(Chapter Eleven)
(Loredas 4th) (With the Gang)
The storm raged on throughout the whole night thunder clapping that shook most of Berk keeping a huge majority of Berk's residents up. Lighting that jumped around in the clouds rained down striking a couple of buildings forcing some people to go out into the storm to put out the fire.
After a horrible night the raging storm eventually ended around what should be between eleven and twelve, but it continued to rain a little after and now that it's a new day everyone did to do their daily jobs but with the lack of sleep everyone is cranky yelling at anyone that came to bother them. Gobber included.
Astrid had to cancel her class for today due to the storm, rain, and the lack of sleep. She's barely keeping herself up, but she's not the only one trying to stay up. The whole gang is doing all they can to stay up by being in the Great Hall hoping that talking would do the trick, but it seems to be making it worse because Snotlout has already passed out on the table.
It's understandable though since the only thing they've been able to talk about was how their night was. They were pretty much the same.
"How much longer do you think it'll be till it stops raining?" Ruffnut wined.
"Don't know but hopefully soon, it's soooo boring"
"You're always bored, the only time you're not bored is when you're pranking someone" Astrid commented clearly bored as well.
"I'm not bored" Fishlegs jumps in. the whole time they've been talking Fishlegs has been reading the book that he got from Johann.
"Haven't you already read that?" Astrid questions.
"Yes, but it's such a good book that I had to read it again and with it raining and all I thought it would be a good way to pass the time" it wasn't a bad idea but they're not really ones to read when bored.
Fishlegs stops reading realizing something "Hey, do you think Draco was alright being out there in the forest during that storm?"
"Does it matter?" Astrid questioned.
"I guess not, but that storm was bad, and he stayed at his camp all night long during it"
"Don't worry Fish, he's fine" Ruffnut reassured Fishlegs.
"How do you know?" Fishlegs questioned. Ruffnut points in the direction of another table showing Fishlegs that Draco was sitting at the table eating some bread and drinking some mead. He was also doing something in his journal.
"He was already here when we entered the hall"
"How did we not see him?" Fishlegs questioned. Ruffnut shrugged her shoulders and said "I don't know but it's probably because he doesn't stand out as much"
"I think you got that mixed up Ruff, he stand out a lot" Astrid corrected.
"No, I think I got it right, he may stick out a lot but there is times where he doesn't stick out at all and we should know since he somehow pops up behind us without making a sound"
"There's a difference from being quiet and being hidden"
Ruffnut just shrugs her shoulders. Astrid just shook her head then turned her attention back to Fishlegs but then sees that he wasn't there no more. She looked around for the heavy man then when she found him, she found him sitting at the table that Draco's sitting at talking to him.
"Man, that guy can move, maybe one day he'll end up being as good at hiding like Draco" Ruffnut commented. Astrid glared at her but Ruffnut didn't acknowledged it. The three could slightly hear what they were talking about but not enough to know any of the details
(Draco's table)
Draco was surprised when he saw that Fishlegs has taken a seat in front of him as if they were friends. Draco looks up at Fishlegs and asks, "May I help you?"
"I came to ask how you were doing after last night, with the storm I mean?"
"I was fine thank you, but you don't have to worry about me, where I come from storms there are a lot worse then what we had last night" Draco didn't really mind the storm too much, but he did have a rough night of sleeping.
"Here we get blizzards that traps up inside for days or weeks, so I guess you can say that last nights storm was mild"
"Are thunderstorm are a lot worse, it rains down so hard that you wouldn't be able to see anything a couple of feet in front of you" this seems like it's becoming an argument, at least that's what it seemed like.
"If we got rain like that I don't think there would be a Berk to live on" Draco wasn't going to be able to get rid of this guy is he. He closes his journal and places it under his armor.
"Ok, it seems like you came over here to talk about more then just seeing how I was doing" Draco doesn't like when people beat around the bush it's irritating when they do.
"That's all, I didn't have any other motive" he made it obvious that he's lying.
"Fishlegs, I know you're lying so you might as well spill it"
Fishlegs sighed and said "Well, I was wondering if you could tell me some more about your home" Draco say this coming.
"I don't know what else to tell you, my home is at war, has a lot of tombs and abandoned structures scattered everywhere, we have bandits and thugs, have our share of dragons, there's not really much different from anywhere else in the world" most of that was true but if they knew about all of the magic and undead then it would be a lot more to say.
