Hiccup was carry Astrid on his back as he and Snotlout ran down the mountain as quickly as they could with the avalanche close behind.
"What started this avalanche?" Snotlout cried.
"No idea and not turning around and find out!" Hiccup yelled.
"Can't you fly us to safety?" Snotlout yelled.
"Not like this!"
Hiccup looked around wildly for any means of surviving the avalanche and that's when he saw a tall cliff that was just tall to save them from the avalanche.
"Head to the cliff!" Hiccup yelled.
"Why?" Snotlout asked as he followed him.
"Just run… we need to get as high up as we possibly can!"
The two of them ran as quickly as they could with the avalanche closing in on them and soon the two of them jumped towards the cliff just before the avalanche struck them. Unfortunately, another wave of snow was heading towards them and it was far larger than the first one.
"Oh no, were not high up enough," said Hiccup horrified.
They then were consumed by the avalanche.
Meanwhile in Cocoa Village, word of Wapol return had spread across the entire town and every single man grabbed a weapon.
"It's Wapol! He's back on the island!"
"What? He has?"
"Dalton went up to Bighorn to meet them, anyone who can fight grab a weapon in head to Bighorn."
It wasn't just in Cocoa Village that word had spread, but other towns on the island and all of them were making their way to Bighorn wanting to fight their tyrannical king.
Ragnar and the others on the other hand had more pressing issues, like making their way to Gigus and to catch up to Gothi. They had taken Dalton sledding started to make their way to the village, unfortunately none of them knew the exact route.
"Hey, Fishlegs are you sure were going in the right direction to get to this town where the witch is?" Ragnar asked as he held onto the reins.
"Now that you mention it, not exactly sure where we're going," said Fishlegs.
"That's not good," said Ragnar. "If Hiccup and Snotlout managed to get up to the castle and the Doctor is not isn't there there's no telling what they'll do. We have to reach Gothi and tell her to get back to the castle pronto."
"We all know what's at stake, Ragnar," said Vivi gently.
Ragnar nodded. "Yeah, Astrid's life."
Wapol had reached Bighorn and had already decided to eat cottage.
"That was delicious!" he announced.
All his soldiers then began clapping any quickly turn to face everyone. "Listen closely citizens, everything in this country can be made to mice that if I wanted to be, because I am a great man. You know why I'm great? Blitz, please explain the reason."
Blitz nodded and bowed. "Of course, you're the greatest man in this country because you are the King, your Highness."
"That's right! Exactly right!" he said with his arms outstretched. "So if I want to eat a house I expected it to be served to my liking!"
"Yes, sir," said the soldiers.
Blitz then kneeled before him. "Wapol, sir. I have some information for you."
"What now?" Wapol grumbled.
"I have received a report that some of the Dragon Riders, very inconsiderately, set out the Drum Castle after they arrived on the island, your Highness."
"What?" Wapol roared. "Why did they do that?"
"It appears they took a sick woman up the mountain to see a doctor."
"What? Really? That was a dumb idea, no one lives there now not especially a doctor," Wapol laughed.
Blitz looked at him uneasy. "Uh, well… I actually heard that Doctor Gothi, also very inconsiderately, is currently living on Drum Castle."
Wapol looked outraged. "What did you say? That woman is living in my castle! How dare she mock me in such a way! Kick her out, I'll eat her along with that dragon boy. Men, we're going back to the castle!"
"Yes, sir!"
"I don't think so," said Dalton's voice.
Wapol turned around just in time to see Dalton, in his human form, had jumped out of nowhere and struck him down with his sword.
"Who was that?" Blitz yelled.
Wapol was rolling in the snow in agony. "He cut me! I'm going to die!"
It didn't take anyone very long to realise who the attacker was.
"It's Dalton!"
"I came to see you dead, so that suits me just fine," said Dalton looking down at Wapol.
"Dalton, you bastard," Chess glared. Immediately both he and Blitz took up a fighting stance. "It's a shame that you're still alive."
"You just harmed your own king," Blitz growled.
"That shouldn't be difficult to fix, after all, we live in advanced medical nation with almost 2 dozen well-qualified doctors the servers every need," Dalton reminded.
"Yeah, that's right," Blitz smiled. "20 MDs Emergency Medical Unit, heal him."
Immediately 20 doctors appeared out of nowhere and began working on Wapol. Their skills as doctors were amazing as it only took them about 30 seconds to completely heal Wapol.
Wapol sat up almost immediately. "Wow, I was sure that I was going to die for a minute there."
