Heart of a Chief, Soul of a Dragon

Chapter 13

 We emerged from the cloud cover to see our home again. But the only part of it that reminded me of home was the general appearance. Climbing up onto the land, the large Bewilderbeast moaned and roared, summoning every one of the dragons from Berk to circle around it.

"No," Hiccup muttered, looking at the full horror of the situations.

"He took all the dragons."

"Distract the alpha," Hiccup ordered everyone else. "Try to keep his focus off of Toothless."

"Uh, how?"

"Have you forgotten who you're riding with?" I rolled my eyes. Even though Eret was on our side now, his arrogance still got on my nerves. "There isn't a dragon alive that I can't wrangle! Aah!" His baby dragon took a sudden, sharp dive down. "Except for this one!"

"Amateur," Snotlout mocked.

"Reign, stay close to me!" Hiccup cautioned as the Bewilderbeast bellowed.

The others peeled off to get closer to the Bewilderbeast, while Hiccup and I circled to try and find Toothless. The alpha roared at us, clearly trying to take control of our baby dragons, but they were too stubborn to listen. I searched through the horde of dragons, trying to spot the one Night Fury, but he didn't seem to be among them.

"There he is!" I looked over to see Drago atop Toothless, his eyes turned to slits as he was forced to obey.

"Oh, no..."

"Come on, we have to get to the alpha and release his control on Toothless." I nodded and steered my baby dragon just in front of the Bewilderbeast, ready to take it down if necessary, when some sort of white blur shot up in front of my face. I glanced at Hiccup in confusion, then looked forward again to see a sheep fly up.

"What the...?"

"Keep 'em coming!" I looked down to see that the others were using the sheep launcher to distract the Bewilderbeast.

"Black Sheep, baby!" The Bewilderbeast roared as it found the source of its distraction, but suddenly became distracted again by the bellow of the horn we used to signal the last lap. Taking the chance, Snotlout launched the Black Sheep up, and it started to fall down the face of the Bewilderbeast. It stopped and stared as the sheep bounced off his horns. "Ten points!"

The horn blew again, but this time, the Bewilderbeast figured out what was going on, and lumbered over to shoot out a blast of ice.

"Hiccup, we have to end this."

He and I steered our dragons up to hover before Drago. I felt all that anger rise back up again, but chose to fight it down and try our best to reason with him.

"You two certainly are hard to get rid of, I'll say that," Drago grunted.

"Toothless... Hey. It's me, bud." I watched as Hiccup got closer, preparing myself for Drago potentially taking the opportunity to wipe out another Haddock. "It's me. It's me. I'm right here, bud." Toothless didn't budge, and I could feel the tears in my eyes as things grew more bleak. "Come back to me."

"He's not yours anymore," Drago chuckled. "He belongs to the alpha. But, please, O Great Dragon Master, try... to take him. He will not miss a second time."

"You can do this," I whispered, giving Hiccup a reassuring smile, "for Toothless." He gazed at me for a few extra seconds, then turned back to bringing back his best friend.

"It wasn't your fault, bud." Carefully, Hiccup reached his hand out. "They... made you do it." His slits started to flicker, opening a little bit. Toothless began to shake his head as he started to fight the control of the alpha. "You'd never hurt him. You'd never hurt me."