Toothless fired a plasma blast in the direction of the arrow. He hit a tree causing it to send splinters everywhere. People popped out from behind bushes and trees. Toothless dodged all the arrows he could but was forced to run away after a few found their marks. He took to the sky as soon as he could. He darted towards his home. As he flew he ran into a woman standing in the air.
"You're supposed to be protecting him." The familiar voice said. "If I knew you'd run from your mate the second there was any trouble, I would have never helped you two."
Toothless didn't stop for her but heard what she said. His blood boiled and the air around him buzzed angrily. He forced himself to move faster. He flew through the hole in the mountain and roared. Every dragon looked up to him. They all felt invigorated and followed Toothless as he flew outside. The dragons followed him and they flew towards Berk.
The people of Berk could hear buzzing in the air. They all knew what it meant. They grabbed their swords and hammers, getting ready for the onslaught. They wait for hellfire to rain down but it never came.
Toothless had the dragons waiting in the forest while he scouted for Hiccup. He get as close to the village as he could without being spotted. He tried to find an obvious building Hiccup would have been kept in. He kept looking until he spotted a small group of people standing in front of something. He circled around to get a better look. He could see something feebly struggling against its restraints. The people around it were throwing things at it. Toothless slowly flew in closer to see what was happening. His anger flared higher when he saw Hiccup's red hair. He dove down causing people to run away and take cover. He landed in front of Hiccup.
"Can you hear me? Hiccup?" Toothless asked. The boy weakly lifted his head to look at who was addressing him.
"Toothless? Wh-where am I? Why can't I move?" Hiccup tried to get out his restraints. " Toothless watch out. Behind you." Toothless spun on his heel and backed up close to Hiccup. Toothless growled unhappily. A large crowd had formed around them.
"Hiccup. Tell them that if they let you go, nothing will happen." Hiccup looked into the group.
"If you let me go nothing will happen." Hiccup said as loud as he could.
"Tell them that I'm not like the queen. I am here to kill them. And I will not stop until you're free or they're dead." Toothless growled again.
"He'll kill you all and won't stop until I'm Safe. Please just let me go. You don't, you don't know what he's capable of. Please!" Hiccup begged. He tried to escape from his stocks again. Stoick stepped to the front of his people with his sword drawn.
"Beast!" The large man roared. Toothless took an aggressive stance. He flared his wings open, making him look larger. The air began to buzz again.
"Tell them to back off Hiccup. I will have the dragons attack. I will not hesitate." Toothless told Hiccup.
"Please dad! Toothless will attack the village. Just let me go and nothing will happen. He's ready to have all the dragons that follow us attack right now. They're just waiting for him to give the order. Please! You'll all die. Don't be dumb just let me go."
The group slowly started to close in on them. Toothless roared, and Hiccup turned pale when he saw the dragons rise over Berk. Hiccup desperately tried to free himself.
"Toothless call off the attack! They'll come around you just have to give them time." Hiccup ordered. Toothless turned to face him and rose up to be at eye level. He looked sad.
"I'm sorry Hiccup. You can tell me that they'll change or that they'll come to understand all you want, but it's been years. Hiccup I can't give them anymore chances. It just puts us all in danger and I can't have that. And I can't have you in this situation again. I won't lose you Hiccup. You're too important."
"Toothless…" Hiccup whispered. Toothless turned around and fired at a few people. Hiccup squeezed his eyes close so that didn't have to watch. His ears rung as explosions went off in the distance. His skin itched as the air on Berk heated up. He wanted to cry but knew it wouldn't be justified. Toothless was right. They had given them too many chances too many days to change. He felt so dumb thinking that his hard headed father would change.
Hiccup felt something land next to him. He opened his eyes, finding both heads of a Hideous Zippleback staring at him.
"Your mate sent us to help you escape." The Zippleback echoed itself. The dragon disappeared from his sight. In a flash he was able to slip out.
"There are others waiting for you. Ready to bring you back to the mountain. Back home." Hiccup's eyes widened.
"Home?" Hiccup asked. The dragon gave him an odd look.
"Yeah. Home." The dragon's attention was drawn away from Hiccup by a villager. Hiccup began to run through the village, seeing dragons and humans fighting every way he turned. He stopped when he saw Stoick pinned down by Toothless.
"Toothless!" Hiccup shouted. Toothless looked up to find Hiccup. Stoick pushed the large dragon off of him. "Toothless let's go. You wanted me now let's go." Toothless ran up to Hiccup and offered him a ride. Hiccup hopped on and Toothless shot into the air. He roared for the others and quickly the dragons left.
"Hiccup, when we get back we need to talk." Hiccup could feel a rock forming in his stomach. As they got closer to home he felt sick. Toothless dropped Hiccup off on their shelf.
"Stay here. I'll be back soon." Toothless ordered. Hiccup sat down with his legs hanging over the edge of the shelf. He watched Toothless quickly move around, talking to everyone he could. He soon flew back up with fish in his mouth. He dropped one for Hiccup and ate the other.
"I really messed up didn't I?" Hiccup whispered. Toothless sighed heavily.
"I don't know what to tell you Hiccup. A lot of those dragons down there aren't too happy with you. I'm not very happy with you right now."
"Toothless. I-I'm…"
"Don't apologise to me. I don't need it. I didn't lose my kids today. I didn't lose my mate. I can still look forward to my nights." Toothless couldn't contain himself anymore. "Hiccup I don't know how to describe to you how pissed I am at you right now. You can't be running away like that. Because shit like that happens. I don't care for what you have to say either. People died today and it's your fault. Hiccup you don't have to prove yourself the second someone says something. Especially not me" Toothless screamed. The mountain was quiet. Hiccup was sobbing heavily.
"Hiccup listen to me." Toothless poked Hiccup's side. Hiccup looked up between his fingers. "I don't know what I have to do for you. I always tell you how much I love you and how beautiful you look. I don't know what to do for you. What can I do so that you don't run off and do something reckless? Because I don't lie to you Hiccup. But I will start if it keeps us safe. I don't want that. Hiccup look down there and what do you see? Your people. And your people want you safe. You can't let what people say, get to you like that. And I don't know why what I say gets to you easier. We've been together for how long? And you still can't tell when I'm messing with you. I know what you're capable and you can hunt perfectly well. So I don't know why you had to prove yourself to me. I've seen you hunt. I've seen you fish. You've taken care of me when I'm sick. Cleaned me up when I've shit myself and fed me when I couldn't feed myself. Please Hiccup, I can't do this without you and I almost lost you today."
Hiccup wiped his nose on his arm and sniffled. He moved back from the ledge and stood. He stepped towards Toothless and clung to him. Toothless slowly moved them to their sleeping spot. He set Hiccup down and circled around for a second before laying down. He offered Hiccup his normal spot. The boy quickly took his spot. The dragon wrapped around him tightly and they slept.
