How to Find Your Fire

(HTTYD) Chapter 3: Enslaved

This chapter is by TidalClaws (thedragonshifter)

CloudRacer's PoV

CloudRacer watched in horror as the teeth of the red death smashed down on the helpless Nightfuries who were desperately flying as fast as they could to escape. She could hear the cries and shrieks as their bodies were burned mid flight into black ashes. And she was frozen to that same spot as every last of them were slaughtered, powerless against the red death.

And once the very last black speck in the sky had crumpled and disintegrated, she knew that she was the last. There are no more night furies, all of them- gone! She thought in despair as she turned and fled. She ran on foot knowing that if she flew, she to would die.

Cloudracer tore through the dense foliage and held down pained shrieks as the wood and rocks tore and shredded her wings and tail fins, leaving hundreds of deep gashes in her scales. Her claws broke on stones and her scales were stripped from her skin as she fled from the red death. It knew she was the last and was most definitely in pursuit.

Then, she was stopped dead in her tracks as her mind was no longer hers. She turned sub-consciously towards the cruel dragon who was now the leader of the nest and began to lift into the sky, her wings weren't damaged enough to render her flightless.

The Death stood still, watching her carefully as his eyes stared into her and a voice, as cold as blue color of her eyes, spoke in her mind. "With the last alive, i shall use you to rain terror on the ones who killed my mother." The Queen hissed,"you will lead my attacks until the Berkians have been wiped out and destroyed. But first, you must prove to me that you are worthy. If the Night Fury i chose is strong enough to be my servant."

The fog in Cloudracer's find suddenly cleared and she realized that she was hovering in the air. Then, the words of the Queen suddenly sank in as a raspy roar tore through the already disturbed air. A large figure of a dark yellow and orange dragon rushed towards her with a shrieked and Cloudracer had only a split second to dodge out of the way of the dragon. Monstrous Nightmare!

Its probably being controlled by the queen! She realized as it flipped in the air, set itself on fire, and charged her again. She dodged the Nightmare once more and shot one of her violet explosive plasma blasts at it but this dragon was not dumb, and neither was the Queen. It ducked just below the blast and turned once more with a snarl and spit orange and red flames from it's jaws.

Cloudracer smirked and flapped her wings to blow the fire back at the dragon and dive to the right, her wings whistling and made for the back of the dragon but the Queen had seen her. The Nightmare turned around and kicked its back talons, raking them across her face but at the same moment Cloudracer shot another plasma blast from her jaws, causing the dragon to spin to the ground and retreat.

She turned towards the red death and threw her one of the most evilest faces she could muster without twisting it a screw from the pain across her body. The Queen nodded and narrowed her eyes to slits,"yes, i chose correctly. You are the chosen Night Fury. And now you must obey my every command!" She snarled and turned.

Cloudracer was under her control once more, but one thing the queen could not control was her feelings. She was hurt in the inside and on the outside. She knew that she would never be able to see friends or family again because there was nobody else like her alive anymore, digested and burned to ashes. She would be ordered to do terrible things and probably end up being killed by a viking. They wouldn't even think twice about killing me. Vikings- vikings and dragons... they are all monsters!

Cloudracer made sure to run that thought in her head so that she would never trust anybody ever again, viking or not, as she mindlessly followed the queen back to the nest. I will never be able to follow me heart and accomplish my dreams because of all the terrible people and dragons in this world. I am now a pet.. or a slave. For the rest if my life.

Cloudracer was forced to land roughly on the rocky outcrop if the dragon's nest. She could no longer feel the pain of the long gashes that slashed through her hide, for her skin was numb, her eyes bloodshot. To anybody looking at me, i would look like i was tortured all my life. Even though its technically not true now, its about to be. She thought bitterly as she limped after the Queen.

Thousands of dragons flew out of their path as they made their way through the nest and into the large hole that the Red Death would live in. And once she was settled, the fleeing dragons were forced to come back as their minds were taken over. And pretty soon, millions of dragons: Monstrous Nightmares, Hideous Zipplebacks, Deadly Nadders, Gronkles, any dragon you could think of, was gathered in the nest.

The Queen raised her head to regard all of the dragons, who bowed their heads in submission. The Queen then gave a nasty smirk and began to talk telepathically to all of them at once,"my plentiful, sweet, submissive subjects." She sneered,"this is now the millennium of my rule, Queen DeathSeer. And it is also the millennium of the downfall of the vikings!" She roared. The dragons all around joined in forcibly and then quieted down.

"And the first group we will attack will be berk. They stole some of my subjects and have been living with them. Today they will regret ever doing that!" She roared and then sank back into the large hole in the ground. Now im going to be forced to attack vikings, ill probably die but i bet nobody will care anyway. She thought miserably as her wings automatically flapped and she lifted quickly off the ground and flew out of the nest.

She could tell that about fifty dragons were following her as they sped towards Berk. If im going to be forced to kill, ill make the best of it anyway. Its not like a care about their puny villages and their monstrous actions. She snarled to herself and repeated that one phrase again: They are all monsters.

When they finally arrived at that small island call Berk, the dragons that were staying there began to rise off the ground and join the battalion, their riders raced after them. More vikings flooded from the buildings and stared with wide eyes as they realized that there was a nighttime assault.

After about thirty seconds of hovering and assessing she let out an ear splitting snarl/roar and the dragons behind her streamed past, spewing fire across all of the buildings. Cloudracer herself flapped her wings and soared into the air and above the clouds before flipping and tucking her wings. She dove towards the village below her with such great speed that the air made a shrill whistling noise. Then, she sent a violet plasma blast from her mouth and watched in satisfaction as the building exploded.

Cloudracer took advantage of the night and landed atop of a low building that was tucked away in the shadow of an overhang. She raised her head just a bit saw that more then half of the buildings were destroyed ajd most of the dragons had already retreated, the Queen's mind control gone. They only followed me here because we are slaves. We will never be free again. She thought sadly as a wave of loneliness swept over her, not only that but also a wave of grief.

Then suddenly, right as another loud whistle shredded the air and she thought she had seen another Nightfury, a heavy weighted net landed on her and her legs and tail became tangled in its ropes. With a roar she reared on two feet, slashing at the net, but it wouldn't rip and she fell herself fall backwards off of the roof of the house. Her body struck hard stone behind the house and she tumbled head over tail down a tiny downslope.