We got hit hard and got flew up out of the hole.

I was face up towards the sky. It was as if everything was in slow motion.

I turned my body and I was now looking down at the throat of a Whispering Death.

It's teeth going around in circles ready to grind me up into a pulp.

I felt tears drip out of my eyes and falling into its mouth.

'I guess this is it...'

I didn't see Hiccup but I saw Stormfly fly pass by in the corner of my eye.

I smiled to myself. 'At least a life isn't lost because of me...'

Until I looked down and saw the baby sheep screaming.

Everything then came back to normal and everything was going so fast.

I saw a flash of brown scales with a hint of black. I accidentally let go of the baby sheep and it got flunged some where.

I was hoping someone would of caught it and not the Whispering Death.

It was dark for what seemed like forever. But...then there was light shining through...wings?

My eyes were adjusting and I saw (y/d/n) looking down, staring at my face. (He/she) had (his/her) wings around me and legs for protection. My dragon titled its head slightly and gave me a soft growl.

I smiled "(y/d/n)..."

I turned my head and the Whispering Death flew in my face and my dragon's as it just stared. My dragon bared its teeth at it.

The gang ran up behind me. My dragon and I slowly got up from the ground as the Whispering Death just stares at all of us.

"I don't think he likes you in its hole." Tuffnut said casually.

I wasn't sure if he was trying to lighten up the mood or just couldn't read the atmosphere.

"Yeah, we got that." Hiccup said as he places a hand on my shoulder

"You okay?" He asks kindly.

I nodded my head as I gave him a sorry and guilty smile. I looked back at the Whispering Death.

"Can we get out of here! Please?" I heard Snotlout said in fear.

"No. I know I can train this thing. Anybody got some Dragon Nip?" Hiccup asks the group

Instantly, Snotlout and Fishlegs hands him a pile of Dragon Nip.

He gives them a weird look because of how fast and how much they carried.

Hiccup walked up the staring dragon "Don't be afraid...I'm a friend. Here..." he lift up the pile of Dragon Nip to the dragon's face as it slowly backs away in uncertainty.

Hiccup continued "You'll love this. All the dragons love this."

The Whispering Death smells it and then sneezes at the pile of Dragon Nip and it falls on top of our dragons.

They started to sway side to side and then collapsed on the forest floor.

"Oh, great. Now we're defenseless." Snotlout said behind me

Hiccup watched the Whispering Death "Any ideas? I'm throwing it wide-open to the group."

We all started to huddle together

"I got an idea...run!" Snotlout yelled.

We all turned and started to run into the forest.

Then we heard a huge thud and turned around

"Toothless!" Astrid shouted in excitement

Toothless tackled the Whispering Death and grabs onto its tail. He then tosses the dragon across the forest.

The dragon gets up and roars at Toothless as Toothless roars back and stomps.

Our dragons, who are now not affected by the Dragon Nip, started to surround the Whispering Death making the dragon shrink back and go back underground.

Hiccup walked up to Toothless and tries to mount him but Toothless rears and pushed Hiccup back while growling at him.

"Hey, bud. It's me. I know what's going on with you and that other dragon." Hiccup said trying to calm him. Toothless relaxes and looks at Hiccup

"Let me help you." Hiccup said as he tries to place a hand on his snout.

Instead Toothless runs after the Whispering Death and Hiccup starts to run after Toothless

"Toothless, come back!" Hiccup yells after Toothless.

However, Toothless turns towards Hiccup and fires at his feet to stop him from following. Toothless then turns back around and continues on his chase.

Tuffnut sneaks up behind Hiccup "Awkward." He comments.

Snotlout walks up beside me "Oh, by the way. Here." He started to toss me a boot and a little baby sheep.

I smiled widely and looked up at Snotlout. "Thanks! I thought I lost them!" I chuckled as I shoved my barefoot in my boot and snuggled the baby sheep as it licks my face.

I saw a stray sheep in the distance who was staring at my way.

I got the hint.

