~Ripclaw~

I smiled to myself as I saw toothless trying to stare down the great beast, even with the rider on his back he looked powerful. The fact that toothless had become an alpha had eluded me, and that had stayed true as I had been watching how toothless acted. But now I think I understand it more, it was the loyalty I had thought made him weak that produced his strength. Those red scales really did fit him, in more ways than one. I smiled to myself one more time before turning to see the reactions of the others, especially Steven. It was clear that the two would start fighting soon, and I wanted to see what his plan had been by bringing Toothless here. The soul-link usually helped me understand what he was up to, but this time he was keeping his intentions well hidden, i just hoped he had a good reason.

As I tuned, however, I saw the one of the last things I had expected to see. Or felt is more accurate, because as I was turning the dragon stormfly slammed into my side. I felt her spikes pierce my side as I flew back. I felt panic come through my link with steven but to my surprise I saw him holding the girl back. I wasnt able to see anything else because stormfly stepped in the way of my view. "Why would you bring us here?!" She roared, and I saw pain flash briefly through her eyes, "What if someone gets hurt?" she said, shaking her head. But it was too late, I knew what she meant, "you mean what if he gets hurt," I gestured towards Toothless with my head. He was now flying to the other side of the beast, keeping its ice breath off us as it tried to attack him.

I could see the emotions in her eyes when I said that, but I couldn't read all of them because of the fact she came running at me again. She shot her spikes at me and i dodged them with grace before giving her one last warning, "You don't want to do that." But as she bowled me over I could tell it wasn't going to work. The fire in her eyes showed blind anger, the kind that could only be fueled by one thing, Love. As she jumped for me again, her claws aimed for my throat, I felt something I hadn't in a long time. Pure adrenaline pumped through me and I was overtaken by the fury of fighting.

When she got close enough I kicked up with my hind legs, hitting her square in the face and knocking her backwards. As we both stood up the anger in the air became so strong that you could almost feel it. We went at each other with everything we had, spikes, fire, tooth and claw. The battle was mostly a blur to me, the only thought in my head was the need to fight. By the time we broke apart again and I regained some coherence, we were both battered and bleeding. I looked up and over Stormfly and saw something weird, Steven was grabbing the girl and she had hit him hard to get him to let go. When he finally did she started to run to us, probably to stop us from fighting.

But I doubt it would have worked anyway as we were already running at each other again. No, the thing that really stopped us from fighting was when one of toothless's stray fireballs landed between us. It hit with a large explosion, throwing up melted rock and bits of flaming grass, knocking us both backwards. I got up first and looked towards toothless, and to my horror I saw him flying full speed towards us, as if he had forgotten about the beast out to kill him. He landed clumsily and rushed over to stormfly, but I didn't pay much attention to that. My biggest concern was the beast, which was now turning towards us. My anger now completely gone, I turned to steven for help, and this time he did something. As the beast sucked in its breath he ran up in front us us and waved his arms.I growled, cursing his stupidity, but surprisingly when the beast saw him he stopped and released the breath without killing us.

Steven and it started to have a conversation but I ignored it and looked back at Toothless who was still standing over Stormfly, his rider having gone to comfort the girl. A deep pain echoed in his eyes and I then knew that he loved her just as she did him, but what surprised me is that, as I thought about their actions, I realized that they had no idea what they were feeling. This intrigued me and caused me to observe them for awhile. That is until Steven came back to talk to us. "He has given us a cave that we can stay in." Toothless raised his head up questionably, and Steven announced, "you have proven yourself to him." An agreement passed between them before Toothless nodded, then he picked up Stormfly, who still hadn't gotten up. The boy and the girl rode on him as he followed me and Steven to the cave we were given to stay in.

~Astrid~

"STORMFLY!" Astrid screamed with terror. Toothless even jumped and quickly moved out of the way for her. Hiccup was behind her. "What happened?" Toothless looked at his rider with a face of complete guilt. She was hit by the stray fireball. The guilt on toothless's face flipped to a look that cried out, "help her." Steven rushed to help, but in vain. She was out. Cold. Dragons of all kinds came to see what happened. Nightmares to Gruffs, Gronckles to Skrills. All curious to see a glimpse of what happened. "Is she alright?" Astrid Exclaimed, truly concerned for the sake of her dragon. "She'll be fine, but we need to get her to safety." Steven and Hiccup picked her up, and moved her into the nest. The Bewilderbeast inside gave no effort to notice as they walked by. "Here you go, nice and cozy." She said this, knowing her dragon wouldn't hear. Stormfly didn't react to anything, not a sound, nor sudden movement triggered a response. "Her heart is still beating, and she's still breathing, but she's in some sort of a comatose state" Steven said, sounding all nerdy and matter-of-factly. "Hiccup, can you translate?" Hiccup cleared his throat, "She's alive, but not alive?" Steven nodded to clarify that statement. "Will she be okay?" Steven smiled, and replied, "You couldn't leave her in better hands. She'll be fine." Hiccup walked outside to release tensions with the alpha dragon. His own had stopped him before he could make it. Hiccup collapsed on top of Toothless, crying. "Why is it everywhere I go, death and destruction follow?! It's not fair!" Toothless curled up around his rider, calming him down. "Thanks bud, I needed that." Steven walked up to the two. "Hey, it's going to be fine. after all she's not dead."

Chrisfiggys: Wow that was long, and I think I might have progressed their romance a little quicker then I had liked. Oh well, guess I was feeling romantic when I wrote this. Anyway, read review and, as always, Stay tuned.

PhZXgames: Holy crap that was long, well not for me, but still. Thanks for reading and don't forget to review, and PM!