Chapter 11:

Stoick's POV:

"Please, you have to turn back." I roll my eyes at the dragon who stole my little girl's heart. We pull up on the shores of the island where the nest is located. "Start firing the catapults!" I order the men.

Large boulders are launched at the mountain, and part of the side crumbles away to reveal a tunnel. I take a torch from someone and walk to the tunnel. Holding up the torch, I illuminate the tunnel and see thousands of Terrible Terrors resting on the tunnel walls.

I hear wingbeats growing louder from the opposite direction of the tunnel. "Get down!" I cry out to everyone. A horde of dragons comes flying out of the tunnel. I swing my hammer at some of them, but they completely ignore me.

"Well, that was easy." Gobber states. "Don't go...not just yet." I tell him as I hear a rumbling coming from inside the tunnel. "It's not over! Form your ranks and hold together!" I order everyone as I get into a fighting stance.

All of a sudden a large dragon bursts out of the mountain. "Get clear!" I tell everyone. Several women scream and start running. "Mother of Thor! What is that thing?!" Gobber asks me. "Odin help us." The beast that stares down at us is the legendary Red Death.

Almost as rare as the Night Fury, no one has ever killed one. "Catapults!" I order the men and watch as boulders are launched at the mighty beast. But the dragon gets irritated and destroys the catapults. Gobber and I start running again. "Get to the ships!" Spitelout yells.

"No. No!" The Red Death breaths fire at the ships, setting them aflame.

Toothless's POV:

The men jump off the ships and into the water. I struggle in my chains, trying to get free. 'Oh Thor, I'm going to die!'

Stoick's POV:

"You should have listened to Hiccup and the dragon." Gobber tells me. "I was a fool. Get everyone to the other side of the island."

"Okay, I'll give Spitelout the orders."

"No. You go and stay with them."

"I think I'll stay here, just in case you plan to do something crazy." I turn around to glare at him. "I can buy us some time if I give that thing something to hunt." Gobber grabs my hand. "And I can double that time." He grins at me and I smile at my best friend.

We take off towards the dragon, screaming. "Over here!"

"No! Over here!" And on and on we go, taunting the dragon. "Fight me!" Gobber shouts. "No! Me!" I tell the dragon. The Red Death looks confused as to who it should kill, when a blast of fire hits the side of its head.

A group of dragons comes flying past the dragons's head. 'Wait. Are those the teens? And Hiccup?!'

"Come on now! Move those wings!" Hiccup orders them from the back of a Nadder. Tuffnut and Ruffnut whoop and holler. "Hey! Look at us! We're on dragons! Yeah!"

"Well we can now all say that Hiccup is every bit the bull-headed, stubborn viking you ever were." Gobber tells me and I nod in agreement.

Hiccup's POV:

"Fishlegs! Break it down for us." I tell him as we circle the Red Death."Thick headed skull with spines and a tail made for bashing, avoid both. Has small eyes and large nostrils, relies on hearing and smell."

"Okay. 'Lout, 'legs, hang around in its blind spot and make a lot of noise. Ruff, Tuff, try to irritate it. Ander and I will go for Toothless."

"Hey! Why don't you just let me irritate it!" Ruffnut calls out to me. "Why you? I'm way more annoying than you, see?" Tuffnut turns his head of the Zippleback upside down.

"Just do as you're told! We'll be back soon." Ander and I swoop down towards the ship and I jump onto the one with Toothless. "Hey babe. Miss me?" I ask him as I start working on freeing him from his chains.

"Oh, you don't know how relieved I am to see you." He tells me. "Yeah, I know." I'm just about to get the last part of his restraints off, when a boulder hits the ship and Toothless falls off.

I dive down and start pulling on his chains, but I run out of air. Something pulls me up out of the water. "Dad?" My dad dives into the water.

Toothless's POV:

I'm just about to pass out when Stoick comes and frees me. I pull him up put of the water and lie down on the ground for a second.

Hiccup's POV:

Toothless drops my dad on the ground and lies down for a second. I mount him the second he gets up, but before I take off, my dad stops us. "Wait, Hiccup."

