Pandemonium in the cavern

Chapter 1: Return of the Vikings

The ground CRACKS. Stone tears away, cascading like an avalanche. And through the settling debris, the silhouette of a gargantuan dragon 'THE RED DEATH' emerges. Stirred and furious.

"Beard of Thor...what is that?" Gobber asked astonished.

"Odin help us." Stoick looks aghast at the giant beast. "Catapults!" He screams.

The Vikings score direct hits. The burning stones BOUNCE off the dragon's skin. The Red Death focuses on the catapults. It crushes the first one - smashing it and its crew, rattling the beach underfoot.

Stoick races toward the second catapult. He LEAPS and pushes a Viking out of the way just before the dragon crushes him under his forepaw. The Vikings scramble in all directions.

"Get to the ships!" One of the Vikings yells frantically.

"No! NO!" Stoick screams trying to stop his men.

The Red Death BLASTS the ships like a mile-long flamethrower. The sails are torched. Vikings dive overboard and masts come down.

"Heh. Smart, that one." Gobber states, coming to stand next to Stoick.

Stoick looks up and down the beach for an answer. "I was a fool." He says as he takes in all the destruction.

Just then the island began to shake, an eerie glow comes from the ground. "What is happening!" Stoick yells as he, and the other Vikings sink into the ground. As the ground stops glowing the only thing left on the island is a very pissed off Red Death.

The Vikings land atop each other in a massive pile up.

"Stoick!" Gobber wheezes out. "Can ya get ya fat behind off of me! I can't breath."

Stoick manages to extricate himself from the pile, and begins to pull Gobber out of the heap of groaning Vikings when he heard Hiccup's voice say "Dad!"

"Hiccup" Stoick looks around, and spots Hiccup, and the other teens on the back of dragons. "What in the name of Odin…..." Stoick began but he was jumped upon by Toothless who then made his way over to Hiccup.

"Oh Bud am I glad you're safe." Hiccup says, and gets several licks in return.

"That's all well and good Hiccup." Astrid interjects. "But where are we?"

"Yeah, the last thing we remember is flying towards the nest." Fishlegs states.

There is another flash of light, and the Vikings were joined by the dragons.

"Welcome back everybody!" The Vikings, and dragons suddenly hear. As they look in the direction of the voice they spot two figures walking towards them. A guy and girl who were wearing weird clothes. The guy was fiddling with a round metal object, and the girl had a strange stick in her hands.

"It's great to see you guys again, but boy, do you have to work on your landings." The girl comments offhandedly.

"I DEMAND TO…" Stoick began but he suddenly lost his voice as the the girl pointed her stick at him.

"Didn't I tell you the last time no yelling." The girl tuts. Whispers of 'witches' could be heard from the gathered Vikings.

"Hey I take offence to that! I'm a guy!" Was yelled by the strange girl's companion.

"Excuse me." Hiccup says timidly. "I think you're making a mistake. We never met before."

"Wait, what was the last thing you remember?" The girl asks.

"Flying to the nest to save Toothless and the other Vikings." Hiccup responds.

"Oh, dear….. No wonder you lot don't remember us." The girl says, and then turns to her companion. "Red you took them from before the end of the first movie, now we have to go through the introductions again!" She yells.

The guy simply responds "Hey, this watch is still a prototype. It glitches, and you were the one who gave up your remote." He yells back.

"To save your skinny behind!" Was thrown back.

"Eh…." Hiccup interjects. "Who exactly are you two?"

"Oh right. I'm Vala" The girl introduces "and that is my partner in crime RedHawkdude, or Red for short." She says, and Red waves at us. "We meant to bring you back after the war was done and you guys remembered us, but hey….. Got to work with what we've got." Vala shrugs as she says this.

"As for where you are. These are my caverns." Red says, and gestures towards the large cave the Vikings currently found themselves in. "You're all here to watch your futures. We would have done it in Vala's theater, but missy over there just had to test out her new wand." Red said while gesturing towards Vala.

"Oi, it wasn't that bad!" Vala yelled back.

"You summoned Godzilla for Pete's sake!" Red answered.

"Whose Godzilla, and who is Pete?" Snotlout asked curiously.

"That isn't important." Red says, and throws the metal ball he had been fiddling with. The ball releases smoke which fills the entire cavern, and when it cleared a large screen, and plush chairs had materialised in the cave.

"Also the dragons, and Vikings can now understand each other." Red states as he gestures for all of us to find a seat.

Just then two strange dragons fly into the cave. Fishlegs was literally gobsmacked by these dragons that he's never seen before. "Oh right. Everyone, these are our dragons. This is Gandor, my Shimmerwing." Red introduces "And that Death song is called Opal. She belongs to Vala."

