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Ch. 18: Counter Attack

(3rd Person POV)

"Hiccup, I see him! Down there!" Shelen yelled and pointed at a burning ship. Hiccup looked down and nodded. Shelen then steered her Night Fury toward the ships. Hiccup jumped down and began to pull at the chains and wood holding Toothless down.

Windchaser landed and Shelen also tugged at the chains. She pulled out her dagger and tried to slice into the chains. Suddenly though a huge club tail crashed into the ship. Hiccup and Toothless went overboard.

"Hiccup!" Shelen cried. She had seen him in the water. He wasn't a swimmer. She jumped and dove after her friend. She found him yanking on the chains and she tried to get to him but was suddenly pushed out of the way. She saw that Hiccup had lost air and Stoik had pulled him back up.

She then felt Windchaser's jaws around the neck of her shirt. She too was yanked back to the surface. Shelen gasped for air and fed her lungs the stale yet welcoming air. She then rushed over to Hiccup with Windchaser. The girl saw that he wasn't breathing. She pushed on his chest and then with a final pound, water came shooting up and he coughed.

Shelen became so relieved she hugged him. Hiccup was too stunned to do anything when they suddenly saw Toothless burst out of the water with Stoik in his claws. Toothless dropped the chief and landed next to Windchaser on a high rock. They motioned to their riders to get on.

"Alright, I here ya! Hiccup said and the two hurried over to their dragons.

"Hiccup!" Stoik called. His son looked at him confused.

"Y-Ye don' have to do this." Stoik said looking from Hiccup to Shelen. Hiccup looked to his riding partner and they smiled.

"We're Vikings, it's an occupational hazard." He replied.

"I'm proud to call ye my son." Stoik said giving Hiccup's hand a reassuring pat. Hiccup stared in shock at what his father had told him.

"Thanks, Dad." Hiccup said smiling then he and Shelen prepared to take off. They felt the jolt of their dragons as they took flight. Astrid saw the dragons and told the others. Spirak was then about to fly off but Cromaticar opened his mouth and tried to use the air against the nadder. The dragon shrieked but a white fireball slammed into the monster of a dragon's head.

Astrid was caught off balance by the attack and began to fall.

"Windchaser, catch Astrid!" Shelen instructed. The dragoness dove and caught the other blonde in her paws. "Did you get her?"

Windchaser looked down and saw Astrid dangling underneath. She smiled with a thumbs up and Windchaser gave her a fanged grin. She then gently set the Viking onto the rocky sand and took off again. Astrid watched in amazement and awe. Shelen was growing up. Her and Hiccup both.

Shelen and Windchaser returned to Hiccup and Toothless. They continued to fly around the large demon before them.

"Guys, that thing has wings! Let's see if it can use them!" Hiccup called to the others. Shelen looked down and saw that the creature indeed had wings! She nodded and the two seperated. Toothless dove in from the right while Windchaser from the left. They swooped and Shelen heard the whistling of the air against her dragon's wings. She looked to the side and saw razor sharp blades protruding from Windchaser's wings at the tips. She stared in shock. How could Windchaser have blades?

The dragons let their breath furies forth on Cromaticar and the dragon roared. They shot him again and again then he crashed to the ground. The Vikings and other dragons watched in hope but the mighty beast unfurled his huge wings.

"Did it work?" Hiccup wondered and Shelen looked behind them to see Cromaticar flying after them.

"Yep, it worked!" She replied sarcastically.

"Ok, guys, time to dissapear!" Hiccup announced. The dragons thrust their bodies upward and dissapeared in the clouds. Cromaticar followed.

"Nightdevil! Windstrike! You shall pay for this!" Cromaticar roared as he spewed fire in their direction.

"It is time for you to learn your places!"

"We have learned our place." Toothless growled as he zipped through the clouds out of sight.

"Oh? And where is that?" Cromaticar asked mockingly.

"With humans!" Windchaser replied as she slashed a hole in Cromaticar's wing. Toothless then shot a fireball. Cromaticar roared and tried to snap at the Night Furies. But they were too quick in their attack pattern. Finally, though, Cromaticar breathed a stream of flame in a circle in the clouds.

Toothless was caught by the attack and his false tailfin caught fire.

"We're out of time!" Hiccup called to the females. Shelen nodded and Windchaser reared back. Toothless shot another fireball at Cromaticar and the large dragon roared then took the bait. He flew after the other dragon and Toothless tried to keep a steady path as he dove.

"Nightdevil, you're mine!" Cromaticar said as the gas built in his mouth.

"It's 'Toothless'!" The male Night Fury roared as he released a final blast of flame into the swirling green gas in the other dragon's mouth.

Cromaticar's eyes widened as he felt his insides burn. He tried to flap his wings and get away but the holes Windchaser and Toothless had made from earlier were widening. The monster of a dragon lost control and crashed to the earth. His body exploded. But was this the end?