Chapter 90
Hiccups POV:
It's been a week since I saved the deathsong from the hunters and reunited it with Garf and in that time a few things have happened but not all of them have been good. I had collected all the eggs and the singetails who laid them and moved them all into Glacia's nest where Sear was able to keep them all under control with Glacia's help so I now had an army of singetails at my disposal. As for the hunters and flyers, the defenders of the wing have dealt with them but I did have to explain why their leader was wrapped up in roots. I had to say that was that was a good day but compared to today any day was a good day. The reason is the flyers attacked my dad when he was on patrol and he didn't come out of the attack looking too good and by that I mean he was now laying in bed covered in cuts and bruises with a concussion leaving him unconscious. Seeing him like this I blamed myself knowing that it was my constant attacks on the hunters that brought this attack on my dad. It was at this time I wondered if things would've been better for everyone if I never shot Toothless down since we wouldn't be dealing with this war, I'd still have my right arm and Toothless would still have his tail fin. It was only after I walked through my trophy room and realized all the good I've done, all the people I've helped and all the monsters I've slain bringing an end to their rain of terror. It was then I knew I was exactly where I was meant to be and nothing was going to change that.
It was after I realized this Heather arrived but she was hurt as was Windshear. When I asked her about it she told me that some of the flyers followed her to Vanahiem. I couldn't let Johan or Krogan know about Vanahiem with it being a sacred place to dragons and I knew they'd abuse it somehow whether it be hunting the dragons or raiding the burial grounds. I took off in my regular armor with all of my god made weapons riding Toothless with a team consisting of Sapphire, Gas and Flash, Bones, Saber, Scorch, Blizzard, Siren, Coal and Slasher to Vanahiem but I was not prepared for what I found. Vanahiem was littered with fires and all the sentinels were lying there on the ground motionless and when I put my head against one of their chests to listen for a heartbeat I heard nothing. It was truly cruelest thing I've seen in my life. I then heard a cough and found one of the flyers who just looked up at me and laughed as I released my star sword and pointed it at him.
I demanded he tell me where the other flyers were and all he said was they were heading back to Johan to report what they found. I then grabbed him by the neck using my prosthetic demanding to know which way they went giving a light squeeze before he told me everything before I dropped him and took out a forest arrow. I told him he'd been such a help he earned it but I could tell he was confused especially when I smiled after he took it but his smile turned to one of shock and horror when the arrow began sprouting roots tying itself to his hand and when he tried to pull it off with his other hand the roots just tied his hands together before they spread and soon enough he was tied up as I told him I'd deal with him when I got back. When I turned back I found Coal spewing lava around the sentinels before much to my shock one of them actually moved. I ran to check if it had a heartbeat and much to both my shock and joy I could hear one. I ordered Coal to keep doing what he was doing while ordering Scorch, Saber and Gas and Flash to stay behind to protect both Coal and the sentinels from the Grimgnashers while also keeping an eye on our new prisoner while me and the others took off after the flyers. They all growled and wished us luck as I mounted Toothless and we took off.
This brings me to where I am now which is flying out of a powerful storm we had to fly through in order to catch up with the flyers that more than likely flew around it due to singetails not liking lightning storms. I looked up smiling at the sight of a total of nine flyers. I took out a wind arrow as I released my spirit bow but it was as I did I saw that they had spotted me and one of them was flying straight at us. I quickly aimed the arrow at him and let it fly blasting him off his dragon despite how he tried blocking it with his shield. I watched him fall screaming into the ocean as the other flyers charged at us while firing multiple blasts. We dodged out of the way as I turned to my dragons and yelled.
"SCATTER!"
They did so and I smiled as the flyers did as I expected them to do and went after my dragons making them easier to deal with but Toothless and me still had to deal with three flyers while my other dragons each had one. We dodged fire balls launched at us from the singetails as I prepared a water arrow and looked back to see the men whipping the singetails just as I let loose the arrows hitting the one in the middle sending him flying into the water. It was then they had the singetails fire but I blocked the shots with my eagle shield before I put my spirit bow away and released my crystal spear. I then had Toothless stop and hover as I held my spear out in front of me with the ends facing left and right while the staff extended. The two flyers flew right into the pole knocking them off their dragons. I smiled as they fell down into the water before I turned to the flyers that were chasing my other dragons as I put my crystal spear away before I released my spirit bow and took out a wind arrow before letting it fly and nailing the one chasing Sapphire in the side sending him into the water. Sapphire turned and gave me a gentle growl as I signaled her to help take care of some of the other flyers, which she was happy to do, and soon enough all the flyers were on a beach on a small island after swimming out of the ocean while their singetails were flying away. I had siren cocoon the flyers before having my dragons pick them up as I looked at the flyers who were struggling and said.
