Chapter 16
Flying
A/N: This chapter is going to skip a few days ahead in the story. And it's also going to switch different points of view a lot as well.
It's been weeks since the village has last seen the Dragon Rider. Even the teenagers havn't got to meet him in the forest at night. The twins get so bored, they are starting to cause more trouble than the dragons! Fishlegs has made sure to remember everything Hiccup has told him and write them down in a journal he had. Snotlout just gets more annoyed each night Hiccup doesn't show up. And Astrid has pretty much lost hope in ever seeing Hiccup again. After that night with the dragon raid, Astrid doubt that Hiccup would ever come back around Berk again.
Stoick has pretty much been acting like he's always been. He knew better than to have high hopes for thinking that that boy could be his son. Gobber had no idea what has happened of course, but he's going to be their for his best friend anyway.
After that dragon raid, more new houses were build.
The lady with the baby was more protective of her baby more than ever.
Even though the teenagers knew that the Dragon Rider wouldn't be in the forest like he used to, they still went. Together. Just the 5 of them.
The sky was all dark except for the moon and stars. Stars blinked in the sky every now and then in a dance. The moon illuminated the whole island as a flashlight in the night sky. The leaves wave in the soft wind blowing evenly in the air. No owl or cricket made any gesture of music that night.
A boy wearing a gray vest was marching ahead of the groupe in anger. His fists balled tightly together as he stomped away. His black eyes narrowed angrily at nothing. "How dare that Hiccup just come and then disappears again like that!", he snorted in disgusted. "Without even saying goodbye…", Astrid whispered. Her blue eyes glared at the luscious green grass full of sadness. Her hands rest against her red spiked skirt that swayed every time she walked. Fishlegs brown eyes would look down but every now and then would look up at his friends. He really did like spending time with Hiccup. He learned so many new things about dragons that he didn't even know. His whole life he thought of dragons as wild killing animals that will kill you on sight. But learning from Hiccup, he regrets thinking like that about a dragon. The twins were quiet more than usual. Back at Berk, they would always try and find a way to either prank someone or cause any type of trouble they can get their hands on.
A low growl came from Snotlout, "Grrr! I wish I knew where that stupid Dragon Rider was so I can… so I can… RAAGH!", he shouted in anger. The kids just ignored him as they knew if they told him to calm down, it would only make things worse.
The blonde thought for a moment about what he just said. She realised, that the whole time they have been with Hiccup, they never knew where he's been the whole time. Her blue eyes widened in realisation. She balled up her fists in anger and she let out an annoyed screech. Everyone flinched as they looked at her in shock. "Damn that Hiccup!", she snarled as she started to turn around and stomp off.
"W-w-where are you going…?", Fishlegs asked with his hands up by his chest and tip toeing slowly toward Astrid with big brown eyes. "I'm going to find that Hiccup and give him a piece of my mind!", she snarled. Everyone just stared at her in bewilderment. "Ya and how exactly are you going to do that?", asked Snotlout in an annoyed tone. He was just as mad and upset as she was, but never thought of on finding him. "Remember before he got captured he was teaching us about dragons and how we get to ride them?", Astrid asked all of them, without looking at them.
Everyone nodded. "I'm going to go to the Dragon Arena and try and fly one of those dragons!", she proclaimed. Everyone gasped. "You can't be serious!", said Ruffnut. "Oh this will be so awesome! If Astrid gets eaten, I call her ax!", proclaimed Tuffnut. "Astrid, you do know that there are 5 dragons in that arena. We havn't had any dragon training. AND the last time we experienced a dragon, we almost got killed if Hiccup didn't show up?!", stated Fishlegs. He was worried about Astrid. Ever since she threw that ax at Hiccup that one night. After that night she's been a little different.
"When Hiccup was in the arena, he explained how to get a Deadly Natter. So it should be no problem.", she shrugged as they got closer to the village.
The kids just looked at each other as they headed toward the village and into the dragon arena.
