I'll be going on holiday soon so I won't know when the next update with be.

Dragon Chronicles: Race to the Edge

By Ragnar the All Knowing.

It was been three years since your victory over the Berserkers and peace has rained all over the Archipelago, but it was not to last.

In the prison cells of Outcast Island a certain Berserkers was plotting his revenge. The cells had traitorous Outcasts and Dagur's loyal Berserkers that were captured during the Battle of Outcast Island.

"Meal time, maggots," a guard said tossing food into the cells.

After he tossed food the man inside the last cell, the prisoner next to him began to complain.

"But that's not bread!" the prisoner yelled in protest. "Why does he always get special treatment? Oh, Mr. Big Shot! Mr. Berserker Chief."

Indeed in side that cell was Dagur the Deranged. He had a scar across his cheek, grown a bread and had gain some muscle from the push-ups he did in his cell. His clothes here filthy and torn, but most of all since his improvement he had gotten even more deranged.

Dagur got up and approached the bars of his cell. "Oh, hey, you want some? Come here, I'll give you some," he said extending his hand with the bundle of food in it.

The prisoner looked at his sceptically, but against his better judgment he reached out for it. Only for Dagur to grab it and slam his face into the bars of his cell.

"I've been meaning to tell you something for the last three years," Dagur growled. "Your voice is really annoying!"

He then slammed the prisoner hard against the bars knocking him out cold. "Gosh, that felt good," he said cracking his neck.

He then removed the cloth around the bundle of food and found a key. He chuckled and unlocked his prison cell.

He then approached the nearest guard and took him from behind and then made his way to two other guard, who were talking.

"A woolly igloo?" one of them said laughing.

"Where did you hear that?" the other guard asked laughing.

Then Dagur knocked their heads into each other, knowing them out cold. He was about to approach the exit, but a guard noticed his escape.

"He's escaping! Dagur's got out!" the guard yelled.

Dagur groaned and charged at the guard and hit him with a bludgeon.

However, the alarm had already been sounded and more guards appeared. But instead of being worried, Dagur saw this as an enjoyable challenge.

"Oh, goodie. A challenge! " he said picking up a second bludgeon.

He then charged at them knocking out the first two with ease. He then tripped the next two with his bludgeons and kicked a third in the face.

As he was doing this the other prisoners cheered.

"Get him, Dagur!" a prisoner yelled.

"Show 'em who's boss!" yelled another prisoner.

Another guard appeared and swung his mace at him, but Dauger dodged. The guard raised his mace again and swung it at Dagur, but he dodged again and the mace knocked out the guard behind him.

"Oh, that's not good," said the guard.

Dagur then slammed the two bludgeons across his head knocking him out cold. He then stepped over the guard while whistling and approached the guard guarding the exit, who was quivering.

"No, no, Dagur, don't!" the guard begged. "I'm the one that gave you the key."

"Which makes you a traitor," said Dagur smiling dropping his bludgeons. He then punched the guard across the face. "I hate traitors."

He then removed the metal bar over the door and walked out. He ignored the yells from the other prisoners, including the ones from his own men. He saw an unmanned ship in the distance and smiled evilly.

"It's a new day, Hiccup," he said. "Hope you're well rested."

At Berk things were peaceful and a lot of things had changed. They had started work on a landing pad for dragons at the eastern side of the island and they built feeding baskets for the dragons.

Also with every dragon on the Archipelago discovered most of the Dragon Riders had moved on.

Snotlout was now working at the armoury, Gobber had named him Official Weapons Tester which meant that he was lunched out of a catapult about three times day.

The twins, much to the annoyance of everyone, decided to devote their lives to Loki the God of Tricks. There planks either scared pull to Helheim or send them there.

Fishlegs had truly found his calling and it was less dangerous than the others. He was now teaching the children of Berk the History of Dragons.

Hiccup was flying on Toothless across the open sea.

"Okay, bud, let's try the new move," he said.

Toothless nodded and at once shot up into the air.

"Yeah, baby!" Hiccup yelled as they broke through the clouds. "That's it, Toothless! Push it." They began to climb higher and higher and Toothless gave one of his famous Toothless' smiles. "You've got it! Climb higher." Then suddenly he heard a click. "What the—"

His harness had detached and Hiccup began falling back towards the ground.

"Oh, no, not again!" He yelled. He looked up at Toothless, who was still flapping his wings. "Uh, hey, Toothless!"

Toothless turned around and flew up close to Hiccup, who looked at him casual as if everything was normal.

