This pretty much picks off where the last chapter ended and actual was suppose to be apart of the last chapter but we decided to cut it and start a new one. Hope you enjoy it!
WARNING: some intense visual and some harsh language in one section, it will be marked off if you wish to skip it.
Hiccup woke up with a shout. Beads of sweat poured down his face and he looked around, disoriented, trying to figure out where he was. He became aware of large, scaly wings wrapped around him. Panting, he laid his head back down. The sky was still dark.
"Hiccup?" Toothless' voice spoke in the stillness of the night.
Hiccup didn't move or speak. Ragnar approached the pair. "Hiccup, are you ok?" He asked, rubbing his eyes tiredly.
"I'm sorry, did I wake you up?" Hiccup said.
"Don't worry about it," he sat cross-legged on the ground beside hiccup. "You were having another nightmare, weren't you?"
Hiccup turned away. "No...well I mean yeah, I guess so. It's not really a big deal. It was nothing."
Ragnar frowned. "It's not nothing, hiccup. And it's important that you're honest with me, and more importantly yourself. I know you've been having a rough time ever since we came back. We all won't do well with the mission unless we can work through this. Together."
Hiccup stood and opened his mouth to say something, then closed it again.
"What was your nightmare about?" Ragnar asked, standing up.
"I just..." Hiccup started to cry as he laid back down against Toothless's chest and Toothless ruffled his hair with his snout. "Ragnar, I should have never come back. Look at me, I'm just a big baby. By Thor, I'm so weak. I thought I'd grown up over the past couple years, but apparently, I haven't. I'm just the same wimpy kid I always was."
Ragnar came to him. "Look here Hiccup, first of all, crying does not mean you're weak. It takes a strong man to express his feelings. Having a nightmare doesn't mean you're weak either, everybody has them. And as far as having you here on the mission, I could never have asked for a better companion," he paused "or friend. Do you want to talk about what you saw?"
Hiccup didn't speak for a long time, "I...I'm not sure if I want to remember what happened."
Ragnar sighed. "Well, when your ready to talk, just know that I'm here for you." He then turned around to go back over to where they had made their camp when he heard Hiccup cry out from behind him.
"NO! Please don't leave me Ragnar! I'll tell you everything, just please don't leave," Hiccup shouted as he jumped up and went to follow the man. Turning around, Ragnar caught Hiccup in a hug that nearly sent him to the group. Hiccup had his head buried in his brother's shoulder, letting loose with all the tears he had.
"Don't you worry, I'm not going anywhere," Ragnar said as he started rubbing his distraught brothers back. "Why don't we go sit down by the fire and you tell me about that nightmare."
Hiccup feebly nodded his head as he let Ragnar direct him over to where the dying fire was. Sitting Hiccup down and then tossing a few new logs onto the flames to keep it burning, Ragnar turned back his Brother and let Hiccup tell him of what happened in his nightmare.
*^*^*^Start of Nightmare^*^*^*
Hiccup looked around, he didn't understand what was happening. Somehow he was riding atop Toothless and flying next to Ragnar and Wraith. Looking down he saw it was a desert and they were following a road.
"Hey Hiccup, you good over there bro?" Ragnar said to him.
"Uhm yeah, I'm good here why?" Hiccup responded, looking over at the pair.
"You zoned out over there, I was trying to tell you I found another convoy about 3 klicks down the road at out three o'clock." Hiccup looked in that direction and sure enough, there was a SCUD Launcher sandwiched between a BTR-60 and an M35 2½-ton cargo truck knockoff.
"Plan of attack is you take out that BTR and I'll tag the Scud then we get the truck together," Ragnar said before shifting right so they were not so close together. Hiccup found himself caught up in everything, he remembered what their mission was and that this was their last patrol before going back home.
"Copy that," He replied and shifted left and prepared to attack the Iraqi SCUD convoy. They both got lined up on their targets and began their approach; the high pitched shrill that the Night Fury makes when it powers up a shot started to ring out across the desert sky.
The Iraqis heard the noise and started to react to it, their eyes and guns pointed up towards the sky in preparation for the attack. They started to scan the sky, looking for the two boys and their Night Furys. They wouldn't have the chance to fire a shot as Toothless and Wraith let their plasma shots go and instantly pulled up. Those plasma shots flew straight and true and hit their intended targets. Toothless's plasma blast hit the BTR first, punching clean through the upper plate, right through the driver's hatch where the Fury had aimed it. The drivers head was instantly vaporizing and the plasma blast kept going through the vehicle, severely burning everybody inside the armored vehicle before it came into contact with the engine and fuel tank, blowing the vehicle to Valhalla.
Wraiths shot hit the SCUD just as Toothless's shot was vaporizing the driver's head. Like Toothless's, Wraiths shot hit the fuel tank of the SCUD missile, causing it to ignite and create a chain reaction which blew up the high explosive warhead, destroying the SCUD launcher and mangling the front of the following truck.
As the two meet back up in the sky to go after the truck, the canvas covering over the back fell away to reveal something they were not expecting.
