Toothless is a dragon living under the rule of Queen Firestorm, the mighty Red Death. Life seems perfect.
Until another Night Fury comes into his life, and shows him how evil the Hive really is...
Firestorm heard this and turned. "What did you say?" she hissed.
"You're evil!" Electra shouted.
This surprised the Queen, and she moved her head back, startled.
"You steal the food that the dragons around you hunt, leaving the ones who did the real work hungry? Are you okay with that?"
Queen Firestorm glared at the tiny Night Fury.
"They hunt for me, and, in turn, I protect them"
Electra glared right back at Firestorm. "Protect them from what, exactly? The only thing I see that they need protecting from is YOU!"
"You DARE to insult me?" the Queen roared, drwaing her head out of the lava. Dragons cowered, hiding in rocky crevices.
To her surprise, Electra did not back down. Instead she challenged the Queen. "I don't want to live in you Hive!" she roared with suprising ferocity. "I don't want to live under your rules! You treat the dragons around you-" she used her wing to gesture to the dragons in the Hive "-like tools! Pets! They don't mean anything to you! They're only there to feed you! Are you too chicken to go out there and raid a few islands yourself?"
This was enough. Dragons were already starting to murmur. If they stopped following her, she would starve. She was extremely slow. A sheep could outrun her. Also, she spent her days building up energy.
That energy was for the times when she had to fight.
When she had been young, she had fought her siblings for almost a hundred years. She had been young then. She had tons of energy, and never tired. She wouldn't admit this now, but she was near the end of her life. She could sense it.
She knew she had at least fifty years of her life left. It may seem like a lot, but to her, it might as well have only been a year. She was not going to waste the precious time she had alive.
Not on convincing this dragon.
But she could see that if Electra stayed, the dragons would rebel. They may kill her. She could not let that happen.
So she slammed her massive claws down on the female Night Fury.
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Toothless rushed to Electra's side. Firestorm removed her claws and watched with an amused expression on her face, like she enjoyed this moment. Toothless tried in vain to stop himself from snarling at her.
Then a groan from Electra brought him back to her.
Electra was lying down weakly. Her wings were twisted at odd angles. Toothless wrapped his own wings around her, trying to comfort the Night Fury in her last moments.
She was going to die soon. The blow was too powerful. There was no way she could survive that. But Toothless tried to keep hoping.
It was hard.
Electra looked up into his eyes. "I love you, Toothless" she murmered. "I love you too, Electra" he replied. Then she closed her eyes and slumped down.
Dead.
"No" he whispered. "No. No, no, no, no."
She can't kill Electra.
But she just did.
He lifted up her body, dragging her out, pausing only to glare at the Queen.
Once he reached the outside, he flew, carrying her to the Coldwind Wastes, the place where they had first met.
He placed her body down on the ground, and dug until his paws had been rubbed raw and were numb with the cold. He was weeping now, his tears forming small puddles on the ground.
He gently rolled her body into the shallow pit he had dug. He didn't have the energy to cover her with dirt, so he covered her in snow.
