As most of you know, Berk is a small island in the middle of nowhere, so when we get a taste of something new, we tend to go a little overboard. Unfortunately, new isn't always good.
A ship was sailing towards berk and was docking at the docks.
"Trader Johann's here!" Bucket yelled from his fishing boat, Bucket then fell into the water as the ship went past.
Trader Johann was a seafaring trader who visits Berk from time to time, offering goods to barter with from all kinds of people that he met on his travels.
Every member of the Hairy Hooligans tribe were waiting for Johann to finish anchoring. At last, the foreign trader heaved a plank of wood over his shoulder and put it over the side of his ship, allowing them to step aboard.
"Ahh, Berk! My favourite of all the islands I travel to." He said cheerfully.
"Where have you been this time Trader Johann?" Bucket asked excitedly.
"Oh Bucket!" Johann said as he let Bucket come aboard. "The things I've seen, the people I've met! I'd need a week to regale you, but avast, we have limited time to conduct our business together."
He then stood up on a crate and looked at everyone. "Whatever it is you're looking for, I can assure you that you'll find it here!" He yelled and everyone rushed onto the ship and began to browse.
"It's all mine! I call dibs on everything." Snotlout said, jumping aboard and looking around wildly.
"I've got food of all sorts," Johann informed us. "Spices, exotic animals, works of art and jewellery! Not to mention knowledge."
Fishlegs picked up a book, looking like he was going to wet himself with excitement. " Trader Johann! Is this your only book on botany?" He asked.
Johann gave him an amused look. "Yes Mr Fishlegs, why it was given to me by the author himself!" He said with a smile.
Fishlegs then pulled out a small necklace. "How about this? It's made with dragons' teeth." He said dangling it in front of Johann.
"Fair enough, Mr. Fishlegs!" Johann said and took it gleefully and Fishlegs scampered off.
"Yeah, Johann I'll take this scroll." Ragnar said walking up to him with a scroll in his hand.
"Excellent, as long as you have the herbs in need." Johann said.
"Here they are." Ragnar said and pulled out a jar full of herbs from his satchel.
"Good doing business with you Ragnar." Johann said and took the jar.
Meanwhile Snotlout was admiring his reflection in a mirror.
"Wow, I'm even better looking than I thought." Snotlout said.
He looked at Astrid, who was handling a mace, and winked at her. She just groaned and looked away.
"I wouldn't look at it for too long it might crack." Ragnar joked as he walked up to Astrid who smirked.
"Are you okay, Gobber?" Astrid asked looking at Goober who was holding a large piece of silk.
"I'm better than okay," he sighed. "I'm in Valhalla!"
Hiccup then walked past with a jar full of ink towards Johann. "Oh, that's pure squid ink, Hiccup. Wrestled from the Colossal Squid of the Northern Waters." Johann said as he massaged his shoulder a bit.
"Wow, about this spy glass?" Hiccup offered pulling a spy glass from his satchel. "You know I made it myself."
"I know, you've already given me five like it." Johann said taking the spy glass. "Unfortunately, I've already got two eyes. What else have you got?" He asked giving it back.
"What do you think of this winch?" Hiccup asked, taking a winch out of his satchel. "Yeah, it'll help you pull up your gangplank."
"A welcome tool for a working man's ailing shoulder." Johann said, as he accepted the tool from Hiccup. "Consider it done."
Johann walked past Stoick who was handling a sword. "Wow, another sword." Hiccup said looking at his father. "Just what we need."
"If you must know, it's not for me." Stoick said looking at his son. "I'm heading off to my yearly meeting with the chief of the shivering shores. The man that last without a gift left without a head." He said accidently chopping off the head of a figure head.
He then turned to face Johann. "Johann, what will you take in trade." He asked.
"Stoick, it is but your good graces that I desire, when my humble ship pass through Berk." Johann said gracelessly.
"You're always welcome on the shores of Berk," Stoick bellowed heartily. "I'll be back in five days." He said as he walked off the ship. "What am I saying, I'll be back in two, thanks to Thornado." He mounted his waiting Thunderdrum who sent out a sonic blast.
"Ah, you finally named him." Hiccup asked his dad. "Thornado, huh?"
