A/N: Just gonna out a reminder for the lemon that is associated with this story here, It's in my other story centered around one-shots and drabble things and that's where I'll likely put all of the content similar to it in the future.

With that out of the way. I know the last chapter was basically filler, but it had to be done. I didn't want to drag the marriage over a bunch of chapters to add needless length, I don't think it really suits Astrid's character very well and all things considered I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Now onto the next chapter!

Hiccup tightened his shield around his arm and stomped his foot to make his boot sit properly. He heard Astrid boots pad down the stairs behind him and he glanced at her. She was wearing the suit of armor he'd made for her before they left, her own helmet tucked under the crook of her arm whilst his was in the other hand.

She tossed it at him and he caught it and smirked at her "Off to save the village again?"

"Well, I figure if we don't do it. No one will." He quipped as he pulled the helmet over his head.

There was a knock at the door and Hiccup tugged it open as Astrid donned her helmet and walked out behind him, the teenagers of Berk stood in front of his house, their dragons spread in the square behind them.

Hiccup glanced at the sun, beginning to dip towards the horizon and rolled his neck calmly as Toothless landed in the square in front of them, Stormfly flanking behind him, Ghost remained perched on the roof of his home.

"Now we are going to go evict some Whispering Deaths." Hiccup voiced positively.

The group fell into step behind him, Fishlegs was the first to speak.

"Uh, Hiccup, just a small thing about that really, I mean the plan is good, is a great plan actually it's just that you know…It might not work." The blonde spoke quickly.

"Fishlegs, we double checked the dragon manual, spoke to every experienced dragon slayer on the island and we know the Whispering Death's are congregating on the eastern side of the island," Hiccup drawled as he checked Toothless's saddle "Besides, you guys have the easy part."

"You're part is the one I'm talking about," Fishlegs groaned in exasperation "You can't fly where you can't see!"

"I don't need to see," Hiccup replied simply "Toothless will see for me, wont'cha bud?"

Toothless warbled affirmatively and the pair gave Fishlegs a pointed stare.

"Fine, but if you die. I'm gonna write 'Fishleg's told him so.' On your grave." Fishlegs let out the exasperated shout and through his arms into the air.

Hiccup chuckled "Alright, all of you head into the forest, remember Whispering Death's lurk in packs when they are young, so cover each other's backs."

"What if the largest ones with us?" Tuffnut asked quickly.

"Distract it and keep It above ground until I can get there, we know they are quick and I don't want to risk any of you getting cause off guard." Hiccup returned strongly "Then it's just a matter of forcing the largest one off the island."

"And moving their eggs, Whispering Death's always return to the place where they were hatched I'd say there's a good chance the eggs hold a smell they can recognize anywhere."

Hiccup nodded "We need to get them off our island first, preferably without killing them. But if you're cornered your lives are more important than theirs, understood?"

The group nodded and Hiccup pulled himself into Toothless's saddle "Let's go bud." He smirked as he gave the Night Fury a light pat on the neck.

It didn't take long for them to fly around the island to where they had found the Whispering Death's nest, the pair padded in slowly in case one happened to be lurking close to home.

"Okay bud, do your thing." Hiccup whispered, Toothless let out an inaudible hiss, a dark indigo line rolled out in front of them, lining the walls enough the Hiccup could see where everything was even if he couldn't make it out clearly. There was a short interval between the waves of light and he took a moment to attune to them.

He lowered into Toothless's saddle and took a breath as they launched up into the massive hole hanging ominously above their heads.

Hiccup noticed it almost immediately, the stench was so strong it overwhelmed his nose and he clenched his eyes shut and halted Toothless so he could gag, Toothless head snapped around the small open cavern they were in worriedly and Hiccup's eyes traced the walls he could see. Toothless had a right to be worried.

The stench of Death hung heavily in the air.

Hiccup wiped at his nose as something caught his ear, the sound was so quiet he thought he was hearing things at first, it was a slight slide. Similar to the sound Toothless would make when he slipped off a rock, it was gone almost as soon as he'd heard it.

He glanced behind him and his eyes widened "Down!" Toothless folded his wings and the two dropped like a rock, barely avoiding a set of massive white jaws, Toothless unfolded his wings and came to a hover just above the bottom of the cavern "Now that we have his attention."

The thing was massive, Hiccup could make out small sections of red lining white scales, but other than that he could gather no other details in the dark "Toothless," The dragon glanced at him "Say hello." It looked like Toothless grinned as the familiar hiss of plasma boiling in his throat reached Hiccup's ears before the blast slammed into the unknown dragon's face.

