In a small village, Eret and Bjorn had stopped so they could gather coins from any traveller that was willing to part with them.
"Spare coins for weary travellers!" said Bjorn presenting his hat to a traveller.
The travel then tossed a few bronze coins into the hat before walking off.
"This is humiliating," Eret snapped. "We're officers, these people should be given us whatever we want."
"They will you ask nicely," said Bjorn.
A young lady then approached them and Bjorn smiled at her. "Spare change for a hungry old man?"
"Ahh, here you go," she said dropping bronze coin into the hat.
"The coin is appreciated, but not as much as your smile," said Bjorn charmingly and Eret facepalmed himself.
The young lady giggled and walked off.
Then a man with holding a pair of twin swords approached them. "How about some entertainment in exchange for…" He then pulled out a gold coin. "A gold piece."
"We're not performers," said Eret narrowing his eyes.
"Not professional anyway," said Bjorn.
He then immediately got to his feet and began singing.
It's a long long way,
It is too difficult to say!
But the girls in Meridian city,
Looks so pretty!
The man rolled his eyes. "Come on, we're talking a gold piece here, let's see some action," he said as he drew his blades. "Dance!"
Eret immediately narrowed his eyes as the man began slicing his blade that Bjorn speed making him dance as he sang.
They kiss so sweet,
That you're really glad to meet!
The girl from Meridian!
Eret clenched his fists through the entire ordeal and the man began laughing.
"Nothing like a fat man dancing for his dinner! Here you go!" he said tossing a gold piece into the ground.
Bjorn immediately picked it up and looked at the man as he walked off. "Such a kind man."
Eret, however, had a different opinion of him.
Meanwhile Hiccup and the others were flying over vast swamp, so big that it stretched on for miles. As Hiccup flew and looked down at the swamp, he immediately sensed something down there and found himself descending.
Ragnar noticed Hiccup's descent and gave him a concerned look. "Hiccup, you going down for a reason?"
Hiccup denounced and continued to descent.
"Hiccup! Why are you going down?" Ragnar yelled.
That snapped Hiccup out of his trance. "What? I didn't even notice."
"Are you noticing now?" Snotlout asked.
Astrid looked at Hiccup. "Is something wrong?"
"I know this is going to sound weird, but I think the swamp is… calling to me," said Hiccup.
"Is it telling you where we can get something to eat?" Snotlout asked.
"No… I think it wants us to land there."
"No offence to the swamp, but I don't see anywhere any land to land on," said Astrid.
"I don't know," Hiccup frowned. "Spitelout told me that to learn Earthbending I have to wait and listen and now I'm actually hearing the earth. You want me to ignore it?"
"Yes," said Snotlout.
Heather frowned. "I don't know, there is something ominous about that place."
Ragnar nodded in agreement. "I'm definitely sense a lot of spiritual energy."
Snotlout snorted. "It's just a swamp."
"Yeah, a dark and creepy swamp," said Ruffnut.
"Let's go down explore," Tuffnut nodded enthusiastically.
Snotlout looked at Hiccup. "If the twins say it's okay to go down then we should stay away from it at all costs."
Hiccup sighed. "Fine. Let's move on."
Hiccup then began to regain altitude and joined the others, but then suddenly appearing out of nowhere was a tornado.
Fishlegs eyes widened upon seeing it. "We better step on it, because we really got a move!" he panicked.
They then began to fly as fast they could away from the tornado would seem to be following them. No matter what they did they couldn't seem to shake it and Snotlout and the twins were finding it hard to stay on their dragons.
Ragnar then flew over to Hiccup. "We need to create a shield!"
Hiccup nodded and both he and Ragnar flew close to the others and together they form the air shield together to shield them from the tornado as it consumed them. Unfortunately, didn't stop them from being spun around by the tornado and they were having a hard time maintaining the shield.
Eventually they couldn't hold out any longer and immediately separated from their dragons and were sense spinning around the tornado. Then they shot out of it faster than anyone could blink and landed on the swamp.
They immediately pick themselves up, none to worse for wear and then note their dragons were nowhere to be seen.
"Where are the dragons?" Hiccup asked.
Ragnar then immediately began jumping from tree to tree until he reached the canopy and began to scan the area. However he will found no trace of the dragons or whether he landed.
On the ground, Hiccup and the others were waiting for Ragnar to return. That's when Heather noticed something on Snotlout.
"Snotlout, you got an elbow leech," said Heather.
Snotlout then immediately began thrashing around trying to locate the leech. "Where? Where?"
