Selhen was smiling. "Looks like this one is going to stick around for a while."
Selhen impact attacks had crushed Hiccup into the trunk of the tree he was finding it difficult to free himself.
"When I get out of here you will be sorry!" Hiccup yelled.
Selhen didn't look entirely concerned and spun around. "Now where did those others scamper off too? I'll be disappointed if they got away." He then noticed Ragnar. "There you are."
Ragnar was still following the trail the Milky Road and looked up at Ragnar the twins, who are taking another vantage point.
"Hey, you guys see it yet!" he yelled.
"There she is!" Ruffnut cried.
"Mind telling me where she is?" Ragnar asked.
"Straight-ahead!" Snotlout yelled. "Climb on the third tree on the right, you can jump on when she passes beneath you!"
"Gotta," said Ragnar.
Ragnar made his way onto the third tree on the right just as Snotlout described them began to climb it.
Tuffnut then saw Selhen approaching them from behind. "Hey, dumpling guy is back!"
Snotlout turned around. "What's he doing?"
Selhen then kicked one of the balls as if it was a football and it began speeding its way towards Ragnar.
"Heads up, Ragnar! Killer ball coming your way!" Snotlout yelled.
"What?" Ragnar stared as he spun around. "What happened to Hiccup?"
The ball was flying directly towards Ragnar and there was no way he could dodge in time, but then it struck another ball and bounced off course. It then struck another one and headed straight towards Snotlout and the twins.
"Surprise Cloud Billiard!" Selhen laughed.
"Guys!" Ragnar yelled.
The twins quickly sidestepped out of the way, but Snotlout was not so lucky and had to lean back in order to avoid getting struck by the ball.
'That fat freak was aiming for us all along,' he cried as his nose grazed the ball. 'I don't want to go out like this!'
However only a flowerpot out of the ball.
'What? A flower?' Snotlout stared.
"Ah, so pretty," said Ruffnut.
"So strange," said Tuffnut.
"It was a dud," Selhen grumbled.
Unfortunately for Snotlout he was still falling and landed on the ground hard.
"Is he alive?" Ruffnut asked.
"I hope not, because I want tips on his staff," said Tuffnut.
"Not the time Tuff," said Ragnar.
Hiccup was still trying to free himself, it took several tries but finally, he was able to break free from the trunk.
"Finally," he said and then turned his eyes towards Selhen.
He immediately began flying towards him as quickly as he could, but Selhen spun around and then kicked a ball towards.
Hiccup quickly came to a stop and spread out his wings. "Wing Blast!"
Ragnar's eyes widened realising what was going to happen next. "Hiccup, don't!"
It was too late, Hiccup slammed his wings together creating a massive gust of wind which did blow away the ball that Selhen fire towards him. However, it also had the consequence of blowing all the other ball in the vicinity and they were now bouncing around on the tree branches and against one another.
"Whoops," said Hiccup.
"Are you trying to get us killed?" Snotlout yelled.
"You know there was something that we would do," said Tuffnut looking at his sister.
"I know, you think he's awakened his inner Nutt or something?" Ruffnut asked.
"Take cover! They're coming at us from all sides!" Ragnar yelled.
Selhen just watched laughing at the scene before them. "Have fun boys and girl, I'll be watching."
He then began jumping from ball to ball to safety.
Ragnar quickly jumped out of the way as a ball slanted as the tree branch unleashing a series of spears. "Spears!" Another one struck the tree branch and turned into a crab. "Crab!"
Snotlout watched as four of these balls headed his way. "Not forward once!"
All four of them struck the tree next to him and when he looked up he saw four birds shooting out of the balls as if they were hatched from eggs.
"What that?" Snotlout blinked. "Another dude? Nah, I'm not that lucky."
He was right, he wasn't that lucky as the birds immediately attacked him.
The twins were now running across the tree branch with their backends on fire courtesy of a ball that was shooting flames. The two of them then jumped down towards one of the Milky Roads below, unfortunately there was so busy running that they failed to notice that the sky shark was resting directly below them.
It opened its mouth and grabbed the two of them sinking its jaws into their rear ends. The two of them immediately screamed, but thankfully the sky shark's mouth caught on fire foreseen it to release them and they shot out like a bullet from a rifle. The two of them then fell into the Milky Road and right through the bottom of it.
