Chapter Four: Hidden by Night

After learning that Snaptrappers might be the cause of the disappearances, Hiccup tried to stay up to try to figure out why they would be doing it. But this body had other ideas. "Oh honey, I think you've got a fever, " said Valka "you should take it easy for a while." Valka touched Hiccup's forehead, it was burning.

"No, mom, I need to find out why Snaptrappers are taking people and dragons. A chief protects his own remember?" Hiccup said weakly.

"Yes, but a chief needs to be feeling well too," she laughed. Suddenly a noise outside caught their attention. They both ran outside to see what the commotion was about. "What's going on?" Valka asked when she saw Stormfly freaking out.

"I dunno, she just started going crazy," Astrid worried about why her friend was freaking out, "maybe she senses something."

"None of the other dragons are freakin' out, " said Gobber. Stormfly swung her wings around, and the spikes on her tail went up.

"Alright, let's get her into pen so she won't hurt anybody." Hiccup said. Gobber and Eret led an enraged Stormfly to a pen away from anybody she could hurt. Hiccup went back to his house and laid down on his bed. His head felt like someone threw a rock at it. Hiccup felt eyes on him, and when he looked it was only Toothless. Toothless put his head on Hiccup's stomach and crooned. Hiccup smiled. After about an hour Hiccup had managed to fall asleep. He dreamed that we was flying on Toothless. Just flying. With Astrid, Valka, and Stoick flying next to him. He felt happy. Having the four people he cared about so much be next to him. Then a faint chocolatey aroma drifted in. Like dust in the wind. Then out of nowhere, Toothless shoots down. "Toothless, where are you going!?" Hiccup shouted. Suddenly, they were among some sea stacks, which seemed to get bigger every second. Then the sky grew really dark. A shadow appeared in front of them. Then it raised it's head. It let out a shriek. It pierced the air like a knife. Hiccup covered his ears. He looked back at the shadow. It raised it's snout in the air, then opened it's wings. then it looked at Hiccup. Those cold eyes, where they? Suddenly Toothless vanished into thin air, and the shadow shot towards him. Hiccup screamed.

Then he opened his eyes. He was back in his bed and the birds were tweeting outside in the morning put a hand to his chest, his heart beating fast. Then he sighed, just a dream. But why was Luna in it? Hiccup looked up. "Toothless!?" Toothless wasn't on his bed. Hiccup jumped out of bed and bolted out of his house. He looked around, nobody walking around. Hiccup looked around his house, Valka wasn't there. Hiccup ran around the village looking for anybody. He checked every house. Nobody, even Astrid was gone. Panic started to overwhelm Hiccup. then he heard something behind him. He turned around. A dragon! And looked like a Rumblehorn! It must be Eret. Hiccup ran towards them. When the dragon landed, Hiccup saw that it wasn't Eret. But Alvin! "Alvin what are you doing here?" Hiccup asked.

"I was about to ask you why one of your dragons was flyin' out by itself without its rider," Alvin joked, "You losin' control of the dragons Hiccup?"

"No," Hiccup said quickly, "something strange has happened lately."

"People have been disappearin'? " Alvin guessed.

"Yeah, h-how do know that?" Hiccup was amazed that Alvin had guessed right.

"Viking an dragons have been disappearin' from Outcast Island the passed few days. The weird thing about it is that it smells like chocolate the very same night," Alvin said.

"Chocolate!?" Hiccup knew that both disappearances had to be connected. Then both Alvin and Hiccup heard banging coming from the dragon pens. "Stormfly!" Hiccup shouted. The men ran down to the dragon pens and opened it. Stormfly bursted out as if her tail was covered in eels. "Whoa, easy girl." Hiccup managed to calm Stormfly. "This is really weird," Hiccup whispered. Then it hit him, " Follow me."

"To where?" Alvin asked.

Hiccup hopped onto Stormfly's saddle, "To wherever they are, these tracking dragons should be able to find them." Hiccup and Alvin took to the air, letting the dragons smell their way to everyone. The dragons took Hiccup and Alvin to an island that was consumed in flowers of all kinds. "Wow!" Hiccup had never seen so many flowers in one place. The dragons flew down and landed near the center of the island. Hiccup and Alvin followed Stormfly and Skullcrusher until they stopped. In front of them were two large buildings. They hid behind some trees and tried to see if anybody was there. The door swung open on its hinges. out walked a familiar figure. Hiccup and Alvin gasped. It was Dagur! And he looked pretty pleased with himself.