Heather gave him a dull look. "Where do you think?"
Snotlout looks down at his elbow and saw the leech and immediately tried to pull it off. "Why do things keep attaching to me?"
Ragnar soon returned.
"Couldn't find them?" Hiccup asked.
Ragnar shook his head as he landed in the water. "No and the tornado has vanished."
Immediately everyone start to get a bit uneasy as they looked around the swamp.
Elsewhere in the swamp, Toothless and the other dragons were caught up in vines. No matter how much they struggle they were unable to break them, but thankfully Stormfly was able to sever the vines with a few spine shots, though that led to the problem of them falling down into the water below.
Hookfang then immediately took off only to have him ensnared in vines once again. Toothless rolled his eyes and looked back at Stormfly, who immediately fired more spines.
In another part of the swamp, Snotlout had taken Astrid action was immediately slicing through the vines like no tomorrow.
"We need to speed things up," he said.
Hiccup was looking a bit concerned. "Maybe we should be a little nicer to the swamp."
"Nicer?" Snotlout stared. "You want us to be nice to plants? Would you want us to do say thank you every time we slice through a vine?"
"Maybe you should listen to Hiccup," Heather advised. "Something about this place feels alive."
Snotlout rolled his eyes. "I'm sure there are a lot of things that are alive here and if we don't want to wind up getting eaten by them we need to find the dragons as fast as we can."
Astrid immediately snatched her axe back from Snotlout. "Then perhaps you can use your own knife instead of my axe?"
Snotlout muttered under his breath and immediately grabbed his knife began slicing through the vines. Unbeknownst to them they were being watched by something in the trees.
Toothless and the other dragons were still trying to locate Hiccup and the others, but it was proving difficult as the swamp was very vast. They also had problems trying to get across the upturned roots that were blocking their path.
It was now getting dark and Hiccup and the others still have not found any trace of dragons. Thankfully thanks to Hiccup's Firebending they at least were able to see where they were going.
"Windshear!" Heather called.
"Stormfly! Where are you girl!" Astrid cried.
"There's no way they can hear us," said Ragnar sadly.
"We might have to stop and make camp," Hiccup advised.
They then heard a bubbling sound and Fishlegs panicked.
"What was that?" Fishlegs quivered.
"Just swamp gas," said Astrid calmly.
"Yeah, nothing supernatural here," Snotlout nodded as if that proved his point.
Then immediately they heard a high-pitched screech and immediately hugged one another. They turned and saw small bird was the one causing the screeching sound.
"I say we should build a fire," said Snotlout.
He then quickly grabbed Tuffnut's sword and began cutting branches of a nearby tree.
Hiccup narrowed his eyes. "Snotlout, the longer we adhere the more I believe you should be doing that."
Ragnar nodded in agreement. "I agree, this something about this swamp that's makes me uneasy."
Snotlout rolled his eyes. "No, I asked the swamp, it said this was fine. Right swamp?" he said and began shaking the tree branch. "'No problem, Snotlout.'"
Snotlout then continued cutting down more firewood much to the reluctance of the others.
Soon they managed to create a campfire and huddled around it.
Heather began looking over his shoulder fearfully. "Does anyone else get the feeling that were being watched?"
Fishlegs then raised his hand shakily.
"Please, we are all alone out here," said Snotlout trying to swat a mosquito.
Then suddenly a bright light appeared directly in front of them and it began to fly around the entire forest. There they saw hundreds of bright eyes looking down at them from the trees. Instantly they huddle up to one another and as close as the fire as they possibly could.
"Except for them," Fishlegs whimpered.
"Right, except for them," said Snotlout equally terrified.
In the forest the dragons were trying to sleep, but the noise in the swamp kept them awake. It was only until Skull roared that the entire swamp went quiet. With that done the dragons then immediately fell asleep.
Hiccup and the others had also fell asleep and the fire began to die down, but unbeknownst to them they were being observed by something in the swamp. Then vines began to creep towards them and wrap around their legs.
They were suddenly awoke with the vines immediately pulled them away from one another and they found themselves being dragged away. Astrid and the twins managed to plunge their weapons into the ground to prevent them from being skidded away and managed to cut the vines, they then rushed over to Fishlegs and cut the vines around him, but the others weren't as lucky.
However their freedom was short lived as more vines began to extend towards them. Thankfully they were able to avoid getting tangled and immediately ran deeper into the swamp away from the vines.
Heather found herself completely wrapped in the vines, but was able to move her arms just enough to water from her gourd. She immediately sliced the vines effortlessly and immediately ran into the mist.
