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IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ!

So you guys know I don't write on weekends and I just want to inform ya guys that this Monday I won't too. This next week I´m going to be busy so please don't kill me for only posting the last Chapter on Tuesday!

I'm sorry for what I'm about to do in this chapter. And I'm also sorry for leaving this - you'll see what I mean- until Tuesday but you are strong so I believe you'll be able to hang on that- ups I was about to say it hehehehe.

PS: I'm sorry if there are spelling mistakes. I'm in a rush right now and I'll correct them all on Tuesday too. XD

Enjoy chapter 14. Secon do last Chapter! XD

"Just-just breathe Hiccup, please!" Astrid begged "We're almost there. Just… fight a little longer."

The bright sun had appeared a while ago and the riders traveled the fastest they could towards Remorse Island. Stormfly, Hookfang, Meatlug and Barf and Belch were very tired due to flying at full speed all night long. Although their tiredness the dragons didn't slow down. Contrarily, they increased it. They weren't giving up on Hiccup, they didn't want to, next to their own riders he was the one they trusted the most and besides without that human, mitting their riders wouldn't have happened.

Hiccup screamed for what felt like the 100th time that hour, but something was different in this scream: it was weaker. Astrid held him even tighter. Just one more hour come on… one single hour. He'll make it. He has to… "Just breath okay?" She told him.

Hiccup however didn't listen to a thing she said. The pain was so bad now that all he could see and hear was the Red Death. Nothing else.

Astrid caressed his cheek and fought to hold her tears back. Hiccup looked at her, or at least it looked like because his eyes were unfocused. He slowly started closing his eyes again and Astrid shook him. Hiccup however was so embedded in pain and so detached from the world that not even that worked.

"No no no no. Hiccup!" Astrid called. She knew that Hiccup could die at any moment now and seeing him closing his eyes and going limper freaked her out. "Hiccup! Come on you've gotta stay awake!" Hiccup however didn't even stir. She leaned forward, approaching her ear to his chest. His heartbeat was so weak it looked like at any given moment it would just stop beating. His breathing was raspy and so infirm that his chest barely moved. "We need that cure right now!" She yelled to the others.

"I-I think I see something on the horizon…" Fishlegs pointed out. The boy grabbed a spyglass and brought it to one of his eyes "Oh Thor there it is! Remorse Island yes!"

Astrid's heart started pumping her blood so fast it felt like it wanted to jump out of her mouth.

Soon the so expected island was no longer a distant, small dot on the horizon. Its shore lines could be perfectly seen now. The island was… what's the word… bizarre. It was considerably small, surrounded by volcanic beaches and a small forest-like forestal area starting on a corner of the riders camp of vision and disappearing behind the too-tall-compared-to- its-base-volcano.

"Hum guys… are the islands supposed to come with fleets integrated?" Tuffnut asked at the same time as Astrid and Fishlegs gasped.

"No!" Snotlout exploded. He'd been nervous during the whole trip, especially the past hours when Hiccup's condition got EVEN worse and the thing he saw next only made it worse.

The riders'd to stop their dragons in midair as they realized the ships docked on the shores of Remorse Island.

There were at least 18 ships floating down there, all of them with the same ensign on their sails. The Dragon Hunters' ensign.

"Really? I hate it when I'm right…" Snotlout complained.

The worse however wasn't the fact that the Dragon Hunters were there. The worst was that the Dragon Hunters were there and they held the Grey Remorse the riders so desperately needed captive.

Viggo was standing beside Grumpy, looking at the riders with his usual confident stupid grin "Ah Riders I see you came after all. You found the cure and chose your leader over the Dragon Eye. Well done! Predictable but well done." He said with his logical tone. The only tone he had basically.

"Viggo, release the dragon!" Astrid yelled.

"Astrid! I'm wondering, how's your friend up there? He looks a little bit down. What was the consequence of the venom for him? His leg I trust."

Astrid resisted the temptation of jumping from Stormfly and cut Viggo's head off. He was messing with her. He was messing with all of them. To leave them even more confused and worried. Viggo had a plan and Astrid was not in the mood to play dumb in it.

"Give us the dragon Viggo!" Astrid demanded. "You know what we're here for and we're not leaving without it!"