The thing let out a scream and dived at them, Hiccup lowered into the saddle and they curved around the beasts dive in moved into one of the many tunnels leading up, the creature turned swiftly, not even coming into contact with the ground of the cavern.

"Looks like he's fast too bud." Hiccup voiced as he spared a glance behind them, catching a glimpse of two red slitted piercing eyes.

Toothless let out a warbled as they weaved around the tunnels, Hiccup's eyes scanned everywhere, trying to find a way above ground where Toothless had an un-doubtable advantage, in these narrow tunnels that couldn't make any moves to attack, they were lucky the dragon had elected to pursue them so far as it was.

Hiccup frowned, this dragon built these tunnels, he knew it was fast at least fast enough that it should be keeping a much closer pace to Toothless especially since his Night Fury had to fly slower in order to keep from hitting a wall in an unfamiliar place.

Why was it giving them such a lead?

Hiccup drew back on the saddle as the realization struck him, a young Whispering Death speared down ahead of them burrowing passed them, Hiccup sent a look at the large creature behind them, they'd managed to find a small uneven part of ground that hid Toothless almost completely.

"I've got an idea," Toothless glanced at him in very unconvinced manner "Don't look at me like that, it's a great plan…probably," Toothless let out a sarcastic warble "Whatever, I think this things led us away from any way to the surface, so we are going to make our own hole."

Toothless shot him a look that just screamed 'And how do you propose we do that?'

"Simple." Hiccup went silent as the creature flew over them and he gestured for Toothless to ram the things stomach, Toothless used a powerful wing beat and leapt throwing every ounce of weight he had into the blow.

The creature let out a surprised roar as it slammed the roof, but in its position it couldn't turn to attack them, so it turned it's head to the roof of the tunnel and drove through the stone.

Hiccup and Toothless took off in the other direction, away from where they'd be lead into the failed ambush, Hiccup continued to scan the openings on either side of them, he finally caught sight of a pool of light.

"There." He exclaimed Toothless rolled around as the something massive came slamming through the wall beside them, stone and dust showering them, Hiccup's shield unfolded and he slammed it against the creatures closing jaw as he locked his legs to Toothless back.

"Go bud!" Toothless whipped the dragon with his tail, the fin catching the left eye and causing the massive beast to recoil with a quick hiss of pain as Toothless took off down the tunnel.

"Toothless, open a hole." Plasma hissed and shattered the thing ling of stone that prevented them from successfully leave the tunnel.

The pair turned and hovered above the hole waiting for the large dragon to chase after them, at this point they'd inflicted more than enough damage to cause it to have a grudge against them.

It didn't follow them through the hole they had made, instead it came shattering through the ground into the air to hover in front of them, giving Hiccup his first good view of it in the light.

The head was enormous, dwarfing the other Whispering Death's easily, in fact it's head was likely larger than Toothless entire body. It's scales were pearly white, with small sections of red spread over it. It's eyes were completely blood red, save for the small black slits that were locked angrily onto them. It's body resembled that of the Whispering Death's it was thinner, spiked and spiraled behind it. But it was still substantially bigger than it's brethren.

He saw it take a breath and lean it's had back, before it let out an ear shattering screech, Toothless buckled as the noise assaulted his ears and the creature launched in that moment of weakness, Hiccup glanced down and then back up.

He sounded a resigned snort as he unhooked himself from Toothless saddle and quickly locked the tail, he launched off of Toothless head and caught one of the many spikes lining the side of the massive dragons head and slammed his shield into it, the blow was distracting enough that the beast moved off course and flew by Toothless as the Night Fury shook itself to recover and darted beneath them.

Hiccup dragged his blade across the things cheek as he dropped down, opening a thin gash across its face, blood oozed from the wound and the thing snapped to them, diving towards them quickly.

Above ground however, Toothless had the obvious advantage, they weaved through the trees expertly as the dragon behind them smashed into them, slowing with each thicket of old trees it slammed through.

The creature let out another loud roar, but instead of the debilitating shriek from before, this one didn't cause Toothless to change in any way, Hiccup frowned for a moment before the intention of the roar became clear.

"Aw, the babies calling for help." Hiccup taunted as Toothless rolled out of the way of a regular Whispering Death launching out of the ground to snap at them.

Toothless let out a similar amused warble "Well, we've got some of the followers, how about we go collect the rest?" Toothless rolled out of the way of another Whispering Death and let out a warble of agreement.

Astrid scanned the sky she could see in the moments reprieve they'd just gotten, she couldn't see Hiccup or Toothless, but she couldn't see all that much through the trees.