"Hey!" he said. Toothless growled. "So just plummet or, uh… any ideas?"

Toothless then shot passed and seconds later Hiccup landed on his back. "I seriously have to get my own pair of wings," he said as he reattached his harness. Toothless just grumbled crossly. "Oh, quiet, you. Don't even start."

They then flew back to Berk and people cheered as he flew over the village. To think four years ago he was the local loser and now he was on of Berk's greatest heroes and that wouldn't have been possible if he hadn't met Toothless.

He flew over the armoury and witnessed Snotlout climbing into a catapult again. He was then lunched into the air and cheered.

"It works!" he yelled.

However, the twins appeared pushing a cart full of sharp weapons. They then placed the cart in the exact place where Snotlout was landing.

"Uh, Hookfang! Hookfang!" Snotlout yelled.

Fortunately Hookfang grabbed him and flew him to safety, but he wasn't so grateful.

"You just have to cut it close, don't you?" he said ungratefully. Hookfang then tossed him onto his saddle. "Hookfang!"

He then glared down at the twins. "There will be repercussions for this. Repercussions!" he said.

The twins just hi fived each other and went off to plan their next prank.

He then flew over the plaza where Fishlegs was giving one of his lecturers to a group of kids, which were riding on Meatlug's back.

"And if you look closely at the walls of the Great Hall, you'll still see puncture marks where the Speed Stingers attacked," he said gesturing to the Great Hall. "Interesting fact about those dragons—" he stopped just as Stoick and Gobber walked the steps. "Oh! Oh, look kids! We're in luck. Here come two of Berk's most famous heroes."

Both Stoick and Gobber looked down proudly.

"Ho ho! Heroes?" said Stoick. "I've got some chiefing to do, but I guess I could spare a moment—"

"Hiccup and the amazing Toothless!" Fishlegs yelled.

Stoick looked up and saw Hiccup and Toothless flying overhead. The children cheered as they did a loop de loop.

"—eh, to introduce my son and his Night Fury," said Stoick trying to save his embarrassment.

Hiccup then flew out to see and soon met up with Astrid and Ragnar flying on their dragons Stormfly and Skull.

"Hey, there you are," said Hiccup.

"Hiccup, we've been chasing you since the armoury," said Astrid.

"And you're not exactly easy to keep up with," Ragnar pointed out.

"Well, I thought we'd try out far north today," said Hiccup.

"Uh, can we talk about something first?" Astrid asked.

"Yeah, sure, if you can catch me," said Hiccup and zoomed away.

Astrid and Ragnar looked at one another.

"We need to tell him," said Ragnar.

When they finally caught up to Hiccup they saw him looking around the area with his spyglass with a very confident look on his face.

"You know what?" he said. "I'm just gonna say it. I have a really good feeling about today, guys."

"You say that every time we go searching for new dragons," Astrid pointed out.

"And you've always been disappointed when we fail to find one," Ragnar added.

Hiccup ignored their comments and kept on looking around with his spyglass. Ragnar gestured to Astrid to keep going.

"Hiccup, while we have a second, me and Ragnar wanted to talk to you about—"

"Oh, look, look, look, look!" Hiccup interrupted tossing Astrid the spyglass. "You see it? There's definitely some movement up ahead. Long neck, large head. Behind that rock formation."

"Yeah, anyway, we wanted to tell you—" Hiccup then zoomed towards the rock formation and Astrid and Ragnar sighed in annoyance.

Hiccup flew closer towards the rock formation like a kid at Snoggletog.

"This is it, Toothless. A new species of dragon, bud," he said excitedly.

However, when they flew around the rock formation it turned out to be the twins riding on Barf and Belch. They had just played a trick on Hiccup.

"Loki'd!" they yelled.

"Ha! You totally thought 'Barch' was a new dragon," Tuffnut laughed.

"Oh, come on! Did not," Hiccup yelled in frustration. He looked down at Toothless. "Let's go, bud."

They then flew off.

"Wow, who yanked in his mutton?" said Tuffnut.

Hiccup and Toothless had landed on another rock formation looking out to sea. Toothless was nudging Hiccup, who petted him.

Soon Astrid and Ragnar landed and hopped off their dragons to join him. They could tell that the twins prank had hit him hard.

"Hiccup, those guys are muttonheads," said Astrid.

"Yeah, they think agonising death is fun," said Ragnar.

"But you have to admit, we've visited every island, every sea stack and every rock in the archipelago," said Astrid.

