AUTHOR"S NOTE: Happy Thanksgiving people, my gift to you is another chap. I would've posted sooner, but I got writers block, I hate it as much as you guys. A couple small notes before we start. First, every now and then I decided to add references in the chapters, last time it was "Slacked jaw buggy eyed," Aladdin reference. So who ever finds them please leave a comment in the reviews, why, because it's fun. Two, I mentioned this before, all spells are in Norwegian, and so you can use Google Translate if I forget a spell. Third, and I should have mentioned this, words in italics are flashbacks, clues from the Book of Dragons, or character thoughts, depending on the situation, and spells will be italized and underlined. Last, I edit small mistakes in other chapters, so reread if you're one of those people who can't stand 'non-perfected' grammar.
DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING (except the idea to write this and all that stuff I have to say)
Chapter 2: Return to Berk
Hiccup was sound asleep, as were the other inhabitants of the house, except Cloudjumper, who's supposed to be nocturnal. Suddenly, he was driven to a light sleep, and heard a deep voice call out for him, telling him, "Listen boy, those Berkians are not your friends."
Hearing that voice, Hiccup woke up, and immediately wished he hadn't. Why? Because, Drago was a few feet from his bed. "You, you're the one from my dream all those years ago." With a stone face, Drago lifted his arm, and in his palm, a dark light glowed. That light emitted a mist, which engulfed Hiccup, giving him an intense headache. "I, am Drago Bludvist, the Dragon God, and I am here to help you. You are in grave danger." After that part, the mist faded, but Hiccup's headache was still there. Ignoring the pain Hiccup was experiencing, Drago kept talking.
Using his dark powers, he conjured images of Astrid, the Twins, Snotlout, and Fishlegs on the wall. "The Berkians are lying to you. They're trying to corrupt you." The images of the young Vikings disappeared, and were replaced by images of the two Dragon Trappers he had faced earlier. "My forces are the only ones you can trust, for I am the one who will destroy those who ride Dragons." "You must destroy them" Drago ordered. He began to disappear, and Hiccup felt something strange on his arm. He looked, and saw his arm becoming covered in metal. He tried to get it off, but he couldn't. Then he felt himself disappearing, and suddenly, he was falling.
Hiccup fell off the rock he was sleeping on, and awoke with a thud. After the battle that had happened, the six young teens decided to rest. Ignoring the hurt, Hiccup said "Mom, you wouldn't believe the weirdest dream I had." "Do I look like your mom?" Hiccup looked up and saw the other teens, except through his eyes they looked different; they were wearing dragon scale cloaks, metal armor. But the scariest thing was their eyes; black all the way.
Hiccup got up and backed away slightly. "Stay back, Drago warned me about all of you." Suddenly, a new voice that said, "You saw Drago, where" came out. Hiccup looked over and saw Toothless, except he looked like some kind of demon cat. Astrid started to approach, saying "Hiccup, what's wrong." At that point, Hiccup decided to run like thunder out of the cove. "Hiccup wait" cried Toothless, who ran after his best friend.
"What was that?" "Yeah, I mean, when we run it's when Bucket and Mulch realize we were stealing fish from their ships." Ignoring the Twins missing the point, Fishlegs said, "Moving on, let's see what just happened." "Hey, I already did it once today pal, so you do it." Hearing that, he grabbed the relic he had in his pocket, a small round orb in the shape of a reptilian eye called a 'Sight of the Dragons Replicator'. Fishlegs only used it once every now and then, when Ruff didn't want to use magic.
Not that far away from them, Hiccup was still running away, with Toothless close behind. "Hiccup, come on, whatever you saw wasn't real" Toothless cried, trying to stop his best friend. Eventually, Hiccup managed to get away from Toothless, by hiding behind a tree, where two Dragon Trappers were hiding in the shadows above.
"Oh no. He's running into a trap." "We've got to help him" Astrid said with concern. "Do we" came Snotlout's voice. Everyone, including the twins, just starred. "I mean, even if he wasn't the Final Rider, he can't fight to save his life. Plus, who would you rather have, a fishbone, or all of this" he said, flexing after the last part. Scoffing, Astrid pulled out her axe, and said "Stormfly, we need your help." A moment later, Stormfly appeared. Astrid went over to the rock Hiccup was napping on and grabbed to thing she believed he called a 'phone.' "Alright girl, we need you to find Hiccup." She held the object up to Stormfly, who then began to sniff it.
"Alright, at the rate he's going, (sniff), he should arrive at a small river, (sniff), next to the rock that looks like Gobber's face." Fishlegs was kind off geeking out, he was always amazed at how well Nadders can track. "Alright, let's go" Astrid ordered. The others summoned their dragons, and went off.
Unfortunately, they forgot the sword Hiccup used that turned Toothless into a Night Fury.
Hiccup kept running, not willing to risk Toothless catching up. He stopped by a small river, and tried to catch his breathe. Above him, Dagur and Norbert were hiding in a tree branch. "Drago's spell did the trick. Oh, I am so going to get him" Dagur said with a tone of vengeance. Annoyed by his partner-in-crime's antics, Norbert said "Drago told us to capture him, not to harm him." Dagur's face turned into a look of disappointment, but that was replaced with a psychotic smirk when he realized "Yes, but he also said to use any force necessary. And let's be honest, what other kind of force is there, other than lethal." "Ugh, let's just grab him."
