Heyy. New chapter yay! I'm so happy!

You might find weird me posting during the weekend but it's happening. I manages to and this will probably happen more often.

Well, I leave you with this chapter, there's not much to say so either.

Wish you a great reading time! I'm not responsible for your feels. XD

PS: there might be more mistake. I usually write on my computer bug I had to do it on the phone so yeah, autocorrector and clumsy fingers lol

Five dragons flew on the sky.

A whole armada sailed on the sea.

Four dragons, five Dragon Riders.

A total of about 35 ships, a LOT of Dragon Hunters.

Astrid led the group to battle, flying on the front of the 'v' formation.

They were aware of their HUGE disadvantage when compared to their enemy but still, they flew forward. It wasn't easy mainly because the one usually leading them wasn't Astrid but Hiccup. Astrid felt a bit lost but pushed that feeling aside. She was a shield-madden. The best shield-madden in Berk at her age. She was a Dragon Rider. One of the best. She didn't...need...Hiccup...right? That was what she was born for: war. Then why did she feel so insecure?

One way or another they had finally reached the fleet sailing even more near the Edge. Sure, it was also considerably away from the outpost but they weren't going to just sit down and wait until the Hunters reached their island. Besides it would be easier to just defeat them if they were still concentrated on the ships.

As soon as the gang arrived near the ships, the Dragon Hunters started attacking them. Needless to say that Astrid, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Tuffnut counterattacked.

The battle also known as suicidal mission had started.

"Fishlegs!" Astrid called over to the boy "You take the South side! Snotlout, you and the twins will converge attacks on the middle from East to Weast! I'll take the North!"

"On it!" The other riders answered, flying in their own directions while avoiding several angry arrows and boulders.

Astrid focused her attack on the front of the fleet. Stormfly flew downwards in a tight dive and blasted a ship into oblivion. The soldiers on it jumped off board and swam in the direction of the nearest ship. "Stormfly spine shot!" The blonde ordered her Nadder who did as she was told with a quick, well effectuated move of tale. The spines pierced through the deck of one of the middle ships and the wooden boat shook as sea water started flowing to its inside.

Fishlegs dodged as more dragon root arrows were shot and Meatlug barely missed one of them. Well, being the slowest dragon of the group didn't help but that also didn't stop them from doing a lot of damage. The Gronckle swallowed a boulder with easy and a content growl as she continued her lunge towards one of the ships in the South edge of the fleet formation.

The Dragon Hunters in there realized this and between shouts and orders towards each other managed to point several crossbows at the boy. "Meatlug, drop!" Fishlegs screamed just in time for the crossbows were shot and its arrows bolted in the direction of the pair. Meatlug and Fishlegs fell downwards and disappeared from view. However, just when the Hunters were about to start celebrating, the boy and his dragon appeared from under the deck's level and blasted their ship that obviously started to sink.

Snotlout and Hookfang were on fire….literally.

The two had opted by the indiscreet approach apparently. Instead of trying to surprise their enemies, Hookgang had lit himself up probably because he and his rider were done with hiding and methodical attacks. Snotlout was still pretty affected by his cousin's betrayal. This mirrored on Hookfang's behavior.

The Jorgenson and the Nightmare dodged several bunches of arrows and nets and with a tight turn they flew above a couple ships blasting here and there. Hookfang's flaming wings barely missed the sails of the closest boats but the fire covering his scales was fast enough to pass to the sails that started burning furiously, earning several screams from the occupants of said ships.

The twins… well, the twins were having the time of their lives; at least at that moment. The two siblings were on the East side of the fleet, kind of crossing fire with Hookfang and Snotlout on the West. Barf and Belch were not on fire literally but they were the ones wiping out more soldiers and ships. Why would that be? While Ruffnut released the gas, Tuffnut released the sparks.

Several balls of pure fire were shot one after the other.

Several soldiers jumped off deck one after the other.

If seen from afar, the area of the battle between the two forces was a complete chaos with burning, sinking ships, several walls and balls of fire appearing and disappearing on the sky. Screams of fear, of surprise, orders and warnings could be heard from both sides.

