After the happenings of the last few months, Ann insisted on getting back to where she was, hunting the dragons. After begging Viggo to let her go again onto the open seas, she quickly boarded her ship and sailed off before Viggo would come back if he had changed his mind.
All she had done in the time of her injuries and nothing to do between some trips were flying around with Luna, playing Maces and Talons against Viggo who would teach her the game, and training. A lot of training in fact, together with her beloved brother Ryker.
He taught her some new tricks for close combat. Useful, but she got bored in the long term. She was eager to get out on her own again. Taking two of her own fleet's ships, she left the harbor to get dragons for her lover.
While they were sailing for three days, Ann heard that a dragon was approaching. And it was familiar. "The Night Fury is approaching! Quick, throw out some smokeballs and let's create a scene here!" She quickly ordered. "What kind of scene, ma'am?" One of the men asked her.
"Let's fake that we have been attacked by another dragon. When that dragon lands on deck, we get up and shoot that boy to smithereens!" The crew laughed maniacally to her plan and got everything ready for the ambush.
The boy and the Night Fury had arrived at her ship and circled around a bit before they decided to land to investigate. "Looks like a dragon got the best of 'm." Hiccup said when they landed. The dragon roared and growled as he was suspecting something was about to happen. "Yeah, let's get out of here." Hiccup said as he laid a hand on his dragon's head.
The men got up and got their weapons ready. "Fire!" Ann yelled and all the arrows were released. Toothless got into the air trying to dodge the arrows, but one man with a bow hit Toothless in the tail. The dragon went down and flew to an abandoned island. "Well done! You took the dragon down!" She appraised him while running to her dragon.
"Havòk, you follow from behind. I'm going towards that island with Luna to see where Hiccup has crash-landed that dragon of his." Havòk nodded at her wish and took over the control of the ship. Ann flew up towards the sky with Luna and rushed toward the island, trying to find Hiccup and his valuable dragon.
She scouted the area when she arrived about five minutes later, but couldn't find that pesky boy. Growling, she landed with Luna on the beach and waited for her ships to arrive. About fifteen minutes later, the ships finally arrived and the men got off to head to the beach. "Did you find him?" Havòk asked her.
"No. He got away for now. We will find him, we just need to look everywhere. You three, start looking over the West side of the island. Two of you are going East. Work your ways up to North. Give the message to the men left on the ships to leave a few on board, send about twenty men towards us and a few will search on the South side of the island. Right where we left the ships. Move!" She ordered. "What are you going to do?" One of the men asked her. "Havòk, you, me and a few others are going to the center of the island looking for that boy. I bet Luna can sniff that Berkian up." She said looking at her dragon who gave a small purr as confirmation.
They went their separate ways to find the boy but got to something unexpected. "Ma'am!" One Hunter called for Ann. "What is it?" She asked before she gasped. "What in the name of Thor?" She saw two young dog puppies behind a rock formation, all helpless and crawling over the ground. "We found them right here." "Where is the mother? They can't survive without their mother." She quickly asked when the pups began to howl and cry for their mother.
"We couldn't find any sign of her, ma'am." The Hunter said. "Or maybe we could..." Havòk added to it. Ann came to him and gasped again to see the mother dog lying dead no five meters away from the pups. The mother's belly was teared open and blood was everywhere.
"Looking at her injuries, she must've been caught up in a fight to protect her young." Havòk said. "And we can't keep these on their own to survive out here. They're too young and frail to withstand another animal's attack. Take them to the ship and try to feed them with some cooked meat. Hopefully these two are hungry." Ann ordered.
"Meat? No yak milk?" One Hunter who would take the puppies with him asked her. "No! Yak milk is way too fat for them. They cannot digest it. They will vomit, have diarrhea and stomach aches. I prefer to give these two little guys a good life instead of killing them when you have good intentions." Ann said.
"How do you know that?" Havòk asked her. "I know a lot about animals, I've been growing up with them and most people asked me for help when something was wrong with their pet. Mostly it was an easy thing to solve. Mostly animals were my friends instead of humans." She smiled. "Now. Let's get back to what we came for, shall we?" She suggested and Havòk nodded.
