Chapter 3

They had been flying for few hours already, Stormfly hadn't agreed on using Norths snowglobes and said that if they did she would get confused with directions and wouldn't find Furys scent again. Obviously it was a lie because her skin turned bright violet color but none of the guardians took notice of it. Now they were having a rather peaceful sleigh ride over the ice-cold ocean, Stormfly leading them, Jack teasing Bunny for his fright of flying, Tooth being wary of any dangers, North steering and Sandy watching silently the scenery. It was nice weather, light seemed to cradle the dark blue ocean, occasionally there was icebergs and farther away could be seen solid islands. Snow was slowly floating down from the clouds. Few minutes ago Stormfly had informed that they were now inside the dragons' territory, saying that they'd see Fury shortly and muttering something to herself 'Or if we're lucky he has already found us'.

Stormfly gave a delighted roar and stopped dead in her tracks, spinning around and informing loudly. "We are here!" there was an exited gleam in her eyes and her skin was bright orange and pink. North stopped the sleigh on midair, standing on invisible surface. All of the guardians stood up and tried to pinpoint the autumn spirit, nothing, there was absolutely nothing but sea and themselves. They looked at Stormfly who in turn was looking back at them expectantly.

Bunny stepped closer at Stormfly and pointed a finger at her accusingly "There's nothing 'ere, ya misled us"

"No she didn't" The voice came behind them and all of the guardians twirled around faster than eye could see.

The man was standing on the sleight with them arms folded and with a steady look on his face. He was wearing a black leather armor now, half of his face was covered by a black helmet, His shoulders, arms and legs were protected by strong but amazingly sleek armor. The back of his wings were silvery colored, they were covered in grongle iron scales and his tail was armored with grongle iron too. (See the cover image)

He was eyeing suspiciously at the guardians.

"Explain yourselves and I'll decide whether to let you go or not" Stormfly flew to her masters shoulder hurriedly and burred when he scratched behind her horns reassuringly.

"If ya attack I'll chop ya're scaly arse up into tiny pieces" Bunny was nose to nose with the man staring down at him, it's harder than you think because they were equally tall and because rabbits aren't usually feared.

"Was that a challenge?" He was talking calmly and looking Bunny in the eyes.

"ya bet your…" Before he even finished his sentence Bunny was 10,000 feet away from the sea surface, freefalling in high speed towards the ocean. Hiccup was falling in same manner few feet's away from Bunny. Unlike the rabbit, who was screaming his lungs out, Hiccup was enjoying himself, the cold breeze ruffling his hair under the helmet, he performed few loops, swirled and freefell, until Bunny was only 30 meters away from the sea. Hiccup spread his wings, flew near Bunny taking hold of his shoulders and steadying them only two meters over the sea. When he heard Bunny sigh in relief he dived into the freezing cold sea earning a yelp from the rabbit and came up when he was sure that the bunny-rabbit was soaked with cold water. Water didn't effect on Hiccup at all, he was hot blooded creature but Bunnys blood wasn't boiling hot and he was shivering like a leaf in snow storm. Hiccup dropped Bunny on the sleight and went to sit on one of the reindeers.

The other guardians had been watching Bunnys freefall and before any of them could do anything the hybrid had already saved, soaked and dropped Bunny on the sleight. Tooth was the first to help the shivering guardian up when the others settled on glaring angrily at the autumn spirit.

"Sorry but I don't appreciate trespassers and I'm in the middle of something, so if you can turn back where you came from…" Hiccup was feeling frustrated, their surrounding was reeking with danger and nothing good would follow if the guardians got mixed into this. So he had to stay calm not to alert them of what exactly was going on.

"No. We're not leaving until you tell us what you're blotting with Pitch Black!" Tooth was hovering right in front of Hiccup, watching him like a mother scolding her teenage son. Hiccup looked surprised and glanced at Stormfly who was perching on a reindeer next to hiccups, she only shrugged her shoulders and shook her head at him.

"Pitch did say that there was some hot iron between you guardians and him, but I swear I have nothing to do with his doings" Hiccup was now standing on the reindeer holding his arms up in surrender matter. Luckily the guardians seemed to believe him when Jack loosened his grip on his staff and North was considering his words. Bunny was the only glaring daggers at him.

"A load of rubbish. Why are ya wearing an armor then?" Bunny was now able to talk without his teeth clattering violently.

Hiccup glanced briefly at his gears 'Oh thor…' "I'm in the middle of a hunting trip" It wasn't a total lie just sugar coated one.

"For what? Last I checked there was nothing but fish 'ere" Bunny had his arms folded and was eying suspiciously at Hiccup.

'Why couldn't lying be my strong point?' This was turning out to be extremely bad situation, Hiccup couldn't lie but he couldn't tell the truth either.