"Don't worry men, you'll be out of that cocoon soon enough." They stopped struggling as one asked.
"Really?"
"Oh yeah after all how else are the defenders of the wing going to tri you and then have you executed." As soon as I finished they all began to struggle even harder as I just rolled my eyes and we took off to Vanahiem.
Nightfall
We've just arrived back on Vanahiem to see the dragons I left behind still holding off the grimgnashers while Coal's lava had hardened and had reached the same height as the sentinels. I had my dragons drop off the flyers next to the one from before who was still struggling against the roots before I told them to help hold off the grimgnashers while I went and checked Oswald's hut for anything that might be of use. As soon as they were all up in the air chasing off the grimgnashers I ran as fast as I could towards Oswalds hut. When I reached it I slammed the door open and looked around for any notes and said.
"I hope you left some notes on what's wrong with the sentinels Oswald."
I began searching through every note I could find before I knocked over a small crate spilling its contents on the ground and much to my surprise the contents were some scrolls, a small book and a dragon eye lens. I picked up the lens and slid it into a slot in my armor that served as a pocket before picking up the journal and opened it only to find it full of information on the sentinels much to my joy. I skipped through page after page looking for what was going on with them before coming to a page with one laying down with the sun shining down on it before an image of it rising up. The journal said when one of them was hurt they go into hibernation to heal and the only thing that could help them heal faster is heat. I then realized why Coal was spitting up lava next to their bodies, he knew they were alive and was helping them heal that genius gronkle. I put the journal into a large pocket in my chest plate and ran back to where the sentinels were. When I got back I released my spirit bow, readied three fire arrows and then let them fly into the ground around the sentinels causing one massive fire to cover them and the beach. When the flames died the sentinels were all standing up while roaring and taking towards the battle my dragons were having with the grimgnashers letting loose a powerful wing blast sending all of the grimgnashers flying back as I smiled before turning back to the flyers as my dragons came to land behind me. I could tell the flyers were afraid as I walked towards them but it was then I heard what sounded like a dragon in pain coming from down the cave. I ran to investigate and found one grimgnasher pinned beneath a large branch. I couldn't leave it like this so I helped lift the branch off it just enough for it to crawl out from underneath it. When it was free it growled in joy and nuzzled me as I laughed and pushed its head away while saying.
"You're welcome!" I looked around. "Where's your flock?" It looked down and quietly wined. "So they left you to die?" It growled and nodded. "Well you can join my flock if you want." It let out a growl and nuzzled up to me again but this time it was harder to the point where it almost knocked me over. "We'll have to come up with a name for you though." It tileted its head as I saw it was male. "How's about we call you Viggo after a former enemy who hunted dragons but became an ally who died to help me?" He just growled and nodded. "You like the name?" He growled and nodded. "Let's go introduce you to some of our flock." He growled and nodded as I lead him away.
Morning
We'd just arrived back on the edge and I had to say I was glad as I turned back to face my two newest dragons consisting of my new grimgnasher Viggoand surprisingly a sentinel I had named Oswald. Oswald followed us as we left and when I told him that Vanahiem was behind him he just nuzzled me showing he wanted to come with me. I turned back to see the sentinels from before all bowing their heads showing what I assume was their respected and trust to look after their friend. With that understanding I gave him the name Oswald since his species were the guardians of Vanahiem as was the late Oswald the agreeable. I ran up to my main observing building which is also where I kept my portal door. I was looking forward to seeing what was on this lens since it might be the key to finding the so-called king of dragons. I figured it might be some kind of alpha species like Glacia and Volcana but it might be a different species entirely. All I know is I couldn't let Johan or Krogan gain control of it. I walked through my portal door and grabbed my dragon eye before walking out and loading up the lens before turning to Toothless and saying.
"This is it bud, the key to finding the king of dragons which is possibly a new species entirely." I looked from the dragon eye to him. "Light it up bud." He gave a low burn that shined through the dragon eye revealing the colorful image of what looked to be a titan wing dramillion. Knowing I needed to get there to grab the titan wing before the hunters could I turned to my dragons. "We've got to get to Dramillion Island and find the titan wing before the hunters do." They all growled and nodded as I mounted Toothless. "Let's go guys." We all took off towards Dramillion Island only stopping to go through my portal arch to fetch Sear incase we had a fight so he could lead the freed singetails away and Omnifire since with him the dramillions might be calm enough to help us find the titan wing if there is one.
Afternoon
Dramillion Island had just come into view only to discover much to my horror the hunters had already arrived and had begun their search. I looked back at my dragons and said.
