IMPORTANT! Since I update reasonably fast, sometimes I think people skip chapters. This is my SECOND update today, meaning it is possible some of you didn't see the first update I did. Please go back and make sure you read chapter 11 before this, because you will be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY confused if you haven't yet read it. Just wanted to let you all know, talk to ya later! Free virtual yakbutter parfait!

Ruffnut and Tuffnut paced restlessly, crashing into each other every time they passed each other, but taking no notice of it. It had been about another hour...no sign of Hiccup, Toothless, or Astrid. They were beginning to get worried...all of them, including Fishlegs, Snotlout and the dragons.

"UGH! They should be back by now!" shouted Snotlout angrily.

"Yes they should," said Tuffnut, acting as if he had not spoken at all.

"We've waited here too long!" Snotlout went on.

"Yes we have," said Tuffnut just like the first sentence he said.

"We have to help them!" shouted Snotlout.

"Yes we do," said Tuffnut.

"We can't just sit here and do nothing!"

"No we can't."

"They could be in big trouble!"

"With a capital B. No, T. Wait, would you capitalize the B, or the T?" asked Tuffnut. Fishlegs and Snotlout glared at him, so he stopped talking.

Suddenly, Stormfly's ears perked up, followed by Hookfang's, Meatlung's, and then Barf and Belch's.

"What is it, girl?" asked Fishlegs to his dragon. Meatlung replied by looking up into the sky. Fishlegs saw two dragons flying towards them, riders mounted on their backs. Fishlegs suddenly recognized one as a deep black dragon, which was a Night Fury, which meant it was obviously-

"It's Toothless!" shouted Fishlegs.

"Toothless?" Snotlout asked in disbelief, standing from where he was sitting on a rock. He looked up and saw Toothless coming towards them, a blue Monstrous Nightmare following him.

Toothless and Promise landed on the sand in front of the other riders and dragons. Astrid dismounted, while Hiccup did not, still recovering from getting his breath knocked out of him.

"Hiccup! Astrid!" shouted Fishlegs, running over to them, followed by Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut. He looked to the Monstrous Nightmare. "Who's your friend?"

"Her name is Promise," said Hiccup. "I trained her partially. She helped Astrid and I escape."

Snotlout stepped forward. "Well, I'm honestly glad you're alright," he said. "Not because I care, but because if you weren't, we'd be without a heir, and I'd probably be the one to tell Stoick that you died."

Fishlegs noticed Hiccup's slightly stunned look.

"Are you alright?" Fishlegs asked him.

"More or less," said Hiccup, honestly hating to break the moment of reunion. "Dagur's leading his armada to lay siege on Berk."

"WHAT!?" exclaimed Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Tuffnut in the exact same, panicked tone, at the exact same time.

"There's honestly not much time," said Hiccup.

"Hiccup's right," said Astrid. "Dagur probably already had his armada ready while he captured Hiccup. If that's true, which I'm sure it is, it means Dagur could already be on his way to Berk."

"But we would have seen the boats pass, wouldn't we have?" asked Fishlegs.

"I think so," said Fishlegs. He would have continued, hadn't Hiccup spotted something that made his breath catch.

"Get down!" he ordered suddenly in a harsh whisper. The riders mounted their dragons and allowed them to dart into the forest. Once they were far enough in it, they turned around, allowing the riders to have full view of the vast ocean ahead of them, yet also be completely hidden.

"Why those lowly bastards," Snotlout grumbled. They watched as Dagur's ships rolled by at a remarkably fast pace. Not a quarter as fast as a dragon's pace, but faster than a normal ship's pace.

"Get a move on, men!" shouted Dagur. "Wait until those crumby Berkians hear that their heir is dead."

Everyone's eyes turned to Hiccup, besides Astrid's, who already knew Dagur thought he had killed Hiccup.

Hiccup noticed everyone's nervous gazes and waved them off. "He didn't," he assured. "He just thinks he did. Maybe it's better that way, too," Hiccup went on. "But we need to stop them."

"I say we take the dragons and blast their bastardly ships right out of the water!" shouted Snotlout, a man-in-action none the less.

