NFF- Hiccup's encounter with the god of night

A/N these chapters are hard to create but I can manage

Chapter 2

As the next day dawned Hiccup got ready for another day exploring the lands beyond the nest. Beforehand the nest had been the limit for map makers as the dragons stopped any safe passage through. After his Meal he went to Stoick to plan his route. The pair looked carefully at the map in front of them. they had to make sure the day long trip wasn't for nothing. This time Stoick suggested a course of north east from the nest. He was still quite shocked at Hiccup's change but reassured himself it was probably nothing to worry about.

Hiccup and his escorts left Berk for the nest. Hiccup was concentrated on flying and did not notice the pack of Grimora infected dragons below him. These dragons, under the control of the parasite, flew closer and prepared to attack the non-infected who they saw going overhead. As they came up the ever watchful Shadewrath sounded the alarm.

"Hiccup! Toothless! Infected dragons below!"

Hiccup and Toothless looked down to see the pack of infected coming closer. These dragons did not look friendly with the liquid fire on their lips and the strange look in their eyes. Toothless and Shadewrath immediately began a barrage of fire, making sure to explode their shots in front of the infected to stun their enemy and not kill, after all the infected dragons were peaceful, just violent in their infected state. They beat off the attacks until the Grimora dragons got too tired to continue.

After that particularly eventful fight they continued towards the nest. As they reached the island Hiccup brought out his compass to check their route as well as checking the general condition of the nest. Toothless and Shadewrath just wandered off while having a conversation, heading to the fresh water pools.

After checking the islands general structure Hiccup went over to the fresh water pools to find the dragons so they could go off to do their mapwork. He came over to see Shadewrath and Toothless playing in the water. Initially happy to see their games he became worried at what he saw over their heads.

"Toothless and Shadewrath get out of the water."

Toothless and Shadewrath that said 'who are you to disturb our fun' but Hiccup gestured behind them. Turning, they saw the Grimora dragons again, drinking the water from the pool. The dragon's eyes widened, and they scrambled out of the water to regain flight before the infected dragons noticed them again.

As they cruised north east away from the dragons the night furies began to act oddly, they were seen with their pupils dilating before shaking themselves to get rid of the effect. After a while it became harder and harder to recover before both dragons were overcome. Wondering what was going on Hiccup looked at the dragons faces before recoiling quickly.

Both dragons now had the addled look of the parasite as well as purple liquid around their lips. Hiccup panicked and performed the wrong tail manoeuvre sending him and Toothless spiralling towards the sea. Still in the act of fending off Toothless Hiccup didn't notice as they got closer to the water or as the air went by quicker.

Eventually realising the dive at a low altitude, he set the tail again. However, it was too low and Toothless, in his infected state, could only slow himself down slightly before hitting the water with a reasonable crash. After hitting the water Hiccup was thrown clear. While in the water he desperately looked around to see what had happened to his friend. Toothless emerged from the water and Hiccup was initially scared, before noticing Toothless was giving him a friendly look and not the parasite one.

There was a moment of celebration until Shadewrath pelted the water with plasma blasts. Toothless came up again and wondered why Shadewrath was attacking them before realising he had the Grimora parasite look on him. Hiccup urged Toothless to stay calm while he came up with a plan. Deciding to use the dragon powers that the god of night had told him about Hiccup grew wings before rising to meet Shadewrath. As he neared Shadewrath while avoiding the endless plasma blasts he quickly latched onto a wing. Shadewrath was immediately overcome with loss of control and he plummeted downwards.

Before Shadewrath hit the water Hiccup extended his own wings to get off the out of control fury. After a moment underwater Hiccup and Toothless were happy to see Shadewrath emerge from the water with his normal face. He was a bit upset to have regained consciousness while in the water, but Hiccup thought he would understand after an explanation from himself.

Both dragons were swimming around in slight bewilderment from what had happened. Hiccup glided down onto Toothless' s back and set his tail for take-off. With a small dive and then powering back up Toothless and Hiccup were back in the air. Shadewrath followed close behind and they continued north east. After a couple more minutes flying and after the dragons had dried off they found an island. They decided to stop off for a break.

