On a Navy yacht, a marine lieutenant wearing a fine sewerage was pouring a glass of wine to a beautiful young lady.
"So, dearest, fess up where are you taking me?" she asked curiously.
"Darling, this place is great, trust me okay," said the lieutenant.
The young woman smiled. "So mysterious. Well, it's not a restaurant in the middle of the ocean is it?"
The lieutenant laughed and the two of them then toast. "Here's to your beauty."
As he raised his glass he was wearing a steel knuckle duster over his hand and soon the two of them just looked out of the open sea as they carried on sailing.
"Just wait until you see this place," said the lieutenant.
Meanwhile on the Going Tiger, the revelation of Toothless knowing the identity of the attacker caused quite a stir. Astrid and the others were watching the conversation from the galley and they too were bit confused.
"Toothless knows that girl?" Fishlegs blinked.
"What's going on?" Astrid groaned.
"I don't know, is just one thing after another one this tab," Snotlout muttered.
Ruffnut then took Toothless to the side of the ship where she had anchored her boat. When he looked into it Toothless saw a young man roughly had the same age and appearance as Ruffnut was lying down in it and it appeared that he had a massive wound across his chest.
"He's been sick," said Ruffnut.
"Let's get on board," said Toothless.
No time at all everyone dragged Tuffnut onto the boat and saw that he wasn't exactly in the best of shape he was quite pale in fact.
"What's the matter with him?" Toothless asked.
"Up until a few days ago he was healthy and full of life and now he keeps on fainting and getting really pale," Ruffnut cried. "I have no idea what's causing it! His teeth have been falling out and his wound opened up and started bleeding, he just got worse and worse and I had no idea what to do. So I thought that we should rest a little island, but then…"
Ruffnut began to remember that they had parked behind the reef and a few moments later it exploded and the rubble fell on top of them.
"A cannonball came flying from the ship!" Ruffnut yelled.
As Hiccup looked a bit uneasy. "Sorry about that, we were doing some cannon firing practice and we had no idea anyone was behind the reef."
Ruffnut glared up at him. "Sorry isn't good enough, just look at my brother!"
Hiccup examined him, he pulled out his timing and opened up his eyelid. Ruffnut then immediately grabbed his arm and glared at him furiously.
"Stop it!" she yelled in his ear. "Whatever you're doing dark yon mocking his death!"
Astrid then immediately pulled her away. "He's trying to help her idiot." She then looked at Hiccup. "His what I think it is?"
Hiccup nodded. "Yep." He then turned to Snotlout and Fishlegs. "Snotlout, Fishlegs, we have some limes in storage, I need you to get them here now."
Immediately the two of them made their way into the storage and came back with a crate for limes. Then under Hiccup's instructions they began pouring the juice over Tuffnut's face.
"He's got scurvy," Hiccup explained.
"Scurvy?" Ruffnut blinked.
Hiccup nodded. "If we weren't too late, he'll be just fine in a couple of days."
"Really?"
"It's a common ailment among sailors," said Astrid folding her arms. "It was a hopeless disease that plagued sailors and we just know how to deal with it now."
"But how did he get scurvy anyway?" Ruffnut are scratching her head.
"Scurvy is basically a simple deficiency of plant derived nutrients, like vitamin C," Hiccup explained. "Back in the old days they couldn't carry fresh fruit and vegetables because they couldn't store them, but that's a problem these days."
"You know a lot about it," said Snotlout.
"Every sailor should know about scurvy, it's not like we can get limes or any other citrus fruit out on the sea," said Astrid.
"I saw the number of times when I was on my father's ship, it was one of the first few things my father taught me and how to treat it," Hiccup explained. "He predicted that I might not have a crew of seasoned sailors so he taught me the basics of navigation and what kind of common ailment to suspecting the open seas."
"Sounds like a smart man," said Astrid curiously. "You know you've never actually mentioned who your father really is."
Hiccup looked a bit awkward. "Well, you see…"
Thankfully Tuffnut chose that moment to get to his feet and almost instantly the twins began dancing around like a couple of maniacs.
"Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!" they yelled repeatedly.
"Will you stop dancing around," said Hiccup as he quickly pulled the twins apart. "You can't heal from scurvy that quickly and I still wanna know who you guys are."
"Then allow us to introduce ourselves," said the twins in unison.
"I am Ruffnut," said Ruffnut.
"And I am Tuffnut," said Tuffnut.
"Together we are the baddest baddie bounty hunters duo in the world," they said.
