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Now in the previous chapter of Dragons and Guardians, the Guardians finally found out about Jack and Sapphire's double life as Dragon Trainers.
Now it looks like trouble's afoot! What will the Guardians, Riders and Dragons do?!
Note: I do NOT own ROTG or HTTYD. All rights go to DreamWorks.
Chapter 20
"Go away! Go away! Leave us alone!" Sophie screamed, clutching Terri closely to her chest as she and Donnie huddled against a boulder.
"Back! Back! Back off already!" Donnie held Sniper up, who hissed menacingly and fired flame after flame until he reached his shot limit but kept growling.
Aim and Fire and Summer and Winter growled and snapped at the black sand encircling them, valiantly trying to keep Layla and Jamie safe. The two pre-teens nervously took a step back. Marina was furiously jabbing her beak at the Nightmares and Nightmare Soldiers.
"I thought Pitch was already gone!" Jamie exclaimed, feeling fear growing inside of him. "We did get rid of him! How did his Nightmares survive?!" Layla was scared too.
Their dragons and Marina fought fiercely but suddenly, a Nightmare Soldier shot nightmare sand at the two Terrible Terrors and Snaptrapper, who all fell to the ground.
That's when Jack and Sapphire arrived on their dragons. They gasped at the familiar sight of Pitch's Nightmares, but they quickly forgot about it and charged into battle.
Soon the Vikings and Guardians arrived to help.
For a few moments, it looked like the fight was in favor of them. But then a Nightmare Soldier took Marina down, snaring her in a net!
"Curse you, Pitch!" the swan shrieked in an outrage.
"Marina! Let her go!" Sophie screamed running over to her, hoping to help.
"NO! SOPH, NO!" Jamie yelled, running after his baby sister.
That's when another Soldier caught them!
"AHHH! HEEELLLPPP!" another scream sounded from Layla and Donnie Aquamarie.
Jack and Sapphire had just taken down two Nightmares when they heard the kids scream. They looked and to their horror, saw the Nightmares and Nightmare Soldiers retreating along with Marina and their younger siblings!
"Jack! Sapphire! Help!" the four kids screamed.
"JAMIE! SOPHIE!" "LAYLA! DONNIE! MARINA!" both teenage Guardians screamed.
Desperately, they tried to chase them on their dragons but North and Mother Nature stopped them before they could even take flight.
"No we need to help them!" Jack flailed around in North's grasp.
"Please, please, please! Let us go!" Sapphire shrieked.
But the enemy was already far out of sight.
"Ha! Thought you'd escape us, did ya?! Stoick's triumphant laugh got everyone's attention. The Chief of Berk had managed to catch one Nightmare Soldier.
The Guardians watched the dark man warily thrash about.
"Horses, then aquatic, now soldiers? What is Pitch up to…?" Bunny murmured. Tooth's wings fluttered uneasily as she tried to take all of this in.
Baby Tooth chirped nervously and stayed close to Sandy, who was looking at the yellow eyed soldier suspiciously.
"I was afraid he'd come back…" Father Time said, shaking his head.
"What do we do…?" Millennium hooted.
By the time the soldier had worn itself out, Jack and Sapphire had stopped struggling and were now looking at the thing with so much hatred, North and Mother Nature slightly cringed. They'd never seen them so mad before.
Suddenly, the Nightmare Soldier screamed in pain. Black sand exploded around it, startling everyone. Luckily Sandy formed a dream sand shield to protect them.
When the sand cleared, a very familiar Outcast was sprawled on the sand out cold.
"…SAVAGE?!" the Hiccup, Astrid, Snotlout, Fishlegs, the Twins and Stoick gasped in shock.
The Nightmares and Nightmare Soldiers took the kids and Marina to some caverns out in the sea.
Still in the nets, the five of them observed their surroundings.
Although black sand swirled everywhere, sunlight filtered in through cracks in the ceilings, letting them have a good luck at their captors. There were more of Pitch's horses alright. But new Nightmares in the form of dragons swooped down from the walls, emitting shrill shrieks. And they didn't fail to notice the Soldiers marching about the place, readying weapons of all kinds along with some regular Vikings.
