A/N: This chapter is of the guys back in Sharkslane about 4 days after Astrid left. This chapter is about them, so enjoy! AND this message is for that guest Mohamed, I have school, I'm in grade 12, I'm doing IB (look it up if you don't know), I have other stories as well. I don't get a lot of time here because I have extra curricular activities after school as well; I have not given up on this story! I take my own time writing it for it to be GOOD and all the other readers here understand that! So STOP PRESSURING me to post just because you get impatient. SO from now on, I post when I can, stop with the comments "I FAILED YOU ALL!" You have no right to say that! All the other people here don't leave comments like that!

Ripper's POV

It had been 4 days since Astrid left to find Hiccup, although personally I believed she wouldn't find him because he was incredibly good at hiding. But it wasn't them I was worried about. The teens and Stoick and Gobber were supposed to stay in the village until Astrid returns...something that I hated. I spent five years on the run from them, just to end up living as neighbours with them, what did I do to deserve this?

I was lying on my bed under the furs with Heather peacefully asleep beside me. I had my hands behind my head resting on the pillow. It was the fifth day since their arrival, and luckily for me I had an off day today. Treeroot said that I had been working hard for the past week and I needed a break. I was more than happy to agree with him on that. Today I planned to spend the whole day with Heather...and stay away as far as possible from the others. I heard a soft yawn beside me and smiled.

"Good morning beautiful" I said as he looked to my left and saw Heather get up, wiping the sleepiness from her eyes.

"Good morning handsome" she replied back and bent down to place a kiss on my lips.

I surprised her by pulling her onto me, I could tell by the small squeal she gave. "Well someone's in a good mood today" she said as she placed both hands around my neck and I encircled her waist. "What's gotten into you?" she asked with a giggle as she used one of her hands to toy with my hair.

"I don't know...maybe it's because I have the day off today, and am going to make it my mission to spend it with you" I said giving her a peck on the cheek.

"Well, I know one way you could make it a day to remember" she said with a seductive voice and closing in with her lips.

"I think I already have an idea of what you're saying" I said in the same tone as she did and laid her on the bed while I got on top of her and connected lips. That feeling will never get old in a million years. Being with the person you love every single day for the rest of your life...it's the greatest feeling any person can I have.

"Hey guys where's the fi...OH! I did not need to see that!" we heard a voice say and immediately disengaged from the kiss. We looked to the window to see Bladewing hovering outside the window with what looked like a smug smile on his face.

"Why do all dragons have to have an uncanny ability in interrupting people during special moments?" Heather asked. Yeah, I should have mentioned that Heather is the other person here that can understand dragons. She can make out what dragon's say but can't hear them clearly. She's still learning and she's progressing at a fast pace. Maybe it has to do with the wonderful teacher she has (wink).

"I just love interrupting you two...it's funny" he said, performing a shrugging gesture with his wings.

"You're just mad because we slept in and didn't give you your fish" I said.

"You bet I am mad! Do you know how much fish I need to keep my energy up. I mean look at me, I'm HUGE!" he exclaimed. Me and Heather just laughed in reply. I reluctantly got off Heather, the both of us being disappointed we couldn't continue our session. I guess we have more plans for the night. I went up to my desk to grab my shirt that I had left on the rear of the chair. I saw in the mirror that Heather began tying her hair at the top. I don't know how girls can fix their hair in the exact position they want it to be without looking in a mirror.

"Do you think that blonde found Hiccup and Toothless?" Bladewing asked, breaking the silence and still waiting for his fish.

"Doubt it, I mean if Hiccup doesn't want to be found, he won't be found" I said as I put on my shirt and straightened it out.

"That reminds me, you haven't talked to any of them since they came. Why?" Heather asked as she got up and went behind a wooden wall that I had set up so she could change behind it.

"Why would I? All they did was run me and Hiccup out of Berk and abusing Hiccup verbally and emotionally throughout his life" I said shaking my head at bad memories. "I don't know why they want to get Hiccup back all of a sudden. Stoick said that Hiccup wasn't his son anymore and I don't see why he's started caring all of a sudden" I continued.

"You never know Rip, maybe it is possible he's had a change of heart?" she suggested as she came out from behind the wall.

"Believe me, Stoick the Vast ain't too big on change, and he's certainly not big on change when it comes to caring" I said.

"The young ones don't even seem too bright on anything either" Bladewing said. He was referring to the four late teens remaining here.

