Divided We Fall

It had been a very busy last three and half weeks with everyone on Dragon Edge doing battle with the notorious Dragon Hunters; the enemies they'd discovered out here when they'd gone further exploring.

They'd done a lot battles with them more then they cared to count already and there had been wins and loss on both sides for both humans and dragons involved and right now there had been a rather big loss for an entire species of newly discovered dragons thanks to those evil Dragon Hunters and their sinister ways.

Due to a mining project that Dragon Hunters had been doing many dragons had lost their homes included a brand new species they had named Glistening Mistbreaths.

They're about the size of an average house cat, with black and white coloring, that lived in a large social group lead by a slightly large female and released a glistening mist and had a magpie tendency as they're naturally attracted to shiny objects.

So they'd determined they're likely cousins of the Smokebreaths but much friendly and they were trainable. Though they really preferred females, and it was clear the only males they gave any respect to were Hiccup and Boden.

As a result when their home island been destroyed by the Dragon Hunters the team on Dragon Edge had relocated them to Edge and they made good friends with the Night Terrors.

They seemed to have made a deal with the Night Terrors. That they'd take the day shift of protecting the island from invaders and the Night Terrors would take the night shift. Otherwise they all looked like they're very good friends that got along just fine.

In fact there seemed to be a little romance going on between the leader of the Mistbreaths whom they'd named Glitter and the leader of the Night Terrors who the Twins named (rather stupidly) Smidvarg.

"They look so happy on their date, don't you think so Hiccup?" sighed Una happily as she playing her lyre as they watched the two dragon do a dragon ballet together while their people were taking a nap.

"Yeah, they do look happy. It's nice to see everyone living in harmony on this island. Do you think tune is coming along nicely on my Dragon Organ?" he asked playing a few notes on his personal musical instrument.

"I think it's perfect to go with my panpipes. Let's see if they're ready for their dance for their two people to show they're truly in harmony and peace, bro." Boden said standing up from where they'd been sitting.

"Okay let's do it. Glitter? Smidvarg?" called out Hiccup kindly and the two lover dragons came flapping down and smiled their dragon smiles at them.

"We were wondering if you would like to hear the song we've been working on to celebrate the unity of your two races before we make your friendship and hopefully your love story official before we have to leave in day after tomorrow. So would you like to hear it?"

Glitter let out her glittering mist with a smile and Smidvarg smiled in his own way.

"Okay let's just play a little of it. Not the whole thing till we an hour before we have to leave. Okay here we go," Una took a breath and they began to play a beautiful melody and began to sing softly but beautiful.

"What makes someone special? We guess that depends on what makes each of us unique and we share as friends.

For our difference may be small or great but they all add variety that is the spice of life that makes us all want to celebrate!

In Harmony! In Harmony! That you are you and I am me and together we can all live in Harmony!"

They paused at this not wanting to spoil the whole song but just wanted the opinion but the dragons were acting very happy and rather joyful. So they knew they're on the right track.

"We will make sure you all here the rest of the song before we leave okay. So you two go finish your date alright?" and with that the two young lovers flew off.

Then Hiccup reached into his satchel and pulled out a small chest with a peculiar keyhole on it and began talking quietly with his brother and sister.

They didn't realize that their singing had attracted the troubling trio of Snotlout and the Twins and all they saw when they got there was them holding a chest and the first thing that enter their pea brains was the three of them had treasure and they're weren't sharing.

"Oh how I want my hands on that treasure!" Snotlout spoke in a most avaricious way and the Twins looked as equally eager to get whatever was in that chest.

"We've got to get that chest! C'mon let's follow them and get it!" they said and quickly followed them back to the base where they spied on them though they couldn't see where they hid it.

But did catch where they're going. Hiccup said he was going to his workshop space to work on some of their inventions, Boden was off to do more studying on the elements and how to convert them into an energy source and Una was going to go experiment with sounds and studying their effects on living organism.

They agreed to meet up again for a 2:00 snack and hugged and kissed before going their separate ways. And the second their hut was empty the terrible trio and their dragons snuck inside and began turning the place upside down looking for that treasure chest.

They eventually found it in a place that boys found rather gross as it was hidden under Una's undergarments. She may not have hit puberty yet; but they didn't mean there weren't' things that Snotlout and Tuffnut weren't expecting to find in a girl's chest of drawers.

