Chapter Three: Four Heads of Trouble

A week had passed since Hiccup had met Luna. He had so many questions. What is she? Were did she come from? And where did her rider go? Hiccup wanted to help her but he had to do his chiefing duties.

" Toothless, plasma blast," Hiccup ordered. Toothless fired his plasmatic fire blast. The sound of the explosion scared the escaped warthogs into the direction of their fixed pen. As the last of them filed in, Hiccup and Toothless flew past the farmer. He thanked his chief for the help, then went inside.

"Why hello Mr. Chief," Astrid said as she flew up from behind Toothless, " how has your day been?" Both dragons landed at Hiccup's house. "it's been fine," Hiccup answered. Astrid walked over and kissed Hiccup on the cheek. " Eww, has Toothless been licking you again?" she asked in disgust. Hiccup laughed and kissed her on her warm lips. Then they decided to take a walk in the woods without their dragons. They walked hand in hand. Nether of them talked. But Astrid decided to break the silence.

" So, Hiccup, how does it feel to have your mom back?" She hoped that question didn't bring him any pain. Living his whole life with his dad. Then finally meeting your mom for the first time. And then go and lose your dad. Couldn't Hiccup have both parents? " It's really nice, you'd think living with dragons for twenty years she'd lose her ability to cook. But no, she's really good." Hiccup said. Hiccup watched two wild Terrible Terrors fight over an apple as they passed by. " Well, Hiccup, if you ever need anything, I'll always be here for you," Astrid promised. Hiccup looked at Astrid and smiled. The two were about to kiss one more time when Toothless came barreling out of the brush and tackled Hiccup to the ground. " Agh, Toothless, come on!" Hiccup laughed. All Astrid could do was laugh as her boyfriend got slobbered on by his winged pussy cat. " Come on you two, let's get back," Astrid laughed.

The night rolled in silently that night. And it came with a pleasant smell. One viking and his Gronckle tried to get in a little extra work on his vegetable garden. "Hope these beans are ready by the time of my anniversary, you know my wife loves beans," he told his Gronckle, Pebbles. Pebbles smiled in agreement. Pebbles turned and went inside to sleep. Just as she left, a sweet aroma drifted in from the south. Like a hypnotic trance, the viking dropped his equipment and walked away from his garden. He followed the aroma into the night.

The sun broke over the horizon the next morning. Hiccup opened his front door a yawned. " I don't know where he is, " Hiccup heard a woman said," He was workin' on his beans when I went to sleep, and now he's not here." The woman wore a worried look on her face. Then hiccup heard another worried viking. " She just up and gone this mornin'," a tall viking said," my nadder never leaves my side!"

Astrid walked up to Hiccup and asked, " Do you know what going on?"

"Well, I just woke up, so no," he answered. Hiccup looked around.

"Vikings and dragons went missing over night," Valka said as she walked up, " even Cloudjumper is missing," Valka was very worried for her dragon. " Don't worry mom, I'll find him, " Hiccup promised her, " and I'll find everybody else who is missing too." Hiccup and his friends spent the day scouting the island for the missing people and dragons, no luck. That night, Hiccup decided to continue reading about Luna. She seemed so much more than she was. She spoke. If she could speak, then hiccup knew that he could get her to talk. Then he read something that took him by surprise.

' One thing that I've learned about Luna is that her jaw strength is incredible. I've tested it to be a force of 15 metric tons! And being related to the Saltwater Crocodile, one snap of her jaws can snap anything in between her jaws in two. For anything to come out of them alive should be lucky. It also could mean that she didn't want to harm anybody.'

Hiccup looked at Toothless, he came out alive. Toothless was resting on his bed. Hiccup continued reading. ' But despite that, her most dangerous weapon is her mind. One night I had a dream that told me that her brain is so advanced, so intelligent, it naturally formed psychic abilities. I don't know why I had that dream, or if what it said is true, but on one occasion, it was proven. " Psychic abilities?" Hiccup wondered.

' Luna first appeared in my hometown as what the townspeople called 'The White Beast'. At night she would come into town stealing food from the st-'

" Hiccup!" a voice echoed out of nowhere, startling Hiccup. Astrid came running up the stairs.

" Whoa, whoa Astrid! Calm down," Hiccup jumped out of his bed and grabbed her shoulders, " what's wrong?"

" Fishlegs and Meatlug are gone!" Astrid said out of breath, "and trader Johann is missing too."

"What!?" Hiccup. Hiccup jumped from his bed and ran outside. Everybody searched and searched. But, no luck. Not a single trace of them. Hiccup stood pondering on what could of happened when he felt a poke on his leg. It was Astrid's little niece, Dianca (which means morning star). He bent down to her level. "What is sweety?" he asked.

Dianca spoke quietly, " I umm, saw something about an hour ago." She glanced around, not making eye contact with Hiccup, she was very shy.

"Saw what?" Hiccup said gently.

Dianca clucked her lamb doll to her chest. " A shadow, it looked like four of them. Big heads, really thin, long necks. And for a moment, I thought I smelt chocolate."

"Chocolate," Hiccup wondered, " why does that sound familiar?" Hiccup thanked her for the help and when to the Book of Dragons. " This is it; the Snaptrapper. The Snaptrapper is a dragon that has four heads, each with three jaws. Their tail is forked like the Zippleback's, and they look somewhat like the latter as well. Their jaws open up in 3 different ways, which resembles a flower blooming, and the spikes on their neck, body, and tail look like leaves. All four heads of the Snaptrapper have three tongues each. Their tongues resembles the anther and the pollen of a flower, so the Snaptrapper could be mistaken as a flower or a kind of plant. They are one of the larger species of dragons, and have very long necks and tails." Hiccup, Astrid, and Valka stood wondering why these dragons would be talking people from berk. While on a far away boat, and familiar figure sails away with his berkian prisoners.


Dianca-It means morning star