"Scorch, Saber, Blizzard, Guardian, Coal and Gas and Flash handle those hunter ships and watch each others backs." They all growled and took off ahead to attack the ships. "The rest of you are with me and Toothless." They all growled as we lead them while I turned to Omnifire. "See if you can convince some of the other dramillions we're not a threat and see if they'll help us."
He growled and nodded before flying ahead and it was at this moment we were flying over the ships so I released my crystal spear and had Toothless take us in low while I held out the crystal end of my spear. I scraped it across the hull of one of the ships and as expected the crystals that grew out caused a massive hole to form in the side sinking the ship. I was able to repeat the process with three other ships before we made it to the island and flew towards the location where the titan wing was said to nest. No sooner did we arrive did we see Krogan on the ground with multiple flyers in the air. I signaled my dragons to take care of the flyers while I dealt with Krogan but signaled Slasher to to follow Toothless and I. I saw Krogan give the order to his men to search the area before Toothless fired a plasma blast knocking off one of the flyers off his dragon while my other dragons flew past and began attacking the flyers as me and Toothless landed at Krogans side while Slasher took the other side. We began circling him as I said.
"Yeah the words Krogan and king of dragons does not belong in the same sentence." He glared at me.
"You seem to have miscalculated the odds dragon rider."
His singetail let out a fireball at us making us jump out of the way before it charged at us and we took off as I signaled Slasher to help the others deal with the flyers. We flew past trees while ducking under branches, avoiding their bases and using my eagle shield to block the occasional fireball fired at us by Krogan's singetail. When we cleared the forest I looked down at Toothless and said.
"Singetail maneuver bud, we need to get some high altitude." He growled before flying straight up into the air with Krogan following us until we were most likely eighty feet in the air when his singetail refused to go any hire despite his yelling. "DON'T YOU KNOW SINGETAILS HATE HIGH ALTITUDES KROGAN?"
Toothless let out a plasma blast at Krogan that he blocked with his axe but it still knocked him off his singetail which quickly followed Krogan in falling. The singetail hit the ground first and went sliding as Krogan landed on it and then off it. When the dust settled I saw Krogan was pinned beneath the unconscious dragon and was struggling to get free. It was then a pack of dramillions made their appearance looking at Krogan while me and Toothless hovered above him as I said.
"Never seen a dramillion before Krogan?"
It was then much to my surprise the dramillions started firing at me and since I refused to hurt them we were forced to take off with some of them giving chase. We dodged their attacks as I wondered why they were attacking us when all we were doing is trying to help them. I then remembered how territorial dramillions were so they might be protecting something but it was at this moment a yellow and reddish brown dramillion charged at me until Omnifire flew up in front of me making them both stop. He let out a few roars and growls before the dramillions lowered their heads and then took off to attack the flyers. I smiled at Omnifire and said.
"Thanks pal."
He then growled and turned his head a few times in the direction where the flyers were forcing their singetails to fire at what looked to be nothing but the ground. That is until a large dramillion seemed to appear out of thin air and judging from its size and coloring it wasn't hard to figure out that it was a titan wing dramillion. I released my spirit bow and took out a fire arrow and aimed it into the sky before letting it fly to make the signal to call all my dragons that weren't dealing with the ships. They arrived in seconds before I pointed at the flyers that were attacking the titan wing and said.
"Take those flyers down as quickly as you can and do what you can to protect the titan wing."
They all growled before we all charged at the flyers with me firing a wind arrow at one of the flyers blasting him off his singetail and into the ocean. When we reached them the dramillions were fighting back but unlike the flyers they were dropping like flies from the singetails continuous blasts. I let loose a water arrow sending another flyer into the ocean with a powerful blast and smiled as Sapphire picked one flyer up before flinging him into another taking them both out of the game. Bones took to slamming into the flyers while Siren stuck to the trees launching her amber goo at them. Three were chasing Slasher before he stopped and hovering after they caught up, he then used his three tails to knock the flyers off their singetails. I smiled at the sight glad to have taught him that move to deal with the flyers before I saw Omnifire trying to round up the other dramillions on the ground to attack the men on the ground along side Viggo who was firing his teeth left and right at any hunter he could spot.
I then saw some hunters on a cliff firing dragonroot arrows at the titan wing and hitting it making it screech in pain so I took out an earth arrow and fired it at their feet making the cliff crumble beneath them and send them all screaming into the ocean. The titan wing took off from where it was fighting and landed on top of a tree that was near the edge of a cliff making it bend over. I signaled my dragons to protect it the best they could before we all swooped into help fight off the flyers. We dodged out of the way of a fireball as the titan wing let out a blast that took out one of the flyers as I fired a wind arrow at the remaining flyer that was tailing me sending him flying off the singetail. It was then a large bolt was fired from one of the ships and it missed hitting my body by half a foot but sadly I realized too late that the bolt wasn't for me but the titan wing that let out a roar of pain before falling from the tree and over the cliff. Toothless and I flew after it to try and stop it from going over the cliff into the ocean only to be cut off by two streams of fire coming down in front of us and then multiple other streams coming down around us. I looked up to see the singetails surrounding us as Krogan's singetail let loose a fire ball that knocked us back before I could release my eagle shield. I looked up at Krogan and said.
