It was a nice peaceful morning and Astrid was flying over the sea towards the northern watchtower to take a shift. She was laying down on Stormfly's back enjoying the peace and quiet.

"I could stay up here all day," she sighed. She then sat up. "But, we have work to do, don't we, girl?"

They soon reached the watchtower which was being guarded by the twins.

"Hey! Guys! You are officially released from guard duty!" Astrid yelled. However they just stood there. "Guys!" Astrid groaned and looked down at Stormfly. "Stormfly, get me in close, would ya?"

Stormfly landed on the watchtower and Astrid hopped off her back.

"Why do we have to go through this every single…" Astrid then came to a sudden stop, because standing there were the twins but some practice dummy with their helmets on top. "Are you kidding me?"

She marched up to the dummies and remove their helmets and made our way back over to Stormfly.

She soon returned to Dragon's Edge and informed Hiccup of the adventure at the watchtower. Hiccup was leaning against his hut calmly with his arms crossed.

"They didn't stand there watch, Hiccup," she said. "Those dummies left to dummies in their place."

"You know, those dummies could conceivably be just as effective as the twins," Hiccup pointed out.

"Not funny," said Astrid. "We built that watchtower so that—"

"I know why we built it, Astrid."

Astrid just shook her head in disbelief. "I just don't understand how this isn't making you completely insane."

"Because, then there'd be two crazy people in this conversation and we probably wouldn't resolve anything."

"Are you saying I'm—"

Hiccup held his hands up in defence. "Astrid, let me talk to the twins. I'll get their side of the story, then we can figure out what we need to do."

Astrid sighed. "I guess it's a start."

At that moment the twins flew in on Barf and Belch and landed just opposite Hiccup and Astrid.

"Well, if it isn't a crack security team now," said Astrid tossing them their helmets.

"Oh! Please, please, there's no need to shower us with accolades," said Tuffnut as the two of them place their helmets back on.

"Tuff, you left to dummies to protect the entire base," said Astrid furiously. "What were you thinking?"

It was at that point that a Terrible Terror appeared and landed on Hiccup's arm. "Terror mail," said Hiccup noticing the note on its leg.

"'Dummies,' you say?" said Tuffnut looking a little insulted.

"She does. Poor confused thing," said Ruffnut.

"What you fail to realise in your foggy morning state, is that those are not dummies. They are scareships."

Astrid just narrowed her eyes. "Scareships? You're serious?"

"You didn't see any ships near the island, did you?" Ruffnut pointed out.

"I think not. And why?" Tuffnut asked. "They were appropriately scared away. By the appropriately named 'scareships.'"

Astrid turned to Hiccup. "Are you following any of this?"

"Not super closely," Hiccup admitted as he read the message from the Terrible Terror. "I'm actually reading this. It's from Johann. He's in trouble."

Moments later they were all at the stables and Hiccup and Snotlout were fixing their dragon armour on the dragons. Fishlegs and Ragnar were preparing their dragons for take-off as well.

Astrid then approached Hiccup of the twins in tow. "You are not leaving me with those two muttonheads," she said gesturing towards the twins.

"She knows were standing right here, right?" Tuffnut asked looking at his sister.

"Look, Johann surrounded by Dragon Hunters, and his ship is taking water. We have to go out there and help him," said Hiccup looking at Astrid.

"Then, let me saddle up Stormfly, I'll be there in—"

"Astrid, you need to stay here and hold down the Edge. And make sure nothing happens to the Dragon Eye," said Hiccup handing her the Dragon Eye.

"I can't believe what's happening," Astrid moaned. "This actually may be the worst day in history."

"Astrid, Snotlout and I have the only working dragon armour, Skull's already wearing armour and Meatlug is immune to the Dragon Hunters' arrows," Hiccup reminded.

"You hear that, girl?" said Fishlegs' hugging Meatlug. "Who's a special Dragon? Meatlug is, that's who."

Hiccup shook his head and looked back at Astrid. "It just makes more sense for us to be the ones to go."

"Hiccup, please!" Astrid begged. "For all that sacred in Thor's world, you cannot leave me alone with these two—"

"What did you say?" Tuffnut asked. "Simpletons? Blockades?"

"I was always partial to dimwit myself," said Ruffnut. "It rolls trippingly off the tongue."

"Oh, yeah. Watch this. 'What wit dim, with the twins dim wit, if dim wit could wit dim?'" The two of them laughed. "Say that five times fast."

