Today was a special day for Hiccup. His picture was being painted by Bucket and at the Great Hall they're going to give a big reveal of what the picture is going to look like.

My friends and I walked into the Great Hall and to the left, we saw many portraits of the leaders of Berk over many generations.

"Look at all these great leaders. And tomorrow, your picture's going to be hanging right next to them!" Astrid said to Hiccup

Snotlout sighed "There goes the neighborhood."

Fishlegs looked at Hiccup "You are part of an elite group now, my friend. And one of the few who wasn't killed by their successor."

"So far," Tuffnut added as he and his sister giggled

Hiccup shrugged "I guess it is a pretty big deal. I mean, it's like... being a part of history, right?" He said as he gestures towards the portraits

"History of goof-balls. Heh-heh, what a clown." Snotlout snickered at a painting behind him

Fishlegs pointed at a picture "That is Hamish the First. He was our richest and most revered leader. And his son, Hamish the Second."

Snotlout stood in front of the portrait

"I'm Hamish the First. Bow down before me and kiss my pointy shoes." He said in a high, nasally, funny, posh accent as he closed his eyes and held his nose in the air

I giggled at his goofiness

Tuffnut went behind him and went all fours while Ruffnut pushed Snotlout making him trip over Tuffnut.

Snotlout bumped into the portrait behind him and made the portrait fall to the ground.

Fishlegs panicked and picked up the portrait "Look what you did to the Hamishes! Forgive us, please!"

A piece of paper floated down onto Snotlout that came from behind the picture.

Tuffnut looked at it over Snotlout's shoulder "What's that? It's probably mine!"

Snotlout stood up and took a good look at the piece of parchment. Ignoring Tuffnut.

"Looks like some sort of map... with poetry."

"I'll take that," Gobber said as he snatched it out of his hands.

"Hey! That's my poetry map!" Snotlout exclaimed

Gobber looked at it "All of these were supposed to be destroyed."

"Why? What's so special about it?" Astrid asked confused.

I got curious and tried to take a good look at the map but Gobber kept moving it.

"Men lost their limbs, their lives, and their minds trying to find that treasure," Gobber explained

Fishlegs got excited "I've heard about this! The treasure of Hamish the First. His son buried him with it and left this map. They say that the clues are so complicated that only a brilliant mind can decipher them."

Gobber continued "Stoick and I even went after this treasure."

The twins, Fishlegs, Snotlout and I looked at him in awe as he was telling his story

"It lured us high into the mountains in a blinding snowstorm. We fought like badgers over the meaning of the clues. We were lucky to make it back with our lives... and our friendship intact. For your own good kids, forget you ever saw this." He then walked away with the paper in his hand.

I sighed in disappointed.

I glanced over at Snotlout and he and the twins had mischievous smiles on their faces.

A few moments later the painting was ready to be shown.

Hiccup went up the platform in front of the whole crowd while I followed my friends into the crowd to watch the portrait get revealed.

Hiccup stood beside Stoick and the painting was to his right. It was covered with a purple cloth.

Bucket was standing to the left of the picture ready to reveal the portriat to everyone.

Then Bucket pulled the cloth

I noticed something looked off.

Everyone started to clap and there was chatter

"Uh..." I said out loud

I noticed that Ruffnut and Astrid had that dreamy look.

"Whoa. What happened to Hiccup?" Tuffnut asked

"Who cares?" Astrid said smiling at the picture

I looked at Astrid, confused "Don't you think it looks a bit...off? It doesn't look like him."

She looked at me and shrugged

•●●●•

After all that, I was about to leave the Great Hall but Snotlout, Fishlegs, and the twins came up to me. I gave them a confused expression.

"We are going to go and find that poetry map." Snotlout whispered

"Are you in?" Ruffnut asked quietly

They all looked at me waiting for an answer.

I grinned at them

"I'm up for it!" I said with enthusiasm but made sure I wasn't too loud

•●●●•

We all left the Great Hall.

"Now, where would he put that map?" I heard Snotlout say

"Well, Gobber was the one who took it. So maybe at his blacksmith?" I suggested

His shop wasn't too far from the Great Hall. We walked up to it and I tried opening the door.

"Locked...go figure," I mumbled

We walked around the house and Tuffnut pointed at an open window.

"You guys can go in there!" He said

I asked Tuffnut and Ruffnut stay out so they can tell us through the window if someone was coming.

