"Saddle count?" Hiccup asks going over the storage room list.
"Twenty," Thorve counts off in the box.
"There should be twenty-four," Hiccup says marking that down as Stoick entered.
"Hiccup," Stoick says getting his attention.
"Dad. What brings you here when we are doing inventory?" Hiccup asks.
"Son, I am suspending all work in building and smithing for now. Our delivery of ore has not arrived," Stoick informs.
"What?!" Hiccup calls.
"Nothing came in. No trader in fact," Stoick explains.
"Alright, then. After a few of the riders get back from gathering wood and food and helping melt the snow for families to get out of their homes, we will see what the issue is," Hiccup says handing him the inventory list.
"Why are we missing four?" Stoick immediately asked.
"That is what I want to know," Hiccup says before wrapping his fur around himself tightly.
"And one spear," Thorve says walking by with the spear.
"Why do you need the spear?" Hiccup says as she started wrapping her furs around her.
"Testing," Thorve says simply.
"It's a normal spear. What are you testing with it?" Hiccup asks as the three braced themselves to head out into the cold.
"Armor," Thorve says simply again.
"You made another one or working on Astrid's?" Hiccup asks before pulling the door open and getting blasted by cold air.
"…something…" Thorve starts before walking into the snow.
The three walk to the stables nearest to them as a group of dragon riders came in lead by Astrid.
"Astrid, is it done?" Hiccup calls.
"Yes, we should be good for a few weeks if not till spring," Astrid says getting off Skyler and letting him go to the warm stables with other dragons.
"We may have a new problem. Can you help dad in trying to track down the missing saddles from the storehouse while we go see Gobber?" Hiccup asks.
"Sure. Be happy to help," Astrid agrees.
"Oh, and Thorve has the missing spear," Hiccup adds before they got Toothless.
Astrid smiles as Thorve walks by with it. "Yeah," she only says, watching her follow him.
"To Gobber's forge Toothless," Hiccup says getting into the saddle with Thorve after she secured the spear.
Toothless growls and takes off into the air.
"It's been quite peaceful for the last five months, hasn't it?" Hiccup asks.
Thorve hums. "Yeah."
"The new students are doing well and we even found that island for our whispering deaths. I expected that to take a bit longer," Hiccup says as they flew over the village now.
"Uh-huh," Thorve mumbles.
"But that white one. Oh boy, was it a surprise, huh?" Hiccup asks.
"Yep," Thorve says.
"We are going to need a bigger island from that big guy and the other whispering deaths when they come of age," Hiccup says.
"Uh-huh," Thorve mumbles again.
"So are you paying attention to the plans we are making for the wedding?" Hiccup asks smirking.
"Uh-huh," Thorve mumbles, the same tone again.
"Yeah, just going to let that one sink in," Hiccup says as Toothless snickers.
Thorve blinks before frowning. "Hiccup."
"Yeah, you should pay attention," Hiccup says.
Thorve hits him over the head at that.
"But seriously, when the seasons change, we got to start searching for a home for the adult whispering deaths and the screaming death," Hiccup says.
"That is true," Thorve says as they landed in front of the forge.
"Hey Gobber," Hiccup says entering the forge with Thorve and Toothless.
"And how can I help our dragon commander today?" Gobber asks smiling as makes a few nails.
"Dad just informed me of the ore situation," Hiccup informs.
"Aye…and it's dead slow around here. Here I am, pounding nails just to do something," Gobber complains.
"Gobber, that is wastewater from the runoff trays," Hiccup pointed out as Gobber grabbed a cup.
"You alright Gobber?" Thorve asks.
"Oh, fine," Gobber sighs before drinking away actual mead.
"We were thinking about taking some riders and going to check it out. Could you inform us who we get the ore from?" Hiccup asks.
Gobber sighs before starting to tell the two about the ChilBlain tribe. After he finished, Hiccup spoke again. "You want to come with us Gobber?"
"I want to know who is holding out on us," Gobber complains getting up.
"Alright, grab a ride with one of our dragons. I will go get who I can to come with us," Hiccup says.
"Um…" Thorve hums as Hiccup leaves and she looks back to Gobber and waves. All before Thorve was pulled away by Hiccup.
"Ah, young love," Gobber says before recalling his young love.
"Alright you fourteen, here is the situation. We have been informed we haven't been receiving our shipments of ore lately. You all know what that means, right?" Hiccup asks everyone in the group but Gobber and Thorve.
