Now we are in the Defenders of Berk season!

In a small cave, Fishlegs was tied to a chair, being interrogated by someone. The riders weren't there, it was hard to see without any light. Then smoke filled all around him before two floating eyes looked at him

Then a voice spoke, "Tell us what you know about the dragons, boy. Tell us how you train them!"

Fishlegs tried to stay all tough, "I won't talk! You can't make me!"

"Oh, I think we can."

The eyes went away.

Suddenly, the light torches in the cave go out, and Fishlegs is now bathed in an eerie darkness. Fishlegs began to freak out, he hates the dark. He was afraid of the dark since he was a kid.

"Hello? Is anybody there?" Fishlegs yelled out, but no one responded.

That's when Fishlegs screams,

"Oh, you can't- you can't leave me in here."

Fishlegs began to breath faster before snapping

"Okay, okay! Hiccup is the leader of the Berk Dragon Academy! He owns a Night Fury named Toothless! Then there's Astrid! She's mean, but in a nice way. Her dragon is Deadly Nadder, shoots spines, loves chicken! Snotlout rides a Monstrous Nightmare, but we're not actually sure who's more monstrous, him or the dragon! Then there's Marcus, Hiccup's older brother! He's terrifying when angry, but kinda cool, he has hybrid dragons but mainly uses Thor, a Night Fury Skrill hybrid, who's the most powerful dragon I've ever seen. Then there's the Twins. They share a Zippleback, actually they fight over it."

Once he finished, a familiar sound of Toothless charging a plasma blast came, as the plasma blast lights up two torches.

Fishlegs was able to see Meatlug and Toothless by his sides as well as Hammertail who nudged him, and the other dragon riders with torches, revealing their annoyed expressions because Fishlegs failed a test.

Ashley was on top of Marcus' head.

The test was an interrogation, they can't reveal anything to enemy lines.

Fishlegs looks at them and said, "What?! You KNOW I hate the dark!"

"Well at least you kept the Kaiju out." Marcus said giving him some praise.

Marcus had made some upgrades to his armor and now had some of Crystal's crystals in it like the helmet.

Tuffnut scoffed and said to Ruffnut, "Great. Fishlegs? More like "Guppylegs". Jeez..." He mutters out.

Hiccup sighs in frustration,

"Fishlegs, you can't cave in! Alvin would do a lot more than turn out the light to get you to talk. He had me locked in a dungeon ready to be executed! Toothless was chained in muzzle for days." Hiccup took a deep breath as he closes his eyes, after a few seconds, he opens his eyes and said, "You need to stick with what we discussed: your name, where you live, and nothing else."

Fishlegs sighs and said, "All right, I'll work on it!"

Hiccup nodded as he walks away with the others. Astrid said, ""Mean"? I'm not mean."

Marcus shrugs,

"Well…most of the time, when you're angry, no offense, kinda like me." He said, but Astrid understood as she nodded.

Then Snotlout butts in,

"It's okay, Astrid. I like mean girls."

Astrid was disgusted by him, "Ugh!"

She walks away angrily as they all went out, leaving behind a still tied up Fishlegs.

Fishlegs looks at his dragon and asked for help.

"Hey, girl. Can you untie me? Please?"

Instead, Meatlug went to his other side and fall asleep as was Hammertail, leaving Fishlegs in the dark.

Fishlegs sighs, he's gonna be here all night.

Then he heard someone coming back in.

He heard Marcus' voice, "Fishlegs?"

He came in with Ashley guiding him with her fire.

He went back and unties him.

Fishlegs got up and smiles.

"Thanks, Marcus, I owe you one." He said.

"Don't mention it." Marcus said

"Hey while we got the moment to talk, how'd you do that light up eyes thing?" Fishlegs asked.

"Turns out Thor, or a Skrill's scales, can still carry a charge. I figured out how to use the lightning and after making some adjustments using Crystal's, well, crystals she's shed off. I use the electricity and make it course into the crystal lenses making them glow and add Ashley's smoke and you get a terrifying sight."

"Amazing." Fishlegs said before the two exited the cave.

Hammertail and Meatlug woke up to find them gone before taking off to follow them.

Later on the docks.

"WHAT?!"

Some of the Vikings moving things like catapults rubbed their ears hearing Marcus.

