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Chapter 5: Dragon Flower and the Scauldron

It was a nice day on the island of Berk with the weather being overall pretty fair and the residents surprisingly were all in high spirits. The day was like any other day, but today was different, because today Trader Johann would be arriving to their island bringing many things from faraway lands to trade with the Berkians. The Berkians never ventured out of their own waters, thus leaving them with a very limited amount of knowledge about the outside world. So when Trader Johann would come by their shores it was always exciting for them to see new things. However, they would have to listen to the long and boring stories from Johann himself, but it was all worth it in the villagers eyes.

While the townsfolk were more than excited, the other residents of the island seemed less thrived and merely flew overhead or rested on the tops of houses watching with amusement as the Vikings eagerly awaited the arrival of the trading vessel. One dragon out of them all though was watching the scene with much delight as his or their minds began to cook up something that would spell disaster for everyone else. However, they weren't in on it alone as they listened to their riders commands before they enacted there scheme.

"Wait for it," Tuffnut said while raising his right hand to the air, "Wait for it."

Once Snotlout and Hookfang came into view walking through the village plaza not with a care in the world Tuffnut then dropped his hand quickly with a smile on his face as he yelled, "Now!" notifying Barf and Belch to fire at one of the houses roofs where a bucket full of water was located that sat right above Hookfang and Snotlout, who in turn got drenched once the bucket fell on them making them jump and yell from the incident.

"Hah, Loki'd!" The Twins yelled as they smacked their helmets together.

"You a little wet Hookfang?" Barf laughed.

"Shoot he's mad!" Belch yelled as he tried to get his other half to fly away with him while Hookfang, recovering from the shock of being dosed with water, was flying full speed towards them, who then tackled them off of the house they were on into the ground and started to pummel the twins with his wings and didn't care which ones it was.

"I hate it when buckets of water fall on me!" He roared as he began to stomp on the Zipplebacks chest in a fit of rage.

Not far off Hiccup watched the entire scene with Astrid standing by him as he shook his head and continued to walk down to the docks to see Trader Johan. He vaguely remembered him as a child and was sure once he saw him his memory would get jogged so that he would remember everything about the Trader. Although, he felt as if he met Johann recently as a hybrid before he came back to Berk and wondered where he could have possibly met him. Maybe he could've seen him from afar when he was flying with the other dragons. Him and the other dragons would always fly all around the Archipelago, whether it was with his own dragon family or whether it was with Scorchclaw and the other dragons that accompanied them on their missions, but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't think of the time and place that he remembered seeing Johann.

His thoughts though were interrupted when he felt someone nudging him and noticed that it was Astrid who gave him a smile. "Hey, Earth to Hiccup." She said as they continued to walk down to Johann's ship which was already docked.

"Huh?" Hiccup responded back to her causing her to laugh.

"Man, are you out of it today or something?" She smirked. "I've been trying to talk to you the entire time while we've been walking and all you've been doing is drifting off to Thor only knows."

"Sorry," he apologized, "Just, trying to figure out when the last time I saw Johann was."

Astrid just gave him an eye roll before slugging his left arm playfully. "You probably saw him when you were younger, before you were taken by dragons." She said looking back at the boat in front of them as Vikings piled in and out of it.

Hiccup just nodded and was going to respond to her, but bumped into something that gave out a yell which turned out to be Mildew, who at the moment seemed to be less than thrilled to have brushed up against Hiccup. "Watch we're you're going freak!" Mildew shouted before stomping off with his sheep right behind young hybrid wanted to apologize, but a firm hand on his left shoulder from Astrid told him otherwise and he left it at that as they continued to walk to the ship.

They soon saw that Astrid's mother was there looking at a bunch of papers that Johann had given her causing Astrid to groan as she made her way onto the boat and greeted her mother with a blank look before she went about looking for her own things. Her mother on the other hand just rolled her as her attention went towards Hiccup. "How are you Ingrid?" Hiccup asked cheerfully to which she responded with a smile.

"Oh just wonderful Hiccup," She said while looking back at the papers in her hands. "How are you doing?"

"Just great like every other day," Hiccup said with sarcasm dripping from his voice.

Ingrid noticed this and toke her eyes off of the papers and gave Hiccup a reassuring smile before she spoke. "Don't let Mildew get to you Hiccup," She responded with a soft voice, "Some people are just born mean."

Hiccup nodded his head before he turned around to see that Johann was coming up from behind him talking with Astrid. He looked thrilled to see that Astrid was now a hybrid and was making comments about her new appearance and wanted to know how she became one. They were right in front of Hiccup without Johann even noticing him yet as the trader stopped himself and turned towards the young hybrid while smacking the side of his head as if he just remembered something.

