking to then handed the boy an industrial sized extractor like tool. Jack faced the white dragon. The dragon whimpered again. The Guardian of Fun gently petted it.
"Don't worry, Blitz. I'll get that thing out of you. Now say 'ahhh'…" Jack instructed, opening his mouth wide for the dragon to see.
Blitz followed his movements and opened his own mouth as wide as he could, exposing two rows of sharp white teeth.
Then to Sandy's horror, Jack bent down and shoved his head into the dragon's mouth!
Sandy would've screamed, if he could.
Just when he was about to burst out of hiding & save him, the Guardian of Dreams heard Sapphire call to Jack, "You doing fine?"
Sandy then heard Jack mumble, "Man…This thing's wedged in pretty good…"
"What's it smell like in there?" A male Viking teen with long hair piped up. "Like rocks and cold fish." Jack's voice echoed from Blitz's mouth.
Sandy was surprised.
Jack was okay!
"Is it gross?" another long haired teen, a girl this time who looked like the first Viking teen's twin asked. "Not so much…" Jack replied.
One husky Viking joined in asking, "Feeling queasy or something?" Jack's semi irritated voice echoed out again. "If you guys keep distracting me then chances are the smell's gonna get to me and then I will feel sick."
Sandy silently giggled before he heard a frantic squeak.
Baby Tooth had caught up with him.
Before Sandy could form one sand image to explain, the Mini Fairy flew off, probably to report to the others that Jack was in danger. Sandy prayed that the kid would get that fish scale out of the dragon's mouth already before the other Guardians arrived.
But no sooner than a minute, he heard Tooth's high pitched voice exclaim, "What do you mean someone's after his teeth?!"
Too late…
Sandy paled as he saw the others headed his way. Then he heard Blitz roar in pain.
"Sorry, Blitz! Just bear with me buddy, it'll be done in just a minute." Jack apologized.
Then the others arrived. They gasped at what they saw.
Sandy frantically tried to explain. But to North, Bunny, Tooth and Baby Tooth, it looked like Jack was about to get eaten headfirst by a dragon!
"Oh my gosh!" Tooth screamed.
"Jack's being eaten alive!" North yelled.
"Hang on mate! We're coming!" Bunny hollered as they barreled over Sandy.
Lying on the ground, the Sandman face palmed.
Things were about to get ugly…
Screaming, the Guardians charged in, startling everyone. The dragons immediately started to turn aggressive when the Guardians drew out their weapons.
"North?! Tooth?! Bunny?!" Jamie, Layla, Sophie and Donnie exclaimed in shock as the three rushed past them and their Terrible Terrors and Snaptrapper.
"Whoa! Tridacna, easy girl!" Sapphire yelped as her Scauldron looked up from her Rider as she fed her and began to growl.
"What's going on?" Marina looked up from her oats in confusion. That's when they saw their fellow Guardians.
Tooth was trying to get past Stormfly and Meatlug.
North was facing Barf and Belch and Thornado while Bunny hopped past Hookfang and Toothless until he reached Jack and Blitz.
"Don't worry Frostbite! I'll save you!" the rabbit shouted. "That sounds a lot like…" Jack managed to say before he was suddenly yanked out of the Himalayan Fury's mouth!
A little stunned, Jack inspected the extractor and saw a large fish scale stuck in it. "Well that's out…" he muttered. Bunny's face then appeared over him.
"Oh good, that thing almost had ya mate! You alright?" the Guardian asked him worriedly. The winter spirit bolted upright in shock. "Kangaroo?! What're you…?" he exclaimed when he saw Blitz get into attack position!
"Wait, no! Blitz, no!" he yelled frantically before his dragon pounced on Bunny!
Struggling, Bunny grabbed his boomerangs. "Blitz, no! Bad dragon!" Jack yelled, trying to pull the enraged Himalayan Fury off the Guardian of Hope. "Get off me, you overgrown lizard!" Bunny grunted, whacking Blitz in the head, making him angrier.
Meanwhile, Sapphire and Marina were desperately trying to stop Tridacna from attacking North. "Down, Tridacna! Stand down!" they pleaded.
North was brandishing his swords, egging the Scauldron on. "Come on you beast!"
