The area had fallen almost silent except for the massive dragon queen still trying to recover from Toothless's blast to its head, Stoick was almost glaring at Hiccup after hearing he knew about the nest and the dragon queen but never said anything. More so to learn Hiccup purposely kept him from the nest for 3 weeks. Hiccup knew he didn't have a lot of time before the queen recovered and started attacking again, he wanted to get them out of there and fast. "I know I should of told you before dad but come on...I promise you this isn't a fight you can win! Look at her! She's the size of a mountain...A literal friggen mountain!" Hiccup motioned to her.
"I've been searching for years, Hiccup! We're staying and fighting!" Stoick argued.
"No you're not! You're taking everyone to the ships and getting out of here, now." Hiccup demanded.
"I've waited to long son..." Stoick pushed Hiccup out of his way.
"For once in your Thor-damned life will you please just listen to me!" Hiccup yelled at the top of his lungs. Stoick froze turning to see him there angrily. "That dragon is the dragon queen alright, she commands the smaller dragons to raid for food and bring it back to her. If the dragons don't bring enough back...she kills them by eating them instead. I saw it happen! I don't care how mad at me you get for keeping this from you...I know how dangerous this is and you can't win it! If I hadn't come when I did, you'd all be burnt alive! I kept this to myself to protect the tribe, your tribe! You wanted me to be the chief then show me you trust me to protect these people!" Hiccup growled.
"How did you know we were here, you were sleeping when we left." Stoick asked.
"I woke up and went to the village to see all of you, Birger told me you left for the nest heading West and I already knew this place...Now please, I am begging you to trust me dad, you told me you trusted me. Now prove it, get everyone on those ships and sail back to Berk. I'll keep her busy." Hiccup sighed.
"You can't fight her alone, Hiccup...she's huge." Astrid said worried.
"I'm the only one who can do this...I'm the only one who can ride a dragon..." Hiccup said calmly.
"Hiccup...Wait...I have to talk to you." Astrid said reaching for his hand.
"You can tell me on Berk when everyone is safe, please go." Hiccup pleaded her. The queen roared out angrily now ready again, "Shit...come on Toothless!" Hiccup said as he went to get on Toothless's back but noticed Toothless's eyes were slits, that wasn't good. Toothless stepped towards Hiccup slowly and his eyes widened, "Toothless?" Hiccup said.
"What's wrong with him?" Fishlegs asked.
"The queen...controls...Oh no...Toothless! Come on bud, snap out of it. Don't listen to her!" Hiccup said quickly with his hands up. Toothless growled at him snarling now and baring his teeth.
"Toothless is under the queen's control!" Snotlout yelled.
Hiccup knew what the queen would do, order Toothless to kill them all. "Toothless..." Hiccup said softer now. "Its me bud, its me. I'm right here..." Hiccup put his hand out slowly.
"Hiccup get out of there!" Stoick ordered.
"No. I'm not leaving him under that things control...You don't know the bond Toothless and I have, dad. This is what I'm good at...Trust me. And get back." Hiccup retorted keeping his focus on Toothless who opened his mouth to form a blast. "You hear me, Toothless...I'm not leaving you...I know you're still there, I know you can hear me." Hiccup said softer as his hand got closer to Toothless's snout.
By this point the queen had attacked the boat with a blast rendering them no longer able to be sailed back which meant they were trapped on this island with this dragon queen and a currently possessed Toothless aiming to kill Hiccup. "Come back to me...You'd never hurt them...you'd never hurt me. I won't lose you, Toothless. I won't leave you..." Hiccup said as Toothless's eyes changed from slits to dilated a few times and he whined trying to fight back the control. "I won't let you go. Please you...are my best friend bud." Hiccup's eyes started to form tears as his hand rested on Toothless's snout and he warbled at Hiccup. "My Best Friend."
Toothless pulled back and shook his head with his eyes closed then opened to reveal the big, wide happy eyes. "Atta boy! That's it! I'm here!" Hiccup smiled as he threw his arms around the dragon's neck.