Soon the riders were working with perfect sync, backing each other up. Astrid made Stormfly shoot more spines and several blasts at a group of Hunters and took a moment to study the scenery.

They'd been blasting and fighting for so long now that the dragons were starting to get tired and there still were too many ships to defeat. The Riders were seriously outnumbered (especially without a Night Fury).

The twins were starting to slow down and Ruffnut had a net around her and Barf's head. Fishlegs and Meatlug were getting extremely slow and the poor Gronckle didn't even have stomach nor energy to swallow boulders anymore. Hookfang had extinguished his flames and Stormfly was getting slower on her barrel rolls and dives.

They were losing. The fleet had such a tight formation that the ships in the middle were practically safe from enemy fire but allowed to fire towards the riders. The ships were so close in fact that a soldier almost could jump from a ship to another: a problem that combined forces with the Rider's outnumbered one.

Astrid stopped Stormfly in midair and stared at the wide splotch of brown and red on the greenish blue of the sea. It was obvious that they would never make it. Their intrudors even kept advancing, slowly sailing towards the Edge's shores!

Vigo and Ryker stood on the main ship, right in the middle of the fleet. The youngest Grimborn smiled at the sight of Astrid's expression while Ryker kept giving orders to the men. His plan was working. No Hiccup, no Night Fury. Only a broken team of youths flying dragons.

Astrid watched her friends barely escaping the Hunter's attacks. They were giving their best but not even that was enought. There were just too many to take care of and not even with Berk's A team the battle would be won easily.

The youths of Berk were loosing and it had been Astrid to lead them to their end. It had been Astrid to guide her friends to this suicidal mission like Hiccup'd called.

The blonde tried to focus and think of a plan, she wasn't one to give up! She wasn't, but their fate was cruely visible and even the most stubborn Viking warrior would see it. That and the whole Hiccup situation was affecting her. In fact, it was affecting all the riders.

She noticed Viggo smiling down there and a realization assaulted her mind. That was exactly what he wanted, to break them from the inside. Recruiting their leader would leave them way too fragile and smached to win. It would happen just like it was happening now. They were being crushed like a grape. Viggo was right, because even in the middle of the battle Astrid's mind was constantly wandering around in memories of Hiccup.

"We don't stand a chance..." She blurted unconsciously for the fleet was now extremly, dangerously close to one of the beaches of their outpost.

Astrid however was too lost in her thoughts to notice a hidden archer shoot an arrow towards her, aiming straight to her chest.

At the same time Snotlout and Hookfang were caught in the trajectory of a recently shot net.

Fishlegs and Meatlug were embraced by another boulder and the poor Gronckle barely managed to swallow it. With the sudden shakeup Fishlegs was thrown off Meatlug's saddle.

The twins had just avoided a bunch of arrows when another one was shot, leaving no space nor time to even think about dodging it.

Astrid caught all this in the corner of her blue eyes before realizing that she too, was about to be defeated. With no time to even move out of the way of the arrow she embraced herself for the hit.

A loud, clangorous scream echoed on the sky.

Astrid opened her eyes in a flash, just in time to see a black, blurry, impossibly fast silhouette flying right in front of her, so close she wondered how on Thor's beards they didn't touch.

The fact was that she never met the arrow.

The black figure kept flying, escorted by its unique chant. With an explosion of purple, the net that was about to meet Snotlout and Hookfang disappeared. Fishlegs found himself back on Meatlug and with three more hissing, purple blasts one after the other, the twins were freed from their fate with the arrows.

"Not on my watch!" Hiccup announced, laying even more on Toothless and preparing himself as the Night Fury flew upwards for a loop right above the fleet.

The Riders subconsciously backed off a little at the sight of the supposedly caged Hiccup and Toothless. The men on the ships stopped everything for a moment, watching as the Night Fury flew higher and higher in the sky. Ryker stopped giving orders to his soldiers for everyone had stopped. Viggo's smile was nowhere to be seen.

Time to get suicidal… Hiccup though as Toothless started flying down.

"Guys!" Astrid called over the wind. All the other riders looked at her and got the message. Time to keep the hunters busy.

