Sigrid The Relentless - How to Train your Dragon

24. Viggo's Threat 2/2

"I don't even want to think about what they are going to do to her, and those dragons." Astrid shivered.

They'd all come together on Viggo's abandoned ship, feeling worse than they did before. This was the first time they'd truly failed a mission, and put a rider and dragon's life in jeopardy. Sigrid felt cold, and it wasn't from the wind. 

"We should've just pulled Heather out, Hiccup." Astrid rambled. "I knew something like this was-

"Astrid." Hiccup interrupted. "She wouldn't have come with us."

Her brother was right, she wouldn't have. A true Berserker that one, boar-headed. 

"Could be worse, we could've brought the dragon eye." Tuffnut brought up for no reason, just to be elbowed in the ribs by his sister. "Ow!"

Hiccup raised his brow. "How did you know I didn't bring the dragon eye?" 

"...How did I know you didn't bring the dragon eye?" Tuffnut cried out in pain as he was elbowed by Ruffnut, again.

He just didn't get the hint. 

Hiccup gave in. "Okay, you're right, I didn't bring it."

"Thank Thor." Astrid sighed. 

Snotlout huffed. "No kidding, then Viggo would have Heather, Windshear, the Flightmare and the dragon eye."

"Which is still back on Dragon's Edge-" Hiccup concluded with a startled expression. "-Completely unguarded."

Just as Hiccup feared, Dragon's Edge had been raided. Wooden pillars thrown about, with most of their huts and stations destroyed. It was clear that the hunters had done everything to find the dragon eye. The riders just hoped they hadn't succeeded. 

"It's gone." Hiccup sighed as he opened the chest. "They got it."

Snotlout was not amused. "Are you sure you put it away, after you got it back from the twins?"

Sigrid raised her brow. Oh boy, did those idiots do something they weren't supposed to do, again? No wonder Ruffnut asked her about the dragon eye, she definitely stole it.

"Got it back from the twins?" Hiccup fumbled, hearing this for the first time. "What are you talking about?"

Guess Sigrid was going to have to do some scolding, again. Man, she was really starting to feel like a mother. 

"What on earth is on there?" Hiccup gagged as Tuffnut pulled the dragon eye from a dirty crevice of his and Snotlout's man cave. Gross.

Tuffnut shrugged. 

"Boar rind grease. Don't worry, it'll buff out." He assured, rubbing the item against his sister's overcoat, but it didn't come out any better. "See?- Well, takes a while."

"I can't believe you took this without telling me." Hiccup huffed as he took the dragon eye with pinched fingers, it really was disgusting. "You know, all you had to do was ask and you could've used it. It belongs to all of us."

"Yeah, you two! Do you know what could've happened if Viggo got a hold of this?" Snotlout spouted dramatically, which told Sigrid that he was just as involved as the Nuts were. 

Ruffnut put her hands on her hips with a sneer. "Seems to me, if I hadn't removed the dragon eye from your masterful hiding place, we'd be having a very different conversation right now."

Sigrid sighed, rubbing her temple.

"Ruffnut, you are very lucky that things turned out right for once." She started, getting into mom-mode. "But what you did was inexcusable and wrong. Not only did you take the dragon eye without Hiccup's permission, you also attempted to have me give you the dragon eye before that, so you'd have an excuse when Hiccup caught you. I am very disappointed, in all three of you."