ASTRIDS POV (Warning: this chapter is the most violent chapter in the book so far, so beware. But also enjoy.)

Astrid shut the door to Hiccups house behind her and took a few steps away from the door. The heat was almost unbearable instantly coating her in a layer of sweat. For a moment Astrid considered turning back around and going back inside with Hiccup, but she couldn't bring herself to move.

The sight was... horrifying. There was fire everywhere. Coating the buildings and lacing the ground in some places, the only thing that she could see more than that was chaos. There was chaos everywhere, anywhere her eyes landed there was chaos. In the air and on the ground Vikings and their reptilian enemies were engaged in a vicious battle each side hoping to inflict as much death on one another as possible. "Astrid!" Yelled a female Viking covered in ash and soot tossing Astrid one of her axes that was already slathered in dragon blood.

"Good of you to join the fight!" She said beginning to spin around using the momentum of the spin to hurl her axe into the nearest dragon killing it instantly. Astrid slightly grimaced at the sight, with as much time as she had recently spent around dragons watching them die was now... saddening. "Where did all these beasts come from?" Asked the woman pulling her axe out of the downed dragons corpse and then approaching Astrid. "Are you Angremonda?" Asked Astrid and the woman smiled. "Why yes I am." She replied. Angremonda and her sister were two of the best dragon fighters on Berk.

"Angremonda, move!" Yelled another slightly larger female Viking throwing two small daggers and as Angremonda moved the blades stuck guard deep into a Terrible Terror that had been inches away from sinking its teeth into Angremonda's heels. "Oh wow sister congratulations you killed a Terrible Terror." Angremonda said sarcastically clapping her hands together. "Oh quiet sister, if I wouldn't have killed that Terror it would have bitten down straight on your Achilles Tendon severing it and you would have never been able to walk again."

Angremonda rolled her eyes, "Oh please you and I both know that that Terrible Terror wouldn't have been able to get its terribly tiny teeth through my raw hide boots." She exclaimed which made the slightly larger sister who Astrid vaguely remembered her name being Gremonda walk up to her sister so that there was only an inch of space between them. "You know sister" Gremonda began speaking in such a hush voice that her words could barely be heard over the roaring fires.

"Sometimes I consider the option of letting a dragon or two take a bite out of you and maybe that will make you realize that your not invincible." Angremonda shoved Gremonda away her face turning beat red. "You think I need you?" She exclaimed, "if you died right here right now the only way that would effect my life is I wouldn't have to constantly cover your rear!" As famous they were around Berk for there dragon slaying, they were also quite well known for their bickering.

"Well if you died Angremonda the only way it would effect my life is I wouldn't have your horrid stench of misery and regret stinking up the house!" Angremonda in a flash punched Gremonda in the jaw knocking her to the ground. "Oh yeah sister! Well maybe if your were a little more like me musk and all maybe then some men would consider you as a possible spouse!" Gremonda scrambled up from the ground and shoved back her sister. "Oh please sister the only man who has ever wanted to lay with you is Joshnu, and I don't think after what you did to him he'll be coming back."

Angremonda, enraged charged her sister and was about to tackler her when in a burst of reflective dragon scales Gremonda was plucked from the ground by a Razor Whip and flown up into the air. "Ahhhhh!" Yelled Gremonda in pain as the Razor Whip tightened is tail. "Sister!" Screamed Angremonda throwing her axe up into the air missing the dragon by merely a few feet. The dragon roared and constricted its tail so quickly around Gremonda that even from the where Astrid and Angremonda stood that could hear the crack of her bones.

"Noooo!" Yelled Angremonda tears sliding down her checks as the Razor Whip dropped her sisters corpse from the sky letting it fall to the ground with a heavy thud. "You should go Astrid." The remaining sister said dropping to her knees. "Angremonda what are you doing? We have to go befo-." But it was to late and three Razor Whip barbs soared past Astrids the first two missing Angremonda by centimeters and burying themselves into the wall of Hiccups house but the third hit Angremonda dead center with so much force that it took her off her knees and sent her soaring into the side of Hiccups house pining her against a wall.

Angremonda pawed at the barb in her chest sputtering up blood, her breathing heavy and shallow. She looked up towards the sky and smiled slowly revealing her blood soaked teeth. "Gremonda, don-, don't worry sister."Angremonda coughed up blood. "I'm coming, tell Joshnu..." she was overcome by another fierce wave of coughing. "Tell Joshnu I'm coming..." and before Astrids eyes the second sister died.

Astrid reacted quickly and quickly performed the same move Angremonda had used minuets earlier hurling her axe up into the sky straight towards the dragons throat but with a single slash of its tail the Razor Whip sliced the head of the axe into two pieces like a knife to hot yak butter. The Razor Whip glared down towards Astrid and Astrid glared right back neither of them showing a spec of fear towards one another. The dragon opened its jaws revealing the fleshy interior of its mouth and its dozens of round teeth.

