How to Train your Dragon

Den of the Queen

It didn't take long for us to find Astrid. Shes running through the forest, about to jump off a fallen tree when Toothless lifts her into the air.

"AAAAAHHHH! Oh, Great Odin's Ghost! Oh this is it! AAAAHHHH!" Astrid screams.

"She makes it sound bad to be picked up by a dragon" Shelia joked as the boys dropped Astrid into a tree. The girls sat onto a tree next to the one Astrid was on.

"Hiccup! Get me down from here!" she angrily shouts.

"You have to give me a chance to explain!" Hiccup pleads.

"I'm not listening to anything you have to say!"

"Whatever one more person that dies for 'unexplained' reasons" Arya snapped her fingers making Saphira appear in her arm, snapping them again making a fish appear in her empty hand.

"You're a witch!" Astrid yelled at the girl, Arya didn't even flinch, surprising the two Vikings.

"I'm not a witch I'm a being born of magic or a mystic destined to protect you ungrateful Vikings, I mean come on, no thank you just trying to kill me, like really you want a huge army of dragons to attack you guys or something?" Arya ranted as she fed the baby sapphire dragon the fish.

"I won't speak… just let show you" Hiccup ignored Arya's rant as he extended his hand to Astrid.

"Just do what he says it doesn't matter to me" Arya nonchalantly played with Saphira. Shelia and Toothless bobbed their heads, agreeing.

"Please, Astrid" Hiccup again pleads, Astrid gave in but refuse Hiccup's hand and climbs on the saddle behind him.

"Now, get me down" she demanded.

"Toothless, down. Gently" Hiccup pats the dragon's head as the same dragon sends a mischievous look to the girls, Saphira went back to her dormant state. Toothless opened his wings. "See? Nothing to be afraid of…" oh spoke to soon Hiccup.

"Get ready Shelia" Arya laughs as Toothless shot up into the air.

"Lets make sure they don't get killed" Shelia sighed at her mate's actions. They watched as Toothless does a bunch of crazy stunts until Astrid apologized.

"Okay! I am sorry! I'm sorry! Just get me off this thing…" Toothless levels out.

"Time to show her dragons aren't so bad" Arya the two Night Furies with the thought connection. The sun begun to set and the whole sky was painted in beautiful colors. While Hiccup and Astrid flew on Toothless, Arya and Shelia fly a few leagues away to give the teens privacy. The view of Berk was breathtaking.

Arya sighed and pulled out a small pendant strapped to a small silver lace, on it was a Gold Night Fury and a Gold Leopard circling each other. It was a gift Drago the dragon god gave her from Arya's mother… The thoughts were put aside when night time descended and the stars came out, the night sky was brighten up with a aurora borealis followed with the rising full moon.

"I always love this view" Arya smiled, reaching up and letting the colors flow around her hand. Shelia purrs she never saw her rider this happy in a while. "I wish our lives weren't threatened, people would stop beating me up for a amazing gift of magic" Arya let a single tear fall not realizing the three in front heard.

"So do I" Shelia warbled. Finally catching up with the love birds, Astrid looked convinced.

"Alright…I'll admit this is pretty cool…It's…amazing…He's amazing…" she pats Toothless gently.

"Don't forget us" Arya flattened out on Shelia's back.

"How long have you been on Berk?" Astrid asked the gold/blonde haired girl.

"Lets see I'm 16, I met Toothless 3 years ago so 4 years" Arya chuckled at the other teen's surprised looks.

"How come we never saw you?" Hiccup spoke up.

"I'm always in the trees" Arya sat up.

"Hiccup, your final exam is tomorrow" Arya frowned, but it than turned emotionless face when she felt the Queen's pull like many times before.

"Come to me" it was too strong to resist, Shelia and Toothless take sharp banking turns.

"If we show them the nest than they can help the dragons!" Arya turned to Toothless, who nodded as they continue flying.

"Whoa! Toothless, what's happening" Hiccup tried to make his dragon turn back but they weren't stopping now.

