Maces and Talons
The team are all fighting off another few boats of Dragon Hunters and rescue their dragons they have captured as it seems to be getting easier.
"I keep saying don't underestimate them. And what do you do?" Dagur asks Ryker. "You underestimate them!" He says as Windshear shoots some spines their way and Dagur dodges while Ryker blocks it.
"Someone is giving them information. Someone who knows where we're going to be." Ryker sees.
Snotlout gets knocked off of Hookfang and lands on the twins dragon as they get hit and Hookfang saves Ruffnut.
"Really? He saves her?" Snotlout asks since Hookfang never cared about him. "Thanks a lot, Hookfang!"
"I know I'm not as sticky or annoying as Snotlout, but let's try and work together." Ruffnut asks of Hookfang as they fly in and get knocked down.
"They're down! Pull them up!" Dagur tells them
"Okay, Snotlout, you gas, I spark." Tuffnut says as the deck gets filled by Zippleback gas.
"Yeah, I got it. I got it!" Snotlout says as he sparks it and they go flying.
"Yes! How awesome are we?" Tuffnut asks Snotlout.
"Let me think. Totally awesome! That's who we are." Snotlout answers as Hookfang and Ruffnut try getting free of the net.
"When you're done handing out the Viking of the Year awards, you mind getting us outta here?"
"Shall we?" Snotlout asks.
"We shall." Tuffnut agrees.
They all start flying away from the burning ships leaving the hunters.
"That was..."
"Indescribable." Snotlout and Tuffnut say.
"You! Get off my dragon." Ruffnut tells Snotlout as she's still ringing Hookfang.
"Actually, my boy, Snot and I are gonna hang for a bit. You know, relive the glory of battle." Tuffnut tells his sister,
"Ugh! Come on, Hookfang." Ruffnut says as they fly off.
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Ryker is getting seriously frustrated by their victories and their losses.
"We're heading back to the island." One of his men say.
"On who's orders? Ryker asks.
"Viggo's. He's waiting." He explains.
"Good. We'll let him settle these riders." Ryker states as he walks off to greet his younger brother.
Virgo Grimborn.
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"These battles are becoming more rampant, we sure Johann isn't putting himself in danger by getting us all of this information?" Heather asks Hiccup as they make it to the Edge.
"Johann knows what he's doing, he says he's getting close enough to actually meet the head of the Dragon Hunters. And if we take him out, the whole army will be without a leader and will collapse, ending the fighting." Hiccup tells her. "Don't worry, Johann knows how to keep himself out of trouble. And if he thinks he's in danger, we'd be able to get him out of anything. And if it does get captured, he can tell them one of his stories until they release him." He jokes.
Heather laughs at his attempt of humor when Snotlout and Tuffnut come cheering running in a wagon as they're getting along a lot more than usual.
"Can you two stop? Or at least go somewhere else?" Heather asks as these two are creepin' her out.
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Dragon Hunter base.
Ryker and Dagur enter the main tent where Viggo works out of and see him.
He's a bit smaller that Dagur anticipated, but doesn't look very different from anyone else besides his goatee.
"They say there are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true. The other is to refuse to believe what is." Viggo says while holding a game piece in his hands. "Maces and Talons. I began playing with my grandfather when I was just a boy. I always insisted upon being the Honorable Viking chief. I could never understand how he bested me time and time again. For years, I assumed his skill transcended mine. I believed what wasn't true. But, you see, in Maces and Talons, as in life, the line between good and evil is often unclear. Black and white can become gray so easily. What one soul considers evil, another might consider righteous."
Viggo turns and places the piece on the game board.
"The Honorable Chief who fails to see this is found to be...the fool. Welcome brother." Viggo says while hugging Ryker. "You must be weary. The dragon trad is exhausting business." He says when one of their men get thrown in. "Even more so when profits wane because inventory goes missing." He says while pulling out a blade.
"Viggo, I only borrowed the hide to exchange for food. It wasn't missing for more than a day." His man says and Viggo uses his blade to help him stand up and let's him go. "Thank you, Viggo." He says as he leaves.
"Were not animals." Viggo says. "Rest. We have much to discuss tomorrow." He tells them as they hear the man who left screaming as they leave.
"Bring in Trader Johann." Viggo asks as Johann is brought inside.
"Master Viggo. How may I be of assistance?" Johann asks.
"Johann, in your travels, have you ever discovered a Flightmare?" Viggo asks.
"As the matter of fact, there's a great tale of it." Johann says and sees Viggo is not in the mood. "I can tell you how to find it, of course."
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Hiccup was back at his hut and is looking for the Dragon Eye.
"Hey, Heather, you know where the Dragon Eye is?" Hiccup wonders, seeing its missing from his hut.
"No, but I have a feeling on where it is." Heather says guessing one of the twins or Snotlout took it when a Terrible Terror comes flying in with a message. "We got Terror mail." She tells him and looks over the note and sees it's from Johann. "Viggo's going after the Flightmare."