"Oh man…You don't think Pitch is working with some Vikings from Berk?" Jamie asked fearfully.
"PICK UP THE PACE OR I'LL HAVE YOUR HEADS! MOVE!" an eerie two toned voice shouted, making the Vikings cower in fear and hurry up.
Sophie was the first to spot Alvin high up on a ledge, overlooking the cavern they were in.
"Who's that?" she pointed to her brother and friends. Donnie scrunched up his eyebrows to see. "I have no idea…" he said, frowning.
"Maybe he's that Outcast Viking they've been telling us about." Layla guessed.
Marina craned her neck to get a better look.
At first, she didn't notice anything familiar. But then she saw Onyx, Pitch's favorite Nightmare approach Alvin, who laughed and stroked the dark horse's mane.
"Soon we'll finally settle the scores with those wretched Guardians, my friend. Soon…" the swan's eyes widened when she saw Alvin's eyes flash gold.
'Oh no…Oh Manny, no!' she thought in horror.
They had to get out of here – fast!
"We can either do this the easy way, or the hard way. What is Alvin up to?" Stoick growled, taking a step toward the trembling Outcast, one hand resting on the hilt of his sword.
Savage squirmed as Gobber maintained his iron grip. They were now at the village plaza, publicly interrogating their suspect.
"I don't know! I don't remember!" he blubbered. "Liar! How come your tribe's been attacking neighboring islands then?!" Angrid yelled, swinging her axe, cutting a bit of the man's mustache off.
"You know something Savage. And you better tell us–now." Her younger sister stepped forward, gripping her platinum axe (which Father Time recognized earlier).
"Oh wow, two axes at the same time. New record." Ruffnut remarked to her twin. "I know, it's so cool." Tuffnut agreed with her.
"Um…Just so you know we're interrogating someone, not watching a torture session." Fishlegs reminded them. "Well to Savage, it is." Snotlout piped up.
Hiccup was now standing in front of Savage with Toothless. "Whatever Alvin's planning and where those things took the kids and Marina, Savage, you better tell us. You do not want us to use force on you, trust me." He warned him as Toothless bared his teeth.
Savage whimpered at the sight of the angry Vikings and dragons. But when he looked at the Guardians, they mostly showed confusion and suspicion.
Finally he broke down. "I really can't remember! All I can recall was this black sand surrounding me and Alvin laughing like a maniac! I really don't know!" he screamed.
Well that made the Guardians tense up.
But before North, Bunny, Tooth, Sandy, Mother Nature, Father Time and Millennium could have their chance to ask anything, the two youngest Guardians suddenly lunged towards Savage!
"Talk, you good for nothing Outcast! Where are they?!" Jack yelled, drawing out his staff and fired an ice blast a few inches to Savage's side and icicles began to coat the head of his staff.
"Tell us, Savage! Unless you want to be my next shooting target!" Sapphire threatened the Outcast warrior with her bow, loading an arrow into it.
Bunny, Tooth and Sandy gaped at the two teens in shock.
They had never seen Jack and Sapphire that upset before. Let alone threaten someone, weapons drawn.
Savage attempted to back away but Jack and Sapphire weren't done with him yet. Luckily before the guy could get any more traumatized, North, Mother Nature and Father Time held Jack and Sapphire back.
"North just let me at him!" Jack protested struggling as North held him by the arm.
"He is going to pay dearly!" Sapphire hissed.
Savage suddenly screamed as black sand came out of his mouth. In just a matter of minutes, he was a Nightmare Soldier once more.
"Quick! Subdue him!" Millennium barked in alarm.
Sandy immediately snared Savage with his dream sand whips and Bunny held him down. Baby Tooth chirped nervously as she hovered near Blitz and Tridacna.
"Oh great. Now, what?" Gobber waved his prosthetic hand in the air.
Suddenly Jack and Sapphire got an idea.
"North, get the sleigh. Meet us up at Thor's Beach." He said. "Hold on mate. What're you planning?" Bunny asked.
"We'll take Savage with us and let him loose. Wherever he goes, he'll lead us to the kids and Marina." Sapphire explained.
