Rolling and tumbling through the forest, Toothless was doing everything he could to try and kill this bear. But for some reason nothing was happening. His blasts didn't work, nor did his teeth and claws. But he wasn't about to stop. He knew that Hiccup would be able to win his fight. He had to win this one to make sure that she stayed safe.

Mordu spun, he clawed, he bit. He slammed this strange beast up against trees and everything he could. He wouldn't let go and he couldn't hurt him just like nothing he did hurt him. But he has lived for thousands of years. Only one thing could free him from the hell. One thing and one thing only. He was going to let nothing and no one stand in the way of that.

Finally getting the dragon off of him, Mordu roared at him and tried to run past him. He had to get back to the princess. He had too.

Snarling, Toothless gave a jump and was on the bears back, clawing and biting as he started to glow blue.

Letting out a mighty roar again, Mordu flipped himself in a ball, but when he came up, the thing was still on his back. Rushing a huge tree he started with his head and ran his back on the tree, prying the dragon off of him. Turning he let out a roar as he stood on his hind legs.

Standing on his hind legs as well, Toothless let out a scream as he instantly lit up blue. Opening his mouth he gathered up his plasma, and then let a mighty blast out right in the bear's face. When he fell down, Toothless snarled as he started to go and try and finish him off. But then hearing the other dragon roar and how it shook the ground even this far away. It could be bad.

Turning he rush through the forest and back toward where Hiccup was. It sounded like the dragon who was there for the baby before. But different at the same time. He had to be back with Hiccup.

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Sliding back from a firm kick in the stomach, after landing a hard right hook onto Hiccup's face, Macintosh glared. They were equal in strength. As much as he didn't want to admit it. But he would never let Hiccup know that he even thought that sort of a fact. Just as he started to charge him again, both he and Hiccup stopped and flinched, but kept their eyes on each other. The roar coming from the castle. That sounded like trouble for everyone all the way around.

But so long as he got Merida, Macintosh didn't care what the cost was for anyone else. He would take his rightful place as Clan Leader, and carry on if something happened to his father. "Sounds like you need to run save everyone from the big bad dragon."

Not knowing what that was, how dangerous it could be for those hiding. Hiccup wanted to run back and defuse the situation. However, Toothless was not there. Without him, he couldn't take Merida and Fire with him. "Trust me I want too. But this one time, I refuse to leave here unless I have your head to go with me."

Glaring as he took up his stance again, Macintosh took a deep breath. "Well then I think it is time that I stop playing around then isn't it." But movement near where Merida was and he glared with narrowed eyes. The damned dragon was back! That was going to make things much harder once he killed Hiccup.

Seeing his lapse in judgement, Hiccup charged him and ducked down, using the hardness of his arm guard, and slammed it into his stomach, sending him flying back. On his feet as Macintosh landed on his back, he started to go after him but dead stopped just a few feet from where he stood. It was the bear again! "Damnit!" falling back, he put himself closer to Merida as the bear slowly walked into the stone circle. 'Now what am I going to do?'

Standing and looking at the monster of a bear, Macintosh stood and glared as he took a few feet back and took up his sword again. "Fergus said you ate his foot. He can't kill you. So I will and show everyone he is nothing but a damned liar!"

But then he blinked as the bear only looked at him and headed for where Hiccup and Merida were. Blinking to see that Hiccup was focused on the bear, he saw this as his chance to grab her and head back toward the ships. But just as he moved, the bear turned and swiped him with his paw and sent him flying against a rock, knocking him out.

Frozen with fear, Merida just sat by fire as she starred at the bear who looked right at her. She didn't know why he was so intent on trying to kill her. And he scared her to death!

Hiccup changed the canister in his sword and lit it on fire. "Merida the same thing stands. Don't leave her side and Toothless stays with you."

Her eyes frantic and wide as they could go, Merida jerked her head over to look at him. "But this isn't a dragon! What you know to calm them down won't work on him. He only wants me dead!"

"Which is why you stay there." Not even looking at her, Hiccup stood his ground as Mordu stood up on his hind legs. "If anything happens to me, Toothless will make sure you and Fire get out of here alive and back home. Stay there."

Tears misting in her eyes, Merida just took a few deep breaths. "Just be careful. I don't know what I would do if I were to loose you."

