Hiccup's POV

My eyes locked onto the silhouettes of the duo of Red Death's as Toothless and I remained hovering. Occasionally, I glanced to the view below to check whether or not everyone had recovered from the impact. Luckily, Elsa and Nokk were there to save the day with their magic.

As the lighting above materialized, so did a clearer sight of the duo of Death's. It was brief, but I was sure that I saw a hint of a dragon rider on one of the giant dragons.

Toothless readied a plasma blast from the base of his throat as the Red Death's charged to our direction, that usual high-pitched noise emitting from it. However, once the duo was close enough, they suddenly stopped right in front of us, braking with their gigantic wings. That's when Toothless decided to cancel his plasma blast, as he glared to the giant dragons ahead of us.

Right on top of one of the Red Death's stood just the man I wanted to see after hearing his name several times. He smirked proudly.

"Came here for an apology, Drago?" I asked the man.

"Revenge might be more suitable, Son of Stoick the Vast!" He pointed his old spear to me. "Glad to see there are still a few Berkians left! I didn't get my chance to get rid of any during the raid."

I gave the maniac a glare. "Well, cut the chatter and get us then!" I patted Toothless once on the head, my usual signal for him to spit a plasma blast to our opponent. And he did, right towards where Drago stood. However, with a simple dodge behind the Red Death's thick skull, the man evaded the attack.

"Very well!" He came out of hiding and spun his spear around. I knew what this was going to be, or so I thought I did. "ARGGHHH!" Drago screamed on top of his lungs. With that scream, the Red Death's roared loudly. To avoid bleeding eardrums, Toothless descended our altitude. Just when I thought it was over, the giant dragons descended their altitudes as well while keeping on with the roar.

"Whoa—easy girl!"

"What's going on?"

I turned around to see the dragons reacting to the roar of the Red Death's. My friends who were on the back of ones were struggling to keep them under control due to the howling roar, as they kept moving about as if they were possessed. Could it be?

"Toothless!" I called for my dragon. "You're the Alpha, keep them contained!"

Hearing so, the Night Fury roared, but it had no effect at all. Instead, all the dragons we had freed turned to us, giving us a glare that screamed danger.

"A false Alpha," Drago exclaimed, "Will be executed!"

"Hiccup, get away from us!" I heard my mother warned from below. "I have no control of Cloudjumper!"

"Hiccup, you might want to run!" Fishleg warned the same, as he's losing his balance and control of his Gronckle.

Right on the corner of my vision, I spotted a black silhouette flying towards me, which turned out to be a Terrible Terror. I evaded the small dragon with a barrel roll and kicked the little fellow off while doing so. After recovering from the barrel roll, that's when I learned that all of the dragons were coming for us.

"Toothless, let's go!" I commanded. With that, we dashed off to a random direction. To get up to speed of our distance, I occasionally looked behind to see just how far we were from the horde of dragons behind us. Luckily, Toothless was a Night Fury, so speed was not something we were troubled with. This gave me enough time to think.

"Okay… so the Red Death's are apparently the new Alphas…" I looked down to the giant dragons, who seemed to be concentrating while keeping their eyes on the dragons behind us. That gave me an idea.

Anna's POV

I watched the dragons fly off into the distance after Hiccup and Toothless hopelessly. Since the dragons seemed to be under the control of the giant dragons, I didn't take my chance to get on one, or even join a Viking that was on the back of one, either.

I was now alone, or, that's what I thought when I spotted my sister seemingly trying to pull something out of the water. I rushed over to her side.

"Anna," Elsa called after recognizing my presence, "Help me out!"

She seemed to be pulling out a tail of a dragon. It didn't take long for me to realize that it was the Light Fury. With every bit of energy there was, I pulled the dragon by the tail slowly. In the middle of the process, I suddenly felt something pushing the body of the dragon from the water, allowing us to place the entire body of the dragon on top of the wobbly ice. It turned out to be Nokk who pushed the Light Fury, as he stepped onto the ice to examine the unconscious dragon.

"Oh no, is she alright?" I spoke, scooching over to the dragon. Elsa tried to sense for any heartbeat inside the dragon with a hand but failed miserably.

