It was dark and Hagen was making his way back to the mansion as he predicted no one had listened to Snotlout meaning that they were all very much unaware on what would happen in the morning.
However on the shoreline, Hiccup and the others were preparing for the confrontation with the pirates.
"Okay, at daybreak the pirates will be landing at this shore to begin their attack," said Snotlout as they began to climb the slope. "But the only way they will be able to get to the villages to get up this slope. The rest of the shoreline are steep cliffs so they have to come through here, we can fight them while they're fumbled into that now pass their numbers won't mean anything in the village will be protected."
"Sounds good, I'm sure the five of us will be able to handle a few grunts," Hiccup agreed. "However, we don't know how many powerful members they have so we should be careful. We also have to assume that Hagen will come back down here to see why they haven't attacked the village so will have to deal with him eventually."
Astrid looked at Hiccup. "You have any ideas on how we might be able to slow them down?"
Hiccup smiled. "Actually, I do."
Meanwhile at the mansion, Hagen had arrived back and was immediately greeted by Major. The guards outside of already informed them of the situation that Kaia was lying down in bed.
"Ah, Hagan, welcome back," he said smiling as he began dusting the chandelier in one of the large rooms.
"How is she?" Hagen asked.
"She's resting just fine," Major assured. "She was quite exhausted."
Hagen looked immensely annoyed. "I leave town to do a few a few hours to attend to some errands and everything falls to pieces. That Snotlout certainly knows how to cause trouble doesn't he?"
"Yes," Major agreed shaking his head. "And on top of everything else is done today, he claimed that you were a pirate. I can't think of a more outlandish story."
Hagen shackled as he smiled at the window. "Indeed." He then noticed the package on the table. "What's this here?"
"Well, that's a present of course from Miss Kaia to you Hagan," Major smiled. "It's been three years since you've came to this mansion and this gift is to say thank you for your hard work. It is a commemoration of sorts."
"How nice," said Hagen as he looked at it.
"The glasses you're wearing are always slipping and you have to push them back up. So the lady of the house custom ordered a new pair for you isn't she the most thoughtful young woman you ever met?"
Hagen began unwrapping the present and found that it was a glass case and when he opened it he saw new pair of glasses inside.
"How appropriate," Hagen smiled. "Tomorrow will be a day worth commemorating."
Major then sensed something strange as he climbed down the ladder.
Hagen looked at the moon. "It's a crescent moon tonight," he said as he closed the glass case. "It's on nights like these that I truly feel alive. My heart races and my blood boils in my veins."
He then immediately dropped the glass case on purpose and then he slammed his foot on it crushing the case and the glasses inside of it.
Major looked at him horrified. "Hagan what are you doing? Why would you do such a thing to Miss Kaia's present?"
"Oh, I will be receiving a gift or right," he assured sinisterly. "But it won't be glasses it will be her entire estate."
Major's eyes widened in horror. "What are you saying?"
"I suppose there's no reason to carry on the act any longer," Hagen said as he turned to face him with a cruel smile. "In a few hours the village will be mourning the unforeseen tragedy."
Major soon realised that Snotlout had been telling the truth all along. Hagen then pulled out a pair of gloves with razor sharp blades that were 11 inches long.
"Three years I have quietly waited for this," he said smiling.
"Miss you have to get out of here—" Major cried.
However he never finished his sentence, because as quick as a flash Hagen sliced right through the chandelier and dealt a devastating blow to Major. He then fell to the ground with blood dripping from his chest.
Once that was done Hagen began climbing the stairs to Kaia's room where she was sleeping sound unaware of anything around her. For a moment it looked as if Hagen was going to deal the final blow as he pointed his blades to her face. However, for some reason he didn't kill her and instead left the room without even knowing he was there.
It was nearly daybreak on the pirate ship, the crew were getting a bit restless and one of them was banging on the captain's door.
"Captain Jango! Captain Jango! It's almost daybreak it's time to get moving!" he said.
The door opened and Jango walked out.
"Good morning, Captain," said the crewmen.
"Good morning, sir," said another crewmen.
Jango didn't look particularly pleased. "You idiots, only the sun can wake me up and lived to tell about it. Do I make myself clear?"
