Days had passed since Caverna and Astrid were banished, and everyone was missing them dreadfully. Though no one was missing them more than Hiccup and Snowcap, he young Viking always made time in his day to check on his sister's dragon and each time he was met with the same sight. Snowcap was lying down with her head on her saddle, her blue eyes watery as if she was trying not to cry, and her food remaining untouched. The poor dragon was heartbroken at the loss of her rider, and Hiccup felt sorry for her. Every night he would come down to the stables and find her with her two babies and Toothless, though for once Toothless never let Hiccup close enough to actually touch Snowcap.
"It's okay Toothless, I'm going to try and help her to eat before she becomes ill." Hiccup told him, holding up the basket of fish that he had. "And I'll need your help."
Toothless tilted his head slightly to look at his rider and he nodded at Hiccup, before he nuzzled Snowcap's head.
"Come on Snowcap, you need to eat."
"I'm not hungry." She told him.
"Please Snow, you haven't eaten in days. Please eat, for me and our babies."
Snowcap sighed, looking at him before she got herself onto her feet and she walked around to where Hiccup was and she waited as he got out a fish and threw it into her mouth, like he had seen Caverna do, yet the mere act of it, made Snowcap whimper and she caught the fish walking to the nest were the babies were and she dropped the fish in there for them. It caused both Hiccup and Toothless to let out noises of frustration, before Toothless took a fish and dropped it right in front of Snowcap.
"Eat."
Snowcap look at him and she sighed, before she ate it and Toothless saw tears falling down her cheeks which just made him nuzzle her lovingly.
"They'll be fine Snow, Caverna, Astrid and Stormfly are tough." Toothless told her, as he and he babies nuzzled her.
Neither of them noticed that Hiccup had left but Hiccup made his way back up towards the house, where he found Stoick sitting in his arm chair, looking lost as he pressed a block of ice to his temple.
"What's the matter, despite the obvious?" Hiccup asked him as he sat in another hair by the fire.
"We got a letter today, Eridor's tribe has now started a war, someone told them that we killed his heir and now he wants to destroy us." Stoick told him.
Hiccup looked at him. "But dad, you said that Brock didn't like war."
"He doesn't, but I had his only son killed."
"Dad, you didn't have a choice, he raped Astrid." Hiccup groaned. "Now I might never see my girlfriend or my sister again."
Stoick sighed. "I'm so sorry son." He put his head in his hands. "I've failed you, you and Caverna."
"Dad, you can bring them back, we need them to fight with us, and Snowcap won't move without her, she's slowly wasting away." Hiccup told him.
Stoick sighed. "Alright, try and send one of the dragons after her, or Eridor's dragon, I've noticed he's still hanging around."
Hiccup nodded, forcing himself not to jump for joy, and he ran outside to where he found Lightning by the sea, fishing.
"Lightning..." Hiccup started and the dragon froze, turning around and growling at him, his spikes raised up, ready to attack. "Easy Lightning, I don't mean any harm."Hiccup told him opening his hands and showing them to the dragon, trying to show him he wasn't an enemy as he tried to remember what Caverna did with the dragon to keep him calm and obedient. The dragon didn't seem that happy with Hiccup interrupting his dinner time, so before Hiccup could move, he suddenly shot his spikes at him, though surprisingly Hiccup managed to get out of the way, just as the twins flew down.
"Uh...You do know that, Caverna usually pets his beak, right?" Ruffnut asked him.
Hiccup looked at them in almost disbelief that the twins had noticed something that simple, yet Hiccup tried it anyway. He walked closer to the dragon and as he raised his spikes up he started to pet his beak, miraculously the dragon calmed down to listen to Hiccup.
"Okay, okay Lightning, I have a job for you."
The sentence made the dragon tilt his head in curiously and Lightning looked at Hiccup expectantly.
"I need you to find Caverna, Astrid and Stormfly; we need their help, desperately."
The minute he heard Stormfly's name the dragon hopped from foot to foot in excitement, he had grown quite fond of the blue and yellow Deadly Nadder and he was eager to see her again. Lightning didn't think twice, the minute Hiccup moved his hand from his beak, however, Hiccup still managed to attach a note to the dragon's saddle, hoping that it didn't fall off. Within seconds though, the dragon was gone, searching for the familiar scent of Stormfly, or Caverna and he even looked for a boat docked at any island or simply sailing through the seas.