Snotlout slammed his feet into the ground causing the earth beneath him to rise in front of him snapping the vines. He then began skidding across the mud as the vines began to chase him down.
Ragnar was completely wrapped in the vines, but managed uses Airbending to expand the vines and immediately jumped at the way before they could wrap themselves around him again. He then began to jump from tree to tree to avoid the vines.
Hiccup too was covered in vines, but he took a deep breath and immediately unleashed a burst of flames from his mouth burning away the vines. He then quickly made his escape through the swamp, but then a vine wrapped itself around his leg. He quickly pounded away with a fireball and soon found himself in the deepest part of the swamp.
"Great, now I'm lost," Hiccup groaned.
Turned out they were natures ridden swamp, and they had managed to locate the tracks belonging to Toothless and the other dragons. They were completely barechested, wearing loincloths and very little else.
"What do you reckon make tracks like those, Bard?" asked the tall skinny native.
Bard turned out to be a chubby fat native examining the tracks. "Don't know, Brant. Some sort of giant reptile and there's more than one of them."
"They certainly leave a nice wide trail to follow," Brant noted.
"Do you know what's at the end of that trail?" Bard asked. Brant shook his head. "Dinner."
Meanwhile Hiccup and the others were completely lost to the swamp, Heather was looking around wildly for any trace of the others.
"Hiccup? Astrid? Ragnar?" she called.
Her eyes widened when she saw a figure in the distance and began making her way towards them. "Hello? Hello? Can you help me?"
When she got close enough she realised that she recognised the figure. "Mum?" She then immediately rushed over towards her mother with tears in her eyes. "Mum!" She then placed a hand on her shoulder. "I can't believe…" She then stopped when she found her mother turn into a broken tree stump and broke down into tears.
Ragnar was currently jumping from tree to tree try to stay away from the swamp floor as long as possible.
"I knew that this swamp was mystical," Ragnar sighed.
He then looked down and came to a sudden stop, because in a clearing he saw many Airbenders, including his mother.
"Not possible," he said as he jumped to the clearing. However when he got there they found that they had vanished completely. "What is going on around here?"
Astrid, Fishlegs and the twins were making their way through the swamp trying to locate the others.
"Do you think they're all right?" Fishlegs asked.
"All four of them are powerful benders, I'm sure they can handle themselves," said Astrid confidently.
"But what was at those creepy vines?" Tuffnut asked.
"Yeah, why did they attack us?" Ruffnut asked.
Astrid decided not to point out that vines don't often attack people. "No clue, but I'm starting to think that Hiccup and Ragnar have a point about this swamp."
Fishlegs quivered. "Can we not talk about this one being alive, please?"
Then suddenly a light appear directly in front of them and Fishlegs practically jumped out of his skin. The twins looked at it mesmerised, like a pair of cats and Astrid was looking at with suspicion while having a firm grip on her battleaxe.
Then immediately the light shot deeper into the swamp.
"What was that?" Fishlegs quivered.
"I don't know," Astrid frowned. "But it may be looking Hiccup and the others."
Fishlegs stared at her. "You want us to follow a strangely deep into a dangerous ominous swamp?"
"I'm game," said Ruffnut.
"Let's go for it," said Tuffnut.
Then immediately they took off and Fishlegs reluctantly began to follow them.
Snotlout was still trying to locate the others tearing down tree branches as he went.
"Stupid swamp! Done ugly vines!" Snotlout roared as he trekked through the swamp. "You think you're so tough, huh?"
Then when he tried to snap a vine he found himself falling face first into the dirty water. Then his eyes widened as he saw standing in the clearing was Spitelout.
"Dad?" Snotlout stared. He then shook his head. "This has to be a trick of the light, swamp gas. I hit my head running away last night, I'm going crazy."
However when he looked back and saw that his father was still standing in front of him.
"You must help the Avatar," he said.
Snotlout then rubbed his eyes and his father had vanished. He sighed and began to turn around and jammed as Spitelout was standing right in front of him. He was so surprised that he toppled over and landed in the water, but once again he vanished
Hiccup was wondering through the swamp trying to locate the others.
"Astrid! Ragnar!" Hiccup called.
Then he saw small hillock and found standing on top of it was a woman with grey hair, her face was completely by a helmet and in her hand she was holding a staff made of dragon bone.
"Hello?" Hiccup frowned. "Who are you?"
The strange woman then jumped off the hill and ran deeper into the swamp.
"Hey, come back!" Hiccup yelled began chasing after.