Fishlegs didn't want to break into someone's place so we told him to be on the lookout for anyone who comes

"What should the signal be?" He asked

I shrugged "I don't know? Anything to get the twins attention."

Snotlout went inside first and then I followed behind.

It was a mess. Weapons and tools littered all over the floor and tables. Some propped against the wall.

We looked around the room. Stepping over weapons and lifting them up and looking under them.

In the middle of the room was a table. I noticed a paper sticking out under one of the double-headed axes. I lifted it up and saw the map.

"Snotlout, is this it?" I asked

He came over and looked at it. "My map!" Before he grabbed the map I took it.

"You mean our map?" I said as I raised my eyebrows

He sighed "Fine. It's our map." He said unenthusiastically and I handed him the map.

He took it and smiled at it.

Snotlout went through the window first and I followed

I heard Hiccup ask as Snotlout was halfway out the window "What are you doing?"

He landed on his head and fell on his back and I didn't notice so I fell forward and ended up landing on top of his stomach on my stomach. I lifted up my legs afraid I was going to kick his face.

I quickly rolled off and I brushed myself off while blushing

Snotlout wasn't phased at all he was too excited, he jumped up. "I've got the map. We're finding that treasure!"

He then looked at Fishlegs "And you are a horrible lookout."

Astrid stepped in "You heard what Gobber said. The bravest warriors in history have died trying to find that treasure."

"Yeah. And I'm next." Snotlout said puffing out his chest

I gave him a deadpan look "Really?" I said to him.

"Well, I personally would like to live to see my next birthday," Astrid said crossing her arms.

Fishlegs tried to convince Astrid "We'll be legends! They'll sing songs about us."

Astrid wasn't convinced "You'll be dead. Come on, guys, not even Stoick could find it."

Hiccup nodded "You're right. He couldn't..."

He walked up to us

"Give me that map." Hiccup grabbed the map from Snotlout

Astrid looked relieved "Finally, someone is making sense."

"Alright. Where do we start?" Hiccup said as he looked at the map

"Are you serious?" Astrid asked in disbelief

Hiccup looked up and looked at Astrid "Think about it, Astrid. My father couldn't find that treasure. What-what would he say if I did something that even Stoick the Vast couldn't do? How great would that be?"

Astrid walked up to Hiccup "You're gonna go after this no matter what I say, right? So, yeah, pretty great."

Hiccup asked, "So, you're not gonna give me a hard time about this?"

Astrid poked him in the shoulder "Oh, I'll give you a hard time. Every step of the way. Besides, I can't let you go with just them."

Astrid gestures towards the twins.

I looked over and Ruffnut was punching Tuffnut in the face

"Harder! I said I want to see stars!" Ruffnut hit his face harder "Ah..."

I cringed as Ruffnut hit his face

Hiccup looked back at the map "It looks like the map leads you to these spots."

Fishlegs pointed at the map "And the riddles are clues to what we're supposed to find!"

"Blah-blah-blah!" Snotlout took the map out of Hiccup's hand "Where's the treasure?"

He starts to read and I looked over his shoulder "Hmm, clue number one: "Where the land meets the sea, in the crook of the master's knee, that's where your search will be...gin.""

Ruffnut commented, "That doesn't sound so brilliant."

Tuffnut starts to mumble "Okay. Think, think, think, think, think. Think, think... I forgot what I was thinking about."

I facepalmed

Hiccup thought for a second "The "master's knee"? I've seen this before!"

He ran towards the Great Hall as we all gave each other a confused glance and ran after Hiccup.

He went inside and he went towards the Hammish portrait. We all caught up with him and we were all looking at the painting.

Hiccup pointed at the painting "Look, right there, where his knee bends. It's pointing to this spot on the beach! That's where we start!"

"Huh," I said kind of surprised

We left the Great Hall and got on our dragons and flew towards the beach.

This was a different beach that I haven't visited yet. In front of us was a giant glacier

Once we landed Hiccup read off the paper

"Listen up, you guys. "From here you will see the seed that's been sown. Look to where water turns to bone.""

Snotlout exclaimed ""Water turns to bone"? Hamish isn't even trying to make sense!"

"Well, they're riddles. It's intentionally written like this" I said to him.

