Remus knocked on the metal door as Hiccup and Astrid prepared to pounce. "Just a second." First answered. Hiccup readied as the locking mechanism clicked from the turning of the key. "What took you so..." Astrid and Hiccup slammed him into the wall, holding him as Remus pulled out his sword and held it up to First's throat. "Remus!" He responded as the cold metal kept him from struggling. "Take the gloves." Remus commanded, and his younger partners obliged. "You'll never get past the guards," First laughed through his constricted throat. "And once Lord..." Remus slammed the sword hilt over his head, knocking him out cold. "Shut up."

Hiccup slid the two lock gloves over his hands, admiring their craftsmanship. Astrid smiled as he stared at them in wonder. That's my Hiccup, she thought, and turned to Remus. "OK, we have the gloves, where do we go now?" Remus' eyes widened and he smacked his hand to his face. Slowly, it slid down over his irritated expression. Then he chuckled and pointed his sword at the unconscious officer. "I bet he would know." He stated, sarcastically. Astrid looked at him for a second. "Sooooo?" She asked. "Check him for a map." Hiccup interrupted. "There's no way he can know every corridor in this place." Astrid looked over at Remus, who shrugged, and then began to search the man. She slipped her hand into one of his many belt pouches and pulled out several pieces of large parchment.

"This must be the most understandable map in existence." Hiccup stated as she rolled out the thirty pieces of parchment. "We could really go for without the sarcasm right now, thanks." Remus responded, momentarily moving his gaze to rest on his nephew before returning to the map. The two of them stood above the floor as Astrid knelt down, flattening the papers. "Why are there so many anyway?" Hiccup asked. "Thirty floors of complex tunnel systems, I'm just surprised he was carrying every single piece." Remus said as he bent down to get a more detailed look at the papers, trying to find the one they were on. "Probably the only guy on the entire island who is." Astrid pointed out as she flattened out the last paper. She stood up and stretched, and Hiccup began to massage her back. "Here!" Remus pointed at one of the papers. "That large circular room, that's where we are, now if we can just..." A yell came from down the hall.

"Hey!" The three companions stood to full height and held their hands up in surrender. "Whose idea was it to look at the map in the middle of a corridor, again?" Hiccup muttered to his partners. "Shut it." Remus shot back. They turned to face the Legionnaire. He pointed a loaded crossbow at them. "What are you doing with Captain First's map?" He asked accusingly, and walked towards them. He noticed the unconscious figure on the floor next to them. "Captain! Alright fools, for attacking a Roman military officer and stealing his possessions, I hereby put you under..." A white tail knocked him over the head and he clanged to the floor. "Good girl, Solstice." Remus said as he walked towards the dragon. Another yell came from the other side of the hall.

"Hey, I saw that." The three companions groaned as they brought their hand back up and turned towards the new soldier. This one was accompanied by a dragon. "Alright, for attacking Captain First and A Roman Guard, I hereby place you under arrest." Hiccup's ear twitched as he heard a familiar high-pitched sound. A plasma blast blew the dragon into the wall, and a large piece of wood slammed over the Legionnaire's helmet, knocking both out cold. "Toothless!" Hiccup yelled as the black dragon bounded in through the corridors. Toothless knocked him over and gave him a slimy lick. "I missed you too, bud." Toothless looked up and saw Astrid, to which he gave the same salivated greeting to. "Alright, well that's one more thing off of our to-do list." Remus stated. "Chief!" One of the vikings who had been following Toothless yelled. "Make that two."

Hiccup poked his foot at the unconscious officer. "So his name is actually First?" He asked. Remus answered without looking away from the map. "He was an orphan we found in the streets. Romulus called him his First Officer, so we just stuck with it." Hiccup nodded and evaluated their numbers. Toothless had retrieved about twenty vikings, but only ten dragons. "We'll have to travel in pairs." He mumbled. Astrid heard him and wrapped her arms around him from behind. "Then I get to ride with you." She said, pecking him on the cheek. "Yes, dear." Hiccup answered and gave her a full kiss. "Alright." Remus interrupted. "If you two are finished, I think I've figured this out."

