(A/N) Hello guys! Long time no see? Well, I decided not to give this story up and continue writing it, though fighter is still up for adoption and maybe TANF. So in this chapter you have A rider and his ill Night Fury, A prosthetic tail fin, and...wait for it...Red the red death! Curious as to how this story could start becoming more intense? Continue reading and you'll find out. Also I really love reviews, and check out my collection of one-shots, '100 fan-shots' if you would like. Let's read!

"Hey bud, how are ya feeling?" Hiccup asked his dragon, petting Toothless' scales. Toothless made A soft sound, standing up and curling around Hiccup. Hiccup was trapped in the small circle caused by Toothless' tail, and he lay his hand on the spot where the left tail fin was before it got to infected.

It had been A week since the day Astrid and Tuffnut visited him, and Hiccup had stayed by Toothless after the dragons tail fin had to be removed. The dragon hardly ate, and the reason he ate at all despite his pain and illness was because if Hiccup was too worried about him, the boy wouldn't eat either.

Hiccup had gotten A bit better, and him and Astrid had been working on A new tailfin for Toothless, A prosthetic. Hiccup still had A lot of bandages, so mostly stayed home by Toothless, but would occasionally go to the forge. He was lost in his thoughts when Astrid climbed thorough his window. "Hey Hiccup." Hiccup smiled. "Hey Astrid." Astrid walked over and by him. This had been happening quiet A bit. If Hiccup wasn't sneaking out to build Toothless' tail fin despite his fevers and burns, Astrid and Tuffnut were in his room.

"So, working on any new designs for Toothless' tail fin?" Hiccup smiled and nodded. He then realized Astrid always had Tuffnut following her. "One...two...three...Hey Tuffnut!" Suddenly Tuffnut tumbled thorough his window, dusting his legs off. "Hey H. How did you know I was here?" Hiccup just shrugged wile Tuffnut jumped up to the beam in Hiccup's roof, drawing in his journal.

"Whatcha drawing Tuff?" Astrid asked wile looking up. "I've been working on A copy of Night Fury the drawing standing inside the cove wile it's raining. Here take A look." Tuffnut passed the Journal down to Astrid who was on Hiccup's night stand. "Wow, your going to be as good as Hiccup soon." Astrid passed the journal to Hiccup who grabbed it mid air without even looking away from his own journal. He looked down at it and his eyes widened.

"Wow, she's right Tuffnut! One tip, make the outline of Barch with A darker green, and shade the area more so it has the feel of being shaded by the clouds, but you can keep the middle light since you drew Toothless' fire around him. It would look more like you lit up the area around him but didn't blow out the fire protected by Toothless' wings." Hiccup lifted the Journal above his head as Tuffnut hung upside down to grab it. "Thanks Hiccup." Tuffnut pulled out some of his paints from A bag and began working more on his picture.

"What are you gonna call the drawing?" Snotlout asked, climbing in thorough the window. "Oh Hey Snotlout." Hiccup said as Snotlout sat on the bed. "Hey Hiccup. Feeling any better?" Hiccup shrugged. "Hmm I don't know how about...Rainy day, the-" "Let me guess, the drawing?" Snotlout rolled his eyes. "No! Rainy day the Night Fury drawing." Hiccup smiled at how Tuffnut could be as the teen started babbling on about his drawing.

"So, what do you say we go on A flight tonight? You can take Stormfly with me." Astrid offered. Hiccup thought about it, then looked to Toothless. Toothless nodded his head as if saying 'Go ahead', and Hiccup nodded. "Sure, I've been really bored here and I'm sure Toothless wouldn't mind being look out. Do you bud?" Toothless just shrugged and went back to sleep. Astrid smiled. "Okay, well it's already getting late enough, and your dads in A meeting. Common!" Astrid said before everyone got on the dragons and took off to the sunset sky.

Everything was going great. The riders were racing, Hiccup riding with Astrid, and everyone was being there normal selves wile learning how to fly there dragons better. Suddenly though, all the dragons pupils became thin and they acted as if being controlled. "Uh guys? Woah!" All the dragon flew down with there riders on there backs. "Get down!" Everyone said in sync. "What are they doing?" Fishlegs asked. "It looks like there hauling in the kill." Hiccup said.

"Uh wait." Ruffnut Started. "What does that make us?" Tuffnut finished. All the dragons dived, and before they new it, the riders were in A giant cave. The dragons started dropping there food in A giant hole. "Well it's satisfying to know all our food is being dumped down A giant freaking hole!" Snotlout shouted. "Shut up Snotlout!" Astrid shouted. "There not eating any of it." Hiccup added, watching carefully.

A small Gronkle flew over the hole, dropping A tiny fish in. Suddenly he looked surprised and tried to fly away, but something huge flew up out of the hole, eating it hole. "What..." "Was..." "That..." "Monster..." Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Hiccup, then Fishlegs said after one another.

The giant dragon suddenly looked up at the riders, and they all realized with horror that they were caught. "Common guys!" Tuffnut shouted flying Barch out. "Get us out of here!" The others shouted to there dragons, flying out of the volcano quickly.

"I-It all makes sense now!" Fishlegs started. "It's like A giant bee hive, there the workers and that's there queen." Astrid added. "It controls them?" Snotlout questioned wile jumping off of Hookfang. "Common, we need to tell the chief." Astrid started running with the others. Hiccup nodded and ran home to tell his dad.

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Later.

"So you found the nest?" Stoick asked thinking. "Yes, it's inhabited by this giant monster that's bigger than you ever saw! I think that if we can train the dragons, and get people to ride them, we can go fight it and end this war. I have it planned out. Berk can fly to the island on there dragons. Astrid and the others can distract the queen until it gets warn down. Then me and Toothless can lead it away and take the shot. When I was sitting in my room the other night, A terror flew in to get Toothless' fish. I learned when Toothless shot it that if you fire at A dragons mouth wile it's about to ignite it's flame, the gas will explode inside of it. The queen, with it's size, wouldn't be able to stop flying and focus on it's fire at once and therefore, would crash-land being destroyed." Hiccup said to his father after hours and hours of planning and convincing.

"Alright. You and the other teens train the other adults to fly and fight with the dragons. We'll have Gobber make more weapons, and make sure the other teens know your plan thoroughly without any miscommunications. This will be A dangerous battle. Wile I'm talking to the other Vikings, you need to finish that prosthetic your working on for Toothless." Hiccup nodded in agreement. The he realized something. "How did you know I was sneaking out to work on that tail fin?" Hiccup asked confused.

"I'm your father Hiccup." Hiccup nodded and went to go work on the tail fin.