The kids on the other hand, were frantically shouting commands at Sniper, Terri, Aim, Fire, Summer and Winter to stop attacking Tooth and Baby Tooth.
"Leave him and his teeth alone!" Tooth screeched, her feathers sticking up in fury. Baby Tooth was also twittering madly.
The Guardians weren't listening, the dragons were attacking and the Vikings were yelling either attack commands, trying to calm the dragons down or just yelling at the Guardians, each other and anything or anyone else.
In short, it was complete, utter pandemonium.
Frustrated, the two Guardians, Marina and the four kids huddled together.
"This is really going nowhere!" Jack ran his hands through his hair in frustration as he watched Toothless, Blitz and Hookfang chase Bunny as he tossed boomerangs and egg bombs at them.
"How are we gonna get them all to calm down?" Jamie wondered out loud as Tooth dodged Stormfly's spikes and Meatlug's lava blast.
Sapphire watched North waving his swords like a madman at Thornado, Tridacna and Barf and Belch.
The dragons and their Riders were practically going crazy with the attacks.
It was total chaos!
Finally she sighed. "Shall I use my Siren Scream?" she asked Jack. The boy cocked his head thoughtfully.
"Siren Scream?" Sophie repeated curiously.
"What's that supposed to be?" Donnie asked his big sister.
"Well…Desperate times call for desperate measures. Be my guest." Jack finally agreed.
"What exactly does a Siren Scream sound like?" Jamie asked, confused. Layla dragged a wide shield over to them. "Trust me. You don't wanna know." She said warily, pulling out two small pairs of earmuffs and placed them on Sophie and Donnie's heads.
"Let's just say if you don't cover your ears, your head will explode." Marina told him.
"For your own good Jamie, just cover your ears the best you can." Jack advised his little brother before putting his hood up and placing his hands over his ears.
Jamie quickly did the same thing.
Marina peeked out of the shield at Sapphire who had walked away and nodded, her own wings covering the sides of her head.
Nodding, the water spirit went over to the center of the chaos and cleared her throat.
Sirens were usually known for their alluring, haunting melodies. But Sapphire knew that singing wasn't the only thing sirens were good at.
Their screams in particular, were very powerful.
"La…La…La…" she sang a few beautiful notes first then took a deep breath.
"La…AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" she sung one last note before letting the screech loose.
Almost instantly, everyone got down on the ground, covering their ears. Even Jack, Marina & the kids could feel theirs ringing.
Marina squawked and buried her whole head under her massive white wings groaning, "I hate it when she does that…!"
"Oh I am hurt! I am very much hurt!" Tuffnutt screamed rolling on the grass.
"My ears!" Ruffnut yelped.
"For Odin's sake, where's that racket coming from?!" Stoick yelled over Sapphire's incessant shrieking.
"Two words, water girl!" Snotlout shouted, pointing at the Guardian of Equality.
"Somebody make her stop! My ears are bleeding!" Fishlegs whimpered.
Even the dragons sent agonized cries.
"North, right? Get her to stop!" Hiccup hollered to the large Russian.
"Please!" Astrid begged.
Casting his suspicion on the Vikings aside for a minute, North stood up. "Sapphire Aquamarie, calm down!" he boomed in a commanding tone.
"We're not gonna fight anymore! Promise!" Tooth pleaded frantically as she and Baby Tooth covered their ears.
"For crying out mate, please stop!" Bunny howled. To his sensitive rabbit ears, Sapphire's Siren Scream was sheer torture.
The young girl took pity and shut her mouth, much to everyone's relief.
"Beard of Thor, what was that?!" Gobber said as he woozily got up. "That was a Siren Scream." Marina replied, poking her head out from behind the shield.
Layla put the shield aside as she, Jamie and Jack took their hands off their ears while Sophie and Donnie took off their earmuffs.
"Layla, can you bring extra earmuffs next time?" Jamie mumbled, shaking his head to get the ringing sensation out of his ears. "Okay…" the girl replied, feeling a bit woozy herself.
"That's the second time I've nearly gone deaf." Jack muttered covering his ears for a second.