"Tombs sound interesting, what are those?" Draco looked at him with a questioning look on his face.
"You don't know what tombs are?" Fishlegs shook his head.
"Tombs are resting places" Fishlegs quickly went from interested to frightened.
"You mean the dead?" Draco nodded.
"Why in the world would you go into a tomb if its for the dead?"
"We were sent there to retrieve something for someone" Draco could see where this might be going.
"What did you have to go retrieve? And what do you mean by we? You weren't alone?" Draco shook his head.
"No, I was with three others, Sal, Raven and Nima and for what we had to retrieve was a necklace that some raiders stole and used this tomb as a hideout" that was pretty much a huge lie, but they don't know that.
"Were you able to get the necklace back?" Draco nodded.
"Yes, we did but getting there was a pain with all the traps and all"
"W-Would it be alright if I can ask to hear the story?" he was afraid of this, but he asked for it for answering his questions. Fishlegs isnt a bad guy so he thought it would be alright to tell him, but he was hoping that he didn't want to hear it due to it being tombs since he's pretty scared of things like that.
"I guess it wouldn't be to much but it's quiet a gruesome story" he was hoping by saying that Fishlegs would change his mind but it didn't seem to have worked.
"I-I'll try to handle the details"
Draco sighed then said "Ok, you'll have to be quite and wait till the end to ask questions, ok?" Fishlegs nodded his head.
Draco took a deep breath and began to tell their story…
(Flashback)
Draco along with Raven, Sal, and Nima were sent to retrieve a family necklace that was stolen by a group of bandits. The bandits are hiding out at 'Ironbind Barrow' the tomb was a little bit north of Heljarchen. They've passed by the tomb a couple of times in the past but never went through it since there was no reason to but now they have a reason.
The four of them stood under a stone archway with stone stairs leading up to the tombs entrance. It was a cold night when they arrived which made it a little bit creepy from where they stood. With no torches or any light source, it made it kind of hard to tell if anyone was around.
"Are we sure that they're here?" Raven asked holding her fur coat tighter trying to keep herself warm from the harsh winter air.
"From what the farmer said he saw them head in this direction but that's all he knew" Sal commented.
"That doesn't mean that they came here" Raven snaps.
"We may not know everything, but we have to check it out just in case, if they're not here then we'll leave and check the surrounding areas" Draco comments. Raven wasn't complaining about going into the tomb but more of how cold it is and when it's this cold out the tombs will have a constant breeze flowing through.
"Fine but can we hurry up and get inside, I'm freezing out here" Raven took the lead walking ahead of the others.
Draco noticed that Nima hasn't said anything as of late "Something wrong?" He turns around looking at Nima. She shakes her head and says "No, I'm just keeping an ear out for any sign of bandits and so far, I'm not hearing much except birds, wind, and deer"
Sal then spoke "Draco, look" Draco turns back to the front and saw an entrance to a cave.
"This is the tomb?" Raven questioned.
"The tomb is most likely inside the cave, like Blackreach"
"Man, I hate those kind, close quarters are not my strong suit" Raven complains.
"We're going to have to get you trained in swordplay" Draco stats like it's a guarantee that'll it happen after this. Raven didn't really care for swordplay but with places like these or just inside small quarters she'll have to learn something else eventually.
The four enters the cave, upon entering the cave Draco stepped on something in front of him. looking down to see that it was a body of one of the bandits "Looks like we're in the right place" Draco comments pulling out his sword ready for anything.
"There's something up ahead" Nima calls out. Everyone else followed Draco's lead and took out their weapons.
"What is it?" Sal questions.
"It sounds like…" she pauses.
Before she could resume his questioned was answered when everyone else began to hear the sound of crawling. This sound Gave Sal and Raven goosebumps knowing too well what that sound means.
"Why does it have to be frostbite spiders" she falls back behind Sal bow at the ready.
As the sound got closer it began to sound like there was more than one…
"What's a frostbite spider?" Fishlegs interrupts. Draco looks at him with a look saying 'really?' Fishlegs shuts his mouth and lets Draco continue.
Coming from around the corner came two giant frostbite spiders which spotted the four and attacked them jumping for Sal and Draco. The two held up their swords in front of them blocking the spiders attacks.
"Raven fire your bow at the eyes" Draco ordered. She hesitated at first since she's not a big fan of these things, but she released her bow letting the arrow fly right into the spider's eye knocking it back.
