Chapter 11

                                    

                                          
Hey my li'l embers! Before the chapter starts, I just wanted to point out the references in the previous chapter. The first one I assumed was rather obvious. It was when Stoick and Gobber gave Hiccup encouraging smiles with thumbs up. This was a reference to the third movie when Hiccup is trying to help Toothless win over the Light Fury. The second reference, I will admit, was very obscure. It was when Stoick motioned/mouthed to Hiccup to breathe. This was a reference to one of my all time favorite Disney movies, Big Hero 6, when Tadashi tells Hiro to breathe when he is presenting in the showcase at SFIT.
Anywho! Onto the angst train we go!
~~~HTLANF~~~
Once outside the nest, we ran into Valka looking down upon the beach. I glanced at Valka as my dad and Gobber caught up to us, then down towards the beach, my eyes widening in horror as I took in the armada that Drago had brought.
"Oh no..." I breathed out, my hand automatically grasping Kala's to make sure she was close by.
"H-how is this even possible..?" Kala asked fearfully as she took in the amount of traps and trappers that Drago had under his command.
Beside Kala and I, I could feel the worry and fear radiating off my mother, her scent being overtaken by those emotions. My dad rested his hand on her shoulder and gave her a soft smile once she was looking at him.
"It'll be alright, Val. We're a team now. Now what do you want to do?" He asked.
Valka steeled herself as she looked between all of us with determination clear in her eyes. "We have to save the dragons."
"Aye, you got it!" Stoick said with a confident smile, then he, Valka and Gobber rushed back into the sanctuary to get their dragons.
Kala transformed out of sight of the enemy before coming back to my side. I smiled and mounted her back as I adorned my flight helmet and secured myself to the saddle.
"Alright, milady. Let's show these guys you don't mess with what's ours." I said as I gripped the handles, then we were speeding into the battle in no time.
As Kala and I sped into the heat of it all, I took notice of who all was fighting. Our entire team was here fighting the trappers and releasing the dragons from the traps. Eret was even riding Stormfly with Nanna, which was quite shocking. Right as I noticed who was steering Stormfly, I saw that there was a large icicle falling towards them, but before I said anything Kala had already sent a plasma blast toward the icicle, destroying it as soon as it made contact with the surface. I smiled under my helmet and scratched behind her left earplate as we sped over to the trio. I just barely noticed that we sped past Drago, hardly registering that he said something.
"Dragon Master."
I spared a glance back at the man as I heard it, but then shook my head and focused on making sure the others were alright. Once Kala and I made it into earshot of the trio, I lifted my flight helmet with a smile.
"Welcome aboard, Dragon Rider!" I joked, taking notice of how nervous Eret was trying to take his mind off falling off Stormfly's back.
"Thanks. I think." He said timidly as the grip he had on Stormfly just barely loosened.
"Where have you been?" Nanna asked worriedly as she looked Kala and I over for any injuries, being the worried sister-like friend she was as always.
"Oh, y'know. Catching up with my mother." I said with a shrug.
Our attention was caught when Valka emerged from the nest on Cloudjumper's back, her staff in hand. She then shook said staff and the Alpha broke his way out of the sanctuary and roared to make his presence known.