(On Eret's ship)
"You're coming back to Berk, now!" Stoick yelled. "Dad, I at least have to try." He shot off on Toothless to start searching. Stoick sighed, the other riders watched him carefully. "Go after him." Stoick said, "See where he goes. I won't have my son go kill himself in this forsaken landscape." The riders took off from the deck leaving Stoick and Gobber with the hunters prisoner.
Three Hours later...
Toothless was coming up over a cloud bank with Hiccup laying flat on his back on top of him looking to the heavens. "Aargh!"Hiccup yelled into the clouds. "I mean, does he really have to be like that?" Hiccup complained to Toothless. (Fake Stoick Impression) "I say fight a war son, he's a madman son, I'm going into retirement son," A shadow came up beside them. Hiccup did one last impression, "I stalked you here, son." He turned his head and jerked back. A figure in a dragon costume was seemingly gliding on the clouds next to him but just as suddenly as it had come, it disappeared beneath the cloud line. Toothless had seen the figure too and stopped, flapping in place. The figure burst out of the clouds but it was now clear the person was riding a Stormcutter with its four mighty wings disturbing the clouds. They two dragons circled each other with Hiccup warily watching the rider. Suddenly, Hiccup heard the sound of wings beating behind him just as a Thunderclaw burst from the clouds behind Toothless and him. "Down Bud!" Toothless just dropped and the Thunderclaw crashed into the Stormcutter making the clouds around the two dragons mass up and confuse the dragon figure and it lost sight of Hiccup. This allowed Hiccup and Toothless to make a quick getaway. Except... they didn't. As the clouds billowed around the two foreign dragons, Hiccup urged Toothless up above the cloud line while still being able to see the dragons who were just starting to untangle themselves. The dragon rider looked around almost in what could be considered...
desperation? Was this Drago? The madman who had burned down the meeting of chiefs? "He's skinny for a madman if you ask me, aye bud?" Toothless chortled and turned back towards Berk, but Hiccup pulled him back as he saw the rider turn to the heavens and yell in frustration just as Hiccup had not so long ago.
"Then again bud," Hiccup pondered, "This person might not be Drago." Toothless chortled again, "Let's follow them."
The Windwalker and Thunderclaw flew off towards the general area where Hiccup had seen Eret; Hiccup thought they were heading for the destroyed fort. Instead however, both dragons made a tight left turn towards a mountain of ice that closely resembled the destruction at Eret's fort. The two dragons tucked their wings as they flew into a crevice in the mountain and disappeared from sight. "Come on Toothless, we got to follow them." They flew towards the same crevice and shot down the passageway of stone until a light appeared at the end. Hiccup could see movement at the opening but couldn't tell what it was. As they neared the exit, it became more clear what it was, it was a swarm of dragons! Hundreds upon hundreds flying within the great mountain! Toothless landed just outside the entrance and jumped behind a rock looking around warily. Hiccup dismounted and kept a hand on Inferno. "See anything bud?" Toothless grumbled and threw a pebble at Hiccup. "What you think this is my fault?" "Yeass." "Well, try this one for size." Hiccup half-yelled, tackling into Toothless, "Are you feeling all my heart-felt remorse yet?" Toothless grumbled and started to roll over but then his ears picked up a slight noise just a few meters from them the other side of the rock. Hiccup got up and peeked over the rock, he saw the dragon costumed figure, but her mask was off! And underneath that mask was not the face of a hardened warlord, but of a kind looking, middle-aged woman who was now petting the Stormcutter and talking to it! "It was him Cloudjumper!" The woman said. "I could tell it was him! He's grown so much!" Hiccup edged over the rock more to better hear the words but the woman turned and saw a small tuft of brown hair peeking out from the rock. "H-hiccup?" The woman asked. Hiccup, knowing he had been spotted, slipped out from behind the rock and moved towards the woman cautiously. Toothless peeked out from behind the rock as well. "Do I know you?" Hiccup asked, still a little wary. "No," the woman said sadly with a bit of a accent, "But a mother never forgets." She smiled at Hiccup. Tears welled in his eyes, "Mom?" She smiled again and waved her hand. "Come." She ran towards a corridor but just as she was about to go in, five Viking teens dropped from a ledge on top of the opening and surrounded Valka. "Where's Hiccup?" Astrid yelled brandishing an axe borrowed from Gobber in Valka's face. "What did you do to him."
Valka, slightly more confused than afraid, turned her head slightly towards where Hiccup was standing and said, "Is this your girlfriend? I like her, she's got a fire in her." Astrid blushed slightly and looked past Valka and saw Hiccup. "Hiccup!" She shouted and ran to him. "Are you okay?" She checked Hiccup for injuries. "Astrid, I'm fine. Also, that's your future mother-in-law." Astrid turned back towards Valka who was appraising Stormfly's scales. "Hmm, she's your age, Astrid was it?" Valka said to Astrid. "Um, yes ma'am." Astrid stuttered still in shock from Hiccup's revelation. The rest of the teens came over and met Valka. After the exchanges finished, Hiccup turned to Valka, "This is great! Now we can go talk to Drago and settle this all peacefully!" Valka laughed, "There's no talking to Drago dear." Hiccup was about to disappear when Astrid stepped in, "Yeah Hiccup, we saw his fleet! We barely escaped but get this, he has some sort of leviathan or something attached to his ship!" Valka paused. "He has a challenger." Astrid turned to her, "Um yeah, I guess so. His fleet was hidden under the big ice sheets held up by pillars." Hiccup suddenly perked up, "Did you say pillars?" He asked Astrid. "Yeah!" There was a bunch of them!" Hiccup put his hands on her shoulders and looked into her eyes. "Astrid, how many pillars exactly? I need the exact number." She paused. "Seven. At least where his fleet was underneath." Hiccup thought about it for a little. "Mom, do any Changewings love in the sanctuary?" She smiled, seeing where he was going with this. "Aye, there's a whole family on the far side." Hiccup turned to Snoutlout next, "Snoutlout," Hiccup said. "How much Nightmare gel can you get from Hookfang before tomorrow night?" Snoutlout smiled smugly, "I see where you're going with this cuz," He winked, "I'll get at least SEVEN barrels worth." He ran off to Hookfang and some other Monstrous Nightmares that had gathered around them. Hiccup turned to the rest of the group, looking each of them in the eye, "The rest of you with me." "We're going to train some Changewings."
Endnotes: I couldn't find the exact number of pillars in the movie so I just made a number up.