"That's right. Cause he has the power of Thor, and ferocity of a tornado!" Stoick confirmed, as Thornado, kept squirming, and Stoick tried to get him under control. "And besides, it's the only thing he'll answer to. Turns out he can be quite stubborn!"
"Can't imagine where he gets that from." Hiccup muttered.
"Up, Thornado!" Stoick commanded, as Thornado roared and flew up into the sky.
"Ah, men riding dragons," Trader Johann said with amazement. "What a magnificent sight."
Ragnar then walked over to Hiccup. "So, what's going on between you and Astrid?" Ragnar asked.
"What are you talking about?" Hiccup asked confused.
"Well, not that it's any of my business but you two haven't been acting like a couple for a while." Ragnar said looking at Astrid.
"Well It's just I don't know what to do and I have been busy with the Dragon Academy." Hiccup said.
Ragnar was about to say something but a green Terrible Terror flew past them. Toothless saw this rammed past the two of them knocking the jar out of Hiccup's hands and began to growl at Johann.
"Stay, distance, please!" Johann said backing away.
"Toothless, no!" Hiccup said calming Toothless down and turned to look at Johann. "Sorry Johann, he's just being protective."
Hiccup then looked at the smashed jar and the ink that was all over the floor. "Uh, it's gone." Hiccup said picking up a piece of the jar.
"Sorry lad that was my last one." Johann said apologetically. "But rest a shored I'll find that Colossal Squid and wrestle you another bottle."
"Oh, Toothless." Hiccup said looking Toothless sadly.
Later during the day, Tuffnut just finished setting up a new statue in the middle of the arena.
"How does that look?" Tuffnut asked, looking up at the tall stone statue.
"Beautiful!" Ruffnut said admiring it.
"You got that just for the academy?" Hiccup asked, noticing the statue.
"Yeah, we got them from Trader Johann." Tuffnut nodded in response. "We had to give him our great-grandfather's skull. We got to keep his clavicle."
"Wow," Hiccup breathed slightly, as he turned away from the statue to Tuffnut. "It's about time you guys started taking some pride in this place."
"Duck!" Tuffnut said.
"What?" Hiccup asked confused.
Quickly, Tuffnut and Hiccup ducked to the ground, just as Barf and Belch shot their gas and fire at the statue, making it stagger back a bit.
"That was awesome! I want to take a shot!" Snotlout said and quickly jumped onto Hookfang's neck. "Fire!" He commanded, making Hookfang shoot fire at the statue.
Soon, all the other dragons started doing it too. Stormfly shot her spikes, Meatlug barfed up a giant flaming ball, Skull fired a stream of dire. Toothless, fired a plasma blast, but it was weak and missed the target. Toothless sneezed, firing another weak plasma bolt that almost hit Snotlout.
"That's strange." Hiccup mumbled, looking over at his dragon.
"Hey!" Snotlout snapped at Hiccup. "Can you ever have your dragon to cover his mouth when he sneezes?"
"I'm Sorry, but that's never happened before." Hiccup said, just as Toothless sneezed again, before purring at Hiccup.
Later Hiccup, Astrid and Ragnar were on their days flying around the village.
"Look at those flowers." Astrid said as they flew over the flowers. "There beautiful."
Suddenly Toothless went out of control and started to sneeze again. "Hey what are you doing? Astrid asked as they flow over her.
"It's not me!" Hiccup yelled trying to get Toothless under control.
"What going with Toothless?" Ragnar asked as Skull dodged Toothless who cut in front of them.
"I don't know!" Hiccup yelled.
Toothless then crashed landed on the ground and knocked Hiccup off him. Astrid and Ragnar then landed on the ground and rushed over to them.
"Toothless!" Hiccup said getting up and running over to him. The moment he did Toothless just looked at him weakly. "You okay, Bud?" Toothless just dropped his head down looking even weaker. "Maybe he has a cold or something, do dragons get colds?"
"I don't know I've never seen one have one before." Ragnar said looking at Toothless closely.
"Look at that!" Astrid said pointing, as a green Terrible Terror fell out of the sky, looking all weak too and coughing a flame out of his mouth. "Well whatever it is, looks like it got to him too." She realized, picking up the Terror.
