Chapter two of Alone is here! Sorry for the wait, I'm in the middle of exams and only have a very short slot in which to write. Bear with me!

DragonGuardien199012: Unfortunately, since I have the plot all written out already I can't, though I do agree that Tuffnut doesn't get enough loving. However, if I was to tell you why, it would ruin the plot, so I'm afraid you'll just have to be patient. All will be revealed!

"So, where are we?" Tuffnut sat up and looked around. The island was an odd one, that was for sure. From the direction his sister had come stood a strange, stepped hill, looking a lot like a pointless square staircase. On the other side lay a thick pine forest, clinging to the side of a very tall, very steep hill. I bet we could see Berk from up there, he thought to himself. There was an idea trying to reveal itself in his mind, but no matter how hard he thought about it, it wouldn't show itself. Instead, he looked across the flat, boggy valley to a long, flat beach. Not a sandy beach, but one made of hard, fist-sized pebbles.

"Do those pebbles on the beach look weird to you?" He asked, overly loud, and his sister groaned, finally sitting up beside him.

"Maybe, but not that weird. I've seen weirder; I mean, look at your face," She chuckled, and earned herself a push into the muddy grass. Righting herself again, she stood up, her legs still shaking from the excursion of running, and looked around in much the same way her brother had.

"Where's Barf and Belch?" She asked, more of herself than of her brother, though he shrugged unhelpfully anyway. Wrinkling her nose, she strained her eyes as far as she could see, but the slight rise and fall of the land made it difficult to see beyond the lumps surrounding them, like waves frozen in motion. "We should go look for them."

"Yeah, we should..." Tuffnut replied lazily, examining his dirty finger-nails.

"Then let's go already!" Ruffnut was anxious to make sure their dragon hadn't come to mischief while out of sight, and so, she gave her brother a deft kick up the backside and stalked off. With a grunt of annoyance, he followed on, rubbing the bruise tenderly and muttering obscenities under his breath.

At the top of the first hillock, the sister cupped her hands around her mouth and called out the dragon's names. The only reply she received was the lonely echo of her own voice from the hills around her. She tried again, in vain. Her shoulders hunched unhappily as her brother joined her and looked out at the island again.

"They can't be far away..." He reasoned. "Here, let me try. BARF! BELCH!"

BARF! BELCH! BARF... BELCH... Barf... Belch... The echoes taunted.He screwed up his face, glaring into the distance, hoping to catch a glimpse of emerald-green hide somewhere in the hills. Inside his mind, the idea was still swirling around. We could see Berk... We could see Berk...

"Oh! Oh!" He exclaimed, promptly grabbing his sister by the shoulders and giving her a boisterous shake. "If we climb up to the top of that hill, we'll be able to see everything! Even Berk!"

The moment she caught on, his sister forgave him the vigorous movement. "Hey, you're right! And, we can see the rest of the island, so we can look for Barf and Belch!"

"Watching children can be such a bore..." The lone rider reached out for their dragon's neck, patting her fondly. The Nadder cawed a reply. "Perhaps we could land on a hilltop somewhere and have a rest?Oh, no, they'll see us, won't they? We can't risk that..." They sat back and brushed their fingers through the close clouds above. "You'll just have to wait it out..."

"You know, it really makes me miss flying when we have to walk all this way..." Tuffnut complained. Ignoring him, his sister called again for their dragon, and was again met by only echoes. "I don't know why you haven't just given up by now, sis. It's not going to-"

His words were cut short by the rippling call of a dragon. Both twins froze; it was a Zippleback, for sure, but whether friend or foe, neither could tell. All of a sudden, from the top of a hillock burst forth a great, shining figure. It's grassy green scales, red markings and duel heads were unmistakable; Their dragon had answered their calls.

"Barf! Belch!" Both teens cried in elation, rushing forth. The dragon was in such ecstasy that they could not run straight for the waving of their tails and the wriggling of their body. The twins grasped the Zippleback's heads in their hands and placed their foreheads against the rumbling snouts. Ruffnut gave a sigh of pure happiness; her brother, a jovial laugh. Their dragon had returned, miraculously unharmed, and they could now return home.

But as Ruffnut went to mount Barf's saddle, she found something odd. It looked as though there had been a bar of metal twisted around the dragon's body, clamping their wings shut. She called her brother swiftly over, and he too saw the problem.

"How did that happen?" He asked incredulously, trying to wrench the metal away from Barf and Belch's body. His sister shrugged unhelpfully.

"I have absolutely no idea."

"Well, I guess we're not flying home." Tuffnut looked rather disappointed; he was a great fan of flying.

"I say we go back to the original plan and climb that hill to see if we can see Berk. But I still don't know what we're gonna do at the top..."

"Whoa, sis, let's not get ahead of ourselves!" Her brother chuckled, leading the dragon away as he headed for the forest. His sister scowled as she followed on. Her head was still grasping at the reason they crashed, or even what happened before that. In fact, she didn't even remember waking up that morning. Deciding to question her brother as well, she hurried forwards to walk beside him.

"Tuff, do you even remember crashing?" She asked curiously.

"Nope. I don't remember anything." He answered, fuelling her suspicions. "Then again, I don't usually remember things. Wait..." He stopped and peered at her curiously. "Why are you asking?"

"'Cause I don't remember either, and I don't remember anything else today apart from waking up here. Do you not think that's strange?"

Tuffnut looked thoughtful, then shrugged. "Nah, not really. I didn't really think about it at all." His sister scowled as he continued walking, coming ever closer to the dark, ominous forest.

The white rider strained to hear what the twins were saying. Their brow creased. "They're getting suspicious, I'm sure... well, one of them is. Still, let's hope we can do this before they work anything out..."

Who is this mysterious rider and white dragon? I wonder... R+R if you want to guess!