The riders all found their dragons not long after, they suffered injuries but none were severe enough to cause severe panic and they all seemed grateful. Hiccup and his friends watched as Caverna and Snowcap saw each other and knowing that there was n longer any danger, Snowcap bounded over to her rider, just as Caverna ran to her dragon, her arm going around her neck and Snowcap put her paws around her.

"Don't you dare ever leave again." Snowcap told her though to Caverna it sounded like a simple purr, though the words had Toothless, Snowcap and Meatlug smiling, though Caverna still had an idea of what was being said.

"I'm sorry Snowcap; I'll ever leave you again."

The pair eventually walked away together, obviously looking for the babies and they were soon flanked by Sapphire who flew above them, and that was the last anyone saw of them. The night came thick and fast for the village of Berk, and after cleaning up the bodies of their opposing clan and sending their friends and family members away on their boats, the remaining villagers went up to the Great hall. However, there was one person who hadn't joined the village, at least not until later that night, when they were all in the middle of the feast. However, when Caverna finally entered the hall, now fully clean of the dirt and blood that she had received during the battle, everyone stopped what they were doing and they stared at her. At everyone staring, Caverna sat at the table with Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs and their friends. Everyone gave her a smile of comfort as they watched residents dance, and Astrid suddenly pulled Hiccup up to dance with her. Caverna watched her brother and Astrid and she smiled slightly to herself, though it wasn't noticeable.

After a while, Fishlegs came to stand behind her and he tapped her shoulder, causing her to turn around.

"Fishlegs..."

Fishlegs didn't say anything; instead he pulled her up to stand and e pulled her closer to him, kissing her with such passion that Caverna really didn't expect it. Those in the room who saw, all smiled at the sight and even Stoick smiled at seeing them, though it was all ruined as Mildew went over to them.

"Monster." He sneered at Caverna. "Don't tarnish the boy with your filth." He told her, pushing her away from Fishlegs with his staff and his sheep physically dragged her away.

"Go away Mildew, I really don't want to deal with you tonight." Caverna told him.

"This thing is nothing but a tarnished monster!" Mildew then addressed the crowd. "We all saw what happened to her family, what is stopping her from doing it to us?" He asked the crowd and a few shouted rather spiteful things to Caverna as they surrounded her, cutting off her sight from her friends and family.

"She is wilder than a dragon; she should be the one to be put away!" Mildew shouted. "After all, she is no use to us, she can't bear children for the poor boy, and she can't control herself! What use is there for her here?" Mildew asked the crowd.

At hearing it all, Hiccup managed to push himself to the front of the crowd with Fishlegs, Snotlout and Astrid at his side and they all saw the panic in Caverna's eyes as she scanned the crowd, before she fled the hall.

"That is enough!" Stoick suddenly thundered. "How dare any of you talk to her like that, she is our saviour!"

"Let he go Stoick, you know that she doesn't belong here." Mildew told him.

"No Mildew, you can leave, my daughter is staying and any of you who carry on treating her this way can leave too." Stoick told the group.

Meanwhile, Caverna was running through the forest, and she eventually found herself on the edge of a cliff. She looked out into the ocean and she suddenly fell to her knees, the events of the day unfolding in her mind once more. She had killed those she had thought were her family, everyone was right she was a monster, though then she was suddenly overcome with anger and she picked up a rock, standing up and she hurled it with a cry into the sea.

"You did this to me!" She shouted at the open ocean. "I'm a monster because of you, because of all of you!" She didn't notice her own tears until she ran out of things to throw and she fell back to her knees, sobbing into her hands. She didn't notice that anyone had followed until she felt something poking her in the back and she turned to see Gothi stood behind her.

"Gothi..." She whispered, trying to gather what was left of her courageous resolve but that soon failed and she burst into tears again. She heard the thud of something which she deemed to be Gothi's staff and she suddenly felt arms around her, and without a care for her reputation she leant into the old woman, crying into her shoulder as Gothi held her, as silent as always. Eventually Caverna fell silent, unable t cry anymore, and Gothi tapped her on the shoulder get the teenager to look at her and she gestured for her to follow and she picked up her staff and led the girl to her own hut, and told her to lie on the sofa which had already been made into a bed, as if Gothi knew that Caverna would become in this state. As she watched the girl take her weapons off, before she covered the girl with a blanket and she left her to sleep.

No one beside Gothi saw Caverna after she left the Great Hall that night, and when he got home, Hiccup decided not t check on her after he didn't find her in the stable, thinking that she was asleep, he got into bed and went to sleep. The next morning, there was a knock on his bedroom door and Hiccup muttered a come in and he heard the heavy footsteps of his father.

"Hiccup, have you seen Caverna?" Stoick asked him, watching as his son sat up in bed.

"No, she's in bed."

"No Hiccup, she isn't." Stoick told him and the boy was suddenly wide awake.