Ruffnut who was both offended and embarrassed for Una kind of avenged her and herself by beating up the boys before ordering them to clean up the hut so no-one know they're there and then straighten up Una's clothes for her.

Afterwards they snuck away with the treasure chest and went to find a seclude spot on Edge were no-one would find them as they tried to get open. They eventually found a small rocky inlet to serve their purpose and began to try and pry it open.

They were unaware of the amount of noise they're making or how the rocks vibrate with all their crazy attempts particularly the one shaped like a giant tuning fork.

Meanwhile back at the clubhouse all hell had broken lose as disharmony was all over the place. The Haddocks had come back from their respective activities for their snack time and had a pleasant snack of their mom's strawberry pie she had sent them.

Then they went to check on the chest and were great alarmed that it was missing. Quickly they turned their hut upside-down looking for it and couldn't find it anywhere.

Then for the very first time in their entire lives they turned on each other. "This is all your fault, Hiccup!" yelled Boden at his elder brother.

"My fault?! How is this my fault?! You're the one always forgetting to lock the door behind you! How many times have I to remind you to lock the doors and windows?!"

"Well it was your idea to hide it in my dresser! You said it was completely safe! So it was your fault since it was your idea! And you're the eldest so the blame goes totally to you!" snapped Una.

"Hey you're the one who hid it where I told you so you didn't hide it properly! So it's your fault!"

And the fighting was getting worse as the words got more and more hurtful and they're worse than snapdragons as they cursed and blamed each other for the loss of the chest.

It was so bad that Astrid and Asta came to investigate what the commotion was about and were shocked to see them fighting. For this was unheard of, it had never been done. Other than the one time Una had hit Hiccup for him making a joke out of suicide they'd never truly be mad at each other let alone have an argument with each other.

But they're boiling mad at each other and this was truly a feud with them and then they heard something their ears couldn't believe. "I NEVER WANT TO TALK TO YOU AGAIN! WE ARE THROUGH! GOODBYE!" and they stormed out past the two shocked girls all of them so mad you could almost see steam coming off them.

"What in the name of Thor was that about?!" Asta exclaimed in shock as she turned to Astrid who was equally flabbergasted as she couldn't believe it either.

"I've no clues or words to even offer a possible explanation for what just took place, Asta! Because it's just not possible for the three of them to hate each other! They never ever argue or get really mad at each other! Never!

I've lived alongside them my whole life and they've had disagreements, yes of course. But this is truly the first and only time I've ever seen them truly angry at each other."

"We've got to find out what the matter is and mend their bond right away! This can't happen! Them not together?! No the Nine Realms would come undone! It be like if Valhalla became Helheim and Helheim became Valhalla! This is just wrong!" cried Asta about how this was totally wrong.

"We need to find out what the problem is and how we can fix it and get them back together! So tell your sister right away and I'll get the other Riders on it ASAP!"

Well it didn't take long for everyone to hear the shocking news that Hiccup, Boden and Una weren't talking to each other and were very angry at one another and they all had the same reaction. Like the world had come undone.

The best they thought they could do was get talk to them all alone and find out from one of them what was the problem and hopefully figure out how to fix it so they could apologize to each other.

Therefore they quickly got the three of them apart and doing a different activity and tried to casually bring it up what was going on.

Astrid had invented Hiccup to watch her practice with Ase and Asta with their battle axes and give her his opinion on how they're doing and if they're still becoming strong, beautiful and self-reliant women.

"So what do you think? Are we a good team? I've helped them do a little better at target practice. Asta was a little weak on the left side, though she can hit a mark from a high tree branch I never could."

"Yeah, I was telling Boden how I just love climbing trees back home. There this one tree I'm determined to conquer one day. It's the tallest tree on the island. I've never managed yet to get to the top yet."

"Because Dad keeps telling you you'll break your neck from trying, sis."

"Ha, Ha. But Boden believes I'll do it one day. So what do you think, Hiccup? Do you think your brother's right that I'll make it to the top of that tree some day?"

"I don't want to talk about my dumb brother, okay! And I don't want to talk about my sister either! Not when they can't even just do one thing once for me so I don't have to do everything myself!" he snapped and looked away angrily.

In the greenhouse Leif, Torben and Eira and Erica along with Fishlegs were trying to get it out of Boden by appealing to his love of science with talking about all they'd discovered lately about the study of plants life.

