A few days had passed since Fishlegs and Caverna's break up, and now the whole village had heard about it and now Caverna couldn't go anywhere without it. At this point, Caverna had taken to working in the forge with Gobber and Hiccup, and she showed Gobber how she made her weapons and even crafted him a new axe, which were almost as good as the ones that Hiccup made. It had gotten to be so late at night that not even Gobber or Hiccup was at the forge as Caverna worked, and she was busy finishing up a hammer that she had been working on for the past week. She had shed the top part of her uniform, and she was covered in sweat from the heat of the fire. She had no worried about being disturbed because she knew that the rest of the village were asleep, and Stoick had gone on his battle trip, most of the village had gone with him, so the gossip had been lessened by a lot. Anyway, she was busy at work, hammering away at the blade of the hammer and she wiped her forehead with the back of her gloves that Hiccup had given her to wear when she had first started at the forge and she plunged the piece of metal straight into the bucket of cold water next to her. However, she smiled as she heard a growl come from Snowcap who was lying outside of the forge in the cool night air.
"Alright Snow, I'll leave the head in the bucket for the night and we can head home." She told the dragon as she put her gloves and apron away and pulled on the top of her suit, fastening it as she walked outside. Yet, once she was outside, she froze at finding Snowcap tied up with ropes and chains and men in strange armour surrounding her, all pointing weapons at her.
"You know, this seems really unfair right now." Caverna told them.
"Oh be quite, girl." A man told her as he walked forward through the circle of men, holding a crossbow at her. "Tell me your name." He ordered her.
"Caverna Haddock."
At hearing her surname, the man laughed manically. "Well, well, Hiccup's new sister, I must admit, you're very beautiful for a relative of Hiccup's." He went to touch her hair, but she hit his hand away.
Meanwhile, Toothless was pacing in Hiccup's room, he kept worrying about where Snowcap was, since she and Caverna had meant to be back a while ago. Hiccup and Astrid were lying in bed, Hiccup shirtless and Astrid wearing a nightgown as she laid her head down on her boyfriend's chest, watching the agitated dragon.
"Toothless, will you just relax bud, Snowcap will be fine." Hiccup told him.
Toothless just gave him a doubtful growl in response, before he stood up and put his paws on the windowsill, looking out towards the forge and something didn't seem right, and this just made him snarl, especially when he caught a familiar scent.
"Toothless, what's the matter bud?" Hiccup asked as he walked over when he heard the growl and he looked over at the forge and he noticed something strange. "Astrid, I think we had best get changed."
"Why, what's wrong Hiccup?" Astrid asked him as she got up and started to get changed back into her armour as Hiccup got dressed.
"Something's going on at the forge." Hiccup told her as he readied Toothless and the teens left the room, running down the stairs as Toothless left through the window. When they got outside, they heard a familiar 'evil' laugh and they recognised it immediately.
"Outcasts." Astrid whispered.
Hiccup got onto Toothless' back and he looked at Astrid as she got onto Stormfly, both of them ready for battle, yet Astrid knew he was worried for his sister just as she was worried for her friend.
"You go and get Fishlegs, Snotlout and the twins, Caverna might need our help." Hiccup told her, and as Astrid nodded, getting Stormfly to walk towards the nearest houses and kept out of sight, Hiccup got Toothless to get as close as possible without being spotted.
When they reached the group, Hiccup had to keep Toothless still and not let him go rushing in to help his mate. Instead, they hid behind the forge and listened to what was going on.
"Where is the Dragon Conqueror?" The man asked Caverna who was being held on her knees by some of the man's men.
"How do you know that you're not looking at her?" Caverna asked him.
The man just laughed at her. "Oh please, I know the Dragon Conqueror is your big brother, little Hiccup Haddock."
"Hiccup isn't on the island anymore; he left with our father to see to things overseas." She lied.
"I can tell that you're lying, you stupid girl." The man suddenly hit her across the face; this earned him a snarl from Snowcap, before she whimpered as she was weighed down even more by his men.
Toothless saw how badly his mate and rider's sister was being treated and he suddenly lunged forward, throwing the men who had hold of Snowcap to the ground.
"Toothless!" Hiccup and Caverna shouted, Hiccup coming into view, which made the man in front of Caverna laugh.
"Not here is he?" He suddenly grabbed Hiccup. "Now Hiccup, you're going to come with me and train my dragons."
"And if I say no?" Hiccup asked, choking for breathe.
"Then, I'm going to kill everyone in this village, starting with your precious little sister here, until you say yes." The man told him, throwing him to one of his other men that now didn't have hold of Snowcap.
"No, let him go!" Caverna screamed, before she suddenly head butted one of the men who had hold of her and whilst he was busy dealing with a massive nosebleed, she elbowed the other in the chest, and then turned around to punch him in the face.
When she was free, she looked at the man and she caught his wrist as he went to hit her and she managed to twist it back, causing him to fall to his knees as the other dragon rider's flew in. At seeing the other dragon riders, most of the men backed off, which meant that Hiccup could get back to breathing normally, yet he still had a man holding him. However, this didn't remain the problem for long, as Astrid hit the man on the head with the back of her axe and he fell to the floor, freeing Hiccup so that he could climb onto Stormfly behind Astrid. They flew off into the sky but stayed a distance up with Fishlegs and the twins as they watched Caverna. Caverna was getting hit left right and centre by Alvin, but she was giving as good as she got.
"Caverna, jump!" Snotlout shouted to her and she looked up at him before she looked for something to help her to reach him and then she suddenly had an idea.
