Mr. Sand Dragon
Hiccup was in his hut with Heather gone so he can look over the ring he had made for her on their visit to Arendelle.
These past few years with her have been the best few of his life and he's finally ready to asks her the biggest question of his life. And this being their fifth anniversary would make it the perfect day.
While Hiccup was looking over the ring with Toothless giving his famous gummy smile, Snotlout comes out and sees him.
"Hey, whatcha got there?" Snotlout asks and tries to take it from him.
Hiccup starts stuttering and pushes him off. "Nothing." He says to Snotlout.
"If it's nothing, then give me it. Hookfang and I are making a ceremonial bust of yours truly and we need all the junk metal we can melt down." Snotlout tells him.
"What? This isn't junk. It's my anniversary gift, an engagement ring for Heather. I'm gonna ask her to marry me and get to the ceremony after we're finished with Viggo." Hiccup explains and pockets the ring.
"Really? That's what you're going with? Hey, you know what would be a great idea? A decorative battering ram." Snotlout says and follows Hiccup as he makes his way out. "Oh! How about a shiny new ball and chain? Wait! A bludgeon with her initials!" He suggests and Hiccup closes his hut door in his face.
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In Heather's hut, Fishlegs enters and sees her searching for something.
"What are you doing?" Fishlegs asks.
"Searching for Hiccup's anniversary gift, the one I haven't gotten him yet, and the one I now have no clue what to give him." Heather admits.
"Maybe I can help." Fishlegs offers.
"How?" Heather asks and turns to face him.
"Okay, who knows Hiccup better than I do?" Fishlegs asks her.
"Me, obviously." Heather answers, since she's spent years with him alone, and around year with these guys.
"Good point, then you know what an amazing gift-giver he is."
"Yes, that's the problem. Hiccup is not like anyone else I've ever met. And considering how we've traveled to several islands and made dozens of other, that's saying something." Heather says as she lists everything in her head. "I mean, he has a Night Fury, he built a suit that allows him to fly. He even has a sword that ignites on command. And he's the best dragon trainer in the entire archipelago."
"Wow. Well, when you put it like that, you really are completely-" Fishlegs was saying when Hiccup comes in.
"Hey, guys, we got a T-mail from Trader Johann, and it didn't sound good." Hiccup says and gathers the others. "All it says is he needs out help and to come quickly."
"And you immediately wrote him back and big, no, thank you, I assume." Snotlout guesses.
"Why would I do that?" Hiccup wonders.
"Because he is bad luck." Snotlout states. "The last time we got mail from him, we almost got eaten by an island of very angry and very wild dragons."
"Tell you what, Snotlout, you can stay here." Hiccup offers to him.
"By myself? No, thank you. I'm just saying, this sucks." Snotlout says.
Hiccup goes to find Toothless and Windshear are playing around and Heather is watching them while laughing at their dragons. Heather also wonders if their dragons are together considering how much time they've spent together over the years and how the other ones constantly worried when the other is hurt.
"Hey, Heather, can I talk to you for a second?" Hiccup asks as he comes up behind her.
"Oh, better wait for later. We don't wanna leave Johann waiting." Heather says and called Windshear before taking off rather quickly.
"What was that about?" Hiccup asks his own dragon who's just as confused.
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They make it to the location and it's the trade market where they find Johann.
"Everything from glass trinkets to golden chalices, vanished." Johann explains to them. "And the traders? Gone without a trace."
"You seem to be okay, Johann. Has anything of yours been taken?" Hiccup asks.
"Master Night, leave it to you to find the silver lining in a dark, mysterious cloud." Johann says.
"Yeah, maybe they just packed up and left?" Snotlout offers as a solution. "You didn't tell them any of your boring stories, did you?"
"I assure you, my takes of adventure and revelry are the preeminent part of any weary traveler's day." Johann tells him.
"Case solved. Anyone wanna race me to the Edge?" Snotlout asks.
"Guys, I don't think this is about Johann." Fishlegs says.
"Okay, Fishlegs. Then what is it about?" Hiccup asks.
"The Curse Of Tears." Fishlegs says and Tuffnut starts crying uncontrollably.
"It's that word. Makes him open up like a water spout. Ever since we were kids." Ruffnut explains while comforting her brother.
"What word? Tears?" Snotlout asks and Tuffnut cries even louder.
"Really?!" Ruffnut asks.
"Sorry." Snotlout apologizes.
"Fishlegs, can you explain?" Hiccup asks him to ignore the three.
