Chapter 3 The storm and more pain

It has been 8 years since we last heard from the Night furies. Nightclaw and Nightstrike had lived with Firewing and Flameclaw. Now they were both 15 years old and full grown dragons. Nightstrike had been much with Flameclaw. Nightclaw had been training in flying and fire breathing alone.

But then something happened that would change everything.

Nightstrike, Nightclaw and Flameclaw were racing. Nightclaw was in the lead. "Ha, you can't beat me!" shouted Nightclaw. He had been practising every flying trick in those eight years. "Slow down! This isn't a real competition!" shouted Nightstrike. "You just can't beat the best dragon in the world!" shouted Nightclaw back.

It wasn't long after that Nightclaw was so long in front of them, Nightstrike and Flameclaw could barely see him. "Nightclaw stop!" Flameclaw shouted at his highest. "I think he can hear us, but he ignores us" said Nightstrike. Flameclaw sighted. Nightstrike was about to shout again but then noticed something in the distance. It was stormy clouds. And they were heading right towards them. "Flameclaw, look!" said Nightstrike. The monstrous nightmare looked forward and saw the storm in front of them. "We have to warn Nightclaw!" said Flameclaw. "Nightclaw! Nightclaw!" Nightstrike yelled at his highest. "We have fly to him!" said Nightstrike. Flameclaw's eyes widened. "Fly into the storm?!" Nightstrike nodded. "Ugh, I hate when we do something stupid" said Flameclaw and followed the Night Fury.

Meanwhile, Nightclaw was flying in some very dark clouds. "Hmm, should I turn back? No, Night furies are meant to survive nearly everything. What can a little storm do to me anyway?" he asked to himself. He then took much speed and tried to fly as fast as he could trough. He then heard a voice from behind him. The night fury looked behind him and saw Nightstrike flying towards him. "Nightclaw, what were you thinking!? Why are you flying right through the storm?" Nightstrike asked irritated.

But before Nightclaw was able to answer, they heard screaming behind them. They quickly turned around and saw Flameclaw was captured in some ropes and was dragged down to a Viking ship. "FLAMECLAW!" shouted Nightstrike.

Nightstrike was about to help but then the Vikings shot cannonballs at him. Nightstrike dodged them, but then more ships came into view. All of the ships shot cannonballs at Nightstrike. He then heard Flameclaw's voice. "Nightstrike! Save yourself!" shouted Flameclaw. Nightstrike knew he had heard this before, and knew exact where it was. "Go! Or both of us will die!" shouted Flameclaw.

Nightstrike felt very much pain in himself. He flew inside the clouds and watched the Viking ships sailed away. Nightclaw flew to him. "Look I.." he was cut off by Nightstrike. "This is all your fault!" yelled Nightstrike. "Look, I'm sorry" said Nightclaw. "If you hadn't flown away from us, Flameclaw would never been taken!" yelled Nightstrike. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it" said Nightclaw. "It's too late to say sorry now! Go! Get as far away from here as you can imagine! I don't want to see you!" yelled Nightstrike.

Nightclaw felt pain in his heart. A single tear came down his face. Nightclaw then flew away in sadness and anger. He didn't look back, he was right. All the time, his own brother hated him. Nightstrike's voice echoed in his head. "I don't want to see you".

"Arrgh, fine! Have it your way! I'm going! I don't want to see you too!" Nightclaw yelled. But it came no response.

But it was still storm. Nightclaw was so lost in his thoughts. But then he heard loud thunder. It was then he looked around. It was rainy, he heard thunder in the distance and saw lighting in the clouds. Nightclaw didn't see anything else than grey and black clouds. "I'm not turning back.." he mumbled and flew forwards.

Meanwhile

Nightstrike was also flying, but in the opposite direction. "Stupid Nightclaw. I'm glad he is gone" he said to himself.

But then Nightstrike suddenly was surrounded by fog. "Where did all this smoke come from?" he asked to himself. Then, other dragons came out of nowhere, and all of them flew in the same direction. Nightstrike then crashed in a green Deadly Nadder. "Oh sorry" said the nadder. The nadder then looked at him in confusion. "Who are you? I didn't see you in the raid" asked the nadder. "My name is Nightstrike and I'm a Night fury. But what raid? I was just flying and was suddenly in the middle of this" asked Nightstrike.

The nadder looked at him in shock. "A night fury? I haven't seen one in my life. My name is Spiketail" said Spiketail. "Do you know what's going on?" asked Nightstrike. Spiketail nodded. "Yes, we are just coming back to the nest after a raid" said Spiketail. "The nest?" asked Nightstrike. "You don't know? The Queen's nest. We are bringing back the food we had stolen from the Viking village" said Spiketail. Suddenly all the dragons flew inside an entrance to the nest. Nightstrike saw all the dragons dumped all their food in a hole.

Nightstrike stood on a rock and watched. "This must be the nest my brother wanted to join" he mumbled. Then, a Hideous Zippleback came and dumped a small fish down the hole. Everyone was silent. Suddenly a big beast came out of the hole and ate him alive. "I knew it! The rumors are true" Nightstrike said.

The big dragon then smelled an unknown smell. Then the Queen saw Nightstrike. "Who are you dragon?" she asked. "I..am Nightstrike"

"You are the first Night fury to enter my nest, why have you come here?"

"My best friend was taken by humans, and I blamed my brother for it soo…I told him to leave me. I said I never wanted to see him again" said Nightstrike.

"You said your best friend was taken by Vikings, so how about you join me. Those Vikings that captured your friend is the tribe that lives on the island of Berk. You can get your revenge on them for taking your friend"

Nightstrike thought about it. "Well…"

Meanwhile another place

Nightclaw was flying in the storm. The storm had begun getting worse, but he hadn't given up. He still couldn't see anything in this storm. Suddenly, a lightning bolt struck right next to him. "Woah, a little to close there"

Then lightning bolts struck everywhere around him. "This isn't natural" he said. Nightclaw tried to fly faster and get out of this storm.

Nightclaw thought he saw daylight and flew right towards it. "Come on now!"

Suddenly a bright light shone at him. "AH!" the night fury screamed.

After that Nightclaw began losing control over his flight and started to fall. His vision was all a blur.

The last thing he knew, was pain. After that, everything became black.