"Pitch" Jack scowled. Hiccup glanced at Mia, knowing she avoided Pitch, and was just in time to see her vanish. So he turned his attention to pinpointing the location of Pitch.
"Nice to see you to, Jack" Pitch said, his shadow moving across the wall.
"What do ya want, ya coward" Merida said. She then spun around, ready to shoot, as Pitch appeared behind her.
"You must be one of the annoying little spirits Gothel told me about. Well I'll tell you what I want, I want the key" he said. Merida shot at him, but he just vanished into the shadows and the arrow bounced harmlessly off the wall behind him.
"Well we don't 'ave it, and you're not gettin' it" Merida scowled, once again trying to find him.
"You may not have it but you know where it is, and you will tell me. I will have the key" Pitch said, though he sounded like he was loosing his patience.
"You already have the key" Hiccup said, getting slightly annoyed.
"THAT WAS A DECOY!" Pitch roared, sending a blast of black sand at Hiccup and taking him by surprise. But before it got to him, something seemed to get in the way. Pitch looked surprised and attempted to force the sand at Hiccup, he couldn't understand what was happening, and neither could anyone else. Pitch got frustrated and sent more sand at the invisible force, and, to his satisfaction, it seemed to slowly get pushed back. The barrier pushed back, but as more sand piled up, it got pushed backwards. Suddenly something, behind the barrier flickered. Then it stopped flickering and there was Mia, holding an invisible barrier of wind. When Pitch saw that it was just another 'annoying little spirit', he laughed and pushed harder, planning on breaking her and the annoying boy, Hiccup, behind her. Merida, noticing that Pitch was distracted, got ready to shoot. But, just before she shot, a blast of dark magic knocked the bow, sending the arrow deep into the wooden frame of a door. She spun round to see the woman who locked them in Mia's room, a bear with one eye and millions Pitch's charged at the guardians and attacked. Soon the guardians, new and old, were fighting a full on battle. Mia, knowing she couldn't hold the sand back much longer, glanced back at Hiccup. He was attempting to move away but kept getting blocked by nightmares. Mia was quickly being forced backwards and knew she had to do something otherwise, both Hiccup AND her, would be crushed. So she quickly twisted, with one hand stopping the sand, and blew an impenetrable path of wind from Hiccup to Toothless. Hiccup ran to Toothless and lept onto his back. Seeing that Hiccup was safe Mia prepared herself, then suddenly she let go and attempted to leap out of the way, but she got caught up in the wave of sand. Hiccup watched in horror as Mia was slammed against, and forced through the thick wall of the workshop, and out into the snow. Hiccup and Toothless flew through the huge hole in the wall and out to followed the trail of sand to a huge mound of ice, and there, amidst a huge pile of black sand that was splitting and becoming nightmares, was Mia.
"Mia!" Hiccup yelled. He lept off of Toothless and ran to her. Hiccups heart beat fast, as there was no reply. He knelt next to her and saw that there was a lot of blood on her head.
"Hiccup!" Came Punzie's anxious voice from behind him.
"Over here!" He called. Punzie ran over to them,
"North told me to come help you" she said, then she gasped when she saw the blood. She quickly checked her pulse,
"She's not dead" she said. Hiccup gave a sigh of relief, as Rapunzel quickly, but carefully, wrapped her hair around Mia's head. Then she began to sing,
"Flower gleam and glow,
let your power shine.
Heal what has been hurt,
Bring back what once was mine" Mia coughed, black sand coming out of her mouth.
"Ugh" she groaned, "what happened?" She looked at Hiccup and Rapunzel,
"Where are the others?" She suddenly sat upright, and noticed the sand that fell off her, "where is Pitch!?" Hiccup was about to reply when a Nightmare formed from the sand and charged at them. Toothless shot it down, but more kept coming. Suddenly the Huge mound of Ice exploded. Mia, Hiccup, Toothless and Rapunzel got up and ran away from the flying pieces of ice. Hiccup glanced backwards and saw a huge red dragon.
"Oh no" he said as he lept onto Toothless. Mia, who was flying and carrying a tiny Rapunzel, also glanced back
"What is that?"Mia exclaimed in disbelief.
"The Red Death" Hiccup answered.
"It's ginormous!" Mia exclaimed, unable to believe that anything could be that big.
"And deadly" Hiccup added. They returned to the workshop to find everyone outside, so they continued to fight. Pitch was outraged that the girl had survived, and started to attack ferociously. Suddenly Pitch recognised her,
"The Key" he muttered, then he called to Gothel, "That girl has the Key" he said "Concentrate on separating her so that I can finish her off and get the Key" Mother Gothel nodded but inwardly scowled at taking orders. Pitch then commanded the bear and the Red Death, to do the same. At first they couldn't get Hiccup away from her, but eventually they seceded. Unfortunately, for the Negatives, Hiccup noticed that they were zeroing down on Mia and immediately attempted to get to her. Hiccup and Toothless were making progress, when He saw Pitch fire a arrow of black sand at Mia,
"Mia!" He yelled, He and Toothless surged forwards, Hiccup was not going to lose Mia, no, not when she might love him back. Mia turned, but it was too late, the arrow buried itself in her side and she collapsed.
"Noooooo!" Hiccup yelled, he completely destroyed two nightmares, and ran to her side. The arrow had disintegrated and the wound was plastered with black sand. Mia clasped the wound, pain written all over her face.
"Hiccup" she started "I-" she fainted. Hiccup's heart stopped he remembered what she had said, when explaining about her streak 'And black is death'. Hiccups hand went straight to her streak, it was transparent. He gave a small sigh of relief, but then he was attacked by a nightmare. He quickly destroyed it then picked up Mia. When he turned to Toothless he saw that he was being forced away by millions of nightmares and a bear. Hiccup ran towards Toothless but just before he got to him Mother Gothel stepped into the way.
"I'm sorry" she said "but you have something we need, please hand over the girl or I'm going to have to destroy you" Hiccup just defiantly held her tighter and focused on his magic.
"Well I'm very sorry but I need her more" he said. Then he thrust his hand towards the witch, and a green ball of magic was sent at such a speed that Gothel, almost didn't get out of the way. Hiccup lept onto Toothless and continued firing. Pitch sent many attempts to get her but only succeeded in losing half his army.
"Gothel" he called "tell the others to retreat, we aren't making any progress. We will come back later" and just like that, the red death, the bear and all of the nightmares, vanished. The guardians looked around still tense, but when they were sure they were gone they rushed Mia inside.