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"Throk let the dragons take you and your men. They will protect you." Elsa said to him and he gave her puzzled look. "And what about you?"
"Don't worry for me. I have Snowflake with me." Elsa said with a smile. "I want you to go to protect the Queen and Taramis."
"As you wish," Throk said as he bowed his head a little. He then shouted to his men and they ran towards dragons waiting for them.
"Stay behind me," Elsa said as she came to Haddocks. They gave her puzzled look and Heather asked. "What do you want to do?"
"We can't fight them openly, but we need to hold them until dragons are safe," Elsa said but then they heard a devilish laugh. "I don't know who is there but listen to me. What if you would just surrender to me and I will let you all live."
When they heard that voice they went all stiff. They poke their head into an entrance and they saw how Drago went in the front of his soldiers. His soldiers had bows in their hands and they were ready to attack everything that would move.
"Get away from here," Elsa said to Haddocks before she went straight to Drago. His soldiers were ready to fire but he stopped them with his hand. He smirked when he saw how that girl was bravely standing in front of him with snow wraith behind her.
"Brave girl." He commented and she growled. "Go away from him and our dragons. We never stood in your way."
Drago chuckled as he was eyeing the girl. "So you are Taramis's slut. Such disappointment you must be for him." He chuckled and she clenched her fists. "As for your question, you stand in my way even now. Also, you freed dragons which belonged to me."
"Dragons belongs to no one," Elsa said and Drago laughed. "Humans like to say it too. Until I get them to my clutches."
Meanwhile, Haddocks were watching it from the safe distance. "What are we going to do?" Heather asked.
Hiccup looked around and saw that dragons are almost gone. So he roared as a dragon.
When Elsa heard that roar she understood it. "I would love to stay here and talk about various things but I must go," Elsa said with a smirk and quickly throw vial at them. Drago covered himself with his cloak but some of his soldiers were not that lucky. As soon as the vial broke air around them flame up. Meanwhile, she ran back and Hiccup ordered to Toothless to brought down the entrance. With several powerful shots, it was done.
"Nice one, Hiccup Haddock. But you should train your roar, more. An Even hatchling can roar more beautiful than you." Elsa said to him with smile and Valka with Heather laughed at that.
"You are welcome." He sarcastically said and Elsa chuckled.
"We must go to the protector Island now and I hope you will hold your part of a deal," Elsa said as she hopped on Snow wraith and flew away with Haddocks right behind her.
As soon as the king received the message he went personally to the protector Island with his whole nest. He knew where it was from his dragon spies so he had no problems to find it. He was swimming as fast as he could because he knew that Hiccup was not safe when he had Drago's army behind his back. If they would lose the help of dragon child now, then it would mean that Drago dealt them critical and painful blow.
Hiccup, Heather and his mother were flying towards protector Island as fast as they could. They left half of the Drago's army behind them and now they slowly saw another half of Drago's army already attacking Protector's Island.
"His army is bigger," Heather said and Hiccup's face hardened. He took out his spyglass and looked towards the army attacking the Island. He saw around forty ships. "This is not good," Hiccup said to others. "His army is two times bigger than the last time."
"It is even worse," Elsa spoke up and they looked at her.
"What do you mean, dear?" Valka asked her and Elsa looked at her. Valka could saw fear in her eyes and she didn't like it. "Taramis was scouting his base up in the north-east. That is the reason why Drago attacked us, at least I think. Taramis saved around fifty dragons from his camp but what is more important that Drago is hiding most of his army. He wants us to think that he is sending everything he has."
"And meantime he has more." Heather finished and Elsa nodded.
"How many?" Hiccup asked and he knew that it was not a pleasant answer.
"Half thousand. Maybe more," Elsa said and they paled.
"That's too much, even with help of Archipelago," Heather said and Hiccup furrowed his brow. "I'm not dragging the Archipelago into this war yet." He said and Heather looked at Valka. Hiccup still didn't know that half of the archipelago is already at Lunansholt.
"Bring them down!" They heard shouts from the ships and soon arrows and nets were flying around them.
