Hello readers! this is a two-shot written by Crystallion12 and I, so give her lots of credit too! Part one is written by me, Part two will be written by her! Thank you! and i hope you like it!
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Don't Make Me Say Farewell Part One
Blood…
Screams…
Death.
Dragons flew in frenzy through the air, clouded with smoke and ash. Fire poured out of the dragons' mouths and burned everything in sight.
Vikings were mounted on their dragons, screaming battle cries and swinging weapons.
The war raging on Berk was unexpected until the guards spotted a fleet and armored dragons on the horizon. Hiccup, being the chief of Berk, arranged a meeting that very second. He said that if they mean war, then they prepare the dragons and Vikings, but if they meant peace, to hold back and welcome them… they meant war.
Iris, a redheaded 17-year-old girl, raised her bow and arrow and shot it at a soldier fighting with one of Berk's Vikings. She flew swiftly through the air on the back of her coral and blue Deadly Nadder, Eleanor. She cut through the air and flew through the burning village, dodged fires, and ducked explosions, like it was nothing.
Her blue eyes reflected the fire's glow making her look like a demon battling angles. Her brow was furrowed and her teeth were bared as she roared battle cries through gritted teeth.
She took down a catapult with a blast of her dragon's broiling fire, barely missing the explosion with a swift barrel roll. A spark of fire popped and caught the tip of her side braid on fire, her orang-red hair turning black as it burned. Iris growled in annoyance and turned Eleanor into a sharp dive to the water down below. She skimmed the surface of the ocean and dragged the tips of her hair through the water, extinguishing the flames.
She pulled up on the saddle and Eleanor ascended back up in the air and returned to the battle zone. The opaque smoke blurred her vision and she choked and coughed. The intense heat of the fire made her sweat and made her hair damp, she wiped the beads of sweat from her face and pushed forward, she was not going to give in to this battle!
Hiccup rode on the back of Toothless swerving out of the way of fighting dragons, the Night Fury fired plasma blasts at catapults and ships down at the docks. He had to find the leader of this armada, whoever he or she was, was not good. Apparently they had dragons of their own, all Hiccup could think of was Drago, but he's been gone for 20 years!
Toothless glowed a brilliant blue and roared threateningly at enemy dragons and soldiers, the alpha of the dragons broke the sound barrier and out of nowhere a ship burst into flames! Hiccup looked behind him and watched the ship burn and sink into the ocean; he scowled at it and went back to flying Toothless.
Hiccup barked orders to those who were not fighting at the moment, they did as he said and didn't question. He watched Astrid take down soldiers with Stromfly's spines from the Deadly Nadder's tail; they made eye contact and gave a sharp nod before flying in opposite directions.
Riders tried their best to kill fires with the water on top of buildings and kids under aged to fight ran around dousing the fires in water.
Toothless dodged a boulder that was launched through the air; it hit a small house and turned it into rubble.
Hiccup unleashed Inferno and landed Toothless in the middle of battle; he did his best to jump off of the Night Fury and fought off soldiers with his flaming sword. He jumped in between a soldier about to kill one of the older teens that was having a hard time; he caught the blade of the enemy's sword with Inferno and fought against the strong force. The teen behind him came out and while the soldier was distracted with Hiccup, ran his sword through the man's left shoulder and pierced his heart.
Hiccup took a step back and looked down at the dead soldier and back up at the scowling teen with blood on his sword; the teen met Hiccup's shocked gaze and gave a respectful nod then ran off to fight another.
Hiccup shook himself from his thoughts and retracted his blade and holstered it back on his right leg. He saw a group of soldiers charging into battle, swords and axes raised high over their heads; Hiccup grabbed a metal cylinder shaped item off his leg and released a pin from it and threw it just a little bit in front of the charging soldiers. It released a sickly green gas, confusing the men, then a spark lit and exploded. The smoke cleared and revealed limp, and bloodied bodies on the ground; dead.
Hiccup huffed and sprinted back to Toothless, who was firing plasma blasts at an armored Monstrous Nightmare, its body set ablaze. The Nightmare fell out of the sky with a shrill shriek and lay limply on the ground. Toothless had his teeth bared and a growl rising in his throat, the blue glowing down the black dragon's back giving him a powerful and mighty look. The Night Fury's deadly gaze died down when he saw his rider approaching him, Toothless looked back at the dead Monstrous Nightmare and snarled at it.
Hiccup jumped on Toothless' back and launched into the air, a high-pitched, ear-piercing, whistle was heard then a blast of purple and blue erupted and took out another ship. He spun out of the way of the explosion and flew at high speeds away from the docks.