"You're going to pay for that Krogan."
"Am I now?" Two singetails flew up with the titan wing dramillion in a net but before I could do anything I heard an explosion followed by dragon cries of distress. "You have a choice to make now Hiccup." He gestured to himself. "You can take on me and all my forces or-"He pointed to a ship. "You can save the caged singetails on that ship."
He laughed at me as he then took off. I knew there were too many of his forces for me to take on with just the dragons I had with me so I needed to regroup. I also needed to save the caged dragons on the sinking ship so I let loose two fire arrows into the air calling every one of my dragons to me. The ones attacking the ships quickly flew towards me as Toothless and I flew as fast as we could to the sinking ship. I had Toothless blast a hole in the top of the deck before we flew into the lower decks through it. We found three caged singetails all struggling to get out of their cages that had begun filling with water from the hole in the commander's quarters. I ran up to the cages and used my prosthetic to leak changewing acid onto the locks before pulling the doors open freeing the singetails who were quick to fly out through the opening in the deck. Before I could fly out though I heard someone yelling for help and ran only to find Gruffnut in the commanders quarters that had been closed off by a cage door. He was holding onto a ton of gold and jewels so it wasn't that hard to figure out what happened but still I couldn't leave him there so I released my starsword and cut open the bars. We ran out as fast as we could with the water slowing us down but the second we were on Toothless we took off out of there as Gruffnut said.
"Thanks for the save Hiccup."
"What were you doing on that ship?"
"Well they took me hostage after I tried to sell them this weird lens dohicky."
"Wait, lens do hicky?"
"Well yeah I think they called it a lens for something called the dragon eye."
"Where did you get this lens?"
"It was hidden on the bottom of that chest the twins got me." Hearing this I turned to face him and almost growled out.
"That chest had a dragon eye lens."
"Well yeah if that's what it was." It was then we dropped him on the beach with his treasure and took off in the same direction as Johan and Krogan to at least try and save the Dramillion.
2 hours later
Night had fallen and clouds covered the sky preventing any moonlight from coming through and I was not happy since the Johan had disappeared with the dramillion. I knew the dramillion wasn't able to control other dragons with its mind nor was it the king of dragons but it just brought up the question on what it had to do with the king of dragons location. It was then I saw something up ahead floating in the water and my blood ran cold when I used my eagle eye to see what it was. Floating there in the water unconscious was none other than the dramillion so I signaled Bones and Saber to pick it up out of the water. They each gave a growl and nod before lifting it up and I had to say it did not look good. I looked up at them and said.
"We need to get this dragon to the defenders of the wing to be healed or it won't survive." They growled in agreement before we took off to defenders of the wing island, which fortunately was close by.
Forty-five minutes later
We had arrived on Defenders of the wing island five minutes ago and as soon as we did I had Bones and Saber lower the injured dragon by the healing ward. I could tell Mala and Throk wanted to know what happened but I just told them to ask questions later since the dramillion was in really bad shape. They agreed and immediately got to work in tending to its wounds a few of which would definitely leave scars. As they tended to it my dragons lay in front of it watching or in Oswald's case freezing up except for Toothless who was gently nuzzling the dramillions head. I examined it as they tended to it as I asked.
"What part do you play in finding the king of dragons?" Mala turned to me.
"How do you know this dragon is not the king of dragons Hiccup?"
"Because if it was Johan would never have left it to die in the ocean and from what I know the king of dragons is an alpha species and dramillions do not fall into that class of dragon." Throk replied.
"I must admit my queen the dragon rider makes a lot of sense but then what roll does this dragon play with the king of dragons?"
"That's what I'm trying to figure out." It was then I heard a low growl and turned to see the dramillion giving a low burn we went to investigate. "This is new."
"You haven't seen this before?"
"Nothing like this out of this dragon so it must be his own fire." It then hit me. "I know what to do." I took out my dragon eye from Toothless' saddle and held it in front of the flame before I gasped. "The maps changing." The colors turned and twisted before showing the image of an island and a bewilderbeast. "Of course the dramillion was the last piece of the puzzle to show us where the king of dragons is." Mala then stepped forward.
"Well where is it and do you know what species it is?"