"Let's get Toothless inside so I can get a closer look at him." Ragnar said.
Moments later Hiccup with help from Ragnar and Gobber had managed to get Toothless in his house. Ragnar was trying to the problem with him but was not having any luck.
"Any luck?" Hiccup asked patting Toothless.
"I'm sorry Hiccup, but I'm better with cuts and broken bones. When it comes to something like this I'm afraid I can't do much unless I knew the cause." Ragnar said
"Well hopeful this should fix him right up!" Gobber said cheerily, taking a boiling cauldron of some foul-smelling liquid off the spit resting above the fire.
"What is that?" Hiccup asked.
"It's best not to ask." Gobber replied, setting down the pot in front of Toothless. "Whatever you do, don't touch it." At that moment Toothless sneezed again and some of the liquid got on Gobber's shirt. "Well, that's ruined!" He muttered. "I'll never get that yak to vomit again."
"Which is probably a good thing." Ragnar said
Then Astrid ran into the house looking quite worried. "You two have got to see this!" She panted.
Hiccup and Ragnar followed Astrid outside and saw I several dragons were lurching around in the sky, clearly not in control of their flight. Snotlout and Hookfang looked like they were having the most trouble, as the big Nightmare flapped crazily through the air.
"Easy, easy!" Snotlout cautioned, just before Hookfang's wing caught onto one of the central torches and commenced spinning them around.
Barf and Belch spun wildly before glancing off the top of a house and plummeting to the ground, taking their riders with them.
"Help her, Hiccup!" Fishlegs screamed, sitting aboard Meatlug. Meatlug was spinning like a top, looking absolutely exhausted. "I think she's sick! And that I'm about to be…" He added, clamping a hand around his mouth and burping.
"It's spreading to all the dragons." Hiccup said worriedly and looked at Gobber. "How do we stop this?"
Gobber thought for a second, and then his face brightened. "Gothi! She'll know what to do!"
Moments later Gothi was at Hiccup's house kneeling beside Toothless, examining him from every angle. She calmly pried his mouth open and looked inside, expression crinkling into one of deep thought. Scratching her head, Gothi picked up a cluster of chicken bones, shook them, and threw them across the floor. She gazed at them, trying to read the pattern in which they fell.
"I've heard Gothi can tell when you're going to die just by looking at your fingernails." Astrid murmured, and Fishlegs abruptly hid his hands behind his back.
"That's just an old wives' tale." Gobber said dismissively. "She looks at your tongue." Fishlegs covered his mouth next.
Gothi hobbled over to retrieve her staff, and began scribbling in the dirt-board we had set up for her. "She says the dragons are reacting ta something." translated Gobber. "Like they're allergic."
"Allergic to what?" Hiccup asked who was kneeling next to Toothless.
Gothi kept scribbling. Gobber squinted and read out slowly. "To a… moose… wearin' boots. Shouldn't be too hard to find." Gothi then whacked him in the face with her staff with a scowl. "Don't think that was right." He said as rubbed his jaw
"Let me try." Ragnar said looking at the scribbles. Luckily Ragnar was able to read Gothi's scribbles as well. "They're allergic ta something new that's just come to the island!"
"I still think that looks like a moose." Gobber said and Gothi whacked him again.
"There are a lot of new things on the island." Astrid said, looking a bit nervous. "Trader Johann was just here."
Gothi quickly erased the dirt-board and started anew. "She says ta get rid of everything immediately." Gobber said grimly. "Otherwise, things are just going to get worse. The dragons are going to get sicker."
"Or worse." Ragnar said looking at Toothless.
Later that day all the Viking teens had got every Viking to threw the items they got from Trader Johann into a large pit.
"I know this is hard, guys, but I promise you you're doing a good thing." Hiccup assured the long line of Vikings. "You're helping the dragons."
"It's the least we can do for them." Astrid said.
"Goodbye, beautiful." Snotlout sniffed to his mirror, before throwing it in the pit with everything else.
"Good think I wrote this down yesterday." Ragnar said throwing his new scroll into the pit.
"What are you doing?" Ruffnut demanded looking at Fishlegs who was furiously flipping through his little book "Throw it in!"
