Chapter 28: I hate this guy too!

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Flying closer to the plume of smoke, we find ourselves flying through a forest that had burned to ash. As we exit the forest, we come face to face with a peculiar ice formation jutting up from the water.

Hiccup looks over to Helga and in a serious tone, says, "Stay close."

We begin to fly around the Ice, searching for any clue as to what could have caused it.

As we fly around, I think to myself, 'While I know what and who caused it. I am still curious as to how it was caused. The bewilder beast doesn't breath out a form of cold fire but some kind of chilled substance. Maybe if I can figure it out I can finally change the breath of my draconic form! I always wanted to shoot out plasma beams as a breath attack. The Plasma blasts were as close as I could get to beams, but now I might actually have a chance!'

While my mind begins to run wild with possibilities, our group begins to fly around the strange ice formation. While flying, I make some small observations. The ice formation seems to be a massive, imposing structure held above the surface by some sort of disfigured structure. Its surface is rugged and textured, gleaming in the pale sunlight. It appears ancient, with jagged edges and crevices carved by centuries of ice and snow, yet it looks unnatural. Its sheer size dwarfs anything nearby, emphasizing the raw power of whatever beast caused this.

Looking at the ice formation, I think to myself, 'I feel like I'm forgetting something.'

As we arc around one of the jutting icicles, it hit me, 'Oh no! I remember now! This is where we meet that annoying guy! What was his name again?'

Just as hiccup flies around the icicle, I hear someone shout, "Fire!"

Hearing the shout, me, astrid, and hiccup veer out of the way of a net being fired. Unfortunately, helga wasn't able to dodge in time and her nadder was wrapped in the net. She began to plummet as she yelled for hiccup to catch her. Hiccup, being the perfect boyfriend, dives towards the water and catches her just before she touched the water.

Helga angrily shouts, "Get me to whoever shot me and stormfly!"

Tagging along with them, me and Astrid land next to them with our weapons drawn.

As me and Astrid land we hear one of the poachers, in an unmistakably Irish accent, say, "Soil my britches! Those are night fury's! Thought they were all gone for good!"

Hearing this, we all glance warily at each other.

He continues, "Looks like our luck's had a turn for the better lads! Don't think drago has one of those, in his army!"

Hiccup, being the hero he is, says, "Look, we don't want any trouble!"

The man scoffs and says, "You should have thought of that before you stole all of our dragons and blasted our fort to bits!"

Finding the right time to try and deescalate things, I say, "This wasn't our work mate! All we have are fire dragons! And even if we did somehow have a bewilderbeast, you think we would waste our time on you? Who even are you anyway?"

The man stomps on stormfly's horn while laughing and says, "Dragon trapping is hard enough as it is without doo gooder dragon riders sneaking in to rescue them!"

Hiccup, with his selective hearing, says, "There are other dragon riders?!"

In a condescending tone, the man says, "You mean other than your thieving friend from last night? You tell me!"

He then steps off of it and says, "You may have an ice spitting dragon on your side, but we still have a quota to fill. How do you suppose we explain this mess to Drago bloodvist?"

Hearing the name of the mans boss, hiccup looks at me questioningly. I signal to him that I would explain to him later as another man continues the monologue.

He says, "He's expecting a new shipment of dragons for his army by tomorrow."

A third man continues, "And Drago don't take well to excuses!"

The first man then reveals a brand of a sword with a dragon skull behind it on his left pec.

Emphasizing the brand, he says, "This is what he gave me last time I showed up empty handed. He promised to be far less understanding in the future."

Hiccup, ready to leave, spoke up by saying, "Alright. Look, we don't know anything about a thief, or an ice spitting dragon, or your lunatic boss and his dragon army okay? Just give us back our dragon and we'll go, strange hostile person whom we've never met."

He chuckles and does a small bow while reaching behind him, saying, "Oh. Where are my manners? I am Eret. Son of Eret. Finest dragon trapper alive. After all, it's not just anyone who can capture a night fury. Much less two."

Hearing his name, I think to myself, 'Eret! That was his name!'

With our dragons doing a small roar, me and Hiccup say, "These are toothless and darkwing. They say we're going. Now!"

Eret gives a condescending laugh saying, "They all say that. Rush em lads!"

As soon as he says this, toothless shoots a plasma breath at a spike of ice above the trappers, causing them to dodge out of the way of the falling spike. As soon as toothless does that, darkwing shoots down the ballista. While the trappers are destracted, Helga rushes over to stormfly and once the dragon is free, we all fly off the iceberg.

Watching us fly off, Eret shouts, "You will never hold on to those dragons! He is coming for them all!"

As we fly off, I shout back, "I'd like to see him try!"

{1 hour of flying later}

I yell at hiccup, "We need to tell dad about this, immediately! You head over and get the war room ready!"

Hiccup yells back, "He should be in the shop."

Landing in the open area in front of the shop, I rush over to be met with the smiling face of my father. However seeing how serious my face was, he quickly transitioned from loving father to war hardened chief of berk.

Before he could speak, I cut him off by saying, "Lock down everything! Bloodvist is making a dragon army!"