"Yeah it's a species of dragon known as a bewilderbeast but I'll tell you how I know later because right now I need to get to-" I looked at the island and my joy turned to horror. "Oh no!"
"What is it?" I turned to her before walking over to the arch leading to the healing ward.
"It's Berserker Island and what I'm about to do may bring up questions and I swear I will answer your questions but after I've dealt with Johan because now I need to gather my forces and get to Berserker island." Before they could reply I switched my palm from the image of Toothless to my portal pendent and slammed it against one of the arches pillars creating a portal as I turned to my dragons. "Let's get back to the island, gather every dragon we can and get to Berserker island to put an end to this once and for all." They all growled before walking through the portal except Oswald who was confused and Viggo who looked hesitant. "Don't worry guys you'll be fine." I stepped into the portal then stepped back. "See?" They growled and slowly walked through as I turned to a gaping Mala and Throk. "Like I said I'll explain everything later but for now Throk you and every healer you can take care of the dramillion and Mala you come with me since I have the feeling Dagur is going to want you to be with him for the final battle." They both shook out of their shock and turned back to the dramillion as Mala said.
"You have a lot of explaining to do when this is over Hiccup Haddock and if you go back on your word of explaining everything I will kill you." I smiled at her.
"Now is that anyway to talk to your future brother-in-law and besides you we've got to get to Berserker Island to help the man you love." Before she could reply I jumped through the portal leading to the arch on my island and mounted Toothless to gather my forces.
Morning
I was standing on the top of my submersible ship being carried by Tephra with Toothless standing next to me on my left side, Mala on my right and all of my dragons either swimming next to him or flying above us. Down below decks were all of my speedstingers ready to be let out and attack the hunters. The only dragons not following us were most that lived in the nests since they were looking after their eggs, Glacia and Volcana since I told them they were needed at their own nests to protect the dragons who lived there and Damen who refused to leave the tree in the volcano unguarded and I respected this. I still had around twenty of each respectable species of dragon I had in the nest up in the air and if I was right the hunters didn't stand a chance against us but just to be safe I sent a terror mail to the wingmaidens to ask them for help. I subconsciously stroked the bag on my side containing Damen's shed teeth ready to be sown to grow warrior to help fight against the hunters but I hoped it wouldn't come to that. It was then Berserker Island came into view with multiple flyers above the island and hunter ships in the water so I turned to Toothless and nodded as I said.
"It's time to bring this chapter of our lives to an end." He growled as I turned to my dragons in the water. "Take care of the ships and watch each others backs." They all growled and sped forward as I turned down to Tephra. "Make your way to the island and release the speedstingers then start attacking the ships." He growled and nodded as me and Toothless took off with Mala as I looked at my air born dragons. "While me and the main team deal with Krogan and his flyers everyone else help sink the ships."
They all roared before most of them took off towards the ships while me and the leaders of the species took off towards Krogan and his flyers with me readying a water arrow while using my eagle eye to get a view of one of my targets. I readied the arrow as we got closer aiming at a flyer that was flying near Krogan and let the arrow fly watching it head towards its target. I smirked as it blasted the flyer forward off his singetail gaining the attention of the other flyers and Krogan as we flew straight at him while Toothless let out a plasma blast knocking off another flyer. I glared at Krogan as me and my dragons gained a higher altitude then the flyers and then began our attack each taking down at least one flyer before we all surrounded Krogan who looked around at all the dragons. I smirked at him as he noticed all the dragons attacking his ships as I said.
"What do you think I do with all the dragons I rescued from you hunters?" He just glared and flew off while I looked down at the stable where Dagur was giving me thumbs up as we all came in for a landing.
"Thanks for the help brother but where in the name of Odin did you get all the dragons?"
"Most are rescues from the hunters but we'll go over that another time." I looked at my dragons that were successfully holding the ships back. "We need to put an end to this and fast." Heather then asked.
"But why are we being attacked." I turned to her.
"It turns out the king of dragons is a bewilderbeast and currently beneath the island and a defense mechanism of the bewilderbeast is keeping your dragons from flying here."
"But why isn't it affecting your dragons?"
"It's because my dragons are immune to any form of mind control including that of the alpha class bewilederbeast."
"But how?"
"Heather when this is over I will take everyone back to my island and answer all your questions but for now we need to focus on the hunters." Dagur looked away from Mala whom he was cuddling with and said.
"Why, you got the hunters running scared?" It was then Toothless roared towards the other side of the island where the hunters were beginning to charge as ships sailed forward.
"Johan's having a second fleet attack from the south while his other's reengaging from the north." It was then their attack on the village began as we watched before Dagur said.
"Those are our people down there." Heather took out her axe.