I crouched down and placed the baby sheep on the ground. It looked at me as if it was saying 'goodbye' and then ran towards the mother who looked up and bleated at me like she was saying 'thank you.' They both started to head towards the village, back home.

I stood up and softly smiled as they went.

•●●●•

We flew around the forest area to find Toothless again.

"So, when we were underground. We saw that the Whispering Death had a bite mark." Hiccup said to the group

"And that helps us because...?" Astrid asked as she looks over her shoulder at Hiccup.

"Because it's a bite mark of a Night Fury and we think Toothless and the Whispering Death have a grudge with each other." Fishlegs said adding some more information.

"So, Toothless has an arch-enemy. Kind of like you and me." Snotlout says as he pointed at Hiccup

"Snotlout! You're not my arch-enemy!" Hiccup exclaimed

"Well, you're mine!" Snotlout replied

"He's just trying to protect you." Astrid said to Hiccup

"That's not what it is! Toothless doesn't want you around because this is between him and the other guy. He's a fighter. Like me." Snotlout said as he beat his chest. He continued "Not... whatever you are." He finished as he gestures towards Hiccup.

Hiccup was silent. He didn't even look upset "I... never thought I'd say this, Snotlout, but I think you're right."

Snotlout was shocked "Wait... huh? You guys heard that, right?"

Snotlout looked over at me and I gave him a side nod and a smile.

"It's not a fair fight! If Toothless is gonna win, he has to fly. And he can't fly without me!" Hiccup blurted out.

"So, what are you saying?" Astrid asked

"I'm saying we need to find him. And soon."

We started to pick up the pace. Meanwhile, I got lost in my thoughts.

'I can't reach Astrid!'
'Just a little more! Just keep trying!'
'I can't!'
'Your fault'
'Weak'
'Useless'
'I CAN'T!'
'YOUR FAULT!'
'No...'
'YOUR FAULT'
'NO!'
'THIS IS YOUR FAULT!'
'NO, IT'S NOT!'
'THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!'

"(Y/N)!"

"Huh?! What?" I said as I looked up. I noticed I wasn't where I was flying.

"Are you okay? You started to slow down a lot and you weren't answering me." Astrid asked as she looked behind her shoulder.

Everyone was looking at me. There was worry in their facial expressions and confusion.

I wasn't sure how long she was calling out my name but it must have been enough if it got everyone's attention. Plus, I was at the front by Snotlout and suddenly I was now behind everyone.

I blinked "Oh! Yeah...I'm fine!" I gave everyone a reassuring smile.

Everyone except Astrid continued on searching. She gave me a worried look and went back to searching again.

•●●●•

It was about another ten minutes before we saw Toothless running in the forest.

Hiccup pointed at Toothless "There he is! Get me down there."

We all flew down towards Toothless. Hiccup jumped off of Stormfly and cautiously walked towards his distressed dragon.

Toothless turns and sees his friend approaching him with his hand out. Toothless lets Hiccup touch his snout as he softly gurgles.

"Hey, bud. You had me so worried there for a while." Hiccup said as he gave Toothless a hug "You haven't been yourself lately. Good to see you're still you."

The ground starts shaking again and the Whispering Death appears from the ground from a hole a couple of yards away. It looks at our direction and it roars.

"You can just walk away from this, bud!" Hiccup said to Toothless who was growling at the Whispering Death.

Hiccup tried to ride him again "Let's just go home..." but he got pushed away again.

Astrid and Fishlegs ran up beside Hiccup "You were so close. I thought you had him!" Fishlegs exclaimed disappointedly

Toothless tries to fly up and he shot a plasma blast at the Whispering Death.

Unfortunately, he missed and the Whispering Death smacked Toothless with its tail and sent him down to the forest floor.

Toothless tried to fly up again but just got blasted with fire from the Whispering Death and knocked him down onto his back.

He wiggled around and got back up quickly and starts chasing the Whispering Death by flapping his wings and jumping but the Whispering Death just roars at him and slowly backs away.

Meanwhile, Astrid and Fishlegs went back to their dragons.