The guardians knew he was hiding something from them but couldn't figure out what it was when loud roar was heard. Below them was swimming bright blue dragon with long snout and beautiful long wings. It was staring intensely at Hiccup who in turn looked down upon it.

"Tide Glider, did you find them?" The Tide Glider turned his head to point at east and then turned back at Hiccup, who gave a brief "thanks" and flew over the clouds. The guardians didn't waste a second before following the man, he was fast but they didn't lose sight of him since it was day time.

Hiccup stopped and lunged downwards, there was large warship floating in the water. It was surrounded with dragons swimming underneath the sea, which the men onboard didn't notice. The dragons were waiting for a signal from their leader and luckily they didn't have to wait long. There was a huge gust of wind when Hiccup crashed on the boats deck, it bend under him and many of the men were flown of by the force. The dragons were keeping an eye on the struggling men, not attacking just watching.

The men still onboard had recovered fast from the blow and were now surrounding Hiccup who was standing in the middle of the boat and counting enemies "Shoot it!" someone shouted and in seconds the whole ship was engulfed with the sounds of rapid gunfire. When the shooting ceased majority of the men were dead leaving only few lucky. Hiccup was hovering over them looking downright furious. The remaining men looked horrified at the creature, they dropped their weapons and jumped overboard. The dragons didn't show themselves or even move when the humans tried to swim towards shores.

The guardians arrived before the shooting started, they saw Hiccup when the men surrounded him and when he jumped up hovering over the flying bullets. The men only succeeded in killing their own companions and were baffled when the Hybrid didn't have a scratch on him after the attack. Tooth watched horrified at the dead humans, some of them weren't even older than twenty and then she heard the dragons chanting below the ocean. They weren't loud but enough to understand them, the language was ancient, one that she had never heard before but she understood it clearly.

"Kill the miserable humans"

"Scums of the world won't live long"

"Drag them to the bottom of the ocean and paint the sea with their blood"

The noise was growing louder every second.

Hiccup was cornering the last man onboard, the captain. The captain had figured out soon enough that his hand gun wasn't enough to kill the hybrid, he was covering on the decks floor and pleading for his life. Hiccup lifted the man up by his collar and slammed him into the nearby wall.

"Where are they?" He growled angrily at the man was more than happy point him direction below decks, Hiccup forgot the man instantly and sprinted towards the door. Jack had had enough of standing by and watching and he went after the hybrid.

The halls were so dark that if Jack didn't have his glowing staff he wouldn't be able to see anything. It was dead silent and the stank obnoxious. Hiccup was running somewhere in front of him, he could hear the man's talons beating against metal floors. Jack caught up with the hybrid in a room full of cages, Hiccup was peeling open one cage that was hanging from the ceiling and from it he pulled out a tiny shivering creature. It was small and scared dragon, it tried to get away from Hiccup when he took firmer hold of it and chirped in alarm. There was a sound of beating wings when a green dragon zoomed past Jack and hovered over the smaller dragon in Hiccups arms, it sat on the cage hanging from the ceiling and surveyed the area carefully.

"Wh-what about the others?" it stammered. Hiccup only shook his head and walked towards Jack whom he didn't even pay attention anymore.

"Sharpshot! Inform the sea dwellers. The hunt begins" There was a mad gleam on the little dragon's eyes. "With pleasure" Sharpshot gave a quick bow and flew out from the room buffing up smoke excitedly.

When Hiccup reached Jacks side the winter spirit could see the creature fully and clearly. It was a baby dragon with serpent-like head and fin-like wings on its back. It was breathing evenly now and its red eyes were closing tiredly. Jack was so hypnotized by those eyes that he didn't hear the roars that came from outside.

"He's a Speed Stinger and I wouldn't stare a dragon straight in the eyes very long, you'll pass out in no time" Hiccup knew that Jack was spacing out on him and decided to wake him up before he fainted.

Jacks attention shifted to the hybrid that wasn't even looking at him, Hiccup was softly scratching the dragon's neck and the dragon was fast asleep immediately. They stepped on the ships deck, the corridors had been so dark that when they got outside Jack had to shield his eyes from the cloudy sky. The roars had already calmed down and the guardians were on the deck watching the dead humans lying all around them, Bunny was ready to beat the hybrid into a bruised pulp but he stopped when he saw the tiny dragon in Hiccups arms and Jack walking saddened beside the man.

Sharshot was instantly on Hiccups shoulder, telling that one of the humans had escaped and receiving an order to call the others back to the nest. Hiccup took flight towards the nest with Jack and the other guardians following quietly.

Sorry it's short and sad and T-T but it had to be done. It won't get any more violent than this and I apologize for it is horrible. I needed something to get the guardians interested in Hiccup even more and decided to introduce him mystically to them. Sorry about the cliff hanger but I cannot write any more. Next time the guardians see the nest in all its glory. Pleas RxR me if you notice something off about the story and I'll try to do my best