Toothless was flapping his wings as fast as he could. With his black skin and my slightly torn and tattered black suit, we blended perfectly into the night sky, at least I hope we do. I still might have the element of surprise if Alvin thinks that the other Outcasts are loading up the dragons.
Let's see, Savage said that he has Astrid and he is going to make her get the book for him. We lock the Book of Dragons locked up at the training arena every night. That's where they'll be. If I hurry, I might even be able to beat them there.
Alvin is going to pay for doing this, for taking Astrid, for hurting Toothless, for ruining my perfect night! Mildew has already paid for his betrayal with his life. I'm going to have to tell dad that Mjolnir itself crushed him. Honestly, I don't think he'll be missed. He was an angry, cranky, crotchety and flat out annoying old man!
Toothless swept through the air like a bullet. The arena is in my sights. "C'mon, faster bud," I encouraged Toothless. We flew over the bridge that connects the forest to the arena and saw them.
Alvin and Astrid. He is gripping her hair in his giant sausage-like fingers.
I swear to Thor, Alvin. If you so much as pull a single hair from her head, I'll….
Uh, I guess I haven't planned that far ahead.
A plan quickly formulated in my noggin. I had Toothless bank sharply to the right and we flew to the south. He flew for about a few hundred yards until I made him quickly do a 180 and we were flying straight to the wooden bridge. It was coming up fast.
"Plasma blast!" I commanded Toothless. The Night Fury opened his mouth and a white and blue ball of flame erupted from it. The fireball hit its target; the mid section of the bridge was blown off, creating a rather large gap between them and the rest of the bridge. Toothless continued to fly forward, turned around and fired another blast at the bridge, creating an even bigger gap then before, preventing them from crossing.
I saw Alvin and Astrid shield their faces as hot pieces of debris flew past them. I even think I heard Alvin yelling in frustration.
That's fantastic.
"Good job bud. Now land." Toothless obeyed and flew to the side of the bridge opposite from Alvin and Astrid and closest to the entrance of the arena. Luckily, after the fireballs damaged the bridge, it was still slightly structurally stable.
Alvin coughed, looked up at me and smiled. "Well, look who's come to ruin the fun. And might I add that you look dashing in that suit." I ignored him and looked to Astrid. "Astrid, are you ok?" She looked worried, but she has every right to be. The most feared enemy known to Berk is holding her by nothing but her hair. "I'm fine Hicc- YOW!" Alvin pulled on her braid sharply. Toothless growled.
I looked over to Alvin. "Al, let her go right now!" He laughed. "Why, how are you going to make me? You are, after all, standing way over there," he pointed to me. He has a point. I did partially destroy the bridge and now I couldn't do anything to him from over here besides shouting out quirky comebacks.
"Well, what are you going to do? Now you can't get the book," I countered. I saw him smile under his grotesquely large beard. "You're right, I can't." He wrapped his arm over Astrid's body, clenched her close to him, drew his sword and held it to her throat. "But you can."
My heart dropped. Not only did I prevent myself from being able to take him on in hand-to-hand combat, but I also left him isolated with the one girl I cared about and now he's going to kill her!
Gods my plan sucks.
I gulped, held up my hands to show him I'm not going to make any sudden stupid moves and walked backwards slowly. "Alvin, please! Don't do this," I pleaded, hoping to reach a single ounce of humanity that could be possibly hidden within all those buff muscles. He grinned and let out a chuckle.
"Come now, Dragon Conqueror. I'm a slightly reasonable man. Here's the deal; you walk in there, grab the book and throw it over to me, and I'll let your girlfriend here go, and I'll never come to this island again." He's lying of course. Once he has the book, he'll train his own fleet of dragons and will stop at nothing until Berk is destroyed.
"You might as well do it. Savage and the others will be back to the boats any minute now with your drag-" "Savage is dead and your army has retreated," I informed him with a smirk on my face. This information seemed to come as a surprise to both him and Astrid. They both had surprised expressions on their faces. "You- you killed Savage?" I didn't answer his question.
