I will update at next week Sunday. And it will be Riders of Berk in my version.


Chapter 9: Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon

Mira didn't know what to think anymore. One minute she was sleeping with her family, the next minute Gobber's house was on fire! She and the riders put it out with their dragons help. No one knows how it started but Gobber said it was the Boneknapper. Mira and the other teens didn't know what a Boneknapper is but Gobber said that it was a disgusting, foul beast, wearing a coat of stolen bones, like a giant, flying skeleton and it will stop at nothing to find the perfect bone to build its coat of armor. Every adult heard this story and said it was just a legend. They found Gobber's underpants near the stove and that was the only thing that cases the fire. As everyone leave, Gobber and his sheep Phil started to get ready for the hunt. Mira felt sorry for him until Hiccup said, "I can't let him go by himself." He looks at his friends and orders, "All right, Vikings, grab your shields." Everyone, minus Snotlout, said yes while Mira just nodded. Snotlout crosses his arms, "There's no way I'm getting on a boat to go after a fake dragon." He said.

Mira rolled her eyes before looking at her brothers, "Boys, I want you to stay with Sapphire and her siblings." Mira puts Betty on Sapphire's pouch in her saddle, "I'll be back soon."

"Can we come?" Joe asked pleadingly.

"Yeah!" Jon agrees with his twin.

"No," Mira said sternly before telling Sapphire to watch her brothers. Mira and the teens got on the boat with Gobber as they stroke for their lives. Snotlout was rowing an oar with the others. Gobber cheers at them. "Come on! Put your backs into it, you lazy dogs! Stroke! You're not even trying! Stroke!" Mira sits with Hiccup because he needed an extra hand to row.

"How fun is this, right?" Hiccup tried to brighten up the mood, "We got the team back together, another adventure... This is pretty cool, huh?"

"Yep, nothing cooler than rowing until your hands bleed," Snotlout sarcastically answered.

"Just want you kids to know that it touches my heart," Gobber sniffs, "You helping me slay the Boneknapper. True Vikings, you are."

"Gobber, are we there yet?" Ruffnut pants out.

"Oh, you'll know we're close when your ears explode from the piercing screams. Legend says this dragon's roar is so fierce, it can melt the flesh right off your bones." Fishlegs explains making Mira shivered in disgusts.

"Not so, Fishlegs," Gobber corrected him, "The Boneknapper has no roar at all. That's why he's terrifying. He's a silent killer."

"Wait. So if we don't hear anything, were dead?" Ruffnut asked in panic.

There was a dead silence until Tuffnut leans a bit and whispered, "I don't hear anything."

Then Phil blurted a baa that made everyone yelp. Gobber chuckles at his sheep and praised his sheep, "Good one, Phil!" Then there was loud yelp and everyone jumped as they turned to see Joe on the floor.

"Joe?!" Mira exclaims in shock. How Sapphire didn't see her brother leaving? "What are you doing here?"

Joe stood up, "It's not my fault! Jon ran away, I knew I'd get blamed for it." Then Jon pops out inside a basket with the cover on his head, "That's not true!" he exclaims, "Joe said: Something's up with Mira and we have to find out what!"

"And it's not my fault! / Hundred percent all-your idea!" Joe and Jon made up an excuse so that Mira will be mad at one of them but she is mad at both of them.

"Wait a minute," Mira interrupts and everyone looks at her, "You left Betty back on Berk alone?!"

"Of course not! Sapphire got it cover." They answer unison making Mira face palm. When this trip is over, she is so grounding them.

Gobber chuckles again earning annoyed glares from the teens. He cleared his throat and said. "Did I ever tell you about the first time I met the dreaded Boneknapper?

(Gobber's POV)

A long ship sailed through icy waters laden with enormous glaciers, rowing the boat were two male Vikings; one a great, muscular man with a long moustache and a serious expression, the other his son, a large Viking lad with shoulder-length blond hair and a happy smile. In his youth, Gobber still had all of his limbs and maintained all the innocence of a little boy holding an axe. Gobber's mother, a short, squat woman with carrot-colored hair, sat in the middle of the ship, holding a shield.

"I was a young lad, about your age, on Summer Vacation with my family," began Gobber, nicely setting the scene, "When I heard the call of nature Gobber's eyes widened and he squeezed his legs together uncomfortably.