"That was a Siren scream?" Hiccup asked, wondering how such a sweet voiced creature could create such a deafening screech. "More like a high pitched Thunderdrum…" Stoick grumbled.
Then things got edgy again.
"Alright, everyone, hold it!" Sapphire shouted.
That got everyone's attention.
"Vikings, stand down." The water spirit ordered. Hiccup and the rest of the Vikings took a step away from the Guardians.
Waving to the dragons the Guardian of Equality commanded, "Dragons stay calm." Toothless barked to the other dragons and they dropped their attack position.
"And as for you guys…" Sapphire turned to her fellow Guardians.
"Tooth–wings, North–swords, Bunny-boomerangs." Tooth quickly folded her wings and settled on the ground. North dropped his swords.
Bunny remained holding his weapons.
"Bunny…" Tooth pleaded, hoping he wouldn't start another fight.
Bunny glared at the dragons that glared back at him and tightened his grip on one boomerang, prepared to throw.
Jack tapped him on the shoulder with his staff. "Hand them over, Kangaroo." The winter spirit said firmly.
After a few seconds, Bunny sighed. "Fine…" he handed them over before giving Jack a mild kick in the rear. "And don't call me a kangaroo, mate." He muttered under his breath.
"Okay…And can somebody help Sandy to his feet?" Sapphire noticed to her surprise that Sandy was lying on the ground.
Jamie and Layla gladly obliged to that request.
Almost immediately, the golden man made a lot of angry sand symbols over his head as dream sand poured out of his ears.
"Why doesn't he just yell?" Snotlout asked, confused. "He doesn't speak. It's his thing. And he is really mad that you didn't listen to him." Sapphire answered before scowling at the Guardians.
"Uh, in case you didn't notice, Saph, Jack was about to get eaten by that…thing!" Bunny pointed at Blitz, who growled and bared his teeth at the rabbit.
"What do you mean 'about to get eaten'?" Jack asked. "Your head was in a dragon's mouth!" North pointed out.
Sandy formed images of fish scales and teeth. "Oh…" Tooth slowly translated.
"You're saying the dragon had something stuck between his jaws and Jack was helping him…" she said sheepishly. Sandy gave them a confirming nod.
The three Guardians looked at each other, embarrassed. Sapphire and Jack just rolled their eyes and shook their heads in disbelief.
Then Marina piped up. "One question…HOW DID YOU GET HERE?!" she exclaimed.
The two teenage Guardians looked at the four kids.
"You didn't tell them, did you?" Jack questioned them. Jamie and Layla shook their heads.
"We kept our lips sealed." Layla said.
"None of us blabbed, honest!" Jamie added.
Then Sophie meekly raised her hand. "I told Bunny we rode dragons day before yesterday…" she confessed.
"You, what?" Donnie said in shock.
"Soph that was supposed to be our little secret!" the blonde's older brother cried out in horror. "Sorry…" the little girl said apologetically.
"When Sophie told me about that, I got suspicious." Bunny said. "We got together to discuss with Mother Nature, Father Time and Millennium. When we discovered that a portal between our world and another one had been frequently opened, we put two and two together and decided to tail you." North informed Jack & Sapphire.
The two teens could only say, "Oh…" before Blitz & Tridacna took to their Riders' sides, still on protective mode.
"Guys…" Tooth said nervously as the two dragons growled at them.
Then to their amazement, Jack and Sapphire began petting the dragons.
"Rimsky Korsakov…" North said in awe as the Himalyan Fury and Blitz instantly calmed down.
"Crikey…" Bunny mumbled as Blitz started to lick Jack. "Haha! Blitz, come on man!" the winter spirit laughed as his dragon gave him even more licks to his face.
Tridacna was doing the same thing, despite the water spirit's protests. "Again with the overdose of affection!" Sapphire giggled as the dragon's tongue tickled her.
Sandy made an image of the two teens playing with the two dragons over his head. Bunny managed to decipher the meaning.
And what the Sandman had to say was super shocking.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa mate. You're saying that those dragons…are theirs?" he said, his mouth hanging open in disbelief.
The Guardian of Dreams looked at the two teen spirits.
