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Dead Inside

Chapter Twenty One

I Own Nothing

Hiccup's P.O.V

I saw my mother getting off CloudJumper, she removed her masked as I ran up and hugged her. We both held each other for a few moments, then we pulled away.

"I missed you." I said softly

"I missed you too." She ran her hand along my face.

I sighed,"Where have you been?" I asked her as we both started walking back to the den, but I stopped us half way their.

She looked at me for a few moments, studying my face as she looked at me with worried eyes. I hated it when she would do that, finally she broke the pregnant pause and turned back to me.

"Mom what's going on?"

She didn't say anything for a few seconds then she finally said the most chilling words."Drago and his men are preparing for war against us." She said coldly as she held me by the shoulders, my eyes widen as I starred at her for a few seconds.

"War?" I said quietly.

"Yes Hiccup, war." She repeated, still holding me by my shoulders with a tight grip, making sure this got through my head."Their looking for us, they'll be here with in days."

"How do you know they're after us?" I asked her.

"Because I overheard their plans!" She spoke up as I locked eyes with her."Drago is coming, and he is ready to take us out, for the last twenty years of he has been planning to take over the world, taking our dragons and turning them into killing machines, he going to do anything to make sure were not in his way and the only way of doing that is by taking us out."

"Oh my god." I stepped back."What are we going to do?" I asked.

"We must fight back." She said to me in a cold tone."Come, we must prepare."

She started walking back to the den, but I stopped her once again. dagur was still in their so I had to bring my mom down on the news. I sounded like a frighten child that was about to get an ass whopping. I could feel myself get all tensed up.

"Um mom, I need to tell you something before we go in."

My mother arched her brows."What is it?" She said.

"I uh kind of did something...pretty bad when you were gone." I tried blurring out without giving to much away to her, oh gods I was so nervous.

"Hiccup just tell me what you did and will fix it."

"Um well this isn't something we can just fix." I ran a hand along the back of my head, then without warning my mom just barged right in to the den, with me on her tail, oh shit here we go.

The room went quiet as I heard my mom gasp, Dagur was sitting across from the fire with his legs cross, looking at her with wide eyes, the room was so silent you could hear a pin drop.

"Surprise." I tried acting all cute with her by throwing my hands up in the air with a fake grin, but soon enough that backfire as she turned to me, her expression wasn't angry, but I could tell she was pretty piss off. Oh boy I was really going to get now.

"Mom I can explain."

"So this is what you wanted to tell me." She pointed at Dagur but was looking at me. I nodded at her, she sighed while pressing her fingers at the bridge of her nose.

"Hi." Dagur kind of waved at her sheepishly, but got a glare from me, I didn't want him to make things worse for my mother, she already had enough.

"Dagur." I said sharply, as I walked over to my mom,"Mom I am so sorry, I wasn't thinking alright? When I went out on patrol I over heard them talking about finding Toothless."

Valka shot up and looked at her daughter"Who? Who is looking for Toothless?" She said with a bit of panic.

"Dad." I said with a shudder,"And just about every warrior from Berk." I shot a glance at Dagur, he could already see the pain in my face. I looked back at my mom, and her expression was the same as mine, full of fear and sadness. I wanted to hold her and tell her I was sorry. I started to explain on how Dagur got here, I told her everything that had happened, even the part where I almost beat him to death.

I hated saying it all to her, I hated bring up the past to her.

"And that's about it." I explain the last bits of it to her as all three of us sat in silence. I felt so ashamed, Dagur tried putting a hand of comfort on my shoulder, but I pushed him away.

"This is all my fault." I placed my face in my hands.

"No it's not Hiccup, you did what was best." Dagur finally spoke up again.

"By hurting you!?" I said loudly, causing my mother to stair at us both as we continued to argue."I never wanted it to go that far Dagur, I was just so angry, I was just so..." I trailed off as I cradled my head in my hands."I just wanted you to feel the same pain as I did."

"Well you got it." He ran his fingers along the cuts on his face, then a few moments later he comfort me by placing his hand on my shoulder, giving it a light squeeze.

"Is there something happening between you two?" My mom arched her brows at the both of us, we both shot looks at her, my face was turning a bit red.

"No." I said not looking at her, trying to avoid her gaze. But she could tell I was lying through my teeth, I shot a quick glance at Dagur, giving him the look though my eyes, don't say a thing or I'll rip your legs off look. He turned his head away, then I heard a sigh coming from my mother.

"Hiccup, it's alright." She said with a bit of enthusiasm in her voice, how is she not mad about this?

"How can you not be mad about this?" I said looking at her."I mean Dagur is a damn psycho path."

"Hey I'm right here!" Dagur whined, but I brushed him off.

