Chapter 2
(Hiccup)
The past few days had been torture, worse than torture. The only thing that kept her from killing herself was hearing Toothless' voice each night when she was in her cage. Viggo might have thought he could break her the way he was going, but one thing he didn't count on was that what really gave her strength. Of course she had yet to be able to reply to Toothless each time, but first thing she told herself, she and Toothless were going to figure this mysterious link between them out once they were back together and safe.
Today, Viggo was sitting on his side of a Maces and Talons board eyeing Hiccup as she tried the best she could to keep his eyes off her body. He had tortured enough with his admiration of her body and now the only relief she had was being able to sit on her side of the board out of his reach.
Viggo again moved his hands to touch hers, but she flinched them out of his reach.
"You better make your move soon my dear." Viggo grinned at her making her skin crawl even more than he already had the past few days.
"I'm just trying to play the game." Hiccup answered inching a little further back keeping her eyes on the game board trying to keep her eyes off of Viggo and his staring.
As Hiccup moved her pieces, Viggo smiled. "Very interesting move, you have forced me to relocate all 8 of my hunters."
Hiccup wasn't sure she should take that as a compliment or not. All she knew was that in some small way, she had impressed Viggo, even if she really didn't care what he thought of her. Hiccup said nothing and just waited for Viggo to make his move. At the end of the game, as she knew would happen, Viggo won again.
"You put a good fight my dear." Viggo purred moving behind her as she sat in her chair chained to the floor. "With some practice, you may soon win." He whispered lightly brushing his hands up and down her arms.
Hiccup began to whimper feeling Viggo touch her again. All her life, she had kept her innocence intact, and these past few days, Viggo had stolen it from her repeatedly. Her body was still sore from the night before. Viggo pulled on her chains and unlocked them from the floor and pulled her toward his bed. He then started his other game that made Hiccup wish the gods would just kill her then and there.
After another two hours of this, Viggo finally grew tired and put her back in the cage he had kept her in since he had brought where ever it was they were, which was Thor knows where.
"You'll come around my dear Hiccup, oh yes, you will." He said toying with a strand of her hair as she entered the cage.
'Not anytime soon.' Hiccup thought bitterly as Viggo covered her cage. 'Toothless, where are you?' Hiccup pleaded as she laid down.
She heard the door slam and then to her surprise, she heard something fall on the floor next to her cage. She lifted the cover enough to see what it was and to her relief, it was metal pick point used usually to help remove small pieces out of working gears and other things. But this time, it was going to help her escape. She grabbed it and hid it in what was left of her tunic. Viggo came back a short time later and went straight to bed. Hiccup stayed as quiet as she could to make it seem like she was asleep. After a few hours, she heard Viggo snoring, he was asleep.
Now was her chance. Working as quietly as she could, she starting picking the lock the pick point. At last the lock opened and Hiccup crawled quietly out of her cage. Slowly, she crept across the floor and quietly opened the door. Thank Thor, she found her leg by the door, she put it on and made her way as quiet and quickly as she could out. Thank the gods they weren't on a boat, just at Viggo's base. But there was still the matter of how she was going to get off the island.
Trying to stay out of sight, she worked her way through the woods and found the cages where they were keeping the dragons. Hiccup quietly waited for the guards to leave and then snuck in and unlocked the cages releasing the dragons. One dragon, a Zippleback, stopped and seemed to sense her desperate need to get out and let her climb on his back. Hiccup felt her heart flutter with hope and climbed up. The Zippleback took off after the other dragons. Once they were out of arrow range, she heard the guards raising the alarm that the dragons had escaped. Thankfully, no one saw them leaving.
Hiccup hugged her tattered tunic around her bare skin and cried again, this time thankful that she would never have to endure Viggo's touch or abuse again. With the pick she held on to, she pinned the open front of her tunic shut as best she could and held on as the Zippleback and the other dragons began flying faster.
By sunrise, Hiccup was getting tired, but she saw something that made her lose any feelings of exhaustion. She saw her father and Gobber riding Skullcrusher with Toothless and the other riders not far behind.
"Dad!" Hiccup called out as they met up in the sky.
All the dragons landed and Hiccup ran to meet her father. Stoick grabbed his daughter and hugged her tight.
"Hiccup!" She heard her sister call out for her.
The two sisters ran to meet and Astrid nearly crushed Hiccup in her hug.
Toothless then wrapped his wings around her and held her tighter than all the others did. By the time anyone let Hiccup catch her breath, she was already turning blue.
"Lass!" Stoick said noticing her tunic in ruin. "What happened? Did those hunters hurt you?"
"I don't want to talk about it. Right now, all I want to do is get back to the Edge and hope that what happened back there never happens again." Hiccup answered climbing onto Toothless' back.
"What about the Dragon Eye?" Fishlegs asked.
"We'll get it back, right now, let's go home." Hiccup answered as Toothless took off.
(Toothless)
Toothless was so happy to have his hatchling back, though seeing her clothes in ruin like they were and picking up Viggo's scent all over her, he had an idea of what happened and he promised himself that he would make certain that Viggo never touched her again. He turned his attention to the dragons following them.
"Thank you for saving my rider." He said to the Zippleback that had carried her.
"She saved us. The hunters had us all locked up on that island but she got out and set us free." The Zippleback answered. "The least we could do was make sure she got back to you safely."
"You knew she was mine?"
"Every dragon here can sense that she has Keena's heart, she was meant to be our savior. And any one with Keena's heart was destined to be with a Night Fury."
"It's nice to know that there are some out there who still follow her, I never thought I would be happy again when we lost her. But now we have that hope for peace again."
"We know. But where will be go now?"
"You can come back to our island with us, there's plenty of room for all of us." Stormfly offered.
"She's right. I'm sure my rider would agree too." Toothless agreed.
"Guess we'll follow you then."
"Consider yourselves part of our family now." Meatlug said as they flew over the ocean back toward the Edge.
(Hiccup)
Hiccup was back in her hut cleaning up and getting ready for bed. It had been a long few days and she was ready to get some rest. As relieved as she was to be home, she couldn't the feeling of Viggo's hands on her body out of her mind. She was almost afraid to go to sleep. Toothless seemed to sense her discomfort and offered her a spot next to him. Hiccup smiled and laid down next to him. She never felt safer with anyone than when she was with Toothless. Hiccup felt her eyes finally get heavy and she fell asleep. All at once, she heard his voice again
"You're home now, you're safe." She heard Toothless say.
She jolted her head up and saw that Toothless had not said a word. Not that she would even be able to understand him anymore anyway. Again she dozed off but heard the voice again. It seemed to help soothe her feelings of uneasiness and anxiety.
Hiccup trusted and loved Toothless, she knew he would never do anything to hurt her. There would be time to figure this magical link between them later. Right now, she just needed to rest. Tomorrow was a new day and she was ready to leave the last few days behind.