Murmuring starts to happen. With almost everyone agreeing in some way and nodding along.
"Good. You comprehend why this is an issue. I got approval from the chief to head up there and see if they are in trouble and if they are to help," Hiccup informs them all before gesturing to a clothing bin. "In there, you will find items to help keep your dragons a bit warmer. See to it as we are going out into the cold and we need our dragons as responsive as possible," Hiccup instructs.
"I can't wait to see Toothless's reaction to hers," Thorve whispers to herself grinning.
"Also, no fighting. I made sure there was more than enough for all our dragons," Hiccup adds.
"Want to help me get Toothless fitted?" Thorve asks Hiccup smirking.
"Yes, Blazesnap needs to be fitted as well as Seer can't handle this much cold. How are you doing over there?" Hiccup calls to the seemingly empty stall with a roaring fire inside.
A head peeks out and roars at them.
"Keeping warm?" Hiccup calls.
Seer screeches happily and goes back in.
"Ok, let's get to Toothless and Blazesnap," Hiccup says.
"This will be very fun," Thorve giggles at.
"Toothless, Blazesnap," Hiccup calls.
Blazesnap growls and scrambles towards them as Toothless sleepily picks her head up.
"I will handle the eager one," Hiccup says.
"Come on girl. Look what I got you," Thorve says, holding up a pair of pink earmuffs.
Toothless gives a surprised yelp before running off and Thorve laughing as she chases after the tomboyish dragon.
"Girls, right Blazesnap?" Hiccup asks lining Blazesnap's helmet with fur.
Blazesnape snaps his jaws at him.
"Yeah. There, how does that feel?" Hiccup asks putting the helmet back on his dragon.
Blazesnap looks up to the helmet before trying to jiggle it and gets the same muffled noise.
"We will remove the fur when we get back, for now, it will help keep you warm, ok?" Hiccup asks petting his dragon.
Blazesnap nods and looks to Toothless and sees her still running from Thorve.
"A comedy, right?" Hiccup asks.
Blazesnap smacks his tail at him, pushing him toward the running pair's path and ends up being bowled over by Toothless into a tangled mess of limbs. "Thanks, Hiccup," Thorve thanks as she slips the earmuffs onto Toothless who gives an annoyed glare at her. "See? That wasn't so bad."
"The chase over?" Hiccup asks untangling himself.
Toothless pushes him into the snow by lying on top of him, a winning smirk on her face. "I think she wants payback," Thorve giggled before yelping and laughing when Toothless pulled her down beside Hiccup and laid on top of them both. "Toothless, get off!" she laughs and giggles, playfully trying to push Toothless off as Hiccup smiles from he was.
"Also, Blazesnap needs payback too as he pushed me into you," Hiccup adds.
"He'll get it," Thorve giggles while Toothless looks at the two knowingly and leaning on an arm. "What's the big smirk for? I'm not the one wearing such cute pink earmuffs," Thorve teases.
Toothless snorts and reaches up before pulling the earmuffs off of her. "I think she looks beautiful," Hiccup says grabbing it again and pulling it softly onto Toothless who doesn't try to take it off as she smirks at Thorve.
"Haha. Laugh it up," Thorve sputters as she rolls her eyes.
"None of us are laughing," Hiccup says smiling, grabbing her scared hand. "Ready?"
"Yep," Thorve says as Camicazi walks up.
"What kind of relationship am I looking at here?" Camicazi asks confused, seeing the legendary dragon keeping the two pinned and having a smirk on its face.
"The one where the dragon is a lot like Loki," Hiccup informs.
Toothless gives a bark at them and pats both on the head with a paw.
"So who are you riding with as Shuffle can't fly?" Hiccup asks.
"Isn't it obvious?" Camicazi asks smirking at him.
"Sorry Thorve," Hiccup sighs as he lays back in the snow.
"I still have Astrid," Thorve says smirking.
"Don't get too touchy," Hiccup warns, playfully patting her chest.
"Oh, you know us bog burglars," Camicazi says smirking.
"Talking to Thorve…but same to you," Hiccup warns pointing to her.
Camicazi chuckles at that as Blazesnap comes up.
"Alright. Let's fly now," Hiccup says as Thorve helps him up after Toothless scampered off.
"I'll take Toothless. You have Blazesnap," Throve informs.
