Arial had just explained to them about Upper Yard and that it was the home of the All-Father. To say that Hiccup and the others were shot would be an understatement, as the All-Father was a title given to the god Odin.
"You're saying there's a God and he lives up on island that no one is allowed to step on?" Hiccup stared.
"Right," Arial nodded.
"You mean this is the All-Father, the one from the actual stories and he lives on the island next door to you?" Chopper stared.
"He does, I'm sure all of you noticed the big sign that said 'All-Fatherland Skypiea'? That means this land is ruled by the Almighty God Enel."
"Hang on the All Father's name is Enel?" Ragnar frowned.
"He knows and sees everything, he's truly omniscient," said Arial.
"Everything?" Snotlout gulped.
"He keeps his all-seeing eyes focused on everyone always."
"For real?" said Snotlout as he sat up.
"You mean right now?" Hiccup asked.
"Oh yes," Arial nodded.
"I hate it when people stared at me and I can't see them!" Chopper panicked.
"God, huh?" Toothless scoffed.
Chopper looked at him. "Wait, you mean you don't believe in the All-Father? But why not?"
Toothless looked at him. "I'm a drake, we have a different mythology to humans. We don't believe in gods, instead, we believe in the eternal fire which is where all life came from."
Ragnar looked at Arial. "I still don't quite understand in our stories the All Father's name is Odin, but you say he goes by the name of Enel?"
"I can't say for certain, but it could be possible that your people call him by a different name," Arial offered.
"Okay, but if he lives so close then surely you must have seen him before?"
"Not, it's forbidden to go there. The Upper Yard is sacred ground and placed only for our God to rest."
Fishlegs was at the Upper Yard, unaware of the dangers he was in. He was still rather confused why there was an island from the Blue Sea here or why the trees were so large.
"I can't get over the size of those trees," he said. "When a minute, so they do have earthen ground here."
Hiccup was still trying to get his head around about this Upper Yard.
"A forbidden place that no one is supposed to set foot on, huh?" said Hiccup.
"Sounds like a fun place to explore," said Ruffnut.
"It sounds awesome," said Tuffnut.
"The lady just said that we can't go there because it's sacred ground," Astrid reminded them.
Hiccup looked at Arial. "So how serious are the laws taken here?"
"Breaking any rule from the All-Father is nothing less than sacrilege," said Arial.
"I assume there's some dramatic and vicious consequences of entering the Upper Yard?" Heather assumed. "Do you know what they are?"
"Yeah, I do," said Arial.
"What are they?" Toothless asked.
"It is our belief that if you go there you would not return alive," said Polo.
"Everyone who goes there dies?" Snotlout stared.
"I must admit I'm just as worried about Fishlegs as all of you are," Polo admitted. "I hope he has sailed too close to the Upper Yard."
"I don't think there's much to worry about, Fishlegs smart enough not to step foot on an unknown island without backup," said Hiccup.
"For all we know even sailing around it outskirts could be considered sacrilege," said Ragnar.
"Maybe it's worth going out to locate him," Astrid suggested.
Fishlegs meanwhile was just staring at the giant trees of the Upper Yard, he was unaware of the fact that this was sacred ground and what the consequences were of setting foot on it.
"Those trees of the biggest trees I've ever seen in my life," he said. "They have to be hundreds of years old that all things grow bigger few miles in the sky. And there's so tall I can't even see where they top out."
"I'm positive, the treasure has got to be here," said a faint voice.
"But I don't see anything," said a second voice.
"Look harder, we didn't come all this way for nothing! It's close it has to be!"
"But where?"
'There are people out there,' said Fishlegs looking up at the island.
"We're getting warmer, pick up the pace!"
Fishlegs then moved in closer towards the voices, though he moved as silently as possible so not to be noticed.
"The voices came from over here," he said.
Meanwhile, Hiccup and the others were starting to plan a trip to the Upper Yard to locate Fishlegs.
"It's all well and good saying that we should go after Fishlegs, but without knowing exactly where he is we could just be fumbling around aimlessly in these uncharted waters," said Hiccup.
Ragnar looked at Arial. "I don't suppose you can give us directions to the Upper Yard?"