"But isn't this on the spot rescue mission a little dangerous?" Tooth asked nervously. "This is our little brothers and sisters we're talking about. And we're getting them back, no matter what." Jack said seriously before getting on Blitz.
"It's your choice if you guys wanna help us or not. But Jack and I are going." Sapphire got on Tridacna and she and Jack flew off.
"They'll need back up gang. Let's mount up." Hiccup commanded. The other Viking teens obeyed and headed off to the beach.
Stoick and Gobber then turned to the Guardians. "We'll need you three to help us keep Savage under control." Stoick pointed to Sandy, Bunny and Tooth. Nodding silently, the three of them followed the Chief.
"So…what're you lot gonna do?" Gobber turned to the remaining Guardians. North pulled out a whistle and blew. Seconds later, the reindeer arrived, pulling the sleigh.
The blacksmith's jaw dropped.
"Well Gobber the Belch, would you like to join us?" Father Time gestured to the sleigh. Gobber just stared at the sleigh in awestruck silence.
Mother Nature sighed and gently nudged him. "I'm coming…" Gobber said, staggering in.
Millennium churred in amusement. "Everyone loves the sleigh…" North chuckled, rolling his eyes.
Cracking the reins, the sleigh took off into the air and landed at the beach where everyone else was waiting. Savage was beginning to thrash about when Jack said, "Alright you can turn him loose."
Bunny and Tooth warily let go and Sandy tentatively released the sand whips.
The Outcast Nightmare Soldier immediately bolted.
"Alright let's hurry before we lose sight of him!" Sapphire shouted.
The Riders instantly took off into the air while the Guardians piled into the sleigh. As they flew across the ocean, keeping Savage in their sights, Jack and Sapphire had the same thought.
'Hang in there guys, we're coming!'
As they flew on, everyone could notice how angry Jack and Sapphire were. Their faces were set in hard determination and their eyes were blazing with pure anger. Not to mention, they kept their weapons readied at all times.
"I've never seen them so focused before…" Tooth murmured to Bunny. "Not to mention, armed and dangerous." Bunny added before clutching his stomach, feeling airsick again.
Baby Tooth sighed and got a barf bag from Sandy.
Then soon, rock spires began to appear out of the water as the fog rolled in. The dragons and reindeer had to slow down as the visibility was cut down.
But the two teenage Guardians refused to slow down.
Undaunted, they flew through the dangerous obstacle course, not even listening to Blitz and Tridacna's worried whines. Finally they saw Savage fly into a cave & they followed him inside. It was dark at the cavern's entrance.
"It's pitch black in here…" Angrid mumbled as Magnus nuzzled her.
"Let's light a few torches." Hiccup suggested. "Not a good idea. We'll be spotted immediately." Astrid advised.
Sapphire's staff suddenly began to glow a soft blue.
"Man…I have got to get one of those…" Ruffnut whistled. "I want one too…" Tuffnut said in agreement.
"Would you two just shush up?!" Snotlout whispered annoyed as they proceeded to go in deeper into the cavern.
"Um…Just curious and all but, what exactly are we going up against?" Fishlegs squeaked nervously.
Jack was on point and was the first to reach the end of the tunnel and see the entire cavern. His eyes widened at the sheer number of Nightmares in the form of dragons and horses alike swooping down from the cavern's walls and ceiling.
"You've gotta be kidding me…" he muttered as Sapphire joined him in surveying the area.
"Great…Pitch is back…" the water spirit groaned.
Then they spotted the kids and Marina huddled in a corner, still trapped in the nets.
Jamie caught Jack's eye and gave him a sign that meant, 'Get us out of here, brother!' To which Jack signed to him, 'We'll get you out of here. Don't worry!'
Jamie nodded but suddenly flinched when Alvin strolled over to him and sneered, "What're you miming, boy?"
"Nothing!" Jamie quickly replied.
The Outcast leader leered at him and looked around. The Guardians, Vikings and dragons quickly ducked into the shadows to avoid detection.
It would've worked fine, until Gobber's peg leg bumped into a small rock, sending it rolling down the tunnel and falling into the cavern below.
