Dragon Chronicles: The Hidden World

by Ragnar the All Knowing

For those of you who still do not know me, I am the Elder of Berk. If you had read my other books, you would know that at one time we lived together with dragons, we fought with them, we fought side-by-side together, but now they are gone. Many of you are probably wondering where did the dragons go and what has become of them now if they still live.

Well, this is my final chapter and is now time for you to know the fate which befell the dragons and why they are no longer part of our world. In truth none of us wanted to say goodbye to the dragons, but we had no choice but to say goodbye and none took it harder than my old friend, Hiccup the Useful.

It began on a misty night, and a ship containing cages filled with the brim of different types of dragons were sailing across the water. Patrolling the deck was a man named Ivar the Witless, a dragon trapper and he slammed his spear on a cage containing a one of these captured dragons.

"Quiet!" he snapped.

He then saw something in front of him and raised his torch and whoever was standing in front of him held a sword in his hand which immediately set itself ablaze.

"What are you?" he said.

The figure was wearing some kind of black armour, which looked as if it was made out of dragon scales.

He then raised his finger towards the visor on his helmet. "Shh!" he whispered.

He then heard a noise behind him and turned and saw a dragon climbing down on one of the cages. He could see a bright light running down the back of its spine and he then quickly swung his spear at the mysterious intruder. The intruder immediately ducked and got behind him and he quickly swung his torch at him.

Ivar then thrusted his spear at him, but the interloper managed to block it with his sword and disarmed him. He then tossed his torch at the figure and immediately set the deck ablaze, thinking that would deal with him.

However, to his horror the intruder nearly step through the flames looking completely unharmed and fear consumed him. He then saw that the dragon beside the figure was in fact a Night Fury, which scared him even more.

"Ahh! Your demon!" he screamed.

"Shhh! No, I'm not a demon. I'm not a demon," he said as he lifted his visor.

Standing there was none other than Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, the young Chief of Berk. He had upgraded his armour, which was no longer just plain leather, it was outfitted with dragon scales that had shed it from Toothless' body and was far more streamlined that it was before.

"Just a guy," he said trying to assure Ivar. "Just a guy trying to rescue these dragons. So, uh—"

"But you walk through fire!" Ivar cried.

"Dragon scales," said Hiccup quickly, keeping his voice down as much as possible. "Dragons shed a lot."

"Ooh! I know a demon when I see one," he said as he slowly backed away from Hiccup. "No human legs that skinny!"

He was about to make a run for it, but then landing in a blaze of glory was Snotlout Jorgenson. Snotlout too was wearing Dragon armour there was a bit more flamboyant than Hiccup's, it was bright red orange and yellow, his helmet was the exact shape of that of a Monstrous Nightmare and he insisted on having a cape.

His Monstrous Nightmare, Hookang burst into flames and they began to advance towards Ivar.

"Think that was a big action entrance!" he said stretching his arms out. "Get a load of me!" Sadly he forgot to fireproof the seat of his pants, which meant that his rear end was now on fire. "Aah!"

Hiccup rubbed his forehead as he felt one of its headaches coming on as Ivar was now even more terrified. Snotlout began running around trying to put himself out by rubbing his butt on the wooden floor the deck.

"AAH! I KNEW IT! MORE DEMONS?!" Ivar yelled.

"That's really just a nit wit who forgot to fireproof his butt," said Hiccup.

Snotlout had finally managed to put himself out, but then a serpent two-headed dragon appeared out of the mist.

"Guys, no!" Snotlout cried as he ran for it. "Not now!"

Suddenly there was a huge explosion which sent Snotlout flying across the deck. Then emerging from the smoke were Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston on their Hideous Zippleback, Barf and Belch. The two of them were also wearing armour which was green with a brown tint.

However, there is styles were completely different from one another. Ruffnut's suit was embellished with two horns and a fin on the helmet, and various rounded protuberances resembling those on Barf and Belch. She now had two long ponytails and were cascading them down her front.

Tuffnut's on the other had a large number of large, metal-tipped spikes and a miniature head on the helmet resembling Belch. His gloves were a bit more bulky and resembled dragon heads and for some strange reason he had wrapped his hair around his chin and pretended that it was a beard.

Tuffnut emerged from the smoke with his arms outstretched. "Behold, your worst nightmare…"

Ruffnut then emerged. "Behold—"

Tuffnut groaned in annoyance as he raised his visor. "…along with his sister who insisted on coming."

Ruffnut lifted her visor and glared at him. "That's my intro?"

Hiccup looked at them. "Guys! Too soon. You always come in too soon!"