After concluding there was nothing else interesting they could find within the time they had left they headed back to Berk.

Meanwhile in Berk Stoick was going about his business until he heard the news of a dragon hunting fleet sailing nearby. It was not an Immediate danger to the island but could cause problems for the dragons of the village and their riders. As they were trying to ignore this unwelcome irritation (after all the slow dragons of the riders would be shot down) they were suddenly assaulted with anti-dragon projectiles, Stoick was immediately worried as these could hurt Human as well as beast and gave the order to load the catapults.

He tried to start sinking the ships with the catapults, but the catapults were far too inaccurate at hitting the sleek Dragon hunter ships. He decided to notify Hiccup, who's dragon had the most experience with dealing with these problems.

"Astrid!" he called

"Yes chief?" Astrid said as she ran over, having already been worried when the projectile rain happened, Stoick clamoured to her a message.

"tell Hiccup to hurry up, we need reinforcements!"

"will do, Chief" She said as she ran over to Stormfly to fly over to where Hiccup had gone to.

Toothless, Hiccup and Shadewrath were returning to Berk after their scouting exercise. All of them were bored after the long expanse of sea and Hiccup was amusing himself with flexing his wings. Suddenly Astrid arrived on Stormfly, Hiccup could see with his dragon sight that she was in distress. He urged Toothless and Shadewrath to fly over to see what had happened.

Astrid called to Hiccup once she was sure he was in hearing range

"Hiccup! Dragon hunters are attacking the village, Stoick says they need backup."

Hiccup was genuinely worried at the news. Dragon hunters had never been heard of attacking villages and he could only assume it was because of the villages decision to befriend dragons.

He urged the night furies onwards to where the village was. Astrid was both shocked and relieved when both night furies quickly passed her, racing to Berk. When the night furies arrived a confusing but irritating scene played out in front of them. there were about 6 boats with all their dragon hunting weapons facing Berk. And firing. He could see in the distance that Berk was absolutely covered in the projectiles and some houses had collapsed or been damaged because of it.

Annoyed by this he gave both the dragons their instructions.

"these ships are assaulting berk, if they continue their barrage there will be no Berk left. The plan is: Toothless and I go in first and then you, Shadewrath, follow and give a second shot. Ready? Let's go"

The dragon hunters on the ships suddenly heard a night fury whistle. The leader gave a clear warning that resounded through the ships: "night fury! Get down!"

As the sound got closer they noted with confusion that there seemed to be an echo in the whistle. Suddenly there was a sharp explosion, followed shortly by another. The hunters were confused by the two shots in quick succession and looked up. There they saw two night furies, this worried them greatly because this was one of the most powerful dragons in existence and they were only expecting one.

As the two night furies made a steep turn to begin the next dive the Leader encouraged his warriors to fight.

"Hunters! Dragon stations! Shoot them down!"

He said the last part with scorn for these powerful beasts, but he was soon silenced when he heard the night whistle again. This time he heard the sound head on.

"Odin help us" he whispered before his boat shuddered with the first blast and snapped into two on the second.

Without their leader the remaining hunters pulled down sails and prepared to flee

Hiccup called for the two night furies attention.

"Toothless, Shadewrath! Aim for their sails with a fire stream, immobilise them!

They did as he asked, and the fleeing Vikings were surprised when the two night furies flew in level. They were about to fire when they were blinded by a bright blue stream of fire which the night furies aimed at their mast. Initially confused that they were not being hit in the hull they then noticed with horror that their mainsail was burning away.

Shocked by the revelation that they were stuck in the water the men on the sails rushed to get the spare weapons out on deck.

Hiccup prepared for the final attack

"Toothless, get ready to take down their weapons. Shadewrath give them distractions, especially booms!"

Shadewrath was confused

"what kind of booms?"

