"Hiccup!" Everyone said in unison.
"Oh my Thor! What's wrong with Hiccup?! What should we do?" Cried Tuffnut.
"We have to carry him. There's no other choice. Quick! Bring him to Stormfly!" Astrid replied hurriedly. Fishlegs and Tuffnut carried Hiccup and were right behind Astrid, Ruffnut and Snotlout, following them to the deck. Fishlegs and Tuffnut passed the unconscious Hiccup to Astrid who was already sitting on Stormfly. The rest of the gang quickly went to their dragons getting ready to take off. But before they could, one of the pirates, the leader, spoke.
"You were too late. The Hiccup you used to know is gone." The leader said with an evil smirk.
The gang just glared at him and flew off.
That was how they ended up flying back to Dragon's Edge with Astrid holding the unconscious Hiccup in her arms. They flew in silence, still in shock from what had happened earlier. From finding Hiccup in such a state, to hearing what the pirate leader said. None of them knew what exactly happened to Hiccup in that basement. All they knew was that it was something really horrible.
Astrid sighed and stared at Hiccup. Seeing Hiccup like that made her almost cry, but she managed to hold back the tears. She took this opportunity to look at Hiccup closely, to search for any injuries as she remembers Hiccup complaining about pain before passing out. Her eyes landed on his blood stained tunic. She decided to lift it up to check if there were any bleeding wounds.
She found none. Nothing that explains where the blood was from.
But she found bruises. Purple bruises everywhere. She couldn't help but winced when she saw them because it looked like it hurt. A lot. And then she saw the marks on his wrists. It looked like they had tied a rope on his wrists to keep him from struggling. Next, her eyes went to his pants. It was also stained with blood but she couldn't just take them off to check, at least not right here when they are still on their way back to the Edge, so she decided to leave it for now. When her eyes landed on his face, she realised his cheeks were red and he was covered in sweat, a lot of sweat that it probably might have soaked into her tunic but she didn't mind at all because she was glad to have Hiccup back in her arms again. She missed him. She really missed him, even if he was gone only for a day and a half.
A few hours later, they finally arrived to their destination. It was almost getting dark. They landed outside of Hiccup's hut and was greeted by Toothless who stayed at Dragon's Edge waiting for them to return because he couldn't fly on his own. Toothless was ecstatic to see his best friend safe and alive. Snotlout and Tuffnut helped to carry Hiccup into his hut and onto his bed while Fishlegs went to get some supplies from his own hut. Toothless licked Hiccup but he didn't respond which frightened Toothless.
"Don't worry, Toothless. Hiccup will be fine. He will wake up soon. I know he will." Astrid said with a hand on his head and was able to clam him down.
"I'm back! Now let's get him checked before he wakes up." Fishlegs stated when he entered the hut with some supplies in hand. The gang moved aside for Fishlegs to pass through and allowed him to do his job. Fishlegs started cleaning Hiccup up with the help from the gang, and was about to take off his tunic to check his bruises when Hiccup woke up with a loud scream scaring everyone in his hut including Toothless.