"He's a real bad mood."
"Mornings are the worst."
Jango then looked up at the moon. "Just look the moon is still up so the sun could not have woken me. Now which one of you did it?"
"Our apologies, sir," said the entire crew. "We are very sorry, sir."
Jango shrugged. "In that case good morning gentlemen."
"What's going on with him, he was mad a second ago?" said a crewmen.
Another crewmen leaned over to him. "Does it matter, he's in a better mood now and that's all that matters. So keep your big trap shut."
"Fair point."
Jango then walked up to the mainmast and looked at all his men. "Listen up men let us sail!"
Meanwhile at the shoreline hiccup and the others were busy setting up a trap for the pirates. They had dumped a lot of oil across the slope making it very slippery.
"I'd say this would give us an edge," Hiccup smiled. "With all this oil there's no way they can make it up this slope. It should keep them occupied while we attack them from a distance."
"Not bad," said Astrid.
"Seems like a boring way to fight, but I'll defend this village no matter what," Snotlout grunted.
"Let's just hope that none of us slip on that oil and end up down there with them," said Fishlegs as he looked at the oil. "If that happened we be sliding into a meat grinder."
"If that happens I'll easily be able to jump in," Hiccup assured.
Soon the sun began to rise.
"It's almost daybreak, they're coming," said Toothless.
Jango was soon leading the pirates to the shore and all of them were thirsty for blood. Soon they struck the beach and they dropped anchor.
"We're here!"
Jango looked at his men. "All right men, you know what to do. Go ashore, crushed the village, head for the mansion!"
"Aye, sir!"
A crewmen then noticed something over the side. "Captain there's already two boats here?"
"What?" said Jango as he turned.
They all turned and saw the boat belonging to Hiccup and Astrid on the shoreline.
"Should I investigate?"
"Leave them for later, they don't look like treasure ships to me and we have a schedule to keep," said Jango dismissively.
"Understood, sir."
Jango then looked at his men. "What are you waiting for? It's time to move out!"
All the men immediately raise their swords into the air and cheered.
Hiccup and the others were still waiting for them on the shoreline and confused why they hadn't shown up yet.
"They're a bit late, the sun has been up for several minutes," Hiccup noted.
"Maybe they overslept?" Toothless offered.
Snotlout shook his head. "No. They're going to show up all right and lots of them."
Fishlegs then heard something. "Wait a minute, maybe I'm hearing things, but it sounds like battle cries from somewhere." Everyone remained quiet as Fishlegs listened. "Yeah, I definitely hear them."
Snotlout's eyes widened. "No. It can't be!"
Toothless looked at him. "What can't be?"
"There is a shore like this one to the north," Snotlout panicked.
Hiccup's eyes widened. "You mean were on the wrong shore?"
"Well, this is where they had a secret meeting so I just assumed okay," said Snotlout.
Astrid groaned. "You shouldn't assume anything, especially not with pirates."
Hiccup looked at them. "We need to hurry, before they make it to the village. Where is it?"
"You have to head directly north from here, if you run you can make it there in three minutes," Snotlout explained. "The terrain there is almost exactly the same so all we have to do is stop at the slope."
"Don't worry, we'll stop them," Hiccup promised.
Astrid then realised something. "Oh no, if those pirates at the North Shore then they've already seen our boats. They'll take our treasure."
"I'll head over there right now," said Hiccup as he quickly dashed away.
Snotlout grunted. "I knew this oil plan was a bad idea."
"Wait for me," said Fishlegs as he ran after him.
"We better get out of here," said Toothless looking at Astrid.
She nodded. "Yeah."
However Astrid failed to realise that she was actually standing on top of the oil and when she moved her foot she slept. Then by instinct she grabbed one of Toothless' sword and accidentally pulled him into the oil as well and the immediately began skidding down the slope.
"Great, now were both stuck," said Toothless.
Astrid looked at him apologetically. "Sorry."
Snotlout was running as quickly as he could towards the northern slope and Fishlegs was directly behind him.
"We need to get there before they get off the slope," said Snotlout.
Fishlegs noticed that Hiccup wasn't in front of them. "Hiccup must be a very good runner, he so far ahead I can't even see him."