"I'll get the dragon riders together, we'll find her."

Stoick nodded, leaving the room and in his worry, he went out of the house, and found Gobber and his brother. "Gobber, Spitlout!"

"What's the matter Stoick?" Spitlout asked him, noticing the worry on his face.

"Caverna's gone, I need you two to help me search the village, the kids are taking the forest and mountains."

Both men nodded, and they soon split into three different directions and they all started searching, getting other people to help them. Meanwhile, Hiccup had rounded up every one of his friends and their dragons and they were spread across the sky searching the forest and the mountains, they eventually met at Raven's point to give any news.

"Did anyone find anything?" Hiccup asked, as he got down from the saddle on Toothless' back.

"No Hiccup, I found nothing at the beach." Fishlegs told him.

"Me neither, there was no trace of her in the mountains." Snotlout told her.

"Or the caves." Ruffnut told him.

At seeing how worried Hiccup had become, Astrid walked over and gently squeezed his hand. "She's going to be okay, don't worry."

Hiccup sighed with a nod. "I know...But I did nothing to help her out of the situation, and now I don't know if she's alive or dead, she was unstable yesterday after the fight." He started to fret at the thought of his sister being dead.

Astrid pulled her boyfriend into a tight hug. "It's going to be alright Hiccup; she'll be fine, you know that she will." She whispered against him.

"I know." He whispered back, pulling away with a sigh. "Let's just do one more search, and then head back to the village to report back to my dad."

The group nodded and they done as he asked, before they flew back to the village, with Astrid and Hiccup landing Toothless and Stormfly, as the dragons went into the stables, Hiccup and Astrid went into the house, where they found Stoick, Gobber and Gothi sitting by the fire.

"Dad, we couldn't find her." Hiccup told him, his head hung low.

Stoick looked at him. "I know son, but don't worry she's been found."

"How, where?" Hiccup asked, looking up at him.

"Gothi found her at Raven's point last night, after she had a breakdown, before she took her back to her place and she's still there." Stoick explained.

"Is she alright, is she harmed?" Hiccup asked and he watched Gothi shake her head. "I've got to go and see her."

"No Hiccup, you stay here." Stoick told him. "I'm taking Skullcrusher and bringing her home, before she is staying in her room for a while."

"You're confiding her to her room?" Hiccup asked his father, suddenly outraged.

"It's for her safety lad." Gobber told him. "Gothi has told us to keep her separate for a while, you will still be able to see her, and she just won't be able to go outside until she is fully better."

Hiccup really didn't seem happy about it, as he watched his dad and Gothi leave ad he stalked over to the sofa, sitting down heavily as Toothless and Snowcap walked in followed by their babies.

"Hey you two." Gobber greeted the dragons. "I see those two are getting big." He smiled leaning down to stroke the baby dragons.

Toothless and Snowcap looked proud as Snowcap rested her head underneath Toothless and she purred softly to him. Toothless watched the babies as she padded back over to his mother and they were rubbing themselves against their parents for comfort, before they moved to lie by the fire curling up on each other.

Hiccup watched the two baby dragons, before he felt Toothless' head on his lap and he stroked him. "I'm alright bud, just worried for Caverna."

Toothless let a soft whine escape his mouth and he nuzzled himself against Hiccup's stomach before he noticed that it was now late afternoon and he walked over to his babies, curling around them by the fire as Snowcap joined him. The three humans watched the dragons as the two adults messed around, playfully nipping each other, as the babies slept, before they all looked at the door as it opened and Stoic walked in, carrying Caverna who was wrapped in her father's usual thick fur cape. At seeing her, Hiccup felt terrible, she was pale and obviously cold, whatever life was in her skin beforehand had gone now and she looked just as sickly as he used to. He watched his father take Caverna upstairs to her room, before he watched him come down to sit in his armchair.

"How is she?" He asked quietly, Astrid squeezing his hand in comfort.

"She was still asleep when I got to Gothi's; she's not doing very well." Stoick told him. "Some of her wounds are now infected; she hadn't stopped crying for most of the night."

"Did Gothi say what was fully wrong with her, Sir?" Astrid asked the chief.

"Yes, she says that Caverna I suffering from a mixture of grief, relief and pain. After all, she killed the people that she had thought were family for her first eighteen years; she had been shunned by everyone and at every place that she called home, she felt completely alone. Her breakdown came from everything building up on top of her, after being shunned, the battle and thinking that she had lost Hiccup, then being called a monster, she snapped." Stoick sighed. "Gothi told me that she had heard Caverna shouting that she was a monster because of them, that they did this to her, after all, she never got answers for what happened to her."

Hiccup sighed. "I'm going to look after her dad." He promised. "I'll keep her at home until she's better."

Stoick nodded and the subject was dropped, though everyone knew that no one could stop thinking about it.