However when he got over the hill he found that she had completely vanished, but when he turned he found that she was standing on a tree branch of a nearby tree. She then ran off once again and Hiccup began swinging on the vines to chase after her, but somehow she appeared on the ground it was running around.
Hiccup quickly made a U-turn and began to follow her once again, but she appeared on another tree branch. Hiccup quickly jumped onto the tree branch and chased after her.
Meanwhile Toothless and the dragons were still swimming across the water tribe to locate their riders and that's when they came across a few boats with the swamp natives on board them. They looked at one another without even blinking and Bard licked his lips.
"Now those are some big critters, Bard," said Brant.
"I think their dragons," said Bard. "Basically they're much bigger versions of crocodiles and I heard that they're really smart."
"But they taste a lot like possum," said Brant.
Bard rolled his eyes. "You think everything tastes like possum?"
Brant then looked at them. "Come on fellas, just a little closer. Nice and easy, there's nothing to worry about, we're just thinking about eating ya."
Immediately Toothless and the other dragons immediately ran off in the opposite direction.
Bard looked at Brant and annoyed. "What did you say that for?"
"Well, we are."
"But you don't tell then!"
"How do I know they'd understand me?"
Brad shook his head in disbelief. "Come on!"
Brant immediately got to his feet and began moving his arms, and the swamp natives sitting in front of the other boats did the same. Immediately they propelled themselves with Waterbending and took off like a shot after Toothless and the others.
Hiccup meanwhile was still following the mysterious woman through the swamp.
"Who are you?" Hiccup wondered as he could sense something familiar about them.
He then immediately rushed over towards the woman, but soon realised he was heading straight towards Heather and they both collided. They then crashed into Ragnar and then finally into Snotlout at the exact moment that Astrid, Fishlegs the twins appeared.
"What do you guys think you're doing?" Snotlout yelled glaring at them. "I've been looking all over for you!"
"Then join the club," said Ragnar looking annoyed. "You think we have been doing the same thing?"
"You guys all right?" Astrid asked as she helped Hiccup up.
"Fine, but I was chasing some woman," said Hiccup accepting her hand.
Heather looked at him curiously as Ragnar helped her up. "What woman?"
"I don't know," Hiccup frowned with the back of his head. "I see her face, she was wearing a mask, but it was something familiar about her."
"Well, we followed a strange light and found you guys," said Fishlegs.
"I thought I saw my mum," said Heather.
"And I met my people," Ragnar added.
Snotlout immediately looked a bit uneasy. "Look at all just scared and hungry add-on mind is a plane tricks on us. That's why we all sort things out here."
Hiccup looked up. "You saw someone too?"
"I thought I saw my dad," said Snotlout turning his back on them. "But that doesn't prove anything. I think about him all the time…" He then looked at Ragnar and Heather. "The two of you saw someone you care about."
"And how do you explain me?" Hiccup asked. "I had no idea who I was following."
"And us," Astrid added. "We saw ball of light and it led us to you?"
Ragnar nodded. "And all of our visions led us into the exact same place as well."
"Okay, but where is here? The middle of the swamp?" Heather asked.
Hiccup then looked up. "Yeah. The centre."
The old turned and saw a massive tree directly beneath them, its roots spread out in all directions. The tree had to be thousands of years old at the very least to be so big.
"It's the heart of the swamp," said Hiccup. "It has been calling us here, I knew it."
"It's just a tree, it can't call anyone!" said Snotlout stubbornly. "For the last time, there is nothing after us! And there's nothing magical happening here!"
Of course, the moment he said, that was when a creature made of vines that shot out of the water with a piece of wood as a face, giving them all a good scare. Immediately they separated as the creature tried to grab them with its vine like arms.
Snotlout winery screaming as the vines from the creature stretched towards him and then immediately wrap themselves around him. He then began swinging him around and dunking him in the water.
Hiccup then immediately fired a fireball directly at its armour burning the vines and freeing Snotlout. The creature then stretched it vines towards Hiccup and swatted him away like a fly. Astrid and the twins were hacking at the vines with their weapons, but that's when they noticed that the creature was repairing itself. It then grabbed them and lifted them up in the air, but Heather then appeared out of nowhere skidding across the water and shooting a strand of ice straight through the vines freeing them.
However the creature then started to repair itself and Snotlout began firing boulders towards it. However, the creature knocks them aside and grabbed him again and now it was beginning to attack Heather, who then quickly summoned a massive wave pushing it back. Ragnar then joined her side and unleashed a powerful gust of air pushing it back even further until it slammed into a massive tree root.
