"Okay, everyone, you know what to do!" Hiccup cried out as he and the others approached the cargo on their dragons. "We take out the guards and then release the dragons!"

"And then what?!" Snotlout stated. "How do you know they will follow the blue chicken-lizard!"

"If we're correct, these dragons have a will have a flocking behavior! But they are more likely to follow one of their own species!" Fishlegs explained, glancing back at Blueberry. He looked anxious.

"Fishlegs, you and Heather protect Bluefather until we release the other dragons!"

Heather nodded. "Okay."

"The rest, let's go!"

Blueberry watched as Toothless, Hookfang Stormfly, and Barf and Belch descended down unto the ships, but as he tried to follow, Meatlug flew in front of him.

"Bluefeather, don't!" Fishlegs cried out.

Blueberry shrieked in anger, bristling his feathers and crest. Goblin growled something at him, and the Skybiter seemingly settled down, though he still looked upset.

Meanwhile, Toothless shot a fireball at the deck, sending some hunters flying to the ocean. The archers aimed their arrows at the Night Fury, but some spines from Stormfly frightened them long enough for Hookfang to pick them up with his talons and drop them into the ocean.

"It's the blue one up there! The one that got away!"

One of the hunters aimed a dragon-prof chain at Blueberry and fired it, but Goblin deflected the chain with a lighting-charged fireball, the electricity ran through the chain back to its source, destroying the weapon in the process.

When the deck of the ship was clear, Hiccup and Astrid landed their dragons on top of it and got off, heading towards the door that led below deck. "We have to be careful, these dragons are likely to show hostility to humans."

Astrid nodded as they made their way below deck. Like Hiccup expected, the feathered dragons shrieked at them, cowering further into their cells, their crests and feathers bristled.

"It's okay, we won't hurt you." Astrid whispered to the ones in the nearest cage as she opened it. "Go on, you're free!"

The Skybiters seemed confused for a few seconds, but when they realized the door was open and there were none of the guards around, they scrambled to get out of the cage, shrieking excitedly. Hiccup and Astrid opened the other cages, releasing the rest of the Skybiters and nearly being trampled a few times, but as they got to the final cage, they saw no dragons in there. Instead, they found a young woman about their age, maybe a little younger, who looked as though she hadn't eaten nor slept in days, and she had a few fresh wounds on her arms.

"Quienes son ustedes?!" she yelled at them in an unknown language.

"Don't worry, we're not your enemies!" Hiccup said, opening the door to the cage, but before he knew the girl had already lunged at him and pinned him. "Okay, I guess I'd do the same!"

"No, wait, we're here to help!" Astrid said, containing her instinct to draw her axe. If they wanted her to trust them, they needed to look as unthreatening as possible.

Nora had the feeling they were sincere, but after what she went through with those Hunters, she didn't want to take risks. "Como se que no están con esos bastardos?!" the girl hissed.

How she hated not to understand what she was saying. "We released the dragons! We do not hurt them!"

If this was Bluefeather's rider, there was only one way to find out. "Wait, wait! Do you recognize this?!" Hiccup took out a blue feather, from the ones the Skybiter had molted.

At the sight of the feather, Nora snatched it from Hiccup and held it as if it were a treasure. She looked at Hiccup with wide eyes. "De donde la sacaste?!"

"We found your dragon in Berk! He's okay, he's outside with the others! But you need to trusts us!"

Nora got off Hiccup, panting heavily. She followed Hiccup and Astrid down the empty ship, up the stairs and unto deck. However, when she saw the two featherless dragons she stepped back in fright.

"No, no, it's okay!" Astrid told her, approaching Stormfly and scratching under her chin, receiving an affectionate nudge in return. "These are our dragons. They won't hurt you!"

Though she relaxed considerably at the revelation, she still stared at Toothless and Stormfly warily. "You said… my dragon! Donde está?"

"He's up there." Hiccup said, only to realize the freed Skybiters were flying around in circles, all colors and sizes mixed with one another, shrieking among them. He managed to catch a glimpse of Fishlegs and Heather trying to find Bluefeather among all the storm of colorful feathers. "…Somewhere."