She breathed heavily, it hadn't taken long for the Whispering Deaths to launch their ambush, fortunately the group of teens hadn't landed completely on the ground and their dragons had managed to get out of the way, the teens themselves were now back to back in a large clearing, numerous holes surrounding them and all of them breathing heavily.

"Won't they just come up where we are standing," Snotlout let out a alerted hiss, not taking his eyes off his surroundings "There's not a lot of safe ground where Whispering Death's are concerned."

"Well there isn't enough ground for our dragons to land either!" Astrid snapped back.

Fishlegs drove the spike attached to the bottom of his massive shield into the ground, the resulting clangs were much different from metal impacting on regular stone, in fact the earth beneath him didn't even chip, usually he could drive that spike completely into the ground, regardless of what was under them "Patch of bedrock. Even Whispering Death's can't burrow through this, that's why they build foundations out of it where this kind of Dragon is a more prominent problem."

"Great, so if we are gonna get eaten at least we'll see them coming! Fantastic!" Snotlout exclaimed in annoyance.

"At least they are too young to breath fire." Tuffnut voiced positively.

"Yeah, that would have made things WAY harder!" Ruffnut chorused in agreement.

"They're coming." Astrid warned, she could hear the ground moving around beneath them thanks to the tunnels around them.

With a hiss a Whispering Death launched from one of the tunnels in front of her, she noticed it was a little larger than the ones they'd been fighting previously, she didn't put much thought to it until it opened its mouth and a swirling mess of green gas caught her eyes. They widened as the gas ignited and flew towards her.

She felt someone pull her backwards, followed by the telltale sign of Fishleg's shield getting planted into the ground, the fire slammed the metal and the massive boy didn't so much as shift, he lifted the shield and locked his shoulder against it as he marched forward, Ruffnut fell into step behind him, keeping low to avoid the fire.

Fishlegs nodded and kicked the shield up, slamming the wall of metal into the underbelly of the dragon as Ruffnut vaulted his shoulder and speared just below the creatures left eye.

The dragon recoiled in shock and dived back under the ground.

"Aw, I want a shield like that." Tuffnut complained as a second dragon flew from the ground and dove at him.

He rolled backwards, tumbling acrobatically on his hands and landing out of the way of the creature almost gracefully, arms outstretched to either side of him.

His sister whistled and hooted "I give that a Ten!"

Tuffnut bowed as Snotlout darted passed him, again striking the creature weakly in order to not do any sort of fatal damage, just driving it back.

Astrid slid beneath another attacker and drove her boot into the underside of the things neck as it passed her, it let out a pained scream and Fishlegs leapt forward slamming his full weight and shield into its side, the thing struck a thick tree and hissed at him, launching a volley of spikes at him while he was recovering

Snotlout slid in front of him and spun the large great sword Hiccup had built him in his hands, battering most of the projectiles and catching the final in a gloves hand, the larger Whispering Death returned and Snotlout rolled out of the way of the stream of fire, allowing it to strike uselessly against Fishleg's shield as he tossed the spike towards the fire spewing dragons.

"What's their shot limit again?"

"Eight." Fishlegs gritted out as another smaller Whispering Death slammed against his shield.

Tuffnut launched forward and slammed both his feet against the side of the creatures head, before rolling back and landing low allowing Ruffnut to launch of his shoulder and land a third kick on the creatures face, driving it a little further into the air.

"So, either Hiccup get's here or Six to go." Astrid voiced as she rolled out of the way of a volley of spikes, she winced at a sharp pain in her abdomen and forced it out of her mind.

Three quick moving balls of purple rifled over her head and slammed into a few of the dragons as Toothless swept over the clearing.

The teens let out shouts of victory for a moment before a bloodcurdling roar reached their ears and the Whispering Death's all flew high, leaving the teens standing in the clearing in slightly terrified awe as the massive white dragon carved a path through the forest beside them.

"Looks like we got the whole party Toothless, What do you say we show em a thing or two?" Hiccup asked as he glanced behind them.

Toothless warbled in agreement as he twisted around a large sea stack and launched a ball of plasma back, it slammed the large white Whispering Death in the face and the thing let out another one of its ear piercing screeches, Toothless rolled out of the way of the cone of sound and fired another shot, striking the thing in the side of the jaw.

Hiccup battered away a volley of spikes another small Whispering Death threw at them with his shield, Hiccup smirked as a massive volley of fireballs struck the group of Whispering Death's the other teens hovered beside him.

Toothless glared directly at the massive white Dragon.

"Leave." Toothless snarled dangerously.