Astrid looked at Hiccup with a pleading face. "You see what I'm talking about, right?"

"Hey, it's not like we woke up this morning hoping to spend 24/7 with you either, Astrid?" said Tuffnut. "I mean, you are not exactly a picnic. And I think you know what I'm saying. You have not ever been a blanket on a grassy knoll with delicious food." Hiccup groaned and facepalmed himself. "But, we are team players. We will do what is necessary for the good of the group. Hence, we shall remain behind and enjoy your good company my fair Astrid. Even if you have no blankets or grassy knolls to offer."

Astrid sighed and Hiccup place a hand on her shoulder. "We'll be back by tomorrow at the latest," he assured. "Just do the best you can. Okay? And try to get along, please?"

"No need to worry about us, young Hiccup," said Tuffnut.

"Oh, Astrid, I know these next 24 hours will be difficult for you," said Snotlout as he approached her. "Unable to look at these deep romantic, yet hauntingly beautiful eyes, shimmering like gold dust in the wind—"

Astrid then shoved into Hookfang, which heard a lot more than usual because he was wearing armour, and placed him in an arm lock. "Okay, so we'll see you when we get back. Have fun." Astrid grumbled annoyance and released him. "Don't talk to any stray Dragon Hunters."

They then took off and twins wave them goodbye. "Bye. We'll miss you. Write home often," he said. "Okay, I think the first team building exercise we should perform is that of going back to sleep. I mean, as a team, of course."

"Couldn't agree more," said Ruffnut. "What say you, Astrid?"

"I have to go hide this," said Astrid showing them the Dragon Eye. "And when I get back, I expect both of you to be sweating profusely from hard work."

The twins glared at her as she walked off.

Later that day, the twins and their dragon were moving logs around.

"'What say you, Astrid?' Really? Haven't I always told you it's better to beg for permission ran to ask for forgiveness?" Tuffnut muttered as he and his sister carried a log over towards the pile.

"Personally, I think it's the other way around," said Ruffnut.

"Oh, so now you're the literary authority on the subject of permissions and forgiveness?"

Astrid was looking at the design of the new Lookout Tower. "Quit talking. You lose focus when your mouth is moving," she said.

"'I'm Astrid,'" said Tuffnut doing a poor mimicking of Astrid's voice.

"Real mature, guys."

"We've done all of those already?" said Tuffnut shocked at the pile of logs. "Man, were kicking some serious—"

"No, no, no," said Astrid. "That's your first one. All the others, I did by myself. Go, team."

The twins tossed the log of the pile and at once the pile began to roll over the cliff and into the sea. The twins looked over the cliff and Barf and Belch tossed their log over the edge.

Astrid sighed. "You know what? I'll get the rest of the lumbar myself. You two start lashing together some poles for the first level of stairs. Do you think you can handle that?"

She then walked off in a huff.

"She didn't let us answer," said Tuffnut.

"That's what they call a 'rhetorical question,'" said Ruffnut.

"Please. Like that's ever a thing. And you don't know what it means."

Ruffnut folded her arms. "A rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion. Not to an elicit a reply. Bam!"

Tuffnut looked at her blankly. "Huh," he said before walking away.

An hour later, Astrid returned carrying a log and saw the twins had practically wrapped themselves with rope.

Astrid sighed in exasperation and placed the logs down and walked off in a huff.

"Not to teamly, if you ask me," said Tuffnut.

"Not in the slightest," Ruffnut agreed.

Astrid then returned with more logs and found that the twins had vanished.

"Really," she said. "Where in Thor's name could you to have—"

She then heard voices above her and looked up to see the twins heading straight towards on a zip line.

"Whoo! Yeah!" Tuffnut yelled.

"Ha-ha! Look out!" Ruffnut yelled.

She watch as the twins slammed into the lookout tower and fell on top the pile of logs she had assembled.

"That hurt," said Ruffnut.

Astrid closed her eyes as the logs rolled over the cliff and into the sea once more.

"Astrid, you have to try this," said Tuffnut as the two of them got to their feet. "The landing is a little rough, but—"

"Astrid, we know this wasn't what you were planning, but we really think we're on to something here," said Ruffnut. "The stairs have their own use for sure, but this can truly come in handy."

Astrid slammed her logs onto the ground and turned to the twins furiously. "It can, huh?" she said sceptically.

