Hey everyone
Ok yeah, this chapter is short, but it's full of emotion and suspense.
so let's not waste time, Please enjoy the story.
Just a Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or the world they come from. Just the idea of the story
Ryker returned to the main camp, hidden deep in the ember isles, just under the grand mountain cave. His ship docked in the main harbour just like always. The men on the dock became alert in case the captain needs help with any dragons he has on board.
But this time, he doesn't have a dragon. He has a bigger prize. The boy that has been the source of the hunters' problems.
As the ship hit the port, a couple of men went below deck and retrieved the prisoner. Meanwhile, Ryker jumped off the ship and made his way to his brother's tent.
"Make sure you put our 'guest' in the best cage we have," Ryker orders the men as they see the crew bringing Hiccup into view. He was still unconscious and chained, so they don't expect a fight. But they dragged him to the best cage they have and chained him up by the wrists to the bars. They rip off all his leather armour and searched him for any hidden weapons he has on him. They also took his metal leg, best to be safe than sorry.
When Hiccup was finally waking up, his head hurt a lot.
"Toothless?" He moans as he tries to move. But his cuffs banged on the metal bars. He tries banging on them to get them looser, but it wasn't working. He looked around to finally get the idea that he wasn't going anywhere. With the cage he was in, the chains holding him to the bars, and his leg was missing.
He was a prisoner. He was a prisoner of the hunters.
The cries and roars of the dragons around filled his anger and sadness. Near him, a Nadder is being shaved of her spikes, and a Gronckle is forced to use its lava to make iron.
And just across the way, a Boneknapper's bones were being taken away, leaving its skin bare and skinny. Hiccup always wanted to know what was under all those bones, just not this way.
"Hey! Stop that! Leave that dragon alone!" Hiccup cried out as he sits up in his knees and pushes his face through the bars.
But the hunters would laugh and spit in his face. "I would hold my tongue if I were you boy." Hiccup growled in response, as the hunters went back to their fun.
Hiccup sat back down on his butt and watch helplessly as the sounds of the dragons fill his ears. All of them, crying out in pain, and there's nothing he can do about it.
The only peaceful thought in his head was he wasn't hearing Toothless's voice. Most likely he's with Astrid and the other riders. At least he's safe, but Hiccup certainly isn't. He's deep in the dragon den, and he may not come out alive.
"Still nothing?" Fishlegs ask as he and Meatlug completed their run.
"Nope," Tuffnut said leaning back on a chair.
"Nothing," Ruffnut agrees collapsing on the twin's dragon. "We searched everywhere."
"Not really," Heather said shaking her head. "You two flew over this island fifteen times."
"Well, at least we now know he's not here," Tuffnut said as his pet chicken jump on his lap.
Astrid groans as she pace around the room. "I don't get it. Every camp we've gone to had nothing on Hiccup."
"Viggo is known to not have any loose ends," Heather said. "If he has Hiccup, there's no way he would let any information slide."
"Maybe we should ask the A team for help," Fishlegs suggested.
"Yeah," Snotlout sarcastically said. "And while we're at it, why don't we get Stoick involve!"
Everyone shudder at that thought, it would be very bad to have Hiccup's father caught up in this. They would receive worst then those hunters for loosing his son.
"Yeah let's not," Fishlegs comment.
"So what do we do then?" Heather asks.
"Lay around," Ruffnut suggests.
"Wait till Hiccup comes to us," her brother adds.
"Get off your lazy bums and keep looking!" Astrid yells before she storms off.
"Wow," Fishlegs said stunned. "I've never seen Astrid this tense before."
"Yeah," Snotlout agreed. "I mean, the incident with the frightmare is nothing compare to this."
"She's just really scared," Heather comments. "She's trying not to show it, but she's worried about Hiccup."
Heather walks out the door to continue the search on her dragon, leaving the other dragon riders behind.
Chicken clucked at Tuffnut, making him ruffle its feathers.
"I hear you chicken," he said. "I hear you."
"Say again?" Viggo asked his brother intrigued.
