Hey guess what? I went to a Justin Timberlake Concert Saturday. He was in my town of Oklahoma City, and I had tickets. It was a BLAST. He sung some songs from his latest album then sung a bunch of his classics like "Cry me a river" ans "Sexy back". And to close he sang "Can't stop the feeling". You better believe I sang and dance to that song to. I think I annoyed the person sitting next to me with my awful singing. I spent way to much money for a T shirt with Justin's face on it but it was totally worth it.
Now that that's over it's only fair to warn you that you might get triggered at the end of this chapter. It's really dark and you might flip at one point in it. Ok you WILL flip. But I ain't changing it, so hopefully you don't hate me at the end of this chapter.
Branch, Peppy, Rosiepuff, and Oaken all grabbed their weapons and their dragons as they ran towards the mass of hunting ships that intruded on their island. Grabbing a arrow from his quill and loading it in his bow Oaken fired it towards Blood's direction. Blood sensed it however, and turning around, he grabbed the arrow with his mechanical hand and snapped it in two. He then turned to the four and took out his sword. He pointed it to the four trolls in a threatening tone, they all waited for him to order an attack, to their surprise however he didn't. Instead he just issued Oaken a proposal.
"You can't beat me Oaken, you've tried for years, sent your best men after me, and one by one I've killed every single one of them."
"Leave this place now Blood." Oaken growled, keeping his bow drawn on him.
Blood just chuckled and pointed to his ships behind him "Look around you Oaken, there is only four of you, and hundreds of us, you don't stand a chance. I consider myself a fair man despite my brutality, so I'm going to make you this offer just once. Give up, hand over your dragons and I will let you live, you can all move on with your lives, minus your dragons. Refuse, and you will go down in flames with the rest of this place. Your choice?"
"As long as I'm still breathing, your never getting these dragons."
"That's your choice then?"
"That's the only one your getting."
"Well then," Blood turned to his ships and gave the signal. "Kill them all."
Suddenly a blast came from the sky and one of the boats went up in flames. Everybody looked up to see a Night Fury flying above them along with a huge flock of other dragons. It wasn't the sudden reinforcement of dragons that surprised Branch the most, but who was riding on the Night Fury.
"You leave my boyfriend's family and my dad alone you evil roach!" Poppy screamed.
"Poppy?" Both Branch and Peppy gasped
"Hi Dad, hi Branch."
"But... how...?"
"It's a long story." A black troll steering the dragon said landing next Branch, the other dragon riders landed their dragons behind her. "Names Raider by the way, your girlfriend here told me all about you."
"Hey, he's kind of cute." Jo teased Poppy, "I approve."
"Hand's off he's mine."
"Hey Oaken, sorry I was gone for so long Oaken, I was getting reinforcement."
"You think that evens up the playing field?" Blood roared. "Look around you. We still outnumber you!"
"Then maybe this will make it more even!" Reby flew from behind on Arrow and blasted another ship, sending it into flames. Landing next to the crew Reby turned and spotted Poppy and tilted her head in confusion.
"I'll explain everything when this is over."
"You better,"
Blood roared in anger at the sight of two of his ships sinking into the ocean, turning to his men Blood roared and pointed to the riders.
"Kill them all!"
Branch readied his fire sword, clenched it in both hands as he stared down his target. Let's dance butt hole!"
The ships opened and hundreds of hunters piled out and charged the riders, Branch led the riders charge, shooting fire out of his sword as he and the other riders clashed. Reby, Poppy, Raider, Fuzzbert, and the twins took to the sky, hoping to take down the remaining ships, which was easier said than done when the ships were shooting fireballs in their direction.
"Let's show them what we're made of," Raider told Poppy as they flew over the battlefield and charged the ships. Shadow fired a blast sending two of the hunters overboard. Raider had Shadow circle the ships like a vulture readying her next shot.
"You messed with the wrong set of riders you deadbeats."