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Once again, the 5 kids were in front of the 5 great gates in the Dragon Arena. Fishlegs brown eyes would constantly look around up top wildly to make sure that no one would catch them. The twins kept pushing and shoving each other to try and get the dragon first. Astrid and Snotlout were the only ones that was ready for all of this. Snotlout was actually serious for once in his life. Considering that he was going to risk his life to try and ride a dragon to go and find his cousin and wanting to slap him silly.
Astrid started to walk up to the lever to open the cages.
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"Come on bud!", shouted a boy.
A boy was wearing all black with two brown straps going zig zag from his front to back. His Inferno strapped securely on the side of his belt. A black mask was on his face. Bright green eyes was the only thing shown on the mask as ear like flaps were flapping in the wind. Underneath the boy was sitting on a creature. A black scaley creature with green eyes narrowed as he was concentrating on what they were doing. His big wings flapped in the wind as they kept gliding up the the blackened night sky.
Hiccup padded the dragons neck gently to give him a signal. The dragon made a growl in annoyance. "Aw come on Toothless! I trust you!", the boy said encouragingly and truthfully. The dragon breathed out of his nose like a snort in response. Hiccup ignored it and loosened his shoulders a bit as he stood still. Then he slid off his dragon sideways.
The boy started to fall from his dragon down head first. If you could see, his eyes would be closed as he felt the bits of wind seep threw his mask as he fell. After waiting for a few moments, Toothless started to tuck in his wings as he dived down after his rider. He narrowed his eyes into slits as the wind blew against him. Once he got next to his rider he opened his wings a bit to slow down. He turned his body around to have his stomach face his friend as his head looked downwards at the boy. Hiccup noticed this and moved his head to look back at his best friends. Their green eyes met for a moment when Toothless stuck out his tongue in the wind being silly. If you could see, Hiccup would be smiling.
Hiccup looked down as he started to see the indigo blue water. He nodded at his dragon. Toothless made a cooing noise as he flapped his wings to go faster than his friend. Once he was directly under the boy, Hiccup managed to make a little twist of his body and landed on his dragons back swiftly. Toothless extended his wings just as they were about to hit the water. He flapped his wings a bit to be a few feet in the air away from the water. Hiccup reached out his hand and patted Toothless's head gently. "See. That wasn't so bad!", chirped Hiccup. Toothless rolled his green eyes as he made a purring noise at the touch.
"Ahh! Hookfang! STOP STOP STOP!", shouted a boys voice from afar.
Hiccup and Toothless flinched as the dragon perked his long ears. Hiccup gripped his saddle tighter as he turned his head around.
His eyes widened in shock at what he saw.
In the distance, not too far from him, was 5 kids riding 4 dragons.
On the far left, a boy with short blonde hair and a tiny viking helmet was riding a brown bumpy Gronkle. It's tiny wings flapping furiously as the boy held tightly on the dragons tiny horns on it's head. The Gronkles eyes looked ahead lazily. Next to him was a bright yellow green Zippleback. Behind it's two heads were two twins with long blonde hair as they kept shoving each other. "I'm driving! Cause I got on Belch first!", shouted the boy twin. "So what?! Barf does the gas first, so I should lead!", proclaimed the blonde girl. Next to them, was a bright red scaled Monstrous Nightmare. On his back was a big boy with black hair. Every once and a while the dragon would catch it's self on fire, making the boy shout a few times in annoyance. And next to them was a bright blue Deadly Natter with long sharp tan teeth sticking out. On it's back was a blonde girl with her hair braided back and flowing in the wind. Her blue eyes piercing into her target.
Hiccup narrowed his green eyes as he glared at them. He knew why they were following him and he didn't like it.
He patted Toothless once on his head. Toothless made a cooing noise as he slowly lifted his wings in the air. He slammed his wings down hard and before anyone could blink, they have zoomed off in the distance, now looking like tiny ants.