"Right." Hiccup kept his eye contact with the bear as it roared at him. "I don't know what you want her dead so badly for, but I can't let that happen. I won't."

His patience growing tired, Mordu glared down at this human before him. He has tried to tell people why he must do what he must. But he is a bear now. They don't understand him. They can't understand him. So his only recorse was to kill everyone who stood in his way. And now that meant this one too. He then reached out and swiped his paw at him, slashing him through his clothes over his chest and sent him flying. Turning to rush the princess he found himself once again being attacked by the dragon!

The wind knocked out of him, Hiccup was taking hard breaths to get his breath. Looking up he saw Toothless and Mordu once again fighting and rolling around inside the stone circle. Pushing himself up to his feet he looked down. He sliced through his clothes, but most were leather straps anyway. One tear broke some skin but it wasn't anything bad at all.

Moving as he tried to figure out what to do, Hiccup went to stand with Merida. Once there and she fused herself to him, he glared at the bear. "This is bad. I don't know what to do Merida. You have to let Toothless take you and…"

"I won't leave you or her right now! I can't." But then the sudden sound of a cracking rock and they turned to find that Toothless had the bear up against the rock as it was cracking. "That's it!" Hiccup then all but pushed Merida back to Fire and turned with a spear and threw it at the rock. "Toothless! Blast the crack!"

Her eyes wide, Merida was once again at Hiccup's side as she hugged his arm and stood behind him. Just as Mordu started to walk, the blast hit the rock, and as if in slow motion, Merida watched as it landed firmly on Mordu's back. And he didn't get back up. "Did it work?"

"I think so." But then both flinched as Toothless was there in front of them when the rock started to glow blue. Hiccup then gasped along with Merida when the blue formed a ghost of a figure over the rock. "That is not normal."

Looking down at his hands, Mordu blinked then looked over at the boy and the princess. He was released from the bear form. He could not move on. Giving them a bow he sighed. "Thank you. You have released me from the confines of the bear. Thankfully a different way than I thought I had to be. Peace be with you."

Merida started to say something but then he was gone into a wisp and then just gone. Looking up at Hiccup as he blinked, Merida smiled. "That means that Mordu is gone. If mum has a girl, then she won't forever be a target of him like I was."

With a smile, hiccup nodded as he looked down at her. "That's right. All that is left now is…" But his words trailed off when he looked over and Macintosh wasn't there. "He is gone!"

Hearing movement, Hiccup spun around and then sighed when it was Fire on her feet blinking. "She woke up."

Forgetting for that fraction of a second, Merida let go of Hiccup and started to go for her. But then she gasped and let out a scream when she felt a hand in her hair, and then froze to feel a blade at her neck. Her eyes wild as she looked, it was Macintosh!

His eyes hard as he held his hand up to stop the dragons, Hiccup was breathing hard. "You won't get five feet with her Macintosh. Let her go now and accept your fate."

Laughing as he kept one hand in her hair, and the other kept the knife to her throat, Macintosh smiled an evil smile. "I think not. You and those beasts can't do anything to me now without hurting her. And you won't do that. Soon as we get back to my ship, she starts her life as my wife. You need to accept that."

Taking a deep breath as he stepped back, Hiccup let his eyes move from Macintosh's eyes to the terrified eyes of Merida as he placed a hand on Fire. "Merida. Do you remember what I told you to do to make her bond with you? Trust. Do you trust your dragon that she won't hurt you?"

Seeing the look in his eyes, Merida knew that there was something more going on there. He had a plan, and Fire, now that she was awake and angry was part of it. "I do. She won't hurt me no matter what."

Nodding, Hiccup sighed. "Then close your eyes and show her that trust." The second her body relaxed and her eyes closed, he moved his hand from Fire's head and took a deep breath. "last chance before you die."

Laughing as he held Merida fully in front of him, hardly peeking from around her hair, Macintosh didn't move. "That dragon can't do anything to me.

Opening his eyes as he glared into Macintosh's eyes, Hiccup could have sworn that he flinched to see the resolve to take his life in them. "Now Fire."

Macintosh then gasped when Fire lifted her tail in the air and then slung it at them, a few dozen of her spikes flying off of it and right for him and Merida.