Not far away, Toothless was looking for Hiccup, calling out his name and saying, "You can't trust Drago, he's a madman, and that's the nicest thing you can say about him." Hearing Toothless calling out, Astrid told the others to follow his voice. Hiccup also heard the black cat calling out, started to run again, but didn't get far before Dagur and Norbert jumped in front of him. "Don't worry, Drago sent us to protect you. We're your allies" Dagur said, trying convince him to join. Inside though, he was trying not to knock Hiccup's lights out.
Hiccup couldn't decide what to do. On one hand, these were the people who tried to kill him a few hours ago, but on the other hand, he just met Astrid and the others, so he didn't have much of a reason to trust them just yet. Suddenly, the splitting headache returned, and he stood in place, clutching his head in pain. Dagur, clearly more concerned with his own pleasure, said "Oh well, guess violence it is." He reached for his sword, only to find it missing. He looked around, only to have Toothless jump on his face, again. "Help me you imbecile", Dagur cried, causing the Hysteric chief to help yank the cat off, and throw him against a tree.
Unfortunately for them, Hiccup had saw the whole thing. Rushing to Toothless' side Hiccup grabbed a broken branch, and held it up to defend himself. "Well, looks like we're doing this the hard way. I love the hard way" Dagur said, his face all a glee. Norbert charged at Hiccup, who ducked out of the way, while his opponent fall into the stream. Dagur on the other hand, found his axe, and proceeded to advance towards Hiccup. Holding his ground, Hiccup said, "You know, I was going to try to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you made one mistake." "Oh, and what would that be?" "No one hurts my best friend."
Suddenly, a blinding light engulf them. When it disappeared, Toothless was a dragon again and Hiccup was holding the sword that was left at the cove. "Okay, does this thing come with a manual? Because I really don't know how it works." While Hiccup was trying to figure out how the sword managed to teleport to him, Toothless was focused on the Trappers. He fired at Dagur, who was protected by the armor he was wearing, and fell onto Norbert, pushing the two into the stream. When they got up, they were mad.
"Stormfly, Spine Shot," came Astrid's voice, followed by a rain of spike between Hiccup and the Trappers. They looked up and saw the others on their dragons flying to them. "Drago will have our heads if we fail, so we better..." "You handle them I'll get the Night Fury" Dagur said cutting off Norbert. His raised his sword, and cried "Skrill, dragon of my people, descend!" The same Skrill he had use hours ago showed up. Norbert, seeing how obsessed Dagur was with beating Toothless, decided that it would be easier to let him have his fun and take care of the easy targets.
He grabbed his axe, and called his Death Song, along with his four-headed Snaptrapper. "Amber Trap, Methane Mist," He ordered his dragons. The Death Song started to fire its amber, while two Snaptrapper heads started releasing a green mist. The riders managed to dodge the amber, but the twins however, got an idea. "Barf, Gas." "Belch, Spark." The Zippleback obeyed the command, working together and creating an explosion, which was only amplified due to the Snaptraper's mist. Norbert got on his Death Song, and flew up to fight the young Vikings.
He grabbed a bolas he had on him, and threw it, catching Stormfly, who plummeted to the ground, and Astrid with her. "You okay girl?" "Yeah, it takes more than a fall to stop me," the dragon said. "Now go on, the others can handle the Death Song. You take care of the Snaptrapper." Astrid, listening to her dragon turned around and saw the four-headed dragon glaring at her. Grabbing her axe, Astrid called, "Axewing, come on." Axewing was a red Timberjack with orange wing edges. When Stormfly needs a break, he was Astrid's first choice for a fight, even though Timberjacks as a species were generally non-violent. "Wing Slice" she told the large dragon. Axewing then charged at the Snaptrapper, knocking it on its side.
Up in the sky, the others were battling a nutjob and a cannibal dragon. The Death Song kept firing, while Fishlegs had to come up with a plan to handle it. "Okay, here's what we have to do. We have to…" "Blah, Blah, Blah, I say we just get it", "I second that", "Me too" the others said, not bothering to listen to Fish's strategy. The Twins charged at their opponent, but were shot down, and Hookfang got shot, fortunately only his legs. "Ok, I say we listen to Fishlegs" he said, much to his riders chagrin. "What! No, we don't need any…" Snotlout began to say, before Hookfang did what Monstrous Nightmares were famous for, flaming up on just about any occasion. "Okay Fishlegs, what's the plan" Snot asked, working through the burns. "Okay, Ruff when I give the signal, have Barf pump out as much gas as he can. Tuff, have Belch ignite it when I tell you too," he directed to the twins below, "Snotlout, have Hookfang fire at the same time."
Norbert, not wanting to give them a chance, threw more bolas at them, but were burned by the dragons' fire breaths. Fishlegs reached into his pocket and grabbed a Flash Stone, a small pearl like relic. He looked at Meatlug, and said, "You think you can get around without him seeing you?" "Honey I may be slow, but I know how to get around" she said in response. While Hookfang and the Death Song were facing off, they maneuvered to behind the dragon. Norbert, realizing the pair's absence, turned around just as Fishlegs threw the Flash Stone relic, which as the name implies, released a flash that blinded Norbert and the Death Song.