From inside the Razor Whips throat Astrid saw a blue light begin to build until the dragon fired sending a blast straight towards her. Astrid moved a few feet and and stepped on Angremonda's axe making it fly up from the ground and perfectly into the palm of her hand. With a fluent turn Astrid swung the axe hitting the Razor Whips blast exploding the axe into a dozen shards but also redirecting the dragons blast straight at itself.

The metallic dragon took the blast head first recoiling back from the impact and falling down into the smoldering frame of a building collapsing it. "Mama!" Screamed a small child from down the street. "Dada!" She heard the child scream again. Astrid ran down the street and off in the distance she saw a small boy laying in the street his face stained with tears. Astrid ran for the child at full speed passing burning home after burning home. When Astrid reached the child she slowed from a run to a walk and lowered herself beside the child.

"Hey are you okay?" She asked in a soothing voice which only made the boy cry more. "Mama, Dada!" He exclaimed more tears streaming down his cheeks. "Hey it's okay, let's find your parents." She said scooping up the baby form the ground as best she could. "Do you know where the last place you saw them was?" She asked and the boy pointed without looking towards a flaming house and inside through the open doorway you could see a burning Viking helmet being slowly eaten away by the flames.

Astrid gave the small boy a few pats on the back and started to move more down the street. "Let's see if we can find someone to help us." She said. "There has to be someone around here." But she wasn't very confident in her words as she had only seen Angremonda and Gremonda and she had seen how it had ended for two of the best warriors of Berk. Astrid walked more towards the woods beside her as she continued to see more and more dragons overhead.

The boys cries had turned more to whimpers now and he had fallen into a kind a daze, he must have had a rough day. Oh course what Berkian hadn't have been having a rough day. From inside one of the few houses beside her that wasn't burning there was the sound of a pot breaking and pots and pans being clattered against the floor and Astrid immediately felt relieved. "Hey." She said to the little boy rousing him from his sleep. "Look we found people, everything is going to be oka-." The front of the house exploding and out came the barreling form of the Razor Whip.

Astrid dove out of the charging dragons way still gripping the child who was now screaming and wailing again. Astrid stood up from the ground and ran as quickly as she could away from the dragon that ran after them, it was already so close that when it exhaled she could feel the hot air against the back of her neck. "It's right behind you!" Wailed the child rapping on one of her shoulders with his little fists. Suddenly the air behind Astrid became searing hot making her collapse and the Razor Whip wailed in pain.

Astrid looked up into the sky and she saw a familiar scarred Nadder flying above its throat illuminated with the light from the magnesium deep in her throat. The two dragons traded a pair of threatening roars and the Razor Whip took to the air and the two sharp class dragons engaged in a one on one battle. Astrid stood up from the ground and started to run away from the two dragons down the streets of Berk avoiding every dragon she saw until she turned one corner and around it sat two Monstrous Nightmares.

"Oh Thor..." she said taking a gulp and begging to walk backwards. The pair of dragons roared and where about to fire when suddenly they stopped and raised their heads to the air. The two took to the air suddenly totally forgetting about her and flew off into the sky followed by every other dragon around Berk. Astrid heard cheers from ecstatic Vikings all around her even though she couldn't see any of the Vikings. "Astrid!" Exclaimed a Gmail lad voice from behind her. Astrid turned around to see a bloody Stoick, Gobber, the Twins, Fishlegs and Snotlout all alive. This was the first time in her life she had ever been happy about Snotlout survival.

"It's good to see your alive Lassie!" Said Stoick with a smile on his face but in his eyes Astrid could see that something wasn't quiet right. Suddenly from all around them Vikings appeared all of them bloody but still alive. "Leopoldo!" Exclaimed a man from the crowd and came running towards Astrid plucking the boy from her arms. "Daddy!" Exclaimed the boy smiling ear to ear. "Thank you! Thank you!" Said the man matching his sons expression. "Where's Mommy?" He asked and the mans expression faded and he slowly walked off. "Mommy isn't going to be home for a while." She heard him say faintly.

"Alright everyone gather round." Stoick commanded. "Now I know your all tired, and I know some of you have lost loved ones,I know what we just went through felt like Hel. But the work isn't over. We need to put out these fire and we need to get to work on that fast. So get to it!" He shouted and they all dispersed going to get water. "Astrid." He said more quietly turning towards her. "Have you seen Hiccup?" He asked. "He's at your house." She said and his expression brightened at the news. "Good, so he's alright." But then his smile faded. "Stoick what's wrong?" She asked and Stoick turned towards her his face downcast. "Astrid, there's something I need to tell you."

(Authors Note) Quick note for anyone who was confused this chapter begins during Chapter 33 and ends in Chapter 34. Hope you enjoyed. - Samuel Scutter