Staring blankly at Gobber's face I tried to think of any reason he would come to see me and came up comely empty handed I could think of literally no reason for the smithy to visit a criminal in the jail, frowning I said "uh hey what can I do for you?"

The one handed and one legged man watched me for a long moment before he said "your sword, who made it?"

Blinking I was about to say 'me' when I realised there had to be a reason for asking that, squinting slightly I looked at the sword and saw my typical workmanship, 'oh duh my typical workmanship, Gobber would know what hiccup's work looks like and he is looking at some right there' mentally praising myself for my quick thinking I said "hiccup's why?"

The black smith looked surprised looking down he said "hiccup made this?"

Nodding I said "yeah he has an amazing mind for these kinds of things he loves the forge on my island, practically lives there, that is one of his best inventions so far although he was working on something truly amazing the last time I was at the island"

Nodding the smithy allowed a fond smile to appear on his face "yeah he was one of my best apprentices"

Grinning I said "you must be the black smith he talked about so much, Gobber right?"

Again looking surprised he said "uh yeah, he talked about me?"

Smiling I said "yeah all the time you apparently made a strong impression on the boy he spoke very highly of you"

Watching the black smith I could see the tears welling up, "yeah he was a good lad, you've been taking good care of him right?"

Smiling I said "of course, he has grown a lot, I dare say you probably would struggle to recognise him now, he has put on some muscle, not quite so scrawny as he was now."

Nodding the smithy turned to leave pausing by the door he said "as long as he is happy I'm happy, he deserves it."

Smiling I whispered "thanks Gobber" the blacksmith was already gone though and the near silent words echoed in small space for a moment before the room fell silent once again.

The rest of the day was just as dull as the day before only no visit for Astrid, sighing I mentally worked out how much longer I could be here for 'this is my fourth day here so it should only be another two days or so and then I am getting out of here so I guess I need to find out some more about Drago'

I spent that night once again snooping around the town searching some of the houses I could get into for information about Drago, the only thing I found even remotely related was a report in my old house about some traders complaining of raids by huge armoured ships guarded by equally armoured dragons.

Sighing I made sure I was back in my cell before dawn and started plotting how to get some more info on Drago, maybe I could offer to trade some information with Fishlegs. Shaking my head slightly I dismissed that plan, Fishlegs wouldn't know nearly enough to be worthwhile. I needed to get stoic talking about it, he would have all the information I needed but how to get it was the hard part, and I only had today and tomorrow to get this information. I couldn't afford to mess with whatever plan toothless would have made because of in ability to communicate at the moment so I had to ready to go when ever. Frustrated I was about to try and sneak out to see if I could over hear some conversations in the day time about Drago even if I risked getting caught, but as it turned out something even better offered its self-up. I could hear bucket and mulch walking past his cells window '... Forget the meeting tonight about this Drago fellow, you need to be there yeah try not to forget. Oh who am I kidding your gonna forget anyway, I'll have to come fetch yah before the meeting and I'll take you there tonight.

A slow grin spread across my face, I needed to eavesdrop on that meeting!

I spent the day listening to conversations going on outside and doing some exercises to pass the time, I had never been one for working out however I had found working out had helped greatly with my ability to ride so I had kept them up and it hadn't been long before I actually managed to put some muscle on and I had liked it so I kept them up to stay in shape, although riding and working in the forge and keeping the island in shape did most of that for me.

Finally the sun started to dip, not wanting to risk being late to the meeting I jiggled the lock and darted from shadow to shadow all the way up to mead hall, crouched behind a building I pondered how I was going to get in without being noticed when I saw bucket and mulch approaching. Grinning I ducked down and then trailed after them it was easy to slide into the hall behind them and slip of into a deep shadow to keep hidden, circling the room till I was close enough to listen in on the conversations I kept low to the ground and listened intently as the meeting started. 'Okay so we need to discuss the problem that is Drago Bludvist he cannot be allowed to continue he is a great danger to the archipelago and he needs to go.' 'well what can we do? From the reports we have had his ships are near impenetrable and he has those armoured dragons too, how are we supposed to beat that?' stoic spoke up again here 'well we have numbers Drago only has limited men he has several scores of dragon trappers but they are not fighters he relies heavily on his dragons which we can compete against after all we have our own dragons and ours have riders.'

A few heads were nodding here and there but then 'yeah but his dragons out number ours three to one how are we supposed to deal with that? We may have riders but he has more dragons and we know from our past how this is going to turn out if we try to fight the dragons from the ground, we will all die. Our best bet is to surrender and hope he spares us, maybe hand over that dragon lord fellow,' another man from the other side of the table spoke up 'yeah I've heard he wants the man's head on stick, apparently he is a real thorn in his side' someone else said 'well why don't we ask for this guy's help then' the voices got louder and louder talking over each other till there was just a cacophony of sound people all arguing in small groups.

