Chapter 17-Capturing a King

Toothless weaved between ships, sending powerful plasma blasts at the bottoms of them. They'd take on water and sink quickly, masts hitting each other, causing even more chaos. As the other riders blew ships to bits, some of the boats began to retreat and abandon their chiefs. They began to celebrate prematurely, as snotlout and hookfang getting a net thrown over them. Snotlout let out a small yelp as the dragon lit aflame, burning the net away.Most of the group flew above the reach of the weapons, watching as some of the enemies ran. Hiccup and toothless were still destroying the bottoms of ships, getting threateningly close to the largest one. The one with the cage on top."Now!" Screamed someone aboard the large boat. And an iron net was launched from a mechanism and latched around toothless and hiccup.Toothless let out a scream as they dropped to the water, hiccup grunting and struggling. He'd never seen a steel netting, he tried cutting and moving it, toothless trying too, but it didn't work. A chain connected to the net started to pull them up and onboard. Toothless charging a shot in his throat, hiccup stopping him."Not now, wait," hiccup whispered to his dragon. He glanced around, looking at the ones on board. They all had sharp close-range weapons. He tried to pull out his fake leg from the stirrup, but it was bent and broken. He muttered insults under his breath, watching as they got closer. they were whispering among each other, before a bit smaller, but strong Viking pushed to the front. He had bright red hair and was covered in scars, and was one of the chiefs."What is the hold-up!?" The chief yelled, before looking to the trapped night fury and its rider."What is this?" He asked, spotting hiccup, "the dragon king is being ridden by a small human?"Hiccup glared at the Viking, knowing exactly who it was. It was Dagur, he was supposed to make friends with hiccup when they were boys to continue the treaty between tribes. But Dagur was too rough and insane to even have hiccup enjoy his company, Almost drowning him on multiple occasions. Hiccup hated him with almost every fiber of his being. Dagur didn't seem to recognize hiccup was, which did make him feel a bit better. While Dagur was distracted talking to his men about this, hiccup searched for the end of the netting. He found it and was about to pull it off when Dagur looked back at him."Well I guess we kill the boy and the dragon," Dagur stated, pulling his dual axes from his back.Hiccup quickly pulled the net off and flung it at Dagur, pulling the man down. He let out a scream, "kill that boy!"The men on board started to come at the dragon and its rider, weapons drawn. And toothless took out at least five of them with a quick swipe of the tail. Hiccup had the sword drawn, and they did quite well for a while. Astrid took this time now that they weren't at arrow point to swoop down to try and help. That's when a huge Viking, at least bigger than Stoick, came up behind hiccup and plucked right off toothless. It snapped hiccup's metal peg leg, but he didn't even notice as a sword blade was held to his throat."Drop the sword, and tell the night fury to back down," the scary Viking yelled in hiccup's ear, "and for all your little flying friends to back off too!"Hiccup carefully dropped the sword on the deck and carefully held out a hand for both toothless and the riders to stop. Astrid stopped and yelled at the others to do so, seeing the sword at hiccup's throat. They hovered intense silence, watching as hiccup was pulled over closer to the cage."Tell that dragon to get in!" The Viking continued to yell. As he did Dagur got out of the metal net and came over, laughing maniacally. "Well done Alvin," Dagur congratulated, "we can get him to do my dragon's bidding!""He is not your dragon!" Hiccup yelled, getting the blade pressed closer to his throat. He shut up and strained back a bit to try and relieve the pressure, as he felt the sharpness press into his neck.Alvin looked up to Dagur with beady eyes, "the dragon is ours, Dagur. Now get in, you monster! I'd like to get out of here before I lose any more of my men."Toothless didn't move, just growling, ready to pounce at either of the Vikings. But he put down his guard once his rider started to wince from the pressure of the sword on him. Toothless slowly made his way into the cage, practically hissing at the one who came near him. But he couldn't anymore as a muzzle was quickly placed around his snout. The soldier quickly moved out of the cage and slammed the door shut, locking it.Hiccup watched in rage as they restrained his dragon, he struggled a bit more. He was released from the Viking's grasp and he fell, not being able to stand properly on one leg. He scuttled away, quickly standing as best he could with his one good foot. He had no idea how he was going to fight, but he was completely willing."This little boy sure had a fighting spirit," Alvin said, laughing as he took out an axe while tossing away the sword, "it's almost adorable."A fight that would have been very short-lived was about to break out. When a huge Boulder came flying into the deck of the ship. Everyone, including the riders still on their dragon, looked to see what just happened. Stoick the vast, and his tribe came to the rescue, firing catapults and ballistae at the remaining ships."Take that, you madmen!" Stoick yelled with quite the joyous tone for surprising the enemy, "that'll teach you to deal with the hooligans, and for threatening my son!"Alvin scowled, while Dagur looked to hiccup with the sudden realization of who he was. Everyone had thought he was dead, and now that the boy was back and beating Dagur, it made him unbelievably mad."You are not getting away, not alive!" Dagur yelled, being completely unhinged as he dived at hiccup. He dodged Dagur's grasp with a feeble, but the successful rollout of the way. He had to crawl over to where his sword had been dropped, and barely blocked the daggers that Dagur had pulled out of his belt. He pushed the deranged chief off of him and moved as much as he could out of the way. He tried to go in the general direction of toothless but it was practically impossible with how lopsided he was. Alvin began to come over with his axe, getting ready to swing it directly at hiccup's head. When he was quickly lifted off the deck by a specific deadly nadder and thrown off the side of the ship. Stormfly landed on the deck with Astrid and her hopping off her dragon with her axe drawn. Dagur turned to her, and narrowly missed being hit by the axe. He began to fight her instead of the disabled dragon rider. He watched worried for a moment, before making his way over to his caged dragon.He lit the sword up in hot flames and melted the lock off with little time to spare. as he pulled open the cage door it hit a soldier smack dap in the face, making him fall to the ground. Hiccup went in, pulling off the muzzle as fast as possible. Toothless licked him but was quickly pushed off."Thank-thank you toothless, but we need to hurry," Hiccup quickly got onto his dragon. it took him a moment to find how his leg had fitted around the stirrup now that it was all twisted and bent. But he got it eventually and toothless was quick getting out of the cage. He rammed through Vikings before preparing to take off. Hiccup only stopped him when he saw Astrid struggling to fight Dagur, and stormfly had flown off the ship. He and toothless went over, pulling Dagur away from her and reaching a hand out to her. She took it quickly and was pulled onto the night fury. Toothless took off, but not before Dagur swung at hiccup, cutting through his tunic and grazing him on the side. The only place hiccup hadn't had any armor, but it only felt like a small cut."Toothless now!" Hiccup yelled, and his dragon turned and fired three big blasts at the ship. It finally began to sink.