"I don't know where the heart is…" Elsa clicked her tongue. As she continued the search, The Light Fury suddenly coughed off water from her mouth.

"Oh thank God!" Elsa said.

The Light Fury weakly turned to us and purred in the same manner.

"It's gonna be alright…" Elsa gently caressed the dragon by the paw. "Anna, do you see any wounds or something?"

I stood up to circle and examine the dragon thoroughly. "Apart from the ones she already had before those two came out of nowhere, I don't see anything."

"Okay, okay…" Elsa turned to me. "Just… whatever are we going to do? There are still more ships to visit, and we're already a wreck."

I looked up the giant dragons ahead of us, who seemed preoccupied with the scene of Hiccup being chased by the horde of dragons. After a lightning lighted the entire sea for a brief second, I discovered that there was a man on top of one of the dragons. He might be the key to this situation.

"Elsa, look!" I knelt down next to her and pointed to the man. "You see that guy?"

"What guy?" She narrowed her eyes to see better.

"The guy standing on top of that dragon! Look!" I placed my head right next to hers and pointed more closely.

"Oh! Could he be… Drago?" Elsa asked.

That never crossed my mind. "It could be. Perhaps you could try to get him off of the dragon?"

Elsa processed my proposal for a moment. "… I can only try."

Elsa placed her fists together and separated them in a curved line, creating a bow of ice as she did so. With the same technique, she created an ice arrow. Once done crafting, she stood up and aimed for her target.

"Wish me luck…"

As Elsa took her time to aim, a high-pitched noise emitted from the sky above. I looked up to see for the possible source of such weird noise but found none.

PHEW—BOOM!

Out of nowhere, something exploded by the head of the dragon on which Drago stood on, knocking the dragon off. Then, something black dashed past us in an incredible speed, which gained altitude drastically afterwards to avoid the wall of the cliff. I looked up to the mysterious object and found out that it was Hiccup and Toothless!

The duo flew towards the other giant dragon and landed on its spiky back. It was hard to make out, but I saw a bluish light emitting from the back of the Night Fury. Then, the same high-pitched noise echoed through the air, along with the roar of a Night Fury. What came afterwards almost pierced through our eardrums as a lightning struck the giant dragon from behind.

The lightning caused the dragon to fall into the sea, and apparently also caused rain to fall, as if the very move was a catalyst. Once taking water, the giant dragon panicked and made its way slowly to the wall of the island.

"Anna! Elsa!"

I looked up; it was Astrid, hovering with the other dragons who seemed to be behaving normally now. "Come on! Let's free the other dragons!"

"What about Hiccup?!" I asked.

"He will keep the Red Death's away from us! He will be fine! Let's go!" She then flew away with the others to reach for the fleet of ships on our north. I looked away, biting my bottom lip in despair. To be completely frank, I was not convinced that Hiccup would be okay all by himself up there to face these two gigantic titans. Sure, Toothless was there, but the chances were still there.

"Anna."

I turned to Elsa who had a grip on my shoulder. "If anyone can take down those two, it's Hiccup and Toothless," she smiled reassuringly, which was a sight that you'd never expect in a battlefield. "Have faith."

I stared at her, still feeling uncertain, but then I decided to give it a try, to give it a little faith. "Okay…" I grabbed her hand with my own, "But don't leave my side, okay?"

She nodded. "I won't."

We turned to the Light Fury who was drying herself off from the water all over her skin. She turned to us and tilted her head as if she was saying 'come on!'

"You sure you're okay, Lyrie?" Elsa said as she approached the dragon. The dragon replied with a fierce look that screamed the fact that she was ready to jump back into combat.

"Lyrie?" I questioned.

"Light. Fury. Geez, you're as oblivious as Hiccup," she pulled me to the dragon. "Hop on. I'll ride on Nokk for the time being."

"Whoa, why not just fly together? You're the more experienced one, after all!" I complained as I sat on the back of the dragon.

"GROARRRR!"

We turned around and saw the Red Death, as Astrid referred, holding onto the cliff of the island while looking up to the sky, possibly looking for Hiccup and Toothless.

