Annabeth paced Raven's Point restlessly.
Percy should have been back hours ago. Dawn was creeping into the blackness, casting a warm glow on the island and she was feeling more and more anxious. What if something had gone wrong? What if the Outcasts found them? If she lost Percy again...
As she continued to retrace her steps around the bluff, a girl with her shade of blond hair approached her.
"Have you been here all night?" Astrid asked her. Annabeth nodded.
"Don't worry." Astrid insisted. "They'll be back soon."
"I hope so." Annabeth said, finally stoping her relentless movement to sit down in the grass.
"Don't worry!" Astrid said again forcefully. "Toothless is a great dragon, he can get them out of any—there they are!"
Sure enough, a black dot was closing in on the bluff.
Annabeth jumped to her feet as it came into view.
As she hoped, it was Toothless, carrying Percy and Hazel back to Berk.
Toothless landed next to them with a triumphant roar but his two riders dismounted looking sullen.
Annabeth ran to hug Percy but Astrid looked around, becoming paler.
"Where's Frank?"
Annabeth disentangled herself from Percy to look inquiringly into his face.
Hazel wouldn't look at any of them. Percy hung his head and mumbled
"He...said it was better if he stayed. Said he has a plan."
Both girls looked at him in surprise.
"A plan." Astrid said flatly. "What plan, exactly?"
Percy glanced at Hazel with a pained expression.
"Maybe we should wait until everyone's here." he said.
"What are we waiting for?" Snotlout demanded over the sounds of the twins seemingly trying to kill each other when Percy had finished the story.
They were all in the mess hall and they had just filled everyone in on what had happened on Outcast Island.
"We should just take our dragons and invade their crummy island!" he concluded.
"And ruin Frank's plan?" Hiccup asked. "That could really be our last chance to beat these guys."
"Yeah, but-"
"You know, that's not such a bad idea." Jason said slowly.
Everyone turned to him.
"What do you mean?" Piper asked.
"Yeah, bro, you heard what the big guy said" Leo told him somewhat resentfully. "He's got this huge important plan we can't mess with."
Hazel glared at him and was about to respond when Astrid put up her hands.
"Even if we could attack them directly...Jason, you guys don't know how to ride dragons that well." she reasoned.
Jason grinned.
"Then teach us."
"What?"
The twins stopped fighting to hear him.
"Teach us how to ride dragons." Jason said. "Even if Frank doesn't want us to attack just yet, the Outcats will come here eventually. Teach us and we can help you guys defend this place, give Frank whatever aid he'll need when he puts this plan into action."
Everyone watched Hiccup. He didn't resond right away but looked at the floor, deep in thought.
"Percy and Hazel did so well with Toothless." Jason argued. "Think how much better defended we'll be if we can all do that."
Hiccup looked up and slowly grinned.
"I like it. Lets teach you guys how to train dragons."
A few hours later, the demigods found themselves in the arena, each paired with a dragon.
Piper, Hazel, and Annabeth had chosen beautiful Deadly Nadders like Astrid's. Jason and Percy had comandered the Skrill and Scouldron they had tamed. Leo had settled on a Monstrous Nightmare, probably because it was the most fiery.
Hiccup was a patient teacher. He corrected Piper's grip, who was wobbling because she was holding on the way she was taught with Pegasi.
"You have to dig in more, it won't hurt them." Hiccup said.
"Like this?"
"That's it!"
Jason was having the most trouble, much to Percy's amusement.
"I'm-not used—to flying-something else..." he grunted.
Leo was already doing laps in the sky on his Nightmare, laughing crazily.
He eventually crashed into the stables and the twins laughed, giving each other high fives.
"Good one." Tuffnut managed through his wheezing laughs.
Leo emerged from the stables and spit hay out of his mouth.
"Yeah, really funny."
Piper, having corrected her grip, was flying in circles where Leo had been. She pointed to a few bullseyes mounted on football goal-sized posts.
"What are those for?" she asked.
"Target practice on the dragons." Hiccup said. "You see how well you can hit the target with a weapon or whatever while you're flying."
Piper set her jaw in determination and her dragon swooped higher, diving past the bullseye.
Just as they soared past it Piper whispered "Now, girl."
The Nadder let loose the spikes on her back and they launched like magnets drawn to metal, sticking with a satisfying thunk into the dead center of the target.
Piper stoped her dragon to see how she did and looked taken aback.
Everyone stared in stunned silence.
Hiccup began to give a wide, excited grin.
"You guys keep this up" he said "and the Outcasts won't stand a chance."
A/N: I apologize for seemingly abandoning this story! Life has been busy, ha. But I promised I'd continued it (and I want to) so here it is and here are the demigod's dragons!
Anyway, thanks for reading, I hope you guys still like the story!