The Lost Heir Book One: Dragons Edge

Chapter Seven: Night of the Hunters pt 2

The wind howled outside of the ship and nightfall came as the gang and I still sat, stuck in the cell.

Fishlegs turned towards us, "Dagur is here, and Heather's with him? I don't believe it..." I frowned and nodded at him.

"Turns out trusting her was a big mistake," I answered and shook my head. The twins scoffed and I looked at them in curiosity.

"Yeah, who puts loyalty to family over loyalty to their friends?" Ruff tsked and leaned against the wall with her arms crossed, "yeah, right."

Tuff started out of the bars, "I heard that sister," I rolled my eyes and stood back up, crossing my arms.

"No. The bigger question is who are these Dragon riders and what do they want with us?" I stated seriously at the others until I heard a voice behind me.

"You're about to find out." I saw Heather and glared at her. She had two guards behind her that opened our cell door and pulled me out. The guards held either of my arms and shoved me out of the cell.

"Ryker wants to have a little chat with you." She said mysteriously as she walked ahead of me and the guards. Fishlegs went to reach out and grab me but he was stopped when one guard slammed the cell door back shut.

"You're lucky these guards have me, or I'd take your head off." I threatened and Heather just laughed.

"You try." She scoffed as we kept walking.

"After everything they did for you, took you in, taught you to ride, saved your life more than once." I reminded her, "You betrayed them, and me? After we became friends?"

She laughed haughtily, "And I thank them for all of that. But I have to follow my destiny. Besides, we were friends, not now."

"Leaving your friends, to join these Dragon Hunter scum?" I exclaimed in disbelief, "That's not destiny, that's just plain betrayal."

"Hey. You don't know what it's like to be truly alone." She accused me and I scoffed, "Dagur is my brother, I trust him with my life."

"Yeah, right. I totally don't know how it feels to be alone..." I laughed bitterly, "Not like I was alone traveling the world for three long years. And believe me, you'll regret trusting Dagur."

"Hm, well your concern is touching. But I'd worry about myself if I were you." Heather paused in front of a door and I strained against the guards with the urge to punch the traitor in the face. She knocked on the door and I stopped.

"Come." We heard Ryker's voice beckon us inside.

"Ryker wants information," She told me, "and he can be very persuasive." The doors opened and the guards pushed me inside before the door slammed shut behind me.

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The next morning came quickly for Hiccup and Snotlout where they slept with their dragons on a beach. Toothless opened his eyes and jumped up, waking Hiccup.

"Morning bud," Hiccup greeted his energetic dragon as he stretched. He stood up and grabbed his map off of the sand, starting to roll it up.

"Hey Snotlout," Hiccup called to him as he rolled up the map and looked at the sleepy Snotlout, "you up?" Snotlout took his helmet off of his eyes and glared.

"Yes.." He grumbled, "Someone snores." He gestured towards Hookfang who looked up and shot a small blast of fire at him.

Snotlout flinched as it just barely missed him, "Hookfang!" He shouted and the dragon let out a growl. Toothless, who had gone to the water's edge and caught some fish, sauntered back over and dropped the fish from his mouth.