"They couldn't have heard that, right?" Stoick murmured in concern.
That's when a wave of black sand suddenly pushed them out of their hiding place and forced them into the dimly lit cavern. Shadows began to surround the rescue party.
"Get ready guys, things are about to get ugly!" Jack readied his staff and unsheathed his sword.
As soon as the words left his mouth, the Nightmares attacked!
The Guardians sprung into action.
Mother Nature and Father Time attacked a trio of black dragons with their magic spells as Millennium struck at them with his hard talons.
Tooth and Baby Tooth zipped all over the place, slicing Nightmares with their wings while Sandy fought with his sand whips as Bunny tossed his boomerangs and egg bombs to help him out.
North was working together with Stoick and Gobber, the three men shouting out fierce battle cries as they slashed at Nightmares left and right.
The teens were fierce fighters too.
"Toothless, Plasma Blast!" Hiccup shouted as his best friend shot at an oncoming Nightmare.
Astrid led Stormfly into a dive bomb and her Nadder shot out dozens of spines, getting rid of three black horses in one go.
Slow as she was, Meatlug never missed her targets as Fishlegs tossed her all the rocks he could get his hands on to let her use her lava blasts.
The Twins for once, weren't arguing as they made a fire wall with their Zippleback and Snotlout got Hookfang under control and with Angrid and Magnus, swooped at any incoming enemy within their range.
Jack and Sapphire flawlessly worked together with their dragons, shooting ice and water at the Nightmares.
Then when they got closer to where their captured friends were, things got physical.
A bunch of Nightmare Soldiers blocked them. Sapphire instinctively loaded an arrow into her bow before she heard Marina shout, "Don't do it, Saph! They're possessed Vikings! You'll kill them if you fire that!"
The Guardian of Equality froze and glanced at Jack, who was about to draw his sword. "Don't…" she whispered frantically.
One soldier charged at them. Jack quickly replaced his sword with his staff and fired an ice blast, freezing the enemy to a wall.
But more came and they had no choice but to fight. Instead of using their new weapons, both Guardians settled for their natural abilities to subdue them and knock them out.
Finally they reached their friends and quickly cut the nets.
"We knew you'd come!" Sophie and Donnie cheered as they hugged them.
Jamie and Layla hugged the two tightly.
"Are you okay?" Jack asked them. "We're so sorry. We didn't want any of this to happen." Sapphire said guiltily.
Suddenly Layla noticed something creep behind the two teens…
"Jack, Sapphire look out!" she yelled frantically.
The two Guardians barely had time to react when black sand streams suddenly grabbed them from behind and dragged them away!
"NO!" Sophie, Donnie and Marina screamed in horror.
"Jack! Saph!" Jamie and Layla began to run when the Guardians arrived and got them on the sleigh.
Jack and Sapphire meanwhile, thrashed about as they tried to break free from the black sand binding their hands and feet. They were then taken to Alvin himself, who was waiting for them at the cavern's highest ledge.
"Two years…two long years and at long last I can get the revenge I've been waiting for! Finally!" the Viking cackled, a cruel grin appearing on his face.
The two captured Guardians struggled against their bonds, uselessly wriggling about like flopping fish. Alvin chuckled and then pulled out one half of a dragon fang, catching their attention.
Sapphire and Jack stared at the fang in shock.
Since when did Alvin get his hands on one that looked identical to theirs?
And what did he mean by 'revenge'?
They didn't even know the guy!
Finally Sapphire managed to break the sand stream binding her hands and clawed off Jack's restraints. They began to reach for their staffs but then two other streams of black sand swirled around them and wound their way around their necks. The two Guardians gasped as their oxygen supply was sharply cut off and began to thrash even more wildly.
"Déjà vu, isn't it Sapphire? Not able to breathe?" Alvin laughed cruelly, looking at the girl spirit wheezing.
Sapphire's eyes widened as she locked eyes with the dark gold eyes of the brutish Outcast.
She recognized those cold evil eyes anywhere…
She glanced at Jack nervously. Apparently the winter Guardian recognized their old enemy as well.
"Oh so you do remember me? How nice!" Alvin laughed.