"Dagur!" Alvin said with shock, "why that little-"

"Hold on Alvin," Hiccup stopped him, "look it seems like he has his whole Armada with him." Hiccup sighed, "what is he, the king of Armadas? Can't he go anywhere without them?" They watched Dagur walk over to his men, say a few words then leave to go back into the building he came out of.

"Let's just charge 'em," Alvin proposed.

"No, we can't just run in there with just the two of us," Hiccup said. Hiccup tried to think of a plan to rescue everybody. Then he smelt chocolate. He looked up and saw a Snaptrapper in one of the windows of the opposite building Dagur was in. Then Hiccup got an idea, "Come on, I know someone who can help."

They took to the air, then Hiccup got out a small book. "Find her Stormfly," Hiccup pleaded the Nadder. The dragon sniffed the book and got the scent. Then Hiccup let Skullcrusher get the scent. Both dragons flew a day.

When the sun started slipping behind the horizon, Alvin screamed," What we doin' Hiccup!? Who's this person that gonna help us?"

"Well, she's not really a 'person', "Hiccup shouted over the wind, "hey, look!" After an eternity of sea, they finally saw land. They circled the island 'till Hiccup saw her, Luna. She was just, sitting there. Desperately trying not to faint from hunger. Hiccup saw a medium-sized bag huddled under her legs. When they landed she eyed Hiccup with annoyance. Hiccup was reluctant to get off Stormfly, be he had to. Hiccup gingerly slid off the saddle. He told Alvin to stay where he was. Luna turned to face the vikings. A low growl escaped her throat. "Hey girl, nice to see you again," Hiccup started slowly.

"What is that thing gonna do?" Alvin asked breaking the silence. Then he got off Skullcrusher. Luna turned her head toward Alvin and growled.

"Woa, it's okay," Hiccup tried to reassure, " Alvin, don't move."He turned back to Luna. "We need your help."

Alvin laughed,"What ya doin'? Expectin' it to talk?" Luna decide that they weren't a threat, and turned her head away.

"Please, it's an emergency," Hiccup pleaded. Luna continued ignoring hiccup. Hiccup tried one more time, "please, Luna."

She was surprised. Luna turned her head around and asked, "How do you know my name?" Alvin was speechless. For once in his life he had no comeback. Hiccup was happy that Alvin was now on board, and that he was right. She can talk. "This is how," Hiccup held up the book.

"How did you get that?" Luna growled.

"You dropped it when you flew away when we first met," Hiccup said trying to seem brave. Luna looked away, trying to decide on what to do. Then she looked back at Hiccup. Then she walked up to him. Hiccup was overwhelmed. She dwarfed him. She had to twenty-three feet tall. He saw little red spikes just above her shoulders. Her secondary wings where hooked to them. She had three large, curved claws on her back paws, and five slightly smaller ones on her front paws. The two on the sides where a bit higher up than the two in the center. Three jagged plates hanged on the upper part of her lower jaw, both sides. One of each size; small, medium, and big. In that order from her nose to the tip of the horned crest on her head.

Luna placed her nose on Hiccup's chest. She felt his heartbeat then stepped away. "Uh...what was that for?" Hiccup asked all confused.

"Well," Luna began, "I can tell by the way your heart's beating that it was racing a while ago. Which means that either you were in some sort of danger or someone is missing. And since I don't see your Night Fury here it must be the second one." She sniffed the air, "and there's a faint smell of chocolate on you, I'm assuming it's from a Snaptrapper. But they are usually docile dragons. And that must mean that someone is using them to take people. And you found them, but thought that you outnumbered and wanted my help." She looked at Hiccup, "am I right on any of this?"

Hiccup was amazed, " Y-yea, you got all that just from my heartbeat and from the way I smelled?"

"Yea, my sense of smell is a thousand times better than a Rumblehorns," She gloated. Skullcrusher took that offensively.

"Well whatever, can you help us?" Hiccup asked.

Luna walked back over to where the bag was laying, "I dunno," She looked at the bag.

"We're wastin' time here Hiccup," Alvin was running out of patience.

"Please, I'll give you all the fish you can eat," Hiccup bargended.

Luna thought for a minute, " hold on, I smell some eels on you."

