Chapter 8
Dragon Rider
A/N: Thank you guys for all the reviews! It makes me so happy n it encourages me to continue on with this story and make it as best as I can! -gives cookies to all who've reviewed and read this- :3 And thank you ZambleTheZombie, their names are weird n i didn't bother looking them up so thank you! :3
Warning: Swearing
~10 years later~
"Are you serious Snotlout?!", said an annoyed girl. Her spiked skirt swaying as she walked. Her blonde braid swinging behind her head. Her blue eyes narrowed in annoyance. Her ax in her right hand with a tight grip. "Yes I'm sure Astrid! Even the Chiefs are talking about him!", insisted a boy with short black hair wearing a viking helmet. His black vest stuck against him like glue. His hands balled into fists as he trudged away to go into the forest.
"B-but we're not trained enough to face a dragon!", whimpered a big short blonde boy. "Can it Fishlegs!", snapped Snotlout. The boy Fishlegs pouted and hid behind Astrid half way. Everyone rolled their eyes.
"Look! This Dragon Rider has been on everyone's nerves. If we take him down, then we wouldn't even have to go into dragon training!", he proclaimed. "We can smash his head!", chirped Tuffnut. "Ya and feed him to the sheep!", said Ruffnut. They both snickered. "That's not even possible…", mumbled Fishlegs. "Don't even bother with them Fishlegs.", said Astrid as she rolled her eyes.
"Snotlout seriously. Do you even know how stupid this sounds!?", she snapped. "It sounds like an awesome idea to me!", proclaimed Tuffnut. Ruffnut smirked and high fived her brother. Astrid glared her blue eyes as them.
Snotlout just kept trudging along into the forest ignoring the girls warnings. Astrid groaned and sighed. She swung her ax as it landed safely on her shoulder to carry. Fishlegs just tip toed behind her.
After they passed all the new built houses, they have reached the edge of the forest. Trees ran as far as you can see from left and right. Snotlout grunted and stomped into the forest. Astrid shook her head in defeat, knowing that there was no way to stop the boy now.
They passed the tall pine trees. Now that they are older, the trees aren't as big as it was when they were little.
It's been 2 years that this Dragon Rider has appeared. No one knows who he is, or where he came from. But what the few villages know, if that he free's dragons. The Dragon Rider comes to peoples villages and takes their dragons away. Only some have caught a glimpse of the boy. Some say he can fly. Some say he's a dragon. And some say that he is the last Night Fury. But no one really knows. He comes at night. When the moon is full and bright. He comes and goes without a sight.
The Chiefs of the villages are getting annoyed with this Dragon Rider. They have meetings every time he comes and takes the dragons away. Or people who are outside of the villages who have seen him.
Snotlout has decided that he would be the one to take down this Dragon Rider. Astrid didn't know if it was bravery or stupidity. But knowing Snotlout, it was probably going to end badly. Fishlegs comes along because they are the only kids around his age and he's curious to see the Dragon Rider. Ruffnut and Tuffnut only come because they want to see something bad(exciting) happen.
They have no idea how far they have walked, but they know that they are around the area where the dragons usually come. All you have to do is be really loud and cause a commotion. Then the dragons would come and get their prey. (A/N: I honestly don't know much about dragons, except that they are intelligent creatures and that it's my first time doing a dragon story so be nice! ;_;)
They made it to a small clearing. There were a few bushes and boulders. And trees behind them.
"Alright, Ruffnut and Tuffnut. You know what to do.", Astrid ordered. She gripped her ax and put a hand on her hip. She had a bored expression as she watched the twins converse and idea. "Wait. Where's Fishlegs?", asked Snotlout as he looked around, annoyed. "Over here…", said a very quiet voice. Everyone looked to see Fishlegs crouched behind a giant boulder. Astrid had to suppress an eye roll.
All of a sudden the twins started throwing rocks at trees and in the air. A few flew passed Snotlout and Astrids heads. "What are you two doing!?", sneered the blonde. "Trying to make a dragon come!", Tuffnut shouted while he threw another rock. Astrid slapped her hand on her forehead.