"Well Fishlegs I think is the only one who could be reasoned with that dragons aren't what they think they are. Key word in that sentence is reasoned, as he might not believe us" I said.

"Well you have to try right? I mean since we're going out today, Bladewing has to come with us" she said. I turned around to see her dressed in a long sleeved red tunic, a blue skirt and black leggings that covered her entire legs. "We're bound to run into them at some point" she finished as she came up from behind and wrapped her hands around my waist and rested her chin on my shoulder...given she had to had to raise herself onto her tip-toes to do that. "That reminds me, where are we going today?" I asked.

"We're going to have a nice walk in the forest and a picnic there as well" she said with a smile. It had been a while since we had time to ourselves, with her being the chief's daughter and all that and me being the smithy of the village.

I turned her around so I wrapped my arms around her waist and said "That sounds like a wonderful idea" I said and kissed her again on the lips.

"Enough with the kissy faces! Let's go!" we heard Bladewing yell or roar, or whatever dragons do. We disengaged our kiss and smiled at Bladewing's annoyed expression. We quickly went down to pack the items we would need for our hike. Heather grabbed some berries, fruits, some bread and beef. I packed a bag of fish for Bladewing when he got hungry during our hike. As she made sure that we had everything I went outside with Bladewing's barrel of fish and saw him waiting eagerly for it.

I opened the barrel for him and dumped the fish out, and he dug right into it. Among hearing the sounds of fish tearing, I began to think about Hiccup. Little did they know that I knew where Hiccup was. That mansion he lives in was built in a week, and no one person with the help of a dragon could've built that in one week. The trees there were extremely heavy and would be too heavy for Toothless to even lift. When Hiccup found the perfect place he came back to tell us about it but said he would need help building a house. Me and Heather went to help him since, and I'm not being sexist here, only a woman knows how to decorate a house. Leave it to a man and it's all gone to pot.

Bladewing did his part well of making up that story of the dragons telling him where Hiccup lived, and even Treeroot and Heather played their parts well. Only the five of us, including Heather's mom, knew where Hiccup lived. Now I know what you're all thinking, why not tell them where Hiccup is...or why hint at where Hiccup is. Well we came to the conclusion that it would be for Hiccup's own good. He couldn't keep running away from his troubles forever, I mean he ran away because me and Heather got married, and that reminded him of his love for Astrid. I knew he was trying to get over that during his time in Sharkslane, but every time I saw him glance at me when I was with Heather, I saw that hint of sadness in his eyes. Him forgiving Astrid was the first step in his emotional recovery and a huge step in getting the old him back.

A loud burp and a fish head hitting me in the face snapped me out of my thoughts as I saw that Bladewing had finished his meal. "You still haven't learned table manners yet have you?" I asked wiping the fish slime off my face.

"We're outside and I don't see a table so you're argument is invalid" he remarked at me. I sighed in defeat, he could be so annoying at times. I then heard the sound of the front door closing and being locked. I saw Heather with a basket that certainly had our food in it.

"Ready?" she asked. I dusted myself after getting up and said yes in a reply. I went up to her and offered to carry the basket for her. She accepted and handed me the basket as she put her left arm around my right arm which I had craned out for her and she rested her head on my shoulder as we started for the forest path with Bladewing right behind us.

It always felt calming to walk in the forest at any time of the day. You could always hear the birds chirping, it was never too cold like Berk and today it was sunny, it was warm and a perfect atmosphere to be out in the forest. We had our own special place in the forest secluded by thick bushes and the only path that led to it was hidden by some vines and leaves I had set up. It was about a twenty minute walk to the location and because of our chatting and having fun, we reached there in no time.

When we made out way past the vines, there was a small to medium size open space in front of us with a small pond in the middle being fed by a stream and a slab of rock in front of it. We set up our picnic on that rock and began to dig in. Bladewing went off into the pond to cool off a bit.

It was a perfect day, just the right weather, sun shining brightly in the clearing and the smell of the delicious food that Heather had packed for us, which she was taking out at the moment.

"So are we going to spend the whole day out here?" I asked.

"If you want to...we have the whole day off remember?" she said, and I nodded. Like I said it's been a long time since we've had any personal time with each other. I guess this outing today just felt out of routine for me...but in a good way.

"Yeah sorry, and honestly, I would like to spend the day out here...it's nice to slow down once in a while" I said taking some meat and bread and putting it on one of two plates that we had brought. The rest of the day consisted of us deep in conversation about events that had been happening.

