#definitly Lizard

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

heylin lizard dragon prince of darkness who

[crabspotting]

Sudden onset lightning storm aka time to go risk my life for this fucking iguana again

[hymnoire]

use this generator to create some randomly generated headcanons for your muse(s)!

Gaya is a sleepwalker. (When she loses her humanity and becomes half artificial intelligence, yes. )

Gaya desperately needs a hug but doesn't know it and refuses to ask for one. (Obviously. May she find the One who will give her hugs without her having to ask.)

Gaya has an embarrassing old deviant art account. (Super girly and glittery - she was trying to fit in at thirteen. )

Gaya is the gay cousin. (HAHAHAHAHA KIND OF. But Bi. Bi cousin. )

Gaya has punched a hole in their wall. (Terrible anger management so many)

Kaeleena tackles and wrestles people to show affection. (Almost. She slices their skull open and fixes their memories of trauma. )

Kaeleena is a very good singer. (She sings lullabies to her pet projects, they're the only ones who ever heard her singing. Melodic and frightening.)

Kaeleena can't make the voices go away. (HAHAHAHAHA WELL.)

Kaeleena reads wattpad. (False. She writes her own wattpad stories where she's the main character, it's well written, deranged yet surprisingly corny.)

Kaeleena has a pet lizard. (Definitly named after her lover)

Taken from : @certifiably-i !

Tagging : @murderugh (Minwoo) @mercifuldeliverance (Ker Leto Janus)

[lucin-kun]

Another thing that's sad is all the paradox pokemon like for the legendarys koraidon is the primal version of cythazar (whatever that middle lizard is) and that same lizard is a domesticated version of koraidon, while miraidon is so domesticated to the point where the humans turned into a robot.

Same goes for the paradox pokemon, all of the scarlet version are like a dinosaur but had to evolve to live in the current world while the violet version where all biological life is no more everything is robot to better live in the future.

And what I think about when you go into the crater that the fog is generated by the crystals in the crater that it perverse all pokemon, but some pokemon didn't need to evolve to survive the current world.

(I like how we're just ranting on about pokemon scarlet and violet)

(Me too buddy)

Yes definitly

I think a lot about the paradox pokemons

It's on top of my "I need to know more about this" list in pokemon along side the celestical people/ruins in Legend Arceus

Then again, I'm thinking more about the paradox pokemons in violet then scarlet

Even though the scarlet ones are really awesome and I prefer those over the violet ones (but those look sick as hell aswell) I'm still wondering how they came to be

You said it yourself about the scarlet paradox pokemons

They had to evolve and change to fit into the modern world. It most likely it has to be about how nature changed and that those paradox pokemons maybe haven't lasted long if they stayed as they were

But what about the violet ones

Did they also change and evolve to fit into the new world or were pokemon slowly dying and the only way to keep them alive is to turn them into robots?

And then again with the paradox pokemons in scarlet, how far in the past did they lived?

Are there perhaps even older versions of pokemons we don't know yet

Like I assume the oldest evolution of a pokemon are the hisui version of Dialga and Palkia

And with Area Zero, I'm assuming that that was the kind of nature the paradox pokemons are able to live in, the scarlet ones atleast

The violet ones perhaps don't really need to get used to a new environment

[the-what-but-not-the-when]

Those That Wander   -   Part 1

Summary: Lizzie’s life is almost complete.  With a husband, a daughter, and limited trips to the Underland her life is pretty great.  She only wants one more thing, Hazard.  Hazard is a runner.  He’s been pretty much everywhere but never for long.  He doesn’t want relationships and he doesn’t want a home.  He doesn’t want to be hurt.  But maybe it’s time to try again.

“Kanpai!”  Hazard led the strangers sitting beside him at the bar in a toast.  It was late into the night, but the group was still lively, though the man on his right had fallen asleep on his plate.  Hazard’s phone rang, interrupting the terrible impromptu karaoke session that had broken out.  He stumbled out into the cold air and had to close one eye in order to correctly position his finger to answer the phone.

“I’m sorry it’s so late Hazard.”  The tinny voice said through his phone.

“ s’okay.  I’m still awake.”  Hazard replied, sitting down against the wall.

Lizzie giggled from the other side of the world. He loved her giggle.  “Having fun on your last night in Japan?”

“Of course,” Hazard picked a leaf up off the sidewalk and crumbled it in his hand, “Yea, I’m gonna miss this place’s squid.”

“Well I’ll let you get back to eating then,” she said with laughter still in her voice, “I just wanted to double check the plan for tomorrow.  You know how Boots is.  She always thinks things will just work out without knowing the specifics.  Even international travel somehow.”  Lizzie sighed, “though I don’t know how much help you’ll be drunk.” 

“She’s gonna get there after me so she’s right, it’ll all be fine.” Hazard finished in sing-song, releasing the leaf to the wind. “I’ma pick her up from the gate and everything.”  Hazard said in tune to the song floating out the door beside him.

“Okay,” Lizzie said hesitantly, “I gave her all of the information for the hotel,” Hazard scoffed so loudly a group looked at him from across the street.  “Please, Hazard, a hotel.  For my sanity.”  

Hazard never used hotels.  Hotels weren’t a way to live life.

“There is nothing wrong with sleeping in a hotel. I need to know where you guys will be, please.”

“Fine.”  It was more of a grunt than a concession.  Hazard could never say no to her, but her concern for Boots only angered him more.  He was so jealous of their family.  He wished he could talk to Lizzie more, but her life upset him too much. 

She was happy.  She had her family.  She had started her own family.  She had parents, siblings, a husband, a daughter.  All in a perfect equilibrium between the Overland and the Underland. Hazard had no one.

He hadn’t been back to New York since he left over a decade ago.  He had barely even been back to North America at all.  Hazard knew he was running from his problems, but it was so much easier than the alternative.  Why think about his dead family and war torn home when he could visit so many different places?

 Constantly learning everything about a new culture was the perfect distraction.  He had been in Asia since hearing Lizzie was getting married.  He didn’t have the courage to go.  He still had the present he had gotten for them.  Lizzie and the mystery man.  He had gotten them the same thing he had gotten Gregor and Luxa, though he never sent them theirs either.  He thought briefly about sending back the many gifts he had gotten for all of them over the years with Boots after her vacation with him in Australia, but he knew he would never follow through.  

 They would sit in storage in Spain forever, probably.

Hazard jumped when he heard the mumble come from the phone.  He had forgotten he was talking on it.  He raised it back to his ear, “Huh?”

“Do you have enough money?”

 “Yes, I’m fine.” Hazard regretted how angry he sounded, until he remembered Lizzie’s perfect life and the anger returned.

“Okay,” Lizzie said, her voice soft from his tone, “I’m going to send some anyway.  Let me know when you guys check in, please.  Stay safe, Hazard.”

Hazard pictured the bank account Lizzie often put money into.  He barely used it, he didn’t need it.  He had no idea what he wanted to do with it.  It just sat there, a number in an app on his phone.  

“I will.”

They were both quiet.

“Goodbye, Hazard.”

  “Goodbye, Lizzie.”  Hazard dropped the phone to his lap.  “I miss you.” He said into the night.  “All of you.”

He struggled to stand, throwing his phone into his pocket and heading inside to finish his drink.

“Girl problems, eh?” the bartender asked, prompting everyone at the bar to “oooooh.”

Hazard laughed, “Oh I lost this girl a long time ago when I continually kept an ocean between us.”  He finished his drink and slammed the empty glass onto the table. He gestured for another and started another conversation in Japanese to get the focus off him.

The bartender poured them all fresh drinks and a smile crept back onto Hazard’s face as they shouted, “Kanpai!”

Lizzie couldn’t get herself to hang up the phone.  She sat at her kitchen table surrounded by maps and receipts for Boots’s trip.  She knew Hazard thought they had hung up, she was listening to the muffled sounds of his fun from what sounded like his pocket.

Her tears had dried from hearing what Hazard had said after they said their goodbyes, but it was hard to lift her head from her hands.  She really hoped Boots would be able to convince Hazard to come back.  To come home.

A car door slammed outside and she knew it was Boots. Lizzie’s husband Drew and their daughter were visiting his parents for the day.  Lizzie had told Boots to be there by noon, but of course she was a half an hour late.  They didn’t need to leave for another hour though, Lizzie made sure Boots wouldn’t miss her flight.

Boots opened the front door and Lizzie finally hung up.  She didn’t need Boots making fun of her.  

  “Sister!”  Boots yelled, struggling to fit through the door with her luggage.

“In here,” Lizzie replied, neatly putting all the papers into a folder.

“’Ello, mate!” Boots said in a terrible Australian accent while she enveloped Lizzie in a hug, “Let’s go!”

She dragged Lizzie out of the house and they went to the airport.  Lizzie loved how numbing Boots’ company was.  She talked so much and never needed any input.  It was so easy to forget about Hazard.

They stopped to eat before Boots went through security and Lizzie used the time to write a letter begging Hazard to come back, at least to visit.  She knew he was hurting.  He needed friends and family.  He needed to stop running.

She gave Boots the third draft of the letter, making her pinky promise not to read it.

She sat in her car until Boots took off.  She mindlessly folded laundry when she got home, stopping halfway through just to stare at the wall.  She stood up suddenly and headed toward her closet.  She knew exactly where the safe was.  She almost never opened it, but she and her husband fought over it all the time.

He knew nothing of the Underland.  A decision she was never sure if it was the right one. She loved having a place free from the Underland, but she was never truly free.  The memories never faded.  

Her husband refused to accept that she needed to keep secrets.  Only one secret.  Which she kept the memories of in the small safe.

She unlocked it and pulled out the small pieces of paper inside.  A scrap of code.  Some letters. Pictures from when they were little, from Gregor and Luxa’s wedding, their coronation.  A recipe for shrimp in crème sauce.

Lizzie stared at the pictures, cracking a smile at their younger selves.  Even though she remembered those days clearly, it was strange seeing the Underlanders.  The humans see through skin and the giant animals.  

She looked closely at the pictures with Hazard, still young and pale.  It was hard to see any resemblance to the man he was today.

She was such a hypocrite for asking him to come back. She barely saw her family and her husband didn’t even know about the Underland. It just didn’t feel right that Hazard was alone.  Then again, nothing ever really felt right.

Lizzie went to sleep early, barely waking up when her family got home.  She woke up to a text from Hazard with a picture of her unopened letter and a winky face.  He had sent it an hour ago.

Lizzie showered wondering what his silence could mean. Had she been too blunt?  Or not enough? She grabbed fresh clothes from the dresser and headed to the nursery where her daughter, Della, was already awake. Lizzie couldn’t not smile when her daughter smiled.  Her dark curly hair and wide eyes looked so like her and Boots as babies.

Lizzie made breakfast on autopilot, still thinking about how Hazard would react.  Her husband, Drew, waddled into the kitchen with an adorable bed head and kissed Lizzie on the temple on his way to the coffee pot.  

He noticed immediately something was wrong, but she used Boots as a cover.  It was nerve wracking when Lizzie thought of her naïve sister traveling abroad, but she knew Boots would be safe with Hazard.  She really just wanted Hazard to come back.  They all did.  Lizzie really missed him though.

Lizzie scooped Della out of her high chair while her husband went to shower.  Her daughter was an amazing distraction and it seemed like seconds before Drew called for her from the bedroom.