"Oh! Dad! Pull the boat over" he called, leaping off the boat onto one of the ice platforms.

"Didn't I tell you to go before we left?" Gobber's dad yelled irritably as teen Gobber dashed into an ice cave to do his business.

When teen Gobber was finished, he pulled up his trousers, lifted his axe over his shoulder, and turned to go, when he caught sight of something and gasped.

"I saw an army of Vikings, frozen in battle!" Gobber described. Teen Gobber stood facing an enormous wall of ice. Vikings were stuck in various battle poses in the ice. One of the Vikings nearer to the bottom of the ice wall had his arm extended toward teen Gobber. In his hand was a small treasure chest.

"Clutched in the fingers of one of the Vikings was a small treasure chest! I have to have it." Teen Gobber's eye twitched as he gazed at the chest.

He lifted his axe above his head and let out a yell as his brought it down hard onto the ice. The ice shattered, creating a hole large enough for teen Gobber to reach in and grab the chest.

"I reached in a pulled out the chest! It was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!" Gobber said dreamily.

Teen Gobber lifted the lid of the chest and golden light spilled out. Gobber's young blue eyes widened in awe as he gazed in wonder at what was inside. Suddenly, something grabbed teen Gobber's arm and started yelling something in a muffled voice. Teen Gobber yelled in shock as he saw the hand of the frozen Viking gripping his arm. Teen Gobber made a fist with his hand and tried to punch the Viking's arm, but the Viking steered teen Gobber's fist toward his face and repeatedly punched Gobber in the face.

"But the frozen Viking was alive!" Gobber continued, "He started punching me! In the face!" The Viking punched teen Gobber one last time, and something large and white fell from the bottom of teen Gobber's mouth.

"Oh!" Teen Gobber cried, stretching back his bottom lip and trying to peer into his mouth at the empty space where his tooth used to be. "My tooth!"

The frozen Viking continued yelling. Teen Gobber glanced at the frozen Viking, who pointed his un-frozen arm at something in the sky. Teen Gobber turned and his jaw, minus one tooth, dropped.

"And there it was!" Gobber exclaimed, enjoying telling his story, "I never even heard it coming! The Boneknapper!"

The Boneknapper flew at teen Gobber, its talons ready to strike. Teen Gobber dove out of the way in the nick of time, and the dragon crashed into the wall of frozen Vikings. The wall shattered, and chunks of ice, each with a frozen Viking within, began to fall.

"It crashed into the glacier, causing an avalanche of frozen Vikings!"

As teen Gobber ran, trying to keep ahead of the avalanche, he tripped, and the treasure flew out of his hands.

"AH!" Teen Gobber cried, as the treasure fell off the edge of the ice and into the water, "THE TREASURE!" Teen Gobber scrambled to the edge of the ice and plunged his hand in. He sighed with relief as his numb fingers closed around the chest. But then he cried out as something grabbed his arm from deep below the surface of the water. He pulled the chest out of the water, and gripping his arm was the same Viking, still frozen in his block of ice.

"I reached into the water, only to find the frozen Viking punching me in the face again!"

The frozen Viking slammed teen Gobber's own hand into his face again and again, blackening the boy's eye. Teen Gobber pulled his arm free just as the Boneknapper was swooping in. Teen Gobber leapt away from the dragon, but the dragon's claws latched onto the treasure chest and flew away with teen Gobber still clutching the other side of the chest. Teen Gobber realized, with half panic, half hope, that the Boneknapper was flying toward another glacier with a crevice just large enough to fit teen Gobber in its side.

"The Boneknapper wanted that treasure, but I wanted it more!" teen Gobber wrenched the treasure free and curled into a ball, aiming for the crevice. teen Gobber shot through the crevice, slid through a cave, flew out the other side, slid up and around a slick, curved wall of ice, and was flung into the air. He sailed up, then down, and landed squarely on his seat on his parents' long ship.

"What took you so long?" complained Gobber's dad. Teen Gobber looked at the treasure in his hands and quickly hid it behind his back, giggling nervously and grinning, displaying an empty space on his lower jaw where his tooth used to be.

Gobber laughed merrily at his memory while the teens stared at him in disbelief.

"You expect us to believe that a frozen Viking punched you in the face?" Snotlout mocks.

"Yeah! Twice!" Gobber exclaimed cheerily showing two fingers.

