How To Train Your Dragon 4
Cressida Cowell
1. One very early winter morning, Gobber takes his Pirate class across the frozen sea in a sled pulled alarmingly fast by saber-tooth driver dragons. He stops at the island Villiany. The boys will be pulled up the mountain by the saber-tooth dragons and they will have to ski back down while shooting as many semi-spotted snow peckers as possible. Gobber tells them Hiccup is in charge and most of the other boys are disappointed especially after Gobber points out Hiccup will be their chief one day. He tells them to watch out for Hysterics - a particularly nasty Viking tribe that is usually trapped on their island (large cliffs on one side and the Doomfang lives in the other side), but can leave now that the sea is frozen. Gobber tells the boys to go about their class and goes to sleep in the sleigh.
2. Hiccup tries to talk to the driver dragons, but the leader, One Eye, is not interested and tells them to walk themselves up the mountain. Snotlout takes Gobber’s whip and uses it on the pack of dragons to get them to obey. He then turns to use it on Hiccup and ends up getting Toothless who was hibernating in Hiccup’s waistcoat. Hiccup had been worried Toothless hadn’t dig himself a deep enough hole and would get so cold that he would hibernate for centuries. Snotlout and the others make fun of Toothless and the fur coat Hiccup made him before having the driver dragons take them up the mountain. One Eye takes Hiccup and Fishlegs. Hiccup is okay at skiing and shooting, but his heart isn’t in it. Fishlegs is awful at both. One Eye admits he hasn’t seen Vikings like them before. Hiccup hears voices and peers over a cliff to see six Hysterics eating deer. Hiccup wants to go back the way they came, but Fishlegs starts screaming and charging them.
3. The group of Hysterics are stunned for a moment before they start getting themselves ready to go after Fishlegs. Hiccup shoots one, Norbert the Nutjob, in the buttocks, which causes his own arrow to go wild and the other Hysterics end up in a crash. They decide to go after Hiccup instead of Fishlegs. Hiccup skis into the woods and maneuvers as quickly as he can. He decides to launch himself off a cliff and convinces One Eye to save him to prevent Snotlout from becoming the next chief. One Eye admits (even though he hates humans) Hiccup might be worth saving. Gobber is relieved to have the Chief’s only son back in his sleigh and decides to take off before the Hysterics catch up to them.
4. Toothless is upset when he wakes in the morning instead of going back into hibernation. He wakes up Hiccup by yelling that he has to urinate. When Hiccup takes him outside, Toothless finds he doesn’t need to relieve himself. Hiccup makes porridge and worries about Fishlegs. He has been seemed sick and his behavior with the Hysteric was odd even for a Berserk. When Stoick comes in, he eats the rest of the porridge from the couldron and tells Hiccup he needs to not be around Fishlegs anymore. People will think he is weird and soft. As the future chief, the other tribes need to fear him in order to prevent attacks. Hiccup just agrees with everything Stoick says knowing his father won’t listen to anything he says. Stoick tells him to get his equipment for the Smashsticks game because Old Wrinkly predicted the score and Stoick bet money on the game.
5. The Bog Burglars have their own Smashsticks team and come out to celebrate the coming of Spring for Freya’sday Fete with the Hooligan tribe. Camicazi comes over to greet Hiccup by saying how they will crush the Hooligan team. Snotlout does his best to embarrass Hiccup by pointing out he didn’t shoot any spotted snowpeckers the previous day. Fishlegs comes up and looks sickly. Hiccup tries to tell Gobber, who insists Vikings don’t get sick. The game begins and most of the players go after the puck. Camicazi gets a hold of it and heads towards Fishlegs, Hiccup, and the goal. She pulls Fishleg’s helmet over his face and proceeds to score. Something changes in Fishlegs and he starts yelling at Gobber about how he should have called a foul. When Stoick comes over, Fishlegs yells at him too. Hiccup asks to take Fishlegs home because he hasn’t been well. Stoick agrees and points out this is why Hiccup shouldn’t be hanging around Fishlegs. Hiccup decides to take his friend to Old Wrinkly.
6. Old Wrinkly checks over Fishlegs and determines he has Vorpentitis. Hiccup admits there had been a venomous vorpent on Fishleg’s had when they were escaping from the Romans. Fishlegs never felt the bit because it numbs the skin before it bites. Old Wrinkly tells Hiccup the antitdote is the-vegetable-no-one-dares-name: the potato from America. He tells them the story of how the Hysteric’s previous chief set sail to prove the world was round and brought back a potato as proof. Just before reaching home, the Doomfang that had been following him attacked and killed him. His son, Norbert the Nutjob is rumored to still have the frozen potato. Hiccup sets off immediately to try to steal the potato from the Hysterics.