"I'm sorry but this botany book is a real page-turner!" He protested. "I have to know how it ends!" With a grunt, Ruffnut tore the book from his grasp and flung it into the pit. Fishlegs let out a sob as he watched fall to the bottom of the pit.
"I don't see you throwing anything in." Hiccup said as he and Ragnar looked at Gobber warningly. "And I thought I saw you buy something from Trader Johann."
"He did! He bought silk." Astrid said walking up to them.
"Hand it over, Gobber." Hiccup commanded.
"Can't do that, Hiccup. It's, uh, currently in use. It's me skivvies. They're glorious." Gobber said joyous.
"Dad!" Ragnar said glaring.
"Fine!" Gobber sighed, walking behind a boulder. Two seconds later, a silken pair of purple underpants went flying out and into the pit. Gobber trudged out, pulling up his pants and whistling cheerfully.
"I could have gone my entire life without seeing that." Hiccup muttered.
"Your luckily, I have to see that every day." Ragnar said and shuddered.
The next morning Hiccup woke up. He looked at Toothless who was sleeping in his usual spot.
"Hey, why don't we go out flying." Hiccup suggested. "Maybe it'll make you feel better." Toothless glanced up weakly. He opened his jaws wide, and sneezed. Luckily Hiccup duck before he blasted the wall behind me with a plasma blast.
Astrid was having a similar with Stormfly. She was patting Storm fly in her stable trying to make her comfortable.
"Poor girl." Astrid muttered. "Can't get comfortable, huh?"
"I know what will help!" She said getting up.
She turned around, but at that moment Stormfly sneezed and Astrid ducked just as several spikes shot over her head. Astrid looked back at Stormfly who gave her apologetic look.
"It's okay Stormfly, I'm a solider I've been shot at before." She said.
At the forge Ragnar was treating Skull using all the herbs he got.
"Don't worry boy, we'll get you fixed up in no time." Ragnar said giving him some herbs to eat. At that moment Skull sneezed and fired a jet of fire. Luckily Ragnar jumped out of the way in time. "If I ever find out who did this they'll be sorry that they were ever born."
Fishlegs was in his was in his room, massaging Meatlug's feet.
"Once upon a time, there was a little princess named Meatlug." Fishlegs recited without noticing us. "She was the most beautiful dragon in all the land. People would come for miles to-" He was interrupted by a huge fart from Meatlug's rear end.
Meatlug looked at Fishlegs with a sorry look. "I-It's okay, girl." Fishlegs assured. "It not that that bad!" He said holding his breath. "Smells just like rose petrels." He then fainted.
Later that morning all the Viking teens had gathered around to talk about the dragons.
"We got rid of everything from Trader Johann." Fishlegs said looking at all of them. "But our dragons aren't getting better, they're getting worse!"
"Let's make a list." Hiccup said nervously, counting on my fingers. "Maybe there's someone who bought something from Trader Johann and hasn't thrown it into the pit."
"Yeah, there must be somebody who didn't what to give up on what they bought." Astrid said.
"Or it could be that Outcast spy." Ragnar pointed out.
Snotlout, who was slumped against Hookfang, seethed in anger. "If I find out who's did this, I'm going to be so mad! Hookfang was so sick last night, I up all night scraping dragon barf off our walls!" He said.
"Yeah, well ours is dead!" Tuffnut said. Astrid gasped loudly and everyone eyes widened. "Just kidding. But he's really aren't that fun anymore." He said looking at the sleeping Barf and Belch.
"He just sits there. He won't blow anything up!" Ruffnut said.
There was a sudden roar, and they looked over to see Stoick and Thornado landing at Hiccup's house.
"Hiccup!" Stoick called as he landed. "Put this in the Book of Dragons 'Never fly on a stomach full of undercooked mutton'. The Shivering Shores will never be the same."
Stoick walked down towards them and saw that Hookfang and Barf and Belch were just sitting there. "What is it, Hiccup?" Stoick asked, looking at his son. "What's wrong?"
"It's the dragons, dad. They're sick." Hiccup said.
"And getting worse." Astrid added.
"Every dragon?" Stoick asked, bewildered and shocked at the same time.
"Yeah, every dragon and there's nothing I can do." Ragnar said.