Hiccup tried to make sense of it mumbling to himself "No, it-- "Water turns to bone"... "water turns to bone" Hiccup then looked up and started to look around "... He must mean ice! The glacier!"

He pointed at the giant ice glacier in front of us

We looked at where he was pointing and we flew up to the glacier. It took us a few minutes then we found that there was a hole inside the glacier and we went inside.

I shuddered. There were Vikings in the ice. Frozen and lifeless.

Astrid pointed at the ground "There's something in there."

Fishlegs looked at the Viking inside the glacier "I bet that guy saw it too."

Hiccup read the next riddle

"Call on Magni, you'll go astray. Freya, though, will show the way."

"I get it." Snotlout said. Then he started to bang his head while wearing his helmet on the ice. Which was breaking the ice.

I heard a crack and it seemed like Hiccup heard it too.

Right above Snotlout was a giant hammer with a point at the front. It could impale a Viking and kill them in a second.

It was getting ready to swing down.

"Watch out! Above you!" I cried out as I pointed at the giant hammer.

Everyone looked up and at Snotlout

"No!" Hiccup said loudly, luckily he was behind Snotlout

Hiccup pulled Snotlout back just in time and the trap hit the ice wall instead which made a huge hole and then the trap swung back up.

I wanted to run up to him and hug him and ask if he was okay but I had to control myself.

'My Thor, what is wrong with me!'

"We can't break the ice. That's what Magni means. He's the God of Strength." Hiccup said

Fishlegs added "That's right! And Freya..."

"Is the Goddess of Fire!" Fishlegs and Hiccup said in unison

Hiccup told Toothless to melt the ice. After he did Hiccup crouched down and saw some sort of metal. It was in an odd shape. He touched it and jerked back because of the heat but then picked it up.

"That's it? This is the treasure?" Ruffnut asked. She sounded disappointed

Hiccup held the metal piece up and looked at it "No. Can't be. But I bet this will lead us to it."

Tuffnut took the metal piece and started to talk to it "Take us to the treasure!"

"Let me know if it answers," Astrid said sarcastically

"This is just the first piece." Hiccup said out loud.

Suddenly the ice underneath us started to break.

"Uh, I think this is our cue to leave!" I said panicking.

Hiccup yelled for Toothless and all our dragons flew in.

I got on (y/d/n) and flew out, following the group.

My dragon and l almost got hit by a giant piece of falling ice from the ceiling but we managed to dodge it, barely.

We all regrouped and we were onto the next riddle.

We flew into the ocean and landed onto a sea stack.

Hiccup read the riddle.

""At the edge of the world, amidst the raging sea, in the serpent's mouth, lies another key.""

"Serpents? I hate serpents. Those are reptiles, right?" Tuffnut asked

Ruffnut looked over at Tuffnut "You do realize you're sitting on one?"

"Eugh!" Tuffnut said in disgust

Snotlout pointed at a cloud

"Hey! That cloud looks like a snake."

"Yeah, and in five minutes, it'll look like a bunny," Astrid commented

I couldn't help but giggle.

Snotlout gave Astrid and I a glare

I playfully stuck my tongue out at him he just rolled his eyes and looked away.

I blushed in embarrassment 'I don't think he liked that.' I thought

Hiccup spoke up "Wait-wait-wait a minute. He might be onto something. "In the mouth... lies the key.""

Hiccup looked off into the ocean.

"Look! Right there!" He pointed at a rock figure that looked like a snake with its mouth open in the middle of the ocean

"Toothless, let's go!" Hiccup said

Fishlegs started to worry

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa a-are you crazy? You can't take a Night Fury with a wingspan of forty-eight feet and expect him to hover in winds like that! You'll be killed!" He exclaimed

Hiccup looked at Meatlug "Well, what's the wingspan of Meatlug?"

We all looked over at them.

Fishlegs sighed and mumbled "Eighteen feet."

"Great!" Hiccup exclaimed.

"Now...how am I going to get to the mouth?" He thought out loud

We all started to think of a plan then I looked down and I pulled out a rope from a bag attached to (y/d/n)'s saddle.

"I got an idea," I said.

•●●●•

I explained my plan. I attached the rope to Meatlug. I told Hiccup to grab onto the rope as Meatlug hovers over the mouth of the rock.

"Isn't this kind of dangerous?" Fishlegs asked tensely

I looked up at him "Not if he lets go." I deadpanned

He gulped and nodded.

