A/N: Hello Everyone! Sorry this took so long but it is a good 4000+ words my longest chapter yet. Anyway do not expect any chapters soon as I have a Macbeth video to make, an informative speech to write, a research paper/project to do, an algebra II grade to keep above a 85%, and a biology EOC to study for. and those are just the major MAJOR things going on.

EXT. CLIFFS - LATER

ON HICCUP Still standing there. The ships have cleared the horizon.
CRANE UP to reveal Astrid is standing behind him. She approaches cautiously and stands beside him in silence.

ASTRID It's a mess.

"great way to state the obvious," Snotlout snorts.

"No no," Rapunzel starts, "This is the start of the inspiring speech that will cause the hero to realize what he has helped do and that he needs to figure out how to fix it!"

Everyone stares at Rapunzel in shock, confusion, and a varying of other emotions.

"What? If you spend your whole life rereading the same three books you have a lot of time to study literary elements and such."
Hiccup doesn't respond.

ASTRID (CONT'D)
You must feel horrible. You've lost everything. Your father, your tribe, your best friend.

HICCUP Thank you for summing that up.

"Gloomy emotions aside I wish to nominate Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third for the King of Sarcasm," Flynn states. However before it can be put to a vote Faye comes out and explains that they can not vote on this until the other movies have been watched, but she does start a list for the nominees on a new chalk board.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
Why couldn't I have killed that dragon when I found him in the woods. It would have been better for everyone.

Everyone looks at present Hiccup, Toothless, future Hiccup, and back at present Hiccup and Toothless.

ASTRID Yep. The rest of us would have done it.

(BEAT)
So why didn't you?

Forgetting about that last part everyone scoots forward wanting to know the answer thy had all been asking themselves.
Hiccup just shakes his head - he really doesn't know.
Astrid's eyes glimmer. She wants something.

ASTRID (CONT'D)
Why didn't you?

HICCUP I don't know. I couldn't.

"that's not an answer," Astrid tells the Hiccup sitting next to her.

ASTRID That's not an answer.

HICCUP

(BECOMING IRATE)
Why is this so important to you all of a sudden?

ASTRID Because I want to remember what you say right now.

"Oh for the love of-" Hiccup starts to say before he is cut off by himself.

HICCUP (angry, loud)
Oh for the love of - I was a coward! I was weak. I wouldn't kill a dragon.

"Yer not a coward," Merida said.

"I'd say you were one of the bravest people i've ever met," Kristoff told him.

"It takes a lot of guts to fly," Jack added.

ASTRID You said 'wouldn't' that time.

HICCUP

(BLOWS UP)
Whatever! I wouldn't! Three hundred years and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon!

A BEAT.

ASTRID First to ride one, though.
Hiccup blinks. He never looked at it that way before.

All the vikings sit back and try to rap their mind around what had just been said.

ASTRID (CONT'D)
So...

"...Why didn't you kill him?" present astrid asks.

HICCUP

(REALIZING)
...I wouldn't kill him because he looked as frightened as I was.

Almost everyone in the theater is shocked.

(BEAT)
I looked at him and I saw myself.

Now everyone is shocked and several people have tears in their eyes.
Astrid turns to face the open sea.

ASTRID I bet he's really frightened now.

"Is she doin' what I think she's doin'?" Merida asks.

(PROVOKING)
What are you going to do about it?

"Yep. she is." Merida says answering her own question.
Beat.

HICCUP Probably something stupid.

"Okay not the best plan but..." Kristoff starts to say.

ASTRID Good. But you've already done that.
Another beat.

HICCUP Then something crazy.

"That's a worse idea, but you could probably pull it off," Kristoff finishes.
Astrid smiles.

ASTRID That's more like it.

"Dear Gods," Stoick says mumbling into his hands.