The three looked at the guards from behind a corner. "There's more than when we left." Remus whispered. "What difference does two more make?" Hiccup asked, quietly. "Well if you hadn't noticed, they outnumbered us before and we only brought one more." Remus hissed. "No offence to you or your fighting skills, Astrid." He added. She frowned and then stretched out her neck. "Alright, watch and learn, old man." Astrid cracked her knuckles before grabbing the axe Hiccup had so kindly packed in Toothless' saddlebag. Loudly, she turned the corner. "Alright!" She yelled, lifting her axe. "Let's do this. Aaauuuggghhhh."

Hiccup winced as he watched the carnage unfold. But he couldn't look away, he loved it when she was like this. Remus paid no attention to the fight. "I'm not that old." Hiccup winced again. "I mean I know my hair's practically all gray." "Oooooooohhhhh." Hiccup's hand shot down to his sensitive area. "Sure, I have some minor Arthritis, and every once in a while I need to go to the bathroom unexpectedly, but I'm not that old, am I?" Hiccup looked up at him. "My Mom is 50." He said, and then turned back just in time to see why the soldier was screaming so high-pitched. Remus stood still for a second. "Gods, I'm old." He turned to watch as the fight ended.

The two men walked up to the door and Hiccup began to unlock it "So," Astrid began, "What did you learn?" Remus looked at her, confused. "Huh?" She rolled her eyes. "I told you to watch and learn, what did you learn?" She asked again. He looked back to the door. "I wasn't paying attention." He answered. Astrid blew out in exasperation. "I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks." She muttered. "Got it!"

Hiccup gawked at the sheer size of the room. He took his first step in, causing a clang sound. Looking down he noticed that the floor was made completely of grated metal. But it was what was beneath the floor that amazed him. Rows upon rows of metal cages covered the walls as the hole descended to sea level, where a familiar bubbling spring caught Hiccup's eye. "A Bewilderbeast!" He said, as he slid his hands over his hair in both fear and amazement. "We call it the White Death." Remus stated. "Do you call everything a Something Death?" Hiccup asked. Remus chuckled. "Only those that can be Alphas." Hiccup began to walk towards the display cases the surrounded the pedestal. Astrid stood in front of one. "Hi...Hiccup...it's...it's.." Her arm shook as she pointed at the relic.

"Drago's arm and cape." Hiccup said coldly as he stared at where Astrid was pointing. "But how..." Remus interrupted them as he passed. "You never wondered where his dragon came from? No one just finds a White Death egg." Hiccup looked at him, shocked. "But, why..." He started. "Why does Romulus have it?" Remus finished for him. "Just as no one finds a White Death egg, no one comes back to Romulus empty handed. "Hiccup, look." Astrid pointed at another piece. "That's..." Hiccup finished for her. "Dagur's armor." She pointed to another case. "And that's..." Hiccup felt his heart sink all the way down the hole. "Savage's." He looked at his uncle, who stared back with cold eyes. "No one." Remus turned and walked towards the two cases closest to the pedestal. Hiccup followed, Astrid clinging to his arm in fear.

Remus stopped in front of the pedestal, equally between the last two cases. He turned to face his nephew. He silently gestured towards the case on his right. Hiccup walked up to it and analyzed it deeply. "A Night Fury skeleton?" He questioned. "Do you remember the story I told you?" Remus asked. Hiccup gasped and turned towards his dragon, who was growling at Drago's arm. "Toothless' mother." Remus nodded. "Yes, that was his second major conquest." He gestured to the case on his left. "And this, this was my brother's first." It was a mirror of Romulus' armor, except it was white and had gold cloth instead of purple. The details that were jagged on Romulus' set appeared smoother on this one. It was flawless except for a few break marks on the helmet where something had been removed. It had a mysterious shine, like it was made out of..."Dragon Scales," Hiccup gasped. Remus walked up to the case.

"This was my father's armor, and his father's before him, and his father's before him." Remus carefully opened the case. "It is meant to be granted to the heir of Rome on his fifteenth birthday." He shed his Legionnaire armor and removed the white armor from its display. "When Romulus killed our father, he took it as a prize." He slid the torso section on and began to adjust it. "But he wanted nothing to do with this armor, he considered our family weak." Remus finished the adjustments and slid on the boots and gauntlets. "So he locked it away and crafted his own. A better version, he called it." He sheathed the sword that was sitting in the case. "He forged new weapons, an entire arsenal." He looked down at the helmet in his hands. "He removed the crown and placed it into his own." He slid the helmet on and turned to face his nephew. Hiccup was amazed at how noble he looked. "Grab the stone." Remus commanded. "We're leaving."