The teens all rolled their eyes. Joe and Jon snickers at Gobber, finding the story funny. "Hey, it could happen!" Hiccup defended.

"What do you mean it could happen? It did! But I outsmarted the silent beast!" Gobber grinned, congratulating himself.

"Um, Gobber," Fishlegs buts in, "I hate to be a stickler for detail but Boneknappers are not silent,"

"Fishlegs, I know what I didn't hear! Ah, but I could feel it. I have a sixth sense for danger…" Gobber said, annoyed. Mira saw rocks coming their way and she tried to warn the others but the rocks hit the ship and they all escape while they watch the ship sink to the bottom.

"Now we're stuck in the middle of nowhere," Ruff complained, walking back to the group, who all looked as annoyed as she was, "And no one even knows where we are!" Mira holds her brother close. She had to agree to Ruffnut, now they are trap in an island by themselves with no one but each other.

Fishlegs leaned down and picked up a large bone that looked too big to be from an animal. "Uh…ex-except the Boneknapper!" he stammered, "Legend says its roar can…"

"Hey! You know what legend also says? Stop talking!" Snotlout yelled

Fishlegs glared at Snotlout. "Just hold on one darn second…"

Phil bleated nervously. It looked like a full-fledged argument would have broken out if Gobber's careless voice had not interrupted them. "No need to panic, kids!" Gobber declared, not sounding worried at all, "I've been shipwrecked many times!"

"Oh!" Hiccup said sarcastically, "Well that's comforting."

"Really?" Mira looks at the Blacksmith blankly.

Gobber sighed, somewhat dreamily. "Ahh…you never forget your first shipwreck."

(Gobber's POV)

Gobber was looking around, assessing the situation. It didn't look very good.

"I was stranded on an island with only my broom!" Gobber explained.

Gobber brought his arm out from behind his back and groaned as he saw a broom attached to it instead of a weapon.

"It was a very small island," remembered Gobber.

The island Gobber was standing on was about the side of a large shield. A single palm tree grew off to the side. Things got worse as Gobber looked up into the sky and frowned as he saw a familiar shape wheeling through the air.

"It's no wonder the Boneknapper found me again. He never forgave me for taking that treasure."

The Boneknapper swooped down to grab Gobber, but Gobber ducked just in time. The Boneknapper's sharp talons snapped the palm tree in half and flew back into the sky to try again. Gobber, feeling that this time there was a chance that he might not make it, looked around him in desperation, and saw, to his delight, another island, considerably larger than his. Gobber's eyes lit up. He had an escape route!

"There was another island. My only escape! But I was surrounded…"

Gobber's smile dimmed as thousands of sleek, black shaped popped out of the water and bared foot-long, razor sharp teeth at him.

"…by bloodthirsty hammerhead sharks!" Gobber said in excitement, "I only had one chance! So I ran across the shark-infested waters!"

Gobber leaped off the tiny island and began to hop from shark to shark toward the larger island, fighting off any sharks that lashed out at him as he ran. "Take that!" Gobber yelled, punching a giant shark, "Watch it! Night-night, fatty!"

An enormous shark snapped its teeth inches from Gobber's face, but Gobber merely scrubbed at the shark's fangs with his broom and said merrily, "Someone forgot to brush!" in a sing-song voice. Gobber was going fast and the sharks weren't slowing him down, but as fast as he was, the Boneknapper was faster. It dove at him, talons bared, ready to grab the hapless Viking. Gobber looked back at the dragon nervously and then back at the island. There was a chance he could still make it.

"I didn't think I was gonna make it!" Gobber said, "When then, from the depths of the ocean, burst forth…"

As Gobber's feet touched the sandy ground of the island, something enormous and blue erupted from the ocean and launched itself, jaws bared, at the Boneknapper, emitting an eerie noise from its throat like a muffled roar of fury a giant hammerhead whale!" Gobber cried, hugely enjoying his story.

Everyone stared at him blankly while Fishlegs did not. "Whoa!" Fishlegs laughed with astonishment, "And the hammerhead whale ate the Boneknapper?"

"Almost!" said Gobber, grinning at his student's enthusiasm.

Astrid, with her arms crossed, leans over to Mira, "Do you think there might be a Hammerhead whale in the ocean?" she whispered.

Mira shook her head, "I've seen whales before but not hammerhead whales." She answered quietly.