The group went looking for Hiccup when Ann caught the sound of the Night Fury from a cave. She signed the men that they were hiding there. They got up to the entrance of the cave, but were attacked. Ann was knocked out first, followed by her men.
When the men woke up, they had to wake Ann up from her unconsciousness. She had a headache, but stood up as if it was nothing. They had to find the boy, again. "Who was it that attacked us?" She said while standing up. "Dagur, ma'am." "What? How did he... Ugh, never mind. We have to find them both and bring them back to Viggo." She continued her way.
Ann and Luna continued their way when Luna caught the scent of something. "What is it, girl? You found them?" Ann asked her dragon who raced of in pursuit. She followed her dragon and quickly saw Hiccup running for his life. "Gotcha." Ann chased Hiccup down the island with Luna by her side.
Luna, however, got distracted from another smell she liked more. "Luna, keep your mind on the task." Ann yelled to her dragon, but Luna ignored her and kept running into a different direction.
Ann let her be and chased Hiccup until he had no more chance of escaping. "Now I got you." She got her daggers ready to take Hiccup by herself. She was just a meter away from him when someone jumped behind her. Out of nothing.
Turning around, she could quickly see it was Dagur, but he hit her in the face, stole her dagger from her and cut her in the leg. After that, there was one more blow to the head which made her black out again.
She was woken up by Havòk and some other men. She felt terrible pain coming from her leg and grabbed it tightly. When she looked at her hand again, she saw that something was missing. "My ring! No! Viggo is gonna kill me!" Tears welled up in her eyes the moment she realized her betrothal ring was gone.
"Ann, calm down. If you tell the honest truth to him, he'll understand. You can't do anything about this, you were knocked down." Havòk calmly talked to her. "I'm afraid you are too badly injured that you can't continue on this mission. We have to bring you back." He said as he looked at the wound. "Fine, but where is Luna? I'm not leaving without her." She said in resistance to leave her dragon left behind.
"We'll find her and bring her back to you. Right now we will bring you back to the ship." Havòk got her to her feet and brought her back with one more man supporting her. Luna was later found in a dragon trap. She was lured with some chicken.
A few hours later, Ann got back to Hunter Island and was helped by some men to get off the ship. Viggo and Ryker were waiting for her on the docks. "What happened?" Viggo walked up to her as soon as he saw she was injured again. "Dagur happened." "What the?" He was shocked but then growled. "But it was not the only thing what happened." She said and whistled to some men on the deck.
They got off carrying the two pups. "What in the name of Thor is..." Ryker got out of his mouth. "We found these two not far from their murdered mother. They are too young and frail to have made it on their own out there. One animal attack and they would've been killed. I thought to take them with me to give them a worthy way of living. And maybe, if you agree, give them to you two." She gave them her best look to convince them to have the pups.
"You really want us to have these puppies?" Viggo and Ryker both asked. Ann nodded and they couldn't be happier that she thought of them this way. "Besides... Viggo..." She looked down. "Hey, what is it? You can tell me anything, you know that." He cupped her face in his hands. Tears welled up in her eyes again.
"Dagur probably stole the ring you gave me..." "What? How?" He stuttered. "Dagur knocked me out when I almost had a grip on Hiccup. He did this to me and stole the thing you gave to me when you declared that you wanted to be with me forever." Tears were rolling down her face. "It's okay. We'll get it back. You can't do a thing about this. Don't worry about it." He calmed her.
Taking her back to his tent where the cut was treated better, Viggo and Ryker were already falling in love with the pups they got from Ann. "You already know a name for yours, Vig?" Ryker asked. "I might, but I need to make sure it fits him." Viggo said holding the pup on his lap.
The puppy was sleeping with his head hanging over Viggo's arm. "Looks like you can't get away from there now, baby. What's the name you had in mind for him?" Ann laughed during her treatment. "I was thinking about Argos." He petted the sleeping thing on his lap.
"Nice one. I would definitely fit him. I think I will call mine Dino." Ryker said. "Dino? Where did you get that from?" Havòk asked while treating Ann's leg. "Odin, but then moving some letters." Ryker smiled. They all had to laugh a bit. They left the puppies rest and went back to work after it.