"We went straight through," said Tuffnut.
"Yeah, these things don't have a bottom remember," said Ruffnut.
"Does that also include the one with falling towards?"
"Indubitably, my dear brother."
"So shouldn't we start screaming?"
"After you."
The twins then immediately screamed.
"I'm coming!" Hiccup yelled as he pulled down towards them.
Hiccup caught them in his dragon form and they landed on his back, he then flew back up towards the trees.
"That was close," said Hiccup.
Tuffnut then looked at the vines and then looked back at his sister. "Should we?"
"When in Skypiea," said Ruffnut.
The two of them then jumped off Hiccup's bag and began swinging on the vines hollowing as he did so.
"Will you to get serious?" Ragnar groaned rubbing his forehead. He then pulled out his pistols and aimed at the vines. "We don't have time for this."
He then shot the vines causing the twins to fall back down to terra firma.
"Take this and some of this! And you can take this!" Snotlout yelled and began punching the four birds with his fists. "That'll teach you not to mess with the Snotman."
He then heard screaming above him and when he looked up he saw the twins slamming right into him.
"What did I do to deserve this?" Snotlout groaned.
Hiccup then landed on the ground dropping Ragnar off at the same time and then he reverted to his human form.
"Okay, we're going to need a whole new strategy," said Hiccup.
"We had a strategy?" Tuffnut blinked.
"I thought it was just beat down the bag guys and do whatever we want?" Ruffnut frowned.
"Another 10 seconds in my life never get back," Hiccup groaned. "The first thing we do is forget about the boat for now. Next, we're going to charge that fat freak all at once, I don't care what kind of powers he's got with the five of us attacking at the same time. If there is a way to beat him will find it."
"Oh, don't be so sure," said Selhen's voice.
All of them immediately looked up trying to locate the source of the voice, but there were still plenty of balls making it difficult to locate him.
"Where did he go?" said Snotlout.
Then suddenly he swooped down from out of nowhere and appeared directly behind Ragnar.
"Impact!" he yelled slamming his palm into Ragnar's chest as he turned around.
It was so fast that Ragnar had no time to counter and a split second later he was sent flying into a tree.
"Ragnar!" everyone cried.
"Like they say life is pain," said Selhen as he turned around to face them. "Now who wants to go next?"
Meanwhile elsewhere in the forest young girl with red hair and bare feet was running through the forest as nimble as a monkey. The strangest thing was she was an elf, in fact she was human and she was wearing some sort of tribal dress.
She soon reached the base of the tree where there was a huge tunnel, she looked around to make sure that no one else was around before entering it.
A few seconds later Astrid and the others appeared a few trees away from her present position. Though she was unaware of this fact and began digging up the dirt and putting it in the bag around her waist.
Then she sensed a presence outside, she then immediately stopped what she was doing and ran out of the tunnel and deeper into the forest.
As they were climbing over the tree roots, Fishlegs could have sworn that he saw something move.
"Hey, did you see something move over there?" Fishlegs asked.
"I don't know," Toothless shrugged.
"Oh, then did you guys see anything?" he asked looking at the girls.
"Nope, can't say I did," said Heather.
"This places for wildlife you probably saw monkey or something," said Astrid.
"I guess," said Fishlegs, though he wasn't quite certain.
"So what do you think? Maybe we should check out the other shore?" Heather asked.
"So we can get attacked by those sharks again?" Fishlegs stared.
"Here we go again," Astrid moaned.
Unbeknownst to them watching them from afar was the young girl, she looked at them for a few moments before running off.
Back at the altar, Chopper was looking down at the hammer he dropped at the base of the stairs. Under normal circumstances, he would have already got it by now if it hadn't been for the four circling sky sharks at the base of said stairs.
"I don't think I can get near it, but I promised Astrid that I would fix the ship while she was," he said. "So I'll have to give it my best."
He then began sliding down the stair frame slowly. "Just don't let them see you. Gently… gently… nice and easy." He then reached the bottom step and hopped off. "That's it…"
He then began tiptoeing towards the hammer and then picked it up. "Got it, now I can fix the ship like I promised."