"He is so making that up." Joe and Jon whispered together as fist bumped each other.

"But he got away. Years later, the dragon hunted me down again and chased me into the jungle…"

(Gobber's POV)

Gobber, panting hard, quickly glanced behind him to check if he was still being followed. Sure enough, there it was, proving itself just as fast on foot as it was by wing. He held up his arm to see what he had with him this time. This object made him grin.

"All I had was my trusty eggbeater!" Gobber recalled. Gobber quickly began to crank the handle on the eggbeater, beating not eggs, but the foliage of the jungle.

"I carved through that thick brush as fast as a jungle cat! Still, the Boneknapper was right behind me!"

Gobber slashed through a row of bamboo sprouts and dashed on, when he suddenly screeched to a halt, stopping in front of a group of little pink flowers growing on the ground.

"Mmm! Azaleas!" Gobber said, picking a flower and sniffing it as if he had all the time in the world, he quickly dropped the azalea he was holding and sprinted off as the Boneknapper caught up with him. Gobber burst out of the thick jungle and out into open air. He began to sprint up the side of a volcano that was so steep he was almost horizontal. The Boneknapper was right behind him.

"I ran up the side of a volcano and courageously leaped across the fiery crater!"

Gobber, without hesitation, jumped over the bubbling pit of lava below him. As he sailed towards safety on the other end, the Boneknapper spread its wings and took to the air. It swooped in on Gobber.

"And then, deep within the burning volcano, burst forth…"

Suddenly, a dark, hairy shape flung itself out of the lava and toward the Boneknapper, teeth bared as it neared the skeletal dragon.

"A giant hammerhead yak!" Gobber exclaimed.

"Okay, wait a minute," came Tuffnut's flat voice before Gobber could continue.

"Now you're saying a giant hammerhead yak leaped out of a fiery volcano and ate the Boneknapper?" Tuffnut said flatly.

"Ha! You would've thought so, wouldn't you?" Gobber said in frustration.

"There's no such thing as a hammerhead yak." Mira steps in, "In the village there are only regular yaks not hammerhead!" Astrid nodded in agreement.

Gobber ignores her, "But the Boneknapper got away again! I knew that bony scoundrel would keep coming after me…"

(Gobber's POV)

Gobber was in the forest, setting up several traps for the Boneknapper. He hung an enormous metal spike-ball up in the trees, and set up several enormous leg-hold traps on the ground.

"…so I set up a gauntlet of traps…" Gobber, finally finished, sat down in front of the traps on a chair and began to softly strum a guitar that was attached to his arm. Gobber's fingers moved over the strings quite skillfully as he waited.

"…and waited for the beast."

A few seconds into the song, the Boneknapper finally appeared. Gobber quickly leaped off the chair and jumped nimbly over the traps, grinning as the Boneknapper followed him.

"And when he was ready, he charged! And then I ran like the wind! But the traps failed!"

Gobber had started out grinning, but he wasn't anymore. Instead of the traps snapping onto the Boneknapper's ankles like they were supposed to, they snapped on thin air as the Boneknapper yanked its feet away just in time. The spike-ball didn't even move. Gobber's face fell as he realized his traps were failing. He ran faster, but as he barreled out of the forest, he screeched to a halt. He was inches from falling off the steepest cliff he had ever seen. Flecks of snow and rock fell off the edge of the cliff where Gobber's feet had been and plummeted to the ground below. Before he had time to decide, the Boneknapper caught up with him and closed its claws around Gobber's body, pinning his arms to his sides. Gobber struggled, but he was stuck fast.

"Then he captured me. I did what any brave Viking would do."

"HEEEEEELP" shrieked Gobber in a high-pitched voice.

Up in the sky, the clouds parted to reveal a giant muscle-bound man with a golden helmet. He flexed his arms and more muscles popped up from nowhere.

"The Gods must have heard my prayer. It was Thor!"

Gobber almost forgot about the Boneknapper as he 'oohed' and 'ahhed' at his hero.

Thor reached into the clouds and picked up an enormous lightning bolt.

"He tossed a mighty lightning bolt."

Thor hurled the lightning bolt toward the ground. It missed the cliff by a few feet and plummeted to the ground. Both Gobber and the Boneknapper followed the bolt of lightning with their eyes until it finally exploded on the ground below, creating a gaping crater in the ground.