"Twice," Ragnar added. "And we haven't spotted a new dragon in a long time."

"This can't be all there is," said Hiccup. "There has to be something more out there." He looked at Ragnar. "You've seen different species of dragon in your visons.

"Like I told you before I can't tell if their dreams or not and I don't know when they'll happen," Ragnar reminded. "For all I know they'll happen from a hundred years from now."

"He's right, Hiccup," said Astrid. "What if there isn't? What if we're do? What is the search is over?"

"It can't be," said Hiccup firmly.

Astrid sighed and looked at Ragnar, who nodded. "Well, it's over for us," she said.

"We've been trying to tell you," said Ragnar uneasily.

"Stormfly and I, we're joining the Berk Guard," said Astrid.

"And Gothi has asked me to be her apprentice," said Ragnar.

Hiccup stared at them. "Oh. That's great," he said. "I'm happy for you guys."

They both knew Hiccup was anything, but happy.

"Look, maybe you should give so thought to what's next for you and Toothless," Astrid suggested.

"Yeah, you can't just fly around forever," said Ragnar.

Then he and Astrid got on their dragons and flew off. Leaving Hiccup behind to ponder on their words.

Later that night he entered the arena with Toothless and closed the empty pen. He looked at Toothless, who was watching him closely.

"Guess it's just you and me from now on, bud," he said smiling.

He walked out of the arena, though he could forget Astrid and Ragnar's words.

The next morning, Bucket and Mulch were out fishing. Bucket was trying to pull a net full of fish onto the ship.

"Oh, come on," he grunted. "Mulch, I can't get it!"

Normally Bucket wouldn't have a problem with the fishing net.

"What's the problem, Bucket?" Mulch asked confused.

"I'm not sure, Mulch. I can't raise the net. Something's pulling at it." Then they looked at each other. "Do you think—"

"Sea Monster!" they both yelled.

Suddenly something rose out of the water and sprayed them with water. They both screamed, but stopped when they saw it was the twins on top of Barf and Belch.

"Loki'd!" the twins yelled in triumph.

"Gah, you—" Bucket stopped and realised that the twins were carrying an extra passenger. "Johann?"

Indeed Johann was lying on Belch's neck. He was damp, weak and barely unconscious. The twins hadn't noticed him at all. "Help me," he said weakly.

"Aw, man you should have seen the looks on your faces. Priceless," said Tuffnut, who was totally oblivious to the fact that Johann was right behind him.

"Full Loki!" the twins yelled.

"Bet you never saw a full Loki coming, am I right Johann?" said Tuffnut looking back at Johann. He then realised who was behind. "Johann?"

Johann responded by spitting water out.

Meanwhile, at the chief house, Stoick was having lunch. Then he saw Hiccup entering and looked quite surprised.

"Hiccup, what are you doing home so early?" he asked.

"Oh, I was just… wanted to spend some time with my dear old dad," said Hiccup. Stoick didn't look convinced as Hiccup leaned against the wall. "Yeah, you know, we never get to talk anymore. So…"

Stoick could tell something was bothering his son. "All right, what is it?" he asked.

"What's what? 'What is it?' Can't a son spend some quality time with his father?" Hiccup asked.

"Not this one," said Stoick pointing his tankard at him. "Not usually, at least. So let's hear it."

Hiccup sighed and sat down in the chair opposite him. "All right. Did you know Astrid joined the Berk Guard? And Ragnar is taking up the position of Gothi's apprentice?"

"I'd heard that," said Stoick taking a sip of mead. "Good for them."

"And the other riders have got their different things going on," Hiccup added.

"What are you saying, son?" Stoick asked curiously.

"I'm saying, I don't know. Maybe it's time for me—"

They were then interrupted when the twins burst open the door carrying Johann under each arm.

"Johann!" said Stoick getting up. "What happened to you?"

"Ooh, Dagur!" he said weakly.

"What about Dagur?" said Hiccup getting up as well.

"He's out," said Johann. "He's more berserk more than ever. And from the way he was talking, Hiccup… you're number one on his revenge list."

He then passed out and everyone looked at each other.

Half an hour later, Hiccup had gathered the other Dragon Riders and had filled them in about Dagur's escape. They were standing in front of the map of the Archipelago.

"All we got out of Johann before he passed out was this: Dagur escaped from Outcast Island by commandeering his ship. He threw Johann overboard about here," Hiccup explained pointing at the sea just outside of Outcast Island.

