Hello all! Yes, this story is still of hiatus but I'll be giving you an announcement, and since I'm nice, a chapter! But the catch? It's gonna end on a cliffhanger, cuz I'm a messed up human being. Or at least I think I'm human
Anyway, the announcement, which is like, 2 months late… oops. Sorry RainbowToasterCake, I have failed you. RainbowToasterCake has written a "revamped" (I believe that's how he puts it) version of Phoenix (This story in case you're really confused) called Not Far From Home. If you want to check it out then you should. If you don't then, hey, I respect you decisions (but you should still do it). Haha….. *sigh* what am I doing with my life?
Well, you've waited long enough!
Early the next morning, Hiccup had taken Toothless for a flight. The soared over his mother's ice home, circling it, before finding a hole in the structure and diving in.
He enjoyed his weekly chats with his mother, who the locals referred to as "the Dragonwoman".
The Dragonwoman had been a part of the village's lore for twenty years. She supposedly was the being that kept dragons from attacking.
Over the years many had sworn they had seen her. Always riding a huge four winged dragon.
Around five years prior the sightings suddenly stopped. They peace stayed and Rider had turned up.
He and Toothless flew in and bowed to the alpha, who snorted ice at them.
Hiccup grinned as he brushed his ice out of his hair. "Mom?" he called.
"In the cave, darling!"
His mother was cooking fish over a fire, she smiled at her son, but her eyes betrayed her.
"What's wrong?" Hiccup asked as he slid into his seat at the table and Toothless bounded over to Cloudjumper.
His mother sighed and shook her head as she brought over the fish and set it at the table. Smoked halibut. His favorite.
"Now I know something's wrong," he teased as he reached for a fish. "You always save the halibut for the dragons."
He took a bite as his mother took a deep breath and said, "It's Drago."
Hiccup choked and almost dropped his fish. "I'm sorry," he said, "I thought you just said Drago. As in Drago Bludfist."
Hiccup had a history with Drago. He had met him soon after meeting his mother. Drago had taken Hiccup's fake leg and threw him off his boat. Toothless found him two hours later. Not able to fly without that leg in place, the two had walked home. Well, Toothless walked. Hiccup rode on him because of his one leg.
"I did." His mother said, "I saw his ships a few days ago. He should be a four day's trip away from here now, from the east."
"What are we going to do?" Hiccup was scared.
"We need all then dragons here. I need you to round up the Night Furies."
Hiccup stole a glance at Toothless. "All of them? Even the young?" He was thinking of Silver.
"Yes. Hiccup, they will be safer here."
"Okay, we'll get them." He got up to leave.
"Wait, wait, wait. Not before you eat! I made your favorite!" his mother was smiling, this time it reached her eyes.
Hiccup gave a lopsided grin and brought the fish back up to his lips.
But even when he was finished and full, he couldn't escape the feeling gnawing at his insides. Drago was four days away; that was plenty of time for the two of them to make the fort safe and secure and ready the dragons for potential war. But something was off…
He stayed until sun high, talking to his mom and greeting the other dragons.
It wasn't until he mounted Toothless to leave when he remembered.
"Mom! I have to tell you something!" he called to her.
She and Cloudjumper glided down from their perch.
"It's dad." He said rather bluntly. Toothless slapped him with his ear flap.
"What?"
"Dad. He and a bunch of others from Berk are visiting the island."
"Hiccup," Toothless growled, "Why aren't you being gentle about this?"
His mother's eyes widened. She looked dazed. Cloudjumper purred quietly and Valka snapped out of it.
"B-be…be careful son.." was all she could manage. "G-go get the…. The other Furies."
Hiccup nodded and without another word flew out.
"Well that could have gone better." He said to Toothless.
"You don't say?"
It only took about half an hour to get home on dragon, and two days by boat because if there icy obstacles guarding the island. But only ten minutes by Night Fury.
As they drew nearer to the cave Toothless alerted him of smoke he smelt in the air. Hiccup brushed it off as "maybe a forest fire."
As they approached the cave, Hiccup spoke. "I'll get the warriors and send them off first. You alert the mothers, elders, and hatchlings. Then we'll all set off together."
He looked up, expecting to see the cave entrance, maybe Midnight at the mouth, waiting for Toothless to return.
What he saw made him freeze in horror.
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I was going to stop there for cliffhanger purposes but who knows when I'll update again.