"Aw! You MISSED!" Gobber exclaimed, with annoyance and disbelief.

Thor held up one gigantic finger. "Wait for it…" he warned.

Gobber peered down into the crater, waiting for something to happen.

"Then, from the center of the Earth, burst forth the hammerhead yak riding THE hammerhead whale!" Gobber shouted gleefully.

"Deploy the yak!" the hammerhead yak said, very formally.

The hammerhead whale shot a powerful fountain of water from its spout, shooting the hammerhead yak up onto the cliff. The hammerhead yak launched itself at the Boneknapper and began kicking and punching with some impressive martial arts. The hammerhead whale flew in, roaring, and closed its jaws around not only the Boneknapper, but also a big chunk of the cliff. Gobber looked over the side of the cliff as the hammerhead yak jumped back on the hammerhead whale. The whale turned around and saluted Gobber while the hammerhead yak waved.

Gobber shyly saluted back and then they were gone. Gobber stood up, threw his arms in the air, and yelled, "YEAH!" Then he hunched over and cried, "Oh, my back!"

Everyone was staring at Gobber with disbelief. Jon and Joe snickers at the idea of the two hammerhead beasts. "Whoa…" Fishlegs gasped, the only one who seemed to be buying it, "The whale saluted you?"

Gobber laughed loudly. "Can you believe it? But the Boneknapper got away again! He found me on Berk, and set fire to my house…"

As Gobber was talking, Snotlout steps in annoyed, "Are you kidding? I don't believe any of this!"

"Yeah, you totally made everything up!" Tuffnut added to Gobber, also annoyed.

"C'mon, Gobber, it's time to get out of here!" Ruffnut complained.

"We need to get home!" Snotlout frowned.

Tuffnut stood up then and said, "You don't even have any proof that that thing exists!"

"Of course I have proof!" Gobber promptly replied, "I still have the treasure!" He stood up and lifted the fringe of his pants to reveal a thin belt with a big white oddly shaped buckle. "This stunning belt buckle! It was in the Viking's treasure chest. It's kept my pants up for years!" They just stared at it blankly.

"It is stunning…" Fishlegs said, staring at the belt buckle reverently.

"All this for a belt buckle!" Mira exclaims in frustration.

"Ah…listen, Gobber?" Hiccup went over to Gobber, who was sharpening his hook, not looking at Hiccup. "Instead of chasing down an imaginary dragon, maybe we should figure out how to get home…" Hiccup suggested.

"Say no more," Gobber said, waving his hook at Hiccup. "I hear you loud and clear; I have a plan. All right…" He grunted as he stood up and waved his hook at the group. "Who'd like to be dragon bait?" he asked. He grinned and pointed toward the center of the group. Everyone gasped, for a moment thinking that Gobber was pointing at them. Then they followed the direction of Gobber's hook until they were staring at Fishlegs and Phil, who were side by side.

Phil seemed to know why they were looking at him, and he delicately sidled away from Fishlegs, who looked at Gobber nervously. "Huh?"


Fishlegs was standing on some bones with a small yellow rope that almost looks like Gobber's braided beard, on his face and bones for the helmet and hook. There was a huge ribcage tide above him the rope was tied on a rocky outcrop were Phil was placed. "Uh…Gobber," Fishlegs called to the Viking man nervously, "Are you sure this is safe?"

Gobber dismissed Fishlegs's words with a wave of his hand. "Eh, safety's overrated."

Fishlegs gulped. This was not the answer he wanted to hear. Gobber walked back to the rest of the teens and the dragons, who were standing in a circle, waiting for him to get back to them. "Okay," Gobber began, "Here's the plan. The Boneknapper wants me, right?" He pointed towards a trail off to the side. "He comes down that trail, sees Fishlegs, thinks it's me, rushes Fishlegs…" Fishlegs let out a yelp of fear at those words. "Causing Phil to trip that rope, dropping that ribcage…" Gobber pointed to the trap "…and then we rush in and finish him off, once and for all!" His eager grin was met with disbelieving looks from the teens and the little boys. They all stared at him blankly. Snotlout leaned over to the twins and whispered, "It's sad when they get old."

"Gobber?" Hiccup began, looking annoyed, "You're taking this way too far, okay? You need to face it! There is no such thing as the Boneknapper!"