"He needs our help." Hiccup said as Astrid helps Hiccup get back on Stormfly

We went after Toothless on the ground instead of the air. As we were getting closer Toothless turned his head and roared.

"Come on, girl!" Astrid said trying to move forward

"Hookfang won't budge!" Snotlout announced

"I think ours is broken." Tuffnut said looking at his dragon

"They know this isn't their fight, guys." Fishlegs said nervously.

"Toothless isn't going to let anyone get involved, remember?" I reminded them

The Whispering Death roars a screech and dives straight towards Toothless with its mouth wide open. Toothless dodged the attack quickly but the Whispering Death was quicker.

It turned around and blew fire to Toothless and pushed him towards an edge of a rocky ledge.

The Whispering Death dives into the rocky ledge and it destroyed part of the ledge. Leaving no way for Toothless to run back without flying.

The Whispering Death flies back up and breathes fire on the now cornered Toothless.

We all got off our dragons and ran towards the newly created ledge.

"Toothless!" Hiccup shouted out as he extended an arm out. "Buddy..." he mutters as his voice cracked. Watching Toothless' eyes fill with worry.

The Whispering Death kept blasting fire at Toothless barely managing to hit the poor dragon.

Hiccup turned around and looked at us. His eyebrows furrowed upwards as his face is was full of distress and fear.

"He's gonna knock Toothless into the canyon!"

Hiccup ran up to the edge of the cliff. Staring at Toothless, who almost got knocked off the cliff ledge by the Whispering Death.

He stood there for a few seconds too long and it got me worried "Uh, what do you plan on--"

Before I could finish Hiccup decided to fall off the ledge.

"Doing!?" I yelled out

"Hiccup!" Astrid cried out

We ran up to the edge and looked down. Toothless saw Hiccup fall and it forced him to dive after Hiccup.

Luckily, Toothless caught up with Hiccup. He mounted on Toothless just in time but they were close to the ground.

Suddenly, we heard a huge thud and there was a cloud of dust and dirt.

We waited silently and watched. Before we knew it Toothless was flying out of the cloud of dust and dirt with Hiccup.

"Yes!" Astrid cheered as she did an inward fist pump.

Hiccup flew passed us and went straight towards the Whispering Death.

The Whispering Death whipped its tail and shot multiple spikes towards Hiccup and Toothless but with Hiccup's help they skillfully dodged it as well as the fire breath

As they were fighting a ray of sunshine came through the grey clouds and it made the Whispering Death flinch back and went back underground.

Fishlegs and I gasped.

"It doesn't like sunlight!" I said out loud with a small smile.

Hiccup flew in front of us

"The sunlight, Hiccup! That its weakness!" Fishlegs yelled out to Hiccup

"Okay, bud. Keep him above ground." Hiccup said to Toothless

Toothless growled in approval and zoomed off

"Huh, who could have known?" I asked myself out loud.

They started to plasma blast inside the holes sending an explosion of dirt and rock.

"This. Is. Amazing!" Ruffnut said as she sits on Barf.

"We've got to find you an arch-nemesis." Tuffnut said to Belch

We all start to fly up and follow Hiccup.

We saw that Toothless tackled the Whispering Death on the ground and was ready to finish it off with a plasma blast.

"Toothless! No!" Hiccup yelled.

Toothless stopped his plasma blast and instead roared loudly at the Whispering Death and jumped off of it letting it go and letting it dive back underground.

We all landed in front of Hiccup and Toothless

"Aw, man! Toothless could have finished him off!" Snotlout exclaimed

"Well, I guess all dragon grudges aren't to the death." Hiccup smiled

"I guess I'll have to change that in the book." Fishlegs said with a smile as well and starts heading back home.

We all turned around and followed.

"Last one to the village is a--" Snotlout started but I interrupted him by zooming past him followed by Astrid and the twins

"Hey! I wasn't ready!" He yelled as he starts to fly fast.

I turned my head to look at him and just giggled to myself.

I looked forward and put my game face on as we all raced back home.

Not before I frowned as I kept hearing things in my mind.