Astrid's POV

It had been a few hours since the Riders 'kidnapped' Eret and forced him to show them the way to Drago Bludvist, but at long last, they got there, entering the ice caves.

Dropping Eret then circling around Stormfly landed on top of the man as Astrid got of her dragon.

"Okay your here!" Eret said trying to get out from underniesth the Naddar "Now get this thing off me."

"Never take a toy from a dragon," Astrid said in a hushed voice pointing to him "Don't you know anything?"

With that the Riders set off to look out towards the camp.

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While they were doing that Stormfly decided it was a good time to have a nap bringing some snow in to act as a pillow, blocking her ears to the man's complaints.

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Reaching the top of the mound of snow the Riders were shocked by the number of ships there was, and there seemed to be something in the water in the middle of the whole fleet.

"What's down there?" Astrid asked looking to Fishlegs who was their Go-To Dragonoligest.

Taking out the cards looking for the answer Fishlegs began looking.

"Large diameter bubbbles, massive lungs," he began dispersing some cards looking back to see what else there was to see if that could help him decipher what it was "Cold water deep dweller. I'm thinking class five leviathan, maybe six."

"Fishlegs!" Snotlout said harshly "Just answer the question, What's down there?"

"I... I don't know," Fishlegs said looking through all his Tidal Class cards again just to make sure "I don't have any knowledge on what this dragon might be..."

That made the five of them a bit more worried than they already were as they continued to look out towards the fleet.

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Back with the dragons, they were all taking a well deserved nap when Stormfly heard something.

'ASTRID!' she called getting the Rider's attention making them look towards the dragon seeing her take off as men cloaked in polar bear skins came out and shot darts at the other dragons.

Making them fall alseep.

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"Meatlug!" Fishlegs called as he ran towards his Gronkle as the others ran to their dragons set on to wake them up, only to be stopped by the men.

"Who are you?" one of the men said "What are you doing here?"

"There here with me," Eret said putting his sword away. "They say they want to meet Drago."

A few whispers were spread out at that news but the man just nodded to the others who took out lengths of ropes and began to tie the teens up.

"Odin have mercy on your soul Eret if he hears that there are more Dragon Riders out there," the man said after instructing half of the group to take the teens and the dragons straight to Drago.

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On the largest ship, the one right in the middle of the fleet, a man who was covered in scars and who had a dragon skin cloak, was looking to the dragon beneath the waves.

"DRAGO!" the trapper boy called to him getting them man to leave the dragon to see what new beasts the boy has collected for his army.

"Get off me!" Eret said shaking himself out of the guard's hold.

"Always great to see you my friend," Eret said as he saw Drago coming to meet them. "Keeping warm up here?" he asked in the form of a joke but not getting a response.

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The teens were staying silent looking all around them for possible places Hiccup, Stoick and Gobber might be, turning towards the man before them when they heard the armored dragons who were leading them snarl a bit, shocked slightly when they bowed to him as he passed.

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"As you can see," Eret said feeling his daggers being taken from their holders "I am right on time with a new batch of dragons, just like I promised." he said gesturing toward the teens dragons.

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'Ugh...' Hookfang said blinking his eyes. Feeling ropes around his neck the Flame Skin tried to shake them off.

"He waking up!" a man said pulling on one of the ropes to keep him down "Give me some back up here!"

"Drop the ropes!" a strong voice called.

Within seconds Hookfang felt the ropes loosen, and looked towards the man before him, a dark feeling coming to him as the man came closer and closer.

Not liking this man Hookfang released his fire towards him.

'This will fix him' the Flame Skin thought cutting off his flame smirking slightly, shocked to see the man was fine and still coming towards him.

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The riders were stunned at this, Hookfang's fire is one of the hottest, and most powerful of the five dragons.

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Seeing the man was alright, Hookfang roared at him trying to get him to leave him alone.

"AGH!" the man roared as he swirled his staff above his head.

'What the...' Hookfang said fixing his eyes towards the man before him, getting the faint feeling of a Bewilderbeast which was answering the man's cries.

"AGH!" the man said dropping his staff to the ground as he continued moving forward, snarling.

'I... I...' Hookfang began trying to find a way out of this but found nothing 'Yes. Your majesty...' he said giving the fight sighing, feeling the man's foot come to his snout.

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"Hookfang!" Snotlout cried trying to escape the men holding him.

"Hey!" Ruffnut called.

"What are you doing?!" Astrid asked looking to Drago with an annoyed glance.

"You belong to me, now..." Drago said to the Monstrous Nightmare.

Hearing the teenager's cries knowing they didn't belong to any of his men, Drago looked up and saw a saddle on the beast's back, seeing the other dragons having some as well.

"And as an added bonus," Eret said seeing Drago was looking to the saddles "I also captured their riders. No extra charge."

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"What?!" Astrid asked shocked "Are you kidding me?"

"Aw... But you were so perfect!" Ruffnut moaned upset.

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"Turns out there's a whole bunch of them out there..." Eret said ignoring the girls cries.

Suddenly Drago reached for Eret's throat tightening his grip as he snarled to him "How many?" his whispered.

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"Drago dosn't have them after all," Astrid whispered grinning coming up with an idea.

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"HOW MANY!" Drago screamed into Eret's face.

"Hundreds," the girl in the front cried "A whole island full!"

"I wouldn't worry about it," Eret said coughing his voice getting squaky as Drago tightened his hold. "My men are hunting them down as we speak. They wont know where you're hiding. I promise you that."