"Wormsquat!" Gobber huffed. "Now, get into position. WAY TO GO, FISHLEGS!" he called over to him, "YOU"RE DOING FINE!" Everyone crouches down behind a log to watch Fishlegs from a safe distance but he gasp when saw the Boneknapper landed behind them.

"No wonder the entire village thinks you're crazy!" Hiccup said in annoyance.

"Hello? Sees dead Vikings?" Snotlout scoffed.

"Uh, guys?" Fishlegs squeaked.

"Yeah," said Tuffnut, not hearing Fishlegs's silent plea, "Especially that thing about the hammerhead yak."

"Guys!" Fishlegs tried to cry out. This time his voice was a little louder. The Boneknapper was walking towards them it wasn't making any noise at all. "Guys!" Fishlegs cried.

"This is a complete waste of time!" Astrid complained.

"I can't believe you dragged us here!" Mira added, with her brothers close to her.

Everyone broke into annoyed chatter. Fishlegs tried to warn them but they were too busy arguing. They didn't even notice the Boneknapper sneaking up on them. "GUYS!" Fishlegs screamed, pointing wildly behind them.

Everyone turned to look at him with angry looks on their faces. The boys were watching amusement. "WHAT?" they yelled at him simultaneously. There was the sound of bones rattling and everyone froze. "It's right behind us, isn't it," Hiccup said in a flat voice. Mira nodded and everyone slowly turned.

Over fifty feet of mottled green skin and dusty white bone loomed over them. Vivid green eyes stared down at them from behind an enormous white skull. An awful rattling sound was emanating from the beast as it shifted position, causing all its bones to knock together. The Boneknapper growled at them, lifted its head, opened its mouth and a squeak came out, Fishlegs blinked in surprise.

"Well what do you know? No roar." He mutters. The Boneknapper lowered its head and opened its mouth wide. A ball of green gas began to form in its throat. "Run!" Gobber yelled. Everyone leaped over the rock and began running as fast as they could toward Fishlegs. The Boneknapper released a big plume of bright red flame and directed it right at the running Vikings, who barely managed to dodge. Mira carries Joe while Astrid carries Jon.

"Okay, Gobber! We believe you!" Astrid shrieked as she carries a screaming Jon. The Boneknapper swung its massive, spiked, clubbed tail, and sent everyone sprawling on top of Fishlegs and the pile of bones, right under the ribcage. Phil, not even glancing toward the Vikings, raised a hoof and kicked the bone away. The ribcage dropped at them, trapping them. "PHIL!" Gobber yells of annoyance and anger from underneath the ribcage. The Boneknapper ran up to the side of the ribcage and opened its mouth again. Everyone quickly scrambled to hide behind a rib. The Boneknapper's fire shot through the slits in the ribcage, surrounding the just barely protected Vikings in flames. Snotlout clasped his hands together and looked up at the sky. "Find a happy place, find a happy place…" Mira and Astrid rolled their eyes as they shield Joe and Jon from the fire. The Boneknapper jumped on top of the ribcage and peered down at the trapped Vikings below, then jumped off and squeaked again.

"Nonononono please!" Fishlegs tried to plead with the Boneknapper, telling him he is not Gobber, "Don't! Please!"

Hiccup looked up at the Boneknapper, trying to think of a way to get out of this mess, when his eyes fell upon a spot in the middle of the Boneknapper's breastbone. There was an oddly-shaped hole in the Boneknapper's armor. Its shape was familiar. "Wait…" Hiccup whispered to himself. Hiccup quickly looked over at Gobber, who was shaking his fist at the dragon and yelling, "Bring it on!" Gobber shifted position, and his belt buckle slipped to the side, giving Hiccup a good look at it. Hiccup looked at the hole in the dragon's breastbone, then back at Gobber's belt buckle. It was a perfect match. "It searches for the perfect bone to build its coat of armor!" Hiccup exclaimed, his eyes widening in realization. "The treasure!" Hiccup dashed over to Gobber, "Gobber! Take off your pants!"

Gobber stopped yelling at the Boneknapper and looked at Hiccup strangely. "Huh?"

Everyone whipped at him and yelled, "NO!"

"Listen to me!" Hiccup protested, looking back at the Boneknapper again, "I think Fishlegs was right! The Boneknapper is supposed to have a roar, but maybe he can't, 'cause the bone he needs is your belt buckle!"

