one's badass and one's really persuasive 

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02:21 PM. THE ICY SEA

a boat floats on the cold waters, slowly and steady. it's the dragon trappers ship. of course. 

"keep your eyes peeled, lads!" eret shouts to his men as he looks out onto the horizon. "with this wind, we'll reach drago by daybreak. so best we fill this ship up with dragons and quick!" he walks down onto the deck with concern on his face, sighing deeply. "it's no time to be picky!"

"eret..." a man says, getting his attention.

"not if we want to keep our..." eret's eyes widen in glee when he sees three dragon silhouettes flying towards the boat. "heads!" he laughs, he's not going to die today! "off the port quarter!" eret shouts, the men preparing the ballistas. "net them, lad! take them down!"

eret loads the one of the ballista with a net, squinting to see the dragons before his eyes widen at the sight of the familiar beings. the targaryen, the valyrian dragon and the night fury. and two the dragons riders. one blonde, one brunette. 

"you're not getting away this time," he growls, switching the lever and firing the net. "fire!" midnight flies over the netting, easily dodging it. "reload!" and as stormfly swoops above and spins, toothless dodging left and right with grace.

"reload..."

"incoming!"

midnight lands on the ship, her eyes peering at every insignificant human here. she lifts her head, y/n petting her neck. toothless lands besides her, with hiccup on him. astrid at y/n's other side and the blonde is ready for any type of battle as she grabs her battle axe. y/n gifted it to her with the help of astrid's mother. hiccup takes off his mask, shaking his hair as y/n flips off her hood. 

"and here i was worried we might turn up empty handed," eret smirks, aiming his sword towards hiccup. y/n takes moonlight out, with astrid, both of them ready to hurt these dragon trappers but hiccup stops them both. y/n and astrid look at each other in confusion. what?

"nope. it's your lucky day," he grins widely, y/n glancing at him as chitters rumbles with a confusion face. "we give up!" eret's eyebrow raises as his smirk falls to a confused frown, his sword drooping ever so slightly.

"i..." y/n doesn't even know what to say. surely violence was going to be involved? "alright," she mutters, getting off midnight as the dragon drops her wing down. y/n puts moonlight in her holder, looking around at the boat. she's seen grander. astrid gets off stormfly, looking over to y/n. what is going on?

"that's one night fury," hiccup pets toothless on the nose, the night fury rumbling in response. y/n's violet eye twitches. what in the seven hells in going on? "one deadly nadder, and one valyrian dragon," hiccup cheerfully says, tossing a net on astrid and grabbing her axe. astrid freezes, unsure of what she should do. she looks to y/n for help and the girl just shrugs. "and three of the finest dragon riders west of luk tuk," y/n takes the net off astrid, looking down at moonlight. 

"i will be taking this back from you," she says, pointing it at eret. "if you try and wield it, you will wound yourself. and then i will wound you," she walks at the same pace of astrid, hiccup also giving eret astrid's war hammer.

"that ought to make the boss happy, right?" hiccup asks.

midnight snarls at eret as she struts past him, following y/n. and toothless growls, following his family. he doesn't like this. 

"move the axe out of our way or i will remove the hand you are wield it with," y/n says, to a dragon trapper who was acting all tough but they're not anymore. the dragon trapper whimpers, removing the axe from y/n's direction as she walks on. 

"what are you doing?" astrid whispers as y/n gets into the cage. she's doing this for hiccup. she's doing this for hiccup. she's doing this for hiccup. midnight starts to climb in after her. everywhere y/n goes, midnight follows. everywhere midnight goes, y/n follows. or tries her hardest too. she can't fly.

"ah," y/n coos. "umbagon bē konīr,"

"you too, toothless," hiccup says as he climbs down. "stay," toothless peers into the cage, astrid hopping in. toothless and midnight look at each other in concern for a moment before toothless lightly paws at the cage as it lowers. midnight chitters, smelling the cage before making a face of disgust. yuck. why does it smell like sweat? "uh, the dragons don't care for cramped spaces, so they'll just hang out with you," hiccup calls to the trappers as they continue to watch everything go on in confusion. "they won't be any trouble,"

toothless roars and jumps in surprise with his wings stretched upwards as the dragon trappers aim their weapons at them. midnight narrows her eyes, toothless letting out a low growl. a dangerous one.