In a moment of desperation, Jack reached for Sapphire and pulled their dragon fang half out of her pocket just as Alvin brought his closer to their faces. Together the two teens clasped their hands over their fang and thrust it towards the other half.
A sudden flash of both blood red and emerald green light startled everyone below. Three distinct screams sounded from the ledge and a loud explosion followed. Alvin was thrown backward into a wall while Jack and Sapphire were thrown off the ledge, hitting their heads on the rocks on the way down.
"No! Jack, Sapphire!" Hiccup and Astrid cried out in fear.
Blitz and Tridacna panicked and frantically flew to their Riders' rescue. Catching them on their backs, they followed everyone's lead as Stoick commanded that they fall back.
Angrid was flying nearest the two and saw something in Jack's clenched hand. Carefully she went closer to Blitz and quickly grabbed the thing in Jack's hand by the tip. Her eyes widened as a half fang was revealed in her palm.
Glancing at the 2 Guardians, Angid's mind began to whirl with thoughts. Then she noticed something else.
Blood.
On the two Guardians' heads.
"North, get them in the sleigh! They're hurt!" Angrid yelled.
Tooth and Sandy flew over to them and carried the two unconscious Guardians to the sleigh, despite Blitz and Tridacna's worried whines and croons.
North let Father Time take over the reins and went to the back. Mother Nature was worriedly pressing a damp cloth to Sapphire's wound. Millennium handed the Guardian of Wonder another rag which he gently pressed to the large red graze on Jack's head. The winter spirit moaned in pain and shivered a little.
"Can't we go any faster?" Bunny asked, worried for the two of them.
Hearing the rabbit's concerned tone, the party of Dragons and Vikings sped up. They had to hurry. They had to get back.
Back home to Berk.
Alvin had recovered from his shock rather quick and was now smiling evilly as he barked out orders to his cronies. It was confirmed that Jack and Sapphire did have the other half of the legendary Dragon Fang.
Now all he had to do was figure out a way to get his hands on it.
"I'll get that fang…By hook or by crook, I will!" he laughed as he and his Nightmares and men left the caverns for the boats.
They'll attack Berk soon.
But now they were planning to launch a few more attacks at some small inhabited islands just to expand their territory.
Two things Jack and Sapphire saw in their nightmare with perfect clarity-fire and Nightmares in the form of either horses or dragons.
Riding their dragons, the two teenage Guardians tried to find a way out of this madness, dodging dive bombing Nightmares and fireballs left and right.
"Jack, what's going on?!" Sapphire looked at the Guardian of Fun, fear in her ocean eyes. "You're telling me! I have no idea!" the winter spirit helplessly shrugged, feeling just as terrified as she was.
Suddenly they heard their dragons roar in fright.
For some reason they were losing altitude fast!
"Brace yourselves!" Jack yelled as they plummeted to the ground.
Blitz and Tridacna landed hard on the rocky ground, the impact throwing their Riders off. Groaning in pain, Jack and Sapphire staggered to their feet. Jack hissed in pain as he clutched his sore left arm while Sapphire held onto her right side. The ground suddenly shook underneath them as an enormous black dragon landed right in front of them.
And standing on the beast's head were Alvin the Treacherous and Pitch Black.
Their protective instincts kicking in, Blitz and Tridacna attempted to fire but Pitch surrounded them with black sand and the two dragons fell into nightmare induced sleep.
"Blitz!" Jack limped over to his shaking Himalayan Fury and tried to wake him up.
"Tridacna, wake up!" Sapphire frantically tapped on her Scauldron's head.
They heard Alvin and Pitch laugh and turned around.
To their horror, the dragon both villains were on was getting ready to fire!
"Come on Blitz, get up!" "Tridacna please! Wake up!" both Guardians screamed desperate to rouse their dragons and get away from this nightmare.
"Revenge at last!" Pitch cackled.
"FIRE!" Alvin commanded.
Their dragon reared its head back and blood red eyes flashing, shot out a blast of purple black flame!
There was nothing Jack and Sapphire could do except scream…
"NOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOO!" those two terrified screams got everyone's attention.