Elsa turned back to me. "She has babies onboard, best not to add any more weight. Hold on!" She patted the dragon on the wing twice. The Light Fury then expanded them and leaped onto the sky.

"WHOAAA—SLOW DOWN LYRIEEE!" I hugged the dragon, hugging for my own dear life. Inevitably, I saw the water below getting farther and farther as we climbed more altitude. I looked away by looking ahead, but that didn't help as the Red Death below spewed a large flamethrower right in front of us.

"Look out!" I warned the dragon. To evade the threat, Lyrie folded her wings by half and flew below the flamethrower itself. Seeing her seamlessly pulling an evasive maneuver like that made me burst with joy.

"Yeahhh!" I cheered as I looked behind to the giant dragon, who later received a random explosion by the head. The purple-y color of the explosion suggested that it was most likely Toothless' doing. And down under, I spotted Nokk galloping on the water with Elsa on it. She gave me a thumbs up while riding the water horse.

Up ahead, I noticed the Vikings and the dragons had landed on another gigantic ship, as there was a great battle onboard. Lyrie landed onboard to let me reach the deck before jumping onto the one of the masts to shoot her fireballs from above.

Seeing that the number of Vikings handling the cages was enough, I ran my way to the busy part of the deck to fend off the Therondian sailors. Before I could even reach it, a flying body of a man knocked me off. While regaining my composures, I noticed the presence of a tall and heavily-armored man wielding a sword that was nearly as long as his own height. I saw literally no opening nor gap on his armor that exposed his skin. With a mere swing, he took down a charging dragon with his sword, and Eret who tried to attack him.

I stood up on my feet, and that apparently caught his attention. "Queen Anna?" He spoke behind his helmet in a low, raspy voice. Oddly, I sort of recognized his voice.

He lifted his helmet open, revealing a face that I hadn't seen in months, exactly since I agreed to sign a treaty with Therondia.

"General Magnus?" I asked. He was the General that was present with King Adam of Therondia when he arrived at Arendelle to sign the treaty. His mountain-like height was an attention-grabber during their arrival upon our land. He was simply the tallest and buffest man I've ever seen in my entire life.

"What are you doing in here?" He approached me slowly while dragging his sword. "Aren't you supposed to be in Arendelle?"

"You don't get to tell me where I should be!" I put on my shield and my inferno blade.

"Huh?" He looked at me weird, but then proceeded to chuckle. "Don't tell me you're with these guys? The Berkians?"

"Always have, always will," I replied.

"Such a shame. King Adam is on his way to Arendelle claim your land, too. I guess that's just gonna make life easier for us!" He put on his helmet back. "Time to meet your maker!"

He swung his sword from above. I jumped backwards once to avoid it, as it crashed the wooden floor. I needed to find a spot on his body to at least cause a cut on his skin big time, so while he was pulling out his sword, I ran to his back to see if there was any spot. However, before I could even get a good look, he swung his sword to me. I didn't see it coming, so I braced myself with my shield.

CLANG!

The impact threw me onto one of the cages, my back contacting against the bars of the cage.

"Ughh…" I grunted as I struggled to stand back up. While doing so, a dragon charged towards the general. The dragon bit the man by the arm and trashed it around recklessly. General Magnus amazingly freed himself from the bite with a punch to the dragon's face and cast the dragon off the ship with a single sweep of his sword.

I was taken aback by the man's strength. And when I discovered that my shield had a dent due to his sword, I was getting more and more consumed by fear, and he was aware if that. It didn't take an expert that he was no match for me. However, the only person there was to face him onboard was me, as the others were busy battling other Therondian soldiers and freeing the dragons.

General Magnus suddenly ran towards my direction. Seeing so, I ran off to flee from him. I pushed through the crowd of dragons and men until something big knocked me from behind, making me kiss the floor hard. When I glanced up, I discovered that the general had just thrown me a barrel to stop me. I took too long to get myself back up because of the pain. It didn't take long for the general to grab me by the neck and raised me up onto the air. I tried scratching his hand with my hand, bashing it with my shield, cutting it with my sword, all for the sake of breaking free, but nothing worked.