EXT. OPEN SEA/DRAGON ISLAND - DAY

The armada coasts toward a shroud of heavy fog, hung like drapes from a low-hanging, ominous sky.
The ships enter, one by one. Visibility drops immediately.
Flanking ships becomes ghosts. The armada disappears, drawn into the blinding mist. Complete whiteout. Nothing remains but the eerie creaking of wood on water.
ON STOICK at the bow of his ship. He taps his fingers on the gunwale, then looks back at Toothless impatiently. Weighed down with chains, Toothless seems unresponsive.

"Poor Toothless," several in the audience whisper.

STOICK Sound your positions. Stay within earshot.
Shouts pour in from all directions.

VIKING #1 Here.

VIKING #2 One length to your stern.

VIKING #3 On your starboard flank.

VIKING #4 Three widths to port.

VIKING #5 Ahead, at your bow.

VIKING #6 Haven't a clue.

"Enter comic relief to break up the tension," Jack states.
ON STOICK straining into the fog as the calls continue.
Massive, jagged sea stacks begin to emerge, threatening to rip the ships to shreds.
Gobber approaches him, speaking under his breath.

"Cue supposedly heartless leader and a spooky setting to add more tension before adding in more noticeable comic relief," Jack continues.

GOBBER Listen... Stoick... I was overhearing some of the men just now and, well, some of them are wondering what it is we're up to here - not me of course, I know you're always the man with the plan - but some, not me, are wondering if there is in fact a plan at all,
what it might be?

"very subtle Gobber," Hiccup says rolling his eyes.

STOICK Find the nest and take it.

"Awe so that's where hiccup gets strategic planning skills from," Flynn says rubbing his chin.

GOBBER Ah. Of course. Send them running.
The old Viking fall-back. Nice and simple.

STOICK Shhh.
Stoick notices that Toothless' ear plates are at the alert,
quietly reacting to inaudible sounds.
Stoick crosses to the stern of the ship and grabs the tiller,
moving the helmsman out of the way.

STOICK (CONT'D)
Step aside.
Stoick pulls the ship into a turn, covertly following Toothless' head movements.

"Okay that is actually a pretty smart idea," Jack says," If you're a good seamen that is."
The ship barely misses a jagged outcrop that suddenly appears out of the soupy fog.

VIKING Bear to port.
The order is called out from ship to ship.
CRUNCH! The bow barely makes it past another sea stack.
Stoick continues to follow Toothless' cues, undeterred.

"Which it appears that he is," Jack adds on.

EXT. TRAINING GROUNDS - DAY

Hiccup raises the bolt on the Monstrous Nightmare's pen.

"What are you doing?" Fishlegs asks.

FISHLEGS (O.S.)
If you're planning on getting eaten, I'd definitely go with the Gronckle.

"Why a Gronkle," Hiccup asks his peer.

"Gronkles are cool. did you know..." Fishlegs starts to say before being shushed by the entire audience.
Hiccup turns to see his fellow recruits, watching him with folded arms.

"What are you guys doing?" Hiccup asks but nobody answers.

Tuffnut steps forward with a scowl.

TUFFNUT You were wise to seek help from the world's most deadly weapon.

(BEAT)
It's me.

HICCUP Uh...

SNOTLOUT I love this plan.

HICCUP I didn't...

RUFFNUT You're crazy.

(SULTRY)
I like that.

"What is going on here!" Hiccup shouts but is once again unanswered by any in the audience.

ASTRID So? What is the plan?
Hiccup smiles, glowing in the support of his friends.

"okay let's see how we are going to pair everyone up..." Hiccup says finally getting the gist of what's going on as a plan starts to form in his mind.

EXT. FOGGY SEA - DAY

The ships follow in line through the gauntlet of rocks as orders are whispered from ship to ship.
A dragon head looms out of the fog. The men recoil... only to discover that it's a wrecked ship, impaled high on a gnarled sea stack.

"is it just me or is this kind of freaking you out," Anna says breaking the tense silence in the room.

GOBBER Ah. I was wondering where that went.
A clicking buzz becomes audible, growing louder. It fills the sky, converging in one general direction. Stoick sniffs the air.

STOICK Stay low and ready your weapons.

