Caverna walked home alone and she sighed to herself, the house was still empty since Hiccup would have one with Astrid to help her with her things, and Stoick was probably in the Great Hall thinking through what he had done or just trying to act normal. However, she actually enjoyed the silence and it made it easier for her to pack her things into a bag. When that was done, she sat on her bed for the last time and she looked around her room, savouring the sight of her bed, the softness of the blankets, the plumpness of the pillow, the many drawings that Hiccup had done for her scattered on the walls. When she had had her fill of the few memories in her room, she picked her bag up and she walked down the stairs, fastening the top of her flight suit tighter so she could fly without hindrance. Yet, when she got downstairs, she found Stoick, Hiccup, Astrid and Gobber stood there.

"Come to see us off?" She asked them.

"Yes...Caverna, I'm so sorry." Stoick told her.

"Don't worry about it; I knew this wouldn't last for me." She told hm. "You've been a good dad, and I mean that." She gently rested a hand on his face and as she told him, she noticed the chief let out a tear and she simply hugged him tightly.

"I love you Caverna, don't ever forget that." Stoick whispered to her, hugging her.

"I won't." She whispered, before she pulled away and slung her bag over her shoulder. "I'd best go and see Snowcap."

Everyone watched Caverna leave, Stoick especially kept his eyes on her, his only daughter was leaving and despite being chief, he couldn't do anything about it, he just hoped that he was able to find a way to bring her back soon.

Caverna walked through the cold and fierce wind to the stables, where she found Toothless and Snowcap watching their eggs, the eggs were glowing and Caverna managed to hit the floor before all of the eggs exploded and two baby dragons landed on the ground yawning. The sight set her heart of fire, she ached or her best friend who she knew she wouldn't see again after today, and she had so much left to share with her, but deciding that would never happen, she let out a soft whistle which had both dragons looking up at her. Snowcap looked at Caverna curiously, before she noticed her bag and she noticed she wasn't carry her saddle, her rider was leaving and something about it felt off. Giving a soft whine, Snowcap walked over to her rider. "Where are you going?" Then she noticed her saddle in the corner going to pick it up. "Give me a second and I'll come with you." But as she was about to pick it up, she got stopped by another whistle from Caverna.

"No Snowcap, this time you have to stay here." Caverna told her, and she watched her dragon walk back to her, her head down and ear flat, kneeling down on the ground, Caverna looked at her, her hands gently holding her head. "I've been sent away, and this time I won't come back, the others will look after you now, and you need to do as they say, okay?"

Snowcap looked at her rider and she gave her a hard look. "No, I won't you're my rider, you're my best friend, you raised me, no one else. I'm yours! Why are you leaving me?"

Caverna didn't know what Snowcap was trying to say, but she had an idea. "I don't know where I'm going yet, but trust me, if it was a choice I wouldn't leave at all." She whispered and she almost broke down at the noise Snowcap made, it sounded so sad she wanted nothing but to hold her dragon and not let go. She gave Snowcap a kiss to her head before she stood up properly and walked back towards the door, though she felt something grab her and she turned to find Snowcap holding onto her bag with her teeth.

"Let me go Snow." Caverna told her, looking at her dragon and pulling her bag from her mouth. "No Snow, I'm sorry." She whispered, and she ran from the stables as there was a long and heart wrenching whining sound.

It didn't take her long to get to the port, where everyone was gathered, a path had been made to allow Caverna to pass in such a way that no one touched her. She put her bag into the boat and she turned as she felt a hand on her shoulder, it was Stoick.

"Caverna, I have something for you."

"What?" She asked him, watching as he handed her a cone shaped object wrapped in parchment. "What is it?"

"Open it." Stoick encouraged.

Caverna opened it carefully and inside was an ivory horn the mouth was shaped like the head of a Night fury with intricate designs going up towards the mouth piece. The mere sight of it made Caverna smile weakly. "Thank you dad, it's wonderful." She hugged him tightly.

Stoick hugged her back. "If you ever need me, then blow on the horn, where ever you are I will come and I will help you. You're still my daughter Caverna, no matter what."

Meanwhile back at the stable, Snowcap watched as her rider left, Snowcap looked over at Toothless as he walked over to her and nuzzled her. "Go and say goodbye, I'll watch the babies." With a nod, he watched his mate run off towards the port where she saw everyone preparing a boat and then she saw her rider. She saw how the people of the village were treating her now and it made her own blood boil, her rider didn't deserve to be sent away, she had to stop this. As she got there, she heard the voice of a familiar skinny man with a staff speak out.

"Don't you have to be miles away right now?" He asked Caverna sarcastically.

"She is allowed to say goodbye to her family and friends Mildew." Stoick told him, his voice as cold as ice. The man just groaned and I watched Caverna and Hiccup say their goodbyes, yet her boyfriend kept his distance.

"Coward." Snowcap muttered as she watched Fishlegs, before she went back to watching Caverna, she was climbing onto the boat, and Snowcap continued to watch as the bat began to sail away. However, Snowcap ran towards the edge of the pier letting out cries trying to tell her not to go.

"Go home Snow." Caverna called back to her. "Everything will be alright."

Snowcap didn't know whether to believe her best friend, but she knew that she had to look after her babies, all too soon did she feel arms around her and she noticed Hiccup was hugging her, and then a closer expectation of the boat made her realise, Astrid and Stormfly were on the boat too, she let out a loud cry and she just about heard the call of Stormfly call back. Her best friend was gone, what could she do now?

Meanwhile, on the boat, Caverna sailed it further away from Berk, she was quiet and so was Astrid, she looked back every few minutes, until Berk had completely disappeared, then she looked over to the front of the boat were Astrid sat, sharpening her axe.

"Do you have any idea where to go?" Caverna eventually asked.

