When the sun broke, Astrid looked around the room for her roommate, but wasn't surprised when she didn't see her, and she quickly got up and dressed, before she walked outside of the house. From the door she could hear a sword being sharpened and this spiked her curiosity, so she went further out of the door and turned around to look at the house. When she was able to take in the full view of the house, she noticed Caverna sat on the roof, sharpening one of her swords with a rock.

"Caverna?"

At her name, Caverna looked down at Astrid and gave her a quick smile. "Morning Astrid."

"Morning, did you sleep at all last night?"

"I had a few hours." Caverna shrugged, before she sheathed her swords and slid down off of the roof, landing in front of her. "I wasn't that tired."

"Did you go and see Snowcap?"

"Yeah, she was asleep, so I spent some time with Toothless and Stormfly...I think that's her name."

"Yeah, my dragon, Stormfly." Astrid smiled.

"Your dragons are so kind to her, it puts my mind at peace, to know that she will have someone there for her if something was to happen to me." Caverna told her as they walked down to the village.

When they reached the village, they found Caverna's family swamped by villagers, who were offering gifts to the four of them. Caverna watched them with a raised eyebrow, though Astrid just looked utterly confused.

"The villagers are paying respects...Is it too the triplets?"

"Nope, otherwise I would have been there." Caverna told her.

"Then, who?"

Caverna touched her ear, silently telling her to listen to what one of the villagers, that was shown to be Garforth, was saying.

"Chief Brock, I am sorry for the soon to be loss of your daughter Caverna, please if there is anything that I can do to be of assistance to you and your family through this difficult time, do tell me." The villager told him.

Brock nodded. "Thank you Garforth, you have been loyal to this family from the start."

"You do know that I'm not dead right?" Caverna asked.

"No, but you will be." Eleanor told her, walking over to her as her father dismissed the rest of the villagers.

"Thank you for the support sis." She told her sarcastically. "You know that I'm the best fighter this village has."

This made her family laugh. "You aren't the best fighter, your brother is." Eleanor told her.

"Eleanor shut up or I'll cut off your head." She looked at her parents. "Do either of you hear yourselves, you speak of Eridor with such mightiness and speak of me with almost disgust, my brother might be a dragon rider, he might be the oldest and the soon to be chief, but there is no way on this Earth that he lives up to his name."

All that got her was a slap across the face by her mother, only because she wasn't expecting it, it knocked her off of her feet and onto the floor.

"When this is over, if you survive tonight, I want you and your dragon off of this island by morning." Her mother hissed to her, kicking dust at her as she turned on her heel and left with the rest of Caverna's family.

When her family were gone, Astrid ran to her friend just as Hiccup did having witness what had happened with Snotlout, the twins and Fishlegs and they all went to help her up to her feet.

"I'm fine." She told them when she was standing.

"Sure you are. Caverna you've just been given banishment." Fishlegs told her.

"Yes Fishlegs, I know." She looked at them. "Honestly you all look like it's the end of the dynasty; really I'm fine with it."

Everyone looked at her in disbelief, before they went off to wish Snotlout a safe journey home, since he had been kicked out of the village for eating all of their food. When he had gone, Caverna sat on the edge of the cliff that he had used as a launch pad and she watched the clouds, not seeming to notice Fishlegs and Tuffnut sit next to her.

"Hey, come on, don't look so sad." Fishlegs told her.

"Yeah, Fishlegs is right, we need to make your possibly last day alive the happiest possible."

"Wow, thanks for the support." She told him, before she stood up and walked off towards the healers table.

"Nice going stupid." Ruffnut told her brother, hitting him in the shoulder.

"What?" He asked, oblivious to what he had done.

"She isn't going to die; she's too strong, and good, for that to happen." Hiccup told them.

"Yeah, but, like if this guy comes and kills her...Then she is dead." Ruffnut told him.

"Shut up Ruff, Hiccup is right; she's going to be fine." Fishlegs told them, and his voice had taken a new protective tone as he walked off to find Caverna.

Meanwhile, Caverna was snuggled up with Stormfly, Icecap, Toothless and Meatlug, with her feet propped up on Meatlug's back and she was resting in Stormfly's wings, with Toothless and Snowcap's heads on her lap.

"Thanks for this guys, it's nice to just relax." Caverna smiled.

Toothless looked up at her and he nuzzled her, before he nuzzled his mate, who gave him a weak and toothless smile, before she put her head back down on her rider's lap.