At the shore the pirates had already jumped off the ship and were running up the slope as quickly as they could with bloodlust in their eyes. However they were quickly knocked down off the slope when several small rocks struck them.
"It's an ambush! Somebody is up there!"
Jango looked up and saw Snotlout standing there with Fishlegs. "We meet again and it seems if you've bought a friend."
Snotlout stood there tossing a few rocks into the air on his palm. "If you want to get to the town you're going to have to get past me."
Fishlegs shook nervously as he raised his hands. "Me too."
Snotlout frowned. "Where's Hiccup, wasn't he supposed to be the first one here?"
Fishlegs panicked. "Wait, you did tell him which way north was, right?"
Snotlout looked dumbfounded. "Should he know?"
Fishlegs stared at him. "Of course he doesn't, he doesn't have a compass on him."
Meanwhile at the slope, Astrid and Toothless were doing everything they could to run at the slope, but the oil proved to be far too slippery for them to scale.
"How are we supposed to get past this stuff," said Toothless biting his lips as he ran.
"Hiccup's plan was sound, you have to admit that," said Astrid as she ran beside him.
Hiccup was panting, he had one for a good three minutes and had reached the outskirts of the village.
"The village? That can't be right, we took a different direction the first time we arrived," said Hiccup shaking his head.
Snotlout and Fishlegs were all that stood in the path of the pirates and they looked very annoyed.
Jango glared at Snotlout. "It's you, I remember. You're one of the troublesome brats that overheard our plan. What you think you're doing?"
Snotlout looked at him. "What does it look like I'm doing and protecting this village? If you wanted little taste of my power come on right ahead."
The pirates looked at one another and scoffed.
"Does he think that the two of them can defeat all of us?"
"That guy is completely deluded."
Jango agreed. "Let's take care of this nuisance and make our way to the village."
Then one of his men approached him. "Captain Jango, you better take a look at this."
Jango looked at him. "What is it now?"
"We searched those other ships and found a huge load of treasure," said the pirate and pointed towards the boat where another pirate was holding a large stash of treasure. "It's hard to say how much, but I bet it's around 5 million Gil."
Jango looked up. "What?"
Snotlout looked at Fishlegs. "You've got that much treasure?"
Fishlegs smiled nervously. "We have a habit of taking treasure from pirates and believe it or not they have a large amount of it."
Jango smiled. "Well, it would seem today is our lucky day. Take the treasure and with the added bonus that Captain Hagen promised we should have a fortune on our hands."
Fishlegs recognised Jango. "I recognise him from yesterday, he's that terrible hypnotist."
Snotlout looked at him. "How is he terrible?"
"Because he hypnotises himself along with his victims," Fishlegs explained. He then looked at Snotlout looking troubled. "Don't we can take these guys by ourselves without Hiccup and neither Astrid nor Toothless have shown up either."
Snotlout then cracked his knuckles. "Then just get behind me, Fishface, I'll make short work of these bozos."
Jango looked at his men. "Take him down boys."
Immediately about five pirates immediately charged at Snotlout with their swords drawn.
"It's time for you to kill!"
"This'll be easy!"
Snotlout then immediately took up a fighting stance and waited at the pirates closed in on him. He then immediately slammed his fist into the ground so hard they began to crack the cracks extended towards the five pirates charging at him. This made the ground unsteady and they lost their balance and Snotlout immediately took the initiative and punched them so hard that he sent them crashing back down to the others.
"Still think I'm that I'm a pushover!" Snotlout roared.
Jango stared at the crack in the slope. 'He managed to crack rock? Captain Hagen did mention that this egomaniac was strong and at the back of his words.' He then immediately looked at his men. "Don't fault our men, we easily outnumber them attack!"
The pirates immediately began storming the slope and Snotlout raised his fists.
"I hope you're good at close quarters fighting," he said looking at Fishlegs.
Fishlegs winced. "Not really."
Meanwhile on the other shoreline, Astrid and Toothless were still stranded as every single one of their attempts failed to get them past the oil.
"We can't just keep on running up the slope," Toothless panted.
