Barbaric Archipelago: Berk: Cove
The next morning Hope, Rex, Frank and Hiccup entered into the Cove. Rex had finally cooled down from yesterday after mediating practically overnight. Hope wanted to talk more about his past, but Frank talked her out of it saying that he needed a bit more time before talking about it.
"So, tell me again why you named the most dangerous and feared dragon in your world, Toothless?" Frank asked.
"Well, the first time I got a real good like at him it looked like he didn't had any teeth and the name sort of stuck," said Hiccup. "Then I realised he had retractable teeth."
"I think it's an adorable name," said Hope.
"Let's just hope we can get him back into the air," said Rex.
Under Hiccup's arms was a prosthetic tailfin for Toothless. Hiccup explained when he shot Toothless down, he damaged his tailfin preventing from flying. So, they spent all of last night making him a prosthetic one.
Hope, Rex and Frank were carrying a basket of fish for Toothless. The plan was for them to distract Toothless while Hiccup fitted the tailfin.
"Hi, there, Toothless," said Hope as the Toothless approached them. "We've brought breakfast."
Then they tipped the basket over and at once Toothless began to sniff the fish.
"Let's see we have salmon, some cod and whole smoked eel," said Frank.
At once Toothless began to back away as if he was scared. Hiccup approached the assortment of fish and pulled out the eel. At once Toothless back away and snarled at it as if it was the scariest thing on the world.
"No, no, no!" Hiccup yelled tossing the eel as far away as he could and Toothless began to calm down. "Okay, I we'll don't like eel much either."
"Okay you do what you have to do," said Rex.
Hiccup nodded and approached Toothless' tail as he began to eat the fish. The hardest thing was trying to keep Toothless' tail still, but after some effect Hiccup managed to attach it.
However, Toothless felt it and began to raise his wings. Hiccup's back was turned and he was so busy studying the tailfin he didn't notice. He was also sitting onto of Toothless' tail and Hope realised what was about to happen.
"Uh, Hiccup you might want to get off him before—" however, before she finished, Toothless took off with Hiccup clenching his tail for dear life. "Never mind."
However, seconds later Toothless began to fall, but Hiccup opened up the tailfin and they actually began to fly. But after a little while Toothless tossed Hiccup off his tail and a second later he fell out of the sky.
Both the boy and dragon landed in the lake, but instead of looking upset Hiccup looked joyous.
"Well, that could have gone a lot worse," said Frank.
"True, but a least he leant from this experience," said Rex smiling.
Barbaric Archipelago: Berk: Great Hall
A few days later, Hope and her friends were eating inside the Great Hall. They were discussing about the recent events that happened on the island.
Spending time with Toothless had seriously held with his Dragon Training. He learned that dragons were afraid of eels, that they become docile when exposed to a type of grass called dragonnip, that some chased small lights and that they can topple over you scratch underneath their chin.
Everyone in the village were completely stunned when Hiccup for stay Hideous Zippleback, a two-headed dragon, back into its cage, but slowly everyone began to become more interested in Hiccup and actually started to like him, apart from Astrid. She was the only one who didn't enjoy this now that Hiccup and she were fighting for the top spot at Dragon Training.
Also they have been improving on Toothless' tailfin practically after class. They would rush over to the Cove and began to test the tailfin and each test improved its design. Now Toothless was fitted with a saddle and Hiccup can operate the tailfin when they were in flight.
They had just came back from a test flight and after landing on the island Hiccup began to discover that they were completely wrong about dragons.
"It's strange that Rattus hasn't made another move," said Frank.
"He's probably been a bit wary because of Master Terra," said Rex.
"He would be an idiot to challenge him," Hope agreed.
"Well, he'll have to act fast, the final days of this war are almost over," said Rex.
Suddenly the doors to the Great Hall opened and Hiccup ran towards them.
"Guys, I've got bad news," he panted.
"Let me guess your dad's comeback," said Frank.
Hiccup nodded.
"He's proud of the progress you made in Dragon Training," said Rex.
Hiccup nodded again.
"And he doesn't know that you have befriended one of your most hated enemies," said Hope.
"Yeah," said Hiccup sitting down. "What am I going to do?"
"I'm afraid we can't answer that for you," said Rex.
"The final test is tomorrow and now both Astrid and I are now the only contenders left," said Hiccup. "One of us is going to have to slay a Monstrous Nightmare."
"And isn't that one of your most fierce dragons with extremely hot tempers?" said Frank.