Hiccup looked at Alvin then back to Luna, "Well, I don't have any with me now b-"

"If I help you will you give me some?" Luna said quickly. She almost seemed like a dog, wagging her tail slightly.

"Do you like eels?" Hiccup thought that he was finally getting somewhere with her.

" Love 'em," Luna licked her lips, her eyes widened a bit, " add some rocks, a few plants and I'll help."

"Yea, all you want," Hiccup was delighted. Finally, Dagur was gonna pay for kidnapping the people and dragons of Berk and Outcast Island.

They traveled back to the place where Dagur was, it was nighttime now. Hiccup and Alvin could barely see an thing.

"So what's the plan now?" Alvin asked.

"Shh," Luna hushed Alvin for being to loud, "just follow my lead."

Both members of Berk and Outcast Island were all cramped in a room, wondering what will happen next. The dragons in the pen across from them tried to melt the bars but they were covered in dragon skin. Astrid threw her body against the door. But it was locked. She peeked out the window and saw Dagur walking to them.

"Well, I hope you all are comfy in there," he said sarcastically. Then he laughed as it own joke. But nobody else laughed.

Astrid threw herself at the door again, " You are a steaming hep of-"

"Dragon rider!" someone shouted outside. Dagur left his prisoners and ran outside, hoping it was Hiccup. So he can start the next phase of his plan. His men tried to shoot down as the dragon flew past them. But they all missed! Then the dragon turned around and came back. Then Dagur saw it, the metal leg.

"Ah, Hiccup," he said with delight. The men continued firing until they finally landed a hit. Dagur rushed over, but was shocked. It was just a nadder and a straw dummy with hiccup's metal leg. Dagur picked it up the dummy," This isn't Hiccup!?" Then he felt a sudden gust fly by him. It spun him around until he got dizzy. "What was that?" he asked. Then he noticed that his helmet was missing, "Where's my helmet?" Suddenly, the nadder(Stormfly) broke free from the netting and flew off before anybody else could knock her down. Unknowingly to Dagur, Hiccup was slowly hopping his way over to the building where his friends where. That gust of wind that blew past Dagur? It was Luna. She took his keys and gave it to Hiccup. As she flew in the sky she had in her mouth a lot of eels. She happily ate them, then sadly regurgitated them onto Dagur's helmet. The men on the ground where looking everywhere for a dragon to shoot down. But there was none to shoot. Luna was blending into the night sky. But how? Her fur was now black! She can change her color. She flew back to Dagur and dropped his helmet on his head. He removed it and was grossed out by the feeling and the smell, "Why does my helmet smell like," he sniffed it," eels?"

"Now Alvin!" Hiccup shouted. Dagur looked over to see Hiccup without his metal leg. Then he looked over to the other building and watched as Alvin opened the door and all the Snaptrapper fly out.

Dagur turned back towards Hiccup, "What's all this going to do old friend?" Then he heard a noise behind him and when he turned to what it was, he was shocked to see all the Snaptrappers glaring and growling at him. They suddenly attacked him. Dagur threw the dummy into the air. And Luna caught it.

"Oh Dagur, what you don't know is that Snaptrappers hate eels. they even hate the smell of it," Luna said from the sky," but I doubt that you can hear me."

After everyone was free they flew back to their home on their dragons. Toothless tackled Hiccup and licked him in the face. " Oh come on bud, stop it!" Hiccup laughed. When Hiccup was able to stand back up Astrid hugged him really tight. He hugged her back. "I missed you," he told her.

"I missed you," she said back. She let go of him and asked," that was amazing! How did you too do that?"

"It wasn't my plan. Luna thought it up," he confessed. Everyone looked at her, smiles on their faces. She didn't like all the attention.

"Yea yea," she said,"wasn't that hard to make up, ya gonna give me back that book?" She looked at Hiccup. Everyone was shocked.

"Whoa! She can talk!" Astrid said with amazement. Hiccup reluctantly gave back the book. Luna started to take off.

"Wait," Hiccup said," I also promised you food, remember?"

After getting back to Berk everyone gathered many fish, eels, rocks, and plants. They put it in a large sack and tied it closed. Then Luna stood up on her hind legs and opened her wings. She roused into the air and picked up the sack. Then she flew off into the clouds. Not before looking at Hiccup and giving a slight smile. Hiccup didn't want her to leave really. But "he" was waiting for her.