Aphira and Blackout had been flying all day.
Rain pounded on their heads. Lightning lit up the clouds. Thunder boomed. Fog rolled, blocking their gaze.
Blackout roared as another flash of lightning lit up the clouds. "I know, girl, I know, but we can't give up now!" Aphira clung to the dragon's scales as best as she could, squeezing her legs tighter around the Lunawatcher's wet sides.
Thunder boomed again, but this time with a roar mixed in. Aphira was too tired to care, exhausted and drenched in rain, but Blackout's head shot up, her ears twitching. "What's wrong, girl?" Aphira asked, a groan mixed with her words.
Blackout growled, her emerald eyes narrowing. Suddenly, a screech split through the air. Blackout's head instantly snapped around. "What's wrong?" Aphira straightened herself. She readjusted her grip, but her hand slipped against the wet black scales, and she fell.
Aphira yelled in fright and Blackout roared in surprise. Another screech split the air as thunder boomed and lightning strikes flashed around her. "Help!" Aphira yelled. "Aphira!" Aphira recognized Hiccup's voice and a bolt of terror ran through Aphira. No.
Blackout roared in surprise as Aphira felt arms wrap around her. "Gotcha!" Astrid's voice rang out in the thunder. Blackout narrowed her emerald eyes and roared furiously, diving toward them. "Rawk!" Said the dragon that Aphira rode.
"Aphira! Are you ok?" Hiccup asked. Aphira felt weak with shock. I thought they wouldn't go past the border! She thought. Blackout roared and blasted a plasma blast, then vanished. "She has the Light Fury's ability." Hiccup warned. "I think she's made that pretty clear!" Astrid called.
Suddenly, Aphira felt herself getting shoved off of the dragon, and she was in the air again. Blackout's claws snatched her up, and she saw claws wrap around Hiccup's arms. "Blackout," Aphira panted. "Dive toward the ocean. Keep me hidden from sight. Look like you're looking for me in the ocean." Blackout glanced at her curiously, but nodded and dove toward the ocean.
Aphira held her breath. Maybe sort of faking a death was a little extreme, but she already ran away, she couldn't deal with anyone trying to find her now.
"Where did she go?" Astrid questioned. Blackout was zig-zagging across the ocean as another screech tore through the air. Aphira tried to see, but Blackout suddenly rolled toward the ocean and dashed away. The cries of Hiccup and Astrid were lost in the rain and thunder.
Aphira hauled herself back onto Blackout, who burbled worriedly. "I know, girl, I know," Aphira murmured. "It's ok."
They kept flying. Rain. Lightning. Thunder. The wind howled around them, trying desperately to throw Aphira and Blackout into the ocean or the path of a bolt of electricity that shot toward the churning waves below. If Aphira had really fallen, she wouldn't have survived.
Another screech split the air, and more electricity crackled around a single cloud. Blackout snarled and roared, twisting toward it. She blasted a plasma blast toward it, illuminating a spiny shape in the clouds. A growl rumbled deep in her throat as her gleaming eyes narrowed through the storm.
"Blackout..?" Aphira asked hesitantly. Suddenly, a blue-white electric bolt shot right toward them. Blackout quickly rolled out of the way, throwing her rider off of her. Aphira let out a screech of fright as she plummeted toward the endless dark depths that waited to devour anything that fell in below.
Blackout shot after her fast but was intercepted by a dark blue creature that matched the brief glimpse of a silhouette that Aphira had seen before. Two large bat wings beat confidently against the storm as electricity crackled through the spikes along its spine. Blackout roared at it, her expression desperate with a sad glint in her gaze. The other dragon screeched back and lunged at her, its back claws rearing up to hit her wing.
Blackout rolled and dove toward Aphira again. Aphira reached a weak hand out (or tried, but her whole body felt numb from the wind and cold, and she failed) and Blackout screeched as something crashed into Aphira's back. Rolling waves came into her vision, and the chilling cold froze Aphira's hope and shattered it into icicles. Her body seemed to freeze as she fell below the huge waves, feeling more and more water pushing her down.
Aphira blinked once, twice, weakly, then she felt something roughly scrape her midsection, and the world went dark.
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Fading Echoes - The Echoes, Book 2 - HTTYD Fanfiction
Fiksi PenggemarAphira had met the dragons when she was very young with her Mother and her brother, Whip. However, she didn't remember it, and not even the stories that her Mother told in vivid detail stirred her memory. But when one day, suddenly several beasts...