Meatlug flew up while Hiccup was holding onto the rope.

I watch Meatlug and Hiccup as they fly towards the rock formation.

"I hope I tied that rope tight enough," I said nonchalantly

Everyone looked at me horrified

I looked at them and smiled "I'm just kidding!"

We watched as Hiccup was hovering over the mouth of the rock serpent while Fishlegs tried to keep themselves stable.

Hiccup tried to reach inside the mouth of the rock formation but wasn't able to reach so he went down the rope.

He reached down with his metal foot and tried to get something, which we assume it was to grab the metal piece. He eventually got it and they flew back to our spot.

•●●●•

We all flew back to land. Once we landed we walked into the forest, still riding our dragons.

Hiccup was messing with the two metal pieces "Look, they fit together! We must be on the right track."

Ruffnut asked, "Hiccup, what are you going to do with your part of the treasure?"

Hiccup was looking at the map, his eyes not leaving the paper "I'm not really here for the treasure."

"Great! I get his share!" Snotlout exclaimed

I silently chuckled to myself and shook my head

'If I had that treasure I will show m-'

My thoughts have been broke by Hiccup. Everyone stopped.

"This must be the spot. Why else would anybody build a wall in the middle of the woods." He said

There was definitely a giant tall wall. It was engraved with symbols on the stones.

"Uh, duh, to keep out the other trees," Tuffnut said as if it was obvious

Hiccup read what the map said "Uh, I got another one for you. "The world is right when stars align; when not in sync, the danger you'll find.""

"Stars?!" Snotlout exclaimed, "I'm not waitin' around here till night!"

Hiccup shook his head "No, I don't think he means actual stars. I mean, the water didn't really turn to bone"

"Well, what do you think it means, Hiccup?" Astrid asked

"Why are you asking him? Maybe I know." Snotlout let out

We all looked at him

"Well, do you know?" I asked curiously

"I said, "Maybe." Turns out, I don't." Snotlout said as he crossed his arms.

Fishlegs got off of Meatlug and took a closer look. "Huh... There are shapes carved into each one of these bricks."

We got off our dragons and walked up to the wall

Hiccup looked at the wall "Keep a lookout for anything that looks like a star."

Snotlout saw one and he grabbed the stone and pulled it "Got one!"

"No! Wait!" I shouted

When he pulled the brick out there were some pebbles that fell above the wall.

Snotlout mumbled "Uh-oh!"

Fishlegs panicked "Put it back! Put it back! Put it back!"

Snotlout tried pushing back the brick in but it wouldn't budge

He yelled "Hookfang!"

I looked over at Hookfang and he was distracted by a floating leaf!

"Hookfang!" Snotlout and I shouted.

I pointed at the terrified Snotlout.

Hookfang quickly ran over and pushed back in the stone

"Oh Thor, that was close." I sighed in relief

Hiccup looked at the map "Okay... It says, "In sync." That means there must be another star."

Astrid was scanning over the giant wall "Over here!" She pointed at a brick. It was slightly higher than the other one

"I think we're supposed to pull them out at the same time." Hiccup said as he was looking at the wall.

He then turned his head at the twins "Ruff? Tuff?"

The twins walked up to the wall and showed Barf and Belch what they need to do and then they both pulled the bricks at the same time.

Luckily, it opened and we went inside. We heard a low rumble sound so we turned around and the door closed on us.

Toothless ran up at the door and started to scratch at it.

"Well, there goes our exit." I groaned

As we were walking we saw some torches. Hiccup and Astrid picked them off the walls.

We came into an opening but it was dark but it was obvious that the cave was huge and spacious.

"Wow, this is amazing," Ruffnut said in amazement

Snotlout looked around the cave "Oh, man.." He muttered

The cave started to feel really hot. I started to sweat profusely.

Snotlout started to complain "Ugh, it's so hot. Is anybody else hot? 'Cause I'm really hot."

"Yeah, I'm sweating up a storm," I commented as a wiped the sweat off my forehead with my arm.

Tuffnut added "I know. I'm sweating like a dragon at an eel party."

I looked over at my dragon as (he/she) groaned in discomfort.

I went to my bag and pulled out a water skin and gave (y/d/n) some water and poured some on (his/her) head.

As I was putting away the water skin I noticed some movement on the ground.