Heather then part of the water and began running towards it, but the creature fired another set of vines from its chest knocking her backwards and then did the same to Ragnar and Hiccup, who had just recovered from its last attack. It then began to absorb Snotlout into its vines and despite his best attempts to struggle he soon found himself trapped inside of it.
Meanwhile Toothless and the other dragons were running away from the swamp benders, who were chasing after them. It was amazing that they were actually able to keep up with the dragons, but the dragons were not going to give up the chase just yet. Windshear used her shark tale to slice through tree branches causing them to collapse onto the swamp benders and Stormfly began firing spines from her tail directly at them.
One of these branches hit one of the benders banning the Riders on one of the boats. This caused the boat to go out of control causing the boat to capsize and sending the benders on board it to be sent flying off it. However the other two boroughs was still giving chase avoiding the branches and spines.
Meanwhile Snotlout have managed to grab his knife and was trying to free himself from the clutches of the creature. Ragnar then came rushing out of nowhere right his air scooter and skew fully managed to land on top of the creature. He then began to spin like a tornado creating a tornado around him and consuming the creature with it. The result cause the vines to be twisted and giving Heather a chance to breathe cold air out of the vines causing them to freeze. Hiccup was up next and at least a powerful fireball directly at the icing casing Snotlout causing him to fire out of its middle.
However the creature quickly repaired itself and began to advance towards them, but Ragnar appeared out of nowhere and slammed into its back with his much force as he could muster. This caused the creature to slammed headfirst into the water, but it quickly recovered and not Ragnar a side like a fly.
Heather had had enough and then began spinning her arms around like a windmill, she then unleashed a blast of water and began to slice through the vines like a knife. The creature did its best to regenerate, but it just couldn't keep up with Heather's barrages. And that's when they noticed that there was someone inside it bending the vines.
"There's someone in there!" Astrid yelled. "He is bending the vines!"
Heather then began spinning around and unleashed a powerful burst of water that sliced right through the vines through the bark face. However, vines quickly appeared and ensnared Heather and lifted her into the air.
Hiccup then appeared out of nowhere and unleashed a massive burst of flames at the creature burning them to ashes. The force of the impact also sent the man bending the vines backwards, he was wearing nothing but a loincloth which was just a simple leaf and his feet were completely covered in mud.
"Why did you call me here if you just wanted to kill us?" Hiccup demanded.
"Wait," said the man bending the vines away. "I didn't call you here."
Everyone looked at one another than back to the man.
"We were flying over and I heard something called to me, telling me to land," Hiccup explained.
"He's the Avatar, stuff like that happens to us a lot," Astrid explained.
The hermit's eyes widened. "The Avatar?" he gasped and then he quickly gestured towards the tree. "Come with me."
The hermit then led them to the giant tree at the centre of the swamp.
"So who are you anyway?" Heather asked.
"I protect the swamp from those that want to hurt it," said the hermit as he bend some vines away that were blocking their path. His eyes then turned to Snotlout. "Like this young man."
"See, completely reasonable," Snotlout nodded. "Not a monster. Just a regular guy defending his own, nothing mystical about it."
"Oh, this one is a mystical place, all right," the hermit corrected. "It is sacred. I reached enlightenment right here under the Banyan Grove tree." He then sat down cross-legged. "I heard it calling to me, just like you did."
Snotlout rolled his eyes. "Sure you did? It seems real chatty."
Astrid then punched him hard in the elbow. "Let him finish."
Snotlout just grumbled to himself as he rubbed his arm.
"See this whole swamp is just one tree spread out over miles," the hermit explained. "Branches spread and sink, take root and then spread some more. One big living organism, just like the entire world."
Hiccup frowned. "I get how the trees one big thing… but the whole world?"
"Sure. You think you're any different from me… or your friends… or this tree?" Hiccup and the others then took that moment to sit down and listen to his words. "If you listen hard enough, you can hear every living thing breathing together. You can feel everything growing. We are all living together, even if most folks don't act like it. We all have the same routes and we all branches of the same tree."
"But what is our visions mean?" Heather asked.
Astrid nodded. "And how come the fall of us didn't see a person?" Astrid asked gesturing to herself, Fishlegs and the twins."
"In the swamp, we see visions of people we lost, people we loves, folks we believe are none," the hermit explained. "But the swamp tells us they are not, we are still connected to them. Time is an illusion and so is death." He then turned and looked at Astrid, Fishlegs and the twins. "The four of you clearly, don't miss anyone, but you have a deep connection to your friends and the swamp guided you to them."
