I thought of making the Red Death his own name so this is when Cromaticar makes his appearance.
Disclaimer: Uh, right. Nope, still not mine yet.
Ch. 14: Cromaticar
"What are you gonna do now, though?" Shelen asked as they continued to glide on through the night.
"I don't know..." Hiccup admitted.
"Hiccup the final exam is tomorrow. You know that you have to find some way to keep from-you know." Shelen shrugged. Suddenly Toothless' earflaps began to twitch and vibrate. He swooped down and flew through fog.
"Whoa! What's happening?" Shelen cried as the dragon glided through the fog, flapping occasionaly. Suddenly a Monsterous Nightmare glided in. It looked at Toothless with a worried expression. The Night Fury exchanged it with a look of his own. The Nightmare then looked at the humans and with a last nod Toothless stayed near the back.
Nadders and Zipplebacks joined group then some others. They neared the island.
"They must be bringing back their kill..." Shelen whispered.
"But what does that make us?" Hiccup looked down at Toothless nervously. The dragon just continued to glide. Suddenly though he took a sharp turn then another until they dove into a large opening in the rocks of Draco's Isle.
The Night Fury searched for a place to land and found a nice hiding spot.
"Toothless we need to get out of her now!" Hiccup whispered urgently. Toothless just jerked his head away and they watched the dragons drop the sheep and cattle they had brought with occasional large fish or such.
"Well it's nice to know all our food is being dumped down a hole." Hiccup said sarcastically.
"They aren't eating any of it...But why?" Shelen wondered. A small Gronkle that looked about ready to fall flew in and opened his mouth dropping a tiny fish down into the eerie red mist. Toothless looked at the Gronkle with pity and the thing scratched it's ear then began to fly away but a huge head emerged from the mist.
"What is that?" Hiccup gasped. The head began to sevens back to the mist until it stopped and sniffed the air.
"Tailless!" The beast growled and Toothles lept from the cliff before the thing could take a chunk out of any of them. "Nightdevil! Give me those tailless!"
"Hurry!" A Terror screeched.
"Get them out of here!" A Nadder urged.
"The chosen ones must live!" A Nightmare roared as they all fled from the monster's rage.
Toothless flew as fast as his tail and wings would let him and returned to the cove. Windchaser was waiting for them and sat by the water. Toothless touched down as Shelen was trying to make sense of what was happening.
"That thing was like the Queen Bee, it controls them and if they don't bring food back, it kills them!" She was both excited that she was right about dragons not stealing for the joy of it but also horrified by the reason.
"Toothless, what's going on?" Windchaser asked as Toothless walked over to her.
"Cromaticar...He's seen them!" Toothless growled worridly.
"What? But how?"
"I came into range and we entered the island. When we were escaping Cromaticar, some of the others were calling Hiccup and Shelen, the 'Chosen Ones'." Toothless explained.
"Hiccup and Shelen? The Chosen?" Windchaser gasped.
"Yes, that's what I said. Why? Is it important?."
"Of course it is! Legend says that when the last Night Fury and the Fury with wings of Blades choose a human to be their rider Cromaticar's reign shall end, and dragons and humans shall live as one." Windchaser recited.
"But seriously, Hiccup?" Toothless wasn't convinced.
"Why not? He was able to do something you couldn't. He returned your flight." Windchaser pointed out.
"And you actually believe that my human, MY talking fishbone, is one of the Chosen Ones?"
"I do." Windchaser stated firmly.
"Then I trust you..." Toothless replied and the two settled down to sleep.
We learn more about the Chosen ones in one of the Sequels