"Yeah, that's them," Hiccup moaned.
"Well, you can't just quit," said Frank. "I mean it is a sudden change of pace that you've always wanted to slay a dragon and you're just one victory away to do so."
"Well, if I am chosen I'll just have to leave," said Hiccup.
"It's your choice, but I have a feeling it's not gonna go down as you planned," said Rex.
Barbaric Archipelago: Berk: Arena
The next day was the final exam and both Hiccup and Astrid were doing battle against the Gronckle. The entire village was there watching and Stoick was looking down proudly at his son, who was now wearing a helmet that apparently had once been half of his mother's breastplate, much to their disgust.
They saw Astrid giving a final warning to Hiccup. "Stay out of my way!" she warned. "I'm winning this thing."
However, a minute later, just as Astrid was about to charge at the Gronckle, Hiccup had taken down the Gronckle.
Astrid did not take it well. "No! No, son of a half-troll, rat-eating, mungle-bucket!" she yelled furiously swinging her axe like a maniac.
"She's taken it well," said Frank.
"We better get down before she kills them," said Hope.
They just entered the arena as Hiccup try to leave, but he was stopped by Gobber.
"Not so fast," he said.
"I'm kind of late for—"
He stopped when Astrid brandish her axe at his face with a murderous look on her face. "What?! Late for what, exactly?" she said.
"Let's all calm down and put the axe away," said Rex holding Astrid back.
"Quiet down!" Stoick yelled. "The elder has decided."
The elder of the village was of a small old woman, who was mute. Gobber pointed out Astrid, but the elder shook her head and when he pointed at Hiccup she nodded, much to his dismay.
The entire crowd cheered and Astrid gave another murderous look. Hope thought she would have killed him if the other Viking teens hadn't suddenly appeared and lifted Hiccup onto their shoulders.
"Certainly a change of events," said Terra approaching Hope and her friends.
"Yeah, who would have thought," said Hope.
"Don't hide it," said Terra looking down at the three of them. "I know very well that you have been helping him befriending the Night Fury he shot down about a week ago."
"And what are you going to do about it?" Frank asked.
"I like to see this Night Fury for myself," said Terra.
"Well, we better make it fast, because I think Hiccup is planning on leaving," said Rex.
He was right, Hiccup had suddenly vanished and was nowhere to be seen.
"Hey, Astrid's gone to," said Hope.
"And I have a pretty good idea where she is going," said Frank.
"Then let's hope we get there before someone gets killed," said Rex.
Then they all made their way past the crowd and headed straight towards the forest.
Barbaric Archipelago: Berk: Cove
The sun was setting when they reach the Cove, but unfortunately they weren't able to beat Astrid. They saw her approaching Hiccup with a look that mixed both curiosity and anger in one. She was sitting on a rock sharpening her axe with a block, which didn't bode well.
"Better stand back, because there's going to be fireworks," said Frank.
"That much is certain," said Terra.
They then turned their attention to both Astrid and Hiccup, who just realise that Astrid was there watching him.
"I wanna know what's going on," said Astrid tossing the rock away. "No one just gets as good as you. Especially you. Start talking! Is your uncle training you?"
"There's no way he's going to talk is way out of this one," said Hope.
She was right, a second later Astrid twisted Hiccup's arm forcing him into the ground. "That's for the lies," she said. She then bounced the base of her axe his stomach. "And that's for everything else."
"She has an interesting communication method," said Frank.
"I don't think Hiccup find it interesting," said Rex.
"Neither does, Toothless," said Hope.
She was right, Toothless just appeared and saw Astrid as a threat. He charged at her and she later axe in defence. Fortunately, Hiccup pushed Astrid away and managed to calm Toothless down.
"You just scared him," said Hiccup.
"I SCARED HIM?!" Astrid yelled furiously. She then looked up and stared at Hiccup and then at Toothless. "Who is him?"
"Uh… Astrid, Toothless. Toothless, Astrid," said Hiccup calmly.
Astrid stared at them and the second she bolted to the exit.
"Da, da, da, we're dead," said Hiccup.
"Enough!" roared Terra.
Astrid stopped abruptly and looked up to see Terra, along with Hope and her friends, entering into the Cove.
"Uncle Terra," said Hiccup horrified. "W-what are you doing here?"
"Trying to stop this pointless war," said Terra.
"Wait? You mean you guys knew about this," said Astrid brandishing her axe at Hope and Terra.