"Now!" At that point, Ruff had Barf start breathing a metric ton of gas, and stopped when their foe was surrounded by the foul green mist. "Okay, Snotlout, Tuff, FIRE!" The two had their dragons fire at the mist, creating a powered-up explosion, knocking the Trapper and Death Song out of the sky, into the Snaptrapper, Dagur, his Skrill, and then into a tree. The three dragons turned back into krystals while their masters fell unconscious.
"Well, that's one way to beat a nut job," Hiccup said, trying to end the awkward moment that was occurring. "Yeah. Come on, let's go before they wake up," Astrid said, cutting Stormfly free from her trap. Toothless, who had turned back into a cat, said "Come on, I could've taken that Skrill with both wings tied to my back." "Bud, I'm getting the idea you don't like that dragon, why" Hiccup asked curiously. "Night Furies and Skrills have never gotten along, it's just the way things have always been." "Yeah, but how do you know all this, last time a checked you've been a cat most of your life." "I'm not sure, I've just always known." Hiccup was about to open his mouth to ask another question, when he heard Astrid, saying "Hey, you comin' or not?" Toothless jumped onto Hiccup's shoulder, who climbed onto Stormfly. The group left, with Axewing carrying the Twins, and leaving the two Trappers where they were.
When they were a good distance away, Astrid decided to ask Hiccup something. "So, why did you run away?" "I just had a really bad dream," Hiccup said in a slightly confused voice. "You said Drago warned you about us, why" Fishlegs asked, wanting answers himself. "I don't know, I guess he wanted to get me on his side, which is probably why he sent the 'terrible twosome' back there." "You, please, if Drago would want anyone of us in his army, it would be me" Snotlout said, earning him looks from the others. "Let me rephrase that."
"You know, I can't believe that all of this is real. You guys, the dragons, even this," Hiccup said, grabbing the sword he carried at that last part. "Hey, can I see that," asked Fishlegs. Hiccup nodded yes, and gave the sword to Fishlegs when he had gotten closer on Meatlug. After examining it for a few second, he started to go all 'excited fanboy.' "Do you guys know what this is?" They didn't respond, because Fishlegs kept asking that question over and over. "WHAT IS IT" they shouted when they had enough. "The Dragon Blade" he said excitedly. "The Dragon Blade, what is that," Tuff asked. "It's only the most powerful Relic ever made, the sword Hiccup the 1st used to defeat Drago three hundred years ago, said to be able to cut through anything, transform things into a stronger form…" he kept rambling on and on about the sword powers and capabilities for the rest of the flight back to the village.
When they arrived back at the village, they went to the Great Hall, and were greeted by an angry looking council, particularly Stoick. "What were you thinking? Not only did you break into the oldest building in the village, but you stole the most important book ever written in the history of Berk." "To be fair, a majority of the time it's blank, sir" said Fishlegs, who quickly became quiet thanks to a 'not-now' glare from the angry chief. "Don't forget about going up against two insane Dragon Trappers, tipping over all of Not-so-Silent Sven's yaks, the number of times Astrid hit Snotlout for flirting with her…" Tuffnut listed, earning him a 'what-the-heck-are-you-talking-about' look from everyone present. "What? I thought we were listing things we did." "Yeah, I thought we were doing that too," said the equally dumb Baggybum. (THAT RHYME WAS NOT ON PURPOSE).
Choosing to ignore the ignorance from his brother and the Thorston boy, Stoick went back to his 'angry-chief rant'. "I'd expect this from the twins, but from you Astrid, I wouldn't in a million years have guessed you'd have done something so irresponsible and insubordinate." "Don't forget reckless, idiotic, imbecilic, inane," Ruff listed, earning her the same look her brother had just received. "What, I've heard a lot of words for 'stupid.' I mean, come on, people say that more than Tuff's proper name." "Wait, now we're saying things we call the Thorston boy behind his back? I'm so confused." "Remind me again why my idiot brother is on this council," Spitelout said with an annoyed tone. Gothi then proceeded to write a response, which Gobber translated as "Because he's Stoick's turkey neck." He got that last part wrong, so as usual Gothi whacked him, "Ow, brother. Because he's Stoick's brother, and yours too for that matter. You know your scribbling isn't wha' it used to be old woman." Gothi moved to hit him again, before Gobber said "But your swing, strong as ever." "Wait, what do you guys call me behind my back?"
"Enough!" Stoick shouted, having enough of seemed to be some kind of filler conversation. "Of all the kinds of stunts you could have pulled, this was the worst. Not only do we need that book to stop Drago from escaping the Core, but we might have blown our only chance to summon the Final Rider," he said, directed mostly at Astrid. Hiccup, having enough of this, stood in of her, looked Stoick in the eye, and said "Leave her alone, she didn't know you were gonna use it." Stoick, now realizing that there was a stranger, turned to the other young Vikings and asked "Who is this?" Fishlegs put on a 'trying-so-hard-not-to-squeal-in-excitement-but it's-not-working' look and just said "HestheFinalRiderwearentjokingweknowhedoesntlooklikeitbutheweildeedtheDragonBladeturnedhiscatintoaNightFuryandfoughtoneofDragosTrappersdespiteobviouslynothavingfoughtonebefore" very quickly. (He's the Final Rider, we aren't joking. We know he doesn't look like it but he wielded the Dragon Blade, turned his cat into a Night Fury and fought one of Drago's Trappers despite obviously not having fought one before.)
