Percy woke up thinking he was on the Argo.

When he opened his eyes, he saw wood paneling and heard a gentle lolling of an ocean, the sound that was inscribed in his blood and gave him energy.

But as soon as he shot up in the small carved bed, the other day came back to him just as Hiccup yawned from the floor, pulling a blanket off himself.

"Morning, Percy."

"You should have given me the floor." Percy answered guiltily.

Hiccup smiled.

"Man, you've just been through a shipwreck. You need good rest."

Percy got to his feet. He was clothed in thick woolen pajamas he had salvaged from the ship after the surprise Outcast encounter. He was used to just wearing boxers to sleep but he would have frozen his podex off if he had done that in this place.

Hiccup was putting on his fur vest.

"Meet me downstairs when you're ready." He instructed. "Everyone has strict orders to bring your friends to the mess hall on pain of Astrid."

Clearly, everyone couldn't sleep in the same house, so after dinner that night, they had divided up. While Percy went to Hiccup's home, Annabeth went with Astrid, Hazel and Piper with the twins, Leo and Jason with Snotlout, and Frank with Fishlegs. Percy was not happy about being separated from Annabeth but he didn't want to put the Haddocks out.

An argument met him at the bottom of the stairs.

"I'm telling you Dad, they were Outcasts!"

"And I believe you! But what do you want me to do? Launch an invasion?"

"Well, no but they are clearly after the crew of the Argo, we have to do something to protect them."

"Hiccup they can't know about your new friends! Now if the Outcasts actually do something on Berk, fine, but for now we let it go."

Stoic said the last word so gruffly, there was no room for argument. Hiccup scowled as he looked at Percy on the stairwell, who was looking embarrassed to intrude on a family matter.

"C'mon, Percy." Hiccup ground out sourly, motioning to the door, walking to it without waiting up for him. Percy followed.

"Is, uh…everything okay with you and your dad?"

"Yeah…Yeah. I just told him about the Outcasts. He doesn't believe me that you were the targets. Typical. He never listens to me."

"If it makes you feel better, my dad didn't even talk to me for twelve years."

Hiccup laughed.

"But seriously, they're outcasts for a reason, right? I mean, you keep them away, so they can't be that tough."

Hiccup shook his head.

"They are that tough. And if my father won't do anything about it, you guys are in serious danger."

Percy ruminated on that until they got to the mess hall.

As promised, the other Vikings had brought Percy's friends and they were waiting on the steps.

"Hey guys!" Hiccup called, running forward. "Looks like you didn't have to murder anyone after all, Astrid."

"No but I gave it my best shot with Tuffnut."

"She really did…" Tuffnut complained, rubbing his nose.

Hazel and Piper had been chatting amicably with Tuffnut's sister and broke off to wave at Percy. Tuffnut looked annoyed at being the fourth wheel of a girl clique. Snotlout was patting a dismayed Leo hard on the back and Fishlegs seemed to be having an enthusiastic conversation with Frank about small animals, which Frank didn't seem to mind.

But where was…

Annabeth was complacently listening to the other girls' conversation and turned to grin at Percy.

He could tell she hadn't enjoyed being apart for the night any more than he did.

They sat next to each other as they all sat down inside for breakfast.

"Here, Hazel." Annabeth said, pushing a rectangular glob of bread onto the table. "We salvaged it from the ship this morning."

"Oh thank the gods." Hazel exclaimed gratefully, eating a small bite off. "My head's been killing me."

The Vikings stared as she removed her bandage, her head obviously healed.

"How—" Astrid stammered.

Hiccup gaped.

"Hazel, your head…there was a huge gash, you may have even gotten a concussion! You don't even have a scar!"

"Ambrosia." Annabeth explained. "It's what gods eat, but we can eat a little of it and it heals us."

"Of course it does." Astrid said.

"Anyway, now that she can think straight, we should all talk about what we should do about the Outcasts." Hiccup decided.

"I vote full scale invasion!" Snotlout called.

"Dad would never agree to that." Hiccup sighed.

"Small scale invasion, then!" Tuffnut amended.

"Tuff, what do you want us to do, go to Outcast Island and fight them, just us? You heard Hiccup, the Chief is not up for this." Astrid countered.

"Unless we can prove the Outcasts are after you guys." Hiccup said.

"Which is not going to happen unless something really bad happens." Fishlegs piped up nervously.

"So our best option here would be to get the Argo running before they do something." Jason concluded.

"And that means Leo Time." Leo added. "But first, uh…what's to eat in this joint?"

They had breakfast, even if Piper had been unhappy about it. The only thing they had to offer was meat, so she had had to break her no meat policy.

