People hello, I'm sorry for the late... update but writer's block is a pain if you guys know what I mean. SO ill make this one long enough for the two months I have neglected to write in this.

"Alright, alright, I know it's my fault that this happened but I didn't think water would come sprouting out at full force when I dug a hole into the ocean." Lacie trying to get out of the mess she made when the water hit her hut. "I'll fix it no worries plus the water has already subsided I'll make other tunnels for the water to flow out. You guys might need it since your island isn't safe anymore. So just think of all that water under my hut is like a well."

"Hey, Lacie, the water is going down now," Mir said as he went up to her with his body still wet.

"Alright, Mir, you go and play with Demi and call Angel over."

"Yes, Lacie." Mir went flying off and Angel came back.

"Did you need me, Lacie?"

"Of course, I do." Lacie hoped on Angel and started flying into the tunnel but she was pulled back. Hiccup and the others seemed angry at her which she paid no mind. "Okay, what's up with you guys?" Lacie stopped Angel from taking off.

"It's just you say that we're friends but you keep to yourself a lot," Astrid said. Lacie thought about it and gave them a sign a real heavy one too.

"Can one of you actually stay underwater for a long time?" None of them answered which Lacie took their silence as a no. "Yeah, that's what I thought besides I'm just making this as an emergency exit for all of you. Not like the enemy is going to expect any of you to be popping out of the water." Lacie just running her tongue with ideas that probably made sense or not. "Though I didn't plan on having the pressure of the water to be so great that it went overboard in the tunnels. Guess, I'm going have to note that as well, hmm, it makes sense though but for the water to suddenly go over the hole..." Lacie started mumbling to herself which made everyone confused. "Oh, yeah any of you guys want to help out with my board." They all looked at her and she rolled her eyes. "Just follow me." They went to her hut and there was a landing but something didn't seem right.

"So you brought us here to see your landing for your dragon," Snotlout said trying to point out the obvious.

"No just watch." Lacie ran towards the edge and stopped herself before she fell off the edge. The floor started moving by itself and went over to Lana's hut. When it stopped Lacie started waving from the other side and did the same thing. When she came back she was bombarded with questions.

"How did you do that?" Hiccup asked.

"You were just there a second ago."

"How did you make it?"

"It's not like a zip-line but it still goes fast."

"What. I could have made something like that."

"Oh-oh-oh, can I have one of those."

"Guys, calm down I need your help since I'm thinking that someone might get hurt when using this so I'm going to put up like a safety bar do people can hold onto when this thing goes." Lacie pointed out but can't really seem to find a good place to put it. "There's a safety net on the bottom in case, someone decides to do something stupid and fall off of it. I can totally see it happening so I'm leaving it there no matter what you guys say I'm not taking it down. Now I need to adjust the wires so the friction doesn't burn it off or make it less usable." Lacie started walking over to the wire until she was pulled back again.

"You are going to explain how this works right now."

"It's the same thing as a zip line but instead of holding it you stand on the board you see below and just lean your weight to make it move. The rollers on the wire should work in time but the problem is that the friction would bend the wire and get caught in the rollers. Hmm, maybe I should have made a trampoline then you could just drop down and just jump tp the other hut wait, wait, wait, that's even more dangerous. Nope, that idea is off the table."

"Lacie, would you quit your mumbling already?" Cygnus said to her.

"Huh, I was doing that again?" Lacie tried to play dumb but it didn't work on Cygnus.

"I know most of your ticks, Lacie, so don't play dumb with me."

"Yeah yeah sure sure."

"Say only one agreeing terms."

"Not like it matters about the appropriate manner or language here since no one is judging."

"I'll believe it when I see it," Lacie grumbled under her breath. "Yeah, whatever I still need help so you guys going to help me or are you just going to gawk at the board." They did gawk at the board and when Cygnus tried to help all she got were splinters. When everything was finished, they were relaxing especially Lacie since Cygnus kept running around trying to help in any way she could.

"Don't wake her, you might actually go to Valhalla this time."

"Come on, not once did she actually do anything for us. It's time for her to repay her debt."

"Astrid, she's sleeping right now so why not let her rest."

"She's been resting too many times to count Hiccup. She has to do her part as well you know or else the rest of the team is going to slack off like her."