"Because I can see something between you two." She chimed in with a light smile."Something that I use to have with..." She turned away, I knew she was still thinking of dad, she still loved him, even through all the shit he has put me through."Anyway, I just want you to be happy Hiccup, you can't lie to me about something like this."

"But you do know Dagur use to treat me like crap right?"

"Yes I am aware of what this Beserkian has put you through." She eyed him for a split second, then she examined his cuts and wounds all over his body, the ones I put on him."But I can see you got some pay back."

"But now I regret it." I looked at Dagur again, this time he flashed me a sympathetic look, I wanted to smile back at him, but I held myself back from it.

"I can see that."

I sighed."Anyway, shouldn't we be preparing for the war?"

"What war?" Dagur shot up and looked at us both.

"Drago Bludvist somehow found us out and is declaring war against us." I said bitterly."He's challenging our alpha against his, wanting to put a stop to us once and for all, but he's not going to get the chance." I got, as did my mother as the three of us head towards the dragon sanctuary, Dagur was still rambling and asking a bunch of questions.

Toothless was busy with CloudJumper, running around and just being silly as always. They both turned towards us as my mother got on her dragon, and I got on mine. I held out my hand as I grabbed Dagur's hand, helping him on Toothless, he wrapped his arms around my waist, my mom arched a brow as she looked at the sight.

"You've let him ride?" She asked.

"Just on the back of Toothless, Dagur hasn't had the chance to actually ride his own yet."

"Is that true?" My mother looked at Dagur.

"Yeah, I uh haven't gotten the chance to train my own yet."

She smiled as she patted Cloud Jumpers head."Well, we're going to have to change that aren't we?" She grinned a little at him, causing him to gulp.

But for right now we had to rally up all the dragons we could get, that shouldn't be too hard since I managed to get some more freed earlier before I got Dagur. Even though we had a pretty big nest already, full of wild untamed dragons, most of them were pretty big, all but the babies were under the alphas control. When I first found out about the baby dragons couldn't be control, I couldn't believe it. I thought it was crazy at first but it was true, they were so...unreasonable I mean there babies they don't listen to no one.

But now we had an extra rider with us, or soon to be rider.

It was going to be fun seeing Dagur trying to pick his own dragon, that is if he ever finds one of his own, I mean I don't mind him riding with at all, I just think he should have his own dragon to do crazy shit with.

It had to be the mid afternoon by now, the sun was already starting to go down, I guess we were too busy talking from earlier. Great, just great I thought, more time wasted instead of doing something important.

A few more hours had passed during this little get together, my mother summoned her alpha as he called out and brought all of his dragons, leading them out of there holes. There had to be billions of dragons, some I have never scene before, even over the last five years I still haven't seen these types of beast.

I landed near the cluster of dragons, with my mother beside me. Dagur was looking at the army of beast, we both got off Toothless, walking towards them. My mother walked besides Dagur.

"Pick one."

"What?" He turned to her.

"Pick a dragon." She smiled as she led him down towards the some what perfect line of dragons.

"Are you be serious?" He looked at her as if she was crazy.

"That depends, do you want to help us take out Drago?" She placed her hands on her hips."Or are you planning to try to take us out?"

He put his hands in front of her in defense."No, I'm not doing that, I only did so I could get revenge." he said a bit darkly as he then looked at me."For her." I locked eyes with him as my mom watched us look at each other like idiots, I was trying so hard not to blush.

"So your going to help us then?" My mom repeated.

With no hesitation he replied."Yes."

"Then pick a dragon, that you think fits you." She pointed her staff towards the direction of the cluster of dragons."One that you can bond with and become one."

He started walking, looking at each one with a blank expression. This was going to take a little while, their is no way he is going to find a dragon in less then a day.

I turned my head for barely two minutes, until I heard him.

"This one." Oh no, not that one gods no.

It was a Skrill, with it's long sharp pointy spines sticking out of it's back, with dark grey and purple markings on it or should I say him, it had a lighting strike on it's belly almost silver, it's wings were very long. This beast can summon lightning and fires it as destructive blast. This thing can stay frozen for decades or at least that's what my mother told me from experience, it's almost can hide it's self from dark clouds. Oh this was going to be fun, this son of a bitch is very hard to train.

"Alright, if this is the one that you choose, then it's the one." My mom looked at him with a smile as she led him to the Skrill, my heart was racing like a war drum. I wanted to interfere and put a stop to this, I didn't want to see Dagur be blown to bits by the creatures lightning powers, one wrong move and this thing could create the perfect storm. I sometimes wonder how my mother even managed to tame this beast.