It only took a few minutes for the twins to run out of rocks to throw. Since they were in a pine forest, they decided to throw pine cones instead.
Astrid put a hand in the air, "I've had enough of this!", she said as she started walking off. "Where are you going?", asked Snotlout. Astrid turned around and glared at him, "I'm not going to just stand around here all day waiting for a dragaon to come and burn us to a crispe!", she snarled. "I agree!", piped up Fishlegs. He was about to follow her when there was a gust of wind and leaves flew everywhere.
"Ha ha! We did it!", shouted Tuffnut as he and his sister banged heads together.
Astrid sneered as she swung her ax into position in her hand. While she did that, she made a stance. Fishlegs made a squeak and ran back behind the boulder he was at earlier. Ruffnut and Tuffnut were looking at each other and then back at the sky excitedly. Snotlout grabbed his sword from his back and made the same stance as Astrid.
The wind died down as a red scaled dragon appeared.
The Monstrous Nightmare has shown itself to the children. It's red scales even brighter as it put its own fire on itself. It roared when it saw the kids. All the kids eyes were wide. Fishlegs was cowering even more and started to whimper. Ruffnut and Tuffnut ran behind a boulder as well and started cheering to the dragon. "Ya! Burn stuff! Burn stuff!", they both shouted in unison. "Still think this was a good plan?!", shouted Astrid as she thought of hitting Snotlout with her own ax. Snotlout kept his eyes on the dragon and gulped. "W-we'll come back another time!", he shouted as he started to run.
The dragon saw the boy start to run. It takes in a sharp breath. "Snotlout!", Astrid screams a warning. But the flame from the dragon was already out and smothered the ground as it was reaching the boy. Snotlout screamed loudly as the fire got closer to him. "Get him! Get him!", shouted Ruffnut as she and her brother stuck their fists in the air. "Not helping!", Astrid shouted as she began to chase after Snotlout with her ax tightly in her grip.
Out of no where, everyone hears a type of howling noise.
Then, a black figure swooped over everyone really fast, shooting a purple fire blast at the Monstrous Nightmare. The red dragon roared in anger. It shot a fire ball in the air but it didn't hit anything. The black figure swooped down again and shot another purple blast. This time, the Monstrous Nightmare shot 4 different fire balls in the sky. All of them hitting nothing.
After all that, Astrid decided to help. She narrowed her blue eyes and threw her ax at the red dragon. The ax spinned in the air and hit the dragon on the side of it's head.
It's amber eyes glared at the girl. Astrids eyes widened as she saw it about to use a breath attack. She screamed and started to run. She was going to hide behind a boulder near the twins when the dragon breathed fire. She screeched and had to put her hand on the floor as she turned around sharply. All of a sudden, a pair of claws grabbed at her shoulder and she was lifted off of the ground. She didn't stop screaming. Her feet started to flail around trying to get lose. She swooped in the air really fast. She heard flapping noises. Her blue eyes looked up and saw black belly with black scaley legs, with claws.
She got swooped down really fast near a boulder where the twins were hiding. The black claws losened it's grip and Astrid landed on her feet by the twins. "Woah!", the twins said at the same time. "Where'd you come from!?", they asked in unison. Astrid didn't answer for she was too shocked and was busy panting and looking for the black creature in the sky.
They all heard the howling noise and then saw a purple blast at the Monstrous Nightmare. It screeched and tried to shoot a fire ball. But nothing came out of it's mouth. "6 shot limit….", Fishlegs whispered for everyone to barely hear. The red dragon made a small whimper and looked around for the black creature.
Out of no where, a boy appeared near the red dragon. It's amber eyes looked at it confused. It wore a black suit with dark brown straps around his shoulders to his belt. His black helmet was scaley and had small flappy ears. The boy took out a metal stick from the side of its belt. All the kids eyes went wide as a type of sword appeared out of the stick. The boy started to make type of roaring noise. The children realised that it sounded like the Monstrous Nightmare. They gasped as the sword got on fire. The boy started to swing the flame sword around its self as it was roaring at the dragon. The Monstrous Nightmares eyes widened in fear as it crouched down and wrapped its tail around its self.
