Love in the Time of Dragon Riders 3 (HTTYD FanFic)

Chapter 27: The Battle Part 2

Hiccup’s P.O.V

A single dragon emerged from the group, he flew up towards me. I felt Toothless tense underneath me.

“Come on bud.” I whispered edgi8ng forward. We met the silver dragon in midair, which seemed to be the head of the army.

‘I come with a proposal,’ he said speaking through my mind. ‘Surrender and… well most of you will live.’

“How about I present a proposal?” I said raising my eyebrows, “you leave and we have no further quarrel.”

“Well, it looks as though neither of our proposals fit our beliefs.”

“No it doesn’t.”

‘This is your last chance human, surrender.’

“Never, this is my home, I will not abandon it as easily as you think.”

‘Then it is official, prepare your troops, we are at war.” He turned tail and flew back to his army. I turned back and went in line with my friends.

“Stay strong.” I called to them. Fishlegs swallowed nervously, Snotlout was biting his lip and the twins were gripping barf and belch’s horns so tightly their knuckles were turning white.

I turned to Astrid and mouthed ‘I love you,’ to her; she smiled grimly and mouthed it back.

It was time.

“Hold,” I called down to the catapults behind us on the shore. My hand was raised in the air waiting to give the signal. “Hold!” I shouted once more as the shape shifters edged closer their silver scales glittering in the pale moonlight. They were waiting for us to attack first, ‘well if that is what they want, it is what they will get.’ Silently I closed my hand into a fist. There was the click and whoosh of air as the nets were released and flew over out heads. They knocked out the first row of dragons sending them down to the unforgiving waters were Scauldrons and Thunderdrums were waiting. Another heard of nets was shot, but this time they were expecting it they dodged. Tremendous roars sounded from there side, it was a battle cry.

They launched at us speeding across the last few meters.

“Now!” I shouted Toothless seemed to roar the same thing to the Night Furys above us. Rocks dropped from the sky surprising the attackers and taking out a good half a dozen. I raised my hand and made it into a fist. This time instead of nets it was large boulders like the ones the night furys had dropped.

“Forward!” I cried drawing my sword from it’s sheath as Toothless launched himself towards the dragons. “For Berk!” I shouted as loudly as I could. The battle had began.

Willow’s P.O.V

It was chaos from what I could see with my enhanced dragon sight our two armies had just collided. There were screams of fury from dragons that had been surprised by our nets and boulders. It seemed as though we were winning but the silver dragons slowly began to turn the tide. They were pushing the dragon riders back.

“Why aren’t we doing anything?” Skylar growled in frustration his wing beats keeping him level with me.

“Hiccup will give the command.” I said confidently although it looked as though Hiccup and Toothless were having enough trouble without worrying when to send us into battle.

“Screw that.” He said gesturing for the other riders to fly forwards. He then started off towards the battle himself.

“Glenn stay here, cover their heads.” I growled at him nodding towards the civilians below. “One of these days I am going to stop chasing this guy.” I snarled to myself before starting off in the direction Skylar had flown. I joined the ferocious battle and my instincts took over instantly.