"So what you're saying is Dagur could be anywhere by now," said Snotlout.

"Well, technically, yes," Hiccup agreed.

"Oh, great! Great, great, great," Snotlout muttered. "So that just leaves—I don't know, let me think about this—the entire ocean so search! No, thank you."

"Hey, nobody said it was going to be easy," said Ragnar.

Then Johann entered the arena looking a lot healthier. "Master Hiccup," said he joyfully.

"Johann, you awake," said Hiccup.

"And feeling much better. Thank you for asking," said Johann. "More importantly, I have more than a strong suspicion where ore nefarious foe may be heading."

Hiccup noticed that he was gesturing to the fog bank in the north. "Outside the archipelago?" he said.

"No! Just inside the fog bank on our outer group of islands," said Johann.

"We've been out that far," said Hiccup looking troubled.

"When Dagur commandeered mu precious ship, he also came into possession of a very important map—one that leads to a graveyard of ships hidden in that fog bank."

"Wow! That's the first place I'd go," Snotlout muttered.

"If I may be allowed to finish?" said Johann impatiently.

"Johann, last time we allowed you to finish, we ended up on Breakneck Bog," Snotlout reminded. "So, no—No finishing."

"Enough!" Hiccup yelled. He then looked at Johann. "What so special about the graveyard and why would he go there?"

Johann just smiled. "Well, you see—"

"The short version, please."

Johann looked disappointed, but continued. "It's where I store all my treasure and wares," he said.

Everyone just stared at him.

"Wow, concise, to the point. Who know he had it in him?" said Tuffnut stunned.

However, Johann couldn't contain himself. "Which reminds me of the first time I was labeled 'concise'! He was a young man, very ugly, actually—"

"Johann," Hiccup cut in.

"Yes?"

"Forces. Is there anything else?"

"As a matter of fact there is one ship you most avoid at all cost," Johann said firmly. "It's called… the Reaper." Everyone just stared at him. "Riddled with booby traps from stem to stern. Barely made it out with my life the only time I dared venture aboard. Oh, wow!"

Hiccup looked at Toothless. "Okay, Toothless, let's go," he said and then faced everybody else. "Unless, of course, any of you can make time out of your busy schedules to capture a dangerous maniac?"

Later that evening, all of them were flying north to the fog bank. Even though they were after maniac, Hiccup couldn't help to enjoy flying with the other riders.

"This is pretty great, huh, bud?" he said.

Toothless growling in agreement.

"Seems like forever we flew as a group. Let's see how rusty they are," he said smirking. "V formation!" At once the riders performed a perfect V formation. "Not that. Diamond formation!"

At once they took up the diamond formation.

"How rusty does this guy think we are?" Tuffnut asked.

Turned out they were a bit rusty, because the twins had flew Bard and Belch a bit too low and they were squashing Fishlegs.

"Uh, guys, little tide on the diamond, aren't we?" Fishlegs wheezed.

Hiccup chuckled as they flew out of formation. "Just like old times," he said.

At once Hookfang ignited and flew past Hiccup. "5,000 pounds of flaming muscle coming through!" Snotlout yelled.

"Ever a class act," said Hiccup shaking his head.

It was night when they finally reached the fog bank once they found a graveyard of ships just as Johann described. There were so many some Berserker, Outcast, there were even some Hooligan ships and several other ships that Hiccup didn't recognised.

"I knew it. I knew there was more," he said.

"Some of the ships? I've never seen anything like them before," said Astrid in wonder.

"Some of the ships may come from outside the Archipelago," said Ragnar.

"Okay, everyone fan out. If you see any trace of Dagur, send a signal," Hiccup ordered.

They all then split up and began searching for Johann's stash, but it was like finding a needle in a haystack and dragons were extremely nervous.

This was proven when Stormfly looked around nervously.

"It's all right, Stormfly. Nothing to worry about," Astrid assured.

Ragnar was having the same problems.

"Easy, boy," he said patting Skull on the side. "Just a bunch of broken down ships.

Elsewhere Fishlegs was having similar problems with Meatlug.

"Don't be nervous, girl," said Fishlegs. "We don't want you to…" Meatlug then spewed up lava, "do that. Ugh!"

Snotlout, however was totally oblivious to this and was more interested in the ships.

"Ha! Hookfang, these guys were awful sailors," he said. He then slammed into one of the sunken ships masts and was knocked off Hookfang's saddle. "Oh! A little help here." Hookfang just looked at him and stuck his tongue out. "Hookfang! Hey! I saw that look! What did we talk about?"