Before Stoick could say a word, Old Wrinkly pushed him out of the way, well tried to at least, Stoick was almost seven-feet and weighed 400-pounds (Is that another crack about my weight?!) "Let me see. Hmm, a little scrawny." "Thank you for pointing out the obvious you old goat," Snotlout said with a bit of a 'duh' tone, "Plus the prophecy says it's someone with Berkian blood. All the more reason he can't be the Final Rider, and all the more reason why I clearly am, and have always been the one and only Final Ride-." Thankfully for everyone Gothi whacked him before he could say anything else. Stoick, wanting to see proof of the claim, asked "If this is true, then let us see you turn your cat into a Night Fury like Fishlegs claims." Hiccup, who still didn't have any idea how to work the sword, began to stutter and say "Well, the thing is, I don't really know how I did it." "And I have a name you know," said an irritated Toothless. "Well than if you have no proof, than I can say that you…" "Now hold on a minute Stoick," came Old Wrinkly cutting him off. "Lad, do you have this ring" he asked, showing Hiccup the ring he had used to summon the Final Rider. "Yeah, I have it," Hiccup said pulling out the ring his mother had given him the previous day. Was it yesterday? He was starting to wonder if time runs the same way in both worlds. "Well, that proves it, he is the Final Rider" the old man quickly concluded. Spitelout, not convinced jumped in and said "Just because he has the same ring doesn't mean that…" "Oh but it does. You see, there are only two of these in existence, the one he has and the one we used to summon him, which would've only worked if he was the Final Rider. And I'd say it clearly worked," Said Old Wrinkly, cutting off Spitelout from pushing the 'My-son-is-the-Final-Rider' kick, again.
Hiccup, after hearing those words, started to wonder what they meant. "Wait, you were the ones who called me here?" The council simply nodded. "Do you know what was I was doing, it was very important," he said, starting to get angry. "What, axe throwing, archery practice, hand-to-hand combat" Astrid asked. "No, and remind me to not play any sports here," Hiccup said, surprised that parents would let their children handle weapons at this age. "No, I was in the middle of an important art show and…" "Art show? How is that important, its art, just a bunch of worthless pictures" Spitelout chimed in. He only knew him a few minutes, but Hiccup knew he didn't like Spitelout. "Because, the reward money from winning was just enough to help my mother, who not only raises me alone, but is getting very sick, and no one knows what it is. But that money could have gotten her testing that could have really helped her. And now, she's at home, worried sick about me, while I'm trapped on some weird Viking universe were I am going to have to probably have to fight at least once every day of my life against psychopaths, dragons and what else, why not make me go up against an angry Godzilla. Perfect, just perfect."
"Hiccup, you might want to calm down" said a concerned Fishlegs. "Calm, I am perfectly calm!" He clearly wasn't, not at all. After going on for like a minute, Toothless decided to step in. "Hiccup, they didn't know. Besides, she's been in a tight spot before, she can handle being on her own without you." Hiccup knew he was right, and started to calm down. Seeing it was working, Toothless added, "and besides, it's not forever. All we have to do is help them, and we'll be back home before you now it." Unfortunatley, Baggybum ruined it. "I thought you said only one of Wodensfang's scales can send him back, and that we only had one left." "What! How can you be out, can't you just go and get one" Hiccup said, panic in his voice. Gothi scribbled down an answer to Hiccup's question, with him hoping that it was a good answer. "She said 'Because Wodensfang disappeared 250 vegetables' ow, 'years-250 years ago and no one has even caught some kind of glimpse at it. Some people say it turned into ta' lollipop guild' what does tha' even mean? Ow, correction 'some people say it died and is up in Valhalla sitting at ta' feast next to his trainer.'"
"So, you summoned me, with no way to unsummon me and, wait why did you even call me in the first place?" "Because, we think you might be the Final Rider, the only one who can stand a chance against Drago and lock him in the Core forever," said Astrid, who despite all the proof, still had a little trouble believing it. "That's nuts! Have you seen that guy, do I look like a can stop him," said Hiccup, who after finally getting an answer, was told to stop a madman. "That's what I've been saying!" "Be quiet or I'm gonna claw your eyes out!"
"Look, I may not fully believe it either, but the Book of Dragons senses something in you," Astrid said, grabbing said book from her bag. Hiccup, still stunned, merely looked at the book in awe. Astrid went up to the table in the center of the hall, and placed the book. "It glowed when Hiccup was near it at the cove. Show 'em." Hiccup followed Astrid's directions and approached the Book of Dragons. However, when he reached his hand out towards the cover, nothing happened. "Maybe it was just the moonlight," said Hiccup, trying to lighten the mood. Astrid 'gently' nudged him out of the way and opened the book to a blank page. Seeing nothing in the book, Old Wrinkly fainted like a thirsty guy in a desert on a hot day in July, with the twins laughing at how ridiculous he looked. "I did say it was blank most of the time. It's some kind of protection spell," Fishlegs said with a puzzled voice. Gothi walked over and examined the book before scribbling her diagnosis. "Okay, I know I'm reading tha' wrong. Okay, according to wha' she said, it's some kind of magic that hasn't been seen in along time. Maybe."