7. Stoick is in a foul mood because he bet all his money on the Hooligans in Smashsticks and they didn’t even score once. Hiccup goes up to him and proposes the quest for the frozen potato. Stoick tells him no. Camicazi had been listening in on the conversation and insists on going with Hiccup. Hiccup prepares a sleigh with his boat, the Hopeful Puffin dragging on the back. He convinces the saber tooth dragon One Eye that he could save many dragons’ lives by planting more potatos around Berk to heal them when they get vorpent bites. Snotlout is the only one that sees them leave.
8. In the first few minutes, Toothless eats all the food and starts complaining. Camicazi is cheerful until they get close to Hysteria. They wait for darkness before they start to cross the Wrath of Thor. One Eye’s eye serves as a headlight and they can see the Doomfang moving with them below the thick ice. It tries to break through, but is unable. When they reach the shore, Hiccup sends Toothless out to see where the Hysteric’s village is located. He unhooks One Eye while Camicazi loads herself up with equipment. Toothless returns and tells them they are having a feast. They set out to find the potato in the village while the Hysterics are distracted.
9. Back on Berk, Old Wrinkly tends to Fishlegs. The ice is starting to crack.
10. They make their way to the village and climb the wall to get in. The boat from Old Wrinkly’s story, the American Dream, is in the middle of town completely free of any snow. They go to the Great Wall and climb to the roof. Hiccup realizes he not only has no idea where they might keep the potato, but he doesn’t know what one looks like. Camicazi starts lowering herself down through an unused chimney. Hiccup looks over the edge to see her dangling a few meters down, then Hiccup falls through the hole.
11. Hiccup was lucky to land in a large cauldron of onion soup the Hysterics had made mostly out of tradition. Camicazi is hidden in the rafters wearing all black. Norbert the Nutjob thinks he is an assassin. Hiccup explains why he is there. When Norbert becomes uninterested in Hiccup, Hiccup starts saying it was all just a story. This enrages Norbert until he reveals his frozen father, Bigjob, with the frozen potato with an arrow sticking out of it. Whoever pulls the arrow from the potato is supposed to use it to kill the Doomfang, but no one has been able to remove it yet. Hiccup suggests they defrost the potato, but Norbert believes that would ruin his father’s test. Norbert leaves Hiccup’s gate up to Fate and tosses his double sided axe in the air. Hiccup sees it is going to land on the dark side that would mean his death so he grabs the handle and puts the gold side down to save himself. Norbert decides Fate must have let him cheat, but he will still imprison Hiccup. He is strung up in a cage in the great hall. Eventually everyone falls asleep and so does Hiccup.
12. When They heard Hiccup land in the onion soup, Toothless and One Eye left the roof to hide in the American Dream. When they came back to the hole in the roof to assess the situation, One Eye decides he will give them until morning before he leaves without them. Toothless goes to see Hiccup and wakes him up. The little dragon is furious at Hiccup for having ate onion soup while he had nothing. Hiccup asks Toothless to get the potato, but the squealers protecting it prevent him. Hiccup asks him to get the key from Norbert, but Toothless decides to gorge himself on left overs first. He then bites off Norbert’s mustaches with his gums and gets the key from his pocket. As toothless is walking across the table, he trips over a knife, tumbles into a pie, knocks over a candle, and swallows the key.
13. Hiccup tells toothless to wake up Camicazi and then go put out the fire from the candle. Once Camicazi is awake, she is able to free Hiccup from his cage. Toothless accidentally makes the fire worse and feels bad about it. Hiccup wraps a scarf around his ears and has him fly over the squealers to defrost the casket where the potato is frozen. After a few tries, Toothless is able to use his flames and free the potatoe for Camicazi to steal. She ends up grabbing something else out of the casket, which makes Bigjob’s body fall over. The Hysterica start waking up. Camicazi easily fights Norbert and ends up knocking him out. Hiccup and Toothless fight off the others with whatever food is laying around. Camicazi helps get them to the roof and they grab hold of the rope tied to One Eye’s leg. He pulls them out as the Hysterics continue to swing their swords at them and the fire continues to spread and Hiccup grabs a silver serving tray
14. Once they are all on the roof, Hiccup puts the tray down and sits on it. He tells Camicazi to sit behind him and the sled down the steep cliff. Two minutes later, they overshoot the sleigh and go back to hook up One Eye, who is impressed Hiccup uses his brains instead of just muscle. Toothless catches up and lands in the seat next to them. Camicazi gives Hiccup the vegetable and the other ring she stole from the casket. She apologizes for taking it when she knows she shouldn’t have. The Doomfang follows beneath them. They make it to the open sea before the ice breaks.