About three hours had gone by just like that. Bladewing had joined our conversation in the middle of that time and from there on the topics really varied and I won't go into detail about them. Right now, me and Heather were sitting by the pond with my arm around her shoulder just enjoying each other's company...that was until...

SPLAT!

I felt something wet just hit my head from behind and I shot forwards because of the impact. I heard Heather yell out in surprise and as soon as I brought my hand to the back of my head to feel what just hit me, it was soft and mushy and when I brought it back I saw that it was bits of red. I smelt it to make sure it wasn't blood. "Tomato?" I asked recognizing the smell almost immediately. We both looked around to see if there was anyone but didn't see anything.

Then Bladewing came flew up to a certain tree and soon we heard yelling and shouts of terror and saw him come back down with four young adults being held by his tail and he dropped them roughly on the ground. I sighed in discontent that they followed us here.

"Keep that beast of yours under control!" Snot said readjusting his helmet to which Bladewing came right up to his face and snarled menacingly and he fell right back down on to his back.

"You know if I let Bladewing eat you I'll be doing this whole world a favour right?" I asked as I got up with Heather and came up to them.

"Can we see him get eaten!?" Tuff asked with a excited smile.

"What are you guys doing following me?" I asked. I was in no mood to be mad now. Sure they had ruined me and Heather's day off but I spent some quality time with her.

"It was all Snotlout's idea. He wanted to come and surprise you by throwing rotten things at you and even this" Fishlegs said holding up a few a rocks. When Bladewing saw this he immediately lunged at Snotlout and wrapped his tail around him in a death grip.

"Snotlout, when are you going to learn that you can't beat me, and you get banished by my chief for hurting the future heir of this tribe" I said looking smug at his ever purple face as Bladewing was slowly suffocating him.

"Can I please throw him?" Bladewing asked looking at me. As much as I loved the idea, we shouldn't, the only reason stopping me was that Treeroot would be displeased and I wouldn't want to upset my wife's father.

"Put him down Blade" I said and with a grunt, he let go of Snotlout who fell back down on his knees gasping for breath. I walked up to him and when he looked up, grabbed him by his neck and lifted him. "Listen Snotlout, you're on my turf now. I should let Bladewing here do whatever he pleases with you...but I won't. Now how about you stop trying to annoy us and grow up" I said in a calm but deadly voice and dropped him.

"Just for the record I wasn't part of this" Fishlegs said.

"Why do you even listen to him Fishlegs?" Heather asked.

"Better question yet who does he think he is?" I replied to her looking at him get up.

"Well what do you expect, all you did was protect that fishbone when he was on Berk and he ran away from you a year ago. He's a coward. You both betrayed us" Snotlout defended himself.

"You still haven't let that go huh? Look behind me Snotlout, what do you see?" I asked. He did and saw Bladewing behind me.

"I have a dragon...our supposed mortal enemy. He's a Whispering Death, one of the most dangerous and deadly dragons known to Vikings. He protects me, he protects Heather, and he protects everyone in this village. He is my best friend, and if you must know the dragon Hiccup rides treated him with more respect that any of you did in his entire life. So tell me Snotty, who are the real traitors here?" I asked.

All of them looked down at their feet realizing how badly they had treated Hiccup. "Ripper, I'm sorry for what I did to Hiccup and I want to make things right with him" Fishlegs said. At least I knew he could change, but what about the other three?

"Well if you'll excuse us, we need to make use of the day we have left" I said extending my hand to Heather to which she gladly took and we proceeded past them back to the village. "Ripper!" I heard my name being called out and I looked to see Fishlegs and the Twins coming up. "Can you possibly...let us...hang out with you?" Ruff asked. I also noticed behind her Snotlout had walked up to them with a annoyed look on his face. At least I could have some fun with him that his friends were now coming to me which made him jealous.

"It won't be a bad idea Ripper, we should let them come with us" Heather told me and I agreed. We'll still be together except with four more people, but at least Bladewing will be there.

"Sure we'll show you around" I said and gestured them to come with us.

"Your dragon won't try anything will he?" Tuff asked.

"Honestly he does what he pleases...he's a mischievous type at times" I said as me and Heather walked ahead of the group.

The teens looked to Bladewing who smiled at them, a hint of fun in his eyes. They quickly ran away from him and up to me, making sure he doesn't try anything.

"This is going to be fun" I heard him say, and I chuckled...because it was going to be fun. Hopefully Hiccup will be here soon, it'll be like old times.