Hey guys I'm back, with chapter 12! I really don't have much to say so, onwards to chapter 12!

Hiccup took a deep breath as he heard his father announce him and his accomplishments in front of the whole village.

He took another deep breath, he knew that if he messed up Astrid would be as good as dead.

"It's time." He heard behind him "Knock 'em dead."

Hiccup stepped into the ring and put on his helmet, then walked over to the weapons and grabbed a dagger and a shield.

"I'm ready." He said, Hiccup had a feeling that this was going to go horribly wrong.

Two villagers pulled down the levers to the monstrous nightmare, and the door flew open, revealing a very mad dragon that had set itself a flame. It ran up and down the walls of the arena, spewing fire in all directions, until he saw Hiccup. The dragon crawled onto the ground and stood a few feet from the boy.

Hiccup quickly dropped his weapons and stretch his hand out until they hovered just above its nose. It growled and Hiccup set one of his hands on his helmet.

"It's ok, it's ok." He whispered to the dragon, then he took his helmet off. "I'm not one of them."

And with that, Hiccup threw his helmet across the arena.

The monstrous nightmare looked up at this viking boy, maybe he didn't want to kill him, maybe he just wanted to be friends. It lifted it head towards his hand.

"Stop the fight."

"No! I need you all to see this. They're not what we think they are, we don't have to kill them-"

"I SAID STOP THE FIGHT!" Stoik screamed and beat his hammer against the bars of the arena.

That was it, the monstrous nightmare was spooked, it began shooting fire in all directions and biting at Hiccup hands, causing him to scream.

In the cove

Astrid lay beside Stormfly, gently rubbing her back when she heard Hiccup scream. She shot up from were she lie and flew into the air and bolted to the village as fast as her wings could carry her.

Twisting and turning past the trees the village soon came into view, the site reminded her of the sorrowful day when she was only about five when her mother raced into her former village to save a dragon, and never returned. But now was not the time to think of that, if she was to sacrifice herself today, so be it, as long as Hiccup was safe in the end, she'd do absolutely anything for him, after all, he was the first human which wasn't her mother to accept her as one of his own.

Astrid soon saw herself diving down towards Hiccup, so, not even caring about being stealthy, Astrid blasted a hole in the iron roof of the arena.

The vikings gasped loudly as there vision was clouded by the smoke. They all looked down into the arena, at the little hybrid girl who was only around a sixth of the monstrous nightmare's size, but still was kicking his butt.

The dragon threw Astrid off his belly, but she got right back on top of him, making sure there was at least a 20 foot gap between him and her best friend. Finally the monstrous nightmare backed down and slipped back into his cage.

Astrid then felt Hiccup pushing her, she also noticed a huge amount of vikings coming at them.

"Go on Astrid, go get out of here!" Hiccup yelled as he saw her go into her 'battle ready' position "Go! Go! Go!" Then he saw his father coming at her with his axe. "No! Dad she won't hurt you!" Everything went downhill from there.

Be for either of them new it Astrid was being held down by a dozen vikings and Hiccup was being held back by one. His father stood up, still slightly dizzy from Astrid attacking him.

"Put it with the others." He spat, then stomped over to his son whom he grabbed by the collar in his shirt.

Stoik drug the boy to the great hall where he threw Hiccup against the ground.

"Oh I should have known, I should have seen the sights! We had a deal!"

"I know, but that was before, oh its all so messed up."

"So everything in the ring? A trick? A lie?!"

"I should have told you sooner, but, be mad at me, stay mad at me but please, don't hurt Astrid."

Stoick turned and looked at his son. "The dragon!? That's what you're worried about! Not the people you almost killed!?"

"She was protecting me that's all! And she's not just a dragon dad, she a hybrid."

"She's part dragon!"

"Yes if you want to look at it that way, but to me she's half human, and do you really think she chose to be like that? She also has a strong sense of protection for the village too, she's just wants to destroy the nest but if you saw what was in it that she showed me yo-"

"She showed you the nest! So she knows where the nest is."

"What! No dad you don't understand, you don't know what you're up against it's like nothing you've ever seen!" His father began walking to the huge doors of the great hall. "Oh come on please! Dad, for once in your life would you please just listen to me!" Hiccup yelled and grabbed his father's arm.

Stoick had had enough of Hiccup, so he threw the boy back onto the ground. "You're not a viking, you're not my son." Then, without another word, Stoik left the great hall. "Ready the ships!"

Hiccup curled up on the cold floor of the great hall and just stared at the doors, he could feel tears beginning to sting his eyes and leak from his eyelids.

He left the great hall and headed towards the cove, but on his way he saw some he wish he hadn't. Astrid was chained down to a platform with large metal bars blocking her wings and tail, plus a metal gag was on her mouth preventing her from breathing fire.

Hiccup squeezed his eyes shut, but just kept walking and attempting to erase the image from his mind.

Once he arrived at the cove he found Stormfly playing with a few terrors. Hiccup lied down on Astrid's bed, covered himself with her blanket, curled up into a little ball and began to sob. He cried and cried and cried, until the sun was blocked very suddenly.

Hiccup opened his eyes and saw Toothless staring down at him. He stretched his hand out to the dragon, who gently pressed his nose against it. The viking boy smiled, wrapped his arms around Toothless's neck and told him everything.

Toothless nuzzled Hiccup until his sobs turned quiet, and Hiccup was fast asleep. He gently laid him back on the bed and pulled the blankets up over Hiccup's shoulders. Tomorrow, after Hiccup was well rested, they would gather the other teens. Tomorrow, they would save Astrid.