"Yes. In the right situation—"

"And what situation were those exactly be, Ruffnut?"

"Well, I mean, we could… If you were in a—"

Astrid crossed her arms. "You have no clue, do you?" She looked at their blank expressions. "Didn't think so."

"Is that a rhetorical question?" Tuffnut asked.

"And you know why?" Astrid asked. "Because, the two of you don't think. You don't plan. You just come up with these crazy ideas and you forge ahead, with no regard for logic or what you're even supposed to be doing." She then looked at them in frustration. "What am I gonna do with you guys? Seriously. Tell me."

"Well, you can start by being kind," said Ruffnut crossing her arms. "Oh, wait, you can't do that because kindness is nowhere in that scrawny little body of yours."

"What?"

Tuffnut grabbed his sister's arm. "Easy, sis."

Ruffnut knocked his arm away. "Back up, bro. I got this."

"You know what your problem is, Ruffnut?" Astrid asked.

"Oh, you bet I do," said Ruffnut as she marched towards. "I've got a list of problems so long, I can't even keep track. Question is, do you know what your problem is, Astrid?"

Astrid just stared at her in disbelief. "My problem? Are you serious?"

"Allow me to lay it out for you, my flaxen-haired friend. You have no respect for the people around you who are trying to help and be part of a team. You have no respect for Fishlegs, certainly none for Snotlout and you can have less respect for the two of us! And let's not forget during the Dragon Wars that you had even less respect to both Hiccup and Ragnar!" said Ruffnut counting the friends of her fingers. "Now, you can go ahead and shame the others. You can mock this entire island of dragons if you wish. But I'm not gonna stay here and listen to you insult the entire 'nut' family tree!"

Ruffnut then walked off and a half leaving a very shocked Astrid. Astrid looked at Tuffnut. "She's wrong, you know," she said. "I… do. I…" Astrid sighed. "Respect you guys."

"Please. You can barely even say it," said Tuffnut and walked away. "So sad, Astrid. So, so sad."

Astrid sighed, part of a new they were right, but she didn't want to admit it. She wondered how Hiccup put up with them all and not eat away at their necks. "Hiccup, where are you, when I need you?"

Meanwhile, Hiccup and the others were still looking for Johann. Hiccup had a map that had Johann's last known coordinates.

"Okay, from what the Terror mail said, Johann scented from this general area," said Hiccup.

"And it said his ship was incapacitated," Fishlegs added.

"Which means he can't be too far away," said Ragnar.

"Correct. So, he should be right below us somewhere," said Hiccup as he and Ragnar flew off.

"Good thing Meatlug is immune to the arrows, huh?" said Snotlout flying alongside Fishlegs. "Too bad you aren't." He laughed and flew off. "Snotlout!"

Fishlegs looked down at Meatlug. "Don't listen to him, girl. I'll be fine. We'll be fine. Right?"

Hiccup kept his eyes open for Johann's ship and boy did he found it. "Uh, I'm not so sure about that."

Johann's ship was just off the coast of an island and it was attacked by wild dragons. He was bending them off with a broom.

"Get away!" he yelled whacking a Gronckle on its nose. "You, don't come near!"

"Hey, I thought he said it was Dragon Hunters," said Snotlout.

"Not actual dragons," Fishlegs finished.

"He did, but you know Johann," said Hiccup.

"'Dragons, Dragon Hunters, what's the difference?'" said Snotlout.

They saw the dragons attacking Johann ship and he was desperately trying to protect his goods.

"No, No!" he yelled as he always got hit by a Deadly Nadder's breath attack.

Hiccup in the others quickly dive down in order to rescue him.

"I wonder what Johann did to get them so mad," said Fishlegs.

"Probably told them one of his dumb stories," said Snotlout.

"Not funny, Snotlout," said Hiccup.

"I wasn't even trying to be funny," said Snotlout.

"We can wonder why the dragons are attacking him later, but right now he needs our help," said Ragnar

"Rag's right, let's just get Johann out of there, and be careful. We don't want to hurt any of these dragons," said Hiccup.

"What about them hurting us? That never seems to enter your mind," said Snotlout.

Johann then noticed them flying down towards him. "Master Hiccup! They're everywhere!"

They flew down of the dragons in order to calm them down, but then they turn to attack them.

"Okay, all right, never mind, never mind, never mind!" said Hiccup as try to avoid getting bitten.