"unless you do something silly as you have just displayed," y/n says, peeking her head through one of the gaps in the cage. hiccup does the same, astrid looking at the two like they're crazy. and they just might be. 

"you know, wooden boat..." hiccup says. "big ocean..."

"how do you fair in swimming?" y/n asks them allowed with a bitter smile. 

"not good..." a dragon trapper replies sheepishly, y/n hiding her laugh with a cough. eret exhales loudly in disbelief, looking towards the sky in annoyance. the rdagon trappers all jump with gasps as hiccup raises his flame sword.

"oops! almost forgot," hiccup lightly smacks his head as he he slides open the cage. "you can't have armed prisoners!" he hands it over to one of the trappers, astrid letting out a groan.

"how is this a plan?" she asks y/n who purses her lips. 

"i have not a clue," y/n admits. "however, i do trust hiccup. and whatever plan he might or might not have, i am willing to follow it,"

"you guys are so in love, it's making me sick," astrid teases. y/n rolls her eyes, smirking at astrid. 

"i am sure your lover is out there somewhere," y/n says with a smile. "wherever they may be, i hope they match you in strength,"

"no one can match me in strength," astrid states, the two girls laughing. 

"just what every dragon trapper needs," hiccup says, advertising his sword with a light and sweet tone. " one end coats the blade in monstrous nightmare saliva," hiccup explains as the man releases the gas from the sword, y/n rolling this eyes. she hopes they burn. not fully. obviously. "the other sprays hideous zippleback gas. all it needs is a spark, and..." eret, realising what is about to happen, rushes away quickly and quietly as the dragon trapper who was messing with hiccup's sword pushes a button on the handle, a spark releasing from the sword and causing the gas to explode as hiccup ducks down.

the explosion does nothing to y/n as she wipes the ash from her face. she is unfazed. 

"oh, yeah. there you go!" hiccup laughs, looking back out at the trappers, now covered in ash and scorch marks. nope, not burnt as much as she hoped. he scans over y/n, seeing she's fine. midnight coos at y/n, settling next to the cage as the embers from the fire sword start to float around.

toothless starts to rumble as he starts playing with an ember floating in the air.

"once they see you as one of their own, even the testiest dragons can be trained. right guys?" hiccup grins, midnight cooing at him in response.

"give me that," eret says, snatching hiccup's sword, hurling it out to sea as stormfly quickly chases after it. she loves fetch. it's such a good game. "what game are you two playing?" eret demands, glaring down at hiccup and y/n as he points at them.

"i was unaware that we were playing a game," her violet eyes holding eye contact with him. even though he's the one standing above her, he feels like she's the one above him. 

"there is no game," hiccup says, following on from y/n, as stormfly returns with the sword. "we just want to meet drago," she drops it near eret who looks at it with raised eyebrow and tosse it back towards the sea. 

"why?"

"do you need to know why?" y/n asks, eret furrowing his eyebrows at her. toothless silently sits next to midnight who's licking her paw. "if you must know, we will be revaluating his mind towards dragons,"

the dragon trappers laugh, eret looking down at the sword at his feet in disbelief as stormfly eagerly wags her tail, waiting for him to throw the sword again.

"hiccup can be really persuasive," astrid warns in a light tone, peeking out. "and y/n," everyone looks at the girl who's rubbing midnight's nose with her hand. the white hair, the purple eyes, the [skin colour] skin. "is pretty badass so why wouldn't you listen to her? she's the last targaryen, for thor's sake!"

"having a dragon by your side," y/n starts, knowing all eyes are on her. all eyes have been on her since birth. it is something she is used to. "is a feat that nothing else could come close to,"

"once you earn their loyalty there is nothing a dragon won't do for you," hiccup nods, looking up at eret. the male blows a raspberry, shaking his head. 

