The Dark Island:

Gobber had Hiccup taken to a large bed to rest until he regained conscious. Meanwhile Astrid bought Heather some herbs and some ash to use on the sword, Heather had the sword placed inside a small fire and used what Astrid bought to cast magic on the sword. She swirled her hands round and gripped the sword bringing the terrible dreams back to Hiccup.

Hiccup tossed and turned in his sleep as he kept seeing visions, he saw a picture of two baby hands with two scratches of blood on them then the Viking gladiator doing a strike with his double axe staff and then heard 'Run son' again.

Hiccup jolted up and Heather let go of the sword. Hiccup breathed hardly and then looked at his hands, he had very pale scars on them.

"You're resisting the sword – the sword isn't resisting you," Heather's voice alarmed Hiccup.

"Heather is right, Hiccup…if you resist the sword, you'll keep fainting,"

"It should be clear by now that whatever it is that you two and your friends want from me, I am not it," Hiccup retorted as he sat himself up on the side of the bed.

"Not yet,"

"Not ever!"

"What do you see when you hold the sword?" Heather asked him thought he didn't answer. "It's something you've seen before isn't it, long before you ever touched the sword…you don't sleep well do you…what if you can make the dreams go away?"

Hours later, Astrid, Heather and Gobber were sitting around a fireplace "You know what we have to do, Gobber," Heather began. "In order for him to control Inferno, he needs to go to the Dark Island,"

"That's not happening, Heather," Gobber retorted.

"Heather is right," Astrid said much to Gobber's disappointment, "How can Hiccup control Inferno unless he makes the horrible dreams he has of his past go away?"

"He needs to take the sword to the Dragon Sorcerer Tower," Heather added in continuing the conversation.

"There's got to another way," Gobber still disliked the idea.

"There is no other way," Heather answered. "And he has to go alone,"

"He can't survive the Dark Island alone,"

"He has to learn the truth about his himself alone," Astrid said supporting Heather. "And besides if we want him to turn into a true future chief then let's give him a challenge to break his old-self completely,"

"You playing with fire, Heather and you're being silly, Astrid agreeing with this stupid idea and I'm not killing the chief before he's even become one,"

"Fine, if you don't agree with it, Gobber than fine….just watch the Archipelago fall into chaos and ruin because you couldn't let our Chosen One learn the truth about who he truly is and who he is meant to be," Astrid ended.

Gobber turned his back to the girls for a minute before finally answered, "Okay, fine," he turned back to them. "But if he doesn't survive the Dark Island, it's on you two,"

The next day, Gobber, Heather, Astrid, Hiccup and two guards flew towards a small green island with little vegetation.

"So that's the Dark Island?" Hiccup asked with sarcasm as he rode on Stormfly with Astrid.

"That's the entrance," Gobber corrected him.

They landed on the island where there was a large circle of stone in the centre that had stone statues of the scariest dragons imaginable surrounded the circle made of stone.

As they came to the circle, Gobber pointed Hiccup towards the circle and Hiccup stepped on it. He had Inferno strapped to his back in its scabbard. Heather walked forward carrying a bag of ash, she cut the bag open and start pouring the ash around the circumference of the circle. As the ash hit the ground right outside the circle, the ground started rising around Hiccup.

Heather started giving instructions to Hiccup, "Take the sword to the tower and then touch the sword to the altar stone,"

After the ground surrounding the circle had risen over 10 cm, fire suddenly came from out the ground surrounding the stone circle that Hiccup was standing on. He watched as Heather, the dragons, Gobber and Astrid (who he was eying gently) disappeared out of the sight as the ring of flames covered him.

After 10 seconds, the flames surrounding Hiccup lowered down and Hiccup saw that he was on a black island filled with stone peaks, mountains of ash and little vegetation.

He heard Night Terrors flying above him and surrounding the stone peaks. He then saw the Tower that Heather was talking was at the top of the highest mountain on the island.

He was so annoyed. He had to climb all the way up those mountains to get to the tower to find answers. He began the long hike upwards.

After 10 minutes of hiking peacefully, he suddenly spotted a Cavern Crasher digging around the caves that he had to pass through to continue onwards.

His foot suddenly stepped on a loose stone creating a noise that alerted the Cavern Crasher that spotted him. It started chasing him so he started running the other way.

After an hour of dealing with that slimy beast, his arm was covered in blood and he was covering in mucus. After climbing up more, he had to deal with Smothering Smokebreaths, Changwings and Slitherwing (who he had to be the most careful with because their poison would kill him instantly).

After hours of fighting those horrible, most likely untrainable dragons, Hiccup reached the tower at the very top and just like Heather instructed, he took out the sword that was still strapped to his back and touched it to the altar stone.

