Disclaimer: I don't own httyd
AN: Ah the battle with the red death… Or is it green? I'm confusing the movie with the books XD
Setting: During Green/Red Death battle
Days Until Wedding: 2 and quarter a month (69 days)
"What I would Give"
Hiccup and Astrid ran inside the stadium was about to open the gates when someone called for them.
"Wait!" Hicucp and Astrid turned and saw Fishlegs with the other teens calling for their attention, "What're you guys doing?!" Fishlegs shrieked.
"Doing what's right" Hiccup said as he opened the gate for the gronkle. The gronkle waddled outside and glared directly at Astrid.
Astrid returned it "Remember me?" she unsheathed her axe and the gronkle reared back, ready to pounce. Astrid threw her axe away and the gronkle looked at her confusingly. "I'm not here to fight you."
The gronkle seemed to understand and looked at Hiccup. This time though, the gronkle looked at him appreciatively.
"It seems to remember when you spared its life." Astrid mused.
The other teens were gawking at the sight in front of them. They were having a normal conversation with a dragon in front of them! Snotlout tried to pick a spearhead but the gronkle sensed this and glared haughtily at him. Astrid shook her head and motioned him to put down the spearhead which he did.
Hiccup then turned his attention towards the nadder's cage. Surprisingly when he opened it, it was empty. His eyes widened "Oh no…"
"What?" Astrid asked
"They took the nadder. They're going to use it to lead them towards the nest."
Hiccup then proceeded to release the other dragons, the zippleback and the monstrous nightmare. The nightmare was a tricky one since once it got out it started thrashing around. Eventually Hiccup got it to calm down.
"So Hiccup…" Fishlegs said "There are only three dragons and five of us."
Snotlout shot his hand out "Ooh! Ooh! I get to ride Astrid!"
Everyone stared at him. Snotlout finally realized what he said and smirked at Astrid "Come on babe, you know you want to" he winked at her.
Hiccup could've sworn that Astrid wanted to puke.
Hiccup looked at the other teens and smirked "Don't worry we have it covered." Hiccup whistled and everyone could hear something running towards them.
A dragon barged through the stadium entrance and bounded towards Hiccup.
Hiccup noticed that Toothless was not stopping suddenly realized what it was about to do.
"Oh no…" Hiccup backed away "No, no, noooooooooooo!" he was pouned by the nightfury and attacked with a series of licks on his face "Toothless! Eww! That's gross!" He managed to push the dragon away but it was too late to remove the stench.
Everyone was once again gaping at the sight. The legendary nightfury was infront of them, playing with a viking. All their lives, they were taught that dragons were killing machines. This definitely opened a new perspective for the vikings-to-be.
Hiccup desperately tried to remove the saliva all over his face "Ok guys. I need you to trust me."
Hiccup then proceeded to teach each teen how to ride their own dragon while Astrid was the one teaching the dragons how NOT to crush their riders.
-Stoick and the other Vikings-
They finally arrived at the nest. They proceeded with caution and set up some barricades incase dragons started diving towards them. Stoick ordered a catapult to throw a flaming rock at a cave entrance. It went through and just at sides were hundreds of dragons. Just as the rock hit the pit of the mountain, the dragons scrambled outside. The vikings braced themselves and started slashing at the skies, hoping to hit an incoming dragon. To their confusion though, all the dragons fled from the island.
"We did it…" one of the vikings said once he finally absorbed what happened "We won!" Everybody cheered.
A single dragon was hovering just outside the line of sight of the humans, searching for the single viking that bested it. It looked through every face it could find but to no avail. It would find that viking no matter what.
Stoick, on the other hand, listened intently to the mouth of the cave because he could hear rumblings inside. He knew that there was still the giant dragon to face but he didn't tell the others about it.
"Not yet" he said as he backed away from the mountain "Return to your positions!"
Just then the mountain exploded and out came a monster of a dragon.
"Odin help us all…"
"Back to the ships!" people started running towards the ships
"No! Stop!" Stoick tried to warn them but it was too late since the dragon released a blazing inferno towards the ships. The poor captive nadder didn't stand a chance and was burned to death.
(AN: Yeah… I just went there… too bad there's no turning back beyond this point)
Hiccup and the other teens arrived. Astrid was with Hiccup on the nightfury. The Thorston twins were on the zippleback with the twins situated on the two necks of the dragon. Snotlout was on the monstrous nightmare. And Fishlegs was on the gronkle, slowly trailing behind the others.
Hiccup looked towards the beach and saw that the massive dragon was now out of the mountain. He couldn't believe the mere size of the beast. It was like it was the mountain itself.
"Fishlegs, stats." Hiccup commanded
Fishlegs hovered next to Hiccup as he studied the dragon. "Ok, heavily armored skull, probably used for bashin." He looked at its tail. "Same goes for the spiked tail. Has huge nostrils and small eyes. It probably relies on its sense of smell and hearing"
"Got it" hiccup said and he turned towards the twins "Ok, you two, distract it. Make it mad."
The twins mocked saluted "You got it, chief!" and they flew towards the beast.
That comment caught Hiccup off guard. Chief? He realized that one day he would have to take over of chiefdom.