"Put that axe away, my dear, before you hurt someone," said Terra.
"I don't think so," said Astrid tightening her grip on her axe.
Rex sighed and brought out his hand. Next second Astrid's axe flew out of the hands and into Rex's.
"How about we all calm down," said Hope.
"Astrid, just give me a chance to explain," said Hiccup.
"I am not listening to anything you have to say!" Astrid roared. She then looked around at everyone else. "I'm not listening to any of you!"
"Then I won't speak," said Hiccup as he climbed on top of Toothless. "Just let me show you."
Astrid stared at him, apparently she would rather face a chances with Terra then climb on the back of a dragon.
"Please, Astrid."
"I'd go with him, my dear," Terra advised. "You don't really have any other option."
Astrid knew he was right, but that didn't mean she had to like it. Reluctantly, she climbed onto Toothless' back, but refused to touch any part of Hiccup's body.
"Okay, Toothless, let's do this nice and gently," said Hiccup.
However, Toothless didn't do anything gently. Before any of them could stop him Toothless zoomed upwards into the air and all they could hear was Astrid's screams.
"He's certainly got away with the ladies," said Frank.
Hopes stared at Rex. "Is this meant to happen?" she asked.
"Funnily enough, yes," said Rex.
"I'll remain here, the three of you follow them," said Terra as he sat down at a rock.
"I don't fancy using the Gummi ship," said Frank. "If Rattus is around we'll be sitting ducks."
"We could use the pixie dust we acquired at Neverland," Hope suggested.
"It's only allowed us to glide," Frank pointed out.
"True, but with a bit of extra magic we can fly around temporarily," said Rex.
"I have a real bad feeling about this," said Frank.
Nevertheless, a minute later they were flying into the sky. It wasn't until night when they finally able to catch up with Hiccup and Astrid, at which time Astrid had finally calmed down and looked like she was enjoying herself.
"All right, I admit. This is pretty cool," she said. "It's amazing." She then looked down at Toothless and rubbed his side. "He's amazing."
"Glad to see you finally see it," said Hope.
The two Vikings turned and looked at them and while there were slightly bewildered that they were able to fly they'd impress the question on how. No doubt they didn't bother asking the sort of questions after the stuff they've seen them do.
"Glad to see you guys joined us," said Hiccup.
"Wouldn't miss it for the world or any world," said Frank.
Astrid then turned and looked at Hiccup. "So what now?" she asked. Hiccup knew what she was asking, but in answer. "Hiccup, your final exam is tomorrow. You know you'll have to kill—" she stopped when she remembered Toothless was with them and whisper the last part—"kill a dragon."
"Don't remind me," Hiccup groaned.
Suddenly Toothless' pupils became slits as if he was hypnotised or something and someone he dived down into a deep fog. Hope and the other was quickly followed, not sure where Toothless was taking them.
"Toothless, what's happening?" Hiccup asked.
"It looked as if he's hypnotised or something," said Rex.
Suddenly more dragons appeared and in their talons they saw that they were carrying food.
"This does not look good," said Frank.
Slowly more and more dragons appeared until they were surrounded. They all seem to be flying in the same direction as Toothless, as if something was drawing them in.
"What's going on?" Astrid asked.
"It looks like the hulling thing in their kill," said Rex.
"What does that make us?" Hope asked looking slightly scared.
"We just have the stick close to Toothless," said Frank. "Until we can find an opportunity to escape."
Barbaric Archipelago: Dragon's Nest
A few minutes later a sea stack maze, the dragons navigated it perfectly and then coming into view was a large mountain. They noticed that all the dragons were entering into it and soon found it was home to hundreds and hundreds of dragons, possibly even thousands.
"This must be the dragons nest," said Hope.
"What my dad would give to find this," said Hiccup.
Toothless cookie pulled away from the dragons and found a hiding place behind some rocks. They all watch as they saw the dragons dumping food into a crevice.
"It's satisfying to know that all our food is dumped down a hole," said Hiccup.
"They're not eating any of it," said Astrid.
Then they noticed a Gronckle flying in and it dumped a single fish into the crevice. Then suddenly exiting from the crevice was a large mouth belonging to a gigantic dragon.
"Okay, that explains a few things," said Frank.
"Look," said Rex pointing.
They looked down and saw Rattus having a conversation with Cam and Wolf.
"It's going as we planned," said Wolf. "Soon this big beast will become a Heartless."
"Not entirely," said Cam.
