Who is he?
How do you know?
"We need to know more about Grimmel." Hiccup addressed to the gang that sat around the table in the great hall.
"We know he's a dragon killer and the man that tortured my daughter." Ruffnut spat and hit her fist on the table. "And I would gladly have a talk with him."
Tuffnut nodded with a stern look on his face. "I'll kill him with my bare hands right now if I could." He was shocked when Stoick came home with an unconsciousness Ingrid in his arms. The sign of Ingrid being covered in sweat, tears and blood made Tuffnut want to kill who ever had hurt his niece.
"Even if I want to get revenge too," Fishlegs started and folded his hands together, "We can't just rush into a battle we don't know how to defeat. We don't know anything about this Grimmel the Grisly and we can't kill or hurt any more dragons or humans then what he have already done. We need a plan."
The sound of the great hall door open and the voices of the kids, made the gangs heads turn to the sudden noises.
"Ingrid, please. You don't need to hear any of it!" Leif pleaded and tried to grab his sisters arm, but Ingrid walked fast past him into the great hall. Her brothers and friends came in after her.
"Let Grimmel take me and you don't have to go to war with him! Nor do you need to give him Toothless!" she argued and faced the adults by the table.
Hiccup shook his head. "I will not let you go back to a place where you got tortured and I will not give him Stoick either." he said.
Ingrid frowned and turned to her boyfriend. "You never told me Grimmel wanted you too." she said to him. "Why didn't you tell me that?" she asked, but Hiccup didn't let Stoick answer.
Hiccup stood up from the chair, "It doesn't matter. The decision is already made. I want to know why he took you in the first place, Ingrid. What information did he want from you?"
Ingrid's eyes looked everywhere but not at any one in the room. She swallowed and could feel the tensing rise in the room. Her friends behind her felt the same thing. The faces of their parents was interesting.
Hiccup narrowed his eyes at the kids. "You're all hiding something, aren't you?"
"How did Grimmel the Grisly of all people, get his hands on the dragon eye?" Vylma yelled while she came walking into the great hall, closed the door behind her and held a parchment roll high in air. She had a dark green dress on and a golden tiara on her head and a brown bag hanged on her shoulder. Vylma never worn a dress or a tiara when she was on Berk. She wore clothes similar to her grandmother when she was on Berk.
The eyes of the adults widened in shock and the kids sighed in annoyance, except for Ingrid.
Ingrid glared at her friends as Vylma passed by them and let her arm down, "I don't care if they know about the dragon eye right now," Vylma turned to the adults and walked up to her father, "Because you're at war with your worst enemy."
"How do you know that?" Astrid asked her daughter.
"Because," she held up the parchment, "Grimmel asked me if I could help him win this war."
Astrid narrowed her eyes, "What?" she said and stood up from the chair to walk to her daughter.
Vylma rolled her parchment roll up and started to read outloud;
"Dear Queen Vylma Hadderson of Barvik.
I don't know if you know who I am, but I would gladly present myself. I am Grimmel the Grisly, a dragon hunter who had the help of king Sigmund many years ago to hunt night furys in the archipelago. I hope you have hunter blood in your veins, so you can help me win the war against the island of Berk and take the chief's night fury from his hold.
I hope you can write back as soon as possible as this war needs to be planned quickly as possible.
I will also give you the dragon eye to you and I hope you have or can capture a dragon and read the information it holds. Sigmund had a book of how to translate the language and I hope you can translate it for me could as I can't.
Signed, Grimmel the Grisly, dragon hunter and night fury slayer."
Hiccup grabbed the latter from Vylma and read it on his own. "He doesn't know who you are?" he asked out loud.
Vylma shrugged. "Apparently not. I don't have the Haddock name anymore and apparently he hasn't been in the archipelago in 40 years and I understand why."
"You know who he is?" Astrid asked her.
Vylma nodded. "Ivald's father, Sigmund, was helping Grimmels father, Yngvar, to hunt down night fury's in the archipelago 40 years ago. They killed 24 night fury's in three years before Yngvar got sick and was killed by a night fury when he was out hunting with a fever. Sigmund stopped the hunting and went back to his wife and son. Grimmel didn't want the hunt to end and wanted revenge on his father. He begged Sigmund to continue the hunt, but Sigmund said no. He didn't want to hunt when the expert of hunting was dead and he didn't want to risk his life any longer. Grimmel disappeared and left the archipelago, until now. The reason Toothless is the only night fury in the archipelago is because Sigmund and Yngvar scared the night fury's off or killed them. I think Toothless is the only dragon left here because the red death got him so he couldn't leave, until he was shot down and well you know the rest."
The room went quiet after the mass of information, until the silence exploded with questions and answers..
"How did you get a dragon eye?" Fishlegs asked.
"I found it." Ingrid answered.
"Where did you find it?" Ruffnut asked.
"Between some rocks." Frida answered.
"Why haven't you told us about the dragon eye?" Snotlout puzzled and looked between the kids with narrowed eyes.
The kids looked between themselves. That is answer they hadn't fought for an answer for.
"When did you find it?" Astrid challenged and put her hands on her hips.
"Two years ago." Finn responded.
"I think it's best we show them what's on this." Vylma took out the dragon eye from the bag and the adults either stood up to get a better look at it or leaned forward.
"It's time we visit the hidden world again." Magnhild added. "Because now we have a alpha coming with us and we can travel in the night so no one can see us."
"No!" Vylma said. "We can't risk going there now when Grimmel is here. A group of 18 people and 16 dragons are a way to easy to see even in the night. I suggest dad and Toothless go, because a night fury is not easy to catch in the night and is the fastest dragon, but," she turned to her friends, "one of you need to follow so dad and Toothless can easily find the place."
Magnhild was quick to throw her hand up in the air, "I will definitely follow them, because I was pretty much the only one who really wanted to stay there."
"What about Ingrid?" Vylma asked and gestured to her, "She wanted to stay as much as you did."
Ingrid shook her head, "I can't." she mumbled and took a step back. Stoick laid a soothing hand on her back and gave her a small smile. The room went quiet and Vylma could feel that something bad had happen.
"What happened?" Vylma asked gently.
Ingrid wrapped her arms around herself and tried to keep her tears at bay. "Grimmel took me as a prisoner and tried to take information from me by torture," her father stood up and tried to tell her to stop talking about it when tears came down her cheeks, "he… he killed Kyria, just because I was stupid enough to leave Berk with the dragon eye." her voices cracked at the end and she shut her eyes tight. Stoick pulled her into a hug and she cried silently in his arms.
"I'm so sorry, Ingrid. And I'm sorry I just came in here demanding who had giving Grimmel the dragon eye" Vylma apologized.
Ingrid let go of Stoick, but he held her hands. "It's okay, you didn't know."
Vylma felt really sorry for Ingrid. Being captured and then being tortured just because for some information Grimmel wanted. And now he had giving Vylma the dragon eye so she could give him the information. On top of the all he had killed Kyria, making Ingrid suffer even more. Now Vylma really wanted this guy to pay for even more things than just killing dragons how ever he wanted.
Vylma gribbed the dragon eye tighter in her hand, "I have a plan how we can win this war," she turned to her father, "and how you and Toothless can go to the hidden world without risking being seen by Grimmel."