Everyone holds their breaths wondering what is coming next.
Stoick's ship suddenly JERKS to a halt as the keel burrows into shallow black sand.
Stoick hops overboard, landing on a sprawling beach. The BUZZING suddenly STOPS. Above him, a craggy volcano towers into the gloom.

STOICK (CONT'D)
We're here.
Behind him, several dragon-headed bows pierce the fog.

Anna, Rapunzel, and several others have their hands covering their faces though it doesn't do much good since they are constantly peaking out from behind their fingers.

EXT. TRAINING GROUNDS - RING - DAY

Hiccup steps back from the door, drawing the Monstrous Nightmare out of its cave. It snorts, stepping into the ring,
calmed by Hiccup's outstretched hand - focused on him.

Stoick tenses remembering what happened last time his son faced that particular dargon.
ON THE TEENS... bewildered, in awe.
Snotlout nervously reaches for a spear laying near his foot.
Astrid stops him.

ASTRID

(CORRECTING)
Uh-uh.

"no weapons," present astrid adds on.
Hiccup slows to a stop in front of the teens, with the Nightmare inches from his outstretched hand.
He reaches over and grabs Snotlout's trembling hand.

" This is a pretty good plan if I do say so myself," Hiccup says while reclining into toothless's back.

"What plan," several ask especially those from Berk.

hiccup just smirks and says, "You'll see."

SNOTLOUT Wait! What are you...

HICCUP Relax. It's okay... it's okay.
Hiccup replaces his outstretched hand with Snotlout's,
putting him in control of the massive beast. The Nightmare snorts, but remains calm. Snotlout, by contrast, chuckles nervously - it's at once terrifying and amazing.
The others watch, spellbound.

"wow"

"cool"

"I want to try"

and several other explanations are echoed through out the theater.
Hiccup turns and walks away.

SNOTLOUT Where are you going?!
Hiccup pulls a bundle of rope from a supply box.

HICCUP You're going to need something to help you hold on.
The teens eye each other apprehensively, and look up to reveal...
ALL THE DRAGONS standing in the ring, facing the teens expectantly.

"This is going to be good," Jack says.

EXT. DRAGON ISLAND - DAY

CLOSE ON Tree trunks, being sharpened and planted into the sand at angled rows.
Boulders being loaded into catapult baskets.
And a war plan being scratched in the sand.
STOICK looms over it, looking determined. His generals are at his sides.

"and we're back at the tense side of things," The winter spirit pipes up again.

STOICK When we crack this mountain open,
all hell is going to break loose.

GOBBER In my undies. Good thing I brought extras.

"ah no!" Hiccup yells putting his hands to his head, "erasing mentally scarring image."
Stoick TURNS to face the men.

STOICK No matter how this ends, it ends today.
He walks toward the base of the volcano wall, back by several hundred warriors. He raises his arm and drops it.

"This is not going to end well," Bunny says which surprises everyone has he hasn't spoken that much so far.
A line of catapults UNLEASH their two-ton loads into the cliff wall. It cracks and flakes away.
Several more hits tear away at the hollow shell of hardened lava.
A final boulder shatters the fractured wall, creating a deep,
dark opening to the cavern within.
Silence. Stock raises his hand, makes a gesture. A flaming bushel is launched into the dark, lighting the wall... CHOKED

Several people noticed that the temperature in the room has started to drop.

WITH DRAGONS.
Stoick pulls his hammer and rushes into the cave, brazen.

STOICK (CONT'D)
(War cries and slashing efforts)
In a chaotic flurry, the dragons suddenly rush out like bats from a cave. The take to the air, bypassing the axe-swinging Vikings and fleeing the island in a mass exodus.
The battle-ready Vikings drop their weapons, confused.

GOBBER Is that it?

"I don't even have to change my undies," present gobber adds on to his future self's train of thought.
Above the island, dragons POUR from every crevice, fleeing to the sky. The sound of screeching dragons fades.