"This is a perfect example of our situation," said Dalton bitterly. "You receive all the medical attention you could possibly need while your citizens have had to suffer without a doctor. It's wrong!"
"It's wrong?" Wapol glared. "Show some respect, I am still your king, Dalton."
"He's right, you'll shut your mouth if you know what's good for you," said Blitz.
"The three of us, including you, when the highest position amongst Wapol's men," Chess reminded. "We were his loyal servants… or have you forgotten?"
Dalton clenched his fist. "I haven't forgotten. It's true that while you were making our people suffer or I could do was stand there as one of Wapol's men and watch as you ruined our country. I have to accept responsibility for that. So, Wapol, let's leave this country together. We can't stay the land we betrayed any longer."
The villages immediately spoke out against this.
"No, Dalton… wait! You didn't do anything wrong!"
"He's right, you were the only one in the government who tried to protect us! You're the only one who fought for us while he was destroying the kingdom!"
"You stood up for us!"
Wapol laughed. "You should have died Dalton and your post is Captain of the Drum Kingdom Security Guard. I don't know how you all survived in this country without any doctors."
"Our country is internationally acknowledged for development in medicine, but renown is nothing more than a cheap charade," said Dalton. "No one could guess that there's only 20 doctors that are shut up doing research in the King's own lab and that all the other doctors exiled from the country leaving their citizens to suffer."
"Yes, anyone who gets sick or injured must come and beg for the life they want help," said Wapol proudly as if it was something of an achievement. "And if I feel like it maybe I'll lend them the 20 MDs services. If they want to stay alive and healthy all they have to do is obey me… their king! This way no one will ever challenge my rule and that is the perfect way to govern a country."
"This isn't real governing, Wapol and you aren't a real king!" Dalton roared furiously.
"Well, you certainly speak your mind, Dalton," said Wapol he then turned to his men. "Now kill him! I want you to shoot your former captain!"
"As usual you don't understand a thing I'm saying," said Dalton the as he immediately began to transform into his ox hybrid form. "I served your father before you and he was always a good man and a fair ruler. I hoped that you might come to resemble him one day, but I see now that was a lot of wishful thinking."
The soldiers immediately backed away in fear as he began to transform.
"Not good! He's using the Ox-Ox Fruit!"
"He's in his bison form!"
Dalton then immediately charge towards them at full speed and they started to panic. However, a few of the soldiers maintained their cool, or at least in lose their heads.
"Calm down! Just fire!"
They then immediately began firing their rifles at Dalton, but he uses agility to dodge their bullets.
"We can't hit him!"
"He just dodged them."
"No mercy, even to my ex-soldiers!" Dalton yelled as he jumped into the air clutching his sword. "Ox Blade!"
He then began spinning his sword in his hand as quick as a flash, he struck down a good majority of the soldiers. Villages just stared in awe, this was the first time they had witnessed Dalton going all out.
"Amazing, he's so powerful."
"So this is the kind of power that the Zoan-type Devil Fruit will give?"
"Enough, I had enough of you pathetic so-called rulers," Dalton growled. "There can be no hope for a country where the King and his men of the first one's to abandon the people during a time of crisis."
"Let's see how well you do against fighting the two of us," Blitz smirked.
"Just give up," said Chess.
"Dalton!" said a voice in the distance.
Dalton turned and saw a bunch people from other villages rushing towards Bighorn with weapons in hand.
"Dalton, wait! We've come to help you!"
"Please, let us fight with you!"
"We're going to protect our country!"
Chess smirked. "Remember, I've known you for wrong time." He then pulled out three arrows from his quiver and prepared to fire them from his bow. "And I know you well."
Dalton then realised what he was about to do. "No! Don't!"
"I know what your weaknesses are."
He then fired and the arrows flew straight towards the villages that were charging to help. Dalton then quickly jumped into their path and they struck him in the chest.
The villages were immediately shot by what just happened, thankfully none of them had any vital spots. Though it was clear to everyone that they had weakened him considerably judging from the way that he was standing.
"I told you that I knew where your weak spot was," Chess smirked viciously. "Nice guys always finish last."
"Quite the fitting death… huh, boys?" Wapol smiled.
Dalton then fell into the snow and Wapol laughed.
Then suddenly the entire ground shook much everyone's confusion.
"What's that?" said a villager.
"Is that an earthquake?" Wapol frowned.
Meanwhile Ragnar the others had come to a standstill, due to the fact that the path was covered in snow.
"We can't go any further in this deep snow," said Ragnar regretfully.
"It seems like with parsley gone up the mountain," Vivi frowned.