Toothless opened up his wings to get behind the Deadly Nadder and fired a plasma blast at them and that seemed to do the trick. "Wow, bud! We really must have caught these guys on a bad day."

Johann was trying to knock a way a Gronckle that was showing that his mast and swat away a Gronckle approaching him. "Ah! Hoo! Back! Back, I say!"

Snotlout then flew over the Gronckle and they turned their attention on him. "This reminds me of the time I was attacked by a flock of rabid fruit bats of the coast of Palau," said Johann.

"Be quiet!" Snotlout yelled as he flew past. "You're only making them more angry. And us, too."

"Master Snotlout! Thank Thor!" said Johann relieved.

The Gronckle then surrounded Snotlout. "Hey! What'd I do? Its Captain Fruit Bat you want, not me."

Hookfang then ignited scaring away the Gronckles.

Johann was then attacked by a flock of Monstrous Nightmares. "No, no! Oh, come on! They're very mean!"

"Don't worry we've got it," said Ragnar as he and Fishlegs flew down.

Suddenly the Monstrous Nightmare growled at them and flew straight towards them. Skull was able to fend off the Monstrous Nightmare that came for Ragnar, but Fishlegs wasn't so lucky and was carried off.

Before Ragnar and Meatlug could rescue him, they will not decide by two Monstrous Nightmares.

"Hey! Fishlegs! Where are you going?" Snotlout yelled. "You know, we're not done here."

Meanwhile, late in the evening, Ruffnut had made her way to the watchtower grumbling about Astrid.

"'Astrid, Astrid, Astrid!' Everyone's always talking about Astrid," Ruffnut muttered as she climbed the stairs. "How pretty she is. How smart she is. How muscular and sharply her upper arms are."

She sighed in despair and looked at her and brothers scareships. "How can Astrid not see the genius in Stuffnut and Fluffnut?"

Then Fluffnut fell on top of Stuffnut and she groaned.

It was late at night, and Tuffnut was wandering through the northern coast to look for his sister. Then out of nowhere Chicken appeared and looks quite frantic.

"Chicken! What is it? What's wrong?" he asked. Chicken then began to pant as if she was out of breath and Tuffnut picked up to calm her. "Shh, shh… Relax, Chicken. Easy, little chicken. Now, gather your strength. Is it Ruffnut?"

Chicken clucked frantically and Tuffnut understood her perfectly. "Oh, it is. Is she in trouble?" Chicken clucked again. "Oh, you have such a way with words. I will find and bring her back. You, you rest, Chicken."

He then kissed. "Don't ruffle your feathers. I shall return."

He then placed her down and rushed over to the watchtower as fast as his legs could carry him. When he got there he found the watchtower was empty and there was no sign of Ruffnut.

"Help!" Ruffnut's voice yelled.

"Ruff! No!" Tuffnut yelled as he thought the sound of her voice. He then saw her being dragged away by two Dragon Hunters. "The Dragon Hunters. Astrid. I gotta get Astrid."

Ruffnut had a bag over her head which was tied around her waist by a rope. She tried to break free, but the grip from the Dragon Hunters was too tight.

"When I get out of these chains, I'm gonna—"

The Hunters laughed. "You're gonna what?"

"Uh, I haven't decided yet, but rest assured you're not gonna like it!"

"Feisty, isn't she?" said one of the Hunters shoving her. "I like it."

Meanwhile, Hiccup, Ragnar, Snotlout and Johann were on the island searching for Fishlegs.

"And they just picked Fishlegs up and flew off?" said Hiccup.

"Yeah, definitely, that's how it happened," said Snotlout.

"If it wasn't for Skul lI would have been picked off," said Ragnar.

Hiccup looked at Johann. "Johann, did the wild dragons take anything from the ship? Food, freshwater, anything?"

Johann shook his head. "No, Master Hiccup. They seem only interested in terrorising me until you lot came along, then they start terrorising you. Which was a bit of relief, if I'm being honest. I've always been a great friend to the dragons. That they would turn on the like this, it's inconceivable."

"On the way they were attacking I have to say they were more focused on us rather than our dragons," said Ragnar.

"This doesn't make any sense," said Hiccup. "Nightmares, Nadders, Gronckles, even in the wild, these dragons shouldn't be this aggressive. I mean, from a Speed Stinger or a Changewing, those dragons I could understand, but maybe these guys have just never seen humans before."