VIKINGS (Cheering as one)

SPITELOUT We've done it!
Stoick doesn't celebrate. Something is not right. He HEARS something. Stoick turns to peer down the dark throat of the cavern.
A deep, rumbling ROAR echoes from the cavern. The ground underfoot TREMBLES. The ships rock. Their sails fill with a blast of air.
The cheering stops. Stoick's expression sinks.

STOICK This isn't over. Form your ranks!
Hold together!
The men SCRAMBLE to organize themselves.

The tempature has dropped so much that now most people have noticed but nobody says anything.

STOICK (CONT'D)
Get clear!
The ground CRACKS. Stone tears away, cascading like an avalanche. And through the settling debris, the silhouette of a gargantuan dragon emerges - THE RED DEATH. Stirred and furious.

GOBBER Beard of Thor...what is that?

STOICK

(AGHAST)
Odin help us.

(BEAT)
Catapults!
The Vikings score direct hits. The burning stones BOUNCE off the dragon's skin. The Red Death focuses on the catapults.
It crushes the first one - smashing it and its crew, rattling the beach underfoot.
Stoick races toward the second catapult. He LEAPS and pushes a Viking out of the way just before the dragon crushes him under his forepaw.
The Vikings scramble in all directions.

now several flurries have started to appear, but people are so focused on the movie that they go mostly unnoticed.

VIKING #3 Get to the ships!

STOICK No! NO!
The Red Death BLASTS the ships like a mile-long flamethrower.
The sails are torched. Vikings dive overboard and masts come down.
Gobber Joins Stoick.

Bunny notices the little flurries, " Jack now is not the time," he scolds and wonders even more why many would pick him to be a guardian.

"It's not me," Jack says defensively. Bunny just rolls his eyes wondering when he would grow up.

GOBBER Heh. Smart, that one.
Stoick looks up and down the beach for an answer.

STOICK

(GUILT-RIDDEN)
I was a fool.

"Yes, yes you are," Hiccup says from his spot not even looking at his dad, "I tried to tell you but did you listen? of course not!"

"Och, I know how ye feel," Merida says.

"me too," Rapunzel says.

"Me three," adds on jack.

"I know what it's like to be completely ignored," Anna says glancing at her sister.

Hiccup looks around at all of them, "We should form a club," he says.
The monster raises its head to the sky and BELLOWS. The sound SHAKES the beach, knocking Vikings off their feet.
This island is his.
Stoick stops a Viking General.

Everyone is tense once again.

STOICK (CONT'D)
Lead the men to the far side of the island.

SPITELOUT Right.
(turns to the others)
Everybody to the far side of the island!
The Vikings scatter into the rocks like ants. Satisfied with the ships destruction, The Red Death turns its attention back to the Vikings. They seem to have vanished. It SNIFFS the air, searching for their scent.
Gobber drops in beside Stoick, like two soldiers in a trench.
Fire blasts over head, causing them to duck.

STOICK Gobber, go with the men.

GOBBER I think I'll stay, just in case you're thinking of doing something crazy.

"The apple doesn't fall to far from the tree ye," North says hoping to break up the tension just a little bit.
Stoick grabs him.

STOICK

(EMPHATIC)
I can buy them a few minutes if I give that thing someone to hunt.
Gobber removes Stoick's hand. Clenches his forearm,
determined.

GOBBER Then I can double that time.
Stoick grins. Friends to the bitter end. They BREAK COVER and dash into the open, SPLITTING UP. Stoick rips a sharpened post from the ground and hurls it into the monster's face.

"Good form," Merida whispers to her father.

"aye. I'd give 'im either a nine or a ten," he replies before his wife swats him on the arm.

STOICK

HERE!

GOBBER

NO, HERE!
It spots both of them. He fuels up to fire, glancing back and forth between the two men. He focuses on Stoick.

GOBBER (CONT'D)
Come on! Fight me!

STOICK No, me!
The Red Death remains focused on Stoick - this is it. It rears back and inhales. Gas begins to amass, when...
KABLAM! A BLAST explodes against the back of The Red Death's head. It turns distracted, as...
... a Nadder punches through the flames, banking across the sky. Followed by a Monstrous Nightmare, a Zippleback, and a Gronckle. They roll in unison, revealing the recruits riding on their backs. Hiccup leads, with Astrid clinging to his waist.