"you won't be changing any minds around here," he points to behind him with his thumb where stormfly is pushing some of the trappers, trying to get their attention. she still wants to play tag.

"we can change yours," hiccup replies with a grin, stepping out of the cage. he pulls the leaver on toothless' wing, allowing the tail to flap out. "right here, right now," he puts his hand out for y/n, the girl taking it and getting up.

"do we have the possibility to change-" both dragon riders are snatched up, hiccup shouting out as the two are suddenly in the air. the masts of the ship were torn by dragon wings, causing it to roughly sway side to side. 

"dragon riders!" eret shouts as astrid gets out of the cage, her blue eyes wide with concern.

midnight screeches in fear, taking off and following after y/n as toothless who is snarling in anger, climbs up the ripped masts and onto a high beam. his predator demeanour changes quickly, a rumble coming from his throat as he tilts his head at the other dragons. the other dragons that he's own for about five years.

"if you do not release me," y/n starts as the twins hold her captive, it mostly being tuffnut. "i will tell midnight to burn you,"

"you wouldn't," tuffnutt says, y/n narrowing her violet eyes. "you definitely would," y/n is dropped, midnight finding herself at the perfect place at the perfect time. y/n manages to swing herself around midnight's body, landing on the girls back.

"avy jorrāelan," y/n whispers, rubbing midnight's head. "sīr olvie," y/n doesn't particularly want to drown again, any time soon. 

"put me down! snotlout!" hiccup groans, looking up as hookfang is carrying him. "w-what are you doing?"

"see how well i protect and provide?" snotlout smirks at ruffnut, who groans in annoyance and shakes her head. nets are thrown towards the twins direction, making them dodge and duck them.

"ah! what's with all the nets?" tuffnut asks, their dragon manoeuvring out the way for them. 

"hey, watch it!" ruffnut yells at her twin brother. "that was..." her blue eyes widen when she sees eret. and it seems like everything is slowing down. eret aims at them, her eyes following his movements. "oh...my..." eret switches the lever, causing his muscles to flex and relax. "me likey..." the net fires at them, ruffnut holding her arms out in surrender. "take me!" the net wraps around her and barf as hiccup grunts with narrowed eyes, kicking himself from hookfang and opening his suit.

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"hold your fire!" astrid shouts, pushing eret out of the way and he misses a shot that was going to hit y/n and midnight.

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midnight flies at hiccup's side, the two avoiding the airborne net. hiccup grabs the mast, gracefully sliding down it and landing on the deck as y/n slips off midnight, on purpose. hiccup catches her with ease, setting her down on the boat gently.

"uh, what are you guys doing here?" hiccup asks, dusting his costume. midnight lands behind y/n, stretching out her wings. making it seem like y/n is the one with those wings. toothless jumps down, looking around curiously. 

"we're here to rescue you!" gobber replies as grump lands heavily on the ship, the men yelping to avoid him. gobber points the two, mainly pointing at hiccup. y/n takes her sword back, sheathing it. 

"we don't need to be rescued!" hiccup informs with raised brows.

"enough!" stoick lands. skullcrusher, his dragon, roaring and silencing everyone. hiccup makes a face as he realises his father is here too. stoick jumps onto the deck, a scowl on his face as he walks forward.

"well, didn't you just pick the wrong ship, eh?" eret says, walking towards stoick. y/n scrunches up her nose. well, that's not a good idea. "i am eret. son of-" stoick pushes his hand into eret face, the male unable to finish the declaration of his name. eret staggers back, landing on his bum before rising. "i'm-" gobber hits eret with his hammer lightly, causing him to collapse and grunt as grump uses him as a fleshy pillow. "get...this thing...off me!" eret wheezes out, struggling to get out from under grump.

"anyone else?" gobber rhetorically questions, snotlout punching his fist into his hand, apparently, intimidating the crew. "that's what i figured,"

"you," stoick points towards y/n and hiccup, mostly talking his son.  he walks over, fixing his belt. "saddle up. we're going home,"

y/n goes to walk to get onto midnight but hiccup stops her, looking back at his father. 