"Hiccup what is the plan?" Heather asked and Hiccup looked down.
"We will try to drag their attention on us. We must protect the Island at all cost!" Hiccup shouted.
"And what about me?" Elsa asked and Hiccup was surprised that she asked him.
"Go to the Island after Queen Mala. Protect Taramis at all cost." Hiccup said to her and she gave him a surprised look. "I don't want to hurt him, Elsa. We need his help as you need ours. Only together we can put out the fire which tries to burn us all."
"I believe you," Elsa said. "But you are no match for Drago's army when there is only three of you. I can send our dragons to help you." She offered but Hiccup shook his head.
"No, they would only fall into his clutches." Hiccup explained. "We will need them more in other battles."
"But I can't let you go there alone!" Elsa shouted on him. "Taramis will kill me if he finds out!"
That surprised him even more. What was actually happening? He had no idea. He smiled at her and said. "It will be our little secret then. Now go!" He then turned Toothless down and his mother and sister followed him.
She was looking after them and then she said to her dragon. "Taramis was right. He is our only chance for peace. Come on Snowflake. Find him." Snowflake roared and darted towards Island.
Meanwhile in Lunansholt was king walking through the city part where they settled the three tribes. King was pleased that his people were helping them as much as they could and he was surprised how much respect they had towards Hoffersons. Soon he ended up in front of house were three tribes had their centre. He opened the door and saw how Stoick, Bertha and Mogadon were talking to each other.
"How are things going on?" Agnar asked and they looked at him.
"It is better than we could do in our Island with dragon raids," Bertha said and Mogadon with Stoick nodded.
"Did you get word from my family?" Stoick asked and Agnar shook his head. "No Stoick. But don't worry they are away only a few days. They are probably.." He was interrupted as the door behind them quickly opened. They could saw Langley and several guards trying to catch their breaths.
"What going on?" Agnar asked.
"Dragons... Away.. Flying..." Langley tried to say and king furrowed his brows. "Calm down Langley. And say it again." Langley took several deep breaths and then said. "Dragons are flying away. Hiccup, Heather and Valka were ambushed by Drago's forces and king personally leads reinforcement for them."
Agnar and others were shocked and especially Stoick. He didn't want to lose his family when he only found them again.
"Call our dragon riders!" Agnar immediately said but he saw in Langley's face that something was wrong. "What is happening, Langley?"
"Our dragons are gone too." Langley said and King's face darkened.
"Mum," Hiccup shouted to his mother as they were hovering above ships. "Took the left side and try to destroy their catapults. Heather, you do the same on the right side. I will take the front. But don't risk anything!" If you will be unable to get close to the ship fall back to the ship. Am I clear?" Heather and Valka nodded to him as they turned their dragons.
"Okay, bud. We will give them a piece of our mind." Hiccup said and Toothless growled back. "With pleasure, Hiccup." And with that, they attacked the leading ship.
"Captain, the dragon riders start attacking!" A soldier said to the captain. Captain watched how Night Fury went down and destroyed the catapult at the bow of his ship.
"Excellent, let the archers refocused their targets on riders. Also, tell the catapults that they will fire no matter what." The captain said to the soldier.
"Yes, sir!" The soldier said as he turned and ran.
"That is stupid." Eret came to the captain. "You should use your catapults to fire at the riders."
"It is pointless to shot at the riders with catapults when their dragons can easily dodge the stone. The building on that Island cannot." The captain said as he turned to the Eret.
"I need you to take several soldier and attack that Island on foot. You objective is to capture the dragon child and kill everyone in your way."
"As you say," Eret said and shouted to several soldiers. When the captain saw that Eret and his men lowered down several small ships he smirked. He turned to his left, where the rider was unable to destroy more than one catapult. The rider was soon forced to leave because the archers were firing without pause and it was starting to be dangerous. Captain's smirked widened when he saw several more ships heading towards the Island in different directions than Eret's.
Valka was unable to destroy more than one catapult without risking her life or Cloudjumper's life. She gave up and went towards Hiccup who managed to destroy six catapults on the front ships.