As many of the riders battled Blood's men on the ground Heather left the group to target one certain hunter, the one that killed her brother. Saddling up on Windstorm Heather flew to the docks where Blood watched the battle unfold. Unfolding her dual blade ax Heather jumped off of Windstorm and landed right in front of Blood, who did not look surprised to see her at all.
"You killed my brother." Heather growled.
"And I do believe I warned you not to interfere." Blood took out a sword and swung, making contact with Heather's ax.
"I've had you in my sights ever since you went under cover in our ranks four years ago." Blood roared as the two clashed weapons on the docks. "You really think I couldn't sniff out a mole? I knew you wasn't one of us the second you joined. What I didn't suspect was your brothers loyalty to you over us."
"My brother made some mistakes when he worked with you." Heather growled "But he was still twice the man you ever were. And I will make sure he is avenged." Heather swung her ax wildly, slamming it against Blood's sword, hoping that she could break Blood's weapon. Blood remained calm, not showing any signs of nerves as he knew that in Heather's rage she wouldn't think straight and leave herself vulnerable. For Heather didn't take into consideration that Blood still wore his mechanical arm with the gauntlet, and inside the gauntlet was secret weapons that only he knew about, one of which was a chain. All he needed to do was wait for Heather to pause for a second in between attacks for him to strike.
After about a minute he got that chance. "You are going to die for what you did to my brother!" Heather paused and raised her ax for another attack.
"Oh I wouldn't be so sure about that," Blood chuckled, Blood raised his mechanical arm and out shot a chain, the chain wrapped itself around Heather's ax and Blood sent the ax flying into the ocean. Heather froze in shock and fear when she suddenly found herself defenseless, Blood then replaced his sword with a mace, quickly striking Heather across the face with his mace. Heather fell to the ground in pain, blood spilling from her face as Blood paced around her chuckling to himself.
"Just like your brother, letting your emotions toward family cloud your better judgment, how pathetic, how predictable. You want your brother back so badly? You can join him in Valhalla!" Blood raised his mace ready to plow it into Heather's skull. Heather closed her eyes thinking that this was the end for her when she suddenly heard a blast. Heather opened her eyes and saw Branch flying over her riding Melody. Blood was sent flying across the sand.
"Your timing always has been perfect." Heather smiled.
"Kind of a annoying trait I know."
"It's one I'll take." Heather jumped back onto Windstorm and had her fly into the ocean to retreive her ax. Luckily it had landed into shallow water so it was easy to retrieve. Grabbing her ax, she rejoined her friends in battle, but as she flew off she turned to Branch.
"Blood killed Dagger!"
"I heard."
"Give him hell for me Branch!"
"I ain't planning on giving him love."
With that Heather flew off as Branch looked down at his flying companion. "You ready buddy? Attack!" Branch glided down to Blood on his flight suit, pulling out his fire sword he shot a wall of flames at Blood trapping him a ring of fire. Branch and Melody walked through the fire, aiming to trap Blood where he stood.
"So, your Branch." Blood laughed, "Your the one who has been sinking my ships, and defeating my men. I've been looking forward to meeting you."
Branch pointed his fire sword at Blood and gave him a very threatening glare. "When I'm done with you, your going to wish you stayed away."
"You talk and fight with determination Branch," Blood replied taking out his sword. "But you've only fought pawns so far. Let's see how good you truly are, against a real opponent!" Blood swung his sword and Branch quickly blocked it, both of them struggling to overpower the other side. It was blood who pulled back allowing Branch to make the next attack, quickly dodging and lifting his gauntlet and fired two blades hoping to take Branch by surprise. Branch heard Blood fire however and he quickly ducked, the blades barely scraping his hair. Blood fired again, this time Branch lifted his shield and blocked the blades, the two blades landing directly into the shield. Branch followed up by throwing his attack by tossing his shield like a Frisbee, hitting Blood below the knee causing him to topple forward. Branch took out his fire sword again and swung it downward, but Blood rolled out the way and quickly returned to his feet. This time though two long blades that resembled claws retracted from his gauntlet, with his two blades on his wrist gauntlet and his sword in his other hand, Branch knew this was about to get ugly.