He caught sight of Asmund, his 18-year-old son, dive bomb a catapult on his dark, bluish purple Night Nadder, a NighFury/Deadly Nadder hybrid, named Sigurd. He watched the Night Nadder fly straight up at high speeds as the catapult burst into flames. Toothless eyed Hiccup from the corner of his acidic green eyes, the Night Fury's puplils big and round.
Asmund felt the wind rushing past him, his auburn hair being blown around by the harsh wind, and a rush of adrenalin flooded his body.
Hiccup watched Asmund from a distance as they ascended into the early morning sky, something caught his attention from the corner of his eye, it was small and headed towards Asmund.
An arrow hit Sigurd on his thigh; pain surged through his body, the arrowhead piercing through his scales and flesh. Gravity took hold on the dragon and dragged him back down to the earth. Asmund tried to hold onto the saddle as they spun out of control.
All time seemed to stop and Hiccup's heart began to race, and his eyes were wide with shock and fear.
"No…" he whispered as he watched them fall onto the deck of a ship.
Hiccup shook himself of his shocked state and urged Toothless forward, but just before they began to move forward something exploded and lit the prosthetic tailfin on fire! The Night Fury lost control of his flying and fell to the ground below.
Hiccup detached from the saddle and checked Toothless up and down to see if he was okay, he let out a growl of frustration when he saw the burning tailfin.
Toothless got up and shook off the dust and ashes, Hiccup darted off to where Asmund fell, it was farther then he thought.
As he ran he was constantly stumbled or tripped over something or someone, Hiccup ignored the people trying to cause a fight with him, and kept pressing forward.
"Hiccup!" he heard someone shout his name; he turned his attention up and saw Astrid on Stormfly.
She lowered Stormfly closer to the ground and reached out a hand to help Hiccup aboard. He took her Astrid's hand and climbed up on the back of the blue Nadder.
"We need to get Asmund!" Hiccup said in an almost panicked tone; Astrid whispered something to Stormfly and they took off towards the ship where Asmund and Sigurd fell.
Asmund laid flat on his back on the deck of the ship he was on. Someone chuckled and strode over to tower over him. Asmund blearily looked up at the person looking down on him, the person crouched down and he could see her face more clearly. She had a jet-black hair in a messy braid, her eyes were just the same, and her skin was pale. She wore a devilish grin on her face, her lips a deep red from the makeup she wore.
"Well, you weren't the person I was expecting." She said with a hint of laughter in her voice.
She stood up and walked around Asmund, talking non-sense. Asmund started to stand up, a shock of pain stinging his back. He powered through the pain and managed to get up on his feet, and struggled not to fall.
"Wow… you are so pathetic." She laughed, and pretended to wipe a tear from her eye, indicating how funny she thought it was.
Asmund scowled at her, and tried to look stronger then he was.
"Where's my dragon?" he growled in a low tone, she didn't seem to be frightened in the least by it though.
"Oh, you mean your precious mutt? Don't worry, he's in… good… hands." She laughed maniacally and presented Sigurd, tied up in ropes and being poked and prodded with spears by the guards.
"Sigurd!" Asmund shouted and started to run towards his dragon, but was stopped by two soldiers and was held back. "Give me back my dragon!"
"I'm sorry… but I'm afraid I can't do that!" she said coolly and had a devilish glint in her eye.
"Why not?" Asmund snapped and had to be held back again.
"Well… you see, I need dragons, so I can defeat puny little islands like this one." She got uncomfortably close to Asmund's face, and her tone was high and almost cutesy, but in an evil way.
Asmund tried to attack her again, but the soldiers had a strong grip on his arms, holding him back from doing anything.
"And, by the stars, yours is perfect! With the power of a Night Fury and the deadliness of a Deadly Nadder, this dragon is quite the combo." She started stroking Sigurd's head and he snarled at her, but was struck with a spear for doing so.
"Get away from him!" Asmund cried and tried to fight against his restraints. "Please… don't hurt him… please don't hurt him." Asmund's voice turned into a soft murmur, and he watched as they tortured his dragon.
"Oh, I wouldn't dream of it! We're just giving him a little warning poke, that's all!" she moved away from Sigurd and came up close to Asmund again, "But with you… I don't really care what someone does to you."
Asmund felt fear strike his heart and he wanted to tremble and fall back, but no, he was not going to give in.
"Who are you anyways?" Asmund asked coldly, his voice sharp as knife.
"I am the captain, the leader, the head, if you must, of this armada. I am sometimes called Death itself, commander of demons, ruler of the lands… I am Andromeda Tanith Uevialohr, and I am the cause of death!" she had an evil glint in her cold, dead eyes and stared deep into Asmund's soul.