"She has it rough, Astrid, just lets her be and you can say whatever you want to her tomorrow okay?"

"Would you quit defending her already, Hiccup, ever since she came here all you do is try and get closer to her."

"Astrid, there is nothing going on between us I promise."

"Then let me handle this right now." Astrid stormed off to where Lacie was sleeping and called out to her. "Hey, Lacie, you, me training room right now." Lacie looked at her half-asleep for a little bit, yawned and went back to sleep. Astrid didn't like this attitude Lacie was showing her and Astrid grabbed Lacie by the collar and lifted her up. "I'm talking to you and this is how you respond. I'm going to ask you once more. Come to the training room at once.

"If I go to this training room of yours would you stop bugging me," Lacie said as she grabbed onto the arm that was holding her up.

"Yes." Astrid dropped her but Lacie landed on her feet instead of falling to the ground. She followed Astrid to the training room and Hiccup followed them as well but not in plain sight. No, he was hiding a safe distance away from them so they wouldn't notice him.

"Okay, first off I need to teach you the basics of what we do here. You can't relax all day long since who knows who is coming after us."

"Question." Lacie interrupted her and this got on Astrid's nerves.

"What?" She said in an agitated voice.

"Who are your enemies? I need to know or else I might end up attacking the wrong people."

"They are the ones who kidnapped you."

"Oh, I see they are interesting you know when their huge skulls have such puny brains. It's unbelievable that they managed to get so strong. Wait, maybe the reason why they're so dumb is that they are all muscle heads. All muscle but no brains. That makes sense."

"I have no idea what you just said."

"Eh? You too. You guess need to get more knowledge."

"Why to gain knowledge if you can just use force to get what you want?"

"Just because you have power doesn't mean you can just carelessly use it. You need to learn where and when to use it. Don't go into a fight blindly watch from a distance, calculate it, simulate it and then you start attacking."

"Ugh, you sound like Hiccup."

"Any strategist would say the same words as me."

"Strategist?"

"Someone who does all the thinking on the battlefield. They are usually the ones who are really smart."

"Anyways, training. I want to see your skills while doing hand-to-hand combat no mercy."

"Eh? Are you sure? I mean I can hold myself back a little bit or maybe half."

"Are you mocking me?" Astrid got herself reach to launch at Lacie. "You're full of openings, Lacie." Astrid flung herself towards Lacie and she turned herself to the side and watch dust go up into the air as Astrid ground her feet against the floor making her landing smooth.

"I prefer to call myself defenseless. Makes people like you full of confidence." Astrid let out an angry scream and started charging towards Lacie and before Lacie could react she was on the floor with Astrid on top.

"This is exactly why you need training. You piss me off too." Lacie looked at Astrid for a moment and then she hit her in the jawline with her palm and Astrid was on the ground. Lacie didn't do anything else to Astrid. She was patting her clothes to get the dust off.

"I've been doing my own training while you guys weren't looking. It's not like I've been slacking off who do you think I am for crying out loud. Not if you'll excuse me I'm going to get some sleep since Cygnus would shut up about this island and places she has seen." Lacie walked off and Hiccup started running towards Astrid.

"Astrid! Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm okay but what she did right now made me a little bit weak and stunned."

"I'll go talk to her and make sure this doesn't happen again."

"No Hiccup, just... stay with me for a bit, okay?"

"Whatever you say, Astrid."

Lacie walked slowly towards Mir and leaned against him.

"Is there something wrong, Lacie?"

"Just sleepy."

"You sure you don't want to move around since today is-"

"I know what today is that's why I'm sleeping!"

"Sorry, I was out of line."

"Don't be today is the worst day to be in a cheerful mood."

"Want to talk about it?"

