Chapter 3: And Now We Have To Fight The Queen… Fuck.


~Ka-Blam!~ A large explosion rocks the area around the dragon's nest, and an angered roar can be heard coming from the dragon queen as she shakes off the blow she just received to her head. All the Vikings in the immediate area look up in shock and awe as a squadron of dragons comes flying around the queen's head. And riding each and every one of them are the Viking teens. Hiccup and Astrid leading them on a Deadly Nadder, with the twins and Snotlout close behind, and Fishlegs bringing up the rear. "Ruff, Tuff, watch your back!" Hiccup exclaims as they continue on their flight path. "Move Fishlegs!" He yells to the Gronkle riding teen.

"Look at us, we're riding dragons! We're on dragons! All of us!" Tuffnut exclaims, waving his fist in the air from the neck of the Zippleback he was riding with his sister. Snotlout can be seen riding on a Monstrous Nightmare just behind them, with Fishlegs on the Gronkle at the back. All the Vikings look up at the teens in shock and awe as they bank a turn over the burning boats.

"Ever' bit the boar-headed stubborn Viking you ever were." Gobber comments as he walks up to stand beside Stoick as they watch the teens ride the dragons. The chief of the Hairy Hooligans can only nod his head in silent agreement as the riders slow to a glide around the dragon queen, Hiccup taking command.

"Fishlegs, break it down." He tells the large teen.

"Okay. Heavily armored skull made for bashing and crushing. Steer clear of both. Small eyes, large nostrils, relies on hearing and smell." Fishlegs announces as the Queen picks up one of the boats that weren't burning, and smashes it to pieces against the side of a large rock formation as Vikings near it run away for fear of being crushed.

"Okay, Lout, Legs, hang in its blind spot. Make some noise, keep it confused." He orders the Gronkle and Nightmare riding teens before turning to the twins. "Ruff, Tuff, find out if it has a shot limit. Make it mad." He tells them with a determined look on his face.

"That's my specialty." Ruffnut tells him with a smirk.

"Since when? Everyone knows I'm more irritating, see?" Tuffnut asks his sister, making the dragon head he's riding on turn upside-down while hanging onto its horns so he doesn't fall off, making obnoxious noises as he does this only for his sister to punch him in the throat to get him to shut up.

"Just do what I told you." Hiccup tells them in exasperation. "I'll be back as soon as I can." He says, angling the Nadder he was riding towards the burning boats.

"Don't worry, we've got it covered!" Snotlout yells to him, before letting off a cheer as they all dive-bomb the dragon queen, each Viking going off to do what they were assigned. As the twins annoy the queen, and Hiccup goes off in search of Toothless, Snotlout and Fishlegs lose control of their dragons when they noise they're making starts to affect them and Snotlout ends up on the dragon queen because of this. Luckily, he manages to re-direct its walking path away from Fishlegs when he starts slamming a hammer into its eyes. While all this is happening, another figure can be seen streaking through the sky towards the behemoth. Since Astrid had dropped Hiccup off on the boat Toothless was on, she notices the figure, and realizes what it's about to do. So, as the familiar sound of a shot being readied fills the air, and the Vikings panic because of it, Astrid quickly flies over the dragon queen's head, has her Nadder pluck Snotlout from his place on the queen's head by the Nadder's talons, and flies off. Away from the figure's apparent target.

"Night Fury!" A Viking running along the ground yells out in alarm, making all the other Vikings raise their shields to defend against the apparent attack on them, before the whistling sound is suddenly overcome by a single voice yelling. But they were actual words, and not the mindless yell that a warrior would usually give when rushing into battle.

"LEEEEERRROOOOYYYYY, JEEEEEEEENKKIIIIIIIIINS!" The voice yells, before another, yet slightly different, explosion rocksthe queen as the decisively male voice finishes the second word, and sends her stumbling. As this happens, a white blur is flying towards her, before arching up and flying into the sky.

"By Odin… There's two of them?" Stoick breaths out in disbelief and slight fear, before noticing the figure that had cried out the strange battle cry sitting atop the dragon. He was another teen, but dressed in a completely different manner than the other ones, and he didn't recognize him. Meaning that he was not from their village. So then what is he doing here? And do the other teens know who he was? Stoick's questions would have to be answered later, because as the queen gets up and turns around to face the new figure, it's tail suddenly smashes into the burning boats, and Stoick notices with fear that Hiccup is sent into the water below with the dragon they had trapped as the queen moves and smashes the remainder of the ship with her foot.