"Maybe she just imagined it, like the time I breathed in Barf's gas and thought I saw a giant hairy guy in the woods with huge feet." Irritated by Tuffnut's accusations, Astrid snapped, "I know what I saw. Fishlegs, back me up on this." "Well, we didn't exactly know what caused the words to appear on the pages. It could have been because of light refracting in our eyes, or we were so hyped at the time from breaking in our..." While Fishlegs was rambling on, Snotlout and the twins just didn't care to pay attention, the council was busy questioning Hiccup and deciding what to do with Astrid. "Well, I've got something to say; how am I going to stop one of Drago's psychotic goons from coming in and grabbing me in the middle of the night?"
As for Toothless, he was the only one not wrapped up in the problems of others to notice something. "Hey, would you guys stop what you're doing and maybe care to explain why words are appearing in what seems to be a pretty important book." Upon hearing that last part, they all focused their attention on the Book of Dragons to see words were in fact appearing out of nowhere. "I knew it," Astrid exclaimed in delight. "To protect yourselves you must sound the alarm. To stop those who would do you harm, dig beneath the four that is less than the sum of the two and the two that comes before," Fishlegs read from the book. Tuffnut scoffed, "Math, I thought this was a book about dragons. I mean, that's literally its name." As much as everyone hated to admit it, he kinda had a point. Wondering about the cryptic message from the book, Hiccup asked, "Is that supposed to help me avoid Dagur and, whatever his name was?" "Well, how are we gonna do that if this dumb book can't tell us how," Snotlout complained. " "Apparently the thing's just gonna what it wants."
Suddenly, the words on the page disappeared, and in their place was an image of a strange plant. It was a dull shade of grey, with nettles on the stem and leaves shaped like scales. The image glowed a faint glow, and projected itself off the page. "What is that," Hiccup asked, for he had never seen a plant like that before. "It's a Berk Bog-Rose. They grow only on Berk, and were given to Hiccup the 1st over three hundred years ago by fairies," Old Wrinkly answered. Living on Berk his entire life gave him a chance to study all kinds of flora and fauna that lived on the small island, including the more exclusive ones. "Wow, wait Fairies. They're real too?" "Yes, but they're harder to find, only come out on special occasions, such as coronations. They're enchanted to alert people to the coming of dark forces, Hiccup the 1st used them to warn himself and his allies should Drago try to sneak up on them." "We need to find these roses. If we do, than we don't have to worry about something like what happened today happening again. Now how do we find it."
"The answer is in the riddle."
The Core
From deep within the dark, twisted realm that was the Core of the Barbaric Archipelago, Drago had summoned his two Trappers back after their miserable failure. He stood at the bow of his flagship at the Skygge Sea, a cold, dark place and the only body of water in that ghastly underworld, and starred at the two Trappers. "I give you one simple task, I even gave you the perfect chance to do it, and yet you still failed to capture him," he shouted. "He was a lot more challenging then we thought," Norbert tried to defend him and Dagur, "He had a this sword that turned a cat into a Night Fury, and he..."
Upon hearing mention of a sword, Drago wanted to know what his failed henchmen was saying. "What sword," he demanded. "It had a gold hilt, with a-a green crystal on it." Drago knew he was talking about one of the only things that could stop him; the Dragon Blade. If the berkian children got the Dragon Gems before him, he would never be able to escape, and even if they had failed him, he would need all his forces to help in his escape. "We didn't know that it would.." "Enough." Norbert stopped at his masters command, worry splattered all over his face. Dagur on the other hand, wasn't worried. If Drago decided to sentence him to a bitter end, he'd at least go out in a fight. "You are lucky that I need all the Trappers I need for my escape." Dagur was slightly disappointed, while Norbert was relieved he wouldn't be going to Valhalla today.
Drago took his bull hook, and at the top of his lungs shouted, a call for one of the dragons enslaved to his army. Upon hearing the call, the dragon came to his master, a Bullrougher. It was large, roughly around the size of a Catastrophic Quaken, and able to withstand a fleet of Dragon Riders. It resembled a Gronckle, but with a body shape more akin to the Quaken, and lacked bumps on it's hide. On its nose was a foot long horn that could break through the toughest of minerals. The color of it's scales was a dull goldish brown, but was hard to see due to the armor covering it. When it landed on the deck of the ship, it fired large flare at the sky, which exploded into a small rain of hot embers.
"You will sneak under the cover of darkness into Berk, and grab the boy," Drago ordered his Trappers. "And just to make sure you don't fail," he pointed his weapon at the dragon, and began to chant;
"morkets makter, jeg gud dragur befaler deg. Gi dette dyret til makt til a odelegge dem som mot meg."
As he casted the spell of empowerment, a glop of dark magic went from the tip of his weapon and engulfed the Bullrougher. Purple chains appeared on its back plate, and wrapped around the dragon. When the spell was complete, the dragons eyes turned into slits, so thin that a single piece of paper looked like a stuffed chicken by comparison. The spell had given the dragon dark power, the ability to move the chains telepathically. As a demonstration, it wrapped Dagur and Norbert up. They tried struggling, but their efforts were in vain. They also felt something weird, it was as if they were becoming old. "Don't bother. Who ever becomes trapped in those chains has their strength sapped from them, and the dragons power increase. It will drain every drop of hope, and destroy you." At that point, the two Trappers started to collapse. Drago slammed his bull hook into the deck, commanding the dragon to release them. It did so, freeing the two exhausted warriors.
