in this one we get to see dragon talk

After his rider left, Toothless watched the other riders leave, before he looked back at the female dragon as she lay on the stone table, her eyes closed, her breathing shallow and she looked so weak that Toothless took pity on her. He gave off a noise of comfort and almost worries as he nudged the dragon. At his nudge, the dragon opened her eyes to look at him and Toothless seemed to freeze at seeing the deep blue of her eyes. Even as a dragon, Toothless was able to admit that he was starting to find this younger female dragon beautiful.

"Who are you?"

Toothless didn't seem to realise that the question had come from the dragon herself, her voice sounded just as beautiful as her eyes. However, he shook his head when he realised that she was talking to him.

"My name is Toothless, Hiccup is my rider. Your name is Snowdrop?"

"Yes, Caverna is my rider and my family."

"Don't you have anyone else, a mate for example?" Toothless asked and he sounded rather hopeful for her to say that she didn't have a mate.

"No, I'm the only Night Fury on our island, and the other dragons are too cocky."

Toothless let out a breath that he didn't seem to realise that he was holding, and he gave her a toothless smile.

"What about you?" Snowdrop asked him.

"No, I don't have anyone, but Hiccup and my other dragon friends." He told her. "Are you feeling any better?"

"Sort of." She told him, forcing herself onto her feet, though she fell back down.

At seeing her fall back down, this caused Toothless to put his head underneath hers to allow her to at least sit up.

"Thank you." She told him, giving him her own toothless smile. "But why are you helping me?"

Toothless looked up, and although he couldn't exactly work out why he was so intent on helping the female, he gave her a sort of shrug. "Because, I want to be friends with you?"

The female seemed to think this option over for a few minutes, before she gave him a small nod. "I'd like that, Toothless."

This made him smile and he gently put her head back down on the rock, before he nuzzled her gently in comfort, before he rested his head beside her.

Meanwhile, Stoick, Gobber, Hiccup and Astrid were sitting in the Great Hall, watching Caverna as she explained why she was here, and they all seemed relatively surprised at how active she was even with her leg injury.

"So, you need our help?" Gobber asked.

"Yes." Caverna told him. "My village is plagued by a mad man and his band of followers; they are intent on bringing our village to the ground."

"You have dragons, why do you need our help?" Stoick asked.

"Because he is too strong, you saw the wounds on my dragon, my brother's is twice as bad."

"Does this man only attack dragons?" Hiccup asked.

"No...He only attacks them when they try and help us..." Cavern trailed off.

"What else does he do?" Astrid asked gently, she could see that she somehow felt ashamed of what she would have to tell them.

Caverna looked at her, before she started to remove her weapons and she took off the top part of her clothes to reveal a green version of the red shirt that Astrid wore, and she pulled the shirt up revealing a scar across her stomach and then one that travelled up her side, under her breast bindings and to the edge of her over coat.

"Others are worse...And some have scars that can never heal." Caverna told them.

"What do you mean?" Hiccup asked her, he too could see that there was more and that she was ashamed. "Please, don't be ashamed of it, it's not your fault."

"It is my fault, I could prevented it happening to my sister." She sighed. "The man who haunts are world not only destroys our villages and our livestock, he destroys our lives. When a girl becomes of age, he take them..."

"Becomes of age for what?" Stoick asked.

"To be bedded."

The revelation earned a gasp from Astrid, who clasped her hands to her mouth, and Stoick, Gobber and Hiccup looked at her in shock.

"He knows when we all become of age, so he forces us to bear his children, though we ensure that no female is treated like that again." Caverna finished.

"So, do you have a child?" Gobber asked.

"No...Because of the scar I have, I've been made barren by him." She moved to refasten her swords back onto her waist after she had fixed the top part of her outfit and she put any other weapons back where she found them. "It's literally a village of hell."

That night, Caverna went to sleep at Hiccup and Stoick's house, and she looked around Hiccup's room.

"I like your drawings." She told him as she stood in front of his desk looking at all of his drawings of Toothless and Astrid. "They're really good."

"Thank you, some of them are my really early ones, from when I first met Toothless." He showed her the ones that he spoke of.

"How long have you been Toothless' rider, if you don't mind my asking?"

"I've been his rider, since I was fourteen, so around four years now."

"Wow, so you didn't find him from an egg and he still treats you like you are one of him?"

"Yeah, I guess you could say that." Hiccup smiled. "What about you, how long have you known Snowcap?"

"Since she was an egg, she's ten now." Caverna told him.

"Really, so she doesn't have any dragon instincts?" Hiccup asked

"Oh, she does, she can hunt and fish and do everything your dragon can, but she just prefers to be in a stable with Lightning, my brother's dragon." Caverna told him as she sat on the windowsill. "Will the dragons be alright where they are?" The two teens had gone back to the forge to check on Snowcap and had found that she and Toothless had fallen asleep, their heads next to each others.