Opal begins crooning sadly as she searches the sea of Vikings. "Vala what is with that dragon of yours?" Red asked curiously.

"She misses her chew toy." Vala states. "Well, why not." was said, and Vala waved her wand. A purple portal appeared on the ceiling of the cavern, and a figure dressed in black fell from it. The Vikings were astonished by this display of magic.

"You did that on purpose. I know for a fact that you can control the height of your portals." Red states as he glances at the groaning man who face-planted into the floor.

"Of course I did it on purpose." Vala said with a shrug.

As the man sat up, Stoick's eyes widened, and he wanted to reach for his axe or warhammer only to find them gone. He was still silenced, and began jumping up and down trying to convey his outrage.

"Don't you worry Stoick, he's not going anywhere." Vala says, and then commands Opal to wrap around the figure like an anaconda.

"Now Drago I'm going to give you your memories back, because it would be a shame that you forgot Opal." Vala says while grinning. She takes her wand in both hands, and extends the handle so that the wand now looks like a scepter with a crescent moon on top.

Drago, whose mouth was wrapped shut by Opal's coils, grunted when Vala hit him on the head with the scepter. 'WHACK' could be heard echoing through the cave.

Opal releases Drago who groans, and holds his head. As he turns to look at the gathered crowd he lets out a high pitched girlish shriek at the sight of Red, Vala, and their dragons.

Before he can run away he is snatched up by Opal, who began cuddling. "Not again, not again, not again." Was all Drago mumbled.

"Think we tortured him enough?" Red asks. He and Vala share a look, both say "NAH" at the same time.

"Wait….wait, so you can give us our memories back?" Snotlout asked.

"Of course I can." Vala answers. "But it would involve clubbing each of you on the head. So who's first."

The Vikings shake their heads negatively saying "Nevermind."

"Now I believe we have a future to watch." Red states. He and Vala take a seat next to Hiccup, and Astrid.

"Ehm…" Hiccup says while poking Vala in the arm. He gestures towards his dad who was still muted.

"Oh right." Vala says, and points her scepter at Stoick. She gives him his voice back, but also 'accidently' colors his beard light blue. "Oeps" was all she said at the glare Stoick gave her. "Should wear off in a couple of hours."

"Now wait a sec Vala…. I just remembered something" Red says.

"What is it this time Red?" Vala states giving him a glare. "It had better be damned important."

"I think I can get their memories back without hitting them on their head" Red states.

Vala lifts an eyebrow, and asks "How so?"

Red whispers to Vala "You remember the OLD memory machine in Men in Black right?"

"Don't tell me you pilfered that too?" Vala gives Red a critical stare as she says this.

"Not just one… Oops, shouldn't have said that." Red says as Vala raises her scepter.

Red quickly rolls out of the way as the scepter narrowly misses his head, but unlucky him the scepter charged with magic grazes his clothes, changing them into a pale pink ballerina outfit.

"Why the hell am I wearing a tutu!" Red yelled.

"I had Swan Lake on the brain." Vala comments nonchalantly.

"Why would you think about that?!" Red asked.

"Why wouldn't I?" Vala comments but doesn't change Red back.

"What the HELL IS THAT." Stoick yells pointing at the ballerina outfit Red is wearing.

"Would you like one too. I thought I said no yelling Stoick." Vala says giving Stoick the evil eye. Stoick pales at the way the scepter is pointing at him.

Vala turns back to Red, while pinching her brows. "Just get their memories back Red."

"Alright dragons follow Vala to the right for the bigger ones, and Vikings please follow me" Red says gesturing to the different areas.

"Just how many did you make Red?" Vala asks Red who was trying to look innocent (not really helping).

"Well I may or may not have made a few hundred small ones for normal people and maybe 500+ for larger alien species." He says while avoiding eye contact with Vala.

"You are incorrigible. I have a bad feeling about these." Vala mumbles.

Once the dragons, and Vikings are situated in their pods Red starts the machines and watches as they start spinning while the lights start flashing quickly "I can't wait till they get out." Red jokes.

"Wait so I got hit over the head for nothing!" Drago yells having gotten an leg out from Opal's coils.

"No Drago, getting hit over the head is a lot nicer than what they are going through." Red says jokingly.

A few minutes later the pods slow down, and you start to hear all the yelling, and roaring over the machines gear system.

Once they get out they all charge at Red "HOW THE HELL WAS THAT BETTER THAN GETTING HIT ON THE HEAD" both the Vikings, and dragons yell in unison.

"You never asked if it was better. You just said you didn't want to get hit on the head" Red calmly states with a smirk.

"Alright everyone back to your seats" Vala yells over the crowd. "Or I'll use you for my experiments!"

Both Vikings, and dragons race to their previous spots after hearing that statement.

The lights in the cavern dim, and the screen begins to show the Dreamworks logo.