15. Just as they think they are safe, Norbert the Nutjob catches up to them in his own sleigh. He cuts One Eye free from their sleigh and comes back to attack Camicazi. Hiccup pulls out the now thawed potato and pulls out the arrow. Norbert is furious that Hiccup is the chosen one that was able to pull the arrow from the vegetable. He asks if Hiccup is going to get rid of the Doomfang, which is directly below them under the ice. Hiccup nods as the sun comes out. Thee is a loud crack and the ice starts to split from both sides
16. The ice shatters to pieces. Hiccup irders everyone from the sleigh to the Hopeful Puffin. The lower the sail, but the Doomfang appears in front of them. Hiccup asks it what it wants, but it can’t seem to communicate. It gets frustrated and reaches out its tongue and grabs the potato. Hiccup tries desperately to hold on to the only known antidote for his friend’s ailment. The Doomfang uses one fork of its tounge to hold onto the potato and the other to pry off Hiccup’s fingers. The Doomfang ends up with the potato, swallows it.
17. The Doomfang shoots a blast into the sky and freezes a cloud until it turns blue before swimming away. Blue snow starts to fall from the sky. The giant dragon leaves them for the depths of the sea. Norbert is torn on how he feels about Hiccup. He says he is going to let him live because he did rid them of the Doomfang, but says he will kill Hiccup if he ever sees him again. Norbert takes off on his sleigh. Hiccup is depressed he is going to lose his best friend. He explains the Doomfang had stayed by Hysteria for so long because it had vorpentitis and need the potato to cure itself (since it was a much bigger creature with a much longer lifespan than a human, it would take much longer for the disease to kill the Doomfang). He hears the device Camicazi stole from Bigjob’s casket. He puts it out to inspect it and finds what appears to be a watch. He is impressed with the gears inside making everything move on its own. They continue back towards Berk not sure what will happen next.
18. Stoick asks Snotlout what he knows about where Hiccup is and Snotlout tells him he saw him leave with Camicazi the previous day. The chief is relieved to look out to sea and see his son’s return to Berk. He yells at Hiccup, who explains what they had been through. He then walks past his father to go to Old Wrinkly’s and see how Fishlegs is doing. Fishlegs gets out of bed and Old Wrinkly admits he misdiagnosed the boy. He didn’t have vorpentitis, just a bad cold that spiked his berserk tendencies. Suddenly, One of Hiccups arms goes dead and the. The other. He falls lifeless to the ground.
19. Old Wrinkly explains it was Hiccup that has Vorpentitis and will die in a few minutes. He doesn’t seem very worried until Camicazi reveals they were able to get the potato, but it was stolen and eaten by the Doomfang. Even One Eye (who is normally happy to have less humans around) is saddened by the prospect of Hiccup’s impending death. Hiccup tries to tell them to shoot him, but he has trouble speaking (just like the Doomfang had out at sea). Stoick is beside himself trying g to find a way to save Hiccup. Fishlegs takes Hiccups bow and the arrow that had been I. The potato for the last 10 years and shoots it at Hiccup. Stoick tries to just in front of Hiccup to block the arrow, but he miscalculated Fishleg’s shot. The arrow sticks Hiccup in his right big toe and cures him. He sits up and greets his father. Stoick faints and it takes Fishlegs throwing a bucket of snow in his face to wake him. He apologizes to Old Wrinkly, Hiccup, and Fishlegs. Toothless curls up by the fire and finally goes into hibernation sleep as the other dragons are starting g to wake up. One Eye goes to sleep next to him. The three young Vikings go outside to enjoy doing nothing the rest of the day.
20. Hiccup burrows the potato in the ground and eventually a potato grows in the soil. He uses that potato to grow more and prevent any more painful deaths from vorpentitis. As he grows older and starts sailing, the Doomfang follows along on his voyages and ends up saving him from a multitude of dangers.