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All was quiet in the village of Berk. None knew of the danger lurking above them.
Toothless was sleeping peacefully when he awoke to the sound of something that completely shocked him. It was the whistle of a night fury. Another night fury! "But wait", Toothless thought,"Why would a night fury-". He didn't have time to finish his thought as the boom of an explosion sounded nearby.
Hiccup woke up with a startle."What in Thor's name, are we being attacked?!", Hiccup screeched as he furiously fumbled to put on his clothes and prosthetic. Toothless desperately tried to explain, in growls of course, what that explosion was, but to no avail. He followed Hiccup out of the house to see the sky full of various dragons, and the color of the dancing flames on different buildings.
Astrid came up to them, running like a crazed woman. "Hiccup, what is happening?! are we being raided? BY DRAGONS!?", she yelled deliriously.
"Whatever this is, we need to stop this now!", ordered Hiccup as he mounted Toothless. "I want you, my mom, and the rest of the gang to help me break up the dragon fights. I want everyone else to put out the fires. I want no dragons AND vikings coming out of this harmed!".
"All right. Be safe", worried Astrid as she gave him a quick peck on his cheek. Hiccup shot her a smile before he took off.
"Alright bud, let's see what we are up against", Hiccup told Toothless as he observed the skies. What he saw, was something out of the ordinary. He saw dragons he had never seen before. He only recognized 2 dragons: a nadder and a gronkle. What he could deduce from his observations, was that these reptiles moved, as if in a pattern. 4-6 dragons would land and crawl around on the ground randomly, as if searching for something, while the the rest of their group would draw the attention away from them. The dragons on the ground stayed away from the Vikings as much as they could and if they were spotted, they would fly back up to the group and swap positions with an airborne dragon. But how could a dragon cause attention? The answer, destruction by fire, the only way they knew how.
The Dragons of Berk weren't just gonna sit there and let this happen.
"What are our brothers and sisters doing attacking this village!?", screamed out Stormfly.
"There is no queen around for miles. They have no reason to raid Berk?", reasoned Barf.
"Well we aren't just gonna stand here and do nothing! Everyone, meet up with your riders!", ordered Cloudjumper,"then we will await for what Toothless' orders".
The riders' dragons all nodded their heads frantically as they searched for their respective riders.
As they all got up into the air, Toothless shot by and barked at them,"Stop the invading dragons. We outnumber them, so ground as many as you can!". Everyone roared in agreement as they sought to defeat the new dragons. As they came to find out, these dragons were a force to be reckoned with. What they lacked in numbers, they made up for in strength. As Hookfang and Snotlout approached a yellow dragon, it looked like the dragon didn't know what was coming for him, until at the last possible second, it turned around and grabbed Hookfang's neck with its front paws, let gravity pull him down, and flipped Hookfang out of the sky, with Snotlout being flung off of his saddle. Luckily Fishlegs and Meatlug where there to catch him.
"Thanks", spoke Snotlout uneasily. "No problem",replied Fishlegs."As long as I avoid these dragons I-AAAHHH!", yelled Fishlegs. He didn't have enough time to reply as a black and brown, scale-armored dragon come out of nowhere, wrap itself up in a ball and crash right into Meatlug. The force was strong enough to knock her to the ground unconscious.
As Toothless was throwing out plasma blasts carefully (as he had a 6-shot limit), he scanned the black sky for that mysterious night fury. "Now where are you?", he wondered.
His question was answered as the night fury's whistle was heard, followed by the purple explosion of a thankfully empty building. "Another night fury!?", Hiccup gasped. He didn't have to tell Toothless what to do next, they both knew that they had to chase after that Night Fury. That night fury was fast, but Toothless was able to keep up behind her. Just as he was about to catch up to her, she immediately opened up her wings,slowing her down, and took off in the other direction. Hiccup and Toothless barely had time to get out of her way. Once they recovered, she was out of sight.
"What the-? Where did she go?", Hiccup questioned.
"I, do not know either", voiced Toothless, eyeing his surroundings suspiciously.
As if to answer Hiccup's question, a plasma blast hit Toothless right in the face, temporarily blinding Toothless and knocking Hiccup off the saddle. Toothless landed with a thud, while Hiccup glided down using his flightsuit. "Bud, are you alright?" squeaked Hiccup with concern. Toothless cooed in affirmation. Hiccup quickly got back on him. "For now, let's help the others. If we stop a majority of them, this night fury is bound to show up eventually". Toothless couldn't agree more and roared his agreement.
Even though these dragons were strong and crafty, they still were outmatched by Berk's numbers. For every invading dragon, there was at least 7-8 Berk dragons, and that's not including the vikings! Pretty soon, a majority of these dragons were either pinned to the ground or were being chased by a couple of Berk's reptilian residents. It looked like it was all over, that is, until the new night fury dropped from the sky, glowing blue!
All the dragons and Berk's residents were shocked by this, as they thought Toothless was the only one who was able to do that. "Get up and activate your titan wing NOW!", commanded the night fury to the rest of her pact.
