''Viggo!'' Ryker called as he rushed to his brother who was sitting in the same room that Hiccup had been tortured in a time ago, staring at the scripts the Dragon Eye was showing. Viggo rubbed his beard thoughtfully, as he wrote down what it said.

''Something wrong, brother?'' Viggo asked calmly, lifting up his head to meet his eyes.

''We got a word from the Dragon Riders, more specifically from Hiccup Haddock.'' Ryker informed, giving Viggo the letter they received. ''They say they want the Dragon Eye back and will meet us at sea with Dagur's fleet.''

''Yes, I can't read that...'' Viggo purred, '' Prepare the fleet, perhaps this is our chance to finish both of them once and for all.''

Ryker didn't say a word and nodded. He turned around and rushed out of the underground tunnels and started yelling the orders to the crew, even though it was the middle of the night.

''Assemble the fleet!''

...

Astrid and everyone else woke up that morning and joined at the Club House as usual. But something seemed wrong at the moment when she stepped inside the building. She was always the second to arrive... And she was the first that morning. Hiccup was always up before anyone else. And he wasn't there...

''Hiccup..?'' she called out, Stormfly waiting outside. ''Hiccup, you in here?'' She kept calling even though she knew he wasn't around here.

Maybe he overslept... she thought, for it would be a pretty good explanation for last night he had stayed up on his roof for some good hours.

So she went to pay a little visit at his hut, less worried when she saw the door closed. She pulled on the handle opening the door and looked up where his bedroom was and she could see the black form of Toothless sleeping on his lava bed and Hiccup's under the covers on his bed.

There, she had worried for no reason.

She sighed in relief and walked out of the hut, closing the door behind her to let him rest a bit more for he had had a rough evening yesterday. But the thing was it wasn't Hiccup and Toothless that lay on the wooden and lava beds upstairs... Actually, no one was sleeping there. Simply seeing what she wanted to see, Astrid did not realized or doubt that it were pillows covered of blankets.

...

Hiccup and Toothless soared though the air on their way to meet Dagur at sea. As expected, Dagur's fleet of at least fifteen ships sailed through the waters towards the Dragon Hunters' island.

Toothless landed on deck, growling at the Berserker soldiers that stood too close to him and Hiccup, for he still didn't trust them despite the fact Hiccup did. Hiccup dismounted and patted his best friends' head to calm him down.

''Hiccup!'' Dagur cheered, approaching his 'brother' for a hug. ''Are you sure you weren't followed?''

''Absolutely. I played disappointed so they would leave me alone and give me space.''

''Nice. Now, what's the plan?''

''I sent a note to Ryker, surely he's gonna inform Viggo. I wrote to meet at sea, and leave the Dragon Eye the most unguarded as possible.''

''Alright. But when do we know when he'll get here?''

''Sir!'' a man from the crew called, ''Ships, approaching from the north!''

''They already are...'' Hiccup spoke as he climbed on Toothless' back. ''Come on. You follow me with one ship only so you don't get too much attention.''

As soon as told, Dagur gave orders to the rest of the crew and sailed the ship he stood on out of the way of the others as he followed Hiccup and Toothless flying high above the clouds for it was easy to see a Night Fury in the bright blue sky of the morning.

On the way to the enemy's island they went, and when the battle between Dragon Hunters and Berserkers seemed far enough, Hiccup and Toothless flew out of their hiding spot and flew close to the single ship.

It didn't take that much time and the island soon became visible. A couple hours and they would make it to shores.

...

''Where's Hiccup?'' Fishlegs asked as he walked in the Club House to have breakfast like everybody else.

''He's still in bed.'' Astrid answered grabbing a stick and a fish from the basket and placed it above the fire to roast it.

''You're sure?'' Tuff asked.

''Yeah, why?''

'''Cause we saw him fly away this morning.'' Ruff informed.

''Yeah, right...'' Astrid said, not taking any of it seriously. ''Like Hiccup would trick us by building pillow structures and fly away—''

Ruff and Tuff looked at her smugly.

Without losing another second, Astrid let down her roasting fish and ran to Hiccup's hut to check if he was there or not, like the twins said. She pulled on the handle opening the door and rushed up the stairs and quickly uncovered the pillows she had thought were Hiccup.

''No...'' she breathed out, realizing she's been foiled. ''That muttonhead..! How could he do this?''

She looked around, searching for something, anything that could help her know where he was right now. But then she remembered their conversation from last night and she knew exactly where he'd gone. She noticed his sword and shield were missing, which wasn't a bad thing but at the same time it was.

At least he was armed, that was the good news, and the bad news was it told her he was on a dangerous mission. And she had to get to him before it was too late.