"How did...you break her control...?" Gobber asked.
"He's my best friend, our bond is stronger than you could ever imagine...and now it's time to stop that power hungry dragon..." Hiccup said as he jumped on Toothless's back and opened his tail.
"It's the prophecy...Two worlds will come together by one boy and one dragon. And only together they will show everyone the truth that lies beneath. They will come together through pain and loss and rise above it all, forming an alliance, a friendship, a bond so strong that no army can stand against it. They will end the war, and change the world forever." Fishlegs exclaimed.
"Not sure what you're talking about but...Right now...I've got a dragon to deal with. Stay out of sight..." Hiccup warned as he prepared to take off. Astrid rushed over and grabbed his hand, tears in her eyes.
"Hiccup no...don't fight her please...you can't win alone...and I...can't lose you." Astrid cried, Hiccup reached over and hugged her tightly, placing a kiss on her forehead.
"I have to...I'll be alright, please just get to a safe spot..." Hiccup said gently to her. "I'm nothing without you..." He added.
"And we are nothing without you. We need you..." Astrid whimpered against his chest.
"This is what a chief does, Astrid. He protects his people...and if I have to die to make sure you're safe and can live a long, happy life...where you can have your future then I will." Hiccup said softly to her.
"You're not the chief yet, Hiccup...and I wasn't...talking about the tribe when I said we needed you." Astrid said shyly, Hiccup's eyes widened and he pulled back looking at her closely, he saw her hands resting on her stomach it was now that he saw the small bump there. His mouth slowly dropped open, "As–Astrid...are you...telling me that you're...?" Hiccup trailed off slowly.
Astrid nodded to him, "I–I'm with child, Hiccup... Its why I've been so sick...and moody. I'm...pregnant. With your child."
Hiccup couldn't even find the words he needed to talk, to respond to what she'd said. Astrid was pregnant, with his child. "When...did you find out?..." Hiccup asked her.
"On the ship sailing here...I overheard Arvid talking about his wife being pregnant, he mentioned all her symptoms and I just...matched them to my own...Nausea, fatigue, can't sleep comfortably, aversion to certain foods, moodiness, spotting...missed monthly bleeding..." Astrid said sheepishly.
"How...far along?" Hiccup questioned still trying to sit with it.
"I–I don't know...Symptoms started...6 weeks after the first time we made love. And most women get symptoms at 4 weeks, that'd be a month...and I've been sick for a few weeks now." Astrid replied. Hiccup stayed silent now as he spotted Toothless writing something in the dirt it made his eyes widen more. "What...what did he say or...write?" Astrid asked Hiccup gently.
"He said 7 weeks. That means almost two months...The night you got sick and I made you stay with me...he said something smelled different but couldn't figure out what it was and now he knows that it was you being pregnant..." Hiccup sighed.
"A–are you mad at me?" Astrid lowered her head.
"No, it takes two to make love babe...We both had a hand in this happening." Hiccup replied offering a soft smile to her, she returned it and then the queen stepped towards them and Hiccup's eyes narrowed.
"Hiccup...No...please don't fight her! You'll be killed and I can't...raise this child without you..." Astrid cried again. Hiccup cupped her cheek and kissed her deeply, holding it for about a minute.
"You won't have too. I promise you on my life, I won't die. I swear it, Astrid that I will come back alive and then we'll get married and raise our baby together. Stay safe..." Hiccup let go of her hand and Toothless shot in to the sky before Astrid could protest him going again.
"What were you...two talking about?" Stoick asked, "I've never seen Hiccup looked so scared or shocked before." He added. Astrid never answered him, her eyes focused on the skies above as Toothless and Hiccup climbed higher and higher, Hiccup looking down to see that the dragon queen had wings.