Soon after that, the attacking dragons began to..change. All of them took on a new form, so to speak. The scale-armored, black and brown dragon inversed its colors and its armored plates grew bigger. The yellow dragon grew silver streaks upon its back and his tail grew horizontal spikes. The nadder, who was purple normally, had the lower part of her back turn a bronze color and the spikes on her tail curled around her tail. The gronkle turned into a solid jet-black color, with red orange cracks running all over its body. It looked like the dragon was literally made of lava! Soon after all of the dragons turned into their titan form, they all roared and shrieked in retaliation and broke free of their captors with ease. Berk's dragons tried to pin them down again, but the invading dragons easily stopped them from doing so. The 1:7 ratio didn't mean anything at this point. Berk was now the side that was unmatched.
"Defensive wall!", yelled the female night fury. Her pack did as they were told and instead of engaging the defending dragons, instead made a ring around their airborne and Toothless flew up to the night fury as fast as they could, hoping to stop her. The female night fury had something different in mind. As soon as Hiccup and Toothless were in range, she did a quick front flip in mid-air, slapping Toothless on the head with her tail, and sending the duo spiraling down. Hiccup was again thrown off the saddle as they hit the ground. Hard. The female took that time to dive down and pin Toothless to the ground with her weight. She then placed a claw on the struggling Toothless who immediately went still when he felt something sharp placed against his throat.
"Stop fighting, you will only make it worse", she said to the male below her.
"Fighting? You and your group were the ones who started the fight in the first place!", boiled out Toothless in anger.
"Well maybe if you hadn't took something that belonged to us, we probably wouldn't be in this situation", retorted the female.
"Wait, that map thing was yours?", asked Toothless incredulously.
"Let's just say, we can't let that thing fall into the wrong paws", the female replied
"Look who's talking", Toothless hissed.
Before she could respond, Hiccup called out, "Wait, whatever you do, please don't hurt him!"
She glanced at Hiccup before turning back to Toothless, "That viking really cares about you, doesn't he?", she asked knowingly.
"Yes, and if you so much as lay a claw on him-", Toothless threatened.
"You aren't in a position to do anything at the moment", she chuckled amused.
"Don't worry, she wouldn't kill dragon unless that dragon was a threat. Let alone a dragon of her own species", came a mysterious new voice.
Everybody turned, dragons included, at the sound of the new voice. The owner of that voice a tall, young man. Maybe a year or 2 older than Hiccup was. He had short black hair, big ears, tan skin, and had a strong, yet lean body frame. He wore black pants with black boots that had thick fur lining the top of his footwear. Accompanying his waist was two twin swords strapped to his left side. On his torso, was a dark colored shirt, which was covered by a slim winter trench coat with thick fur accompanying the ends of the sleeves.
"Were you the one who organized this raid?", asked Hiccup warily.
"Well, I can't take all the credit. My dragon, Windwalker, here did the grunt work. If it wasn't for her and her group, this encounter wouldn't have been successful on my part", he replied, gesturing to the female night fury.
Hiccup looked at her, then at him with wide eyes,"Are you telling me, you are a dragon rider,too?".
"Well, it sure beats staying on the ground, I can tell you that much.", he casually responded.
Hiccup didn't like the tone of this guy's voice. Why would an invader have such a friendly disposition? What was he hiding? "Look whatever it is you want we don't-", Hiccup started.
"Don't lie to me. You have something of value. Something that might look like, oh I don't know, this", he declared showing everyone the map.
"That's-"
"What? Not mine?", the mysterious person interrupted,"How about this,I will make you a deal. You let me and my dragons go free, with nobody following us, and Windwalker here won't slay your dragon". As he said that, Windwalker pressed her claw harder on Toothless' throat to emphasize the seriousness of the deal. "You may think that you can somehow stop us from leaving and save your night fury, but I assure you, after what you have seen my dragons do, we are more than capable of fighting our way out of here, if need be."
"You can't be serious", Hiccup exasperated, "Toothless could be that last male dragon of the night fury species!"
The mystery man chuckled, " Don't worry, I can assure you that there are other night furies, both male and female, out there in the world. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't want to see any blood being shed today. But, if I must-".
"No! Ok, fine. Nobody from my village will follow you after your departure. Just, why is this may so important, that you would kill my dragon, a night fury for it?", Hiccup pleaded.
"If this falls into the wrong hands, unspeakable things will happen to me, you, everybody. Dragons included. This map holds the key to the future of both of our races", he said as he signaled Windwalker. She got off of Toothless and made her way over to her rider so that he could mount him. " And I intend to make sure, everybody lives to see another day". And with that, he clicked the reins on Windwalker's saddle and hovered in the air. Soon, he was joined by all the other invading dragons. "Oh, thanks for your cooperation. I'm sorry it had to be this way", he called out to Hiccup. Then he did something that caught the attention of everyone; he spoke in a language the vikings of Berk hadn't heard in a while. He spoke Dragonese; the language of the dragons.
"Let's move, we have no time to waste", he spoke to Windwalker.
"You got it, Chris", responded Windwalker. She then relayed the command to the rest of her pact and in less than a moment's noticed, they disappeared into the dark night sky.