The How To Train Your Dragon book series and all its contents belong to Cressida Cowell. The How To Train Your Dragon movie and animated series and all of its contents belong to DreamWorks Studios. I claim no ownership over anything in this fanfic. Be merciful.
Well, this fanfic is gonna take elements from the books, movies, and animated series. Hope ya like it, constructional criticism appreciated and welcomed.
Hiccup woke up the next and sluggishly pull himself into a sitting position. He was still safely covered by Toothless' wing, Toothless always covered Hiccup when they camped out without any real shelter. Wodensfang was awoken by the movement of Hiccup as well, he always slept next to Hiccup, coiled up and lying next to him huddled for warmth. The nights were probably the only time that Wodensfang was not found on Hiccup's person. Hiccup stretched out his arms and let out a grunt. He stretched out his legs let out a yawn this time. Wodensfang spread his body to its full length and flapped his wings a few times. Being a much older dragon he had to bend every part of his body a few different ways to get himself going in the morning. He also had to make sure his fire breathing was working so he would build up a little gas and ignite it in his mouth. He'd spew out small flames while they were still covered by Toothless to warm themselves up. Hiccup finished waking his body up and tapped Toothless' side. Sometimes he would have to punch his lazy dragon to get him to wake up in the mornings but this time the taps were enough. Toothless opened his eyes and groaned. He lifted his wings off Hiccup and Wodensfang and stood up. The Driver dragons were all wide awake seemingly long before the trio had opened their eyes. They had slept at the base of a mountain with the three friends sleeping right next to the wall of ice and stone. Four of the driver dragons surrounded them, backs to them and on constant watch towards the snowy mountain base range surrounding them.
One-Eye and the last of the other Driver dragons came into sight from further on the path that they had started taking yesterday.
"Good to see you awake Hiccup, not be rude but we'd do our best to get a move on. The weather looks like it will be mighty rough today and possibly tomorrow. Depending on how it goes it should take another two and a half days to reach the archives."
"Sounds good One-Eye. So anything we need to watch for?"
"Nothing to worry yourself over Hiccup, we… Stormcutters, Drivers at the ready."
"Stormcutters?"
"Stormcutters, the bastards I said weren't in line with everyone else."
A bellowing roar rang through the range. It was a low, guttural roar. Hiccup had never heard a roar like this but from what he heard he could tell these were dragons much larger than the Driver dragons. Another roar blasted through the snow, this one was much more monstrous but it was also a layered roar from what Hiccup could hear. It was two dragon's roar, neither were as strong as the first but together seemed so. The roars echoed past them. Then they heard an enormous crash come from overhead.
"They're trying to crush us with an avalanche."
"Forward, move forward. Rush as far ahead as you can. Don't lag behind."
Hiccup jumped on Toothless' back picking up Wodensfang and bringing him in close to his gut. Toothless darted forward trying his all to run quickly while still dodging a small boulder every few steps. The Driver dragons were split in speed. Two of them were running on Toothless' left side while another three were in front of him running at different ranges with no real pattern. One-Eye was at the very front, he himself wasn't making much of an effort to dodge the boulders crashing down. Impressively, he would run right through some of them and destroy them into little pebbles. The Driver dragons with Toothless weren't big enough to do exactly as One-Eye did but would run through some of the smaller boulders. The three in the middle would run through all of the boulders together, if the one in front of the three didn't break one the others would more than likely break it themselves. Toothless felt like maybe he should try that but when he did decide that a boulder about the size of his head crashed down in front of him and he did his best to jump right over and take no part in the Driver's rough and tough method of running. The group ran like this for a few minutes before sliding to a halt. One-Eye let out a tremendous roar, almost as loud as the one he let out when they all first met. He roared into the mountains, he roared with ferocity. It was quiet for a few seconds and with a thunderous crash four extremely huge dragons landed in front of them.
"Stormy bastards, what do you think you're doing in the mountains? We sent you sorry snake fucks whimpering away weeks ago didn't we? What do you think you're doing now?"
"We aint all that happy with what happened then. We came round this time to have our way, aint no way we losing a second time baby dragons."
"Hey fur fuck, what do you mean baby dragons, I don't know about the Drivers but I know I can beat you into a fur coat for Hiccup here."
"What do you think you're doing talking to our leader like that fucking burnt worm."
"One-Eye whats the plan here? There's four giant them and 6 smaller you."
"Worry not Hiccup, this will take no effort on our behalf."
"Lets see ya talk like dat when I bury ya in the snow like the worm ya be."
Hiccup did not know what sort of plan One-Eye had in mind. The Driver dragons were tough, ferocious looking dragons, but these 'Stormcutters' as they were called were almost twice the size of One-Eye himself, and at least twice the size of Toothless in every aspect. They were each standing on their hind limbs and stood at least as tall as a two-story Viking home. they had extremele large wings, each wing spanning nearly both of Toothless' length and to boot they seemed to have claws midway through each of the top portion of their wings. They had large hirn looking things on their heads as well that gave them big foreheads. The had a large club like tails with small spines covering it completely. They were all predominantly a shade of brown with some black or grey sections on their bottom portion of their wings or body. These dragons were big and they were charging.