At this point, even though he had disowned his son, his parenting instincts act on impulse, and he runs to the water, before diving in and dragging Hiccup out as he starts to drown, and then dives back into the sea for the still-trapped dragon. The figure riding the white Night Fury notices what Stoick is doing, and, leaving the queen to the other riders once again, he flies over to help. He arrives just in time for Toothless to fly out of the water with Hiccup's father in his grasp, and lands next to the black Night Fury, getting a low roar from it as he lands.

"Yeah, yeah you overgrown reptile. I get it. I should have helped you get out of this mess before you even got into it. But can you really blame me if you didn't come to wake me up when you sensed that Hiccup was in trouble? Astrid told me about it, and I've gotta say that I'm hurt you didn't think about my concerns for him." The new teen tells the dragon with mock hurt as he places his hands over his heart to add to the apparent "hurt" he feels, getting a snort from Toothless in response in a way that meant "Whatever". The figure atop the other Night Fury then turns to Hiccup and smirks. "So, you coming or what Hiccup?" He asks, getting a small smile from the soaked Viking teenager in response.

"You got it." He says, running over and slinging himself onto Toothless' saddle as he gets ready to join the fight against the queen. As he hooks himself in, his father runs over and grabs his arm.

"Hiccup!" he exclaims, getting the Viking teen's attention. He seems to try and find the right words to say for a few seconds, before looking at his son with sincerity in his eyes. "I'm sorry… F-for everything." He admits, getting a small smile from the one spectator of their moment.

"Yeah me too." Hiccup replies with a slight frown, still a little sore about being disowned not even twelve hours ago.

"You don't have to go up there." The chief tells his son, almost as if he's trying to get him to stay on the ground where it's safe for him. The response he gets is a small smile from Hiccup.

"We're Vikings… It's an occupational hazard." He tells his father, using the words that the chief had used during his speeches on multiple occasions. Stoick seems to brighten up at his son's answer, and clasps the smaller Viking's hand with both of his own.

"I'm proud… To call you my son." He says to Hiccup, basically dis-disowning him as he then lets go and steps back. Hiccup's hand staying outstretched as he does so.

"Thanks dad." Hiccup thanks his father in a whisper, before nodding to the new teen, and the both of them take off on their respective Night Fury's. Stoick just looks up at his son as he flies away with a small, but proud, smile on his face. Astrid, with Snotlout now riding the Nadder with her, looks over in their direction at the familiar roars of the Night Fury's, and turns back to the others.

"They're up!" She shouts out to the twins and Fishlegs. Unfortunately, she flies a bit too close to the queen as she tells them, and starts to get pulled towards the queen as she starts to take a deep breath that pulls everything in. The Nadder Astrid's riding tries in vain to fly away, but it does nothing to help as the three are pulled closer and closer to the gaping hole that is the queen's mouth. That is, until the familiar whistle in the sky fills the air again, and the Vikings panic once more.

"It's coming in for another shot!" Shouts a Viking, making all the others hold up their shields in hopes of defending themselves once again. Just as Astrid, Snotlout and the Nadder are about to be pulled into the queen's mouth, the whistling stops, and dual Plasma Blasts hit the dragon in the chin, making it stop, and causing Astrid to fly off the Nadder as it falls to the ground, throwing Snotlout off as it crashes. Astrid, meanwhile, is screaming in fright as she falls towards the unforgiving ground below, the Night Fury's nodding to each other, as their riders direct them to turn around. Suddenly, Astrid's downward momentum stops as two figures fly by her, and Hiccup and the other teen share a glance, before looking at their dragons.

"Did you get her?" They ask almost in sync to their respective dragons. Said dragons look down and see that they each managed to snag one of the Viking girl's legs, said girl giving them a smile in gratitude, which the two return with their own gummy smiles as their teeth are retracted at the moment. Then, as they near the ground, they skillfully flip Astrid, so that they're each holding onto one of her arms, before letting her go so that she can stumble forwards a bit and catch her balance as they turn and fly back towards the queen as it cries out in anger. As the Night Fury's and their riders circle the queen, Hiccup notices something.

"That thing has wings." He says in realization. "Okay. Toothless, Jack, let's see if it can use them!" He exclaims, getting a nod from his fellow teen as the two direct their dragons to once again turn and face the queen. The dragons do so, readying a Plasma Blast each as they descend, before letting it loose and hitting her on her side instead of her head as they fly by the queen. This time successfully making her fall onto the ground on her side, revealing her wings to the other Vikings in the area. The queen lets out a pained roar as it falls, and the resulting dust that's kicked up from its impact with the ground clouds the Viking's vision. It's only cleared again as with a mighty beat of its wings, the queen rises, and lets out another angered roar at the two Night Fury's that dare oppose her.