"No just let me sleep." Lacie put a cloth over her face making the sun got on it and have her eyes not see the bright sun in the air. The darkness she was in at the moment was peaceful but also scary at the same time. Even though she wasn't particularly scared of the dark it also reminded her that she can't keep anything she holds dear close to her heart. She was made to not care about things but the more she stayed with Hiccup and the others the more she turned human and she couldn't have that. Not when the people who saved her are at risk she had to kill the emotions she was feeling at the moment and mentally prepare herself for anything. Then again this day was the death anniversary for her best friend and probably her first love, Kaname. He was there for her for only like 2 years and he wasn't as good as Lacie but she let him follow her around. Even though she did most things for him to go away he would always come back with his imaginary tail just wagging. Sometimes Lacie would go on missions for the headmaster and they would take days. Kaname didn't believe Lacie whenever she would leave for a family business since the missions were under the radar and the kingdom couldn't find out what they were up to since there is a spy within the academy. The last time she saw him was when the banquet for the top 10 to come together and battle it out to see the newest rankings. Lacie didn't attend since she was banned for the suspicion of going into the headmaster's belongings so he sent her to look at the war zone that completely wiped out the army in under 10 minutes to see if there were any traces of the new weapon. It was then that the academy was attacked by the chairman and since Lacie wasn't there she couldn't stop the students from killing off the ones who didn't swear loyalty to the new head of the academy. When she got back, there was no exaggeration of hell. They first thing she sees upon coming back to the academy were the bodies that hung on the fields. Some were still alive and were screaming in pain while some of the others were playing around with the corpses, some were eating it to gain more power.

Lacie woke up when her dream came to the part where the people had her caught and those smiles were imprinted in her brain. It was already night out and she didn't hear any chattering so she assumed that everyone was asleep. She went over to Mir and shook him awake when he woke she got on him and they started flying away from the island. What she didn't know was that Hiccup and Astrid were following her. After a couple hours, Lacie landed on top of a hill where there was nothing but ashes. She walked on while Hiccup and Astrid were right behind her.

"Where do you think she is going?" Astrid whispered to Hiccup.

"I don't know but I know that she has too many secrets hidden from us. We are supposed to be a team and yet she doesn't tell us about anything."

"You think she is going to kill us."

"I don't think she would since she hasn't killed us yet."

"You said yet."

"I know what I said but look at this place. There is nothing here."

"Maybe she has a secret hiding place here or maybe she is meeting someone here since this place you can't really ambush anyone."

"You're right, Astrid. Let's just see who she meets up with and this way you can trust her a little bit." Hiccup was punched in the arm. "Ow, what was that for?"

"Would you be quiet, her dragon can hear us?"

"I don't think I can not grunt in pain since your punches hurt."

"Would you stop being a girl for once?"

"Astrid, I trust her you don't trust her so what am I suppose to do?"

"Well, how about this? We follow her and see whatever she is hiding then we surround her and get all the answers we need."

"Fine, have it your way."

"You do know you guys have horrible stalking skills," Lacie said and they saw her on top of the rock they were hiding behind. "Seriously, Cygnus could tail me better than you guys. Also, really you guys only used one dragon that's going to be a lot of work getting back and doing training."

"Erm, how did you know?"

"Well, for one there is no one here so you can hear your footsteps no matter how light you put your weight on them and second even though it's dark you can definitely see the shadows of others."

"Well, you keep secrets."

"I have things to attend to."

"What kind of things? You never tell us anything about yourself."

"I don't have to if I don't really need to."

"No, people can't trust you if they don't know what you are or rather who."

"You want to know about me then follow me. Geez, for once can I take some time off and do things without explanation." Lacie walked away while they followed behind her looking at the ground. They reached a place that only had part of a building still up and Lacie walked straight in.

"Hey, you can't just enter a place like this," Hiccup said trying to stop her. Lacie didn't even stop herself so Hiccup grabbed her by the hand and Lacie just dragged him until he put his all in his strength. Lacie was pulled back and fell down. Astrid and Hiccup were both coughing because when Lacie fell down the ashes went up into the air making it go into their lung system.

"What do you want now?"

"You can't just go into a place like this. It isn't right to go into dead people's homes." Hiccup retorted.

"This is a school, though," Lacie said blankly.

"Lacie."

"Yes, Hiccup."

"How- how do you know that this place is a school?"

"Because I used to go to school here. That's how I know besides this place is also the place that I was exiled."

"Why is there nothing here?"

"I don't know, haven't been to this place since like 6 months ago."

"So what does that mean?"

"You know a lot can change. I don't know what happened but you should at least think about it."

"Well, knowing you...you might have burned down this place seeing how you brought the whole kingdom to the ground with Mir's skill of what again."

"It's a secret you must never know. If you didn't read about him then don't bother asking."

"Come on, Lacie, you said you'll talk about him and you never did."

