A/N: Sorry this and the last few chapters have been rushed. :)
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Chapter 25: Sunny With A Chance Of Death
(Toothless POV)
I peel my eyes open, the fog leaving them, the dizzying feeling fading to the back of my mind. I lift my head up scanning myself. Long chains are wrapped around my forearm and extend to the deck of the large ship I'm on, a chain is wrapped tightly around my left ankle preventing me from moving anywhere. I squint looking forward tossing my soaking hair from my face. What happened?
"Sir! Berk is within sight!" A voice calls. I hear heavy footfalls before Drago walks past me. I watch his back growling softly, I don't know how long I was asleep. It's pitch black night, and it could be days, or hours since our almost escape in early morning.
The water splashes against the side of the boat and lighting flashes before rain pours down on the deck. A low buzz feeling my head, I shake it trying to clear the dizziness before I realize it's Drago's dragon trying to get into my head. I grind my teeth in annoyance. No.
I am no one's puppet, not anymore, I gave up the title after the battle of the Red Death. Before! After I met Hiccup, that was-is the end. I am owned by no one! I close my eyes, focusing on my twin instead of the buzz.
His weird quirks, stutter, sass, horribly hidden crush on Astrid, his smile that rarely shows, when he sits next to me as I can't sleep, both of us looking like we're dazed undead but discussing things mentally. Gradually the buzz fades before disappearing completely. I open my eyes with satisfaction, I had done the same thing with the Red Death. They can't take me.
Not this time.
Rain pours heavily onto my face and I look around letting my gaze linger on Eret standing next to his father. A dazed look in his eyes. I'm surprised Drago didn't kill him. I stare at them before I start looking for Hiccup. Where is he? Did Drago kill him? I am the older sibing-no. He's still alive. He has to be.
I look to the side, the boats are close, the whole fleet grouped together. A tight formation so is one is in trouble is easy for the others to help.
When we pass by the statues marking Berk's waters I still haven't found my twin.
Lightning flashes over head and I finally spot Hiccup. I can see in the dark and can't believe I missed him.
Hanging between this boat and the one next to it by his arms, wrapped in chains to his elbows. He's limp, and I can't tell if he's conscious or just limp with pain. It's as if he's a prize Drago wants to show off. The thought angers me and I glare murderously at Drago's back.
A few minutes pass before I can see the Isle of Berk and the people dotting the beach as Drago's fleet grows closer.
We finally make it close enough for me to see all the riders up in front, closest to the ocean. Valka next to them, Gobber a few feet away. There was a sharp intake of breath from one of the riders before Astrid's hand shoots forward, "HICCUP!" She shouts and I watch Valka's gaze leave me to her other son, full of relief and panic.
Drago laughs looking down at the Berkians,"Surrender Berk, Valka the Fierce or suffer the consequences!" Drago yells.
"You have no power here, Drago Bludvist, release my children and go." Valka commands. I stare at Hiccup trying to will him awake with my gaze.
"You will regret your decision, cheiftess. You could have been apart of my army instead of meeting your end by it." Drago shouts.
"Please just let my children go!" Valka shouts and I stare at her pleading eyes. Instead of answering Drago points his staff at me and I can feel the gaze of his dragon on my head.
"Finish her." Drago commands pointing at Valka. I feel the buzz press harder into my head but I push it to the side watching Valka's eyes widen with horror. I glance at Hiccup before I start to move forward as if in the trance.
I'm not.
I never will be again.
I stare at the other riders and their dragons that are staring at me, "Toothless dont!" Stormfly yells. I reach the full length of the chain and glance at Eret before I dive to the side tackling Drago. Human or not the man isn't prepared for the attack. He crumbles backwards hitting hte deck of the ship with a grunt.
I whip around and grab his staff from the air with my chained hands snapping the bonds down the middle. I toss the staff towards the side and dive towards the side the chain around my ankle clinking.
I can't fire any plasma blasts, how exactly did Drago expect me to attack my mother? Drago gets to his feet and points his staff at me. Shouting.
"Toothless! Move!" Eret yells somewhere behind me. Trusting him I dive to the chains link to the deck as ice is fired. The long chain is caught and I look up at Drago's dragon.
Ice.
Not fire. Great.
I look at where Hiccup is hanging limply before looking back at the huge dragon, 'Hiccup!' I shout looking at my twin. 'HICCUP!' I transmit.
"Stop trying."Drago's dragon commands, "He like you did, belongs to me. He will only do as I say." The dragon says and I stare up at him.
No!
I hiss lowly and the dragon looks at me, "And now you die." The dragon taunts. I tug on the chain stuck in the ice as I realize that he's going to cover me with the ice. Come on! BREAK!
I glance up at the dragon as it starts to inhale. 'Hiccup! If you're in there its now or never!' I yell as the dragon starts to fire.