"Make sure she keeps those earmuffs on," Hiccup says, patting Toothless as she rolls her eyes.
"Is Shuffle coming along Camicazi?" Hiccup asks.
"Take a look behind you," Camicazi says.
Hiccup hears a bark and slowly turns around to see every single speedstinger they have, bobbing their heads and staring at them.
"I guess that settles that and with the water frozen, they can follow us if we fly low enough," Hiccup says.
"Now let's see if they can keep up," Thorve boasts, with Toothless looking proud behind her.
"Come on," Hiccup says getting on Blazesnap.
"Toothless," Thorve says getting on and strapping herself in.
Camicazi leaps onto the back of Blazesnap as Astrid came up riding on Skyler.
"Really?" Thorve had to ask, seeing the baby dragons scurrying around Stormfly.
"Yes, Stormfly will need to stay to watch after them," Astrid says as Arrowback comes bounding up to Hiccup and latches onto him, circling its tail around Hiccup's arm.
"Hey there," Hiccup says softly, scratching it under the chin.
Arrowback purrs as it tightens its grip.
"That's cute," Astrid teases.
"Seems Arrowback is coming too," Camicazi says smirking.
"He's helpful like that," Hiccup describes, still scratching the baby.
"Hiccup, we are ready," Fishlegs calls.
"Let's get going," Hiccup says patting Blazesnap and he takes off with the others following. Camicazi whistling and the speedstingers pick their heads up before following her as she glides along the ground, waving at them to keep them going.
The group flies through the air, following Gobber's directions from a nadder. When they got close, they stopped and landed at the wreckage of a sled. "Check it out," Hiccup instructs as the speedstingers arrived.
Hiccup, seeing this, dismounted and went up to the cart and started examining it. "Oh look, ore!" Camicazi calls after a bit pulling the tarp off the cart's back.
"Where's…the rider?" Thorve asks, looking around before Hiccup pulled the tarp further and shown a clawed dead viking.
"Claw marks…he must have been attacked by something," Hiccup says as Gobber walked over to examine them as well.
"Never seen these before. These marks are a first," Gobber tries to examine and explain.
"Whatever did it had to have been fast," Hiccup says, not even seeing a splash of blood frozen on the sled.
"If I was to hazard a guess, I would say whatever did this got the driver from somewhere up there and the sled without a driver careened out of control and crashed, snapping it into two like it is now," Gobber says.
"Excellent deduction," Hiccup says proudly as he looks over the sled before spotting the machine in the back. 'What the…even in this world…what…?' Hiccup thinks before noticing it was sheared clean in two by something. 'Of course…wait this is old…rust marks. Signs of wear.' "Gobber, how old would you say this is?" Hiccup asks pointing to what he was looking at.
"Hum…I say about two hundred years old," Gobber says examining it.
Hiccup blinks slowly before trying to peek inside. With parts being rusted or frozen over to bits. "Would that make this at least over two hundred years old…are we two hundred years late on delivery?" Thorve tries to joke.
"What was that?" one of the riders asked, brandishing a weapon and turning in a direction.
"What was what?" Hiccup asks, reaching in and pulling out a rusted gear. 'Amazing this ran for that long.'
"I could swear I heard something," the rider says as many more started to get out their weapons now.
"If you did, let's see how they like this," Hiccup says pulling out a new invention of his. "Cover your eyes," Hiccup instructs before throwing it into the air.
The thing he threw up exploded in a blinding flash and loud bang that made everyone's ears ring. Those who listened in time were able to escape the flash, but no one could escape the loud noise as their ears ring heavily. A loud roaring muffled in the background as the dragons tried to get rid of the sensations or stay up in the air.
"Ok, that one was stronger than the rest I have tested and Great Ceaser's ghost what is that!?" Hiccup calls and anyone not blinded turned and saw large white dragons with a wreath of horns around their heads, and of course, huge and deadly canine teeth that looked as sharp as swords.
"Ropes! Now!" Astrid calls, grabbing packed up ropes and tossing to another viking who grabs it and they fly towards one of the dragons, tying up its mouth and then moving onto its legs, sending it to faceplant into the snow. The others following their examples as Hiccup pulled Thorve away with Toothless flying, all three hiding behind a snowbank.
"What are we doing?" Thorve hisses to him.
"Getting the dragons' trust. Can't do that when they are agitated seeing us tie them up," Hiccup explains, trying to find something in his bag.
