"Okay gang, so it's been months since the dragon eye's lost and the dragon hunters are out there...as we know...unfortunatly... That's why we should do bigger patrol." said Hiccup.
It had been months since Viggo's victory upon the dragon riders, since Viggo outsmarted Hiccup.
It was a hot summer day, with really hot wafts. The dragon riders were in the Clubhouse, taking cover from the burning sun, and their dragons were laying in a corner trying to forget the heat around them.
"Great idea! Let's all burn outside!" Snotlout groaned.
"Yes, it is Snotlout. Indeed. Glad you liked it!" Hicup continued " 'cause I was thinking about a quiz-patrol."
"And what is that Hiccup?" Fishlegs asked, waving his hand in front of his face.
"Just something he made up right now to burn us ALIVE!"complained Snotlout, who was, by this time, wagging his helmet in front of his face in an attept to receive some fresh air. This not only wasn't working but increased the heat, as the helmet slipped throught his fingers hitting Hookfang's head.
Obviously mad, the Monstruous Nightmare lighted himself up, setting fire to Snotlou's butt as payback.
"Hiccup does't have to create any quiz-patrols for you to toast." Astrid played after extinguished the fire on Snotlout.
"C'mon guys, just a quick lap along with some dragon-knowledge questions should do it." Hiccup said, waving his hands back and forth, giving expression to what he was saying just like he always did.
Always the same Hiccup, Astrid smiled faintly.
"Does that mean we get to see Snotlout burn?" Ruffnut asked.
And always the same twins, she sighned.
"Urgh… yes, you get to see Snotlout burn…" Hiccup lied, otherwise the twins would never shut up and do the task.
Fishlegs mounted Meatlug, Astrid mounted Stormfly, Tuffnut and Ruffnut mounted their Zippleback, Barf and Belch while singing something about a Snotlout in flames and a I-don't-want-to-burn-complaining Snotlout mounted Hookfang who was still grumpy.
Astrid looked back "You're not coming Hiccup?" she asked him.
"Umh… not really. I-ahm, I wanted to conclued a project and besides I still have to figure out how Viggo outsmarted us all that time ago…" he ansewered her, his hand scratching the back of his neck.
"Hum… sure. Ok then…"said Astrid, even though she was worried about him.
Hiccup had benn killing his brain planning multiple ways to get the Dragon Eye back or just to foresee Viggo's next move. Sure they'd been distracted with other business and stuff but the boy'd always tried to have time to think about these things from the pasto or the ones yet to come in the close future. Summing up, everything related to the Dragon Hunters. Yeah, they needed to worry about that but Hiccup... she was afraid that with all of this thinking he could loose his mind or something.
"Wait so he doesn't have to go?! If he doesn't then why do I?" Snotlout removed Astrid away from her own thoughts.
"Because you" said Hiccup aproaching them "are wedged. You either choose the knowledge" he pointed to Fishlegs " or choose the axe." he pointed out to Astrid who laughted silently understanding what he meant and seeing the sarcastic old smirk on Hiccup's face.
"And…point made." said Snotlout taking off with Hookfang.
And with this the rest of the dragons and their riders took off.
It had been a "long" while since they left the Clubhouse and Astrid, Fishlegs, Snoutlout and the twins were about to head back to The Edge. They hadn't seen any sign of boats or anything that'd to do with enemies and they'd been flying for hours. They'd also ended their quiz. Snotlout had 5 points and the twins managed to have -6 points out of all the tons of questions Astrid and Fishlegs'd asked them. Unfortunatly, Snotlout won which meant…
"Snotlout, Snotlout oy oy oy!" He sang fot the 27th time.
"Come on Snoltlout. Knock it off. You're giving Meatlug a headache!" Fishlegs pleaded.
"No, you shut up Fishface! You're just jealous of my amazing intelectual!" Snotlout yelled " You don't even have one single point. Neither has Astrid…" He ended aproaching Hookfang to Stormfly, undulating his eyebrows at Astrid who almost threw up.
Oh Thor, why did you leave Fishlegs and I with these muttonheads Hiccup…, she thought, wishing he were there.
Stormfly accelerated in reply. " Thanks girl." She thanked petting her Nadder's side.
At that point, Astrid saw something and even thought she didn't notice, that something saw them too.
"Guys look!" she pointed out.
"OH Thor, oh Thor, oh Thor, this is not good." Fishlegs cried.
A group of fifteen boats was standing right below them. What the riders didn't remember was that it was a really shiny day, well… they remembered the heat that never disappeared but not the fact that there were no clouds, leaving them and their dragons exposed to the Dragon Hunters' ships.
It was too late. Nets, tranquilizer darts, arrows (both type actually, the ones with dragon root and the dragon root-free ones) started flying towards them.
"For how long have we been flying?" asked Fishlegs, as an angry arrow passed really close to his head.
"We left in the morning and it's now sunset. How did we distract ourselves like this?" Astrid asked, parring a bunch of arrows and darts, just to be caught in a net. Stormfly lost altitude and they landed in Viggo's main ship deck. " No, let us go!" Astrid ordered the soldiers trying to reach her axe, but the Dragon Hunters did the opposite.
With this both Fishlegs and Snotlout were distracted. A net covered Meatlug and Fishlegs and without using her wings what happend next to the Gronckel was obvious. They landed in the same deck as Astrid and Stormfly.
Snotlout flew out of the way of a Boulder but Hookfang was hit with a Dragon Root arrow, falling to the sea " Whoa, Hookfang!"
The twins tried to avoid all of the "cool things" (for them) but they had to get away to avoid getting caught.
When out of the Dragon Hunters' reach they flew at high speed back to Dragon's Edge, to tell Hiccup the marvelous yet deadly show they'd just seen and that the others had been caught in.