"But he is." Ryker joked, pointing to Hiccup, near the docked ships.

"Look… hum… you can keep the dragon but just let us have the cure!" Fishlegs cried.

"Fishlegs!" Snotlout scolded.

"What? We need it, look at Hiccup." Fishlegs replied low enough so Snotlout could hear it but the Dragon Hunters below them couldn't.

Snotlout looked at Hiccup and if he didn't know he was barely alive (Astrid was constantly making sure of it) he would say Hiccup was dead. His head lolling on Astrid's arm and his skin as pale as… Snotlout didn't even know.

"Can't do Fishlegs. You see. I'm a business man. Dragons are my business but sometimes when that business is at risk thanks to one, I have no other option than eliminate the source of said risk. You're a smart too boy, I'll give you that. That's why I believe you understand what I mean."

"You're a monster!" Fishlegs shouted.

"Among many other things." Viggo answered.

Astrid looked at Hiccup, he was starting to stop fighting. Those were becoming his last breaths and Astrid couldn't imagine the pain he was going through. No one hurts Hiccup. NO ONE! She though.

She looked at her friends and the message in her eyes was clear. Attack.

The riders and their dragons lunched forward, blasting everything in sight. The archers in the boats and some in the beach fired their weapons in response.

"Ryker!" Viggo called as soon as he understood his talk with the gang was over " The Quakens now!"

The riders didn't even communicate what each one of them should do.

The twins created a wall of fire between the ships and the beach where Grumpy fought for his freedom. This distracted the troops on said ships, giving Snotlout the perfect opportunity to attack them from behind.

Fishlegs gave Meatlug the spew! command and his Gronkle did as she was told. Some hunters ran away to Thor knows where and others tried to take them down when Meatlug flew closer to the ground. This resulted in the hug! Command which equals several unconscious Dragon Hunters.

A loud Thump! echoed around the island but everyone was too busy to even question the source of such loud noise.

Astrid counted on Fishlegs for support. She couldn't attack that much with a dying Hiccup on her arms but Stormfly could handle herself without a major effort, just like Astrid who parried several arrows thanks to her axe. Stormfly shot several spines at a bunch of archers guarding Grumpy who had no other option than flee the Nadder's target area in order to stay alive.

Another Thump! and the whole island shoke.

It was Dragon Riders against Dragon Hunters. The Dragon Riders were fighting to save their dying friend and the Dragon Hunters to kill their enemy's leader.

Thump! Some large boulders fell from the sides of the tall volcano who was by now releasing a dark smoke cloud.

Astrid was done with it all and as soon as there was a considerable clean path to the Grey Remorse she dove in its direction. The blonde however was distracted when she saw Ryker running in the direction of the chained poisonous dragon. Her gaze followed his previous steps and that's when she noticed a Catastrophic Quaken.

Thump!

Suddenly Stromfly'd to swerve in a tight turn to avoid another large- LARGE- boulder falling from the side of the volcano.

That gave time for Ryker to reach the Grey Remorse and what he did next surprised Astrid.

Ryher unlocked the chains and after grabbing his sword flapped it against the dragon who flew forward with the fright. Grumpy clashed against a dragon hunter, carving it's talons in the man's back, then proceeding to fly in the direction of the sky above them.

Thump!

"No!" Astrid understood what was happening. Without the dragon Hiccup would die and that's exactly what Viggo and Ryker wanted.

Hiccup sucked in a deep raspy breath as if he was looking for air that wasn't there. Astrid was distracted with the boy's attempt to breath and didn't even notice the explosion above them: The volcano.

More large boulders fell in their direction and Stormfly in an unexpected flounce, dodged the boulder just in time. Astrid however wasn't ready for that and Hiccup escaped from her arms, falling in the direction of the ground below them.

Thump! The Catastrophic Quaken continued its work of destroying the island and while she flew down to catch Hiccup, Astrid noticed more two in the other side of the island.

A large chain, as thick has Astrid's body was faster and catched Hiccup, something that looked like one of those cuffs for legs closed around the pale boy's stomach, dragging him down quicker.

"No! Hiccup!" She couldn't help but scream.

Thump!