Everyone (that is those who had not guessed what hiccup was up to. which was about 99% of the theater) gasp in shock and then some cheer.
GOBBER AND STOICK, watch slack-jawed, in awe.

HICCUP Ruff, Tuff, watch your backs! Move Fishlegs!
The monster shakes off the blast and snaps in their wake.
Hiccup directs his squadron out of harm's way. They climb out of reach and circle each other.

"Nope, not far at all," North says to himself smirking.

TUFFNUT Look at us, we're on a dragon!
We're on dragons, all of us!

HICCUP Up, let's move it!
The dragons climb past the Red Death.

ON THE GROUND Gobber hobbles over to Stoick.

GOBBER Every bit the boar-headed, stubborn Viking you ever were.
Stoick is speechless.

"ye could say that again," Spitlout says from his seat next to the chief.

IN THE AIR The group circles over the dragon's head.

HICCUP Fishlegs, break it down.

FISHLEGS Okay. Heavily armored skull and tail made for bashing and crushing.

(MORE)

FISHLEGS (CONT'D)
Steer clear of both. Small eyes,
large nostrils. Relies on hearing and smell.

"See look at that Fishlegs your knowledge on dragons certainly can come in handy," Hiccup tells his friend making him grin.

HICCUP Okay. Lout, Legs, hang in its blind spot. Make some noise, keep it confused. Ruff, Tuff, find out if it has a shot limit. Make it mad.

"YES!" The twins shout pumping their fist in the air before head bumping each other.

RUFFNUT That's my specialty.

TUFFNUT Since when? Everyone knows I'm more irritating. See.

(IRRITATING SOUNDS)

"nuh uh!" Ruffnut says before making her own irritating sounds.

HICCUP

(EXASPERATED)
Just do what I told you. I'll be back as soon as I can.

TUFFNUT Don't worry, we got it covered!

FISHLEGS Yeah!
Hiccup and Astrid peel away. The teens bank and dive toward the monster, splitting up. The Twins race alongside the monster's head, taunting it.

TUFFNUT Troll!

RUFFNUT Butt Elf!

TUFFNUT Bride of Grendel!

"If it wasn't for the fact that you are saying these things to a monstrous dragon I would put you both in solitary confinement for your language," The twins mother says.
The Red Death unloads a spray of fire at the twins. They barely dodge it.
Fishlegs and Snotlout hang behind its eyes, banging away at their shields, making a racket.
The Red Death opens all SIX of its eyes, spotting them.

FISHLEGS Uh, this thing doesn't have a blind spot.

"Things just got real," Flynn says.

ON HICCUP AND ASTRID ... searching for Toothless. Hiccup spots him among the burning ships.

HICCUP There!
He steers the Nadder over the deck and hands Astrid the reins. He lines up his jump... and hops off, guarding his face from the flames. He lands on the burning deck.

The audience once again serious, scoots to the edge of their seats.

HICCUP (CONT'D)

(TO ASTRID)
Go help the others!
She and the Nadder take off.
As Hiccup fights his way to Toothless. He unbuckles the muzzle. Toothless shrieks.

HICCUP (CONT'D)
Okay, hold on. Hold on.
He gets to work on the chains.

ON SNOTLOUT AND FISHLEGS They clang their weapons against their shields, making the monster wince.

SNOTLOUT It's working.
The huge beast starts to sway its head dizzily.

FISHLEGS Yeah! It's working.

The Vikings cheer.

" um I don't mean to pop your bubble but..."
PAN DOWN to reveal that the noise is also confusing the Gronckle and the Monstrous Nightmare. Both dragons lose their bearings.

"...doesn't making noise distract all dragons," Kristoff says.
The Red Death thrashes, knocking Snotlout off of his dragon and onto the monster's gigantic head. Snotlout bounces across the top and comes to a stop just shy of the hundred foot drop.

SNOTLOUT Agghh!
Fishlegs' Gronckle goes down in a spin of confusion.