"Hiccup it is pointless," Valka shouted to him. "Cloudjumper can't dodge as much as Toothless or Windshear."
"Then head back to the Island!"Hiccup shouted back as he massaged his leg and blood was on his hand. Valka saw that and her eyes widened. "Hiccup your leg."
Hiccup knew that he was bleeding. In fact a few moments back he was the one who pulled the arrow from his leg. "Don't worry, mom. Just a scratch." When he saw that she was reluctant to leave he added. "I saw several ships heading towards the Island as a ground assault. You must warn them. Go."
Valka was still reluctant but she knew that he was stubborn as his father was. She quickly pushed that from her mind because she needed to focused on the task at her hand. She nodded to him and he nodded back with a smile. Cloudjumper turned towards the Island and Valka saw how several ships docked at the beach.
Langley was walking to silently listening to the council. He didn't know why king didn't allow him to come so he wanted to find out.
"Langley!" Astrid, Stoick and other teens were running to him. "Stoick told us what happened."
"Sadly I can't tell you more," Langley said. When he saw deep worry in her eyes he sighed. "Follow me. Others will stay here." Langley then started walking towards small picture in the wall, Astrid right behind him. He looked around and then put down the picture. To Astrid's surprise behind it was a small corridor. He turned to her and said. "Follow me but when you enter, put that picture back." She nodded and he went inside. She followed him and placed the picture back when she passed. They were crawling through the corridor and she silently asked. "What are we doing?"
"King didn't want me in this council." He answered her and she asked. "So, are you going to spy on them?"
"Sometimes you must break rules to do the right thing."He said and she made a quite chuckle. "Who told you that?"
"Hiccup." He said and after that, they could hear voices.
"What if the Drago would attack with his army!" One commander shouted on the king. This was getting them nowhere. No one knew where dragons went and if the Drago parted his fleet then they would be lost. Their army wasn't ready for a full-scale assault on Drago's army.
"We should not be afraid of being attacked here!" Another one shouted. "We should be afraid about Hiccup! If he is facing full-scale assault from the ambush, he will not be able to get away from that."
"That boy can take care of himself. Let's not forget that he has his mother and sister with him." Another one calmly said.
"And yet his father and his girlfriend are here, definitely worrying about them!" The first one said. "If only half of what you said about tribes in the archipelago was true, then we have a big problem if something happens to them."
"Why they must work on their own every time?" the second one said.
"Because they are good at it." King finally spoke. "We can't lose any of them, yes. But we can't actually stop them either. As for other tribes, they have little trust in us now when we forced them out of their homes."
"We didn't force them." The first one said. "Drago forced them."
"But they don't know how big threat Drago is." King continued. "We must believe Hiccup and his family. They know what to do and they have the king of all dragons behind them."
"But what if he doesn't make it?" The third one said.
"Come I heard enough," Langley whispered and they got out of there.
"Do you want to go after them?" Langley asked her when they got out. She gave him a puzzled look. "You said that dragons left with the king."
"Well, four stayed," Langley said. "Which dragons stayed?" She gave him a puzzled look.
"Hiccup's."
Elsa was on the Island trying to drop Taramis's fever and hoping that one of the rocks will not hit the building they are in. Mala was near her, helping to bring down the fever. Then Valka raced inside and that startled them a bit. "His forces are on the Island." She said them and Mala's eyes widened. Before they could react shouts were heard outside and soon after that clashing of weapons. Mala and Valka raced outside. They saw how defenders were trying to repeal the attack but they were outnumbered. Mala took out her sword and ran to Throk who was fighting with four soldiers. Valka quickly reacted too as she ran at the soldiers with staff in her hand and Cloudjumper behind her.
Meanwhile, in the hut, Elsa took out two short swords from under her dress and growled to Snowflake. "Be ready, sister. They are here."
"I am always ready to attack those who represent the danger to those I love." Snowflake growled back and soon the door swung open. Five soldiers went inside and one in the front smirked.
"So you are as beautiful as I heard." Said a tall strong man in his late twenties with short black hair and brown eyes and with a blue tattoo on his chin. He had some sort of bone necklace where was an oval object, with a fur across his chest in some sort of yellowish color. Under fur, he had a greenish shirt with wristbands. He had brown pants and fur boots with one sword on his waist while a short sword on the back of his waist.