Stormfly landed on the ground and Astrid jumped from her saddle and ran in Hiccup's direction. She held him by his shoulders and got ready to face all the Dragon Hunters she had to. The thing was, they were retreating. They were retreating! They were retreating?

A last Thump! was heard and a large fissure appeared on the ground really close to her and Hiccup. No, they are destroying the island with us here! She realized.

"Stormfly!" She called, pointing to the chain around Hiccup's stomach. "Be careful!"

The Nadder shot several spines but the chain wasn't even scratched. Stormfly then tried blasting the thick chain. Nothing. It was dragon proof.

Another boulder fell towards them but it never hit the ground. Meatlug swallowed it with ease.

"Astrid the Dragon Hunters.. they-they… they're gone!" Fishlegs said.

"And so is the dragon!" She replied, her voice cracking in every single word.

Two more dragons landed near Astrid, Fishlegs and Hiccup.

"What happened?" Snotlout asked seeing the large cuff around Hiccup. "The Grey Remorse where is it?"

"It- it got away… " Astrid mumbled while both Meatlug and Stormfly tried to break the chain. Another fissure, this one bigger than the others appeared. The volcano making even more noise.

"The island is tearing apart guys!" Ruffnut yelled, avoiding another rock.

"We have to take him out of here and find Grumpy!" Astrid informed "Try to blast the source of the chain!"

Snotlout and the twins followed the large and apparently long chain until they were right on the base of the volcano. They entered a dark cavern and Hookfang lighted himself up to illuminate the place. "No! No no no…" The twins cried, for once in their lives understanding the consequences of what they were seeing.

Snotlout froze. This is NOT happening! Please Thor this is not happening…

They ran back to Astrid who was hugging Hiccup.

"Why didn't you blast it? Guys?" She asked them.

A large crack was opened right below Snotlout and the twins' feet and their dragons saved them just in time.

"We-we- we can't!" Snotlout started. "They had this planned a long while ago!"

"What do you mean?" Fishlegs cried.

"They had this whole thing set up…" Snotlout mumbled.

"The entire cave is dragon proof…" Tuffnut said sorrowfully.

"The only way of destroying it is by well… destroying the whole volcano but that would kill-. That'd be fun in other days." Ruffnut finished.

"But we have to do something! We can't leave Hiccup here. We won't!" Astrid despaired.

"Ast-" A new voice mumbled.

"Hiccup? It's ok. We'll get you out of here and go after the cure. Just hold on a little longer." She told Hiccup, holding his hand.

"Ast- go." Hiccup whispered, hissing through his teeth.

"NO! I won't leave you Hiccup! I won't!"

Stormfly and Hookfang blasted a new boulder while Meatlug grabbed Fishlegs and dropped him on another place, just in time for the boy not to fall in a newly open fissure. A part of the forest of the island was separated from the rest of the ground and started sinking in the whater. The Quakens flew away finally free.

"Ast- pl-se" Hiccup groaned.

Astrid hugged him tighter. "I-I-I can't." She said.

"Ast-" Hiccup mumbled, closing his eyes and going limp again.

"Hiccup? Hiccup!" Astrid cried. "Hiccup!" She checked his heartbeat; it was slowing down at an alarming speed.

A huge- like really HUGE- crack crossed the beach and the island started sinking.

"Astrid…" Snotlout called, his voice cracking, placing a hand on her shoulder and starting to pull her in Stormfly's direction.

Astrid wanted to scream that she would never leave Hiccup but she remembered Hiccup pleading her-the last thing he asked for- and slowly laid him on the ground. She kissed his forehead and let Snotlout drag her away to Stormfly.

The riders took off in a sad silence. Astrid was too shocked to even to something, the twins held their helmets in front of their chest, their expressions were dark. Snotlout also held his helmet to his chest and even though he fought not to cry a few tears escaped from his eyes.

Fishlegs sobbed and didn't even try to hide it.

In the horizon the Remorse Island vanished from the map.

Ha ha ha… ha…ha. Ha.

I don't really know what to say so I better just go away now. Some of you gave the advice to hire a bodyguard. That's what I did.

The bodyguard also wants to kill me helpppp!

Ok so I'll just leave you in this Master Cliffhanger until Tuesday lol buy! XD