(Hiccup POV)
My thoughts are sluggish, I can't focus on anything.
My shoulders ache, my palms stinging but I can't figure out why there's a buzz that I can only concentrate on, nothing else. It's aggravating 'HICCUP!' A voice yells. As it enters my head everything seems to snap back into focus.
Memories slip back into place, and I place the voice, "Toothless!" I yell snapping open my eyes jerking my head up. Rain pours onto my face blocking most of my vision. I can make out Berk and stare at it briefly in surprise. I look to the side and see ice covering the deck of a ship. Drago stands on one of the greenish spikes staring down at something. I follow his gaze, not something but someone.
Toothless.
I stare at him as he struggles and Drago's dragon sucks in a deep breath, panic swirls through my thoughts as I match the ice to the dragon. He's going to freeze Toothless! No!
I struggle and look at myself matching why my shoulders ache so terribly. I stare at the chains wrapped around my forearms tightly so I'm hanging in between two of Drago's boats. 'Hiccup! If you're in there it's now or never!' Toothless yells.
I stare at him and start to swing back and forth against the chains. Come on! Come on! Or for the love of- I think angrily before a voice cuts me from my thoughts, "Hiccup!" Eret yells. Eret's father is chasing after him, as he runs across the deck. He throws something and it spins through the air giving me barely a second to place what it is. A axe.
It hits the chains on my right and my arm is broken free, the cuff of the chain still wrapped a little below my elbow. I yelp slightly as the chain tips. Excellent aim, Eret. I compliment in my head to him before I hit the deck. I roll several times landing in front of Toothless on my knees. My stump scraping slightly on the wood.
Toothless gaze flickers to me and his eyes widen. I hear a wind-like noise through the air and lift up my hands in front of me the chain still on my left hand weighing it down slightly. There's a whistle in the wind but I don't pay attention to it closing my eyes waiting for the ice to hit me and Toothless.
After a few seconds of nothing I snap my eyes open blinking several times in shock.
A purple glow is illuminating from my hands, a mixture of both fire and lightning bolts shooting from my hands destroying the ice before it gets within a few feet of us.
"What the?" Toothless murmurs in confusion. I look back at him and give a small shake of my head. I have no idea what's happening.
The ice stops coming and the whistle increases before with a bang the purple glow stops like a plasma blast when it hits something. Plasma blast. I look back at my twin and can see him thinking along the same lines. This is my plasma blast?
Drago gives a shout of fury that breaks me from my thoughts and I snap my gaze to the left before Drago leaps down from the spike landing on the wet deck without even slipping slightly.
"Ah man." I mutter.
"I still have better curse words than that." Toothless assures behind me. I twist my body grabbing Toothless's forearm and unfurl my wings. Toothless tightens his grip around my forearm.
Drago races at us and I lean down before jumping into the air throwing out my wings. Toothless lets out a yelp and I bite my lips flapping my wings and jerk down for a moment before diving over Drago. The chains around his feet break as they hit the deranged man's staff. I glide over towards a spike and land stumbling several feet. Toothless hits the ground on his knees and leaps to his feet after a moment.
"Thanks." Toothless mutters before we both start to scale the spike, Drago's dragon finally snaps out of his shock and starts to fire at us again. Toothless leaps forward suddenly and I let out a yelp as he grabs my forearm the ice suddenly slippery. My feet slide out from under me and I release Toothless's hand before falling through them like a small ravine.
"Hiccup!" Toothless yells turning around and diving back down towards me. I jerk to a stop suddenly and look up staring at the chain in dangling from. My shoulder jerks threatening to pop out of place and I grab the chain with both my hands tightly. The cause of the fall. Right, forgot about that.
Lightning flashes overhead and I look up staring at Toothless, who can't help in the slightest. "Hiccup!" This time the voice is not Toothless's but Mom's.
"Hang on!" Toothless yells and I look up at him.
"Very funny." I say dryly. It's not like I'm already doing that.
"I have an idea, you're going to want to duck." Toothless warns before he takes in a deep inhale leaping out of my sight. I spread out my wings before I realize there is no way I'm going to be able to flap them to get out of here. Plus my prosthetic tailfin isn't on, I would glide majesty into the deck earning broken nose. Wait. Toothless is human, there is no way that he's going to be able to do anything. I let out a groan.
I tighten my grip on the chain tightly despite my palms protests before I see a low blue glow. I stare at it confusion and see movement below me before the spikes light up with a blue glow and explode.
I yell as I fall through the air, the bits of ice shooting around me, I land on Toothless's back, Toothless's dragon back with a oof the chain having snapped from the explosion freeing me. I stare at Toothless's glowing head and spine.
He's a dragon again.
He's like Eventide now, changing at will.
