Title: New Blood of a Lost Age

A Halo HTTYD Crossover

Well... 10 chapters. Wow! Let's celebrate with chapter 11. I really don't know how I want this to go on so I'll just write and see what happens. I must also apologize for my lateness with this chapter. It really isn't acceptable, I have had a lot of work on my plate and things relationship-wise haven't gone well (which involved me almost killing myself), until I realised I would be leaving you guys!

To Wolves (whatssisface) 567: Thanks for the suggestions however I will put in scenes when I think it [the story] would suit them not just all over the place. But all the same thanks for the support through reviews.

To Guest reviewer: No

Thank you for everyone. I'll stop stalling now...

Alarms on the bridge were ringing out. The staff were monitoring their equipment very carefully considering the orange flashing lights on the bridge. Lasky walked in and the staff there immediately saluted. The Chief walked over to where Lasky stood.

Cortana addressed Lasky. "Captain, a covenant destroyer has been located within the vicinity of Mars and is on a current path towards us, it'll take about a day to get here at the rate it's going."

"Great. Ok we can do that somehow..." Lasky muttered. "Chief, any ideas?" They walked over to the holographic table currently showing a 3D image of Berk. Lasky leaned on the rim of it, staring absently into the image.

"Sir, what if we move our main force to the uninhabited part of the island. That should distract the Covenant until we can get the engines back online. We don't have a massive reserve, but it should be enough to take them on when they deploy their ground forces. We have many Scorpions and Warthogs at the ready. If the Indigo Terra comes under attack the automatic defence systems should hold them off for a while until reinforcements arrive." The Chief remained still while Lasky thought it over in his mind. They couldn't risk the Covenant attacking the Viking tribe but equally they had to get rid of the threat and they were the only ones that could. Lasky looked up at the Chief with a frown.

"Alright Chief, get to it. I want a mobile command centre dropped in place and all Spartan teams prepped. We'll Get Blue Jay to lead the ground forces; they're used to that kind of thing." Lasky was about to walk off the bridge to his quarters when Cortana spoke, causing him to stop in his tracks.

"Sir the computer systems update every hour and will re-calculate the time we meet with the vessel, our new time is twenty three hours, forty seven minutes and fifty two seconds. I'll reserve a display screen in every room for this countdown."

"Thanks Cortana. Good luck Chief." Lasky restarted his on his path. The Chief was left standing on the bridge.

"Now what?" asked Cortana. "We can't just lead the Covenant to the Viking tribe, even if the plan works they'll have to fly over the village at some point. We simply don't know what the Vikings will do, they could easily flee into their hall for safety, but something tells me that these aren't likely to do that. In fact, they're more likely to man their catapults and try to shoot down the phantoms."

"I know, but there isn't a lot we can do." The Chief replied in a stoic manner.

"Gobber there has to be somethin'. Anythin'. A way to get back Hiccup, he's all I got." Stoick the Vast was not a happy man. Mead fixed everything usually, but now he wasn't being bothered by Hiccup, Stoick realised the Mead wasn't all it cracked up to be. And was removing the memory of his only son for a short period and replacing it with wavy vision, tunnel like echoes in his head and a cracking head ache.

Gobber pondered for a bit. Suddenly, his face lit up, signalling he had had an idea. "Why don' we try reasonin' with these things? If they're like us, they may understand a father's grievances with the loss of his only child." Gobber looked over to Stoick, who was giving him an odd look that said 'how could YOU possibly come up with THAT?'. "It might seem farfetched Stoick, but wha' else can we do?"

"You're right Gobber. Might as well give it a chance I s'pose". Just as Stoick finished his sentence, a villager ran in flailing his hands around in the air. He looked completely panicked as he ran into tables not looking where he was going he was in such a rush.

"Chief Stoick! Chief Stoick! There is terrible news!"

"Whoa whoa whoa calm down!" Stoick grabbed the man's smaller shoulders to calm him down. "Now, tell me wha's happening"

The villager took a few calming breaths and looked into the chief's eyes. "Chief, the things that chased us off a few days ago when we attacked them. Well, they're flying all over the village. Lotsa them all carrying manner of things over to the west of the island. We tried to get to the catapults but they exploded before we could get there"

"Great" Stoick muttered. "Hiccup's gone and we've no defences, the village will be torn apart. Gobber, get a scouting party organized and get over to wherever they're goin'. They might have Hiccup. Make sure the party has enough weapons to deal with them as need be. We've only seen them in those machines a theirs. They won't be a match for us, especially because I'm goin' too"

"Got it. Crazy plan to investigate the things that nearly killed us all. Love it" Gobber sighed.

Stoick looked over to Gobber, surprised. "Careful there Gobber, beginning to sound like Hiccup!"

Again apologies for the lateness (and shortness) of my story. More to come soon though so don't worry!

Until the Next Time...