"He's right, we still need to get rid of the boy," said Rattus. "With him gone we can turn every single dragon in this world into a Heartless."
"Not exactly going to be easy with Master Terra and Hope and sidekicks protecting him," said Wolf.
"We won't have far to look for them," said Rattus and he looks straight at the place where they were hiding. "After all they are right here."
Suddenly Wyvern's appeared and the large dragon they had saw began to emerge from the crevice. The dragons that surrounded them began to flutter around scared.
"We need to get out of here," said Hiccup.
"On it," said Frank pressing his com. "Toodless, we need to get out of here!"
They teleported just in time as the huge dragon took a large sizeable chunk of the hiding place.
Barbaric Archipelago: Berk: Cove
Terra was still in the cold waiting for Hiccup and Hope's return. Then out of nowhere they all appeared right in front of him.
"That was too close," said Hope.
Terra approached them. "What happened?" he asked.
They spent the next few minutes explaining their experience in the Dragons Nest about how there was huge dragon there forcing the other dragons to feed it and Rattus' plan to turn it into a Heartless.
"It's starting to make sense," said Terra, rubbing his chin. "It's like a giant beehive. There the workers and that thing is their Queen. It controls them."
"A queen that Rattus intends to become a Heartless," said Rex.
"Sora ones face against a Heartless dragon once before and he was very able to beat it," said Terra looking troubled. "But a whole army of them. No world would stand a chance against that sort of force."
"Okay, let's tell Stoick," said Astrid.
"That's a great idea," said Frank sarcastically. "I'm sure he'll be very understanding that his son has befriended a dragon."
"Frank's right," said Hiccup. "They'll kill Toothless. Astrid, we have to think this through carefully."
"Hiccup, we just discovered the Dragons Nest," said Astrid. "The thing we've been after since Vikings first sailed here. And you want to keep it as a secret… it protect your pet dragon. Are you serious?"
Hiccup and turned and looked at her with a very serious look on his face. "Yes," he said firmly.
Astrid was slightly taken aback and can help but look slightly impressed. "Okay, what do we do?" she asked.
"It's your decision Hiccup," said Terra.
"Just give me until tomorrow… I'll figure something out," said Hiccup.
"Okay," Astrid nodded.
She then punched him on the shoulder and he stared at her. "That's for the lies," she said.
Hiccup looked at the others, but clearly they didn't want to get involved.
"Don't look at us," said Frank.
Astrid then gave him a quick peck on the cheek and said, "That's for… everything else."
Hiccup watched as Astrid made a way out of the Cove. He then saw that everyone was staring at him.
"What are you guys looking at?" he said and walked off.
Rex smiled. "That's pretty much how I and Fay fell in love," he said.
Barbaric Archipelago: Berk: Arena
The next day was Hiccup final exam and say Hope was nervous would be an understatement. She had no idea how things would turn out and she could only watch as Hiccup walked into the arena.
She saw Stoick looking at his son proudly, but she knew that if he found out the truth than that pride would just turn to shame. Everyone had their eyes on Hiccup as he picked up a shield and a dagger.
There was standing at the entrance next Astrid, who was looking quite worried. She had just made a promise to Hiccup that she would protect Toothless if things went south, but when she made him promise that nothing would go wrong he only said that they were Vikings and that it was an occupational hazard.
Suddenly the Monstrous Nightmare was released into the arena and it worked quite mad. It took several seconds for Hope to realise that it was the same dragon she took down when they first arrived.
"You think is gonna be all right?" she asked looking at Rex.
"If everything goes according to plan, then yes," said Rex.
They watched as Hiccup approached the Monstrous Nightmare calmly and dropped a shield and dagger, which was quite a shock to everyone. He then removed his helmet and stretches hand towards the Monstrous Nightmare.
"They're not what we think they are. We don't have to kill them," he said.
That's when everything went wrong. Out of nowhere Rattus appeared along with several Vikings Heartless.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" Rattus yelled. "Today's performances brought to you by random acts of destruction!"
At once the Vikings charge straight towards Hiccup and the Monstrous Nightmare panicked.
"Let's get in there!" Hope yelled.
She, Rex and Frank charge into the arena and began fighting the Vikings as they appeared. With everything going on Hope could make track of what was happening between the Heartless attack and the rampaging dragon in the arena.
And if that wasn't enough there was a huge explosion as a piece of the chained dome blew apart. Then out of nowhere Toothless appeared fighting the Monstrous Nightmare, he no doubt heard Toothless' cries and somehow called out of the Cove.