"Yeah Dad?" He pauses for a minute. "I'm sorry." I chuckle a little. "Yeah Dad, I am too."

"I'm proud to be your father." I smile the biggest smile I've ever smiled. "Thanks Dad." And with that, Toothless and I take off towards the skies.

"Okay Toothless, how do we defeat this thing?"

"Well, she has wings, so let's see if she can fly." Toothless dives down and fires several times at the Red Death, getting her attention. We take off into the skies, closely followed by the evil dragon.

"Okay Toothless, time to disappear." Toothless takes us up into the clouds and we disappear into the mist. The Red Death looks around for us, confused. "Now!" Toothless fires at the Red Death a few more times and she responds by razing the sky with flames.

"What now?" I ask Toothless. "Well, dragons aren't fireproof on the inside, so let's burn that dragon up!" Burning. Burning! I smell smoke.

"Toothless! Your tail!" He looks back at his tail to see it caught on fire. "Okay, now we have less time. So come on!" Toothless flies in front of the Red Death. She opens her mouth and Toothless fires.

The Red Death crashes into the ground and explodes. We try to escape the flames, but Toothless's tail fin falls off. "Oh no. Oh no no no no no! Toothless!" I scream as I fall into the flames.

Toothless's POV:

"Hiccup!" I scream as I dive after her into the sea of flames that rises around us.

Stoick's POV:

I watch my daughter and the dragon go down into the flames. "Hiccup!" My daughter is gone.

...

The flames die down and we search for Toothless and Hiccup. "Stoick, there's no sign of them." Gobber tells me sadly. "Wait! There!" Ander shouts, pointing to something in the distance.

I rush over to where Ander pointed. It's the dragon. A tear leaks out of my eyes. "Well...at least your safe." I tell him. He chuckles. "Actually..." He opens up his wings to reveal an unconscious Hiccup.

My tears of sadness turn to tears of joy. "You saved her! You saved her!" I exclaim and hold Hiccup to me. "Well...most of her." Gobber tells me.

Hiccup's POV:

"Hey. Hey sleepy head...time to wake up." Someone gently shakes me awake. I look up into Toothless's gentle green eyes. "Hey Toothless." Wait a minute. "Toothless!" He smirks at me. "Yes?"

"Your in my house." I whisper to him. "Yeah. Well, come on. Time to get up." He moves to help me get up. "No...I've got it." I rip the bed covers off of me and choke on a sob. Slowly, I swing my legs over the side of the bed.

Where my right foot used to be is now a prosthetic attachment. "How did it happen?" I ask Toothless. "When we went down in the flames, I was able to save you and protect you. But...I got there a little too late." I smile a little.

"I guess we're even. Come on. Let's go out and see the world." Toothless puts his arm under mine and helps me walk to the door. I push open the door to see several dragons perched on roofs and people flying on dragons.

"What the heck?"

"Oh! Finally, you're awake! We've been waiting for you." My dad tells me as he turns around from talking to several villagers. "Dad, what's going on?"

"Your boyfriend and I were talking, and since the Red Death is no longer alive, the dragons won't have to raid us. So, we've decided to live in peace." I nearly tackle my dad with a bear hug.

"How's the new leg? I designed it myself." Gobber tells me. "I tried to put your personality into it. So?" I look down at the leg. "Ah...I'll probably make some changes to it." The villagers laugh. I notice Toothless has slipped out of the crowd and I hear his signature call.

"Night Fury!"

"Get down!" The villagers playfully say as Toothless pounces on them and looks at me expectantly. "Here you go." Gobber hands me a red tail fin. "You ready babe?" I ask Toothless. "You bet."

I mount Hiccup and look at my other friends as we take off and fly together.

This is Berk. It rains for six months out of the year and snows for the other half. The vegetables that grow here are tough and tasteless. The people are much like the vegetables. The only upside is the pets, or in my case, boyfriend. See, most places have dogs or cats or even fish. But we have... dragons.