"No, they're expecting that," said Hiccup. "They always are. You can see the bola launchers and catapults they have on the decks." He pointed, and the others looked. They saw what he was talking about.

"Without a distraction, it's too dangerous, but with a distraction, it brings danger to the person and dragon causing the distraction," said Hiccup.

"So, what's the plan?" asked Astrid, glad to have their leader back. He would know what to do; he always did. He smiled at Astrid, glad to be back with the riders of the Berk Dragon Training Academy.

"I'm going to fly Toothless out, and draw their first round of fire," said Hiccup. "While they're reloading, you go in for the finale. But NOT before."

Although the each wanted to reject, just having gotten Hiccup back, they knew Hiccup and Toothless had the best chance of dodging the bolas and rocks they fired at them. Hiccup patted Toothless, giving dragon leave to fly out.

Toothless got their attention by firing a plasma blast down at one of Dagur's ships. The plasma blast did just what Hiccup wanted it to.

"HICCUP!?" shouted Dagur in shock. "You're still ALIVE!?"

"THAT'S RIGHT!" shouted Hiccup.
"FIRE!" Dagur ordered. "TAKE-THEM-DOWN! I DON'T CARE HOW YOU DO IT! JUST DO IT!"

The men aimed everything they had at the boy and dragon, and fired. Toothless dodged easily. Hiccup turned to the shore and yelled, "NOW!"

The other dragons and riders emerged, instantly going into attack mode.

The dragons flew over the ships, breathing fire down onto them. Men jumped overboard as the ships sank, one by one.

"NO!" shouted Dagur. "No no no no no NO NO NO NO!"

He ran towards one of the catapults, threw a stone into it, and aimed it straight at Astrid. He pulled the trigger, and would have hit Astrid full on if Fishlegs hadn't put Meatlung in between, telling the dragon to eat the rock.

"Good girl, Meatlung!" Fishlegs hugged his Gronckle's head, making Meatlung purr slightly.

Toothless blasted the rocks in midair as they came at them, Dagur getting more and more desperate. At one point, he even threw random weapons into the catapult and fired at will, which did absolutely nothing but waste swords and axes.

"YOU WILL PAY, HICCUP!" shouted Dagur. "YOU-WILL-PAY!"

Hiccup urged Toothless forward. Toothless did so, coming right for Dagur's ship. When he got as close as he dared, the Night Fury breathed in deeply, and then fired a plasma blast, straight at Dagur's ship. The ship rocked and shuddered. Toothless let out another blast on the same side. It continued until he blasted a reasonably large hole into the side of the ship. Water leaked through at an alarming rate.

"HICCUP!" shouted Dagur, looking around to see that the rest of his men were either retreating or trying to swim back to shore. "THIS ISN'T THE END!" With that, he and his ship sunk.

With that also, Hiccup was sure they had seen the last of Dagur the Deranged. But some other part of him told him otherwise.

"Come on, gang," said Hiccup. "Let's get back to Berk."

"I couldn't agree with you more," said Fishlegs.

"Thought you'd never ask," added Tuffnut and Ruffnut in unison.

Hiccup grinned before they steered their dragons back to Berk, away from Berserk.

Dagur pulled himself onto the shore, coughing and choking. He looked back just as the dragons and riders disappeared from sight.

"I WAS THIS CLOSE!" he shouted to one of his soldiers, making about an inch worth of distance between his thumb and his pointer finger. "THIS CLOSE!" he stressed.

"What should we do now, sir?" asked the soldier.

"Mend what ships are mendable!" ordered Dagur. "I don't care how long it takes! Months, years, maybe an eternity-just do it! As soon as the armada's rebuilt, we'll sail to Berk." Dagur sneered at the sky. "Don't worry, Hiccup," said Dagur. "I WILL have my revenge. They don't call me Dagur the Deranged-" He paused for dramatic effect, "-for nothing, now do they?"

He turned back to face the soldier. "Well!?" he shouted. "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!?"

The soldier ran off, calling all the able soldiers on the shore to come with him. Dagur growled to no one in particular, since he was alone, but it was meant for Hiccup.

He would get his revenge...

...and when he did...

...it wasn't going to be pretty.