Then as if this stealth operation couldn't get any worse, a large husky young man landed at his feet. This was Fishlegs Ingerman, who was now growing a small blond moustache and he too was wearing dragon armour. His armour was a dark brown and had thick metal balls, mimicking those of Meatlug bumps over his armour.

"Sorry, still getting the hang of my wings," Fishlegs apologised.

Hiccup then noticed the baby gronckle poking its head out of the pouch in the front of his armour. This was Fishmeat, one of children belonging to his Gronckle, Meatlug.

"Fishlegs, again with the baby?" said Hiccup in disbelief. "This is a raid."

"I couldn't find a sitter."

Ivar was now utterly terrified of the Dragon Riders and now was running towards the alarm as quickly as he could.

(Ivar gets scared of the Dragon Riders in armor and runs away.)

"DEMONS EVERYWHERE! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!" he yelled.

He was just about to ring the bell when someone kicked him in the face slamming his head against the cage, knocking him out cold. That someone was Astrid Hofferson, Hiccup's betrothed, like all the others she was wearing dragon armour which was blight blue and her helmet resembled that of the Deadly Nadder and she had some metal skulls embroidered on her belt.

She stretched her back as her Deadly Nadder, Stormfly, landed beside her.

"Astrid! I had him right where I wanted him," Hiccup complained.

"And now he's right where I wanted him," she said raising her visor.

Then landing on the deck was a huge Boneknapper, whose name was Skull, and then jumping on the deck was Ragnar Keatson. Unsurprisingly Ragnar was also wearing dragon armour, though unlike the others his was made of dragon bones since his dragon had no scales. Using Skull to track down the perfect bones to create his armour, he managed to stick them together with a very sticky chemical compound he had created.

"Not to hurry everyone up, but perhaps we should get a move on before we alert anyone else of our presence?" Ragnar suggested.

Astrid nodded in agreement and patted Hiccup on the chest. "Let's get to work."

Hiccup looked at the others. "Okay, we screwed that up. But, at least nobody else knows we're here."

Sadly the commotion they had started to the attention of the trappers on the opposite end of the ship.

Hiccup made his way and opened the cage containing a Scuttleclaw.

"Easy, girl," he said gently as he approached her. She snarled at him, no doubt thinking that he was one of the trappers. "It's okay. Shh!" He then placed his hand on her snout and she relaxed. "We're gonna get you out of here."

Fishlegs opened a particularly large cage and emerging from it was a particularly large dragon, almost as big as Skull. Its horns were extremely wide and were obviously made for charging and Fishlegs can help but get excited.

"Ooh! A Crimson Goregutter!" he said barely able to hold his excitement. "Ooooh, hoo, hoo!

The Crimson Goregutter looks Fishmeat in his pouch and appeared very much relaxed upon seen him.

Ruffnut was leaning against cage containing a Hobgobbler. This dragon was about the same size of a Terrible Terror and it just sat there like a lump looking at eyeball with its tongue.

"Ha. Ha. Look at this weirdo," Ruffnut laughed. "I bet it's super dumb." She then attempted to open the cage, pull it with all her might, but it didn't budge an inch. "Why can't I get this cage open?"

Astrid then appeared and slid the lock open. "It slides."

Ruffnut was hanging onto the cage as it open slightly. "Obviously."

"Attack!" a voice cried.

They turned and saw Dragon Trappers were charging at them with weapons drawn and with angry looks on their faces

Hiccup looked at the others. "Get the rescued out of here!"

Hiccup then pulled out Inferno and set it ablaze, at it pulled out her battleaxe and Ragnar his twin swords. Immediately they began to engage the Trappers, Astrid was the first one to clash weapons with. Toothless then scampered into the mist and disappeared from sight, seconds later Hiccup and Ragnar then appeared and began battling their foes.

Hiccup managed to slam a Trappers axe into the deck and then Toothless came in and head-butted him and he landed near Tuffnut's feet.

"No running on the deck! It's slippery," said Tuffnut as he tried open the cage. The Trapper got to his feet and raised his axe, but Ruffnut pulled it out of his hands before he could strike her brother. "You can fall."

Then to prove his point he opened the cage backing into the Trapper, causing him to trip over his own axe.

"Step aside!" Snotlout yelled as he charged into the fray. "Let me handle the tough guy stuff!"

He then swung his hammer at two Trappers, but they easily dodged his swing. Unfortunately, the swing caused his helmet, which was not fitted properly, to spin around until it was on backwards. The trappers were about to attack Snotlout, but Hookfang, who had been standing on top of one of the cages, unleashed a burst of fire down upon them causing them to run away.

