Chapter 10 Uh Oh!
1 YEAR LATER HICCUP'S P.O.V
5 years, it's been five years since Astrid and I left Berk, so why can't I get Berk out of my head.
I sighed, Toothless and I were flying around aimlessly, hoping I could clear my mind. Today is the five year anniversary of when Astrid and I left, and started building Dragonwing village.
I sighed again and looked at the sky, Astrid was going to kill me for being gone so long, I left Dragonwing village almost two hours ago, and left Astrid in charge.
Normally, if I'm going to be gone for as long as I am. I leave Jack in charge since I made him my second in command, but I didn't realize I was going to be gone this long. I was hoping to clear my head and go back within half and hour, but I guess that's not happening.
"Oh crap!" Toothless said, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Toothless bud what's wrong?" he didn't answer. 'That's weird' I thought, 'Toothless never ignores me'.
"Toothless-" I started, but got cut off when Toothless jerked to the right. He flew into a lot of fog, which looked a lot like Helheim's gates, and shortly after that. We were surrounded by dragons.
"Oh no" I said, I have been so busy with building and being chief of a village and other thing that I forget about this place. I knew something wasn't right with the dragons, I never should have forgot about this. I also knew from last time, I wouldn't be able to snap Toothless out of this trace, I just had to wait.
Once we flew into the dragons nest, Toothless landed in the same hiding spot he did, when we had Astrid with us five years ago.
"Oh not good! Not good!" Toothless whispered.
I watched as all the dragons dropped everything they had caught into the giant hole. A zippleback flew in and dropped two very small fish in the hole, I knew what was going to happen, and knew Toothless and I couldn't do anything to stop it, without getting eaten.
We heard a growl, then that thing's head shot up out of its hole and ate that zippleback whole. Just as it was about to go back down, it stopped and sniffed the air.
"Oh no" Toothless said quietly.
"Night Fury!" the thing shouted.
"Ok Toothless, we gotta get out of here, now!" I yelled, she already knew we were here, so hiding really wouldn't do anything but get us both eaten.
"Get back here!".
"Not gonna happen" Toothless told her, as we flew out as fast as Toothless could.
"I'm so sorry Hiccup, I didn't mean to take you there again".
"It's not your fault bud" I told Toothless as we landed on a sea stack. "Actually I'm kind of glad you did, I had almost forgot about that thing".
"Why would you be happy I took you back there?".
"Toothless, she needs to be stopped we can't just let her continue to do this. All the other dragons are slaves to her they have to feed her or die. We need to stop her" I explained.
"How do you plan on doing that? we're just one Night Fury and rider, I don't think we would be able to take her down ourselves".
"We won't be alone bud, look we'll go back home and tell the other's, maybe some of them will be willing to help".
"Ok Hiccup, but what if everyone wants to help?".
"We're not taking the whole village into this battle. We'll take, let's say five others with us, if everyone wants to come".
"Ok".
"Well, we better head back".
"Yeah".
"I hope Astrid isn't to mad at me, for being gone for two hours".
"HICCUP!" Astrid yelled as soon as we landed.
"Well, so much for not being to mad at me" I told Toothless, before Astrid and Stormfly came over.
"Where the heck have you been! you have been gone for almost three hours".
"Yeah I know, I... lost track of time".
"Ya think, would mind you tell me why?".
"Astrid, do you remember the night before my final exam on Berk?".
"Yeah, why?".
"Well after you confronted me in the cove, and Toothless took you on that wild ride to get you to apologise. Do you remember what happen next".
"Yeah, you and Toothless took me on a romantic flight, and I saw you were right about dragons".
"After that, before we landed" Astrid thought for a moment. Before realizing what I was getting at.
"Toothless took us to the nest, and we figured out why the dragons were raiding the village".
"Exactly, well Toothless and I went back there unintentionally. When their queen called them to bring her food, half an hour ago".
"But Hiccup, the raids only happen at night".
"I think the raids are getting worse, and if we don't do something soon. The Red Death will eventually start raiding the villages herself".
"The Red Death?".
"That's what I'm calling it for now".
"Ok, but what can we do about it?".
"Gather everyone in the great hall, we're going to have a meeting about this, but first I need to find Jack".
"Ok, Jack's in the forge. I'll start getting people to the great hall".
"Thanks Astrid, see you there".
"Anytime" she said.
"Come on bud, let's go get Jack" I told Toothless. As we took off running to the forge.
"Jack!" I called once we were there.