"We used to partner up with Toothless over there," Ruffnut explained.
"Glad to meet you all," said Tuffnut.
"It's certainly a small world," said Toothless as he approached the two of them. "I never expected that I would see you guys again."
"Well, if you think that your surprised," said Ruffnut.
"We never imagined that Pirate Hunter Toothless would become a pirate himself," said Tuffnut.
Toothless just shook his head and folded his arms. "Tell me about it."
Tuffnut then collapsed indicating that he was still suffering from scurvy.
Immediately they took him inside and placed him on the couch. It was now late at night and they had all crowded around in the galley.
Hiccup shook his head. "I told you that he was still suffering from scurvy."
"This is the kind of trouble you should expect on life on the sea," Toothless agreed.
"Which means when wet at sea we really need to think about how to get the right amount of new nutrients with very little food," said Snotlout.
"Which is exactly why we need a skilled cook," said Hiccup and then a small smile appeared on his face. "And it's fortunate that I do know a skilled cook close by."
"You do?" said Astrid in surprise.
"He's an old penpal, we met briefly in my on the village I grew up on," Hiccup explained. "He was with the head chef at the time looking for ingredients for the restaurant. I also know that he is a skilled fighter and an expert marksman, we did a bit of hunting in the woods and he always hit his target."
"Okay where we heading to?" Fishlegs asked.
"The place were heading to as close to the Grand Line so dangerous individuals do sail their every now and then," said Hiccup explained.
Ruffnut looked up. "I think I know the place you're describing." She then immediately looked at Toothless. "And a certain skilled swordsman is rumoured to be in the facility."
Toothless looked up and clenched Light Fury in his hand.
Hiccup and Fishlegs worked together to map out the route and soon they were sailing towards the mysterious place where Hiccup's friends was residing. They had tied the twins' boat to their ship and soon the coming into view was a large anchored ship in the middle of the sea.
"Say hello to the Sea Restaurant Baratie," Hiccup announced.
The ship was dry nor this and it was shaped like a fish, was clearly large enough to hold possibly 200 men and many different types of ships were docked alongside it.
"Amazing," said Astrid in astonishment.
"I bet the food tastes yummy," said Snotlout looking his lips.
"Let's go inside," said Fishlegs.
Tuffnut had just woken up and made his way on debt with his mouthwatering.
However, before they could make a single move appearing out of nowhere was a Navy yacht which appeared abruptly on the port side.
'A Navy ship? Out here?' Tuffnut stared.
Fishlegs looked at Hiccup worriedly. "Hiccup, they aren't going to start firing upon us?"
Toothless groaned. "Just my luck, of course the Marines would show up."
Astrid shook her head. "But how did that ship—"
Soon the commanding officer approached the side of the ship and examined their flag.
"I've never seen that flag before," he said.
Ruffnut has quickly rejoined her brother and they were hiding behind the door.
"So you think he knows that you and I are the couple of pirates?" Ruffnut asked.
Man in charge turned out to be the same lieutenant with the iron knuckle duster around his hand. "I am Ironfist Fullbody, but you can just call me, sir." He then immediately looked at Hiccup and the others. "Tell me who is the captain, identify yourself!"
Hiccup stepped forward. "The name is Hiccup."
Snotlout then stepped across him. "My name is Snotlout."
Hiccup rolled his eyes and turned to the lieutenant. "We only made our flag the day before yesterday."
Snotlout nodded. "That's right Marine!"
Hiccup was looking at him in with annoyance.
"You did, is that so," said Fullbody and then he noticed the twins. "Hey, you two, right there. I've seen you before, you're that bounty hunter duo that goes after the small fish, right?"
"Well, we…" said Ruffnut feeling a bit awkward.
"So, you finally been caught by pirates," he assumed.
"Well, actually, we…"
Fullbody chuckled. "Now that's a laugh."
Then his date appeared next to him. "Hey, come on baby, let's get going."
"Sure," he nodded.
The twins then immediately pulled out several wanted posters.
"Hey, wait a minute you think that small-time bounty hunters would go after these guys!" Ruffnut yelled furiously tossing the wanted posters across the deck.
Fullbody and his date had turned their backs on them and walked off.
As the wanted posters fell on the deck Astrid noticed one and her face darkened.
Fullbody smiled at his date. "Now let's go to that restaurant." He then turned to his men and gave them the thumbs down. "They're an eyesore, sink them."
"Sir!" the Marines saluted.