"Well we bonded with them…" Jack admitted sheepishly. "Does that count as ownership?" Sapphire asked meekly.
Blitz then retracted his teeth and smiled at his Rider. Baby Tooth twittered in awe, fluttering over to his mouth.
"Baby Tooth, careful!" Tooth squeaked as the Mini Fairy flitted into the Himalayan Fury's gummy mouth.
Blitz purred, not minding the little fairy flying around his mouth until his nose started to itch. Jack quickly reached in and pulled Baby Tooth out just as Blitz sneezed, letting out a small ice blast.
Tooth breathed a sigh in relief as her fairy flew back to her, safe and sound. Then she looked at the two dragons, who smiled, showing their sharp teeth. She had to say, Tooth was rather impressed on how both dragons' teeth were in really good shape. Jack and Sapphire have obviously been taking good care of them.
Sandy was amazed at how playful the dragons were with the two Guardians and North could only marvel at how tame the beasts were whenever Jack and Sapphire gently placed their hands on their snouts.
Bunny was impressed…but still kept his distance.
Suddenly Angrid came on Magnus and they landed in front of everyone. "I'll take a wild guess and say that the insanely loud shriek I heard a while ago was you?" she asked Sapphire, to which the Guardian of Equality just nodded.
Then she looked at the new arrivals. "Are they…?" she began to ask before Jack replied. "Yeah they are…So what're you doing here, Angrid?" Angrid then turned to Stoick.
"Chief, there are three guests in the Great Hall. They want to speak–with them." She gestured to Jack and Sapphire.
Both teenagers paled as the other Guardians looked at them.
They were in so much trouble…
A Nightmare watched carefully as a bunch of teens followed by the Guardians made their way to the Great Hall, its bright yellow eyes glinting evilly as its Nightmare Soldier steadied it to keep them in the shadows.
The Soldier then noticed four kids accompanied by their dragons go into the Hall last.
Those four were the ones their master needed for blackmail.
The Nightmare prepared to rush in and grab the targets but the Soldier stopped it.
Not now…They had to wait.
Wait for the right moment to strike.
With an audience of curious Vikings and the teens and their dragons nervously watching them, Jack and Sapphire had three things on their minds.
We're dead!
We're doomed!
We are in sooo much trouble!
Thought Number Three was the most likely thing to happen now since Mother Nature, Father Time and Millennium were looking at them disapprovingly. Both teens just looked down on the Great Hall's floor, their faces showing complete embarrassment and shame.
"So this is where you two have been sneaking off to? To train dragons no less?" Millennium hooted sharply. The duo could only nod in silence, glancing at the others, who were quietly watching them nervously.
"When did you two start coming to this island?" Father Time's bespectacled eyes narrowed a bit as he stroked his beard. "About more than three weeks…" Jack admitted guiltily. "Three weeks and four days to be exact actually." Sapphire corrected him.
"Any particular reason why you kept coming back here and why you didn't tell any of us about this in the first place?" Mother Nature managed to question them before two whines were heard from one corner of the Great Hall.
Blitz and Tridacna loped over to their Riders and proceeded to pull them to the doors.
Sapphire and Jack knew what their dragons wanted…
And they had an idea.
"If you want answers, meet us outside in a couple of minutes." Sapphire said with an enigmatic smile. "Can't we just talk about this here now?" Millennium hooted tersely.
"Nope, it's time for our afternoon flight." Jack grinned as his Himalayan Fury picked him up by the hood and hoisted him onto his back.
Tridacna also carefully picked up Sapphire and traipsed out of the Hall with the boys.
Confused, the Guardians looked at the seven Viking teens who gladly showed them the way out.
They went over to a nearby cliff where they found Sapphire and Jack waiting for them, wearing their Dragon Training outfits.
Their dragons were nowhere to be found.
"I have to admit, the bandanna makes Jack look rather handsome…" Tooth whispered to Sandy. The Guardian of Dreams nodded in agreement.
"It's time for best tricks competition! Since your friends are here, why don't you two do the honors first?" Hiccup offered helpfully. Sapphire nodded. "Good idea, Hiccup." She then got on Marina and they flew up into the air.