Draco turns his attention over to the other one that Sal was having a hard time pushing back and slashed at it cutting it down from the side.
"Thanks" Sal thanked but the other spider recovered and spat some webs at Sal trapping him.
"Raven, Nima, get Sal out of there, I'll hold this thing off" Draco charges for the spider while the girls unwrapped Sal.
When the spider saw Draco charging it jumped back and shot some webbing at him, but he dashed over to the side dodging the web but almost hitting the wall in the process. He charges for the spider again and this time the spider jumped at him. that was a bad move on the spiders part. While in the air Draco ducks under it and once under the spider he stabs his sword right under the spiders head killing it instantly. The spiders body fell on top of Draco which gave him the shivers.
"Ok, can someone help me out?" he asked. Nima was the one to answer his call and helped him push the thing off of him.
"I hate those things" Draco comments getting up off the ground wiping the spiders blood somewhat off him.
"Now so do I" Sal agrees finally free of the webs.
"Do we really have to continue?" Raven asked.
"Yes, but we'll need to be on watch from here on out" Raven groaned but followed Draco and the others as they go further into the cave.
Walking down a slope not fa from where they entered they came up to a small chamber with webs hanging everywhere as well as dead bodies of both frostbite spiders and bandits.
"Looks like the bandits did the job us" Raven comments sounding relieved.
"Yea but that then leaves us with the bandits" the four slowly walks through the webbed chamber keeping an eye out for any other signs of frostbite spiders.
Going down further into the cave leaving the first chamber they came up to a short icy hallway leading into another chamber where they can see another corpse of a dead frostbite spider lying on the ground but this time there was no bandit body laying along with it. this chamber was also filled with webs but that wasn't the only thing in here, there was a small pillar with a bowl with fire burning from it.
"They've been through here alright" Sal comments.
"They're not far up ahead either" Nima stats. The four continued on passing the dead frostbite spider but not without getting chills from just looking at the thing.
Walking through another icy hallway they eventually came out into another chamber, but this was much bigger then the first two. This one also had a stone structure built within the chamber.
"That's the tomb" Sal looks over to Raven which glared at him.
They stood there to look over the chamber and saw a couple of lit candles on what looks like candle stands "Have you ever wondered why they bring these in places like these and just leave them here?" Sal questioned. No one answered.
"Can you hear anything Nima?" Draco asks.
"Yes, they're just right passed the entrance, but the sound is fading, they're going further down into the tomb" she says.
"If that's the case we need to hurry up before they go to far" they made their way over to the stone steps that led up into the stone tombs entrance.
Upon reaching the top, they saw that the door was already open. They looked down the stone hallway with stone steps going further down but it ends in what looks like a room. More candles were already lit as they walked down the steps.
"What do you think they're doing here?" Sal asked.
"From what the farmer says, they're using it as a hideout but from it looks like they're just now getting here"
"So, you think that somethings up?" Draco shook his head.
"No, that's because the ones he's probably seen were the scouts, he never really did get close enough to see if they were using it as a camp or not"
"He was just assuming pretty much?" Raven comments. Draco nodded his head "Yep"
The four entered the room at the end of the steps and from the state of the room the bandits were already here, and it wasn't too long ago. In the middle of the room was a trap door with on the ground that was still closed.
"Be careful and don't stop on the door" Draco warned.
Looking around the room a little bit more they could see a couple of stone coffins doors on the floor and the bodies in them were on the ground as well. There were also a couple of tables with some busted bottles of wine.
"Man, what a waste" Raven comments looking at the broken wine bottles.
At the far top end corner was another door leading into a hallway. Draco was the first to enter the hallway, on the right was a dead end and on the left the hall continues but goes around a corner.
Draco turns the corner and sees that the hallway leads to another set of steps "Hey guys, the tomb goes further down" he calls out looking back into the first room. The other three dropped what they're doing and catches up with Draco as he continues down the new hall.
Going down the new set of steps they saw a dead skeever laying down on the ground in it's own pool of blood and further ahead was a small room with a chest on a stone table, but it was already opened and looted.
"Damn, was kind of hoping to find something good in here" Sal cursed closing the chest.
"We'll find something, it just takes patience of finding it" Draco turns down another hallway that went down another set of steps which the hall turns to the right.
