Hiccup woke up to a blinding pain in his head. Every sound around him was muffled, but as quick as everything had happened, his hearing slowly came back.

"Hiccup!" His father ran over to him, kneeling down beside him and helping him sit up. Hiccup held is aching head and felt a drop of liquid on his cheek. "Are you alright?" He asked hurriedly, stroking away the drop of blood on his cheek. Stoick gently took Hiccup's hand away from his head and looked at it. Hiccup tried to hold his focus on his father, but everything was spinning. He looked down at his hand and found it coated in blood. His blood.

The chief's hand blocked his vision for a few seconds to press cloth against his bleeding head. Hiccup tried to look up at his father but only his right eye fully responded to let him see. Only by that did Hiccup know his head injury was serious. Stoick's lips parted and words came out but Hiccup could barely hear him. He felt his father lift him up on his shaky legs and a scaly head go beneath his opposite sided arm. "We have to get to safe ground," Hiccup heard someone else say as his hearing became clearer. There were screams and roars, cracking sounds of stone and ice.

"W-what's going on?" Hiccup asked, barely hearing his own voice through the mass of sounds. He looked at his father who looked from side to side worriedly, flinching every now and then, and shielding him with his arm while they kept moving.

Valka appeared beside his father. "Drago Bludvist is attacking our nest," She said. Hiccup looked at her with weak eyes and was met with both worried and scared ones. Her eyes reflected his own when she said what he'd hoped least for; the one thing that had torn the happy hours to a blood shedding war.

"Drago w-what now?" Hiccup asked. They stopped moving. Stoick gently helped Hiccup sit down as Valka took out gauze and knelt down in front of him.

"Drago Bludvist," Valka corrected him. "I don't have time to explain. All I can tell you is that we have to save the dragons and stop that mad man," Hiccup nodded once she finished tending to his head wound. He wiped his eye, drying it from any cobber filled liquid. But even so, his eye was just the same blurred from when he woke up.

"A-alright, let's get going," Hiccup said, jumping into Toothless's saddle. Stoick grabbed his hand before he could strap himself any further on.

"You won't be assisting us Hiccup. That injury is serious and we don't have the time or the supply to deal with it now," Stoick stopped him.

"But I can still fight!" Hiccup argued.

"No, Hiccup. And that's final!" Stoick roared with anger; enough to make Hiccup silent. He looked at his helmet and sideway at his metal leg.

"I'm sorry dad, but I have to do this," Hiccup patted Toothless's head and changed his metal leg to his saddle.

"Hiccup," Stoick warned, but he still wouldn't listen. Toothless sprinted forward on Hiccup's commands, running towards the nearest gap in the ruins of ice. He roared as a warning and Hiccup held tightly on to the saddle with both hands; his helmet once again on his head. With the little vision his eyes would give him, Hiccup couldn't only see terror. Terror made by the commands of this so called Drago Bludvist. His army of soldiers and dragons were attacking with full power on the nest, shooting down dragons, capturing them, killing them.

Only by scanning the area beneath him as he flew over the battlefield on Toothless's back, he couldn't help but wonder, how did Drago and his army control the dragons to turn against their own kin? But then he heard it. Hiccup's gaze shifted to shore where ships were anchored for the battle, but something beneath caught his attention; a massive grey figure, blurred by the water's transparency, that sent large bubbles which disappeared by the contact of air. Hiccup steered Toothless in for a dive to free dragons, also tearing his eyes of the mysterious creature luring in the water. He searched through the sky and below in search for his friends. He needed to know they were alright. He needed to see it for himself. But instead, he spotted his mother on the battlefield, her dragon trapped in a net.

"Toothless! Free mom's dragon!" Hiccup shouted over the endless battle cries below. Toothless screeched, diving downwards and extending his claws and legs. He dove down with Hiccup clinging to his body for more speed, and ripped the bola off her dragon. Hiccup steered him back up in the air, a far distance away from the archers.

"Alright bud, its show time," Hiccup muttered under his helmet, rubbing Toothless's scales for comfort. Toothless cooed, going up high and turning sharply for a dive, but something stopped him. He stopped in mid-air, almost sending Hiccup off his back by surprise. "What is it bud? Talk to me!" Hiccup placed his hand on his head, but Toothless shook it off. He growled, looking down in the water. Hiccup followed his gaze and saw the grey creature move beneath the boats, sending them sideways off of it as it rose to the surface. Hiccup gasped. "N-no," He whispered, lifting his up his helmet to get a better view. "H-he couldn't possibly…" Beneath them, rising up from the ice cold water, was another alpha. Drago's alpha. A bewilderbeast. It was similar to the one he was showed by his mother, but it carried this evil spirit that affected those around him. Its scales were greyer and the spikes on his head blood red on the ends. A large, special made but broken chain hung almost forced on its left tusk.

