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Here's chapter 2, hope you like it and chapter 3 will be here shortly;
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DISCLAIMER: Same old same old
*BANG*
An explosion woke me in the middle of the night, sending my ears into a bolt upright position. I ran to Hiccups room, looking for him in his bed, only to find him already stood at the window opening the shutters.
'Oh Thor' he said, eyes widening with the sight.
A whole fleet of ships was along the western side of Berk, currently anchored to the floor but still firing heavy, rusted cannon balls into the village. They had already brought down the town hall and were working their way towards the houses. Suddenly, another ship appeared from around the training arena (formally the battle arena where the young would learn to fight our kind and the older would trap some of us and keep us there, fighting us gently as to learn about our weaknesses) only this one had a few men in it, just enough to sail the 3 ton wooden boat, and was heading straight for port.
'Come on bud, they're gonna need us out there' Hiccup announced, turning around to pull on his brown bear fur jacket and green shirt, followed by his black trousers and wolf boots. I growled in reply, charging out of the door towards my shelter to get the saddle and tail-fin we needed for flight.
'This could be bad' I thought. I had a habit of stating the obvious at bad times; it put my mind off what could be happening elsewhere. When Hiccup arrived at the door, I crouched down, gesturing with my head for him to strap on the saddle, which I had already put onto my back for speed. Today, Hiccup wasn't too gentle with the straps, pulling one of them too tight around my waist. I growled gently at him, but I can't blame him; if any one of the hundreds of cannon balls that were raining down around us were to hit either of us, it would be game over – even I, the mighty Night Fury, felt some fear welling inside me.
Once the tail-fin and saddle were on, I crouched once more to allow Hiccup on and when I heard the familiar click of the leather restraint sliding into place (keeping Hiccup on my back during flight) I spread my wings and with one almightily heave, threw them down, forcing us into the air.
'Come on Toothless, we have to find my dad, we need to find out what's going on', he whispered into my ear. I shrugged in acknowledgement, turning my head down towards the somewhat destroyed buildings searching for Stoick, Hiccups father. I wasn't expecting Hiccup to find him before me as even at daytime, human eyesight isn't nearly as good as a dragons and I soon found him at the boat port, awaiting the incoming ship. After giving a warning nudge to Hiccup, I tilted my wings back, plummeting down towards him; if this was a fleet coming to invade, I couldn't waste time with fancy flying; and almost immediately we were at his side.
'Dad, what is all this?'
'Odin knows son, but I think we're going to find out soon' Stoick said, pointing towards the now docked ship, and off stepped Audun, chief of the Viking settlement only a few hours sail from here.
'Stoick, good to see you' he shouted, jumping off the gang plank and heading towards us. I growled at him loudly, no-one has the right to bombard my home with chunks of metal, endangering my, Hiccups and countless other peoples lives and I would deal with anyone who thought otherwise.
'Audun, do you mind telling me what your entire fleet of ships is doing, firing at my home?' Stoick yelled, grabbing Audun by the collar but swiftly putting him down again to turn around to silence me. I obliged, this once.
'Actually, this dragon here to protect you is actually why we're here,' he explained. 'Ill cut straight to the chase. You and your town here have insulted Viking ways and everything the word Viking stands for; you have taken in our most deadly enemy and made them you 'friends', turning the whole idea of Vikings into a circus...'
'So why the hell have you come here and attacked us?' Hiccup shouted at him from my back, and I felt his legs squeeze into my sides slightly in anger.
'YOU have made this happen, young one, YOU brought the dragons here and now Thor himself came to me in a vision, asking me to wipe you from this earth for insulting the god's themselves'.
'YOU DARE BLAME MY SON FOR THIS!'
'It is not what I want, Thor has asked me to perform this act and now I will – I'm going to wipe every sorry life off of this miserable island'.
That was all I could take. With Hiccup now off my back, I jumped on this Audun, pinning him to the floor with ease and try as he might, the big brute this guy is, he couldn't lift a whole dragon. I stared into his eyes and fear flashed through them, the fire inside me welled to the surface, I was ready to flame this guy into the middle of next week, but Hiccup, again.
'Toothless, stop, he grabbed my head, pulling it away, but then he said 'wait'. Granted I was expecting him to stop me killing this idiot but to say wait, as in wait, do it later?
'Is this dragon going to kill me Stoick?' Audun asked; his face now not so confident, doubt present in his deep blue eyes.
'That answer you shall give to yourself' Hiccup said, now bending over the pinned Vikings face, 'Are you going to attack Berk?'
'I have told you already, it is the gods bidding...'
'Then yes, Toothless will kill you' Hiccup declared, turning to me and nodding, but while winking one eye. This meant he only wanted me to scare the man, not kill him, as he came up with the idea about a month ago, with some ungrateful bully taking his false leg – I almost tore him to shreds. With that, I rose up on my hind legs, bringing my wings above my head (something Hiccup had admitted that makes me look more scary) and roared as hard as I could into his face, reminding me of that day Hiccup and I first met, sparing each other's lives. I then proceeded to pick up the man, dazed from the sheer volume of my roar, and threw him onto his ship, only for him to fall off the other side.
'You will regret that, Dragon' Audun threatened, nodding his head to a crewman stood next to a cannon who quickly lit it, sending a shower of blood red sparks into the sky.
Berk was now at war.
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