Deceptive Harmonies(discontinued)

3)

Austa clung to Harmony's saddle reins while she held the blonde female in her talons. The rain was falling harshly against her face, feeling practically like bullets, thunder began to crash and scared Harmony out of her wits, resulting in her talons to loosen. She didn't lose the unconscious girl, but lost grip in her left talon. "Steady, Harmony, steady!" Austa instructed as she kept a cautious eye on the girl who was now hanging in one talon.

Suddenly then, Harmony became wary, as a high pitched shriek passed them, sound energy returning the beat of her flaps to a certain nightfury who then bolted towards the MarvelWing.

"Let her go!" Hiccup roared protectively as Toothless came to a holt right in front of the two unknown beings holding Astrid.

"You're acting like I'm the reason she's in this position, buddy!" Austa snapped before she herself snapped. Nightfury, one leg, auburn hair, forest green eyes, practically a man version of Astra. Her lips parted in a silent gasp but she quickly shut. "I found her adrift in the water."

"Was there a deadly nadder near her?" Hiccup asked curiously.

"There wasn't even land near her."

Hiccup looked down and flew beneath Harmony, and collected Astrid's unconscious body into his arms. He placed his head against her chest, praying for a heartbeat, and heard it, making him smile in utter relief. "Thank you! Please, follow me to our island where we can offer shelter from the storm." He offered in gratitude.

Austa gave a prim nod before awaiting for him to head off in the direction of his island, which he does. She glanced behind her temporarily, in a small ounce of worry before taking off after him.

***

Ailith and Hunter were within the harshness of the storm, she had her hood pulled up and a hand in front of her face to try and even see a metre ahead of her. "Hunter, first place you find bud, set us down! We can't bar this much longer." She called up to the dragon who also struggled to see, he had squinted eyes that constantly blinked.

He didn't see the zippleback and crashed right into it, sending two riders off, them both screaming on the way down. "NO! SAVE ME! I WILL MOT BE DEVOURED BY A SEA BEAST!" A familiar voice yelled.

"Tuff?" Ailith questioned to herself before snapping out of her questioning thoughts and dived down after the twins, catching Ruff in Hunter's talons and then Tuff, swooping beneath him so he lands on his back.

"Oh thank you unknown hooded one...who are you?" Tuff thanked then asked. Ailith didn't answer, she merely did a monotonous zippleback call and then Barf and Belch came, she motioned for Hunter and he instantly knew, he jerked his lower back upwards, tossing Tuff up onto Barf, and then threw Ruff on to Belch, they swapped dragons then watched as the dragon rider fly in the direction they had came from. "Hey, isn't that the way to the edge?"

"Yeah..." Ruff said suspiciously, before turning left. "ASTRIIIID!" And so the twins continued their search.

***

Lightning struck and thunder crackled, Asgard plummeted down towards the water after a critical hut to the lower back, narrowly missing Astra who tried not to scream as they fell.

The freezing water hugged them and pulled them into the tide which was unwelcoming as it forced Astra's breath to become scarce, Asgard got a flashback from when he almost drowned and Astra had saved him, that faithful day they had met. His dilated eyes narrowed and thinned ever so slightly, he glanced back at his rider who clung to him, refusing to leave him for breath. He then used all his strength to burst out of the water and take off flying again.

The flying was rough, and when he saw land, he flew down in a dodgy way, and landed unevenly, throwing Astra from his back, the redhead slid across the sand, awaiting to come to stop but instead she was jeered with a hard surface against the back of her head, knocking her brain against her scull, resulting in unconsciousness. Asgard roared and tried to crawl over but he was too weak, he managed to get his chin up on Astra's calves which gave him some hope as he still felt her blood circulating through her veins.