"I was hatched here, It is not as simple as you would like to believe." The dragon snarled in response

"This place does not belong to you, this land is deafened by dragon and human alike, if you will not leave you will die." Toothless warned flatly.

"You believe you and these humans are a threat to me?!" The dragon scoffed "I can smell their fear from here!"

"Yet they stand firm opposing you," Toothless glanced up as Ghost glided down to hover beside them "This is not a fight even a Screaming Death can win."

Both parties remained still, neither daring to attack as the dragons growled at each other.

"This is our hatching ground, if we were hatched in a place where we were fated to meet our end so be it. But I will not run away without a fight." The Screaming Death snarled ferociously.

"This was not meant to be your hatching ground," Ghost countered flatly "But we know where you should be, give us the opportunity to return you to your rightful place."

The dragon paused and Hiccup glanced at Ghost silently, eyes shifting between the two dragons quickly.

The Screaming Death peered around "Perhaps there is truth to what you say, my instincts tell me this place is….unfamiliar, that our kind do not often live here."

"Then you will leave?" Toothless questioned simply.

"For now," The white dragon growled "But be warned, should you be lying. Should our hatching ground remain here, there will be no force on this earth that will stop me from destroying you."

Toothless's eyes narrowed "We will see about that, you may be legendary amongst your kind but I have fought dragons much larger and much more terrifying than you could ever hope to become."

The Screaming Death snorted in response "You have One Cycle."

The massive dragon shifted its head and the Whispering Death's fell in behind it as it flew off towards the horizon as the sun dipped entirely beneath it, cloaking the sky in black.

"That's it?!" Snotlout exclaimed in annoyance "All that work and we don't even get to become legends for killing a Screaming Death?!"

"I'm surprised you even know what it's called." Fishlegs voiced in surprise.

"Hey, legend says if you kill one, you become the human vessel of Thor himself! Of course I know about it!" The group collectively groaned, of course Snotlout knew about it because of something like that.

"I'm just glad it's over and nobody died, I feel like I could sleep for a week." Ruffnut voiced as she stretched.

"I concur sister, we did much, much more work than even we were aware we were capable of doing." Tuffnut crossed his arms and stroked his chin.

"We might get a reputation for being good people from this you know." Ruffnut shuddered at the thought.

"Well, we will have to work to rectify that. Adieu our fellow compatriots, there is much planning to do. And a relatively good amount of time to do it." Tuffnut saluted his goodbyes and the twins were the first to leave for the village.

Followed closely by Fishlegs and Snotlout, Snotlout was attempting to goad Fishlegs into an argument by saying that Snotlout had saved his life, to which the blonde was just rolling his eyes.

"How are you feeling?" Hiccup asked, Astrid jerked slightly at the tone and the question.

"Still a little sore," Astrid admitted as she looked up at the stars "You know, it was a night like this wasn't it?"

Hiccup glanced up at the sky as the two began to leisurely glide back towards the village "Huh?" He sounded in question.

"When you kidnapped me with Toothless," She smirked as she answered dryly "Forced a Viking to fly on a dragon."

Hiccup chuckled "Well, I've never been orthodox, besides you seemed to like it. After you stopped fearfully screaming for your life."

"I was not screaming for me life, I wasn't even scared." Astrid defended crossing her arms, at that moment Stormfly buckled and the girl let out a shout of alarm and grabbed the saddle tightly.

Hiccup attempted to suppress a snicker, attempted as in failed miserably.

"Not. A. Word. Haddock!" Astrid growled at him.

"I wasn't going to say anything," He returned defensively, Astrid huffed and slowly got to her feet so she was standing on Stormfly's saddle "What are you doing?" Hiccup questioned in surprise.

Astrid balanced herself along the edge of Stormfly's wing silently, Hiccup and Toothless just stared at the girl as if she'd gone mad, granted at least they were close so he could easily be able to catch her if she fell, so he was content to let this play out.

Astrid got to the point where she could walk no further and lowered slightly, Stormfly shifted to the side as she jumped and Hiccups eyes widened as he locked Toothless tail and threw his arms out, catching Astrid around the waist as his stomach did a number of flips.

She twisted herself around and sat behind him "Okay, I'm never doing that again."

"I agree completely, that was terrifying," Astrid gave him a look "What?! Seeing my wife and love of my life launch herself off the back of a dragon is supposed to terrify me!"

Astrid blushed darkly as she pulled Hiccup's helmet off his head, she placed it in one of the many packs on the side of Toothless's saddle and placed a light kiss on Hiccup's cheek.

"I'm pretty strong myself you know, you don't have to worry that much." She wrapped her arms around his waist and leaned her head against his shoulder.