"We'd rather die in battle then hide in shame." I held up my hands.
"Nobodies hiding and we're not going to stay here since I've got an idea." Dagur walked up.
"What's the plan?" Before I could reply there was a screeching sound and we all looked up to see Atali leading the wingmaidens down in an attack on the hunters as I smiled. "I sent a terror mail to the wing maidens but I was worried it wouldn't get to them in time."
"Well the back up is great brother but we might need more help." I then noticed something and pointed down.
"You mean like that?" They all turned to see Tephra surfacing the water as the front of my ship lowered releasing my speedstingers. "And if you still have doubts we still have these." I held up my bag of Damens teeth.
"What's in the bag?" I tossed it to him.
"Take a look and see." He opened up the bag and looked confused before pulling out a single one of Damen's tooth and examined it before tossing it back in. "Yeah real nice and all brother but it's going to take more than some pretty teeth to take out an army." I smiled at him as he passed the bag back.
"Dagur these teeth came from my colchian dragon Damen."
"So?"
"When you sow a seed it grows into a plant but when you sow one of the teeth of a colchian dragon…. Well I think I'll just show you." I whistled to Sharpshot who flew onto my arm as I offered him the bag. "Will you do the honors old friend?" He let out a growl before grabbing the bag and flying down to where a large group of hunters were charging towards the village but before anyone could ask me what was happening I held up my hand. "Just watch!" They all turned to see Sharpshot open the bag allowing the thirty teeth inside to fall to the ground in front of the hunters who all looked confused before the teeth sank into the ground and armed skeletons began crawling out of the ground before attacking them while I turned to look at everyone who was staring at me mouths wide open. "I'll explain everything later but for now Dagur and Heather I'm going to need you two to lead my dragons into battle while me and Toothless go looking for the king of dragons." They nodded as Dagur said.
"You can count on us brother but when this is all over you have a lot of explaining to do." I just mounted Toothless and smiled.
"I know but for now let's just say I've had a pretty interesting life." We then took off after assuring my dragons I'd be fine and letting them know to follow Heather and Dagur's lead.
10 minutes later
I was alone in a cave covered in ice after a cave in cut me off from Toothless and clearing the cave in would take too long even with my earth arrows since these were not a few big boulders but multiple smaller rocks. I kept my eagle shield and starsword at the ready as I looked around at the ice covered walls and ground recognizing it as the same kind of ice a bewilderbeast uses to make its nest. It was then I entered a large open section of the cave with an ice cliff on one end and a large chunk of blasted ice on the other. I walked over to the blasted ice and much to my shock found it to be a nest with a single egg inside it. I stared at the egg as I collapsed my sword before reaching towards it while muttering.
"It's just like Glacia's egg when I first found her." I slowly reached for the egg but stopped when a voice behind me said.
"I see eggs are on the menu." I turned to see Krogan and Johan. "Who knew?"
I glared at them as I held my eagle shield in front of me while Johan had a spear tipped with dragonroot and Krogan a sword. I slowly and discreetly went for my scimitar throwing knives while hiding behind my shield before they both charged at me from different angles. I quickly took out two scimitars throwing knives and tossed them at Krogans legs pinning his pants to the ground making him fall before I collapsed my eagle shield and went for the egg but as I picked it up Johan tackled me. I kept my real arms grip tight on the egg as he began punching my face but all I did was smirk at him and ask.
"After all I've been through do you honestly think I can't take a few punches?" He took out a knife and tried to stab my head but I moved it to the side as I grabbed his arm holding the knife with my prosthetic. "Let's see how you deal with a shock." I channeled the blue crystal in my arm making it light up as Johan stared in shock before being electrocuted making him get off me in pain and stand up. "Not too well I suppose."
I let the egg go and swept my leg beneath him tripping him before hopping on top of him giving a punch to the face knocking him out. I smiled and began to walk over to the egg only to be cut off by a sword being thrown in front of me and knocking the egg back sending it rolling towards the cliff. I turned to see it was Krogan whose pants were now ripped at the bottom of both legs who threw the sword. I gave him a quick glare before I ran after the egg but was too slow to stop it from falling off the cliff and jumped off the cliff after it. I was able to grab the egg from ten feet down before I launched my prosthetic hand up at the cliff and was able to grapple onto the ledge. I let out a sigh of relief before I looked up and glared up at them as Johan smiled and said.
"Funny, this reminds me of the time I was on a glacier on the sum-"
He was cut off by a loud roar echoing from below followed by a blast of cold air rushing up past me as I held both myself and the egg against the wall to avoid being frozen. When it was over I let out a sigh of relief before making my prosthetic pull the egg and I back up before the ice could break. When we reached the top I let out a sigh of relief and put the egg down on the solid ground allowing me to enjoy a short moment of relief before Johan walked up and said.