"The boy was summoned because he is the Final Rider. If that's true, I can use him to escape, and than destroy him and all who oppose me," Drago explained. "Now go. I might be merciful now, but I will be less understanding in the future." The two left on the back on the empowered dragon, and left at once. When they were gone, Drago turned his attention to the water below the ship, more specifically, the massive bubbles coming from underneath. After the battle three hundred years ago, he had gone to the harshest of punishments to make sure his Bewilderbeast would not disobey him again. "Soon I will escape this prison, and then man and dragon will bow before me."
Just Outside the Berk Village
"To protect yourselves, sound the alarm. To stop those who would due you harm, dig beneath the four that is less than the sum of two and the two that comes before." Astrid must have read that riddle over at least a dozen times. "There must be some answer to this," said Fishlegs, who hadn't been able to solve the riddle. Hiccup decided to write the problem down, using the Dragon Blade to write in the ground. "4 2+2. That doesn't make any sense." "Duh, I told you this dumb book was broken," said an annoyed Snotlout, who was aggravated at the book for not only giving them impossible to solve, but for not giving them the answer in the first place. "Maybe '4' is suppose to be a number of people," Astrid suggested. "Not likely, I mean there are seven of us." "Six." "He counted me, unlike you Hiccup is considerate." Toothless had just pushed the wrong button.
"What was that," Snotlout asked-shouted. "What do you think it means? Oh right, you don't think about anyone but yourself." "Alright Toothless that's enough, we don't have time for this," Hiccup said to prevent a fight. The two gave each other an angered glare, and just agreed. "Anyway, it said we're supposed to dig beneath the four, and even if there was only four of us, it could have been anywhere we were today; the cove, the forest, the great hall. It's just to risky," said Fishlegs, who was having trouble figuring the riddle out.
"Tell you what, you guys go figure it out, and I'll go start training," Snotlout said with no qualms about leaving the group. He summoned and mounted Hookfang, and flew to the forest. "Snotlout, Snotlout, Snotlout, oi, oi, oi." "How do you guys put up with him," Hiccup asked. In the few hours he had known Snotlout, he had done nothing but get on his nerves. "Welcome to my world," Astrid said, sympathetic to Hiccup's pain.
While the riders were busy trying to solve the riddle, a certain ex-Berserker heir and Hysteric chief had arrived in the forest, and started to walk to the village. "The sun's almost down. I'd say we've timed it perfectly. Once it gets dark, we capture that Hiccup," Norbert said, assure of the plan. "Yes," Dagur started, "But I have a different plan. We let him summon the Night Fury, have 'big guy' over here tie him down, and I capture that Night Fury, return to Berserk, steal my rightful title as chief from my father, and once Drago gets out, become the mightiest chief known in the history of the Archipelago!" In his fit of deranged excitement, he had riled up the Bullrougher, causing the dragon to swing its chains into a nearby boulder, breaking it like a twig. Unphazed, the two continued walking, leaving the remains of the boulder to show the sheer force Drago possessed.
Snotlout and Hookfang arrived at the old training spot the others had claimed when they were kids. It was still in good condition, minus the multiple gashes in the trees from Astrid's Axe. Some were recent, but a majority were from trying to relieve her anger at life **cough,** Snotlout. Exhausted, Hookfang asked, "Are we done, my wings are still aching from the fight." Snotlout wasn't listening, he was to concerned with his problems. "Who does that guy think he is? First he shows up out of nowhere, then everyone thinks he's the Final Rider, and now he thinks he can solve that stupid book's problem. What's next, Astrid starts dating him and people actually make him chief? Ha, that wouldn't ever happen, he's too weak. Besides, it may as well be my birthright, and who knows what might happen if I don't become chief," he said to himself. A majority of his attitude came from his father's teachings that only the strong can survive, and how the weak can only live because of it. Because of that, he tried to make himself look like he was the greatest at everything, and his father wouldn't accept nothing less. There was this one time two years ago, the final day of the annual Thawfeast Games, Astrid and Snotlout had tied, causing a tie breaker round the next day. Spitelout put a lot of pressure on his son to win the games, which he had won plenty of times before, plus the Jorgenson clan had won those games for generations, probably because only one generation at a time was allowed to compete, which was a stupid rule to begin with.
"Jeg innkalle den som har en gigantsisk holdning" came a whisper that sounded like Ruff's voice. Suddenly, he glowed a faint red, and disappeared. "(scoff) Guess I'm gonna have to go all the way be back there. This is what I get for bonding with the guy with the small brain and big mouth."
Ruff's transportation spell worked, and Snotlout fell flat on the ground before the people he had just abandoned moments ago. "There, happy?" Snotlout got up, wiping the trace amount of dirt off his face. "What were you thinking Snotlout, we all have to solve this riddle," said an irritated Astrid. "Yeah, even I knew that, and people say I'm dumb," said Tuffnut. "Did you figure the riddle out of not," Snotlout asked, trying to avoid more questions. No, we tried everything we could think of, we even tried a time of day, but that still didn't even work," said a sad Fishlegs. "Maybe you can use that 'Sight of the Dragons' spell and that replicator relic to warn us," Toothless suggested. "Oh no, I am not gonna do that all day. Besides, do you know how exhausting it can be to do that? Plus how can I defend the village if I'm busy trying to stop 'em from coming in," Ruff complained, but it was true. "Well, than we definitely have to figure this riddle out."