The boys flame went out and the sword went back into the stick. His black gloved hand reached out to the dragon. Only the tip of it's fingers were sticking out of the glove. It reached out the dragon to touch it's nose. The dragon saw the hand widen its eyes. "I'm sorry…", the boy barely whispered. The red dragons eyes started to close as it reached the small hand.
Snotlout saw this as an opportunity and grabbed a rock. He made a stance and aimed at the dragons face. The rock hit the side of the dragons face. It narrowed its eyes in anger. The boy saw this and his eyes widen. He quickly pulled his hand away as the dragon snapped at it in anger. There was a loud roar some where in the sky. Everyone gasped when they heard the howling again. But the boy lifted up his other hand toward the sky and made a roaring noise. Then he took out his metal stick again.
The sword came out as well as the flame. He made a stance and started to swoosh his sword and made the same noise again. But this time the red scaled dragon was not effected. He flicked its tail at the boy. The boy made a grunting noise and flew into a tree. His head hitting the tree as he fell to the ground unconscious. His black helmet flew off next to him.
Astrid saw this chance and grabbed her ax. She ran out from behind the boulder. The sharp part of the ax hit the Monstrous Nightmare and made a scratch on its cheek. It roared as it stung it. It started to flap its wings as it disappeared into the sky.
Astrid was still huffing and puffing as she grabbed her ax once more. She tightly gripped it as she looked at her friends. Fishlegs came out from behind the boulder and started to tip toe near her. Snotlout trudged over to them with his hands behind his head. The twins moaned, "Aww! It's over?!", they asked. Astrid glared at them as she looked over to the boy.
The boy was laying on his stomach. He had short, kind of spiky, brown hair. His black outfit as dark as night. The only thing to change the color was the dark brown straps on his back and his shoes.
He started to moan as he was on all his fours. Then he put his right hand on his head. "Who are you?!", Astrid raised her voice at the boy while swinging her ax a bit. She tightened her grip as the boy started to get up.
Astrid noticed that Snotlout was crouching over something.
"Ow… Where's my helmet…?", the boy mumbled, as he looked around.
He noticed Snotlout picking up his black helmet. "What is this? Some type of dragon?", he asked with a disgusted look. The boy gasped as he realised that Snotlout had his helmet. Snotlout looked at the boy when he gasped. He raised an eyebrow. Then he narrowed his eyes as he looked closer at the boy. His short brown hair looked familiar. The boy noticed him looking at him and started to lower his head and backed up.
"Who are you?!", Astrid snapped as she pointed her ax at him. The boy flinched at the question. She narrowed her blue eyes as she stomped closer to him. Some how he seemed familiar in a way.
The boy made a roaring noise that startled the kids. Then a black gust of wind swooped down and snatched up the boy. Before they all could blink, he was gone.
"Who in Odin's name was that?!", asked Fishlegs with his eyes wide. "I don't know. But he left his helmet!", chimed Snotlout as he lifted up the black helmet in the air.
"Sweet! A souvenir!", shouted Ruffnut as she and her brother started to run towards Snotlout. He quickly backed up and lifted the helmet in the air so they couldn't reach it.
Astrid shook her head as she looked over to Fishlegs. She saw that he was staring up in the sky with a worried expression. "Fishlegs?", she asked him as she slowly walked up to him.
His eyes were still looking at the sky as his mouth began to move. Trying to say something. "I-I-I think th-that was a-a….", he stammered. "What?", she asked as she tilted her head once she got to him. "A Night Fury….", he barely whispered.
The twins stopped trying to get the helmet and stared at Fishlegs with wide eyes. As well as Snotlout. Astrids blue eyes stared at him in shock as she looked up at the sky. 'A Night Fury!?", she thought to herself.
A/N: I finally got this done! It was hard to figure out where and when to show the Dragon Rider! I tried to make it with detail and some action here and there. I hope you all enjoyed it! And thank you for ou patients!