"Oh wait, I just remember your mother telling me that Hiccup turned you into one," He said with a gleeful voice while Astrid's face dropped just at the mention of her mother being brought up into the conversation, "Fascinating, just fascinating!"

He said with a chuckle before turning towards Hiccup with his eyes still on Astrid. "Now where is young master Hiccup? I haven't seen him in…." he stopped once he saw Hiccup and his eyes went big as his mouth slowly fell open in shock as he looked at the boy that was before him.

There was an awkward silence that befell upon them with Hiccup looking at Johann, while Johann looked back at Hiccup while everybody else on the ship was just staring at the both of them. Neither of them spoke which made Hiccup more uncomfortable then he already was while Johann tried to process what he was seeing. The Trader however couldn't even speak any words and all it came out was just some stuttering or mumblings before he uttered a few words.

"The….The…." Johann began as he tried to speak.

Hiccup, along with Astrid quirked up an eyebrow at Johann's actions while Ingrid went wide eyed as she looked back down at the papers in her hands then back at Hiccup before she turned to Johann and hurried over to him before he spoke again. "The… The… Dre…." Johann was then cut off as Ingrid grabbed him by his left arm as she tried to make it look like that she had something important to ask him.

"Johann," She began grabbing his full attention, "These papers are a little bit damaged, do you by any chance have more?"

Johann looked at her then back at a bewildered Hiccup before he felt pressure on his arm causing him to look back at her and give her a very forced smile. "Why of course Mrs. Hofferson," he said nervously as he examined the papers, "I will help you right away." He said as he turned to help Mrs. Hofferson, while leaving a bewildered Hiccup.

No sooner though, Astrid came right up next to Hiccup while at the same time giving Johann a quizzical look as she looked from him and her mother then to Hiccup. "What was that all about?" She asked as he turned his head towards her with a raised eyebrow.

"I honestly don't know," He replied while scratching his chin, "Never had someone react that way when they first see me."

They both shrugged and continued to look around the ship with Johann keeping a wary eye on Hiccup as the young man looked through his many treasures. The older man would wince every time Hiccup came a little too close to him for comfort and would try to get away slowly without making a scene or arousing suspicion. If it was up to him he would've already marched right up to Stoick and told him who Hiccup truly was, but due to Mrs. Hofferson threatening him if he did such, bad things would happen to him, so he kept his mouth shut. However, once everybody had the things they wanted they all started to exit his ship leaving only him and Mrs. Hofferson as she examined the papers she had bought until she heard him clear his throat, causing her to look up at his frightened form.

"Mrs. Hofferson," he said shyly while darting his head back and forth to make sure no one was listening. "Are you aware of what he is and what he has done?"

"I have some clue," Mrs. Hofferson replied as she nodded, "But I need more information about him."

"May I ask how you began to find out who he really is?" Johann asked skeptically.

"He said it when he held Alvin by the throat," Mrs. Hofferson said nonchalantly.

Johann's eyes went wide as he again turned his head from side to side to make sure no one was around until he replied back to her in a whisper. "Did he say that he was The Dread of the Night?" He asked to which she nodded causing him to shrink back in fear slightly.

"What can you tell me about him?" She asked.

Johann looked at her nervously before he sighed. "I only have heard rumors and stories, but I am not lying when I say that I have come face to face with him many years ago when he landed on my ship carrying an injured woman that was clad in a peculiar type of clothing." Johann said as he waved his hand slowly in the air while he told his story. "The lad was much smaller back then and didn't look like at all like what the descriptions I had received prior to meeting him. He, however, was very strong and held himself high like a true warrior when he told me to take care of the young lady."

Mrs. Hofferson furrowed her brow and gave a cross look making him a little more nervous than he was a moment ago. "If that's how you described him, then why did you want to go march up to Stoick and tell him how Hiccup is a monster?" She said rather rudely wanting to chop Johann's head off right then and there for accusing Hiccup of such terrible things.

"Because," Johann swallowed as he met her icy glare, "When the young lady recovered she told me that Hiccup was assisting the dreaded Scorchclaw, along with some other dragons in destroying her village and watched as her mother was killed by the Child of Fire and Death himself." He said with fear dripping from his voice while Mrs. Hofferson's eyes slowly began to get bigger.

