"Today you will all be tested on your mental resistance to manipulation. Hanna will attempt to hypnotize you, and you will try to resist." Toothwing spoke, his serious leader-like strong side showing. Despite how often he kept this up, Hiccup knew he could be wing-loose.
He watched as Hanna, who was a tall, thin, slightly creepy lady with dragon appendages Hiccup could not identify. Her wings were long and a mix of many different colors that looked like oil on water. Her tail was long and snakelike, and she had ears that looked like fish fins. Her hair was a sickly grey, and her eyes were a piercing blue.
"What type of dragon is she?" Hiccup whispered to Kayden.
"She's a Slithering Snapper. The only known dragon that can hypnotize it's prey, but they don't have any fire." Said the terrible terror boy, seemingly eager to test his mind resistance. Couldn't blame him.
"Slithering Snapper... never heard of one of those."
The first person collapsed from being under the stone-cold lady's hypnotism, being pulled back up to his feet and slapped a couple times by Toothwing to snap him out of it. Hiccup felt an odd feeling in his stomach, a strange anticipation mixed with fear.
She tested the next person, who managed to barely hold up, but didn't collapse.
After that, she tested Kayden. Hiccup watched Kayden, who instantly seemed entranced by the women, who seemed to be making some sort of hissing noise as she hypnotized Kayden. Kayden was twitching, trying not to fall under her control, but looked like he might collapse.
"Come on, I know you can do it K." Hiccup whispered in encouragement. Kayden blinked, driving on in resistance, his knees wobbling but holding up. "You can do it!" He whispered once again, smiling and nodding. Kayden grunted, his teeth gritting but he was getting through. Finally, Hanna stopped, and turned to Hiccup.
She looked at him, her wings rising once again in a canopy around Hiccup as her piercing sapphire eyes bore into Hiccup's, instantly creating force on his mind. The hissing warped into words like mist warping into images.
Fall down... Faalll... Faaallll...
The words echoed and whispered into his ears, making every system in his mind run haywire as he focused on resistance. He could feel the dark clouds of her control lick at the edges of his mind, trying to put him under the control of the mighty woman. He was trying to resist, but the clouds rolled in, the edges of his vision blurring. He grunted, trying not to fall, but his knees buckled, his vision cracking and becoming blurrier by the second.
He was sweating, squinting his eyes, but soon enough his vision saw nothing but the bright blue eyes of the mistress, and he collapsed, his mind blanking into an abyss absent of thought or vision.
Slap! Slap! Toothwing administered two sharp slaps against Hiccup's face, starting to wake him up but he was still mostly in the trance. Maybe we should try the water?
SPLAASH! A cascade of cold water came down over Hiccup's face, snapping him out of it with a few panicked yelps.
"Phew. I thought you would never wake up." Toothwing said with a chuckle, helping Hiccup up. "You got pretty close there. Good job." He followed up, which didn't make Hiccup feel that much better.
"It's ok Hic, we all slip up sometimes." Kayden added. Hiccup smiled a bit, appreciating the kid's attempt to cheer him up. "Thanks guys. It's really alright, though."
"Alright, champ." The nadder ended with, hitting him on the shoulder. Hiccup looked at the strange woman, and could tell that something was definitely off about her.
Astrid, Stormfly and Toothless were all on Changewing island, searching for Hiccup as usual. Stormfly and Toothless were sniffing around, trying to pick up the smell of Hiccup. "There has to be something! I know there has to be!" She looked at the ground where Hiccup should have fallen to, finding nothing. "Maybe Toothless and Stormfly could find something... Toothless! Stormfly! Over here!"
Toothless and Stormfly came over, sniffing the area. They started pointing towards the wall of the cliff, sniffing the wall thoroughly. They hurried back to Astrid, jumping excitedly then pointing towards the cave wall. "There's nothing there... But maybe we could fly in that direction!" She said excitedly, hopping onto the back of Toothless. She blew the conch shell horn, calling everyone else on the island who soon came to her side. "Did you find Hiccup?!" Snotlout said excitedly, nearly stumbling off Hookfang from excitement. Everyone else was just as hopeful.
"We've got a lead. Come on, this way!" Astrid lifted off on Toothless, Stormfly following along with everyone else, and they started soaring towards the island where Hiccup was.