After tying up the unconscious Hiccup, the Queen turned her attention to the Night Fury. She chained Toothless and made sure the links were tight to avoid any unpleasant reactions from the Night Fury when he awoke.

"And who you may be?" the Queen asked, examining Hiccup's face. "A Jorgenson? No, you're too scrawny…a Hofferson? Not a chance…maybe an Ingerman?"

Night fell and she would have liked to return to her shelter, but with her two hostages that was off the table. Her last (and only preferable) choice was to camp in the middle of the forest, so she lighted a fire and sat there opposite Hiccup and Toothless.

Hiccup woke when his nose caught a delicious smell. He opened his eyes to meet a pair of blue ones staring back at him.

"I thought you would never wake up, but now that you're awake, you will wish you never did," she said devilishly.

Hiccup didn't say anything. He looked around for Toothless, until the girl interrupted his thoughts.

"Here! You need to keep your strength up!" she tossed him a piece of meat she was cooking. "It will double the fun I'm going to have if you're fully fed." Hiccup didn't look at the meat she offered him, but fixed his eyes on her. What did she mean by 'fun'?

"Come on! Eat," the Queen ordered, getting impatient. Hiccup finally surrendered to his hunger. She was right, in a way. He needed to eat to keep his strength up if he wanted to save Toothless and get out of this trouble. He took a bite of the meat and chewed it slowly. It tasted good, but strangely it was unlike any other meat he had ever eaten.

Taken with curiosity he asked. "What's this?"

The queen was surprised that he talked; she thought he would be too mad to oblige. "The meat tastes good, right?" she said with a smirk, then continued. "It a Deadly Nadder!" As Hiccup heard the meat's source, he spit it out and nearly vomited. The girl was a monster!

"Toothless!" he called out. "Toothless!" His eyes frantically searched the area for his dragon.

"He's here and safe, so don't worry. What you really should worry about is your meal. Deadly Nadder meat tastes like chicken, though I don't remember how chicken tastes anymore. Think of it as a chicken and eat."

"No!" Hiccup cried. There's no way he was going to eat it. It would be against all that he had strove to do, proving that humans and dragons could live together peacefully.

"Well, you lose. You will beg for one bite of that delicious morsel when I start dealing with you." Fear sneaked its way into Hiccup's heart. What was she up to? Whatever it was, it would be no good for him, Hiccup was sure of.

"Who are you?" Hiccup questioned after a long moment of silence.

"Me? You can call me the Dragon Queen!" she answered. "Well, if you're gonna ask questions, it's only fair that I get to ask you some. What's your name?"

Hiccup ignored her question and looked away, towards Toothless. The dragon was still unconscious How powerful of a sleeping potion had the Dragon Queen used?

The Queen wasn't satisfied with the ignorance she got as an answer. She jumped over the fire and landed by Hiccup's side.

"When I talk to you, you answer!" she said sternly, putting her dagger to his throat. Hiccup didn't do anything but calmly look into her angry eyes.

"I will get all the information I need when I take care of you after I sell your dear friend," She said and went back to her place. "four days and the hunters will be here. I think they will pay a lot of gold for you scaly friend here." She laughed and began to clean her dagger.

Hours passed and the two didn't sleep. Hiccup didn't dare to shut his eyes while the Queen was awake, and she refused to sleep because she rarely slept with company around.

"Well, sorry if I was too talkative. I haven't had someone to talk to for the last six years." Her face fell for a split second, but she quickly recovered it. "Anyways, I haven't left this place since I first came here, so I need some updates of the archipelago news. Is Stoick still the chief of the Hooligans?" she asked. Hiccup eyes winded in surprise. How did she know about his father?

Hiccup didn't answer. The Dragon Queen wasn't happy with him. In anger, she threw her dagger. It settled on his prosthetic. "The next one will go through your flesh," she warned.

She's a fruitcake! Hiccup thought. The best thing to do would be to go along with her game. He nodded in response to her question.

She seemed pleased with the new Hiccup. "You see? We can get along like this! So, Stoick is the chief, but who's his second in command?" she asked again. Hiccup hesitated, but answered when he saw her features twist in rage again.

"Spitelout Jorgenson is his second in command!" he supplied. When he mentioned Spitelout, the Queen clenched her teeth.

"You didn't answer my first question. What's your name?"

Hiccup didn't want to answer, after all names were a valuable thing, but it was better than getting her dagger through his heart. "Hiccup Haddock!" he introduced himself.

She stared at him for a moment eyes wide, then she approached him for a closer look, amazed.

"Hiccup? You're Hiccup son of Stoick? Hiccup the Useless," she parroted, shocked.

"Do I know you?" Hiccup asked her. Her astonished expression turned stern.

"I suppose you don't!" she answered as she went back to her place and closed her eyes halfway. Hiccup knew she wasn't truly asleep. While she was resting her eyes, her ears turned with every sound in the jungle and her nose wrinkled with every smell that wafted into the campsite. It would be normal to be a little weird, living in the forest alone for six years, but why was she so cruel? What had made her so? And why was she holding such a big grudge on Berk? Questions danced in Hiccup's mind.

…

Astrid stood on the highest hill of the island looking up to the sky, waiting for a certain black dragon and his rider to appear. Unfortunately, like the past two days, they didn't. They were supposed to be back a week ago, as Hiccup promised her, and she was worried.

"Astrid! It's the middle of the night! I think you should go back to your home, and have some sleep," Chief Stoick said to the blond.

"He promised me he would be back in a week. It's been two weeks, Chief!" she said, worried Hiccup. "What if something horrible happened to him?"

"He's Hiccup, and he's with Toothless. I think there's no reason to be worried."

"Even so, it feels like there's something wrong… I feel it in my heart."

Stoick sighted heavily before turning to leave, but before he did, he said, "You want to go after him, don't you?" Astrid nodded.

"Well, I can't stop you, so I have no choice but to let you go. But one condition!" Astrid listened carefully. "Take the other riders with you."

She accepted the deal. It would be easier to search with more dragons.

"Fly at first light tomorrow!" the chief commanded before heading back home, and Astrid ran to inform the other riders.