"Well this just got harder," All Branch could do at that point was dodge his attacks, with weapons on both hands Branch was unable to attack and was forced to play defense hoping that eventually Blood would tire out. It was Branch who found himself tiring though the more attacks he had to dodge, the more energy he felt draining from him and the more he slowed down. Which proved to be a crucial arrow as he slowed down just enough for one of the blades to meet his side. Branch screamed in pain as a blade scraped his side, and Branch fell to the ground holding his wound.
"Branch!" Reby screamed seeing Branch injured from above. Suki saw it too and quickly called out for Rosiepuff. "Chief Rosiepuff, your grandson is injured, Blood is about to kill him!"
"Branch!" Rosiepuff gasped, quickly slamming her ax into the chest of one of the riders before running off to toward Branch's direction.
Melody charged after Blood, hoping to save her master, Blood quickly turned around however and fired out his chain, wrapping it around Melody's neck. Before Melody could recover Blood put a muzzle her so she wouldn't blast him.
"Now be a good dragon and watch, as I show your owner the consequences for picking a fight with the hunters. While still holding the chain around Melody's neck Blood took out his sword and walked slowly toward Branch.
"You think killing me means you win? My team, my grandmother will not rest until you are in the ground."
"And I'll finish them off, just as I finished you!"
"You won't get that chance!" A blast came flying toward Blood's direction. Blood turned to see Rosiepuff ontop of Tornado. Tornado was charging up another blast. "You lay one hand on my grandson, and my dragon will disintegrate you!"
Knowing he was trapped Blood rescinded his attack and signaled his dragon. Before either Rosiepuff or Branch could attack the Ice Giant picked Blood off and flew him towards the cliff. Determined not to let Blood get away Rosiepuff flew after him.
Blood landed on the edge of the cliff, where he jumped off his dragon, and fired two blades out of his gauntlet. Tornado quickly dodged them and fired a blast, knocking Blood against the wall. Rosiepuff jumped off of Tornado and took out her ax.
"You messed with my family!"
"And you messed with my dragons."
"They're not your dragons,"
"Every dragon is my dragon." The two trolls clashed, dueling over the edge of the cliff, all Branch could do was watch as his Grandmother did battle. To injured to assist her.
Much to Blood's surprise, he was starting to find himself overpowered by Rosiepuff, despite her age she was still extremely skilled and powerful. He soon found himself playing more defense and having less and less opportunities to attack. Desperate to fend off Rosiepuff Blood swung his sword one last time, only for Rosiepuff to swing her ax and slice the sword right in two. With Blood defenseless Rosiepuff kicked Blood in the chest and sent him falling off the edge.
"See you in Valhalla demon!"
Rosiepuff never saw what Branch saw, Blood's Ice Giant dove toward Blood and picked him up, refusing to let him fall to his death. Branch watched in horror as the Ice Giant started flying Blood back to the top of the cliff.
Branch wasn't the only one who saw it too. Reby, flying above the ships also witnessed the event unfold, and hollered out for Rosiepuff's attention.
"Chief Rosiepuff, look out!"
Rosiepuff turned and her eyes widened in shock as the Ice giant flew above her head. Before she had time to react Blood jumped off the ice giant, retracted the two blades out of his gauntlet and impaled them into Rosiepuff's abdomen!"
"NOO!" Branch screamed quickly piling onto Melody and flying off towards the cliff.
Blood looked at Rosiepuff as she gasped for air, giving her a victorious smirk he chuckled "Long live the chief." He then tossed Rosiepuff over the cliff. Tornado tried to race after her but Blood shot out his chain wrapping it around Tornado's waist preventing him from reaching her.
Time seemed to slow to a crawl for all the riders as they watched helplessly as their chief fell to her death, powerless to do anything about it, and to much in shock to move. Branch had Melody flying as fast as she could, hoping, praying that he could reach her in time.
"Come on girl! Come on!"