Everyone gasped at their speed. "Hurry! Before we lose them!", shouted Astrid. Everyone gave their dragon a signal and all them flew as fast as they could.
It didn't take them long to finally catch up with the two. Astrid saw Hiccups head turn half way at them. He leaned down on his dragon and they started to turn left downwards. Astrid gasped as a rock came out of no where. They all dodged it.
She looked around and saw that there was a ton of stone rocks pointed upwards from the ocean. All of them making a maze like structure. Her eyes widened as she saw Hiccup and Toothless zig zag threw all of them easily. A couple of times doing a couple of spins and turning upside down a bit. She narrowed her eyes as she saw it as a challenge. She blinked and looked at her companions. They all stared in shock at what Hiccup has managed to do. "Well? Lets go!", she said loudly. They all turned their heads to her like she was crazy.
Before any of them could say anything, "Come on Stormfly!", she shouted. Stormfly made a squaking noise and flapped it's wings quickly as they dashed into the pillars. "W-wait Hookfang- AAHH!", Snotlout shouted as his dragon quickly sped ahead of Astrid, her eyes widened at the speed of the dragon. Snotlout screamed as his dragon kept on making the turns easily. A few times he jump on the pillars and use it's claws to grab hold and jump from one to another, but then go back to flying. The twins started to screech from behind them as their dragon made the turns easily as well. Astrid saw that Fishlegs and his Gronkle were flying over the pillars, "I don't think Meatlug would be able to make some of those sharp turns! Sorry girl..", he shouted. Once Astrid and her dragon safely made it out of those pillars, she saw Snotlout and Hookfang skidded to a quick stop. Snotlouts black eyes wide with shock as he padded his hands all over himself, "I'm alive? I'M ALIVE!", he shouted in excitement as he put his fists in the air proudly. When he saw Astrid looking at him with a raise eyebrow, he quickly tucked his fists in toward his chest, "Of course I am!", he proclaimed.
She rolled her eyes as she quickly skimmed the whole clearing.
In the distance she could see the black dragon and his rider flying upward toward a spiky rock.
But when everyone looked at the rock more closely, they all gasped and stood frozen at the sight.
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Hiccup quickly looked behind them toward the pillars. He sighed in relief. "I think we lost them bud.", he said as he patted Toothless on the head. Toothless made a cooing noise as he tilted his head a bit to look up at his rider.
Ahead of them was a giant land of rock. On top of it were sheets of ice. A sea green blue ice sticking out like sharp daggers out of each end of it's sides.
The two made it's way around some of the ice pillars and glided threw a hole in the ice. Toothless flapped his arms a few times when they entered a cavern. In the center of the room was a giant ice pillar that was glued to the ceiling and floor. Dragons of many species and color flew around it in a type of pattern. Eventually one or two would come out and rest on the soft grass of the edges of the room. Plants of all kinds sticking up from the ground as some of the baby dragons played with each other. Toothless stayed close to his friends as to not get trampled by the little devils.
On one side of the room, a waterfall hung from the roof of the room. As it's beautiful light blue water dropped freely onto the pond below it. Inside that pond, just under the waterfall, was a giant white dragon. The Bewilderbeast layed in it's nest at the bottom. His white scales glowing in the droplets of the water. The black tips of his spikes on each ends on his body would ripple as he breathed in his sleep.
Hiccup raised his arms up and grabbed his helmet and took it off.
He and Toothless made their way. over one room in the far corner.
Once he entered it, he threw his mask on a table. On that table had thousands of papers spread all over on it. There were papers even on the floor and on the wall in front of it. "Alright bud. Should we take your saddle off?", Hiccup asked Toothless.
Toothless perked his ears. But it wasn't at Hiccups question.
Hiccup noticed this action and turned around.
A/N: Phew! I finally got this done! I was really lost at what to do for this chapter! So it took me many nights to daydream on this! And I hope I gave as much detail as I could with this story! N omg is this story getting long o.o Reviews are very much appreciated :3