"EVERYBODY, STOP FIGHTING!" General Magnus exclaimed, the volume of his warning defeating the sounds of clashing swords and roars of dragons onboard. "OR I WILL KILL THE QUEEN OF ARENDELLE!"

I could tell everybody heard the warning, since the battle onboard suddenly halted. Every Viking turned their attention to us in worry, but the Therondians did it in a victorious manner.

"Good, finally some good fucking peace," he said. "You Vikings are so STUPID! Letting the queen of your valuable ally loose on the battlefield? BAHAHA!"

He suddenly tightened his grip around my neck to the point I was unable to breathe.

"Ack—"

"Queen Anna of Arendelle, I am your Algojo…" he stared into my eyes, tightening his grip more, "Who sadly won't give you the chance to speak your last words."

"GET OFF MY SISTER!"

I was ready to pass out when Elsa jumped onto the general, circling her legs around his neck. She recklessly pulled the helmet off of his head, very much exposing his face. I took the window and planted my blade into his temple. Once his grip around me loosened, I dropped onto the floor and collected my absent breath. While doing so, Lyrie came out of nowhere and rammed the general off the ship.

"You're okay?" Elsa asked as she knelt down in front of me to check me.

"I-I'm okay… Have the dragons been freed?" I looked up to see the surroundings.

"Last dragon is freed!" A voice exclaimed from the other end of the ship. I was sure it sounded like Fishleg.

"Alright!" Elsa stood up as she helped me doing the same. "The floor is lava, everybody!"

With that command, The Vikings hopped onto their dragons and commanded them to burn the floor before flying away. Luckily, the dragons who were merely spectating the entire scene joined the contribution by spitting flame onto the ship. We watched the Vikings fly to the next ship on the shopping list, which was docked on the west side of the island. I could tell from my perspective that the west side of the island was more crowded than the previous sides we've been.

"Anna, get on Lyrie, I gotta make sure everyone has got out," Elsa proposed as she pushed me to the dragon who was ready to take me on again. Of course, this kind of proposals would always arouse my suspicion, and this time was no exception.

"Promise me you'll be on your way within the next two minutes," I told her as I got on Lyrie. With that, I leaped onto the air again and she dashed off to the other side of the ship to check for any remaining allies.

After giving the ship a final glance, I looked up to my destination. I could see five motherships, all carrying cages of dragons, and the rest were warships and small boats that carried none. Even though we seemed to be outmatched in terms of the number, as we free a dragon, that's another fire-breather beast added into the team, who is very much capable of handling at the very least a dozen men. So, we had confidence.

We landed on another mothership. This time, I placed myself on freeing-the-dragons duty. After ramming a soldier off of the ship, I hopped on one cage that contained various looking dragons, all seemingly excited to get out and join the fight.

I grabbed out my torcher and started melting the hinge joint of the door. Since it was pouring with rain, I had to keep the flame under my hand as I slowly melted the metal. The harsh wind was not helping at all, too.

Then, I noticed the absence of my sister. I looked up to the sea and could nearly see nothing. I knew that she could take care of herself, but feeling worried was inevitable for me. Barely realizing that I was done with the joint, I moved to the second joint to completely open the cage, and kept my vision onto the sea again, waiting for any hint of an ice queen riding a horse made out of water.

Suddenly, the thunderous sky above emitted enough light for a split second, allowing me to spot the very figure I wanted to see. I saw my sister and Nokk coming onto the ship we were on from far away. However, during the split second, I saw something else, too. A giant figure crossed Elsa's path from the water. I didn't want it to be true but it seemed like a giant dragon. Right when the light of the lightning went out, my ears picked up a noise of something spewed from the same direction.

My lower jaw dropped at the sight. In my little heart I hoped for nothing bad, but the reality was different. Once more lightning spread across the sky, a giant dragon revealed itself, and so did its masterpiece in front of it; pillaring icicles resting against the cliff of the island. The most horrifying part was the fact that my sister was nowhere to be seen.

"Elsa?!" I called out. "ELSA!"

I made sure I was done with my own work before hopping off the cage and took a closer look onto the sea ahead. From the looks of it, the giant dragon must be the only one who made such icicles, as nothing else was around it. My mindset immediately shifted its priority to my sister.

