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Chapter 1: Dragon Rescue turned Human Rescue

Somewhere out in sea

Near darkness.

That is all she could see. Only two barely lit torches gave her light inside the cold room. Ever since she was taken from her village by Drago's men, she has not felt the sun's warm rays against her skin, only deep, bleeding cuts from agitated dragons. Left alone, chained up against a wall, all she could do was wait for the next dragon to emerge from the cage across from her, and come straight at her in a fit of blind rage, while the men outside the cage watch and laugh. She has endured this treatment for two weeks, and she prays, that someone will come to save her soon.

Berk

As the sun is beginning to set on the small island, there were a group of dragon riders out in the water, practicing their arial combat.

"Spine Shot girl!" Astrid commanded to her Deadly Nadder dragon, Stormfly. The dragon complied, and shot spikes from her tail at the mast of a dingy. Before they could reach the ship though, Tuffnut and Ruffnut on Barf and Belch, shot flames at the spikes, flaming them up right before they hit the mast. While that was going on, Snotlout was on Hookfang, who body is flamed up, as the dragon launched waves of flames on multiple ships. Turns out, when a Monstrous Nightmares' body is lit on fire, the heat from their flames they launch are doubled. Finally, Eret was on Stoick's old dragon, Skullcrusher, practicing battering ram techniques on ships, working like a charm. Suddenly, they hear the familiar roar of a Night Fury. They turn and see Hiccup, in his Night Fury armor, along with his mother, riding her Stormcutter dragon, Cloudjumper.

"Ok guys." Hiccup announced. "We have a golden opportunity here. The A-Team found a fleet of Drago's ships a few miles away from Berk. Five of them in total, one a Capital ship. Let's go and free those dragons before nightfall."

Soon, the riders all started their way towards the last known location of the fleet.

"I wonder what kind of dragons we are gonna free today!" Fishlegs said, in an excited state.

"Well, there should be some high value dragons on that Capital ship." Astrid responded.

"Which is why that Capital ship will be our highest priority." Valka added.

"Agreed." Hiccup said. "So, for this mission, Astrid, Snotlout, Ruff, Tuff, you guys will provide cover fire and free the dragons from the smaller ships. Fishlegs, you direct the freed dragons away from the battle. Me, Eret, and my mother will board the Capital ship and free the dragons on board."

They all nodded and soon, the ships were in sight.

"All right bud, show them what you got!" Hiccup proclaimed as Toothless shot a fireball at the Capital ship.

"Dragons incoming!" One of the men aboard the ship shouted. Soon the other men aboard the ship started taking their battle positions, arming the bloa cannons and aiming them directly at the Night Fury.

"Aim….and…" The commander said before he was suddenly interrupted by a Stormcutter, slicing the cannon the shreds with his wings.

"You will not capture anymore dragons!" Valka shouted behind her mask. She and Cloudjumper began disarming the men by destroying their cannons, crossbows and their swords. Now defenseless, the hunters could only stare in shock, as they looked around to witness their fleet being taken down and dragons they worked so hard to capture, being freed by the other dragon riders.

"Now Eret, if you please." Valka said aloud.

"With pleasure." Eret responded. Confused the hunters turned around, only to be met with the sight of a speeding Rumblehorn, who then turned to the side and used his tail like a bat, and knocked all the grouped-up hunters off the ship.

"Send my regards to Drago if he ever comes to save your sorry asses." Eret shouted to the now drenched hunters, struggling to stay afloat.

"Good job guys, lets go free those dragons." Hiccup said, as he and Toothless landed aboard the ship, heading below deck with Valka and Eret, while the dragons stayed on deck, in case any hunter had the wise idea of climbing back aboard. Once below deck, the three began freeing the dragons from their cages.

"So…" Valka started before Hiccup quietly groaned.

"Don't ask please mom." Hiccup responded.

"You know I got to son. You should really consider proposing to Astrid. You've been together for almost 3 years now, why not tie the knot?" Valka said. "Even Eret is going out with Ruffnut." Hiccup did a double take on that before looking over to Eret.

"Is that true?" Hiccup questioned, a small grin on his face. Eret responded with a chuckle.

"Yeah, I am. She's actually not that bad. A little bit rambunctious, but nothing this man can't handle." Eret then started to walk down another corridor, freeing those dragons, which included a Skrill.

'A Skrill?' Eret thought to himself. 'Must've been really hard to catch that one'. He continued to free the last of the dragons, and before he left to regroup with Hiccup and Valka, something caught his eyes. A hallway, that lead to a room. He walked in and saw multiple tables and chairs and a metal bar filled window that faced an open, circle shaped room, with a five bar door on one side and what would be on the other would shock him to his core.

"Chief! Valka! You got to see this now!" Eret shouted. Hiccup and Valka quickly appeared and they took looked inside the room. What they witnessed was a horrific sight. A small human child, with skin colors similar to that of the 3 Vikings, with long brown hair, lying against the floor, with a huge chain against her stomach to keep her from getting to far from the wall. She was covered with dried up blood on her arms and legs from what looked like dragon talon scratches. She barley opened her eyes and looked at the 3 strangers that were now in the viewing room.

"Help….me….please" she muttered, in a voice that would make even the toughest men's heart break.

"She's still alive." Valka whispered. Without a moment to lose, the three dashed out of the room and back into the hallway, and looked towards the end of the hallway, where there was a large metallic door with a lock on it.

"Mom!" Hiccup shouted.

"Already ahead of you son!" Valka responded, using her staff to break the lock. Once the lock was broken, they went inside a narrow hallway, with a 5 bar gate at the end. Hiccup found the lever that controls the gate, and pushed it up, lifting the gate upwards. The 3 then ran as fast as they could to the little girl and they worked on getting the chain off her stomach. Once the chain was off, the girl jumped and wrapped her arms around Hiccup tightly, sobbing and repeatingly saying, "Thank You" to the young Viking chief.

"Shhhhh. It's ok." Hiccup said quietly, wrapping his arms around the sobbing child. "It's ok. You're safe now. We are not going to hurt you." After a few minutes, the girl eventually stopped crying, wiping the tears off her face. She then ran over and hugged Valka and Eret, thanking them as well.

"Let's get you out of here." Valka said, leading the 4 out of the room.

"What's your name?" Hiccup asked the girl.

"Riley." She said quietly. Hiccup smiled

"That's a pretty name." he replied. The girl giggled and responded with another "Thank You."

"How old are you?" Valka asked. Riley then responded by raising 7 fingers.

"You're only seven?!" Eret exclaimed. The girl nodded shyly. Valka then walked over and held her close to her side.

"Ohhhh, you poor thing." Valka said in a soft tone. "Don't worry, you're safe with us."

They soon made it to the deck of the ship, their dragons patiently waiting. Once Riley caught sight of the dragons, she reacted in a way that surprised the riders and the dragons. She shrieked in fear and quickly hid behind Hiccup, hyperventilating and closing her eyes tightly. Valka and Eret looked at Hiccup in confusion, with a confused look on his face as well, until they put two and two together.

"Hiccup…" Valka started.

"I know mom." Hiccup said. "I started to wonder that myself when I saw all the dragon scratches on her. But this all but confirms it: she has Dracophobia."

Cliffhanger ending! HAHAHA! Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. This and the next chapter will be pretty dark, in regard to Riley's backstory, as to how she ended up on the ship. After those, the story will get much more lighthearted. Reviews would be very much appreciated!