There was dead silence on the boat now as Mrs. Hofferson contemplated what Johann had said and remembered what Hiccup had told her before of how if he had disobeyed Scorchclaw's orders or had did them in his own way, Hiccup would have been punished for it. Then, from what Johann had told her she instantly knew that Hiccup had disobeyed Scorchclaw's orders in defending the young woman that Johann was talking about. Why else would Hiccup bring an injured woman to Johann when they were clearly attacking her people?

Oh how she dreaded the thought of the poor young man enduring so much pain and even was appalled that such a thing could happen, but she was glad to know that Hiccup had a heart for saving the young woman's life. Now she had to know more and with Johann's help along with the papers that she had purchased she hoped to find more answers to her questions, even if it was heart aching to both read and hear about. This was her mission though, and when she set out to do something she did it.

"Ah Mrs. Hofferson," Johann asked stopping her train of thought, "Are you alright?"

"Yes of course," Mrs. Hofferson said as she looked back at the trader, "I was just thinking what you had just said and even though some of it may be true you have no idea why Hiccup did the things he did."

Johann was to say the least taken aback by her response, but before he could answer she beat him to it. "I know what you have heard and seen Johann," Mrs. Hofferson said boldly, "But Hiccup was being made to do the things he was doing not out of choice, but fear. Fear that any child would have if they knew that they would be hurt if they did something wrong." And with that said she turned around and left his ship leaving a very bewildered Johann behind contemplating to himself.

Up in the skies of Berk Hiccup, Astrid, Toothless and Stormfly were enjoying another one of their races around the island as they sped up past each other having the leader switch now and then to a new leader only for them to be beaten out again by someone else. This was one of their favorite games to play to pass the time and it was a lot of fun. It was another reason though that the hybrids found along with the dragons to get away from their parents.

The group flew around the island while Hiccup sped up and was in the lead as he darted around some houses and posts as he tried to lose his opponents who apparently were right on his tail and gaining. The young hybrid tried to fly faster and lose them in the skies only for Toothless to nearly pass him if he hadn't had nose dived back down to the village. The young Night Fury began to shout in frustration and gave chase to him as he tried to catch back up while Astrid and Stormfly flew right behind him.

Hiccup gave out a laugh and looked behind him to see Toothless catching once again back up to him with a grin on his face. Looking back in front of him Hiccup was about to take off again, but hadn't realized that he was too close to the ground and was heading towards a mound that was covered in blue flowers. Before he knew it he had crashed into the mound sending flowers everywhere causing Toothless to come to a halt, but was to slow to do so before he smashed into Hiccup causing more flowers to go up into the air while Astrid and Stormfly soon followed them into the exact same predicament making the entire area around them covered in flowers.

"Blah!" Hiccup coughed as flowers came out of his mouth, "Didn't see that one coming."

"At least these flowers don't smell too bad," Replied Toothless as he toke a big whiff of the flowers that covered him, "Smells good."

"Ah man!" Stormfly shouted as she got up and looked at herself with a displeased look. "I'm filthy!"

"You cleaned yourself this morning Stormfly," Astrid replied with a smile, "You should be just fine, they're just flowers."

"That's not the point Astrid!" Stormfly growled back, "I'm filthy! I hate being filthy!"

The trio watched with a little bit of enthusiasm as Stormfly tried to pick herself clean from all the flowers and lick herself. Once she had a section cleared on her body she then would move on to the next spot and before anybody knew it she was once again clean to which she toke pride in. "Finally!" she breathed catching the three of them off guard of her speed in cleaning herself, "That was a nightmare." The three friends though looked at each other and then just started laughing causing Stormfly to glare at them and if it wasn't for Blueray flying towards them she would've beaten them all up.

The massive blue dragon landed right by them with a small smile on her face as she examined the four young ones and noticed the pretty blue flowers that decorated their bodies giving them an awfully funny appearance. They smelled nice and it was enjoyable to see her children having a fun time just being kids, but something about the flowers made her cock her head as she looked closely at them. They were blue yes, but something about them just didn't look right and as her memory came back to her, her eyes went wide and she back away in horror causing the four of them to become confused at her sudden behavior.

"Mom, you…." Before Hiccup could say anything his mother was blasting fire at the blue flowers causing them to yelp and get out of the way as she continued to roast the pretty flowers.

"Whoa, Mom!" Toothless yelled out to her, only to have her turn to him with look of shock.

"Don't you dare move," She ordered, "You have all come in contact with the Blue Oleander!"

"The what?" Hiccup said with a quizzical look.

Before they could do anything Blueray jumped into the air and gave out a warning roar to all the dragons on the island that could hear her. Unfortunately the villagers toke this as an attack and readied their weapons as they prepared for a fight that they thought was surely to come. But, after sometime had passed they began to lower their weapons and give the blue Stormcutter some confused looks as she continued to roar.