"That thing has wings..." Hiccup said in disbelief then an idea crossed his mind, "Alright, lets see if she can use them." Hiccup turned Toothless and they dive bombed down toward her, when just close enough Toothless shot a blast at her side forcing her to fall over with a roar. Hiccup and Toothless turn again looking around as they are flying through the air. The Vikings watched as the dragon queen regained her footing and spread her wings. Hiccup looks back as they put distance between them. "You think that did it?" Hiccup asks Toothless curiously then suddenly, the enraged behemoth rises into view flapping its wings furiously. A daunting sight. "Well, he can fly." Hiccup announced, at least the dragon was off the ground and away from his tribe now.
Hiccup and Toothless dive into the tangled sea stacks, they weave through the rock like rabbits through a briar. The queen snaps at them, but cannot reach them. Hiccup and Toothless pull ahead. The queen now smashes through the canopy of rock and pulls in behind Toothless. She bursts through fifty-foot formations like they were saplings.
On the ground Stoick, Gobber, and the Teens watch as Hiccup and Toothless streak past, weaving through sea stacks.
"Woohoo! Yeah!" Snotlout, Fishlegs, and the twins cheer. A moment later the queen breaks through the sea stacks to dust in hot pursuit. The Vikings mood is quenched and Astrid is more worried now as her hands instinctively move to her belly and rub it slightly.
'Don't worry little one, your daddy is gonna be okay. He'll make it, he'll come back to us...he promised and your father never breaks his promises.' Astrid thought calmly, or trying to stay calm at least. Hiccup and Toothless can't slow the monster down. Hiccup eyes the clouds above. An idea hits him. He locks eyes with Toothless.
"Okay Toothless, time to disappear..." Hiccup commands, Toothless pulls into a steep climb, heading toward the clouds. "Come on bud!" Hiccup urges confidently. The dragon queen follows, closing in fast. Hearing the gas Hiccup waits for the moment, "Here it comes!" Hiccup warned as the dragon shot a blast at them and they narrowly dodge a column of flame and smoke. They reach the low-hanging clouds and pierce them. The monster follows, immediately losing them in the hampered visibility. It roars irritably as there were a few moments of silence other than the dragons roars of clear annoyance in being unable to see Hiccup and Toothless.
From out of nowhere, Toothless dives at the huge dragon, blasting and puncturing a hole in its wing. Toothless and Hiccup are gone again before the dragon can get a shot at them. Below the Vikings stare up at the sky listening to the resounding bombs and watching flashes light up the clouds. Gobber places a hand on Stoick's shoulder. Hiccup and Toothless dive in again and again, using the clouds to hide and surprise as they puncture the monster's wings. It bellows in frustration and whirls around, unleashing fire blindly, in all directions.
Hiccup sees the glow of fire cutting towards them. "Watch out!" Hiccup yells to Toothless but the random blast clips Toothless' tail. It's heavily damaged and starting to burn up, "Okay, time's up. Let's see if this works." He pulls Toothless into a turn. They fly directly into the queens face, taunting it. "Come on! Is that the best you can do!?" Hiccup grins. Toothless utters an insult too, and they jackknife into a steep dive. The queen pursues quickly with a roar to them, Toothless pumps his wings, racing faster than he's ever gone before. Hiccup and Toothless stay just ahead of the dragon no longer trying to evade it.
Hiccup glances back to check the tail and sure enough, it's disintegrating. Not a good thing because without it they couldn't fly. This would take extreme precision and Hiccup only prayed it worked as well as he thought it would. It was a theory, he didn't know if it would actually work. 'Mom if you're watching...please let this work...' Hiccup prayed. "Stay with me buddy. We're good. Just a little bit longer..." Hiccup informs his friend. The queen closes the gap between them while Hiccup tucks in and holds Toothless steady allowing the monster to set its sights on them with narrowed eyes.
"Hold, Toothless..." Hiccup closes his eyes listening close, the queen opens her mouth. The familiar gas hiss emanates from her throat, signaling the ignition is coming. "NOW!" Hiccup yells and hits the pedals hard as Toothless extends one wing. They pivot in place, hurtling directly into the dragon's mouth. Toothless fires point blank down the monster's throat. Its amassing gas is ignited, backfiring into the monster, erupting in a chain of blasts throughout its body. Hiccup and Toothless burst from the clouds, the queen hot on their tail, exploding from within. It glances forward and sees the ground rushing up.