Hope then saw Rattus blast Hiccup with a pulse of Dark Magic. She watched helplessly as Hiccup toppled the ground, not moving.
"Mission complete," said Rattus and opened a Corridor of Darkness and it vanished the moment he entered.
The freedom had managed to slay the Vikings and Toothless had managed to scare the Monstrous Nightmare away. He then turned and looked looked at Hiccup's body sadly.
"Don't worry, boy. He's fine," said Rex and created some hand gestures.
Just before the match Rex had created a glamour all-round the arena. As it faded they found Hiccup standing next to Toothless looking perfectly fine.
"You're right, they did try to get Hope during the exam," said Frank.
"Then it is a good thing we planned ahead," said Rex.
However, now there was another problem. The Vikings, including Stoick, were now surrounding Toothless and Hiccup was doing his best to protect him, but to no avail. They shoved Hiccup aside and pinned Toothless to the ground.
Hiccup wanted to stop them, but Astrid held him back knowing there was nothing he could do. Stoick looked at Hiccup then to Toothless and Hope could sense the anger boiling down in him.
"Put it with the others," he commanded. He then turned and looked at Hiccup. "I want to speak with my son."
Barbaric Archipelago: Berk: Great Hall
Hope didn't think things can get any worse. Stoick had shoved his son into the Great Hall looking furious. Hope and friends had accompanied with Terra in the hopes to call him down, but they had little success of that.
"I should have known," he said. "I should have seen the signs."
"Don't get overdramatic, Stoick," said Terra.
Stoick then turned and looked at Terra. "You knew about this," he glared. "Why am I not surprised."
"Calm down, mate," said Frank.
"Calm down?" he snarled. "Did you see what just happened? My son befriended a dragon that nearly resulted in the deaths of good noble warriors."
"That was Rattus' fault, not his," said Rex.
"They've killed hundreds of us!" Stoick roared.
"And we've killed thousands of them!" Hiccup yelled back. "They defend themselves. That all. They raid us, because they have to. If they don't bring enough food back they'll be eaten themselves. There's something else on their island, Dad. It's a—"
Stoick stopped when he heard the word island. "Their island?" he said. "So, you've been to the Nest?"
"Did I say nest?" said Hiccup.
"How did you find it?" Stoick asked firmly.
"N-no, I didn't. Toothless did… only a dragon can find the island," Hiccup explained. Then Stoick got a look in his eye and Hiccup knew what he was playing at once. "Oh, no, no! Dad, no! Please, it's not what you think. You don't know what you're up against. It's like nothing you've ever seen."
"If you go to the idea you'll die," said Hope.
"Stoick, don't do it," said Terra. "I implore you."
"Dad, I promise you, you can't win this one!" Hiccup yelled. He then ran and grabbed his arm. "For once in your life would you please listen to me!"
Stoick, however, didn't listen he just shoved Hiccup away and looked at him in disgust. "You've thrown you're lot with them," he snarled. "You're not a Viking. Not my son."
Terra just glared at Stoick. "And Valka would be so disappointed in you," he said.
Stoick didn't answer and slammed the door behind him.
Barbaric Archipelago: Berk
An hour later, Hope and her friend were with Hiccup as they watched Viking ships sail away with Toothless. They knew that once they reached the island they wouldn't be coming back.
Astrid then appeared not sure what to say. "It's a mess," she said. "You must feel horrible. You've lost everything. You're father, your tribe, you're best friend."
"Thank you for summing that up," said Hiccup.
"You know you've got to work on your peep talks," said Frank.
"Why couldn't I have killed that dragon when I found him in the woods," said Hiccup. "It would have been better for everyone."
"Yep, the rest of us would have done it," said Astrid and then looked at Hiccup curiously. "So, why didn't you?"
"Yes, I would like to know myself," said Rex.
"You guys already know," Hiccup pointed out and they stared at him. "What? You thing I wouldn't have figured out that you're from the future. You guys known everything that has happened since you're arrived."
"Yes, but that don't mean we know why you didn't kill him," said Hope.
"I don't know," said Hiccup. "I couldn't."
"That's not an answer," said Astrid.
"Why is this so import to you all of a sudden?" Hiccup asked hotly.
"Because I want to remember what you say… right now," said Astrid.
"Oh, for the love of—" said Hiccup turning on them. "I was a coward, I was weak. I wouldn't kill a dragon."