"Grounded?! All the dragons, are you serious?!" Hiccup said hearing just what their father told them.

"Deadly serious, from now on there's a ban on flying, period." Stoick said.

"So Hiccup has a Snotlout moment and we all get grounded, are you kidding me?!" Said Marcus.

"Snotlout moment, I didn't have a Snotlout moment." Hiccup said before shaking his head.

"What about patrolling, or training?"

"What part of, ban on flying, did you not understand, Hiccup?"

"But that's - that's completely ridiculous!"

Stoick was pointing at some Vikings working on a wall.

"I want that wall higher!"

"Aye, aye sir!"

He then turns his attention back to his son's.

"Are you calling your father ridiculous?"

"Of course not, I would never call my father ridiculous. I'm calling my chief ridiculous." Hiccup said.

"I'm calling them both ridiculous, just being honest." Marcus said as Stoick looked at him.

Toothless and Thor flinched as one of the workers dropped some of the wood he was using.

"Careful, sons. You two, dragons." Stoick said as Toothless and Thor approached and they began going up the ramps.

"Put your backs into it, boys!" He told the workers

"Dad, Alvin has his own dragons, Changewings, Scauldrons, Whispering Deaths I saw them with my own eyes." Hiccup said,

"Yes, when you were kidnapped and locked up in an Outcast prison."

"He's also read the book of dragons, he's seen Astrid train a Monstrous Nightmare and he still has Mildew, who by the way, I doubt will hold up under questioning." Hiccup said getting in front of his father as Marcus raised an eyebrow when he mentioned the book of dragons and Astrid training a Nightmare.

"Hiccup-"

"If Alvin learns how to train his dragons and he attacks with them, our only chance is to fight with ours."

Stoick places his hands in Hiccup's shoulders.

"I understand that. But I'm not going to risk your life or your brothers or any of the lives of your dragon riders, this is my final word."

"He kinda makes sense." Marcus said,

Hiccup groans and looks at him.

"Who's side are you on?"

"I'm on nobody's side but Hiccup, we almost lost you and we aren't going to let that happen again. Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do." Said Marcus as he uses his foot to throw a wooden column onto his shoulders and Thor picks some up and the two help the workers.

Hiccup headed towards the Academy and told the other riders.

Everyone wasn't happy, especially the dragons.

Astrid was the angriest out of them all,

"And you agreed? Just like that?" She asked Hiccup harshly.

Hiccup sighs and said.

"What other choice did I have? He's the chief, who also happens to be my incredibly overprotective father. Then there's Marcus, my also incredibly overprotective brother."

Astrid didn't want to be grounded.

"Well, we have to get him to change his mind!" She said.

Fishlegs gave her a disbelief look, "Stoick the Vast? Um, good luck with that." He said.

Snotlout became frustrated,

"Oh, come on! I haven't even gotten to start on Hunterbolt's saddle and what am I supposed to do with Hookfang if he can't fly?"

Snotlout points his dragon, who was behind him.

Hookfang made his tail light on fire a bit and Snotlout said, "You know what happens when is inner warrior is caged up?"

To answer that question, Hookfang smacks him across the Academy with his burning tail, Snotlout skids over to Astrid who uses her boot to stop him.

Snotlout galres at his dragon under Astrid's boot,

"THAT is what happens!"

Tufffnut grins as he laughs a little.

"Whoa, we should have caged his inner warrior a long time ago. That was awesome!"

Ruffnut chuckles in agreement.

"Yeah."

Hiccup rolled his eyes,

"Look, I know this is going to be hard, but I'll keep working on my dad, and hopefully he'll change his mind."

Astrid looks at him blankly,

"And what if he doesn't?"

Hiccup looked with thought.

Night came as we see Hiccup and Marcus in the workshop. Thor was laying down watching Toothless bump Hiccup with his tail as the boy was working on a shield as Marcus was working other things, mostly his suit, his staff and a shield among them.

"What?" Hiccup said looking at his dragon.

Toothless moved his head as he wanted to go for a night flight, like they always do.

He continues to try and get him to go on a flight but Hiccup can't due to the ban on flying.

Toothless gives up as he lays on the ground and looks away.

Toothless then grunted as a blue ring came in front of his face before it poofed into smoke,

He looked over to see Junior who's spines were glowing before looking ready to fire something but all that came was a smoke ring.