“Liz? You, uh, you left it out.”  Lizzie’s heart dropped, her stomach erupting in nerves. “And open.”  He finished. She turned around to see him with a handful of pictures, his face blank with surprise.

[egglygreg]

It's funny rereading Deltora Quest and realizing how many Australian refrences I missed as a kid. There's things like Gellick, the giant toad, which is clearly inspired by the dreamtime story about Tidallick the frog, or the kin, who are marsupials with pouches. There are lizards in the shifting sands with blue tongues, and the sand itself is red. I'm almost certain Filli is a possum or little marsupial creature of some sort.

Also while definitly not on purpose, the fact that the paddle steamer in Maze of the Beast is called the River Queen makes me laugh, because there's a paddle steamer restaurant here on the Murray River I've been on a bunch of times called the River Queen 😂

[angryducktimemachine]

Have nothing else to post so have this wonderful character design evolution of my lizard boy Conroe.

I made his Star Wars design in the beginning of 2018 (first picture), then it got better (like,, October 2018, when he joined the Devaron‘s Angels) and his design now!

I think Conroe is one of the designs I am definitly one of the proudest of!

[razziebean]

I asked my 6 year old sister about the Arcana characters, part 6

What’s Her Name?:

Ivy

What’s Her Job?:

(very happily) She’s a mechanic!

What’s Her Favourite Thing to Do?:

Sister: Talk to people when she can...

Me, a nervous older sister thinking she’s talking about Portia having limited time on this earth: What do you mean?

Sister: (smiles) She talks when she’s on a break!

Is She Pretty?:

Yes, her hair looks like mine! (actually looks at her own hair) Well, sort of*...

Does She Have a Pet?:

No (No?) Well, yes. A turtle. (Are you sure?) No, a lizard! No, turtle. Wait, a bat! (looks closer) Nope, definitly a turtle! It can crawl all over her like (makes skittery noises)

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*’sort of’, because she has very curly brown hair with reddish streaks. I really love both Portia and my sister’s hair. But not when she’s brushing it lol

[teechew]

I was tagged by  @ratchet-says-i-needed-that I'm not sure how it work tho so I answer their questions and make 11 new ones, right ? <:3c

1. Favourite Chocolate Bar? Oh hum I... I'd say Mars. Tho I really like Bounty or Milkyway... I CANNOT CHOOSE DON'T MAKE ME !!

2. Was there a thing you enjoyed when you were a preteen (tv, comic, book) but can’t understand how you like it then? I used to like the books from Werber. I read most of them but nowaday i just think they're a bit overratted and I can't remember what I liked in them back then.

3. Favourite incarnation of Optimus? If you have one? Mmmmmmh I like them all but i'd have to say the Bayverse one cause : - hot diggidy flaming titties ! - the very first Optimus I was properly introduced to and he made quite the impression. (TFP Optimus is right behind him tho!)

4. If there was one thing, you could change in the bay movies what would it be? HOW COULD YOU KILL RATCHET HE DID LITERALLY NOTHING BUT BEING AROUND AND SUPPORTIVE ! BRING HIM BACK !

5.Favourite thing you know from the 1980’s I wasn't born for most of it... But I inherit of my big sister's 'colorful' sweaters and jackets.

6. Opinion on Country music? I kinda like it. Definitly would silly-dance on them !

7.Would you rather drink a glass of milk or a can of coke? Uuuh what the trick ? I can drink both with no problem I... if i have to choose I'd say coke but I do drink milk daily so... *shrug*

8.Where do you think the missing socks from your laundry disappear off too? The scientist explanation of it is : just so the orphan sock could be paired with their missmatch soulmate !

9.You rather have 5 cats or 5 lizards? Cats please !

10.Is the right to freedom of all sentinel beings correct? Sentinel can die like the tiny deshydrated bitchead he is !

11.I’m tired and refuse to sleep, are you? No. My one and true love is my pillow so you can be sure I spend a lots of time with him !

My questions will be : 1- Do you like plushies ? If yes, what's your favorite animal/thing to get ?

2- What do you prefer to be paired with chocolate : mint or orange ?

3- What's your fav legendary animal ? Why ?

4- Callie or Marie ? (from Splatoon)

5- Favorite fashion aesthetic ?

6- Favorite romantic troop ?

7- Favorite succulent ?

8- What is your current fandom ? Why ? What do you like in it ?

9- Car ? Truck ? Or jet ?

10- Disposable tissues or fabric ones ?

11- ARE YOU READY TO MCFRICKKIN LOSE IT ON NEXT LL ISSUE ?!

I’ll tag @lupusdraconis @auggusst @vaard @maz-i @mori-sketchbook @mageheart @inayaeza @insert-nerdy-username-here

[stressedout-jellicle-dad]

Calm down calm down (definitly not calm himself)

He's not poisoned...I think. We just need to get the lizard off his ear...

-steps carefully and cautiously around the lizard tail- and I don't want you touching that

-gently tries to pull the lizard off, hoping it just needs a little tug to let go but also trying to be careful not to hurt pouncival more -

@pouncifail

[antagonesth]

Let me entertain you? || short stack/viper

Esther was incredibly bored. A quick glance up in the bright sky told her that it had to be atleast afternoon already, they had been digging for quite the while out there in the heat. Esther dropped the shovel and decided to take a two minute break, she had come pretty far already and after being here for a longer time she had found out that taking a small break was indeed very effective. Esther crossed her arms, leaned against the sandy wall of her already decent looking hole, sitting down would do no good, and took a look at her surroundings. Most of the chicks were busy digging, some of them were quietly talking to each other but Esther was too far away to eavesdrop. God, she needed some entertainment if she didn't want her short break to be as uninteresting as the digging job. She was wasting her time in this fucking bootcamp since August and seemingly nothing interesting had happened so far.

At some point Esther got tired of watching the others and decided to focus on the girl that was digging right next to her. Short stack was the name, she had arrived roughly two years ago. Rumors had it she killed some people in a fire, definitly one of the most interesting crimes around here. And one of the dumbest. Short stack was... well, short. Pretty curls, cute face, probably popular around the guys. They had never interacted much during the time since Esther arrived and the asian girl was of curious about the smaller girl. She watched her for a while in silence, a lazy grin on her dirty face. It didn't take long until she got shorty's attention. Esther leaned forward, squinted her eyes and focused on a spot behind the other girl. Let's see how much of a badass you really are.

"Short Stack.. Please don't panic but I think there's a lizard right behind you." She tried to make her voice sound shaky and shrill with panic. "Get out of there! Quick!!"

[minatoiskyuubismate]

Night of the hunters pt 1 and 2-the dagurized version

Its finally finished! Took me forever to write it, and english is not my mother tounge.

Night of the Hunters part 1 and 2

 And the furs were not the only presents.

 For his next visit Dagur brought a round package with him.

“What is this?” Hiccup asked.

“Take a look.” Dagur grinned and handed Hiccup the wrapped disk. He unwrapped it and found a wooden Shield with a painting. When he looked closer he recognized himself and Dagur standing together. The older one had put a hand on the smaller ones shoulder and both smiled.

“Its…like our paintings in the great hall! All the chiefs were there portrayed with their firstborns!”

“I saw that one of my crew is an good artist and I told him to do a painting of me and you. He did treffen you very good, eh? And that’s only from his memories!”

“Yes…it looks great!” Hiccup smiled.

This time Hiccup was shown in his real scrawny form.

“It will get a nice place here in my hut.”

 Later, in Hiccups small hideout…

“You will return to Berserker island?” Hiccup asked as they laid side by side.

“Aye. I must look how things are going on there. And my men need some break and time with their families. Even Berserker have families.”

Hiccup nodded and snuggled near Dagurs side.

“Still cold, little brother?”

“Not really. But I can better sleep with the feeling that you are here. I feel …safe.”

“Safer as with your dragon?”

“Dagur.”

“Okay, your Nightfury is your bodyguard.”

“He is not my-never mind. Let s sleep.”

Dagur laid an Arm over the scrawny form besides him and pulled him closer.

 Some weeks later something happened that would change the life on Dragons edge and of his inhabitants forever.

It was a nice, sunny morning. Hiccup was on an early patrol flight over the island. On his way he trained varios flight maneuvers with Toothless, to be prepared for another attack –but mostly simple for fun. They made slalom flights between Sea stacks and Hiccups favorite move. For this he let Toothless fly under the trees while he jumped from his back on an branch. While the Nightfury glided under the crowns, Hiccup jumped from Branch to Branch took a bendable twig for a swing forward and landed again in Toothless saddle, whooping happily.

“Good Teamwork, Bud!”

The Nightfury laughed and the glided along the river till they landed on their favourite spot, a small ledge near the water. Tootless laid down to rest and Hiccup glided from the saddle to rest against the side of his friend.

“We should do this more often. From now on, I promise, we will—“

He stopped when he heard a roar in the distance. Toothless growled low.

“Yeah, bud. That was a not a normal roar. This dragon called for help!” Hiccup said and mounted Toothless. They followed the sound of the roar who was heard again. Definitly a distress call. Hiccup has learned over the years the different colors of dragon calls. And this dragon needs help.

 When they reached the beach on the other side of the edge, they found several ships docked near the beach. Hiccup and Toothless hid between the rocks and watched as some men were loading supplys on their boats to row them to the ships. And most of them were cages. Cages with dragons in it!

“I never saw those colors before, but I have seen that insignia on the sails! It was nearly the same as on the Reaper.-Those are Dragon Hunters!” he whispered to Toothless.

A monstrous Nightmare, who tried to free himself from the cage, he was locked into, caught Hiccups attention. He frowned, when a man slammed his mace against the bars, Toothless growled low.

“Quiet, you useless lizard!” the hunter said and grinned.

Suddenly another hunter, a bald huge man, slammed the hunter against the bars. He was a muscular giant with a black moustache and goatee. And he wore a different attire than all the other hunters.

“Just load them up!” the big man growled.

“Yeah, Ryker. Sorry, boss.” the hunter stammered.

“Then do it! Or you will end as food for this one!” the leader of the hunters said and shoved the man against a cage with a Gronkle in it.

Ryker smiled evilly at the Nightmare, but the next moment he turned and sniffed.

“Could it be?” he murmured.

Hiccup ducked behind the rock he was peeking and ordered Toothless to be absolutely quiet. But when he heard the nearing steps, he dashed to the Nightfurys side and jumped into the saddle.

“Let s go, bud! We must tell the others!”

In the next Moment Dragon and Rider shot out of their hiding place and up into the air. Rykers eyes went wide.

“So my senses were not tricking me! A Nightfury!” he said. “Get the bows ready! I want this dragon!”

In the next moment, arrows whizzed past Hiccup and Toothless. The dragon fired a plasma blast at the archers, who quickly jumped out of the way. Ryker growled and took a bola from his belt. He whirled it over his head and threw it with all his strength and the fleeing Nightfury, who was a good distance away. But the ropes tangled around Toothless tail and the metal balls smashed the artificial fin of the Nightfury. Hiccup tried to work the pedal but it was blocked.

“Oh no! Toothless!”

The dragon desperately flapped his wings to get higher, but the destroyed Tailfin and the weights of the bola pulled him down and they crashed into the ocean! Hiccup was thrown out of the saddle from the impact.

“Im coming, bud!” Hiccup coughed and tried to reach Toothless, but before he could, the Nightfury was netted, pulled away and hauled aboard the ship who passed by.

“NO! TOOTHLESS!” he shouted, but a wave splashed into his face and he started violently to cough. When he could look again the ship was already out of reach.

