Dawnbreaker note: First of all, SORRY for LittleZbot because I completely missed the entire beginning of the chapter and didn't add it to the chapter so the chap everyone has read so far has been incomplete (it surprisingly worked that way as well though). Anyway, here's the WHOLE chapter, please don't hate me, I'm just human ye know.

Hey guys, LittleZbot here! Let me tell you a story: Once upon a time, cookies. The end. Okay, you should have all the information you'll ever need about me from that sentence. Except that I've never written for HTTYD before, and suck at writing for Hiccup. Thus, we all know that this chapter is going to be the best ever! YAY!

Apparently by "talk" Diana meant "bring about eternal night and kill everything."

The first ten minutes were great. Diana conjured up some sort of table made of what was apparently solidified moonlight and the two goddesses sat down, conversing in some sort of otherworldly language nobody understood. Every so often, Diana would jump up and shout, only to sit down again a few seconds later. One time when she jumped up, she seemed incredibly, ridiculously happy, but a split second later started shouting curses in godly tongues.

Hiccup was puzzled by her erratic behavior for quite some time before the answer hit him. The moon, he realized, is always changing. The sun was constant. Sure, it moved around enough, but it was the same almost all the time. You saw the sun and felt the sunshine every day, and it was always the same. The moon was quite different. Every night the moon was slightly altered. Sometimes it didn't come at all, sometimes it was incredibly bright, sometimes very dim, sometimes a crescent, sometimes half of a moon. The moon would never stay the same for long.

He was surprised he was able to think this clearly with Toothless's whole conversation with that Solar Dagon in his head. Not the one they had had previously; the much-less-serious one they were having now.

So, what's your name? Toothless asked.

I was not given one I appreciate.

Do you want a new name?

No.

Because I'm really good at thinking of those.

No.

How about Lucy?

I hate that name!

Oh, so you do care!

Here's one for you to think about: Go Away.

Hmm… maybe, but I don't really like how long it is. Maybe I could shorten it. How do you feel about Goah?

How do you even-

So you like Goah?

My name will NOT be Goah!

It's either Goah or Lucy. Take your pick.

Why should I listen to you?

Hey, if we're supposed to be opposites, why aren't you white?

Shut up.

Hiccup chuckled quietly. Those two were going to have an interesting relationship.

He turned to Astrid. "So, uh, I was thinking-"

"Bad idea!" Snoutlout cried from behind.

Hiccup ignored him. "About that one time, when Toothless was caught in the net that zapped him every time he struggled?"

"Yeah?"

"And you saved my life?"

"Yes…"

"And what you said-"

"Did not mean a thing."

"Oh." Hiccup tried not to look disappointed. He heard a few snorts of laughter coming from Tuffnut and Ruffnut, but wasn't sure what about.

"You're sure?"

"Very sure."

"Okay."

It was at this point when everything went wrong.

Hiccup had no idea what Meridia had said to Diana, but obviously she didn't like it that much.

"You imbecilic, traitorous, irresponsible fool!" Diana screamed.

"Now, just calm down and think about it," Meridia said quietly.

"THINK ABOUT IT? You're asking me to betray the gods. I WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT!"

Diana suddenly drew out a large, jagged dagger, and, moving before anyone could think, plunged it into Meridia's heart. Meridia's eyes shot wide open and she coughed up blood instantly. The dagger was obviously enchanted with powers of the gods. Meridia drew in a few sharp breaths before going limp, her form shimmering and slowly vanishing.

"How's that for not wanting to harm you?" Diana whispered.

At that moment, everybody registered what had happened. Most of the Solarians screamed, some of the Lunarians were smiling, and all the Vikings just stared in shock.

"There's my answer," Diana said as a single godly tear fell down her cheek. "Sister."

Suddenly Hiccup was brought out of his trance as the skies turned black as night- no, blacker. All the plants around them withered and died, and chilly winds swept the whole land. The moon shone a thousand times brighter, and, somehow, Hiccup knew there would be no sun that morning.

Hiccup was picked up by somebody who said something about him being a last hope, but he didn't register it. He just stared at the body of the former goddess as it completely disappeared. So much for the gods' great plan. If Diana could kill her own sister just like that, what chance would any of them have?

He was dropped suddenly, hitting his head on a rock. He slowly began to lose consciousness. The last thing he saw before passing out were two hooded figures, one with a scythe and one with a sword, fighting.

Rachel couldn't believe what she was seeing. All this time, all this effort put into releasing Meridia from her prison, and now Meridia had been stabbed by her very own sister and was dying in front of her eyes.

No way, she thought. Goddesses are immortal, right? They can't die, right? But even as she thought it, Rachel knew that dying was exactly what Meridia was doing. The rule probably didn't apply in the case of other immortals murdering their kin.

"Here's my answer," Diana said as a single godly tear fell down her cheek. "Sister."