As Alvin went to hit her again, she dodged and hit him in the face with her fist, and then as he was on the ground, dealing with his own nosebleed, she took a running jump and landed on his back before she used it as a platform and jumped into the air, grabbing hold of Snotlout's outstretched hand. As Snotlout got Hookfang to fly after the others, he pulled Caverna up behind him.
"Hold on to me." He told her, and he smirked to himself at feeling her arms wrap tightly around his waist.
They eventually flew alongside the others and Hiccup looked over at his sister, who didn't move her face from where she had buried it in Snotlout's back, and then he glanced at Fishlegs who was looking at them with a face of jealousy.
"Caverna, it's okay, you're safe now." Hiccup called over.
"Caverna and Snotlout, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" The twins suddenly chanted, which caused both Caverna and Snotlout to glare at them.
"Shut up." Caverna told them.
However, there was a scream from Astrid and Hiccup as a boulder suddenly went past them and caused Astrid to fall from the saddle of Stormfly when she twisted to avoid it.
"Astrid!" Hiccup shouted.
Caverna watched and she suddenly let go of Snotlout before she pulled her hood up over her head and her mask up to her eyes and slid from behind him, into open air and then she fell.
"Caverna!" Fishlegs and Snotlout shouted as they watched her fall towards a screaming Astrid, who was hurtling towards the ground.
"Hiccup, do something!" Fishlegs shouted at them, but Hiccup didn't move.
"No, trust Caverna, she wouldn't have jumped if she wasn't sure about what was happening." Hiccup told them and he watched his sister and girlfriend fall.
As they fell, Caverna managed to let out a whistle, and suddenly a black shape flew against the night sky towards her, and she climbed onto Snow's back after gripping the reigns. Only when she was fully seated, did Caverna tell Snow to get Astrid. The dragon obeyed her rider immediately, after all she did think Astrid was a nice person, even for a human, and she managed to catch Astrid, just before she hit the ground.
"Well done Snow." Caverna praised and she watched her dragon put Astrid on the ground, before she looked at Hiccup as he landed on Stormfly and jumped off. They all found themselves in Raven's Point and they seemed to be safe for now, so they all dismounted and laughed as Hiccup got bowled over by Toothless who ran towards them.
All of the teens sat down for a while and let the dragons relax for a few minutes, befoe they decided to try and come up with a plan.
"How many are there?"
"I'm guessing no more than ten ships, maybe less." Caverna told them. "But on another note, who was that guy?" She asked, and as she looked at them, everyone knew why she kept her face hidden in Snotlout's back, her right cheek was bruised, she had a black eye and cuts on her face.
"Oh Caverna." Hiccup sighed. "His name is Alvin, Alvin the Treacherous..."
"But Hiccup, dad said that he was going to help my old village fight off this Alvin." She told him.
Hiccup froze. "That's right...He did..."
"And he knew that Stoick would leave us here with the dragons and those who couldn't defend themselves properly..." Astrid added.
"That means, Stoick's sailed into a trap..." Fishlegs told them.
"No, we're the ones who are trapped." Caverna told him. "We can't leave the village because that would put everyone else at risk, and we can't fight because that means we could die, or our dragons could die."
"So, what do we do?" Ruffnut asked.
"What does Alvin want?" Snotlout asked.
"He wants the Dragon Conqueror." Caverna told him. "He wants to ride dragons like we do, and he wants Hiccup to show him."
"But Alvin could use either of you to show him how to fight dragons." Tuffnut informed them. "I mean, you've had Snowcap since the day se hatched, and Hiccup's only had Toothless for a few years."
"Yes, but Alvin doesn't know that, he just knows that she's Hiccup's sister, he could have though Snowcap was Toothless." Astrid told them.
"Whatever the reason, we had best keep moving." Caverna told them. "Someone's coming." As she spoke, arrows hit the floor by her feet and everyone went into flight mode.
"Go to the cove." Hiccup shouted over the commotion as he watched those whose dragons couldn't run through the forest took off flying, whilst Caverna and Hiccup climbed onto Toothless and Snowcap's backs and their dragons started running.
Toothless and Snowcap got their riders to the cove the quickest, and when they had dismounted, Hiccup and Caverna soon found themselves pushed into a cave, and the two dragons guarding the exit. However, the two dragons kept their back to the humans and they were growling. They were warning someone, and from the laugh they recognised it to be Alvin that they were growling at.
"Well well, too scared to face me are yeh?" He shouted through into the cave, before he clicked his fingers.
At the click of Alvin's fingers, Hiccup and Caverna's friends were brought forward, and they could hear Astrid's struggling and her yelling of how she was going to kill Alvin.
Alvin groaned at Astrid's shouting. "Listen to me Hiccup – Someone shut her up!" He shouted and Astrid was suddenly gagged. "Listen to me, the pair of you, you will give over your night furies to me, or you can watch all of your friends and their dragons die!"
Hiccup looked at Caverna. "What do we do?" He whispered.
"I don't know." She whispered back. "But we need to do something..." She thought for a while. "Let me walk out and face him."
"Why you?" Hiccup asked her.
"Because I'm not as breakable." She told him, standing up and putting her hood and mask up.
Hiccup groaned at her logic, but he knew that there was no discommoding her now. "Fine, just promise me you'll be careful."
"I will." She told him, moving towards the dragons and she touched both Snowcap and Toothless' heads to calm them as she walked forward, though Snowcap tried to stop her.
"It's okay Snow, let me go." Caverna told her, kissing her head. "Toothless look after her."
She then left the two dragons and Hiccup, walking towards Alvin, she knew that this was a bad idea, but right now it was all she had to save her dragon.