Nora let out a shriek-like yell. Toothless and Stormfly perked up their heads curiously. Above them in the hurricane of dragons, there was a reply. Nora yelled again, and there was another reply as a blur of distinctive blue feathers flew down and landed on the ship's deck, running straight towards Nora.

"MORAZUL!" she cried out, running towards the Skybiter and embracing him tightly. The dragon purred contently as he sat down to receive her affection. "Mi Morazul, te encuentras bien…"

Hiccup and Astrid were moved at the reunion, but they also knew they had to take the dragons somewhere safe. But first things first. "What's your name?" Hiccup inquired.

Once she was certain these strangers had no bad intentions, she turned to them. "My name is Nora."

"Wait, you speak our language?" Astrid inquired in surprise.

"I do to some extent. I had to make sure I could… how you…?"

"Trust us?"

"Trust you."

"Listen, Nora, it's not safe to stay here." Hiccup said, and gestured to the flock of Skybiters flying above them. "Viggo might send more ships, we have to take these dragons to a safe place."

"We have a base where they would be safe. Do you think you and your dragon could help us take them there?"

Nora seemed doubtful, but she noticed Blueberry trusted them. She guessed they must be good people if he did so, and she didn't have many options left. She nodded. "Lead the way, I will round the Mordecielos up." She sighed when she saw their confused expressions. "In your language the… Hunters called them Skybiters."

By then, Fishlegs, Heather and the others were having a hard time in keeping the Skybiters under control, in part because the feathered dragons either evaded or attacked them, but they always flew in a large whirlwind-like formation.

"Well, we better go back before Snotlout receives another bite." Hiccup sighed as he and Astrid climbed unto their respective dragons. Blueberry kneeled down and allowed Nora to climb unto his back, her legs behind his wing bone, and her hands gripping the feathers on his back. All she needed was one gentle kick on the dragon's sides to make him take off.

"This is like the time we had to take the chickens back into the coop!" Ruffnut yelled.

"Except these chickens are big and can actually fly!" Tuffnut added. "It's a chickenado!"

"Are you serious?!" Snotlout yelled, partly freaked out about being surrounded by dozen of sharp teeth.

"Nah, more like a colornado!"

"Or feathernado!"

Despite the chaotic chorus of shrieks, yells and roars, Nora managed to whisper something to Blueberry, who in turn gave a loud, dominating shriek. Almost instantly, the rest of the Skybiters turned to him with slit pupils and they stopped in the air, all turning to him, flapping their wings and staring expectantly, as if waiting for something.

"Thank heaven!" Fishlegs said, uncovering his ears.

"Nora, this way!" Hiccup cried out, turning around and flying in the direction of Dragon's edge. The rest of the riders, Nora included, flew towards him, and the Skybiters in turn followed Blueberry, but much to the surprise of Fishlegs, they started accommodating in v-shaped formations, he wasn't sure if they did that on purpose or if it was an instinctive thing.

Thankfully, he'd have plenty of time to ask the new girl about it.


Things got a little chaotic when they returned. The dragons that already lived there soon started clashing with the Skybiters, in part because they saw this as territory intrusion, and much to Fishlegs' and the dragons' dismay, the first thing the Skybiters did was to look for somewhere to bathe, and Fishleg's pond and the small lakes and ponds in the island paid it dearly, soon they were left with discarded feathers floating on its surface.

Then the Skybiters started looking in the trees and bushes for fruits or vegetables of any kind, however since most of the trees were fruitless, Hiccup and the others (except for Snotlout, who vehemently refused to leave his cabin with all the Skybiters around after the episode with Blueberry) had a hard time dividing the cabbages meant only for one in enough portions to feed the abundant number of newcomers. Nora had a few berries, but she kept them out of sight knowing they would only send the Skybiters into a frenzy for a small bunch that wouldn't be enough to divide among all. Hiccup made a mental note to ask Trader Johan to bring lots of cabbages the next day. Goblin had a hard time keeping his hatchlings inside the stables when they tried to go outside to interact with the newcomers; they were still grounded, after all, and he wasn't sure if the other Skybiters would be as lenient or friendly as Blueberry just yet.