Hiccup, Astrid, the other Viking teens, Stoick, Gobber and the rest of the Guardians rushed up the stairs in the Chief's house. They found Blitz and Tridacna (who due to her rather large size had to stay outside but was now poking her head through a window) trying to calm Jack and Sapphire down.
The two Guardians didn't seem to hear the Himalayan Fury and Scauldron's worried coos and continued to scream like crazy. Mother Nature and North quickly rushed to the two and took them by the shoulders.
"Sapphire it's okay! It's okay!" Mother Nature tried to calm the water spirit while North tried to get Jack to focus on him.
"I'm here Jack! It's alright, you're safe." The Guardian of Wonder could feel the winter spirit's whole body tensing up.
The other Guardians worriedly watched while the Vikings murmured concerns amongst themselves.
Blitz and Tridacna then took matters into their own wings.
Blitz managed to impossibly stuff himself onto the top of the bed Jack was sitting up on and wrapped his tail and front legs around the boy in a gentle yet firm type of hug while Tridacna stretched her neck out and wrapped it around Sapphire upper torso.
Upon feeling their dragons' scaly hides, the two Guardians stopped screaming and fell back into unconsciousness.
"Glad that's over…" Bunny sighed in relief. Tooth nodded worriedly looking at how exhausted the two youngest members of their team were.
Sandy went over to the two beds and proceeded to sprinkle dream sand to ease their minds when Sapphire mumbled in her sleep, "Pitch…Alvin…Them…Same…Person…"
Well that made everyone look at her in both confusion and worry.
"What did she just say?" Gobber wondered out loud. "Pitch? What's Alvin got to do with him?" Tooth asked.
Jack was the next to mutter, "Both of them…Working together…Nightmares…Evil dragon…"
They all waited for them to say more but the two teens were already deeply out. Their dragons let them lie back down but still kept them close.
"We should let them rest…" Marina sighed before turning to Jamie, Layla, Donnie and Sophie. "As for you four, we should get you home." She added.
All four kids immediately began to protest.
"Marina's right. It's too dangerous for you young ones to stay here right now. The Outcasts could come with those Nightmare creatures and attack." Stoick cut them off.
Not ones to disobey orders from a Viking chief, Donnie and Sophie just said, "Yes, Chief Stoick…"
Jamie and Layla, however, refused.
"We wanna help!" Jamie protested.
"We wanna fight!" Layla agreed with the young Bennett.
"You've already been kidnapped once! The last thing we want to happen is for you four to get kidnapped again!" Millennium hooted at them sharply.
Both pre teens went silent.
They heard Jack and Sapphire whimper. They looked to their older brother and sister who were trembling slightly and weakly tossing and turning in their sleep.
Jamie and Layla felt a guilty pang in their hearts. If they hadn't been captured, their two best Guardian friends wouldn't be hurt…
Finally they sighed in defeat.
"Fine…" Jamie grumbled.
"If we have to…" Layla sighed.
Then Sophie piped up. "Are our dragons okay?" Donnie nodded remembering their Terrible Terrors and their big brother and sister's Snaptrapper.
Sandy motioned for them to look out the window. Terri and Sniper were chilling under the roof with Thornado as a light rain fell while a certain Snaptrapper frolicked about in the mud, making the two little kids giggle.
Father Time then opened a portal to Burgess.
Glancing worriedly at the two unconscious teenage Guardians one last time, Jamie and Layla took their baby brother and sister into the portal with Marina to guide them.
When the portal closed and things seemed to settle down, the others went downstairs to discuss what to do next.
"What do you think they meant by Pitch and Alvin being the same person and working together?" Fishlegs wondered.
"Who knows? Maybe they're just messed up because they hit their heads so hard." Tuffnut shrugged.
"Like so hard they saw stars." Ruffnut added.
"Guys this is serious. We need to get to the bottom of this. Whatever those things were and whatever Alvin's planning with them, we need to stop them." Hiccup reminded them.
"Well we can't get answers from them now. And maybe Tuff's right. They probably had their brains messed up when they hit those rocks at the cavern a while ago." Snotlout pointed out, looking up at the ceiling to get his point across.