"Gobber, please! You have to give it back!" Astrid begged, holding Jon close.

"So we can get out of here!" Mira added as he holds Joe close.

Gobber planted his hands on his hips and said loudly, "No way! It's mine!" The Boneknapper's jaw went through the ribcage and closed on Gobber's wooden leg. Gobber's eyes widened, "Uh-oh." The Boneknapper yanked Gobber out and began shaking him around. Gobber yelled and tried to break the Boneknapper's strong hold on his leg. Everyone went to the ribcage as they watch the older Viking get tossed in the air.

"Give him back his bone!" Hiccup yelled.

"No!" Gobber yelled back as the Boneknapper shook him ferociously.

"GIVE HIM BACK HIS BONE!" Hiccup yelled again.

The Boneknapper flung Gobber through the air. Gobber's face was set. "NOOOOOOOOOOO…ooohh, alright." Gobber reached down, pulled off the bone, and hurled it in the Boneknapper's direction.

By some small miracle, the Bone flew directly into place. Golden light shot from the cracks around the breastbone. The Boneknapper paused and began to shake itself, making sure that the bone was firmly in place. Gobber landed with a crunch in the middle of another pile of bones. The Boneknapper opened its mouth again. And this time, what came out wasn't a squeak. Everyone turned their head away and clamped their hands over their ears, cringing as the sound waves sent dust and bones flying in all directions. The roar was so loud that you couldn't hear yourself think, even with your hands over your ears. Everyone's eardrums were still ringing when the Boneknapper fell silent again. There was a scuffling of bones, and Gobber emerged, looking shaken but fine. The Boneknapper lowered its head and growled at Gobber.

Hiccup gasped. "Gobber!"

"Oh Gods!" Mira's eyes widen as Joe and Jon covered their eyes.

Gobber looked at Hiccup, then at the ground, looking defeated. "Alright," he said to the Boneknapper, closing his eyes. "You've got me. Make it fast." The Boneknapper lowered its head towards Gobber and began to nuzzle against him, a loud purring sound coming from its throat. Gobber opened his eyes in confusion that he wasn't dead yet and glanced back at the others. They all shrugged in confusion as Joe and Jon open their eyes. And, without the belt to support the pants, Gobber's pants fell down. Everyone groans and quickly looked away.

"Ah, that's going to give me nightmares." Hiccup mutters as Fishlegs almost puke.

"That is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen." Mira almost puke while her brothers covered their eyes again.

"Well at least we have a ride home." Astrid gestured toward the Boneknapper.

Gobber scratched the Boneknapper under the chin, and the enormous dragon fell over on its side, wagging its tail in the air. "Aren't you cute? Yes you are, Yes you are!" cooed Gobber

Minutes later, they were airborne. Phil was perched on top of the Boneknapper's head between its horns, still chewing and looking bored. Gobber had the seat of honor, right behind the dragon's head. Hiccup, Astrid and Mira, with her brothers, were behind him, followed by Snotlout, Fishlegs, and Ruffnut, Tuffnut being up the rear. The Boneknapper opened his mouth and let out another roar, but this time it was of happiness. "Whoo-hoo!" cheered Ruffnut, pumping her fist in the air.

Snotlout turned to Fishlegs and smirked. "You know, I never doubted him," he said, gesturing to Gobber. "I was always like: he's right." Fishlegs rolled his eyes.

Tuffnut shifted uncomfortably in the dragon's spine. "His tailbone is hurting my tailbone."

The Boneknapper let a loud roar. Hiccup smiled at Gobber. "He sure seems happy to have that bone back."

"Well legend says that the Boneknapper's roar is its mating call." said Fishlegs.

"Really?" Mira asked playfully.

Gobber chuckled. "Oh, that's just a myth!"

An ear-splitting roar vibrated through the air around them. It was not coming from their Boneknapper. Everyone uneasily turned and looked behind them. Phil bleated fearfully. "Uh-oh," Gobber said cheerfully, watching four new Boneknappers soar after them, answering their Boneknapper's cry with more loud shrieks. "I think Stoick will believe me now, eh?" Gobber asked as many Boneknappers followed them from behind.

As the scene closes, the hammeredhead whale and yak came to view and waved or saluted before yak slaps the whale gently and they dive down.