Heart of a Chief, Soul of a Dragon

Chapter 11

            "Val..." She was fuming as she tried to storm away from us. "Val, it's all right, it's all right." Stoick grabbed her hand and forced her to turn around, to look at all of us. "We're a team now." That, thankfully, caught her attention. "Now, what do you want to do?"

"We have to save the dragons," she answered without hesitating.

"Aye, you've got it. Come on, son!" They dashed back into the cave to get on Cloudjumper and Skullcrusher. With determination, I mounted Shriek, but Hiccup was hesitant.

"Are you two going to be okay?" My heart fluttered. No matter how many times he'd said it since we found out, I loved hearing him say 'you two.'

"We've made it this far, haven't we?" He still wasn't buying it. "Besides, I can't just sit here and do nothing." He sighed, but jumped up and sat in front of me.

"If you start to feel weird, you tell me, and I'll bring you back here. Deal?" I nodded and tapped Shriek's side, causing her to shoot out of the cave alongside Toothless. From the air, we were able to get a better assessment of the situation.

There were a multitude of large, metal dragon traps laid out in a line, almost like a sort of defense mechanism. Armored dragons swooped through the air, some blasting away the ice, while others were going straight for the wild dragons. There were countless cannons, large bows, and soldiers to take us down, and to top it all off, a giant armada.

Long story short, things weren't looking good for us.

Our dragons did another lap around, and when we came back to the front this time, I noticed green gas spilling from one of the traps.

"Hiccup, look!"

The gas was ignited, causing a huge explosion, and from the cloud of smoke emerged Barf and Belch, with Ruff and Tuff on top of him. The rest of our Dragons Riders broke out of some of the other dragon traps and rushes toward us. As happy as I was to see them, I had to wonder how they got there in the first place.

Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruff, and Tuff started lighting the cannons and bows on fire, trying to disarm them as much as possible without hurting the people, or dragons. Hiccup forced Toothless up into the air, then had him start to dive. While they fell, I noticed a certain blue Nadder getting caught in a storm of falling ice.

"Shriek!" The Thunderdrum screamed at the green ice, thankfully saving anyone trapped. Having performed our rescue, Shriek and I wove in and out of the crowds of dragons, blasting at large amount of cannons that shot out nets, which reduced our chances of getting caught.

We managed to pull up beside Astrid and Stormfly, and I was shocked to see Eret holding on for dear life in front of her. Hiccup was clearly taken aback for a moment, but shook it off and chose to greet him.

"Welcome aboard, Dragon Rider," he called out.

"Thanks, I think." Eret gripped nervously onto Stormfly and Astrid, his eyes wide with a panic that truly only came from riding a dragon for the first time.

"Where have you two been?" Astrid asked Hiccup and I, occasionally swatting at Eret.

"Oh, you know, catching up with Mom," Hiccup answered nonchalantly, as though it were no big deal. He then directed our gazes up to see Valka hovering on Cloudjumper, summoning the Bewilderbeast to come defend us.

"That's your mother?" Astrid gasped

"Well, now you know where I get my dramatic flair."