For the first few days being with Arlong, Astrid and Fishlegs had just witnessed him sinking many Navy vessels that attempted to free the island. The Fishmen swam underwater and began damaging the ship from the bottom, this prevented the Marines from launching any kind of counter-attack and there was sunk almost instantly.

Arlong was sitting in a throne-like chair drinking a glass of wine, he then looked at the two children. "What's wrong, kids?" The two of them just remain quiet and glared at him and he had a good idea what this was about. "I bet it's the village, you want it left alone. Then how about this, let's make an agreement okay."

"An agreement?" Astrid questioned.

"That's right, gather 100 million Gil then bring it to me," said Arlong. "Do so and I will let your village go, in addition of giving you your freedom."

"Promise," said Astrid forcefully.

"I promise and I'm the kind of Fishman who would rather die than break an agreement concerning money. And I don't even care how long it takes you, I will honour our agreement."

Upon making this agreement Astrid and Fishlegs then started their mission from stealing from pirates, it was dangerous but it was the only way to make up that amount of money. Astrid was even more determined than Fishlegs, promising her late mother that she would do it no matter how long it took.

However, now the two of them were finding their whole world crashing down on top of them as Rattus just announced that he was going to take all the money they had stolen over the past eight years.

Rattus merely smiled at them. "Perhaps you didn't hear me the first time, the government here by confiscates everything you've stolen. It is acquired that you comply immediately, do you understand?"

Astrid just looked at him confidently. "Isn't that something. I can see you're very passionate about your duties, you won't bring a brutal band of pirates to justice but you will shake down a lonely sneak thief. That's so very noble."

She then looked at him forcefully. "I'm only going to want you once, we are two of the leaders of the Arlong Pirates, if you mess with us Arlong won't sit down quietly."

Rattus smiled. "Silly girl, who do you think I am? Do you honestly think you can intimidate me?" He then looked at his men. "Find the stolen goods!"

"Don't you dare!" Astrid growled. The Marines ignored her and soon she immediately drew out her battleaxe and began striking the Marines with the flat of the blade. "I said stop!"

The first two Marines were not down to the ground and she immediately faced Rattus.

"Do you really think this is what the Marine should be doing now?" Astrid yelled furiously marching towards him. "The Arlong Pirates are murderers, they destroyed entire cities and you're doing nothing! He's rolling over this island and trampling over people's lives, you would ignore Arlong's atrocities to steal from a thief! Is that what you stand for?"

Fishlegs nodded. "I for the Marines were supposed to stand for something a lot more honourable, don't you stand for swift justice?"

"Big talk from a couple of filthy criminals," Rattus snickered and then looked back at his men. "Continue the search men."

The Marines began making their way around the Orchard.

"Everyone on this island has been waiting for the Marines to come and help them for years! How dare you pass them by and come here searching for money!" Astrid roared furiously.

"Captain, this tangerine Orchard seems a little suspicious," said a Marine.

"Dig it up, the whole thing if need be," Rattus ordered.

Astrid then quickly struck down the Marine before he had a chance to plunge his spade into the ground. "Keep your filthy hands off of Bel's tangerine Orchard!"

Astrid then continue to strike down any Marine that plunged a spade into the ground. "I won't let you take our money! That money—that money is for—"

"Those poor kids money is meant to save Leefside Village!" Goodwin yelled furiously. "What gives you the right to take our salvation away from them? Damn you!"

Rattus looked at him. "My my, mere village representatives talking down to a Marine captain, how bold."

Astrid and Fishlegs stared at him in shock that he knew the truth.

"Goodwin? How did you know about that?" Fishlegs asked.

"I've always known," said Goodwin quietly. "I couldn't believe what the two of you had done so I confronted Astra and asked her about it later. Since then everyone has known that you two have stayed with the Arlong Pirates so that you could save the village, but we all agreed that we would never tell you that we knew. If you had ever thought that the villagers were placing their hopes on you, you might never leave his gang for fear of not letting us down."

Astrid just stared at him. "That can't be."

