I'm back! :D So, I forgot to mention, but I'm supposed to be on my hiatus right now. So, I've decided to finish this story and THEN go on hiatus for the remainder of June. I might not post again until July 10th, but hey, I get to finish this story, which is awesome! :D Enjoy chapter 13! :D

No.

"No!" Valka shouted as she raced towards the ice, collapsing in front of it. She couldn't believe what she had just watched. She hammered her fists against the thick ice, but it didn't do anything at all.

But if she didn't do something, Hiccup was going to suffocate, if he wasn't already dead. She shook her head at the thought. No, he couldn't be dead. He just couldn't be. Valka had already lost Stoick. She didn't think she could beat to lose her son, too. Sure, she knew he was mad at her, and sure, she knew that he might never truly forgive her for what she did, abandoning him and all, but he was still her son, and she loved him.

She would give her life for him.

"No, no!" she continued shouting, bashing her fists against the ice. It stung, but she didn't care. Once she knew just hitting the ice wasn't working, she thought about using dragons to melt it…

Oh, wait. Drago still had control over the dragons, Toothless had jumped in front of Hiccup to shield him, and the baby dragons were in no way going to be helpful. They would probably end up scorching themselves or someone else instead of the ice.

But Hiccup…

"Hiccup," Valka whispered, knowing that there was no way to save her son.

…

It was dark. It was dark, cold, lifeless, and strange. Hiccup couldn't breathe for a few moments, and when he got his breath back, he realized that the area around him had little to no air to breathe.

He gasped for breath in terror. He was suffocating. He was going to die. He couldn't breathe. He put his hands on the ground and then put them against the freezing cold wall of ice, trying to find some sort of way out, but he found nothing.

He had never thought he would suffocate to death. He thought he would die some sort of heroic death, or live to have kids and die of old age…

He never thought it would end like this.

He heard a growl and turned around. Toothless' toxic green eyes looked back at him, full of worry and concern. Hiccup knew that dragons could hold their breath longer than humans could. He would die before his dragon did.

"Toothless," he whispered, trying to use as little air as possible. He put his hand against his dragon's head and patted him softly. Toothless cooed, nuzzling Hiccup's side, although it didn't make Hiccup feel any better.

He didn't want to die. He had things to do, people to talk to, an island to save...Drago and his Bewilderbeast were still out there. He still needed to apologize to his mother...he didn't want to completely, but the more he thought about it, the worse he felt. He shouldn't have screamed at her like he did. And even though it felt good to finally get some of his anger out, and also the fact that he was mad at his mother, he knew that he still had to apologize, and thank her for saving Astrid, and thank her for saving Fishlegs, and thank her for helping them with the baby dragons even though all Hiccup did was yell his throat out at her…

He felt so guilty.

And he couldn't breathe again.

He coughed and choked, gasping for air that simply wasn't there. Toothless licked his cheek, but it didn't do anything to help their situation. At length, Hiccup settled for just laying on his stomach, the cold ground pressed against his cheek.

"I'm...I'm sorry, Toothless…" Hiccup slurred, just before closing his eyes. His chest ached. He couldn't breathe deeply enough to make happy his lungs. He couldn't hardly even think anymore.

Toothless growled in fury, and Hiccup put his hand against Toothless' side to calm the dragon down, but when he touched Toothless' scales, he had to withdraw his hand instantly.

His scales were sweltering.

His scales were glowing now…

Toothless' rage exploded. Quite literally, in fact. The ice was sent splintering, chunks of it flying in every direction. Hiccup gasped, sucking air back into his lungs. He knew that after this, he would probably be claustrophobic for the rest of his life.

He looked at Toothless as the dragon roared. Hiccup had never heard Toothless sound so blatantly furious before. It was a bit unnerving. Toothless turned to look at him, giving him a reassuring glance, and Hiccup smiled. Then, Toothless raced forward, leaping onto a spike of ice and roaring at the Alpha.

"He's challenging the Alpha!" Hiccup shouted.

"To protect you!" Valka said, coming up from behind him. Hiccup looked in her direction, and she didn't look back. She was smiling, her eyes fixated on Toothless. Hiccup soon turned as well, a smile on his face as he watched his dragon defeat the Alpha. He was still angry at Valka...but he was too happy now to be angry with her. It was a lingering thing in the back of his mind, and he was containing it for the time being.

Toothless fired at the Alpha, and the Alpha's tusks smashed the icicle Toothless was perching on. Toothless merely jumped onto a lower one and fired once again. The Alpha shook his head, roaring in fury.

Toothless roared back, and suddenly, the other dragons surrounded him instead of the Bewilderbeast.

We're winning! Hiccup thought. He raced forward, leaping onto Toothless' back.

"No, no, no, no! No!" Drago shouted. "Fight back! Fight! Fight! What's the matter with you!?"

His Bewilderbeast wasn't having it. Without the dragons on his side, there wasn't much he could do, and Hiccup knew it.

"Now do you get it?" Hiccup called, gesturing to the dragons around him. "This is what it is to earn a dragon's loyalty!" Drago glared at him, but his eyes were wide with shock. "Let this end," Hiccup said. "Now."

"NEVER!" Drago hissed. "Come on!"

Toothless roared, and the dragons around him open fired towards Drago and his Bewilderbeast. The former Alpha roared in pain and fury.

"FIGHT!" Drago commanded. Toothless fired one final plasma blast, and the Bewilderbeast's tusk snapped clean off. Drago shouted, the force of the blast knocking him off the dragon and into the ocean. Toothless roared in triumph, and the Bewilderbeast bowed in silent respect.

"The Alpha protects them all!" Hiccup yelled. He threw his hands over his head as the Bewilderbeast retreated back into the water.

Drago didn't resurface.

They did it.

They really did it.

Hiccup jumped off Toothless, running towards his friends and island as they whooped and shouted and cheered. Toothless and the other dragons landed in a row behind them, blasting fire into the air.

Everything was perfect.

And then Hiccup heard the distinct sound of cracking. He could barely hear it over the villagers, but it was still there. He couldn't make out what it was, exactly, but there was no denying it.

Then, as soon as it had come, it stopped, replaced by the sound of something falling through the air...he still didn't know where it was coming from.

He didn't have time to find out.

Something slammed into him, and he was knocked to the ground. He rolled on his side, shaking his head to knock himself out of his daze. He froze in his movements when he heard a sickening CRACK followed by complete silence.

Hiccup turned his head to look at where it had come from, and gasped.

His mother was trapped beneath a large spike of ice.