A Protector and A Hunter

Seeing Untrusting Familiar Faces

(Melia's POV) 

I stared, amazed as an island came into view, what seemed to be a base of operation sitting on the coast. 

"Cool right." Storm called out to me over the wind.

"It's amazing." I responded, my eyes darting over the entire area. Storm smiled, leading Midnight over to a large building with a landing deck attached. As soon as Midnight landed, I dismounted, my curiousity carrying me into the building. I looked around, noticing many cells of sorts. 

"These are the stables. The dragons usually sleep here during the night." Storm explained. I thought about the difference between these cell and the ones the dragon hunters used, coming to the conclusion that these were a lot better. 

"Hey, can I ask you something?" Storm hummed, signalling that she was listening as she grabbed a fish for Midnight. "That guy on the ship, I think you called him Krogan? Who is he?" I asked, petting Midnight's snout.

"He's one of the worst dragon hunters we've come across. It's actually a good thing you came along when you did. Being alone is never a good thing when it comes to facing the hunters." Storm explained, walking over and giving the fish to Midnight.

"Thanks, Storm." Midnight purred after eating the fish. I smiled at the Night Nadder. Suddenly, I heard the call of a male Night Fury and turned only to be tackled by none other than Toothless. 

"Melia! It's so good to see you again!" Toothless purred, licking my face.

"Eww... Toothless! Stop!" I sputtered, trying to push the ecstatic dragon's snout out of my face.

"Wait, how do you know-"

"Toothless!" I froze at the sound of that voice, Toothless getting off of me as I used my arms to prop myself up. I looked up at the stable doors to see the one-legged dragon rider that I had chased off of my island. "Melia? What are you doing here?"

"Okay, someone explain to me what's going on. How do you guys know each other?" Storm asked, interrupting the stare down between me and Hiccup.

"I think that explanation needs everyone because you two have some explaining to do as well." Hiccup remarked. I sighed, getting to my feet before following both Hiccup and Storm towards a hut that stood in the center of all the buildings. 

"Here we go." I thought.

(Viggo's POV)

I searched my surroundings as Leiptr followed Lilac and the purple Deadly Nadder, looking for anything that may tell me where we were going.

"Ocean, ocean, more ocean." I thought as I looked around. As far as the eye could see there was the vast sea of salt water, no signs of land anywhere close. I continued searching before turning to look down at Red who was loudly gnawing on something. "What do you have there that's so interesting?" I asked him, knowing very well that any answer he gave me would probably be just dragon noises to me. Red let out a muffled roar as he turned to look at me, showing me that he was holding the hilt of my fire sword in his mouth. "Hey, you shouldn't playing with that." I told him, grabbing at it. As I tried to tug it out of his grip, he pulled backwards, probably thinking that I wanted to play. Finally, I was able to pry it from his grasp, getting a childish growl from Red. "Where did you even find this?" I thought aloud before clipping it to my belt so that it was out of the way. Suddenly, Leiptr swooped down, his tail just barely touching the water as he soared along the surface. "What's..." I started, but trailed off when I saw a ship just feet in front of us. "Leiptr, can you land on the side of the ship so that we're out of sight?" I asked. Leiptr let out a soft roar before doing as he was told, using the claws on his wings to cling onto the side of the ship.