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Chapter 2
Running through the village, they could see, first hand, how much damage the dragons were doing. There was no mistaking that these dragons were out to level this village. What Hiccup could not figure out was why? These two dragons were acting unusually destructive while Berk’s dragons were acting strangely fearful and uncooperative. This could not be a coincidence. Running through the village, they had to dodge rampaging Vikings, who, on a few occasions, nearly tripped over them. As they reached the heart of the village, Astrid saw one of the Timberjacks swooping down, getting ready to shower more fire onto the village; the problem was... they were directly in his path. “Look out!” Without thinking, Astrid shoved Hiccup as she leapt to avoid the flames. The dragon flew by quickly and disappeared to attack another part of the village. As she was coming to her sense after their near brush with death, it dawned on her that she had landed awkwardly on top of Hiccup. He was staring up at here with an intense look of shock. “Uh, sorry. I, uh …” Her face turned red as she climbed to her feet. She offered Hiccup a hand and helped him up to his feet. “Uh, my hut is just up ahead.” Now, it was Hiccup’s turn for his face to turn red. The words had come out of his mouth before he realized that his comment might have been taken way out of context. “No, no, no, I mean, uh, that Toothless might be in there, you know? You should go and find your dragon.” “Oh, yeah, right, uh, I better go, then.” Both of them avoided eye contact at the awkward moment, as they were frozen in place for a minute, unsure what to say. Finally, Hiccup nodded and decided to be the first one to exit out of this uncomfortable deadlock that they had found themselves in. As soon as he did, Astrid turned and ran in a separate direction to go find her dragon. Hiccup was relieved to see that his house was still standing, but with the fire spreading as rapidly as it was through every part of the village, he held to little hope that it would remain that way for much longer. He ran inside, and hoped that Toothless was still inside. The last thing he could afford to do was to waist time looking for the hid dragon. As he threw open the door, he found Toothless inside, but he was stomping and storming, tearing up the house in the process. This was extremely weird. The dragon did not seem scared, but something had him very agitated. “Whoa, Toothless, what are you doing?” The dragon did not seem to hear him. He was snorting, and growling and even clawing on the wooden walls. Hiccup was able to get a quickly glance of his eyes, and he knew something was terribly wrong. Toothless’ pupils were dilated, almost as if the dragon was sleep walking. “Toothless, stop!” He urged, stepping closer to the dragon. Under most circumstances, approaching a frantic dragon like this was a very bad idea, especially for someone as small as Hiccup; he could end up being trampled to death. The dragon still did not recognize his presence in the room. Toothless was acting like he was having a terrible nightmare. Perhaps, he could wake him up, and things will turn out okay; otherwise, the Timberjacks would become the least of his problems. As he stepped closer to the Night Fury, he had to duck to avoid the dragon’s wings which began to flail wildly. It was as if he wanted to fly, but did not know that he was inside a building which made it impossible. He also seemed to have forgotten that he could not fly without Hiccup on his back. “Calm down, Toothless. I need you to calm down for me.” He stepped cautiously towards the dragon’s face, and something seemed to prevent the dragon from moving his pupils to see him. Even as Hiccup stepped into his line of sight, he still did not recognize his presence. “Whoa, calm down!” he said in a soft, soothing, monotone voice as he reached his hands towards his face. Toothless growled as if he was warning a predator from coming any closer. Foolishly, Hiccup did not back away. He reached out until both hands made contact with his face. The moment his hands touched his scales, his eyes returned to normal, and his rampaging came to an end. He looked in both directions, as if he had no idea where he was, but then he looked towards Hiccup and let out a curious moan. Toothless had no recollection what had just happened. He seemed confused, but back to his normal self. “I don’t know what’s going on, Toothless, but right now, we have a job to do. Are you with me?” The Night Fury, still a little disconcerted about what was going on, nodded his head and gave an affirmative moan. “Good. Let’s get outside and stop those dragons!” Hiccup grabbed the artificial tail-fin and went to open the door only to find himself staring into the eyes of a Timberjack. “Whoops!” He quickly slammed the door shut just in time to avoid the stream of fire that the dragon breathed at the hut. “We’ll have to find another way out.” Suddenly, the walls began to combust. The Timberjack was blanketing the entire hut in flames, trying to burn it down to the ground with them inside. A part of Hiccup was horrified that he was watching his own home burn all around them, but he promptly recollected himself; survival had to be their primary focus at the moment. With the building burning all around him, he quickly raced to attach the artificial tail-fin to Toothless’ tail. Once more, his lungs began to feel like they were on fire as they were breathing in the smoke. He had fully recovered from the last time; his coughing started nearly immediately. His coughing hindered his speed, which was the last thing they needed; it would not be much longer before the hut would collapse. He connected the last strap around the tail as burning planks of wood started to fall; the hut was already becoming unstable. Hiccup climbed up onto the saddle on Toothless’ back. “Okay, boy, get us *cough* out of here.” Toothless took in a deep breath before unleashing a strong puff of blue flames with such force, that it blew a giant hole through the back wall, but it also caused the hut to start collapsing. The dragon leaped out of the hole just as the entire hut crumbled into one giant burning pile of wood. “Let’s go *cough cough* get those dragons.” Toothless growled as he spread his wings. With a good leap, they were up in the air. The higher they went, the more he was able to see the kind of damage that was being done. He was astonished at what he was seeing. The village looked like it was under attack by an entire flock of dragons. The two dragons were clearly determined in their mission to devastate the village. The fact that they were this determined, proved that they were not acting alone; something was controlling their actions. Hiccup looked down to his right to see a Timberjack attacking the dining hall. On the ground, he could see Snotlout and Bitwolf doing their best in trying to fend off the dragon, but it seemed content to ignore them to bring down the