The twins were furious.
"He ignored us," Ruffnut growled.
"Next time we see him, he had better have a little more respect for us," said Tuffnut.
Astrid then bent down and picked up one of the wanted posters. "One of these things?"
"Well, those are all wanted posters for pirates," Ruffnut explained. She then immediately stopped herself when she saw the dark expression over Astrid's eyes when she looked at one of the wanted posters. "In other words if we defeat then we get the reward money."
"It's a pretty lucrative business," Tuffnut smiled.
Astrid then crushed the wanted poster in her hand and began shaking uncontrollably.
It was at that point that Fullbody's yard began a mean one of its cannons directly at them.
"Hey, guys, look they're pointing cannons at us!" Fishlegs panicked.
The Marines then fired a cannonball added soon straight towards them.
"Leave it to me," said Hiccup and he immediately transformed into his human dragon form, much to the shock of the twins.
"Wing Blast!" Hiccup yelled flapping his wings hard.
His wing created a powerful gust of wind that blew the cannonball away from their ship, unfortunately the cannonball headed straight in the direction of the Baratie.
Hiccup gulped. "Wows."
The cannonball had actually struck the room belonging to the head chef of the restaurant. He was a middle-aged man with a blond beard and had a pegged leg.
Two cooks immediately rushed inside.
"Sir!" one of them cried.
"Are you alright head chef?"
"Sir, are you okay?"
Fullbody was in a small global with his date and they were sailing towards the restaurant. They had just heard the explosion and were unaware that it was caused by the cannonball they fired.
"I wonder what all that was about, I hope our reservation is okay," he said.
Fortunately the head chef was still alive, though he was a little beaten up.
"Head chef, are you okay?" one of the cooks asked.
"No," he growled. "Nothing is okay! Never mind about me just get back to the restaurant!"
"But sir, aren't you? I mean?"
"Did you maggots want to see me angry?" he growled as he put his chef's hat on. "Feeding the customers is a cooks job, are you trying to put me out of business?"
It didn't take long for the cooks to know that Hiccup was the one who deflected the cannonball so they dragged him to the head chef.
"This is the guy," said one of them.
"He's the one responsible for this."
Head chef looked at Hiccup in his eyes widened. "You look familiar, boy."
"I should, we met about five years ago when you showed up at my village," said Hiccup.
The head chef nodded. "Ah, yes, I remember. You've certainly grown quite a bit young Hiccup, but sadly we have to discuss the damages you've caused. You have to pay for the medical fees and repair charges for the ship."
"Sadly I'm flat broke," said Hiccup regretfully.
"Just as directors always," the head chef smiled. "If you don't have money, you have no choice but to work."
"How long?"
"You have to work unpaid for an entire year."
Hiccup's eyes widened. "A year?"
Meanwhile Astrid and the others were waiting on the Going Tiger. The twins were busy fixing the damage they had caused on the ship and were fixing the handrail.
"What taking Hiccup so long," Snotlout grumbled.
"Their problem discussing how long he has to work unpaid for the damages," Fishlegs concluded.
"He should have just said that it was the Marines fault instead of being so honest," Snotlout grunted.
"In the Marines were just plain him, we are a bunch of pirates after all their not going to take our word for it," Astrid pointed out.
Fullbody and his date were enjoying a lovely meal and then approaching them was a waiter, he had chocolate brown hair and eyes and had a very soulful look about him. He began pouring some wine for them.
Many of the patrons took notice of Fullbody.
"Whoa, that guy over there is Lieutenant Fullbody."
"Look kids, a big shot from HQ."
"Oh, wow. He's so elegant."
Fullbody's date smiled. "You're famous, everybody in here is looking at you."
Fullbody merely smiled. "No, you're wrong. They're all admiring you."
The two of them then toast and drank.
Fullbody smiled at the wine. "So good. This flavour." He then gave it a good sniff. "And yes this aroma, it is the unmistakable scent of Ledes, the North land, bit in with plenty of body and just that had sour. This wine must be the famous Amay Garrafeira. Tell me, waiter, am I right?"
The way to then put the bottle down. "You're not even close, sir." He then handed him a spoon. "Eat up, this dish is best when it's served hot."
The waiter then walked off leaving Fullbody behind and he was feeling quite embarrassed. He then stopped and turned his head to look at him. "And Sir, my name is Ragnar. I'm actually one of the chefs, all the waiters ran off yesterday."
Fullbody's date then giggled as did everyone else, much to his dismay.
