Hey guys. Sorry for the day-late upload. I was tired from events this past weekend. Anyways, I hope you enjoy. This chapter is short, but is a chapter worth reading regardless. Again, sorry about the mistakes; I barely get sleep anyways and I stare at a screen basically all do so... yeah.
The next morning, all the dragons in that nest were awake and about the nest, chatting, going out to fish, or contrarily sleeping. All except the Draconians and Vikings of course!
Tenor was the first to get up. He yawned and stretched his wings. As he smacked his lips, he decided that he was hungry, but he did not want to go alone. So, he decided it was best to wake the rest of the dragons who in turn, would wake their respective humans. He flew to the caves that the rest of the party resided in. First, he woke up his fellow Night Fury, Toothless.
"Toothless, come on, wake up", Tenor spoke as he nudged Toothless. The latter of which groaned in response. Tenor kept poking Toothless until the alpha dragon annoyedly opened his eyes.
"For a dragon, you should know that one should never disturb a sleeping dragon", Toothless half growled, half yawned.
"Well considering that we are in the middle of a war, I don't see any chance of a dragon actually getting sleep, considering that one would focus on winning the war instead of getting his beauty rest", Tenor shot back.
Toothless sighed,"Since you woke me up, wake up the other dragons. Chris is suppose to tell us something once we awake".
"You got it". At the conclusion of that remark, Tenor zoomed off to the other caves. 'I guess I will eat later', Tenor thought.
After 20 minutes, all the Vikings were in Windwalker and Chris' cave, yawning and looking grouchy.
"Do we really have to get up now?", Ruffnut complained
"Yea, I wanna beat up my sis later, not before the sun comes up", Tuffnut whined. He was rewarded with a punch to the gut, courtesy of his sister.
At last, Tenor was left to wake Chris and Windwalker. Tenor approached Windwalker cautiously. Even though they formed a bond of friendship, she was still an alpha. A female alpha-which meant she could be twice as angry and power than any other dragon if she wanted to. Tenor lightly padded his way over to the sleeping pair. When he got a closer look, he couldn't help but stifle a chuckle.
Right before his eyes, was Chris sprawled out against the side of Windwalker. The female alpha on the other hand, had one of her legs twitching in the air. Both rider and dragon snored and slept to their hearts' content.
Tenor slightly pushed against Windwalker, gently waking her up. Windwalker groaned sleepily. She looked around, trying to find out who had disturbed her from her slumber. When she found out who that person was, she blushed. She was less than a foot away from Tenor's snout. She turned quickly away, embarrassed.
"Uh-uh, what are you doing here?", Windwalker asked.
"We want to know what Chris' plan was, and since he told us he would tell us this morning, we decided to gather here", Tenor said, looking straight at Windwalker.
Windwalker shook her head again. "Yeah. Let me just-", Windwalker started as she faced her human and started to poke at his belly.
Chris groaned, "5 more minutes". As he spoked that, he lay down on the skin-covered cave and draped Windwalker's wing over him.
Windwalker just rolled her eyes and yawned again. She then grabbed Chris' leg with her tail and pulled him out from under her wing. He dangled helplessly in front of Windwalker.
"Ah, wha-? Windwalker, let me down", Chris said tiredly.
"Sure", Windwalker smirked as she dropped Chris to the ground. The immediate contact with the ground instantly woke him up. Instead of yawning like the rest of the people in his nest, he simply moaned in pain.
"Windwalker, what the hel-", he started.
"You needed to wake up. So I decided to give the experience of the wake up 'alert'. The 'alert' worked perfectly in my opinion", Windwalker smirked.
"Ahhh, but still. A simple rough shove would've done the trick", Chris grumbled,"But now that I am up, I have can tell you what our next move in the war will be"
The whole group leaned in, eager to hear what parts they would play during the war.
"Even though, they vastly outnumber us, that doesn't mean they outmatch us. This group, along with some of my dragons, will accompany you in taking out the Huo Yao resources. You cannot, I repeat,you cannot, leave anything behind. Got it? If you are still confused, I will explain it more in detail.
"So does that mean?", Tuffnut asked excitedly.
"Yes, you can have fun and destroy stuff. Just don't die or get captured", Chris sighed.
The twins cheered and butted their heads together in joy. Chris just rolled his eyes.