"Why would he want the Flightmare?" Hiccup wonders.
"If he's going after the Flightmare, we know where it's going to be. And where he's going to be. We can end this if we get him." Heather tells him.
Hiccup thinks and sees she's right. If they're smart with planning, they can end this war.
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They fill in everyone and they fly out to where Johann says they're going and what they're doing.
"Can we just talk about the elephant in the sky for a second?" Tuffnut asks.
"No." Hiccup tells him.
"Okay. Why do we think Viggo wants this Flightmare so badly?" Tuffnut asks.
"The Flightmare's algae is able to paralyze anything, but who knows what he needs it for." Hiccup says.
"We can ask him ourselves, if we were waiting for him when he gets there." Astrid tells them and they make it to the island see the Flightmare.
"There she is. We need to stay together and make sure Viggo doesn't get near the Dragon." Hiccup tells them.
"How will we know when Viggo gets here?" Fishlegs asks when Toothless growls and they see a ship approaching,
"There's your answer." Heather says. "Okay, Ruff, Tuff, make sure you get enough algae-"
"To lure the Flightmare away because it's protective of its food. We know." Ruffnut tells them and takes the sack.
"This guy never stops." Tuffnut says. "Lure the Flightmare. Don't eat the algae."
"Ridiculous. I mean, why would we eat the algae?" Ruffnut asks and they both get the same idea.
"Why wouldn't we eat the algae?" The twins both ask and they take off.
"Hiccup, we've got a bit of a problem." Heather says and Hiccup looks to see there are more ships coming with Viggo than they expected.
"Hiccup, you might wanna see this, too." Astrid calls and Hiccup sees even more ships.
"I don't understand. Johann said that Viggo was planing on coming with a few trusted men. This is a lot more than a few." Snotlout states.
"Johann said that from what he could gather, not he was certain. And I have a feeling that that's what they wanted him to think." Hiccup guesses and they see flaming boulders come flying at them and they take to the skies.
"He set us up. He set Johann us." Heather tells Hiccup as they get into the air.
They look and see Dagur and they're closing in on them.
"We've gotta do something." Hiccup says when Heather goes flying in at Viggo. "Not exactly what I had in mind." He admits when the twins come flying past with the Flightmare on their tail and they're covered in algae. "That's one way of doing it I suppose."
They all look and see they're surrounded as Heather was able to get near Viggo's ship but one of the Dragon arrows were able to penetrate Windshear's skin and the two crash.
Heather fights off the men and sees Windshear captured.
"I'm coming, Girl." Heather promises and runs across the men and was able to get her free of the net but it's short lived when Ryker gets her.
Hiccup sees that she's been captured and starts getting worried, and trying to avoid the Flightmare isn't exactly helpful.
"Hiccup, can't you tell it we're the good guys?" Tuffnut asks him.
"Yeah. Tell it to come in for the big win." Ruffnut adds agreeing with her twin.
Hiccup looks at Heather whos caught and comes up an idea to free her and finish them.
"You guys are brilliant." Hiccup tells them.
"I don't know about brilliant. But we do have a certain glow about us." Tuffnut jokes.
"And the brilliance is short lived." Hiccup says and has them and the Flightmare follow them.
"He is persistent. You have to give him that much." Dagur says.
"Yes. Well, in this case, his persistence will not pay off." Ryker says as they fly in and they shoot the arrows.
The team flies overhead and drops algae over the deck.
Ryker laughs at the lame plan he seems to have come up with as Heather smiles seeing his plan. "Oh, no! You got us." He mickingly says and Dagur joins in.
"Hey, this stuff's cool and shiny." Dagur says when the Flightmare comes in and starts attacking them and Heather breaks free of Ryker.
"Ryker, Dagur, I'd like you to meet my friend, the Flightmare." Hiccup introduces them as the Flightmare starts freezing everyone.
"Hey, what are you doing? Get back to work. Shoot someone." Dagur tells them.
"They can't. The mist from the Flightmare freezes its victims with fear." Ryker informs him as they start capturing the Flightmare.
"Oh, perfect." Dagur says as Heather tries escaping as Toothless and Hiccup come up to get her and the arrows start shooting at them and they avoid to get caught.
"Guys, keep trying to get to Heather or Windshear." Hiccup tells the team. "It's time me and Viggo got properly introduced." He says as he flies to the ship.
Hiccup flies to the ship and sees its deserted when the team returns.
"We couldn't reach Heather, there's too many of them." Astrid says.
"The Flightmare?" Hiccup asks.
"Gone." Astrid tells him.
"Viggo, too. This guy isn't messing around. Our dragons may not be enough. We're going to have to out think this guy, outsmart him. Or Heather and Windshear...I can't even think about it." Hiccup says and now they need to think about what they can do to outsmart this guy.
Or there's no telling what'll happen to Heather or Windshear.
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