Have you heard of the Dragon Hunters? I found them and we joined up to find a "King of Dragons". Supposedly, whoever controlled it, controlled every dragon. Imagine that power! The riders had attacked the hunters, thinking that they had the upper hand. For some reason, Hiccup and them always swear they know more than other people. Rykie knew that Gronckles were immune to Dragon Root, just like I did. Their plan was just hoping their enemies were idiots! Little tip: never do that.
I was elated by this time. Astrid, Fishlegs, and the twins had been captured and more importantly, I had my sister on my side. I boasted over the fact that Heather and they had been friends and then she was working with me. The betrayal. I loved it! That was my sister, all right![laughs]
The dragons had been locked up and were being prepared for their fates. Ryker told the riders that their dragons were our dragons. I think he said "my", but they'd belong to Heather and I soon enough. I let the vikings know that their behavior would affect how their reptilian flying machines were treated. Be good, they might live longer, be bad and they might've as well kissed those scaly beasts goodbye. It was all up to them!
We went past the Gronckle fist and Fishy was having a fit. Hey, Gronckle Iron's hard to come by and it's useful. Should've thought about that before he got attached to it. Next, was the Deadly Nadder. We were using its spines for spear tips-a good idea that I have to credit to Ryker. Astrid was upset, of course. Finally, we got to the Hideous Zippleback. The funny part was that the twins were happy at first. They thought we were just feeding and loving on the dumb thing. Wrong![laughs] Zippleback skin-or, more precisely, leather from its skin-is extremely valuable. You can nake boots out of it and everything! I've always wanted a pair of those, but never even got any for Snoggletog.
The riders were loaded back into their cells and tried to escape. [sarcastically] Big surprise there! I told the hunters that they were relentless. I tried reasoning with Rykerman about, you know, listening to me! He knows dragons and I know dragon riders. What a teamup that would be. That was the whole point of me joining them in the first place. I suggested that we throw one of the riders overboard. Hiccup would be crushed and the others would be so lost and discombobulated. It was brilliant! I'd learned the hard way that it's just easier to kill the riders than try to keep them around.
Heather opposed me and said that Viggo might want them alive. Ryker liked the idea and said Heather got all the brains between us. He gave me a hard pat on the shoulder to emphasize and I laughed with him-totally a fake one, though. I, immediately, stopped as soon as he left and asked Heather what the heck that was about. We were a duo. Can't contradict each other.
She explained that she was trying to help cover me in case something went awry. If something did, Rykie would be at fault and not me. So, yeah. I was cool with that. Ooh, she was diabolical. And all these years we were apart. Think of all the conquering we could have been doing!
A bit before an hour later, we saw Hiccup and Snothat flying. I was amazed by the way they were coming straight in. It was a suicide run for their friends! I was completely geeked out. It seemed so unHiccup-like, but deserved some respect. We focused our ammo at the Night Fury and hit him. I waited, excitedly, for them to plummet into the water. Much to my chagrin, they didn't. Looking through my spyglass, I saw that they were wearing some sort of dragon armor.
The armor lasted not that long and some fell off when they did a barrel roll. I alerted the hunters to that and they fired their dragon root arrows. We would have taken them down if Astrid hadn't intervened. Ugh! So close! The other riders had escaped and freed their dragons. A brawl started and-you know what? I'm not sure why Heather's dragon didn't help out. Dragon power on our side would've been welcomed. Either way, the riders flew off and Ryker had the nerve to "guess that [he] underestimated them". That's why I was there! I told him that from the start. I knew we should've just killed one of them. The promise of future power was strong, though. Otherwise, that would have been a very short-lived alliance.