"As I was saying, if the Cirse of T...is real, and I'm not saying it is, many traders and valuables have fallen victim to it and vanished, never to be heard from again." Fishlegs explains to him.
"Well, I like a good mystery as well as anyone, but I promised Hookfang we could roll in some yak dung back home." Snotlout tells him. "So you can keep your curse. And you...tears." He tells Tuffnut and he starts crying again.
"Hang on. We at least need to check it out." Hiccup states and gets a plan formed. "All right, lets split up and look around. Look for any signs of a struggle." He tells them and takes Snotlout.
"Heather, you can team up with me." Fishlegs offers to her. "What better place to find a gift for the Dragon Rider that has everything."
"Great idea, Fishlegs." Ruffnut says as they turn and see the twins and Astrid. "Shopping can be so relaxing."
"Therapeutic, even." Tuffnut says while still crying and they go off to find something.
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"This spear is barbed in the top." A trader offers a weapon to them. "So while the head will slide into the victim, pulling it out is a different story." He says while chuckling.
"And a story I for one would love to hear." Tuffnut says to him. "Chapter and verse, please."
"Hiccup with a spear? Even I don't see that working out." Astrid states and Heather agrees.
"How about something portable?" Fishlegs asks the man.
"Maybe this seax? Made from the neck bone of a dragon." He suggests and gets a death stare from Heather. "Right. I suppose dragon bone is a no-no. All right, all right, I was reserving this for my most special customer but..." he pulls out a map to them.
"A map?" Heather asks.
"Ooh, but it's so much more than just a map. It is told that whoever can decipher it, can find their way to the Treasure of Tears." He explains and Tuffnut starts sobbing again.
"Curse Of Tears, Treasure Of Tears. Makes sense they would go together." Fishlegs says.
"For the love of, Thor, have you no soul?" Ruffnut asks as Tuffnut cries even harder.
"Yeah, I don't think so." Heather says knowing that Hiccup has no interest in Treasure.
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"The first thing we have to figure out, is there really a Curse?" Hiccup asks as he and Toothless go through the market. "And, if there is, where did it start? Who's Curse is it? Are you even listening to me." He asks and sees Snotlout is standing around with his ring, "Snotlout, where'd you get that?"
"Your saddlebag." Snotlout tells him and waves the ring around. "You should be more careful around here. You know what this thing needs?"
"To be out of your stupid hands?" Hiccup questions and reaches for it. "Give it back."
Snotlout just leans his hand out so he can't reach and laughs when somebody walks up and snatched it from his hands and runs off. Hiccup gets mad and runs after him.
"I'm guessing you want that back." Snotlout says as they start chasing the man.
They chase him through the market and see him pass it to somebody else and they start passing it to several people and now they don't know who has it.
"We're he go?" Hiccup asks.
"I don't know! I lost track of who we were chasing." Snotlout admits as he looks around him. "I hate being confused!"
Hiccup just jumps on Toothless and looks to Snotlout. "Really? I figured you'd be used to it by now." He admits as he and Toothless take to the air leaving Snotlout until his dragon comes
They look and see the ring being passed to someone near the beach and they follow him as Snotlout gets hit by a branch.
Hiccup and Toothless chase after him when they make it to the beach and see he's vanished.
They follow his footsteps and all they see are some scales at the end.
"The footprints just stop." Hiccup says as Snotlout catches up to them. "I mean, he couldn't have disappeared."
"Well, maybe it's the Curse Of Tears." Snotlout guesses as Hiccup looks at the scales.
"I've never seen anything like this." Hiccup states wondering what these came from.
"Me neither." Snotlout says when something wears him up and drags him into the sand and Hiccup tries helping him, but only ended up getting dragged down and Toothless stole his leg in an attempt to pull him out.
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Hiccup and Snotlout wake up and look around to see they're somewhere underground.
"Where are we?" Hiccup asks.
"Who cares? Look around you." Snotlout says and they see a lot of items are all around them. "Gold, silver, silver, gold. How I love thee to caress and to hold..." he was saying when he finds a skeleton leg and screams back only to find more bones all over the place. "What's with these bones? They're ruining my Treasure pleasure."
"Snotlout, it's not your treasure." Hiccup tells him as he tries standing up. "And from the looks of things, having it didn't help these guys much. We need to worry less about this junk, and figure a way out of heee or all of the Treasure in the world won't help us. First things first. I need something to replace my leg."
"A leg, you say? I have just the thing." Snotlout assures Hiccup before pushing him down and attaches a skeleton leg to him. "Trust me. He won't miss it. Thank you, dead body."