Astrid sensed his discomfort and tightened her hold on him "Don't worry. If my calculations are correct, you wouldn't worry about becoming a chief in a long, long time"
Hiccup smiled reassuringly "Thanks" he then turned to the last two people on their group "Ok, Legs and Snotlout, I want you guys to get near it and make some noises."
Snotlout smirked "Gotcha, cuz" then the both of them went their way.
Hiccup looked towards Astrid "Ok, you-"
But she cut him off "No, I'm staying here."
Hiccup sighed "Fine, but the moment things get dire you are getting done, got it?"
Astrid nodded while she tightened her grip on him "Got it"
"Let's go"
Hiccup circled the monster while the other teens started distracting it.
"Ok Toothless, now!" Toothless fire a single fire bolt at its side and because of the force it staggered. It finally had its sights on Toothless and fired a stream of flames. Because of Toothless' speed, the attack was useless. They did the same tactic until the giant dragon sucked in a giant breath just as Hiccup was passing it, effectively drawing them in.
"Oh no…" Hiccup gravely said and looked at Astrid "We can't get out of it!"
"Hiccup…" Astrid looked at him sadly "I know what to do…" she started unfastening the rope around her.
Hiccup saw what she was doing and immediately stopped her "No! We can think of another way!" just as Hiccup said this they were now very close to the dragon.
"Please Hiccup, you're the only one who can save everyone…" a single tear shed from her eye "Just remember that I'm the only one that could call you dork."
"I-" but he was cut off by a huge blast behind them and they were thrown away by the force of it. Hiccup tried to find the source of the blast but he was distracted by Astrid's scream.
Because Astrid was halfway untying the knot, she was thrown off the dragon and was now falling down to her death.
"Astrid! Toothless go!" Rocks were flying everywhere, making it more difficult to maneuver the skies.
Just as Astrid was about to hit the ground, Hiccup caught her with his arms.
"Are you ok?" he tried to look but she was clutching her face
"Don't look at me" her voice was muffled
"Please Astrid. Let me take a look at you" he said as they managed to get away from the giant dragon.
"Ok" Astrid conceded and removed her hands from her face. Hiccup gasped at the sight of her face, blood was oozing from her right eye.
"Astrid… how did this happen?" Hiccup asked hoping that the wound was not critical
"Just as I was about to fall, rocks were flying towards me. I managed to shield myself from most of them but as you can see one of them hit me in the eye" Astrid laughed dryly.
"Don't worry Astrid, I'm sure that your eye would heal" Hiccup said reassuringly
Astrid looked down and smiled sadly, she didn't have the heart to get his hopes up.
Hiccup landed and let Astrid down. He saw his father running towards him so he waited
"Hiccup! Thank the gods you're ok!" Stoick looked at Astrid's face and he resisted the urge to gasp "Lass…"
Astrid cut him off "Don't worry about me. The sooner we finish here, the sooner we can go to the healer and have it checked" she said with fake enthusiasm.
Hiccup nodded but before he could take off Stoick grabbed his arm. "You don't have to do this"
Hiccup shrugged "We're vikings, it's a occupational hazard"
Stoick's eyes shined "I've never told you this but I was always proud of you. I never told you because I wanted you to push even further than what you are right now. Now go!" he ordered.
Hiccup nodded and took off.
Hiccup ordered Toothless to fire another bolt at the giant dragon. Hiccup then noticed something and a plan was forming in his head "It has wings, let's see if it can fly"
Toothless nodded and fired again effectively making the huge dragon fall to the ground. That did it because the moment the dragon stood; it opened its wings and started to fly towards them.
They zigzagged through rocks to see if the rocks were effective enough to stop the giant beast. Too bad for them the dragon had iron-like skin so the rocks did nothing to it.
Hiccup then made Toothless fly up in the clouds and the giant dragon followed them.
The vikings on the ground could see the silhouette of the giant beast from below when Toothless fired at it.
"Come one Hicucp" Astrid said as she wiped the blood from her eye. It was currently closed and she dreaded the fact that it would stay that way forever.
Suddenly, Hiccup and Toothless were diving back to the ground, closely followed by the giant beast.
Hiccup could feel the giant dragon sucking its breath, ready to release a giant fireball. Hiccup didn't know what to do. He hoped that he was able to damaged its wings enough that the moment he would pull away it would not have enough strength to pull back.
It was a good thing Toothless knew what to do. The moment the dragon was about to fire, Toothless turned around and fired a single bolt inside its mouth and effectively imploding the beast. Toothless pulled back and flew the opposite way. The giant dragon tried to follow but its wings had burned holes in it and so he plummeted to the ground and exploded on impact.
Hiccup swerved around the giant dragon's spiked back but before he could escape the giant monster's tail was going towards them.
"No, no nooooooooooooo!" Hiccup shouted and they were hit by the tail.
Hiccup was separated from Toothless by a few feet. Toothless roared because it was too far away from the viking. It tried clawing its way towards Hiccup's unconscious body but it was too late.
Before Hiccup was consumed by a fire though, a squawk was heard behind him. Toothless tried to see what made the cry but it was engulfed by the flames.
AN: Yey! Another cliffy! Enjoy and review!
