Hey guys, I'm back and better than ever! My dog tore her ACL in her back right leg so she is limping and I have had to take care of her. I feel bad for her. Also, I will be using the names for Astrid's and the others dragons, so Stormfly won't be Stormfly, but she will be Jem and so on. If you are confused on whom they are then go back to the last chapter. Anyways here's another chapter! Hope you enjoy!
"What are you talking about Hiccup? You told us to meet you here and what was up with Toothless. He was just staring at us and almost ripped Snotlout head off his shoulders. Between you and me, I sort of wish he did," Tuffnut said. He earned a whack on the helmet courtesy of Snotlout's mace that Hiccup had given him. Hiccup just stared at the group as they stared back. Four eyes on ten until Toothless let out a low growl and his eyes became slits. Five dragon heads appeared in the bushes behind Hiccup. The teens gasped. It was their dragons and they were supposed to be locked up in the cages for training. Jem led the group out to stand behind Hiccup. She looked sadly at Astrid before her eyes became slits like Toothless' and they filled with anger. Naru and Nidrus just growled at the twins, which in turn caused them to back away slowly. Demong lit up on fire and snarled viciously at Snotlout who cowered behind Fishlegs. Lori was hovering a foot in the air and just stared at Fishlegs angrily. Hiccup patted Toothless on the snout. His eyes grew into large moons and he cooed to Hiccup. The other dragons settled down and stood behind Hiccup. They were all still on edge.
"You betrayed the trust of your dragons; you betrayed the trust of Toothless, which might I say wasn't very smart to make enemies out of dragons again, and you betrayed me, which also is not a very good idea." Hiccup just stared at them, his eyes growing into a very deep shade of glowing red. Astrid looked at him and saw that this was not good.
"What did we do Hiccup?"
"Oh don't bother with the games guys. I heard everything. You never noticed me but I heard every single word. You betrayed the trust that I had in you guys."
"How did we not see you? It was just us and Stoick," Fishlegs asked.
"I was in the rafters. You forgot one thing about me apparently. I can change into dragons so I just flew up to the rafters and listened in. I also saw you put Jem and the others in the training arena so that you could train to fight and kill dragons with actual dragons again. You made a big mistake making an enemy out of dragons and especially their leader," Hiccup told them. They just looked confused when he said leader.
"How did we make an enemy out of the leader? He or she isn't even here because I don't see any dragon that looks like a leader or person that looks like a leader here," Snotlout said.
"Jem or Stormfly is the leader of the Nadders, Demong or Hookfang is the brother of the leader of the Nightmares, Lori or Meatlug is the leader of the Gronkles and Naru and Nidrus or Barf and Belch are the leaders of the Zipplebacks. Toothless here is the leader of the Nightfurys and the "kings" right hand man. By making an enemy out I them, you made an enemy of their leader."
"And the leader is who now," Tuffnut asked. He was still overly confused about what was happening here.
"Anyone want to take a guess at who is their leader. The decision was unanimous. The dragons all chose a single leader to lead their leaders and them. No guess', I thought you guys were smarter than this."
"Just tell us who the leader is and how we made an enemy out of them," Snotlout shouted impatiently.
"You already know the leader and how you made an enemy out of them," Hiccup shouts at the teens. He took a few steps closer and all of them took a few steps back when they saw his eyes were flaming with fury. "I am their leader you idiots! You were all blind and you will pay the price for it. I forgot to mention one thing. Your all have in we dragons, every Viking and almost no ones are the same. They are carved into your weapon handles and they are the dragons standing behind me that you locked up. You will spend three days as them and in your inner dragons form to see how well you like it. You can change into your human form once in those three days for an hour but if you change out sooner than the time given, you will be unable to change back into your human form for the rest of the remaining time. Hope you see how the dragons feel," Hiccup told them. He changed an unknown dragon and forced each of the teen's inner dragons out.
Stoick noticed that the dragons had escaped from the training arena again and was just on his way there when he heard large whooshing noises. He looked up and saw four dragons that looked very similar to the ones that had been freed. The village was watching as the dragons unceremoniously crash landed in the middle of the village. None of them seemed to know how to fly very well at all. Stoick walked cautiously up to them and saw a note attached to one of the dragons. It was a sky blue Nadder with gold as its secondary coloring. It's eyes were the same color as its scales. A beautiful shade of blue. Stoick grabbed the parchment and unrolled it. He read what it said and then shoved it into a pocket. The Nadder suddenly squawked at the Gronkle and the Gronkle growled something back. Then the Gronkle stepped toward Stoick and changed.
"Fishlegs?! What in the name of Odin's beard is going on here," Stoick exclaimed.
"We'll we all got notes from Hiccup which told us to meet him in the cove at midnight so we did. He had listened into our conversation in the Great Hall and knew that we had betrayed him. He was really mad and he said that we should not have made an enemy of any dragon because then we would make an enemy of the King. And to let us know how it feels to be dragons he pulled our inner dragons to our exterior so that's why we are dragons chief. We are all aloud to change into our human selves once in the period of three days for an hour. If we change back before the hour is up we are stuck in our dragon form for the rest of the three days. When the time is up, we will be back to our selves and won't be dragons anymore," Fishlegs told the gathered crowd, but mainly Stoick.