The eclipse deepened. The darkness of the moon spread across the sky, blocking away even the smallest bit of sunlight that had seeped behind the moon. The world grew dark and Diana gained power as it did. Had she been any normal person, Rachel would still be staring at the weakening and disappearing body of Meridia but she was not. She was the leader of the Solarians, and had to act like it. There was still a chance. A single hope.

She turned and ran towards the boy who had tamed Diana's child. The only chance she had of rescuing this world now lay with this boy and his dragon, who, strangely enough, seemed rather frightened of the whole ordeal. Being one of Diana's, Rachel would have assumed the dragon (what did they call him, Tutless or something?) would be ecstatic that his mother's dream was coming true. Obviously, that was not the case. He was cowering with his head behind his wings, as if he was trying to shield himself from the growing darkness. The Solar Dragon, Flickerflight, was acting much the same.

Rachel chided herself for getting distracted so easily. She lifted up the boy and started to run away, shouting out to the Solar Dragon.

"Flickerflight, take the Lunar Dragon back to Meridia Island. Tell him we need him if we are to bring daytime back. If he doesn't comply, overpower him and carry him there yourself."

At the mention of the Solar Dragon's name, both heads went up. The Lunar Dragon's toothless maw fell open to some sort of strange smile and he turned to Flickerflight, making odd noises with his throat. If she didn't know better, she'd think he was actually laughing at Flickerflight. Flickerflight gave him her deepest scowl, but a few seconds later both dragons took off. Rachel sighed with relief, turned around- and bumped into him.

"Just where do you think you're going with that boy?"

She clenched her teeth. "You betrayed us. For freedom, you said. Where is the freedom in this?"

"Do you not see it? It's everywhere! Darkness beyond darkness! Darkness is the most freeing of all things! You could go anywhere you want, do anything you want, and nobody would care!"

"And neither would you! There is no thrill, no joy in doing anything in darkness, because it never lasts. Always the sun will come up and expose it, destroying it, and when it comes, you better hope you aren't part of the darkness."

He gestured to the sky. "Excuse me? The sun will come up, you say? Perhaps once it would have, but no longer! The world is eternally dark, and thus eternally free!"

"I don't have time for this, Johann!" Rachel shouted.

"I told you over and over not to use my name! Have you no respect?"

"Not for the likes of you! Now stand down!"

"You know I can't do that."

"Then prepare to die!" Rachel dropped the boy and took out her scythe, swinging it at Johann's head at the same time.

Johann blocked the blade with his sword. He swung his sword down, bringing the scythe with it and tried a quick upward movement to knock it out of Rachel's hand. Instead, she just stumbled. Johann still took advantage of that, though, with a thrust. Rachel barely blocked the blade in time. She swung her scythe from the bottom up, changing her direction at the last moment as Johann brought his sword down in an attempt to block it. He instantly adapted, and managed to parry the strike, getting only a minor cut.

At this point she heard a voice from behind shouting "DON'T TOUCH MY SON!"

She quickly flipped around, just in time to see a portal close up with one Lunarian, the dragon tamer, and the oddly large, round man who was apparently his father inside. It was obvious he had jumped in at the last second.. Her eyes went to where she had laid the boy down, but the spot was empty. She was a fool not to have seen this coming. The plan was to distract her while someone else grabbed the boy and brought him though a portal. How stupid she-

She mentally added another point to the list of Stupid Mistakes Rachel Has Made Today. Her latest blunder: forgetting the enemy behind her for a second, which was evident from the blade protruding from her chest. She felt her breath getting slower as blood poured onto the ground. She needed a healer, now.

"And so, the leader of the goddess' army dies the same day as the goddess- oh, sorry, the same night as the goddess. You know, it's a shame we didn't end up working together. We might have made a good team, Rachel."

Rachel clenched her fists. "I would never serve someone who would kill her own sister."

"Why not? After all, you did kill your own brother."

Rachel tried not to let that comment hit her too hard. She was bothered by something, though. From what Diana had said, it sounded like Meridia was planning something. Something that involved betraying the gods. And it sounded like she wanted Diana to go in on it with her. But that wasn't all that bothered her. If there was no sun, there was no heat. If Meridia, who gave the sun its power even before she was trapped in it, was dead, why were they not all frozen to death right away?

"Why do you even want the boy?" she spat out.

"I think you know."

She scoffed. "It doesn't matter anyway. You should know that we've got your precious Lunar Dragon."

"What?"

"Yes," she said with a gleam in her eye, "You know, the one that Diana can't live without?"

…

Hiccup was tired of being kidnapped. Over the last few days, he was pretty sure he'd been kidnapped enough to last a lifetime. This time, he woke up on a ship. Or, to be more precise, he woke up chained to the wall of the brig of a ship, surrounded by nothing but iron walls and an iron door with about twenty locks. He took a wild guess and decided they didn't want him to escape.

So much had happened in those last few minutes that he remembered. Okay, not an awful lot, but quite a few things. At least, enough to put in his diary. Thinking of that suddenly reminded him that he had not written the events of the past few days in his diary. So much had been going on that he had quite forgotten about it. Thankfully, only his legs and shoulders were chained up, so he could pass the time writing, assuming they hadn't confiscated his pen and any books he might have brought underneath his clothes.