"Now hold on a minute, just what are you trying to say here," said Rattus. "Are you telling us that the villagers are thieves and we should arrest every single one of them? Is that what you're saying?"

"What he's saying is that every single last one of us is fighting to survive!" said an angry voice.

Everyone turned and saw Astra storming her way down the path towards them.

"We have to fend for ourselves, because we cannot count on support from you Government people!" Astra fumed furiously. "So, if you're not going to protect our village then get the Hell out of here! And be quick about it or Arlong will sink your ship too!"

Rattus merely smiled. "Arlong will? I wouldn't be so sure."

Astrid and Fishlegs looked at one another and wondered why he wasn't so concerned.

Rattus then turned his attention back to his men, who was still digging around the Orchard. "You still haven't found it? We're looking for hundred million Gil here not a grain of rice!"

Goodwin looked up. "Hey, you. How do you know how much there is?"

Rattus clearly recognised his mistake. "Uh, I don't know. I just have a hunch that is the amount we're looking for."

Goodwin didn't believe him for one second and neither did anyone else, because they all had the same feeling that they knew who tipped him off.

"It's him," Astrid stared and she could truly believe that she could hear Arlong laughing in the distance. She then looked at Rattus enraged. "Tell me! It was Arlong who sent you wasn't it?"

"Of course not," said Rattus dismissively. "I wouldn't be doing a pirates dirty work, that would be wrong. I'm just a public servant, dealing with theft like any other Government worker would."

"You corrupt Marine scumbag!" Goodwin roared.

"The Marines have stooped to being nothing then pirate cronies!" Astra roared.

"No wonder there haven't been any big Marine names coming down here!" Fishlegs yelled. "Arlong has been paying of weak willed cronies like you for the past eight years!"

Astrid gripped her battleaxe furiously. 'Arlong.'

"Sir, I found it!" said a Marine.

Everyone immediately turned towards the green as he cleared a bit of dirt revealing a casket beneath one of the tangerine trees. Instantly they were all horrified, because all of Astrid and Fishlegs' hard work would have been for nothing.

Rattus made his way to the casket and immediately remove the lid and smiled broadly, because inside was a massive stockpile of gold and silver treasure. There was even some Gil notes. Though they were covered in blood.

"Incredible, I must say that I'm impressed that you've gathered up this much treasure," said Rattus as he picked up a few bloodstained notes.

"The money is all ragged and bloodied," a Marine noted.

"No matter, money is money," Rattus smiled. '30% of this is all mine.'

"Don't touch that," Astrid warned as she began to approach Rattus. "Don't touch that! Don't touch that!"

Goodwin and Astra realised what she was about to do.

"Astrid," said Astra and immediately the two of them rushed over towards her.

"Stop it, don't touch that!" Astrid warned as rage began to consume her and charged towards them. "Stop it!"

Rattus then pulled out a pistol from his pocket and aimed directly at her. Astrid appeared completely oblivious by this as anger had completely consumed her, but Goodwin quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her back and Astra placed herself in front of her in order to hold her back.

Rattus then fired and the bullet struck Astra, who was right in front of Astrid. Immediately all Astra's rage completely disappeared as she watched her sister toppling over.

Astrid quickly bent down towards. "Astra. Astra!"

Hiccup meanwhile was still in the village then he had a bad feeling that something had gone wrong at the Orchard.

"I hope that Astrid and Fishlegs all right," he hoped as he remembered Goodwin escorting several Marines down the road. "I knew that Morgan was a tyrant, but I do know that corruption spread so far among the Marines. Sometimes I wonder how these people get promoted."

"Doctor! Doctor!" Goodwin's voice yelled.

Hiccup looked up and saw Astrid, Fishlegs and Goodwin rushing into the village with Astra in Goodwin's arms. Immediately the Doctor and many villagers rushed outside to see what was wrong.

"Goodwin, what is it?" the Doctor asked.

"Astra has been shot," said Goodwin as he placed her down.

"By who?"

"The Marines."