The dragons started blasting the edges of the formation and hitting the water on purpose too. No one knew what Hiccup was planning on doing but in the heat of the moment they all knew that whatever was coming was crazy (by the way he was diving from the sky) and their instinct told them to do that.

The fleet was embedded in water vapor and almost disappeared. Toothless shoot three more plasma blasts from his spot in the sky.

Suddenly they reached the fleet and the black dragon faced his stomach to the sea, soaring over it for a moment before disappearing in the water vapor too. Hiccup grabbed the four cans he'd brought with him and checked the ones attached to Toothless' saddle.

"Time for a nap!" He yelled before jumping in the air as soon as they were covered by the white water clouds.

Everyone held their breath while the duo soared right between the ships' masts. Everyone this is... apart from the twins who started cheering for Hiccup and Toothless, their supposed betrayal completely forgotten.

His flight suit allowed him to soar above the decks although it was hard to see where he was going thanks to the water fog. Hiccup pressed the top of the cans and just like Toothless' ones were doing by themselves, a cloud of white substance started involving the Hunters as the duo passed. Hiccup tried not to breath the stuff he was spraying in the air and Toothless did the same.

Silence. Even the twins were quiet by now.

A nerve wrecking moment of pure suspanse in which all the war cries had stopped and the Haddock and the Night Fury were nowhere to be seen, followed next.

Then and all of a sudden, the riders watched as the dragon and rider appeared back from the vapor. Hiccup struggled to mount Toothless again.

The water in the air started disappearing since there were no more dragons blasting the water and what the riders saw next was... confusing, reassuring and from another world at the same time.

The Dragon Hunters coughed effortlessly. Most of the men layed on the decks having a nice and deep moment of rest apparently. Other tried to cover their mouths and noses with their own clothes. Viggo and Ryker had probably taken cover from whatever Hiccup had done because the two leaders were nowhere to be seen.

Astrid, Fishlegs, Snotlout and the twins celebrated in midair their victory while their foes' desperated attempt to retreat provided a marvelous sight.

Hunters knocked down each other when they suddenly fell on the decks, joining their comrades in a peaceful, dead to the world sleep. The few men on foot struggled to turn the boats to the horizon direction. It was hilarious to see soldiers like them acting like chickens.

Soon and strugling to, the fleet vanished on the horizon leaving the riders laughting to death.

It was insane but they did it! All of a sudden they had done it!

Astrid, Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Tuffnut ignored the wreckage on the sea and the fact that there was a lot of work to do in order to remove them from there. This was a celebration time! A time to celebrate the fact that they were all alive.

"Dragon's Edge, Dragon's Edge oy oy oy!" Snotlout sang.

"We did it girl!" Fishlegs celebrated, hugging Meatlug in the process (Meatlug licked him back more than necessary).

The twins bashed their heads together just like Barf and Belch and Astrid couldn't help but smile. Everyone was so happy, celebrating their victory upon a whole fleet!

Astrid looked at Hiccup. They couldn't have done that without him and that made her realize how wrong they'd been. Hiccup would never change sides. It just wasn't in his nature. What'd happened was all Viggo's doing and now Astrid felt bad about doubting him.

While the others celebrated Hiccup was strangely calm, his eyes seemed unfocus. The Hofferson gasped when she noticed blood drainning down his nose and from the corner of his mouth.

"Hiccup?" She called.

Hiccup started coughing and the girl widened her eyes. He was coughing blood.

"Hiccup!" She called again. The celebration ended when, after hearing the worry on Astrid's voice, the others looked at Hiccup.

His vision became blurry and started darkening now that the adrenaline peak was over. That was NOT good- a big-he-was-on-a-dragon-that-couldn't-fly-by-himself good. His shaking hands tried to reach and clutch his back, the spot where pain was coming from but he found that he couldn't even think.

Hiccup felt lightheaded and his eyelids threatned to close so, with his last strenghts, he turned Toothless and flew as fast as possible towards the Edge, leaving the others' anxious, muffled calls behind.

In a flash they were going down. In another flash Toothless had been tossed to one side, Hiccup flew from his saddle and landed on another.

