Battle of the Red Death

The **Battle of the Red Death** (also known as the **Battle of the Dragon's Nest**) was a huge battle from the DreamWorks movie, *How to Train Your Dragon*. It deals with the Vikings of Berk fighting against the Red Death Dragon at the Dragon's Nest.

## History

### Background

It all started on the Isle of Berk which was home to a Viking clan that would often fight against the Dragons who lived by the Isle and often came to steal their food. Which consisted of Deadly Nadders who could shoot spikes, Gronkles who could eat stone and had tough skin, Hideous Zipplebacks who had two heads with one that could breath gas and the other that could ignite it, Monstrous Nightmares who could set themselves on fire, and Night Furies the most power and dangerous of them all which were so fast no one could see them. The clan was led by a Viking named Stoick the Vast who would often try to find the Dragon's Nest on the Dragon's island in order to stop the Dragon attacks but had no luck. Berk was also protect by Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, and Astrid who were a group of kids that were being trained to fight the Dragons in the Academy. Stoic also had son named Hiccup would often try to help the other Vikings fight against the dragons but he wasn't good at it and was seen mostly as just a nuisance to the other Vikings, especially his father so he would just work as an apprentice for Gobber the Belch who was the blacksmith. Until one night during a dragon raid, Hiccup was able to shot down a Night Fury using a device he made himself which he learned to do while working with Gobber but nobody believed him. So he went out to find it himself, when he did he tried to kill it to prove himself as a Viking but instead he decided to let it go, afterward Stoick enrolled Hiccup in the Academy to fight dragons with the other Academy students after being convinced by Gobber to let Hiccup try, while Stoick left with some of the Vikings to try and find the Dragon Nest again. Although Hiccup was very good at Dragon fighting he began to learn more about them, especially from the Night Fury which he found stuck in a cove because it somehow couldn't fly.Overtime, Hiccup befriended and bonded with the Night Fury which he named Toothless because he had retractable teeth and began to learn more about the Dragons from him. Hiccup also learned that the reason Toothless couldn't fly was because Hiccup cut off one of his tail wings when he shot him down. So, Hiccup tried to help Toothless fly again by replacing the missing tail wing with one he made himself using his knowledge on blacksmithing and by riding on Toothless to help him maneuver it.

During Hiccup's time helping Toothless he learned more interesting things about the Dragons which he used to become the top student at the the Academy by easily defeating the Dragons by using his brain instead of his brawn which in turn earned him the respect and admiration of both the other students and the other Vikings. Soon Stoick return home after failing to find the Dragon's Nest again and learned about Hiccup's success at the Academy which made him very proud of Hiccup especially since Hiccup's success earned him the chance to do a final test which was to actually kill a Dragon. However, Hiccup's success earned him the jealousy of Astrid who was the Academy's best student who later found out about Toothless when Hiccup tried to leave Berk with him. When she tried to tell everyone, Hiccup and Toothless caught her and Toothless mischievously gave both of them a ride which caused they enjoyed. But soon they all found the Dragon's Nest after Toothless was instinctively called to it along with the other Dragons where Hiccup and Astrid found out that the reason the Dragons were stealing food in the first place was to feed a giant monstrous dragon called the Red Death who they were serving it out of fear of being eaten themselves. Astrid wanted to tell everyone about it but Hiccup refused to in order to protect Toothless until he could figure something out which Astrid agreed on. But then on the day of Hiccup's final test at the Academy he had to kill a Monstrous Nightmare but he refused to so he could show the Vikings that they didn't have to kill the Dragons. However, when Stoic banged on the arena bars to stop the fight it caused the Monstrous Nightmare to attack Hiccup which alerted Toothless to crawl out of the cove to come and save Hiccup from it in front of all the Vikings. This resulted in Toothless getting captured by them then when Hiccup was brought before Stoic about the whole thing, Hiccup accidently revealed the Dragon's Nest to Stoick and that only Dragons can find which gave Stoic an idea. Hiccup tried to warn him about the Red Death by Stoick refused to listen thinking that Hiccup had betrayed him and the whole Viking clan for the Dragons. So Stoick gathered up the whole clan to attack the Dragon Nest and used Toothless to help find it by chaining him up. But Hiccup, Astrid, and the other Academy Students decided to stop them with help from the Dragons at the Academy with help from Hiccup's Dragon training knowledge.

### The Battle

When Stoick and the Viking clan arrives at the Dragon Island and finds the mountain where the Dragon Nest is with help from Toothless. They then prepare for battle and plan to burst open the mountain to get to the nest, but when they do all the dragons fly away from both the nest and the island without even fighting the Vikings, making the Vikings think they have won. When suddenly, the Red Death itself bursts out of the mountain and attacks the Vikings. The Viking try fight it off but their weapons were useless against it so they try to escape but the Red Death burns all ships with it's fire breath with Toothless still on one of them. Stoick then tries to fight the Red Death with help from Gobber to distract it while the other Vikings get to safety. However, Hiccup and the Academy Students arrive on the Academy Dragons to fight the Red Death where Hiccup has Fishlegs, Snotlout, Tuffnut, and Ruffnut try to confuse it on the Gronkle, Hideous Zippleback, and Monstrous Nightmare by making noise. During which Hiccups tries to rescue Toothless from drowning on one of the burning ships while Astrid tries to help the others on the Deadly Nadder. While Hiccup tries to get Toothless the Academy Student soon lose control of their Dragon because of the noise which causes Snotlout to land on the Red Death and Fishlegs to crash down. Snotlout then tries fighting the Red Death by hitting it's eyes with a hammer it throws him off and makes the ship Hiccup and Toothless were on to sink. Hiccup tries to save Toothless from drowning but nearly gets drowned in the process until he is rescued by Stoick who later rescues Toothless. Hiccup then gets on Toothless and Stoick apologies to Hiccup for not listening to him and admits that he is proud of him. Both Hiccup and Toothless go to fight the Red Death after Tuffnut and Ruffnut rescue Snotlout, then when the Red Death is about to eat Astrid, Hiccup and Toothles attack it and save her. After noticing that the Red Death has wing, Hiccup and Toothless attack it again which makes the Red Death chase after them in the sky then Hiccup and Toothless lose it in the clouds then fight it off. During the fight, the Red Death unleashes a huge fire breath that burns Toothless' handmade tail wing that Hiccup made and they both start to fall out of the sky. But they manage to get the Red Death's attention so follows them then just when the Red Death is about to breath fire again, Hiccup kills the Red Death by having Toothless breath fire into it's mouth before it could. Which causes the Red Death's insides to be set on fire where it crashes down into the island and explodes. Both Hiccup and Toothless try to escape but Hiccup gets knocked off Toothless and falls into the explosion. However, Toothless saves him and they both manage to survive the explosion but Hiccup loses a foot in the process.

### Aftermath

Hiccup is then taken back to Berk to heal up and Gobber replaces his foot with a metal peg leg he made. With the Red Death gone, the Dragons are now free from its tyranny and no longer pillage Berk. They also now live peacefully with the Vikings who all even learn how to train and ride them.

## Belligerents

### Dragon Riders

* Hiccup
* Toothless
* Astrid
* Stormfly
* Snotlout
* Hookfang
* Tuffnut
* Ruffnut
* Barf and Belch
* Fishlegs
* Meatlug
* Stoick the Vast
* Gobber the Belch
* Ack
* Starkard
* Hoark the Haggard
* Phlegma the Fierce
* Spitelout
* Vikings of Berk

### Other

* Dragons
	+ Deadly Nadders
	+ Gronkles
	+ Hideous Zipplebacks
	+ Monstrous Nightmares

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