"You're glowing." I say and Toothless raises an eyebrow.
Drago looks over at us, glaring and starts to advance when a cry rings through the air, "DEATH OR GLORY!" Shapes jump into the air that I place instantly to dragons and all of Berk, on dragons dive forward to the boats attacking with fury. I even spot Mildew on a Nadder.
"What!" Drago yells looking up at the dragons in shock.
A war cry rings through the air before Mom leaps from off of Cloudjumper landing a few feet from Drago.
A punch breaks me out of my dazed shock and I whip my head around staring at Astrid,"Where have you been! It's been three days!" She yells, "You scared me to death!"
"I think he gets the point." Snotlout says dryly.
I laugh softly looking back over at mom and Valka as they battle to what looks like the death. Drago's dragon roars and I rub Toothless's head,"Come on, bud. I think we need to have a few words with our friend." I say looking over at the dragon.
"If by a few words you mean blasting him, yeah." Toothless agrees.
"Wait!" Astrid shouts and tosses me something. I catch it and look down at Inferno, pursing my lips as the metal against my palms does not feel pleasant.
"Oh, thanks." I say and she nods before pulling Stormfly up, she and the other riders disappear into the Berkian riders covering the sky.
I lean down and click back Toothless's tail with my fingers and Toothless dives forward in front of the dragon over Mom and Drago's heads.
"You cannot hide from me." Drago's dragon hisses, and I start to feel the buzz in the back of my head.
"You're a coward." Toothless retorts angrily before building up a blast."You will never control me, Hiccup or anyone again!" Toothless roars before firing his blast the blue on his back glows brighter before the blast hits the dragon.
He roars in agony before his tusk falls into the ocean, "I AM ALPHA!" Toothless roars and the dragon looks at him briefly the small eyes wide. He gives a whimpering growl before he bows his head in respect.
"That you are." He agrees before disappearing under the waves of the ocean. The buzz zapping out of my head, I stare down at my brother in shock.
"You know, you're terrifying when you're angry." I say and Toothless looks back at me, slight surprise in his eyes before he turns around, we both watch the battle for a second. My gaze shifts to Mom before locking there.
"You cannot take my children!" She shouts swinging her sword at Drago.
"I take whatever I want." Drago responds,"After all, didn't take Kindle from you?" Drago taunts. Mom leaps forward at him sword over her head with a cry of fury, but the sword never makes it, instead a pair of claws slice into Drago's chest.
"She just.."Toothless starts.
"Changed into a Night Fury." I finish, watching them with shock.
Mom jumps off Drago and hisses lowly. Drago gets to his feet and smirks, leaning over in pain but determination ringing off of him. "So come to get vengeance on your mate. I still wear his skin you know, perhaps when I'm done with your children I'll do the same." Drago says and Mom roars angrily before she fires a blast.
It hits Drago blasting through his middle and the man falls onto the deck with a thud, dead. Toothless races over to mom as she transforms again."Are you okay?" He demands.
"I'm fine." Mom assures before ripping me off of Toothless back in a tight embrace, "I am so sorry!" She cries and I hug her back. Mom leans down and pulls Toothless into the hug, tears streaming down her face.
Conscious through the pain.
Alive through the battle.
We still rise.
000o000
A few hours after the battle I stand next to the other riders Toothless on my left Astrid on my right. "I bet you guys are really impressed when Hookfang and I blew up that entire ship." Snotlout gloats.
"Yeah, after the rest of the village was done destroying the whole army." Eventide says behind me dryly.
"Eh, details." Snotlout argues.
"Oh yeah, well Barch and Truffnut were totally kicking butt." Tuffnut argues and we all look back at him, "That's our team name, Barch and Truffnut." Tuffnut explains and Ruffnut nods quickly.
"Okay..." I trail off.
"I'm glad you're okay, Hiccup." Astrid says after a second of silence. I turn looking at her staring down at my now bandages hands, before the riders break out into arguments again.
"Me to." Toothless adds. He's currently residing in dragon form. Everything is gone, Drago is dead, the Bewilderbeast is gone, Erete received a nice piece of humble pie and was sent to Outcast Island.
"Hey, earth to Haddock!" Astrid says and I snap out of my daze looking over at her.
"Yeah?" I ask.
"What are you thinking about?" Astrid asks instead of answering.
"Nothing. I guess I've just been thinking, my entire life, I've believed I'm not normal the battle everything...what's wrong with me?" I ask and Astrid puts a hand around my shoulders.
"I know what's wrong with you, Hiccup." She says and I look at her. She gives me a soft smile before finishing, "Absolutely nothing."
A/N: THANK YOU GUYS FOR READING YOU ARE AMAZING! Thank you for sticking to the story this long!
Finished: 6/8/16
Updated: 12/8/16