 “What a great catch! A Nightfury!” Ryker said proudly to his men. “They are very rare! Do you know what we will get for this dragon? A small fortune!”

“Whats with the rider?” asked one of the hunters and pointed to the floating form between the waves.

“Leave him. We only need the dragon.”

 “No! Toothless!” Hiccup cried desperately as he tried to stay on the surface. Then he spotted a single log in front of him. He swam to it and cling onto the wet bark. With growing fear he watched as the ship vanished between the waves.

“Toothless…” he whined and let his head sunk on the log. “Don’t worry, bud. I will find you.”

 At the late afternoon, Astrid was standing on the platform with Stormfly, looking to the horizon. She sighed. Still no sign of Hiccup and Toothless.

“He never was away so long without telling us.” she sighed.

“Don’t worry. They sure met Dagur and Shattermaster, went out exploring and simply forgot time.” Fishlegs tried to calm her. “Or he found a new dragon…”

“I don’t think so. Something is not right. I can feel it! -Fishlegs, call the others! We are going to look for them!”

Astrid looked worried at the dark storm clouds who approaching the island.

Some Minutes later Hiccups Friends were flying through the storm, it had started to rain heavily.

“We all go in different directions!” Astrid ordered. “I will head south.”

All Riders flew off in opposite directions calling out for Hiccup and Toothless and tried to spot the tow between the waves.

“Still nothing. Oh Hiccup, where are you? Toothless…please take care of him!” she pleaded for herself into the wind and rain.

 Not far away, but out of seeing range, Dagur was on the way back from Berserker island when Shattermaster stared to get restless.

“Hey, Bud. Whats up? Don’t like the storm? I hope you are not getting seasick, my friend.” Dagur smiled and petted the massive head.

Suddenly Shattermaster ran to the railing and looked out into the stormy sea.

“What ´s the matter?”

The Gronkle whined.

“Chief! I just spotted someone out between the waves! Someone hanging on a log! But we are too far away!” Savage said, who looked through the spyglass. He had seen a small figure clinging on a floating log.

“Shattermaster must noticed it too. Okay, bud! Come on! Someone needs our help!”

Dagur jumped on the gronkles back and let Shattermaster soar in the air. The Gronkle had no problems flying steady through the storm.

 Meanwhile Hiccup was at the end of his strength.

“I-I cant hold on anymore and its so cold…my body feels like ice….thats the end…I think…” Hiccup murmurs weakly. His whole body was stiff from the cold water and he had no strength nor willpower anymore to hold on the log. When the next wave hit his face, his clammy fingers slipped from the wood and he sunk under the water. But before everything went dark, he spotted a movement over him. Someone came diving in his direction! Hiccup could only feel that he was grabbed around his waist by a strong arm und pulled upward. Then everything went black.

 Dagurs Head broke through the surface of the stormy water. With his right arm he held Hiccups limp body tightly to his own.

“Shattermaster!” he called. In the next moment, the Gronkle hovered over the waves, so that his rider could grab the leather collar with his free hand. “Up, Buddy! Bring us back to the ship! As fast as you can!”

Shattermaster gave his best. He felt, that the limp body Dagur was holding in his other hand was in great danger. A short moment after he lowered his rider on the deck of the Berserker ship.

“Good work, bud!-Hiccup! By the gods of Asgard, not again! Hiccup, wake up!”

He turned the Hooligan around and began to pat his back hard. Two times.

Suddenly the younger boy began violently to cough and threw up out some seawater. Dagur turned him around again. Hiccups eyes cracked a bit open.

“Uggh…Dagur? What took you so long…” Hiccup murmured weakly before he lost his consciousness again.

“Thanks Odin!” Dagur croaked when he felt Hiccups steady breath and hugged the boy.

“I wonder how often he still must save the little Hooligan.” Savage murmured, as Dagur hurried with his precious cargo into his cabin.

 On the way to the edge the berserker sat in his cabin, Hiccups limp form in his arms, which he had wrapped in this thickest fur.

“You are out cold, little fishbone. And so is your body. How long have you been in the water? I wish you could tell me, but for now its more important to get you back to your friends. And I could be late for my meeting. But nevertheless, you are more important.”

Suddenly the body in his arms began to stir.

“Dagur…” a weak voice called for him.

“Hiccup! You are awake again? Whats up, little brother?”

“Toothless…..hunters….” the Hooligan murmured weakly “Im cold…”

The whole body of the boy began to shiver.

“Don’t worry.” Dagur answered, laid Hiccup back on the bed and headed to the door.

“Savage! Tell Lars I need something strong and hot for the boy to warm him up.”

“At once, Chief!” the second in command answered.

Some times later Lars brought a tankard with a steaming liquid into the cabin.

“Whats this?” asked Dagur as he took the mug and sniffed at it.

“Hot mead with a special herbal mix. A good medicine to warm someone up again and prevent him from freezing to death.” the cook said.

“Good. Thank you, Lars.” the Berserker nodded. Then he returned to the fur bundle on his bed and lifted Hiccup in his lap.

“Here. Drink. It will warm you from inside.” and put the tankard to the boys lips. Hiccups eyes cracked open a bit and he took a careful sip. He scrunched his face when he swallowed the brew.

“I know its tasting awful, but it will help you to warm your icy bones. Come, little one, try some more.” Dagur encouraged Hiccup. After a few more sips the Hooligan refused to drink more.

“So tired….and still cold…” he murmured weakly.

“Then sleep, little brother. I stay by your side.”

“Your armor….cold…”

Dagur nodded and removed his armor, laid beside Hiccup and began to rub his hands and arms to warm his cold skin.

“You were defiantly too long in the cold sea. You could have freezed to death, how skinny you are!” the berserker said.

When Hiccup stopped to shiver, he pulled the boy into his embrace to keep him warm. The Hooligan recognized the familiar scent of the older man, he relaxed and fell into a deep sleep.

“We still have some time till my special meeting. Your outpost is not far away. First I bring you home to the dragons edge, your friends must be worried about you-especially your little girlfriend. “ Dagur smiled and closed his eyes too.

When Dagur awoke again, Hiccup was tightly snuggled against him, still sleeping and searching for warmth. The older man smiled and touched the Hooligans shoulders. He was relived, when the skin of the boy nearly had his normal temperature again.

 Meanwhile, at the hunters ship.

“Have you secured and tested the chains of the Night fury?”

“Aye. And we pulled off this strange harness he wore. He has only one tailfin. The other is missing.

Ryker inspected the harness with the torn tailfin. Toothless who was chained on all fours and muzzled in a cell, growled.

“This looks like an artificial Tailfin. His rider must be a clever mind. Like my little brother. He sure would have liked him as a new playmate for “Maces and Talons”. Maybe we should have pulled him out of the water too. Meh, but now it´s too late. Never mind, the dragon is more important.” the bald man said and laid the harness in a crate near Toothless cell. “Watch good for this one. The old legends told that Nightfurys are the cleverest amongst all dragons.-How long we need till our Rendez-vous-point?”

“About three hours. The storm is beginning to calm down.”

 Meanwhile the dragon riders have returned from a fruitless search.

“The weather is getting better. We rest two hours then we continue with our search.” Astrid said.

Snotlout groaned and left the clubhouse with Hookfang behind him. This would be a long hard day.

Suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks, when the nightmare made a warning sound. When he looked out to the sea he spotted a ship that headed towards the base. And he recognized the crest on the sail. He hurried back into the clubhouse.

“There is a ship approaching the base!” Snotlout said.

“Which one?” asked Astrid.

“Its Dagurs! He is standing on deck, carrying something in his arms….looks like a fur bundle.”

“Come on!” Astrid called the others and they hurried down to the small harbor.

 Dagur walked along the dock with the fur bundle in his arms. The shieldmaid was the first who spotted the auburn mop of hair sticking out at the upper end.

“Hiccup!” Astrid gasped and ran up to the Berserker. “What happened?”

“We spotted him out in the stormy sea. He was about to drown but with Shattermasters help I was able to fish him out of the water. If my bud did not sensed him out in the water-we would have passed him without noticing. He was totally frozen from the cold water but I held him warm. Don’t worry. He will be okay again. Give him something hot to drink and keep him warm. I cant stay, I have an important meeting.”

Dagur handed to bundle to Snotlout, Savage the bundle of clothes to Astrid.

“Thank you Dagur-for saving him- again.” Astrid said. “But where is Toothless?”

“He was nowhere spotted. Hiccup talked a bit in his sleep but all I could understand was “Toothless” and “Hunters”.”

“Okay. We take over from now. But if you get knowledge about the Nightfury whereabouts call us.”

“I will.”

Hiccup was brought into his hut and Astrid stayed with him, watching over his sleep.

 “Toothless!”

When Hiccup shot up from his sleep, he still was wrapped in the warm fur-but he was not on Dagurs ship anymore.

His friends surrounded his bed and gave him worried looks.

“Hiccup! Thank Thor, you are alive! -Take it easy, you had a hard day!-What happened? We searched after you for hours! And where is Toothless?” Astrid said.

“Dragon hunters ….they took him away and let me alone back in the Ocean! I would have drowned if not Dagur –where is Dagur?” asked Hiccup.

“He already left with his ship. After we returned from our fruitless search, he arrived at our base. He gave you to us and told us how he saved you out of the stormy sea. I can´t believe it! This was the second time he saved you from drowning!” Fishlegs answered.

“Yeah. But I hardly remember anything. Damn, I still feel weak and dizzy.”

“Here, I cooked a hot soup. This will warm you up and give back your strength.”

Hiccup remembered vaguely that someone tried to make him drink a hot liquid. Thankfully he took the bowl from Fishlegs and started to eat. After that he was feeling much better.

“So Toothless was captured by Dragon hunters?” asked Astrid.

“Yeah. Three ships. With the same sign on the sails like the reaper… there are so much other dragons…and they are all in cages!”

Fishlegs flinched.

“And then there was this giant bald man, the leader…if he dares to hurt Toothless, then I-I….” Hiccup sighed. Then he put the bowl on his nightstand and jumped out of his bed. “Come on! Lets go!”

“Hiccup, for Thors sake! -Haven´t you forgotten something?” Astrid said and shielded her eyes. Then Hiccup realized, that his clothes were missing. He let out a shriek and pulled the fur around his hips.

“ARRGH! DAGUR!” he cursed. “Uggh…sorry, everyone.” Hiccups face was beet red, Snotlout snickered, till Astrid bumped him in the guts. Then she got Hiccups clothes and laid them on the bed. Fishlegs ashamed looked to the side and Ruffnut ogled the scrawny body with a wide grin. As did her brother.

“Get dressed, we are waiting outside. You can ride with me on Stormfly.”

 “Our leader really is a cutie, eh?” Tuffnutt grinned, while the gang mounted their dragons. “I never saw so much freckles on a-“ He stopped when Astrid shot him a warning look. A few minutes later Hiccup joined them and lead his friends to the beach where he last saw the hunters. But there was nothing important to found, only a lot of empty barrels and crates and some other trash from a deserted campsite. But when Snotlout stepped on something pointy, it was an arrow tip covered with a green substance that Fishlegs identified as high concentrated dragon root.

“In this concentration it can overwhelm a dragons senses completely, making it almost impossible for them to fly. Did Toothless got hit by one of those?” Immerman asked Hiccup.