The dragons that were around the island though got the message and hurried and fled the island except for a few who were wondering what on earth was going on and decided to make their way over to Blueray to find out what was happening. These included, Hookfang, Meatlug, Sharpshot, Barf and Blech, who all hurried over to where she was at with their riders. They found that their mother was going absolutely nuts as she flew over the village and set anything that was a blue flower on fire causing some of the villagers to get nervous and back away from the firing breathing dragon.

"What's going on?" Fishlegs asked as he ducked from Blueray making another pass over them while at the same time frying some flowers that where nearby.

"Mom's lost it," Hookfang replied as he stared up at his frantic mother, "But of course these humans don't understand, because they don't speak the best language."

"Has that dragon lost it!?" Yelled Snotlout.

"See, but the muttonhead wasn't wrong," Hookfang said as he rolled his eyes while they approached Toothless , Hiccup, Astrid and Stormfly. "What's up with her?" He asked.

They all just shrugged their shoulders before Blueray landed on the ground with a thud and gave the four new dragons a glare. "What!?" Hookfang responded with a guilty expression causing her to grumble.

"You all were supposed to leave!" She roared causing them to shrink back. "Now you're all infected!"

"Ah Hiccup," Fishlegs asked catching Hiccup's attention, "Mind translating?"

Hiccup looked over at Fishlegs and shrugged his shoulders. "I'm not entirely sure Fishlegs," he responded before turning to his mother, "Let me ask."

"Mother," Hiccup asked causing her to snap her head towards him, "Are you alright? I mean I haven't seen you act like this, well except when someone wakes you up." He said jokingly, however, his mother was not at all that amused by it and gave him a glare.

"Hiccup, this is Blue Oleander. It is a very poisonous flower to dragons that can kill them." She replied sternly only to have Hiccup's eyes to go wide along with everybody else, well, except for the riders for all they heard was just a bunch of roaring and growls. "We need to hurry and act before it's too late."

"Ah, mind filling us in Hiccup?" Fishlegs asked again.

Hiccup shook his head and blinked a few times before he turned to Fishlegs to answer, but instead he felt a sneeze coming on. He scrunched up his face and his eyes started to water, then he made a sneezing making a loud 'Achoo!' as a plasma blast came from his mouth and went over the guys heads while hitting a house that was behind them. Feeling another one coming on Hiccup tried to stop it, but soon he was sneezing everywhere as he sent small plasma blasts at everything.

"Watch it!" Snotlout yelled as he dodged an incoming blast.

"Take cover!" Hookfang roared as he ducked behind some carts, but no sooner was he hit by a plasma blast to the bum. Though, the blast didn't come from Hiccup, but instead Toothless as he began to sneeze all over the place as well. Following him though were Astrid and Stormfly as they began to shoot their own blasts of fire having the same reaction from the flower while at the same time causing a wide panic amongst everyone. Except for one Viking who merely just stood there and shook his head as he watched the entire scene before him as he began to make his way over to the dragons and placed his hook underneath Hiccup's nose to prevent another blast from being discharged.

"Oh boy," Gobber said very unenthusiastically.

In the Haddock home Hiccup rested on his bed with a cool towel draped over his head to cool him off while off to his left laid Astrid on her own bed with a towel draped over her head as well. In the corner of the room rested Toothless, who looked as sick as a dragon and made very weak movements as he tried to move himself into a better position. No matter how hard he tried though it wasn't working.

Outside the three could hear multiple dragon cry's that were by the house. The house itself was made into a place where all the sick dragons could stay with Vikings tending to them and trying to help, but they weren't making a lot of process at all. They just didn't know what they were doing and for the riders they were getting increasingly worried about their own dragons as they all stood outside watching over them.

Over by the stable that was attached to the Haddock house rested Blueray who had also became ill from the flower and was trying her best to regain her strength to help her children. She was visibly upset about the whole predicament and she made sure everybody knew about it too who decided to come near her. It was her duty to protect her children and being like this, ill and weak, made her feel useless while at the same time a failure, but she didn't it show though. She had to be strong for children, even if it meant that she was doing more harm to herself then good when she tried to stand up and go over to a coughing Barf and Belch to comfort them.

"Nah uh," Said Gobber appearing out of nowhere as he stood in front of her, causing her to give a weak growl and glare at him as she tried to step over him in an attempt to get to her children. However, once she made a move she felt weak again and instantly collapsed to the ground with a thud. She made a groan and tried to stand back up, but then she felt Gobber's hand on her snout making her look up to his eyes and see that they were full of sympathy.