dining hall. “There’s one of them!” Toothless saw the dragon and glided around to change course towards the dragon. Snotlout was the one who saw Hiccup and Toothless coming at them at maximum speed. He knew his cousin well enough to know what he was about to do. “Move it!” The two of them fled from the dragon, giving Hiccup the clean shot that he needed. “Do it, Toothless!” Toothless let out his war-cry squeal before shooting a puff of blue flames at the dragon. The Timberjack had no time to react as the flames hit him in the ribcage, sending him crashing into the burning dining-hall hut. The weakened walls gave way, as the dragon crashed all the way through the hut. There was no time to wait for the dragon to come to his senses, there was another one out there, and he had to take care of it. Perhaps the attack had done enough to scare off the Timberjack off. He started looking for the second dragon when a stream of fire flew past his head, nearly burning his head, and perhaps killing him. If it was not for Toothless’ reaction, Hiccup could have been killed. He looked behind him to see the second Timberjack chasing them. “Let’s loose him!” Hiccup pressed down on the pedal and leaned forward as Toothless picked up speed and flew through the village as fast as he could manage. Swerving around corners and huts, they attempted to lose the pursuing dragon through intense and precise flying through the village. * * * * Astrid found her Deadly Nadder running franticly by itself by the livestock. She knew her dragon by a small birthmark underneath the chin. The dragon had no interest in the sheep, but was acting very peculiar; almost as if it was seriously confused. If she did not know better, she would have guessed that the dragon thought he was a part of the flock. She ran up to the dragon and tried to calm him down. “Whoa! Calm down, already!” The Deadly Nadder was acting just as skittish as the sheep were. The dragon tried to pull away from her, but she refused to let him go; she had to show the dragon who’s boss. “Calm it down! I have a fist and I will use it!” Astrig said, waving her fist at the dragon. The dragon’s pupils returned to normal, and he started acting like a dragon once again. The Deadly Nadder looked curiously at Astrid and quickly recognized her. “That’s better.” With the dragon under control, she wrapped a piece of rope that she had picked up on the way around the dragon’s neck; that helped her to stay on the back of the dragon while in flight. Hiccup was in the process of making a saddle for her that would fit the awkward form of the Deadly Nadder, but with the blacksmith burnt to the ground, it was safe to assume that it was long gone. She leaped onto the back of the dragon and positioned herself closer to the neck of the dragon. “Hiya!” She yelled, which was the vocal command for fly. The dragon did just that. He slowly gained more and more height with each flap of his wings. As she got a bird's-eye view of the village, she was astonished at the damage that had been done by just two Timberjacks. Down below, she could see the twins, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and Fishlegs helping the adults rescue some trapped Vikings from a burning hut. It suddenly dawned on her that the hut belonged to Gertrude’s family. Gertrude was Snotlout’s new girlfriend. After he gave up chasing after Astrid, when she made it abundantly clear that she was interested in Hiccup, he started to chase after a young Viking girl who worked in the bakery. For months, she was disgusted by Snotlout, but after he had come to her rescue from an enemy Viking, she had come to accept him. Astrid was glad that she did come around, because she had no desire to put up with Snotlout’s pick-up lines, herself. She was glad that his attention was no longer on her. She had no time to wait and find out if everything was alright with Gertrude; she had to help Hiccup with the Timberjacks that had come out of nowhere to attack their village. She started looking around for either a Timberjacks, or Toothless. She was confident that Hiccup had managed to get Toothless to cooperate, so she knew she could expect to find him already engaging the dragons. That is what she loved about Hiccup. Yes, he was skinny, and lacked physical stamina, but he was as brave as any Viking she knew. He was more than willing to sacrifice himself for the benefit of his friends, his family, and his tribe. On rare occasions, she would have to make sure that he did not risk his life unnecessarily. He tended to take too much on his own shoulders, when he could depend upon her and the others to be there to help him. She was determined to keep him alive so he could take his father’s place, one day, as Viking chief of Berk. That did not mean, that she did not allow him to take on dangerous tasks, she respected him way too much to deny him that. After all, there was no arguing that he was the best dragon rider in the village. After flying around for a few moments, she found Hiccup being chased by one of the Timberjacks through the village. The Timberjack had no chance of matching Toothless’ speed, but that did not stop the dragon from trying. Since there was no sign of the other dragon, she decided to drop in on this one and give the dragon a surprise that it would soon never forget. She controlled her dragon into a dive, heading straight for the Timberjack. The Deadly Nadder launched a fire ball which hit the dragon in the back. The Timberjack broke off the chase with the Night Fury, and flew to retreat from the new attacker. “Let’s see how you like being chased for awhile!” “Astrid, behind you!” Hiccup yelled. Astrid looked behind her to see the other Timberjack on a collision course towards her. She had no time to do anything, as the two dragons collided. The impact threw her off the back of her dragon and sent her freefalling to the ground. Fortunately, they were low enough to the ground that she landed harmlessly onto a cart of hay. The two dragons were entangled up above the ground. They were wrestling for dominance, but the sheer size of the Timberjack proved too much for the Deadly Nadder. The dragon clenched his jaws around the Deadly Nadder’s neck. The dragon squirmed and moaned, as his situation quickly became desperate. Overpowering the dragon, the Timberjack threw it into one of the burning huts. The dragon crashed through the burning building with such force, that the entire hut began to collapse on top of the dragon. “No,” Astrid gasped underneath her breath. She was helpless to watch as the hut collapsed on top of the dragon and the flames to continue to burn the pile of wood with intense heat. Enraged by the turn of events, Hiccup and Toothless wasted no time in attacking the dragon with another puff of blue flames. The dragon was able to avoid the attack, barely, and flew off in retreat. The other Timberjack joined up with him as the two dragons flew towards the ocean and away from Berk. 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