Astrid's Tale

Chapter 13

The moment seemed to be an eternity as I saw Hiccup. Limp in his fathers arms, and hastily thrown on the shore. Stoick dove down under the waves.

I stared through wide eyes and gasped. Toothless shot through the water, pulling up Stoick. With this act, Hiccup sputtered to life. I grinned, but went back to fighting the Red Death.

Exuberant over Hiccups survival, it seemed I couldn't control myself. I saw Snotlout on the Red Deaths head, hitting it's eyes with his hammer. In a different situation, I would wonder why he's not doing what he was told, but in this one...

Well, I shouted some words I probably shouldn't have. "You da viking!" What was I thinking?

He seemed to pick up the pace, if there was any upside to this. I turned in my seat, and saw Hiccup on Toothless.

"He's up!" I cried. Looking at Snotlout, I added to the twins, "Get him out of there."

Ruff and Tuff flew straight at the Red Death's head, the Zippleback's heads turning in other directions. Snotlout jumped in between the two, and landed on it's back. Somehow the twins did something right.

My amazement was stopped short. I turned to face the Red Death.

It's jaws were wide open, and it was sucking us in. Stormfly fights to keep us from being eaten.

"Night Fury!" I hear someone scream.

BANG!

I see the Red Deaths head whip sideways. He sudden force sends Stormfly sideways. Without me.

I begin to plummet down. I would scream, but I am completely paralyzed with fear.

My fall instantaneously stops, and I feel a sharp pain in my shoulder.

"Did you get her?" I hear Hiccup ask.

I look up and see Toothless holding me by the arm. He looks down, giving me a weird dragon smile. I laugh, though my arm feels like its going to fall off.

Hiccup and Toothless fly closer to the ground, and I jump down. "Go!" I call, but they're already gone.

I watch them with the other vikings and shove my shoulder back into place.

Toothless blasts the Red Death, and it flies after them. Both of them fly into the clouds, and their fight is illuminated only by Toothless' shots. About a minute of this goes by and soon, Toothless and Hiccup shoot out of the clouds towards the ground. The Red Death follows them, and opens its mouth to fire, intending to end Hiccup and Toothless' lives.

Then they turn around, and Toothless blasts a shot into the dragons open mouth. They fly to the side, and the Red Death, mouth on fire, hits the ground and explodes. Hiccup and Toothless fly upwards, out of the fire clouds.

Into the exploding dragons tail.

I see one shadow turn to two as Hiccup falls off of Toothless into the inferno. The Night Fury flies after him, and the flames cover them both.

The fire subdues and ash falls like flakes of snow. I push my way to the front of the blurry crowd. I blink away my tears and see Stoick knelt over Hiccups body. He pulls off his helmet, and put his head down to his sons chest.

He begins to laugh. "He's alive!" Stoick looks at Toothless, "You brought him back alive!"

I laugh as Stoick had.

Hiccup's alive! He killed the Red Death!