"Toothless, Stormfly, Meatlug, I need you three to promise me something." Caverna told them, causing the three dragons to look over at her. "If I don't make it through tonight then please look after Snowcap."

Toothless and Stormfly both gave her a nuzzle, with Stormfly being careful of her spikes, before Meatlug looked over at her and nodded, giving her a smile, before all the dragons looked up as they heard someone coming closer. And Caverna was about to reach for her swords but saw that it was Fishlegs, so she went back to relaxing.

"How did you find me?"

"I noticed the bond that you have with Snowcap; it's the same that I have with Meatlug." He told her, moving to sit beside her. "The dragons really like you."

"Yeah they do." She smiled, stroking each of the dragons in turn, before she looked over at him. "Fishlegs?"

"Yes?" He asked, looking at her.

"Do you believe that I can survive tonight?"

"Of course I do, and so do Hiccup and Astrid." He told her, sliding an arm over her shoulders in comfort. "We all have faith in you Caverna, even the Chief, and by that I mean ours not yours."

She started to laugh. "Yeah, I can see that." She moved to rest her head on his shoulder. "I wish everyone was as understanding as the rest of you."

"Well, we aren't all this perfect." He smiled, looking at her when she started laughing more and they spent the rest of the day talking to each other and Fishlegs making her laugh.

When it grew dark, Caverna bid the dragons goodbye, and she and Fishlegs walked back towards the cliff where the rest of the village had gathered. As Fishlegs and Caverna got there, her challenger arrived, with his gang, all of them on dragons.

"Where is she?" The man asked. "Has she run away?"

"Relax, I'm here." She told him, walking through the crowd until she got to the area that the gatherers had left clear for them.

"Shall we strip?" He asked her, getting off of his dragon. "Since we are both still wearing our armour, and you are wearing a lot of weapons. We can't have you cheating now, can we?"

She looked at him, and in silence she started to remove her overcoat, and weapons, handing them to Astrid and Hiccup when they held their hands out to them. She smiled at them, before she looked at Fishlegs as he walked over and she walked to him, kissing his cheek.

"Thank you for being here Fishlegs." She whispered, before she walked over to the clearing and she found that her opponent had done the same.

"We shall bow, to show our good sportsmanship." The man told her, and they walked to stand half a foot from each other and they both gave each other a bow, however the man took this opportunity to thrust his knee into her face and there was an awful breaking sound, as Caverna had turned her head so his knee connected with her cheekbone, causing it to break. As she hit the floor, Fishlegs, Astrid and Hiccup tried to get through to her, but they were stopped by the other villagers. They were forced to watch as Cavern got herself back to her feet and she and the man started to fight, and everyone looked surprised at how well she could fight, however she sustained more and more injuries as things went on, yet she never stopped.

Things started to get worse, and Caverna looked ready to give up her battle, and she fell to her knees with her back to the man. Exhaustion took her quickly and she watched the floor as blood dripped from her many wounds, and he could hear her family shouting.

"Save our village!" Her mother shouted.

"Get up you idiot!" Eridor shouted to her.

"Your family don't care for you anymore, they would gladly sacrifice their barren child in order to save their village. Admit it Caverna, you're useless, you don't need to survive much longer."

"You're wrong." She told him, forcing herself to her feet. "I may be barren. I may seem useless. But I do need to survive. I am a shield maiden and I have people who care." With every pause, she gave him swift hits until he was stood on the very edge of the cliff. "And just because my family don't care anymore, doesn't mean that I don't have people who do care." She looked over at Fishlegs, Astrid, Hiccup, Ruffnut and Tuffnut as she spoke, before she looked back at the man and she delivered a punch to his face and he fell to the floor as she stood over him.

"Do you yield?" Caverna asked.

"Yes." He told her, spitting out blood and Caverna walked away.

"Caverna!" Astrid and Ruffnut screamed, as they saw the man run at her with a dagger in his hand and Caverna turned around just in time for the dagger to go into her side. However, as the dagger pierced her skin, she grabbed the man's wrist and forced it back to pull the dagger back out and she managed to turn he man's wrist around and when the dagger was pointing back at the man, she gave his hand a shove and the dagger went into his stomach. At feeling the dagger, the man jolted and as blood started to bubble from his mouth and Caverna gave him another shove so he fell to the floor dead.