Meanwhile, on Sapphire's island, Caverna was sitting in the mouth of Sapphire's cave, whilst Astrid, Stormfly and Sapphire slept. She had been awake for a while, so long that she had watched the sunrise, though she had to leave the cave soon, her stomach was rumbling viciously. In the end, she got up, fastened her top of her flight suit, picked up the make shift basket and walked towards where she could hear a waterfall, and she found a lake filled with fish. Setting the basket down, she pulled out a dagger and she sat in waiting, until a fish swam by and her hand shot out, flicking the dagger which embedded itself in the back of the fish killing it instantly. Taking the fish out, she pulled the dagger out and lay it on the ground, throwing the fish into the basket. Caverna repeated the action numerous times; before she heard a familiar thud of feet and she felt something nudge into her back, as she turned she recognised the blue and yellow scales of Stormfly.
"Hey girl, where's Astrid?" She asked as she petted the dragon and Stormfly cocked her head back indicating that Astrid was still in the cave.
"Ah, and you thought that you would come and join me, did you?"
The Deadly Nadder nodded her head and she walked to the water's edge and she flew just above the water and started to catch some fish, coming back to drop each of her catches in the basket.
When the basket was eventually full, Stormfly get Caverna climb onto her back before she picked up the basket in her claws and flew back towards the cave, carrying their catch home. When they landed, Caverna jumped off and took the basket to the cave where Astrid was sitting in front of the fire and Sapphire was lying down watching her, having lit the fire to keep Astrid warm.
"Hey, you're up." Caverna stated with a soft smile as she sat beside her in front of the fire as Stormfly wrapped herself around Astrid.
"Yeah, I heard Stormfly leave, and I noticed that you weren't here." Astrid told her.
"Yeah, I went to get us some food." She nodded to the basket of fish, before she pulled one out and found one of the sticks that they had used the night before and she put a fish on each one, before she put them over the fire to cook.
"Where do you think we should go next?" Astrid asked.
"What do you mean?" Caverna looked at her.
"Well, we can't stay here forever." Astrid told her. "We need to find another village."
"We can stay here for a few more days, but we just need to be careful, after all we have enough food, we have a shelter, we have water and we have two dragons as well as our fighting knowledge to protect ourselves." Caverna told her. "But you're right; we do need other things which we can only get from a village."
Astrid sighed. "And we can't go home."
"We can, I'll go tonight while it's dark, we will just need to make a list of the things we need." Caverna told her.
Astrid nodded. "Well, let's see what we have brought."
Both girls grabbed their bags and they empted out the things that they had brought before they started to make their lists.
As they made their lists, they realised that they had brought the same things, such a few changes of clothes, their different combs and some momentums which in Caverna' case was the horn that Stoick had gave her before they left, in fact the only thing that they had brought which gave them some difference, was their choice of weapons, Astrid had brought her famous axe and Caverna had brought her swords and daggers. However they came to a stop as there was a loud yet familiar roar, it caused Stormfly and Sapphire to run outside ready for an attack, yet one never came.
"Stormfly?" Astrid called out.
"Sapphire?" Caverna called.
When there was no answer, the two got up and picked up their weapons, running out of the cave to where there dragons were and they found Stormfly playing with a purple Deadly Nadder, who they recognised as Lightning , whilst Sapphire stood by and watched.
"Lightning?"
At hearing Caverna's voice the two Deadly Nadders moved apart and Lightning walked over to her, resting his head against her hand when she held it out to him.
"I wonder what he's doing here." Astrid thought out loud.
"I have no idea, but he could have just been looking for me, I am the only other familiar rider he had." Caverna shrugged.
"Fair enough." Caverna soon noticed the note that Hiccup had attached to him and she pulled it off, reading it quickly.
"What's that Caverna?" Astrid asked her.
Caverna held out the note to her, and it only said two words, well one word and a letter:
'HELP! – H". The two girls looked at it and when they got to the H they looked at each other. Berk was in trouble, and they needed their help. Seeming to read each other's minds, they packed up their things again and Astrid got Stormfly ready to fly, reattaching the saddle, just as Caverna put her saddlebag onto Lightning and made sure he was okay with it, before she pulled her hood up and put her swords on and she looked at Sapphire.
"Come on girl, you come too, they might need a lot of fire power." Caverna told her as she got onto Lightning's back.
Sapphire seemed to understand what Caverna was saying because she watched the blonde human grab her axe and jump onto her Nadder's back before Caverna pulled her mask up to just under her eyes and they flew into the air, Sapphire following alongside the.