"You know it does seem when Una sings to the plants they grow better. Do you have a theory as to why music helps the plants grow better?" the girl twins asked as they started to point to some flowers that really had respond to the singing.

"I don't care about the Mistress of Sound! Nor do I care about Mr. Egghead either! Like they ever truly appreciate me or my own brilliant understanding of nature and its wonders!

Or how my own creative ideas helped enhance their own ideas in many unforeseen ways! Being in the middle sucks at times but I've put up with it! But I don't want see either of them again! Not Mr. I'm the Eldest so you have to do what I said or Miss I'm the only girl so I require extra protection!" he snapped.

And even Elof and Tue trying to do landscape painting with Una didn't cheer her up as they showed her different techniques to make artwork.

"Don't you love painting? We know you loving making music with your brothers, surely you love to paint with them as well? Better you'd all be great at it!" Tue remarked.

"Yeah don't you all draw fairly well?" Elof inquired.

"I don't want to hear about my ex-BBBFF! I give them all my love and what do I get in return? Blamed simply for being the youngest?! Just because I'm a child!?

So they get to be teenagers and I'm just a stupid baby sister they are sick of taking care of?! Well fine! I'll just look after myself from now on! It's all Haddocks for themselves now! I don't need anyone!"

Everyone was feeling like this was hopeless when they all suddenly heard the sound of screaming like nothing they never heard before. It was like an airborne war going on and coming flying in with numerous cuts and slightly disheveled appearance was Heather and Dagur.

Forgetting everything else everyone came together and immediately the Haddocks were forgetting their argument and Hiccup took charge demanding "What's going on?! What happened to you two?!"

"We're on watch tower duty and all of sudden the Mistbreaths and Night Terrors started acting nuts!" Heather gasped as she was trying to regain her breath after barely making it through the melee.

"What do you mean nuts?!" demanded Boden to Dagur who knew crazy better than anyone.

"It started about a quarter to two, which now know thanks to those actual working clocks you three invented. One of your better inventions."

"Yeah, that was one of our better inventions I'll admit. It was a great collaboration on all our parts to build it wasn't it? Hiccup's skills in crafting and building for the design and gears. Boden figuring out the two metals of iron and copper could power it and me figuring out how to also making it musical with that metal piece with the strips and notes?"

"That was very clever uses of our brains and notable talents that didn't require our powers at all. Just us working together as team, family and being ourselves," noted Hiccup as they all looked at each other and shook their heads.

'But back to the point before our clock came into play what's happening with the dragons?" Hiccup wanted to know.

"Well again it started according to the clock about a quarter to two and they started to get very agitated. Almost like something was bothering them. Then it slowly started getting worse over the last hour and half and now they're battling it out." Dagur reported.

"Are even Glitter and Smidvarg at each other throat? Why two young lovers be at one another be very wrong. But if they also in pain it mean they can't calm down their people!" Una cried.

"We saw them in the melee and they started attacking each other and we can't figure out what's causing the problem!" the siblings admitted.

"Okay, let's thinking about. They've all been in perfect harmony and friendship since we relocated them to the island. So this is unlikely a territory problem," Hiccup was thinking out loud.

"And from what Heather and Dagur are saying what they saw it seems they are in pain so I think something is hurting them."

"And it started a quarter to two? Wait a second! Where are Snotlout and the Twins?! Anyone seen them for the last two and half hour?" demanded Una look around the group at large.

"Now that you mention no-one seen them for a long while. So we can't account for their whereabouts," Astrid admitted.

"THOSE THREE! WE ARE SO GONNA MURDER THEM!" they shouted and then all three of their eyes flashed brightly and the growled again and slammed their first in the wall. "NOW WE ARE REALLY GONNA MURDER THEM! WE GONNA KILL THEM ONCE AND THEN WE BRING THEM BACK TO LIFE TO DO IT AGAIN!"

"Okay, um I'd like to know what a murder is about since we all get the three of them are responsible for something but what is it?" Astrid asked tentatively.

"Ugh, those three stole something from us that has indirectly lead to the problem with the Night Terrors and Glistening Mistbreaths!" shouted Hiccup angrily.

"WHAT?!"

"Yeah, they took something extremely valuable from us that's why we've been fighting and now that's caused the dragons to fight!"

"How is that possible? Are they picking up your bad vibes?" Asta asked confused.

