A/N- Neither I (nor Dawnbreaker) own HTTYD.

Drago's POV

Night began to fall over Berk, yet darkness did not grace the island. Flames licked at the sky, illuminating the island casting a fierce glow over the surrounding waters. The screams of the injured tore through air, occasionally muffled by the shouts and roars of dragons trying to maintain any semblance of order.

All the while, Drago Bludvist stood atop the prow of his flagship admiring his force's handiwork. The rest of his fleet had blockaded Berk over the past hour. He may have lost one of his greatest assets with the death of the Bewilderbeast, but he still commanded an army of mighty warships, conscripted soldiers, and enslaved dragons. It had taken a while for Drago to regroup his forces, but here, a year later he was ready to enact revenge on those that had opposed him.

A shrug of his shoulder caused one of his men to hop to attention at his side, waiting for orders.

"It is time we finished our work here. Deploy the bomb." He commanded with a sadistic flourish of his good arm over Berk.

The soldier leapt to obey, shouting orders to the other men on deck. A captured Monstrous Nightmare lifted into the air with one of Drago's men strapped to its back, beating it into submission. In its legs it lifted a heavy container into the air.

Drago watched, uncaring, as the Nightmare struggled to carry the extra weight of a passenger and the bomb. Slowly but surely the dragon made its way towards Berk to complete its horrendous task. A sudden commotion on one of the other boats in his fleet drew his attention.

It appeared a fight had broken out.

"Incompetent fools." Drago muttered under his breath as he moved over to the port railing to get a better look of what was going on. Hiccup, Eret, and another individual were fighting off the rest of the crew. Drago was only a little surprised when they managed to push the crew back and reach the dragons. Hiccup quickly freed Toothless and Skull Crusher. The dragons immediately moved to defend their humans and pushed the surrounding crew back further. The third member of their team disappeared in the chaos. A moment later Hiccup and Eret had leapt on their respective dragons and shot into the sky, speeding towards Berk.

Drago smiled none the less. He looked behind him at the other two Nightmares that were chained to the deck.

"Release them!"

Immediately, the crew cut through the chains with their axes. Drago pointed his bull hook at the two dragons which cowered in fear. Drago's merciless smile grew. He then swung the bull hook around and pointed at the fleeing forms of Hiccup, Toothless, Eret, and Skull Crusher.

"KILL!"

The two Nightmares leapt into the air, hot in pursuit.

"Run away, Dragon Master, run to the ends of the earth if you will, because next time I catch you... I will end you!

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Hiccup's POV (moments earlier)

Eret and I sat in the darkness of the ship's hold. We had discussed plans to escape, but with no light with which to see, nor any of our tools our options were sorely limited.

"There has to be a way out of here!"

"If you have an idea, I am all ears chief." Eret replied with a pained shrug. The fresh brand would need to be treated soon or it would become infected.

"Berk is burning! And I am stuck here doing nothing!" I yelled in frustration.

The trap door to the hold started to creak open. Eret put a finger to his lips, needlessly warning me to be quite. One of the crewman stepped down into the hold brandishing a torch. I held my chained hands in front of my eyes trying to adjust to the sudden light. The crewman closed the hatch above him and stepped towards us.

"Gills? What's going on?" Eret demanded of his old shipmate.

Gills ignored Eret and spoke to me. "Are you the son of the late Stoick the Vast?"

"Er… yes?" I couldn't understand why that mattered now, nor why this man felt he needed to confirm it. It wasn't like I shied away from my father's name, far from it.

With a huff of breath Gills crouched next to me and started undoing the chains that bound Eret and I. Once we were freed he presented our weapons and gear to each of us. He then turned and started leading us to the exit.

"Uh… not to sound ungrateful or anything but why are you helping us?"

Gills ignored me and instead prepared to open the hatch. He gave us a quick glance before he began to open the hold to the deck. Eret and I hurriedly readied our weapons. With a roar we launched ourselves at the unsuspecting crew. They were shocked to see us free and with our weapons so it was fairly easy to get to Toothless and Skull Crusher.

I wasn't much of a swordsman but Eret and Gills made up for my lack of skills and covered me as I freed the dragons. The chains that held them weren't very strong, unfortunately they were numerous. Toothless's reputation must have spread.

I was breaking the final chain when I heard a muffled 'thunk' behind me. I turned to see Gills fall to the deck, a crossbow bolt extended from his chest. Toothless's and Skull Crusher leapt to our defense and pushed the crew back. I hurried to Gills side and knelt next to him.

He was coughing up blood. Lots of it. He didn't have much longer to live. Oddly enough he appeared calm about his impending death. When he saw me, he reached out and grasped my arm.