"Can I have some peace for a moment?' Lacie walked through the field and scanned the area. She started walking to what was once a fountain and brought out a rose. She placed it down near it and stood there in peace. Astrid and Hiccup looked at her to see what she was doing but all they say was ash. Lacie turned around to look at Astrid and Hiccup. "So, what do you guys want?" She said nonchalantly as if nothing happened at all.

"Uhm, Lacie, you mind telling us why we are here?" Hiccup said as he looked around to see if anyone was there.

"Visiting an old friend of mine how about you guys? Following me all the way here I mean."

"There is no one here."

"Here I'll rephrase it. I'm visiting my dead friend who's birthday is today. Just paying him a happy birthday."

"That's weird, you normally ship off the body in a boat and fire arrows at it."

"No, what you do is weird. What I and most people do is dug a hole in the ground and dump the body in there. Then write the deceased name on a stone to make sure you are paying your respects to the right one."

"I never heard of that before."

"Yeah, so we better get back before anyone realizes that we are gone and think that we were kidnapped or something."

"Y-yeah let's do that." They got on their dragons and headed back to the Dragon's edge. When they got there it was already sunrise which means that Hiccup and Astrid had to patrol the area since it was their turn but Lacie said she'll take it since she was the one who made them stay up. Lacie started doing her rounds of the patrol and she didn't do this with just Mir. Angel and Demi came to help her since they had to do things independently. As Lacie was flying around with Mir, she noticed something in the air and tried to get a closer look. She grabbed out her binoculars and found a whole group of people coming towards the island in planes.

"Dammit, I expected them to come later. Come on, Mir, we have to warn the others." When Lacie and Mir reached the ground she ran towards the others shouting to get up. When she got them up she immediately went to Cygnus' side as well as Lana holding Cygnus close to her.

"What is going on here?" Hiccup said sheepishly.

"Well, if do you want the long version or the short version?"

"Please keep this as short as possible."

"Well, let's say those people who seem to be after Cygnus and Lana are coming here in about less than a minute."

"Wait, they have dragons too?"

"Nope, something far worse."

"What is something far worse than a dragon?"

"Mechanized weapons without the use of magic."

"Mecha- what?" Snotlout said. "If that thing is powerful I'm all up for it gimme."

"I don't think you'll like it as much when you see it." A huge ship came down landing near the shore of the waters and some on the hills that had nothing in their way. People started boarding off the ships and immediately went and surround Hiccup and the rest of the gang. When the surrounded them some people held out their hands and others guns. Lacie fingered her hand over a knife she had just forged but someone stopped her.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. I gave them the order to shoot from even the slightest sight of a dangerous substance." A man in a white uniform came through the crowd and Lacie had her eyes glued to the person.

"Well, I don't think your people didn't understand since all of us are a dangerous substance."

"Don't be playing mind tricks you little brat."

"Hey, it's not my fault you fall for it all the time I mean really you got me in this position for how many times in how many days. Man, it's no wonder your boss didn't give you a promotion yet."

"Enough talk, I came here for the girl and her spawn now. Hand them over. May as well include yourself since you are the most priority threat here."

"And, if I say no Mr. Swort. What are you going to do about it?"

"How about I start killing your precious companions here one...by...one."

"How about I kill you right here and let your people watch you suffer a long and horrible death?"

"You don't have the guts to do that."

"Tell that to the whole kingdom that was burned to the ground."

"My family was in that place."

"I don't care. I really don't give a f*ck since you knew it was dangerous there and what did you do?"

"I was in another region doing missions."

"Did you send them a letter?"

"No."

"Exactly you didn't even care about them so don't come crying to me for some personal vendetta. You and only you are to blame for their deaths, not me. I just made it much easier." Lacie started whispering towards Mr. Swort. "By the way, I can tell you for sure that I made it quick and painless so no need to think that they were you know roasted alive and stuff. There is nothing there for you to collect okay?"

"You little-" Lacie twisted herself from his hands and gave him an uppercut to his chin. She stayed in that position until she heard a thud on the ground.

"Anyone next?" Lacie said towards the crowd but didn't wait for a reply. She jumped towards one of the gunners and stole the gun away with not as much struggle as she originally planned. She grabbed the blade that was under the barrel and broke it off to stab the person in his throat. She pointed the gun at one of the soldiers and let the body drop. Mr. Swort started coughing not noticing that Lacie placed the barrel on his head. "Any last words, Mr. Swort?"

