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Transformers 0- Chapter 6 is probably my favorite too! Glad you enjoyed the Hicstrid action. Those two, oh my!

Outside, the rest of the group had chased everyone off and had just come back together to regroup.

"Well, that was fun. I'll be going home now." Snotlout announced, yawning.

"Not if I have anything to say about it." Gobber returned. "We've still got to find Hiccup and the others."

"Hey, speaking of Hiccup, me and Ruff were thinking." Tuffnut started.

"Never a good sign." Gobber interrupted. The twins gave him a look and he shrugged.

"Anyways, like I was saying" Tuffnut continued.

"Can we blow up the mountain? Pretty, pretty, PRETTY please?" Ruffnut burst.

Gobber's mouth fell open and he shook his head.

"Why am I not used to this by now?" He asked no one in particular.

"Well can we?" The twins asked together.

"Ah, that would be a definite, absolutely...NOT!"

"Aw, man!" They groaned in disappointment.

"Well, then can we?"

"No."

"But, Gobber!"

"Nope, not gonna happen. However, what we will do is…"

"I know, I know!" Snotlout cut in, jumping up and down in his seat excitedly. They all looked at him astonished.

"Tell us, just what exactly is it we're going to do, Snotlout?" Gobber asked.

"Actually, I have no idea. But, I'm guessing it may have something to do with that dragon fire coming out the other side of the mountain."

"Where there's smoke, there's usually Hiccup." Gobber commented dryly.

"Don't you mean fire?" Tuffnut asked.

"Just forget I ever said that. Now, let's go. When we get there everyone just do what you do best."

"Like this?" Ruffnut asked, before punching her brother in the nose.

"Never mind." Gobber said, sighing as the gang flew off to their next battle.

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Inside the mountain the fighting had begun in earnest. No more playing around, they were all tired and now winning was a matter of life and death.

"Give it up, Drago! You're never gonna win this." Hiccup pleaded.

"Never!" He replied angrily. Hiccup felt his heart grew heavy. This was not how he'd wanted things to end. How had Drago come to this? Sure, he'd lost a limb, but so had he. From the beginning Hiccup had tried to make peace, but he'd come to the unfortunate conclusion that it wasn't that Drago couldn't change, it was simply that he didn't want to and apparently never would. So here they were, fighting. Hiccup saw his mom being hauled away by some of the guards and was briefly distracted. In that time Drago struck, grazing his arm and slicing through Hiccup's armor making what would be a nasty scar in the future. Hiccup looked down at his wound and looked back up to see Drago, running away from him and going straight to Astrid, weaving his fingers roughly in her hair and pulling her up by the roots.

"Owww! Let go of me!" She screeched.

"Drago." Hiccup breathed. "Let her go." He said reaching out a hand and stepping slowly closer. Drago wrenched the dagger out of Astrid's hand and pressed it hard to her neck.

"One more step and she dies." Drago warned. Hiccup stopped dead in his tracks, freezing. "Now, drop your weapon." Hiccup did so immediately, his sword clattering to the ground.

"No, Hiccup." Astrid ground out as she struggled uselessly against her captor.

"What do you want, Drago?"

"I think you know."

"Well, just for my personal benefit, would you mind clarifying?" Drago responded by looking directly at Toothless, who was preoccupied with several Vikings stabbing at him. They had strict orders from Drago not to kill him, but to cage him up and have him ready to go. So far that plan just wasn't really working. Hiccup looked back to Drago.

"No."

"Then she dies." There was a moment of silence and then Hiccup smiled at Astrid, before declaring,

"Oh, I don't think so!" Drago and Astrid looked at him like he was crazy, just before Gobber sailed in on Grump, the dragon's tail hitting Drago on the back of the head, making him fall flat on his face. The rest glided in behind him and went to take on whoever was left.

Seeing their master down, Drago's warriors leaped into action, rushing at Hiccup.

"Oh come on now, really?" Hiccup asked before bringing up his sword ready to go again. But right as they were about to attack they came to a screeching halt, and meekly backed away.

"What?" Hiccup asked.

"Hiccup!" Astrid screamed. Hiccup turned and narrowly missed a fatal blow from Drago.

"Oh, you're up." He said sidestepping another blow. Drago yelled and Hiccup could see his spit flying through the air. "And apparently, you got up on the wrong side of the bed. Have you ever thought of...?"

"Enough! I'm going to end this." Hiccup sighed and realized this was it. Now was his moment. The two men came together their weapons locked in place, but Hiccup could only hold against Drago's sheer volume for a second and was quickly shoved to the ground. He rolled over and Drago again missed him by a hair of an inch.

"Nothing will ever be enough, until you're dead!" Drago roared, the two engaging once again. It was now or never and Hiccup attacked with all the energy he had left, backing Drago nearer and nearer to the edge of the cave entrance. Toothless turned from his fight and watched as Drago went for the kill, raising a sword to finish Hiccup off. Hiccup saw what was coming and knew he wouldn't have time to block the attack. He looked at Toothless and the world seemed slow for a moment as Toothless saw instead of Hiccup being slaughtered, Astrid leaping up and stabbing Drago deeply in the back right as he was bringing the sword down. The sword dropped from his hand and clattered to the floor as Astrid yanked the blood dripping dagger from his back before falling hard to the ground and laying still. Very still. Drago stumbled for a minute, looking from Astrid to Hiccup in disbelief. Skullcrusher was just flying out and brushed up against Drago's shoulder, making him trip and fall off the edge, his eyes closing in death as he plummeted to the ground below. Hiccup crawled to the edge in horror, not yet believing and understanding what had just happened. Shaking he turned back and surveyed the continuing fight. Toothless gave one last growl to his attackers, leaving them to Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and pranced over to Hiccup.