The next room they entered was much bigger with a small stone bridge leading to the other side of the room that had a couple of stone shelves with a couple of items. Raven runs over the bridge to go check out the items with Sal not far behind her while Draco and Nima walk down a wooden ramp that reaches the bottom floor with another open door.
"How far are they?" Draco asks Nima.
"Not far, we've been on their heels for a while now but from the sound of it the tomb is coming closer to an end since their voices are echoing back" she replies.
"Then that's where we'll get them" Draco and Nima continue to move on ahead leaving both Sal and Raven to what they're doing.
The hallway they walked was smaller then the others entering another chamber with a big fire pit lit. Within the room besides the fire pit was a couple of stone coffins and more shelves with more items laid out on them and this time he could see said items.
Some of the items were a couple of bottles, burnt books, erns, and coin purses. He walks over to the shelves and takes the bottles and coin purses leaving the other things.
"Hey Draco, they're just up ahead" Nima was standing in front of two big wooden doors that were wide open. Draco heads over and stands next to her.
When looking down the hall he could see the light from torches flickering at the other side of the hall. Though at the end of the hall they also could see a dead bandit pierced with metal spikes through his body.
"At least we don't have to worry about that" Raven speaks from behind Draco.
"What did you guys find?" he asks.
"Not much just a dagger and a couple of coin purses but that's pretty much it" Sal answers as he enters the room.
"Maybe you'll find more within the next room"
"Are we getting closer?" Sal asks.
"Yes, from what Nima says that the hall ends at some point and we're getting closer to the end"
"Well, what are we waiting for, lets get this over with" Raven said a little too excitedly and begins to walk down the hall bow in hand. The others follow close on her heels.
At the end of the hall which led into another small hall leading into a massive chamber. Within the chamber was four massive pillars in the middle of the room separated by a couple of feet. There were also stone steps leading down into the bottom layer of the room and at the other side of the room was a stone throne with two things connected to the back of the throne.
Looking down to the lower floor below them they saw the bandits that they were looking for. There were only five bandits left and they look like they're looking for something, but they won't find it because Raven lets two arrows fly hitting two bandits that were standing close to each other knocking them back then falls to the floor at the feet of the other bandits.
The remaining bandits saw the four and pulls out their weapons two holding sword and shield and the other was clad in armor and carrying a heavy silver hammer. Draco, Sal, and Nima runs down the steps engaging the bandits in a fight.
While swords were clashing Raven was shooting arrows from the top of the steps. She was able to hit one but with here other friends in the way she couldn't hit the others.
Nima and Sal were fighting the last sword and shield bandit leaving Draco with the cladded armored bandit.
"You're going to die here with your friends" the bandit threatens Draco, but Draco didn't take him seriously and says "How, you're the only one left alive" he comments. The bandit while holding Draco back with his hammer and Draco's sword pushing each other back and looks around and sees that all of his men was dead, and Draco's friends were the only ones alive.
Before the bandit could look back at Draco an arrow pierced right through his head killing him instantly. The body of the bandit falls down onto the floor with a thud.
"Well, I guess the only thing left is to get the necklace and get out of here" Raven says.
"Don't you want to loot the bodies and look around the room?" Draco questions. From the look on her face it seems like she forgot.
"You're right" she bolts over to the other side of the room with the throne while Draco, Sal and Nima stayed down below.
"Hey Draco, looks like there's another door" Sal points out.
The three looks at the door to see that it was still closed "I guess we stopped them before they could go through the door" Draco comments walking over to the door.
Upon opening the door revealed a set of stone steps leading up to a spiral wooden stair case "Hey Sal! Come help me for a second" Raven calls out. Sal looks at Draco and he nodded.
Draco and Nima went on ahead and went up the stone steps then the wooden spiral stair case. While they walked up Draco began to wondered why Nima hasn't said much since they've been here.
"Nima, is something wrong?" he asks stopping he ascend. She stops, looking passed him.
"No, I'm just thinking" the way she answered Draco could tell that something else is up. He turns to look at her.
"Nima you can tell me, if somethings wrong you can…"
(End of Flashback)
Draco stopped his story remembering what happened afterwards and thinks that he shouldn't tell him… well now them, about what happened. While telling his story Gobber, the twins, Hiccup, Stoick, and some more of the villagers have gathered around to hear his story.
"What 'appened next lad?" Gobber asks.