Hiccup meanwhile had found the ship the ship that Johann had described… the Reaper. It indeed look menacing and it was more the dreadnought than a ship, there were strange markings across the bow and on its sail and on the deck he saw cages made of a strange metal.

"That's got to be the Reaper," he said.

A few hours later landed on the ship opposite to the Reaper.

"No sign of Dagur," said Hiccup.

"Looks like we got here first," said Astrid. "What's the plan?"

"We wait," said Hiccup.

"Wait—wait a minute. For how long?" Fishlegs asked. "This book really gives Meatlug the willies."

"He's got point. We can't wait around here forever," said Astrid.

"I'm more concerned about the treasure on board," said Ragnar.

"Ragnar's right. Dagur will just steal them," said Hiccup.

"And use the profits to build a new armada," Astrid finished.

"And with the amount of treasure Johann has I'm willing to bet it's going to be a huge one," said Ragnar.

"Not if we steal them first," said Ruffnut.

"That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard," said Tuffnut. "I hereby disown you!"

"Actually, you know what? I sort of like it," said Hiccup.

Tuffnut looked back at his sister. "Welcome back to the family."

"Here's the plan: we set the ships, gather Johann's treasure and take it back to Berk," Hiccup explained. "But keep your eyes open for Dagur. He could show up at any time."

Suddenly they heard hissing noises all around them.

"What is that?" said Astrid.

"Eh, has Dagur's voice changed?" Tuffnut asked.

Hiccup looked over the bow of the ship and store giant eels surrounding them. He then turned and looked at the other riders.

"Eels! Everybody, get your dragons before they get spooked and take off!" he ordered.

Fishlegs was hiding underneath Meatlug. "Oh, hold me, Meatlug!" he whimpered.

However, all the dragons took off, apart from Toothless, who couldn't fly without Hiccup.

"Hookfang!" Snotlout yelled.

"Stormfly!" Astrid cried.

"Skull!" Ragnar yelled.

Suddenly one of the eels managed to get on board and at once Toothless began growling fearfully. Hiccup had a rush over to calm him down.

"Calm down, bud. It's only a couple of eels," Hiccup assured as he climbed onto his back. "Really big, screaming, mean eels."

They then took off.

The eels began warping themselves around the bow of the ship, pulling it down and the other riders were still aboard.

"The eels are pulling the ship down!" Fishlegs yelled.

Then all of them slipped and began sliding down towards the eels infested waters. Snotlout managed to grab the stump that used to be the mast of the ship

"Fishlegs, grab my foot!" Snotlout yelled. Fishlegs grabbed, but as soon as he did Snotlout regreted saying it. "Oh, you ate a full breakfast. You ate everybody's breakfast.

Ruffnut grabbed hold of Fishlegs, Tuffnut grabbed hold of her, Ragnar grabbed hold of him and Astrid grabbed hold of him.

"We're gonna live!" Tuffnut cheered.

However, Astrid lost her grip and fell towards the sea.

"Astrid! No!" Hiccup yelled and flew down towards her.

"Most of us are gonna live!" Tuffnut corrected.

"Hiccup!" Astrid yelled before she hit the water.

In the water Astrid saw the eels moving towards her and at once she pulled out her battle-axe. If she was going to die, she was going to die fighting.

Suddenly a plasma blast shot passed her and hit the eels. Astrid turned and saw Hiccup and Toothless, they had dived down after her. Once he was close enough Hiccup grabbed Astrid's hand and Toothless swam back to the surface.

At once the eels realised the ship and retreated back into the water. Toothless landed on the deck of the ship and Astrid hopped off his back.

"Thanks, Hiccup," Astrid said weakly.

"Pardon me, does anyone else think that Johann could have warned us about—I don't know, the giant screaming eels?!" Snotlout yelled.

"Snotlout, would you relax? The dragons will be back," said Hiccup. He then looked at the other riders. "In the meantime, we stick with the plan. We find Johann's treasure, quietly."

Snotlout stormed off and Hiccup sighed.

He then looked towards the Reaper and this didn't go unnoticed by Astrid and Ragnar.

"Why are you staring at that ship?" Astrid asked curiously.

"Because he wants to explore it," said Ragnar shaking his head.

Astrid stared at Hiccup. "The Reaper? The ship Johann warned us about?"

"And the ship covered from stem to stern with booby traps," Ragnar added.