"Just a minute Hiccup...Hey, how was your flight?" Jack asked.
"Good, Jack we need to talk, we're having a meeting at the great hall right now".
"Really? this is the first meeting you've called, since you became chief".
"Yeah I know, but it's important".
"Ok got it, Darkwing and I will be there shortly. I just need to finish this first, I'm almost done ok".
"Ok, when you come can you just do a quick check to make sure everyone is in the great hall. I only want to explain this once".
"Will do".
A few minutes later in the great hall
"Ok Hiccup, everyone is here, so what's up?" Jack asked. As he and Darkwing came into the great hall.
"Ok, you all know what happened on Berk and why Astrid and I left. Well the night before my final exam, Astrid found out about Toothless. She was mad at me for beating her in dragon training and followed me to the cove, where I was hiding Toothless. She wanted to know how I got so good in training, she ended up knocking me down, and dropping her ax handle on my stomach, which ticked Toothless off big time. I managed to stop them from killing each other and tried to explain everything to Astrid but she ran off.
I knew I couldn't let her tell the village without letting me explain first, so Toothless and I went after her. We caught her and I managed to convince her to let me show her and she got on Toothless, who wanted to get back at her for attacking me. After he got Astrid to apologise we took her on a nice flight, after the flight we were just about to go back when he jerked off in another direction.
I tried to get him to go back but he just ignored me we continued flying, then we flew into Helheim's gates and then more and more dragons surrounded us. After flying around a lot of sea stacks and rocks we flew into a volcano with the other dragon's. Toothless landed on a ledge so we couldn't be seen. We watched as all the other dragons dropped their kill into a hole, we didn't understand at first, until a gronckle flew in and dropped one small fish into the hole. Then we heard an angry growl and a head came out of the hole and swallowed the gronckle whole.
I call it the Red Death and I've only seen its head, but its head is like four times the size of the great hall and if Toothless were any slower we wouldn't be here". Everyone gasped.
"How come you didn't mention this before?" Erik asked.
"Because with everything that was going on with building the village, getting people to help and join, and everything else I didn't remember till now. When Toothless and I went flying today to try and clear my head, we flew back there by accident. The thing is. I think the raids are getting worse, the dragons used to only raid at night and from the looks of things. They are raiding during the day now, The Red Death needs to be stopped".
"Well, how do we do that?" Heather asked.
"Well Toothless and I might be able to take her down, but I think we'd have a better chance if some of you came along, but I'm only taking five people with me and Toothless on dragons. Rose I would like you and Erik to come by boat, with a few others in case something happens".
"Absolutely Hiccup, we'll be there".
"Thank-you, we'll put the boat somewhere, it hopefully won't get damaged by the fight. Now is there anyone who is willing to come with us?" I asked.
"You and Toothless are both crazy, if you think Stormfly and I are staying behind, we're coming" Astrid said as she and Stormfly walked over to us. I smiled, even if I didn't want her to come, I would never be able to talk her out of it.
"Jack and I are coming" Heather said. As she Jack, Scarlet and Darkwing came over.
"We're coming to" Svala and her boyfriend Sigfast said. They share a zippleback, so yeah if one comes then the other kinda has to.
"Alright that's everyone who will be coming by dragon, we need a few others to go with Rose and Erik on the boat, but that can be decided tomorrow. We will leave after breakfast tomorrow alright". Everyone agreed. "Good that's all for tonight" I said, as I left the great hall and went home.
I sighed. "Don't worry Hiccup, with everyone who is going to help we should defiantly be able to get rid of the queen. Even though she's not our queen, just some stupid dragon who invaded out home and took over" Toothless said.
"I hope your right bud, I just hope no one gets hurt during this, or it will be my fault".
"Don't worry dragon boy, it will be just fine" Astrid said sitting down beside me on our bed.
"I don't know, I just have a feeling something is going to go wrong. As all my plans have a tendency to do".
"Hiccup!" Astrid exclaimed. "You're an idiot, not all your plans go wrong. Dragonwing village is a perfect example of that ok, tomorrow we will kill the Red Death, free the dragons and everyone will be fine got that".
"Ok Astrid, thanks" I smiled.
"Anytime" she said, lying down on the bed and cuddling up with me. "Goodnight dragon boy, I love you".
"Goodnight milady, I love you too" I told her before the four of us all fell asleep.
I'm not really sure what the actual name of that huge dragon is. I've heard it called the Red Death, the Green Death, and Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus. So I'm not really sure what it's really called, but I'm calling it the Red Death, because I prefer that name.