"Okay Jack! It's all you!" Sapphire called down to the winter spirit. "Got it!" the Guardian of Fun yelled back before placing his staff in his holder.
"Is this going to be another one of their daredevil tricks?" Bunny whispered to Jamie. The boy grinned. "Oh it is." He replied. "And it's got to be their greatest stunt yet." Layla added, winking.
The Guardians looked at each other for a moment, feeling confused and worried at the same time.
That's when Jack decided to run to the cliff's edge…and jump.
"Shostakovich! JACK!" North gasped as his stepson plummeted towards the ocean without even holding his crooked staff.
The Guardians were shocked speechless. Baby Tooth couldn't handle it and fainted. Luckily, Fishlegs caught her.
"What is he doing?!" Millennium hooted in alarm.
Jack suddenly whistled sharply and seconds before he hit the water, Blitz came in a blur of white and caught him!
"Woo-hoo! Yeah!" the Guardian of Fun whooped in triumph as they began to climb the skies.
"That's your cue, Saph!" Marina alerted the Guardian of Equality.
Sapphire grinned and jumped off her trusty swan and dove into the water, emerging just seconds later on Tridacna's back!
"My stars…" Mother Nature breathed, awestruck.
"Mercy me…" Father Time remarked in amazement.
"You ready?" Jack said coyly. Sapphire playfully smirked and said, "Definitely."
Then the tricks began!
"Corkscrew, Blitz!" Jack commanded and his Himalayan Fury began spinning in mid air.
"Upward Spiral, Tridacna!" Sapphire requested. The Scauldron proceeded to spin like a top as she and her passenger went higher into the air.
After a few spins, dive bombs and flips, they headed for the sea stack maze, slaloming through the rock formations with ease. As they came out of the maze, Bunny was the first to notice that Jack and his dragon were now flying upside down, Jack laughing with glee as they did so.
"Crikey…And here I thought the kid's already done everything." He said, unable to fully express his surprise.
They watched the two take their staffs out. As if following an unspoken command, Tridacna shot out several jets of hot water which Sapphire molded into upright pillars of steaming water and Jack, together with Blitz, froze them, creating another obstacle course.
The two teens laughed in delight while their dragons roared in excitement.
"They're good." Hiccup remarked.
"Really good." Astrid nodded in agreement.
"Almost as good as you two…" Angrid chuckled when the two blushed.
"But probably not as good as Hookfang and me." Snotlout snickered. "Oh so your dragon can do all of that?" Fishlegs asked harmlessly and cringed when the Jorgenson glared at him.
For the grand finale, Sapphire and Jack jumped off their dragons and flew across the ocean alongside them.
"Those two are crazy." Tuffnut grinned.
"I know…They're awesome!" Ruffnut grinned as well when the four landed back on the cliff.
"That was by far the greatest exhibition ever!" Marina gushed as the Vikings gathered around the two Guardians, praising them for a job well done.
Jack and Sapphire were then approached by North and the other Guardians. "Can we speak with you for a moment in private?" North asked with a tight smile.
The two teenagers smiled as well, thinking that their friends were so awestruck they couldn't find the right words to say in public and gladly followed them.
Marina and the kids had gone down to Thor's Beach with their dragons while Hiccup and the rest of the gang finished their best tricks contest. Blitz and Tridacna patiently waited for them at the cliff. But every now and then, they glanced at the Great Hall, hoping to see their Riders come out.
"They've been gone for a while." Astrid said uneasily. "The Guardians must really want to hear their whole story." Hiccup guessed.
Suddenly they heard frantic coos.
"Is that a pigeon?"Fishlegs squinted at the tiny speck flying towards them.
Hookfang then decided to try and catch it. "Hold it, you crazed pile of scales!" Snotlout yelled as his Monstrous Nightmare began to buck around in flight.
"You think pigeon tastes good?" Tuffnut licked his lips. "Let's find out!" Ruffnut rubbed her hands, her eyes looking hungry. Barf and Belch were about to start the chase when Angrid saw that the pigeon was headed for her and Magnus.
When she got close enough, she recognized the poor thing.
"Osgood?!" she exclaimed as the ruffled Shivering Shores messenger pigeon perched on her shoulder. Osgood cooed dolefully, utterly exhausted.