Hiccup gets up and sees that it'll work for now until they're out of here. ?now, we need a plan before that sand thing comes back." He says and sees more of that stuff from the sand. "This stuff is everywhere."
"No kidding. Look." Snotlout says and they look to see something blocking the sunlight and the surface.
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"And voila. You, my good fellow, are the model of a modern Viking gentleman." Tuffnut tells Fishlegs as he's wearing a helmet that doesn't fit his head and is sideways sideways while holding a colorful club with armor that is just shields tied to his waist.
"Every Dragon leader needs a formal attire. Am I right?" Ruffnut asks.
"Indubitably." Tuffnut agrees and looks to Heather who doesn't even know where they're going with this. "Her fashion sense is dreadful."
"Just dreadful." Ruffnut agrees and the twins storm off.
"Listen, guys, I think we just need to face the hard facts here. There's nothing to get Hiccup that by this point he doesn't have want or need." Heather tells them when Toothless come up to them and roars at them.
"What is it? What's going on, boy?" Fishlegs asks Hookfang as Toothless is trying to push Heather to follow him.
"Toothless, what's going on? Is it Hiccup?" Heather asks the dragon and knows something's wrong. "I knew it. Something happened to him and Snotlout." She says and hopes they're okay. Well, at least Hiccup.
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Said hiccup and Snotlout are trying to climb out of the cave they're in and that fails as they hear something coming for them.
"Oh, no, it's back. It's gonna turn us into old dusty bones." Snotlout says as he hides behind Hiccup.
"Would you stop whining and get ready to shoot?" Hiccup tells him and hands a crossbow as they get ready when the thief leaps with an ax.
"You." Snotlout states.
"You!" The thief replies.
"Put those things down. Now!" Hiccup tells him. "If we have any chance of getting out of this place, we need to work together." He states and they agree and lower their weapons.
"Yeah, together." He agrees with them.
Hiccup then spots his ring on his belt and takes it. "And I'll take that, thank you very much." He says and pockets it.
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Toothless lead the others to the beach and they all start looking around.
"I don't understand. Where are they?" Heather wonders when Fishlegs finds Hiccup's leg.
"Whoo! I'll take that." Tuffnut says as he takes the leg and Heather looks at him angry. "What? It's mine. Hiccup willed it to me. He said if anything ever happened to him, the leg was to be bequeathed to one Tuffnut LaVerne Thorston."
Heather just snatches it back from him and they see Toothless is still digging in the sand and Fishlegs sees the scales.
"These rocks looks like..." Astrid was gonna say it but looked to Tuffnut and mouths the word and Tuffnut still cries. "Come on! I didn't even say it."
"Well, I think we should look at that map." Astrid suggests and Ruffnut shows they bought it.
"Why'd you guys buy that?" Heather asks.
"Why wouldn't we? It has two words we love. Treasure, and...you know." Ruffnut states.
"Well, I'm out of ideas. Might as well." Heather says and takes a look at the map.
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The three men looked around the tunnels and have found no way out.
"I don't think we're getting outta here anttime soon." Hiccup tells them.
"Great. I'm finally rich, and I don't even get to enjoy my fortune. Thanks to Amos the Lamest over here." Snotlout says.
"If you hadn't chased me, we wouldn't be down here in the first place." Amos tells him.
"What?!" Hiccup asks and looks to him. "If you hadn't stolen from me, we wouldn't have chased you."
"Well, I guess we can call it even." Amos says.
"No, we can't! That's not even kind of even." Hiccup says when Snotlout hears something.
"Guys, you might wanna save this discussion for later." Snotlout says as they see the dragon and Amos runs off, waking the dragon and he shoots some form of ice.
"It thinks you're trying to steal its treasure. Don't move." Hiccup tells them as the dragon shoots at them. "Okay, now move!"
They run for the exit when the dragon covers it with its blasts and they run.
Snotlout accidentally shoots off a crossbow into the air and breaks trough the glass ceiling and light comes shining through and the dragon cries out in pain and goes back into the sand.
"Did you guys see that?" Snotlout asks.
"It's the light." Hiccup puts together. "It can't be in direct sunlight."
"Maybe that's why he patched the holes in the roof." Amos guesses.
"No thank you. Nice going, Snotlout? Nothing?" Snotlout asks them since it was he who discovered it.
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The rest of the team are searching and following the map to its location with Heather leading with the map inhand as they come up across the location and Heather starts sprinting with Toothless following.