Astrid was the first to point it out "Uh, guys? Is it just me, or is the floor moving?"

"I don't think it's just you," I muttered as I was eyeing the floor

Hiccup looked at Toothless "Uh, Toothless, can you give us some light?"

Toothless shot a blast in the middle of the cave and it lit up the area for a second.

Fishlegs looked at the floor "That's why it's so hot in here. Fireworm dragons."

Tuffnut was amazed "Whoa." He picked up a Fireworm

Hiccup was alarmed "Stop! Their skin burns hotter than the sun."

"Yeah, but how hot can the sun really be?" Tuffnut quizzed

As if on cue the Fireworm's body lit up.

Tuffnut shrieked "Yeowch! Ow! AAarggh!" He shook his hand

The Fireworm dropped to the ground and that made all the Fireworms light up one by one.

It lit the whole cave up and we saw in the middle of the whole infestation that there were many pedestals with metal pieces on each one.

"Whoa," Tuffnut said in awe

The Fireworms started to scatter around the cave and one of them got on Hiccups leg

"Aah!" I heard him shout

All the dragons started to fire at the Fireworms who were scurring around the cave.

One also hopped on my fur boot and the Fireworm caught it on fire.

"Hot! Hot! Hot!" I shrieked and shook the Fireworm off.

I roughly patted the fire out. While (y/d/n) shot at it while it scurried away. My dragon made an odd gurgle sound.

I looked over to my dragon. (He/she) looked sick.

Suddenly a fire circled around the room. Surrounding the middle.

"Grab'em and let's go!" Snotlout yelled as he gestures to the exit.

Hiccup looked at the metals "No, it's a choice. Listen to this, guys."

He starts reading the paper ""Something pure and something strong. Look first to yourself, and you won't go wrong.""

Fishlegs suggested "Strong... That must be the one made of iron." He pointed at one of the metal pieces.

Astrid didn't agree "But iron's not pure. Take the gold." She pointed at a different metal piece.

Hiccup wasn't picking one.

All of our dragons ran out of shots and my dragon was in a bad condition.

It was getting worse. (He/she) isn't able to take the heat any longer.

"It's getting really hard to breathe!" I heard Astrid shout

Fishlegs yelled out "That's what happens when you're getting roasted alive! You might wanna make a decision soon, Hiccup! We don't have much time!"

I patted my dragon anxiously. I gave (him/her) a little bit of water hoping it would help for just a moment.

Just enough so we can get out of here.

"Careful, it could be a trap." I heard Astrid said

I looked up and saw Hiccup. He was still in the middle of the cave. He reaches for one of the metal pieces and grabbed it.

The cave was starting to collapse in the middle where Hiccup and Toothless were standing.

It caved in and revealing a giant hole in the ground. Toothless jumped out of the way in time but Hiccup didn't make it and fell down in the large hole.

"Hiccup!" Astrid yelled

Toothless turned around and went after him.

"Oh, no! Hurry! Where'd he go?! Hiccup!" She looked down at the giant hole panicking

The whole cave was now going to cave in. Rocks were falling from the ceiling.

Tuffnut yelled, "We gotta get out of here!"

Snotlout pointed at an opening "Through there!"

We were getting on our dragons. Astrid ran up to me and Fishlegs.

She grabbed Fishlegs before he got on Meatlug

"No! We're not leaving them!" Astrid said frantically

Fishlegs looked at Astrid "If we don't go now we'll all be trapped. There won't be anybody to help Hiccup."

"Fishlegs right, we need to get out now before it's too late!" I said as I shouted over the chaos.

Astrid followed us reluctantly. We all quickly flew through the hole.

(Y/n/d) only had enough energy to fly through the hole and then (he/she) turned limp midflight

"(Y/d/n)!?" Something was very wrong.

Suddenly, (y/d/n) was flying towards the ground.

"(Y/n)!" I heard my friends yell.

(Y/d/n) hit the ground hard and I got flung forward and rolled in the grass and dirt. I felt a sharp pain on my side. I might have hit a small rock protruding from the ground.

I looked up and my eyes went wide in horror as I saw (y/d/n) flipping over me.

Pieces of grass and dirt flew around me and then I saw (y/d/n) landing harshly on the ground. (His/her) back towards me. I couldn't tell if (y/d/n) was breathing.

I reached out and screamed

"(Y/d/n)!"