Everyone was still completely stunned by Astrid's announcement, but Arlong merely looked amused.
"Me? You want to kill me?" said Arlong. He then burst out laughing. "Haven't you two learned your lesson yet? How many times have the two of you tried to kill me in these last eight years?"
The villages immediately looked up and stared at the two of them.
"You've tried assassination, poison, sneak attacks," said Arlong counting them off his fingers. "You must be aware that you mere humans can't kill me." He then turned his eyes to Astrid and Fishlegs. "Now listen I won't put the two of you into the ground, but neither can you leave. The two of you will remain here with us forever, but as you know I am quite good-natured. If possible I would like you to be my tactician and surveyor of your own free will.
I'm giving you a choice, I will not take pause in having my Fishmen kill every living creature on this island, except for the two of you, but that is only if you refuse to come back to the Arlong pirates and draw sea charts as one of our own and if you decide to come back with us are be kind and spare the villagers their lives."
Everyone began looking at one another.
"But I cannot let these ingrates live," he said gesturing to Ragnar and the others. "They must be made of an example of so there's only one question. Will you come with me and save the people of Leefside Village or be foolish and refuse my request by fighting alongside them? It's your choice, with then you will be hopeless, with then you will die. Now will you two come and stand by my side or not? The decision is yours."
Astrid and Fishlegs looked at one another and they felt as if they were flies trapped in a spider's web.
"This is unfair, if we remain friends with Hiccup and the others everyone will be killed," Fishlegs whispered. "But if we go with Arlong everyone will be saved."
Astrid looked at him. "Everything depends on our choice."
The villagers were completely outraged with the choice that the two of them had been given.
"Not fair!"
"No matter what they chooses they will never set them free!"
Astrid and Fishlegs knew they were right, but at the exact same time they didn't want anyone to die. However, then the two of them remembered that Hiccup stood by them when their entire world had crashed down on top of them how can they betray someone like that? The truth is they couldn't.
"We have to believe in him," said Astrid looking at Fishlegs.
Fishlegs nodded. "He hasn't let us down so far."
Astrid then turned and faced everyone. "All right everyone, we will fight to the death! Got it?"
The villages immediately cheered and clearly this decision was not the outcome that Arlong had been expecting.
"Well then, it looks like they've made up their minds," he said looking enraged.
Meanwhile Ragnar had taken this distraction to inform Toothless and Snotlout of Hiccup's trump card.
"Seriously?" said Snotlout.
"Then why hasn't he come out of the water just yet?" Toothless asked.
Ragnar smiled. "I have a feeling that he is already out."
Ragnar is right, Hiccup had snuck his way to the end of the bay and was hiding behind a wall. He had planned to join in an attack Arlong, but he stopped when Astrid and Fishlegs arrived and decided to wait.
Toothless shook his head. "He certainly for surprises, but there's no way I'm gonna let him take all the glory." Toothless then immediately rose to his feet and held all three swords firmly. "I've only got about 30 seconds."
"Toothless," Astrid breathed.
"Should we jump in?" Snotlout asked.
Ragnar looked at the other Fishmen. "I think we do more by making sure that they stay down."
Arlong was about to make a move towards Astrid and the villagers when Toothless swung his sword and cut Arlong's cheek.
"Just stay back, you're not getting away anywhere near them," he said defiantly.
"Ah, Toothless," said Arlong looking down at him. "I thought I told you never to say that again, now prepared to die."
Arlong then licked the blood of his cheek. "Do you think your Captain can save you? You're wrong, he can't save anyone. Those with Devil Fruit powers are supposed to lose even the energy to struggle not to mention his powers the moment they touched seawater. He will die and even if he still alive, well, that wouldn't be fair."
"Wouldn't be fair?" Toothless challenge. "This game hasn't been fair from the moment we started playing it."
He then immediately swung his sword and swung it straight at his nose, in an attempt to slice it off. However, his sharp nose was much sturdier than it looked and survived the impact, try as he might Toothless couldn't push the force he needed to slice it off.
"You fool," Arlong sneered. "It's a proud nose, because it's unbreakable. If you were at full strength, you may have been able to give it a little scratch."
Arlong then began pushing the full weight of his body downwards and Toothless crosses swords in the hopes to stand his ground. However, he was still feeling a bit feverish and he was beginning to be pushed back.
Arlong looked at him and chuckled. "You're dead."
He then slammed his head towards Toothless and managed to pierce his chest with his nose and he screamed in pain. The villagers could only watch in horror as they saw this display and Ragnar and Snotlout just stood there in shock.
"Toothless!" the twins cried.
Then while he was wounded, Arlong grabbed his neck and lifted him up into the air. "So that's it, huh? Way too easy." He then looked to the bandages around his chest and Toothless winced in pain. "What with all these bandages? Did you have a good fall?"
Arlong then ripped the bandages off of Toothless and he screamed in pain. Arlong's eyes widened the moment he saw the massive scar around his chest and he could tell that the wound was still fresh.
'What with this scar,' he stared in horror. Everyone else was shocked, apart from those who knew about his battle with Hawkeye. 'I don't believe this, he's breathing? How can he still be alive with a body like this?'
Toothless winced and looked down at him with a strong look at defiance and showed no sign of fear.