Hiccup hopped off Toothless and watched him charge back at the Stormcutters. He clashed with one in midjumped and was pushed to the ground. A Driver dragon came to aid him and headbutted the Stormcutter forcing him off and falling a few feet away. The leader of the Stormcutters had his body ripped into by one of the Driver dragons. He clawed at the Driver's sides and wings scratching him and drawing blood. The Stormcutter fell forward letting the Driver dragon get a good footing. One-Eye rushed at the two and leaped at the Stormcutter. He jumped into the wing of the Stormcutter and used his weight to pull him back and onto the ground. The other Driver had taken out his teeth from the flesh, lowered his head and rammed the Stormcutter straight in the gut to help One-Eye force him on his back. The other two Driver dragons had confronted the remaining Stormcutters. The Stormcutters were puffing their chests out and clawing at the smaller dragons. The Driver dragons were prowling, keeping their bodies low to the ground and wings tucked in tight. The Driver dragon on the left started walking forward. One of the Stormcutters leaped at him wing claws spead forward. He jumped backwards to get out of the way. The middle Driver dragon ran at the Stormcutter, his whole fron body was nearly flat on the ground after missing his catch. The Driver sank his teeth into the neck, he dug his back claws deep into the snow. He dug at the ground and found the soil he was looking for, he dug into that as well. He gripped the Stormcutter's horn with his front right claw and used the other to tear into the shoulder. The Driver dragon who had leaped backwards ran and leaped onto its back. He started clawing at the wings leaving bloody tears but not nearly ripping a whole straight through the wing. He also bit into its back and ran further along to claw at the Stormcutter's hind limbs. The other Stormcutter jumped in the air over his comrade and used his front two claws to grab the Driver. He flew towards a mountain and slammed him into it, then he flew up and dragged him through the rocky, ice cold wall. Toothless had been rolling around with the Driver and Stormcutter for the few minutes every other dragon was fighting. He had taken a few bruises and inflicted a few tears himself. The Driver dragon was a lot more worse for wear than he was, having a broken wing and gash across his face. The Stormcutter however was barely standing at this point. He had taken two plasma blasts square in the chest, one in the back and had wounds littering his side. His wings had bits missing at the tops with some drops of blood pouring out when he moved them even slightly away from his body. The Driver dragon was standing directly in front of the Stormcutter with Toothless off to the Driver's right stood on a boulder. The Stormcutter was making sure to try to keep track of both of them. The Stormcutter used his right wing and claw to try to slash at the Driver but he leaped back. Toothless bounded off the rock towards the Stormcutter. He fired a plasma blast the exploded into the Stormcutter's neck and was followed by Toothless' large maw of a mouth clamping down on the same spot. The Storm cutter roared out in pain. He grabbed Toothless' wing and used his own wing to dig into his back. Toothless let go in a shock and backed up a bit. The Stormcutter scrambled to his feet and started to fly off. Another Stormcutter followed wuickly behind him.
"If you dare try this in the future, know that I shall not hold back as much as I did today."
One-Eye roared after the Stormcutter. He looked to be in almost pristine condition except for the gash on his front right shoulder. The other Driver dragon with him had cuts all over his sides but wasn't bleeding much. The blood that did seem to cover his body was just incredibly smeared all over him.
After tearing apart the mountain wall with a Driver dragon the Stormcutter whipped in around in the air and launched him towards the ground. The Driver dragon hit the mountain wall breaking off large chunks and he crashed into the snow. Huge amounts of debris landed on him crushing one of his wings, the limbs on the left, and his neck was just about totally flattened. The other Driver dragons that had pinned the Stormcutter had torn him apart like he was a meal. They had sunk their fangs into his neck and ripped out large mouthfuls of scales and meat. They had ripped off one of the horns leaving a gaping hole in the side of the Stormcutter's head. His wings were ripped to shreds with almost nothing but the bones left. His tail was nearly ripped off, hanging by threads of flesh. He had deep gashes filled with snow and flowing with blood all over his back. The other Stormcutter had flown off barely keeping his comrades in sight.
The Driver dragons gathered where they had started before the attack. They looked around at each other as well as Toothless. Hiccup was coming down from the cliff he had climbed up. He walked back to Toothless' side counting the Driver dragons as he got there.
"Hiccup, pleasure to see you untouched. If we may take a few hours to bury our brother…"
"Please, go ahead. The journey can wait, take the time you need."
"We fought off the worthless monsters that attacked us. We forced them to retreat in a humiliating condition. It was not without ease though. We bury a brother today."
The Driver dragons walked to wear their sixth member was crushed. The smashed the boulders covering him. They dug a hole near his body and slowly placed him in it. They covered it with snow and soil and began to roar one by one. They each held their roar until they had all let out a mournful cry. They spent most of their time talking about his life, from what Hiccup could hear. When the sun signaled that it was mid day and Hiccup had been laying down on Toothless, One-Eye walked over to them.
"Hiccup, we think it would be best to get moving along now. We have said all we need to say to our brother and we are ready to accompany you to the archives."
"Are you sure we can go now? Do the others agree?"
"They are in accord. Driver dragons are a species of strength. We have known that for centuries, a death like our brother's is one to be talked of with pride. We have our word to keep as well in aiding you, we can start the journey once more."
"Well if you're sure."
"Well then, let's get going."
The group would spend the rest of the day walking along the path. It was at much slower pace compared to yesterday but due to what had just happened Hiccup understood completely. Even Toothless was a lot quieter than normal, a sudden brawl like that seemed to really take the energy out of him. The trek took them two and a half days. The simultaneous healing of wounds and advancement of distance led them during that time to the place Hiccup had been looking forward to ever since he knew where they were headed.
It was a large wooden cabin in the middle of a snowy field clearing. There were mountains surrounding the whole field at a perfect distance of about thirty feet. The cabin was simple in design but was very big. The door was almost a third of the height of the entire wall and Hiccup rushed towards it..