"'Dig beneath the four, that is less than the sum of the two and the two that comes before' what does that mean," said a puzzled Astrid. "Hey, maybe we should just go ask someone for help. There's this old guy at 569 and he seems pretty smart." "Wait, what did you say," asked Hiccup, who became interested in something Tuff had said. "We should ask someone for help.?" "No." "He seems pretty smart.?" "No, the one in the middle." "This old guy at 569.?" "Yes that, what do you mean 569," Hiccup said with a mixture of relief, and annoyance.
"He mean he lives at building five-hundred and sixty nine. It's a code system invented by Stoick's grandfather, Hamish the first, as a way to deliver important information to hidden locations, should the village ever be invaded. Every building in the village has an address code that determines what was delivered to it," Fishlegs explained. That's when it hit Hiccup like a slap in the face. "That's it! Our "4 2+2" is an address," he exclaimed. Astrid picked up a twig, and wrote '422' in the dirt. "It can't be four hundred is greater than twenty two," Fishlegs explained. (Ugh). "It's a trick," Toothless suddenly said. He grabbed a twig and his mouth, and solved the problem. (OW, it hurts! What? The fact that there's math in this.) "The twenty two is two hundred and twenty, which is greater than four," he said with the twig in his mouth. "Than the address must be," "Two hundred and twenty four," Hiccup and Fishlegs concluded. "Where's 224?" "Mildew's House. It's on the other side of town. Come on." At that point, Hookfang flew in, but got angry when Snotlout said "Come on Hookfang, we gotta go to Mildew's place." The Riders got on there dragons, except Hiccup, Toothless was a cat.
Unknown to them, Dagur and Norbert were hiding a few feet away. "They're after something." "Ya think," Dagur replied sarcastically. He chuckled darkly, "They're making this too easy, alone, in the dark, we can get six for the price of one." "But he only wants Hiccup, that was the plan." "This is the new one," Dagur said before catching his breathe, "If we catch all of them, no one will ever know who took them," he grinned sinisterly, before running after the Riders. "This kid is gonna be the end of me."
Mildew's House
The Riders landed at Mildew's house at the back of the Great Hall, and the place was a mess. There was a field of rotten cabbages, the building had a giant gapping hole in the roof, and it smelled like sheep barf. "Ugh, remember the time Stoick had us clear out this fields and Hookfang and I almost ripped each other apart." "Yeah, it was the time the twins ate that cabbage." "Don't eat it," Barf and Belch told their trainers, who were about to eat more cabbage. "Does this guy have any concern about his health," Hiccup asked, disgusted by the smell of the cabbage field. "Nope, in fact about a year a go he left the tribe and joined the Outcasts, although most people say he was kicked out for being too annoying," Astrid answered. "Oh come on, he can't be that bad." "Trust me, he is. Thirty years ago, there was this storm called the Blizzard of Olaf, they say it was so bad, it took 'em a week to dig him out, and the rest of their lives to wonder why they bothered," Fishlegs told Hiccup, who had a 'you win' expression.
The group started digging, and after about five minutes Hiccup said, "I get that Mildew is supposed to be old, but from what I'm getting this place is even older." Fishlegs looked at him and said "This is one of the few buildings left from the original village. Mildew's family lived here for generations until he moved." "So, at least no one will complain about us thrashing the place." "Wait, you mean we're not gonna get in trouble for this," Tuff asked. Hiccup nodded and said 'Yeah." "Great, Barf, Belch, start blowing up the place." Before either head could do anything, Toothless glared at them and said, "Not now."
They kept digging, until eventually they found the roses, all perfectly alive and glowing a bright silvery color. That was the problem. Suddenly, the sound of the dragons' growling got their attention, and saw Dagur, Norbert and the large Bullrougher standing at the edge of the fields. "You can leave those flowers, you're not going to need them where you're going," Norbert said in a threating tone. Dagur chuckled, grabbed his sword and started to move towards the Riders, who along with their dragons took defensive stances. "At least we know they work," Hiccup said trying to put a positive spin on their situation.
Ruff and Tuff grabbed their daggers and called out more dragons, "Torch 'em Torch." "Scauldy, douse 'em." A large orange Typhoomerang and greyish-turquoise Scauldron appeared and joined the fight. Hiccup took the Dragon Blade, and whispered "Please work, please work, please work." He got his proof when he heard Toothless' Night Fury roar. Unconcerned by the added dragons, Dagur told the Bullrougher to "unleash your chains." The dragon then proceeded to move the chains and aimed them at Scauldy and Torch. The two tried to move away, but the chains were faster and wrapped around the two, knocking them to the ground. The two then were coved in fires matching their scale colors, and the flames moved across the chains, engulfing the Bullrougher, who proceeded to start growing. When the flames died down, the chains unwrapped, and the two dragons turned back into stones on their trainers daggers.