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The deed was done. An hour after the sun had risen Snotlout, Fishlegs and Stoick had pushed a large bolder in the mouth of the cave Astrid had found before any of the dragons could wake up. This insured none would be able to escape.
Gobbler and the others had set up the cannons and loaded them with a new type of ammo. No dragon had ever survived a hit from one of these babies. They positioned seven of them around the cave.
Each person then took to a cannon. "On my mark!" Stoick had shouted. The teens looked uncomfortable. They didn't want to kill all these dragons. But Stoick's face was set.
"Three! Two! One! FIRE!" everyone fired at once. The ammunitions hit their marks. They heard screeching and the tell tale cry of the Night Fury's plasma blast, but that only added fuel to the fire. The cave had collapsed in on itself as well.
Astrid looked away as the cries if the dragons disappeared. They were all gone. They had done it. She felt like throwing up. She glanced over at her friends. The feeling was mutual. They had done it. Quite possibly whipped out an entire race.
Stoick walked up to the wreckage to investigate. There were no survivors.
Astrid felt tears prickle her eyes. After Hiccup… died… Stoick had gone mad with grief. He insisted that it had been Toothless. He believed that the dragons had turned on them and then eaten his son.
Things in Berk had changed the day Hiccup died.
They watched as the fire burned itself out, the scent of smoke sill lingered in the air.
"Why would you do that!" a new and outraged voice yell, startling everyone. "Why the hell would you do that!" It was Rider, and he was speaking. Not only speaking, but he was riding a dragon! A Night Fury at that!
"Do you know what you just did!" he yelled, his voice strained and throaty, but also nasally and slightly familiar.
He jumped off the dragon. The Night Fury.
"What I do is my business." Stoik said. "I killed them before Drago Bludfist will be able to get his hands on them."
Rider ripped off his mask, "I should kill you! I should kill you for what you did!"
The Berkians froze. "H-Hiccup?" Astrid stammered in disbelief. He ignored her.
"I left Berk in a peaceful dragon alliance! Then I hear you're banishing dragons! And now you're killing Night Furies!"
The dragon beside Hiccup snorted in barley suppressed anger before growling something to Hiccup and jumping from rock to rock to the cave. It struck the teens that this must be Toothless.
They heard Toothless' whines and growls, as though he was calling for someone.
Then he let out a mournful screech and sent up a purple plasma blast up into the air. It exploded and shattered down around the rubble.
Hiccup was still looking at his father in disgust. "I know Drago is out there," He said in a low voice. "But that's no reason to murder innocent dragons. You are going to go and tell Arvid what you've done. Then you are going to sail back to Berk and never return."
"Hiccup.." Stoick breathed, clearly not hearing what he had said, "You're alive. My son-"
"I'm not your son!" He cried, tears filling his green orbs. "If the moment I leave you go back to your old ways…. You are not the man once called dad. You just killed about a hundred Night Furies. I can never forgive you for that."
In a flash Toothless was by his side. The two flew off, away from their old family and their dead family.
…..
"He killed them. My Midnight! My Silver! Silver. My baby. She couldn't even fly yet!" Toothless cried as they flew back to the nest.
"He's a monster." Hiccup cried, "They… they didn't have to die… they were ready for peace!"
"I'm going to avenge them." Toothless vowed, "Avenge them all. They won't have died for nothing! I'm going to find Drago and personally kick his ass."
"No. Drago didn't do that. Midnight wouldn't have wanted that. It was my fa- Stoick. We are going to avenge them. By setting the dragons Drago had captured free. We're going to protect every dragon. We'll recruited more protectors, and keep the peace."
Toothless looked thoughtful, "And then we kick your dad's ass?"
Hiccup would have laughed if he wasn't so miserable. "He's not my dad. Not anymore."
At that point they had reached the ice fort. Hiccup looked up and for the second time in the last 30 minutes, was too shocked to speak.
Drago had arrived Four days early.
How's that for a cliffhanger! Haha! You guys must hate me now. I didn't want to kill them all off, I swear! I'm serious!
Whew! 1,500 words give or take a few… which in my option is the perfect amount for a chapter... is that still considered short? Man! I forgot how much fun writing is.
Remember: STILL OF HIATUS SORRY! Well, a weird kind of hiatus in which I write whenever I feel like it; but not for long periods of time.
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