“No, some bolas brought us down. They destroyed Toothless Tailfin and we crashed into the ocean. Then he caught him with a net and pulled him aboard. And they let me all alone in the middle of the ocean! Damn hunters!”

“How are we gonna find Toothless?” Astrid asked. “We have no idea where they are going!”

“Maybe not. But we do know where they have been. And at this point we will continue our search.” Hiccup said.

 A few hours later they reached the Reaper and started looking around for clues. Hiccup got a weird feeling when he saw the big eels in the water. Here it had all begun. Here he met Dagur again. Here he saved him the first time from drowing and getting eaten by the big eels. Here he encountered the new, changed Dagur. But where was the Berserker at the moment? He could helped them to find Toothless. He wished the oder man would be here now and soothe him, hold him…

His thoughts were interrupted, when he heard the breaking of wood and Snotlouts shriek. The Jorgenson had broken through the old planks and landed in some sort of storage compartment.

“Get me out of here!” he shouted.

One by one got down below the deck and started to look around the storage.

“Just keep looking. We must find something!” Hiccup said.

“What if we don’t? Toothless is in the hands of this monsters-he…” Fishlegs ranted.

“I know. I am afraid for him as you are.” Hiccup tried to calm him. “But this Ryker-he actually enjoying hunting and caging dragons!”

“And he has Toothless!” Astrid growled and slammed her axe against a decorative shield who was hanging on a wall.

“We are going to find him. And if it means to search the whole archipelago!” the Hooligan said. Astrid removed her axe from the shield and when the blade got loose, something fell out and landed on the floor. Hiccup picked it up and stared at it.

“It’s a dragon eye lens!” he said.

 Soon all gathered below decks and began testing the new lens with their dragons, but nothing seemed to work. In the meantime Tuffnut watched the shield closely.

“Mmh, its either the innards of a Yak-or a Changewing in a cage.” he said, rubbing his chin.

Hiccup turned and now he could see it too. On the shield really was an image that showed what Tuff had said. A caged dragon. And one of his two eyes was the dragoneye lens.

“Tuff, you are a genius! So our next destination is Changewing Island!” Hiccup declared.

 On the island they tried to catch one of the Dragons who can make themselves invisible to get some of their acid spew. After they got a sample on Snotlouts helmet, the returned to dragons edge to activate the new lens with the dragon eye.

“Hold still, Snotlout!” Hiccup said who tried to find the right position for the dragon eye in his hands.

“Easy for you to say! You don’t have Changewing acid burning through your helmet and dripping on your skull!” the Jorgenson growled.

The lens revealed some sort of ship movements and Fishlegs began to study it.

“That doesn’t help! We have seen this map before.” he said.

“Judging by the position of the ships there must be some sort of a port. And it’s the closest one to the beach where Toothless was caught. But where they are heading? It seems their base is somewhere else.”

“We should hurry! There is no time to loose!” Astrid said.

“Yeah! Enough of this!” Snotlout growled and tossed his ruined helmet away.

“But how we are going to avoid this dragon root arrows?” asked Fishlegs. “The only dragon here who is immune against the effect of dragon root.”

When all looked at Ingerman he realized what he had revealed and whimpered.

“It seems then its my turn to get shot.” he sighed.

 Ryker was sailing to the hunters port with his new catch of dragons. A hour ago he collected some new crew members on an island. The bald man was satisfied with himself. He had made a great catch with the nightfury and his brother would be very pleased about that.

Suddenly he heard the men screaming and turned to see Astrid and Hiccup on Stormfly gliding overhead and fire at his ship.

“I want my dragon back!” Hiccup shouted and pointed with his sword at Ryker.

“More kids on dragonback? It seems he had brought his whole gang with him!” the Leader of the hunters smirked.

The twins and Snotlout were now attacking, but Ryker wasn’t too concerned.

“Fire!” he said calmly.

The hunters manned their ballistas and fired several bolas at Snotlout and Hookfang.

“Is that all you got?” the Jorgenson yelled. As answer more bolts and stones came flying.

Stormfly circled the ship and destroyed some of the balistas with her hot fire and several hunters fired arrows at them. Astrid shielded them with her axe and knocked them away, Hiccup did the same with his sword.

“You are sure this plan will work? That was pretty close! They have a lot of firepower!” she said.

“But we can´t retreat! -Fishlegs! Your turn!” Hiccup yelled. If we only had Dagur and Shattermaster here too, then our chances would be much better, the Hooligan thought.

 Fishlegs looked at Meatlug. Okay girl, lets go!”

Then they headed for the ship with a battlecry. When they are close enough, the Gronckle fired a lava blast on the ships deck and it did not took long till the archers are aiming for them. Fishlegs doged the arrows but one hit Meatlug and she began to loose control, doing a good fake playing. With a heavy thud, the Gronkle and his rider crashed on Deck and was in the next moment surrounded by Rykers men with drawn bows and swords.

“Meatlug! Come on, get up!” Fishlegs pleaded. Ryker approached them, while a chain was put around the Gronkles neck.

“You monster! How could you do this!” Immerman glared at the leader.

“Its my business, brat! Take them below and toss them in a cell!” Ryker ordered. While the hunters dragged the protesting Gronkle and his rider away, the bald man turned his attention to the remaining Riders. “Damn pests! But I will get you too!” he growled.

 Fishlegs and Meatlug were shoved into a cell and locked. When the hunters were gone, Immerman spotted Toothless in the opposite cell.

“Hey, don’t worry, bud! Hiccup is on the way to save you.” he said. The nightfury warbled and rattled with his chains. “I know, I know, but you must stay patient! We´ll be all right.”

 Meanwhile outside the battle was still going on.

“Ready the catapults-fire!” a hunter yelled.

“Look out!” Astrid yelled. Stormfly was able to avoid getting hit, but Hiccup lost his grip and fell off the Nadders back.

“Hiccup!” Astrid screamed as she saw her friend fall towards the sea. “Come on, girl, fetch!”

Stormfly dived, but before her claws could reach the boy, a chain wrapped around his chest and he was pulled towards the ship.

“NO!” the shieldmaid yelled. Hiccup landed in the sea. She could not go farther because a rain of arrows came towards her.

“Up, girl!” Astrid commanded to get out of firing range.

 “Help us! Please! I think she stopped breathing!” Fishlegs meanwhile tried to get the attention of the single guard in the cell room. The man groaned. “You think your boss want his newest dragon gonna die? And on your watch?” Immerman continued. With a sigh the guard made his way to the cell and saw Meatlug lying moveless on her back. He open the cell door and in the next moment the Gronkle turned on his legs and bumped him hard! The impact smashed the man against the wall and knocked him out. Fishlegs grabbed the key and rushed out of his cell.

“I am coming Toothless!” he said.

 Outside the chain with Hiccup was pulled aboard.

“Heh, look what we have here! A little runt!” Ryker grinned when the chain was removed from the Hooligan.

“Give me back my dragon!” Hiccup roared and charged at the bald man.

“Hey, you are a feisty one! But you cant stand against me!” the hunter chief grinned.

Ryker blocked easy his hits and hit him square into the chest. Hiccup staggered back and lost his sword. Two hunters grabbed the Hooligan by the arms.

“Your precious Nightfury belongs to me now. But I like your spirit. Throw him in a cell. ” Ryker grinned, as Hiccup was dragged down to the cells.

“You´re gonna regret this! You are messing with the wrong Vikings!” Hiccup yelled.

“Well, so are you, little runt.” said Ryker.

Then, suddenly bursting to the door that led to the lower decks came the Nightfury.

“Toothless!” Hiccup shouted happily. When the dragon fired a plasma blast before the hunters feet, the men dropped the boy and he rushed over to the Nightfury. He quickly mounted Toothless and with a second shot the dragon knocked the two following men away. Fishlegs and Meatlug joined them.

“Sorry it took so long, but they had stripped Toothless of his harness and I had to put it back on!” Immerman said.

“Never mind! Lets get Ryker! He will pay for what he had done to Toothless!” Hiccup growled and they charged at the leader of the hunters.

“Snotlout! Twins! Keep ready!” Astrid up in the air shouted.

“Now!” Hiccup commanded.

They charged straight down towards Rykers Ship, but the bald man just smirked: ”Fire.”

Toothless and Meatlug were caught in a pair of bolas and toppled to the deck. A net was thrown over the trashing Nightfury.

“NO! Not again!” Hiccup roared. ”Astrid! Stop!”

Then another bola tangled around his legs and let him hit the planks.

Seeing what happened Astrid and the other riders halted their attack.

“Cursed it!” she growled.

“Watch out!” Snotlout shrieked, when all three ships began to fire arrows at them.

“Evasive action! Now!” Astrid shouted and pulled back. The twins dragon got hit first and spun around towards the ocean, where they crashed and shortly after pulled aboard Rykers ship in a net.

Next Hookfang was hit. He began to wobble and Snotlout tried to hold him up.

“Stormfly! Grab him!” Astrid said and the nadder caught the Nightmare by his tail and pulled him out of shooting range. In the meanwhile Snotlout removed the dragonroot arrow.

“Its no use! We are outnumbered! Stormfly- let´s get out of here!” the Shieldmaid said.

“Hey, Astrid! I didn’t thought you would me drag off someday.” Snotlout grinned while he clinged to Hookfangs neck.

“Shut up or I order Stormfly to let Hookfang go!” Astrid grumbled. She and the Jorgenson were the only ones of the team who were able to get away.

 Ryker approached Hiccup and Fishlegs smirking.

“Your pathetic tricks won´t work on me. “ he said. “I am a Dragon hunter after all! I know that Gronckles are immune to dragons root. I use your worthless escape plan to lure your friends closer. And I got some more of you brats!”

He turned and watched as the net with the twins and the zipper was pulled on deck.

 “Astrid! What should we do?” Snotlout asked.

“We retreat. We had no chance against them at the moment!”

“Sounds like the best solution at the moment.” the Jorgenson said when he saw the archers still aiming at them. Astrid hated it to leave Hiccup and the others with the hunters, but she knew that with an half conscious Nightmare they could not do anything. So she flew with Hookfang in tow away from the ships.

“I will return, Hiccup! I promise!” she murmured as she took one last look back.

 Below the ship Hiccup and the others were shoved into a cell.

“Whrere are our dragons? What did you do to them?” Hiccup demanded.

“If I were you, I would worry about yourself, runt.” Ryker smirked.

“Don’t call me runt! I am Hiccup Haddock the third of Berk!” the Hooligan heir growled.

“Tch, for me you are just a runt-with a very special dragon.”

When the leader of the hunters left, Hiccup suddenly spotted someone very familiar. Someone he had at last excepted on this ship. Heather. Stepping by as she belonged to the crew.

“Heather! What in Thors name-“ Hiccup gasped.

“No way!” Tuffnut said.

And then, to make it even worse, Dagur too appeared and put an Arm around Heather.

“Surprise, Surprise! Did you miss me? Of course you did!” he grinned broadly.

Speechless Hiccup and his friends could only stare at Dagur then at Heather, who was smirking.

“And did you know my sister?-Wait, sure you do! You guys were little pals and buddy buddies!”

Heather shrugged.

“Family is Family.” she simply said. Hiccup just stared at her and her brother.

“Hello, little brother.” Dagur grinned who walked to Hiccup.

“Dagur, I cant belive it! You two joined the hunters?” Fishlegs said.