Angrid noticed the scroll tied around his legs and landed along with the others.
"What is it, sis?" Astrid asked.
Her sister opened the tiny roll of parchment and silently read it. Her face instantly grew increasingly worried and she read the message from Anglo out loud, concern evident in her voice.
'To all allies of the Shivering Shores,
Outcasts have attacked us. Alvin commanding a different kind of army we've never seen before. Please send reinforcements as soon as you can.
Signed,
Chief Anglo the Mighty
"This is bad…We need to tell my dad." Hiccup said, getting on Toothless. The other Riders followed his lead.
When they arrived at the Great Hall, where they knew their chief was with the Guardians, Hiccup and the Viking teens heard Jack and Sapphire's voices.
"WHAT?!" Jack's voice yelled in shock.
"You're banning us from coming back here?!" Sapphire cried out next.
Curious, they opened the doors a crack to see the two teens standing apart from the other Guardians, looking horrified and angry at the same time.
"North, you can't be serious! All we did was just train dragons!" Jack protested. "That's exactly why, Jack. Don't you know how dangerous that stunt you pulled off earlier was?" North countered while trying not to blow up at the winter spirit.
"We trust our dragons! They'll never let anything bad happen to us!" Sapphire retorted. "Still, this whole dragon training and dragon riding idea is ridiculous! You two are Guardians! Your duties are to the children of the world. Our world and our time alone!" Father Time scolded her.
"Look, you two ankle biters are still pretty young and new to the team. You guys can't just go off on your own and do whatever you want." Bunny tried to reason with them along with Sandy, who formed sand images to get his point across better.
"We're doing this for your own good, Jack and Sapphire." Mother Nature told them gently. "You two don't understand. You're still too young to do things this dangerous." Tooth added.
"I'm practically 320 years old already! Since when is that 'still too young'?!" Jack asked angrily.
"You guys can't keep telling us what to do! We're not kids anymore!" Sapphire shouted.
"With all due respect, Guardians, perhaps you're being too harsh on your recruits. These two young ones have been a great help to me and my people. And my son and his friends rather enjoy their company." Stoick tried to defuse the argument a bit.
"Aye indeed. And I don't think it's a good idea to separate them from their dragons. Blitz and Tridacna have grown really attached to them." Gobber chimed in.
Finally the Viking teens couldn't take it any longer and burst in with Angrid waving the note in the air. "Chief, the Shivering Shores is under Outcast siege! Anglo needs our help!" she said frantically with Osgood cooing in agreement.
"We can send some of the dragons to accompany the warships for back-up, dad. The note says that Alvin's new army is unlike anything the Shivering Shores has seen before. It could be serious." Hiccup reported.
Stoick nodded gravely. He turned to Gobber. "Get some of the men and the ships ready along with 20 dragons. If the situation worsens, we'll send the whole armada." Nodding, the blacksmith hobbled out of the Hall in haste.
"We'll fight too, sir!" Jack said as he unsheathed his sword, which made North look. "We can take those Outcasts down, easy peasy!" Sapphire slung a quiver of arrows and her bow confidently.
"Since when did you two…?" Millennium's amber eyes widened at the sight of their new weapons.
"Oh no, no, absolutely, no! We are going home this instant!" North interrupted.
"But North…!" Jack protested.
"This isn't fair!" Sapphire added crossly.
Suddenly they heard loud screams from outside, followed by roars of outrage. Sapphire and Jack recognized the screams.
"The kids!" they exclaimed before tearing out of the Great Hall and getting on Blitz and Tridacna and flying off.
Quickly the Viking teens and Stoick followed, leaving the Guardians behind.
"Should we…?" Tooth asked uncertainly.
"Let's get to the sleigh." North said quickly, not minding Bunny's reluctant groan.
Sandy shook his head and formed an arrow in the direction everyone had gone in.
"You're right, Sandy. We should follow them now." Mother Nature sighed.
"And right now indeed. Who knows what the young ones will end up doing…" Father Time agreed.
"Well then, let's go!" Millennium hooted. Then the seven of them rushed out.
Dragon's out of the bag. Now trouble strikes!
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