"Shit, it's a ZU 23! Break left, break left!" Ragnar shouted at Hiccup and the two broke away in different directions as the ZU-23-2 that was hidden in the back of the truck opened up and tracers lit up the night sky. Hiccup looked over at where he knew Ragnar and Wraith would be, only to see the whitish-red streak of light that was the 23 mm tracer round intersect with that point. An ear-shattering screech echoed through the sky followed by a very faint cheer from the Iraqi ground crew.
"Wraith! Ragnar!" The two shouted as they flew as fast as they could to where a plume of dust had been kicked up by the crash landing of the pair. Once they did, more 23mm tracer ammo started flying above their head, but they had landed behind a sand berm which was shielding them from the onslaught.
"Ragnar, talk to me!" Hiccup shouted as he made his way over to the downed pair. A helmeted head poked out from behind the sideways dragon.
"I'm right here, only a few bruises. Shit, how is Wraith?" came the response.
"Oh you know, not every day it feels like somebody fucking jabs you in the chest with a white-hot fire poker!" Wraith venomously shouted at them as they moved to patch him up. "When I get my claws on that fucking gunner I'll..." Wraith started before roaring out in pain as they boys bandaged the graze.
"We got lucky it only grazed your side and didn't hit you square in the chest." Hiccup said as they finished.
"We can talk about that later, once we take care of those troops," Toothless said as a round flew dangerously close to his head, causing him to move closer to Wraith.
"Right," both Hiccup and Ragnar said before moving to the edge of the berm to see what they were facing. Just as they got there the ZU-23-2 stopped firing and six Iraqi soldiers came charging over the crest, shouting battle cries and firing with their AK-47's. The boys didn't have any time to react to the sudden threat except pull the trigger on their weapons. Three of the six Iraqis fell dead, two with bullet holes and one with a plasma burn. The other three kept coming, however, one heading for Hiccup with two heading for Ragnar.
"Fuck, Fuck, FUCK!" Hiccup shouted as the man who was charging him went to stab him with a bayonet attached to the end of his AK-47. Hiccup lept to the right, causing the man to miss and stumble past him. Just as the Iraqi was recovering, he turned to see Hiccup leveling his sidearm at the man and then the flash of the gun firing before nothing.
Hiccup turned around to see Ragnar in a fight with one of the Iraqis over a rather large dagger and the other was out of sight. Hiccup shot the man fighting with Ragnar just as two more appeared over the berm and the last of the original attackers appeared behind Ragnar.
"Ragnar, behind you!" Hiccup shouted as he raised his M9 to fire on the two newcomers. The next few seconds happened in slow motion it seemed as Hiccup pulled the trigger and Ragnar spun around. The gun crew was slightly staggered to Hiccup which allowed him to shoot both with very little adjustment to his aim. When he looked back over at where Ragnar was, all he could see was the Iraqi soldier that had been behind him bending over and seemed to be trying to pull his rifle out of something. As Hiccup got closer he could see it was Ragnar's chest.
"Ragnar?" Hiccup croaked out, causing the man to look over and lift his rifle to fire at Hiccup, but with a pistol, Hiccup was faster on the draw.
"Ragnar?!" Hiccup shouted as he rushed over to where he had last seen his brother. Upon getting there he stopped and dropped to his knees, pistol falling from his hands as he was frozen with grief over what he was looking at.
"Useless finally managed to get somebody killed, it's a miracle it didn't happen sooner." The voice of Snotlout came floating in out of nowhere as Hiccup cradled the limp body of Ragnar in his arms.
"Look at him, how weak he is. Crying on the field of battle, how pathetic." Astrid's voice came raining down on him as he started to cry for his brother.
"Leave me alone!" Hiccup shouted as he looked up from Ragnar to see all the gang and his Father standing above him.
"You have disappointed me, son. You let your partner die in battle, no true Viking would leave his partner in battle. You are not a Viking, you are not my Son." Stoick said before turning around and leaving.
"Toothless!" Hiccup cried out as he tried to stand up and get away from his tormentors and to his dragon.
"Oh, you mean the Night Fury?" Snotlout sneered at his cousin. "That Beast will be my new mount. Night Fury, come here now." As if on cue Toothless appeared but instead of going to Hiccup he went to Snotlout, sitting beside him like a dog beside its master.
"See Hiccup, how little you understand these Beasts when compared to us," Fishlegs spoke up. Hiccup, his emotions like a giant mixing pot, grabbed his pistol which had fallen nearby and tried to shoot them out of anger. Except his gun jammed after the first shot.
"Look, another invention of his that failed right when he needed it! You are are a worthless excuse for a person Useless, and you knew it just as much as I do." Snotlout said, pushing Hiccup down to the ground. When Hiccup looked back up they were back on Berk, he was near one of the cliff edges and was standing before the entire village.
"Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. You stand here before the village charged with cowardliness, colluding with the enemy, and desertion of Berk. We find you guilty on all counts and sentence you to death." He heard Stoick say before Astrid blocked out his view.
"Disgusting, and to think I used to admire you." She said before kicking him off the cliff and into the ocean spray and rocks below.
So ya, here is this chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. I don't really have much to say here. Love it, hate it, leave a review with your opinion. NarniaQueen and I love to read them! Speaking of which, guest review time!
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