"Bravo master Hiccup, I didn't know your arm could do that or you had the courage to jump off the cliff." He rolled the egg away. "You must see the delicious irony of your situation Hiccup." He stood up while examining his spear and poking the tip. "The final resting place of the champion of dragons will reside in the king of dragons birth nest." He pointed the spears end at me with both hands. "Sheer poetry!" He raised the spear aimed at my head but as he lifted it to bring it down on me a plasma blast cut him off knocking him down as I smiled.
"Good job bud, I knew you'd find me." I heard Toothless roar as Johan was brought to the edge while I pulled myself up only to see Krogan running away with the egg. "KROGAN!" Toothless readied another plasma blast but I held a hand out. "Toothless no, go after the egg." He stopped and hesitated.
"By all means dragon, go after the egg." He looked to where Krogan ran then back at me.
"I'll be fine bud but we can't let the egg fall into the wrong hands so go." He growled and ran after Krogan as Johan turned back to me.
"Such heroism."
"You don't have to do this Johan."
"Oh yes I do Hiccup."
He picked up his spear and raised it but before he could do anything there was a roar and an icy blast as I held myself against the ice wall to avoid it. When I looked back up after it was done I saw Johan standing there with his spear raised but he was completely frozen in ice, trapped in his own icy prison. I climbed up deciding to leave him the way he was and ran for the cave entrance but as I got there I found Toothless running in with his teeth retracted and the egg safely held in his maw. I smiled and gave him a pat on the nose as I took the egg while saying.
"Good work bud." We made our way out of the cavern to find Heather, Dagur, Atali and Mala waiting for us as Dagur asked.
"Are you alright brother?" I nodded.
"I'm fine but what about the hunters?" Heather answered.
"Don't worry it's all over." She then noticed the egg in my arms. "Is that an egg?"
"Yep it turns out the king of dragons was really the queen of dragons." My eyes then widened as I remembered. "Where's Krogan?" Mala answered.
"We're afraid he escaped but what matters is the egg and queen are out of his grasp." I nodded.
"Agreed but we still now need to round up all the hunters and tend to the injured." They all nodded before Dagur said.
"And once that's all done you need to give an explanation on those skeleton warriors you grew." Mala then continued with.
"Along with that strange portal you opened up on my island." I held up my prosthetic to calm them.
"Don't worry I'll explain everything once we've dealt with it all but first I need to get this egg to my ship where it'll be safe for the time being." They all nodded as I mounted Toothless and we took off back to my ship.
One week later
The past week has been beyond busy for me with everything that's happened after the big battle between the Berserkers and I VS. Krogan and Johan with their forces. Now the skeleton warriors were no big problem since all I had to do was toss a single jewel into their group and they took care of each other. Once that was taken care of it was all gathering up the hunters' men, salvaging the shipwrecks for parts and treasures to make repairs to the damaged buildings, rounding up any stray dragons, tending to the wounded, looking after my own dragons that were hurt in the fight and much more. It took a week but we rounded up all the men including those left on Dramillion Island and all of them have been dealt with. Also while on Dramillion Island I stumbled upon Krogan's axe that now rested on the wall in my trophy room. As for the remaining singetails who were being forced to attack by the flyers, they all now nested with Volcana and I knew it was getting overcrowded in there so I was working on plans to possibly build a stable by the volcano for them but I still had to deal with the problem of Volcana not being fully grown yet and she was already twice the size of a quaken. Then there's the major problem I had which was a whole lot harder to deal with. The problem was Glacia coming to the queen of dragons call for help. She ended up leading the queen back to my island where her and Glacia are now nesting together so the nest went through a large expansion while I worked on getting the new queens trust which took a while but with Glacia there she came to trust me and I was able to give her the name Oceanicaand her egg now rested in the same hot spring Volcana was hatched in.