"No, right now from what our powers just told us collectively the problem is where they're hiding trying to open our property is in a small rocky inlet where the noise they're making is being vibrate with something that acting like what I've called a tuning fork," as she pulled out her music and sound journal to show them.

"You see we've study dragon anatomy and other animal's sense and compared them to humans as part of a chapter in the Book of Natural Wonders?

To make a long story short some dragons and other animals have shaper and better sense than humans. Like how Skullcrusher can smell things no human can smell. Or how Toothless can see better in the dark then any human can for example." Hiccup explained.

"And it would appear one thing Night Terrors and Glistening Mistbreaths have in common is very sensitive ears to sounds that can range beyond the hearing of that of a human!

And those idiots are trying them to the brink of insanity! It's like having a bleeding headache with the agony they're causing them!" Boden finished explaining.

"So let's find them and get them one to return our property and two stop making the noise, and three have Hiccup heal the dragons!" shouted Una as she mounted Nightrainbow and her brothers Toothless and Stardust and Moon Shadow wasn't far behind.

Everyone quickly took to the sky and almost immediately found the trio of troublemakers under attack and still clutching their stolen good. Their dragons were already badly beaten up. So this is where all the dragons' mates included Hookfang and Barf and Belch's own swooped in and formed protective circle around them.

The Soul Riders plus Heather and Dagur were charged with trying to separate the groups long enough for Fishlegs and Astrid to swoop in and get Snotlout and the Twins.

Hiccup then placed his hand on tuning fork rock as he and his siblings sang the complete song with their own powers and secretly Moon Shadow's sending out healing waves to heal and sooth them.

"What makes someone special? We guess that depends on what makes each of us unique and we share as friends.

For our difference may be small or great but they all add variety that is the spice of life that makes us all want to celebrate!

In Harmony! In Harmony! That you're you and I'm me and together we can all live in Harmony!

If there was only one note to song of life it would be very boring indeed! We are so glad there are so many different notes in so many different keys!

Every voice sings with its own special quality and when we all sing together it brings music to life itself in ways we never dreamed!

In Harmony! In Harmony! That you're you and I'm me and together we can all live in Harmony!

In Harmony! In Harmony! That you're you and I'm me and together we can all live in Harmony!"

And with that harmony had been restored both in the friendship between the Mistbreaths and the Night Terrors and love between their leaders and within the Haddock siblings.

However there was still a few things to deal with as soon as they got back to the base.

Everyone was beyond pissed off finding out Snotlout and Twins stole from Hiccup and his siblings and then they're shocked when they finally found out what was in the chest and what exactly they had stolen.

It turned out the reason the box wouldn't open was you needed Moon Shadow to open it as only her crescent moon would open it. And what happen inside was a large and decorated driftwood carving that had been made to have a 3D effect of the Haddock family; both humans and dragons with the words underneath saying.

"Family is where life begins and love never ends"

"That's your treasure?! A piece of old driftwood with some scratches and junk stuck on it?!" Snotlout lamented only to be glared at by Hiccup and his siblings angrily.

"You don't get the importance of family and love, do you, Snotlout?" Hiccup said in an icy voice.

"Nor do you get the severity of the crime you committed by stealing this do you?" Boden also said in an icy voice.

"What I'm gonna get in trouble for taking a stupid piece of driftwood from three losers?"

"It's our Daddy's birthday gift, idiot!" snapped Una and that's when Snotlout become bloodless and everyone had the same look on their face that was like "Oh crap! Not even Odin's gonna help him now!"

"Yeah! We're planning a surprise party for him and we're hiding his birthday present here so he'd not find it since he's always trying to find his birthday gifts!" Hiccup informed him.

"Don't you know when your own chief's birthday is? Since he's made it a law not to be disturbed on any important day to his family? Like a family member birthday or his anniversary?!" snapped Boden.

"Or did you not pay attention to that in your schooling of Berk laws, Snotlout? To refresh your lack of memory? Daddy's birthday is April 12th, Mommy's birthday is March 21st. Hiccup's is February 29th. Boden's September 18th and my own is June 14th!" And their anniversary is October 12th!" snapped Una to the dolt before.

"So we have to hurry home now or we won't make it back in time for the surprise party. We leave to all of you how to punish the imbeciles for their crimes. Let's go! Bye you all!" Hiccup told them as they took off fast as lightning.

And all three of trio were trembling as long shadows were cast over them with evil grins on just how to punish them for their crimes.