As luck would have it, they had not. He took out his pen and pulled out the book inside his shirt. He froze. That book wasn't his diary. It was the book that stated all of this, that astronomy book he'd bought from Trader Johann. Okay, so it hadn't really started this whole chain of events…or had it?

Hiccup opened the book up. To his surprise, it opened directly to the poem he'd been thinking about that night when Toothless was captured and Astrid saved him. Okay, so he'd known it was in the book, but that just seemed a little coincidental. Taking a deep breath, he reread the poem.

Ask not the sun why she sets

Why she shrouds her light away

Or why she hides her glowing gaze

When night turns crimson gold to grey

For silent falls the guilty sun

As day to dark does turn

One simple truth she dare not speak

Her light can only blind and burn

No mercy for the guilty

Bring down their lying sun

Blood so silver black by night

Upon their faces pale white

Cruel moon, bring the end

The Dawn will never rise again

The first half of the poem told the story of how Diana and Meridia got locked in the moon and sun, respectively, as pointed out in Gothi's book. But Hiccup suddenly realized that the second half referred to now. The time when both goddesses were freed.

Cruel moon, bring the end

The Dawn will never rise again

Well, that had certainly happened. Darkness now was spread across the entire world, effectively killing it. Without Meridia, the dawn would indeed never rise again. That one line, though, about bringing down a lying sun, bothered him. Was that what Diana had done? If so, what had Meridia lied about? Wasn't she the good guy?

Hiccup thought. And thought. And thought. And then, suddenly, it made sense. Why they weren't dead, why he'd been captured, why Meridia had lied. He'd figured it out. It was-

He didn't finish the thought, because he'd been brought out of them from the rattling of keys. He glanced up to see the one called Tarius attempting to open the door and holding a plate of food at the same time. His stomach growled at the thought of food, but he had more important things to think about.

"You'd think that they would build something into these doors to make passing food through easier," she grunted as she unlocked the last lock and opened the door.

"Out of curiosity," Hiccup asked, "What's going to happen to me?"

"You're to be shot tomorrow by the firing squad. Which, by the way, is me." She set the plate down and started to walk out.

"I don't think you want to do that," Hiccup called out.

She halted. "Do what? Kill you or walk out of the room?"

"Either. I think you want to help me escape."

She let out a spiteful chuckle. "And why on earth would you think that?"

"Because I know you, Tarius."

One of her eyebrows rose. "Oh, really? I don't remember seeing you before three days ago. How well do you know me?"

"I know that your full name is Siggitarius. You're an expert archer and healer, and probably a good tutor, too. I know that you've had a much harder past than anybody on this ship, and probably the whole world. I know you're hiding a secret from your family that could destroy the world. I know that you've always loved the stars and would never admit it. I know that you're not really a Lunarian. Should I keep going?"

With each fact, Tarius' smile fell lower and lower, and her face got angrier and angrier, until she whipped around and grabbed Hiccup by his shirt.

"How do you know this?"

"You're name's a sign of the zodiac. That, plus knowing one or two other major things, told me a lot about you. I'm willing to bet that you won't kill me, because you need me and my dragon to live. Am I right?" he asked, "Meridia?"

MWAHAHA

Now I have evilly changed the story significantly from probably only lasting two more chapters to having to last at least five, hopefully ten. I have effectively altered the plotline to my liking, and still managed to have enough evil left in me to leave the next writer struggling to answer the questions of "How did Hiccup know that?" and "Wait but wasn't she locked in the sun and Tarius was not in the sun before the eclipse" and probably twenty more!

Also, if you haven't figured it out yet, Rachel is Mrs. Boss, and Johann (yes the same one who sold Hiccup that book) is Mr. Boss. MWAHAHA

Yeah, seriously, good luck Mr. Next Writer Guy, because you will need it!

Dawnbreaker note: Soo... I'm assuming Rachel and Johann share a common past then. And about the talk between goddesses, didn't really work out in the end, never trust a god or a goddess. And here's the astronomy book again... gods are freed, diana gaining power and meridia fading as the sun is disappearing. Or is she? is Tarius really what Hiccup thinks she is, and WHY? HOW? And most importantly, how the heck do you stop all this destruction of daytime and whatnot... ugh...

By the way, weren't you thinking about my situation at all when you wanted to extend the story with another few chapters... I only have like 2 authors left on this story! ugh... lol

But even for those few, this chapter sure does give them things to think about. And about that, You can always ask me for help but also ask LittleZbot for help as well, this is getting complicated even for me who loves complicated plots.

And oh, My Birthday is coming up this Friday! Yey! I guess it's impossible to see this finished until then but we're getting there. GOOD LUCK for the next writer! And also, if someone has missed, I just opened up another one of these community fics with the classic name: HTTYD: Community style! 2

Go check it out!

- Dawnbreaker