"You can pretty much guess, we went back to the farmer and gave him back the necklace and as for the reward we got five hundred gold splits between the four of us" he skipped a lot more of that story, but he couldn't tell anymore without more questions coming up.
"Five 'aundred, that's quite a lot of gold" some of the people around especially the twins looked like they were lost in their own thoughts, probably thinking of all the things that they could do with that kind of gold.
"Well, that wasn't the only thing we gained, we found some goodies as we walked through that tomb, especially when Raven found a chest next to the throne and within it was around six thousand worth of gold items, we sold most of it while we kept the others since they were gear and weapons" that's when everyone's jaws dropped, figuratively.
"Lad, with that much gold you could by a large plot of land" Draco didn't seem surprised since this part of the world doesn't get to see a lot of gold so using other means of trade and money are the only thing that they know.
One of the villagers that sat across from him came out and asked, "What's the most amount of gold have you seen or had when you were still home?"
He knows that this is going to make them loose their minds, he couldn't help but grin a little and said "The most we've had was seventy-eight thousand four hundred and sixty-three gold and that was just me alone, all together it was a lot more, but I won't say what it was"
Nobody could believe what they were hearing even if he may not have proof but just hearing that amount of gold was a lot to hear. Gobber on the other hand took a huge swig from his mug and said "Lad, if you had all of that gold with you, you could…"
"You could buy all of Berk and even be chief and still have gold left over" a random village finishes Gobber's sentence.
Draco chuckles "That's kind of the same thing we were told back home but we didn't want anything like that and just kept to the home we had"
"Um… what about the Frostbite Spiders? Do you have a drawing of what they look like?" Fishlegs asks. Draco pulls out his journal, flips through the pages until he lands on the pages of the Frostbite Spiders.
He hands it over to Fishlegs whom scans the pages. He expression changes from excitement to horror "T-That's n-not possible" he whispers with a shakey voice.
"It is sadly, those are some nasty creatures and not what you want to fight alone" the people that were close to Fishlegs hovered over him getting a good look at the drawings.
"They have nests?" asks one of the villagers.
He must have noticed the little bit of writing about the Frostbite Spiders having nest. Draco nodded "Yes, they have nests and they can get pretty large"
"Have you been in one?" he nods again.
"Yes but I don't think you'll want to hear it, it's quiet creepy" he says hoping that they wouldn't want to hear it. To his disappointment they wanted to hear it.
"Fine (sighs) but like the other no talking during, got it?" everyone nods.
He begins to tell the story "We were sent to clean out a cave named the Cronvangr Broodlair…"
(Flashback)
The Cronvangr Broodlair was a cave just south of Windhelm, not is much known of the cave, at least to Draco and his friends but when they were offered money to clear it out they agreed but what they didn't know was that it was full of Frostbite Spiders until after they agreed.
When the bit of details about the mission was given, especially about the spiders both Niman and Raven quickly said that they're going to sit this one out not wanting anything to do with spiders. If they knew it had to do with Frostbite Spiders they would've denied but it's to late now.
It just left Sal and Draco to do the mission which is sometimes rare just for the two of them to do something by themselves but they didn't have a choice since the girls noped out of the mission.
"Do you know why they might want to have it cleaned out?" Draco asks Sal.
With very little detail of why Sal threw out some possible ideas "Maybe something's hidden in it or some treasure is there? I can't really say, I didn't even know that a cave like that exsited"
"Neither did I but we haven't seen all of Skyrim so there could be some places that we've never seen before and we would've never known"
"You got me there"
"Do you think Raven and Nima are going to cause trouble while we're down there?" Draco wonders.
"Maybe, this is Raven and Nima we're talking about" the two chuckled.
"True, but I wondered what would happen if we got stuck down there, would they come find us or just leave us?"
"Probably leave us, Raven is terrified by spiders especially big ones" Draco didn't like spiders either but this job is paying well so he had to suck it up.
"What about Nima?"
Sal shrugs "Don't know but I wouldn't put to much trust in her to save us either"
"So we're on our on then?" Sal nods.
"Well shit, that sucks"
"Yea it does but look on the bright side, more for us"
"True but you know how Raven will be if she doesn't get something out of this" the last time she didn't get something that she wasn't a part of she got mad and threw a fit.
"I guess we'll have to think of something then, but I think this is the place" Draco looks over to what looks like giant spider eggs at the entrance of a cave but they seem to have already have hatched.