Grimacing I was about to shout at them to shut up hiding or not when stoic beat me to it and as the hall fell silent an eerily familiar sound reached my ears the high pitched whistling shriek that was the only warning you got before 'night fury get down'.

There was a loud boom and the doors of the great hall fell in and there in the door way in all his black scaly glory was toothless a huge army of dragons behind him, blinking I studied the flock behind him and realised he must have brought pretty much the whole nest except the babies and some dragons to protect them. Straightening up I took three steps forward into the light reaching out, the fierce night fury launched itself across the room shoving people out of the way as he went until I realised what he was about to do when I backed away "no no no no toothless no don't argh, that is so disgusting, that doesn't wash out and you know it stooooooooppppppp" the room was deathly silent as everyone watched the fiercest dragon they knew of acting like an over excited puppy seeing its master again. Finally shoving toothless off I looked around grinning slightly I waved and said "uh hi"

A wave of voices shouting over each other most wanting to know how he was out of his cell, Gobber stomped over and the hall fell quiet to hear what he would say "i made those locks myself and I would like to know how you broke out"

Grinning now I said "what you didn't think when you locked me in there that the first night I would try everything to get it to open, and I just happened to discover if you jiggle it just right it just opens."

Everyone gaped at this and stoic said "wait you have been able to leave your cell since the first night?"

Grinning at his flabbergasted look I just nodded he looked like he was about to speak again when one of the dragons by the door a slightly yellowish timberjack called out "are we escaping or what?"

Snorting I replied "chill out raze we may be staying depending on if these guys will accept our help, they are possibly going to fight Drago and they have other riders as well as being dragon friendly so we might be staying why don't you all go rest up and eat something I'll call you if I need you okay?"

The dragons all gave roars of accent and left scattering to eat and sleep all over the island, turning back to face the Vikings I saw them all staring in various states of shock except Astrid and fish legs who already knew stepping forward stoic said "you speak to them?"

Shrugging I said "well yeah, wouldn't be much of a dragon lord if I couldn't now would i?"

More people just continued to gape until I spoke again "okay so do you want my help because am more than willing to offer it so long as you don't stick me back in that prison cell, as you have just see I have a very large number of dragons at my disposal more than likely enough to even out the numbers I would say, I also know of another nest that we could ask for help, if you want the security of out numbering the opposition."

This caused the already shocked groups to snap to attention as they began pondering the possibilities presented to them, if they outnumbered Drago there was a very good chance of them being able to defeat him. People were nodding and discussing their thoughts with each other and eventually stoic just called out "all in favour of accepting the dragon lords help?" a huge chorus of 'aye' was the reply before he said "those not in favour?" only mildew said 'nay' so it was decided they were going to help each other.

Smiling I said "did you want me to go ask at the other nest? I can take some people with if it would make you feel better"

Nodding slowly the chief said "Astrid, Snotlout, Fishlegs, ruff and tuff" the aforementioned group all stood up and he continued "you will go with the dragon lord to the other nest and bring more dragons here and then we will crush Drago when he comes here"

Nodding all the teens called out "yes chief"

"you will go tomorrow morning" turning to face me he said "you can sleep in the prison, with the door open"

Grimacing I nodded and turned to leave toothless trailing after me eyeing all the Vikings that were too close to me by his standards reaching out I rubbed soothing circles on his head speaking softly "it's okay bud I was fine, besides your here now so relax alright no one is gonna be stupid enough to try and attack me with you here okay after all you are the mighty night fury, that just acted like an excitable puppy in front of nearly the entire clan, but hey I'm sure they still fear you bud."

"keep talking and we will see if I rescue you next time"

Laughing I said "sorry bud but you know I hate it when you do that, that saliva just does not like to come off"

Snorting the dragon just shook his head as we walked back to the cells together smiling I realised this was the first time since we were separated that I felt truly relaxed again, rubbing the dragons head I said "i don't know what I would do without you bud"

"probably need rescuing still I would imagine"

"no I'm serious if it wasn't for you I would still be here living a miserable life full of unhappiness but you saved me and now I couldn't be happier with my life except if Drago spontaneously exploded but hey you can't have everything"

Snorting toothless said "jeez what did they do to you to make you so sappy suddenly"

Smiling I shook my head lightly punching his nose I flopped down onto the floor in the cell smirking as toothless settled himself so he was curled around me in a decidedly protective way. The smirk was wiped away when toothless lifted his tail and used it to smack me right in the face, scowling I said "thanks a lot you great big over grown lizard"

I translated the rumbling behind me as laughter as the dragon then spoke up "shut up and go to sleep hiccup"

Smiling I said "yeah yeah okay good night"