"Alvin! Your army is gone! It's over. There's nothing left to fight for! Just give up and go back to Outcast Island!" I felt silly trying to reason with the leader of the Outcasts, but my wit is the only weapon I have at the moment.
He loosened his grip on Astrid, still a little dumbfounded by the news that his second in command is now dead. He narrowed his eyes, re-tightened his grip on her and aimed the tip of his sword at me. "I don't need Savage! I can take the book myself!" After he roared that out, he threw Astrid behind him and she landed on the bridge with a hard thud. He ran at full speed to the gap and jumped.
I started to panic, he's jumping over to me! "Toothless, fire!" Toothless shot out another fireball that hit Alvin square in the chest. He flew backwards and landed back on the other side of the bridge and slid back a few feet away from Astrid who just jumped to her feet to avoid him skidding into her.
Now's my chance!
I jumped on Toothless and he shot forward across the gap and landed on the other side. "Hurry!" I called over to Astrid. She ran over to us, jumped on Toothless' back right behind me and wrapped her hands around my waist. Alvin, dazed from the blast, stood up and glared at the three of us. He lunged.
"Up Toothless! Up!" Toothless jumped and flew vertically into the air. After a second of flight, he let out a yelp and we lost altitude. He struggled to keep himself balance and tried to rise higher into the air. I looked back and saw the problem; Alvin jumped and grabbed a hold onto Toothless' tail. He rose into the air with us and Toothless struggled to keep us airborne.
He flapped and flapped and flapped as fast and hard as he could, but Alvin was still dragging us down. Alvin held on with a ferocious iron grip as he was dangling from the tail like a ragdoll.
"There!" I heard Astrid shout into my ear over the sound of the roaring wind. She was pointing to the treetops in the forest. I instantly knew what she was thinking. "Toothless!" He looked at me and I pointed to the forest. He understood immediately and flew until we were just barely grazing the top of the trees.
I heard Alvin curse repeatedly as his body was dragged through leaves, pines and twigs, but he still won't let go. Toothless flew until the forest ended and Alvin was once again suspended into open air, refusing to let go. I could feel Toothless breathing hard as he climbed higher into the sky.
I felt Astrid let go of my waist and she turned herself around and faced Alvin. "What are you doing?" I asked. She looked over at me and said, "Trying to knock him off!" She scooted herself until she reached the tail and shimmied her body along the tail until she reached Alvin's hand and started to beat it with her fists, trying to force him to loosen his grip.
It didn't work.
He still held on to the tail like his life depended on it (which it did).
As she continued to fruitlessly beat the hand, Alvin swung himself forward and smacked her face with his free hand. She lost her grip and plummeted.
"ASTRID!"
She fell and spiraled through the air until I saw a streak of blue and yellow fly under her and catch her in mid fall.
"Stormfly!" I could here her yell out in excitement as she steadied herself on the Deadly Nadder's back. Dad and the others must have freed all of the other dragons already. I silently thanked him.
I heard Alvin bellow out in rage. "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!" With his free hand, Alvin drew his sword, raised it and brought it down onto Toothless' tail.
He yelped in pain and we began to frantically lose altitude. I gripped the saddle as hard as I could while Alvin, who dropped the sword due to the sudden loss in altitude, clenched both of his fists onto the tail as we mercilessly spun down to the earth.
Although we were spinning, I could see we are falling straight into the village square where the other Vikings are standing and freeing the last of the dragons from their cages.
Toothless did the best he could to control our fall so I wouldn't be harmed on impact. I looked down and saw the roof of my house approaching fast. Toothless curled up and we collided with the roof. I was thrown from the saddle and slid to a stop atop the rough surface. I looked back up and saw Toothless frantically trying to dig his claws into the shingles but his massive body dragged him downward and he fell of the roof.
He landed on his feet and looked back up at me worried. I looked across to the other side of the roof where I saw Alvin laying and trying to stand back up. He may have dropped his weapon in the sky, but he is still bigger than me.
He managed to regain his footing and glared at me with the intent to take my life. I backed up until I reached the wooden carving of a dragon's head. I stepped onto the head and kept my balance as best as I could. Alvin walked up to me and said "Goodbye kid." He kicked my chest with his massive foot and sent me sprawling to the stone steps below me.