"It's alright Blueray," he assured her as he began to rub her snout, "You leave it up to us and we'll make sure that you and your kids are back up and running." Blueray gave him a tired look before she succumbed to her sleepiness and was out.

After she was asleep Gobber could hear Stoick shouting and asking questions from afar, clearly telling everybody that he was back from his trip to see the Chief of the Shivering Shores. He had to leave a few days early before Trader Johann was here to make up for time, even though Hiccup insisted that he take a dragon to go there. Stoick on the other hand was against it, even if he had rode SkullCrusher that one time when they faced the Queen he was sure that he could handle himself, but now as he ran up to the house to see a bunch of sick dragons around it he regretted it.

"Where's Hiccup," Stoick said worriedly. Gobber made a motion with his head to the house and followed after Stoick as he ran inside the house and went up the stairs to see that Hiccup was on his bed ill and with bad cough.

"Oh my boy what happened?" Stoick said as he rushed to Hiccup's bed to see that Hiccup was asleep.

"Blue Oleander," Gobber responded while Stoick gave him a confused look causing him to sigh before he explained. "Blue Oleander is a poisonous plant to dragons. Someone from the village had planted them the other day and since then all the dragons, including the young hybrids have gotten deathly ill from it."

Stoick's eyes went big as he returned his gaze to Hiccup and picked up his right hand into his big beefy ones. "Why doesn't he just use his magic to heal himself?" Stoick asked Gobber. Right when he said that though Hiccup gave a groan causing both men to look at him as he tried to respond.

"Tried too," He said weakly with his eyes still shut as he tried to open them and speak, "Magic… isn't… working."

"Your magic doesn't work?" Gobber said in disbelief. "This poison must be immune to it, that isn't good if this information was to fall into the wrong hands."

"Why would you say that Gobber," Stoick demanded as he sent a glare at his friend.

"Just saying, better be prepared." Gobber said as he put his hands up in his defense.

"How can we cure it?" Stoick said ignoring his friend's response.

"Scauldron venom." Gobber responded. "Hiccup's dragon mother told him to which he told me that the cure is Scauldron venom."

"Well don't we have one?" Stoick asked, "The one that helped us defeat the Red Death."

"Toke off after you left," Gobber replied, "Sent out some search parties to try and find him, but no luck. Even some of the dragons that aren't ill are having a hard in the search effort."

"This isn't good then," Stoick responded as he looked back to Hiccup who was now asleep.

"I've assembled a search party to go find a Scauldron," Gobber replied as he looked at his friend, "We'll get that venom and then we'll help Hiccup and his friends." He looked down at Hiccup who was breathing softly and gave Stoick a sympathetic smile as he patted him on the shoulder.

"It's going to be fine old friend," Gobber assured him, "Right now though you need to be here for Hiccup. The boy needs you."

The Viking Chief looked up at his old friend and shook his head catching Gobber a little bit surprised at his objection. "No," He said as he began to stand up, "I need to make sure that this mission is a success. I'm going with." The old Blacksmith sighed and rolled his eyes before he looked back at his friend who had a very determined look in his eyes. Looks like he needed to use the other reason why he had to stay here after all.

"Look, Stoick." He began, "There's something else that you have to know, something that will change your mind about going with us."

"And that would be?" Stoick said narrowing his eyes. What could make him want to stay with his son when his life was endangered? Then he heard someone climbing up the stairs causing him to look over at the steps and once he saw the person his heart nearly sank to the bottom of his stomach when he saw that it was none other than Mr. Hofferson.

Out on a boat in the middle of the sea was Gobber standing aboard of it with his eyes scanning the waters in the dark of night as he tried to spot a Scauldron along with a bunch of familiar, but younger faces. These consisted of Snotlout, the Twin and Fishlegs, along with two others. One of them being Mrs. Hofferson who had volunteered to come out and help them and the other being Mildew. His reason for being out there was because he was forced too, mostly because Tuffnut, had said that he saw the old man planting the flowers that day when all of sudden all the dragons, along with Hiccup and Astrid got sick. The old man denied knowing that the flowers would have an effect upon the dragons and even said that he was just trying to help Berk look a little bit more beautiful. Of course no one bought it, so as punishment he was going to help them nab a Scauldron whether he liked it or not.