"Yes, I do and that's what are you going to do when you finally realize that the ones you've been protecting are already under my control."

"That's a lie because all this is an illusion made by the one and only me."

"I don't believe you. Men! This woman is to be killed on sight immediately." They pointed cocked their guns to actually shoot the bullets and Lacie rolled her eyes. The first shot was fired in the first line and then the second line shot as the first line went to load their guns again. They kept going until there were no bullets left for them to shoot. Hiccup and the others couldn't believe their eyes on what they just say. How Lacie just died over something like this but as the dust cleared up there was Lacie still there with her foot on top of the person and a gun to his head.

"Well, now I suppose you don't have another way to get rid of me am I right. So what are you going to do with all those bullets on the ground? I can bring them up and shoot them back at the people you took so much care for in their training. I mean there is only like what 50 people here. There are also some people who are controlling those ships. So how about this I propose we do some regular fighting and if I win then you leave and tell your boss that you got nothing and if you win well I'll come with you without any resistance along with Cygnus and her mother as well as the maid."

"I don't trust you for a second."

"I won't do any tricks like magic just regular old fighting style. You and me since I know a little bit of fighting and well you fought like what 3... 4 wars with your bare hands so what do you say. I'll get my summoned beasts to just watch and not intervene."

"I still don't trust you." Lacie just looked at Mr. Swort and Hiccup coughed to get their attention. All the guns were pointed at him and he raised up his hands.

"Woah. I just wanted to give them an idea." He said trying not to show them fear.

"And what is this plan of yours?" Mr. Swort said as Lacie yawned showing Mr. Swort an opening and slapped the barrel away from his head. The gun shot and Lacie quickly refilled it but before she s=could point it Mr. Swort's tripped her and she was on the ground. The gun was grabbed out of her hand and she rolled over before he could shoot her. Lacie got up and skidded on the floor under his legs and right behind him. She laced her arms around his neck and put her legs around his waist so she would get off so easily. He grabbed her arms and tried to get them off as soon as possible but it was not working so he dropped himself to the ground. Lacie bit her lip when her back impacted the ground and also having an overweight man pressed up against her rib cage. "Guys stop that or else someone might be seriously injured."

"Tell that to her, she's the one that's about to make me die here."

"I'll twist your neck and you'll never see the daylight again."

"Try it b*tch." Hiccup and the others pried Lacie off of Mr. Swort before she would really kill him.

"Guys, just listen to me. There's an arena here and no dragon can get in and there won't be any interference."

"Fine but we need a ref and they have to be neutral so it would be fair."

"Please, Randal, no one here is on mutual terms they either fight wit your side or not at all." Lacie retorted. "Just make it a match where in order to win the loser loses conscious."

"Fine, but don't come begging for your life to end the match."

"I don't even know the word beg."

"I'll break you slowly that you'll never want to involve yourself in a fight ever again."

"Then you'll have to kill me if you don't want to see me fight again."

"We'll see about that." Randal and Lacie walked away from each other until it was time for them to start the fight. Lacie asked Mir to heal her of any wounds and since it wasn't against the rules. Well, there weren't any rules in the fight so they would have to deal with them later. When it was time for the match Hiccup was the one to judge it since it was his plan. Lacie and Randal walked to the middle of the ring and stared each other in the eyes. Hiccup started stating the rules.

"There is no time limit to this fight. In order to become the winner, their opponent has to be unconscious. You may not use weapons and you may not kill each other."