'Is he dying already? Am I fighting a wounded man?' Arlong then immediately drops the bloodied bandages and raised his hand to deal the final blow. 'Either way he's about to die. He's going to die right here and now.'
Toothless then laughed. "You still believe that you've won, don't you?"
"You think I haven't?" said Arlong looking almost amused. "Your two friends have abandoned you to your fate and your Captain has no doubt drowned by now."
Toothless began to chuckle. "All this time and you haven't noticed."
Arlong looked up. "Noticed what?"
"That not a single bubble has appeared in the basins you toss Hiccup in there."
Then suddenly emerging from behind the gate was none other than Toothless flying through the air. Upon seen him the villages immediately cheered and Astrid spaced beamed upon seeing him.
"Hiccup!" she yelled.
"Impossible, he should have drowned," Arlong stared.
"It seems as if Hiccup is not like other Devil Fruit users and that's exactly why he's my Captain," Toothless smiled.
Hiccup then immediately flew down so fast that Arlong was unable to deal the final blow to Toothless. Hiccup had managed to grab him just at the last second and flew him to safety, next to the other villages.
"Cutting it a bit close, weren't you?" said Toothless.
Hiccup smiled. "Sorry about that, but I felt as if you wanted to make your point loud and clear before I jumped in."
"Think you can take it from here?" Toothless asked.
"Just watch me," said Hiccup and he immediately flew straight towards Arlong. "Dragon Fist!" He then slammed a powerful fist right into Arlong's forehead knocking him back. Then before he had a chance to recover he immediately spun around and swung his tail directly at him. "Dragon Whip!"
His tail slammed into Arlong and then sent them flying towards Arlong Park in the entire villages were completely speechless. Arlong quickly regained his footing, but Hiccup had already appeared directly in front of him and now was dealing him a devastating sidekick.
"Dragon Talon!"
Hiccup slammed his foot right into his chest and he was sent flying into the air once again, but Hiccup wasn't finished yet he immediately opened his mouth in a strange purple light began to form inside of it.
"Plasma Blast!"
He then unleashed a powerful plasma blast directly into Arlong creating a massive explosion and the impact had caused him to crash into the building behind him. Everyone was completely speechless after this display, never had a seen someone deal powerful hits to Arlong ever before.
Arlong then began to emerge from inside the rubble and clearly he managed to accomplish was annoyed the man.
"Is that all you've got?" Arlong growled.
"It's not working!" the twins panicked.
"That was just a warmup," said Hiccup as he cracked his neck.
"What a bunch of fools," Arlong growled. "You really think you can actually beat me? You were better off at the bottom of the ocean floor."
"That's just your opinion," Hiccup smiled.
"Do you not understand my anger? I saw my brothers crushed like worms!" He then looked at Hiccup furiously with the most murderous look imaginable. "You'll see soon enough that you should have quit fighting a long time ago."
"Do you think Hiccup is going to be okay?" Tuffnut asked. "I mean Arlong doesn't seem to be affected by his attacks at all."
"I just don't know," said Ruffnut.
Astrid just looked on confidently. "I know he can beat him, because unlike Arlong he has something worth fighting for."
Fishlegs nodded. "Yeah, and if things get rough he has friends to back him up."
They were soon joined by Ragnar and Snotlout and the two of them just sat down, clearly they were exhausted from their clashes.
"Don't interfere, you only make the situation worse," said Ragnar.
"Yeah, he's got enough to worry about without people risking their lives for him," said Snotlout.
"He has to win this or else were all dead," said Goodwin.
"Not just us, but it will be it for the East Blue as well," Astra added.
"Do you know what the biggest differences between you and me is?" Arlong growled.
"Let's see the nose, the jaw, the webbed hands, the shark fin on your back," said Hiccup counting them off his fingers.
"What's he doing?" Tuffnut asked blankly.
"I think he's using sarcasm," said Ruffnut.
Arlong looked at him furiously. "Species!"
He then immediately tried to take a bite out of him, but Hiccup quickly moved out of the way in time. However, Arlong wasn't letting up and continue to take a bite out of him which didn't give Hiccup time to counter attack. Arlong then leaned in forward opening his mouth wide and Hiccup quickly used his tail to shift his weight and dodged the attack. It was a good thing that he did, because Arlong bit into the stone pillar behind him.
Snotlout smirked. "I bet that was painful."
"Not quite," said Ragnar darkly.
Then to everyone's amazement the stone pillar began to crack and completely shattered. The roof then began to cave in with the last support pillar destroyed and Arlong's teeth didn't have a scratch on them.
"He bit right through that stone pillar," Ruffnut gaped.
Hiccup immediately flew back trying to put as much distance from him and Arlong has possible. 'Got to watch out for those teeth, even with my scales I'm betting they could still penetrate my vital organs.'
Arlong turned around and smiled at Hiccup. "You see this is the inherent power of Fishmen, I feel sorry for you humans having been created with such limited power. We have been other completely different level at the beginning of time, you are inferior it only makes sense for you to bow before me. You're so weak that your presence on this planet is deplorable, don't you think that your time has come to an end? I'll show you, show you the real difference between you and I."
Hiccup just looked at him without a shred of emotion. "Go right ahead, but there's no way I'm losing to a Fishman, because I'm going to be King of the Pirates."