Once the Skybiters had calmed down, Nora still was a little wary of her rescuers and their dragons. However, upon seeing how close they were with their respective dragons, soon her wariness was replaced with friendliness and a surprisingly cheerful and maybe even bubbly personality. She would curiously touch Toothless and the other dragons, wondering at how come they could live 'naked', as she called their lack of plumage. Much to Astrid and Heather's amusement, she was more than happy to talk with Hiccup and Fishlegs about the Skybiters, correcting some assumptions and proportioning new information, such as the reason they made the v-formation when they flew in groups, and why they had such sharp teeth if their diet was a vegetarian.

"We call it Fruto de roble negro." She explained, fidgeting with the coconut-sized black fruit she had saved for Blueberry. "It's shell it's very hard, and only the Skybiters have teeth sharp enough to break it open."

Fishlegs took a closer look at the fruit, and gave it a few knocks. Indeed, it had a very hard shell. "May we give it a try? Perhaps our dragons can break them open."

Nora looked a bit reluctant, but she nodded, much to Blueberry's dismay. Fishlegs grabbed the fruit and placed it in front of Meatlug. She wagged her tail in delight, but as she grabbed it in her mouth and tried to bite it, she gave a whine of pain and let it fall to the ground. It rolled over to Toothless, who sniffed it warily with raised ears, but rather than try to break it open, instead soon he found himself playing with it as if it were a ball. Then it rolled over to Goblin, who in turn made it roll to Stormfly, and soon the dragons found themselves playing ball with the hard-shelled fruit until Blueberry could bear it no more and ran over to pick it up in his mouth despite the growls of protest he received. With a loud crunch, his teeth broke open the thick shell of the fruit, but instead of swallowing it whole, he went over to Nora and opened his mouth, offering her some of it. Much to the shock and dismay of Fishlegs, Nora grabbed some of the fruit from the dragon's mouth and started eating it, despite the fact it was covered in her dragon's saliva.

Nora held a bit out. "Would you like to try it?"

Fishlegs just stared at the saliva-covered fruit with a nervous smile. "N-No, thanks. I'm quite allergic to dragon saliva… And it's too bad, because it does look… tasty."

Nora shrugged and ate the rest of the fruit.

At nightfall, the riders had gathered in the hall, the dragons in the stables, except for Toothless and Blueberry, the latter in part because he refused to let Nora out of his sight. The Skybiters had all gathered in one part of the forest as soon as the sun started to set, and by the time it got dark they were all on the ground, either asleep or doing something else, but they never took off into the air.

"It's because Mordecielos don't see well at night." Nora explained as she continued to devour the roasted fish. "When they see the sun is setting, they all go back into their nests for the rest of the night and will not fly until morning." She internally laughed at how Fishlegs continued to scribble in the tome where dragon information was written.

"And tell me, is it pretty common for those overgrown chickens to bite at people's rears?!" Snotlout asked, pointing at Blueberry resentfully.

"Snotlout, would you get over it?!" Astrid snapped. "You've been complaining about that for two days, and besides you brought it upon yourself!"

Nora frowned at Snotlout. "You don't pluck a Mordecielos's feathers! It's like plucking a bunch of your hair off your scalp! Would you like that?"

Tuffnut enthusiastically lifted his hand. "Oh, I want to do it!"

"So…" Hiccup decided to change the topic. "Where are you from?"

"I come from a faraway land, some call it Nuevo Mundo." Nora explained. "It's a large continent, much larger than all your archipelago's islands put together in one land mass. The part where my people lives it's a jungle, a paradise on the earth, very different from here."

"Are there more feathered species?" Fishlegs asked.

"More feathered dragons apart from the Mordecielos? Yes, many."

"Oooh! Would you mind describing them to me?"

"I think she'll have plenty of time later, Fishlegs." Heather said, laughing at his antics.