Angrid seemed deep in thought. She rolled the fang in her palm as she pondered.
Realization suddenly hit her.
"You don't think that Pitch…possessed Alvin?" she said suddenly. The six Viking teens looked at her like she'd lost her mind.
"Did you hit your head too, sis?" Astrid asked cautiously. The strawberry blonde Viking girl just sighed, "Let's just ask them when they wake up."
Lightning suddenly split the sky and thunder rumbled. The light rain began to turn into a storm.
Upstairs, Jack and Sapphire moaned and shivered, burying themselves under the covers. Blitz and Tridacna crooned softly and in a caring gesture, protectively held the two closer to them.
They won't move an inch until their Riders woke up.
It was already deep in the night when the sound of rain drumming on the roof brought Jack and Sapphire out of unconsciousness. Feebly, they turned their heads to look at each other before hissing in pain.
"My head…" Jack groaned, rubbing his temples as he sat up.
"My everything…" Sapphire moaned, feeling the cloth bandage wrapped around her head.
They looked at each other again and smiled a bit.
"Wow, you look awful…" Sapphire said jokingly.
Jack softly laughed. "You don't look so good either." He said weakly.
Suddenly their dragons woke up and happily greeted them with big, slobbery licks.
"I think we're going to have to change bandages." Jack quipped as Blitz's drool dripped down his hair and bandage. "And probably have a shower." Sapphire giggled as Tridacna nuzzled her.
Grabbing their staffs that were leaning against the wall and using their dragons for support, the two of them got out of bed and took a few steps, wobbling uneasily.
"Yeesh…What happened to us anyway…?" Sapphire wondered out loud, feeling woozy. "The last thing I remember was falling and hitting my head on a rock…Ouch…" Jack muttered, leaning heavily on his staff for support.
That's when Fishlegs came up the stairs.
"They're up! Everyone, they're awake!" he yelled.
In a matter of seconds, the rest of the Guardians and Vikings came up.
"Good to see you two up and about!" North boomed.
The Guardians of Fun and Equality managed to smile a little before wincing as their heads throbbed again. Luckily their dragons were there to steady them.
"You two okay?" Tooth asked worriedly as Baby Tooth flew over to Jack. "Yeah…Probably just a mild concussion…We'll get over it…" Sapphire said before they were guided downstairs where Angrid was waiting along with Gobber and Stoick.
"Hey where's Jamie?" Jack looked around, noticing that his surrogate little brother wasn't around. "He and the other kids went back home with Marina." Stoick informed him.
"It's too dangerous for them to be staying out here this late at night. Father Time told us about the two hour time difference between our worlds." Gobber added.
Sapphire then noticed the fang Angrid was holding. "How'd you get your hands on that?" she asked suspiciously. "I should be asking you and Jack the same thing. Is this how you two have been able to go back and forth from here to your home?" the eldest Hofferson narrowed her eyes at them questioningly.
The two Guardians remained silent.
"Sapphire, Jack…Is this true?" Mother Nature asked them worriedly.
The two teens still remained quiet.
"I believe they would want it back, Angrid." Father Time gently advised Angrid.
Hesitating slightly, Angrid tossed them the fang.
Jack and Sapphire both caught it at the same time. But as soon as the fang made contact with their hands, a gruesome scene flashed before their eyes.
Nightmare dragons filled the sky spewing purple black fire and a gigantic black dragon with blood red eyes perching on an enormous volcano. And riding it was a Viking man who horrifyingly looked like Pitch and Alvin combined…
Startled, the two teens stumbled backward, dropping the fang. Blitz and Tridacna cooed worriedly seeing how shook up their Riders were. The two Guardians looked at the fang and noticed that it was glowing green as green sparks fizzled around it.
A sudden tingling sensation in their hands caused them to look at them. Everyone gasped along with them when they saw that Jack's left hand and Sapphire's right hand were both glowing and small green sparks shot out of their fingertips!
Slowly both the fang and their hands returned to normal.
But now everyone was staring at the two stunned Guardians in shock.
"What…just…happened?" Millennium hooted slowly.
No one said anything at first.
Finally Angrid spoke up. "I think I know…"