He raised his hand as Lacie and Randal took their positions. When his hand fell down the match began and Lacie immediately pushed herself backward before he could grab her. She slid on the ground making the ground come up in dust. Randal burst through the dust the second it came up and grabbed Lacie's head with his whole hand and plunged it to the ground. When the dust cleared up, everyone saw that Lacie on the ground as Randal was kneeling beside her with his hand on her face. Lacie was struggling a little bit but she took her foot and slammed it into the back of his head. He loosened his grip a little bit and she brought her leg forward where it went to his throat. She then put some weight on her leg and brought him down to the ground where she could bash his head with her other leg. She only got a few hits on him before he got himself out of that mess. She scrambled to get herself on her feet. Without any patience, she ran straight ahead towards Randal without any guard. She grabbed him by the waist and held on while Randal laughed at the fact of Lacie trying to make him move. He held his fists together and brought them up to the sky. Without a moment wasted he dropped his hands and as they were falling Lacie carried him and arched her back so his head would hit the ground. Her back was a perfect arch and she let him go. His body dropped but he didn't lose consciousness right away. He was weakly getting up and Lacie took that chance to attack him but he kicked her with full force. Lacie flew all the way to the other side of the wall but she got off quickly and spat out blood. She wiped away the blood hanging from her lips and smiled as if she was enjoying this fight with every fiber in her body. Lacie went straight up to Randal and started throwing punches and he did the same and this fight lasted a while. Lacie was thrown from a distance and her body hit the ground multiple times and she went limp. Cygnus yelled out Lacie's name and tried to enter the arena but was stopped by everyone else. Randal went up the body and was about to check if she was really down until Lacie used her hands to spin herself while her legs tripped Randal making him go unstable for a bit. Lacie started running towards him and as he tried to throw a punch she grabbed onto it and hit him in the jawline with her palm and brought him to the ground. She got on top of him and took her hand and quickly slapped him with her knuckles making him lose consciousness. With that, the match had ended and she didn't have enough strength to hold herself up and was about to fall until Hiccup caught her.

"Lacie is the winner of this match so grab your fighter and leave this island as it clearly stated in this match. You are to turn a blind eye on this and pretend you didn't see anything." The soldiers looked at each other and then back at Randal who wasn't even awake yet and just nodded. They grabbed him and started walking back to their ships as well as the dead body of the other kid. Hiccup and the others brought Lacie to her hut and they were amazed at what it looked like. They had never been inside since Lacie was rarely in it and also she told them not to enter unless it was absolutely necessary. There wasn't much inside her place just a bed and a couple of tables that had other things on them. There were curtains, rugs, and even furniture but it looked like it was hardly used. They placed her down on the bed and the girls got the guys to leave the hut since they were going to check out her wounds. That means they were going to take off her clothes to examine her injuries since Lacie had a good way of hiding the pain and pretending that she was fine. Once the clothes were off, there were so many colors that most of her body didn't seem to be her natural color. There were fresh bruises and cuts that were there and it wasn't from the fight earlier.

"What the heck is all this?" Astrid said in amazement. "I'm surprised she can still walk with these kind of wounds."

"That's because she has Mir healing her but something must have happened to make her forget about it," Cygnus said as she clenched her hand into a fist.

"I can't do a thing for her while here she is risking her life as if it's disposable. She has her own life too so why is she throwing it all away for the royal family." Lana placed a hand on Cygnus' shoulder.

"Cygnus..." Lana said in a soft voice but Cygnus didn't let her finish.

"No! No, mom, you can't say anything that'll make all this better. It was you and father who made her this way. She could have been living her life somewhere but no ever since the kidnapping, father always bring up her failure each time something goes wrong. You mother just rely on her on the small stuff and where were you guys when she was at school being pushed around because she didn't have a sacred beast."

"Cygnus, you didn't know this was going to happen. We didn't know it was gong to happen either. She had sworn her loyalty until she dies and she knew the risks when she swore that oath."

"So I am the one at fault then."

"Cygnus, that's not what I mean."

"If I hadn't been so spoiled into choosing my own guard Lacie wouldn't have to live this way." Mir came into the room and looked at them they didn't notice him until he nudged his head through to look at Lacie. Demy was on his head and when he witnessed Lacie's body not moving at all he was about to go into a panic until Angel came. He took Demy and went as far as possible.

"I can fix this you know," Mir said as he goes to heal her but the process was long. After a few minutes has passed Mir was tired and only some of her injuries were healed. Lacie groaned in pain for a bit and mumbled.

"I'm sorry, Kaname, it's my fault you died." There a tear slipped from the corner of her eye and onto the couch. They all looked at Mir who was about to go to sleep since he used most of his energy trying to heal the wounds.

"Mir, don't fall asleep. We have questions." Cygnus said as she shook Mir but it was no good. They were all left in wondering who Lacie was talking about and why does she have so many injuries from before the fight.