“I know, its not Dragons edge, but we have to do. “the Berserker said and looked straight into Hiccups eyes. “Enjoy your new home, brother. I am afraid, you would be staying here for awhile.”

Then he began to cackle like a maniac and strolled away with his sister.

Hiccup couldn’t belive it! A day ago Dagur has saved his life and now he betrayed his trust and joined the hunters who caught his Nightfury? He coudnt belive it! Has he returned to his old deranged self?

Like in Trance he walked away from the bars and let himself sunk to the planks in a corner of the cell.

“Hiccup?” Fishlegs whispered. But the Hooligan heir diddnt respond. With a stony face he stared down at the planks before him.

“Woah, must be a great shock for him.” Tuffnut said. “To be tricked from the man who saved his live so often.”

 Part 2

 Evening has come and Hiccup, Fishlegs and the twins were still trapped on Rykers ship.

“I still cant belive it! I thought really Dagur has changed, and now this! Even Heather has betrayed us!” said Fishlegs.

Hiccup, who did not left his place in the corner lifted his head.

“The bigger question is who are these dragon hunters and what do they want with us?” he asked.

“You are about to find out.” said a voice.

Everyone in the cell turned to find Heather and two hunters approaching. The cell was open and the two crewmen grabbed Hiccup and dragged him outside.

“Ryker wants to have a little chat with you.” Heather said and slammed the door shut.

“You are lucky, that these guards are here, otherwise I would take your head off!” Hiccup growled.

“Try it, runt!” Heather laughed as she imitated Ryker.

“After everything we did for you! Took you in. Taught you dragon riding. Risked our heads for you!”

“For that I am thankful, Hiccup. But I have to follow my destiny.”

“Betraying your friends and joining this dragon hunter scum?”

For this offended words Hiccup got a slap on his head of one of the guards.

“OW!”

“Shut it, runt! We are only doing our job!” one of the guards growled.

“Killing innocence dragons?” Hiccup shot back.

“I said hold it!”

The hunter lifted his hand to backhand the Hooligan, but Heather stopped it with her axe.

“Enough! Ryker wanted the boy in one piece, so don’t let yourself provoke!” she hissed, then turned to Hiccup. ”And you-shut your mouth! You are not in the position to criticize someone!-You pampered Chief heir don’t know what it means to be truly alone! Dagur is my brother. I trust him with my life!”

Hiccup swallowed his retort about being called “pampered” and said: “I appreciate that you finally found together. But I would be happier if it had not been on in the rows of the hunters.”

“It was a difficult decision, but I made my choice.”

In the meantime they had reached the captains quarters.

“And your concern is touching but if I were you, I would be more worried about yourself. Ryker is not known for kindness.” said Heather and knocked on the door.

“Come in.” Rykers voice was heard.

“Ryker wants information and he can be very persuasive.” said the female Berserker and open the door. Then she shoved Hiccup inside and closed it again behind her and the Hooligan. The guards remined outside and took their positons on both sides of the door.

“When Ryker is finished with this runt, then this fishbone will not be such a loudmouth anymore.” one of the guards smirked.

 Meanwhile, Astrid, Snotlout and their dragons spend the entire night at a beach recovering from their fight with the hunters. The shieldmaid had spend the night mostly planning the next move. With the sun rising over the horizon, Stormfly woke up and stretched her wings and legs, followed by Hookfang.

“Morning, girl.” Astrid greeted.

Only Snotlout was still snoring near his dragon. With a small bite, only using the tips of his long teeth on his riders butt, the Nightmare did his wake-up call.

“IIAARGH! Hookfang!” Snotlout screeched and jumped up.

“It seems Hookfang is okay again.” the shieldmaid smirked. “Good that the dragon root effect is only temporary.”

The Jorgenson then noticed that Astrid was looking at a map.

“What are you doing?” he asked.

“Trying to figure out where the Dragon hunters are heading.”

“That’s a bad idea. You remember what happened yesterday? Even if we find them, what can we do about this arrows with this tranquilizing stuff?”

“Well-I had no idea. I wish, Hiccup was here.” she murmured.

“Hiccup! Hiccup! Do you think I could not come out with a plan?”

“To be honest, no.”

Snotlout growled and picked up one of the fishes, Stormfly had caught and dropped on the beach.

“It’s a shame, that the skins of our dragons aren’t as hard as the one of a Boneknapper.” he grumbled.

Astrid lifted her head and rolled the map.

“Snotlout, you gave me an idea!”

Jorgenson turned. “Really?”

“Come one, you two! We ´ve got some work to do!” Astrid said mounting Stormfly.

“And that with an empty stomach!” Snotlout growled as Hookfang snatched the fish out of his hand.

So Snotlout followed Astrid who did not told him her entire plan, cause she knew the Jorgenson would not be very pleased if he would know where are they heading.

 Meanwhile, the other riders exept for Hiccup, were sleeping in their cell when they suddenly woke up by the creaking of the cell door. They looked up and saw Dagur shoving Hiccup into the cell, he looked tired as if he did not slept all night.

“Hiccup! Are you okay?” Fishlegs asked with worry.

“Yeah. I am only tired. They questioned me all night long and don’t let me sleep.”

“They?”

“Ryker and Heather mostly. Dagur doesn’t say much. He was very quiet, did mostly observe what the others doing. - But something was a bit odd. When Ryker got too rough and grabbed me at my collar, cause I refused to answer him at the beginning, Dagur at once interfered and growled at the hunter to release me. They nearly started a fight when Heather got between them and told the two muttonheads that on this way they will never get out something of me. And to finish this ordeal and get back to you finally, I told Ryker everything” Hiccup said.

“WHAT?” Fishlegs gasped.

“I told Ryker what he wanted to know. The location of the Dragon eye.” said Hiccup.

“They know of the dragon eye?”

“Well, Dagur must have told them about it! Its very important to the Dragon Hunters. They are looking for it for a long time.”

“And where did you tell them it was?”

“Back at Dragons edge where its been guarded by all the other riders we left behind.” Hiccup said loudly, making sure the guards could hear him.

“What?” Tuffnutt blinked. “But ther is no—“

Hiccup placed a finger on his lips and nodded. Fishlegs understood, the meaning and continued: “Yeah, Dragons edge is like a fortress. Lots of dragon riders.”

“Under the command of Captain Gustav, eh?” Tuffnutt added jokingly.

“Aye! That’s right!” Hiccup nodded and smirked.

“Errrmm….?” The twins shot their leader a suspicios look.

“Oh Thor! That’s the only thing I could said to prevent them from sailing to our base and overtaking it!” Hiccup whispered. “And to my surprise, Dagur agreed with me and told Ryker the same.”

“He is really acting weird for a traitor.” Fishlegs mused.

“Yeah. But we must stay careful! I don’t know what the Berserker siblings had in their minds. Especially Heather looked determined. Eventually Ryker will send someone down there to check out what I told him.”

“But this will buy us some time.” said Fishlegs.

“Exactly. We need to get out of here before they find out I was bluffing. Dagur knew about the A-Team, so he could belive that they are in charge at the edge at the moment.-Okay, guys. Any ideas how to break out?”

 Meanwhile, Astrid and Snotlout were still flying over the sea.

“Is that the island where going to?” the Jorgenson asked, getting more and more impatient.

“No.” Astrid said.

“How about that one?”

“Also no.”

“That one?”

“For Thors name…-“ she started, then she saw the island Snotlout was pointing at.

“Oh yeah, that’s exactly the one.”

When they got nearer the rocky island, Snotlout got a bad feeling.

“Astrid, I recognized these holes.” he said. “Why did you not tell me that we are going to an island full of Whispering deaths?”

“Because I knew you would react like this. Besides, this isn’t the island full of Whispering deaths. Somebody else lives here too.”

 As if the Somebody should have known, the ground began to shake and breaking through the surface came the Screaming death, he seemed gotten bigger in the last three years since they met him.

“The Screaming death? Just great! Why diddnt wave him over and let him kill us?” Snotlout asked with rising panic.

“Will you just relax? When he gets closer, he will recognize us and calm down….I hope.” Astrid answered.

But the Screaming dead roared and charged at them at once. It was obviously that he did not recognize them.

“This was the worst plan ever! This guy hates us! Lets turn tail and get out of here!” Snotlout shrieked. He and Astrid fled into the clouds and hid there. The Screaming death lost the sight of them and flew past.

“And now?” asked Snotlout.

“What we need is in the tunnels below. Let´s go, till he is distracted!” answered Astrid and she head back to the island and dived into the tunnel system, the dragons had created. Snotlout had no other choice to follow her.

 In the meantime, Hiccup and the others still were not able to escape from the cell. Tuffnut had come out with a weird plan to dig out or to set the cell on fire. Fishlegs brought out the plan of psycology warfare, but this was too boring for Tuffnut.

Hiccup did not notice what his friends were rambling und discussing around. He was leaning at the bars of their cell and looked outside. Dagurs behaviour did not let him rest. What was the Berserker up to?

When Heather arrived, he pushed back from the bars and returned to his friends.

“Ryker wants to see you.” she said.

Fishlegs, who stand in the front, blinked. “Me?”

“No, all of you.” Heathter said. “Let´s go.”

“They walked all out of the cell and were escorted to Ryker and Dagur who awaited them at the other end of the cells tract.

“I am Ryker! And this is my ship! You are my prisoners.” the leader of the hunters announced. “And your dragons are now my dragons!”

“And how they are treated is entirely up to you.” Dagur added and waved to follow him and Ryker. They followed the two men till the last few cells. In the first one they saw Meatlug chained up and force feed to eat Rocks.

“Girl!” Fishlegs yelled.

“This Gronckle is very helpful.” Ryker said.

“Her name is Meatlug!” Fishlegs glared.

“I don’t care about her name. All I care is that it makes me metal, all day and all night.”

Meatlug shot out some lava into a bucket.

“That’s cruel! She is not a metal producing forging fumace!” Hiccup growled.

“For me, Gronckles are.” Ryker retorted coldly. The Hooligan glared at him, but said nothing. His words would be fruitless here. But when he shot a quick glance at Dagur he could see a pained look crossing his face. He started to wonder where his Dragon Shattermaster was. And Heathers Razorwhip Windshear?”

Fishlegs in the meantime looked at the lava Meatlug spewed and recognized it as the same molten mass they used to make Gronkle iron three years ago. A rough shove from Heather ripped him out of his thoughts.

“Toothless!” Hiccup rushed to the next cell, where the Nightfury was chained up and muzzled. “Don’t worry bud, we find a way to free you.” The dragon lifted his head and whined.

“This nightfury is our most precious freight at the moment. I wonder how much I will get if we sell it in our next auction.” Ryker mused.

“You can do this to him!” Hiccup hissed. “He is my friend!”

“Oh, I can. And I will. And you should be careful, that you not end on an auction too, runt. But I doubt someone would place a bit for a toothpick like you.”

Hiccup clenched his fists, he wanted nothing more than to punch this arrogant man. But he know that he would never had a chance to Rykers strength. Dagur grabbed Hiccup by the arms and shoved him forward.

When they passed Toothless cell, something made Hiccup suspicious. The Nightfury did not growl at Dagur or bared his teeth-and he belived to see that the Berserker winked at the dragon and shot him a short encouraged smile. And Toothless did only watch him with his big green eyes and showed no threat.

Barf and Belch, who were in the third cell, were being fed and rubbed down by two hunters with a greasy cream.

“When we had his hide, it will fetch top prices in the northern market islands.” said Ryker.