"Do we, um, really have to destroy everything?", Fishlegs questioned uneasily.
"Yes. From the guards, to the defenses, to the actual components of Huo Yao. Everything must be destroyed. We cannot risk any chance of Gaozong finding out about this. We have to do it practically under their noses"
"Is it necessary to kill people?", Fishlegs nervously asked.
Chris gave him an annoyed look. "What are you,5 years old? Yes we have to kill people. We are in a war for crying out loud!"
"But some people are innocent!", Fishlegs retorted.
"I don't know about you, but I care about dragons. They are just as much people as you Vikings are. They only thing different about them, is that they can fly, breathe fire, and have scales. From what I have seen, humans are the real monsters. They pillage and take everything they want, without considering the implications! Dragons can coexist with nature and don't resist it. However, man thinks he can control nature when it is so much the opposite. As far as I am concerned, they have proven to be more humane than my own kind. They are truly people. I would side with them over my kind anyday".
"Not only that, but have you not realized that there have been innocent dragons who have died on my side before? Have you ever held a baby dragon in your arms, trying to sooth its pain as you watch it slowly bleed to death, knowing you cannot do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT!? In war, terrible things will happen. Whether you want them to or not, one must accept it and cope with it. Lives will be lost, innocent or not. That is the price of war. So I suggest you pick a side, before I choose for you", Chris seethed.
"Got it?"
"Go-go-got it", Fishlegs stuttered, frightened out of his mind.
As dark as that comment was, Re was slightly proud of his son's speech. Aurora was happy that her son was so brave and strong, but was worried about Fishlegs. Her son didn't have to be so harsh. Valka sided with Chris, knowing well how it was like living with dragons for 20 long years.
Chris turned to face his audience. "The plan itself will have to be done quickly, as to not give the enemy time to raise suspicion and form a counterattack. The actual camps themselves are large, heavily fortified, and heavily defended. I have never attempted this before, but considering the dragon power -and Viking power- we have, we can definitely pull this off. There are a total of 10 camps, scattered throughout many mountains, northwest of here. The goal is to eradicated 2-3 bases each day. After that, we can focus on defeating Gaozong", Chris announced.
"What is the plan?", Tenor asked anxiously, already excited for battle.
"First, the Night Furies will power dive and blast the major weapons out of the way. Then, a group of dragons -let's say 30 to 35- will surround the base and attack inwards. They can handle their own just fine, but as a fail-safe, Windwalker will call out the order to summon their titan wing. I estimate it should take us 40 minutes to destroy one Huo Yao camp. Heck, if we do better than expected, I will divide our entourage and we could possibly take out two camps at the same time! But the factor that determines whether this plan will be successful or not, is if everyone does their part accordingly. We cannot afford a survivor to go and alert a nearby camp, or to leave such obvious destruction that it could attract the attention of a surrounding camp".
"Look, I am going to ask you all this one time, and one time only. Do you wish to continue? I know this may seem a lot to do, but it is something that has to be done. In order to preserve the survival of the dragon race, and possibly the Viking race, we must overcome any inner conflict and dish out damage that may burden us for the rest of our lives. If you do not want to fight, I...I understand. No one is making you do anything. I admire that you all choose to stay here and help me and my nest. I thank you all. No one will stop you from leaving. But think about your dragon before you finalize your answer."
Everyone stopped what they were currently thinking, and contemplated their decision. After some brief chatting and discussion between the Berkians and Draconians, they all went silent. Eret looked around and nodded, unknowingly accepting the role of being the momentary advocate of the group.
"You know,if my past self would look at what I have become today, he would've been disgusted. But I can clearly see, I was wrong from the beginning. I was wrong for bearing a prejudice against our reptilian friends. They personally, have proved to me they are wise, caring creatures. Stormfly here actually risked her life to save me, and she didn't even know me! That alone was enough for me to stand up for them and fight to my last breath, defending such honorable creatures. We, the people of Berk, will be more than happy to offer what we can to win this war, and defend our friends!", Eret declared triumphantly. The rest of the Vikings and dragons yelled and roared in agreement.
The Draconians all bored smiles and nodded at Chris and Windwalker. Chris looked around at his allies, proud that even though they barely knew each other, they were willing to sacrifice themselves to protect dragons.
He bore a proud grin, "We leave at sundown".