A/N: Sorry I haven't been posting lately. Between work, school (a summer session in Europe), and life in general, posting hasn't been easy to get to. Not to mention I've been on a Batman fix for a while so my imagination is currently in Gotham city. Luckily, I remembered I still had some old ones so here you are.

Disclaimer: I don't Own How To Train your Dragon or any characters related to it.

Summary: Hiccup gets Kidnapped by some Romans who had left Toothless for dead. Big mistake.

Chapter 1: Old Enemy

Astrid Hofferson was flying around Berk on Stormfly when she saw something in the waters below.

"Let's go check it out Stormfly." Astrid said patting her Naddar's head.

Stormfly nodded and flew down. Astrid gasped when she saw the figure in the water.

Swimming for the nearest shore was Toothless, her boyfriend's Night Fury.

"Toothless!" Astrid gasped

Toothless roared obviously glad to see a friendly face, but worried.

"Where's Hiccup?" she asked.

Toothless roared a bit, but only Stormfly seemed to understand. She swooped down and grabbed the flightless dragon by the saddle and flew him quickly to the shores of Berk.

When they landed, Toothless whimpered a thanks, pride obviously hurt.

But Astrid noticed it was more than his pride that was injured.

"What happened?" Astrid asked wishing Hiccup was there to translate as she examined the busted tail-fin. Luckily, the prosthetic one was the one that was damaged, but it looked like the tail part got injured.

Nothing herbs couldn't fix.

From the looks of the damage, Toothless had been shot down by fire-arrows.

Luckily, there was one stuck in the metalwork

"Is Hiccup alive?" Astrid asked Toothless

Toothless nodded before rushing to the water's edge. Obviously wanting to go save his rider from those kidnappers.

"Hold on." Astrid said holding up the arrow. "We need to show this to Hiccup's Dad."

A few minutes later,

Astrid had finished explaining what she had found while flying to Gobber and Stoick in the Great Hall in the presence of the rest of the gang and the elder.

"This was found in what was left of the prosthetic." Astrid said handing Stoick the arrow.

Stoick took the arrow and examined it. He winced as if he had been told that he was wrong and someone else was right and that someone else was going to give him the biggest 'I-told-you-so' in Viking History.

"Stoick?" Gobber asked.

Stoick showed Gobber the arrow.

"We need to send word to the Meatheads and the Bog-Burglars. It seems as if Bertha was right." Stoick said

"Did I miss something?" Tuffnut asked turning to Fishlegs.

"Don't look at me. My expertise is dragon stats."

"When you kids were just tykes," Gobber explained. "Berk was part of an alliance with the Meatheads and the Bogburglars. However, the alliance broke because we wanted to focus on the war against the dragons, and the others wanted to focus on the war against the Romans. Bertha warned us that if we weren't careful, the Romans would take advantage of our preoccupation."

"With any luck, they won't expect us to act as quickly." Stoick said.

"But Hiccup was caught riding Toothless." Astrid argued. "Why would they want him if there was that hint the war was over?"

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Meanwhile,

Hiccup was struggling between two Roman guards.

"For a scrawny brat, he puts up a good fight" One guard said in Latin

Hiccup glared. Little did the guards (and his father) know, his grandparents had taught him Latin and Gaelic. Even though his grandfather died when he was ten, his grandmother kept up the lessons in secret. The original reason was for diplomatic reasons. As a Viking, Hiccup was an explorer and would no doubt one day travel to the lands that spoke those languages. However, Hiccup took up the excuse that if he was to be banished one day, he'd be able to pass as a Celt or Roman easier and have more options to replace Berk as his home.

Hiccup was suddenly thrown in front of two men. Both wearing Roman togas.

One was a FAT man who was stuffing his face with food making the Vikings look well mannered.

The other was a thin bald man….who looked vaguely familiar

"THIS is the Rider of the Night Fury?" the fat man asked his guards.

"We saw the brat riding the black dragon nobody's ever seen before" one of the guards said. "Took about 200 fire arrows to shoot that monster down."

"Toothless is not a monster!" Hiccup argued in perfect Latin.

Silence filled the room.

"You speak the language of Rome?" the fat man asked

"You named the dragon 'Toothless'?" the guards asked.

The thinner man just shook his head as if he KNEW all along Hiccup was nuts.

"Let's just cut to the chase." Hiccup told the two men on the 'thrones' "Why am I here?"

"Simple."The thin prefect said coolly as he stood up "Capturing you was just the first step of my plan to take over the Barbaric Archipelago. Capture the tribal heirs, frame the other tribes, and start a war between the tribes."

Hiccup frowned. The thinner man was speaking perfect Norse. And there was something ODDLY familiar about this man.

"Of course," the thin prefect continued. "You ruined the original plan. It was to take on Berk separately from the others. Lead the best warriors to the nest and leave them for that Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus to destroy them. Then one day I went to go check on the Nest and the monster was destroyed and you Hooligans were mining up the place! I later learned that it was a Night Fury rider who destroyed my pawn and how he was going to be Stoick's successor. Imagine my surprise when I saw that it was you of all people Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III."

Hiccup's fists clinched. First off, this man had wanted to kill his father. That was unacceptable in Hiccup's book. Second, he called Hiccup by his full name. NOBODY does that unless circumstances call for it like official business.

But that still left the question of how this man knew him.

Suddenly, a memory hit Hiccup.

When he was seven, his father had taken him to an alliance meeting on Bog-Burglar Island. He and the heirs of the other tribes that were his age were out playing in the bog during the meeting and a band of outcasts captured the three of them and put them on a ship to ransom.

The Bog-Burglar heir got them out of their holding cells, the Meathead heir caused the ship to sink, and Hiccup led the charge against the outcasts after swiping a blade.

He had fought against their leader while the Meathead heir was rigging the ship and the Bog-Burglar heir was dealing with the rest of the crew. Mainly because the leader had issues with Hiccup's late mother and was taking them out on her son.

When the kids got off the ship and swam back to shore, as a seadragon had decided to have a meal of outcasts, they decided not to worry their parents and when they were asked why they were wet, they just admitted they fell in the water.

Hiccup gasped as he looked at the man's right hand.

It was a hook.

He knew of only two men who lost an arm. Gobber lost his left one YEARS ago in a dragon raid. However, the man who lost his right one…

Hiccup took a closer look at the bald prefect. Despite the lack of hair, even eyelashes, the face was the same.

"Alvin" Hiccup growled.

During their last fight, Alvin had admitted to being the one to orchestrate the death of Hiccup's mother so the hatred was mutual.

"Put him with the other prisoners" Alvin told the guards having done his gloating "But not in the same room."

After all, the dragon was dead, the Hooligans of Berk had no idea what happened to their chief's son, and won't until they get word.