Now that was weird. Hiccup was at the forge, finishing his most recent project: a flaming sword.
The other riders didn't know much about it, mainly because when he first had the idea and shared it with them, they all laughted at it and he never mentioned it again. That's why they had no clue on what he was working on.
He had to admiti t, it sounded patheticly pathetic. Everyone knew that metal could only be worked at high temperatures, therefore metal was kind of fire proof, melting when "compromised", but Hiccup did it. He managed to creat a freackin' flaming retractible sword.
Now back to the weirdness.
He had last seen the others in the morning. The Edge'd been calm all day.
No axes flying so, of course, no Astrid.
No one with his butt on fire so no Snotlout.
No Hiccup, Hiccup you've got to see this, he could check Fishlegs on the missing list.
And well, no fire, explosions or any other disaster, which could only mean no twins.
As if on cue, Tuffnut and Ruffnut launched through the forge's door, breathing sorely, as if they'd run a marathon.
"Easy guys, breath" said Hiccup, still shocked with the two Thorston's fag "What happend?"
"Hiccup…"Tuffnut started "…marvelous…deadly, but so… marvelous".
"What?" Hiccup wasn't understanding anything "Tuffnut breath, what's going on? Ruff?"
Ruffnut looked at him, her hands in her own knees just like her brother. However, she kept breathing sorely and looking at Hiccup has if it said everything.
After a while, Tuffnut finaly caught his breath and spoke " We were flyin' but… we got distracted and flew all day."he said.
"Wait you got distracted and flew all day long? And I though I had a problem…" Hiccup commented.
"Oh you do mister, you do" Tuffnut continued "but back to the point, we were flying and then witnessed a marvelous deadly show of arrows, darts, nets and…" he stopped, looking to the ceiling while counting the listed things on his fingers "What else sis?"
Ruffnut gasped " arrows…"
"Oh yeah arrows. We were the only ones… that survived…" finished Tuffnut.
Hiccup stared at them "What?" Wow he was saying that a lot that day "Who- who was shoothing at you and- and what?" Again with the what… but hey don't judge him, he was perplexed.
"Oh, I said survived? I meant escaped… stupid mouth…" Tuffnut corrected.
"Oh, thank Thor!" said Hiccup, obviously relieved with the fact that the others were not dead, well… for now…" And yes of course you meant it Tuff…" he added in his sarcastic tone " But who caught'em?" He had a pretty good idea of who it was.
"The… Dragon Hunters" Ruffnut muttered more rested now.
Hiccup's expression became cooler. He grabed his last invention and mounted Toothless who'd been waiting outside.
"C'mon bud, we have some ships to blow up with." And Toothless took off.
"Wait did he just say… blow?" the twins said in sync, their eyes widened as they ran to Barf and Belch and took off at full speed and incorrectly mounted "Wait for us Hiccup!"
They flew all night long. When the ocean started reflecting the first rays of sunlight Hiccup, Tuffnut and Ruffnut caught sight of Viggo's fleet anchored in a big island. Everything seemed quiet. Well… almost everything.
"Have we arrived H?" Tuffnut asked.
"I'm bored…" Ruffnut added.
"And is it me or it's hot in here?" Tuffnut said, again.
"Okay, Okay, Okay. Got it. You're thirsty, hot, bored, tired, you miss your boobytraps and think we should leave Snotlout behind…" Hiccup exploded, it'd been a long trip…
"Yeah totally! That way we get to see…" said Tuffnut "uhh, what do we get to see sis?"
" Don´t look at me, all I know is that this sucks." Ruffnut ansewered her brother.
Hiccup studied the island trying to ignore the two noise machines beside him. That's when he saw something really fast moving through the buches. He then realised that the shady figure he'd seen was not alone. If his assumptions were right (which they usualy are)…
"C'mon guys!" Hiccup called. They flew carefuly around the Island, taking advantage of the few darkness left, since the last thing they wanted was to be spoted by the lunatics in those ships. They landed in the other side of the Island, the opposite side to where Viggo and his men had Hiccup, Tuffnut and Ruffnut's friends along with he Dragon Eye of course (Hiccup was sure Viggo would take it everywhere with him, not trusting anyone else besides Ryker to keep it safe. Not even in his home base).
