Raiding hunter ships didn’t come without a cost. Missions were either successful or failures. And there was always a cost.

Hiccup awoke with a pained groan. Everywhere on his body felt sore. His face hurt. For a moment he thought he was back in the dragon hunter ship, captured.

But he wasn’t. He sat upright with only a blanket to cover his bare, sore upper body. In a dark damp cave. Panic flared inside him as he searched around for Toothless. But in the cave, his eyes only landed on you.