"Come on, Boy. If this map is real, we need to get there fast." Heather tells the Dragon.
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"We're gonna die." Snotlout states.
"Shh! Do you hear that?" Hiccup asks him as they hear footsteps. "It came form outside. Lift me up. If someone's out there, we need to make sure they can see us."
They start lifting him up to see if they see anything.
"Anyone out there?" Snotlout asks.
Hiccup looks and sees nobody there. "No. Looks like we're on our own.
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Heather and Toothless find a hole clearing and don't see Hiccup.
"Is he in there?" Fishlegs asks.
"No, looks like we're not the only ones who got fooled by the map." Heather says looking to other holes.
"We're gonna finds him, Heather. He's out there, somewhere." Fishlegs comforts her as she sits on the edge with Windshear comforting Toothless. "We won't stop looking until we do. Right?"
Heather looks over to Meatlug who agrees and the twins who are taking about the difference between tear and tear. "Wait a minute. Fishlegs, what do you see?" She asks the man looking at the map.
"A reason to throw the twins into the volcano?" Fishlegs asks.
"No. This." Heather explains and she is him the map. "This helmet looks just like that mountain peak there. And these axes? They line up with the trees. These are all landmarks."
Fishlegs looks closely and sees that she's correct. "And when you line them up, look what happenes." Heather finishes and snows that the X leads to a small clearing. "Come on!"
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Time passes and they're working on a way to get out of here and they start towering the junk as Hiccup works on creating a trap for the Sandbuster.
"You don't really think this thing will hold?" Amos asks them.
"As long as we get Hiccup to climb it. It'll hold his scrawny butt, no problem." Snotlout says as Hiccup is finishing the trap. "I thought you were building a cage."
"Yes, Snotlout. I did." Hiccup tells him as he's pulling on a rope.
"Okay, don't take this the wrong way, but don't cages have I don't know, locks, bars, walls?" Snotlout asks of him.
"Trust me. This is going to work." Hiccup promises. "Now let's get up that tower. Did you make sure it was sturdy?" He asks them.
"It's fine." Snotlout promises and Hiccup starts climbing it,
The Sandbuster comes in and the two men scream.
"Sandbuster! Sandbuster!" Snotlout screams as he and Amos run off.
Hiccup waits and then leaps on a makeshift catapult and breaks a hole in the ceiling and keeps going and traps him in a cage of light.
"See? Cage." Hiccup tells them. "Now, for our exit." He says and starts climbing when the Sandbuster starts closing the holes and knocks the tower, collapsing it.
Hiccup looses the ring during the fall and it lands near the Sandbuster. "Hey, don't touch that! I need that!"
"Oh, yeah, I'm sure he cares about that." Snotlout says as they get up and Hiccup gets an idea as he runs underneath the Sandbuster and uses the ring in the small bit of light to keep him back.
"You guys run. I'll keep it busy." Hiccup tells them.
"Right. Sounds good to me." Amos agrees and tries running when Snotlout stops him.
"Stand down, Amos the lamest. We're not going anywhere without that guy. Got it?" Snotlout informs him.
"Then we're all going to die where we stand!" Amos says when a plasma blast comes followed by a call of a Night Fury and the Riders come in with Heather riding Toothless.
"You were saying?" Hiccup asks as the dragons scare off the Sandbuster and they pick up the three and make their way out.
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"I must say, Master Night, you and your team always seem to right the wrongs in this mad, mad world." Johann tells Hiccup. "With the vicious Sandbuster beach closed to oncoming traffic, the flow of commerce can once again, commence. And speaking of commerce, Master Snotlout, I've been admiring your bejeweled weapon. Simply dazzling."
"Save it, Johann, not for sale." Snotlout tells him.
"And with that, I bid you adieu." Johann says as he leaves and Hiccup sees this is a perfect spot to finally ask Heather.
"Heather..."
"Uh, I need to check on Windshear." Heather says and Hiccup stops her.
"No, you don't." Hiccup tells her knowing she's trying to get away. "You need to stand right here and take this in. When we went to Arendelle, I asked Elsa if she knew anyone who could make something special. And..." he hold sout the ring and Heather looks shocked and lets out a slight gasp. "Heather, you've become the most important person in my life. You always have been, and I want to stay by your side forever. So, what do you say?"
"Oh, Hiccup." Heather whispers and smiles at him. "Yes! You only had to ask." She says and Hiccup slips the ring in and they engulf each other and kiss as happy as can be.
The only thing they have left to deal with is Viggo.
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