"You don't even know for sure that he's there," said Arial. "For you know you he could be out on the clouds and nowhere near the Upper Yard. I mean… I can't explain how devastating it would be for us if we angered the wrath of our All-Father Enel."
"This Enel doesn't sound like the nicest guy we could have found," said Chopper.
"He doesn't have to be, he's a god," Toothless pointed out.
Fishlegs meanwhile was making his way around the island when he came across a small boat anchored near the cliffs. However, upon closer examination, it was rather rickety and battered plus there was no sign of anyone on board.
"What a wreck, looks like there's no one on board," he said.
He then sailed up to the boat and then climbed aboard, the only thing on it was a seashell, an empty water canister and discarded backpack.
He then went unexamined the boat more closely and noticed there were massive claw marks on the side.
"Claw marks? Something big by the looks of them," he said.
A bird then landed on the apex of the seashell.
"I'm positive, the treasure has got to be here."
"But I don't see anything."
"Look harder, we didn't come all this way for nothing! It's close it has to be!"
Fishlegs practically jumped when he first heard the voices began looking around for the source which turned out to be the seashell. The seashell was, in fact, a tone dial, but Fishlegs had no idea it was called that at the time.
"Wait? Those voices coming from that shell," he said.
He then bent down and examined the shell more closely.
"We're getting warmer, pick up the pace!"
"Crazy," Fishlegs blinked. "It sounds like there's a person trapped inside."
He then picked it up and began examining it accidentally pressing on the apex of the shell.
"We have to keep a record of everything we find in to do," said a voice. "Who knows how valuable the information could be."
"I see, so the shell can record voices," said Fishlegs.
"Forget this," said the second voice. "I'm out of here! I can't stop shaking, I'm so scared! Can you feel that? That's the All-Father's anger!" He then heard some sort of noise in the background. "Wait, I hear something."
"What is it?"
"It's-it's-it's the All-Father!"
He then heard what sounded like a tremendous amount of force followed by some screams. Fishlegs then noticed for the first time the little co-that he was in was not naturally made and the trees above had been scorched.
"Were they killed… by the All-Father?" said Fishlegs.
The sound of the leaves shaking the trees sent shivers down his spine.
"This place is so creepy, that's it I think it's time to get out of here," he said
Then suddenly there was a massive crash coming from the forest and Fishlegs looked up and saw bird shooting out of the trees looking frightened.
Inside the forest, and from the Blue Sea was running for his life as quickly as he could.
"Help! Somebody help me!" he cried.
Fishlegs noticed that some trees were shaking close by and fear starting to consume him.
Meanwhile, Valkyrie Beach, Hiccup and everyone else was getting ready to set sail to search for Fishlegs.
"All right, we'll start our search of the Upper Yard," said Hiccup.
Polo had placed a finger up and was feeling the direction of the wind. "I'm afraid there's no headwind blowing, if you were to set sail at this moment you would spend an extraordinary amount of time getting to the Upper Yard."
"What kind of extraordinary amount?" Astrid asked.
"Exponentially longer than it would take if your ship was powered using are dials energies."
"Can you be a little bit more specific like an actual number?" Ragnar asked.
"I'm afraid only the wind knows your answer," said Polo.
"The ironic part is that Fishlegs would know," said Toothless.
"I don't suppose you know a faster way to get there rather than sitting and waiting for the wind to pick up?" Hiccup asked.
"Unless you would make this ship fly was stuck here," said Snotlout.
Meanwhile, the Upper Yard, the adventure was running for his life as for elves were chasing him down.
One of them was a muscular dark-skinned man with a bald head, he was swinging from the trees like a monkey. He then landed on one of the large branches and placed his fingers in his mouth and whistled.
The eventual heard the whistle and came to a stop, wondering what was now going to chase him. Then suddenly shooting out of the bush was a giant dog the size of a small elephant.
"Oh no!" he cried.
He braced himself for the end, but then shooting down from the sky on the back of a giant eagle was another one of his pursuers. This one was wearing armour and he was holding a lantern his hand. He then suddenly took off and then kicked the dog with incredible strength pushing him away from the adventure before the eagle flew low him and he landed on top of it.
"Bastard!" the muscular man growled. "He took my pray."
