A / N: I'm so , SO SORRY ! I didn't mean to take this long, it just that school wasn't as exciting as it was like at the beginning and i ... literally had to ( and still) deal with school violence, though. I think they did it just because i'm not like them, come one with them i was like a total alien since i came from another country. I haven't told my parents though, i don't want them to get worry just because of my problems TT_TT . Whoo , that feels good. Anyway, please 4give my grammar mistakes ok, just send me a message to let me know if there is any and i'll fix it. See ya later - Akita-chan

Chapter 14: Getting better using it

Both of them rushed through the field like two arrows, carefully avoiding an incoming axe or dogding a blast of dark magic. So far there were no cuts or burns or crushed bones. As they was making their way to the other side, suddenly an explosion took place in front of them, knocking them off their feet and threw them back. Hiccup groaned as he tried to get back to his feet, then his eyes widened.

" Pitch ."

Pitch was there, riding a Nightmare, only a few feet in front of them. His golden eyes fixed straight at he and Jack. Hiccup could feel the rising in rhythm of his heartbeats as the effect of adrenaline. Jack soon got back on his feet and moved himself next to Hiccup, his hand tightened the grip on the ornate spear of his.

" My, my ,this must be my lucky day." Pitch started. " I came here to kill Stoick, but now I also have the chance to finish his cursing child as well."

" Rack off, Pitch." Hiccup said, raising his golden crossbow toward the Nightmare King. " Or else the one that is going to be killed is you ! And I'm not joking. "

Pitch raised his brow as he looked at both the teen and his weapon, a smirk slowly crept up his grey face.

" A Psypher. Now that is something I didn't expect. But still, a Psypher is useless, no matter how powerful it is, if its master is nothing but a child that destroyed everything he touches."

Hiccup could feel his blood boiling inside his veins, so hot that steam was coming out of his ears. Suddenly, he felt Jack's cool hand around his and gave it a gentle squeeze, silently told him to calm down. If they weren't in a life-threatening situation, Hiccup would have blush until they couldn't differentiate between his face and his lips anymore. He started to breath in and out, trying to count from 1 to 10 in an effort to calm his nerves. After he was sure that Hiccup was stable enough not to get them both killed instantly, Jack turned his attention back to Pitch, pointed the crystal head of his spear toward the grey-skinned man.

" Oh don't worry, even if he does miss, I'll make sure to slit your throat in the end."

Pitch looked amazed as he turned his full attention to Jack, a hideous laughter erupted from his mouth.

" Two Psyphers ! Those filthy Guardians do have something surprising in their sleeves. And they gave them to the hands of two total idiots."

"What's your problem anyway ?" Hiccup asked, totally annoyed. " Why do you have to all of this anyway, it's not like we have done anything to you."

The Nightmare King gave a chuckle, bemused with the brunette's behaviour. Suddenly, his face hardened and a glare was sent toward Hiccup.

" Maybe because I want to take back what your cursing father and those Guardians had took from me many years ago."

" And what that particular " what " may be ?" Jack asked

Pitch's face in that moment was filled with hatred, anger and very, very vengeful, his golden eyes glaring daggers at the young couple.

" Freedom"

Hiccup widened his eyes as the word escaped the Nightmare King's mouth, apparently confused.

" Freedom ? What do you mean by that ?" Hiccup asked as his curiosity started to kick in.

" Yeah. " Jack joined in. " Aren't you kinda … free right now, to go mess around with other people's lives ?"

" You really don't get it, don't you? " Pitch growled almost in an animalistic way. " Who came here and took away my throne ? Who are those ones that sealed me inside that abandoned fortress ? Those dear Guardians and that father of your are the one !"

Hiccup let out a gasp as he absorbed all those words.

" How could my father …. And the Guardians…. How could they such a thing ? "

" NO !" He yelled. " You're a liar ! My father could never do that, nor the Guardians!"

" Oh but they do, deary. Your father took me away from my throne and silently ordered those Guardians to seal me up in that fortress while I was weakened." Pitch said as he started strolling around. " Little did they know that i'm not named The Nightmare King all for nothing, and i'm a very,very patient man, so I started building my own army while waiting for the seal to lose its effect and also for my power to return. And now, with my power fully recovered, I'm gonna make sure to repay the dept I own to all of those faggots one by one." Suddenly, he disappeared. Jack and I gave each other a confused look as we looked around. Then I heard someone's voice a few feet behind him. " I'll start with you father first by having his severed head on a spike. Then I'll pluck out every single feather and wing off that colorful moth, make sure that the rabbit joined the rest of its specie in hell and reduce that pocket of sand into ashes. It will be quite a site, isn't it , my dear Hiccup ?"