The other babies were also doing similar things but the ones who could breath fire like Zack and Nat were making small embers while the ones like Junior and Crystal were making rings.

The rest were making small sparks as they tried to fire.

"Nice to have you in the shop, Hiccup. Usually you and Toothless are enjoying a beautiful evening flight around the island at this hour. Of course, you can't do that anymore with the ban on flying and all." Gobber said as he held a sword.

Hiccup looked at him with a look.

"Eh, shame about that. So what are we making?" Gobber asked.

Hiccup showed him his shield that had a picture of Toothless painted on it.

"All this work for a shield?" Gobber asked,

"Well it's not just a shield, Marcus helped me make it." Said Hiccup before the center opened up and a rope wrapped around Gobber before pulling Hiccup to him making a slight awkward moment and making Marcus laugh

"Handy." Gobber said,

Hiccup pressed the switch making the rope retract back into the shield.

"Made one just like it." Marcus said showing his as his had Thor painted on it.

Then he points his staff to a rock before a net is launched out from the pointed end wrapping around the rock.

"Awesome." Hiccup said.

"I try." Marcus said happily.

"If we can't ride dragons, we have to defend ourselves somehow." Hiccup said putting the shield down.

"You know Hiccup, your father's just doing what's best for you, he's trying to keep you safe." Gobber said as Marcus nodded in agreement.

"I know, but the problem is, the safest place for me is on Toothless."

"Well I'll leave the two of you to it, imagine you'll be here quite a while, too bad really. Have you seen that moon? Can't imagine a more beautiful night for a flight."

Hiccup turned to him giving him the look again.

"I did it again, didn't I?" Gobber said before walking away.

Hiccup turned to find Toothless in his face, who crooned, breathing in his face making him groan.

"I know what you're thinking and you might as well forget it."

Later Marcus was heading home until Thor suddenly sniffs the air before looking back.

The two looked back to see a Nadder flying, not just any Nadder, it was Stormfly, with Astrid on her! And it looked like they were chasing something.

"Astrid?" Marcus said

He then looked closely at the sea stacks to see what she was chasing, more like who.

"Hiccup?" He said before growling

Meanwhile Hiccup landed on a sea stack but Astrid caught him.

"Look Astrid, you were there on Outcast Island, just like I was. You know what Alvin is capable of." He said.

"So you were going to just fly around at night, all by yourself and say nothing?"

"That was my plan, look I didn't want to get anyone else in trouble, I was trying to do the right thing, sort of."

"We both know what the right thing is Hiccup, but if we're going to ride dragons behind your father's back, then we all need to ride dragons behind your father's back."

"She's right."

The two jump as well as their dragons as they looked up to see Thor clinging to the sea stack above them with Marcus on him.

"I'm not exactly proud of doing this but we need to do it." Marcus said

Hiccup smiles happily knowing his brother will support him.

Morning came as we see Snotlout with Hookfang as Astrid fills him in.

"Dragon flight club? I like that! What is it?" He said

"It's a secret dragon flying society, we train at night under the cover of darkness." Astrid said.

"Sharpening our skills against possible dragon attacks by Alvin." Hiccup added

"But remember, its secret, no one can know about it." Marcus added

"As far as you're concerned, it doesn't exist, there is no dragon flight club." Hiccup said

Snotlout asked Hookfang for his opinion and got blasted into a catapult over Hunterbolt who laughed.

"He's in!" Snotlout said groaning

They got the other riders in and met at the academy

"Okay dragon flight club members, you know why you're here." Hiccup said

"Puh, speak for yourself." Tuffnut said as he looked at his sister.

"We need to be ready for riders on any type of dragon from a Typhoomerang, to a Scauldron, to a Changewing even a Whispering Death, so I put together some training exercises."

Snotlout mocks him.

"Can we just go already?" Snotlout asked as Hookfang roared.

"Let's mount up."

Night fall came and Their first exercise is to study about Changewings at Changewing Island.

They position themselves in a safe distance, studying Changewings hunting some boars.

"Changewings hunt like wolves, one separates a boar from the herd letting them all attack it." Marcus said.

Their silence was broken when Tuffnut shouted,

"You leave Bjorn Boar alone!"

The Changewings looked at them and took to the air before a roar halted them.

Phantom appeared from the trees and roared again making them stand down.