“What?” Ruffnut shrieked.

“Zippleback boots I always wanted a pair.” Dagur said to her. Hiccup shot him an angry look.

“This is what faces all your dragons. Of course, they could get a better treatment…” said Ryker taking the jar with grease from the hunter.

“And how?” Ruffnut asked. The bald leader tossed the jar straight in her hands and looked at the riders furiously.

“Start giving me the right answers! Tell me what do you know about the dragon eye! How many riders exactly are guarding your base?”

Hiccup and the other riders looked at one another and then at Ryker in silence. The Hooligan crossed his arms in defiance.

“Very well. Keep fattening this one up. Then we have more hide to sell.” Ryker growled, took the jar back and pointed at the zipper.

 Ruffnut suddenly threw herself onto a guard standing next to her and begged for the life of Barf and Belch.

“Then tell me, what I want to know!” Ryker demanded. Ruffnut began to slid off the guards waist making whining noises.

“Ruff! Stop it! Thorstonsons don’t beg!” Tuffnut scolded her. Dagur rolled his eyes. Ruffnut was now lying at the feet of the hunter, groaning in despair.

“If you really want to save your dragons, then give me some informations!” Ryker growled. In this moment, Ruffnuts whine stops, she stood up, a stern look on her face.

“Never!” she spat and returned to the others. “Sorry, I lost my head for a second.”

“Something you and your dragon may have soon in common.” Ryker growled. “Get them out of my sight!”

 Astrid and Snotlout were flying through the tunnels when the shieldmaid spotted something.

“I knew it! The screaming death grew and when he does, he must shed his skin and the too small scales too. And here they are.” she said and landed before a pile of white scales. Astrid dismounted of Stormfly and picked one of them up.

“Yes, that’s it! Come on, Snotlout! Help me collecting as much scales as you can!”

But shortly after, a loud roar echoed through the tunnels.

“Oh no! He is back! And he will find us by our scents!” Snotlout said worried.

“And here he is.” Astrid murmured and put her collected scales slowly down. The Screaming death towered over them. The Nadder hissed and Hookfang screeched. Snotlout chuckled nervously and dropped his scales, except for one which he held before his face like a shield. “We are gonna die.”

The Screaming death roared and prepared to blast the intruders, when suddenly a female Whispering death appeared out of an side opening of the tunnel. She hissed and screeched at the much bigger dragon, who growled low and ten went away.

“What just happened?” Snotlout asked, looking behind his lowered Scale Shield.

“Well, the Screaming death diddn´t remember us, but it looks like, his mother did.” said Astrid and stretched out her hand. The whispering death allowed her to touch her and purred.

“Good girl.-Okay, now get those scales together, fast!”

When Astrid picked some scales up the whispering death shoved some more of them in front of her feet.

“Oooh, that’s sweet of you. Look, Snotlout, she wants to help!” the Shieldmaid smiled.

“Or she wants to get these tunnels clean.” the Jorgenson murmured.

When the two packed the scales on their dragons and mounted they followed the whispering death out of the tunnels.

“Bye, big mama! And thanks for your help!” Astrid waved at her.

 Meanwhile, Hiccup, Fishlegs and the Twins are still locked up in their cell, thinking how to escape. Again a heated discussion went around.

“Listen guys, I have memorized the guards schedule and I got up with a plan. But we need to get this door open first.” Hiccup said.

Ruffnut held out a key.

“You mean with this key I stole from the guard?”

The three just stared at her, dumbfounded.

“How did you-“ Hiccup tried to figure out. Ruffnut explained how during her begging she pickpocketed the guard and took his key wihout someone noticing it.

“So that was the reason for all this fuss before.” Fishlegs said.

“Yeah, you guys should listen to me every now and then.” Ruffnut said and handed the key to Hiccup. He just shook his head and turned to look at his friends.

“All right. As soon as we took out the guards, we spilt up and get our dragons. Then we blast our way out of here.” Hiccup explained.

When Hiccup unlocks the cell he remembered when he was locked in a cell at outcast island.

“Well-lets see if this trick works here too.” he mumbled, then he started to yell:”Guard! Guard! I cant take it anymore! I want to save my dragon! I will tell Ryker whatever he wants to know!”

When he saw the guard approaching the cell, he waited until the man was right in front of it. Then he slammed the door open with all his strength knocking the guard out cold. The same he did with the second guard.

“Okay-lets go. But one last thing: If this ship is like the Reaper, then could be boobytraps anywhere, so be careful!” Hiccup warned. He and the others silently sneaked to the other cells.  

Fishlegs was never happier to see Meatlug again. But before he freed his Gronkle he checked the weapons on the wall.

“They know the formula of Gronkle iron!” he murmured exited.” But what was that guy feeding you to get it? They are so many rocks here.”

 Meanwhile Hiccup had made his way to Toothless. When he open the cell, he nearly stepped on a booby trap, but he was able to avoid setting it off. The he hugged Toothless.

“Hey, bud. You diddnt think I would leave you here, did you? Lets get you free of this chains.”

 The twins had more problems to free their Zipper. Barf and Belch refused to go with them, they rather stuck their snouts in the barrels with fish. When the twins wanted to make clear who the boss was and had to avoid the swatting tails, Tuffnut stepped on a hidden booby-trap in the planks and the alarm bell sounded.

“Great! Really great!” Tuffnut groaned stepping on the trigger trying to stop the alarm.

 Fishlegs was still trying to figure out how to create Gronckle iron. He just needed the last indigredient, when he was interrupted by the alarm sound. And in the next moment he was grabbed by a hunter and dragged out of the cell.

 The twins still tried to move Barf and Belch, but they remind in staying in their cell. Too tempting was the amount of food here. And to make it more worse, two hunters were aiming with their crossbows at them.

“We will talk about this later!” Ruffnut angry hissed back to the Zipper.

 Dagur who stood in a dark corner and watched the whole scene, shook his head. These twins are as dumb as their dragon is, he thought. Then he spotted Hiccup in Toothless cell. The Hooligan was so busy freeing the nightfury that he diddnt notice Dagur walking into the cell.

“I am sorry, but you are not going-or better said-flying anywhere, brother.” he said.

“Don’t call me that, traitor! Maybe I am not going anywhere yet, but I will for sure!” Hiccup hissed and grabbed a spear. Toothless, who was still chained and muzzled, growled.

“Oh I doubt that.” Dagur grinned closing the cell door behind him.

 Fishlegs and the twins found themselves on the deck of the ship with Ryker and Heather looking down at them from the bridge.

“Did I not warn you about them?” Heather told him annoyed “They never quit.”

Then Dagur arrived with Hiccup thrown over his shoulder, who was trashing around.

“Put me down!” the Hooligan growled. The Berserker did- but not before he gave the boy two half-hard slaps on his butt.

Hiccup glared at Dagur when he was standing on his feet again.

“Hey, Rykie, Ryker-man, can we please just work together on this? You know dragons. I know Dragon Riders-OW!”

He jumped when Hiccup kicked him with his peg leg on his shin. Then the Hooligan was grabbed by a guard and shoved to his friends. Dagur rubbed his shin and glared at Hiccup.

Ryker narrowed his eyes. “And?”

“Send a message. Throw one over board.“ Dagur said snickering. “That will be fun.”

“An excellent idea.” said Heather. “Unless you think Viggo might want to question them personally about the Dragon Eye.”

Everyone just stared at her. “Better put them to work.” she continued.

“Then I prefer to go overboard.” said Tuffnut. Ruffnut nodded.

“Split them up so they can plot any more escaping plans and make them serve you, as their dragons do.” Heather suggested.

“A good idea. Put them to work. But the next one who tries to escape goes overboard!” Ryker commanded. Then he looked at Dagur.

“Well, its obvious who got the brain in your family, eh?” Ryker grinned and walked away laughing.

The Berserker turned to Heather.

“What was that all about sister?” he asked her.

“I was protecting you, brother. From what you told me about him, I doubt Viggo likes loosing valuable property. If anything happens to the riders, let Ryker be on the hook for it, not you.”

Dagur smiled and hugged Heather.

“That’s my sister!” he said happily.

 When Astrid and Snotlout returned with the screaming death scales to an island not far away from the last position of the hunters ships, they upload them and Astrid tried to sew them together.

“OW Dammit!” she cursed, putting her finger in her mouth.

“What are you doing?” Snotlout asked, who just finished a small snack.

“I am trying to make a protection armor for Stormfly. These scales are hard enough, to block the arrows. But as a Shieldmaiden I am not so skilled with needles and Threads.

“Aah, now I understand! For THIS you wanted the scales! -Let me see.”

Snotlout observed the work Astrid has begun.

“That stich will not hold long. You should try this.” he explained, took the workpiece out of the girls hand and started to work. With wide eyes Astrid watched amazed how the Jorgenson get to work. With skilled hands he began to sew the scales together.

“Okay. Which one next?” he asked, when he finished the first set of scales.

“Uhh…this one. –That’s amazing! Where did you learn to sew like that?”

“My mother taught me. Its helpful when you tear your clothes as often as I do.”

“Then your mother is a practical and wise woman. - Okay. Then you do the sewing, before my fingertips got all holes in it.”

“Would be a pleasure. At least I have something with that I can impress you.”

“And if this works, remind me to thank her too.” said Astrid and pulled out a map. “All right. When our armors are finished, the next step is to find those Dragon hunters again. And then we will have a surprise for them.”

 On the hunters ship, Hiccup and Tuffnut were scrubbing the deck with brooms.

“So let me get this straight. Dagur took you down all by himself?” the male twin said, leaning lazy on his broom handle.

“If you have forgotten, he is bigger and much stronger than me!” Hiccup grumbled.

“Yes-but you have your brain and cleverness.”

“Oh Thor!” Hiccup groanded.

“This is another argument for why I say: Always carry a sword.” Tuffnut shot back, turning away from Hiccup and started scrubbing around.

 Ruffnut was in the cell under deck scrubbing Barf and Belch.

“Sont try and make up with me, mister. This is your fault. Have you not only thought with your stomach, we would be free by now.” she growled, glaring at Barf. Belch growled back. “And you-don’t taking his side, buddy! You are in this too.”

The two dragon heads began to gurgle to each other, as if discussing something. Then they bowed down and began to lick her.

 Fishlegs was also down below in meatlugs cell sorting through rocks in barrels. However, he was doing a lot more than just working for the hunters. He observed which and how many rocks a crewman shoved into the Gronkles mouth and took note. Then he realized which last indigrend he was missing three years ago.

“One part iron ore, one giant spoon of hardened Gronkle lava, that’s it!” the hought out loud. The angry grunting of the hunter brought him back of his thoughts.

“Oh, sorry. Back to sorting, all right.” Fishlegs said nervously.

 Back on the deck, Tuffnut was standing silently leaning on his broom handly and Hiccup were starting to get annoyed.

“How do you not get having a sword is a huge advantage in a fight?” he snapped.

“It is and if you have a mace….”

“I diddnt have a mace a sword or a crossbow!” Hiccup shot back, gritting his teeth.

“Oh, so now we are getting hypothetical? Bet you diddnt can breathe fire either.”

Hiccup annoyed curled his fingers and lifted his chin in anger.

“One more word and I will do what Dagur planned to do first!” he hissed.

 Fortunately for Tuffnut, a call from a hunter on the watch caught their attention.

“Two dragons heading in our direction! With Riders!”