Fishlegs climbed back onto his waver and began moving around the island.
"Those voices… those sounds… what were they?" he said to himself.
The elf in armour began to laugh as he began chasing down the adventure frosting his lance at him.
"Just give up!" he laughed.
Then suddenly floating next to him was a particularly fat looking elf wearing a bowler hat.
"You should do the same, this boy is mine," he said.
"Not if I can help it!"
"Oh, but it doesn't look like you can!"
The adventurer then tripped over a root and fell to the ground, the elf in the bowler hat and the one wearing armour then blocked his escape.
At the same time, Fishlegs had just come to the opening when he saw them.
"Wait… what the? Who are they?" he frowned. Whoever they were he had a bad feeling about them. "Something tells me I don't want to find out. What's going on?"
Hiccup and the others were still waiting for the wind to pick up, but the twins were rather impatient.
"We can't stay here all day!" said Tuffnut.
Ruffnut nodded. "We can't just sit on this beach and wait for the wind to pick up."
The two of them then grabs the wrecked waver that Hiccup salvaged from the wrecked galleon.
"What's that thing you muttonhead carrying?" Snotlout yelled.
"That's the old broken waver I found," said Hiccup. "You two can't even be thinking about using that?"
Unfortunately, they were as they were running towards the sea.
"Here we come!" they yelled.
They then dropped the waver onto the sea and then jumped on board and no one surprise it immediately sank beneath the waves.
"What a bunch of muttonheads," Astrid groaned.
"How could they possibly not know that was going to happen?" said Snotlout shaking his head.
"Is anyone going to save them?" Chopper asked.
"I'm on it," Hiccup groaned as he dived in.
Hiccup managed to pull the twins out of the sea as well as the wrecked waver.
"I'm getting quite sick and tired of rescuing people from the sea," Hiccup groaned as he dropped the twins onto the beach.
Polo began to examine the wrecked waver. "So this is your old waver, huh? You should take better care of it."
"It's not ours, we found it like that," said Astrid.
"Would you like me to take a look at it?" he asked. "Assuming that it is fixable I should be able to do that for you."
"How would you know how to fix it?" Hiccup asked.
"I'm an engineer that specialises in dialled ships so I should know."
"Wouldn't be a bad idea, mind if I lend a hand on the bit of an amateur engineer myself," said Hiccup.
Meanwhile, out at the White White Sea, the gorilla that attacked Hiccup and his crew were riding across the water towards the Upper Yard.
'Enel,' he said.
At the Upper Yard, the adventurer was staring at his three pursuers looking utterly terrified.
"Leave this one to me, he's my prey," said the baldheaded elf.
"Oh, so you have the itch to compete do you?" said the armoured elf. "Well, you would be happy to know that I enjoy fighting you. To kill my boredom!"
"Very funny, Selan. We'll see how competent you are after I feed you and your ugly friend to my pet dog."
The elf in the bowler had begun bouncing around excitedly. "I sense a confrontation, too bad it's between a couple of weaklings."
Then joining the three of them was an elf with wet black hair. "Speak for yourself."
Fishlegs just stood there watching everything transpire, he had no idea what was going on but he knew that those four were dangerous. He then heard what sounded to be a rifle directly behind him, he turned around and saw the gorilla that he and his crew earlier aiming a bazooka directly at him.
He then fired and Fishlegs then realise that he was aiming at the four elves above them. There was a huge explosion and Fishlegs looks back at the gorilla wondering why he did that. He then looked up back towards the cliff and saw the adventurer crawling his way towards the ledge.
"What's going on?" he said.
The adventurer looked pretty beaten up and that when he saw Fishlegs floating below him. "You down there! Help, please give me a ride! Please!"
"You want a ride?" Fishlegs frowned. "But this is a one-person boat."
"Please help me," he pleaded. "I came here from another Sky Island in search of some missing treasure. But I don't care about that anymore, I just want to get out of here. Please!"
"But I can't there's no room," said Fishlegs.
"Either give me the boat or our slice you up!" he yelled as he drew his knife. His eyes then widened when he noticed the gorilla just behind him, who was re-aiming his bazooka. "Gorilla!"
Then there was a flash of light appearing around him.
"No!" he cried.