Astrid looked up at her best friend and shook her head with a sigh, before she got up and walked over to her.

"No, do you?"

Caverna shook her head sadly. "No."

After a few more moments of silence, Astrid suddenly sparked with an idea. "What about Sapphire's island?"

Caverna looked at her and she thought to herself for a few minutes, weighing up the pros and cons and at that moment, the thought of a warm fire, food and water outweighed the bad dramatically.

"Alright, let's go." Caverna nodded, steering the boat in the right direction.

It didn't take them long until they reached the shores of Sapphire's island and they looked around for the Blue Death that they had met many weeks ago.

"Sapphire?" Caverna and Astrid called out, even Stormfly tried to help, and they eventually heard familiar thuds on the ground and Sapphire soon bounded out of the trees nearby, grabbing Caverna gently in her claws and tossing her into the air onto her back.

"Hey girl, it's good to see you too." Caverna smiled. "You remember Astrid, right?"

The dragon gave her a nod and leant down to nuzzle the blonde Viking and her dragon , but she looked around for the other familiar dragons: Snowcap, Meatlug, Hookfang, Barf and Belch and Toothless, but she didn't find them.

"Sapphire, can you put me down and show Astrid, Stormfly and I where we can stay?" Caverna asked.

The dragon simply nodded and moved so Caverna could jump off of her back, before the dragon led them through the forest towards a clearing outside of a cave and she hustled the two humans and dragon into the cave.

As the night wore on, Astrid and Stormfly went out for food as Caverna stayed behind gathering materials to make some things for her and Astrid to sleep on. Sapphire watched her human carefully, she looked different, sadder, and not happy at all, it made her nuzzle her in hopes to provide comfort – it didn't.

"I'm alright girl." Caverna told her, stroking her face, before she moved away to lie down the beds that she had made, one for Astrid and one for herself, and then she walked outside to gather some wood to make a fire. After she had made the fire and Sapphire had set it alight, Caverna sat in front of it waiting for Astrid and Stormfly to come back. That didn't take long since she saw Stormfly coming back carrying Astrid on her back and a basket of fish in her mouth. Caverna watched Astrid make them some dinner, and the two sat around in silence as the two dragons lay beside them, staying awake to make sure that they were alright. After a while of silence, Astrid decided to ask her something.

"Caverna..." She started, her mouth going dry because she didn't what reaction that she would get to what she really wanted to ask.

"Yeah?" Caverna asked, looking up at her, her dinner forgotten next to her.

"Why are you so closed?" Astrid suddenly blurted out.

"What do you mean?" Caverna asked, with a raised eyebrow.

"Why don't you ever get upset, or become emotional, except for anger?" Astrid asked her.

The question took Caverna by surprise and she sighed. "Because my emotions are all I have left now Astrid, I don't cry, I hardly smile because in a way, I don't know how to show anything but anger."

"Why?" Astrid asked her, moving closer.

"Because of what happened to me." Caverna told her quietly.

"Caverna, tell me what happened to you."

Caverna took a deep breath; it had been a long time ago since it had happened and since she told anyone, but then again, no one ever asked her for the full story.

"I was eight years old, the forgotten child, no one but Garforth watched out for me or even noticed me for that matter. I didn't mind, it meant that I had more freedom than everyone else, and I would mainly spend it in the forest with Snowcap. When it happened, Snowcap was only three weeks old, so I left her at home; I had been training with my dagger in the forest near my 'family' home. It wasn't late in the day, but the sun was starting to set, no raids were expected that night, so I thought that I was safe. I've never been so wrong..." Caverna had slowly started staring into space as she described the ordeal to Astrid, and Astrid was silent and patient, knowing that Caverna suffered worse than anyone. "I didn't hear him approach until it was too late, he hit me around the head, hard, but I still managed to stay wake so I knew what he was doing. He tied me up, made sure I couldn't move, her removed the clothes, the cold air making me shiver, and then suddenly there was nothing but pain...I begged him to stop, I cried all the way through it, it hurt so much, but instead his hand closed around my neck, I eventually passed out." Her voice became a whisper as she described the exact moment, but she soon got her volume back. "I woke up to the sun, it was high noon, two days later, only now did my parents find me, they hadn't noticed I was missing until that day. When they found me, I was bloody and bruised, they took me straight to the healer and, after an examination and a lot of hysterical screaming on my part, he deemed me barren. It turns away, he cut me where my ovaries were and the healer couldn't fix it because I was too young and weak, I wouldn't survive." As she spoke this time, she took off the top part of her suit and she pulled up her top slightly to show two scars over where a woman's ovaries were shown on her stomach. "From then on, my parents shunned me even more, I was confined to my room as a child, no one but Garforth was told and when they grew older, so were my siblings, everyone who knew was sworn to secrecy about my accident. When I reached nine years old, Garforth would take me to the top of the house where he showed me how to fight with swords and eventually healed me to make my own weapons when I was allowed to leave the house. All through this, Snowcap had joined me and helped me over the years and without her, I probably would have given up."

Astrid looked at her, Caverna really had had a life and a half, and Astrid felt sorry for her, no one deserved to go through what she had, especially not at an age as young as that. Standing up, she walked to her friend and she hugged her, Caverna slowly hugging her back. When she hugged her back, Astrid took a turn to whisper in her ear.

"If you ever want to cry, and then just let it out, I won't judge you, I promise." Astrid whispered.

"It's nice to know, thank you." Caverna whispered back.

When the two eventually broke apart, they decided to simply go to bed, though Astrid stayed awake a little longer, just watching Caverna, she was still as emotionless as stone, despite what she told her would have had Astrid sobbing. She truly admired Caverna for her strength and her ability to try and move on like she has, she just hope that they would be allowed home sooner rather than later.