"Exactly. I'm thinking, what is on there they don't want people to find out?" said Hiccup.

"Well, since I know that when an idea pops into your head there's no stopping you, I'll accompany you," said Ragnar.

Hiccup stared at Ragnar. "Rag, it could be dangerous—"

"Which is why you'll need a healer if something went wrong and an extra set of eyes," said Ragnar.

Knowing there was no talking him out of it, Hiccup decided to let him join him. They rode to the Reaper on Toothless' back and landed on the deck.

"This boat is definitely not from the Archipelago," said Hiccup as they explored the ship.

"You're right look at those carvings, the design of the sail," said Ragnar. "I've never seen anything like this."

Hiccup then examined the cages on the deck. They were made by an unknown metal and had strange writing on them.

"Look at this metal," said Hiccup. Toothless sniffed the cage and growled. "Come on, bud it's just an empty cage."

He then jumped when something shot out of the cage. It was a seagull which flew off. Toothless looked at Hiccup smugly.

"Okay, now—now it's an empty cage," said Hiccup.

Meanwhile, the other dragon riders were exploring the nearby ships from Johann's treasure.

The twins had found chest full of jewels.

"Jewels, jewels!" Tuffnut yelled carrying as many jewels as he could. "You know what we're going to do? We're bringing them back for the family. Mum will be so happy." He then realised that there was problem and looked at his sister. "Wait, but how are we going to carry all these back to Berk?"

Ruffnut opened her mouth revealing a mouth full of jewels.

"Great idea, sis!" said Tuffnut excitedly. "I can't believe I didn't think about that. Here, I may do it too." However, instead of putting the jewels in his mouth he forced them down Ruffnut's. "I'm also gonna put jewels in your mouth. Yeah, I gotta keep mine empty so I can talk."

Despite this Ruffnut egged him on. "Keep comin'. Keep 'em comin'," she said with her mouth full of jewels.

Tuffnut did what he was told and kept on putting jewels in her mouth.

Meanwhile in another ship, Fishlegs found something that made him felt he was in Valhalla. He found a room full of old books, maps and charts.

"Whoa! Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah! Fishlegs!" he yelled excitedly. He began looking around hardly able to contain himself. "Maps, old books, charts!"

He then began dancing around.

"Oh ho ho ho! There's no greater treasure than knowledge," he said.

In another ship, Snotlout was hoping to find something valuable.

"I'm gonna be rich!" he yelled as he danced around. "I'm going to be rich! Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich!" He then saw a large chest across the room. "Hmm, well, hello, Mr. Ornate Box. What treasure do you hold? Ha ha ha ha ha! Rich! Ho! Rich!"

However, when he opened the chest he found it was full of fake hair.

"Hair! Ew! Who keeps hair in a box?" he said confused. "There's got to be more." However, the only thing that was inside the chest was more fake hair. "More hair? Ech! Man, what a rip-off." He then saw a picture of two ugly Viking women with excitedly long hair and got an idea in his head. "Or is it?"

Seconds later he placed the fake hair in front of his face, pretending it was a beard and then pretended to be Stoick. "I'm Stoick the Vast! Hiccup, you're such a disappointment! Why can't you be more like Snotlout?"

He then placed the fake hair beside his head pretending to be either Ruffnut or Tuffnut. "Eh, I'm Ruffnut—or am I Tuffnut? Who could tell? Ha ha ha!"

He then placed the fake hair on top of his helmet. "I'm—oh, actually, this is kind of nice."

Meanwhile, Hiccup and Ragnar were still exploring the Reaper and reached the hatch that would lead them below deck. Toothless looked as though he wanted to anywhere, but here.

"Come on, bud. Don't you want to see what's down below?" Hiccup asked.

Toothless just growled at the hatch.

"That's not a good sign," said Ragnar.

"All right, fine," Hiccup sighed as he bent down to the hatch. "Guess I'm going alone."

However, the moment he touch the hatch he tripped a trick wire and a rope tired around his leg. Before he knew it the rope was pulling him across the deck with the attention of throwing him over board.

Fortunately, Toothless fired a plasma blast that burnt the rope, freeing Hiccup.

"You all right?" Ragnar asked.

"I'm fine," Hiccup assured and looked over the side. "But nobody goes to this much trouble unless there's something on this boat that they don't want found."

"Agreed, but let's be careful," said Ragnar as they walked back to the hatch.

They opened the hatch and looked down the dark room below them. They saw a ladder that lead below deck and Hiccup grabbed a lamp and Toothless lit it.