Shocked, Hiccup said, "Okay, that might be a problem." The Bullrougher fired a blast at the sky, and the Riders had to move to avoid getting hit by the embers once they started to rain down. "Hookfang, Fire Jacket!" The Nightmare than covered itself in flames proceeded to ram into the opposing dragon. Unfortunately, the dragon not only grew in size and strength, but speed and agility as well, effortlessly dodging the attack while Hookfang got his horns pinned to floor by the Bullroughers claws. The chains once again wrapped around one of the Riders dragons, and sapped its strength, defeating Hookfang. "Hey," Snotlout shouted, only to end up trapped in the chains as well. "Stormfly, Spine Sho.." Astrid couldn't finish her command, because she along with everyone else except Hiccup get trapped in the chains. All of the dragon's except Toothless were defeated, and the Bullrougher was almost three times as large. And considering the fact it was three times as large as a Grocnkle in the first place, it was now pretty darn big.
Hiccup didn't know what to do, and Toothless was struggling to not get defeat, especially since he wasn't sure what wouldn't happen to him if he was beaten because he didn't have a krystal form. "Give up," Dagur told Hiccup. He looked Dagur died in the eye, and said "I may not know if I can beat Drago, but I can't do it if I give up. Your dragon maybe stronger, but that doesn't mean it's invincible." The crystal on the Dragon Blade began to glow again, but this time was different. Instead of a blue light, it was fiery red. Suddenly, the Bullrougher was engulfed in flames, and they started to move towards Toothless. The Boullrougher began to shrink back to normal while Toothless was engulfed in the flames. When the disappeared, Toothless became, simply put, new and improved.
Instead of jet black, he was red, with an orange underbelly. The spines on his back had become two rows of spikes, with glowing orange flames on the edges of his wings, tail fins, and claws. Running between the spikes was a glow of the same color, which seemed to be coming from the inside, as it was visible in the back of his throat and nostrils. His forest green eyes were the same, but with a red tint. He had also gained two curved horns that pointed forward, making him all the more menacing.
"Okay, that's new," Fishlegs said in awe. Dagur angrily shouted "HORN CHARGE!" The Bullrougher then tried ramming Toothless, but he caught his horn with his teeth. Then to the surprise of everyone, he threw the Bullrougher into Mildew's house, bringing it down. Getting up, the Bullrougher took to the skies, with Toothless keeping up. When they were both high enough, the Bullrougher fired a blast in the sky. It was in vain, for Tooothless was able to dodge all the sparks that rained down. The Bullrougher kept firing, Toothless kept dodging the sparks from the sky, until, down to its last shot, the Bullrougher fired directly at him. But, Toothless was able to catch the flame in his mouth, not even bothered by the heat. Then he fired it back in the form of a crimson flame as large as the Bullrougher. It fell from the sky, and crashed into the ground. The armor covering it glowed, and then burst into a silver light, disappearing. After getting up, the Bullrougher shook its head, looked around, and flew off.
Dagur and Norbert were shocked. They had no choice but to retreat. Toothless' body glowed orange, and returned to normal, and then back into a cat. "I've got to do that again." "How, how did you do that," Astrid asked. "The sword is supposed to turn things into a stronger form, so maybe it gave Toothless the power it needed to defeat the Bullrougher," Fishlegs hypothesized. Hiccup walked over to the Bog-Roses, which were starting to lose their glow. "Well it looks like we won't have to worry about them trying to kidnap me again. All we have to do is set them around the village, and then we're good as gold." "We get gold? Yes." "It's an expression Snotlout." "Yeah even I knew that, it's as obvious as Ruff's butt." After hearing that comment, Ruff the proceeded to push her brother to the ground and beat him up.
While they others were busy trying to break up the twins, a red light was watching from the far side of the fields. "Mastering the Dragon Blade will be crucial to defeating Drago, and I do believe that Hiccup has taken the first step in doing so."
Author's Note: Odds are chapters are gonna be this long. How it came out,, I don't know the episode this was based on wasn't one of my favorites. So, spell translations: "morkets makter, jed gud dragr befaler deg. Gi dette til makt til a odelegge dem som mat meg." is "powers of darkness, I, the god of dragons, command you. Give this beast the power to destroy all who oppose me.' while "jeg innkalle den som har en gigantsisk " is " I summon the one with a big ego" " HEY" So I guess you weren't expecting any book dragons in this. But there are. I did a little makeover to have it fit in with the other dragons, as for the fire blast, I wanted to put my own touch. Toothless' 'fire mode' so to speak, will appear again, but it won't be the only new power he has. Review reply time:
Maga016: Thank you once again for the complement. I think that's the problem people have with AU's, trying to fit the characters in while keeping them the same characters we all know.
So I decided that instead of updating every two weeks, I'll update the second week and last full week of every month. If you have any complaints, well, look how long this chapter was, I just couldn't keep that promise. However, I can keep this promise, if I have an announcement like I won't update on time, or I need help, I'll tell you at the end of a chapter. One of the things that gets on my nerves is when I see a new chapter in a story I'm following and see that it's only a note.
So please review ( I mean please, I appreciate the support I'm getting, but I want to hear from you guys. You can even just say if you spotted a reference or figure out the inspiration for my O/C's)
PurifierofChaos131000
This chapter was posted on Thanksgiving, 2015