Later that night Stoick was with Hiccup looking at Toothless.
"Poor guy." Stoick muttered sympathetically as he crouched over Toothless that night. "What do you think happened?"
"I don't know, Ragnar tried everything but unless he knows the cause he can't do anything." Hiccup said. "Gothi says that they're allergic to something new to the island, but we think we've gotten rid of everything!"
"But, if the dragons aren't getting better…" Stoick began to say.
"…Then there must be something still out here that's making them sick." Hiccup finished.
Suddenly, there was a pained roar that echoed in from outside. "Thornado?" Stoick said as he and Hiccup got up.
They rushed outside, and toward the back of the house. When they got there, Thornado was sprawled out on the ground tiredly. He opened his gigantic maw and a colossal sneeze erupted from it, Stoick managed to push him and Hiccup out of the way before it hit them.
"Sneezing, that's the first symptom." Hiccup said looking at his dad.
"But he was fine when we got back!" Stoick said, gazing worriedly down at his dragon.
"We should retrace your steps." Hiccup suggested, and he nodded.
Moments later all the Viking teens were with Stoick at the place where he landed.
"Well, this is where we landed." Stoick said, looking around.
"Okay, look around for anything out of the ordinary." Hiccup told them.
"Does that count?" Fishlegs asked, pointing. They looked in that direction and saw the twins crouch onto all fours, then leap at each other, their helmets clashing with a loud clang.
"I'm seeing stars." Ruffnut said.
"No way, me too!" Tuffnut said excitedly.
"Hmm nothing usual here." Astrid said. Then she noticed Hiccup looking at something. "What is it?"
Hiccup's eyes and ears were drawn to a sudden noise over in the distance. Beyond Ruffnut and Tuffnut, a small Terrible Terror was sniffing at a cluster of bushes decorated with blue flowers.
They walked over to investigate the strange plant. The leaves were broad and covered the entire plant. The flowers were bright blue, darkening to purple at the edges, with five petals and a white centre.
"Does anyone remember seeing these flowers before?" Hiccup asked, picking one for everyone to see.
"Astrid you spotted them yesterday, before Toothless crashed to the ground." Ragnar said.
"And they were here when I got back." Stoick said.
"It looks an awful lot like a Blue Oleander." Fishlegs said, taking the flower. "I recognize it from my botany book, chapter eight."
"Is there anything specific you can remember?" Hiccup asked.
"They're very pretty, very soft perennial and…" Fishlegs began but then his face turned to dread. "And poisonous to reptiles." He finished.
"Which means poisonous to dragons!" Hiccup gasped and Fishlegs dropped the flower. "This is serious… did your book say anything about a cure?"
"I don't know, because somebody made me throw it in a pit." Fishlegs said sourly.
"Well then go back and dig it up!" Hiccup ordered. Fishlegs then ran back to the pit.
"I don't understand." Astrid said confused. "Where did these flowers even come from?"
"Mildew?" Tuffnut said. Everyone then turned to look at Tuffnut. "I saw him plant them the other day."
"And you didn't think that was strange?" Astrid said glaring at him.
"No!" Tuffnut shot back. "Well, maybe… I don't know, quit pressuring me!" He yelled, turning away uncomfortably.
There was a sudden sneeze from Thornado back at the house, one that shook leaves from the Oleander bushes even from this distance. "Then let's go pay the old man a visit?" Stoick suggested.
Stoick took Hiccup, Astrid and Ragnar to Mildew's house.
"So what if I planted a few flowers?" Mildew protested after they interrogated him. "The town square's never looked better. I was merely trying to spread beauty and happiness!"
"Since when do you care about happiness?" Astrid demanded glaring at him.
"You did this." Hiccup said.
"I… wha…" Mildew stuttered, outraged. "I had no inkling, Stoick, that these flowers had special properties. Now it's no secret that I'm not a friend of the dragons, but in this case on my life, I was not trying to harm them."
"Yeah, and we never did find out who really blow up the armoury." Ragnar said crossing his arms.
"You have no proof that I did it." Mildew said.
"Let's go." Stoick muttered, as they walked out of the house.
"Ah, the poor dragons." Mildew said with a smile.