Andromeda unsheathed a gleaming dagger; it's sharp metal reflecting the flames burning around Berk. She held it straight up and examined its edges.
"You know, a knife is merely a piece of sharp metal, it's not a weapon until the person carrying it makes it one. When the blood is on the knife, that's when it's a weapon, but if there is no blood, it was falsely accused. It was the person, not the metal the person was holding. A piece of metal cannot get up and kill someone, it needs a person to hold it, but that doesn't make the knife a murderer… does it?
"You see, people make objects dangerous, the object itself is not dangerous at all… until the person picks the object up…" she ran a finger along the blade, "sharpens its tip…" and stopped with her finger gently touching the tip of the blade and shifted her gaze to Asmund, "and connects it to flesh." She ran the blade through Asmund's stomach, and he gawked and gasped sharply.
The blade was extracted from his body and the guards released Asmund.
"See? The blade has done nothing, it simply helped the murderer out." She whispered to Asmund.
The pain in his stomach was unbearable! Asmund started to stumbled backwards, towards the edge of the ship. He could hardly breathe; he clutched his wound and was hunched over.
"Here, let me help." She snarled and kicked him into the depths of the ocean.
Hiccup and Astrid flew towards the ship where Asmund had fell, and what they saw was unbelievable. Sigurd was tied up in ropes, and two guards were restraining Asmund.
A woman was close to Asmund, a knife in her hand and she talked softly. And out of nowhere, she dug the blade into Asmund's stomach and was kicked into the ocean.
"ASMUND!" Hiccup and Astrid both screamed, Stromfly flew down to the ship a few feet high above the water's surface.
Hiccup leapt of the back of the Nadder and dove into the water.
"Hiccup!" Astrid shouted and waited in a panic for both of them to surface.
The freezing water stung like a million needles, the salt absorbing into Asmund's wound felt worse then the actual blade going into his stomach! He started to drift off into a sleep, mostly because of blood loss and cold. He could feel arms wrap around him and bring him back up to the surface.
Hiccup and Asmund reached the surface and Hiccup gasped for breath, and he ignored the urge to shiver and numbly let loose of Asmund.
"H-Help!" Hiccup managed to gasp out.
A purple Monstrous Nightmare swooped down and carried both of them out of the freezing water and laid them on the dock. Daerys jumped off his Monstrous Nightmare, Amethyst and ran over to Asmund and Hiccup.
Daerys was frantic, his blue eyes widened in shock when he saw Asmund, his best friend, lying passed out on the wooden planks of the dock. Hiccup gasped for air and coughed up water from his lungs.
"Asmund!" Astrid jumped off Stormfly before she even touched the ground and ran over to Asmund, he was cold to the touch and his breathing was heavily labored. She held a hand over his wound to try and stop the bleeding, and applied pressure to it.
"Daerys, go get help! Now!" Astrid ordered Daerys, at first he was a little hesitant, then mounted Amethyst and went to find help. "Hiccup, are you okay?" she looked over to Hiccup; he sat on his knees gaining breath and shivering violently.
"I-I'm fine… How's Asmund?" Hiccup asked, a hint of hope still inside him.
"Hiccup… it doesn't look good… but with the right treatment he should be fine." Astrid reassured him, Hiccup ran hand through hid hair and his brow was furrowed. "Hiccup, don't do anything stupid."
Hiccup ignored her and rose to his feet, he picked up a sword lying on the ground and stormed over to the ship where the one who stabbed his son was.
"Hiccup! Hiccup, don't!" Astrid tried pleading with him to stop what he was doing, but he was too stubborn to stop. Astrid was about to go after him, but Asmund eyes started to flutter and go into a painful coughing fit.
Hiccup held the sword by his side, his emerald green eyes burning like a fire, all the hatred and anger building up inside him was about to be unleashed.
He found the woman who stabbed Asmund, she had her back towards Hiccup, and he took his chance and swung the sword up and brought it down.
The sound of metal against metal met his ears and his sword was stopped by another sword, the two metals sliding against each other's force. Andromeda had an evil grin on her face, both of their eyes met and rage built up more in Hiccup. He growled furiously at her as they fought against each other's swords.
Hiccup's sword slid down to the edge of Andromeda's sword and swooped down and met the other sword again. They fought back and forth, metal against metal, each time blocking a blow.
"Hiccup… I thought the last time we'd meet would be a little different then this." Andromeda smiled and fought harder.
"What do you mean?" Hiccup asked and swung his sword to hit her, but missed.