He was about to climb the stairs back towards the ship when he heard the sound of a bird and immediately panicked. He then quickly placed his hooves over his mouth and just stood there in fear fearing that the sky sharks heard him.
He looked towards the sea with the corner his iron and saw of erupting from the sea was a sky shark which had just jumped out of the water. It opened its jaw wide enough to swallow him, but he quickly jumped out of the way and it slammed into the stairs and he landed on top of it.
Of course, it could still see him and began trying to shake him off and when it opened its mouth it flipped him and he landed on the ship. Then he saw the whistle that Gabriel had left them on the mast.
"Oh yeah, the whistle!" he said.
He remembered that when Gabriel handed them the whistle there had been some arguments and the twins did attempt to blow it. Fishlegs, Snotlout and the twins fought over it over the decision on who should own the whistle.
They got so bad at both Hiccup and Astrid had intervened and gave very strict guidelines to everyone on the crew.
"All right! All right!" Hiccup yelled as he placed the whistle over a hook. "This is how we're going to do this. The whistle will remain in the centre of the ship on the mainmast here so that if anyone gets into trouble all we have to do is blow it. Now it is bad everyone!"
"Sounds good to me," said Fishlegs.
"And me," said Chopper.
"And since Fishlegs and Chopper are the weakest ones here and have the most mature, they are the ones who get decide on who blows the whistle," Astrid continued and then she looked directly at the twins. "So there's not going to be any funny business!"
"Why does everyone look directly at us when they say that?" Tuffnut asked.
"Why should we?" Snotlout asked folding his arms.
"Because if you get anywhere near that whistle I will personally make sure that you swim with the fishes," said Astrid firmly.
"Yes, ma'am," said everyone looking a little terrified.
Back in the present, Chopper was now wearing the whistle over his neck.
"They're good, I'm sure glad this thing was still here," said Chopper. "Now if anything really bad happens the Sky Knight will come and save me. But I can only blow it as a last resort."
He then immediately jumped onto the side of the ship and looked out towards the forest. "Hear that! Anyone who has to take this ship has to go through me first!"
However was that point that he heard flapping, he turned around and saw flying out of the forest was Selan.
"What's that?" he said as he ran to investigate.
When he reached the edge of the altar he soon found himself face-to-face with Selan and his giant bird.
"Just one," he said looking disappointed. "Surely you're not the only sacrifice I get to kill."
Chopper then immediately grabbed the whistle and blew it as hard as he could.
Unaware of the danger that Chopper was in, Astrid and others were still investigating the island. Heather then came across something unusual which indicated there was some sort of civilisation here.
'Cobblestones,' she said touching the floor. 'We may find more clues if we see with these lead.'
Then they heard Chopper blowing the whistle though it was rather faint.
"Hey, did you hear that?" Fishlegs asked. "What are you guys think that was?"
"Quiet," said Toothless as he reached for Light Fury. "Don't move."
Fishlegs looked at him confused and saw the seriousness in his eyes. He then noticed that Astrid and Heather had the same look, though he had no idea why.
Then he heard something above him and when he looked up he saw sky fish diving down towards him from the Milky Road above him with razor-sharp teeth. Then Heather's arms immediately appeared wrapping themselves around its mouth closing it shut and then Astrid jumped punching it across the face.
"I've had enough!" she yelled.
She headed with so much strength that it was knocked out cold and then have released its jaw as it fell back into the sea.
"What a day, huh?" said Heather.
Astrid looked at Fishlegs. "Try to be a bit more careful?"
Fishlegs nodded. "You got it and thanks."
Hiccup and the others were having a pretty hard time, Selhen had just taken down Ragnar. They tried to counter-attack but kept on predicting their movements the twins try to perform a sneak attack by jumping down on top of him on a tree branch.
However, he quickly spun around and blasted them with his impacts, then when his back was turned Snotlout charged in clutching his fist. But he merely sidestepped out of the way and then blasted him with an impact on him crashing back down onto the ground.
"Guys!" Hiccup yelled.
Selhen then jumped into the air and kicked one of the balls causing it to ricochet on a few others and a nearby tree. Now for balls were heading straight towards Hiccup and then they exploded right in front of him. When the smoke cleared he collapsed on the tree branch he was standing on and fell to the ground.
Selhen then landed back on his ball and look to their unconscious bodies and laughed.