"Yeah, they'll be fine, the worst that could happen is that that a Terrible Terror could try and play, but Toothless will help her."

Caverna nodded. "Thank you, Hiccup." She smiled as he bowed his head to her and left the room, going to sleep downstairs. This went on for a few days, Caverna staying in Hiccup's room, Hiccup staying on the floor by the fireplace downstairs and Toothless staying with Snowcap at the forge as she healed.

After a few days, Hiccup and Caverna were sitting on the steps of the Great Hall, she had decided to keep him company since Astrid had been kept busy by her mother that morning, and she was showing him one of her knives.

"So, you made this?" Hiccup asked, admiring the heavily decorative silver handle and the snake that was engraved into the blade.

"Yeah, it's one of my recent ones, my brother, sister and I spend time in the forge when we can, but with everything that's going on we can't." She shrugged.

Hiccup looked at her as he handed back the knife. "Your sister is one of those women you told us about, isn't she?"

Caverna nodded. "She only just came of age when he took her virtue."

Hiccup nodded, and he was about to say something else to her, when they suddenly heard someone shouting for them.

"Hiccup, Caverna!" They looked over and saw Astrid running up the stairs to them, with Ruffnut and Tuffnut following on behind.

"Hey Astrid, what's up?" Hiccup asked, standing as Caverna did and she put her knife back where it was normally kept on her outfit.

"You two have to get down to the town square immediately." Astrid told them.

"Yeah, your dragons might just kill Hookfang." Ruffnut told them.

"Or Hookfang might kill them." Tuffnut told them. "Either way it's going to be cool."

Caverna looked at Hiccup, and Hiccup looked at her, before she ran off towards the town square, where sure enough, Hookfang was having a standoff with Toothless and Snowcap, occasionally attacking the two dragons, though it was mainly Snowcap that was attacked, Toothless just attacked Hookfang to get Snowcap free.

"Toothless." Hiccup called and Toothless stopped fighting, looking at him.

However, this didn't stop Hookfang, who saw that now Toothless wasn't going to fight back, went for Snowcap, catching her in her jaw and threw her into a rock, and was about to blast her, when Caverna stood in front of her dragon, now her hood and mask were up, and she was using her own body as a shield.

"If someone doesn't get this dragon away from me and mine, I will personally cut its nose off." She warned.

"Snotlout, get your dragon under control." This command came from Astrid, who was stood beside Hiccup and Toothless.

Snotlout rolled his eyes, before he managed to calm Hookfang down. "Why do you guys care about that dragon, she isn't one of ours." He gestured to Snowcap and Caverna.

"Because, they are our friends, Snotlout." Hiccup told him, and he looked confused as he went to check Toothless out for serious injuries, but he pushed him away and walked over to Snowcap, nuzzling her. Caverna watched as Snowcap nuzzled the male dragon in return.

"Well, someone's made a bond." Caverna told them, a smile apparent in her voice though it was hidden by the hood and mask. "But your friend is right, Snowcap and I don't belong here, we need to return to our people."

Snowcap gave her a sad noise, but she understood that they needed to leave, nuzzling Toothless once more before she walked to her rider.

"Wait, Snowcap, do you really have to go?" Toothless asked her, though to everyone else, it just sounded like a strange growl.

"I do, my rider is right; our people will be worried about us." Snowcap told him. "I wish you could come with me though, it would be nice to have someone like you there Toothless."

"I don't see why I can't, Hiccup will want to help your village, so does his mate." Toothless told her, running up to her.

"Toothless, come back here." Hiccup told him, before he looked at Caverna. "We'll come with you, to help your village."

Caverna smiled. "Thank you Hiccup." They all looked to the side as Stoick landed on his dragon, Skullcrusher.

"Well, we are ready for a long journey; I hope your village will readily accept our help." Stoick told Caverna.

"They will be when they've gotten used to the idea, after all, we are Vikings, and we can be quite stubborn." Caverna told him, and she fixed her outfit, pulling the bottom part of her mask down, but she kept the hood up as she checked her dragon over and Toothless remained present as Hiccup, Astrid, Snotlout, the twins and Fishlegs al went to get their things for the journey, and Snotlout made sure to take Hookfang with him.

As Snotlout got his saddlebags ready, he kept looking out of his window at Hookfang to make sure that she stayed there.

"What on Earth were you thinking Hookfang?" He asked. "You know that her dragon is important to her."

Hookfang didn't even acknowledge that he was talking to her, she was too busy eating from a barrel of fish that she had been given.

"And despite what I said, she's pretty good looking." Snotlout continued, oblivious to the fact that his dragon hadn't been paying attention, and he made his dragon fly back to the others. When he reached the others, he went back to sounding cold and heartless as he told them that he was going to b joining them, and they all flew off following Caverna's lead after Stoick left Gobber in charge of the tribe while they were gone. Thing were tense between Snowcap and Hookfang and this made things tense between Snotlout and Caverna, something that the rest of the group hoped would stop soon.