"Uhm… what are we doing here H? Aren't we supposed to be blasting ships into oblivion? Like… right now." Tuffnut asked.
"Yeah, where are all the explosions you talked about Hiccup?" Ruffnut asked too.
Hiccup kept looking around, studying the place.
"I feel cheated…" Tuffnut cossed his arms over his chest.
Suddently the bushes around them started shaking, revealing a pack of…
"Speedstingers…" Hiccup muttered, confirming half of his assumptions. Now all he hoped was that the other half was also right, (according to the book of dragons Hiccup'd been studying earlier).
The pack approached slowly towards them and Toothless, Barf and Belch roared in reply, showing their teeth like daggers.
"Easy bud…" Hiccup said, petting Toothless' head. The nightfury calmed down if slightly. The leader of the pack roared againg, pointing his sting at the ready.
"Oh, come on! Not again…" Ruffnut groaned "it's always Ruffnut who gets paralised…".
Then, when he speedstingers moved to attack, something stopped them. Not something, someone. A speedstinger blocked the way between the two groups himself. He roared at his leader and approached Hiccup , who dismounted Toothless.
"Uhm… hey H, what are you doing?" Tuffnut asked.
The speedstinger smelled Hiccup's hand and, cooing, pressed his own head against Hiccup's palm, who started petting the dragon. " You guys remember our little fellow here, right?" Hiccup asked the twins.
Tuffnut closed his eyes a little bit " You mister…nope. I don't."
"Neither do I." Ruffnut ansewered.
"Remember that Stinger we found hurt back at the Edge? The one you Ruff, along with Snotlout tried to get rif of. It's him!"
" Oh yeah, how could I forget."Tuffnut smiled "it was always paralising Ruffnut hehe" he said, pointing at his sister sitting right beside him with his thumbs. Ruffnut punched him.
" Ouch! That hurt… do it again!" Tuffnut pleaded.
" I think I have a plan." Hiccup said, ignoring his friends once again, and he looked back at the speedstingers.
Astrid grabbed the metal bars from the cell she was caged in along with Fishlges and Snotlout. "We have to get out of here!" she said, looking at the corridor of cells they were in. A soldier passed by, looked at Astrid and laughted. She roared in response.
" But how?" I mean it's not like we have Hiccup here to think of a plan stupid enough that it might work. And even if we could think of one, which is not impossible, we don't even know how many soldiers are out ther-" Fishlegs started just to be interrupted by Snotlout.
"Pfff, really? Hiccup?" he said " Please… we don't need Hiccup to escape."
"And why is that Snotlout?" Astrid asked, her hands on her hips with her typical really-Snotlout?- face .
"Because you have mister brain and brawn of the year right here." Snotlout pointed out to himself with his own thumbs "let me remind you of my victory upon you all in that quiz".
" First we were not participating, Astrid and I were the ones questioning you. Second, you were playing against the twins, what were you expecting. To lose? Even chicken would beat'em." Fshlegs reminded.
Snotlout rose one of his fingers, open his mouth just to let the finger fall again. "Shut up Fishface…" he muttered. " You'll see. One day I'll be known for my perfect being and you will be sorry. Remember my words."
"Well Snotlout. You do have your oppurtunity now. How do we get out? Alive." Astrid crossed her arms and waited for an ansewer.
"Well I could but right now I won't. Right now my brain needs… some rest." He sat in a corner of the cell, pulled his helmet over his eyes and started to snore.
"The usual" Fishlegs whispered " But now, seriously. We have to do something!"
" I know, and we have to do it fast" Astrid said, punching her open palm with her other fist, she really needed to punch something like… a dragon hunter, why not?
Suddently the whole ship shoke and the sound of multiple explosions was heard.
"Astrid, do you think…" Fishlegs smiled.
Astrid didn't think, she was 100% sure. It's Hiccup after all, he'd always come for us."Hiccup… Hiccup's here. And by the sound of this explosions he brought the twins too!" she declared.
