Chapter 7

Fire

A/N: 'The Dragon1010' yes u were right!

He opened the door and a gust of wind blew at him. The door slammed against the other wall. Hiccup moved his brown bangs out of his eyes. His eyes widened when he saw what was outside.

A whole bunch of different dragons were flying over the village. Each of them breathing fire in a type of pattern. One group would grab the sheep and the other would be breathing on the houses. Fire swam over the village like a blanket. The fire was spreading as fast as the dragons were. Different vikings running all over the place with buckets of water. Everyone shouting different things to each other. And others shooing their young into the houses.

A gust of fire spread right in front of Hiccup. He screamed and slammed the door.

He ran backwards a little bit while shaking.

There was a loud boom as a ball of fire blasted through the door. He screeched and ran to the steps. He only made it halfway up when he looked behind him. His green eyes widened as the fires yellow light glared at them. The fire swam around his house as it burnt down the door and headed towards the table. Once it reached the table, Hiccup noticed it was heading toward him. He screamed as loud as he could and crawled up the stairs.

Once he got upstairs, he ran into his room and slammed the door. He ran into the corner of his room, near his bed. Smoke seeped through the cracks of the door. Hiccup started to cough from the black smoke.

He heard a rumbled as the fire cloaked his door. The boy whimpered. Tears were forming at the corners of his green eyes. While coughing non stop from the thickness of the smoke.

He sat down on the ground with his knees up against his chest as the fire was getting near his desk. Fresh tears streaming down his now red cheeks. He decided to call for help, "Daddy!", he shouted. A few tears dripped off of his face and landed on the floor. The fire was getting so close to the boy in just a few seconds. Hiccup shouted again while his tears rushed down his cheeks like a river. He coughed really hard as he swallowed smoke when he yelled.

All of a sudden, he heard a crash on the wall next to him. His eyes widened as he looked toward the noise. A giant purple flash was seen as wood splinters flew out. Smoke crawled around the hole as a small black figure appeared.

Hiccup hiccuped and sniffed, "Toothless?", he squeaked. Toothless big green eyes was now reflecting the fire's flames as he crept over to the scared child. "Toothless…", Hiccup whimpered. Toothless could easily tell that Hiccup was scared. Even a dragon can be scared of it's own flame.

Toothless nudged Hiccup to get up onto his feet. Hiccup quickly rubbed his eyes and slowly staggered up to his feet. He whimpered as he leaned against his dragon. Toothless curled his tail around the boy in case he fell over from the intense heat.

Hiccup slowly got on his dragon as the fire stalked over to the two creatures. He automaticly layed on his dragon as he started to cough more fearsfully. Toothless shook his head to get the smoke out of his eyes. Toothless started to spread his wings when they heard a shrilling scream, "HICCUP!". "Daddy…", hiccup was barely able to whisper out before he passed out. Toothless growled as he flapped his wings and flew out of the burning house.

Toothless didn't take him to the burning villages. And instead decided to take him to his mother. He narrowed his darkened green eyes. He needed to get there fast if he was going to save his best friend.

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~Stoik POV~

Stoick the Vast stared in shock and disbelief. He had heard a shrilling shriek somewhere and new it was a child. And later after he heard a child call "daddy". When he realised that his son was sleeping in their house, he was going to run and get him out. But when he got there, his whole house was burnt.

The chief just stood in front of his house. His small green eyes reflecting the fire's flame. His legs unwilling to run in there to rescue his son. His legs knew that it would have been useless to go in there. His son. His only child. Was now dead in the hands of the fire.

He fell to the ground on his knees with a thump. His back crouched down as he leaned over. His brown bear cape loomed over him, making him look like a hairy boulder. He slammed his fists into the ground, making dirt fly out in different places. Tears threatening to fall. But failed as the chief made himself be strong. But he couldn't suppress a scream of agony.

He was huffing and puffing after the yell. While trying hard for the waterfall in his eyes to go away.

The rest of the village heard their beloved chiefs scream and rushed over behind him. Little Snotlout and his friends pushed their way in front of the crowd. All of the kids gasped. Tears started going down Snotlouts cheeks uncontrollably. None of the other kids didn't bother teasing him, for he has a reason to cry.

Gobber walked up to his best friend and put a soft hand on his shoulder. "I-I am s-sorry stoik…", he mumbled. The chief shook his head, "No… No it is not your fault. I was careless and didn't pay attention to my son to get him out in time…", he mumbled back. Gobber also shook his head. "Don't blame yourself Stoik. You wouldn't have gotten there in time anyway… The fire is deadly and spreads very fast. You wouldn't have made it…", said gobber in a quiet gentle voice as tears started to go down his face. Stoik nodded in defeat.

He clenched his fist and slowly got up. His green eyes dark as he stared at his burning house. He took a deep breath.

"Well. We don't want any other home to get burnt to a crisp! Lets clean up our village like we have time and time again!", he said. Each word he said got louder so he was spoken over the crackle of the now descending flames.

Everyone nodded and went into different places and started getting pails of water.

But the five kids stayed and watched the chiefs burning house.

A small soft hand was placed on Snotlouts shoulder. He gave a quick glance at the girl with braided pigtails sticking out at both ends. She tried giving her best caring smile. Behind them, little Fishlegs was crying his eyes out. His big cheeks all red and puffy. You could hear some sniffling in the background. Little Astrid turned her head to see the twins. Toughnut rubbed his arm on his nose, "W-we're not crying!", he proclaimed poorly. Roughnut burst into tears as she slammed her head on her brothers shoulder. Toughnut whined and pushed her off as he burst into tears as well. Both of them ended up leaning their heads on each other crying their eyes out.

It took a few minutes for each of the kids parents to come and get their crying child.

After Astrid left, Snotlouts father came and put his hand on his sons shoulder. "Come on son. we have some cleaning up to do.", he mumbled.

Tonight was going to be a very long and sad night.

A/N: Bleh, again, sorry for the short chapter! But I wanted to get it done! I hoped you all liked it! And again, the next chapters might take me a while so they wont be posted as fast as I have the other ones!