Sigrid The Relentless - How to Train your Dragon

20. Sparked by a Lightning Strike

"I just don't get it, what's the issue?" Hiccup questioned as he paced back and forth, fingers under his thin as his mind was struggling.

Sigrid snorted. "I've been asking that question for years."

Welcome to Hiccup's new predicament; the inability to find his sister a dragon.

"I don't understand, dragons love you! They're friendly, cuddly, and Thor, they even let you ride them!" he rambled. "But there's something missing, a connection- a-a spark? I don't know."

It'd taken a while for Sigrid to fully move in on Dragon's Edge, and the fact that she still didn't have her own dragon made the move all the more difficult. She was currently residing in her brother's hut, until she finished building one for herself. The twins had ever so graciously offered to help, but Sigrid politely refused, knowing how chaotic their differentiating opinions could be.

Hiccup was worried, he'd never had this much trouble with dragons before. Granted, it wasn't truly a problem with him, but the fact that he wasn't able to find a dragon for Sigrid made him feel bad. Did he truly not know his sister, to the point he was unable to find a dragon match? It hurt him deeply.

But something else was troubling all of them. Something was wrong on Outcast Island, and it led them straight to Berk.

The Skrill had escaped its icy bounds, which Hiccup had put the dragon in himself years before. Sigrid felt a little guilty that Toothless was once again the victim of having two riders on his back, but at the moment they didn't have a choice. The redhead was glad that her father had Skullcrusher by his side for this one, from the stories she'd heard from her brother - and the little amount she'd witnessed for herself - the Skrill was not to mess with.

It was attacking Berk, but it seemed the Hooligans were doing pretty well with defending themselves, for now.

"Hey, look at that. The A-team, already on the case." Astrid pointed out with a smug look, obviously quite proud of her hard work.

Hiccup wasn't too enthusiastic himself. "Yeah, okay, it might be a little early in their dragon riding careers to-"

Before he could finish his sentence, the A-team was completely wiped out with a single lightning strike from the Skrill's back, which it launched with a cry, leaving the riders and their dragons to fall back down to Berk. Hopefully they were okay.

"Dad!" Snotlout cried out as he saw his father fall, before dashing down on Hookfang towards him.

They had no more time to waste.

"Cover the town's riders!" Hiccup let out a final command before diving down with Toothless, Astrid and Stormfly following closely behind, before going their separate ways.

Suddenly, Toothless halted, angry eyes glaring up at the sky, leaving the siblings confused.

"Toothless, what are you doing?" Hiccup questioned in concern after he spotted the very angry looking Skrill, who challenged the Nightfury with a mouth full of blue.

"Toothless no!" Hiccup yelled as his dragon ignored his pleas, dashing up straight for the legendary beast.

Challenging the Skrill, Toothless charged a plasma blast before letting it go, which in turn blew Hiccup and Sigrid off his back as it connected with the Skrill's lightning, blasting the two dragons apart. Whilst the two vikings fell, the Skrill flew back up into the thundering sky, safely away from the stubborn Nightfury, who was now falling with his riders.

Sigrid screamed as she fell faster and faster towards the ground. Unlike her brother, she did not have a set of 'wings' hidden under her leather. But to her greatest luck, she didn't hit the ground, thanks to a tight grip around her legs. Stormfly had caught her, and Sigrid couldn't be more thankful for Astrid's watchful eye.