"You said wouldn't that time," Astrid noted.
"Whatever, I wouldn't," said Hiccup. "Three hundred years and I'm the first Viking how wouldn't kill a dragon."
"But the first to ride one though," said Terra's voice. They turned and saw him approaching them. "You're so much like your mother. She didn't like the war and either did I. I became a Keyblade wielder so I could find the strength to end this war with more bleed shed, but I failed." He then looked into Hiccup's eyes. "So, tell me… why did you spare Toothless' life?"
Hiccup closed his eyes and looked out to sea. "I wouldn't kill him, because he was as frightened as I was," he said and then looked at them. "I looked at him… and saw myself."
"I bet he's really frightened now," said Astrid and looked at Hiccup. "So, what are you going to do about it?"
"Uh… probably something stupid," Hiccup shrugged.
"Good, but you're already done that," Astrid pointed out.
"Then something crazy," said Hiccup and dashed off.
"That's more like it," said Astrid and ran after him.
Terra just smiled. "Now he's sounding just like his father."
Barbaric Archipelago: Dragon's Nest
Hope and her friend were now flying over to the island in the hopes to save Stoick and the other Vikings. They weren't alone however, with them was Terra, who was riding his Keyblade Glider, and Hiccup and the Viking teens.
For some reason they wanted to help after seeing the advents during Hiccup's exam. Hiccup had taught them the basics of dragon taming and now they all were riding on a dragon each. Both Hiccup and Astrid were riding on the Deadly Nadder, who Astrid named Stormfly, Fishlegs was riding on the Gronckle, who he named Meatlug, Snotlout was riding the Monsterous Nightmare, who he called Hookfang, and the twins were sitting on the necks of the Hideous Zippleback, who they named Barf and Belch.
They soon exited the fog and saw the large dragon, but it was different now. It was completely red with blue spikes sticking out of it, had three sets of yellow eye on each side of it face and on its forehead was the Heartless emblem.
"He did it," said Hope. "He's turned that thing into a Heartless."
"It called a Red Death," said Toodles over the com.
"And I can see Rattus riding on top of it," said Rex.
Hope looked and saw Rattus was right. On the Red Death's forehead stood Rattus giving orders as it blasted the Vikings below with it breath attack.
"They aren't going to last long," said Terra.
"Then let's get that thing some else to shot at," said Frank pulling out his blasters.
They all nodded and they all blasted at the Red Death, just as it was about to munch on Stoick. The Red Death turned and saw them fly past as did the rest of the Vikings. They noticed that Stoick was staring up at them dumbfounded.
"Okay, Uncle Terra you make sure Dad and everyone else gets to safety, Hope you and your friends deal with Rattus," said Hiccup.
"What are you going to do?" Hope asked.
Hiccup then turned and looked at the other dragon riders. "Lout, Legs, hang in its blindspot, makes a noise keeper confused. Ruff, Tuff, find out if that thing has a shot limit. Make it mad. I'll be back as soon as I can," he said.
The all nodded and flew off into opposite directions.
Hope, Rex and Frank landed on top of the Red Death's head and came face-to-face with Rattus.
"So, we meet again," he said and he watched as Hiccup jumped off Stormfly on the ship were Toothless was chained up. "I take it that was one of your illusions back at the arena, Rex."
"I couldn't let you kill the boy," said Rex.
"Face it, with him here you've lost," said Frank aiming his blasters at him.
"I haven't lost just yet," said Rattus. "I managed to change this thing into a Heartless if you hadn't noticed."
"Then we'll have to remedy that," said Hope summoning her Keyblade.
Rattus then drew his twin blades and charge to the three of them. Hope blocked his attack and Rex try to strike and with his sheathed sword, but Rattus' twisted his blades making it strike Hope's Keyblade. He then blasted the two of them with a blast of Dark Magic.
Frank began firing his pistol straight at him, but he deflected a shot with his blades and then he used his Focus Push to push him back. He then placed a fort on top of Frank's chest and smiled as he raised his blades.
Suddenly, the Red Death began to shake. Both Fishlegs and Snotlout were doing their part to keep the thing confused causing it to shake its head. This caused Frank to raises mechanical arm and then fired a laser from his wrist. If Rattus hand jumped back, he would have been sliced to pieces.
"Do you like the upgrade I put in," said Frank smirking. "I call it the Cyber Laser."
