Hello! I read your reviews and thank you so much to those who gave positive comments, I was actually pretty scared to upload this at first, not knowing what people would judge it by, or me and my writing style, because I am only in Year 7 (I know I have to be at least 13 to be on this site but I am turning 13 in like 6 months anyway so, yeah) and I write pretty dumbass things tbh, but overall, I'm really glad people liked this. Now, back to the story…

"Come this way! Quick!" a bold voice boomed through the grey, misty woods across from the riders' campsite on the cliff. In Hiccup and Astrid's tent, a certain pair of azure eyes opened to the sound of wooden ships creaking as the floated off the shore below their campground. "Huh?" Astrid rubbed her eyes as she tried to sit up, but then remembered her betrothed who had his arms enveloped around her. "Hiccup? Hiccup, wake up!" Astrid said while trying to pry off his arms. "Oh really? Now you don't want to sleep?" Hiccup yawned. "Hiccup, I heard someone's voice! And ships on the shore." Astrid explained, unamused by Hiccup's sarcasm. "Astrid, it's the middle of the night, it was probably just a dream." Hiccup said tiredly as he flopped back on his stomach, though Astrid wasn't having it. Just as Hiccup was about to shut his eyes again, the girl threw the blankets off her and walked out of the tent.

Hiccup also got up and sighed and groaned at the same time as his head wanted to go back to sleep, but his heart knew he had to follow her, he wouldn't want Astrid of all people falling into danger! Outside, he saw Astrid about to wake Stormfly, "Astrid, wait!" Hiccup whisper-shouted, trying not to disturb the others' sleep. He ran up to her and grabbed her forearm to stop her from touching Stormfly, "I'll come with you, just don't wake the dragons, Toothless is a nightmare in the morning if he doesn't get enough sleep!" Hiccup pleaded. "Fine." Astrid chuckled in reply. Then, she grabbed Hiccup's hand while saying, "I heard the voices come from down at the beach." as she leads him down the long way to the beach, now that their dragons can't fly them down there.

Eventually at the beach, Hiccup and Astrid slowly crept along the sand until they heard the same voice bellow aloud, but it sounded rather familiar. "Hurry up, or you'll be fed to the Submaripper!" Hiccup's eyes widened at the mention of the Submaripper. A few pebbles toppled off of a rock in front Hiccup causing the team of hunters to suddenly look their way and shout, "Who's there!?" Hiccup however managed to pull Astrid and himself behind the giant boulder next to the them. Astrid then began with wide eyes, "Hiccup, that voice sounds like-" "Ryker." Hiccup finished her off, saying the name with so much hate and disgust.

"Well, well, well, long time no see, Haddock!" Ryker abruptly said. Out of nowhere, a pair of bolas came flying at Hiccup and Astrid, who were still distracted by Ryker's mention of Hiccup. The bolas instantly wrapped around the pair, shocked faces on them when several hunters jumped out of the bush and surrounded the pair. Then, two of the hunters came up to them and started dragging along Hiccup and Astrid, who were now tied firmly back to back. "Oh! And looks like you've brought Mrs. Haddock along too!" Ryker said cheerily in his evil way. "How did you survive the Submaripper!?" Hiccup growled while struggling as almost loosened the ropes of the bolas, but the same two hunters started rounding on another rope, securing Hiccup and Astrid against each other even more.

"Simple! Just swam away! But that doesn't matter right now, what does is killing you for killing my brother!" Ryker confessed. "What!? I didn't kill Viggo!" Hiccup replied. "Lies! I watched you throw the Dragon Eye into the volcano, you knew Viggo would go after it, I saw it with my very own eyes when I got out of the water!" Ryker roared. Hiccup tried to argue back, "That was just to save Astrid! I never wanted to him to fall into the volcano! Besides, he never died after that! He survived the volcano somehow and teamed up with Krogan and Johann, but he-" "Then where is he now!?" Ryker shouted. "Uh, he, he's dead, but-" Hiccup was cut off by Ryker again, "Exactly!"

"Ryker, listen to me! Viggo died as a hero, he sacrificed himself to save me and Toothless! He changed his mind about dragons after Johann attempted to cave him inside a mountain, but a monstrous nightmare saved him! He then helped me defeat Johann but Viggo never told me he would have to get killed in the process!" Hiccup tried to reason with him. "You really expect me believe that nonsense!?" Ryker chuckled ominously. And with a nod of his head, Ryker commanded his hunters to throw the two onto their ship where they could be held hostage back at their main island, to slowly and painfully torture Hiccup and Astrid until they die. "Wait, no! You don't understand Ryker!" Hiccup tried to fight. "Enough!" Ryker ended the dispute.

Hiccup and Astrid were now sitting on the deck of the ship near some crates, still stuck back to back, letting Astrid get a sense of Hiccup's heat from all his anger, making her immediately grasp his hand, "Hiccup, calm down, don't worry, the others will find us, eventually." "How can I calm down, Astrid? This is all my fault! I even said don't bring the dragons, if we had them, we wouldn't be here right now! And Viggo, Viggo was only trying to help me and Toothless, he died while trying to save me, his death was my fault, Johann's hunters may have shot him, but because of me!" Hiccup vented out. "HICCUP! Shut up, none of this your fault! It is Johann's fault, he tried to kill him in the cave in the first place anyway, if Viggo died then, it would be Johann's fault, and it is now as well. And with right now, there's nothing we can do about it, we're just gonna have to wait for the other riders to wake up tomorrow morning and realise were missing. Stop blaming yourself, again!" Astrid tried to appease Hiccup. Hiccup just leaned his head against Astrid's and tightened his grip on Astrid's hand, indicating he was stressed, Astrid also just leaned her head on Hiccup's and the two fell asleep, while thinking about whether the others would find them or not, even Hiccup and Astrid didn't know where they were going!

Surprise, surprise, Ryker's back! Yep, I was thinking, since they're brothers after all, if Viggo survived the volcano when the gang thought he was dead, why can't Ryker survive the Submaripper too? This chapter wasn't too dramatic depending on the plot, but it'll get there in about 1 or 2 chapters, this chapter was just about why Ryker wants to kill Hiccup, and sort of a recap on the Triple Cross episode in season 6, because Ryker was too busy thinking Viggo's dead and planning against Hiccup. I hope you like this so far, remember to leave a review on what you think!