Hiccup smiled

"sonic"

Shadewrath smiled with Hiccup

"my specialty"

Shadewrath then started climbing high into the sky for his performance while Hiccup and Toothless circled round the perimeter preparing for their next attack run. Shadewrath did a half loop in the air and started hurtling back towards the ships.

One of the bola gunners on the frightened ships was trying to get a good target. The night fury that had started climbing was too hard to hit, attacking from the sun, and so he resorted to trying to hit the circling night fury and his rider. To his irritation they avoided every attack he made, and he was about to try again when he noticed that the night fury above him had started a dive. As he squinted at the diving night fury there was no sound to be heard. This confused him until Shadewrath broke the sound barrier and brought chaos to the fleet.

Seeing their chance Toothless and Hiccup took the initiative and came in with low flight. When they reached the deck Toothless started picking up the hunter's weapons and chucked them into the sea. Shadewrath circled around and copied Toothless, clearing the hunter's ships of weapons. Eventually the ships were completely unarmed while the crew were still recovering.

Hiccup saw that his work was done and headed back to the island. Astrid arrived a few minutes later and after being astounded at Hiccup's handiwork, headed back as well.

Stoick stayed unsurely in his house. The barrage had stopped but he still had problems accepting that it was safe to go out, the sonic boom (although he didn't know it was this) had given him greater meaning to stay inside, lest it was a secret weapon of the hunters.

He heard footsteps outside the door and braced himself on the doorframe with axe. The unknown person opened the door and Stoick glanced to see who it was, only to relax as it was Hiccup.

Hiccup gave a small smile to Stoick as he prepared to tell Stoick the battle report.

"so, there were 6 ships, we sank 2 of them, then immobilised and disarmed the remaining four. Those four are still floating there, ready for your capture."

Stoick was surprised at the report. He had expected the speed of the attack but not the precision. Destroying a ship with a dragon was easy, immobilising and unarming it was much more difficult. He gave thanks then prepared to bring the dragon hunters into Berk's harbour.

The dragon hunters were nervous wrecks on their ships. The last small boat that hadn't been shaken to pieces had been taken to report the failure to Viggo and Drago. Now they were hopelessly exposed to any dragon attack the village gave them. They still had the ammunition, but they were too heavy to throw at the dragons at altitude.

They were surprised to hear another ship slicing through the water. They stood up clumsily to try to see if the sound was true and were happy to see that it was a convoy of ships. They assumed that Drago had given them reinforcements but then they were shocked to see Stoick at the helm.

As Stoick came aboard the first ship he inspected his prisoners. Pleased that the villains that had attacked his village were now dealt with he was about to turn around.

One of the more courageous hunters saw that he had a chance to hit chief Stoick. He quietly picked up one of the heavy bola's behind him and launched it at the chief. Stoick saw the projectile approaching with shock. Before he could react the weights of the bolas were about to hit his face, where they thankfully stopped, the bola weights hitting together about an inch away from his exposed face. After the bola's, robbed of their kinetic energy, had fallen to the ground he was able to see that Hiccup had stopped the bola mid-flight.

Hiccup was furious now and Stoick could see his eyes glowing and dilated in hate. A sudden burst of flame appeared on his arm and burnt the part of the bola he was holding onto. Hiccup turned to the shocked Viking and addressed him.

"Dragon hunter, you should think twice before trying to kill the chief of OUR village. You should be thankful that you aren't dead already. Stoick will be the judge of your attempt to kill him."

Stoick was slightly shocked at the respect Hiccup had commanded but agreed with the latter part of his statement. He called out to his crew to start bringing in these captured Vikings and their ships.

"tie them all together and tow them into the harbour. From there we can see what we want to do with them."

After doing as he commanded the crew set sail to Berk. Once there the crew of dragon hunters was sent to be punished while the ships were sent to be repaired. Once repaired they would join Berks Armada. Stoick was proud of his son.

And miles away another was cursing the existence of Stoicks son. Viggo was angry that the rider and his two dragons had taken down his entire fleet. And Viggo was sure to make them pay.