"I think that just about did it Hiccup." Jack tells his friend, getting a nod in response.

"Well, she can fly." He says, urging Toothless to fly onwards as Jack does the same, keeping up with Hiccup as they maneuver around sea stacks, the queen just following them and smashing through the stacks like they were nothing but annoyances. As this happens, the Vikings on land look on in shock and awe, the Viking teens even yelling out in encouragement at the sight… Before the queen smashes through another sea stack that makes everyone quiet down and look on with a little more apprehensiveness.

"Hiccup! This isn't working! We need another plan!" Jack yells out to his friend, getting a nod in response as Hiccup looks around for something to use to their advantage, before looking up at the darkened sky, and getting an idea.

"Alright Toothless, Jack, time to disappear!" He exclaims, Jack looking up at the clouds and understanding his friend's idea, before they both direct their dragons into the blackened clouds above, with the queen hot on their trail. "Come on!" Hiccup yells out in encouragement as the Vikings below gasp in surprise and wonder. As the queen closes in, they hear the familiar sound of gas building up behind them. "Here it comes!" Hiccup warns, before the four, two teens and two dragons, are forced to dodge a stream of fire that the queen unleashes towards them. As they continue to fly higher, Jack turns to look at Hiccup.

"Hiccup!" He yells, getting the Viking teen's attention over the wind whistling past his ears.

"What is it Jack?! In case you haven't noticed, we're kind of in a bit of a problematic situation here!" Hiccup replies with his sarcasm at the ready as always.

"If we survive this, make sure to remind me to tell you about my true origins! I wasn't exactly truthful about having amnesia since I kind of thought that you wouldn't believe me!" The teen shouts over the wind rushing past them. As the teens near a clearing within the clouds, Hiccup turns to look at Jack once again.

"Jack! I'm riding on the back of a Night Fury for Thor's sake! I think I'll be able to believe just about anything that you have to tell me after this!" He replies, getting a smile and nod from his friend in response, before they separate as the queen comes into the clearing behind them, and starts to look around in confusion as to where they could have gone. Letting out roars every few seconds to let her displeasure at their disappearance known. As she flies around, looking this way and that for the dragons and their riders, that familiar whistling sound fills the air, and two holes are suddenly punched into her right wing. The queen gives out a roar of pain at the sensation, before another one is punched into her right wing, while a second is punched into her left wing.

Toothless and Hiccup stay out of the queen's sight by flying through the blackened clouds, while Jack and the white Night Fury are able to stay in the lighter parts because of the Night Fury's white scale color. Though rather than tempt fate, they try to stay above the queen, since that appears to be the only blind spot it has. The constant Plasma Blasts to the queen's wings continue until the white Night Fury can't fire anymore shots, and Toothless only has one Plasma Blast left "available". Unfortunately, it's at this time that the queen chooses to retaliate, and a constant stream of fire is emitted from her mouth. Toothless' prosthetic tailfin is caught in the flames, while the white Night Fury is forced to dodge of his own accord since Jack suddenly froze in fear at the sight of how large the actual flames were.

"Okay, time's up… Let's see if this works." Hiccup says nervously as he sees the burning tailfin, before turning to look at Jack, and signaling for them to head back towards the ground. Jack is snapped out of his frozen state as the flames are no longer around, and nods. The two of them then direct their dragons to fly past the queen, Hiccup giving a small jab as they pass her. "Come on! Is that the best you can do?!" He shouts at her, Toothless and the white Night Fury giving their own insults as they pass her. The dragons and their riders continue towards the ground, though Hiccup and Toothless become slightly nervous when the foot pedal doesn't respond to Hiccup's movements.

"Come on buddy, stay with me just a little longer." He pleads, the dragon queen narrowing her eyes behind them as they get closer and closer to the ground. Though, through the cloud layer, they can't see that. "Hold Toothless…" Hiccup instructs, and a few seconds later the queen starts to build up the gas in her mouth, and Hiccup stares forward with determination. "Now!" he exclaims, Toothless turning over in mid-air so that he's facing the queen, before letting loose a Plasma Blast into her mouth… Which still has the gas building up inside of it. The queen's eyes widen as a fire suddenly lights in her mouth, spreading through the rest of her body at a quick pace. Unfortunately for her, she doesn't get to ponder this thought long, as they break through the cloud layer, and the ground comes into sight.