Later at the forge Fishlegs ran up to them. He had his small book in hands. He paused at the entrance, panting and trying to catch his breath.
"Fishlegs you found your botany book." Hiccup said once he saw him.
"What does the book say?" Astrid asked.
Fishlegs was hyperventilating not able to speak. "Care down, talk to me." Hiccup said calmly.
"My botany book says that the Blue Oleander is poisonous to reptiles." He replied, sounding close to tears. "And dragons are reptiles!"
"We know, Fishlegs! Was there anything else?" Hiccup asked.
He was hyperventilating but trying to calm down. "Not in here!" Fishlegs said closing the book.
"But I've found something." Ragnar said walking up to the with the Book of Dragons in his arms. "I remember that there was a mentioning of a dragon that feeds on the Blue Oleander. It's called the Scauldron."
Ragnar opened the book to give us a good look at the picture of the Scauldron. It was aTidal class dragon and it was huge and whale like, with a round belly and a snaky neck. It had a pelican-like pouch under its jaw, and its wings and tail were fin-like.
"If it eats the flowers I can make an antidote, like with snakes and spiders. But alas the Scauldron has no venom!" Ragnar said sadly.
"The book is wrong!" Gobber yelled, as he walked out of the forge. "I've dealt with Scauldrons before. They're sixty feet long with razor-sharp teeth! They shoot boiling water ta melt the flesh of your bones! The Scauldron has no fear, no conscience, but what it does have is venom and lots of it!"
"Well with that happy thought who would like to go dragon hunting?" Ragnar asked.
"I'm out." Tuffnut said walking away.
"I'm with him." Ruffnut said going the same.
"You guys stay here and take care of the dragons." Hiccup said.
"Just try and make them as comfortable as possible." Ragnar said.
"What are you two going to do?" Fishlegs asked nervously.
"Dad, Gobber, let's go find ourselves Scauldron." Hiccup said as he and Ragnar looked at them.
"I thought you'd never ask!" Gobber said excitedly.
Hiccup was in his room getting everything he needed. He also had a good look at the picture of the Scauldron.
"Look at that thing." Hiccup said in amazement. He placed the book down and bent down to pet Toothless. "You just hang on, bud I'll be back before you know it."
Outside Stoick was having the same moment with Thornado.
"Who's my dragon warrior?" Stoick asked. Thornado just moved weakly. Stoick then placed a sack of flour under his chin and the irony bit home. "Huh, I spent my whole life trying to kill them, now look at me."
Once he got up he saw Hiccup and Ragnar standing there.
"Dad, it's time, the boat is ready." Hiccup said.
"Just say the word sir." Ragnar said.
Before leaving Stoick looked at Thornado one last time and nodded at the boys.
Moments later Hiccup, Ragnar, Stoick, Gobber, two other Vikings and Mildew were aboard a ship loaded with Blue Oleander flowers.
"But this is an outrage!" Mildew said angrily. "I dug up the flowers, I did my part!" But Stoick wouldn't let it go.
"We're all out here because of you Mildew! If we have to put our lives at risk, then so do you!" Stoick said firmly.
"You have no proof Stoick! You can't blame me every time something goes a miss with your precious dragons." He said looking straight in the eye.
"Besides I wouldn't want to stay on Berk if I were you." Ragnar said.
"Oh, and why is that?" Mildew asked glaring at him.
"Well, because everyone on Berk had to throw all the things they got from Trader Johann and they might not be too happy that you were the cause of that." Ragnar said calmly.
"Alright Stoick, what's the plan?" Gobber asked, walking up to us with a bucket in his hand.
Stoick turned to Hiccup and Ragnar. "Hiccup, when Gobber and I secure the Scauldron's head, Sven will wedge its jaw open. We'll need you and Ragnar to-."
"To drain the poison into the bucket. Got it." Hiccup finished grabbing the bucket. "Let get started."
Hiccup rushed to the edge of the boat and placed the bucket and grabbed a sack full Blue Oleander flowers. "This is what Scauldron's eat. It'll draw them to the boat." He reached into the sack, and threw some of the flowers into the water.
Hours had passed but still no sign of a Scauldron.
"This would never work!" Mildew complained. "This was a stupid idea to begin with!"
