Hiccup's breath stilled as he came face to face with the jaguars, all six of them.
Did jaguars even travel in packs? He had time to wonder, or were they usually solitary and the universe just decided that today was the day to fuck with him?
He tried to put as much space between them and him as possible, but sadly that was becoming less and less possible as the space between his back and the cave wall became smaller and smaller.
He groaned, all he'd wanted to do was take a leak! Normally he'd just fly away, but with the density and lowness of the branches that wasn't exactly an option. He didn't want to hurt them, they were so beautiful.
That was when he felt the ground begin to shake, and the earth between him and the jaguars differentiated. He blinked as he was suddenly ten feet above them. He whipped his head from side to side, struggling to find the source of the power. As far as he knew it wasn't Thuggory, Thuggory's element wasn't earth. Panic rushed through him as he twisted from side to side, the earth wasn't stopping.
He was fifty feet above now, maybe he could fly? He braced himself, on three he'd jump. One. Two- the air was knocked out of him as some flying object grabbed hold of him and continued it's trajectory straight off the piece of floating land.
"Oof!" he exclaimed, as he and said object crashed into a tree and landed as a heap at the bottom of the tree.
Thuggory.
"Hiccup," he said, "dude, we have to get out of here, now!"
"What?" Hiccup blinked, "Why?"
"Look at what I found!" Thuggory shoved something small into Hiccup's hand.
It was an arrowhead. It had a grinning skull with a scar over the right (from the viewer's perspective, not the skull's actual right) eyesocket.
Fear crept up Hiccup's spine. A fear unlike any that he'd felt in a long, long time.
"Dagur," he whispered.
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Toothless groaned. Sure last night had been pretty good, but now he had to fly over the Atlantic Ocean! Urgh!
Worse, he still had a mild hangover! Gah, why'd he even agree to… nevermind…
He sighed. The trip would take a bare minimum of six hours, assuming he didn't stop along the way. Guess he'd better start…