Then an incredible force of lightning rained down from the sky striking him and tearing up that small portion of the island. Fishlegs then realised what had created a small cove he discovered earlier, with this kind of power it made sense that a god was behind it.
"Is this Enel's doing?" said the grill as he shielded himself with his shield. "How dare you harm vearth!"
Then suddenly another beam of lightning rained down from the sky aiming directly at the gorilla this time. He narrowly avoided the attack and Fishlegs was doing everything he can to stay afloat as the attack caused massive ripples in the sea. Eventually attack stopped and the gorilla was now moving away from the island.
"Get some water tiles down here now! The fire is spreading!"
Fishlegs looked up towards the cliff and indeed he could a small fire was blazing away.
Meanwhile, over Valkyrie Beach, the elves in the nearby town were minding their own business when soldiers began marching through the streets and all of them wearing white berets.
"What other White Berets doing here?"
"Oh no, something must have happened."
"You are all worn to use extreme caution," said the leader of the squad. "I have received word that even legal entrance have entered Skypiea through to Angel Beach today! There are reportedly 10 suspects, but do not worry you can help with our search investigation by reporting suspicious activity. Leave it to the White Berets."
He then held out pictures of Hiccup and the others.
Fishlegs meanwhile was at the Upper Yard remaining as quiet as a mouse, the elves of there had already distinguished the flames and were now talking amongst themselves.
"Did you see that?" said the elf with black wet hair. "It appeared he was talking to someone in the water."
"He was probably delusional," said the elf in the bowler hat.
"Would someone please shut that dog up?" Selan snarled as the baldheaded elf's dog kept on barking.
"He was most likely begging for his life," the elf the bowler hat laughed.
"Why did Enel take care of that guy himself?" the baldheaded elf wandered. "Isn't that why he sent us here in the first place?"
"We probably ran out of time," said the elf with black wet hair.
"Ran out of time?" said the elf of the bowler hat.
"Yet another group of illegal entrants have already entered Skypiea."
"Again?" Selan grunted.
"Old Lady Valkyrie informed us that it was a ship filled with 10 Blue Sea dwellers on board."
Fishlegs' eyes widened. '10 Blue Sea dwellers? That's probably us, we're here illegally?' Fishlegs remembered that they had to pay an entrance fee. 'Because we didn't pay the entrance fee? No way! The people who were on that abandoned boat and that guy just saw, did he illegally enter too? Because if that is true I don't want that bright flash to come for us.'
"10 Blue Sea dwellers should be a cakewalk for us," said Selan.
"10 heads, looks like two of us is going to have to share," said the baldheaded elf.
'What the heck is happening on this island? And who are those people?' said Fishlegs. 'This is crazy!'
Fishlegs wasted no time began heading back Valkyrie Beach as quickly as he could.
"I have to get back to the others and warn them! I just hope I get to them before it's too late!"
Hiccup and the others were still waiting for the wind to pick up and aware of the danger they were in. While they were waiting the twins and Chopper were busy making sculptures out of the clouds and Snotlout demolished them when they weren't looking. Astrid, Heather, Ragnar and Toothless were just sitting quietly on the ship, though Toothless was fast asleep.
Hiccup meanwhile was with Polo as they began to examine the wrecked waver.
"Do you think it's fixable?" Hiccup asked.
"I've never seen past like these before," said Polo.
"I don't hear no though," said Hiccup folding his arms.
"Until I have a chance to look at this closely, I don't know if I can fix it," he said honestly.
"Guess the only thing we can do is try."
Then they heard footsteps and saw the White Berets making their way down towards them.
"It looks like we have company," said Hiccup.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up as the White Berets continued walking down the steps towards them.
"You there… on the beach, don't move!" the captain ordered.
"This can't be good," said Hiccup.
They eventually reached the beach and stopped right in front of them.
"White Berets, halt!" the captain ordered.
All of them then immediately came to a stop and Astrid and the others at the same time joined the ones on the beach.
"Who are they soldiers?" Toothless asked.
"No clue," said Chopper.
"Well, look what we have here," said the captain looking at them. "You must be the Blue Sea dwellers who have illegally entered the sovereign land of Skypiea. Prepare to have the weight of divine judgement wrote down upon you!"
