WARNING: TALKING, STATUE TOOTHLESS IN THIS CHAPTER, you have been warned.

Chapter Twelve: The Bonfire at Notre Dame

The drums rolled as Iris, in a plain white dress was dragged to a stake and tied to it. Beneath the stake, on top of the gallows, was enough firewood to possibly torch all of Notre Dame.

"The prisoner, Iris, has been found guilty of the crime of witchcraft!" Alvin proclaimed as he held out a piece of parchment. "The sentence… Death."

Everyone, good and bad, protested against Iris's sentencing except the guards, acting as if they had no free will aside from ways to torture prisoners.

In his personal cage, Drew pulled at the bars in a vain attempt to free himself. Gobber tried to stop this, but his path was blocked by the guards.

Alvin then took a lighted torch from the executioner.

"The time has come, Gypsy." Alvin said calmly. "You stand upon the brink of the abyss." Alvin then added under his breath, "Yet even now it is not too late. I can save you from the flames of this world and the next. Choose me or the fire."

Iris was disgusted. This man not only tried to kill her multiple times, but he actually thought she would choose him over dying? Iris spat in Alvin's face.

"The gypsy, Iris, has refused to repent!" Alvin called out. "This evil witch has put the soul of every citizen in Paris in danger!"

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Hiccup was completely chained to the pillars of Notre Dame, only able to watch what was happening. Hiccup hung there limply while his friends tried to free him.

"Come on Hiccup!" Toothless called out as he tugged at one of the chains. "Snap out of it!"

"Your friends are down there!" Tuffnut urged.

"It's all my fault." Hiccup said in a defeated voice.

"You've got to break these chains!" Hikari called out.

"I can't." Hiccup said. "I'd try, but what difference would it make?"

"You can't let Alvin win!" Toothless called out as well.

"He already has." Hiccup said in the same defeated voice.

"So you're giving up?" Toothless asked as he grabbed Hiccup's shirt. "That's it?"

"There chains aren't what are holding you back, Hiccup Haddock!" Hikaru said angrily.

"Leave me alone." Hiccup said as he looked away.

"Alright, fine." Toothless said as he walked to where he usually stood in the cathedral. "We'll leave you alone."

"After all, we're only made of stone." Tuffnut said as he took his place.

"We just thought you'd be made of something stronger." Hikari said as she took her place.

Hiccup looked sadly at his unmoving friends and back down at the square. Maybe his friends had a point. He walked as close as he could to the edge.

"It is time to send this unholy witch back where she belongs!" Alvin shouted as he placed a torch on several pieces of drift wood, and it began to catch fire.

Everyone objected.

"NOOOO!" Hiccup called out as he pulled on the chains, and the whole cathedral began to shake, and the bells rang in a way that showed Hiccup Haddock's anger. The anger of the Dragon Boy of Notre Dame!

The flames crept higher around Iris as she coughed, and Hiccup eventually began to break the chains. Eventually, the pillars holding Hiccup back collapsed, and he grabbed a nearby rope and swung it around a gargoyle's head as he swung down to Iris! After a few seconds he grabbed her and swung back up to the cathedral, barely hearing Alvin's shout of, "HICCUP HADDOCK!"

Hiccup meanwhile climbed up to the highest ledge of Notre Dame, held Iris high over his head and shouted, "SANCTUARY! SANCTUARY!"

The entire crowd, minus Alvin and the guards, cheered.

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"Captain!" Alvin said as he turned to Bucket.

"Sir?" Bucket asked.

"Seize the cathedral!" Alvin ordered.

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In one of the high up rooms of the cathedral, Hiccup set Iris down on a bed.

"Don't worry." Hiccup said calmly. "You'll be safe here."

Iris's unconscious form didn't respond, but Hiccup guessed she'd be okay in a few minutes.

He then heard the charge on Notre Dame and hopped down to a large pot of molten metal. He threw down a beam that destroyed Alvin's carriage.

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Alvin meanwhile took charge as several men began to run.

"Come back you cowards!" Alvin then turned to the guards that remained as he drew a long sword. "You men, pick up that beam. Break down the door."

When all of Alvin's men except Mulch left, Drew grabbed him in a choke hold.

"Alone at last." Drew said with a smirk as he bopped Mulch on the head and took his keys.

Drew then freed himself grabbed a stray spear and stood on top of his former prison.

"Citizens of Paris," Drew called out. "Alvin has persecuted our people, ransacked our city, and now he has declared war on Notre Dame herself! Will we allow it?"

The people cried out, "NO!" They then freed all the gypsies, and together, they fought against Alvin's men.

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"I think the Calvary's here!" Toothless said with a smirk as they all watched on. He then looked at Drew fighting one of the guards with his spear.

"Hey, isn't that Mac?" Toothless asked.

"Drewn." Hikari corrected.

"Drew!" Hiccup happily corrected as he punched a guard out with a hard blow to the face.

Hiccup then shoved a large brick down that destroyed a ladder and sent several men to the ground while Tuffnut tentatively dropped a block on another guard's head.

"Whoops." Tuffnut said. "Sorry."

Toothless then swallowed a stone and jumped to the ledge and began shooting out the pellets, and that made several men who weren't knocked out by them retreat.

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"Harder!" Alvin called out as Bucket's men continued to ram the door.

Drew meanwhile used his spear to knock out three guards at once with a side blow to their stomachs.

During the fighting, the old man from the festival ended up freed when the stock he was trapped in were broken open, and he walked out.

"I'm free!" He called out. "I'm free!"

The old men then fell into a sewer.

"Dang it."

Toothless and Tuffnut then tossed a catapult they had made down, but it landed upside down.

"Are you sure that's how it works?" Tuffnut asked when the twine they used to hold the end with the bricks back snapped, and it squashed several guards.

"Works for me!" Toothless said with a smirk.

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Drew meanwhile fought Bucket with a sword he'd grabbed an managed to get him dazed with an elbow to the stomach, and Twilight kicked him in the rear, so he fell in front of Spitfire' rear.

"Spitfire, sit." Drew said with a smirk, and the dragon sat on Bucket's head.

"Oh, get it off me!" Bucket shrieked. "Get it off of me!"

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Meanwhile, Hikari had several of the Terrible Terrors that had pestered her fly down at the men.

"Fly my pretties!" Hikari called out. "Fly! Fly! Ahhahha!"

The Terrors then bits and fired at the men until they rushed off.

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"Put your backs into it!" Alvin ordered, and the door began to give.

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Hiccup, Toothless, Tuffnut, and Hikari put a pulley device on the cauldron of molten metal and all three pulled on it, and it spilled over and covered the ground around the cathedral in molten metal that'd burn anything that came near it. Several of the men rushed off in fear while the peasants stepped back and cheered.

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Alvin snuck in through the door and began to walk to where Hiccup stayed.

"Alvin, have you gone mad?" Gobber asked angrily. "I will not tolerate this assault on the house of God!"

"Silence, you old fool!" Alvin spat as he tossed Gobber down.

"The Dragon Boy and I have unfinished business to attend to, and this time, you will not interfere." Alvin said as he closed the door to the bell tower and locked it behind him. It was time to finish what he'd started 15 years ago.

Chaos dose not own The Hunchback of Notre Dame or HTTYD but she owns Iris and Twilight the Snow Fury, Hikari belongs to WingBladeWeaver1357, and Drew belongs to RedDiEnd.