Sorry, another short chapter. The problem is with how httyd 2 plays itself out. It had a much faster pace than that of the first movie and it left little room for me to make adjustments or add scenes. Regardless, I hope you guys are still enjoying the story.
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As persistent as Draven was, even he had his limits. Especially when trying to use his Typhon form in direct sunlight. He'd been chasing the mysterious rider and the dragon swarm to get to Hiccup for over five minutes already, and was only growing weaker with each passing second.
"Argh, just...need to...hang...on!" Draven groaned as he inched his way closer to the Snafflefang that grabbed Hiccup, all while trying to evade the other dragons. Unfortunately, Draven reached his limit. "Oh shit." he sarcastically muttered under his breath as he passed out in mid flight. Turning back to human state, Draven fell from the sky.
The surrounding dragons were actually waiting for this as they knew Wraiths and Pyro-Typhons couldn't handle sunlight. The same red Hobblegrunt from earlier dived after the hybrid and scooped him out of the air, returning to formation with the Snafflefang that had Hiccup.
The female rider in question watched the whole thing, unable to help from the clutches of the dragon carrying her. "Draven! DRAVEN!" hiccup called out, trying to wake her partner.
"Argh, that sucked." Draven groaned as he woke, squirming in the Hobblegrunt's claws to turn to Hiccup.
At this point, the two dragons carrying the riders had moved closer to the head of the formation with the Stormcutter, where Hiccup could get a clear view of the mysterious person. "HEY! YOU LEFT OUR DRAGONS BACK THERE! MINE CAN'T FLY ON HIS OWN! HE'LL DROWN!" Hiccup pleaded, hoping for this person to respond and possibly turn around.
It was all for naught as the person ignored Hiccup and lead the dragon swarm into an enormously large ice mountain. Maneuvering through the cave networks, the swarm eventually stopped and dropped the riders right in the middle of several dozen wild dragons.
Getting up, Hiccup rushed over to partner's side. "Drav! You okay?" she asked worryingly. "Never better." Draven groaned sarcastically as he was regaining the last of his strength.
Looking around at the herd of dragons in search of the mysterious person. "Hey! We have to head back for our dragons!" Hiccup called out to the mystery person. However, the two riders quickly had other more important things on their mind, like how the entire group of dragons around them began eyeing them up like lunch.
"Uh, we're on the same team here guys." Draven said to the dragons in dragonese. After seeing the dragons still moving closer, growling and bearing fangs, Hiccup nervously asked Draven "Um, what did they say."
"I'll give you three guesses. Hint number 1: they are wild dragons, and hint number 2: they're looking at us like an 'all you can eat buffet'." Draven answered as he and Hiccup were standing back to back. There was only one way for the riders to come out of this situation alive.
Reacting solely on instinct, Hiccup pulled out her sword, Inferno, whilst Draven pulled up his right sleeve, exposing his dragon arm.
Acting in unison, Hiccup ignited the blade of her sword whilst Draven intensified the glow of his arm, to give off the same level of brightness as Hiccup's sword.
Slowly, Hiccup swirled her sword and Draven rotated his arm, drawing the dragons they were facing into a trance with the slow motions and the mesmerising luminescence. From the corner of the cave, the mystery person was also finding these two riders intriguing. They were showing the dragons respect. They were actually gaining the dragons trust.
Calming the dragons down, the riders had to show the reptiles that they were one of them. Hiccup retracted her sword and reloaded her Zippleback gas cartridge. Again in unison, Hiccup began spraying the gas in a full 360 to mask herself in Zippleback scent. Draven did a similar move by engulfing himself in his shrouding smoke.
Suddenly, both clouds sparked at the same time. Hiccup ignited the Zippleback gas, giving the surrounding dragons the illusion of Hiccup being like a Zippleback. Draven's smoke dispersed, flaring his wings and revealing his glowing hybridised dragon form.
All the surrounding dragons were suddenly calm as if there were never a problem to start with. They saw that the two new people weren't threats at all, but offered respect. They showed it by being more dragon than human. To finish the bond of trust, Hiccup began approaching another Snafflefang with her palm extended, Draven -still in Typhon state- doing the same with a Deadly Nadder.
However before Hiccup and Draven could make the connection, the mysterious person appeared, coming out from the shadows of the cave. Growling deeply, Draven drew his blade and put himself in battle stance between Hiccup and the mystery person.
"Who are you?" Hiccup asked the person, somewhat worried that the situation might escalate. "The Dragon Thief? Drago Bludvist?" She asked again, trying to determine who this masked warrior was, but the warrior didn't respond. "Do you even understand what I'm saying?"
To show good trust to the guests and to test them, the warrior hit their staff into the ground, rattling the shells inside it. Two more dragons were summoned to the cave, one carrying Toothless and one carrying Violet.
Dropping the them to the ground, the two dragons disappeared while the two riders worryingly rushed over to their own dragons.
"Toothless! It's okay, it's okay." Hiccup said as she crouched by her Night Fury's side, hugging his snout. Giver he a reassuring lick, Hiccup calmly finished "I'm glad to see you too, bud. You really had me worried there."
Draven did the same with Violet, rushing over to her side. "Ugh, have I ever told you how much I hate water and ice?" Violet sarcastically grumbled. "Good to see you're still all cheery." Draven snickered at his dragon's way of saying she was okay.
Under the wild person's mask, their face would be showing a mix of confusion and surprise. Never had the individual seen dragons and other humans act so...friendly to each other. Best friends even.