Next second, both Fishlegs and Snotlout soon came with problems. Both dragons themselves were again confused and Meatlug toppled to the ground while Hookfang slammed into the Red Death's head, causing Snotlout to land right in front of Rattus.
He looked up and looked straight at Rattus' face. "So nice of you to drop in," said Rattus and races blades.
However at that moment Hope had recovered and her Strike Raid technique causing Rattus to lose his balance slightly. Then Rex, who had also recovered, blasted him with a Force Push sending Rattus flying.
"You all right?" Hope asked Snotlout.
Snotlout was unable to speak, but nodded.
"Hope, you should make sure that Hiccup frees Toothless," said Rex. "We can handle things here."
Hope nodded and flew over to Hiccup, who was still trying to free Toothless from the burning ship.
"Need some help?" Hope asked as she landed.
However, before Hiccup could answer, the Red Death's huge foot landed on the ship. The three of them were okay, but Toothless began to sink below the waves.
Hiccup and Hope quickly dived into the water and swan down to Toothless. They tried to break the chains, but they could hold their breaths, but before they lost consciousness something grabbed them and pulled them out of the water. They got up and found that it was Stoick, who saved them.
"Dad?" said Hiccup puzzled.
Stoick then dived back into the water and second later Toothless emerged with Stoick in his claws. Once he sent Stoick down he looked at Hiccup and gestured him to hop onto his back.
"You got in, bud," said Hiccup climbing onto Toothless' back.
"Hiccup!" said Stoick grabbing his son's arm. He then gave him an apologetic look. "I'm sorry… for everything."
"Yeah, me too," said Hiccup.
"You don't have to go up there," said Stoick.
"We're Vikings it's an occupational hazard," said Hiccup smiling.
"He's ever bit the boar headed, stubborn Viking you ever were," said Terra as he approached them. "And he's as strong headed as his mother."
Stoick couldn't help, but nod in agreement. He then looked at his son with a look of pride on his face. "I'm proud to call you my son," he said.
Hiccup looked at his breathlessly. "Thanks, Dad," he said.
He then took off into the sky and Hope followed alongside him.
She saw Rex and Frank fighting against Rattus and Rex tackling him off the Red Death. Frank saw them and grabbed Snotlout and flew away from it. The twins and Astrid then flew off to join with the other Vikings on the ground, but the Red Death began to inhale sucking Astrid and Stormfly towards it.
"She needs help!" Hope yelled.
Hiccup nodded and looked down at Toothless. "Okay, bud, Plasma Blast!" he yelled.
Toothless fired a ball of plasma at the Red Death and it exploded on impact. This coursed two things, one stopping the Red Death to stop inhaling Astrid and Stormfly and second causing Astird to be thrown of Stormfly and falling to her death.
Fortunately, Toothless was fast enough to grab her.
"Did you get her?" Hiccup asked.
Toothless looked down and saw Astrid smiling at him and he returned a Toothless smile.
"He got her," said Hope.
Then then dropped Astrid off the ground and flew back towards the Red Death. It was then that Hiccup noticed that it had wings.
"It has wings," said Hiccup. "Okay, let's see if it can use them."
"Hiccup, this is very important," said Hope. "In order to prevent that thing from coming back I have to deal the final blow."
"You got it," Hiccup nodded.
Then Hiccup flew down and dive-bombed straight down towards the Red Death. He then blasted it with a Plasma Blast and Hope casted a Thunder spell. The two attacks caused a massive explosion that caused the Red Death to topple over.
However, it soon recovered and began to spread its joy normally swings. It then flew up into the air and began to chase the three of them in a rage.
"Well, it can fly," said Hiccup.
"What have to try to out manoeuvre it," said Hope.
They then flew straight up into the clouds, making it impossible for the people down below to see them. Despite this, the Red Death followed them and fell right into their trap.
Both Toothless and Hope began to blast its wings with everything they had and the cloud cover was so thick that the Red Death was unable to see them. Eventually it grew tired of this game and shot by into every single direction.
"I think we made it mad," said Hope dodging the flames.
"You think?" said Hiccup noticing that Toothless' tell then had got scorched.
"What do you say we finished this?" said Hope.
Hiccup nodded and both he and Toothless began to dive downwards and the Red Death followed them. It then opened its mouth ready to fire its fire breath attack, but Hiccup was ready for this.
"Now!" Hiccup yelled.
Toothless quickly turned around and blasted the Red Death with his Plasma Blast attack. This caused the inside of the Red Death to explode and then it noticed the ground heading straight towards it.