His date smiled at him. "Do you know a lot about wine?"
Fullbody just ate his soup. "I thought so, but it seems my sense of taste is on working today."
His date merely laughed.
'What's going on? I'm certain that the owner serve that particular wine when I made this reservation,' he growled and glared at Ragnar, who was making his way back to the kitchens.
Hiccup was still trying to negotiate how long he should work. "I can only work for one week."
"Not happening," said the head chef.
"Two weeks?"
"You wrecked my restaurant and seriously injure the head chef, that is a serious offence. You can't just settle that the one or two weeks of unpaid work."
"Three weeks?"
The head chef was starting to get annoyed. "Talk with me with respect!"
He then suddenly went on his hands and spun around and struck Hiccup with his wooden leg with so much force that he was sent flying into the wall.
Hiccup picked himself up. "No deal, I've already waited a long enough to be a pirate so if you think I'm gonna waste another year you're sadly mistaken. I'm going to make you let me off in a week no matter what."
The head chef picked himself up and approached him. "If you value your time so much, I can tell you what you can do to settle your debt quickly, runt." He then immediately tapped Hiccup's left leg with his wooden one and raised a razor sharp knife. "A leg, my boy."
"That's a bit pricey," said Hiccup.
The head chef smirked. "Good, I've got your attention."
Outside the twins had finally finished preparing the ship, but none of them realise that Astrid and the others had taken their ship and made their way over to the Baratie.
Inside, Fullbody was still fuming about the embarrassment he had suffered earlier. That's when he noticed a bug crawling across the floor and immediately stomped it with his boot. He then moved his foot slightly and saw that it was still twitching and he saw Ragnar walking past.
"Waiter! Hey, get over here!" he yelled.
Ragnar stopped in his tracks and approached his table. "I believe I already told you, I'm not a waiter."
"I just want to know if bug soup is on the menu today or you made especially for me," said Fullbody.
"Bug soup?" Ragnar blinked.
He then examined the dish and saw that there was a bug floating in the soup. It was actually the same bug that Fullbody squashed early and in order to get payback on Ragnar, he had dumped the insect without anyone noticing in the soup.
"That's right, what is this bug doing here waiter?" Fullbody demanded. He then smirked slightly. 'This is going to ruin the restaurant's reputation.'
Ragnar merely smiled. "Sorry, sir, I don't know really. It looks like he's floating." Fullbody glared at him angrily. "There again it kind of looks like that he's drowning, but it's hard to say for sure."
Fullbody's date giggled as did everyone else in the restaurant which made him even more furious.
He then immediately got to his feet. "Don't you mess with me, waiter!"
He then immediately slammed his fist right into the table smashing it to bits and spilling the food and wine much to the shock of everyone.
Ragnar narrowed his eyes he bent down towards the spilled soup. "You could have just eaten it if you took the bug out, it would have been wonderful. It took three full days of hard cooking to prepare that soup for you and you wasted it."
Fullbody then slammed his foot on top of his hand. "Can't you see that you're biting more than you can chew? I'm a customer here! Do you understand me? I'm paying you!"
His date then immediately try to restrain him. "Stop it, Fullbody!"
"Shut up!" Fullbody roared and shoved her aside knocking her to the ground.
"No, Fullbody," she cried.
"Can your money truly satisfy your hunger?" Ragnar asked.
"What do you mean?" Fullbody frowned.
"I'm asking if you can satisfy your hunger?" Ragnar repeated.
Then suddenly as quick as a flash he stood on his hands and spun spinning his legs around.
Upstairs, the head chef and Hiccup was still coming to a compromise, unfortunately both of them were rather hardheaded. It had gotten so bad that the head chef was starting to beat up Hiccup.
"This is getting old," said the head chef. "You're never going to make it if just don't give in sometimes."
"My answer is still no," said Hiccup flatly.
"No respect," he grunted.
Downstairs Astrid and the others had just entered the restaurant and saw quite the scene in front of them. The other chefs in the kitchens heard the commotion quickly rushed into the restaurant.
"It's Ragnar."
"What's going on here?"
"Looks like a fight," said Toothless.
Ragnar had completely beaten up Fullbody much to the astonishment of everyone present and he was clutching his face and holding him up in midair. Blood was dripping from his hands and he was looking quite frantic as he looked at Ragnar.
"Don't ever waste food around me again," Ragnar warned. "At sea if you ever provoke your cook, you're signing your own death warrant. Remember that."
