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Chapter Two - A Meeting
Damnit! Hiccup thinks. That Berkian girl saw me! Even though he has a mask on, everyone on Berk has heard of him. He's made sure of it. He's become known in every village, and feared by many. They may not know his name, but they know what he does. Destroying and taking over villages over the past few months. He's lost track of how many, but he's saving the best for last.
And it all started when he woke up, and he may not know how or why, he remembers only a few things; His name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, he has a Night Fury named Toothless, he was born in Berk and despises it, and the most important, he hates his father Stoick the Vast. He plans to take over Berk, and then kill Stoick.
But not just yet, he is saving the best for last.
Hiccup and Toothless land on Outcast Island's grey beach, and Hiccup dismounts. Then he takes off his mask. He's been at Outcast Island since he first woke, but things have changed a little.
He and Toothless walk over to some Outcasts who are training. The one training them, Cahle, looks over when he hears their foot steps.
"Master Hiccup," He bows.
"Cahle, what did I tell you about the bowing?"
"Sorry Master Hiccup." Cahle apologizes.
"How are the new recruits doing?" Hiccup asks, walking in front of the newly recruited Outcasts, eyeing them up and down. They had recruited them in the last village they burned, thinking they would be useful.
"Very well sir. But some," Cahle glares at one of them, "Are being uncooperative." Hiccup raises an eyebrow. "Oh, are they now?" He eyes the new recruits once more then turns back to Cahle.
"One of them escaped last night, he stole a ship went to Berk, and warned them. Now they may know of our plan. I want them heavily guarded tonight, and if one of them escapes, I'll have your head." He threatens Cahle.
Cahle gulps and nods, "Yes, sir."
Hiccup then turns to the new Outcasts. "If you even try to escape, you'll end up like your people." And with that he walks away.
One of the recruits raises his hand. Cahle sighs, "What?"
"Why's he like that?"
"Like what?"
"Why's he so afraid of Berk finding out?"
"Why are you so interested?" Cahle asks, looking at him suspiciously.
The recruit says nothing, just looks at the ground. "Are you helping someone?" Still no response. "You better not be, because you should know what will happen to you if you are."
The recruit gulps.
"Okay, time for our next training session! Grab a shield!"
Toothless walks next to Hiccup, right on the edge of the water, and Hiccup looks out on the horizon. It's not the prettiest sight, jagged rocks in random places, grey waters, a stray ship- wait. Hiccup does a double take. There's a small boat floating just at the horizon. It's so far away and looks like just about a speck from where he is, but Hiccup manages to spot it.
Toothless notices his rider looking at something and looks as well. Hiccup rubs Toothless' head. "Come on, bud. Let's see what that is." Hiccup mounts and they fly towards the ship.
The small ship looks like it's been attacked. The sail is torn, the wood railings scratched and falling apart. But what catches Hiccup's eye is the girl on it. She is very pretty, she has wavy black hair pulled into a side braid, and beautiful green eyes.
"Hello?" Hiccup says, startling the girl. She looks up at him quickly, he's hovering next to the ship.
Her expression changes. "Hiccup?" She says, not really believing it's him. He looks so much different than the last time she saw him. His auburn hair gone, replaced with a jet black. He's wearing armor now, with a blue symbol on his right shoulder and a small crest on a strap across his chest that she can't see very well. She has to admit, he looks hot. Even Toothless looks different, he has blue eyes, and looks a lot stronger than the last time she saw him. Wait a second. Blue eyes?
"How do you know my name?"
"Don't you remember me?"
"Should I?"
"It's me, Heather."
"I'm sorry, I don't think we've ever met."
He doesn't remember? If he doesn't remember how she betrayed him, she can start over.
"It's okay."
"What are doing out here, what happened to your ship?" He asks.
"I was supposed to be executed for betraying my village," She's not going to lie to Hiccup this time, even if he doesn't remember the last time they met. "But my parents snuck me out. They sent me out on this boat, and I don't know what happened to them after."
"I'm sorry." He says, genuinely.
"It's not your fault."
"Would you like to stay on my island for a while?"
"I don't want to intrude-"
"I insist." Hiccup says, putting a hand out for her to get on Toothless. She's a bit reluctant to get on, since Toothless looks and seems to act different, slightly growling when she does get on him. Hiccup looks back at her.
"Hold on."
Hiccup helps Heather off of Toothless. She's still a bit dazed from flying at almost top speed, it made her light headed.
"What's your island called again?" Heather asks, looking around.
"Outcast Island."
Why is Hiccup on Outcast Island? What's wrong with him?
"Sir!" A man comes running up to them.
"What? What is it?" Hiccup asks, clearly irritated.
"The wild Monstrous Nightmare escaped, again."
"Again? That's the third time this week." Hiccup groans. "I'll deal with the guards later… Heather, come on." Hiccup gets on Toothless, holding his hand out for her to get on. She takes it and sits behind Hiccup, wrapping her arms around his stomach, preparing for Toothless to speed off.
And he does.
In under a minutes they're in the main village, where there's smoke everywhere. Heather coughs, looking around to see the cause. There's a very pissed off Monstrous Nightmare that's lit itself on fire and it's coming towards them.
"Stay here," Hiccup tells Heather, getting off Toothless and walking towards the dragon. When he gets close to the dragon he puts his hand palm faced towards the dragon, and looks away. The Monstrous Nightmare cocks its head to the side, confused. The flames on its body extinguish as it cautiously closes its eyes and puts its snout in Hiccup's palm.
