The next morning when Hiccup opened his eyes the first thing they fell upon was the Dragon Queen, who was standing by a tree and looking off into the distance. She was gazing at Toothless, who was wide wake and not happy all. He kept struggling to get free of the chains around his limbs.
"Your dragon doesn't know when to quit, does he? Impressive! But there's no chance he's gonna break free from those chains," the Dragon Queen boasted when she noticed that Hiccup was awake.
"Why are you doing this?" Hiccup asked.
The Dragon Queen took a moment before she answered. "Doing what exactly? 'Til now, I haven't done anything yet!"
"Why you hate dragons?" Hiccup asked her again.
"Me? Hate dragons? You're so wrong, Hiccup, son of Stoick." She used the title to mock him.
"I'm wrong? You ate a dragon. Isn't that a bit more than just hating?" Hiccup started to press her.
"Listen, Hiccup! I don't hate dragons, they are just unlucky creatures that got in my way. What I really hate is men, your tribe in particular." The conversation was going just like Hiccup wanted it to go.
"What do you have in particular against my tribe?" Hiccup waited for her to answer but she didn't. Instead, she grabbed an ax and turned to Hiccup.
"The past is the past, and now I will show you how I gained the title of the Dragon Queen-" she said as she walked toward Toothless. She continued talking.
"The only thing I learned in the wilderness is this: the strong live and the weak die. No matter what you face, a dragon, a lion, a wolf, you have got to be stronger to survive…" As she got closer to Toothless ,she raised her ax and started running toward the black dragon with a thundering roar. When she was face to face with him, she smacked her ax into the ground in front of Toothless, which made the dust fill the air. Toothless lowered his head and growled lowly in obeisance.
"What are you doing? Toothless!" Hiccup cried to the Dragon Queen. He couldn't just sit on the sideline while his friend was being treated like this, but he couldn't do anything since they were both tied up.
"This is how you become the strongest, this how you can survive alone. After killing the first dragon and then the second and then the third, you will get used to it 'till you lose count. Killing will become just a game. This is how you become the strongest."
Hiccup was angry, frustrated, and mostly sad as he watched the Queen. She marched back to Hiccup with a huge smile on her face.
"Did you enjoy the show?" she mocked Hiccup.
Anger clouded his vision. "Untie me and we'll see who's really the strongest!" he challenged her in the midst of it.
"Wow! I like the new Hiccup! Do you really want to go against me?" she asked, eagerly.
"Untie me and I will make you regret all the bad things you have done to Toothless and the other dragons in your whole, miserable life."
"I'm very scared! If you continue like this, I'm sure you will be a beast of a chief. The Archipelago will be under your feet, sorry, foot with the power of the dragons with you-"
Hiccup interrupted her. "Free me!" he shouted.
"Chief has to have some manners. If a lady is talking, you must listen politely." She karate kicked him in the face, which made his nose start to bleed "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, you will be a wonderful chief. Too bad you won't live 'till next week."
"My tribe must be looking for me. They have tracking dragons, and in few days and this island will be crawling with dragons and their riders. You'll be done."
"Oh, really! Just one look at me and your tribe will be divided. They will sink in their own blood…and that's all with me sitting and doing nothing." she approached him until he could feel her breath on his face and grabbed his cheek. "Look deep into my eyes and tell me you don't remember me. Look!" She was steaming mad. Hiccup stared into her blue eyes, but remembered nothing.
"You don't remember me, do you?" She kicked him again and this time in the ribs. He cried aloud in pain. "Then you don't have to remember at all." She said, and then with a light blow from her ax's handle, Hiccup fell unconscious yet again.
After hours when Hiccup opened his eyes, he was being dragged on the unyielding ground. He looked around and saw the Queen and a few hunters were carrying Toothless, only Thor would know where. Hiccup tried to shout, but couldn't because he was gagged. He kept flailing until he got the Queen's attention.
"Oh, you're awake, just in the nick of time. Looks like the hunters got my message soon enough, quicker than I expected, too, which means we will have more time to ourselves," she said while she danced around. Hiccup noticed every time she got near one of the hunters, the hunter would get out of her way as fast as he could.
"Lucky me! The hunters were looking for you and your dragon. You wil be staying with me, but your dragon…I wonder how much a Night Fury worth?" she asked herself as she approached Toothless. "I might just ask for double his weight in gold!"
"You will regret this, just you wait," Hiccup spit angry, but she didn't look effected at all.
"What did you say, honey? As I recall, it has been nearly three days and nothing has happened. I think your tribe has forgotten about you, just like the old times with Hiccup the Useless!" she said mocking Hiccup.
Hiccup was confused. How did she know so much about his tribe?
"Hey, Useless? Where did you go? We haven't started yet so you're not allowed to be lost in your thoughts." Hiccup snapped out of his thoughts. He had started to remember something; something that happened six years ago during a dragon raid, but his memories were blurry about that fateful night.
"Hail, m-my Queen!" one of the hunters called when they reached the shores of the island. The hunters' ship was docked near them in a rocky bay "The ship's captain has some rules about weapons. You can't go aboard armed."
The Dragon Queen narrowed her eyes at the hunter who had talked for a bit. The hunter was sweating like his life was on the line, because it probably was. Who knew what the crazy Queen would do?
"Sure!" her face expression turned soft as she handed him her small dagger. "That's my only weapon. You can search me if you like!" she spread her arms out wide.
"No, you can go aboard now," the hunter replied as she got on the ship with the Night Fury and Hiccup at her side.
The two hunters from earlier were having a serious conversation.
"What you were doing? Are you trying to get us killed?" one of the two hunters asked the other.
"What? I didn't do anything," the second hunter replied innocently.
"Really? Knucklehead, you asked the Dragon Queen to hand you her weapons?" the other said sharply "She caught a Night Fury and the head of the Dragon Riders alone. Do you know what would happen if you get her mad?" T
The other hunter apologized a little petulantly. They were extremely lucky not have gotten killed.