"Lyrie! LYRIE!" I called for the Light Fury. I looked around but there was no presence of her. Landing out of nowhere, the Light Fury appeared behind me.

"Oh good, you know your name. Come on, Elsa is—"

"ROARRRRR—"

CRASH!

I turned around to see a large splash on the water, and a part of the icicles made by the dragon had been shattered. I could only wonder what could've possibly caused such chaos since visibility was nearing zero at the moment, but I didn't as my mind told me that my sister could've likely died right in front of my eyes. So, I hopped on Lyrie again and signaled the dragon to fly towards the icy misery.

After approaching the mess, I discovered that the dragon that had spat the icicles had been somehow rammed by one of the Red Death's, as the Death was merely resting on top of the ice dragon. The Death had holes all over its wings, possibly the very cause of the ram. Since the two giants were resting on ice, the two were slowly taking water.

"Elsa!" I called her name.

"ELSAAA!" I called again with a louder voice. Of course, I earned myself no response. My mind told me that she could very well be caught inside the icicles.

I landed on one of the icicles. I slid my way down the icicle. Once reaching the base of it, I desperately tried to crack through it with my palms.

"E-Elsa…"

Tears began to build up on my shut eyes. I sensed Lyrie nudging me gently to keep my chin up, but I gently pushed her away.

PHEW—BOOM!

I looked up to the source of the blast and saw Toothless and Hiccup being chased by the last Red Death right on the split second when thunderbolt lighted the heaven. Even after the thunderbolt had ceased, I could see something lighting on the tail of Toothless, as if something was burning on it. Then, I remembered the dragon's tail, prosthetic tail. The two seemed to have flown off onto the island as I kept track of them.

"I can't lose him, too," I hopped on Lyrie. "Come on!"

Lyrie leaped to the heaven once again. I kept my grip on the dragon steady as we climbed more altitude until finally reaching the top of the island. On the very far end of the island, I saw the Red Death landing, possibly near Vantage Point from where I was seeing.

I was desperate to make sure that I wasn't going to lose Hiccup, but I kept myself cool and collected as I signaled Lyrie to fly low and slowly.

"FIRE!"

A bola suddenly caught us midair, bringing us down into the woods below us.

"Agh! Ow! Fuck—yeouch!"

Once again, I kissed the ground. Though we may have scratched ourselves through the vines and branches of the trees, they actually softened our landing. Throughout the last hour or so, I had been tossed and cut and bruised, so I inevitably had to take my time to properly recover myself this time.

"Find the dragon! And the rider, too!"

"Aye sir!"

Hearing the command exhilarated my adrenaline right away. Under the nets of the bola, I began cutting them to break ourselves free with my blade. Along the process, Lyrie moaned weakly under the pouring rain.

"I hear you girl… I'm getting you out of this…" I assured. After cutting enough ropes, I uncovered ourselves from the bolas. I did a quick thorough check on Lyrie to make sure there was no serious wound. After finding none, I knelt in front of the dragon.

"Can you fly?" I asked, as if I was ever gonna receive a reply I'd understand. Out of the blue, Lyrie's eyes rolled away from me to something behind me. Before I could even find out what, the Light Fury jumped and spat a fireball.

"AGHH—" a pained cry sounded.

I turned around to see at least a dozen of Therondians through the trees. "Oh no… Whoa!"

Again, before I could even react, Lyrie made me sit on her back and leaped to the sky again. Luckily, the swift move was swift enough for us to escape the Therondians. However, up ahead, the Red Death was nowhere to be seen.

"Huh? Where did it go?" I asked myself. Once reaching the very spot the Red Death landed on, I motioned my body to sway to the right, signaling the dragon to fly in circle while I was carefully scanning the ground below.

"Where are you, Hiccup?—Oh, over there, Lyrie!"

I pointed below to tree that's been clearly stepped on by the Red Death, but it was not the tree that I was interested in. Seeing where to land, Lyrie landed right on the broken tree. I hopped off the dragon and grabbed the object that caught my eyes under the tree.

"Hiccup's… prosthetic leg…" I spoke to myself. I gasped upon the sight of stains of blood after rotating it to a different angle. My mind soon began to speculate of the worst possibility there was.

