The two of them finally landed at Drago's camp, according to the directions given to them by Eret. As soon as they were close enough to the ground, Serenity released Eret, and with a yelp of indignance, the trapper fell flat on his face into the snow.

He instantly tried to scramble to his feet, but Serenity landed on top of him, her claws pinning him to the ground. Smiling, Rapunzel slid off her dragon's back and strode forward.

Serenity could take care of Eret for now. She seemed to have taken a liking to him already.

Eret, unfortunately, did not feel the same way. "Aaagh!" he complained. "Okay! Look, I got you here, now get this thing off me!"

Rapunzel turned back at him, narrowing her eyes. "Never take a toy from a dragon," she said as she spread her hands and held them up like he was an idiot. "Don't you know anything?"

"Gah!" Eret gasped loudly, struggling against Serenity although it was in vain. "Why does this keep happening to me?"

Serenity wrapped her wings around Eret, which muffled his voice so that Rapunzel could just barely make out the end. She and Hiccup ducked low to the ground and raced towards a small slope. As soon as they reached it, they looked over it, and gasped.

A fleet of ships. Dark, black ships, with soldiers on them, shouting orders to one another while others raced off to do other tasks Rapunzel didn't want to think about. Ship by ship, they tried to count them, but then found that it was useless. Neither of them could count them without missing one or forgetting which ones they had counted and which ones they hadn't.

Rapunzel squinted down at the ship that seemed the biggest out of the fleet. Chains were strung about it and then thrown into the water; the metal pulled tight to allow no slack. Bubbles rose up from the water and popped along the surface of it. Rapunzel looked down at it more intently, trying to figure out what in the world was causing it.

"What's down there?" Rapunzel wondered out loud. Although she had been speaking to mainly herself, Hiccup still pulled out his small stack of dragon flash cards and looked them over carefully.

"Large diameter bubbles," Hiccup counted off the characteristics to narrow it down to the type of class. "Massive lungs...cold water deep dweller...I'm thinking class five leviathan. It might even be a six."

"But there's only five classes." Rapunzel reminded him as Pascal was looking out and seeing all of the ships and dragons.

"I know." Hiccup replied.

Rapunzel then looked down and saw how they were beating the dragons into obedience and couldn't stand it as Pascal winced and looked away. "It's okay, Pascal." She assured her friend and caressed him before looking to Hiccup. "What's the plan?"

Hiccup was formulating a plan in his head, trying to decide what to do and how to break in, when suddenly Toothless stood at attention and they turned to see Dragon Hunters coming for them.

Toothless blasted at the ones who were getting ready to blast darts at Serenity and Hiccup saw they needed to go. "Come on."

The two of them raced over to their dragons and Serenity shot her amber out at the Hunters, entrapping them and allowing Hiccup the time to use his Inferno to release some gas and escape. Leaving Erret behind as they flew away to escape, they dodged the bolas the best they could when Rapunzel was shot.

"Hiccup!" Rapunzel cried as before Hiccup could turn back to save her, a Stormcutter came in and Hiccup was shocked to see there was a rider on it.

"What?" Hiccup asked as the rider gestured to the outside and Hiccup saw this person was at least a friend and followed them out, whilst their dragon cut the bola off of the Death Song and the three flew off.

The dragons continued flying far away from the camp and were making their way to a clearing, Rapunzel and Hiccup kept their mouth shut, mentally planning their next move.

Then, all at once, they came to another lion's mane-like structure of spiked, jagged ice, much like the first one they had come across just the same morning. Rapunzel and Hiccup held their breath, as the dragons swooped towards it, following the mysterious figure that saved them.

They flew over a thick piece of ice, and under another one. Just like that, they were inside a cave, lit by nothing. Shapes moved in the darkness, Rapunzel and Hiccup ignored them.

"Where are we?" Hiccup asked, looking around for the figure.

"Do you think this was the right idea?" Rapunzel was starting to worry.

Before Hiccup had the chance to answer, the dragons started to growl while Hiccup and Rapunzel got off their dragons and he pulled out Inferno. He activated it and started swinging it in front of one of the dragons. The mysterious rider watched in the shadows as the dragons followed the glow of the sword, calming down.

The flames of the sword began to die down, so he switched it off and took a capsule from his ankle hostler that he put inside the weapon. He spun low to the ground, releasing a green gas that he ignited to make the dragons back off. He then stood up and cautiously approached the dragon with his palm up to do their signature move. But before he could touch it, the rider jumped inside the circle.

The mysterious Dragon Rider stepped forward again, a staff in hand. The mystery person swung it and hit the ground, and instantly, the dragons around them opened their mouths, a slow, burning fire kindled in their throats. Hiccup drew Inferno and swished it through the air. Serenity and Toothless stood behind Hiccup and Rapunzel protectively, the Night Fury wrapping his tail around Hiccup's legs while Serenity did the same to her rider and Pascal just hid in Rapunzel's hair.

"Who are you?" Hiccup asked slowly. "Are...are you the Dragon Thief?"

"Drago Bludvist?" Rapunzel questioned.

No response. The human kept looking at them strangely, moving like a dragon around them. It was really beginning to creep Rapunzel out.

"Do you even understand what we're saying to you?" Hiccup finally blurted.

The rider moved towards them slowly, a hand outstretched. Hiccup shoved Rapunzel behind him with his free hand, his other hand holding onto Inferno tightly. "Stay behind me," Hiccup ordered.

Rapunzel wanted to tell him that she could fend for herself, but there was no arguing with Hiccup, so she did as she had been asked, keeping her hand hovering over her axe should she have to use it.

Toothless growled. The rider put forth a hand, and then, Toothless flopped over on his back, his tongue lolling out of his mouth. Rapunzel took a small step towards Serenity, just to make sure this weird rider didn't do the same thing to her dragon. Toothless looked fine, but still...they might need a quick getaway.

Then, the rider put a hand towards Hiccup. Hiccup took a step backwards, as did Rapunzel. All at once, the masked rider withdrew their hand as if something had burned it and stepped back.

"Hiccup?" a feminine voice whispered.

It was muffled from behind the mask, but there was no mistaking what she murmured. Hiccup stiffened all over again, as did Rapunzel. Sure, Rapunzel had shouted Hiccup's name once since meeting this weird dragon lady, but now, this woman was speaking as though she actually knew who Hiccup is.

Well, since it was a lady, at least that ruled out the possibility that she was Drago, but that really didn't make Rapunzel feel much better at this point.

The woman took off her mask. Her eyes were a shade of green, her hair long and auburn with a few tiny streaks of grey in it. She looked to maybe be in her forties, definitely older than the two of them.

"Could...Could it be?" the woman asked in shock. "After all these years...how is this possible?"

Hiccup looked tongue tied. "Ah...should I..." he began as he looked to Rapunzel as she just shrugged. "Should I know you?"

The woman's shoulders slumped. "No," she said quietly, shaking her head. "You were only a baby."

Hiccup and Rapunzel squinted at her, no idea what to make of that as the woman looked back up at them and sighed.

"But a mother, never forgets," she whispered.

Rapunzel and Pascal looked to Hiccup after hearing that, feeling shocked that this woman is claiming to be his mother. The woman he claimed that was killed by dragons when he was a child. But before he had the chance to freak out, his supposed mother raised her hand and lightly shushed him

"Come." She said before running off and the two of them just decided to do just that as Toothless followed and Serenity needed to find her own way around.