Both dragons got up and shook themselves off as they saw the mysterious person standing in front of the riders. Turning towards the strange wild person, Toothless and Violet put themselves into battle stances as they forced their riders behind them.
Seeing the group feeling not only threatened, but obviously seeing Hiccup as the leader, the warrior shook their staff. The internal shells rattled, signaling all the dragons behind the warrior to light fire in their mouths and illuminate the area.
Slowly, the warrior inched their way closer to the outsiders, dropping the shield and staff to show good faith. Crawling on all fours, feral-like, the warrior approached Toothless and Violet first, casually waving his/her hands at the Striker's snouts.
In an instant, Toothless and Violet dropped the the ground and rolled over like playful pets. "What the.." Hiccup wondered aloud confusedly, when Draven answered her thoughts.
Draven's breathing became laboured, and he felt himself choking. "Dragon nip! Particle...state!" the hybrid coughed, dropping to the ground as he tried to force the grass particles out of his lungs.
With both dragons and the Wraith hybrid out the way, the warrior turned to Hiccup, slowly reaching their hand out to Hiccup's face. Out of caution and confusion, Hiccup tried to back away slightly and turned her head to the side, when she noticed something. The warrior's hands; they were female.
It was then that the warrior noticed something as well. The horizontal scar on Hiccup's jawline. Hearing the person gasp, Hiccup saw her sharply pull her hand away. Then she spoke. "Hiccup?"
Removing her helmet, Hiccup saw a women in possibly her late forties to early fifties, with auburn brown hair and forest green eyes, just like hers. "C-Could it be? After all these years? How is this possible?" the women wondered aloud with shock and surprise in her voice, and a weak smile on her lips.
Hiccup meanwhile was completely lost. Who was this woman? How did she know Hiccup's name? Was she the dragon thief? How was she controlling her dragons the way she was? Who Was She? "Uh, should I... should I know you?" was all to come out of Hiccup's mouth.
With those words, the woman's smile disappeared, and her shoulders sagged. "No. You were only a babe." she said weakly, obviously knowing something that was beginning to bother Hiccup.
Looking back to Hiccup, the woman finished "But a mother never forgets."
Mother. Mother. Mother. That word repeated itself again and again in Hiccup's mind. She couldn't even to begin to comprehend what she just heard. She was always told her mother was dead. Hiccup stammered back, tongue tied, mouth aghast and barely able to even breathe. This was her mother, Valka.
Draven was now recovering from the dragon nip. Gazing back up to the two females in front of him, even he could hardly believe what he was seeing. And it only made his head spin more with the fact that Hiccup and Valka were spitting images of each other.
Valka began thinking the last two minutes over. How Hiccup was able to so easily calm and bond with a wild dragon. How Hiccup and her Night Fury seemed like insuperable friends. How she seemed completely like someone who loved dragons. Then she had an idea.
Looking to the Night Fury and Skrill as well as the other end of the cave, Valka looked back to the two riders but more specifically her daughter. "Come..." she said with a grin forming on her lips.
The pack of dragons split in two as they offered a path for Valka. A path to an opening on the other end of the cave. Getting back up while still in his Pyro-Typhon form, Draven quietly said to his partner "I'll admit even I'm surprised. I didn't see that one coming."
Cautiously, Hiccup and Draven followed Valka with their dragons close behind.
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Meanwhile, back out over the frozen North Seas, Stoick and Gobber were blasting through a thick hailstorm atop their dragons Skullcrusher and Grump trying to track Hiccup and Draven.
"Boar-headed!" Stoick said to his friend and an irritated tone. "Just like her mother! She could never stay put either."
"Ah, she's just twenty. And a Viking." Gobber tried to reassuringly say to his best friend. "I mean, could there be a worse combination? Ha! When I think of how stubborn and senseless YOU were back in the day..."
Pausing for a moment and comparing 20 year old Stoick to the one he knew today, Gobber sarcastically muttered "Oh, well, not much has changed, actually."
Stoick just let out a sigh at how determined he knew his daughter would get. "You know what she's like. She won't give up, Gobber. And if Hiccup finds Drago, before we find her..." the chief said, with the last part actually giving him chills.
"Bah! Nothing can hurt Hiccup so long as those other three are around." Gobber cheered, knowing Hiccup was in good hands, paws and claws. "I mean, they're a NIGHT FURY, SKRILL AND DRAVEN!"
However as Gobber finished his sentence, Stoick spotted something down below in the frozen sea. He spotted a large hole in the ice, like something had crashed into it, and something shining in the center.
Doubling back around, Stoick brought Skullcrusher in low to the ice and over the hole. In one swift motion, Stoick snatched up the floating item in the waters. It was Hiccup's helmet.
Gobber soon saw the helmet as well. It was a sight he could barely comprehend. Had Hiccup and Draven been attacked? Was Hiccup possibly injured? Where could they have gone? How far could they have gone? Were they maybe...
No. Stoick and Gobber couldn't think of things like that at a time like this. They had to stay positive. They knew Hiccup and Draven as well as their dragons are survivors.
Leaning down, Stoick held his daughter's helmet out for his Tracker dragon to smell. "Find her, Skullcrusher. Find her!" he firmly said to his dragon. Skullcrusher could hear the worry in his rider's voice, and took in the scent.
"Got it! Let's go Grump!" Skullcrusher roared to Grump, blasting off in the direction the scent had gone. "Yeah, coming." Grump lazily replied with a yawn as he followed.
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Again, I'm sorry that this chapter is so short, but you have my word that the next chapter will be much longer. Chapter 5 will be up next weekend.