Heather watches Hiccup unsheathe his sword slowly, making sure it doesn't make a sound. Then, he thrusts it into the Monstrous Nightmare's skull, and Heather looks away. She cringes when she hears the painful and scared roaring of the dragon slowly dying.
When it gets deathly silent, Heather looks at Hiccup, who's cleaning the dragon blood off his sword with a small rag. He's acting as if this is normal.
Hiccup wipes the last of the dragon blood off his sword and throws the rag to the side. He starts walking back to Heather and Toothless.
But he stops to speak with the man who told him about it. "I want the body burned by tonight. And tell the guards I want to speak with them."
He man quickly nods. "I'll get right on it, sir." Then the man scurries away.
Hiccup walks to Heather and Toothless, sheathing his sword. "I'm sorry you had to see that." He apologizes.
"Why did you do that?" Heather asks, she's never seen Hiccup harm a dragon no matter how dangerous, let alone kill one. Hiccup sighs, "It was untrainable. Untrusting of any of my men, it wouldn't have been of any use."
Heather doesn't answer, this isn't the Hiccup she knew.
"Come on, let me show you where you'll be staying."
Heathers gets off of Toothless and follows Hiccup through the village. She never liked it. Even though now people were being friendly to her, she knew it's only because she's with Hiccup. Not like that, friends.
They arrive at a large home, to Heather it looks almost like a chief's house. Hiccup opens the large door, and Heather almost gasps. It looks so similar to the Chief's home on Berk, with some Hiccup flare thrown in. It's got what looks like two rooms, a kitchen, and a large desk with papers scattered to the side.
"I'll sleep in the room downstairs, you can take the room upstairs. Is that okay with you?" He smiles.
She returns his smile, "Yeah, that's fine. Thank you." She starts walking up the stairs.
"Heather," Hiccup calls when she's about half way up, and she turns to him. "I'll be gone in the morning. So if you need anything find Cahle, he'll be on the beach training." Heather nods and walks up the rest of the steps and into the room, shutting the door behind her.
When Heather wakes up, she panics for a moment. Then yesterday's events come flowing back and she relaxes. She gets out of bed and heads downstairs. She sees a small plate of food sitting on the table with a note next to it. She picks it up.
Heather,
I left you something to eat. No, I didn't make it, I'm an awful cook. I'll be back by sundown, but if you need anything before then you'll find Cahle training on the beach. Just listen for the shouting. If anyone gives you any trouble tell me when I get back.
Hiccup.
Heather puts down the note and starts to eat.
When she finishes, Heather decides to go find this Cahle.
Pushing the door open, she sees just how many Outcasts there are now. There's almost three times the amount of Outcasts then the last time she was there. A lot more houses too.
Instead of being friendly like the night before, the Outcasts give Heather dirty looks, like she shouldn't be there. She doesn't want to be there any more than they want her there. She tries her best to ignore the stares and looks, quickly making her way to the beach.
As Hiccup had said, when she gets closer to the beach she hears shouting.
"In second formation now! You imbecile! You CANNOT trip! Get up and start over!" It sounded like the man from the night before.
Heather walks a bit up the beach and sees at least eight men fumbling over each other while the man is shouting orders at them. He must be Cahle. She walks up to him.
"You know, if you do it step by step, and not all at once it'd be easier for them to learn."
Cahle jumps when he hears Heather's voice, not expecting it. He turns to looks at her. "Well, little missy-"
"It's Heather."
"Well, Heather, thanks, but that's not how I do it." He shouts another order at them. "You're the girl Hiccup was with, aren't you?"
"Yes, that's me."
"He told me about you. What do you need?"
"I was wondering where Hiccup went."
"He went to Rehane, a village not to far from here."
"Why?"
Cahle sighs. "Have you heard of him?"
"Of Hiccup?"
"That's not how other villages know him as."
"What do you mean?"
"Have you not heard of the villages being destroyed by a masked figure?" Heather shakes her head. confused. "It's Hiccup, he's gone to destroy another one."
"What? Why?"
"I don't question his tactics. You'd have to ask him yourself." Cahle sees the look on Heather's face. "Are you from Berk?"
"No, I'm from Gardenia."
"I'm so sorry."
"What?"
"That village was destroyed just a few days ago."
"No." Heather backs away from him. "I'm sorry." He says again.
She shakes her head. "No, you're lying. Stop lying!"
She runs. She runs as fast as she can. She remembers a cave on the other side of the beach, and runs until she's inside. She sits down and pulls her knees to her chest.
And she cries.
"Heather! Heather? Where are you?" Heather wakes up to a voice calling her name. But not any voice, Hiccup.
She rubs her eyes, she must've cried herself to sleep. She looks at the cave entrance, it's pitch black, nighttime.
"Heather? Heather!" She sees someone come in the cave. "Where have you been?" Hiccup asks her, rushing over and kneeling in front of her. He notices the dried tears on her face. "What's wrong? Have you been crying?"
"I know what you're doing." Heather says, her voice a bit hoarse, looking up at him. His face darkens.
"Who told you?"
"Cahle."
"That bastard." He mumbles. "Heather-"
"You killed my family."
"What?"
"Gardenia. You destroyed it."
Hiccup shakes his head. "Is that what he told you?" Heather nods. "He was lying, you can't really trust a word he says. Gardenia is one of the few villages I haven't destroyed yet. I won't touch it if you say so."
"Please don't."
"I swear on my life." He stands, and holds a hand out to help her up. "Now, let's get back."
If you're wondering, the answer is yes. There will be HiccupxHeather in this fic. Sorry.
And "Cahle" is pronounced like "call" if you were wondering.
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