Timeline alterations: This is before Dragons Edge, after Astrid leaves the team. Dagur does not escape jail, he does not cause them to leave in order to recapture him.

Chapter One

Step One: Kidnap The Son of the Chief and his Dragon

"Fishlegs; Busy teaching people about dragons. Snotlout; Busy testing weapons, named official weapons tester by Gobber. The Twins; seem to have sold their souls to Loki. Now Astrid; The last rider who was still searching for new dragons with me joined the Berk Guard."

Hiccup Haddock let out a low sigh.

"Maybe this is the end of the dragon riders. Maybe I should try finding something in the village that the son of the Chief would normally do.'

Toothless coed and gave Hiccup a sad look. Hiccup reached out and patted the black dragon, stroking the scales on his head.

"I'm fine bud. Just a little disappointed. I was positive there was more out there to find. Astrid was probably right about there being nothing else."

Hiccup closed the doors inside the dragon training arena and started walking out of the dome with Toothless on toe. He turned and took a look inside once more before pulling the chain to close the arena. He proceeded to walk down the well walked on path leading from the arena to the village.

"If you don't mind bud, I want to walk to the village."

The dragon coed in response, as if to say he didn't mind and the two quickly fell silent. The day was a perfect day, in Berks standard, meaning no ran or snow and the sky was a nice blue with fluffy white clouds lazily floating around. So the only sounds being heard were the click of Hiccups prosthetic and the thud of Toothless' paws with the rare gust of wind.

Hiccup was so used to the loud sounds of his friends talking and laughing with each other when they were a team that this silence was a little unsettling.

Click, thud, click, thud, click, thud, click, click -

Noticing the lack of thudding from Toothless' steps down the path Hiccup inquired;

"Tired already bud?" Smiling he turned on his heel to see what his dragon was up to. Toothless was lying on the ground and looked like he fell asleep.

"Toothless how did you fall asleep that-"

Hiccup stopped abruptly when he noticed something sticking out of Toothless near his left wing. He walked over to investigate.

"Is that a dart?" Hiccup pulled the object out and looked closer at it. His eyes widened in fear. He quickly began scanning his surroundings, trying to see any sign of someone that could've knocked Toothless out like that.

"peek-a-boo, guess who?" A light silky voice came from no where and suddenly his eyes were covered by a pair of hands that were so cold the touch sent chills down his spine.

"Hey, what-?"

"Shhh!" He felt two of the mysterious attackers fingers rubbed his face to go down on his lips. "It's time to go to sleep Hiccup. Hope you have sweet dreams." At those words, Hiccup's entire body felt like he fell from the top of a mountain into the freezing cold water below before feeling nothing at all as he lost consciousness.

"Hiccup. Hiccup! My young friend you must open your eyes now." The dragon rider in question was finally regaining consciousness and could feel the moist dirt he was laying on and the cold, all too familiar, feel of medal bounds around his wrists. He groaned and a pounding headache interrupted any thoughts he had. Opening his eyes blurry vision was soon replaced by what looked like the moonlit entrance to a cave. The young captive struggled for a moment to lift himself up into a sitting position with his legs crossed onto each other.

"Where am I?" was the only thing he could say, each word adding another thump to the pounding going on inside head.

"Be quiet and still, the effects of my magic will go away soon." The mysterious voice once again chimed in, almost like it was in Hiccup's head. Even though everything in him said 'move, do something!' he listened to the voice, let his muscles relax and prayed to Thor they were telling the truth about the headache going away. What did they say? The effects of their what? Hiccup decided to stop trying to think because that made his head worse.

Toothless shook his head to get the blurriness out of his vision. When things were clear he got up, and realized by surprise that he was not in chains and he was free to move around. Knowing this he quickly started looking and sniffing for Hiccup. His rider was in danger, there was no doubt about it. Upon sniffing the ground he quickly came to the conclusion that he was inside a cave, the scent was also familiar so it seems their kidnappers didn't take them off of Berk, which made things a lot easier. He and Hiccup could just make a run for it and fly away! Things would be okay as long as he could successfully find his rider.

Out of no where he felt a presence so he flattened his ears and tried to look as menacing as he could to let the person know he would attack if threatened. He growled once and went silent, waiting to hear something.

"Toothless, it is okay." The words pierced the silence like a sharpened blade, catching the dragon by surprise. The person was behind him! He twirled around as fast as he could so the threat couldn't sneak up on him.

Who he saw made his ears perk up and his nerves were calmed.

Welcome to another story! Yeah I said I would no longer be making How To Train Your Dragon fics but here I am. I got fresh inspiration and decided to jump in and write! Who do you think it is? Toothless seemed to have let his guard down upon seeing his captive. Who could it be to have conjured that reaction out of the dragon? Follow the story to find out and read the rest of the adventure!

- Samanthera