"Hiccup! That netter trap over there has something in it!" Shouted Fishlegs over the sound of the wind.
"Come on!" Astrid started diving and soon everyone was on the ground. By the time everyone landed, Astrid had already managed to release the dragon.
"It's a Hobblegrunt."
"It's strange. This place hasn't been used to trap dragons for ages, but this trap looks new…" Hiccup said as everyone waited for the Hobblegrunt to climb out.
CLANG
"Step away from the Hobblegrunt, you trappers!"
"Whoa! Hold up!" Hiccup said raising his hands a bit, as everyone faced a person. They carried a long staff jangling with metal and wore a skull of a dragon.
"Away!" They shouted and swung their staff.
"You say we're the trappers, yet you wear the skull of a dragon on your head!" Astrid shouted. Toothless and the other dragons stepped forward from the trees.
"Riders! Tomb!" Smoke quickly covered the clearing, when the smoke cleared the person was gone.
"What was that?" Hiccup and everyone stared at the spot where the person had been.
"He appeared to be wearing a dragon skull of some kind. Let me think about what dragon's skull that was… It wasn't a Deadly Nadder, but the horns were quite similar… A Snafflefang…." Fishlegs continued as the dragons flew around a sea stack.
"Where'd all that smoke come from?" Snoutlout yelled
"From a tomb!" The twins said simultaneously.
"Uh, I don't think that that was what they meant."
"You're probably right Hiccup. Tomb must have been a dragon." Astrid answered flying higher to join the conversation.
"My guess is a Smothering Smokebreath, but I've never seen one generate so much smoke." Fishlegs cut in.
"Smothering Smokebreaths are trainable? Hiccup go train one for us!"
"Uh." Hiccup began before Astrid butted in with.
"Come on it's getting late."
-
"You met someone who thought you were dragon trappers?" Stoick asked, "didn't they see your dragons?"
"Well, yeah. After they came out of the forest, since they saw the dragons they… I don't know vanished."
"Vanished? Are they going to be a threat to Berk?"
"No, dad. I don't think so."
"Oh well, as long as they're not a threat to Berk. Good night Hiccup. Toothless." Stoick said as he walked down the stairs.
"Good night, Toothless"
-
"Wait, you want to go back to that Island with the crazy person?" Tuffnut asked.
"Don't we try to avoid people who don't like us?" Fishlegs added on.
"Are you crazy!? Why would we want to go back there?" Astrid yelled.
"I know it sounds bad, but why would anyone be out there unless there was something there?"
"That was one person," reasoned Astrid.
"Who trained a dragon." Astrid narrowed her eyes.
"If this ends badly, I am blaming you," she said
"This is taking forever, why are we even out here again?" Snotlout said after a long silent ride on their dragons.
"I can't believe that I'm agreeing with Snotlout." Astrid cringed and had Stormfly speed up. "So how much further, Hiccup?!" She shouted up to Hiccup.
"Not much further, those sea stacks over three mean we're a few minutes away." Hiccup looked over at Fishlegs. "Can you find that spot again?"
"Sure I can. But I don't think that we'll see that trainer, again." the island came into view.
"There it is. Took at those holes."
"There's so many of them."
The dragons landed and began to look around. The riders dismounted and walked towards the trap. Fishlegs looked down the hole. "Please, tell me these aren't Whispering Death holes."
"I think they are. They're pretty big, though." Snotlout said jumping down into a hole.
"Hey, don't do that how are we going on down there and. How get you out? Hookfang can't get down there."
"Hey guys, look at this!" Snotlout called up. Everyone looked down at Snotlout surrounded by a rather large dragon trap.
"Woah! I wonder what it's doing down there? A" Fishlegs said in awe. The trap sat snugly in the hole not giving it much room. Snotlout stood waving on a large pile of boulders that blocked the trap's metal teeth from closing.
Hiccup looked around and hopped down into the hole with Snotlout, Toothless curiously looked over the edge and gazed at Hiccup as he examined the trap.
"What does this mean?" Astrid asked as they all looked at the trap.