The Rescue Runts

Burden

"So, Axel saved you? That's new" Dak commented.

"Yeah! He's really changed!" I replied.

"Why are you looking at him like that?" Winger asked.

I immediately looked away from Axel and up at Winger and Dak. "Huh? Uh I wasn't looking at anyone! Who said that? Heh heh heh..." I looked away in embarrassment, as both Axel and I scooted away.

"Did something happen?" Dak asked eying Axel.

"Nope. Nothing at all! Nothing weird! You can drop the subject now!" Axel and I replied together. I remember when Axel kissed me. Dak and Winger can not know about it.

"Yeah... sure, anyway, have you had anymore of your weird dreams?" Dak put an arm around me.

"Um, no. Weird right? Poof they all went away!" I said shyly. I think I convinced them though.

"So everyone's gone?" I said after a moment of silence.

"Well no... maybe, Cutter and Aggro are still out there."

"How did like dozens of dragons get captured, but you two didnt?" Axel asked eying me. I just shrugged. How was I supposed to know?

"Well, we retreated..."

"Jeez... you needed me and I wasn't there! I could've helped! We could've trained better!" I facepalmed. I'm so stupid! If I hadn't run off! If I hadn't let my feelings come first, maybe I could've helped them. Why can't I do this?

Axel must've been able to tell I was stressed as he looked at me, then gave me a nod. He really has changed. He's different now.

"How would you have known? We didn't even know what happened..." Dak replied.

"Well," I started trying to change the subject, "what should we do now?"

"We should stop Krogan!" Dak responded.

"That's a great idea! Now how do we do that?" I asked. I really did not have a clue.

"Well," Winger gulped before finishing, "your the ideas master ! You've got this Leyla! What idea is in that head?"

"Yeah... ideas master... heheheh..." truth was, at that moment, I didn't really have any ideas. The idea master? I certainly don't feel like an idea master. But, I have to do something or my friends might be gone forever!

"Well," I started, "I think we, umm, maybe, well," I took a deep breath in, then out. "We can't do this alone. Just the four of us, were going to need help!"

"By who?" Dak asked clearly confused.

"Well, I'm thinking, we stop at hutsgalor, and,"

"We can't go there!" Dak cut me odd.

"Why not?" I asked.

"What if Korgan has hutsgalor?"

"He does. It's really crazy there. My uncle is working with him. I don't think it's a good idea to go back." Axel replied.

"Well, we could go see Merena..." I said. Honestly, I didn't have a good idea. I just wanted them to stop asking questions.

"No. We've already acquired some dragons from her. I doubt she'd be very happy if we took more..." Winger said sitting down.

"BERK! I bet Hiccup and the other people would help us!" Dak said.

I guess that could work, but how would we get there? "Are you going to fly there? Because we won't all fit on Winger's back, and you know it's a long walk." I replied.

"That's fine. You can ride Winger. We'll leave tomorrow!"

"It could take weeks to get there, Dak. We don't have time! Our friends are stuck in the hands of Krogan!" Why does Dak always think we have all the time in the world? Because we don't! We have to get the dragons back!

"Well then you come up with a better idea."

"I'll do it tonight."

That night I had a heavy burden on my chest. I don't want to do all this alone, but I can't waste any time either. As I drifted off into sleep, I saw a new world. The one place I feared most.