Snotlout managed to get his helmet back on straight and saw them running, thinking he scared them off. "Yee ha! That's two for me!"

Two Trappers were now facing against Fishlegs and one of them was swinging his warhammer at him.

"Look out!" Fishlegs yelled as he ducked, causing the Trapper to strike his comrade.

"Sorry," said the Trapper.

Then the rescued Goregutter struck the Trapper with his tail.

Hiccup, Astrid and Ragnar were busy engaging the Trappers. Ragnar managed to dodge the swing of a Trapper and then quickly performed a leg sweep knocking him to the ground. Ashley managed to disarm her opponent and then send him backwards with a powerful kick to the stomach. Hiccup managed to block the attack from his opponent, and then punched him in the face causing him to spin around in circles. He then removed the Trappers helmet and Astrid slammed the butt of an axe on his head knocking him out cold.

Another Trapper then came in charging towards Hiccup, but he quickly opened the cage causing him to slam into the door. Toothless then head-butted him so hard that he was sent into the cage and Hiccup quickly locked it.

"Thank you," said Hiccup. "Now, go get the rest, bud!"

Hiccup retracted Inferno and then approached Astrid, who managed to disarm the Trapper she was fighting against, sending his sword into the air. She then quickly kicked the Trapper in between the legs sending a massive surge of pain his body.

Astrid then looked at Hiccup as he was inserting another canister into Inferno and caught the sword of the Trapper she disarmed. "I thought this was supposed to be a stealth mission."

Hiccup reignited Inferno and stood to her back to back. "Yeah, they always start that way."

Ragnar managed to slam a powerful elbow in the face of a trap and looked at the two of them. "If we wanted this to be a stealth mission why did we bring the twins along or Snotlout for that matter?"

"I'm asking myself the same question," said Hiccup.

"Look out!" Astrid yelled as a Trapper came charging into what some of the spear.

However before he could get anywhere close to them, Stormfly appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him. She then flew over the ship and tossed him into the sea before flying off.

"Thanks, Stormfly!" Astrid yelled.

Looking down at them from the mast was Hiccup's mother, Valka and standing beside her was her dragon, a Stromcutter called Cloudjumper. Cloudjumper looked at Valka with a concerned look about the mission.

"Run!" Snotlout yelled charging in with hammer in hand.

He then jumped off the cage he was running of throwing his hammer at the same time. Unfortunately his hammer struck nothing particularly useful and his cape snagged on the cage leaving them hanging in the air.

Valka shook her head. "Eventually."

Ragnar looked at Hiccup as he was spending a Trapper. "This is starting to get a little out of hand?"

Ragnar then immediately sidestepped and slammed the Trapper's head into the cage next to Hiccup.

Hiccup had to agree with Ragnar's assessment and it looked as if they had got everything Dragon. "Move out! We got them all!"

On that point a bunch of trappers was starting to surround the twins.

"I'm gonna headlock every last one of you," said Tuffnut pointing his beer at them. "I might even leglock you!"

Fortunately Barf and Belch were standing on the cage behind them and grab the two of them before flying off.

Hookfang too land on the cage where his Rider was hanging in a timely rescue.

"Amateurs!" said Snotlout, who was completely oblivious to his situation. "I was just getting started."

Hookfang then grabbed his Rider and took off, before he got himself killed.

"Clear out, guys!" Astrid yelled as she jumped on Stromfly. "Go! Go!"

"At least this part of the plan worked out," Ragnar sighed as he mounted Skull.

Fishlegs ran towards the side of the ship and jumped over the side and landed on top of Meatlug, who had been hovering below.

Toothless was making his way through the cages and something caught his eye. He turned towards one of the cages, but found it completely empty.

"Toothless! Time to go!" Hiccup called.

Toothless shrugged and raced towards Hiccup, but unbeknownst the Dragon Riders they had saved all but one dragon. This dragon resembled a Night Fury in almost every way, but it had bright white scales which meant that it was perfectly camouflaged within the mist and its eyes were bright blue rather than green.

Hiccup was still waiting for his ride and he deactivated Inferno only to find that he was completely surrounded by Trappers, all them armed to the teeth and they clearly weren't happy that he just stole all their profit.

"Oh! Hey, guys!" said Hiccup as he backed away towards the edge of the ship slowly.

A Trapper smiled viciously raising his sword, but at that moment Toothless came rushing in knocking many of the Trappers as he ran towards Hiccup. He soon busted his way through and grabbed Hiccup and the two of them took off.

"Ha! Ha!" Hiccup laughed. "You always have my back, bud!"

The Trappers were now left in a ship with almost every single cage empty and this wasn't the first batch of dragons they had lost.