"Seems like" the two friends slowly make their way up to the cave entrance and poked their heads in to see if they could see anything but it was too dark.
Seeing that they can't see anything they begin their slow decent into the dark cave with weapons in hand. On their way in they could already begin to hear what sounds like something walking around up ahead.
"Be on guard, there's something up ahead" Sal nods.
The duo turned the corner that lead into a large chamber that had a few medium sized Frostbite Spiders. The spiders noticed the duo and spat some of their webs at them. Draco and Sal barely dodged them.
After regaining their footing the two charged the spiders cutting them down with some ease "Was that it?" Draco asks.
"I don't think so, look" he points towards tunnel that goes down deeper into the cave.
"Damnit" Draco curses.
The duo continues forward heading down the narrow tunnel that exited into a much larger chamber that goes further down with what sounds like a pool of water at the bottom but while looking down they noticed that there were a dozen Frostbite spiders following the edge of the path that would lead thm down.
"Why did it have to be spiders?" Draco whispers to himself.
Not wanting to stay in here for to long they chargered forwards gaining all of the attention from the spiders to which they all began to spit out their webs hoping to stop the duo in their tracks but it wasn't going to stop them that easily.
One by one they cut down the spiders all the way down to the bottom which of course had another tunnel that went further down into the cave. The futher they went the more spiders they cut down until they came up to another large chamber but this one was filled with eggs and at the end of the room was some bodies and a large chest.
"I guess someone was going to hide some treasure down here but got attacked by the spiders but it also looks to have some ore veins down here too, that could be the reason they wanted it cleared out" Draco says examing the room.
What they didn't know was that a massive Frostbite Spider was slowly coming down from the ceiling hovering above Draco. Sal was the one to notice it and yelled to Draco "LOOK UP!"
Draco quickly looks up coming face to face with the large creature. This made him swing at it without thinking slicing it's face damaging some of its eyes. Sal ran up and stabbed it through the belly it let out a screech.
Draco then shoves his blade through its head killing it. The spider fell with a thud "Thank you, I would've been spider food"
"No problem, now lets see what's in that chest"
(End of Flashback)
"After looking through the chest and taking its contents we returned to Windhelm and reported that the cave was cleaned out" he finishes the story.
"What was the reward?"
"Some gold and a new weapon" Draco looks over to the doors and notices that it was already dark outside.
"Sorry but I'm going to be cutting this short I think it's time for me to go, it seems like whenever telling stories of my adventures time just flies by and now its time for me to get some actually good sleep since it stopped raining" some people groaned in disappointment not wanting him to stop telling stories.
"Alright, alright, he's right, we all should head on home and get some good rest, then we can resume working on getting Berk repaired and get ready to sail out" Draco stood up grabbing his things.
"Where are you sailing too?" Draco asks.
"Well, not me but the fishermen, they were going to head out today but with the storm from last night some of the boats got damaged and set us back" Stoick answers.
"Ok, well, I'll see you tomorrow, oh and Hiccup" he looks at said boy and says, "Be at the arena tomorrow at sunrise, your training was going to be today, but we got caught up with the storm" Hiccup nods.
With nothing else to say he leaves the crowded table leaving the hall leaving the villagers to want to hear more about his adventures from his home.
"Who knew someone could 'ave that much gold, I wouldn't even know what to do with that much" Gobber comments finishing off his mug.
"Neither would I but it would be useful to anyone but money like that does come with it's dangers" Gobber couldn't agree more "Yea, it could last a village a life time on that kind of gold but would draw attention"
Stoick began to think up something but that was quickly interrupted by Gobber speaking again "I wonder, should we try that old mine shaft again, maybe we missed something" the mine shaft Gobber's talking about is an old one about thirty years ago until they stopped using it when an accident with one of the villagers happened but when he came back he never spoke about it, so he decided to shut it down.
"I think we should go check it out, we didn't the first time but now I think we should" Gobber suggests.
Stoick didn't have anything to say to his friend leaving his friends side walking out of the hall. Gobber sat there knowing that Stoick will over think it but this is right now the only way to hold him back with making the fishermen head out to sea.
He's worried of that because the dragons haven't attacked for a while now and it was beginning to make him worry that something big is going to happen or it's probably just paranoia getting to him.
He shook his head clearing his head of his thoughts and decided to head on home to get some sleep for tomorrow.