"So you're telling me that these dragons behind you are Astrid-"
"She's the Nadder-"
"Ruffnut and Tuffnut-"
"They are the Zippleback sir-"
"And let me guess, the Nightmare is Snotlout," Stoick finished with his hand in his head.
"Yep," Fishlegs weakly said. He was scared of what the chief would do to them. He was also nervous because he didn't know if Hiccup is watching them right now. If he was, Fishlegs prayed to the gods that he wouldn't come and permanently change them into dragons. Stoick finally told Fishlegs that he wanted the whole story with full details. Fishlegs nodded and followed him quickly and quietly into the Great Hall. Astrid and the others followed in close pursuit. Once inside, Fishlegs told the whole story beginning to end from when they first heard Hiccup's secret to right now. It took 54 minutes to tell and Fishlegs only had about 2 minutes left before he changed back into his dragon form. It was the plan that he would change first and tell the chief his story then if anything needed further explaining, Astrid would change and only if they desperately needed to know anything else after Astrid's time runs out, then Snotlout would change. Ruffnut and Tuffnut were not to change, period. It was just a precaution to make sure they didn't screw anything up.
"Okay chief, that's the whole story from cover to cover and I have less than a minute left so I'm going to have to change back. If you need to know anything else, let Astrid know." With that, Fishlegs turned back into a Gronkle and wandered over to the other members of the group. Stoick just walked over to them and told them that he would bring them some blankets and hay to rest on. They grunted and nodded to say thanks and continued to huddle together.
Stoick left the Great Hall to find some very large blankets and a lot of hay when he saw something in the sky. It was very hard to notice and the only reason he did was because he knew the stars and some were being blotted out as the figure moved. Stoick continued to watch it and then when he brought his head back down he saw some people huddled at the far edge of the clearing in the center of the village. He walked over to them and noticed that they had seen the speck to. Once they noticed the chief was standing behind them, they all split up and went back to what they were doing before they got distracted. Stoick then continued to watch as the speck circling the village grew larger and larger as it grew ever so slowly closer.
Suddenly, the speck disappeared from view until a very familiar whistle was heard.
"Night Fury! Get down," someone in the village shouted right as one of the towers burst into flames. The noise was heard again, but this time closer. Another tower was blown out and then almost as soon as that one was, the third tower collapsed in a fiery explosion.
"How is there two of these things," Stoick mumbled to himself. There were never two Night Furys before and now there were two. One of the Night Furys shot down and threw a bright purple ball of fire straight into the village, setting four houses alight. Stoick watched as that Night Fury came closer to him and then shot past. He caught a glimpse of the tail and noticed that me was fake. "Oh no, not now," Stoick said aloud. He knew exactly who one of the Night Furys was. It was Hiccup's dragon pet. The other Night Fury was still confusing him though. Stoick watched Toothless circle around and back once more before taking off into the night sky, not to be seen again. The village continued to burn as the buckets of water were carried to them. Stoick turned and walked back toward the Great Hall. He never did ask who the King was.
On his way, he noticed that the other Night Fury had not been seen at all since Toothless left. Stoick was deep in thought when he heard the all too familiar whistle and the population of Berk went scrambling to gather their weapons. That was no use because the ones without weapons were stuck like that because the weapon storage building was burning to the ground from a well aimed blast of fire. Stoick heard another tell tale whistle and ordered everyone in the Great Hall. For some reason, the dragon had not set one building on fire and that was the Great Hall. Stoick watched as the Vikings ran into the one building that seemed to be safe. Once the last person had entered, Stoick turned to follow when he noticed silence hung in the air. There was no sound other then the crackling of fire. Stoick looked back at the village and glanced suspiciously around. He took a step forward and was bumped into by a very large creature. Stoick stumbled, but did not fall. He turned toward his attacker only to be staring at the Great Hall. He turned his head back facing the village and just saw two forest green eyes staring back at him.
"Hiccup? Is that you," Stoick asked. No one else that Stoick knew had the same eyes, other than his beloved Val. The creature stepped out from where it was and Stoick saw it was not Hiccup. It was a Titan Wing Night Fury. It was twice the size and much more deadly. Messing with one is not a wise choice. Since no one had ever seen one, let alone lived to tell the tale, Stoick knew none of this important information. Stoick stepped closer and then was taken aback as the dragon changed and morphed smaller and smaller until it was no longer a dragon.
"Hiccup? Why would you do this to your own people, your own friends, your own family," Stoick questioned the boy who stood before him. Hiccup just stared coldly at him as the flames made his face look dark and ominous. He noticed the damage he had done and decided that it would be best if he talked with Stoick when the village was in flames. Hiccup turned around and changed into a LighteningStriker before shooting back into the sky. Stoick just saw Hiccup change into an unknown dragon and before he could utter a word just disappeared. Stoick looked at the sky, hoping to get some answers soon.
By the time the sunrise the next morning, all of the fires were put out, but the damage was apparent. Almost none of the houses were repairable and the ones that were going to take a lot of work. Astrid and the others had heard what happened and were very mad that they still had two days left as dragons before they would be human again. They all wanted to be back in bodies that they knew how to control for the most part. Only Fishlegs and Astrid had made progress with flying since the day before. Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut were having trouble even figuring out how to walk straight.
Stoick was angry, sad and confused at the same time. Hiccup and his pet dragon had burnt the village to the ground in a single night. Stoick didn't think it possible for the village to be downed by two dragons and one being his son. He was so confused at this point in time.