By now Hiccup was certain that the Gods hated him. For some unknown reason, bad stuff happen to him more often than not. He was in his room for the evening. Sitting hunched over his plans and sketches for a bola launcher and other inventions. He sat up straight to stretched out his back. After a small wave of dizziness he suddenly finds himself on his back, charcoal pen still in hand, and feeling like someone had found the largest hammer in the village and hit him over the head with it. Repeatedly. Did he fall and hit his head? He wasn't sure.

Gripping his head with a groan, he sat up and looked around. He was in a cave and he wasn't alone. He didn't know how he had missed the argument between his father, and Gobber about the situation. They weren't exactly being quiet. Their yelling certainly did not help Hiccup's headache. A series of groans sounded behind him causing Hiccup turned to the sounds. He saw the other teens. They were sitting up from where they had fallen on the ground, also holding their heads. It seemed that they were are doing something when they were pull here and somewhere no one would see them vanish. Astrid was practicing her axe throwing in the forest. The twins were on their way to prank Mildew at his house. Fishlegs was going to read the 'Dragon Manual' for the fifth time in a empty Great Hall. And Snotlout was at home stitching together a new set of arm braces before dinner. Gobber, of course was in the forge, fixing or making weapons. His father however was just about to head home from a long day of chiefing. And now they were locked in a room together. Great. Just Great.

The cave they appeared in was dimly lit with a couple of evenly placed torches. It was about as large as the dragon killing arena and on the far wall highlighted between two torches was a set of sturdy wooden doors. With his headache fading, Hiccup walked over to the doors to inspect them. Most of the other teens were now talking amongst themselves. Being just as loud as his father and Gobber are. It was mostly Fishlegs making the theories, Ruffnut and Tuffnut were in a wrestling match. Snotlout, was of course, obnoxiously attempting to flirt with Astrid. She looked at the stout boy with aggravation, ready to slice him with her axe.

All arguments ceased when a ear-splitting, creak was heard. It was followed by a dull thunk. Everyone turned to looked at the source of the sounds. Hiccup standing in front of the now open doors, his hand still up from where he pushed on them. Stoick marched over to where his son. He put a hand of Hiccups shoulder and looked at the doors. Gobber followed his friend closely and the teens followed suit behind him. They were curious about what might be on the other side of the doors in the strange cave they found themselves in. Now everyone was crowding around the open doors. What they saw when the peeked in was... nothing. Just an empty dark tunnel. No enemies, no dragons, not even light, just a black void of nothing.

"Where do you think this leads to?" Ruffnut asked as she shoved her brother.

"I don't know, but I want to find out." her brother retorted, pushing his sister down in retaliation.

"Uh, I don't think we should go down the dark, scary tunnel." Fishlegs shuddered.

"I agree with Fishlegs" Hiccup mutter.

"Oh Please, It's not that scary! I bet it leads to some awesome treasure." Snotlout said with a slight quiver in his voice.

"Enough!" Stoick bellowed, "No one is going down the tunnel till we know where we are."

"Hold on be quiet, I think hear something." Astrid hushed.

All went quiet as everyone listened. A soft, barely audible, scraping sound was heard, like something was moving towards them. It didn't sound big so maybe it was something small. Or something incredibly sneaky. The noise steadily grew louder as whatever was in the dark tunnel continued towards them. Anyone who had their weapons, raised them in anticipation. The noise stopped before the light, just in the tunnel mouth. There was a flash of brown feathers, and then.

"BUH-GAAAAAAAAAWK!"

Everyone flinched at the shrill sound, a echoing cry of the… chicken that had just hopped out of the shadows. It had brown and white dapple feathers. It just sat there staring at them.

"A chicken?" Gobber questioned in slight aghast.

"Sweet a chicken!" exclaimed Tuffnut, "Good. I was just getting hungry!"

Tuffnut reaches for the chicken, who walks a little closer towards Tuffnut. The chicken seems to notice Tuffnut's intentions when it took another step forward and spotted the hungry grin on his face. It lets releases a quick "bwak" in alarm and flutters back into the shadows of the hall. Tuffnut chases after it also disappearing from the groups view.

"Come back here Chicken!" Tuffnut cried out, "Let me eat you!"

"Tuffnut! Get back here!" Gobber orders. He was ignored.

"Go get it bro!" Ruffnut encouraged.

"Uhh." Hiccup said after a moment, "Should someone go after him?"

"Nah." Ruffnut responded. "If he dies that's just fine with me."

Before anything else could be said, they heard Tuffnut screaming from the tunnel. The blonde teen came sprinting back, bowling over his sister and Astrid in a tangle of limbs. This causes them to be sprawled over the floor. They both proceeded to push him away from them and on to the ground to stand up. His sister giving him and extra kick or two or three for payback. Astrid also kicks him once before dropping the pommel of her axe onto his stomach.

"Ghost! Ghost! Voices in the tunnel! Whispering for your soul-" Tuffnut claimed dramatically from the ground before he stood up unaffected by the beating from his fellow blondes.