"We must have taken a wrong turn," said Fishlegs looking at the map.
However, before they could figure out what just happened they felt the ground shake.
"What's this? Why is the ground shaking?" Vivi frowned.
Ragnar's eyes widened in horror. "If this is what I think it is, we're in trouble."
"An avalanche!" Fishlegs cried.
Hiccup and the others had been slammed by the avalanche, but thankfully they managed to survive it. Hiccup had transformed into his dragon hybrid form and used his wings to shield them from the snow, but it was now pitch dark and there were absolutely freezing.
"You're right?" Hiccup asked.
"I-I'm f-f-freezing," said Snotlout shivering.
"Stay close, I'm gonna try and blast us out of here," said Hiccup.
Hiccup then began firing plasma blasts above them hoping to break free from the snow though it was going to take some time.
Down at Bighorn, everyone was now deeply aware of the avalanche heading straight towards them.
"It's coming!" a villager cried.
"It's not stopping!"
"The whole village will get swallowed up!"
"Let's get out of here!"
Everyone began running in different directions and Wapol quickly climbed on Robson.
"We're going!" Wapol yelled. "Blitz! Chess! Get on!" Quickly his two men quickly climbed onto the saddle. "Robson, let's go!"
The 20 MDs and a good number of soldiers quickly blocked Wapol's path.
"Wapol, sir! Please you have to let us ride, too!" a doctor pleaded.
"Get away from there!" Wapol barked. "You can all find your own way out!"
They then quickly took off leaving the 20 MDs, soldiers and villages behind.
Ragnar on the others were also running from the avalanche as it had already destroyed their sled.
"We have to stay ahead of an avalanche and find high ground!" Ragnar yelled.
"Hiccup and the others went up in that direction, right?" Vivi asked looking up at the mountain. "Do you think the avalanche could have already gotten them?"
"Right now we have to focus on ourselves," said Ragnar looking at her. "Those three are tough, I'm sure they'll find a way to survive."
"As cruel as may sound I agree with Ragnar," said Fishlegs.
Wapol and his men were still trying to run away from the avalanche which was closing in on them.
"We have to go faster!" Blitz cried.
Too late, the avalanche consumed them along with the entire village.
Up in the mountain, Hiccup had finally managed to break through the snow. However, the avalanche had done its toll on Snotlout and he was now unconscious along with Astrid. Astrid was the immediate concern and hiccup quickly took off his coat and wrapped it around her.
"I know you're cold Astrid, but just hang in there were little longer," Hiccup pleaded.
Meanwhile at the ruins of Bighorn, Wapol somehow managed to survive by eating the snow. However, there was a nasty taste in his mouth and he quickly spat whatever was in his mouth out. It turned out that he managed to swallow Blitz and Chess whole.
"Oh, it was you guys in there," said Wapol looking down at the two of them. "No wonder it had such a disgusting taste." He then clenched his fist in fury. "I won't let them get away with this."
"Who are you talking about?" Blitz frowned.
"Them! I'm talking about them of course!" Wapol snapped.
Blitz and Chess were still confused about who he was referring to.
"But who do you mean by them?" Chess asked.
"You told me earlier that some of the Dragon Riders headed up towards the mountain towards my castle, isn't that right?" Wapol roared. "Then this happened! They have a grudge against us! They're still mad about what happened so they climbed up then started an avalanche!"
Chess frowned. "So they were the ones that caused it?"
"Those sassies the Dragon Riders cause the avalanche?" Blitz blinked.
"That's right!" Wapol nodded. "Well, boys, let's go. We'll see of those stupid sea loving savers know anything about biking in the snow."
Up in the mountains, Hiccup was now attending to Snotlout's wounds. Not only was he unconscious, but he had a few broken bones so Hiccup did everything he could in order to stabilise him. The big problem was now with Snotlout unconscious there was far too dangerous for him to fly up there.
With no other choice hiccup transformed into his dragon hybrid form, he tied Astrid to his back and carried Snotlout in his arms. He then began making the long trek up towards the mountain knowing that he had to get there at all costs, even if he had put his own life in danger.
"You two just stay alive," he said.
Unfortunately close behind was Wapol and his goons on top of Robson. It in take them long to spot Hiccup making his way up the mountain.
"Up there!" Blitz pointed.
"I see the brats up ahead, Wapol, sir!" Chess yelled.
"Found you!" Wapol roared. Hiccup turned his head and saw them galloping towards them. "I'll make you pay!"
Wapol then shot right past Hiccup and then stopped right in front of him, blocking his path to the mountain.