FISHLEGS I've lost power on the Gronckle.
Snotlout! Do something!
He hurls Snotlout his hammer. The Gronkle crashes and skids to a stop...

FISHLEGS (CONT'D)
I'm okay!

Several in the audience sigh in relief.
... then flips over, crushing Fishlegs.

FISHLEGS (CONT'D)

(FEEBLE)
Less okay.

Not able to help themselves several people burs out laughing or in Anna and Elsa's case giggling behind their hands.

BACK TO SNOTLOUT ... who eyes the Red Death's gigantic, veiny eyes. He raises the hammer...

SNOTLOUT I can't miss!
... and hammers the monster's eyes, playing whack-a-mole.

SNOTLOUT (CONT'D)
What's wrong buddy, got something in your eye?

"oh my gosh that was actually funny," Astrid says.
Astrid flies by on her Nadder, catching Snotlout in all his heroics.

ASTRID Yeah! You're the Viking!
Snotlout grins, finally vindicated in her eyes. In his distraction, he gets thrown and lands heavily on one of the Red Death's spines - clinging precariously. A close call.

"Focus Snotlout!" Gobber says snapping into teacher mode, "have I taught you nothing!" He adds on before realizing he's talking to an inanimate object.

SNOTLOUT Whoa!

ON THE GROUND The monster's tail sweeps across the burning ships, snapping masts like twigs. We follow one down as it crashes onto a deck, revealing...

HICCUP Working at the chains. He can't budge them. Fire licks at his clothes. He looks up to see..

THE RED DEATH blasting at the teens, enraged.
The monster's giant foot crashes through frame, smashing the bow under its impressive weight.
Hiccup and Toothless are thrown into the water in a maelstrom of burning planks and rigging.

"NO!" several people shout out but the loudest is Stoick.

UNDERWATER Hiccup swims toward Toothless. They're both caught in a mess of rigging, being dragged down. The heavy palette settles into the rocky bottom like an anchor. Toothless has stopped struggling. Hiccup takes one more hopeless tug at the chains -
he's almost out of air.

It starts to snow lightly not enough to stick to anything, but still noticeable. However, most are to preoccupied worrying about Hiccup and Toothless to care about the snow.
Suddenly, a meaty hand grabs Hiccup.
STOICK explodes to the surface, pulling Hiccup to the shoreline through flaming debris. He lays him down, under the shelter of an overhanging rock.

HICCUP

(OVERWHELMED)
Dad...
Stoick dives back into the water between flaming flotsam.

UNDERWATER ON TOOTHLESS, drowning. Stoick appears in front of him.
Toothless freezes. Stoick tears the chains off of the yoke and lets it float free.
Momentary stillness. They eye each other, through the churned up bubbles. Toothless lunges out of the bars - grabbing Stoick.
BOOM! In an explosion of sea water, Toothless lands on the shore, setting Stoick down and releasing him. Hiccup is awed.

As is everyone in the audience, and it stopped snowing and the room got slightly warmer.
The ground rumbles underfoot. The monster screeches. Its massive claws stomp around in the smoke.
Stoick gives way as Toothless mounts the rock and raises his wings. He turns to Hiccup and SNORTS - ‘Let's go.'

HICCUP (CONT'D)
You got it, bud.
Hiccup climbs onto Toothless and buckles himself in.
Stoick grabs his arm

Several people suck in their breath wondering what Stoick is going to do and wondering if it will have any negative consequences.

STOICK Hiccup. I'm sorry...for everything.

HICCUP Yeah...me too.

STOICK You don't have to go up there.

HICCUP We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard.
They exchange smiles.

STOICK I'm proud to call you my son.
Hiccup beams, taken aback.

HICCUP Thanks dad.

"Awe," Rapunzel says, " Father son bonding."
Stoick lets go of Hiccup's arm.
Hiccup spurs Toothless on, charged with his father's belief in him. They rocket into the sky as Stoick watches.

"You know," Gobber says, "may be every thing will be alright after all."