"I said that the arena was shut down due to some...inconvenience," Ryker said again.
"And by inconvenience, you mean Hiccup and the dragon riders," Viggo barked while slamming his hands on his desk so hard he nearly shook his game pieces out of place. "Once again, that boy has interrupted our business. We simply can't let him go on and destroy everything we worked on."
Ryker is used to see his brother's disappointed scowl. But this news should lighten up just a bit.
"If I may brother, we did bring back something that might interest you. The dragon rider himself."
Viggo looked at his brother. His frown hasn't left his lips, but his eyebrow was raised a bit. "The dragon rider?"
"Yes," his brother answered while placing the prosthetic leg on the table.
Viggo picked it up and looked at t carefully, slowly walking around the table to his brother. "So what you mean to tell me is that you brought Hiccup to us?"
"He's all locked up in irons now," Ryker tells him. "He'll be-"
He didn't get a chance to finish; his brother uses the metal leg to slap him across the face. "You idiot!" He roared. "You'll just lead the riders to us!"
Ryker stared coldly at his brother, not minding at all about the pain on his cheek. He grew up in the field of battle; a little family feud wasn't going to make him feel any pain. "We made sure we weren't followed, and we never let any of our allies know that Hiccup was on board. The dragon riders will have no clue where he is."
"But they will not stop until they find him," Vigho argued. "They're determination is worse than their stubbornness. They'll just keep looking for him."
"So, they will find his rotting corpse," Ryker suggests while pushing Viggo away from him. "We have him now, we can just kill him."
"No!" Viggo objects. "That would be dishonorable and wasteful. He's too good of an opponent to be shipped off like that. No, if he's gonna die, he needs to think himself as a failure right at the end. When his skin turns white as snow, when the realization that he lost truly sinks in. He can't do that while being in our hands."
"But then he won't mess in our line of work anymore," Ryker said very loud and cold. "Why does your ego have to be please about this? He's just one little pip-squeak!"
"And yet he has somehow raids us for almost all our dragons. He has an intelligence unlike anyone of the archipelago."
"Since when have you praise him like a god."
"I'm not. It's just rare to see someone like that. Someone that I can consider a worthy adversary."
"Oh gods almighty!" Ryker yells as he throws his hands up in the air in disbelief. "Why are we talking like this? This boy is a bastard, and needs to be dealt like one! Why didn't I just kill him on the ship?"
"Because you're an imbecile for bringing him here in the first place!"
"Whatever! I'll deal with him myself."
Ryker turns to leave, but was brought back in by the force of his brother's arm.
"No," Viggo roars as he throws Ryker away. "You've already messed up once; I won't let you do it again!"
Ryker growls as he grabs Viggo's shirt, and threw him over his shoulder and into his desk.
"Don't tell me what to do!" He yells.
As Viggo slammed into the table, knocking his game pieces off of their place on the game board.
But Viggo ignored them for now, and turned his attention to his brother. Now Viggo can understand his brother's new fond anger and frustration. After all, he is the older brother and the one who's been out in the field more. But he needs to know his place.
"Listen Ryker, this fighting is pointless. Hiccup will pay for what he has done to us, but not now. Not quick and painless anyway. We need to make him suffer, just like he did to us. You brought him here so that I can deal with him, so let me handle it."
After a nasty glare, Ryker relaxed a bit and nods his head to Viggo.
Feeling satisfied, Viggo looked back to his game board to fix his pieces. But then, he looked down at the game board, and sees the two chief pieces on the same island, with the Viking chief on the ground, its head touching the other chief's base.
But that part is not what got Viggo's focus. It was the fact that both chiefs are on the same island.
He picked up the chief's piece and held it above at eye level. Seeing that part of that piece was cracked in the face. The piece total had a new appearance. The soft face looked like a war monger.
Then, an idea sparked inside his mind, a brilliant one.
"Tell me Ryker, do we still have that changewing?"
"Yes," Ryker answer.
Viggo smiled wickedly as he places the chief piece next to the other piece, setting a plan in motion.
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