"Okay, guys, watch your step," said Hiccup.

Hiccup climbed the ladder down first, which was a good thing, because the moment he placed his metal leg on the floorboard a bear trap sprung.

"Glad you went first," said Ragnar relieved.

"Hey, one of the benefits of a metal leg, I suppose," said Hiccup pulling the bear trap open.

They then walked down the dark corridor with only Hiccup's lamp for light. They soon reached the brig and found the prison cells made of the same metal from the cages above.

Toothless sniffed the air and felt slightly uneasy.

Hiccup looked at Ragnar and Toothless. "Okay, let's just take this nice and…"

Toothless then then approach one of the prison cells and for some strange reason looked upset. Hiccup and Ragnar approached the cell to see what was up. And once they saw what was bothering him, because inside the cell was the bones of a dragon.

They looked at the other cells and found they were for dragon bones as well. Toothless whimpered and Hiccup bent down to comfort him.

"I'm sorry had to see this, bud," he said patting Toothless' head. "Whoever commanded this ship was certainly no friend of dragons."

"Why capture them?" said Ragnar confused. "Why not just kill them?"

"That's a good question, I don't think will find the answer here," said Hiccup getting up.

However, the moment Ragnar set foot on one of floorboards they could hear metal clinking. Ragnar had just set off a booby trap, they looked up and saw crossbows aiming towards them and before they knew it there you were firing arrows at them.

Hiccup raised his Gronckle Iron shield, which he created three years ago just before the Berserker War, to shield them, but Toothless protected them with his wing. The arrows just bounced off, leaving Toothless unharmed.

"All right, come on! Toothless! Ragnar! Let's go!" Hiccup yelled.

They ran for their lives as more arrows shot towards them, but once they reach the other side of the room the arrows stopped firing. Hiccup uses shield to block them and Ragnar knocked a few away with his Gronckle Iron twin swords, which he also made during the Berserker War.

Then they noticed a bright shiny door directly in front of them.

"The commander's quarters," said Hiccup. "Stay close, guys."

Once they reached the door, Hiccup looked at them.

"Okay, so here's the plan—" Toothless tin way to hear it, he blast open the door with a plasma blast and Hiccup just added him. "I like yours better."

They entered into the commander's quarters and found the command is still there or what was left of him, he was nothing more than a power bones. In his quarters they noticed more Dragon scores decorating the room and on the desk in front of them they saw the commander clutching a strange cylinder and a book which the guest was the ships logbook.

"What is that thing?" said Hiccup staring at the strange cylinder.

"Maybe the logbook and give some ideas," said Ragnar and grabbed the logbook. He opened it up found that it was written in a strange language.

"Anything useful?" Hiccup asked walking over.

"Hard to tell not written in Norse," said Ragnar studying the strange letters. "It's not Latin neither whoever the commander was semi wasn't a Viking."

"Well whatever it is, if it's on the ship, it's no good for dragons. Which means when not leaving it for Dagur."

"Agreed," said Ragnar placing the logbook in his satchel.

Hiccup removed the commander's hand of the strange cylinder, as quickly and as less contact as possible. He lifted it off its pedestal carefully, having a feeling he was about to sent off another booby trap, but nothing happed.

Hiccup looked relieved. "Huh. Well, that wasn't too—" Next second a large axe stuck the table where his right hand had been a second ago. "Giant axe! Guys, run!"

They didn't need to be told twice, but their path was blocked when spikes popped out of the floor ahead of them. Toothless grabbed the two boys and jumped over the spikes.

At once arrows fired upon them again, but Hiccup shield them with his shield and they managed to get to the ladder and climbed back onto the main deck. They then quickly slammed the hatch shut.

However, then they noticed they were alone. Dagur was on the deck with a couple of Berserkers, both of whom were holding crossbows. Toothless prepared to fire a plasma blast, but Hiccup placed his hand out in front of him.

"Toothless, hold," he said as he hid the strange cylinder behind is back.

"Hiccup! Did you miss me?" Dagur asked. "'Cause I sure missed you. Every day for three years. I thought about you."

He then stepped aside to reveal the other Dragon Riders trapped in one of the Reapers' cages.

"Astrid!" Hiccup gasped.

Dagur then looked at Toothless and Ragnar. "And you too, Mr. Night Fury. And you as well Raggy"

"Sorry, Hiccup," said Astrid apologetically. "He got the drop on us while we were searching—"

"Uh, quiet!" Dagur roared. "Can't you see my brother and I are having a moment?"