"Oh, Hiccup… you don't remember me?" she said in a fake sad tone, and blocked another blow. "I must say that… that hurts Hiccup."
"How do you know me?" Hiccup stepped back to dodge her swinging sword.
"I know lot's about you Hiccup… I'm just surprised that you've forgotten me!" Andromeda barely missed Hiccup's face and the blade lightly brushed up against his skin.
"Who are you?" Hiccup asked through gritted teeth.
"I am Andromeda Tanith Uevialohr, and you are Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the 3rd, and today you will die!" She swung her sword viciously trying to kill Hiccup.
"Andromeda? It's you? I thought I never had to see you AGAIN!" Hiccup shouted and tried to confuse her and get a blow to the chest, but to no avail she was just as good.
"Yes! Its me!" she snarled and battled with Hiccup, sword against sword.
"You almost killed my son!" Hiccup swung his sword uncontrollably so he could kill her!
The force of Hiccup's sword spun him around and met Andromeda's shoulder, she cried out in pain and dragged her hand on the wound, and the blood coated her hand. She growled in frustration and swung her sword madly at Hiccup, but every time he blocked the blow.
"Hiccup… you seriously think that you can beat me?" Andromeda laughed and swung her sword at him! Her sword nicked his arm and tore his sleeve; blood dripped down and dyed the sleeve a deep, crimson red.
"Yes! I do!" He yelled and just gained more power from his cut, and started to confuse Andromeda even more, he was violently swinging his sword; so fast the sword was just a blur. She seemed confused at where to block and where to dodge, Hiccup made a blow for her chest and the sword slid right through her.
"I always hated you…" she choked on the blood rising in her throat and she stood in shock, the sword ran through her so fast and pierced her heart, and she stumbled to the floor… dead. Hiccup left the sword in her, to display her weakness and humiliate her.
"I hope you rot in Hell." Hiccup snarled down at her and turned to her army.
"The captain!" one man gasped.
"She's dead!" another man exclaimed.
"KILL HIM!" they roared and charged at Hiccup.
Hiccup looked at the armada charging at him, there was no way he was going to defeat them by himself!
Just when he was about to give up, Toothless leapt over to protect Hiccup, the Alpha of the dragons put himself between his rider and the army. He glowed blue and his wings were spread out defensively, a plasma blast forming in the back of his throat.
The army held back seeing the Night Fury building a plasma blast. Hiccup climbed up onto the saddle and spoke to the armada.
"Your leader is dead! Surrender or… feel the wrath of the Alpha." Hiccup projected so the entire army could hear what he had to say.
One by one each man fell to his knees in surrender after seeing into the eyes of the Alpha. Toothless closed his mouth and bared his teeth, and his pupils were thin slits.
Daerys flew down on Amethyst next to where Astrid and Asmund were; Iris and Travis landed their dragons on the deck of the ship and ran to untie Sigurd.
"Now! You will leave this island without any hesitation! Go!" Hiccup commanded and the men readied the boats they had left and began to sail out.
He watched as the ships got smaller and smaller until they were nothing but a speck, the fires had died down and the smoke was beginning to clear. How had this all happened? Andromeda? Out of all the people in his past it was her? Hiccup sighed and turned around. Starting to walk back to Asmund.
"Hiccup!" Astrid yelled in a panic, and Hiccup ran towards her!
"Astrid, what's wrong?" Hiccup got on his knees next to Astrid and Asmund, helping with applying pressure to the wound. The healer was grinding up herbs and other mysterious things, and Daerys was helping her since he was a 'Healer in training' so to speak.
"Oh! Hiccup you're okay!" Astrid let out a breath she seemed to be holding and slightly hugged Hiccup, not wanting to get blood on him. Her hands were red with blood, their son's blood, and tears stained her face.
"Astrid, it's going to be okay, he'll be fine!" Hiccup tried to calm her down, but really it did nothing.
Asmund's eyes rolled back and forth and he choked on blood in his throat. He coughed up blood and water from his lungs and clenched at his stomach from the pain.
"Asmund?" he could hear his mother's voice, but everything was blurry. His vision kept fading in and out and everything he heard was echo-y.
"As…und… can…hear m…" was all he heard, the sounds kept going away and coming back, he was in a dazed state and his eyes just rolled around looking for sight.
"Some…ne…do…som…ing…" He heard his father speaking, it sounded frantic from the short words he heard. The last thing her heard were cries… the saddest thing to him. His whole world went pitch black and the pain consumed him like a fire.
OOOO! a cliff hanger! well you'll just have to wait until Crystallion12 writes her part! Again, give Crystallion12 LOTS of credit!
thank you!
-Neon