Unable to control his temper anymore, Hiccup let out a battle cry as he turned around and fired a shot at the Nightmare King. Pitch quickly stepped aside from the magical attack from the Psypher, only to have volleys after volleys of fire blasts aiming toward him. After he quickly evaded the fire shots, Jack entered the fight, running toward Pitch with Gungnir in his hand. The white-haired threw non-stop jabs, slices, strikes at Pitch's direction, but since he was only a beginner in this whole magical weapon thing, not to mention he was dealing with someone who had been living for ages and could perform magic, none actually hit the target, until his luck kicked in and he managed to make a cut on the Nightmare King's cheek, drawing out blood. Pitch took a few steps back after Jack's frenzy, he raised a hand and touched his cut, wincing a bit. He then glared back to Jack then Hiccup, his golden eyes was darkened with anger and hatred.

" Blood will be repay by blood !"

Out of nowhere, black sand suddenly made it way to Pitch's side. They slowly formed into about 10 Nightmares and Dream Pirates. Pitch then pointed a finger toward them.

" Make sure that there is no survival." And he dissolved into sand and disappeared.

The Nightmares and Dream Pirates growled at them viciously, slowly making their advance toward the love birds. Jack and Hiccup took a side-by-side battle stance, the eyes never left those creatures born from darkness. Those beast kept encircling them, then suddenly, a Nightmares gave a deafening screech and started running toward Hiccup. Hiccup, even though had the advantage of a range weapon , stayed still with his face totally confused and scared, really didn't know how to react. The Nightmare , after made it way toward Hiccup, reared and raised its hooves, about to make it attack.

Hiccup closed his eyes shut, awaiting for the tremendous pain that would take his life away, but nothing came, only the swoosh sound of something pierce through the air and a terrible cry. He slowly opened his eyes, only to see Jack stood protectively in front of him. Before him was a pile of black sand.

" Pull yourself together Hiccup. You can do it, I know you can. Just cover my back okay ?" Jack said as he eyed the other monsters.

Those words knocked Hiccup back to reality. He took a deep breath then tightened his grip on the crossbow, aiming it toward the creatures that was in front of him. Seeing the Nightmare being vanished by Jack, the other Nightmares and Dream Pirates became enraged. Another deafening screech and they were all on, charging toward the young couple. Jack instantly went battling the incoming monsters, slicing anything that came into his path. Hiccup stood in awe as he watched Jack handled all of those monsters by himself.

" He is good, but I'm even better!"

Hiccup quickly revised what his uncle had told him earlier back in the castle:

"Raise the crossbow, aim for a target, hold the trigger, release it and hell will break free. Simple enough. "

Suddenly his eyes catched the image of one of the Nightmares and it was coming … for Jack from behind ! Jack didn't even know a thing, since he was occupied with his own bussiness in front of him, not the back. The Nightmare was coming closer and closer to his lover. Hiccup then raised his weapon as he aimed for the black horse, his finger pulled the trigger and kept it that way. He watched as waves of red lights gathered themselves at the red jewel of his weapon and cocooned it. He looked up once again and yelled:

" JACK ! DUCK , NOW!" And he released the trigger.

The white-haired instantly looked back as his lover called for him. He saw a Nightmare coming right at him, but his concern was mostly about that enormous fire blast coming right at his direction, fast ! He only had a moment to quickly jump aside when the blast shot through the Nightmare that was about to get him, perished it to the ground. The enormous attack didn't vanish but continued flying through the air and pierced through the whole mob of monsters, killing and destroying to the last of them while emitting the heat of a mini sun.

" Like a piercing shot." Jack thought to himself.

The attack created a loud boom when it hit an obstacle and exploded, shock waves from the explosion shook the ground. After it had died down, Jack instantly got back on his feet, dusting himself and took a look at Hiccup. The teen was sprawling all over the dirt ground, his eyes completely widened at his own attack, his crossbow once again gave it signature smoke trail. Jack chuckled as he came forth and helped Hiccup getting up.

" Nice shot, wipe them all out. I know you can do it." Jack gave Hiccup a praise as he picked Hiccup's golden weapon on the ground. He also gave it a dusting too before handled it back to its owner.

" It's nothing." Hiccup's face reddened as he retrieved back his bow that he had became attached to.

" No, that really is something, Hiccup. Pitch will never know what is coming his way. You literally wiped out all of those monsters with that blast."

" Yeah … Maybe you do have a point."

" Scored !" Jack said happily in a childish manner which made Hiccup smiled.

" Okay, okay … Let's stop with all of the goo-goo eyes and move ! We still have a goal to finish."

Hiccup's POV

Both Jack and I continued running, aiming north to the forest. After the encounter with Pitch, my determination of winning him only increased even higher than before ever since his snarky mouth made it presence known to me. Gah, i swore i was so angry back then.