Hiccup then held out his hand. "Hang on, what about my vision? I identify them with that mask, but yet they had a familiar feel to them?"
"You're the Avatar, you tell me?"
Hiccup frowned. "Time is an illusion? So… it's someone I will meet."
The hermit nodded with a smile.
"Sorry to interrupt the lecture," said Snotlout getting to his feet. "But we still need to find are dragons."
"I think, I know how to find them," said Hiccup. "The swamp lead Astrid and the others to us, maybe I do the same here?" He then placed his hand on the tree. "Everything is connected."
He then closed his eyes and concentrated and immediately felt his consciousness seeping through the trees roots. He kept on going from miles, until he saw Toothless and the others being chased by the swamp Benders. He saw all them being captured in the nets and being dragged down the creek.
Hiccup immediately detached himself from the tree. "Come on, we've got a hurry."
The swamp benders, were now sailing in their bows making their way back to their camp with the dragons internal.
Bard was tapping on the boat as he sang. "Set my line by the riverbed, caught 10 finish and kill them dead. Cut them and gut them, then toss their heads in the water to keep those crocodiles fared.'
The immediately came to a stop when they heard a noise neck to them. Then suddenly rushing towards them with a powerful burst of air which tore through one of the boat sending the swamp benders on board it flying in the air.
Ragnar then landed on the branch above them and was soon joined by Hiccup and Heather.
"Toothless!" Hiccup cried and then said a powerful gust of air at Bard sending him flying off the boat.
"We're under attack!" Brant cried.
He immediately raised the water in the attempts to strike Hiccup and the others. However, Hiccup and Heather quickly used their own waterbending to stop the water. Immediately they all stared at one another in bewilderment.
"Hey, you guys are waterbenders?" Heather blinked.
"You too? That means your kin!" said Brant excitedly.
With that sort of the immediately release the water and that's when Astrid and the others arrived with the hermit.
"Hey, Hahn! How have you been?" Brant asked.
The hermit shrugged. "You know, scared some folks. Swung some vines. The usual."
Snotlout stared at him. "Hahn?"
Later that night they joined the swamp benders at their tribe, after introducing themselves. That's when the swamp benders treated them to some dinner, which involved possum, lizards and giant bugs.
"How do you like your possum?" Brant asked.
"Taste like rabbit," Hiccup smiled.
Snotlout frowned at them. "So why would you guys do interest in eating our dragons? You got plenty of those big things wondering around?" Snotlout asked gesturing to the crocodile next to them.
"You want me to eat old, Fang?" Brant stared in horror. "He's like a member of the family?"
He then fed Fang a large fish.
"Nice Fang," said Snotlout tossing the crocodile a large bug.
However, he didn't open his mouth and the moment it landed on him he glared at Snotlout and snarled. Snotlout John is back in fright and Brant laughed.
"Oh he don't need no bugs, that's people food," said Brant.
Bard then looked at Heather and the twins. "Where did you say you were from?"
"The South Pole," said Heather.
"Dear know there were Waterbenders anywhere but here," said Bard. "They got a nice swamp there do they?"
Heather shook her head. "No, it's all ice and snow."
Bard and Brant blinked at that.
"Hmm, no wonder you left," said Bard.
"Well, I hope you all realise now that nothing strange was going on here," said Snotlout. "Just a bunch of greasy people living in the swamp."
"What about the visions?" Heather asked.
"I told you, we were hungry. I'm eating a giant bug," said Snotlout holding out a large fly before eating it.
"But what about when the tree showed me where Toothless and the others?" Hiccup asked.
"That's Avatar stuff, it doesn't count," said Snotlout waving his hand dismissively. He then looked at Hahn curiously. "The only thing I can't figure out, is how you made the tornado that sucked us down?"
Hahn stared at him. "I can't do anything like that. I just bend the water in the plants."
"Well, no accounting for whether," said Snotlout stubbornly. "Still there's absolutely nothing mysterious about the swamp."
Not too far away from camp was a small bird which then squawked loudly, who was then struck by a vine that moved all by itself.
Meanwhile in the village, the man holding the twin swords that attacked Bjorn was wandering down a dark alleyway at night. He then heard something behind him during his blade and turned, but saw no one.
"Who's there?" he demanded.
He then heard something behind him and turned and then someone grabbed him causing him to disarm his blades. He then sent the man flying into some crates and then he went to pick up the blades. The man turned out to be the Dragon Spirit a.k.a. Eret.