Love Is War (Sequel To Gone)

Chapter 20: Don't Stop Living...

A sculpture of ice covers a large part of land, holding great heroes inside. Drago laughs, while Valka jumps off her baby dragon and runs to the ice. She pounds her fists on the wall, not making any difference what-so-ever. 

"No...No!" she yells. No! Not Hiccup too! Valka thinks to herself as she desperately tries to free her son and his dragon. Behind her, Astrid and Gobber look in horror at the ice. Valka continues hopeless pounding, the ice glows blue. She looks at it and hurriedly backs away, knowing exactly what will happen.The ice shatters with a blast, revealing Toothless and Hiccup curled safely under Toothless's wings. Toothless is steaming, literally. His back glowing blue, and dorsal fins glowing the brightest. His flared nostrils glow blue with heat. He looks back at Hiccup, making sure he is unharmed, then all his attention goes back to the Bewilderbeast. He leaps onto a piece of thick ice, and roaring. The Bewilderbeast roars back. Toothless plasma blasts at the alpha's face, taking it by surprise.

"He's challenging the alpha!" Hiccup says in shock.

"To protect you." Says Valka. The alpha roars, trying to take control, but all hope is lost when Toothless fires back, him being in control.

The alpha thrusts his tusks at Toothless, hoping to knock him off, but Toothless leaps from one piece of ice, to the other, continuing to fire at the alpha. The dragons break free from the command of the alpha, watching Toothless. Toothless lands by Valka and Hiccup, protecting them. He command s the dragons to help and they follow. Drago realizes that he is losing, rushes to the Bewilderbeast, hoping to get away, alive.

"No, no, no, no! Fight back! Fight!" He yells from the alpha's tusk. "Whats the matter with you?" He yells to the dragons who are no longer under the alpha's command.

The villagers gather around, showing support. Toothless climbs to one ice piece with Hiccup on his back. Seeing this, Drago fumes. 

" Now do you get it? This is what it is to earn a dragon's loyalty. Let this end now." Hiccup says to Drago, gesturing to the dragons behind him.

"Never! Come on!" Yells Drago. He commands the alpha to fire, but Toothless fires, followed by another, and soon the whole crowd of dragons fire at the Bewilderbeast. Hiccup is amazed at what he sees and Drago runs to protect himself by the alpha's spikes. "Fight! Blast them!" he yells, full on rage. His prosthetic arm is blasted off by a dragon. The Bewilderbeast is about to fire, when Toothless shoots a powerful plasma blast, knocking the alpha's head back. When the smoke clears, one of his massive tusks falls clean off to the ground. Drago glares at Toothless.

Toothless roars, commanding to stop the fight. 

"The alpha protects them all." Hiccup says to Drago. The alpha, overwhelmed, yields, diving back into the sea. The villagers cheer. The two hop down to the ground again. Hiccup limbs off smiling. The dragons around them, bow down to Toothless, the new alpha. Toothless sits up straighter, with a proud look on his face. He turns to Hiccup, smiling at him.

"You never cease to amaze me, bud!" Hiccup says, leaning his forehead on Toothless. Suddenly Toothless is licking him and everyone starts laughing, forgetting what just happened moments ago.

"Ah... You know that doesn't wash out!" He exclaims, with a smile on his face, trying to get out the dragon slobber on his flight suit. Everyone gets reunited with their dragons. Hiccup has never seen them so happy after something tragic. Skullcrusher lands next to Hiccup. Hiccup realizes he know doesn't have an owner. Eret approaches while Hiccup pets the dragon.

"That  was some pretty fine dragon  wrangling back there. You'd make a good trapper." Says Eret. Skullcrusher nuzzles Eret before Hiccup can respond. He chuckles and gently stokes him.

"Y'know, Skullcrusher's gonna need  somebody to look after him now." Hiccup says to Eret.

"Me?" Asks Eret, surprised. Hiccup nods. Eret looks at Skullcrusher, considering his offer. He smiles. "I'd be honored." 

Valka walks up to Hiccup, putting a hand on his shoulder, and has never felt so proud. "Your father... he'd be every bit as proud as I am."

"Thank you. I'm really glad your here, mom."

"And here I'll stay."

Astrid comes up behind him and everyone goes quiet. They know they like each other, but neither do anything about it. Hiccup turns around and sees her. he remembered what he would do if he survived and he obviously did. But she has different ideas... Maybe.

"I knew you could do it. All that time, it was in here." She places her hand on his chest, right where his heart is. She can feel in beneath her fingers and she relaxes, knowing he didn't leave her like Stoick left. Just for a laugh, she quickly pokes the button on his armour and the dorsal fin pops out. She giggles. She realizes what she did but doesn't stop herself.

"Haha. Still doing that one? That's hilarious." He glances at her and sees that she is distracted so he takes control again. "Come here you." He wraps his arm around her waist, pulls her to him and kisses her. Gobber covers a little boys eyes. "Ooh." says Gobber.

Gothi approaches, tapping Hiccup's shoulder, interrupting their moment. She gestures for Hiccup to kneel. He does so. She uses ash from burnt wreckage. Gothi makes a symbol on his forehead. She bows to him. He stands and sees Gobber's proud face. Gobber turns to the crowd, arms thrown in the air.

"The chief has come home!" Everyone cheers.

Hiccup is chief. He knows with great opportunity, comes great responsibility. He knows he will be busy. He is the leader of there tribe. The tribe who knew him of the outcast, runt of the village, then the dragon trainer, to dragon conqueror, to Pride of Berk, now chief.

So, much has happened over the last few hours.

Astrid and Hiccup made up, they were "kidnapped," found his mom, his dad and Gobber found them both, Drago attacked the sanctuary, the king dragon died, the alpha killed his father, Drago attacked Berk, they defeated Drago and the Bewilderbeast, Toothless became the new alpha, Astrid and Hiccup started dating, Hiccup became chief, and his mom is staying on Bek.

But he has people to help him along the way. When his dad first told him he would be chief for Berk next, Hiccup thought that his dad would be here to guide him along the way. But he isn't. He knows it will be hard. But Astrid, Gobber, Toothless, Valka and many others said they would be willing to help.

He came up with the idea of making a statue of his father. They know life will be challenging, but when you are surrounded by people who love and care for you, a whole new adventure awaits to be discovered.

Life is hard after something tragic or hard, but it still goes on, waiting to be lived. Hiccup doesn't want to live in a world full of despair, and he knows he will live his life, because of how bright the future looks, even after the darkest times. 

It'll be hard, but he knows he can get through it with the help of the ones who care.

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Ello!

I meant what I said in the last few paragraphs.

Everyone goes through tough times, but don't stop living.

So what did ya think?

I thought it was good but I want your opinion.

So comment what you think...

PEACE!