"Find…" he coughed up more blood, "Find your uncle, Haddock. He sent me… to find you… the map…" With that Gills's eyes rolled up into his skull, he collapsed to the deck, and died.

"Hiccup! We need to go!" Eret shouted over the din of the battle.

I was in shock though. My uncle? The one everyone didn't think I should search for? What? How? Why? I was bewildered by everything that was going on.

Toothless's pained roar as a sword bit deep into his shoulder immediately drew me back to the here and now. I rushed to his side and leapt into the saddle. Together we shot into the air followed by Eret and Skull Crusher. Blood was seeping from Toothless's shoulder wound. We would have to patch it up soon or it could become a serious problem.

Ahead of us I noticed a Monstrous Nightmare flying towards Berk. It had a rider that was beating it to greater speed and it carried some large container in its legs. I realized that this was probably the bomb Astrid told me she had heard about when she had been captured.

"Come on bud, we have to stop that Nightmare." I urged Toothless on.

Toothless gave a pained croon before increasing speed. I knew he was hurting but we had to stop that dragon. We speed after the Nightmare, unfortunately Toothless wound was clearly hampering his flight as he lost even more blood.

Suddenly a gout of flame shot over our heads. I turned to see what had caused it and noticed another pair of Nightmares chasing after us, the chains that had bound them moments earlier still dangling from their necks and legs.

"I will distract these two. You go and save the village!" Eret shouted over the wind. With a nod Toothless and I continued the chase.

Unfortunately, we were too far behind. I could tell that we wouldn't catch the in time. Time for a new plan. I leaned over Toothless's saddle and whispered in his ear. I loathed to ask more from him now but I had no other choice.

"Toothless, can you shoot that container? Destroy it before they reach Berk."

He huffed as he was out of breath before nodding in affirmation. I felt as he gathered himself for a plasma shot. I could feel the strain in his body as he gave his all to save our home. With a shudder the plasma tore through the air and detonated against the container.

I was about to cheer in victory when it all fell apart. The plasma blast had lit the container on fire but hadn't destroyed it. The rider had noticed he was being chased and had forced the nightmare to drop the bomb just before Toothless's plasma had hit. Thus, the bomb was propelled forward by the plasma shock wave and fell straight towards the heart of Berk.

My heart froze in terror as the bomb fell through the air. There wasn't anything either of us could do. Toothless had frozen just as I had as he realized what was about to happen. Almost lazily the bomb fell into the fires that already consumed most of Berk. At first nothing happened, I started to dare to let myself hope. Hope that was instantly crushed as tremendous BOOM filled the air and a fireball billowed into the sky. Fire rained onto every surface of the village, instantly catching any and all surfaces alight. The whole village was ablaze.

"Go Toothless!"

Despite the pain Toothless shot forward. The fires had started to spread to the rest of the island as it finished consuming the village. I noticed several villagers rushing into the forest. Toothless hovered over them so I could talk.

"Where is everyone?"

"The village is gathering at the cove, Chief!" One of them shouted back.

"Just a bit further bud. Can you do that?"

With a weak nod he began pumping his wings and we headed towards the cove. A few minutes later we landed in the relative peace of the cove. Injured Vikings and dragons were lying about awaiting treatment.

I leapt of off the saddle and started yelling for some help. Toothless was hunched over breathing heavily.

"Hold on bud! Just hold on! Help is on the way!"

Toothless looked up just a little and gave his signature Toothless smile before collapsing in exhaustion. I could still feel a pulse but it was weak.

"Oh gods Toothless. I am so sorry."

Toothless was hurt, Eret was who knew where, and Berk… Berk was gone. Some chief I was.

A/N- I probably just dropped the rest of the authors in hot oil. I would say sorry… but I'm not.

This was a lot of fun to write and I would like to thank Dawnbreaker and all the writers that came before me for the opportunity to write this.

I do have my own story if my writing intrigued you. It is called "In Darkness" and it is of the old Hiccup and Toothless run away format. It quickly became its own little monster and I have grand plans for it. I would humbly ask that you give it a shot.

Best of luck to whoever is next!

Dawnbreaker's Notes:

Thank you 'NightsAnger' for writing this chapter!

Oh Wow, it's getting even more intense! The bomb was real and it sure made quite a boom! Luckily Berk had already been evacuated. You can always rebuild, right? Eret is now being chased by a couple of dragons and Hiccup is pretty much grounded with the injured Toothless. It also seems Drago hasn't given up yet, oh no way.
The most interesting thing for me here is the relation between Gills and Hiccup's uncle. How do they know each other? How come he hasn't told Hiccup about this before? Not enough privacy? And he also mentioned the map, how could he know? Didn't Hiccup find it under the floorboards of his house? Maybe Gills was the one to draw the map!

- Dawnbreaker

Once again, still needing more authors on this!