Before my body made contact with the ground, Toothless leapt through the air and caught me on his back.
My chest is roaring with pain. No doubt I have at least a cracked rib.
"Thanks bud," I mutter while I hold my sides with my arm. I slide off of him as I heard an earth-shattering thud right behind us. Alvin just jumped from the roof and landed perfectly on his feet right behind us! He ran over to us as Toothless shot a few fireballs at him. They all missed and blew holes into the side of my house.
He reached us and backhanded me in the face, sending me rolling down the hill and into town. I heard him fighting with Toothless. He punched my dragon in the face so many times that I could even feel the pain.
I slid to a stop at the bottom of the hill and the other Vikings finally noticed me. They all started to run over to my side asking if I was ok. Before I could answer them, Alvin was rocketing down the hill, grabbed my neck, lifted me back off the ground, pushed through the massive crowd of Vikings and squeezed. Hard.
He snarled, threw me to the ground and delivered multiple kicks to my already sore ribs. Pain was screaming through my body. When he was done, he grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and lifted me back up. He unsheathed a hidden knife in his belt and raised it high.
Before he delivered the final fatal blow that will surely end my life, he looked to the scared audience of Vikings. "Say goodbye to your dragon whisperer!"
The earth shook.
Alvin looked around confused.
Not ten feet away from us, the Whispering Death created another hole in the ground and flew straight through it, revealing itself once more. The creature's milky eyes stared down onto Alvin as he held me in his hand like a baby kitten.
It roared. Loud. Alvin dropped me and covered his ears from the piercingly loud sound. I ran away from him and reached the front of the crowd, who were watching closely.
The Whispering Death ceased its roar and stared down at the now terrified Alvin.
He turned and ran to the forest. Before he made it to the first tree, the dragon swung its tail and threw a spike at him, penetrating his back. He shouted in pain and collapsed to the ground. The creature flew up behind him, wrapped its tail around his ankle and started to whip his body all throughout the air.
We all watched in amazement as I felt a hand placed on my shoulder. I looked back and saw Astrid, who had just landed Stormfly and walked over to me. She watched along with me as the Whispering Death continued to swing Alvin around like a ragdoll.
When it was done, it threw Alvin to the ground and he landed on his stomach, no doubt knocking all air out of his lungs.
Before Alvin could get back up to his feet, the tail whipped itself around his ankle again and was dragged backwards. The Whispering Death slithered on the ground this time, dragging Alvin behind it like a toy.
Alvin wailed his arms in every direction, panicking, screaming and calling for help. I kind of enjoyed hearing it.
The Whispering Death proceeded to slither forward, looked at me and gave me a full on smile. I smiled back.
The dragon looked down and its teeth began digging into the ground. Its head disappeared into the earth and the long tail followed, dragging down a screaming Alvin along with it. He clawed and grabbed at the dirt, trying to prevent himself from falling don the hole, but it was no use. The tail successfully dragged Alvin into the hole and his screams slowly began to fade away until they were heard no more.
I sighed. Relieved.
He's gone. He's actually gone!
"Hiccup, you did it!" Astrid yelled, and cheers from the other Vikings followed. Astrid grabbed me by my shoulders, pulled me into her and she kissed me. She kissed me and held me for as long as she could. When she released me, I heard my dad walk up from behind me, laughing with joy. "Well done son!" He hugged me tight until I yelped from the pain of my ribs. He released me and looked at me with concern.
"Are you ok?"
"I'll be fine. Don't you worry dad," I said, clutching my sides. The cheers died down. We all looked to the horizon and saw the sun starting to peak its head from the water.
"Well, I still think we still have time. Let's go everyone! To the Hall! We must finish the celebration!" The Vikings burst into cheers again and started to run to the Hall.
I walked there with Astrid hand in hand. Toothless ran up behind me and nudged me lightly. I patted his head. "Thank you so much Toothless. You are an incredible dragon."
The three of us walked into the Hall and continued the festival as if nothing happened.
Hmm, this night didn't turn out so bad after all.