"Thanks, Phantom!" Marcus said as they took to the air as the Titanwing waved to them.

"Put this in the book of dragons Hiccup, I just remembered it. The Changewing can't cloak when they have nothing to blend in with, meaning they can't blend in with the air, clouds however are a different thing. They also can't blend in when they are frightened." Marcus said

"Could've used that information, a long time ago!" Said Snotlout.

"Well excuse me, I've got a lot of brains, its hard to remember everything I know!"

They flew home to get some sleep

In the morning we see Gobber looking at Hiccup's shield that he made.

Ashley, Splash, Tunneler and Tidalwave were laying down on the as they watched

"Where did he hide it? Where is the trigger for that -

"Gobber!"

Gobber's head shot up accidentally activating the grappling hook on the shield which wrapped around Stoick pulling him to Gobber, where they were face to face.

The four dragons bursted into laughter seeing it as they rolled in the grass.

"So I'll just unwind that, and uh, hopefully nobody is looking." Gobber said before loosening the grappling hook making it drop off of Stoick.

"So what can I do you for?" Gobber said as he made the grappling hook retract

"I came for my saddle. Did you make the adjustments I asked for?" Stoick asked as the hook was back in the shield.

"It's done and back on Thornado, it should do wonders for your maneuverability." Said Gobber as he goes back to look at the shield.

"Good."

"Of course, it shouldn't matter right now, what with the ban on flying and all." Gobber said.

"And what ban would that be, Gobber?"

"Stoick, the ban, on flying dragons. The one where no one is allowed to..."

Gobber looked at Stoick before catching on,

"Ahh, I see... the ban where no is allowed to fly dragons, except the chief." Gobber said saying the last part softly.

"Someone has to patrol the island, might as well be me."

"Uh huh."

"And not a word to anyone, especially Hiccup or Marcus, I mean it."

"Stoick, I'm nothing if not careful -" was all Gobber said before accidentally activating a mini catapult that slaps him in the face making the dragons laugh again.

"Catapult, should've seen that one coming."

Stoick walks away

At nightfall, the Riders once again do their dragon studying, where they study the scorch mark of a Typhoomerang. With Ashley resting on Thor

Hiccup notes that the scorch mark was just formed recently and the Typhoomerang that made it might be still near, Snotlout spots the huge Typhoomerang about to charge on them and they hurriedly wrap up the studying and flees.

But soon learns that it was Sapphire and she was happy to see Marcus again.

As they took off home, Tuffnut notices someone familiar up ahead and said.

"Hey, Hiccup?"

"Yes?"

"When did your dad join dragon flight club?"

"Uh... he didn't."

"Weird, cause he's right there." Tuffnut said pointing ahead to see Stoick on Thornado.

Ashley chirped speaking to Marcus.

"Oh he did, did he? Get this dad made the ban apply to everyone but him because apparently he can't resist flying either."

"Oh, so he did." Hiccup said.

"Quick, evasive cloud maneuvers." Marcus said as the riders flew into the clouds

"What are you two morons doing?" He said as the twins were riding upside down with Barf and Belch's heads sticking out,

"Can't see." They said.

"You do realize if your heads are out of the clouds, my dad can see you, right?" Hiccup said.

The two look at each other just realizing that as Stoick flew towards them.

"Gah, okay guys, scatter and head home and please keep the dragons out sight." Marcus said

They all scattered and went home but Stoick caught Fishlegs before he could get in his hut.

Stoick and Gobber were in the Great Hall with Fishlegs

"I'm going to ask you one more time Fishlegs. What were you doing out there flying, and who was with you?" Stoick said.

"My name is Fishlegs, I live on the island of Berk, I don't know anything about dragons or those who ride them." Fishlegs said saying what he's supposed to do when being interrogated

"Why does he keep saying that? He's kind of giving me the willies." Gobber said.

While they spoke Fishlegs continued to repeat himself,

"Fishlegs this is not an interrogation." Stoick said with Gobber nodding.

Suddenly a large gush of wind from the outside makes the torches go out that lit the hall making it dark

"Actually, it does kind of does feel like an interrogation, Stoick."

"Not helping, Gobber."

The next night, the riders met up at the academy except for Snotlout.

"He put the scews to me, I thought I was going to crack! Especially when the lights went out, but I held firm. Because I remember the first rule of dragon flight club, is there is no dragon flight club." Fishlegs said.