"All I know is that we've been around these guys in the wild. None of them have ever acted like this," said Snotlout.

Hiccup nodded. "Snotlout, I hate to admit it, but you've got a point."

Meanwhile, on Dragon's Edge, Astrid was in her hut sharpening her axe. Then she saw Tuffnut running in panting.

"Tuff, you're okay?" Astrid asked. Tuffnut try to speak, but he was out of breath and Astrid quickly ran up to him. "Tuffnut, breathe. What's going on?"

"You have got to do something about those stairs," he panted. "I mean, there must be hundreds of them, there's over ten at least.

Astrid blinked. "That's it? The stairs?"

"Oh, no," he said shaking his head. "It's Ruffnut. They got Ruffnut."

"Who did?"

"The Dragon Hunters."

Moments later, the two of them were on top of Stormfly heading down towards the coast as fast as they could. Astrid was mentally kicking herself, because it was because of her that Ruffnut walked off.

"Ugh! This is all my fault," she said.

"Oh, tell me about it," said Tuffnut.

"I shouldn't have been so hard on her."

"You are too hard on her, on poor, poor sis."

"She's just Ruff being Ruff. She can't help it."

"Truer words, A. Truer words." Astrid then glared at him informing him that he shouldn't push it. "Sorry. Just trying to help you work through, you know, the shame, all the bad things that you did, all the things you should feel bad about, you know, get some closure."

Astrid shook her head and they finally approached the watchtower. They quickly landed and dismounted Stormfly. At once Tuffnut look towards the coast with a look of dread on his face.

"What is it?" Astrid asked.

"There may not be a Ruffnut to apologise to," he said. Astrid looked towards the coast and realise what he was looking at. In front of them was an entire armada of ships heading straight towards them. "In fact, there may not be any of us at all."

They didn't waste any time and return to Dragon's Edge. The moment they reached the clubhouse Astrid grabbed a parchment and a quill and quickly wrote something.

"Okay, what's the plan? We have get my sister back," said Tuffnut.

"First thing is to send an SOS to Berk," said Astrid she rushed over to Sharpshot and tied the message around his leg. "We need reinforcements, fast. The auxiliary team."

Tuffnut watch as Sharpshot flew out of the clubhouse and looked back at Astrid. "How we know he'll get here in time?"

"We don't," said Astrid as she pulled a collection of weapons onto the table.

"Well, how do we know they'll get back here in time?"

"We don't."

"Okay, there is a terrifying lack of clarity in those answers."

Astrid placed a on his shoulder. "It's all gonna be okay, Tuffnut. We're gonna hold down the Edge, defend this space, and we will get your sister back. Okay?" She then removed her hand. "Say 'Okay, Astrid.'"

"Okay, Astrid."

"Now, there is no possible way we can defend the Edge against an all-out assault with only one flyable dragon. But maybe, we can slow them down until help gets here if we use our spears and arrows sparingly."

"Wait!" Tuffnut yelled. "I know an even better way we can slow them down."

"Not now, Tuff. I need to think," said Astrid dismissively.

"No, seriously, Astrid! You need to hear this." Astrid just ignored him. "Listen to me!"

"All right, what? What is your idea?" she asked.

"Okay, well, as you know, tricking is my area of expertise. I am the official Dragon's Edge trickster. Trickster extraordinaire. The Mayor of Tricksville."

"Yeah. I get it," Astrid yelled in annoyance. "We all know how tricky you are."

"But, they don't! So, I figure, we tricked them into thinking there are more of us than there are. Can start with our scareships, and then build our own little tricking army," said Tuffnutpicking up the weapons. "It'll be awesome! Wait. I think I just had another idea. Whoa! Do you know how many Loki-ish thoughts are running through my mind right now?"

Astrid's face was emotionless. "Tuff—"

"It's like a hull again of practical jokes pounding on the inside of my head. Whoa, here comes one—"

"Tuffnut!" Astrid yelled.

"Yes?"

"This is not the time for pranks, or Loki-ing. This is a time for strategic thinking and precise preparation," said Astrid taking the weapons from Tuffnut and placing them down on the table. "There are times in life when you have to be serious." She then grabbed a knife. "Deadly serious, or people can die. We can die. Ruffnut can die." She then slammed the knife onto the table. "Do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand. I am taking it seriously. I'm seriously a trickster. And I seriously have some ideas that can help."