“That’s Astrid and Snotnose. So they want to try it again.” Dagur said.

“Standby catapults! Archers, take your positions!” Ryker ordered. The hunters loaded the catapults and the archers aimed their arrows at the upcoming dragon riders.

“Wait, until they are in range.” Ryker ordered.

 Snotlout was slightly nervous about charging an entire fleet of Dragon hunters and he wasn’t exactly confident that Astrids plan would work. The Shieldmaiden, who seems to read his thoughts, said: ”Don’t worry, Snotlout. We were prepared this time and knowing Hiccup and the others, I am sure they will cause a nice little distraction on the flagship.”

Then the two flew down straight towards the in the middle crusing ship.

 Dagur looked very excited.

“Look at them! This little walkyrie is coming straight in! A true suicide run, I diddnt think, she hat it in her!” he laughed.

“Foolish girl!” said Ryker.

Heather on the other hand looks quite serious.

“Astrid is no fool. I know her better than you, brother. What are they up to?” she mused.

“Well , I will be sure to ask them after I knock them out of the sky.” said Ryker. “Hunter-fire at will!”

The first arrows flew and the hit both Stormfly and Hookfang.

“Hey, whats going on? I swear, some arrows have hit them!” Dagur wondered and took a look through his spyglass. His eyes widened. “Their dragons are wearing some sort of armour!”

The two dragons blasted the three ballistas right next to Dagur.

When Ryker pulled out one of his swords, Heather knocked him to the ground just as the two dragons shot their fire in his direction.

Hiccup and Tuffnut saw their chance.

“Now or never.” said Hiccup.

The two of them whacked the nearest hunters with their brooms.

“I hate cleaning!” Tuffnut said and whacked another Hunter with his broom then knocking him overboard. “A lot as you can see.”

“Well, looks like there is some more cleaning to do!” Hiccup said. “Lets go!”

They charged at the hunters with their brooms. Several of the men tried to attack them from behind, but Snotlout appeared across the side holding their backs free.

 Under the decks the entire ship shook from the impacts of the two riders attacks and Fishlegs toppled over. Then he saw his chance, grabbed an axe and cut the chains that held Meatlug.

The approaching hunter had no chance as Fishlegs commanded: “Meatlug, hug!”

He was tackled and his head banged against the cell bars, knocking him out cold.

“That’s it. Come on, girl.”

 in another cell, Ruffnut and a hunter were circling on another. First she tried to defend them with two Fish, but the man simply sliced them in half. Ruffnut, out of ideas how to defend herself backed away. When she was swatted away, Barf and Belch got angry and attacked the hunter who had dared to hit their rider. Two good headbutts send the hunter out cold.

“Okay guys, that’s a start. but don’t even think for a second that we are close to be quits.” said Ruffnut to the Zipper. “Now move, you two-headed lizard!”

 Outside Snotlout and Astrid concentrated their fire on the escorting ships. When they pull alongside, the Jorgenson noticed, that the stitches on Stormflys armour were coming loose at one part.

“Oh no! I knew I should have used a lockstitch, not a cross-stitch! Stupid, Snotlout, stupid!” he whined and hit his helmet. “Mom gonna be so disappointed in me!”

“Lets hope it holds as long as we need it! Now we are taking out those two support ships! Go!” Astrid said and began their attack on the two escorting ships.

 On the flag ship Hiccup did his best to defend himself from the charging hunters. And a simple broom was not very effective. But thanks Thor Tuffnut came to help him and slammed the handle of his broom into the attackers face.

“Lets go and get the dragons!” said Hiccup.

They began to head straight down towards the lower decks not noticing, that two archers were aiming at them. But Dagur pushed them aside and ran towards Hiccup.

“The fishbone is mine!” he snarled and began swinging his axe at Hiccup, slicing his broom in half. However this diddnt dishearten Hiccup, he beared a great grudge against the Berserker, who changed the sides. Dagur could see the anger and disappointment in the face of the young Hooligan. The boy let out an angry roar and used his two broom handles to attack Dagur. The berserker was busy trying to block the attacks, he never saw Hiccup so enraged. And when he rammed his shoulder against his chest, Dagur lost his balance and crashed to the ground.

With a scorn look on his face, the Hooligan threw the handles at his opponent and walked away.

“I really have hurt his feelings…” Dagur thought.

 A few moments later Hiccup was inside Toothless cell and began undoing the chains and the muzzle of the Nightfury.

“Toothless, we are leaving.” he said. The dragon warbled happily, finally to be freed again. The Hooligan then heard someone entering the cell and turned to find Dagur standing there.

“Not so fast brother!” he said.

“Dagur, you damn traitor! After all we went through! How could you-and I thought I can trust you!” Hiccup spat. Suddenly Toothless placed himself before Dagur, whined and gave him the “puppy-eye” look. And Hiccup understood in this moment what the Nightfury wanted to say. He trusted Dagur and that could only mean, that he wasn’t a traitor.

“You still can trust me, Brother.” Dagur answered and with one strike, he broke the chains who held the Nightfurys legs. Toothless let out a happy warble and run to his rider.

“Wha-“

“Listen carefully, brother. We and Heather are as spys here. A few weeks before a ship of the hunters with this Ryker came to Berserker island and he tried to buy Cloudstorm and Shattermaster from me! I refused and he made an offer to work for them. So I left the island in charge to my uncle. He is taking now care of the little Skrill, so don’t worry. A surprise for me was, that Heather joined the hunters too and she and I made a temporary peace. She spies with me to find out who the main head of the hunters is. And I and Shattermaster are helping her.”

“Damn, Dagur! I thought you betrayed our friendship!” Hiccup cried and rammed his fist into his gut. The Berserker only flinched a bit and smiled when the boy hugged him. He could see the relive in his green eyes.

“That I will never do! You are my little brother and I will protect you-like I doing with Heather. I know she is still mad at me, but I and she must now work together as siblings, because we had the same goal.” Dagur said and handed Hiccup Toothless harness. He helped him to put it on the Nightfury again.

“Okay, brother. I will give you a chance to flee but it must be real and you and your Nightfury must fight me with all your strength! Otherwise you will blow my cover!” the Berserker said then.

”Now go! I give you some time, before I alert the guards! And always think: I and Heather are your enemies at the moment, and so the hunters must believe it! And your friends too! If one of you gets caught I and Heather will try to help you escape. But if they found out we are traitors….”

“You and Heather are taking a big risk.”

“Hey, we are Berserks. We love risks.”

“Take care, you both.”

“Now get out of here! Your friends and their Dragons are down there!” Dagur told with a hushed voice and pointed to the brig.

Toothless gave Dagur a short lick, before he stepped out of the cell. While the Berserker waited in a dark corner to give him and the other prisoners enough time to prepare their escape, he remembered when he set his first step on Rykers ship.

 Flashback:

It was on a small island, where he and Shattermaster went onboard. After a short introduction and a few instructions, Dagur was allowed to roam free on the entire ship. First he inspected the below decks in hope to find a trace of Hiccups Nightfury. And he found it.

“Toothless!” he whispered when he saw the chained and muzzled Nightfury behind the bars of the cell. The dragon lifted his head when he heard the familiar voice and recognized the scents of the Berserker and Shattermaster. Toothless whined and gave a pleading look to Dagur. Every time he moved, the chains made a rattling sound.

“I know, I know, you want that I free you-but I cant. Listen, I am here to spy on the hunters, they are looking for Dragons everywhere to catch and sell them! Please be patient, I am sure, Hiccup and his pals will come for you. But till then you must behave quiet. We will find a way to free you. You will not end at a market or an auction!” Dagur whispered.

Shattermaster warbled and tried to encourage Toothless on his way.

“Don’t worry, my human and I had agreed to help the hunters, but only to spy how they are hunting the dragons and where they are transporting it.” the Gronkle said. “Dagur will not allow that you been sold!”

“I see. Good, I will stay patient. My human will come for me for sure!” Toothless said.

 “Long time no see, “Brother”!”

Dagur spun around when he heard the familiar voice behind him.

“Heather! Sister! What in Thors Name are you doing here!” he hissed quietly.

“I think the same as you. Serving as a spy. Or am I wrong?”

Heathers eyes narrowed.

“No, you are not. They got Toothless and Hiccup and his gang will soon be here to free him. But we are not helping them. They must think that we are working for the Hunters! When the time Is right, I will tell him about our plan.”

“How did you got in contact with Ryker and his bunch?” Heather wanted to know.

“Well, one day this ship came to our island and Ryker tried to buy my dragon pals from me with not a small amount of Gold! It was clear that I refused, I would never sell my bud Shattermaster or little Cloudstorm!”

“Cloudstorm?”

“A Skrill hatchling I found on my first adventure with Hiccup. A deathsong killed his mother, so our tribe is now taking care of him.”

Heather looked at him. Her brother really seemed to have changed. The way Dagur and Shattermaster behaved was the same bond Heather shared with Windshear.

“But then Rykie made me a special offer. He promised a lot of gold when I worked for him as a scout and warrior with my men in these waters. So I agreed to ally with him, but only to serve as a spy for Hiccup and his riders. The hunters are from the archipelago of shadows. This is the reason why we haven´t meet them yet.”

 “Hey! Ryker wants to talk to you two!” a crewman said who appeared before the siblings.

“Then lets Rykie not wait.” Dagur grinned and walked forward, followed by Shattermaster.

Toothless watched the two Berserkers leaving. He now understands what Dagur and Heather had in planning and he knew that he must not blew their cover.

“Bud, go on deck and fly back to Savage. Wait there for me. It could become a bit rough here in the next two days and I want you out of trouble. Go bud! Go back to Savage!” Dagur ordered with a hushed voice and pointed to the hatch.

Shattermaster wagged his Tail and flew up to the opening.

“Good boy.” the berserker smiled. Then he turned to Heather.

“You cant imagine how clever he is. He understands everything I say to him.” he smiled at her.

“Oh-I can, Brother. Believe me.” Heather said as she followed her brother.

End Flashback.

 Outside on the decks of the ships were everywhere burning small fires from the attacks of Astrid and Snotlout.

“Look! The Nadder lost some of his armour! Get her!” Heather shouted and pointed with her axe at Astrid. The Shieldmaiden looked down at the deck and gasped.

“Eh, did I see right? Is this Heather down there?” Snotlout asked.

“Yes, I see it too. She joined the hunters! I couldn’t belive it!”

“And this after all we did for her! After all I did for her!” the Jorgenson whined.

 “Concentrate all fire at the Nadder!” Ryker ordered-but in the next moment the ship shook from from an impact. The main hatch was blown away by a plasma blast and Hiccup and Toothless came flying out of the now blasted hole.

“I told you, you were messing with the wrong Vikings!” Hiccup yelled. The next were Fishlegs on Meatlug

“Out of our waaayyy!” Fishlegs screamed as they pulled upwards. A few moments later green Gas began to exit from the hole and the hunters backed away when they saw the heads of Barf and Belch sticking out with the twins riding on their necks. Then the Gas was ignited and a large explosion let the men flee and freed the escaping way for the Zipper, who followed the others.

 Ryker looked at his burning ship and then at the Dragon riders who disappeared into the distance.

“I may have underestimated these Dragon riders.” ha admitted.

“I told you so!” Heather snapped and wiped some dust of her skirt.

 “Did I really see Heather on this ship?” Is she with the dragon hunters?” Astrid asked Hiccup, when they brought a safe distance between them and the ships.