"You will understand when we get there…maybe you can save us all" Arya put a hand on her temple. We fly into a smoky cloud bank, than nearly bumping into a Monstrous Nightmare carrying a bunch of fish in his talons.

"Watch it!" he snarls.

"Sorry my friend" Arya stroked his neck making the Nightmare purr to touch. Than joining Toothless's side, his riders were beginning to fear.

"It looks like they're hauling in their kill…" Hiccup observes.

"What does that make us?" nervously asked Astrid.

"We need to stay hidden if the Queen smells them we're done for" Toothless told the girls as they arrive. The volcano oozes out molten lava making it look eerie.

"What my Dad wouldn't give to find this…" the Night Furies find a concealed ledge in the interior of the volcano and land. The rest of the dragons drop their catch into the magma pool where the Queen is. "Well it's satisfying to know that all of our food has been dumped down a hole" Hiccup says sarcastically.

"They're not eating any of it" Astrid pointed out.

"They can't even if they wanted to" Arya frowned when a Gronckle flying haphazardly into the Nest. Looking tired, he regurgitated a single, measly fish into the pool!

"The poor thing" Arya cries as all the dragons back away further into any cracks they can find… than she roars.

"HOW…DARE…YOU!"

The Queen rises from her magma pool and eats the poor Gronckle. The dragons notice.

"Shadow has returned!"

"He brought the protected and her dragon!"

"And humans!"

A Hideous Zippleback approaches us.

"You guys need to get out of here now!" a head hisses as the other licks Arya's tears away suprising the two Vikings on Toothless's back.

"WAIT… THE PROTECTED AND…" THE Queen sniffs the air.

"Alright buddy, we got a get out of here" Hiccup urgently says as the Queen smells our scents.

"HUMANS! GIVE THEM TO ME!" the Queen spotted them.

"NOW!" Hiccup tells Toothless.

Toothless and Shelia fly out while the dragons take to the air making a mad swirl to obscure the Queen's view.

"No!" Arya cries on Shelia's neck as the Queen eats the Zippleback.

"Protect them!" he yelled before being swallowed.

With Arya's weeps, the Night Furies fly back to the cove and landed.

"No, it totally makes since. It's like a giant beehive. They're the workers, and that's their Queen. It controls them" Astrid gets off Toothless's back as Shelia got into her dormant state with a heavy heart. "Lets find your Dad"

Instantly, Hiccup cries out."No!" stopping Astrid in her tracks.

"Astrid, they'll kill Toothless and Arya. We gotta think this through…" Hiccup reasons with her. Astrid looks shocked.

"Hiccup, we just discovered the dragon's nest. The very thing we've been after since Vikings first sailed here. And you want to keep it a secret?! To protect your pet dragon and witch?! Are you serious?!" she incredulously asked.

"Yes" is all Hiccup says.

Toothless looks at Arya, who still has tears falling down her face. She hates dragon death, when he found her it was just Arya, Shelia, and Saphira. Arya over time became his daughter… his hatchling…

"Okay…so what do we do now?" Astrid asked Hiccup, he looks unsure but determined.

"Just… give me until tomorrow. I'll figure something out" Hiccup finally saying. Toothless nudges Arya to the lake and they both take a drink.

"Okay…" Astrid says, before punching Hiccup on the arm. "That's for kidnapping me" she again, Hiccup winces and looks at Toothless and Arya, they just shrug. Than Astrid kisses his cheek. "That's for… everything else" she leaves.

"Wh-what're you looking at?!" Hiccup's face can't get any redder.

"You have fun planning" Arya hugs Hiccup. "Whatever happens I'm there for you" she lets go as he smiles, Hiccup than leaves.

"Lets get to sleep little one" Toothless purrs, Arya turns into a dark gold Night Fury with her normal gold eyes. She will honor the dead dragons tonight. Toothless laid down, Arya lays down next to him she was half his size and more slender. The two fall asleep wondering what will happen next.