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Chapter 2: Where Did They Go?

Suddenly something in the sky caught the chiefs' attention.

"What the..." He muttered.

Above hundreds of dragons are flying above Berk.

"What in Thor's name?!" Gobber exclaimed.

Snotlouts' dragon gave out a roar and went up to join the dragons above.

"Come back! Where are you going? Don't leave me here!" Snotlout called out to his dragon, who left him hanging on the roof.

Soon the other dragons were following suit.

"Meatlug! Don't go!" Fishlegs yelled, trying to keep his dragon from leaving.

"Sparkfire wait! What's going on?" Raeda called to her dragon. But Sparkfire simply left to join the other dragons.

"Where are Hiccup and Hicca?" Astrid muttered.

Oblivious to what was going on in the village, Hicca and Hiccup were flying Midnight and Toothless over the ocean.

"What do you say, guys? Wanna go again?" Hiccup asked.

"I say we try a new trick." Hicca suggested.

Before Hiccup could respond to that, the four of them were met with thousands of dragons headed their way! The four of them tried to avoid bumping into any of the dragons as they passed by. It seemed to be going well, until two dragons came from above, knocking the helmets of both the twins' heads!

"Oh, no! Our helmets!" Hiccup cried as he and his sister watch their helmets fall into the ocean.

"No! We can't lose them!" Hicca exclaimed. Those weren't just ordinary helmets to the Haddock twins. Their late mother had those helmets made just for them after they were born. Those helmets were treasures to the twins.

Midnight and Toothless, sensing their riders' distress over losing their helmets, dived down to try to retrieve the lost helmets before they hit the ocean.

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhh...!" Both Hiccup and Hicca yelled, neither was prepared for their dragons sudden power-dive.

"Toothless! No, no, no, no! Whoa... Wait! Toothless! Stop!" Hiccup said getting Toothless to stop, much to the dragons' confusion. Hicca did the same with her dragon. "We'll get it later, guys. We need to get back and find out what's going on." He said.

"Hiccup's right. We'll have plenty of time to look for the helmets after we see what's going on." Hicca said.

With one last glance to the ocean, Toothless and Midnight turned away and flew towards the village, where everyone was trying to get the dragons not to leave.

"What's the matter? Where are you going?"

"Come back! Why are you leaving?"

"No, no, no! Don't leave, Stormfly, don't go! Please?" Astrids' pleas fell on deaf ears as her dragon flew off to join the other dragons.

The Haddock twins and their dragons then landed on Berk "Astrid!" Hiccup shouted as he and his sister got off and ran towards her.

"Hiccup! Hicca! What's going on, here? Where are they going?" Astrid asked, hoping on them knew the answer.

Before Hiccup or Hicca could answer her, they were suddenly bombarded by the rest of the villagers, who were also hoping that they have the answer.

"Why did they leave?"

"What's happening?"

"Will they ever come back?"

This became too much for Hicca and Hiccup as they themselves were struggling to understand what was going on.

"Stop! Wait!" Hiccup shouted, trying to calm them down.

Stoick decided to intervene and moved towards the centre of the crowd "Calm down! Give both of them a chance to speak!" That got the villagers to quiet down. He then turned to his children. "Hiccup, Hicca, where are all our dragons going?"

"Dad... we don't know." Hiccup answered. Hicca just shrugged, agreeing with her brothers' statement.

They then turned to see Stormfly flying by the cliff where Toothless and Midnight are. She tries to encourage two night furies to join the rest of the dragons, but Toothless can't because of his tail-fin and Midnight refuses to leave her mate. Hiccup and Hicca looked on with guilty expressions, both knowing the reason why neither of the night furies left with the other dragons.

Stoick called all the villagers to the Great Hall for an emergency meeting to discuss the sudden turn of event.

"Where'd they go?!"

"What if they never come back?!"

"Snoggletog is ruined!"

"It's not ruined!" Stoick shouted getting everyones' attention. "We're Vikings! We've spent generations celebrating Snoggletog without dragons and we can continue to do so! Now there's no telling where the dragons have gone to and why, but we have to have faith that they'll be back again soon. Am I right?"

Gobber supported his friends' statement "You're right, we are Vikings! We are tough!" That statement, however, was contradicted by the fact that the blacksmith had bells on his prosthetic arm and Snoggletog decorations on his helmet. "Most of the time..." He said sheepishly as he realized the contradiction. "Let's sing some Snoggletog songs!"

The eight teens, however, were gloomily in one of the corners of the Great Hall. When Gobber suggested singing songs, they simply got up and left the meeting.

"That was depressing..." Ruffnut said as she and the others walked around the empty plaza.

"I know! I was so excited to spend the holiday with Stormfly." Astrid said.

"I even had the perfect gift to give to Sparkfire." Raeda said sadly.

A whistling sound caught seven of the teens' attention as they turned to look at Fishlegs, who was surprisingly not upset with the loss of the dragons.

"Why are you whistling so happily? Don't you miss Meatlug?" Tuffnut asked.

That made Fishlegs pause "Me? Oh, yeah!" He then started to fake sob "I miss him so much! Well, good night!" Shielding his face from the other teens, he not-so-subtly walked away.

Raeda narrowed her eyes in suspicions "Does that give you the feeling that..."

"Fishlegs is up to something?" Hicca finished, also suspicious of the Ingerman boy.

Astrid suddenly got excited "I've got an idea! Let's come up with a bunch of new holiday traditions! You know, to help us forget the sadness!" She said to the others, hoping they would agree. When Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Raeda and Snotlout groaned in response, the blond Hofferson girl turned to the Haddock twins, wanting them to back her up.

Getting the message, Hiccup spoke up "Actually, Astrid might be on to something."

"Yeah, it could be fun brainstorming new and exciting traditions, bringing the holiday spirit back." Hicca added.

"Easy for you two to say. Your dragon can't go anywhere without you and your dragon won't leave her mate behind." Tuffnut said gesturing to Toothless and Midnight, who were both looking over the ledge of a cliff.

"Must be nice." Ruffnut said as she, Tuffnut, Snotlout and Astrid walked away.

Raeda turned to see her two best friends who were looking at their dragons with guilty looks on their faces "Don't listen to what they say. They're just upset with the dragons gone. Just leave the past in the past." Raeda advised. The twins looked at her and gave her reassuring smiles and nods. Satisfied, Raeda then went to her house to get some sleep. After she left, Hiccup and Hicca looked at each other and, as if they were sending telepathic messages to each other, nodded. They knew what they have to do.