The Doctor looked up. "The Marines?" He then immediately looked down at Astra. "Astra."

"I'm all right," she assured.

Thankfully the bullet missed her vital organs and struck her shoulder, but as far as everyone was concerned the situation was terrible.

"Arlong has been working with those damn Marines," said Goodwin gritting his teeth.

"What?" the Doctor stared.

"He's been lying to Astrid and Fishlegs for the last eight years," said Goodwin. "He never intended to honour their agreement at all."

"That bastard," said a villager.

"Oh no, that means—" said a woman.

"That scoundrel! He lied to them!"

Astrid then placed Astra's head on the ground, she was completely shaken up by the events and Fishlegs appear to be in a state of shock.

The Doctor looked at Astrid. "Astrid?"

Hiccup quickly rushed over to them. "Can I help?"

Astrid immediately turned on him and looked furious. "Why are you still here?" She then immediately grabbed the helm of his shirt and pulled him towards her. "Stay out of my business! Just get away from our island!"

She then immediately pushed Hiccup aside and began to run down the road towards Arlong Park.

'Arlong! Arlong! Arlong!' she yelled repeatedly in her head. She then began to remember the promise he made, a promise he never intended to keep. 'Arlong!'

Fishlegs helped Hiccup up. "She's a bit shaken up."

Hiccup nodded. "I take it that things went badly with the Marines and they took all the money you earned."

Fishlegs blinked. "You know?"

Hiccup looked at him. "It wasn't hard to figure out, in case you forgot you mention that you were trying to collect hundred million Gil. Combine the fact that you hate pirates, this was your home and judging from the dramatic experience Astrid described it in take a genius to realise that Arlong was behind it."

Fishlegs just remain quiet.

Hiccup then made his way over to the crowd. "We can talk about this later, right now I think we have wounded to tend to."

Astrid had finally reached Arlong Park and was now marching towards the Fishman himself.

"Arlong!" she roared.

Everyone turned and saw her approaching them with a furious expression on her face.

"Argh, what seems to be the problem?" Arlong smiled. "What with the sour face?"

"Those Marine maggots you kept on the payroll stalled every last bit of Gil me and Fishlegs had!" Astrid yelled. She then immediately grabbed his shirt narrowed her eyes. "What happened to all that crap about dying before you break a promise that involves money? Bastard!"

Arlong looked at her calmly. "Refresh my memory, did I break a promise?"

"Don't played dumb with me, I know that you've teamed up with the Marines to—" Arlong then grabbed hold of her face to silence her.

"Just when did I break that promise?" he asked. "Speak up, girl."

Try as she might Astrid couldn't say a word and he merely laughed and so did his men.

'Damn you! Damn you!' she screamed in her head as tears poured out of her eyes.

Arlong looked at her with a chuckle. "Too bad, all of your stolen money got stolen. That is certainly is unfortunate, but a deal is a deal Astrid. If you can't come up with 100 million Gil then you, Fishlegs and our village stay in my possession indefinitely. Well, you know the terms."

"You paid," Astrid growled furiously.

Arlong laughed. "It's only 100 million Gil. Start saving again and you'll have it in no time." He then sneered at her. "Or are you going to run out on me? Listen, if you do that I'll kill everyone in that village. Do you understand me?"

Astrid knew that she couldn't leave, because she made a promise to free the village. She was also starting to feel the guilt after learning that Goodwin and the rest of the village new about her deal with Arlong.

Astrid then immediately swatted Arlong hand away and immediately ran out of Arlong Park.

"Ah, running away so soon?" Arlong mocked.

He then laughed.

Octron looked at him. "Shouldn't we chase after her?"

"No need for that," Arlong assured. "Trust me Octron neither Astrid or Fishlegs are going anywhere. There's no way that those two could just abandon the lives of all those villagers."

"Now that is what I call playing dirty," said Chew.

"There's no way that I would let go of an asset like Fishlegs that easily and Astrid has proven herself capable as well," Arlong smiled broadly. "I may be cruel, but I'm not totally heartless. Once Fishlegs is done charting all of the world's oceans they'll have their freedom."