The old man showed it to everyone though that he was not enjoying any of this in the least bit as he began to dump the flowers into the sea to try and lure the Scauldron in. However, as he continued to mumble and gripe about the entire situation one of the passengers became rather irritated by his complaints and marched right up to him while placing an axe against his throat causing the old coot to yelp in fright and back up as Mrs. Hofferson bore daggers into him.

"Shut it Mildew," She threatened as she pressed her blade closer to his throat, "Or else the Scauldron won't be just dining on flowers tonight." She toke her axe off of him and marched over to another basket as she picked it up and began to dump it over the side of the boat while the old man continued to grumble to himself.

Trying not to laugh at the entire situation Gobber went to check on how the teens were doing and frowned at what he saw. The first being that the twins were beating each other with their baskets while Snotlout on the other hand, watched with much amusement not even bothering to stop the fight that was before him. The burly teenager measly just leaned up against the railing of the ship while Fishlegs was blabbering on about all these interesting facts about the Scauldron, some of which Gobber could go on without knowing any of it, but Fishlegs being Fishlegs continued on.

Turning away from the disaster that was before him Gobber toke another look at the sea and sighed with a frown as he scanned the waters for what seemed like the hundredth time that night. "Where are you dragon," he said to himself, "Where are you?"

Below the surface of the water swam a large turquoise colored Scauldron with numerous battle scars that littered his body along with two glowing red eyes that shined brightly in the dark depths of the sea. Its eyes scanned the ocean floor as it tried to find a particular object. But, it wasn't having any luck at all which only aggravated it as it gave out a loud roar and continued to swim around searching and searching for whatever it wanted to search for.

"Come on!" The beast roared. "Where are you?!" He was about to let out another roar until something small and blue floated right by his eye causing him to stop and turn to look at it.

The object was small and it smelled great to the dragon. Once it came closer to his mouth he snatched it and gobbled it up as he savored every bite. "Blue Oleander," He drooled as another one appeared. "Oh, another one," He said as he ate it only see that there were more coming from the surface.

The dragon licked his lips and shot up towards the surface as he inhaled as much as he could along the way. Every flower was better than the last one making him even hungrier and fueling his need for more, so once he saw that there was a bunch floating on the surface of the water his eyes went wide and his mouth fell open. With more speed he shoot up to the surface as fast as he could with his eyes growing bigger by the millisecond.

Back on the boat Gobber was about to dump more of the flower overboard before he heard the water erupt from behind him, causing him to turn around as fast as he could only to come face to face with probably one of the biggest Scauldrons that he had ever seen before in his life. Scars littered its body from head to toe and beady red eyes that could give even the strongest of Vikings nightmares. The creature though, wasn't even acknowledging their presence with its attention solely on eating as many flowers as it could.

The beast, however, looked really familiar to the old Blacksmith making him want to take a closer examination as the rest of the crew prepared to catch the Scauldron with nets and bolas. "I know you," Gobber whispered as his eyes narrowed, "Those scars, they remind me of…" The older Viking went silent as his eyes turned into saucers while the dragon sniffed the air around him and instantly shot his eyes towards Gobber with a scowl on its face.

"You," it growled.

Snapping out of his awestruck Gobber instantly grabbed the nearest barrel that was by him and threw it at the beasts head. The Scauldron wasn't quick enough to get out of the way of the barrel as it came crashing into his skull making it explode with splinters and pieces of wood going everywhere. It tried to recover from the attack, but felt another barrel crash into its neck causing him to roar out in frustration and dive back into the water.

"Gobber," Mrs. Hofferson yelled as she shot the Viking a glare. "We needed that dragon!"

"That was no dragon," Gobber grumbled as he walked toward the side of the boat while looking out into the ocean to only see the shadow of the Scauldron swimming right towards them beneath the surface of the water. "That… is Tidalwave." Right when he said the name was when the boat was smashed into causing it to turn around in circles while everyone held onto for dear life until the spinning came to a stop.

The first one to recover from the attack was Snotlout, who was breathing heavily before he looked over at Gobber with a look of panic. "You're joking right?" He asked darting his head back from one side of the boat to the other, "Tidalwave died in the battle with the Red Death, there is no way that he could still be alive!?"

Looking out over the side of the ship Gobber saw the shadow of the Scauldron beneath the surface of sea heading straight towards them again. Narrowing his eyes Gobber then started to bark out orders. "Grab the nets and rope! We're going to get this demon, exact the venom from him and send him with a one way ticket back to Valhalla!" He shouted as he thrust his hook into the air. The rest of them nodded and went off to do their duties, well, except for Mildew who stood cowering in one of corners of the boat while everyone around were doing something.