"no," hiccup states, putting y/n behind him. he would protect her, always.

"of all the irresponsible-"

"we're trying to protect our dragons and stop a war!" hiccup interrupts his father, with the same tone that his father is projecting. "ow is that irresponsible?!"

"because war is what he wants, son!" stoick shouts, making hiccup sigh and look away. midnight chitters, both her and toothless looking at the human's in worry. stoick sighs, looking up at his son. his anger faded away at he starts to talk. "years ago, there was a great gathering of chieftains to discuss the dragon scourge we all faced..."

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stoick's scowling face appears, younger. no white in his hair or beard and less wrinkles on his face. he looks around the darkened room with sharp green eyes, other chiefs gathered around the table and many other viking's gathered around the smaller tables. 

"into our midst came a stranger from a strange land..." a man is in the room, his face concealed by a hood and a black cloak trailing behind him. "covered in scars and draped in a cloak of dragon skin. he carried no weapon...and spoke softly," the man starts to speak, a tone of calm in his voice. "saying that he drago bludvist, was a man of the people," he gestures around the room, stoick looking at drago intently and stroking his thick beard. "devoted to freeing mankind from the tyranny of dragons. he claimed that he alone could control the dragons, and that he alone could keep us safe. if..." drago pauses, looking around the room. "we chose to bow down and follow him,"

all the viking's in the room laugh, clapping and banging their hands on the table.

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fishlegs and snotlout laugh together as they stand on the dragon trapper boat, along with ruffnut and tuffnut who are still sitting on their dragon still.

"good one,"  tuffnut laughs, wiping a tear from his eye.

"aye...we laughed, too," stoick says, his voice full of regret as he continues, looking at his son. y/n stands by hiccup's side, listening. is this why targaryen's don't interfere with viking matters?

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"until he wrapped himself in his cloak and cried out,"

"then see how well you do without me!" drago's muffled voice shouts as he turns and leaves the ancestral building. stoick watches the man leave before gasping and looking up. the sound of fire hissing overwhelms everyone's senses. 

"the rooftop suddenly burst into flames, and from it, armoured dragons descended. burning the hall to the ground," armoured dragons swoop inside the hall, setting the entire building aflame as drago calmly leaves. it wouldn't hurt him. the dragons knew better than to hurt him.

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"i..." stoick was looking up to the blue skies but remembering this horrific part of his life, he closes his eyes in sadness. "was the only one to escape,"

the others look at him in sympathy, their laughter long gone. hiccup sighs softly, y/n twisting the rings on her fingers as her eyes are full of sadness. they are plain ring made out of valyrian steel. hiccup notices, taking y/n's hand into his. she smiles in thanks.

"men that kill without reason cannot be reasoned with," stoick says to his son with his hands up. 

"maybe," hiccup disagrees, walking towards toothless as y/n lets go of his hand, mounting onto midnight.

"hiccup," stoick says, following him.

"we're still going to try," eret looks at hiccup in surprise. "this is what i'm good at," y/n shakes her head. he is good at so much more. "and-and if i can change your mind, i can change his, too," astrid smiles, nodding as stoick scowls and shakes his head.

"jikagon," y/n whispers to midnight, midnight shooting up as toothless follows with a roar. 

astrid races to stormfly, jumping on the dragon.

"let's go-"

"no!" stoick shouts, making astrid flinch. "lead the others back to berk," he points towards the other young adults with his pointer finger. "i've had enough mutiny for one day," astrid falters, looking over to midnight's and toothless' backs, who are flying further and further away. 

ruffnut lays down on her stomach next to eret, who jumps at her sudden presence.

"ooh, i like that," she says in a sultry voice, grabbing his bicep as he yanks his arm away in disgust.

"ruffnut!" stoick shouts, making the girl groan. 

"ugh, okay!" ruffnut shouts in annoyance, rising and kissing her fingers. she moves them towards eret, who tries smacking her away before groaning in disgust as she pats his lips with them. ruffnut follows stoick as eret wipes his mouth, his face showing disgust as he scowls on after her.