"And you are Eret, son of Eret. Or should I say the son of Loki and snake." Elsa growled at him as she clenched her hand around hilts of her sword.
"Such mean words to someone who wants to help you." He said as he took out his sword and attacked the man on his left. He didn't have time to react and Eret pierced his chest. Others quickly reacted and attacked him.
Elsa at first stood there, shocked about what happened but she quickly recoiled and attacked them. Soon Eret and Elsa stood back to back. Snowflake wanted to attack them but they were all knocked back by a large explosion, which destroyed half of the house.
Elsa was at first disoriented but she could saw what was happening around them. Mala and Throk were fighting back to back. While Valka tried to protect Cloudjumper who was lying on the ground and he had several arrows in his wings. She then saw how Eret stood up and ran at the soldiers but they easily throw him back. She saw how Snowflake roared and she was terrified when she saw arrows sticking from her dragon. She saw how the house, where was Taramis, was burning and she quickly tried to stood up. She winced and fell back at the ground with his. She looked at her leg and saw a piece of metal sticking out from her hip, blood destroying her dress which she got from the Taramis on her last birthday. She closed her eyes as she knew that this was their end.
Hiccup and Heather tried as much as they could but there was just too many of them. He saw how several arrows were heading on them and he knew that they will not be quick enough to get out of their way. But then arrows were burned to ash as the several dragons came to assist them. He saw that the fastest dragons from the nest, like Deadly nadders, Skrills and Shutterclaws were already here, which meant that king got his message. He heard Heather warcry as she attacked the fleet with a new initiative. He smirked and followed their lead.
Meanwhile on the Drago's ship was chaos as they were surprised by enemies reinforcements. Captain, however, was smirking and told the soldier next to him. "Release our dragons and signal the second fleet on the other side of the Island to engage the enemy." The soldier nodded and started shouting orders. Soon the armored dragons shot out from the ships and they started fighting with other dragons. Then he saw how a big fireball was shot from his ship and headed above the Island.
When Hiccup saw Drago's dragon his smile faded. As soon as they started to win they start to lose again. He then heard the roar and looked towards the Island. When he saw that more armored dragons were coming to them he gasped because he realised that another fleet was behind Island. If the king will not come soon they are lost. Then he felt a slight remorse in his chest and something was calling him towards the Island.
"I felt it too," Toothless said as he felt that Hiccup didn't know what that meant.
"What was that?" Hiccup asked and Toothless looked at him.
"At that Island is someone who went through the same ritual as we. And he is in danger."
He felt terrible. Not only that he felt like if his body was on fire, but he could feel the heat coming towards him.
"They are here." He heard a deep voice through the ground. He forced himself to open his eyes and saw that he was in burning building. Only then he realised that there were sounds of fighting. He felt terrible and then memories rushed to him. How he was hit by an arrow and how he fell unconscious because of the pain. But now this fever was even worse than that pain. He looked around and saw that he was on Defenders Island. He saw how they were fighting with Drago's forces and it was clear that they were losing.
"Eruptodon..." Taramis slightly growled and soon he got an answer through vibrations in the ground. "They are close." Taramis then forced himself to his feet only to fall on his knees. He saw that Drago's forces were occupied by Defenders and he thought that he saw his Elsa but he wasn't sure. He forced himself to his feet no matter how much pain it cost him as he tried to get towards the volcano.
Elsa was able to get to Cloudjumper when the other dragons came. But as soon as the dragons came, his dragons came like poison. Valka was kneeling next to her as she tried to stop her bleeding. Throk, Mala and several other of her tribe were guarding them. Then they heard a loud crack and a house where was Taramis fall apart.
"Taramis!" She shouted with tears in her eyes and at a moment everyone stopped. Defenders of the wing were shocked as was Valka but then Drago's army started fighting again with smirks at their faces.
Langley with others ran to the Hiccup's stables and they startled his dragons. They started to hiss on them until they recognised Langley.