"Oh yes they will," the girl said strongly "They know we're missing and they have tracking dragons."

Drago released his grip on Eret and turned his attention to the girl.

"If you so much as touch us, Hiccup is gonna kick..."

"Hiccup?" Drago asked confused.

"He's not a problem," Eret said raspily rubbing his throat "Really. Trust me."

"He's only the son of Stoick the Vast, his heir to the throne of Berk, and the greatest Dragon Master this world has ever seen!" the girl said strongly.

"Dragon Master?" Drago asked clarifying "I, alone, control the dragons!"

"No. Mmm-mmm." the boy on the far left said smirking.

"Sorry." the fat one said grinning as well, as the other girl and the the boy on the right laughed.

"And unless you let us go, right now," the girl before Drago said firmly "He will blast through here on his Night Fury and blow your entire fleet of ships to splinters."

"Then they will be crying like babies," the girl back with the group said grinning as the boys laughed.

"First there was one rider," Drago said gripping Eret's throat again anger in his voice "And now all of Berk. And you lead them to me." he said throwing Eret across the ship.

"Drago!" Eret cried grunting as he got up again.

"STOP ALL PREPARATIONS!" Drago cried out getting his men's attention "We must attack the Dragon Rider's nest at once! We will take down their Alpha! Then we will take Berk!"

Everyone cheered at the news.

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The teens looked shocked at this, this was not what was meant to happen.

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"Drago..." Eret said getting to his feet stepping towards him.

"And get rid of him." Drago said gesturing to Eret.

The men around Eret began to point their weapons to him and advance to the head Dragon Trapper.

"Oh, Drago, please, I..." Eret said backing up causally.

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Stormfly had been watching the whole thing from one of the ledges above the ships and was about to go and warn Berk when the man leading them told them to 'Get rid of Eret'.

Knowing that Eret was a good guy rather than a bad one, he was just on the wrong side, she jumped down and protected him from the weapons and took the sleeping darts, knocking her out.

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"STORMFLY!" Astrid cried trying to get to her dragon "No!"

Slowly Eret stood up and looked towards the Nadder shocked that it would do something like that.

Quickly one of the men ran up and tied up the Nadder up and took her away, as another man began to tie Eret up and escorted him and the teens to the back of the ship.

(AN: I'm going to mix up the order of the scenes here just to keep the story flowing alright, it will still all be there, just mixing it up a bit)

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Drago's massive flagship set out being pulled along by whatever was at the other end of the chains underneath the waves.

On the other side of the ship the men had set up a plank for the Riders and Eret to walk, Drago's men having no feelings what so ever towards this as they pushed them towards it more and more.

"Oh man," Snotlout said annoyed "Could this day get any worse?"

"Er... Let me see," Tuffnut said in a sarcastic voice "We're gonna jump into freezing cold water, and then die from drowning. Nope can't think of anything else that can worsen this day can you?" he asked.

"Looks refreshing," Eret said looking over the egde of the ship then turning to Astrid and Ruffnut "Please. Ladies first."

Astrid grunted trying to free herself from them men holding her, glaring at Eret "You, are a steaming heap of dragon..."

"Duck!" he said preforming a 360* kick knocking out the men holding her meaning she was released and their weapons were set flying allowing him to catch them, letting him slice through his binds.

"WARN THE OTHERS!" one of the men said as they set off dropping their holds on the riders.

"Get him you son of an Eret," Ruffnut said grinning.

Eret span both tools spinning them around and knocking out the men getting their sleeping-darts to be shot at the other soilders rather than the teens.

Swinging them again, he set the dart blower flying, as Fishlegs ran into the soilder who was holding it to knock him out.

Quickly Eretcaught the tube and fired it to the runaway soilder getting a hit and knocking him out.

"Ok I love you again," Ruffnut said grinning and running up to Eret, ignoring Snotlout's look of disbelief.

"Ugh... Pathetic," Tuffnut said not believing his sister, then turning to Snotlout "We can still jump."

"So, we going to save your dragons and get out of here, or not?" Eret asked Astrid who was grinning proudly at him.

"Check every trap," he said as he cut the binds on their wrists "They're here some where."

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Astrid took the traps on the far left of the ship looking at each one, not believing how many dragons there were here.

It took her seven traps before she finally found one of their dragons.

"Meatlug!"

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The Rock Eater had just began to come out of the sleep the darts set her to when she heard Astrid call to her making her smile.

Trying to get up, Meatlug began to try and escape but was help still.

"Stay there girl," she said looking down to her.

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Quickly Astrid went looking for Fishlegs finding him and bringing him to the Gronkle.

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While Astrid and Fishlegs were taking care of Meatlug, Eret and Ruffnut were looking for their dragons in the center of the ship, while Tuffnut and Snotlout took the right.

"Anyone coming?" Eret asked as he span the wheel, looking to Ruffnut.

"I don't know, just keep doing what you're doing," Ruffnut said grinning "Keep cranking."

Looking over his shoulder Eret climbed into the door and saw that the cadge was holding the Nadder.

"Ruffnut!" Tuffnut called out getting his sister's attention "I found Barf and Belch." he said getting his sister to follow him leaving Eret as he jumped into the trap.

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Slowly Eret took steps towards the Nadder and reached out his hand. "Thank you, for saving my life."

Stormfly smiled slightly as she closed her eyes as she pressed up to the palm of Eret's hand.

"Now let me return the favor." Eret said as he slowly began to undo the ropes that were holding the Nadder down.