2. Gift of the Predacon

Meatlug is a girl?!

Later at the village, Hiccup and Emily went on their way as Hiccup was carrying oars while Emily was double checking the bag that she has until both of them almost bumped into Fishlegs who was carrying a large basket of fish and froze when he saw them.

"Oh, Fishlegs, you hungry? There's enough fish there to feed a dragon!" Hiccup asked jokingly.

That caused Fishlegs to laugh nervously.

"Hahaha... Oh, a dragon? That's..." He said before running off in mid-sentence and into a barn carrying the fish basket.

Hiccup and Emily looked at each other before following Fishlegs quietly.

"What do you think he's up to?" Hiccup whispered curiously as they hid when Fishlegs entered his house.

"No idea but I'm having a hunch that he's hiding something that he doesn't want us to know." Emily whispered and they stopped talking as Fishlegs came out.

The teen seemed giddy as he walked away. Hiccup and Emily looked at each other before coming out of their hiding spot. Hiccup put the oars against the wall while Emily made sure to keep an eye on Fishlegs. Hiccup grabbed hold of the handles on the doors and opened it.

What was inside surprised him as Meatlug broke the chain around his leg and made a beeline for the exit.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Hiccup let out a scream as Meatlug bumped into him as he was soon carried off.

"What the?! Meatlug?!" Emily exclaimed in shock when she recognized the Gronckle which was now carrying Hiccup away.

Hiccup grunted and lifted himself against the dragon only to realize who it was in shock.

"MEATLUG?!" Hiccup exclaimed in shock and confusion.

Meatlug looked at him in surprise but didn't have time as they flew over Astrid who saw the incoming dragon and ducked down quickly. She got up and saw that Hiccup was riding him.

"Hiccup? Where are you going?!" Astrid yelled after him.

"I HAVE NO IDEA!!!" Hiccup yelled back as Astrid and Emily watched in disbelief as Hiccup disappeared with Meatlug.

"Meatlug? What about presents?! Hey!" Fishlegs called out to his dragon.

Emily turned to him as her face spelled angry and calm and it made him squeak in fear.

"Fishlegs. Explain." She said as the teen gulped.

Back in the barn, the rest of the teens gathered after Emily told Astrid to gather everyone.

"I can't believe him." Fishlegs whined as Emily sighs while Astrid gave him an annoyed look. He has been hiding Meatlug this whole time?!

"YOU can't believe HIM?! YOU KIDNAPPED YOUR DRAGON!!!" Astrid yelled at him furiously.

"Well, that makes it sound so mean." Fishlegs muttered.

"Chaining your dragon is also a bad thing, Fishlegs. What in Primus' name were you thinking?!" Emily was equally annoyed with Fishlegs for keeping this.

The Thorston twins noticed something in the pile of hay as Astrid and Fishlegs kept on arguing. The twins pushed some hay away and were rendered speechless by what they were seeing. Emily shook her head at Fishlegs before noticing the twins and went to them to see what was going on and was also speechless.

"Hey, guys?" Tuffnut called the others but they didn't hear him.

"He flew away the second he was unleashed!" Astrid continues to shout at Fishlegs.

"I'm 72% sure he wanted to stay-" Fishlegs said until Emily groaned silently.

"For the love of the Thirteen. GUYS!!!" Emily yelled in irritation

This caused both Astrid and Fishlegs to stop arguing as the two came over to where they were with Snotlout and finally noticed the objects on the hay.

"Whoa... Meatlug barfed up a pile of rocks." Fishlegs said as Ruffnut looked at him as if he was stupid.

"You're such an idiot! Those aren't rocks, your dragon laid eggs!" Ruffnut corrected him while putting her hands on her hips.

Astrid picked one up and finally figured out why their dragons left all of a sudden the other day.

"Hey, wait! I bet that's why the dragons left: To lay their eggs!" Astrid said in realization as Emily looked at the eggs curiously.

"But, boy dragons don’t lay eggs." Fishlegs said as he was confused. Boy dragons don't lay eggs right?

"Yeah, your boy dragon is a girl dragon." Ruffnut said as Emily agreed with her.

"She's right. Meatlug has been acting strange last month and that includes that Meatlug is a female. Not a male." Emily deduced as she and Ruffnut fist bump.

"Okay, that actually explains a few things." Fishlegs said in surprise with his eyes wide.

Astrid suddenly had a crazy idea and went to a shelf.

"Hey! Everyone’s missing their dragons, right?" She asked as she started to wrap the egg up.

"Oh, here it comes." Snotlout groaned.

"I've got an idea! It'll be another new Snoggletog tradition!" Astrid said as she tied a ribbon around the eggs.

She gave each of the teens eggs while Emily refused to help with the craziness as they left and went around the island to put the eggs in separate houses.

"Oh, this is gonna be so good!" Astrid said giddily.

Emily just watched them leave and shook her head as she then turned back to the pile of hay and had a pretty bad feeling about why the dragons left. She just hoped that feeling would be right as she left to check on the Predabots while wondering where do the dragons go.