Hiccup looked like he wanted to hit Mildew in the face but Stoick stopped him. "Easy son, that's not why we're here." He reminded.
"But that is." Gobber said pointing to the water.
Everyone looked over the side, and was a huge, luminous green shape swimming just below the ship. "Scauldron!" Stoick breathed.
Its tail broke the surface just behind the boat with a rippling, splashing sound. Then three seconds later, its head appeared just above the waves with a whale like cry. "I may need to change me skivvies again." Gobber muttered nervously.
"We need to lure the Scauldron, up on deck!" Hiccup cried, spreading the flowers everywhere.
"Oh, that's great get it on the ship where it can get us all." Mildew yelled.
"Yeah, here's an idea, why don't you shut up?" Ragnar said looking at Mildew.
"Gobber, you secure its neck with this!" Stoick called, tossing him a length of rope. "I'll lasso its horn!" The two burly Vikings ran to the bow of the ship, ready for combat.
But what they weren't ready for was the Scauldron to suddenly disappear. A full minute went by before Gobber asked the obvious. "Where did it go?" He wondered.
For the next minute nothing happened. But suddenly Sven's ore was snatched away and everyone saw it bring dragged away and sank into the water. Then they saw something coming towards them at ramming speed.
"Everyone hold on to something." Ragnar yelled.
The Scauldron hit the ship and was thrown into the air a short distance before landing with a mighty crash. The water lashed at the sides of the ship as waves were kicked up from the Scauldron's passage.
Everyone was thrown to the deck. As Mildew picked himself up the Scauldron's head appeared out of the water. The moment Mildew saw it he screamed and scrambling to his feet and running frantically to the other side of the boat.
The Scauldron rose higher out of the water, clutching the ship with its legs. Its weight caused the ship to tip violently, and all the Vikings began to lose their balance as the incline increased rapidly.
"Hiccup, I gotcha!" Gobber cried, holding onto the stern with his hook and grabbing my hand with the other. As Ragnar came past he grabbed onto Hiccup's legs.
All the Oleanders were scattered everywhere, which the Scauldron bent its head down to eat. I saw it swallow several of the Oleanders as well.
"Gobber, here's our chance!" Stoick shouted, and he and Gobber slid down toward the Scauldron. They snagged its horn and neck, pulling it down to the deck. It screeched in reply, its body slipping down into the water as it fought, allowing the boat to right itself again.
The Scauldron had managed to temporarily overpower Stoick and Gobber, retreating back into the water but rapidly being pulled back on deck which coursed the ship to leave out. The Scauldron tried to gets its head back into the water and Stoick and Gobber used all their strength to make sure that didn't happen.
"We can't let that dragon get back into the water." Stoick yelled and he and Gobber pulled on the ropes. "Sven, we need that barrel now!" Stoick ordered, and the Viking rushed over to the Scauldron's snapping jaws.
"I've got the bucket!" Hiccup called grabbing it.
"Be careful, son!" Stoick yelled back. "You don't want to get that venom in you!"
"Yes, I know, dad! I'll be dead in twenty-four hours!" Hiccup said.
When the Scauldron opened its mouth to roar, Sven threw the barrel into its maw. The Scauldron growled, unable to close its mouth. "Aha!" Sven exclaimed triumphantly but then the Scauldron smashed the barrel into pieces as the dragon bit down savagely on it.
"Sven watch out." Stoick warned as the Scauldron lifted its tail.
But it was too late Svengot swatted into the air and down into the water, quite a distance from the ship. The tail disappeared momentarily, only to reappear behind Hiccup and Ragnar.
"Son, Ragnar watch out!" Stoick roared suddenly, letting go of his rope and shoving them aside. The next second, the Scauldron's tail slammed into him, but he hung on with a grip of iron. The water dragon furiously lashed its tail in an effort to get him off.
"Dad!" Hiccup yelled.
When it brought its tail up to the mast, Stoick grabbed it, effectively trapping the Scauldron's tail. "I got the tail!" He shouted down.
"Hiccup, Ragnar grab Stoick's line." Gobber ordered.
Hiccup placed the bucket down and he and Ragnar grabbed the rope that still dangled from the Scauldron's horn and pulled with all with all their might.