Leo immediately went to work on the Argo but the other demigods had nothing in particular to do. So, they tagged along with the Vikings as they went to the arena for their daily chores.

Percy's breath caught as they entered through the gated door. It was ten times bigger than the sword fighting pit at Camp Half-Blood. There were still severe chains and spikes everywhere left over from the days they killed dragons, he guessed.

He imagined the spectators that must have watched the killings from the top of the observation platforms and got a chill down his spine.

This place had a much friendlier atmosphere than he expected though, as just as they stepped into the gravel floor, several dragons burst happily out of a stable in the back. They seemed completely tamed because they wagged their tongues and nuzzled their masters just like Toothless had done with Hiccup.

A giant red one snarled playfully at Snotlout.

"Hey, Hookfang, glad to see you…ah! Watch the hair!"

The huge dragon had sneezed fire onto his master's head and Snotlout screamed and ran around with his hair lit up as his friends roared with laughter.

Laughing too, Percy waved a hand at a barrel of water and it burst out to spray the fire off of him as he slipped in a puddle.

"Thanks, dude." Snotlout grumbled, getting up and muttering about stupid dragons that never listened.

"Wow, she's beautiful." Piper breathed. She was patting a sleek dragon the size of a cow who purred and nuzzled her hand.

"Isn't she?" Astrid agreed, scratching the dragon, who nuzzled her as well. "This is my dragon, Stormfly."

"Please tell me we did not just eat dragon." Piper pleaded.

Astrid laughed.

"Nope. We don't eat them anymore. We had yak."

"I dunno what's worse."

Meanwhile, Frank was crouching beside Fishlegs and his pudgy, squat dragon.

"She's really sweet." Frank said in surprise as he pet it on its head.

Before anyone knew it, he had morphed into a copy of Fishleg's dragon. Fishlegs jumped and Frank returned to normal.

"Oops. Sorry. Didn't mean to do that." Frank muttered, blushing.

"Man, that's weird." Tuffnut grunted baldly.

"Tuffnut! Don't be rude!" Astrid scolded.

"Can you only turn in to dragons?" Hiccup asked him.

"Nah, I can do most animals." Frank said. "Dragons are actually the hardest."

"Wait, hold it guys." Hiccup whispered. "What if…what if the Outcasts know about Frank?"

A chill settled over the teenagers.

Suddenly, a roar and a sound like lightning over a rough sea took their attention.

"Uh, guys? I think we outta take care of that." Ruffnut said, who had been bathing her two headed dragon with her brother and Hazel.

Sure enough the sea storm was coming from the stables.

"Ah no, it's the Skrill and the Scouldron." Hiccup groaned.

"The what?" Percy asked flatly.

The stable door exploding answered his question.

A blue dragon that looked like a cross between a whale and an angler fish with water spiraling around him and a grey dragon with a lizard form and needle-like teeth that was generating lighting bounded onto the arena floor grappling and hissing.

"Out of their way!" Hiccup ordered.

Everyone took cover as a thunderstorm raged in the dome and water seeped everywhere.

They hid behind wooden barriers set up around the arena, shielding themselves from the typhoon like they were caught in a sudden hurricane.

From opposite sides Percy and Jason gave each other understanding nods and leaped out from behind their defenses.

Percy immediately took control of the water and pushed it back into the stables where it had been stored in water barrels. Jason took a voltage of lightning the grey dragon shot at him and redirected it to him, stunning him.

The thunderclouds disappeared.

Annabeth and Piper ran to them and alternatingly yelled at them, hugged them, and asked them if they were okay.

"That was awesome!" Hiccup exclaimed excitedly. "I've never seen someone handle dragons like that."

Ruffnut and Tuffnut tag teamed to wrestle the Scauldron back into its tank inside the stable .

As Snotlout and Astrid rock-paper-scissored to see who would have to drag the unconscious Skrill into the stables, Hiccup's dad appeared in the arena's entrance.

"Hello, son."

He beamed at Hazel.

"Ah, Hazel, lass! Ye look much better."

She smiled.

"Thanks, Mr. Haddock."

"Is everything okay, Dad?" Hiccup asked.

"No, son." He said seriously. "Some of our men found unidentified dragon eggs in the forest hunting. I want you kids to check it out."

"Yeah, okay. No problem, Dad. Well, hey"

Hiccup turned to the demigods.

"why don't you guys come with us? You really helped with that dragon fight."

"The village makes you investigate unknown dragons?" Percy asked, baffled. "Isn't that dangerous?"

Hiccup grinned.

