The battle of the nest (part 2)

"Looks like we made it in time" Delvin Said, giving Snap-Bone a pat on the neck, causing the dragon to let out a happy growl as they flew towards the black dragon that was toothless, he tried to not smirk too hard behind his helmet when he saw the starstruck look on the boys face. His and toothless practically had their jaws on the ground even from up here "Hope you don't mind the company!"

[Author note: the armor he's wearing is the Seregios armor from Monster Hunter Sunbreak]

Hiccup just stared at him for a few more seconds before shaking his head and looking towards Snap-Fang, poor toothless was being dwarfed by his size "h-how long have you had him for?".

"Nearly 4 years now," Delvin said, unable to hide his smug tone "raised him from an egg"

"4 years!?" poor hiccup looked like he was going to faint in shock. However, his expression soon changed as the giant dragon beneath them let out another roar, sending an ark of flame towards them "Wow!"

"So," Delvin said, nodding towards the giant dragon and then towards the incoming horde of dragons, they were practically blocking out the horizon "which one do you want to deal with?!"

Hiccup wasn't given a chance to answer as toothless let out a growl, scowling at the now flying mountain that had raised to their level and was looking straight at them "i think toothless has already decided for us" hiccup said, smirking dryly as he looked towards his friend

"Give 'em hell" Delvin nodded, although he quikly noted how fast the other dragons were approaching before turning to the bigger one "this might help though… Snap-pine!" he yelled. Following an unheard order, Snap-pine gave a roar, his scales suddenly standing up, creating a mane of sharp spikes before the golden dragon spun, flinging its tail towards the moving mountain flinging scales towards it, piercing three of its eyes directly and rendering it blind on one side

"you want a blind spot! Stick to the left side! Haha" Delvin laughed as he flew towards the beach, away from the pissed-off dragon and the boy who began to fly towards it

"Down there!" Delvin ordered, pointing towards the beach and the Vikings who had now gathered there, staying away from the fight between Hiccup and the queen. Landing with a loud impact and the scrape of claws as Snap-pine practically dive-bombed the people of Berk, Delvin took off his helmet and looked towards a few of the people, all of which were staring at him with different expressions, but mainly shock and said their nodded towards them all with a greeting

"Cheif", Stoick was looking at him with a mix of shock and awe

"Gobber" he was the same as Stoick

"Astrid", the poor girl looked like she had gotten an answer to all her questions only to find more questions

"Mom" nothing but pride on the woman's face as usual

"Looks like we've found ourselves in quite the predicament huh," Delvin told them looking toward hiccup who was now leading the giant dragon into the sky and the approaching horde that would be upon them in less than a minute "we haven't got much time so I'll keep this short and sweet!"

"You came here expecting a seige!" Delvin yelled addressing the hundreds of Vikings before him, some like Astrid looked excited but the majority looked upset "you're angry aren't you!? You came here to fight and all you got was a sucker punch from the gods! Well, guess what!? They aren't done yet!"

"You want peace? With or without the dragons!? Doesn't matter! Right now we fight for the boy and the nightfury who are clinging for life as we speak, we are going to hold this damn nest of theirs and we are going to keep it!"

"You want peace? Fight for it!" Delvin yelled looking around him to the Vikings who were picking up their weapons and shields "you want to kill dragons? This is your final chance!"

"Today we take peace or they take our lives!" Delvin yelled raising his halberd, feeling the beat of Snap-pines wings as he began to lift from the ground

"For Berk!" he yelled as he flew towards the incoming horde

"FOR BERK!!!" every man and woman roared, remanning the catapults, grabbing their spears. Some like Astrid jumped on her own dragon and followed him others like Stoick and Gobber charged at the beasts from the land

This would be the final fight between Vikings and Dragons, they'd best make the most of it

And so they ran towards the dragons, slamming into the swarm as the cloud of dragons landed upon them, the Vikings fighting tooth and claw as only they could, each taking down dragons of their own

Delvin flew high above, striking down any that tried to fly past, cleaving heads and wings with his halberd while Snap-pine became a flurry of thrown scales beneath him, flying from dragon to dragon, skewering some from above with his scales and grabbing others with his claws before throwing them back into the swam, taking dozens out of the air with a single throw

All Delvin could do was hold onto the reins, no longer sitting on his beast's back and instead standing as he swung his Halberd from left to right, hunting and striking down any that tried to sneak past, ensuring that hiccup could fight that dragon above without interruption

"I knew you were up to something!" he heard from his left, turning he could see Astrid beside him, mounted on a Deadly nadder and taking out just as many dragons as hi as the weaved and sored within the mass of dragons, striking down those she could and having her dragon shoot down those that were too far away.

"It was supposed to be a surprise!" Delvin joked as he swung his halberd towards a monstrous nightmare that was aiming a fireball into the clouds where hiccup was fighting the giant, as evidenced by the occasional flash of purple that broke through the clouds

"Well, you certainly had me going!" Astrid yelled as she drew her dragon behind Snap-pine, defending his rear as they fought back to back, dragon to dragon in the swirling mass of reptiles, raining blood and scale onto the Vikings below as they too fought for them.

Killing dragons for peace with dragons, oh the irony

"I thought that when you were constantly disappearing into the woods you were trying to hide a secret girlfriend or something, not taming a damn dragon!" Astrid yelled over to him as she plucked a spike from her nadders tail and threw it towards a terrible terror that had latched onto Snap-pines wing

"Raising a dragon technically!" Delvin called back as Snap-pine spun like a drill in the air, spraying every dragon nearby, aside from Astrids, with either fire or scales "I found his egg on the same day I got attacked by that nadder, i thought he would be a good weapon! Wasn't expecting the emotional bond!" Delvin laughed as he drove the tip of his halberd into the wing of a Zippleback that was trying to blind them with smoke

They kept at this for what felt like hours, swing after swing, dead dragon after dead dragon, bathing themselves and their dragons in blood. They didn't target any dragons that retreated but those that attacked or tried to assist the queen?

Those ended up dead, their bodies falling down to Vikings below

Speaking of the Vikings, they seemed to be having the times of their lives, enjoying one final battle and even laughing or crying as they realized this would end one of two ways, Peace or Valhalla, neither a bad option. Stoick and gobber led the ground forces, taking down an uncountable number of dragons each. The twins got the scars they wanted as they covered the backlines with the other dragon riders, knocking any dragon that tried to get to the nest or the skies above with either their weapons or spewed fire

And only when the queen came crashing down to the ground with an impact that shook both the ground and the air, its wings filled with holes and its throat choking on fire did the dragons retreat and stop fighting entirely, no longer seeing a need to fight with their queen and captor dead

It was then and only then that the Vikings stopped fighting, their clothes and skin black with ash and soot and their weapons covered in dragon blood for the final time

And as the dust settled it revealed the fallen form of a nightfury, toothless had survived and in doing so had protected hiccup, carrying him to safety in his wings

Well… most of him