"No, no, no, it can't be—"

THUMP!

My foot sensed the ground shake as a large shadow overshadowed my own. I turned around and was greeted by the hot steaming breath coming out of the nostrils of the Red Death right in front of me. From on top of the head stepped down the man himself that very much suited the name of Drago Bludvist. I really couldn't imagine a better person to fit the name.

"His girlfriend, I assume?" He chuckled, stepping onto the bark, totally not fearing the hissing Light Fury near him.

"What did you do to him?!" I asked.

"Oh you know… the tail of a Red Death is capable of shattering a boulder his size into pieces… Imagine if it was him… and the Night Fury… just lying helplessly on the ground," he explained casually. My eyes widened to his detailed explanation. "Of course, being made out of metal, his peg leg would be the only thing left after such—"

"YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" I said as I desperately tried to reach his position. However, before I could even do so, Lyrie swept me with her tail away, creating a gap between me and Drago.

While regaining myself, I looked up to the dragon herself. "Lyrie, what the hell are you doing—"

I noticed something different on her. Her pupils are no longer the same dilated ones and were more snake-like. The Red Death was controlling her!

"Go," Drago spoke. With that, the Light Fury charged towards me. Once again, driven by adrenaline, I rushed my way away from the possessed dragon while holding Hiccup's peg leg. I entered the woods and began to move in zig-zag in hope that it would make a longer gap between us. I kept running and running until I was outside at a clearing, at Basin Point, to be exact.

"Basin Point…" I spoke to myself. The river up ahead was streaming harshly due to the heavy rainfall, and to cross it would be a suicide mission. I turned around and spotted the very silhouette of the Light Fury running through vines of the woods. I was cornered. I was either to face the dragon or make a leap into the river where God knows I would be ended up in.

"I'm sorry, Lyrie…"

I hopped into the river, and the rapid current immediately caught me. I tried my best to steer my way by moving by body about to avoid rocks, but I was failing miserably.

Phew—boom!"

A fireball suddenly exploded to my right. There was another one to my left. That's when I realized that Lyrie was airborne and was spitting fireballs to me.

"Lyrie! It's me! Anna!" I warned in desperation, but the dragon kept spitting fireballs at me. I was literally a sitting duck on the water. While keeping myself afloat, I spotted an entrance to a cave on the left river bank. With every power there was inside my muscles and being, I steered to the left, aiming for the mouth of the cave.

"Yes… yes… Yes!" I entered the cave. Right at that moment, a fireball landed on the top of the entrance, collapsing the rocks all over it and practically sealing the entrance since it was pitch black inside.

My eyes could not see anything in the darkness. All I knew was that the current took me downward and eased itself right on the moment I sensed dry level ground with my hand. I dragged myself with my arms to the drier part of the ground.

"Uhh… Agh…" I sat on the ground. I shoved my inferno blade out and lit the fire on it to meet the environment I was in. While recollecting myself, I discovered that I came out of a very small tunnel where the water was flowing from. The stream continued deeper into the cave that practically looked like a maze. Then it hit me.

"This is the… labyrinth… I'm trapped inside the labyrinth…"

I took my time to really organize my breathing. The labyrinth of New Berk was the last place I wanted to be trapped in in my life. And now, here I was.

"Okay… I just need to…" I took off my shield from my back, since it was too heavy for my current condition. Using the blade to support my own weight, I rose on my feet. Afterwards, I began to follow the stream, deeper into the labyrinth.

"Hiccup… please… I can't lose you…"

I examined the peg leg I still held dearly. Miraculously, the blood was still there, even after soaked by the rapid current of the river. I broke down even more.

"Elsa… You must've survived that… right?"

It's the very thing that I'd like to maintain; optimism. But the odds were unlikely, too unlikely. The ice blast was mountainous, and it was hard to crack through.

"E-Elsa…" I collapsed on my knees and rested my body against a rock, planting my blade onto the ground.

"H-Hiccup…" I kept his prosthetic close.

My mind was not allowing me to make a physical move, seeing that the mind itself was not intact due to the recent events I had just witnessed. The thoughts of their deaths engulfed me as the fire on my blade slowly dimmed.