How To Speak Dragonese: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Description
Reading age 7-11
233 pages
In the third installment, while Hiccup and Fishlegs are out at sea learning the Boarding-an-Enemy-Ship lesson, they become lost. Fishlegs, fearful of Sharkworms in the waters, accidentally boards a Roman Ship in the fog. Fishlegs is caught, while Hiccup hides and tries to figure out a way to free him and escape. Hiccup overhears a 'fiendishly clever' plan by the Fat Consul and the Thin Prefect to get the Hooligans and the Bog-Burglars to fight each other, then steal all their dragons while they are occupied. Hiccup is able to cause a distraction and escape with Fishlegs, but not before loosing half of his How to Speak Dragonese notebook and Toothless getting captured.
The boys return to Berk having failed the lesson. Hiccup cannot sleep that night without his best friend, Toothless.