Despite Melodies best efforts though she was not fast enough. Rosiepuff hit the ground, slamming against the rocky surface.
"NO!" Poppy screamed.
"GRANDMA!" Branch cried jumping off Melody and gliding towards Rosiepuff's body.
"Rosiepuff!" Oaken cried racing over to his beloved.
Branch was the one who cradled Rosiepuff's body, holding her in his arms as he cried, praying for her to live.
"Grandma, no! Don't die on me please!" Branch wept "Say something, anything please!" It was no use, Rosiepuff was gone. Distraught and not knowing what to do, Branch buried his head in Oaken's shoulders and sobbed, and Oaken lowered his head and mourned the loss of his beloved.
The death of Rosiepuff gave the hunters the advantage they needed. With the rider's heads turned as they stared in shock at the loss of their chief, the boats fired chains at the riders in the skies, wrapping chains around Reby's, Coopers, Fuzzberts, Guy Diamond, Smidge's and Suki's dragons. Cooper's dragon tried to melt the chain off but the chain was made out of fire resistant steel. Soon the riders and their dragons crash landed into one of the boats where the hunters quickly overpowered the dragons.
"Get your hand off my dragon you little..." Reby screamed ready to throw a punch before a hunter wrapped his arms around her, overtaking her.
"Oh my Gah!" Smidge cried as she too was tackled by a hunter.
"I surrender, please don't hurt me!" Cooper cried as he and the others was also overtaken by the hunters.
Their hands tied behind their backs the boat captain stared them down before turning to the others. Throw them in the cages with their dragons.
"What are you going to do to us?" Guy Diamond asked in horror.
"You are going to watch as your dragons are slaughtered right before your eyes, then afterwords you will be disposed of too."
"Your never going to get away with this." Suki growled.
"Look at your leader." The captain said pointing to Branch weeping over Rosiepuff. "I think we already have." He turned to the others "Take them." The riders were led away and thrown into cages along with their dragon, Reby runs up to the cage just as it is locked.
There was a window right outside the cage and as Reby looked up, her eyes widened in horror. Victorious Blood raised his fist in the air and the Ice Giant soon took control of the other dragons. The dragons pupils shrank and they flew over to the ice giant. It wasn't just the riders dragons either, but every single dragon on the island was soon under control of the ice giant and Blood.
"No," Reby cried.
"What's going on?" Suki asked
"Blood has all the dragons."
"Shadow!" Raider cried
"Windstorm,"
"Hurricane!" Jo cried
"Melody!"
"They can't hear you, none of them can hear you. They're under my spell now! One thing you should know about me. I always win!" Blood saddled up on the ice giant, then pointing to the ships the ice giant flew off along with every single dragon on the utopia.
What happened next sent the riders scrambling for cover. Once the dragons were loaded, the ships shot out fireballs at the Utopia, everybody ran to avoid the blasts as the fireballs kept coming.
"No!" Reby cried
"Burn it down! Blood ordered, leave no survivors!"
Running for cover Branch held Poppy's hands in his own and stared at each other with concerned eyes as the Utopia was going up in flames.
Creek ran for inside a cave for cover, covering his head as the fireballs kept coming. For the next three minutes all everybody could do was hide for cover as the beautiful Utopia was sent up in flames. After three minutes Blood signaled for the ships to stop.
"Branch!" Reby cried as she saw the Utopia burning in flames afraid her friend didn't make it.
"I would be more worried about yourself if I were you." The captain said. With the signal from Blood all the ships sailed off, carrying the riders and all the dragons with them.
After half a hour, the flames settled and the remaining riders came out from their hiding spot, what once was a colorful active Utopia had now been reduced to nothing but black ash, with no life except the riders.
"What are we going to do now Branch?" Poppy asked
"We have to save them!"
"How?" Oaken asked.
"I..." Branch paused "I don't know."
Oh come on you knew this was going to happen the moment I cast Rosiepuff as Stoick, so put down your knives. I said put down your knives, why aren't you putting down your knives. Uh, oh *runs to a cave to hide*