The Twins were up by the bow of the boat with a net in their hands and a wicked grin plastered on their faces. "This is going to be epic," Tuffnut said with glee, "This dragon won't know what hit him."

"Yeah," Ruffnut chuckled in agreement, "It's gonna be like, what's going on?! Why is there a net on my face?!"

"Yeah," Tufnut replied gripping the net tighter, "And once we catch it we train it and make it are own, forcing it to blow up things with that scalding hot water of his."

"You two are muttonheads," Snotlout yelled at them from the starboard side of the boat, "Once we get that dragon, we're going to kill it and extract the venom from inside of it!"

"We can't kill it," Fishlegs retorted from the port side, "We don't kill dragons anymore."

"I'm going to have to agree with Snotlout on this one," Mrs. Hofferson replied as she stood to the left of Fishlegs with a net in her hands, "But only because if what Gobber said is true, this isn't any ordinary dragon, but Tidalwave himself."

The teens looked at her for a moment with a look of understanding on their faces, but were soon interrupted when the Scauldron burst out of the water on stern side of the ship. Unfortunately the only person who was on that side of the ship was Mildew, who slowly turned around as his entire form shook when he came face to face with said Scauldron. Apparently the Scauldron wasn't focused on Mildew at all, but on the old man's rear where there were some flowers that were stuck it.

"Hmmmm," Tidalwave said hungrily, "Blue Oleander."

Striking down at Mildew, the Scauldron bit Mildew's rear making him shout at the top of his lungs as the dragon ripped the flowers away and gobbled them up. Tidalwave was savoring every bite, but no sooner did he feel something from underneath him that pushed him back as another Scauldron burst through the water as it gave out a roar that was directly to him. The new Scauldron looked almost like Tidalwave, but instead had absolutely zero scars on him and had pale green eyes.

"What up fool?" The new Scauldron bellowed, "Thought you were dead?" He said as he blew a burst of scalding water at Tidalwave, forcing him back.

"Scauldy," Tidalwave roared, "You pathetic excuse of a dragon!"

He was about to attack, but then realized that he was out numbered and didn't want to have anyone know why he was here. Smirking, the evil dragon looked at Scauldy and the Vikings one more time till he began to retreat back into the sea. "Another time," He said before diving back down into the sea, "Another time." And with that he was gone.

Back on Berk, Stoick sat rather uncomfortably on a chair by the right side of Hiccup's bed with his back to Mr. Hofferson who sat behind him by his daughter. The entire night both men sat there not speaking, only sitting and listening to their children's slow breaths and quiet mumblings. Eventually Stoick had had enough of the quietness and decided to break the silence.

"So Bard," Stoick began as he heard Mr. Hofferson straighten himself from behind him. "How's life going?"

"Same old, same old," Replied Mr. Hofferson with a monotone voice, "Can't ever seem to please my wife with anything." Both men shared a laugh, with Stoick knowing all too well how that was like when Valka was around. Soon though there was silence again in the room and they didn't speak. Until spoke up again with question of his own that seemed to catch Stoick's attention.

"Do you miss her?" He asked.

"I do," Stoick replied knowing full well who he was talking about, "Valka was my world and my best friend. She knew how to solve things that I didn't even know how to solve and when Hiccup was just a baby she seemed to be the best mother that any child could ask for." He said joyfully as he remembered the time they had with each other.

"She never liked to sing by any means," Stoick continued remembering back to the time when she was still around, "She was warrior, a fighter. I remember our first fist fight when Oswald the Agreeable was Oswald the Aggressor came to are shores." Bard gave a small chuckle as he remembered those days as Stoick continued. "But, when Hiccup came into the world, something changed."

This caught Bards attention as he turned around to face the Chief who still had his back turned to him as he tried to remember the time as well when he saw a change in Valka. She was one of their best fighters back in the day and if she was still around she still would be by a long shot. It was hard to imagine though, when the day finally came when the Chief's son was born that there was a sudden change in Valka, something no one had ever seen before. She was still the same no doubt, with her arguing with people that there could be peace with dragons, that had stayed the same, but he defiantly agreed with his Chief that something did happen to her.

"Every night when I came home, I would hear her sing to Hiccup," Stoick started as he tried to keep his emotions in check, "She had this lovely voice, one that could sooth even the harshest of storms. That was when I knew without a doubt that she would be the greatest mother on planet Earth, but then…" He trailed off remembering when she was taken by a dragon and sunk into despair. He then felt a comforting hand on his left shoulder and felt a little bit better.

