The How To Train Your Dragon book series and all its contents belong to Cressida Cowell. The How To Train Your Dragon movie and animated series and all of its contents belong to DreamwWorks Studios. I claim no ownership over anything in this fanfic. Be merciful.

Well, this fanfic is gonna take elements from the books, movies, and animated series. Hope ya like it, constructional criticism appreciated and welcomed.

After setting off from the island they had been occupying for a few weeks Hiccup, Toothless, and Wodensfang had spent a nearly a full day flying before taking a break at a rock formation of extremely tall pillars. They had been flying next to an enormous fog cloud since spotting it a few hours after setting off. Hiccup looked up the stars thinking that even the short distance away from Berk made a significant change in the constellations he saw.

"So where do you think we should head for now?"

"Well I think I have a very …"

Wodensfang was interrupted by a large hoard of dragons flying towards them. It looked like there were mainly dragons Hiccup was familiar with back on the island as well a few species he hadn't seen before. A Monstrous Nightmare at the head of the hoard roared at them as if to intimidate them.

"Hey who do you think you're roaring at?"

"I think I'm roaring at a burnt worm, what of it"

"Toothless wait."

"No, I'm chasing after him, I wont let some pathetic shitty nightmare try to insult me."

Without another word Toothless leaped off the rock into the fog and started to try to find the nightmare. The fog was extremely think and a human like Hiccup had next to no hope of even seeing maybe a few feet in front of him. A dragon however didn't need to rely solely on sight. They used their smell to pick up on the scent of other dragons, or past scents. Dragon scents would always linger anywhere for the purpose of preserving territory. Something was calling out to the dragons, giving them another way of making their way through the fog. A surprise to Hiccup this time was that not only was the fog super dense, but that Toothless was swerving through a maze of giant stone pillars as well.

"Hey Woden, you hear that?"

"Yes I do, that must be how a lot of these dragons are easily getting through here.

"Hey, I could find that shit colored nightmare without any help."

"I'd rather talk about why you are disobeying Master Hiccup and on that matter why are you helping him fly through here Master, he was so rude."

"Oh it's no big deal, Toothless got his pride hurt a bit so its ok to go out of our way for a minute or two."

The three had spent about 4 minutes flying through the fog when they broke through and came upon a huge mountain on an island with barely any land other than enough for the mountain. The rest of the land, as if to say something about it, was completely barren, covered in small rocks and burnt plantlife. There was absolutely no greenery in sight but many sharp boulders protruding from the ground or spike coming out of the mountain.

"Ah I smell him, up there, the damn coward."

"Please hurry would you Toothless."

"Uh maybe we should turn back actually." Hiccup had noticed now that all the dragons in the hoard were going into, what was supposed to be a mountain. Most of them had large meals in their jaws as well which made no sense to Hiccup. Dragons weren't known to eat their food anywhere other than the site of the kill. Toothless just headed straight for the nightmare though. They followed him right to the top of the mountain and looked down where the nightmare should be.

"Oh fuck it's a volcano, why they all flying into a volcano. Maybe we should just go."

"Oh don't be so scared Hiccup, we can at least look inside to see whats going on right?"

"Toothless, I think we should listen to Master this time."

"Never mind. Lets go in, I gotta know what they're all up to."

After heading down into the volcano they landed on a ledge that let them look down into the steam cloud being let out. The whole place looked evil, the glow from the lava below gave off a reasonable amount of heat for how above they were and there was a glowing orange reddish glow coming up. One by one dragons would fly over the pit and drop the kills they had. They then flew off to the sides and landed on similar ledges and every single one of them seemed to crowd against the walls and sort of shook.

They're all getting as far away from the edge as possible. Not only that, so many of these dragons are shaking, like they're terrified, like they're little snakes trying to get away. Maybe…

Hiccup's lost his last train of thought when an enormous jaw the size of two Monstrous Nightmares flew up and stopped right in front of them. Hiccup looked the jaw over, full of teeth bigger than he was and traced them to the edge of the mouth. He saw an eye, an eye the size of his head and the eye saw him. That blood red eye with a pupil as dark as night stared at him. The jaw swayed towards him and the dragons and started opening wider.

"Toothless, GO GO GO. We need to get out of here now.

Toothless didn't even respond he just flew as fast as he could towards the entrance they used.