Blueberry was curled up around Nora, twitching his ears whenever she talked.

"For how long have you known your dragon?" Astrid asked curiously.

At that, Nora stroked behind Blueberry's ear, and he ruffled his plumage in delight. "It's been eight years since we met."

"That's a long time." Hiccup commented in awe.

"In my culture, each person meets their own 'guardián' when they turn ten. We are incomplete until we have acquired our own dragon. Once the bond is forged, the Mordecielos will fly with one single person for the rest of their lives."

"That kind of explains why Blueberry never let us ride him." Fishlegs added. Whenever any of the other humans tried to ride Blueberry, he would shriek and flap his wings at them to make them step back, or run off until he was sure they had forgotten the idea.

"What about your naked dragons?" it was Nora's turn to ask. "For how long."

"Well, it's a long story." Astrid said. "We didn't ride dragons a few years back, we were in a war."

"But then we learned they were intelligent and loyal creatures." Hiccup said, hugging Toothless when he came closer and rubbed his head against his frame in a display of affection. "We've been together ever since."

"And how did you and your blue chicken get caught by the Hunters?" Snotlout asked.

At the mention of the Hunters, Nora stiffened. "I tried to follow their ship and find a way to release the captured Mordecielos, but an arrow struck Morazul, and he suddenly he behaved strangely. He lost control of his flight and plummeted to the water, and when those men pulled us unto the deck of the ship he didn't fight, he looked as if he was sick…"

"Their arrows are coated in dragon root." Fishlegs explained.

"Dragon root?"

"It's a plant that causes dragons to become aggressive, but in this case its processed and used to knock out dragons off the sky unharmed, but it leaves them in a dazed state and they cannot move."

Nora continued with her tale. "I was kept separated from Morazul all the time, all the while watching how those bastardos tortured the Mordecielos, plucking off their feathers and rendering them flightless. Everytime I refused to tell them how to capture more emplumados, they took one dragon away and I never saw it again. But I could hear its screams of pain as they tortured it…" By then, Nora was hugging her knees, sniffling when the remembered the experience. Blueberry noticed and wrapped a wing around her, purring.

"It's okay, it's all over." Heather said, though Blueberry being curled up around Nora in a protective way prevented her from going over to sit down next to her. "You're safe now."

"And what will you do now?" Hiccup inquired.

"I have to go back home. The Mordecielos will not last long around these parts, they won't be able to find the plants they eat."

"Wait, you want to go alone? Do you know in which direction to go?"

"Its okay, Blueberry knows the way back home."

"We could go with you!"

Everyone glanced at Fishlegs in surprise. He fidgeted with the Book of Dragons nervously. "I mean, the way back must be very dangerous! You might need help, and if you say there are dragon hunters in your land too, maybe you could use some of our help."

"Well, it's been a long day, everyone. How about we go sleep?"

Fishlegs was partly thankful Hiccup pointed it out, and Nora couldn't apparently agree more. However, she didn't move from her spot, she merely snuggled against Blueberry's plumage as he covered her with his wing and lay his head on his paws, falling asleep.

As the group walked out of the hall, Hiccup and Astrid took Fishlegs aside while the others went to their cabins. "What was that for, Fishlegs?" Hiccup inquired, crossing his arms.

"Well, it was only a suggestion!"

"Fishlegs, as much as the idea of going a new place sounds appealing, we can't just leave the Edge unguarded for Thor knows how much time!" Astrid pointed out. "The Hunters could come at any moment."

Fishlegs insisted. "But we don't know how far her land is, what if something happens to her? Or the Skybiters?"

"That's a good point, but Astrid's right. We can't leave the Edge unprotected."

"The auxiliary riders could set up a defense perimeter, but just imagine it! There's a whole new world out there, and new dragons who might need out help! If what Nora says is right, then Viggo and Ryker are not the only hunters!"

"We can figure it out in the morning. Perhaps Nora can tell us how far it is, and if it would be okay for her."

With that in mind, they headed over to their respective cabins to sleep.