"Look at those claws…could they have done the damage to the cart?" Gobber thinks aloud.
"Could be. It's almost a match," Astrid observes, comparing the claw and claw marks.
"And what can we do to help?" Hiccup asks as he comes out from behind the snowbank, holding some fish by the tails.
"Hiccup, Thorve, I know you two will be excited by this, but shouldn't we focus on the task we were given?" Astrid reminds the two.
"We can't do that well without a dragon who is at least use to the area," Thorve whispers to her.
"You don't have time to train them though, do you?" Astrid asks.
"If you count taming training," Thorve shrugs.
"Unless you can figure out how to do that with this unknown species of dragon, then we should just take them with us," Astrid says stressing the unknown part.
"Hiccup?" Thorve asks, looking over to him.
"Hum…will need time with them and there could be more," Hiccup says before giving the order to bring the dragons with them.
"You think they would be mad we have one of their own?" Thorve suddenly asks.
"Try five of their own," Camicazi corrects as dragons started to pick up the bound dragons.
"Alright, set up a perimeter and camp. Astrid, Gobber, come with me. We will go see the tribe," Hiccup says.
"Hiccup, it may not be a good idea with the dragons," Gobber informs.
"How so?" Hiccup asks turning to Gobber as he gets off the nadder he had been riding on.
"They are still in the ways we were before you and Thorve trained Toothless there," Gobber explains, making Hiccup start to consider the situation again.
'If that is the case, they will just fire on us if we fly in. That only leaves going in on foot…come to think of it, they were not directly involved in the war. That means it is possible they don't know all that happened or the amount of respect that many of my generations have acquired amongst the tribe…I may be able to use this,' Hiccup thinks as he paces a bit back and forth, weighing his options.
"He's back to his old self," Astrid murmurs and Thorve looks at her, head tilted slightly.
"Is that a bad thing?" Thorve asks.
"No…maybe…if he's stuck in his old ways," Astrid shrugs.
"Admit it. You missed him being like this," Thorve says.
Astrid slowly smiles. "I did miss messing with him when he was like that."
"I will take care of the dragons while you two are away," Thorve informs.
"You sure? You do like new things at times," Astrid points out.
"New species of dragon," Thorve reminds.
"Okay. Fair point," Astrid chuckles and bumps against her side at that.
"I expect him back in one piece," Thorve informs.
"Come on. It's me," Astrid reassures.
"That's why I want you to go with him," Thorve informs.
Astrid sweatdrops at her. "You don't trust me, do you?" Astrid asks dryly.
"I do. If it was anyone else then, oh no, I wouldn't. He needs us to keep him in line," Thorve says smirking.
"Well, he is almost hopeless without us," Astrid smiles back.
"And you know he will be upset not getting to help study these dragons at first," Thorve says before giggling.
"You are evil. You sure you aren't the daughter of Loki?" Astrid jokes.
Thorve says nothing as she looks at the twins. "I hope not."
Astrid smirks and leans over to her before kissing her cheek. "Cutie."
"Alright, Gobber, we will go without our dragons," Hiccup says grabbing his bow, quiver, sword, and shield.
"Have fun," Thorve waves as Toothless growls and leans against her, sending her down into the snow. "Bad girl," she scolds muffled in the snow as she points to the snickering dragon.
"Astrid," Hiccup calls tossing her an ax after she got a shield.
Astrid smiles as she grabs it easily. "What? Can't use the big piece?"
"I am more of a bow or sword guy," Hiccup says patting Blazesnap, letting him take off with the rest. "You lead the way Gobber."
"Stay close," Gobber calls, leading them all.
Hiccup says nothing as he follows with Astrid. When they got close enough, they spotted the battle that was raging. "Looks like a dragon attack," Hiccup says before they felt the second tremor since they started walking.
"That seems to be stronger than the last," Astrid observed.
"It was," Hiccup says before hearing a small hiss and turns around to see one of Camicazi's Speed Stingers.
"And what are you doing here? You should be back with the others," Astrid points out to the little dragon.
"Camicazi sent you, didn't she?" Hiccup asks petting the dragon on its head and the little dragon purred in acknowledgment.
"Course she did. I don't think it's a good idea to bring him anyway," Astrid says the obvious to them.
"Well, if anything, we can send you with a message to the others and this one's speed will make it quick," Hiccup says. 'And without a dragon to ride, best to do that in case we discover anything really bad.'