Astrid landed Stormfly near the Dome and jumped from her saddle, her boots touching the green grass and leading her in big, hysterical steps. She caught sight of the black dragon still shaking his head to recover from the sudden crash as she literaly flew to Hiccup.

He was laying with his face on the grass, completely motionless. From his back a Dragon Hunter arrow could be seen, its arrow head disappearing inside the boy's skin.

Astrid fell on her knees right next to him and gasped. That arrow. He'd flown right in the middle of the fleet but she was sure that arrow was the one about to hit her.

"Hiccup!" She cried.

Astrid you're so stupid! She though. She was never hit because Hiccup took it for her. She should've noticed it before but then again, he was shot on the back and she only saw his front most of the time. That and he flew really fast.

With shaking hands Astrid grabbed the arrow's cable and removed it from her friend, earning a painful cry from him.

She twisted Hiccup's shirt and used the knur of fabric to cover the wound near his right ribs and placed her hands on it to apply pressure. She almost threw up at the sight of HIS blood that should be INSIDE not OUTSIDE on her hands!

The rest of the gang ran in the direction of their two friends but stopped dead in their tracks after seeing Astrid tossing an arrow to the side. Even the twins understood what that meant. It took a lot of concentration and focus to NOT run in their direction but to go gather some cloths, water and other healing products.

Astrid turned Hiccup on his back so that his weight could be on her hands which she though would help stop the bleeding. His face was pale and his unfocused forest green eyes were fighting to stay open.

She fought her instinct to shout at him for being so dam reckless and selfless and hugged him tighter.

"Hiccup!" She called. "Hey come on, you gotta stay awake ok?" The last thing she wanted was him falling asleep because after loosing so much blood he could never 'wake up again'.

Hiccup locked eyes with her and coughed more blood. "Mnhhhm..." He groaned.

"Yes yes, I know! Just stay with me ok? Don't fall asleep Hiccup!" Astrid almost yelled while shaking him.

Toothless came running towards them and after smelling his rider, shook his head in disgust. The Night Fury cooed sadly.

Hiccup's eyes landed on his dragon and the corner of his red mouth formed a faint smile.

He closed his eyes on purpose.

"Hiccup! Come on! All you gotta do is fight a little longer! Just stay awake!" Astrid literaly begged, shaking the boy so fast that his eyes opened again. "You can't sleep. Please, for me?"

Hiccup looked at her blurry form. He wasn't one to hold grudges or to at least show them. He always hid his feelings, his hurtful thoughs. No matter what someone'd done he always acted in a "it's ok, I understand your motives... yes it's perfectly fine... what, of course I'm not hurt..." way.

This time he was done with it. He was mad his friends, but he was even more mad at Astrid, for not believing him. Maybe mad wasn't the right word because he never stayed mad at Astrid for that long ... more like hurt. How could they even think that he would become a Dragon Hunter for Thor's sake!?

His lighthheadness became even worse and Hiccup's line of though didn't make sense anymore. The world started spinning and he knew it was useless to fight against the tiredness. He stopped fighting it, he didn't want to fight anymore. So what if he ended up by never waking up again after that? It didn't matter. He was so tired.

And hurt. He was hurt with the gang but mainly with the one hugging him at the moment. The one with such a comfortable embrace. Even though they doubted him, Hiccup'd gone to their rescue, sacraficing himself for Astrid and still, he regreted nothing.

"Hiccup!" Astrid kept calling.

He looked at her one last time before closing his eyes much for Astrid's surprise and pure horror. He's not even trying to live! She realised.

She and Toothless forgot how to breath when Hiccup went limp.

\(0_0)/ No nononono it wasn't me who wrote this again! I swear! You must chase after the one who did! And I'm not your person believe me! I swear someone keeps changing my happy chapters to a mess of feels!

Poor Hiccup... I completly support his feelings. I mean, we never saw him sharing that people actually hurt him! That boy must have a limit! How can he just put it all behind his back and live with stuff like that?

Sorry again, for taking way too much time for my own good but it's been really hard to write. I miss those days in which I basically write everyday! Writing is life! HTTYD is life ahh!

I hope you "enjoyed" reading this chapter! See ya next one (soon if it depende on me)! XD