"We can't scale the cliff either," Astrid pointed out and then she looked at their blades and face palmed herself. "I'm such an idiot, why did I think of this before?"
Moments later Astrid and Toothless plunged their blades into the slope which allowed them to scale it. In just about 30 seconds the two of them managed to get past the oil and were now at the top of the slope.
Toothless looked at Astrid and smiled. "Good plan."
Astrid smiled. "Thanks, but we really need to get to the north shoreline."
Meanwhile at the slope Snotlout had just taken down a few more men and Fishlegs had taken down a couple, though mostly by accident.
Fishlegs looked at Snotlout. "They just keep coming."
"Then just keep fighting!" Snotlout yelled as he punched another pirate in the face.
However, a pirate had somehow snuck behind him and slammed a large hammer against his head. He struck him with such force that Snotlout hit the ground hard and looked as if he was unconscious.
"Don't tell me you really for you going to stop us," the pirates sneered.
Fishlegs immediately quivered, because now he was the last line of defence and he wasn't exactly an expert on combat.
The pirate looked at the others. "Let's go, fellas, Captain Hagen is waiting."
However before the pirate could make a single move, Snotlout grabbed his foot.
"You again, let go of me you idiot! Do you want some more? Here have some," the pirate growled and immediately began slamming his foot on top of Snotlout's head.
"I will never… let you take one single foot in that village!" said Snotlout determinedly. He then slowly began to get to his feet. "It may be a pigheaded egomaniac, but I refuse to let you hurt anyone in that village."
"Shut up!" a pirate roared as he raised his sword.
Fishlegs then appeared out of nowhere and punched him across the face before he could bring it down on top of Snotlout.
"Bad move, boy!" said another pirate as he swung at Fishlegs.
Fishlegs quickly jumped back to dodge the blade, but he tripped and fell to the ground. Then the pirate Snotlout was holding raised his hammer.
"Shut up, I won't tell you again," he said.
Jango was now looking annoyed. "We have wasted enough time playing pirates. Quit bothering with him and move to the village! Or have you forgotten that this is Captain Hagen's operation? And he doesn't look favourably on his plans being ruined by idiots! He will kill us all, you understand that you credence?"
The pirates immediately looked at one another, feeling a bit fearful.
"He's right."
"Yeah, let's get the village."
The pirates immediately stormed the slope had ran past both Snotlout and Fishlegs.
Snotlout tried to stop them. "You won't go any further. I said stop!" He then immediately grabbed the ankle of a pirate stopping him. "You won't take another step!"
"Get off!" the pirate yelled kicking him aside.
Snotlout just laid there, because he failed, the pirates were going to destroy the village and there was nothing he could do to stop them. 'I can't let them win, I won't allow it! People are peaceful, they don't deserve to be slaughtered.'
Then suddenly the pirates was sent flying backwards much to everyone's shock. They soon landed back right where they started at the bottom of the slope.
"What is this Captain Jango?" said the pirate as he looked at his Captain.
"No one said that killers like those are going to be here."
Fishlegs smiled. "They made it."
Standing there at the top of the slope were Hiccup, Astrid and Toothless, the three of them looked a bit exhausted clearly they had run all the way here.
"Is that all these pirates condition out?" said Toothless.
"I was expecting a lot more out of them," Astrid admitted.
Hiccup nodded. "Yeah, I was hoping for a challenge." He then immediately looked at Snotlout. "Next time how will you be a bit more specific with your instructions? Like explaining to me which way north is?"
Jango just looked at them. "Who are these guys?"
Hanging outside the mansion was Hagen and he was looking immensely annoyed, because not one single man had reached the mansion.
"They're late," he said angrily. 'They don't appreciate tardiness, not one bit. They know full well what happened to those that are foolish enough to upset my plans.' He then immediately got to his feet. 'Do they think they can take their sweet time? Well, if they have forgotten the consequences of disappointingly.' He then immediately narrowed his eyes. "I'll kill them all."
He then grabbed a bag and began making his way down towards the coast. Unbeknownst to him watching from a tree was Onion.
"That looks like the Butler from Kaia's mansion," he said. "But it's so early in the morning why is he walking to the shore?"