Astrid rubbed her forehead. "Tuff, listen to me. You know all those times early in the morning when it's still dark outside and I'm out by myself on Stormfly?"

Tuffnut looked at her blankly. "Uh, well, I do now. Is this gonna get weird?"

"No. What I'm doing is training. Day and night, I train myself for situations just like this. That's why we're gonna do it my way."

"But, I have ideas. Good ideas."

"And, I believe you."

"No, you don't," said Tuffnut turning his back on her. The only thing you believe is that I'll mess this up and get us all killed."

"No. That's not true," said Astrid uncomfortably. "The only thing I believe right now is that we're wasting time arguing, when we should be preparing." She then grabbed the weapons of the table. "Come on, there's a lot to work to do."

Tuffnut then looked at her. "That's my sister out there, Astrid. And if this goes wrong and we don't save her, I couldn't live with myself."

Astrid knew there was no way she could convince him that her way was best. "You know what? You're right. You do what you have to do and I'm gonna set up our defences. Then we'll come together, and when the time is right, decide which one to use, okay?"

Tuffnut nodded. "Awesome plan. I like it! And we'll definitely end up using my. So, it's great."

"Good, just so long as we understand and agree that I leave the counter-attack and you follow me."

They spent the rest of the night working on their defence plans. Astrid was busy making some makeshift bolts for their ballista, while Tuffnut made a scareship of herself. She had her doubts that Tuffnut's plan was actually going to work.

She then grabbed all the barrow of Monstrous Nightmare gel from Snotlout's hut and saw that Tuffnut was still setting up his scareships and she just gave him a nervous smile and the thumbs up.

She then placed the Monstrous Nightmare gel in a catapult and heard rustling behind, she quickly grabbed her axe. However, it was just Tuffnut backing away while making tracks in the ground with a pair of boots.

It was close to dawn and the hunters return to Ryker, who had Dagur and Heather behind him. He wasn't best pleased to see that Ruffnut was with them.

"Well, guess you don't know the Dragon Riders as well as you thought, eh, Dagur?" said Ryker looking at Dagur.

Ruffnut scoffed. "You don't know 'em at all."

"Hey, at least my brother had a plan to get the Dragon Eye," said Heather defensively. "It's not his fault they didn't take the bait."

"They never left to rescue trader Johann from those dragons. The girl proves it," said Ryker gesturing to Ruffnut.

"Yeah. I prove that you've all been fooled," said Ruffnut.

"Then I guess we better leave. Come up with a new plan," Heather suggested.

"No new plans," said Ryker firmly. "We'll just have to deal with all of them instead."

"Listen, if you all want to go on a suicide mission, that your problem, buddy," said Ruffnut. "But don't say I didn't warn you!"

"She's lying! She's trying to confuse us," said Dagur.

"I'm always lying," said Ruffnut. She then paused trying to figure out what she just said. "Wait, now I'm confused."

"All she's telling us the truth to confuse us," said Heather.

Ryker looked at his Hunters. "Gather the men. We move slowly. Destroy anything in our path, until we get our Dragon Eye." He then boarded his boat and headed towards his flagship. "Then, we destroy whatever's left."

Dagur and Heather boarded a boat and Savage shoved Ruffnut aboard.

"Uh, excuse me, sir," said Savage as he pushed the boat away and then remembered Heather. "Oh, and ma'am. But there's something I've been wondering about."

"The daily occurrence, but go ahead," said Dagur.

"In regards to the Ryker fellow, it seems as though he's taking the role of leader. And, well, I was always under the assumption that this was your role."

Ruffnut scoffed. "That's not his role."

Dagur turned around to look at them. "It is, you dunderhead."

"We're just using Ryker for the time being," said Heather. "When he leads us to the Dragon Eye—"

"We figure out the most painful and horrible way to get rid of him and the rest of his crew. Duh!" Dagur finished as they pulled alongside Ryker's flagship.

"Ah! That's a relief," said Savage as they boarded Ryker's ship.

"Once we get the Dragon Eye, Ryker and his men?" Dagur then drew his finger across his neck. "See ya."

Ruffnut just shook her head. "That really is the single worst plan I ever heard—"

"Would you stop talking!" Dagur yelled.

Meanwhile, Hiccup, Ragnar, Snotlout and Johann soon reached the canyon and Hiccup held his arms out.

"Stop. Don't move," he said.