"MAYDAY! MAYDAY! FISHLEGS IS GOING DOWN!" Hiccup tore his eyes from the beast and saw Snotlout riding Hookfang, trying to catch Fishlegs. Without giving commands Toothless dove down past Hookfang in top speed, extending his claws as they closed up on Fishlegs screaming figure. "Come on, come on," Hiccup muttered, bending more forward. His eyes narrowed in focus, silently counting down from five.

5…

Fishlegs terrified scream rang in his ear.

4…

Hiccup's heart broke for each meter the ground was closing in.

3…

Meatlug roared from, flapping her wings towards her rider. A bola wrapped around her body, parting them from each other even more.

2…

Snotlout watched Fishlegs in horror, going out of focus from controlling his direction of flight.

1…

Hookfang took a sharp turn from hearing his fellow teammate crash land in the middle of an uproar of Vikings, trapped in a bola. He dove down with his traumatized rider in hope to rescue Meatlug from the enemy's grasp.

0…

Toothless snatched Fishlegs by his shoulders, Hiccup responding with pulling up with all force. Fishlegs shrieked, clinging onto Toothless for dear life. His feet barely missed the snow covered ground before the trio was back up in the air, far from any human made harm.

Hiccup opened his helmet, looking down beneath Toothless. "Fishlegs! Are you alright?!" He yelled. Toothless threw Fishlegs up from his claws, dove downwards and caught the screaming man on his back. Hiccup turned around. "Fishlegs!" He shouted, snapping him out of his daze. "What happened?"

"Sorry-I just-I sort of fainted after seeing…that!" Fishlegs pointed down in horror at the bewilderbeast making its way to assist his master. "I can't believe such a dragon exists!" Fishlegs squealed. Hiccup frowned. "Hiccup, don't you see, this is new specie! A new discovery- "Fishlegs, this isn't really the time to discuss dragons. We're in the middle of a war remember?" Hiccup pointed down below.

Fishlegs looked down below and gasped as if realization just hit him. "Oh…Right."

"Come on, we need to gather up the others-

"Looking for us, dragon boy?" Both Hiccup and Fishlegs turned their heads to find Astrid flying towards them with the twins.

"Hey, where's Meatlug?" Fishlegs squeaked out nervously, looking everywhere.

"Here she is, quit worrying!" Snotlout yelled, coming up behind them. Meatlug followed after them, her eyes searching everywhere for her rider.

"Meatlug!" Fishlegs yelled, jumping out of Toothless's saddle and back in Meatlug's. "Oh, you had me so worried there. Never do that again! You scare daddy half to death!" Fishlegs rubbed his hands against Meatlug's scales. Meatlug licked his cheek affectionately.

"What about me? No compliments for the guy who barely got out of there alive?" Snotlout complained, crossing his arms.

"Uh, Snotlout," Hiccup said, pointing to his shoulder.

"That too," Snotlout complained, turning away from Fishlegs with a huff. Hiccup steered Toothless over to him. He took of his helmet and balanced it in his lap while he unwrapped the gauze around his head.

"It's not much, but it should hold for a while," Hiccup undid the gauze completely and put Toothless's tail on automatic. He jumped over on Hookfang's back, balancing himself as he kneeled down.

"But you need it for your head," Snotlout argued, looking over his shoulder. Hiccup ripped up his shirt. "I'll be fine, just keep it for yourself. We can't have that head injury get worse."

"Snotlout, we don't have time for this," Hiccup took a hold of the arrow and his other hand on Snotlout's shoulder. He pulled it out and quickly pressed his hand against the wound. "Your wound is more serious than mine, now sit still!" Hiccup argued. He started wrapping Snotlout's shoulder up with no more objections. "Do we have any information on the enemy?"

"Not much, but the twins managed to pick up that Drago has a second-in-command. Hiccup, his right-hand-in-man is trying to get rid of your mother for him!" Hiccup's eyes widened and he paused tending to Snotlout's wound and looked below.

"Okay," Hiccup said, trying to calm himself down. He wrapped him up quicker. "Help my mother. I have to try to convince Drago from letting this war continue."

"What?! Are you crazy?" Fishlegs yelled worriedly. "Am I the only one who noticed here that he has an armada, an alpha and dragons on his side?"

"I'm very well aware of that Fishlegs which is why I have to try. I don't know any more of Drago than you guys do, but he doesn't seem like the guy to only hold a grudge against one person. If we don't stop him, then who knows where he'll attack next? It might as well be Berk, and we can't let that happen."

"Then I'm coming with you," Astrid yelled.

"Astrid-

"No! I'm not letting you go down and confront that mad man by yourself. Whether you like it or not, I'm coming with you," Hiccup sighed in defeat.

"Alright," He announced. "The rest of you try to protect my mother and the dragons," they nodded. "It's now or never," he muttered and jumped back on Toothless's back, putting his leg back in the strap before he steered Toothless and led Astrid down towards the man.