“Not just Heather! Dagur is there too!” Ruffnut yelled.

“Yeah. They joined the hunters.” Hiccup said with a dark look. “Guys, we have a lot to talk about.”

Fishlegs fascinated watched the armour that Stormfly and Hookfang wore.

“Screaming death armour? Whose idea was that?” he asked.

Snotlout pointed at Astrid. “But I did the sewing.” he added.

“Excellent workmanship, cousin! And Astrid-this was a great idea!” Hiccup found his smile again.

Astrid smiled back.

“But the armour looks heavy. Maybe we should try a set made of Gronckle iron. I have now the complete formula.” Fishlegs said proudful.

“Well, we might need to do just that. I am pretty sure this was not our last encounter with the Dragon Hunters.” said Hiccup and his face went serious again. A lot of thoughts were circling in his mind and he stayed silent for the rest of the way home.

 On Rykers ship, Dagur and Heather joining up with Ryker. Dagur rubbed his head as if he was hit by something.

“Damn brats! They knocked me out when I tried to captured the little runt and fled on their dragons!” he cursed.

“So whats next?” Heather asked.

“We will report back to Viggo.” Ryker answered.

“And we tell him what?” Dagur asked.

“That we are one step closer to get the Dragon Eye back.” Ryker smirked evilly.

When the Leader of the Hunters stepped with Heather away to inspect the damages of the fight, Dagur was left alone. He looked into the direction where the Riders had disappeared and sighed.

“Please, little one. Take care of you.” he whispered.

 After the council in the clubhouse, Hiccup and Toothless were back in their hut.

The boy stared at the painting, Dagur gave him some weeks ago. With a sigh he took it from the wall and hid it in one of his chests.

“I must keep it secret, that you and Heather are spying out the Hunters.” he murmured and closed the lid of the chest. “For the moment, from now on, it must look, as we are enemies again. And I must keep this secret that they are spies for the hunters for myself-for now.”

Toohtless warbled.

“You know that Dagur and Heather are only doing as if they are evil. And I am glad that they are still our friends-and Dagur still my brother.”

 to be continued.

Next chapter will be “Snow way out”

Some of the episodes wil not be in chronological order.

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1. If you were a reptile what would you be? 

Hmm probably like the lizard that looks like it has a leaf on it’s tail? It’s hecka cute

2. What did you do before tumblr?

  Honestly I was on quotev quite a lot

3. What section do you spend most of your time in at a toy store? 

I can’t remember the last time i was in a toystore tbh, but maybe the pen section?

4. How do you think the apocalypse would happen? Aliens? Nuclear war? Furries? Or something else?

I think either war, or global warming. Definitly man made though.

5. Quick the item to your left is your only weapon for the rest of your life! Hope fucked are you? 

A teacup, I mean I guess the chards could be pretty sharp, better just stay out of fights though.

6. Who is your favorite cryptid?

The ghost that lives in the old house I have circus in

7. When and how did you break your first bone? Or just your first major injury

I’ve never actually broken a bone! But I dislocated my elbow when I was 11 by falling from a monkeybar  

8. Describe your aesthetic in three words. 

Plants, hippie, alternative

9. You can kill one person right now without any consequences, but you have to spend an eternity with them in the afterlife. Who do you kill? 

No one tbh, I wouldn’t want to spend eternity with anyone I want to kill

10. What fandom feels like home to you?

Harry Potter definitely

11. What’s the most underrated book you’ve read?

Probably “The Circle” It’s about a group of teenagers who find out they’re witches and need to stop the apocalypse and it’s really good and the characters are really well written.

My questions

Favorite TV-show? 

Your least favorite animal?

Do you have guilty pleasure you know is actually kinda embarrassing but you do anyway?

A song that reminds you of home.

What’s your dream job?

Do you have any regrets?

Something you wish had been different.

If you could live in a fictional universe what would it be?

Do you believe in life after death?

An animal sidekick from a book or TV-show you want in real life.

What’s the best thing that happened today?

@nifty-skeleton @milk-rain @toxiccoffeedrugs @cyberdogsuniverse @gorillaz-gal @damnedmelody @dyingbecauseofdirk @lindstrxm @hekasblawg @msgrannyglasses @princezzie

[fumikomiyasaki]

I Love how this developed from her still being confident and calling him Lizard to later be scared and call him Leroy.💚

He would definitly protect her throughout it, when He sees she looks Bad. I really Love this. 🥰

👻 Leroy and Catherine or Malorie and Catrina (because come in we know Seraphim would be bored and I don't know bout Elysia. XD)

     “oo this looks cool!” Catherine grinned childishly “Let’s go, Lizard” she smiled, she was excited but there was one thing she forgot. She had never done anything like this before and was afraid of ghosts. Catherine thought about holding his hand but quickly decided not to, instead she decided to stand close to him. “You’re excited” Leroy chuckled a bit, it was a nice moment of non-bickering, even nicer to see Catherine so childishly excited about something. “Well the rest of the festival has been fun, so this must be too” Catherine smiled, practically humming as the couple walked into the haunted house.

     Catherine’s eyes widened as she took in the décor. Spells were cast to make ghosts fly around, fog covering so they couldn’t see too far ahead. As a ghost flew by Catherine moved closer to Leroy, holding onto his sleeve “Cat?” he looked at her, raising an eyebrow “I-I just don’t want to lose you with all the fog…” she looked down, not looking at him. He chuckled a bit at her before continuing to make their way through the house. Catherine stayed close to Leroy, tail batting back and forth as she looked around. Her ears pricked up at every little sound as she stayed at alert.

     A fellow Heartslabyul student jumped out at them, causing Catherine to squeak out, hiding behind Leroy “L-Lizard…” her voice trembled. Leroy was surprised, but stayed in front of Catherine until the scare actor left “I-Is he gone…?” Catherine spoke softly “yeah” he smiled as she peaked out a bit, looking around. He chuckled as he could see her ears moving “Hey” she turned to him when he spoke up. He held out his hand, blushing a bit. Catherine’s eyes widened before shyly holding his hand “T-Thank you…” she turned, but her smile was still visible. The couple continued, looking away from each other. The cold of the house was no longer apparent to them. Catherine would squeeze his hand at the small things that scared her, each time making Leroy smile softly.

     They were almost out of the house when a prop ghost fell down from the ceiling. Catherine screamed out, visibly jumping as she clung to Leroy. Her arms and legs wrapped tight around him as she trembled. Leroy’s eyes widened as he fumbled to hold her “H-Hey…” he wrapped his arms around her. Catherine hid her face against him “It’s a prop, you’re okay” He tried to calm her down. Catherine stayed clung to him, hiding her face “Just breathe” he spoke softly as she nodded. They stayed like this for a while before Catherine lifted her head. She looked at him, their noses brushing “T-Thank you, Leroy...” she blushed at their closeness, kissing his cheek quickly before pulling away “Y-Yeah…” he mumbled, blushing. Catherine took his hand again, lacing their fingers as they made their way out of the haunted house. The brisk night air surrounded them, cooling their blushing faces. The couple held hands as they continued their adventure into the night and the rest of the festival. 

[machinistmind]

So, after leaving it alone FOR YEARS, I decided (or something, a grumpy lizard, poked me VERY HARD) to play and finish up Fallout 3 and read Fallout Equestria. Since I needed a character, I was basically going as Chance, a burglar pegasi that I use for a Ponyfinder campaign.

OH BOY! I did not know about what being a pegasi implied in the Fallout Equestria universe until I read it. Someone told me “Hey, you pick pegasi for Fallout Equestria, you walk in a minefield!” But y’know what? Screw it. I like my Chance. You’re my pegasi #1! Mhm? Lady Caffeine? Doesn’t mean I can rank my pegasus on the same level, I love them both equally!

Anyway, that’s a little “Hey, I’ve completed the game and its DLCs” picture, leaving Chance, the “I hate locked things” pegasi. Do you want a little story which makes sortof sense (probably not?)? Sure. Not too long, though. Haters are gonna hate.

It has been about a few hundred years that the World Below has been destroyed by the Megaspells. Above the clouds, it’s safe. Doesn’t mean you have to be all nice and gentle, right?

I’m REALLY into looking stuffs up and collecting, I also hate locked doors. Pegasus call that trespassing'n'robbery, I call that exploration'n'information. Whenever you start to run out of places to explore, you start to explore forbidden stuffs... psssh -I don’t know-... like a military base. Managed to bribe a guard to let me in during a night shift... As loyal the Enclave pegasus are supposed to be, you can definitly convince somepony to help, with a bit of speech and money.

Anyway, I’m in... what now? Crap, that’s typical. I never think plans ahead. I can think of escape routes very quickly but that’s it... It’s easy to dash whenever you got wings. Well, time to step further in the base... and the alarm goes off. Well, my luck didn’t last long. I may have underestimated the difficulty to infiltrate a base. I got very few options here. I won’t be able to use the same route that I used to enter, that’s for sure... either I let them capture me, which is out of question... ...or I dive through the clouds below, in the World Below... That’s something I was thinking as a escape route. Maybe it means death but I rather prefer that than being put in prison... *sighs* Okay, here goes nothing... Grasping for what may be my last clean air, I hold my breath and jump down in the clouds.

The dive felt like forever. It’s dark, I can’t see, I don’t want to breath...

...and I’m in the clear. I... I’m alive. For how long? The radiations are going to kill me, I need to move! FAST! All I need to know is to find a new location to dive through, away from the military base. Flying near the clouds, trying to ignore what below me, my vision gets blurry, my head hurts... I c-can’t go on like that... I was always terrible at swimming and holding my breath... I n-n-need to breath... but I’m too close to the military base!

Suddenly, I open my mouth and grasp for air! DAMN IT! DAMN YOU, STUPID BRAIN! W-wait... the air is... breathable? It’s not fresh air like above the clouds... but... it’s breathable. I suddenly stop, trying to understand what’s around me... It’s dark but there is a faint light coming from the clouds above, probably the moon. The world is devastated... b-but... I see buildings, I see... L-LIGHTS? IS THERE SOME KIND OF... CIVILIZATION DOWN THERE? I’ve heard about the Stables but I didn’t think that they actually worked down there... Did the unicorns and earth ponies survived? What about the radiation? According to what I’ve learned, they are supposed to be at deadly levels... I’m still alive and feel unharmed.

Suddenly I realize... There is an entire world I know nothing of... just below me... WAIT! Did the military knew? Did the government knew that the world is... sortof safe below? I don’t know what to expect but if ponies live there, it’s probably safe... They lied to everypony... I’M NOT SAFE YET! Dashing to the ground, I dash toward a building and hide. The military know it’s safe, they can chase me down there! I’ve heard about the tales of the Dashites... I don’t want to go up there ever again...

Do... do I need to? I got everything I want to here : a new world to explore. I... d-don’t need to go above the clouds. I can... live there. I better sneak though. If the Enclave see me down there, that probably means the end for me... but I doubt they’re going to chase me that far... Well, here we go... I don’t know what to expect... but it’s worth trying.

[grn-fog]

Ok heres my setup. Its 24litres with 1 male betta and 1 albino corydoras. Can this tank safley fit more corydoras? I dont have a problem with doing more water changes. Currently i do a 50% every wednsday. So can this tank fit anymore cory's to make Lizard the cory happy? Im useing my 3ds as a size comparison to maybe help understand the size of my tank (personaly i think its pretty small but i definitly plan on upgrading eventualy)