Before it could spread its wings, which had been badly damaged due to Toothless and Hope's attacks, Hope appeared out of nowhere and used her Sonic Blade technique and went straight through its head.
Hope turned around and saw the Red Death slam into the ground creating a massive shock with that blue are of course. She saw the glimpse of a heart exiting from it and it disappeared into the sky.
Hope crashed to the ground, seeing spots in her eyes. It took a while for Hope to recover and saw Rex and Frank running over to her.
"You're right?" Frank asked.
"I'm fine, but what happened to Rattus?" Hope asked looking at Rex.
"I was so close and finishing it, but the impact of the Red Death created a very useful diversion," Rex explained.
"And there he goes!" Frank yelled pointing.
Hope turned and indeed saw Rattus running. She then saw someone adore out of nowhere, it looked exactly like the door that her father had described seventeen years ago. They were unable to stop them from entering.
"Hope, close it!" Rex yelled.
Hope some of her Keyblade and fired a beam straight at its lock and heard a locking sound. The door then vanished into thin air.
Hope soon realised that Hiccup and Toothless were nowhere to be seen. "Where's Hiccup and Toothless!" she yelled.
Then she saw it a group of Vikings and dragons surrounding them and for the first time she noticed that Stoick was kneeling in front of Toothless, whose tailfin have been completely destroyed and his saddle empty.
She noticed the sad look on the Vikings faces and possibly the saddest of them all had to come from Astrid. Stoick looked terrible and by his side was Terra, who had his eyes completely shut. She herself felt tears rolling down her cheek.
Stoick looked at Toothless, who looked back. "I'm so sorry," he said.
Then Toothless opened his wings and there in his claw was Hiccup. At once Stoick grabbed Hiccup and pulled him towards him, he removed his helmet and placed his head against his chest.
"He's alive! You've brought them back alive!" Stoick cheered.
At once every Viking cheered as to the dragons that are gathered.
"That kid is just too stubborn to die," Frank chuckled. He then looked at Rex. "And the same goes for you."
Stoick placed a hand on Toothless' head. "Thank you, for saving my son," he said.
"Well… you know… most of him," said Gobber.
Hope wasn't sure what he meant by that.
Barbaric Archipelago: Berk
A few days later they were at Berk. Hope and her friends were free to go, but they agreed that they want to say goodbye to Hiccup first.
Over these past few days things had dramatically changed around the village. Vikings were now riding on dragons as if it was completely normal. It was as if the three hundred year war had never even started.
"I bet Rattus' boss isn't to please," said Frank.
"I'm just glad we helped," said Hope.
"We cannot stay for too long," said Rex. "Don't forget time is flowing normally back home and no doubt Rattus causing havoc on another world."
"We can't just go without saying goodbye to Hiccup," said Hope.
"We'll wait one more day," said Rex. "But if he's not awake after that we gotta go."
Suddenly they noticed that all the Vikings were making their way over to the chief's house and once they realised what had happened. Hiccup had woken up.
They made their way over to the chief's house and saw Hiccup with his father and uncle. He looked perfectly healthy, except for one thing he had lost a leg.
Hiccup had taken a bad hit from the Red Death's club-like tail and had had fallen into a blazing inferno. Gobber had treated him a prosthetic answer that he had put a little bit of a Hiccup flare into it.
Hiccup looked extremely confused, which is not surprising. The last time he was awake Vikings and dragons were at each other's throats, but now they were working together as if nothing had happened.
"Nice to see you're still alive," said Hope.
"I'm still taking in all of this," said Hiccup gesturing all over.
"It's all thanks to you," said Frank.
"And now it's up to you to keep the peace," said Rex.
"No pressure," said Hiccup causing all the Vikings to laugh.
Then out of nowhere Astrid appeared and punched Hiccup on the shoulder.
"That was for scaring me," she said.
Hiccup looked utterly bewildered, he had just saved everyone, lost a leg and nearly died and she had hit him. "What? Is it always gonna be like this, because—" Hiccup was cut off when Astrid pulled him into a kiss. He stared at her, slightly stunned and then said, "I could get used to it."
Astrid just smiled.
"Well, time for us to go," said Hope.
"So soon?" said Hiccup.
"We can't wait any more," said Rex.
"Yeah, places to be and people to save, a hero's work is never done," said Frank joyously.
"I hope we meet again," said Hiccup.
"I hope so too," said Hope.