Chapter 2

Hiccup's POV

"Was I hearing things?" I thought to myself as could barely make out the sound of two voices. I was a bit confused as to where I was as I felt the soft swaying of something underneath me.

"Is he awake yet?" I heard a familiar voice ask someone nearby in an angry tone of voice.

"It seems that the venom from your Speed Stinger has knocked him out longer than we had initially anticipated," this time an unfamiliar voice answered the Berserker Chief's question.

I tried feeling around my location to see if I could locate where I was and found myself laying on top of furs. I felt an edge near men now discovering that I was laying on a bed and buried in furs.

"Furs? Why would I be laying on furs?" I thought to myself as I stopped moving once I heard that Dagur and the unknown man stopped talking. I

I quickly opened my eyes as I was desperately trying to figure out where I was but at the same time, not alert the two lurking men that I was awake. But as in the process of figuring it out, a terrible headache made itself known.

I then let out a loud groan as I held my hands to my closed eyes trying to quell the pain.

"Well, well, well," Dagur stated, "Look whose awake?"

Both the unknown man and Dagur approached me to where I was now facing them. I still laid as motionless but slowly opened my eyes back up. It didn't hurt as much as it did the first time, but now it was if I couldn't focus on anything in front of me due to my blurry vision.

All I could see was a blur kneeling in front of me.

"Hiccup! So nice to see those handsome green eyes of yours!" Dagur exclaimed rather loudly. I winced as the noise emanating from my enemy's mouth hurt my ears and at the same time hurt my head.

"Now lay real still for me," the man, who I still didn't know his identity, stated as he approached me and then used his left hand to close my eyes. I slightly panicked and made this known to the newcomer that I wasn't sure him being so close to me. I felt my breath pick up in pace as I tried to weakly move away from the man.

"It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you, young master," the man replied as he began rubbing something warm onto my forehead. I still tried to push away but the man switched from putting his hand over my eyes, to putting his hand behind my head making it near impossible for me to move away, "Relax, Hiccup or else I will give you something that will make you."

Almost, immediately I stopped, not wanting to fall back into the clutches of unconsciousness. The man then quickly finished what he was doing and then left my side.

"You can open your eyes now," Dagur replied seeming to know what it was that the unknown person in the room had done to me.

I opened my eyes and this time I could actually see. I wasn't seeing blurs anymore. And for that matter, my headache had also lessened immensely which was a huge relief. I then felt the need to sit up which I did with the only pain coming from where the Speed Stinger had hit me.

"What do you want this time, Dagur?" I asked, still not pleased that I had to be in the presence of this maniac.

"First of all, I think you know what I want, and second of all what do you think about setting up a little trade?"

I just looked at him skeptically as I swung my legs over the side of the bed, never once taking my eyes off of my enemy.

"I'm listening," I finally made my voice squeak.

"I propose that if you cooperate and give me what I want, I, in turn, will let you and your Night Fury friend go free?"

"And if I don't cooperate?"

"Then I get to kill you."

"You wouldn't want to do that Dagur," I replied, "If you kill me, then all of Berk would be on you in a heartbeat."

"Then I'll have to do it after I take Berk as my own," Dagur replied getting very excited as he danced around the room. I watched him warily, hoping to find an opening to escape and find Toothless. The only problem with that, was that even if Dagur wasn't exactly keeping an eye on me, the man that helped me just moments earlier was.

"You still haven't told me what your plan is so that I can agree to this deal or not," I stated as I hopped off the bed and weakly began to walk in Dagur's general direction. I was soon stopped, however, when Dagur swiftly pulled out his sword, ran over to me, and pointed it directly at my throat.

"My plan is that you will use the dragon eye, which I now have in my possession and take me to these islands that are on it. Then you will help me train these dragons so that I can rule the sky as well as rule the seas."

His plan seemed solid though I'm was honestly surprised that he would even ask me to train dragons for him to use.

"You must be out of your mind if you think that I will help you find these dragons and train them for your own means," I retorted, using the back of my right hand to push the sword away from my neck.

Dagur laughed that creepy laugh he had once again.

"I am out of my mind, Hiccup! I know this, because you and I are so much alike in this," his mood suddenly changed as he pounced on me, sending me, in my weakened state splattered on the ground, "We are both stubborn, but I will do whatever it takes to make sure that something happens. Even if it means sacrificing a life, or a dragon, to get the prize."

I just stayed on the ground and stayed silent, not wanting to fan the flame that was there.

"I'm only going to say this once, Hiccup so you're best be listening," Dagur roughly said as he shoved me on my feet and out the door of the room. I was not only greeted by the sun but was also greeted by a black mass of dragon who was stripped of everything that he needed in order to fly. He was also muzzled with a thick strap that effectively shut his mouth closed.

"Toothless!" I exclaimed as I ran over to him, this time not be restrained to do so, "Are you alright?"

He purred his affirmation that he wasn't hurt and then proceeded to check me up and down.

"Hiccup, if you don't do what I ask and train the dragons that I give to you, I will kill your Night Fury and burn Berk to the ground all while you're watching. And then you will be next."

Toothless looked up at me in concern and then turned and growled at Dagur and his men who were steadily getting closer.

I kept on glancing back between my sworn enemy and my best friend, trying to weigh the options of what I needed to do in order to survive this. I couldn't watch as Toothless and the people that I was leading be slaughtered all because of a decision, but I also couldn't train the dragons I've been learning about for Dagur. He'd probably turn them on me anyway.

"A chief protects his own," the thought ran through my head as I was still contemplating my decision. The only way that I could protect the people of Berk was to do what Dagur was asking of me. Or at least I only had to do it until the time presents itself to warn them.

"So what will it be, Chief Hiccup?" Dagur taunted me with my own title.

"Alright Dagur. You win. As long as the deal still stands," I stated hoping that Dagur would hold his end of the deal and let me go if I did what he asked.

"Its a deal," He replied. He then gestured to a few of his men and they began to pull Toothless back into a nearby cage made of the anti-dragon metal.

Dagur then himself came over to me, pinned my arms behind my back, and then pushed me down into the bowels of the ship. He then literally threw me into a cell and then left me in pure darkness.

"What have we gotten ourselves into this time bud?" I questioned myself out loud.

Our only hope at this point was that the people of Berk would have noticed my absence and come looking for me.