This is a bit of a shorter chapter. I was originally going to put the battle in this chapter, but keeping this as its own separate chapter just makes more sense to me layout wise. Sorry if its a little boring.
Preparing For Battle
Toothless was on the lead ship with who he deemed to be the alpha since all the other humans on the boat followed his orders. He kept thinking about Hiccup and what the alpha could have done to her after he took her away.
"Why did she tell me to stop? If I had just killed him we wouldn't be in this mess?" he said to himself since the humans couldn't understand him. With Hiccup still barley able to understand him, he felt like he had been doing that a lot the past month.
Hiccup's roar of 'no', however,was coupled with the tone of 'distress' and 'fear'. She did not want him to hurt the man. Why? He didn't know; all he knew was that Hiccup must have cared about him in some way, and if she did, then he wouldn't harm him.
They approached the entrance to the Queen's domain and it wasn't too long before he heard her call; she must have sensed him. He tried focusing on his 'sister' and returning to her, trying his very best to block the Queen out.
"No…"
"Come", the call repeated.
"Ah—Hiccup…"
He couldn't fight the instinct to obey his Queen for long. Soon there was nothing but the call, following the sound where ever it led.
Hiccup was in front of the cage that held the Monstrous Nightmare. She was about to let it out when she heard people walk into the arena behind her.
"If you're planning on getting eaten, I'd defiantly go with the Gronckle", Fishlegs said.
"This is where you went?" she asked Aric. He only shrugged playfully.
Tuffnut came close to her—too close. "You were wise to seek help from the world's most deadly weapon. It's me" he said.
Hiccup, weirded out, wasn't sure how to respond. Snotlout came to her next. "I love this plan."
"Uh…I didn't—"
"You're crazy. I like that", Ruffnut said in a way that made Hiccup extremely uncomfortable and question the girl's sexuality. Luckily Asrtid pulled her away in the next second.
"So? What is the plan?"
Hiccup looked past her for a moment to Aric and smiled.
Stoick and his fleet headed further into Helheim's Gate following where the Night Fury's head pointed. He was completely focused on the task of getting to Dragon Island and taking the nest. A dragon head then appeared in the fog, and it made some of the men recoil in slight fear. It was only a wrecked ship, but it was stuck atop a large rock formation that jutted out of the sea having no explanation of how it got there.
"Oh… I was wondering where that went", Gobber commented.
They were approaching the island and as they did, a loud buzzing sound was heard. The boat hit land, and Stoick pushed passed some of his men to get a better look. As he looked up at the mountain he could see a Monstrous Nightmare's tail slither inside.
"We're here."
He jumped out of the boat, onto the island, and the buzzing sound abruptly stopped; it was now deathly quiet. Whatever was making that sound knew he was here.
Backing out of the Monstrous Nightmare's cage Hiccup had her hand out to the dragon with him following her. All the teens looked at it with amazement, except for Snotlout who was still scared. He picked up a broken spear that was left on the ground, but Astrid caught him. "Uh-uh." He promptly dropped it. Hiccup then moved to her cousin with the Nightmare deeming him to be the perfect partner, and tried to take his hand to replace hers. Snotlout fought a little, pulling his hand away in fear, but soon Snotlout's hand reached the dragon's snout and their bond was created.
"Whe-where're you going?!" he shouted next when she walked away. She was at a box on one of the sides of the arena.
"You're gonna need something to hold onto", she replied taking out some rope as all the other dragons came from their open cages ready to know who they're partner was going to be.
Soon everyone was bonded with a dragon—Snotlout with the Nightmare he decided to name Hookfang, Fishlegs with the Gronckle he named Meatlug, and the twins with the Zippleback they named Barf and Belch. Well, all except for two actually. The only dragon left was the Nadder and Astrid and Aric were bickering over who should ride her.
"I'm the one who helped her come up with this plan."
"You always get everything; and I'm the older one!"
"I do not!"
"Oh yes you do!"
"Guys!" Hiccup interrupted. "Astrid, you'll ride the Nadder with me. Aric, you'll ride with Snotlout."
Aric was about to say something, but Hiccup interrupted continuing.
"Don't worry, once this is over… we can find you your own dragon." 'Given we survive this.'
What dragon should Aric get and what should his/her name be? Should he get a Nadder like his sis, a Nightmare, or maybe a different dragon all together? My only request is to please be practical. No Skrills; as much as I love the Skrill (it is one of my favorite dragons) it just wouldn't work, nor make sense, for him to have one.
The battle is next. Bear with me on that one, 'cause it may suck. I'm not very good at writing battles or fighting.