"Hey guys," Langley said to them. "You probably know what's going on and I want to ask for your help."
"Yes, Langley. We sense that Hiccup is in danger." Hookfang said as he watched other behind Langley.
"But Hiccup," Barf said.
"said that we shouldn't leave," Belch continued.
"no matter what." Barf finished.
"Look, Langley, King went after him so he will be fine," Meatlug said as she came back to him.
"Is that Astrid?" Stormfly asked as she came closer to them. ""
"She says hello," Langley said to them and Astrid smiled. "You are from the Berk, aren't you?" She said as she came closer to her. Stormfly immediately nuzzled her because she knew that she was nice. Then Langley smiled. "Stormfly, will you take her as fast as you can after Hiccup. So she can know that he is alright."
"He said we shouldn't leave until he comes back," Stormfly growled. Astrid knew what was Langley trying to do because dragons probably didn't want to go after Hiccup.
"Please, Stormfly. I only want to make sure that he is safe." Astrid said.
"She is worse than Hiccup," Stormfly said clearly irritated. "Fine, tell her to get on my back."
Langley smiled. "She said that you can climb on her. She will take you to Hiccup." He said to her but then he furrowed his brows. "Did you already flew on a dragon?"
"Yeah," she said as she jumps on her back. "Several times on Toothless."
Langley shook his head as he said: "Why am I not surprised?"
"If he will be fine I will burn your legs, Langley," Stormfly said as she nudges him with her snout. Dragons chuckled at that while Langley paled. "See you soon guys." She roared and flew up.
"Bring them home, Astrid!" Stoick shouted after them and with that, they flew away.
Hiccup and Toothless felt it again, but they couldn't focus on it because that other fleet was giving them hard time. He then looked at Heather and saw that she was unable to get to ships so they flew to her. "Heather, we must get to the Island! It is pointless here." He shouted to her and she nodded. They flew to Island trying to help their dragons on the way. Then they heard roars and they could saw that another wave of dragons came. This time Nightmares and Zipplebacks. Hiccup and Heather saw that thing on the ground looked terrible so they flew down.
Meanwhile on the ship captain shouted to his soldiers. "Ready the gift. Other ships pull back to base!"
"But sir! What about our soldiers on the Island!" One soldier asked and Captain shouted on him. "Just follow the damn order!" He knew that soon they will be overwhelmed by dragons and he didn't want to leave without a victory.
Taramis took the bow from a dead defender as he slowly went through the gate on top of the volcano. He then saw two soldiers laughing. His blood boiled when he saw a limp body of Eruptodon behind two soldiers and he took his bow and fired. He hit one into a chest and before the other one could react, he took another arrow and shot him into a head. He throws away his bow and tried to ran to him. He collapsed by his head and Eruptodon slowly opens his eyes.
"I can fly yet have no wings. I beat down mountains, I conquer kings. At once three different things am I. As a continuous, whole I cannot die. What am I?" Eruptodon slowly growled.
Taramis smiled and answered as he brought his hand on his head. "Time."
"Ran from here. Save as many as you can. Protect the child from the prophecy. Go. I will hold on lava as long as I can."
Taramis felt tears in his eyes as he let out a loud roar.
Taramis's dragons started fighting even furiously than before and together with king's dragons they were pushing back armored dragons. With help of dragons and Hiccup Mala and the others were able to kill most of Drago's soldiers. They started running towards volcano as soon as they heard that roar.
"Fire!" Captain shouted and his soldier fired from the catapult. "Turn the ship!" Captain shouted as he smirked when he saw that black shape was falling into a volcano.
When Hiccup saw that something was flying into a volcano he gasped. He told Toothless to quickly grab crying Taramis and flew away. Toothless managed to grab him and soon they would be out of the volcano. If a huge blast wouldn't throw Hiccup, Taramis and Toothless into a stone wall. Hiccup saw that the blast knockout Toothless and Taramis and he couldn't move. He would not be surprised if he had his ribs broken to pieces. His started to lose his consciousness, but not before he saw a lava slowly coming towards them. He was terrified and with that, he fell unconscious.