The creature eyed him looking at him with fierce dark eyes, he started to step forward to the dragon, it let out a warning hiss as Dagur raised his hand towards the Skrill, I could see him begin to shake a little as he reached up for the creature's snout. I guess he remembered what I showed him, when he did it to Toothless. He then placed his hand on the Skrill.

It's eyes widen as it nuzzled his hand lightly. Dagur looked at his new dragon with wide eyes, as his jaw hung open.

"Wow." he whispered.

Mean While...

Stoick's P.O.V

Night had fallen upon us, we could barely see a damn thing in this thick darkness. Clouds of fog were all around, completely blinding us as we continued to venture out into the open ocean. It felt like a never ending journey, one moment we had something, the next it was taken away from us.

Our ships were barely sailing, most of them had holes the size of a limb, others were larger. That damn Night Fury caused all of this and that mysterious rider. I kept thinking about the whole thing, who could have tamed that beast? What does this person want? Who ever they are they are in for a rude awakening.

Who ever this person is, I will find them and I will take out that night fury. I will get what my daughter deserves, I will get the retribution she needs. I will avenge Hiccup's death once and for all, even if it means I must die as well, even in death our love as father and daughter will always go on.

I had this gut feeling we were getting closer to the beast, I could just feel it in the air. We already searched in the other locations and still nothing, but at this certain part of the ocean I could just feel something.

"Were coming for you, Devil." I whispered bitterly as the cold windy breeze hit me. Sending shivers down my spine as I tried looking on through this fog.

Gods help us.

Hiccup's P.O.V

Night had already fallen, we spent pretty much the entire day gather all the dragons we could find, and well getting Dagur acquainted with his new Skrill. My mother had to help him out with the straddling and all the other stuff so he wouldn't fall off, we never used saddles for dragons, we never wanted them to feel bounded. Dagur first real flight was a bit scary since you know the his Skrill tried throwing him off like a hundred times which he did fall off more times then I could count.

But over the hours past the two seemed to be getting along on small terms, the Skrill was female so she had a pretty bad attitude, just like Dagur, one moments she was fine the next she was acting completely crazy, totally hell bent on killing and causing hell.

It was pretty funny trying to watch him tame her, Toothless seemed to be enjoying it as some kind of sick joke, but I was on guard the whole time, making sure he would be alright and not missing a limb by the end of the day. Mom was being a good teacher to him, showing him what and not to do.

We finally finished up, it had to be the middle of the night when we finally got everything into gear. We were all circled around the fire, going over the plan. Mother held a stick in one hand while drawing out the attack tactics for when we strike.

"Hiccup, when I come into the front I want you and Dagur to come up behind me and strike over here." She made a circle over there while connecting it to another."Then over here while I take on Drago." She looked up at me with serious eyes."I need you two to distract the alpha, keep him busy until I give you two the word, understand?."

We both looked at each other and nodded.

"Good, good." She got up as she pulled out the blankets."Come you two need to rest and be ready for tomorrow."

"I thought the battle wasn't going to happen in a few more days?" I asked her.

My mom shook her head."You never know Hiccup, he could be here and right under our noses."

"What about you? you need rest too." I pointed out to her.

"I'll be fine Hiccup, I need to keep a look out just in case."

I sighed giving her that look.

"Hiccup I'll be fine, I'll only be out for a few hours I promise." She held me by my shoulders as she kissed my forehead, she then got up and called her stormcutter."Good night you two, and no cuddling and kissing while I'm gone." I blushed pure red ad Dagur threw his arm around me.

"Don't worry we won't." He smirked as he looked at me with lustful eyes as we both watched her walked out."Much." He whispered as she left us alone.

"Really?"

"What?" He asked looking down at me, I pouted as he took my chin and planted another kiss on my lips, catching me off guard. I accepted it though as I propped myself on his lap as we continued to lock lips.

"What is this?" I said pulling away.

"Uh me making out with you?" He said clueless as I shook my head.

"No Dagur, what is this exactly between us?"

He shrugged at me."What do you want it to be?" He arched his brows at me.

I slowly turned my head away."I don't know yet, I mean this stuff we do...it feels nice and over the last couple of days I'm starting to like you but I don't know if I-'

"Love me yet?" He finished my sentence for me.

"Yeah." I said quietly, then I felt his hand trace along my face as he turned my face towards him.

"It's alright, if you want me to stop, I'll stop." He said gently.

"No, I don't want this to stop, I want more actually, but only when we get a little more...close." I tried brushing him off with that so I didn't hurt his feelings, though Dagur didn't have much of those left. I stayed on his lap until I started to fall asleep, the last thing I remember was him picking me up and laying me in bed next to Toothless.

"Good night my little beauty." He whisper as he pressed his lips onto my cheek.