Everyone then immediately laughed, because they knew such an endeavour could take years possibly even decades.

"That's pretty harsh, man. It'll take decades for sure."

"Yeah, I bet a hundred years wouldn't be enough."

Ragnar and the others were still discussing on what they should do regarding the Astrid and Fishlegs situation.

"All right, we should meet up with Hiccup as soon as possible," said Ragnar has he got to his feet.

Snotlout nodded. "Yeah, I don't care what Astra says, we can take on those lousy Fishmen."

"I imagine that Hiccup has possibly in the village and is fully aware of the situation, in fact he might know more than we do," said Ragnar as he folded his arms.

Snotlout looked up. "What you mean by that?"

"I mean do you really think that Arlong is just going to let an asset like Fishlegs wonder free?" Ragnar questioned. "Even from what you told me, I can tell from an instant that he is an excellent navigator and he is worth more than a hundred million Gil."

"You think he's going to doublecross Astrid and Fishlegs?" Snotlout questioned.

"He's a pirate that slaughter the entire village, do you really think he's gonna keep his word?"

Toothless then rose to his feet and grabbed his sword. "Then we know what we have to do. Let's go."

The Doctor had finished healing Astra's wound and all them were now in agreement that they should do something about Arlong, now knowing that the Marines are never going to help.

"We've had enough, take up arms, it's time to fight," said Goodwin.

The villages immediately cheered.

Astrid was currently making her way back to the village as quickly as she could, knowing that the villagers would no doubt take up arms against Arlong. Such an attack would be a massacre, no one stood a chance against them that was proven eight years ago.

'Goodwin, please don't do anything stupid,' Astrid pleaded. 'We have to live or our struggles will mean nothing. You can't throw your lives away.'

Goodwin was looking at the villagers, who had taken up swords, rifles and anything else that could be used as a weapon.

"Eight years ago, we promise that we wouldn't live our lives in vain. No matter the pain and humiliation we endure under Arlong! We swore to fight against the long fight so that Astrid and Fishlegs could meet their demands! But they lied! They never intended to keep their end of the deal, instead they stole our only chance of freedom! So now, we should make those filthy Fishmen pay for all the years they manipulated a kind young girl and boy, am I right!"

"Yeah, let's do this!"

"We were already ready to fight those monsters!"

"Let's get them!"

"Time to show those lousy stinking Fishmen what we're made of!"

Immediately they all cheered and raise their weapons up high.

"Everyone, wait!" Astrid's voice yelled.

Everyone then immediately turned around and saw Astrid approaching them.

"Astrid?" Astra blinked.

"Calm down," she said calmly. "It's not that much money, I can make it back up in no time. I'll take care of it, don't worry. It'll be easy this time, I'm used to it, I'll be fine. Just relax, everything is okay. Hey, it's nothing compared to back then."

Everyone just remained quiet as Astrid stood in front of them.

"Come on everyone, I'm perfectly fine," Astrid assured.

Goodwin then approached and then placed her head against his shoulder. "You've done enough, you have to know that there's no point now. You struggled so hard carrying your lives on your back, this whole time. I can only imagine that joining them must have been more painful than being stabbed through the heart. You've fought very well."

Tears began to form in Astrid's eyes. "Goodwin."

Goodwin then pulled away from her. "Set yourself free from this village."

Astrid's eyes widened. "Goodwin."

Fishlegs just stood there in silence, because he knew that nothing he said could persuade the villagers.

Astra looked at her sister. "Astrid, do it."

"What? Astra?" Astrid stared.

"You're an exceptional young woman and you have a dream."

Astrid looked at everyone desperately. "Everyone, listen. I won't let you go." She then immediately pulled out her battle-axe and pointed at them. "Just stay right there, I'm not going to let anyone else get hurt by these monsters! You'll all die."

"We know that," said Goodwin and grasped hold of the battleaxe.

Astrid just couldn't bring herself to hurt anyone.

