As Hiccup reached the ground and put his head down, Toothless felt a flame burning inside of him. It was hot with a passion of seething anger. He shook as he screwed his nose up and let his teeth out of his gums. Astrid noticed the angry dragon standing beside her. She felt the same wave if energy pass through her as she started to get angrier. *You will not kill my best friend because of me.* Toothless hissed. Astrid looked at him as he looked back at her. They were both thinking the same thing.

Dagur raised the axe above his head.

Astrid jumped onto toothless' saddle.

Dagur cackled to himself and looked at the small teenager kneeling on the ground looking down to the floor.

Hiccup shut his eyes and braced himself for wherever Dagur was going to blast the axe.

He swung the axe.

Toothless roared as loud as thunder, feeling his rage blast out of his mouth. He galloped towards the man. "Jump!" Astrid yelled as Toothless jumped over Hiccup. He opened up his claws towards Dagur who suddenly noticed this movement.

Astrid extended out her arm and grabbed her axe from Dagurs' hands. Toothless landed behind Dagurs' own guards, knocking them all to the ground as he did. He ignored his wound. Some of Dagurs men stood up and ran into the forest.

Dagur stumbled backwards as he realised what just happened. "W-what?!"

Hiccup looked up. He had been bracing himself for the axe going through his head, but he noticed how it never came. He gasped as he saw his two angry friends facing Dagur.

"Hey! Give that back!" Dagur screamed at them.

"No. This is enough torment for today." Astrid said. She patted Toothless and dismounted him. "Do your thing." She told him.

Toothless looked at Dagur. He stared deep into his eyes. Dagur stepped backwards at the green eyes that seemed to scare his soul. Toothless growled and spat as he started to once again walk forward. He extended and raised his wings above his head to make himself look bigger. He arched his back.

*This is my territory. That is my best friend. You dare come here again you puny human.* He stopped a few meteres away from him. *DON'T COME BACK!* Toothless finally roared. He opened his mouth wide and shot a burning hot plasma blast at Dagur.

The shot seared at his feet, almost blasting them off. Dagur yelped and fell backwards onto his bum. He scrambled backwards and held his hands over his head as Toothless opened his mouth and prepared to fire again.

Loudly, Stormfly landed in front of him and squawked to get Toothless' attention before he fired. She flared her nostrils. *May I have the honours, Toothless?* she asked.

Toothless hummed and grinned. *Please, be my guest.*

Stormfly nodded and grabbed hold of Dagur with her claws. She flew up and headed off of the island.

"Put me down!" He yelled. Stormfly ignored his cries and hissed at him. Dagur fell quiet and struggled in her claws.

"W-wheres she taking him?" Hiccup blurted out, watching Dagur flail in her claws.

"Oh, don't worry. Me and Stormfly have been exploring long enough to know where all of the small secluded islands are." Astrid grinned. "She'll drop him off on on of those. If he's not completely hopeless maybe he'll be able to survive for a few days."

Toothless puffed his chest out in triumph. Dagur was finally gone. Toothless roared and fired a plasma blast into the sky. The noise made the battleground fall silent down on the beach. They all looked up to where it came from and saw the outline of toothless.

Toothless roared once again at the rest of the guards as they scattered back to the beach. He folded his wings by his body and looked over to Hiccup who had crouched down to cover himself from the blast.

"Are you alright?" Astrid asked as she walked over to him.

He latched onto Astrid's hands as he was pulled up. "Y-yeah... Never better, actually." Hiccup said.

Toothless snuffed and trotter over to Hiccup. "Thanks buddy." He stroked his friend.

"Hiccup! Son, are you alright?" Stoick said as he landed Skullcrusher next to them. The rest of the group followed on their dragons, looking curiously at the disappearance of Dagur.

"Yeah. I'm fine." Hiccup said and looked down to the scorch mark on the ground.

Stoick frowned. "He's gone?"

"Yep." Hiccup said.

"Where?" Fishlegs asked.

"We'll leave that up to a vengeful dragon to decide." Hiccup replied.

"Well, that's that... He needed to be thought a lesson on compassion." Stoick puffed.

"He was such a douche." Ruffnut said. Tuffnut sniggered and elbowed her.

"He deserved to die, really." Tuffnut folded his arms up.

"If only I were here a few minutes ago I would have done it myself." Snotlout announced.

"He's not dead, so there's no need to feel guilty about sending him away." Astrid soothed.

"...Don't worry. I don't." Hiccup said, looking out to where Stormfly had flown.. "He deserves everything coming to him."

"I bought you some ale." Gobber handed Stoick a cup. Stoick thanked him and took it. They were in the Haddock house, sitting patiently.

Toothless snarled quietly as Gothi dripped some herbal medicine on the wound.

"Will his wing be alright?" Hiccup asked. Gothi nodded and stood up.

"Thankyou, Gothi." Stoick said as she left.

"I still can't believe that Dagur did all of this just to have access to a Night Fury." Gobber broke the silence. Astrid sighed heavily and put her hand lovingly on hiccups arm, pulling him down on his chair.

"I'm just so glad he's gone." Hiccup replied, stroking toothless.

"No thanks to you," Astrid said. "You would have killed yourself!"

Stoick sat up in his chair. "What do you mean, Astrid?"

Astrid fell silent as she realised what she said. "Astrid, I... Ah, I-I told you you shouldn't mention that," Hiccup clenched his fists.

"What is going on?!" Stoick said.

Hiccup sighed. "I... Well... I-"

"Hiccup gave his life for me and Toothless. Well, he would have if me and Toothless didn't do something." Astrid said.

"You sacrificed yourself for them?" Stoick asked.

"Y-yes... Sorry, dad-"

"Sorry? Why do you think you should be sorry? Hiccup. It may be your life on the line there but you did what a good chief would do. Just... Don't do it again. I can't loose you." Stoick said.

Hiccup smiled and nodded.

"Well, me and Stormfly better get back home. Me and her need a good rest." Astrid said.

"I'll see you tomorrow," Hiccup stood up and kissed her.

Gobber nudged Stoick and wiggled his eyebrows. Stoick chuckled and pushed Gobber off before laughing even louder when Hiccup fell back into his chair and blushed. He was still wearing his faulty prosthetic.

Stormfly poked her head through the door. *See you, Toothless.* She squawked as Astrid walked past her head.

*Bye, Stormfly.* Toothless chortled back. *Oh! Hey, before you go, where did you put Dagur?*

*On a wild dragon infested island. I'm sure he'll enjoy it there.* Stormfly barked.

Toothless laughed and curled up to get some sleep. Hiccup was safe. The gang were all unharmed. Dagur was dealt with. He could finally relax.

A final note from the author:

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