"Hey, Bud," Toothless went in for a hug and Hiccup was happy to oblige. "I'm glad to see you too." He backed away and the two friends stared at each other.

"We won." Hiccup whispered in wonder. Astrid rolled over and smiled at him faintly. He knelt down next to her and took her hands in his, warming them with his breath.

"Hey."

"Hey yourself. It's about time you showed up. Where have you been?"

"You're hands are freezing." He commented. "Uh, where have I been? Well, let me think, just about everywhere. You're kind of hard to find, Astrid."

"Oh, I do my best. I mean hiding out in the middle of the ocean, on a tiny island, inside a mountain, in a dungeon. Just thought I'd make it a challenge."

"Wow, all that for me? I'm honored. You, you really outdid yourself. So," He smiled at her, "Are you ready to go home M'lady?"

"Thought you'd never ask, but honestly, Hiccup, I feel like dead yak."

"Figured that. Come on you." He said, lifting her into his arms. They turned to see what was going on, as the fray was still not over. Valka had just hit a guy in the stomach with her staff and sent him flying into a cage. She quickly marched over and slammed the door shut locking it in place. She paused, noticing Hiccup and Astrid and came over.

"He's gone?" She asked. Hiccup nodded and they were all silent, watching the battle coming to a close. Gobber slugged one last man with his iron ball hand attachment and the remaining soldiers surrendered, laying down their weapons. It was done.

"Ruff, Tuff, take these men and lock them in the cages." Hiccup ordered as he walked over to his prisoners.

"On it!" They both replied. He shifted Astrid's weight and continued. "Eret, take my Mom and go collect Stormfly and Cloudjumper. Get them home."

"Yes, sir!"

"You brought Stormfly?" Astrid asked incredulously. He shrugged.

"Oh, and Snotlout?"

"Yeah?"

"Might want to fix that hole in your pants." The young Viking turned bright red and glared at Hiccup. "Use this." Hiccup kicked Drago's dragon cloak towards Snotlout with his peg leg.

""Huh, thanks. That might actually work." Hiccup just grinned at him.

The twins finished their task and they with Snotlout took off, leaving only Gobber. Hiccup turned to face the prisoners.

"My friends will return shortly with food and water. I'll be back in three days, if in that time you will swear your allegiance to Berk and promise never again will you harm one of my people or our dragons, you will be set free and be returned to your families. You have my word. However, if you refuse this incredibly generous offer, you will be forced to live out the rest of your days on this island, required to share quarters with the dragon of your choice, all day every day, until you swear allegiance to Berk. So," He paused. "That's my offer." Astrid snickered and buried her head in his shirt so they wouldn't hear her laughing.

"What?" He whispered as they turned to leave.

"Did you see the look on their faces?" She breathed. "Dragon torture?" She giggled then laughed out loud. "What are they going to do? Lick them to death?"

"Shhh. They'll hear. And, hey, that's torture enough. You know that stuff never, and I mean never washes out." He grinned and soon they were laughing harder than before.

After many hours of flying, a whisper of the moon shone through the clouds, the stars sailing out fully gowned in their silver dust. Astrid had been sleeping and woke peacefully to the sounds of Hiccup's steady heartbeat and Toothless's wings cutting through the night sky.

"We're almost home." Hiccup informed her, sensing she was awake. She yawned and nodded into his chest.

"Good." Astrid straightened and groaned, her back burning.

"Is it bad?"

"I'll survive." She mumbled, sinking back into his arms.

"You know, last time you said that…"

"Shut up." He gave her a look. "Well, I did, didn't I?"

"Just barely." He shook his head, rolling his eyes.

"Well, it wasn't my fault Ruffnut decided to learn how to lasso yaks." Hiccup snorted, trying not to laugh out loud.

"What? Just because she got Stormfly's head confused with a yak is not my fault and it's definitely NOT my fault she missed and got my neck instead!"

"Yeah, yeah okay. Now shhh." He said putting his hand over her mouth. Astrid glared at him and continued talking, her voice muffled. Hiccup laughed at her and removed his hand.

"Look." He said softly. She shut up and looked to where his finger pointed. There was Berk, quiet and peaceful in the darkness.

"Home." She whispered. Toothless looked back at the two of them, both mesmerized, and was more than pleased that they still got pleasure from this view and that he was the one to share it with them. He glided down slowly letting them enjoy the moment. He could see the other riders ahead of them, just landing. He smiled his dragon way and stayed hovered for a minute, reveling in his contentment.

"Uh, Toothless?" Hiccup interrupted. Toothless shook himself and flapped his wings once. "Are you ready, Bud?" Toothless glanced back at his riders with his tongue flapping in the breeze, excited. "Okay, then." Hiccup chucked, "Let's go home."