Hiccup started seeing visions, he saw a young women running for her life, he suddenly a young him being carried by an armoured man carrying Infero on his waist. They had raced to the docks when a mysterious shadow appeared out of nowhere and as it did, the two torches nearby went out. The women and the man turned round to see a skeleton Viking gladiator - the same one that Hiccup had seen in his dreams. The gladiator threw a spear and it pierced through the woman's heart, her husband turned round and much to his shock, she fell into the water dieing from that wound while a young Hiccup started crying for his mother.


Hiccup realised that woman was his real mother!

Hiccup suddenly saw another vision of his parents' dragons Cloudjumper and Skullcrusher flying towards his father and a baby him to save them from the daemon Viking.


Cloudjumper was preparing to blow rings of fire on the daemon Viking while Skullcrusher prepared to fire a fireball to defend his rider. Cloudjumper was determined to avenge his rider while Skullcrusher was determined to defend his rider and his rider's son. But before they could fire at the daemon Viking to save Stoick and an infant Hiccup, the daemon night threw out two flying spears and they went through the dragon's chests the same way, the previous one did with Valka.

The dragons fell from the sky into the water with a huge splash, Stoick roared with anger at the sight of losing his dragon who was his best friend and the dragon who he had considered like a brother as well as a great companion to his wife.

"Wait here son," he said putting his son down on the lower step of the deck.

Stoick drew out Inferno from his scabbard and as he held both hands on the handle, the blade lit on fire and his eyes glowed orange. He charged at the Viking gladiator to strike him but his enemy blocked his attack with his long double axe.

They started fighting violently, trying to harm one another with their weapons only for one another to block each other's attacks.

The Viking gladiator suddenly shoved Stoick into a post and he collapsed in exhaustion, the gladiator spotted a toddler Hiccup hiding on the lower step of the deck and attempted to kill him but Stoick (having recovered from exhaustion) blocked his attack and shoved him away from his son.

As the fighting continued, the gladiator knocked Inferno out of Stoick's hands and it rolled onto the lower step of the deck, during the meantime the blade's flame went out. Stoick ducked as the gladiator swung his double axe at him. Meanwhile, a toddle Hiccup picked up Inferno by the blade and held it out to his father.

Stoick reached forward to take the blade but as he pulled it away from Hiccup's hands, the blade made Hiccup's hands bleed as it scratched against his hands.

Stoick got the upper hand on the gladiator and swung his sword round causing one side of the double axe to be stuck against the wood planks.

"Run son!" he shouted to his hiding son.

A young Hiccup ran across the docks and jumped into the small boat.

The gladiator did a huge swing and it struck Stoick's side wounding him deeply.


Back on the Dark Island, Hiccup started crying as he saw visions of his father giving his life to protect him.


When Stoick was wounded on the side and grunted in pain, the gladiator struck him more with his weapon until his swing made Stoick twist round and he struck him in the back, his weapon came out of Stoick's other side and he lifted his victim up into the air as he screamed in pain.

A young Hiccup shed tears as he drifted away on the boat.


Hiccup turned away in tears and felt the magic of the sword forcing him to kneel down.


The gladiator pulled his weapon out of Stoick but as Stoick collapsed on his knees, he threw Inferno into the air making it twist whilst above his head.

He took one last look at his son as he drifted away into the fog safe from his brother. And as his head fell down facing the floor boards, the sword fell point-first into his back. As it did, dark smoke surrounded the gladiator transforming him back into Spitelout now back to his normal-self, he walked around his dead brother to take the sword. But the sword turned Stoick into a kneeling stone statue – the exact same one that Hiccup had pulled the sword out off

The floor boards suddenly cracked and Stoick's statue fell into the water sinking to the very bottom.


Hiccup collapsed on the ground letting go of the sword that stuck out of the ground, as he fell, instead of falling on a stone floor, he fell on a soaked grassy floor. He was back at the entrance to the Dark Island.

Astrid, Heather and Gobber walked over to him and the girls checked Hiccup's pulse to make sure he was still alive. Meanwhile Windshear and Stormfly started growling as they sensed something in the trees.

Their riders noticed.

"What is it, girl?" Astrid asked Stormfly.

"What's wrong, Windshear?" Heather asked.

Suddenly out of the trees came an extremely angry Night Fury, Toothless whipped the others away with his tail and shot plasma blasts at them before a huge roar. He grabbed an unconscious Hiccup in his paws and took off into the sky.

Gobber, Heather and Astrid who had survived the small attack looked up at the dragon in shock. Hiccup was right. He did have a Night Fury companion.


Sorry for taking so long, I've been busy revising for exams, doing them and getting results back. I'm sorry to say this, but next year it will be worse because I've got GCSE exams but the good news is I will have finished this story and have done a few others by then.

Anyways, the next one will come sooner.

Hope you all enjoyed reading it.