Chapter 3

'Something is wrong here.' Hiccup thought. Usually there were many Nadders flying around that island, especially during the morning hours.

He and the other teens had taken off before sunrise so they would be able to watch the spectacular view on that island.

"Ooh, I can't see any nadders down there. Are you sure this is the right place?" Snotloud moaned.

"Yes I am sure. It has the exact same location on the map, the exact same shape and the exact same forests." their leader reassured.

"I'm sorry Stormfly. It looks like this will have to wait." Astrid patted her dragon.

They landed on the beach and dismounted their dragons. "OK we spread out and look for any nadders, if we don't find any after five minutes we return here." Hiccup instructed.

"Stupid Hiccup" Snotloud muttered. "Probably messed up reading a map. If I was the one in charge I would have read the map without making mistakes. we would be at the right island and have fun playing with nadders. Not that I would prefer them over you." he quickly added to calm down Hookfang. "And we wouldn'd be crawling through the dirt" he continued his rant "And Stormfly would be happy and Astrid would be happy." He closed his eyes while a broad smile made his way across his face. He tripped over a rock and fell. "OW! But no we have to..." he stopped speaking when he noticed some of the grass in front of him being red. He stood up completely and stared at what was in front of him. It took him a few moments to fully realize the horror.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" An extremely loud, extremely high Scream was heard across the entire island.

"Come on Toothless, Astrid's in trouble!" Hiccup said to Toothless who picked him up and threw him on his back while he sprinted towards the source of that scream. The scream that still continued. Tt stopped for a moment, as if someone inhaled deeply. So did Toothless. Then it was back. The dragon continued it's sprint.

"What is it Astr... oh it's you Snotloud. What is it" Hiccup shouted as he found the source. Then he saw it. "Oh my Gods. I didn't know dragon hunters where that brutal." By now Astrid and Fishlegs arrived. Astrid immediately turned around. "Stormfly, don't move. Just go away. Please." she turned to Hiccup. "We're leaving." Then she dragged her dragon to the beach where some fighting could be heard. Then a deadly nadder took off with his rider, not knowing why they left.

"Who did this?" Fishlegs asked, both shock and disgust written on his face. Before them there was a deadly nadder. A dead deadly nadder. whose blood dyed the grass around it red. whose tail was cut off. And whose tail bones, connected by some slowly rotting meat shreds.
"I don't know. Let's just get out of here." Hiccup urged. "Come on snotloud, we're leaving" he wrapped an arm around Snotloud to support him.

"Thank you Hiccup." Snotloud weakly said. then he turned away, vomited into the woods and turned back into Hiccups supporting embrace. "I really mean it."

"I know. We'll find out who did this and make sure this won't happen again."

The flight back was mostly calm.

Hiccup flew next to Snotloud to look after him. It seemed he almost fell off his dragon although he was more awake than ever.

"Hiccup" Fishlegs tried to keep up with them. "I have to talk to you."

"Ok. Shoot!"

"I think it is better if he doesn't hear it." "It's about what we saw back there" he whispered. They flew into the clouds.

"What is it Fishlegs?"

"I have thought about who did this. You said it were trappers but I don't think so. Trappers and Hunter go for the head. You know as trophy. Or they take the wings. Or the bones. But I have never heard of a dragon hunter who take the tail. Also the tail bones were still there. Also the wound was not fitting to any dragon fighting technique known to Berk, you know, back in those days. So I think that this wasn't a dragon hunter."

"So what do you think did this?"

"I don't know. There was nothing that indicated a ship landing on that island. I have no Idea who or what it is."

"We'll find out. Let's see how Snotloud is doing. Don't tell him any of this."

Authors notes contain spoilers

you have been warned

The next victim of my OC is gonna be a whispering death. I plan to get a stormcutter for the wings, but I have no idea how I can involve that. PM me if you have any ideas.

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