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AN: Jornamber: "short and boring to write but unfortunately you have to add it otherwise there would be holes in the story." Uhmm… What do you mean by this? I don't understand. XD

Arc: The Retrieval

Days Until Wedding: 25 days

"Do You Think We're Lost"

While flying, Hiccup couldn't help but feel uneasy from the earlier conversation he had. The man looked like he was lying the whole time. Not to mention that his crew wore no resemblance among each other. It was like some of them were forced to work. Toothless noticed Hiccup's discomfort and growled to get his attention.

Hiccup sighed "It's nothing bud. It's just that… this is a very unfamiliar place and I don't even know where to start searching. I don't even know what to do." He said as he lowered his head

"Well… You can start by introducing yourself" someone said from beside him.

"Wah!" Hiccup was so shocked that he actually forced Toothless to do a sudden spin. After about 3 spins, he managed to stop Toothless. "Don't do that!" he shouted at the laughing girl beside him.

The girl next to him was blonde and was currently wearing a brown cloak over her head. Under the cloak she wore a light brown tunic with white leggings. On her back were two long swords. Even from Hiccup's distance, he could tell that the girl was shorter than she looked.

The dragon she was riding was another story. It had a serpent-like form with a line of spines on its back. The dragon also seemed to had very big eyes and two very long and curved horns on its head. What made it stand out even more was its color. It was colored gray, not many dragons were colored this way.

"Ahaha that was so funny!" she said as she wiped a tear from her eye "I got to do that again sometime"

"Ehem…" Hiccup crossed his arms

"Oh, right… sorry" she scratched the back of her neck "Where are my manners? I'm Camicazi by the way!" she reached him with her hand.

Hiccup blinked. The girl he was looking for was right infront of him! Did he mention she looked hot? Hiccup shook his head. This was not the time to look at other women. He was getting married this month, damnit!

He looked at her one more time and noticed that the dagger was not with her. She may have hidden it at some place. He needed to make sure that she wouldn't run away from him.

"I'm… Grudge" he lied. Of course, the first male name that came into his head was none other than his fiancé's father's name.

"Cool name" she said as she stared at him. "Would you mind taking your helmet off? It's kinda weird talking to someone who looks like a killer dragon from a distance." She joked

"Oh… sure…" this was bad! What would he do if she recognized him?

"Well? What are you waiting for?" Cami urged

Hiccup sighed as he removed his helmet.

Camicazi was expecting to see someone who had a huge nose and missing teeth but apparently she was mistaken. Infront of him was a God. Odin's ghost she thought

Cami unconsciously bit her lower lip as Hiccup waved his hair to release some clumps

"Happy?" Hiccup asked, hoping against all hope that Camicazi wouldn't recognize him.

It seemed to be his luck since Camicazi instantly fell inlove with him.

"Definitely" she said dreamily. She stood up on the back of her dragon, completely alarming Hiccup

"What're you doing?!" Hiccup shouted in fear. "Get down from there!"

"Ok!" she happily replied while she jumped on Toothless and sat down behind Hiccup. Before he could ask, she immediately hugged him from behind.

Hiccup blinked "Uhmm… Please let go" he begged

She shook her head while burying her face on his neck "No"

His armor didn't seem to bother her in the slightest. Hiccup sighed; this was definitely going to be a long day.

As Toothless and Stormfly flew next to each other, Hiccup noticed a familiar ship from the distance. To his luck, it was Thuggory's ship.

"Ok Toothless… prepare for landing" Toothless nodded and leaned towards the ship. Camicazi was still busy fussing over Hiccup to notice where they were going.

As Toothless and Stormfly landed on the ship, Thuggory approached them.

"Hiccup? What are you doing on my ship?" he asked

Hiccup facepalmed. Of course Thuggory would blurt out his name.

Camicazi blinked her eyes and furrowed her eyebrows "Wait, Hiccup?" she let go of him and jumped off Toothless to take a good look at him "The Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third? That Hiccup?"

Hiccup sighed. "Yep… it's me…"

"But… but… why do you look so handsome?!" she screeched as she pointed an accusing finger at him

Hiccup gave her a deadpan look "Wow… thanks for the compliment… remind me to give you something in return" he said in his signature dry voice.

"Well… at least your dry humor is still the same" she looked at Thuggory and blinked "Wait, you knew that Hiccup looked so… so…" she didn't want to say it but it had to be said "so hot?"

Thuggory coughed "Well… in your own words, yes I knew…"

She looked back at Hiccup and glared at him "Then why did you tell me your name was Grudge?"

"Because I need to get that dagger I gave. The golden one" Thuggory said

"Yeah… not gonna happen" Cami said casually

"What? Why not?" Thuggory asked, a little agitated

"Because I already traded it with Stormfly here." She rubbed the mood dragon's head and its color turn from gray to blue. "She was being held captive in that cage for a long time. I really wanted to release her that's why I accepted that job and took your dagger"

Hiccup approached Stormfly and also started rubbing her head

"What do you call this dragon?" Hiccup asked "There are still so many species out there that I don't know about"

Cami smiled as she touched Hiccup's shoulder. "She's a mood dragon" she smiled softly at Hiccup "She's a unique type of dragon because her color changes depending on her emotion." She looked at Stormfly "Right now she's green because she feels comfort. And before, she was colored gray because she was cautious around you and your dragon over there."

"Enough small talk" Thuggory interrupted "Where can we find the dagger?"

Cami snorted "If you must know, I traded it to Eret, the dragon trapper"

"The dragon trapper?" Hiccup asked

"Yeah. He finds dragons and traps them in different kinds of cages and trades them with other things like that dagger of his"

Hiccup furrowed his eyebrows "I don't like this guy. Where do you usually see him?"

Cami smiled "Trader's Isle"

AN: Sigh… Another uneventful chapter… I just hope I'll get my head turning again. Enjoy and Review!