The queen throws open its wings, attempting to put on the brakes, but the punctured, damaged wings can't stop its momentum. She chokes on the expanding fireball and sees Toothless suddenly pull out of the dive, streaking up, past her head. The queen hits the ground, head-first. It explodes like the Hindenburg. Hiccup and Toothless weave through the monster's massive back plates, wings, and flailing legs. A high-speed recall of the free fall slalom run. The expanding fireball races toward them, about to swallow them.
"Oh gods no..." Astrid's eyes widened with fear. Everyone gasping at the sight of Hiccup trying to escape a massive explosion by flying up the queen's tail. Hiccup and Toothless manage to clear the obstacles. Hiccup glances back, they're outrunning the fireball. He looks forward just in time to see the monster's massive club tail careening toward them. Hiccup tries to shift their direction. The last shreds of Toothless' tail tear away. Hiccup's pedals go dead.
"No. No!" Hiccup and Toothless can't maneuver, they're dead in the air. The giant club tail clips Toothless, tearing Hiccup from the harness and sending him tumbling against the backdrop of the fast-approaching fireball. Hiccup falls back in to the fire, falling unconscious while Toothless struggles with all his might to reach the unconscious Hiccup. But the fireball swallows them both. On ground level the Vikings watch in horror as Hiccup and Toothless disappear into the boiling inferno. A whiteout of ash takes over the area.
Everyone was in shock of what just happened, Hiccup forced the queen into the ground with a face full of fire, they forced her to dive bomb at incredible speeds so she couldn't escape it. Hiccup and Toothless defeated her, and then they were lost in the explosion. Astrid is horror struck at what she witnessed, he couldn't of died. He promised her. He promised...them. Stoick wasted no time, "Hiccup? Hiccup!?" Stoick yells searching desperately. Everything is scorched. Even the ground is smoking from the terrible heat.
"Hiccup..." Astrid whispered in fear, an unmistakable feeling of being sick washed over her. Hiccup was gone, there was no way he could of survived the fall or explosion. She doubted there would even be a body to bury, she'd have to raise their child alone. Their baby would grow up without its father, Astrid fought the overwhelming urge to collapse to her knees as she watched Stoick helplessly search for his son.
"Hiccup!? Son!?" Astrid heard Stoick yell again, she looked up to tell him that there was no chance Hiccup lived through that but then through the ash, Stoick and her see the motionless silhouette of Toothless. "Hiccup..." Stoick whispered in a grave tone. He hurries to the dragon's side. Toothless is roughed up, but conscious. His scorched saddle, however, is vacant, Stoick looks to the sky in despair. He buckles at the knees, overwhelmed by loss.
Astrid pushes through the crowd, her eyes welling up. "Toothless..." Astrid said in an almost silent voice, Gobber now makes his way beside her with the other teens standing sadly. The tribe members who were there began to flank Stoick as he kneels, slumped over. Hiccup had given his life to protect them, to protect the entire tribe from a dragon queen. Behind them, a ring of Vikings form, keeping a respectful distance. As the dust and smoke clear, a ring of wild dragons can also be seen, gathering just behind and between the Vikings. Toothless stirs and groggily rolls his head toward Stoick. Their eyes met.
"I'm so sorry..." Stoick forces back tears, Toothless's eyes widen a little seeing the hurt and despair from the chief's eyes, then he looked to Astrid who looked like she could barely stand. Did they think Hiccup was dead? Of course he wasn't, Toothless grabbed him...sort of. Toothless unfolds his wings, revealing Hiccup, unconscious, clutched safely against his chest. Stoick's eyes widen, Astrid's do as well seeing Hiccup's slightly injured body in Toothless's front and back legs just like the night on Raven point when Hiccup tried to kill himself.
