Dragons: Dawn Of Destruction

Defenders of The Wing

As the riders continuously sabotage the hunters' business, Viggo offers Hiccup a truce, dividing the archipelago in half to prevent further war between them. While looking it over, the riders believe Viggo is keeping them from something on a nearby island. They investigate only to be imprisoned by a dragon-worshiping tribe called the Defenders of the Wing led by Queen Mala, who believes them to be hunters for their subjugation of dragons.

Hiccup allows himself to stand trial and face their punishments, seeing Mala and her tribe as potential allies in their struggles against the hunters and eventually wins her trust. They learn the tribe is guarded by a lava-eating dragon, the Eruptodon, whom Mala and the others label 'The Great Protector,' but Hiccup soon realizes when the Eruptodon is captured that Viggo was using them as a distraction. Believing them to have been in league with the Hunters all along, Mala swears to kill Hiccup herself.

Mala and her Dragon Worshippers have the riders at sword point, but Hiccup proposes a ceasefire and convinces Mala to trust them as they set out to retrieve the Eruptodon while Heather and the twins help stop the lava flow. The riders learn from Mala, who joins them, that Viggo plans to use the starving Eruptodon to destroy Dragon's Edge by eating at its dormant volcano.

Though the Hunters take the island, the riders manage to drive them off with the help of Mala and the Gronkles living on the Edge are recruited to safely return the Eruptodon home. Mala is finally convinced that the riders are allies of the dragons and the two groups align to defeat the hunters for good.