Chapter 20

-Hiccup's POV-

After we left the arena we set our flight path to the dragon's nest. Well all the dragons but Jade, Jet, and Tyler. We reached the fog and then the teens called out to me. "So what exactly is our plan Hiccup?" Snotlout asked.

"Well it's simple really, stop my dad from making a terrible mistake and get my dragon back in the process." I replied.

"Don't forget Jet now he wasn't that bad of a host." Tyler said.

"We'll get him back to." I replied to him. The other teens looked at me questioningly.

"Did you just…?" Astrid began.

"Tyler taught me." I replied.

"We all taught you Hiccup." Jade stated bellow me. I patted her neck and we came out of the fog near Dragon Island. When we saw what was going on, I could only feel dread. The queen was tearing through the Vikings. Ships were being tossed into the mountain, others were burning, and catapult debris littered the coast. We flew behind the queen undetected and then Tyler and Jade basted the dragon as it brought its head up in a firing position. It roared out in surprise and pain and we passed in front of it. As we flew past the dragon, it tried taking swipes at us with its jaws. This thing was truly a cannibal. We formed up again and circled it from a safe distance away.

"Fishlegs break it down." I called to him.

"Ok, heavily armored skull and tail made for bashing and crushing, steer clear of both. Small eyes, large nostrils, it relies on hearing and smell." Fishlegs replied.

"Alright Snotlout, Fishlegs, fly in its blind spot, keep making noises to keep I confused. Ruff, Tuff, find out if it has a shot limit. Make it mad." I told them.

"That's our specialty." Ruffnut called out.

"Since when, everyone knows I'm more irritating. See?" Tuffnut stated. He then flipped over his dragon's head and started making weird noises.

"Just do what I told you we'll be back as soon as we can." I told them. Astrid, Jade, Tyler, and I flew towards the burning Viking fleet and we began searching for Jet and Toothless. Tyler called out that he found Jet and went after him while the rest of us searched for Toothless. I found him on a burning boat and had Jade drop me on the deck. "Go help the others." I called out to them. They nodded and flew back towards the behemoth. I then turned to Toothless and pulled off his muzzle.

"About time you showed up." He said. I then began trying to take the neck-brace off of him to no avail. I went through a crate that I saw not too far away and found a prybar to try prying the restraint off of him. Again due to my lack of strength I couldn't even make it budge, but I had to keep trying. I looked up briefly and saw that the queen's paw was right over the front to the boat. She stepped out and the boat instantly broke apart. Toothless and I feel in the water and he called to me, but I couldn't understand him due to him being muffled by the water. His trap dropped to the bottom on the sea and I swam down to try and free him again. I found the prybar and continued my struggle. Why I can't even do this for my friend? We were both struggling to undo the neck-brace until finally I couldn't hold my breath anymore. Just as I was about to take breath underwater, something yanked me and pulled me to the surface. When I was on the surface, I coughed up water and looked to the figure that pulled me out of the water. "Dad?" I questioned as he jumped back into the water. A few seconds later Toothless burst through the water carrying my dad. He dropped him in front of me, landed on a rock not too far away, and gestured to me.

"C'mon they need help." He said.

"You got it bud." I replied. I climbed on my saddle and dad grabbed my arm.

"Look Hiccup, I'm sorry. For-for everything." He said.

"Yeah, me to." I told him.

"You don't have to go up there." He stated.

"We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard." I sarcastically said.

"I'm proud to call you my son." He said. My vision blurred for a second and then my mind caught up to reality.

"Thanks dad." I replied. He let go of my arm and I looked down to Toothless. "Let's go." Toothless shot into the sky and we began climbing for an attack run. I looked back and then saw Astrid being sucked towards the Queen's maw. Toothless and I dived down towards the Queen and fired a shot at her mouth. The shot stopped the queen, biut Astrid fell off her dragon. I looked back and saw a yellow streak grab her in mid-air. The dragon set Astrid on the ground and that only left me, Toothless, and Tyler in the air. I saw Jade making sure Jet didn't take off into the sky and made my way to Tyler.

"How are we going to stop this thing? My shots don't have any effect and I only have 6 left." Tyler stated. I looked back at the Queen and saw something folded on her back.

"She has wings, if we can force her into the air we might be able to make her crash into the sea stacks surrounding the island." I stated.

"Let's go then." Toothless said. Toothless and Tyler pulled into a high speed dive and let loose equally powerful shots at the Queen. The Queen fell over and I looked back. At first I thought we simply defeated it, but then a big shape appeared behind us.

"Well she can fly." I said. We lead her into a sea stack formation and dodged all of the pillars with ease. The Queen was smashing into the pillars like I planned but they didn't have the desired effect because she simply barreled through them with no problems. We needed a new plan. I looked up in the sky and saw the clouds. I had another idea. "Guys I suggest we disappear." I then pulled Toothless into a climb and Tyler followed us on our left side. The Queen followed to, but had a harder time climbing to us because of how gigantic she was. We reached the clouds and split up as soon as the Queen tried biting at us again. We both began flying in different directions and I pulled Toothless down to blast her wings. Tyler seemed to catch our idea because as Toothless and I blaster her with plasma, I saw orange bolts explode on her wings as well. Eventually the Queen got fed up and unleashed a massive torrent of fire in the sky. I tried making Toothless dodge it, but the fire caught his prosthetic and lit it ablaze. "Ok time's up, let's see if this works." I said as we pulled out in front of Queen. "C'mon is that the best you can do?"

"I've seen terrors with more firepower than you." Toothless yelled.

"I second that. If you can't even try and be a dragon how are you expected to lead a nest you heartless bastard!" Tyler screamed as he joined us again. The Queen tried snapping at us again and we dived down out of the clouds. I looked back and saw the prosthetic was barely holding together. Toothless seemed to notice to.

"Hiccup I really hope you know what you're doing." He said.

"C'mon buddy, just hang in there a little bit longer." I replied. As we dived down I heard a charging sound behind us. I closed my eyes until it was almost finished. "NOW!" I yanked Toothless to face the Queen and both he and Tyler fired into the Queen's maw. The gas that was inside ignited and she tried recovering from her dive, but the holes in her wings opened even more and she didn't have any lift. Toothless opened his wings to stop himself from crashing and that was the last I saw of Tyler that day.

The Queen slammed into the ground and her body began exploding. Toothless and I were flying over her exploding corpse when I saw her tail drift down towards us. I tried setting the prosthetic to fly away, but the artificial fin snapped off of Toothless' tail. I looked forward again to be greeted by the Queen's tail. The impact threw me off of Toothless and my vision darkened. The last thing I saw was Toothless desperately trying to get to me before my vision faded to black.