"Great, that again." Tuffnut said as that confused him and his sister the first time they heard it.

"You did great, Fishlegs." Hiccup said,

"Way to go." Marcus added.

"What're we doing tonight?" Ruffnut asked sitting on board,

"Nothing."

"That doesn't sound fun at all!" Tuffnut said,

"Look, my dad is on to us, we have to lay low until this blows over, we need to be invisible." Hiccup said just as Snotlout flew Hookfang into the academy as the dragon was on fire.

"Hey guys!" Snotlout said,

"Snotlout what did we tell you, no dragons!" Marcus said.

"Yeah, even I knew that!" Tuffnut added.

"What's so important anyway?" Hiccup asked.

"Let's just say that I may have saved this entire island, Alvin and the Outcasts are attacking as we speak." He said.

"Alvin." Hiccup said,

"So what do we do now?" Astrid asked.

Hiccup and Marcus ran to their house seeing Stoick asleep in his chair,

"Dad, wake up, dad!" Hiccup said putting a hand on his father's shoulder.

Stoick bolted away and held Hiccup up with a hand and raised his axe

"Dad it's me, please don't chop me!"

"Hiccup, what'd I tell you about sneaking up on me when I'm asleep!"

"Okay it's not fun for me either!"

"It's an emergency, Alvin and the Outcasts are sailing towards Berk!" Marcus said as Stoick went stiff before turning to them.

"And how would you two know that?"

"Do we really need to answer that?" Hiccup said

"I told you two, no flying!" Said Stoick putting his axe down and grabbing his helmet.

"Yeah, by the way we've been thinking about that, uh, doesn't a ban of flying dragons pertain to all dragons including, let's say, a Thunderdrum?" Hiccup said.

Stoick was silent before putting his helmet on.

"We'll talk about this later, wake the others."

Stoick heads to the door as the brothers silently chuckle.

"We'll need the full academy." He said opening it to find Fishlegs on Meatlug.

"Hey chief."

He glances behind Fishlegs to see the other riders before nodding and jumping onto Thornado and takes off into the air with the riders following.

They flew until they had Alvin's fleet in sight,

"I'm going to draw their first round of fire, when they're reloading, you attack. But not before." Stoick said.

Hiccup and Marcus nodded as Stoick and Thornado went down.

Stoick and Thornado dodged their arrows and boulders before giving the order for the riders to attack.

Alvin gave his men a order to open the cargo hold as Changewings flew out.

"Hiccup, me and the riders will guide the Changewings to Changewing island while you and dad take care of him!" Marcus said as Hiccup and Stoick nodded.

Using his mark, the Changewings calmed down and followed him with the riders in tow.

During the battle Hiccup and Stoick find a remarkable advantage, they discover that when Thornado uses his blast they combine with Toothless', igniting a burst of Plasma.

Overwhelmed, Alvin orders his men to retreat.

On the way back to Berk Hiccup was in thought

"What is it?" Stoick asked his son.

"I don't know, I just figured Alvin would have a better plan than this." Hiccup said.

"Let's just be glad he didn't."

Unaware to them, Savage and Mildew were on Berk with Outcasts unloading chests inside a cave.

"Ha, ha, Alvin's diversion worked perfectly! Are you sure we're putting these in the right place?" Savage asked Mildew.

"These caves lead directly underneath Berk, they'll never know there are Whispering Deaths, right beneath their feet." Mildew said, as the Outcasts pull out eggs from the crates.

"Sweet Odin!"

They look to see two Outcasts carrying large white eggs with red spots.

"What's in these things, yaks?" One said putting them down.

"Why are these two different from the others?" Savage asked Mildew who just shrugged.

Savage shakes his head.

"Come on, we gotta move, they'll be back any minute!" He said as they all ran to their ship and sailed for Outcast Island.

Meanwhile Marcus and Hiccup walked downstairs and to the table for dinner.

"I don't like that you disobeyed me, but I can admit when I was wrong. I shouldn't have grounded the dragons, I was just trying to be a father." Stoick said.

"We understand, dad." Said Hiccup,

Now Stoick began to ask them about the flight club, completely unaware that the Whispering Death eggs began to hatch as one let's out its first roar.

The two red spotted eggs exploded and from the smoke came two sets of red eyes.

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