Valka's P.O.V

The air was cold as the sky was pitch black as I sored though the darkness. The ocean seemed calm as the wind was rocking the waves against the ice. The seas were no longer savage, just calm and peaceful throughout the entire night. I haven't seen or hear anything yet, so far so good. I was hiding under my armor and mask, I didn't want no one to see my face, the only thing that stuck out were my long braids dangling under my hood as the wind wisped it away.

CloudJumper circled the entire place for hours on end, we didn't know if we were going to get an attack or not. We didn't know if Drago was coming after us in the middle of the night. I was paranoid I just wanted my daughter to be safe. I was scared though, I have never planned anything out like this, I've never been in a war, let alone fight in one.

Drago wasn't going to stop any of this until me and Hiccup are dead, ever since she joined me five years ago, we have been upping the raids and rescuing the dragons from his grasp, I thought he wouldn't care if we destroyed his little trapper islands, he didn't seem to care about it before, but I guess we finally crossed the line. Over the last couple of years we have made progress with saving the dragons, we came up home with up to almost twenty to forty dragons a day,oh those days seemed like the best yet they went by so quickly, I felt so much pride in my daughter, I saw so much of myself in her.

Dagur... I really didn't know what to think when I saw him, at first I felt some anger towards him because of the whole arranged marriage, but that really wasn't his fault it was Stoick's bright idea so I guess I can let that one slide for now. But when I saw him and Hiccup together, it brought back memories some good and some bad. I now they have something going on between them and I won't get in their way, this is Hiccup's choice not mine.

Oh she has grown up so quickly, she wasn't a little girl anymore, I thought I had prepared myself for the day she would find somebody to spend the rest of her life with, okay now I am just thinking ahead of myself. Hiccup has plenty of time before she settles down and has a family of her own. Oh gods I can just imagine the grandchildren now...

Then I pulled myself away from my thoughts, I looked over and saw a ship, a broken battered up ship coming towards the iceberg. The ship was barely lit, all I could see were some people on it. But then one of them caught my eye, one in particular.

"Oh gods." I shudder under my mask as I looked down.

The ship's flag, or at least what was left of it had Berks symbol. I saw at the very peak of it, the chief of Berk, my husband, Stoick the Vast.

How is this even possible? How in the world did he even find us? Did Drago send him? Or was this some sort of coincidence?Was this even really happening or was I dreaming?

Even from a far, he still didn't look any different from the last time I saw him. Stoick still had fiery red hair, round nose, huge built and huge muscle, yep my husband hadn't changed one bit, he had a few grey hairs coming along but other then that he looked the same. I thought I would never see his face again, the last time I saw him I was being carried away by CloudJumper, hearing Stoick cry out to me, holding Hiccup as an infant as I disappeared in the air of fire and smoke.

The ship was still sailing, heading to the sanctuary.

I swooped in right above them, they couldn't tell I was there, not yet at least. I have to lead them away, I can't have him or anyone else around here. We continued to sore over them, without being seen.

Then suddenly I heard a yell coming down.

"DRAGONS!"

I was spotted, we were both caught right in the act. I direct CloudJumper to turn us around, trying to lead them away. but I could already see them already getting off the ship ans heading to the entrance, some of the other warriors were focused on us, aiming their bolas and weapons at me.

This was going to be fun, me going against my own husband and old tribe.

Then I heard my dragon cry out, we were suddenly free falling in the air as we collided to the cold hard ground, I fell off his back as I rolled over and the sight I saw. I could have dropped dead right then and there.

Stoick was stand ten feet away from me, holding his ax tightly as he slowly walked over towards me, I could see his fury and anger through my mask.

"It's just you and me." He said coldly, as he turned his ax over.

I backed up as I held my staff in my hands.

"Where is it?" He said accusingly.

I didn't say anything, I didn't want his to recognize my voice.

"Where is the bloody Night Fury?!" his booming voice shook me to my core."And don't even think about lying to me either! I will kill you right where you stand if don't tell me right now!."

I kept being silent as he he continued to stare me down with rage, CloudJumper was still tangled up in the bola ropes, crying out to me to get him out. Stoick was running out of patience he then looked at me coldly as he charged me, I stood my ground and at the last second I dogged his attack, is ax hitting the icy ground.

I rolled onto my side and stood up as he charged me again.

But then I heard a sudden high pitched cry, he stopped and looked up in the air as he saw Hiccup, flying in the air with Toothless. Oh no, oh gods no Hiccup, let me do this so I can protect you.

"There you are." He said coldly as he turned towards them.

Oh no Stoick Vs Valka and Hiccup! Will he find out it's his wife and daughter? or will it be to late?