He leaned back slightly and rested his head on her opposite shoulder "I know. You're The Astrid Hofferson, even Thor would quake at the sound of your name!" He shouted the embellished exclamation with a laugh.

Astrid chuckled "So, how are you feeling after saving the village once again?" She questioned, peering at him with a smirk.

Hiccup took a breath and puffed out his chest "Well as always, it was a great effort from our entire group, we put together a well thought out plan that didn't work and just went with it from there and it somehow worked out." He explained in a voice almost imitating his fathers.

Astrid laughed "You know, someday we will just stop making plans."

"I second that notion, all our plans end up not working. We should just wing it from now on." Hiccup chuckled.

"Okay but seriously, how are you feeling?" Astrid asked

"A little tired, there's still a lot to do you know. I can't get soft now." Hiccup voiced with a small smile.

A wicked smile appeared on Astrid's face "I'm sure I can find away to, how would you say it? Keep you hard." She whispered into his ear suggestively.

Hiccup glanced at her a grin appearing on his own face as he glanced at her "Is that a promise milady?"

Astrid nibbled the edge of his ear lightly "Of course. My dragon."

The Haddock Household got very little sleep that night.

Someone pounding on his door awoke him, Hiccup rolled out of bed and pulled his pants up quickly, his head darted around for his shirt and he pulled it over his head as he called out "Yeah, I'm coming hang on!"

They beat against the door again and Hiccup pulled it open "What in Thor's beard is it now?!"

"Hiccup," Fishlegs promptly ignored the smaller boys suggestive appearance "We found a girl who says she's from Outcast Island, she's got a lot of info that I think you are going to want to hear."

Hiccup's face hardened as he nodded "I'll be down soon Leg's."

Fishlegs nodded as Hiccup swung the door closed, he walked over to Astrid who was still soundly asleep, which he uttered a thankful prayer for as he leant down and placed a light kiss on her forehead.

"I promise I'll end this soon." He voiced resolutely as he turned away from the bed and began strapping on his armor.

A/N: DUN DUUN DUUUUUUUUUUN. I wouldn't call this one a cliffhanger, more of a tease for what is to come as we approach the final arc of the Berserker/Outcast War! What are your theories? Hit me with predictions.

I really hope you guys enjoyed this and I am sorry about the long semi-hiatus from HTTYD I just wasn't getting ideas and the chapters I was writing felt really forced and, for lack of a better word they were fucking horrible. But I do hope you enjoyed the Whispering Death and Screaming Death encounters, we have not seen the last of them in the slightest but I hope it was a satisfying read!

Now onto our regularly scheduled replies!

LoveInterest: Well, fluff is the good version of cheese, so that one's more of an opinion. I felt like it was kinda cheesy, but hey if it was actually just fluffy great!

Mad Marty: Oh for sure, I read my reaction after I calmed down and I'm just like "Dayum, I need to bippity bopity back the fuck up." You made solid points of criticism and I reacted like a child, no harm done though! Glad you're still enjoying the story!

Scarlet Lupin: I can't really promise a lot of updates, but I am gonna really push to make my brain cooperate with me so I can finish this story off in the next month or so, wish me luck! Hope you enjoyed this chapter though!

OechsnerC: Not really a whole lot I can reply to 'hahaha' with. Hope that was enjoyment though!

Duckie: I could straight up see Tuffnut doing something like that at an actual Hiccstrid wedding (Please don't give my brain idea's I am drowning in stories as it is!) Regardless I'm really glad you're enjoying it and you know, that you're not actually dead!

Carl Solo: No problem, glad you enjoyed!

Guest 1: Thanks, hopefully you enjoy this chapter as well!

FireFlame159: Well, I mean it was necessary since I kinda said it was gonna happen and all, it was fun to write it out though. Hopefully this chapter makes up for it XD

Guest 2: No problem at all, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

NightStormPheonix: Well, I did say it was going to happen and I decided having the marriage happen before the conclusion was the best spot in the overarching story for a number of reasons that will be revealed later! Get excited (Or worried, if that's your thing. I can't tell you how to live your life.) For the future!

Iris Patton: Oh yeah, I got that hence why I was just playing at innocence, my relationship with cliffhangers is perfectly healthy, I can stop writing them whenever I want to stop *Whistles again* NOOOOOO, nothing bad will happen *Visualizes many things* Yeah, nah, you right it's not gonna be smooth sailing at all.

Rogue Deity Master: Yes, avoiding parasites is good. Although I don't really understand the context that's fine. Glad you enjoyed the chapter!

ShadowSpirit020: That they are my friend! Glad you enjoyed!