"I'm not your brother and we are definitely not having a moment," said Hiccup glaring.

"Oh, well I was," said Dagur sadly. He then noticed Hiccup's growth spurt. "Look at you, all grown up! And quite the ladies' man I'd wager. Hmm? Hmm?"

"Boy, Johann was right, he has lost it," said Ragnar. "Well, more than usual."

"Dagur, what do you want?" Hiccup demanded.

"Duh, he wants the jewels," said Snotlout, who was still wearing fake hair.

"He's not getting my family's jewels," said Tuffnut. "No way! And I'll protect them at all costs!" He then noticed the hair on Snotlout's helmet. "Also, what is with that hair?"

"Ha! It's royal hair, I'll have you know," said Snotlout brushing the hair from side to side as if he was royalty himself.

"Haven't gotten rid of the Greek chorus I see," Dagur noted. He then turned and faced the cage with his arms crossed behind his back. "Anyway, yes, I'll take the jewels. His too."

One of the Berserkers then slammed his crossbow into Ruffnut's stomach. At once she spat the jewels out of her mouth.

"Watch it, pal!" she warned.

The Berserker laughed, but stopped when she Ruffnut spat a jewel right into his mouth. She giggled as he choked on it.

"Oops, thought that was the guy. Never can tell with those two," said Dagur.

The Berserker finally managed to spit out the jewel, which hit Dagur. However, instead of being cross, Dagur turned to Hiccup.

"And I'll also take whatever it is you're hiding behind your back." Toothless growled at him, but Dagur wasn't afraid. "Come on, hand it over like a good boy." The two Berserkers aimed their crossbows at him and Dagur outstretched his hand. "Brothers share, you know."

Hiccup reluctantly handed over the strange cylinder to Dagur, who snatched it. "You know you're not going to get very far with that thing, right?" he said.

"Yeah, you might as well let us keep it," said Ragnar.

"Oh, boy, here we go," Dagur sighed and pulled Hiccup towards him. "Must we always do the same dance, Hiccup, you and I? Not that you're not a fabulous dancer."

Toothless growled and Ragnar had to hold him back so he wouldn't endanger the others. The Berserker aimed their crossbows at them and Hiccup rushed over to help Ragnar.

"Easy, bud, not yet," he said.

"That's right, Mr. Night Fury," said Dagur. "Today is not the day, but it's coming! And soon." He then got up promptly. "Now, if you'll excuse me. I've got people to see, an army to build, revenge to plot. Ooh, so much to do and so little time. Isn't this exciting, Hiccup? You—you must have been so bored over the last three years."

"Yeah, he's got a point about that," said Tuffnut. "Not enough explosions."

Dagur ignored him and grasped Hiccup's shoulders. "Alas, my time here has come to an end. Farewell for now, brother," he said pulling him closer. "Until we meet again on the field of battle."

He and his Berserkers then jumped off ship and climbed down onto theirs, which was anchored down next to it. Hiccup and Ragnar rushed over and watched them sail away.

They then ran to the cage where the other Dragon Riders were trapped it.

"Forget about us! Go after him," said Astrid.

"What are you waiting for?" said Snotlout.

"Their right," said Ragnar. "You go after Dagur, I'll get them out."

"Are you sure," said Hiccup.

"We're fine! Go!" Astrid ordered.

Hiccup nodded and jumped onto Toothless' back and they chased after Dagur's ship. But the Berserkers on the ship saw them coming.

"Here they come, sir, just like you said," said a Berserker looking at Dagur.

"Still predictable aren't you, brother," Dagur mused.

At once the Berserkers armed a catapult and aimed it at Hiccup and Toothless.

"Fire!" Dagur ordered.

The Berserkers fired the catapult, but Toothless dodged the boulder with ease.

"You missed, brother!" Hiccup mocked.

"Hiccup, you should know by now, I never miss," Dagur smirked.

Hiccup then realised that Dagur wasn't aiming at him, he was aiming at the Reaper. "Oh, no!" he yelled.

He turned and saw the boulder slammed through the deck of the Reaper at once the ship began to sank and the other Dragon Riders were still trapped on it. He could hear their screams coming from the cage as Ragnar desperately tried to get them out.

"What's it going to be, Hiccup?" Dagur asked smirking. "Catch me, save your friends? Ooh, tough one! Glad I'm not in your shoe."

Dagur and his Berserkers began to laugh.