The speed stinger growls happily and nuzzles Astrid now.
"Come on now," Hiccup says as they catch up to Gobber who was talking to two sentries.
"Gobber, what is happening?" Astrid calls as the sentries point their spears at the speed stinger out of habit.
"That won't work. This little guy is very agile and fast," Hiccup informs.
Astrid slaps him behind the head and shuts him up.
"The boy is right and look at it. It's so small and alone, what harm could it do?" Gobber asks as the two looks closer and sees it has no wing even.
The speed stinger growls and tilts its head, lowering itself down a little as well.
"Can it breathe fire or acid?" one of them asks suspiciously.
Hiccup looks to the speed stinger and it then looks to try its best to do either but comes up with nothing, making it snap the air in front of it. "Not at all. They are very good messengers though," Hiccup informs.
The speed stinger coughs a little before vomiting up a bony fish and scratches at its face at that.
"I guess it would be fine," one of the sentries says unsure what to make of this little wingless dragon that could not breathe fire.
"Also, we found the remains of one of your carts. The driver looked like they were mauled to death," Hiccup informs.
"Ah, that's what happened to Lini then. We were concerned and feared the worst when he never returned from his delivery. Did he at least make it to Berk?" the sentry asks.
"Unfortunately, no. Died around there. Ore still in the sled," Hiccup says pointing down to the valley.
"I hope we at least will see him in Valhalla," the other sentry says a bit sad from hearing that.
"Can we see your leader and talk about more developments?" Hiccup spoke up after a while to give them a few moments of silence with nothing but the snow and wind.
The two nods and one leads them inside where the village looks at the four in curiosity. Though more the little dragon than anything else.
"You two wait out here. Let me talk to Frostbeard alone," Gobber requests as the two hands the sentry their weapons when asked.
"You sure Gobber?" Hiccup asks.
"Ay lad, I got some personal business to handle with this before they listen to us fully," Gobber says.
"Alright. Please make sure I at least get that bow back. I made it myself," Hiccup says switching midway from Gobber to the sentry.
"I'm sure they will care for it," Astrid reassures as they watch the sentry nod and follow Gobber.
After a few moments of waiting, the three are soon approached by three teenage vikings. "Er…hi," one of them greets.
"Hello…?" Hiccup asks back as they all turn to the new teenagers. "My name is Hiccup," Hiccup introduces.
"I know. I mean. Er…" the teenage boy says seeming very unsure what to say. "Sorry, I'm Kettil, this is Gunilla and Frey," Kettil says introducing himself, then the girl, and the other boy respectively.
"Astrid," Astrid introduced herself.
"So how did you know?" Hiccup asks as the speed stinger kept walking around in circles, a bit on edge.
"Tales. Many tales have been told of you…mostly dragon taming," Kettil explains.
"Mostly?" Hiccup questions, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, word gets around even this far around," Gunilla says.
'Apparently, very slowly or you would have heard a lot more,' Hiccup thinks as the speed stinger sniffs the three.
"Even word the war has been happening from some traders once in a while. Said you helped with some new things you made…a shield I think…or was a suit?" Kettil tries to remember to the side.
"The stingers?" Hiccup asks.
"Is that what the shield is called…or was it a suit?" Kettil asks again and Hiccup shakes his head lightly.
'Maybe I should comfort Thorve if she hears of her exploits not heard of,' Hiccup thinks sighing. "No, I think what you heard of is something Thorve came up with," Hiccup says as they feel another tremor. "How long have these tremors been happening?" Hiccup asks.
"Almost two months right now. Hardly a problem last month, but the last three weeks have been torture," Gunilla explains.
'Oh, that is not good…wait. Dragons don't nest this far up north normally…unless there is somewhere really warm!' Hiccup thinks, realization showing on his face. "Oh, that will be very bad if I am right," Hiccup says starting to write a letter on the speed stinger's back.
The speed stinger barks and turns its head to him curiously.
"Take this to Camicazi," Hiccup instructs putting it in one of the pouches on its harness.
The stinger barks before running off and leaves the three new teenagers whipping in the wind.
"Fast, aren't they?" Hiccup asks trying to divert their attention.
"Yeah…wow…" Frey says as his eye trails where the dragon went.
"That's why their name starts with Speed. Hence Speedstingers," Hiccup says.