" Hiccup, to the left ." Jack said pointed his finger there, my gaze soon followed and spotted a Nightmare coming for us. I instantly raised my bow as i kept running, my finger gave the trigger a pull. Boom. A globe of fire was shot from the jewel and the Nightmare was perished. Maybe going into this war wasn't that bad after all, i got to be with Jack and learnt that i was good at long ranged weapons. But the thought of dying here was still the thing that lingered the longest. It was really depressing, haizz ...

Suddenly, i saw something. A knight was riding toward a school of Nightmare with a lance in his hands. Suddenly, the ground shook violently and out of nowhere a dragon like creature with dark scales with gleaming red eyes emerged from under the ground. The knight's horse, startled because of the sudden appearance of the beast, became frantic and knocked the poor knight of it's back before it was devoured alive by the beast.

" Jack, we have to help him, or else he'll be eaten alive by ... that."

Jack hesitated a bit as he eyed the beast from where we were standing.

" I have a plan. You are going to distract that thing from us while i transport myself there and get him okay ?"

" But how ?"

" Magic. We're able to cast them, like what the Kangaroo has said, right? That mean i could teleport myself to wherever and whenever i want. Just concentrate on one particular thing and demand your weapon." He answered.

Jack instantly raised his spear up as he closed his eyes and tightened his grip on the weapon. Soon the gem of his began to glowed a soothing blue. I instantly looked back at the knight, he was obviously frightened as the creature kept on creeping toward, wanting to know how does human flesh taste like. I raised Tasla up and aim for the beast scaly head, pulled the gold trigger and held it there, the familiar red flows of light again appeared and swirled around the red gem. And when it had finally been cocooned, i turned back to Jack and shouted:

" Jack ! NOW !"

A blinding light erupted from both of our gems as i released the piercing shot and Jack transport himself to the scared knight. The enormous blast flew and slam into the beast's head. It let out a monstrous roar and collapsed down on the ground, but it wasn't dead, only unconscious. It gave Jack enough time to gather the poor knight and teleport themselves elsewhere before the monster regain its consciousness, and this time it aimed for ... me ! I couldn't perform the piercing shot again because my crossbow was simply still cooling itself off, i knew it because of the signature smoke trail it gave out, also because my gem was radiating heat from its crystal self, that meant i couldn't knocked it down like before again. I rapidly shot a volley of fire blasts toward the beast, but its suddenly opened it mouth and ... a purple light started to emit from its scaly throat. Before i knew it, the dragon released a purple beam of energy and used it to destroyed all of my fire globes, creating minor explosions in the space between us. So it can also kill me from afar. Great, just great ! I shot another batch of fire globes at the scaly beast, but it wasn't the only thing. As my fire globes made the beast busy, my gem had finally cooled off. I instantly took the chance and jumped off into the air, repeating the process of aiming, pulling, holding and releasing the golden trigger, unleashing another piercing shot at the dragon's direction. The scaly beast seemed to have notice the incoming danger as its once again got itself charge and released its own fiery attack. I smirked at the beast's reaction, just like what i expected. Before both of our devastating attack could have the chance to clash with each other, i shot out a regular fire globe at the piercing shot and let it explode, creating dozens of lava balls that formed up a rainfall of lava and magma. The black beast didn't even have the chance to counter as it was showered with the downpour of my attacks, whenever the lava balls hit it, magma would pour out and damaged the black beast's scaly amour. The dragon let out a pained shriek, trying to wipe all of the hot substance off its body. I smirked, part amused and pitied for the beast's poor state, but not for long. This thing was really, really stubborn, even though i just literally rained a burning hell on it the beast still wasn't going to give up the thought of killing me. Just like someone i knew. It also seemed that fire wasn't a smart option against this thing. The dragon gave me a hateful look as it looked at me. It then used its dirty trick and disappeared under the ground. I looked around carefully, trying to find a clue that shows where was that thing. But i didn't expect it to be under my feet.

The ground shook and thundered, and before i knew it, i was knocked off my feet and thrown back a couple meters as the monster's head and body pierced through the ground under me. After landed gracelessly on my back, i let out a gasp in shock as my left arm was bent in an odd angle and a hideous crack rang up followed by an intense pain. I took a look and tried to move it, but failed and couldn't myself from shaking when i felt the numbness slowly devoured my arm, still didn't help much with the pain. It was broken, and i couldn't maneuver my oversize weapon with only one arm. I could feel consciousness leaving me every passing seconds, and the pain, oh the pain was tremendous. I collapsed down on the dirt ground, raising my scared-filled eyes to the now approaching monster and watched as it beamed its hungry red eyes toward me, saliva dripping from its mouth and stained some of its dark scales. It let out a thundering roar and reared its head up, deciding to finish me. As i closed my eyes, something finally hit me:

" It was dark, i was scared and i was all alone."