"Hiccup..." Astrid breathes out while Stoick scoops Hiccup into his arms and put his head to Hiccup's chest, unable to hear anything at first, Stoick removes his helmet and listens close again. He heard it. Tha-tha-thump. Tha-tha-thump. Hiccup's heart beat was there. Stoick bursts into relieved laughter but also almost crying.
"He's alive!" Stoick announces proudly as people began to rejoice, Astrid's hands covered her mouth in disbelief. Hiccup was alive? He made it!? "You brought him back alive!" The crowd roars. Followed by the dragons. The Vikings look around to find themselves surrounded. Stoick leans close to Toothless, meeting him eye to eye. Astrid was so overjoyed he was alive, things would be okay. Everything would be okay now. "Thank you... for saving my son." Stoick tells Toothless privately who grunts and lays his head back down weakly, clearly tired.
Gobber looks Hiccup up and down. "Well, you know... most of him." Stoick glances back at him. Gobber shrugs, redirecting his eyes towards Hiccup's unconscious form. Astrid was now able to see just exactly what Gobber was talking about. Hiccup's left leg from just below the knee down was gone, that was going to take some adjusting. "He'll be needing that treated..." Gobber added now.
"We need to get back to Berk so Gothi can close that up..." Fishlegs interjected.
"But...it's already closed. Look at it, it was singed closed and only left the stump." Astrid pointed out. Toothless snorted again, weakly writing something in the dirt for Astrid to read off, "Toothless...says that the only way he was able to catch Hiccup was by grabbing his leg with his mouth and accidentally bit it off to pull Hiccup in to his wings when the fire encased around them. Oh...and that he's sorry but it was the only way to save him. He singed it closed himself and licked it in order to heal it..." Astrid read.
"We still need to get back to Berk and that dragon destroyed our ships..." Gobber said.
"Look! More ships from Berk are arriving with Birger leading the charge." Someone shouted, all of them now looking towards the beach area were a mass of 10 ships docking there.
"What are they doing here...?" Stoick asked.
"Birger my friend, what brings you here? How'd did you know to come?" Asked another villager.
"It was young Hiccup who told us." Birger replied walking over. A few people blinked in surprise, "When he awoke a few hours after you left wanting to know where everyone was, I told him you went searching for the nest. He immediately freaked out and ordered I prepare whatever ships were left on Berk and sail to this location on his map, he told us about the queen...then he sped off to get here himself." Birger explained.
"Hiccup knew we'd be in trouble...so he arranged for us to be safe...and he almost gave his life doing it. He...ended the war, there won't be anymore raids. Hiccup did it! He is the one the prophecy talked about, right down two them both losing something they need. Toothless's left tail fin...and now Hiccup's left leg." Fishlegs exclaimed.
"No time to waste, everyone to the ships!" Stoick ordered as he picked Hiccup up in his arms and carried him to the ship, Toothless slowly followed behind with Gobber, Astrid, and the teens. Stoick's ship sailed first so they could get back, then the others soon followed and within 3 hours everyone of the Hooligan tribe was back on Berk and those who wanted to know what happened were filled in. Stoick took Hiccup to the house and laid him in his bed which was now set on the first level near the fire. Gothi confirmed that he would live but as to when he'd wake up, she didn't know for sure.
Toothless, Astrid, and Stoick were Hiccup's most frequent visitors. Gobber and Gothi occasionally too, they'd all just sit with Hiccup. Talking to him, urging him to wake up but there was never a change. Everyone was upset about it, and this was only furthering the reason that they knew Hiccup would be an amazing chief one day. Twice now he'd put his life on the line to save the tribe when it had been Stoick's responsibility to ensure their safety. Everyone wanted him to wake up, so they could celebrate his victory.
Astrid hadn't told anyone about her pregnancy yet either, she wanted to wait for Hiccup because they still had a lot to talk about. And frankly she didn't want to face Stoick and her parents without Hiccup to help her, so she's wait for now and hide it the best she could. All anyone could do right now was just wait it out, and hope Hiccup would awaken soon.