He then forced them to lay down over the edge.

"Oh, finally," said Snotlout. "Do you know how long we've been walking? My feet swollen to the size of watermelons."

"Shh!" Hiccup hissed.

They looked over the edge and found that the canyon was full of wild dragons and they look extremely hostile.

Johann then looked at Hiccup. "Master Hiccup, I realise that you are the dragon expert among us—"

Snotlout then looked at them. "I would say the Dragon expert, I'd say—"

"Shh!" Hiccup, Ragnar and Johann hissed.

"As I was saying, it appears to me that this island is occupied by a rather unfriendly pack of wild dragons," said Johann.

Hiccup reached for his spyglass and look down into the canyon. "You're right, Johann," he said. "But it's worse than that."

"Oh, ho-ho, you're full of good news, aren't you?" said Snotlout as Hiccup passed the spyglass to Johann.

Ragnar pulled out his own spyglass. "Oh no," he said.

Johann looked through Hiccup's spyglass and gasped.

"Gimme that," Snotlout snapped snatching the spyglass from Johann. He looked through it and found that Fishlegs was surrounded by wild dragons and even from here he could tell that he was shaking with fear. "So, this means we get to go rescue him, I suppose."

"It does. And thank you for volunteering," said Hiccup. Snotlout confuse that statement, but Hiccup ignored him. "But it's not gonna be that easy."

"Since when has it ever been easy?" Ragnar asked.

"Yeah, with you as captain, I know it won't," Snotlout agreed.

"Right, you see up there?" Hiccup asked gesturing to a rock ledge. There they saw Monstrous Nightmares standing guard over the canyon. "Dragon sentries. They look like they're ready for anything. It's gonna be really hard to get anywhere near Fishlegs."

"Well, I suppose the life of a Dragon Rider is shorter than most," said Johann getting to his feet. "I'll miss in dearly."

"Good point, Johann," said Snotlout getting to his feet. "Let's get out of here."

"No, no we're not going anywhere," said Hiccup forcing them back down. "I said I was gonna be hard, not impossible."

Meanwhile it was dawn at Dragon's Edge and Astrid had just set up the last of the defences. Both she and Stormfly had set up a pile of logs at the edge of a cliff.

"This is our last line of defence, Stormfly," said Astrid. "If they make it this far, hopefully, these will take them out."

Stormfly notched her reassuringly and she rubbed her head. She then noticed Tuffnut fiddling with one of the balloons attached to his hut.

He managed to release it and he began to fly upwards into the sky. Astrid quickly mounted Stormfly and flew up to him.

"Uh, regardless of how this looks right now, I can assure you I have a master plan for these balloons," Tuffnut assured.

"I'm sure you do," said Astrid sceptically before flying off.

"Um, but Astrid, just a little quick thing," he stuttered. "Can you bring me down to Earth, before I fly into the sun?"

Astrid flew back and lowered him back down to the ground and he retied the balloons to his hut.

"Is it time?" he asked.

Astrid nodded. "It's time."

A few minutes later Astrid was at the clubhouse with Stormfly.

"This is gonna be a rough day, Stormfly. Whatever we have to face, I'm glad we're facing it together," she said hugging Stormfly.

She then heard Tuffnut grunting as he pulled a crate of weapons from the clubhouse.

"Hey, whatcha got there?" she asked.

"Ta-da! Only the solution of all of our problems," he said triumphantly. "I call Macey, but you can have any of the others, except maybe this sword and this axe."

Astrid just looked at him in disbelief. "Can't decide, huh?" said Tuffnut. "Yeah, I can understand that."

"Tuff, these weapons are all for close combat," Astrid pointed out. "If we get to that point, there's two of us and we're done."

"Oh. Well, no, I know that, but—"

"Listen, we don't have time. Just do me one favour."

"Fine, but—"

"The ballista on my roof, you know how to use it, right?" Astrid asked gesturing to her hut.

Tuffnut just blinked at her. "Uh, it's a massively destructive weapon, isn't it?"

"It is. So, get up there, and massively destroy things. But on my command, and not before," said Astrid. "Got it?"

"Got it," said Tuffnut and picked up Macey. "Come on, Macey."

Astrid then looked to the armada approaching towards them.

On Ryker's ship, Ryker was standing next to Dagur as they slowly approached Dragon's Edge.

"You feel the air?" he asked Dagur. "That's fear. Soon… it'll be death."