"Astrid, Fishlegs has already tried to convince us to do otherwise, but we've made up our minds," said the Doctor.

Fishlegs looked at Astrid and nodded. "I just couldn't persuade them, I hoped that you might have been able to."

Astrid was now flowing with tears.

"Get out of the way!" Goodwin ordered. Astrid just looked at him in silence as he turned towards the villages and drew his sword. "Move out!"

"We may not win, but we will give them Hell!" the Doctor yelled.

All the villages immediately cheered and then charged right out of the village running past Astrid and Fishlegs.

Astrid fell to her knees feeling completely powerless with tears in her eyes. "Why would they do something so stupid?"

"Because you of all people should know that dying in battle is preferable then a slow death under a tyrant's heel," said Hiccup as he approached Astrid. "The only reason they never attacked Arlong, was because of you and Fishlegs. However, Arlong's doublecross was right over the line and they feel compelled to free you of your burden, even if it means their deaths."

Astrid looked at him Hiccup. "Hiccup? What do you want? You know nothing about what is been going on?"

Fishlegs looked at Astrid. "He does, he's figured it out for himself and I filled in the missing plots."

Astrid looked at him. "I thought the idea was to keep him and the others out of this."

Hiccup looked at Astrid. "You may you two may not be officially members of my crew, but as far as I'm concerned you are. My father drilled into me very early on that you should treat your crew like family and that you should never give up on family."

Astrid immediately cried slamming her hand into the ground again and again and yelling out in frustration. Eventually she calmed down slightly and looked at Hiccup pleadingly, because he was the only person she could count on to save the villagers.

"Hiccup, help me," she pleaded.

Hiccup looked down at her and nodded. "Leave it to me, after all it's what friends do." He then immediately turned around and that's when Astrid saw that Ragnar and the others were also in the village waiting for him. "Let's go."

"Right," said the three of them.

Astrid and Fishlegs then watched as the three of them walked out of the village side-by-side.

Goodwin and the other villages had reached Arlong Park, but found their path blocked by the twins. Both of them were badly wounded and they had plunged their swords into the ground barring their path.

"Hey, are you guys all right?"

"Did Arlong do this to you?" the Doctor asked.

"Move aside," Goodwin ordered. "We have business to take care of with the Fishmen."

Ruffnut looked up at them. "When we finally found out about the truth about Astrid and Fishlegs, we realise the only thing we could do was to defeat Arlong in battle. So we decided to come back here and challenge him."

"They completely wiped the floor with us," said Tuffnut.

"I'm sorry, but we can't let you through this door, you have no chance of victory," said Ruffnut plainly.

"What's that," said Goodwin.

"Be patient, it won't be long now," Tuffnut assured. "You see we're waiting for the arrival of certain men."

"What certain men?" Goodwin demanded.

"Don't worry, they'll be here soon, I bet my life on it."

The twins then saw Hiccup and the others walking their way towards them.

"There!" they said in unison as they got to their feet.

The villages immediately turned and could scarcely believe their eyes as Hiccup and the others approached them.

"It's them," said Astra.

"But why would they come to defend our village?" Goodwin asked puzzled.

"If those men can't handle Arlong and his gang and there is no hope, not only for this island, but for the whole East Blue," said Tuffnut.

"Those are the faces of the four men who I here to change your destiny. Burn their images into your memory," said Ruffnut.

Hiccup looked at the villages. "Step aside."

Arlong meanwhile was laughing and then he looked to his men.

"Hey, do you think those two idiots that showed up earlier on members of Toothless' little crew?" he questioned.

"Toothless? They seem too weak for that, they weren't even worth killing," said Seablade.

"That's for sure," Arlong laughed.

However, he stopped laughing as something struck the gate so hard that it began to crack. A few seconds later there was another blow weakening it even further and then the third one smashed it to pieces. Then emerging from the dust was none other than Hiccup, who apparently had just punished his way through.

"What the?" Arlong stared.

Hiccup looked up. "I'm looking for Arlong."