"It's an occupational hazard."

They were deep into the woods and they still hadn't reached it.

Frank was leading the way with an arrow nocked at his bow. Hiccup was beside him, his hand on Toothless' head, who was shuffling on the grassy ground, tracking along with Frank.

Astrid brought up the rear with her axe ready. Annabeth had her dagger out, stepping in place with her.

"Hey Annabeth?" Astrid ventured. "Did I do anything to offend your friend Leo?"

"I don't think so." Annabeth answered. "He's usually the one doing the offending. Why?"

"He was avoiding me this morning. We talked last night, so I thought I might have said something to make him angry."

Annabeth rolled her eyes.

"He probably has a thing for you. He falls for every girl he meets."

"That kinda guy, huh? So every girl?"

Annabeth grinned.

"Except for Piper because she's Jason's girlfriend, and me, because he's scared of me."

Astrid laughed.

"I wish Snotlout was scared of me, but since I've beat him up since we were five, I pretty much can't surprise him at this point."

As they laughed, Frank whispered "Guys, stop."

They had reached a grove where there stood an abandoned watchtower.

"I am not climbing that." Snotlout grumbled, pointing to the rickety ladder barely attached to the tower and with distressingly few rungs intact.

Hiccup mounted Toothless and Percy almost gagged as he noticed something else about him for the first time.

His foot.

One of his feet was false. It was a slab of metal bent into the shape of a foot so that it could sit in the stirrup of Toothless' saddle.

"What in the name of the gods happened to him?" Percy wondered aloud.

"What, his foot?" Astrid beamed as Hiccup soared up to the top of the tower.

"Few months back, we fought the biggest dragon in the world. Hiccup was really brave. We thought he was a goner, but he scraped by and only lost his foot."

"Guys, I found the eggs!" Hiccup shouted down.

"But why would they be there…?" Annabeth asked.

"Yeah, why would a mother dragon leave her eggs here..?" Astrid wondered.

"She didn't." Hiccup breathed. "A mother dragon wouldn't leave eggs in the open. These eggs aren't abandoned. This is the nest. Run!"

Suddenly a green dragon even larger than Hookfang with the body shape of a bull and long sharp horns bowled into the group. Everyone sprawled in the forest floor covered in dirt and scrapes.

It dove for them again and Percy got to his feet and uncapped Riptide, stabbing it in its belly.

"Percy, no!" Frank shouted.

"Frank, it'll kill us!"

"It's just a mom trying to defend her babies! I'll try to talk to her!"

It seemed to take all his concentration, but he changed himself into whatever kind of dragon it was.

They roared at one another until she perched on the watchtower and Frank became human again.

"She's letting us go. Move, before she changes her mind."

"You guys look like you all got Tyson-style bear hugs." Leo chuckled, meeting the party at the edge of the woods. He was covered in grease and his hair looked like he had gotten it caught on fire several times.

"We look awful." Astrid corrected.

"That's what I said." Leo said cheerfully, not meeting her eyes.

"Get them home, Valdez." Frank told him, nocking an arrow. "I got something to take care of."

"What?" Hazel asked him.

He gave her a quick hug.

"I just, uh…want to make sure the dragon isn't following us, that's all."

When they were gone, he leveled the arrow at an old tree in the middle of his vision.

"Okay, come on out."

A man in an old fur vest and unkempt hair emerged from behind the tree, smiling maliciously.

"Ye got the sense of a real archer, boy."

Frank tried to give him a withering look.

"I may have been brain dead for a while, but I'm good enough to know when I'm being followed. Who are you?"

The man laughed harshly.

'Th' name's Morgan, lad.'

"You're an Outcast." Frank guessed.

"As charged, Gov." Morgan responded.

"Why were you following us?"

"T'aint it obvious? We're after you son."

"Me? Why…? Wait, so you are after me and my friends!"

"Bingo."

"Why me in particular?"

Morgan laughed again.

"I should think that was even more obvious, dragon boy."

Shock made Frank reel but he also quickly formed a plan.

"If I go with you Outcasts, to your island…you'll leave Berk, won't you? If all you want is to use me for your plans."

Morgan grinned but he seemed to be trying to figure out Frank's game.

"I s'pose, lad."

"Then I'll go with you."

Morgan's eyes flashed with disbelief but eventually he shrugged and said

"Come wit' me, then."

As Morgan passed him Frank smirked and stabbed an arrow into a nearby tree unseen and followed.

A/N: The Outcast plot thickens! This was kind of a longish chapter, I guess. I hope you're enjoying the story, and thank you for reading, reviewing, ect.!