"So what do you do for fun?" Astrid asks helping Hiccup, seeing what he was doing.
"Snowball fights," Kettil says.
"Snowball fight? Seems a bit tame," Astrid says.
'Compared to us who train and raise dragons for fun,' Hiccup thinks.
"Not the way we do it," Gunilla says getting on one of the sleds.
"You up for a game of Snowmageddon?" Frey calls before the three take off with their sleds.
"Keep an eye on the mountain. With these tremors, it's not a question of it, but when we have an avalanche," Hiccup says to Astrid, getting a sled for himself.
"But have fun?" Astrid asks smiling as she gets her own.
"Right, until Camicazi sends all those who can fly. Hopefully, before the volcano blows," Hiccup says making her stop and stare at him wide-eyed.
"What?!" Astrid now demands, getting up to him and staring at him hard. "Don't tell me that's true."
"Tremors meaning subterranean movement. Combine that with dragon species that shouldn't be living up here and thriving means that this is a volcano is the most likely possibility unless there is another reason for them able to thrive here," Hiccup informs.
"…I hate it when you do that," Astrid whispered angrily.
"This time, I hope I am wrong," Hiccup whispers back before hugging her for a moment.
Astrid sighs as he lets go and gets on the sled before riding down the hill.
The five proceeded to play a snowball fight on sleds and, from the start, it was obvious that it was tribe versus tribe for the locals.
"Come on Hiccup. I thought you were a great rider!" Kettil calls from down the slope.
'Oh, laugh it up,' Hiccup thinks before chucking a snowball a bit ahead on his path.
A grunt sounds out as Kettil was sent a little off the trail and almost lands face-first into the snow wall.
'I am becoming a sharpshooter,' Hiccup thinks smirking before getting hit from behind by Gunilla.
"Ha! The great Hiccup defeated by a snowball," Gunilla cheers as she slides past.
Hiccup shakes his head as he gives her a clap, showing he was being a good sport.
Astrid smiles happily, watching as Hiccup enjoys playing for one of the few times they have.
Hiccup suddenly stopped clapping when they felt a new tremor and his eyes instantly darted to the mountain where he saw movement. "Avalanche!" Hiccup yells as he rushes towards Gunilla who looked terrified up to the mountain.
She cries out when she was tackled and grabbed, landing down in her sled as they slide down faster down the slope while Hiccup's sled tumbled around before being buried by the approaching snow.
"Hiccup!" Astrid calls sledding up.
"We are fine. Get back to the village," Hiccup says holding Gunilla down against the sled as they kept going.
Astrid frowns as she watches them before aiming towards the side and comes to a stop as the avalanche slides past the small cliffside.
"Hiccup!" Gobber yelled running up to Hiccup, looking a mix of relieved and panicked along with most of the village.
"Gobber…we have a problem," Hiccup sighs as he lets Gunilla up, but she just turns to stares at the mountain.
"We need a way to do a mass exodus," Gobber says seriously.
"Before or after Ymir erupts?" Hiccup asks.
"…what?" Gobber asks in surprise that lasted as they gathered the leaders of the tribe together for this news.
"I will explain later. For now, I figured we will need them. That is why I sent a message back. They should be arriving soon," Hiccup says.
"Bringing dragons? We can't do this. Our mortal enemies helping us?" one viking spoke up.
"Then what is that?" Hiccup asks pointing to the air where he saw the riders coming in.
Many of the vikings stare in shock as the riders land and Hiccup went straight to Thorve on Toothless. "Thorve, I want you to help Gobber. We are evacuating the entire village," Hiccup informs before turning her attention to the huge sleds with multiple seats.
"Give me one minute and lots of rope," Thorve says after a bit.
"While you do that, I will be taking Toothless to check on something," Hiccup informs.
"Hurry back," Thorve says getting off and going over to the sleds.
"Kettil, want to join me?" Hiccup offers, hoping to get him to come along as a guide.
"Miss this and figure out what's going on, let's go," he says getting on behind him and tries to look around the saddle. "Um…where do I tie myself with ropes?"
"You don't. Just hang on," Hiccup says and Toothless takes off.
"Whoa!" Kettil yells as they take off and leave the rest behind staring at them.
"Will they be fine?" Gunilla asks Astrid.
"With Hiccup? Yeah, he will be fine," Thorve reassures.
"You sure?" Gunilla asks carefully.
"Yeah," Thorve says reassuring her.