Once all of this was done with had to deal with the constant questions from Dagur, Heather, Mala, Atali, Linden and Throk who came to make sure his queen was alright after the titan wing Dramillion flew off. I calmed them down telling them that when everything was settled I'd take them back to my island for a full explanation and answers to all their questions. This of course brings us to today when I had brought all of them to my island for both a tour and an explanation to everything that I was able to do and how I knew the egg would be perfectly safe. I brought them here in the morning using Tephra and my submersible ship so I could demonstrate my islands cloaking ability and when they saw my island appear out of what looked to be thin air the looks on their faces were priceless. Once we docked I proceeded to take them up to my house and show them to my trophy room since it would be the best place to start answering their questions. We ended up spending the entire morning answering their questions on what things were, how I got them, where I got them and having a good laugh at the look of horror and disgust when they laid eyes on my right arm forever preserved and trapped in crystal. After that I gave them a full tour of my island including the various buildings that were made all around in the different sections while also introducing them to my animals both normal and mystical. I remember how Mala and Atali got such a fright when Maelstrom tackled me from the side before he proceeded to use his two canine heads to cover my face in slobber, when Dagur nearly fell off the Griffins roost when Plutarach spread out his wings in a threatening manner when he first climbed up to his nest or when Kal pulled Heather into the water to play with her. The highlight of my day so far however is when I took them to the bewilderbeast nest and introduced them to Glacia and Oceanicabefore taking them to Volcana. I honestly thought one of them was going to faint when I told them Volcana wasn't fully grown yet or that I raised Glacia from an egg. Now however we were in the desert gazebo enjoying some ten-year-old Greek nectar I bought when the second war with Dagur started a year ago and had been saving for the end of the war. I gently scratched beneath Nylene's head that was resting on my left shoulder while her body lay on her cushion on the ground and her neck wrapped around my body. I just finished telling them about my adventures in Ireland, Scotland and Britain and I could tell they were impressed with what I'd been through as Dagur said.
"You really live an amazing life brother."
"Trust me Dagur, you honestly don't know the half of it." Heather then said.
"Do you ever wonder if the gods have it in for you?" I shrugged.
"Well sometimes it feels that way but I just ignore it and think of all the people I've helped by fighting the opponents I go up against." Dagur then asked.
"But why do you go to all these new places instead of just enjoying what you've got?" Mala then continued.
"Indeed Hiccup don't you wish to find a nice girl to settle down with?" I sighed.
"Mala don't you start, I already get this talk enough times from my dad and former blacksmithing mentor." Atali then asked.
"How is your father doing Hiccup?" I smiled at her.
"He's doing good and according to Gothi he'll be back to his old self in around about a week." Dagur then said.
"Well good for him but if he's been talking to you about finding a girlfriend then why don't you just do that?" I sighed.
"It's not that easy for me Dagur." Mala asked.
"And why not?" I stood up while putting my goblet down and gently let Nylene uncurl her neck from around my body before I stepped over her and stood in front of everyone with my arms spread out.
"I want you all to look at me and tell me what you see?" They all looked at me confused before Dagur asked.
"Is this a joke brother because I'm not getting it."
"No joke it's an honest question because do you know what most women see when they look at me?" Not giving them a chance to answer I continued by saying. "They see their ticket a life of wealth, good arm candy, a way to get close to the royals, a hero and other things and rarely do any of them just see Hiccup." I walked back over to my seat and collapsed into it sighing. "I just want a girl who like me for me and not the stuff I have, my titles or for what I've done and the ones who do see me like that are either married, not willing to leave their homes out of fear, old enough to be my mother or just want to be with me out of gratitude for whatever it is I did for them and their people." I saw they were all staring at me before Dagur sighed.
"That is rough brother but you can't give up on love."
"I don't intend to give up on looking for the one who I'm destined to be with but it's not easy."
"Oh, come on finding the right one is never easy I mean it took Mala hitting me to realize my feelings for her." Mala then said.
"And it took all those trust exercises you made us go through to look past the anger and fear of the hunters to see what was right in front of us." Dagur and Mala smiled at each other and held hands as Dagur said.
"I hope one day you all can find the ones who'll make each of you as happy as Mala's made me." I smiled at them before a thought occurred to me.
"Hey I just remembered I've been meaning to ask you both when the wedding is?" They looked at me.
"We've been so busy with the war we haven't had the chance to talk about our plans for the wedding." Mala then said.
"We also need to find someone to make our rings." Dagur then smiled and looked to me.
"Brother I don't suppose you'd be able to-" I held up my hand smiling.
"Just tell me what inscriptions you want and if you'd like any jewels on them." Dagur smiled at me.
"I knew I could count on you brother and I'll gladly give the gold to make them."
"No need I've got way more than enough gold to make them so you can consider it a wedding gift from me to the two of you." They smiled but we all then noticed it was close to sunset so Atali said.
"We all better get back to our own islands." I nodded and said.
"Tephra and I will take each of you back home." They all nodded in thanks before we all stood up and left the desert with me giving Nylene one last scratch on her head as we left.
AN: And that ladies and gentlemen brings an end to the Race to the Edge section of HICCUPS COLLECTIONS and I hope you all enjoyed it. Now it'll be back to seeing the world and I already know where the first place is going to be and I am sorry but it will not be China, Japan or Africa as those will come later but at the end of his latest journey you shall understand why I chose this place. Also it's to help me get back into my old writing groove so until next time have a nice day and happy Halloween.
