Chapter 12
Dagur and Hiccup looked up just in time to see Toothless blast a hole in the cage bars above. He folded his wings and dove through the hole. Before Dagur had a chance to react, the furious Night Fury tackled him from above.
The evil viking was knocked on his back unconscious from the force of the dragon. Toothless began to charge up a plasma blast ready to go for the kill. He was just about to fire when Hiccup shouted, "Toothless! No!"
Toothless swallowed his flame gas and turned around to look at the chained up dragon. "After what he's done to you he doesn't get what he deserves?!" he roared.
Hiccup looked at his dragon with serious eyes. "No more killing, you promised."
Toothless sighed and glared back at Dagur before going over to Hiccup. He spotted the dagger in Hiccup's leg and said, "We have to get that out. I'll count to three."
Hiccup held his breath and turned away. Toothless took the handle in his teeth and said a muffled three seconds. He abruptly ripped the weapon out and Hiccup screeched in pain. Once his breathing calmed down, Toothless began to rip apart the chains with his teeth and claws. The second he was free Toothless wrapped his forearms around him in a tight hug.
"I'm so sorry Hiccup! This is all my fault."
When he pulled away the larger dragon saw the injuries that covered Hiccup. It destroyed him to see it but what he was more concerned about was the stabbed leg Hiccup was cradling. "Let me get a better look at that," Toothless said and bent down.
As soon as he lowered his head, Hiccup saw to his horror that Dagur had snuck up behind him and was about to swing his ax into Toothless' head.
"NOOO!" Hiccup yelled and as he yelled he released a plasma blast. It shot over Toothless' head and hit Dagur in the chest. The viking flew several feet back and his weapon fell to the ground. Toothless sat up and they both looked at the smoking dead viking.
"Oh gods! What have I done!" Hiccup exclaimed.
Just then a Berserker opened the gate to the arena. He was unarmed so he ran out when he saw what had happened.
"Hiccup! We have to go! Now!" Toothless yelled and started to push the shocked dragon towards the open gate.
After a moment Hiccup realized what was happening and started to limp as fast as he could to the exit. Once they were outside, both dragons took off wanting to get as much altitude and distance away as possible. Many Berserkers were already waiting to attack nearby. They shot flaming arrows at the dragons who kept dodging and flying higher.
When they were over the ocean just off shore, an arrow suddenly hit Toothless' artificial tail fin. It caught on fire and in no time burned away. Toothless roared out as he started to fall. Hiccup looked back to see him trying to stay airborne and about to land on a ship full of armed Berserkers.
He flew back and shouted. "Toothless! Fold your wings!"
Toothless was not sure what Hiccup's plan was but obeyed and started to fall faster. Hiccup dove after him and grabbed onto him with his legs. He started to frantically flap his own wings but was not strong enough to keep them both in the air. He was however able to steer them away from the dangerous ship so they landed in the ocean.
When they emerged from underwater they spotted the ship sailing towards them. As they treaded water, Toothless waited for the ship to get closer before firing a plasma blast directly into the hull. The front of the ship was blasted apart and instantly started to sink.
Toothless grabbed onto a large slab of the wooden ship with his front paws and started to swim away from the enemies. He looked over in surprise to see that Hiccup had grabbed on and was pushing away too.
"Hiccup fly! Get out of here!"
Hiccup looked back at the submerged vikings to see they were gaining a good amount of distance away. "No I won't leave you."
Toothless gave a frustrated huff at Hiccup's stubbornness but was grateful for his help in swimming. The two dragons kept hanging onto the wood and started off in the direction of Berk.