"She would be proud of you Stoick," Mr. Hofferson responded, "Not only have you led are village, but you have led are village with enough strength and courage even after your own son was taken by a dragon. I also see more strength coming back to you then I had before now since your son has returned home." Stoick was going to respond back to him, but when the door burst open and Gobber came running up the stairs with a bottle of some sort Stoick knew that they had been successful in their mission.

"Gobber!" Stoick shouted, "You're back! And I would assume that's the…"

"Anit venom?" Gobber said with a smile, "Yes it is. We just so happened to run into Scauldy why we were out and about and now we have the venom!"

"Brilliant!" Stoick responded with a smile. "Start administering the anti venom at once."

"Ah do you think you could do that?" Gobber said as he handed him the bottle, "I gotta go get some venom out of Mildew's butt."

"Why?" Stoick asked a little confused.

"We have some talking to do after Hiccup, Astrid and the rest of the dragons are healed. "Gobber said as if he'd seen a ghost. "You're not all going to like what we have to say."

The next day everyone met in the Great Hall, Vikings and Dragons. Everyone was relieved that the venom worked and were happy to see that Hiccup, Astrid and the dragons were back up and going once more. They wouldn't admit it, but they were worried for their safety and were praying and hoping that they would all get better. So it was a bit of a shock to see that the Vikings were talking and laughing alongside the dragons in the Hall, all except for Mildew, who was still complaining about getting bit in the butt and having the poison extracted from him in the most painful way possible that Gobber could come up with for the poor old man.

However, the moment was short lived when Gobber announced how their mission went and there were a lot of whisperings and murmurings on both sides. The first to speak up of course was Hiccup, who was the most worried out of everyone as he approached the front of the crowd and began to speak with Gobber. "Are you sure?"Hiccup asked to which he could hear Snotlout yell out, "that was what he said." Gobber merely nodded making Hiccup put his right hand through his hair as he tried to take the new information in.

"If Tidalwave is back then that means the others have to be as well," Hiccup concluded with a worried expression on his face, "How they came back, I'm not sure, but this isn't good at all."

"We can just kill them again." Hookfang said.

"What is he saying Hiccup?" Gobber said while looking at Hookfang.

"He said we could just kill them again," Hiccup translated. Many of the Vikings nodded their heads in agreement along with the dragons, while Hiccup just shook his head causing them to look back at him in confusion about the simple plan.

"That won't work," Hiccup replied.

"Why not?" Snotlout asked crossing his arms and narrowing his eyes, "Kill them and be over with it. Simple."

"It's not that," Hiccup responded exasperatedly. "It's more complicated."

"What he means is, that because they were brought back to life is that there is someone or something bringing them back to life," Astrid said as she stood to his right, "Killing them won't solve anything."

"Then we kill who's bringing them back to life," Tuffnut responded as he crossed his arms.

"Does this idiot know how powerful that thing would have to be to bring someone back to life?" Stormfly asked.

"Apparently not," Toothless responded.

"Guess Odin didn't bless everything with a brain." Hookfang replied as he rolled his eyes.

"No, that won't work," Hiccup responded as he shot a glare at the three dragons, "This will take some planning and strategy. First we have to find out where Tidalwave is at and if we can the others as well and get some answers."

"Great," Snotlout said as he rolled his eyes, "We're possibly going up against the most ruthless and powerful dragons in the entire Archipelago, just how I want to spend my time."

Everyone began to chat one with another about the new problem, while Hiccup stood there scratching his chin as he thought. Astrid saw his troubled look and tried to look him in the eyes to get his attention. "Hey," She said as she bent slightly to look him in the face, "What's up?"

"Just wondering," Hiccup said looking back up at her, "There's something wrong about all of this. The first being who brought Tidalwave back to life and possibly the others and the second being why was Tidalwave out alone in the middle of the ocean?"

"Could he had gotten separated or was drawn in by the scent of the Blue Oleander?" Astrid asked.

"I don't know, but I have a pretty good guess." Hiccup said with a frown as he narrowed his eyes. "We need to act quickly though to prevent something worse from happening."

Deep in the sea, Tidalwave swam close to the bottom of it with his eyes still scanning the deep as he continued to look for something. "Where are you?" He said to himself, "Where are you?"

Not too far from him though, was a big pile of coral and seaweed that appeared to be on a mound of some sort. However, if one was to take a closer look something was jutting out of the mound that appeared to be a long black claw of some sort that stood out amongst the entire thing. The claw itself seemed to be pulsating an eerie red from it and it only grew and grew as Tidalwave came closer and closer, but stopped when the dragon went by it and kept on his search.

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