"Pull it in, use the mast to wedge its jaw open!" Stoick called, and with enough effort, Hiccup, Ragnar and Gobber managed to pull it towards the mast. The Scauldron's mouth was trapped by the thick rod of wood, and Mildew suddenly found himself uncomfortably close to both sets of its thin fangs.
"Mildew, grab the bucket!" Stoick yelled.
"Hold on!" He protested. "It's one thing to-."
"Grab the bucket or I'll throw you overboard myself!" Stoick roared furiously, hanging onto the mast with all his strength. Mildew grabbed the bucket but before he could do anything they saw, steam began to hiss out of the Scauldron's jaws. "Everyone take cover!"
Quickly Hicuup, Ragnar and Gobber released their rope and hid us behind a stray shield. Mildew rushed underneath an empty crate as the Scauldron released its boiling water. The scalding hot liquid washed over everything in front of it, but luckily no one managed to avoid getting burned.
But the mast snapped and Stoick fell into the water. Hiccup tried to run over to him but Gobber stopped him. Then the ropes holding the Scauldron snapped freeing it. Mildew took one look at it and the Scauldron roared at him. Mildew panicked and ran, screaming, around the boat like a total lunatic.
The Scauldron noticed him and saw a Blue Oleander stick in his pants. Without a moment thought it sank fangs into Mildew's rear. Mildew howled, in pain and fell to the floor. Once the Scauldron got its fangs out of Mildew's rear it retreating back into the water.
Gobber went to help Stoick back on to the ship while Hiccup and Ragnar went to the bow of the ship and looked at the water.
It's gone." Hiccup said disappointedly.
"And you can bet that the last place he's coming back to is this ship." Gobber said as he and Stoick joined them.
"We didn't get the venom." Stoick said sadly.
But a sudden, strangled yell from Mildew broke us out of our thoughts. "Yes we did." Hiccup said grinning as Mildew clutched his rear end.
"Get this poison out of me!" He screamed.
"Oh we will." Hiccup said as he and Ragnar grinned.
Moments later they were back on Berk and the Viking teens minus Ragnar were waiting outside the forge. Ragnar was with Stoick and Gobber waiting for them to get the poison out of Mildew so he could create the antidote.
"Can you believe we're just standing around waiting for something to come out of Mildew's butt?!" Tuffnut asked, beside himself with mischievous excitement.
Gobber grabbed a wind bellow with a large sharp needle on the nozzle. Once Mildew saw this his eyes widened.
"Isn't there something a little smaller you can use?" Mildew asked.
"Probably." Gobber said. He then stabbed Mildew with it making him scream.
"That's the sound of our dragons getting better." Astrid said looking at Hiccup.
After a short while Ragnar then came out of the forge with a vase in his hand.
"I've got the antidote." Ragnar yelled and everyone cheered.
Gobber then came limping out of the forge. He had a disgusted expression on his face. "I watched a Nadder's spine slice through a grown man's eyeball like a grape, I watched my own hand get devoured by a Monstrous Nightmare. But never, NEVER have I ever seen anything so disturbing as that old man's bare behind!" He looked at the Viking teens and began to walk away. "I'm going into the forest ta scream."
"Way to take one for the team, Gobber." Hiccup yelled.
The next hour was spent roaming the island giving all the sick dragons the antidote. Hiccup was in his house with Toothless as he dropped the last of the potion onto his tongue, Hiccup looked up as an anxious Stoick stood in the doorway.
"Relax, dad." He said quietly. "It's going to be alright."
Stoick walked outside to check on Thornado. The moment he did Hiccup and Toothless who was now well again walked out the door.
"Dad, they're coming around!" He told him.
At that moment Thornado woke up and Stoick smiled cheerfully. "Haha, Thornado!" He yelled. He bent down and banged his head with Thornado.
"Who you're feeling, bud?" Hiccup asked. Toothless just shot a plasma blast and this time it flew straight. "Good to have you back, bud."
The next day as Hiccup drew a picture of Toothlees he saw that everyone's dragons were alive and well flying over the village.
A deadly flower, a venomous sea dragons and Mildew's butt. Three things that me and Hiccup never thought we'd have to deal with in the same day. But we'll do anything for our dragon.