"Shit! Um, hey bud! It'd be nice if you could get us out of here! Like, now!" Jack exclaims in fear as the queen attempts to slow her descent by opening her wings, only for the holes that were blasted through them earlier to tear the fragile skin apart even more, and fail at stopping her as she slams into the unforgiving rocks below. Toothless and the white Night Fury are able to slow their own descents by spreading their wings, and fly through the tears in the queen's wings to gain a safer distance from the ground, and what's surely about to happen. The explosion that occurs as the queen impacts the ground pushes the Vikings on the island back slightly, while traveling the entire length of the queen that has yet to fall to the ground, burning the rest of her body to ashes in the process. While the flames travel along the queen, Toothless and his friends are trying desperately to fly past all the spikes situated along her back in an effort to escape the rising inferno.

All the while, Jack is practically frozen stiff as he can see the large amount of flames in his peripheral vision, and can't do anything at the moment as he starts to breathe deeply at the sight. However, he's broken out of his frozen state when the four of them are hit by the queen's clubbed tail, and sees Hiccup get detached from Toothless. Suddenly forgetting about the flames below him, he angles his body to shield Hiccup as they hit the inferno, his only thought being, I refuse to let the only person who cares about me that I have left die! Before he passes out from the heat of the flames as they enter the rising fire as well as the pain from being hit by the dragon queen's clubbed tail as it catches up with him. As blackness starts to cosume his vision, and he has his last thoughts, the last thing he sees are the two Night Fury's closing in on him and Hiccup with fear in their eyes.


AN: Mwuahahahahahaha! Aren't I just evil leaving you with a cliffy like that? Yes, no? Eh, probably. Either way, the question that some of you may be asking is why I stopped it here. Especially since it makes this such a short chapter. Well, the answers to that are because 1: I felt like it. (No idea why I felt like it. Probably because I've only written one other cliffhanger for any of my other stories) 2: I just felt that it was the best place to stop so that I could A: Go back and edit this chapter before I post it, and B: Make sure that the epilogue to this has its own chapter, and finally 3: I can't think of a dragon name yet, so it gives extra time for people to suggest one, or for me to think up an actual good one. (Not that that means that the ones suggested in the reviews aren't good! Just that I couldn't find a way to fit them in.) Speaking of reviews, here are the responses to them!

Anime PJ:

As good of a name that is, keep in mind that there aren't any other "evil" dragons participating in the fight with the Red Death that he would be able to attack with his tail. And if he were to try to attack the queen in that manner, it's likely that both the white Night Fury, as well as Jack, would be killed due to their close proximity.

Honestly, I just thought of that meeting when I was about to start writing it and I thought, "That is so How Astrid would act towards someone she's never seen when they arrive on the island." Especially since she reacted with suspicion to Heather in ROB, and at the moment she met Jack, still had pent up frustration that she needed to let loose. So, she took it out on the nearest thing to her that wasn't Hiccup. The fact that Jack made the comment only solidified that fact.

Thanks for the comment, and I hope to keep you entertained with the finale of this story, as well as the rest of the series that should be posted soon.

Sam4801:

I'm not too sure if I can reply to a dead man… But I will anyways.

Good to see that you're enjoying my story! As for the dragon name… It's not the worst, and I might actually build off that… Yeah… it actually gives me an idea for not only giving more information on the dragon… but a reason for a name like that… Thanks! (No, I'm not going to reveal it to you, and I responded to this after I wrote in the first paragraph for the AN.)

As for the second movie, as stated in the summary (as well as previous chapters) I plan for this series of stories to go through all the seasons for the TV show, (Including the 2 new ones that will come out on Netflix in Spring 2015) both movies, and the third movie that's coming out in 2017. However, I will most likely hold off on writing about the second movie until after I've watched the next 2 seasons of the TV series, that way I don't write something in for the second movie, and then have to change the entire thing if I write in for seasons 3 and 4 that would either change the script slightly, or change my ideas.

Alright, for those of you who read this and did a double take for certain parts, let me explain. In the movie, Hiccup referred to the Red Death as a male, whereas Astrid compared the dragon to a queen. So, I stuck with Astrid's explanation, since it made the most sense to me, and the information we're given in HTTYD 2 regarding dragon kings and dragon queens helped with this decision as well.

So, I think that's about it for this chapter, although some of you may want to read the responses I give to people's reviews, since I sometimes include small sneak peeks at what's to come in the series depending on the review. So just keep that in mind for the future in case you're curious about something. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this, and hope to see you all next time!