Chapter 7

After toothless and hiccup leave for their forced take off, astrid gets on stormfly and prompts heather to get on as well. Heather follows astrids command and quietly climbs on stormfly, relishing the feeling of riding stormfly again without the threat of being thrown off. Their flight was quiet until heather tries to lighten the mood by actually talking...

Heather: soo.. Astrid where are we going?

Astrid: we're headed for dragon island..

Heather: Dragon Island? Ok..

And just like that the conversation ended... But heather tries again

Heather: umm.. Why Dragon Island?

Astrid: huh? To get a dragon!.. Seriously? Where do you think dragons come from? Trees?

Heather: sorry.. You're right, that's obvious..

And again silence.. But now Astrid's the one who initiates

Astrid: (sigh) sorry.. I'm just really frustrated right now..

Heather: at hiccup?

Astrid: Wha- No!.. It's my axe.. it broke.. now I have to get a new one..

Heather: is that why you we're so upset back there?..

Astrid: yes, ok..

Heather: oh great (sigh).. I was worried you might be mad at me and hiccup..

Astrid: well I'm not.. I couldn't care less..

Heather: really, that's a relief (smiles)

Astrid: yeah, whatever..

Heather: is something wrong?

Astrid: It's nothing, never mind.. we're here

Stormfly lands on the giant cliff where dragons come to lay their eggs, astrid gets down first followed by heather. Heather is astonished by the beautiful scenery and the plethora of different dragons living there, she momentarily spaces out, noticing a red deadly nadder fly by, it lands on the edge of a cliff. heather heads for the reddish deadly nadder with yellow colored spikes alternating circles from its tail to its body, astrid on the other hand heads for the other side of the cliff and unknowingly tells heather to follow her without even looking back, probably still a little bit frustrated about the whole hiccup heather fiasco. Heather slowly approaches the dragon only to find that she is a mother of 3 baby not-so-deadly yet nadders who can't seem to fly yet. As soon as she gets a few feet closer to the mother, the nadder instinctively raises its tail and readies itself for a fatal spine shot aimed at heather.

Heather: wow you're beautiful.. I'm not going to hurt you, see.. Wow you have babies.. (Raises its tail) O-ok.. Umm.. Easy girl..

Just then astrid finally notices heathers disappearance and looks for her...

Astrid: heather? Great.. Now she's missing (sigh) heather!

Meanwhile heather is still trying to befriend the wild deadly nadder, but she soon finds out that mothers are very protective of their child especially dragon mommys. Heather tries to sneak to it's blind spot but the nadder swiftly jumps back hiding her babies behind her wings pushing them closer to the edge, at the same time she raises her tail and fires 3 spine shots at heather. Heather was surprised at the sudden aggression from the dragon and was caught off gaurd. she covers her face readying herself for the spines impact. Astrid spots heather about to be impaled with spikes so without another second to lose she grabs her shield from stormfly's saddle and dive rolls infront of heather, immediately shielding her from the spikes. The sudden arrival of astrid shocks the wild nadder making her even more defensive thus taking another step back but with that step she unintentionally pushes one of her babies off the cliff. Heather sees the accident and rushes straight towards the nadder...

Heather: No!

Astrid: heather wait!

The nadder mistakes heather's action as an attack and shoots spines at heather again, heather was able to dodge the first few shots, but when she manages to get close enough to the nadder, it was basically aiming an arrow at point blank range. A spine cuts heather's arm causing it to bleed instantly but heather wasn't fazed. As soon as she finds an opening, she dashes in between the Nadder's legs and jumps off the cliff to catch the baby nadder. As she was closing in on the baby nadder...

Heather: just a little more... Gotcha! (Grabs the baby nadders legs)

Heather catches up with the falling baby nadder and cradles her with her arm, but the problem was they were still falling fast down to the rocks of the shore and astrid was still preoccupied with the wild nadder

Astrid: heather!

Astrid tries to run and save heather but the wild nadder blocks her path astrid grits her teeth, what was she supposed to do her friend just jumped off the cliff and she can't do anything to save her. Just then stormfly flies in and argues with the nadder..

Astrid: Stormfly! Good girl, we have to get heather!

Astrid hops on stormfly and dashes to the sky then hurries down to the cliff, the wild nadder does not find stormfly as a threat being a deadly nadder herself, but when she sees that one of her babies was missing she chases after stormfly who she thought stole her baby. The wild nadder fires at stormfly and astrid..

Astrid: woah! What now! Augh! Stormfly up up!

She manages to lose the nadder with a quick trip to the clouds. She quickly heads back to the cliffside, just then she finally spots heather clinging on to a branch that grew out of the side of the cliff. She was hanging on with only her left arm..

Heather: don't worry little guy.. I'm not gonna let you go.. I just hope this branch doesn't let go of me first..

Astrid: heather!

Heather: astrid over here!

Astrid: just stays still, the branch's gonna break if you keep moving

Heather: I'm trying it's just.. The baby's kinda heavy..

Astrid: baby? What baby?

Heather: um.. Astrid.. Could you help me up first..

Astrid: yeah sorry..

Astrid glides carefully to where heather was hanging and there she saw what heather was talking about..

Astrid: is that? That's a baby nadder!

Heather: he fell from the edge..

Astrid: so you caught him that's-

But then the branch cracked and caused heathers grip to falter but she still didn't let go..

Heather: astrid!

Astrid: heather! Grab my hand!

Only a few inches away from contact a spike suddenly shoots in between their hands and at the same time cutting the branch clean off the cliff..

Astrid: Noo!

The red mother nadder after shooting at astrid and stormfly, spots heather clinging on to the baby hugging her in her arms as they we're falling...

Heather: no! (Looks at the baby) I got you, I'm here (hugs the baby)

Heather was falling down hopelessly to the rocky edges of the cliff, heather seeing no chance of being saved holds the nadder close and turns her back towards the rocks clearly protecting the baby by using her back to cushion the blow. Finally she just closes her eyes...

Heather: Odin help us... (Thud)...

Astrid: heather!

End of chapter 7